Projects such as the el taraval, waiting for m. T. A. To be ready for the track replacement so we could never repave the whole road. I know its our practice to combine as many projects as possible, you get in once and redo everything, but also meant ever since another supervisor, i dont know if this will, i hope the schedule will continue on track, we havent done anything to that stretch. So, im just wondering how it is in the future, i know a lot of Public Comment you have to take on some of these muni forward or rapid projects, but it really does cost delay and other critical things that need to happen, such as the track replacement or the street repaving that goes along with it. So, any thoughts as you are moving forward with other rail lines and so forth . Yeah, so, thank you for the question and through the chair. We are trying to make sure that we are coordinating all of these projects. And if i recall when i was at public works, they did not have the Rail Replacement money yet,
An unreinforced masonry building, once we are out of, well be transferring to the General Services agency, they will then be seismiccally retrofitting for the animal care and control. The other part of this is the expansion for our muni metro east, our newer of our two rail yards. Put the first light rail in service last year, we should have 24 cars here by this summer, and in order to accommodate those cars, as well as the additional 44 that are coming as part of a contract that you have approved, all of which would be here in the next few years, we need the physical space to fit them all so we can house and maintain them. Other main areas of transit have to do with major corridors, better Market Street project, in you are fairly well familiar with. I think youve had recent briefings from transportation authority. Significant part of funding for the project is coming from this bond, and as you know, we made some Good Progress on better Market Street, hoping to be done with preliminary
Ready to break ground this year, like rossi, garfield, george christopher, margaret hayward, and willie woo woo wong. Complete by 2019 and all the citywide programs los angeles completed by the end of 2020. With the passage of proposition b in 2016, city charter was revised. Annual capital plan, and bond funding is a critical component to the successful completion of our goals. So, what these bond funds will do is make progress on a few of our deferred maintenance goals. We have a plan to complete the renovation of all our rec park swimming pools. We will complete renovation of all but five rec centers. And with the funding from the lets play sf initiative, make significant progress renovating and it is an unfavorable bidding environment. Bids coming back 20 to 40 above engineers estimate, we are looking at a bid reserve to ensure we can deliver the scope as promised in the bond. Thats it, i want to thank you, also thank michelle traviti, who may have some comments and i am available f
And why is that . Because its actually not so much about an insignificant shade around 7 30 in the morning, but its about public safety. We could go there now and find numerous empty cans of alcohol and walk the grounds of the eastern half and find syringes. Its just horrible. 20 years i have livered there. I love that park. I love puc for donating money to improve that park. So my passion is about that park. What this eastern half lacks is housing. 1090 and 1080 eddy with more northeastern park and we overlook the park. We have an obligation for park safety. But next to us is sacred heart and there is nobody there and then 950 goth, which is empty, been empty for two decades and the two other Church Buildings heading towards goth, and turk. Then there is the park view terrace, our third residential building and we have Margaret Hayward field. Huge gaps that just allows people to con stantly shootup and do drugs and we intervened with the Mayors Office. We actually got the Mayors Offic
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