Miss chang, thank you for that process as well as your work over the last many years and the floor is yours. Thank you so much to you, chair peskin, and the commissioners and your staff. We are grateful for your time that you and your staff have given to us in taking briefings and meeting as a committee as a whole. The year is marked by fantastic discussions at this body. We appreciated the guidance, input throughout, and wanted to highlight a few of the accomplishments we documented this year. We were able to achieve with your help and guidance. Here is a reminder of goals and objectives set for me and the agency over the past year. I want to start by saying the year was marked by a lot of it focused on infrastructure, policy and revenues and projects that were under development that were being prepared for a big funding opportunities that was the tremendous focus with the measure three setting up next phase investments in extension of caltrain and host of other big projects. We look
Hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. Parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a Community Driven program. The program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted were here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. Yeah. We partnered with the pavement to Parks Program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot Community Garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point were planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do here. Theres a very full program that they simply joy that and meet the
Vehicles parking in those space does. This is kind of a wooden structure thats parked in front of a parking meter there. Oh, sorry. So this, i understand, there is no jurisdiction for, so this this is another challenge that we need to address. Thank you. Chairman brinkman thank you. Next speaker, please. April prozer, followed by evan prozer, and then melody. I have a picture, too. I just put it on the thing . Chairman brinkman itll come up. There you go. I just want to i guess youd call it a reality check. This is a department of public works worker with a sledgehammer about to demolish a persons home. It had he had made a little stairway and a little desk in there, and he had all his tools hanging neatly on the wall. And he took a video. That is off the video, and he was very nice. You know, he never complained, you know . He just was watching them as they with the hot team and the police watching. This is the reality of whats happening. You know, i appreciate everyone saying that th
Chairman brinkman i do appreciate how we solve for one place and other people are affected. Director borden . Director borden would think i would imagine because what theyve described, does the program not apply to people that are already in the pipeline . A couple of months we approved for a reduction in fees for people to be able to pay that was for the parking tickets, but im just wanting to understand if that program is applicable. That gentleman is 600 behind in parking fees. Im just wondering if the new regulation we enacted would be able to be applied. Yes. At your january 6th meeting, you did approve changes to the Community Service program for unpaid citations. That makes it very accessible. I think its a very low requirement to get into that program if you have a backlog of citations. I was hoping wed have james for the reco ford here. He was living in his bus and got about 1600 in citations and had his vehicle towed. I was on the phone with miss lu friday, talking about mr.
Choice of language about the problem. Not at all brink bri. Chairman brinkman i do appreciate how we solve for one place and other people are affected. Director borden . Director borden would think i would imagine because what theyve described, does the program not apply to people that are already in the pipeline . A couple of months we approved for a reduction in fees for people to be able to pay that was for the parking tickets, but im just wanting to understand if that program is applicable. That gentleman is 600 behind in parking fees. Im just wondering if the new regulation we enacted would be able to be applied. Yes. At your january 6th meeting, you did approve changes to the Community Service program for unpaid citations. That makes it very accessible. I think its a very low requirement to get into that program if you have a backlog of citations. I was hoping wed have james for the reco ford here. He was living in his bus and got about 1600 in citations and had his vehicle towed