[ roll call ]. This is the recreation and Park Commission meeting of august 15, 2019. We welcome everyone here today and would ask that you please turn off Electronic Devices that may sound off during these proceedings. Please take any secondary conversations outside in order for the meeting to proceed as efficiently as possible. If you would like to speak on any item today, we request but do not require that you complete a blue card. Unless otherwise announced by the chair, each person will have 3 minutes for Public Comment on each item. Please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment. In order to allow equal time for all, neither the commission nor staff will respond during Public Comment. If there is an item of interest to you that is not on the agenda and under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, you may speak under general Public Comment and that is item 4. If the fire alarms evacuate, you must exit the building in an orderly fashion. Please not
Staff will respond during Public Comment. If there is an item of interest to you that is not on the agenda and under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, you may speak under general Public Comment and that is item 4. If the fire alarms evacuate, you must exit the building in an orderly fashion. Please note the elevators will return to the first floor and are not available for use. If you need assistance out of the building make your way to the closest area of refuge which is directly across the hall in the mens washroom. Put the button on the speaker phone and staff will assist you. We are at item 2, president s report. President buell it is appropriate to welcome ashley summers, our new secretary of the commission. [ applause ]. Thank you. President buell were very fortunate in that ashley was legislative aide to supervisor katie tang and she worked in the Mayors Office and was a past member of prozak and even did some work for the recreation and Park Department in the p
You may speak under general Public Comment and that is item 4. If the fire alarms evacuate, you must exit the building in an orderly fashion. Please note the elevators will return to the first floor and are not available for use. If you need assistance out of the building make your way to the closest area of refuge which is directly across the hall in the mens washroom. Put the button on the speaker phone and staff will assist you. We are at item 2, president s report. President buell it is appropriate to welcome ashley summers, our new secretary of the commission. [ applause ]. Thank you. President buell were very fortunate in that ashley was legislative aide to supervisor katie tang and she worked in the Mayors Office and was a past member of prozak and even did some work for the recreation and Park Department in the past. So weve got a real pro and we welcome her aboard. She has very big shoes to fill. On that note this is probably margarets last meeting here, but were going to drag
The chair, each person will have 3 minutes for Public Comment on each item. Please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment. In order to allow equal time for all, neither the commission nor staff will respond during Public Comment. If there is an item of interest to you that is not on the agenda and under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, you may speak under general Public Comment and that is item 4. If the fire alarms evacuate, you must exit the building in an orderly fashion. Please note the elevators will return to the first floor and are not available for use. If you need assistance out of the building make your way to the closest area of refuge which is directly across the hall in the mens washroom. Put the button on the speaker phone and staff will assist you. We are at item 2, president s report. President buell it is appropriate to welcome ashley summers, our new secretary of the commission. [ applause ]. Thank you. President buell were ver
Rebid twice due to the high bidding client. And on the second rebid we received two bids that unfortunately with the still approximately 200,000 over the construction budget of 1 is. 6 million. Since this project is funded by two grants, the general funds were obtained to proceed to recommendation of the award of the construction project. This maybe the play structure can be implemented as part of construction contract later on. As i mentioned, the Funding Sources are grant funds the Funds Community Development grants [ indiscernible ]. The state of california grant we obtained in october of 2018 for 625,108. And then with the general funds adding that we have to supplement the construction contract award of 284,000. And this totals the project budget of 2,871,308. So the uses are going to be for construction. 1,884,000 and in the amount of 986,000,208. So after this project is awarded, the project will go through the certification of the contract and we anticipate to Start Constructio