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Turns out this season less is really so much more. So make your holiday merrier than ever before. Safeway. Ingredients for life. You are looking live at the city. Here we go again. Storm gate about to open. Possibly all the way until sunday. It is going to be wet. Get ready for more rain. Sandhya is here now with a look at what is happening on live doppler 7 hd. Yes. That slow moving storm moving in on live doppler 7 hd and raining in the north bay. Winds picking up in the hills right now gusting to 35 almost 40 miles an hour at this point. Lets check out the area where it is raining in the north bay first from ukiah to healdsburg heading to santa rose and i take you down to street level here show where you we are getting some moderate rainfall right now. Gurpville road. Santa rosa area, river road. Old red wad highway out to Fountain Grove parkway. Calistoga road and head down towards or up towards the eper road spring hill road area. Marin county now starting to pick up some rain fro
The left side have been totally refurbished. I guarantee, i was there last friday and they are usable. And new paint on there and replacement of the windows and doors. These are the replacement windows. The crew working there. And replacement of windows on the outside. Making it a presentable place, one that can be a value to the community. Next i want to talk about abandoned dock removal. On the abandoned docks, there are some docks behind the vegetation there. Those were old docks that were reachable from the shore line. And they were derelict over the years and eyesore. And we worked close with rec and park to get those removed. We took care of the permitting for the removal and rec and park provided the manpower to get those out of the lake. And now that corner of the lake doesnt have floating eyesores out there. I think thats a big step forward. On the recreation front, rec and park has been actively programming recreation there during the summer and fall. Classes and kayaking and
Recreation around the lake. And thats an important thing they started doing that they had not been doing for. Proposition b was on the ballot in november, which provided for recreational funding. And 2 million of that is for lake merced. That was passed. And thats to be managed by the recreation park department. And you will hear from stakeholders that you manage that, but the city is clear that this is recreation for them to manage. They recommended that they go through stakeholders for the use of the funds. And there are recommendations for those funds. The boat house advocates mentioned starting work on the boat house. Thats a possibility as well. Thats something that rec and park will manage to determine how to spend those funds. We are working on the rod and gun club, and reached an agreement to establish a business relationship. And they have agreed to not contest. I got a note that, that passed the board of supervisors a few minutes ago. Thats approved by the board and on its wa
Shape. We have put a new roof on it. Additionally the bathrooms on the left side have been totally refurbished. I guarantee, i was there last friday and they are usable. And new paint on there and replacement of the windows and doors. These are the replacement windows. The crew working there. And replacement of windows on the outside. Making it a presentable place, one that can be a value to the community. Next i want to talk about abandoned dock removal. On the abandoned docks, there are some docks behind the vegetation there. Those were old docks that were reachable from the shore line. And they were derelict over the years and eyesore. And we worked close with rec and park to get those removed. We took care of the permitting for the removal and rec and park provided the manpower to get those out of the lake. And now that corner of the lake doesnt have floating eyesores out there. I think thats a big step forward. On the recreation front, rec and park has been actively programming re