Shopping until they find one that will tell them what they want to hear that [speaker not understood] is better, not what the law and the facts dictate, which is that the maintenance alternative is better and will cause less impact on the environment . The open space Contingency Fund is for acquisition of new park space. Its not a slush fund for [speaker not understood] produce a report. Its not a slush fund to pay for a change in gardening at sharp park which is what a lot of the restoration proposed really is. More importantly, the proposed restoration at sharp park is an implementation of plans in the [speaker not understood] before the eir has been complete. We really cant implement whats in the plan before the eir has been finalized and that point should have been made with fish and wildlife. So, im very concerned about the idea of this third consultant and we have a fourth one and [speaker not understood]. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. [inaudible]. Good afternoon. My name i
Will be targeted mostly for people using that park and not for not for native plant restoration. Thank you. Is there anyone else who would like to make Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . I entertain a motion. So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. All those in favor . Aye. So moved. Thank you. As a reminder, item 8 is off calendar and we will now hear items 9 and 10 together. 9 is the open space Contingency Reserve Fund, funding for the Environmental Review of the significant Natural Resource areas Management Plan. And 10 is the open space contingency reserve plan funding for [speaker not understood] restoration and investigative sampling at shark park. As a reminder, as they are being heard as one item, you will have three minutes for Public Comment as a combination of those item. Go ahead. Commissioners, [speaker not understood], planning and capital director. Just wanted to again overview the Capital Committee provide a brief kind of
This saturday, if youre at the opening of cayuga and youre done there, please come up the hill. Well feed you lunch, and then you can sit back and enjoy the entertainment. So, once again, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you. Is there any other Public Comment under the general managers report . Okay, being none, Public Comment is closed. We are now on item 4, which is general Public Comment. At this time members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission but that do not appear on the agenda. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. I have one card and that is kelly watts. Sfgovtv have a video . First of all, welcome, commissioner mcdonald, and congratulations. Prior to this meeting i electronically submitted to this commission a short video clip for your consideration. It is in part presented t
Staff resources for planning, design for the sharp park safety Infrastructure Improvement and Habitat Restoration project. This is the project that don was describing a little bit earlier. The sharp park sharp park is a unique project, a park for the city. Its located in pacifica but [speaker not understood] but is owned by San Francisco. It includes 27 acres of wetlands. You can barely see it in the image above. Thats the entire area of sharp park and the wetlands located to the west of [speaker not understood] in the blue area next to the coast. It also has a number of special status species including the california red legged frog and the San Francisco garter snake. As don mentioned the fish and wildlife has provided us with a biological opinion and that includes 32 mitigation or cultivation measures. One of which is the up land Habitat Restoration. And to comply with the biological opinion, we need to complete that work by october 31st of this year with a short window during the su
Replica of a prewhite colonization of the habitat. Because this designation [speaker not understood] as environmentally superior supporters were furious with the draft eir the is this why we now need a third consultant . Is rec and park going from consultant to consultant at great cost until they find one that will [speaker not understood] data similar map maintenance alternative is better . In the august 5th, 2013 we wall street journal article, [speaker not understood], native and nonnative plants would be environmentally superior. There are officials at the citys rec and Park Department that said the report used a no definition of environmentally superior set forth in california law. So, with this third consultant, is rec and park consultant shopping until they find one that will tell them what they want to hear that [speaker not understood] is better, not what the law and the facts dictate, which is that the maintenance alternative is better and will cause less impact on the enviro