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welcome to the finance committee of the san francisco transportation authority, it is june, 14, 2014. and my name is eric mar and i am and the chairman, and our clerk is mr. steve stamos and please do the roll call. commissioner campos? yes. present. cohen. absent. kill. absent. mar. here. yee? here. and we have a quorum. thank you, i wanted to thank from sfgtv, non-a and jessy for tell vi vicing this today. and would you call the second item? item two to four, comprise the consent calendar, these are the retune and the staff is not planning to present on these items or present, and any number may be removed. and oit ems 2 to 4, i see no comments. would anyone like to speak on items 2 to 4? seeing, none, public comment is closed. could we approve these without objection or a roll call? campos? aye. coen? ab accident, kim? abse absent. har mar. aye. yee. aye. item five, please? 5, state and federal legislative up date. ....
historic preservation commission good afternoon and regular hearing for disruptions of any kind. proceedings. and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i d like to call roll at this time. commissioner hyland commissioner hasz commissioner johnck commissioner johns sxhaukd and commissioner pearlman we development commissioner wolfram store absent commissioners, the first item on your agenda is general public comment to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. there are no speaker cards. a member of the public of the public that wishes to address the close session on a non-agenda liz item would you care to state your name my name is lillian chow give me the planning departmen ....
i look forward to a robust conversation about that fiscal year budget and we d like to welcome you mr. mayor to present your budget thank you so much for being here. (clapping.) good morning, supervisors, good morning to the members of the public, thank you supervisor president london breed and budget chair farrell and board members your elected officials and commissioners and all of our department heads also thank you to labor and community leaders for joining us and welcome to everyone watching at home thank all of you for you re support as we deliver a balanced two-year budget. every year the budget gives us an opportunity to address the issues our city cares about this year we have a $89.6 billion budget budget to loot and invest in ways that reflect our san francisco values my budget submissions and the boards deliberations in the coming weeks it city hall s way to menu our priorities our city is facing challenges we can t deny that neighborhood crime is up and ....
renovated awesome park if we can see a show of hands of how many people wish like to speak. how many on the zip line pretty cool who wants to go on it with me and the mayor (laughter) all right. so we have all kinds of fun activists in addition to placing on the playground and trying out the new equipment with our rock climbing wall how many people have climbed a rock wall your veterans of play and baseball the warriors came out last year and refaced the basketball court who loves of warriors and touch football and all kinds of things for kid to do and may we re talk a little bit and introduce a very, very special people so today, the reason we gather is because we re celebrating parks do important role that parks play in our neighborhood; right? everybody loves parks it is where we play where we get away from sort of the noise and the traffic and all the crowds and we get to come out and play and we are so lucky in san francisco because we have absolutely one the best ....
within just a 10 minute walk of a park you how many people live within 10 minutes of a park we are lucky the best access to parks than any city in the country and so here particularly in the bayview we re working super hard to give the neighborhood the best parks in addition to this park we re working on a hilltop park in the india baseline and because of the mayors leadership we re investing $10 million in parks right here in our neighborhood let s give the mayor a big hand for that (clapping.) so we want to make sure that our parks are for everyone that everybody gets to play whether you re a over and over slightly turn around or really young or less young our parks are for everyone if you look at around this state in addition to the play equipment for kids of all ages if it you look at over there you ll see fitness equipment for multi dulls and seniors, in fact, one of the things that are purpose important that you are seniors our parents and grandparents and uni ....