Item number 1, resolution authorizing the recreation and Park Department to accept and expend a grant of 870,355 from the San Francisco Parks Alliance for the design and construction of a playground in sue bierman park. Thank you very much. Do we have a representative on this aye fen . Item . Please come on up. Good afternoon, supervisor chu. Good afternoon, supervisor kim. My name is abigail [inaudible] with the Partnerships Division with recreation and Park Department. I am here to talk about the accept and expend grant from the San Francisco parks a likesv in the amount of 870,355 which will authorize the recreation and Park Department to accept and expend this grant for the design and construction of a playground in sue bierman park. Id like to spend a few minutes to give you some background on the group thats working on this project and the playground as well. The friends of waterfront playground is a volunteer organization formed by two waterfront neighborhoods, the barbery crist
Anderson, grant [speaker not understood] from the District Attorney and [speaker not understood] from our department. I just wanted to share with you the Commission Just finished three Community Meetings with our partners in the violence against women prevention and intervention grants program. These are direct Service Providers who work on a daily basis with the Domestic Violence victim. We held the Community Meeting at [speaker not understood]. We held some at the department for all of our agencies and at cameron house. And the themes that we heard over and over again were language barriers continue to persist when victim of Domestic Violence want to report a crime or followup on a crime, that cultural barriers exist, particularly among those immigrants where in their home countries Law Enforcement can be corrupt. So, they dont have the trust thats needed in order to report Domestic Violence and family violence. So, im very pleased today to report on a very strong and deep collaborat
Board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Would you call item 1 . Item number 1, resolution authorizing the recreation and Park Department to accept and expend a grant of 870,355 from the San Francisco Parks Alliance for the design and construction of a playground in sue bierman park. Thank you very much. Do we have a representative on this aye fen . Item . Please come on up. Good afternoon, supervisor chu. Good afternoon, supervisor kim. My name is abigail [inaudible] with the Partnerships Division with recreation and Park Department. I am here to talk about the accept and expend grant from the San Francisco parks a likesv in the amount of 870,355 which will authorize the recreation and Park Department to accept and expend this grant for the design and construction of a playground in sue bierman park. Id like to spend a few minutes to give you some background on the group thats working on this project and the playground as well. The friends of waterfron
Quorum call mr. Nelson mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from florida. Mr. Nelson mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Nelson mr. President , the hour is nyi and now washington is awash in the rumor that there might be some progress being made. I hope so. If there was anything that was made clear to this senator in the reelection in one of our biggest states in the union, it was that the people want us to come together and to stop this bickering, the ideological rigidity that weve seen, excessive amounts of and the excessive partisanship. And that is a huge, huge turno turnoff, because i think logical rigidity and excessive partisanship are impediments to getting people to come together with commonsense decisions for solutions. Mr. President , obviously, theres an easy way, and hopefully that is what is being tweaked at the moment in a final solution with the president to speak in about 30 m
School children who heard this news rushed to the school, many of them reunited with their children but some parents learned the very sad news that their children had been killed and have been with the governor of connecticut and others who are speaking with them. I know youve been speaking with your Law Enforcement sources. Describe whats going on at this moment as they are trying to find more information about the shooter and how he was connected to this. Theyre doing background investigations into the shooter but also going to locations associated with the shooter. Not just directly associated with ryan lanza, his residence and theyre looking far location in new jersey there but also his familys residences in and around connecticut. He has a father who is down in stamford. He has a mother who is a teacher at the school whose house is in newtown. They went there. Has where they saw what appeared to be a body and theyre doing an entry there to see what else they can learn inside that