Good afternoon, everybody. Oh, my gosh. You to full familiar faces, lots of beautiful new faces. Welcome, everybody. This is our monthly town hall so we are really excited and we are on track, we have not skipped a single month. Hall towntile hall per month and this is our nine out of nine town halls in addition to many local community events. Before we start, i want to acknowledge everyone here. Our staff that has worked so hard putting this together. Michelle, mabel, ariel, daniel, noreen. And marcus. He is live streaming. I am forgetting everything. We have Translation Services here today so we have our American Sign Language interpreter here. If you need it feel free to raise your hand. Our staff can make sure you get the Translation Services available. Hello, everyone. Evening. Are we at evening . Michelle will kick us off. We will dive right into it. Good evening. Today forfor coming our Community Town hall. Am Michelle Hernandez we want to thank you for coming today to discuss a
The purpose of the sign is to share with park visitors, the cultural and historical significance of the generation and their connection to cottage row. We have received about 22 letters of support. And two letters of opposition from the same person have been submitted. Im happy to show you a couple of photos. Neighborhood. Cottage row is in the historic district. Thats the black outline. The park is in green. And the red rectangle shows the approximate location of the front bed along sutter street. This is a photo of the new garden. And that is one of the boulders. And this is a temporary sign. The actual sign will be embedded onto the rock. And these are three photos showing similar types of signage in our parks. That concludes my presentation. Thank you. President buell thank you. I have one blue card. Mickey . Good afternoon. My name is mickey and im here to support the Japanese Community efforts to place a plaque in the issei rock garden and its wording. For the past 40 years ive l
Any item, we request you submit a blue card. Please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment. In order to allow equal time, neither the commission or staff will respond to any questions, but the commission may ask questions of staff after the Public Comment is closed. If there is item not of interest to you, you may speak under general Public Comment and that is item 4. Please note if the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate the building in an orderly fashion with any exit. Our leaders will return to first floor and are not available for use. Please make your way to the closest area of refuge across the hall in the mens restroom. Let them know where you are and they will assist you. We are on item 2, president s report. President buell thank you. A couple of things. Even though commissioner low is not here, i would like this express my gratitude that he handled last months meeting when i was out of town and everything went quite well. Secondly, i wanted to read
David johnson Photo Processing Lab and create a reading space in the lobby of the center. We have received over 100 letters in support of the request and there have been two Community Meetings held on friday, september 27 and thursday, october 10. Based on the feedback from community members, organizations and rec and Park Department staff, the staff recommends that the Photo Processing Lab at the Harvey Milk Photo Center be named the David Johnson Photo Processing Lab and to create a Reference Library and reading space in his name as well. At this time i will take questions. President buell thank you. Clerk id like to acknowledge that david and Jackie Johnson are here. Theyve requested to come up last, so ill be calling them up after the other cards. I have michael and then barbara and then angela. My name is michael johnson. Full disclosure, i am an employee of rec and park. I work in the Park Rangers Division there. President buell welcome. Im sure ive talked to one or two of you. I
Adel fung. I am one of four coowners of 275 fullsome street. Most of the major rehabilitation work was done from 2012 to 2014 under the previous owners. But we as the new owners are looking to tackle a number of major scope items on specifically of wood deterioration and the curbed wood te deterioration, the compe reroofing and attention to an overlooked slightly inaccessible patch of land that started to grow vegetation. The rehabilitation needs came on our radar as homeowners, wear and tear of the original curved windows and even the mosaic that revealing, especially the turette was older than it looks from the strateg street view. We readdressed the items over the next three years focusing on the wood rot with the upcoming rainy season and curved windows. We hope that the city is able to support us in this investment. I appreciate the opportunity to introduce myself and to give the vote of confidence that the property tax savings from the mills act contract will truly help offset co