Move to approve and seconded. All those in favor . Okay. Thank you. We are now on item 10. Richmond playground im here for discussion and possible action to authorize the recreation and Park Department to enter into related agreements with the San Francisco Parks Alliance under the lets play s. F. Initiative for the renovation of stern grove playground and richmond playground. As we move through the initiative and ill give you the presentation, but i wanted to pause and say that these are the last two related agreements of the initiative, so its a really nice milestone to hit. So just for some quick background, as you know, lets play s. F. Is a Public Private partnership initiated to renovate San Franciscos 13 most deserving playgrounds. On november 13, 2016, the Commission Approved an agreement between the department and the Parks Alliance to accept up to 15 million for lets play s. F. And recommended that the board of supervisors approved the grant, and the board of supervisors gave
This one. It is one of several projects we partnered on with hays valley, balboa park and hill tom and the relake ship goes back farther with the partnership projects. Buchanan mall is another one we are working on with gpl. We were in district 6 yesterday and we were joined by three amazing kids who spent a lot of time at bodecker and are involved in the boys and girls club. The city invested more than 30 million in the Park Improvement this is the last several years including not just civic center, south park and we have upcoming work at the Sergeant Mccoy playground and the mini park. They were opened in honor of may your lee. I was mayor lee. I was with them when we showed him the design. He was so excited but he said when he looked at it, he said this looks amazing. What if there were some lights. That embarked a very ambitious lighting element to these playgrounds which you saw part of last night. The big piece of it went on about 10 minutes after we cut the ribbon. That is show
Good morning. It is thursday, february 15th. This is the regular meeting of the San Francisco recreation and Parks Commission will the secretary call the roll. roll call commissioner buell and mcdonnell have excused absences. Please turnoff your devices. Also, if you would like to have a secondary conversation we request that goes outside. If you would like to speak on an item we request but do not require a blue card. Unless otherwise announced by the president each person will have two minutes for Public Comment on each item. If there is an item of interest not on the agenda under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, you may speak on general Public Comment, item 4. That is continued on item 9. When you make Public Comment, please address your comments to the commission in order to allow equal time for all. Neither the commission nor staff will respond to questions during Public Comment. The commission may ask questions of staff after Public Comment is closed. Last, and
Of our colleagues on the commission. Commissioner covington i will second. Vice president nakajo thank you commissioner. President cleaveland commissioner hardeman, you wanted to add something . Commissioner hardeman were being watched by the Mayors Office and board of supervisors and were sitting here telling everybody that yes, we know were not supposed to ask for a new title, now what we want is one and a half positions. I think we have handled this very poorly. I think our discussion makes us look like were more interested in getting our opinion about getting a grant writer than actually getting a grant writer. I was convinced by statements from staff that were going to have a grant writer and the staff has rewriten it to give us that. We say we want a grant writer because we want a grant writer which i find confusing and im sure the Mayors Office and board of supervisors who are the final vote on this probably thinks this is confusing for them to absorb what were saying too. Im go
That we should see an increase in the strength of these storms. Thats whats happening and thats why the severe thunderstorm watch has been extended into the philadelphia area and new jersey. The flood threat for tonight is actually less than it was yesterday but a lot of lightning and also a lot of high winds. Those are the main threats. But we still have some threat of some hail and even a tornado or two in parts of the area. Lets check in with meteorologist Sheena Parveen for more on exactly what to expect the next few hours. The reason why that watch is going so late is because of all the heat and humidity in place and thats what you really felt today. Temperatures still climbing through part of the area. Thats what will help fuel a lot of these storms as they move in tonight. 85 in philadelphia so we have gone up a couple degrees in the past hour. 85 degrees in reading, parts of delaware still at about the upper 80s and as we go into tonight, those temperatures will start to drop a