Under Public Comment. Remember when you make Public Comment that you make it to the commission. Neither the commission nor staff will respond to any questions until Public Comment is through, and the commission may ask staff to respond once that done. If theres an item if there is not an item on the calendar that you wish to speak on an item under the jurisdiction of the recreation and Parks Commission you would speak on item four which is general Public Comment and then it is continued again on item 9, and last as a reminder the january Committee Meetings are canceled. We will have our full Commission Meeting in january but we will want be having Committee Meetings, and with that we are on item two, the president s report. Thank you. A few items. One is with the heavy rains in the last weeks i am very happy to report that the Harding Golf Course greens and sand traps look like there was no rain at all and i have seen people people have presented pictures to me of other courses issue t
They had learned a lot from the first two that we had down about nine months apparent and that he felt that while there was a learning curve that made the work and the task for the department had to under taig take harder to know that they had it under their belt a little bit and we could show case what the department is doing would be a good way to go forward, a good meeting great. Thank you. Any meants or questions about the Operations Committee report . Any Public Comment on the Operations Committee report. Next item please. Policy committee report. Chair report highlights of the october 8, november 12 meetings and information and discussion. Commissioner wald . Thank you. On october 8, the two main topics that we addressed were review and approval of the resolution in support of the Municipal Transportation Agency and the Muni Forward Program that kept program that we have a great presentation and a great discussion and provided a very timely resolution, which the muni staff assure
Respond to any questions until Public Comment is through, and the commission may ask staff to respond once that done. If theres an item if there is not an item on the calendar that you wish to speak on an item under the jurisdiction of the recreation and Parks Commission you would speak on item four which is general Public Comment and then it is continued again on item 9, and last as a reminder the january Committee Meetings are canceled. We will have our full Commission Meeting in january but we will want be having Committee Meetings, and with that we are on item two, the president s report. Thank you. A few items. One is with the heavy rains in the last weeks i am very happy to report that the Harding Golf Course greens and sand traps look like there was no rain at all and i have seen people people have presented pictures to me of other courses issue the most expensive and best courses in the bay area and all of them were closed with flooded traps et cetera so all that work that went
And changing the focus of the work and the parking control officers that we are doing because it is a real safety issue. [inaudible] battery ignition, where is the pco . The chronic intersection as a result of this we are going to be deploying parking control officer resources. [inaudible] so part of what i mentioned and public works was at this meeting is by reviewing the process by which we develop the plans for construction and increasing doubling the number of folks we have enforcing permit conditions. With the two of those which is what exactly what we are going to be doing. Generally the contractors, so the things that we are trying to balance here because it does take a long time to get work done particularly in the rightofway, the city, we are trying to give the contractors the space so they can get the work done and get out. Its always a balance of how much time to give them and we are going to make sure that we dont give them more space than they need and we hope to improve c
Storm is we are our rec centers function is more than just places for fun and rec kreegz. Theyre Community Centers and in an emergency or disaster we provide shelter and so today i really want to acknowledge and commend everybody who participated in the shelter operation which housed over a hundred people for about 36 hours. [inaudible] oh it was two and a half days. It was two full nights. These folks really went above and beyond with the storm with less than five hours notice these individuals accomplished a herk layerian task of putting this in motion and did it seamlessly and in partnership with the Human Services agency and the red cross and many other partners. So i want to recognize who is here. Tim fageris and his staff and a coordinator. Steve [inaudible] and the entire park service custodial staff. Bob lote and marcos is here. Come on up folks. Our park patrol supervisor who provided around the clock support and jennifer from the division and made sure that we were able to st