Evans. Any announcements . Please silence all cells phone and Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards should be submit today the clerk. Items today will appear january 12 meeting unless otherwise stated would like to thank Jessie Larsson squh gym smith for braus braud casting todays meeting. Item 1 is consider apointding 3 members terms ending february 1, 2015 to the parks and recreation Advisory Committee. There are 3 seats and 3 appicates great, we have seberate members of prosack who are here today. Looks like [inaudible] is first is not going to be able to make it. She has written testimony boy robert brooust, if you can please come forward. Good morning, supervisors. I am robert braust and thank you very much for hearing and giving me the opportunity to introduce myself, explain why i was original picked to represent district 8 on prosack. Explain a little of what i managed to get done in the first 2 years and what i hope to get done in the next. I am a Founding Member of d
June 7, 2017. Okay, supervisor farrell. Thank you supervisor avalos and supervisor cohen and everyone who is here. I will keep my comment brief. We brought this item before committee and will continue today until the next rules committee, but want to reiterate the purpose behind this. I think everyone shares this here, the parks inside the sit a are some the greatest assets qu provide a high quality of life and as the city grows in terms of population and otherwise and we feel it every day, the parks are used with greater intensity more than ever before. Over the last few years inside of city hall the parks budget has note grown and if we want to maintain had parks and new open space we ptd to develop in San Francisco, we need to make sure spending for the park saz priority and that is what this amendment does. Before i introduce this we had a huge neighborhood process across the city. I want to thank the Parks Alliance for a great partner throughout the process. Neighborhood groups in
Joined shortly by supervisor mark farrell, who will be sitting in for supervisor malia cohen. Is supervisor cohen going to need to be excused for an absence . Lets have a motion to excuse supervisor cohen. We will take that without objection. The clerk of the board is Derrick Evans and todays meeting is broadcast by sfgtv staff, thank you for your work broadcasting our meetings. Mr. Clerk, could you please call do you have any announcements . Yes, mr. Chair. Please make sure on silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and any documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted today will appear on the january 16 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Item no. 1 is a motion appointing supervisor aaron peskin to a term ending january 31, 2017, to the golden gate bridge, highway and transportation district. We dont have a representative from supervisor peskins office. I do not see any issue with these appointments nor the n
All that some say i am appreciative of these amendments that were made, i know we have to have another hearing but i would be supportive of it with these amendments. Thank you and i do appreciate your comments about the budget process but if we have a report thats before us, that even has our approval, it gives us some guidance about how to make changes to the budgets the mayor presents to us. It gives us the added ability to practice our role of appropriations. Supervisor farrell. Thank you, supervisor avalos and supervisor tang for your comments and i failed to thank supervisor tang earlier for her existing cosponsorship and i want to thank you for being a huge park advocate, as well as supervisor avalos, i fully acknowledge that as well. I do want to ask, with the amendments i introduced, there are a few typos that the City Attorney will be able to use the record to do the corrections thereto. Deputy City Attorney john givner, just echoing supervisor farrells comments that every com
Helpless, as crews demolished their dream home in San Francisco. Inspectors ordered the house torn down because the hillside beneath it is sliding down the west slope of mt. Davidson because of the rain. Alyssa harrington is live. A very sad sight to see. Reporter its hard to believe this used to be a 2 million house. Its been entirely knocked down. Crews had to use cables to get work done, because part of a sidewalk is crumbling, as well. This could be the tip of the iceberg. Five other residents have to get their homes checked out, too. Its a bit frightening to wake up one day and see that your house next door is condemned and sliding down the hill. Reporter steve ader first noticed the crack on his neighbors house monday. Just days later demolition crews tear it down. Building inspectors say its unsafe and now some neighboring homes could be, too. Of course, were very worried because theres some movement on our property. Reporter up the road, the gas meter was removed from this hous