Part of the file actions today will be appear on the april 7 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Colleagues, we were going to go in order today. We have a hearing as item no. 1, all though there was, apparently i just realized there was one item held over from last week because that was completely cleared up, so were going to take one quick one out of order, item no. 4. Item no. 4, ordinance appropriating approximately 11. 5 million for the renovation, repair or construction of parks and open spaces and recreation and Parks Department for fiscal year 20142015. Donna is here to speak on this item. Supervisors, good morning, a very brief presentation on a fairly routine item, supplemental appropriation of the 2012 parks bond. Of the roughly 160 million given to us by voters we have now, we did a first sale of about 53. 2 million after the election. Today we have spent approximately 14 1 2 Million Dollars and due to various policy changes about how other citywide projects
Greatly last year and will continue to do that because the voters said, yes its important to pass a 500 million bond for a Transportation System a great museum is for Pedestrian Safety the sizing had will help the priorities that vision zero and all the others have as part of our great transportation and walking and bicycle riding city Southeast Community Facilities Commission they transition going on in the southeast part of our city i want to make sure the people that little there for generations are directly involved in the future development of that area thats what the southeast sector will do they themselves and their facilities are going on changes we need good leadership to make sure the community is directly involved in that that conversation wow. Urban Forestry Council meeting we need to have admonish trees and we need to make sure that is clear who is responsible for them because those trees are commonplace and part of our investment we need to do better as a city we need a y
Assumed he wouldnt lie especially on not television i say that without fear of contradiction it was proven commissioner andrews has shown a on several occasions to ask questions that really need to be asked i would have been controvertible with commissioner keane because hes a great advocate for from the expression and First Amendment rights ive yet to see that take real effect but again commissioner andrews i think will serve as vice chair very effectively and i at least have some hope that he will take into account that the issues of the public i will point out that very often members of the public who get involved in City Council Like the sunset posse have given up on they dont come here because they know youre not going to respond and youre not required to respond to my public commissioner lees comment your your stimulated to contempt ill ietsz telling that i say one thing that make you look bad and no one says anything in response maybe the vice chair will get something more than
Playground in the development and maybe i am living too much in a fantasy world but thats how i want things to be and people move in so the good things happening in the neighborhood are shutting out what already exists but raise it up so shirlee has given you a map and you can see holes there. There are pieces of jamestown developed and pieces that will be developed and some empty holes; right . There is the gilman park and other places there that is grayed out. Nothing is going to happen and we just want to have everybody on the same page working together to make everything contiguous and beautiful and this is the neighborhood that we all live in together, so yeah, what were looking for is very straightforward and working with you guys, with rec and park, with dpw, with lenar and residents of the neighborhood to make sure what is happening there is good for all of us. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Thank you. Commissioners good morning. I am here to ask you to take down th
Then again item 9. If you would like to comment on an item that falls under the jurisdiction of the recreation and Park Commission but is not on the calendar and as a reminder when you make Public Comment and you can make Public Comment on every item and commissioner buell three minutes for each . Three minutes. And when you make Public Comment please direct the comments to the commission and they wont answer but after they may have staff to respond. Were changing the agenda today and item 9 is before eight and six, 7, 9 and eight and with that we are on item two which is the president s report. Thank you. Very briefly i just want to congratulate the general manager and all the staff that participated in putting on greater and greener. I think we had close to a thousand people from around the country and someone told me 22 countries were represented and i went to all at least the social events and some of the substantive things and i got a lot of positive feedback from people. They gen