Augmented by a grant that the Recreation Department obtained from the department of building ways to enhance some of the recreational access to north lake and that will be part of the over all package and we are happy to keep the commission informed. Maybe it is for the general manager. The Financial Resources secured for the recreational planning and the concession contracts and all of those lingering questions that we keep hearing about as a commission. I understand that there have been some vocal advocacy and communication about it and i think that it is important that we all focus on what is happening in the future, whether those perceptions are, or whether those observations are perceptions or fact and it does not need to be resolved, the fact of the matter is that we have a very Good Partnership of the puc and the Part Department and we have a Recreational Program at the lake right now. And it is happening right now. We came when we were there and we were presented in may, we gav
With the kind of investment its worth it so as we recognize the need thats one way we can educate people by transferring them to 311 i completely agree with what youre saying. Thank you. I appreciate it. The next speaker is from the department of children and youth. I dont see and then right afterwards we have 3 more folks. So thank you for the slides and. It would be easier for me okay. Thank you. Good morning supervisors from the department of youth and their families. Maria our director had a meeting scheduled so im going to be here. Im going to go over what were doing were a two Tier Department we realize that language assess it is important. Particularly in educating services. We make sure that our children can access our services we work closely with other departments. All of the services we provided are done through partnership with the Community Based organizations. So one of the ways we mayor to get out the information to the community is by working with our cb o partners. So
Jessica akerman, San Francisco bay chapter of the sierra club, i wanted to echo comments from everyone about how inaudible to move forward on transitioning to just and safe and Healthy Communities for everyone and part of that is giving people the community to move away from fossil fuels and giving the opportunity for good paying job and an opportunity to move forward to that ideal future together. And we do hope that you can continue to move forward with this program but the nottoexceed rate and thank you for all of the work that you did. Any other comments . All right, we will. There is no resolution to approve, right . So moved. Is that it. Thank you very much. Presentation. And number eight. Bawsca update. You are never going to retire . No, i am but i will be here for the end of september, i will be not at that one august meeting. You will be absent to the best one. Darn. I have invested all of these years. And well,vy good news to report and that is last thursday night the board
Great. Eif you address those two questions, that would be great, thank you. Thank you, scott james, general manager, and the Parks Department and first of all we are grateful for this commission and Department Staff for your partnership and a number of properties that we Work Together and to provide the activities which is our joint and shared mission, we worked closely with the department and the Department Staff over a number of months and we have viewer feedback and the veriable amount of fee back to reach and formalize a refresh which we are comfortable with and pleased to be here today. With respect to the two questions, that you raised commissioner, one bond planning, we have begun in earnest our 2012, park bond planning it is 185 million bond with two million assigned to the lake merced and there have been Staff Meetings as we have done with the different sites to prepare for it and we have an assessment happening some time early in the fall and we will begin the Community Stake
Commissions the ability to track the progress at the tract. And we think that is a good addition to the mlu here. And that will be happy to answer any questions. Any questions . Yeah, i have a couple of questions. So the 2 million bond discussion, is that something that is going to happen and do swre that calendar . We actually, the general manager of the Recreation Department is here and i am sure that he will be able to speak to that item. Great. And maybe i will just finish asking you a couple of questions and i noted that there are probably some people here, i dont know from the Lake Merced Task force who are going to speak to this as well but i remember asking i believe it was last year, a year ago, probably for what the rec and park plan is as it relates to sort of the concession of the rfps and the financials and whatnot. And i assume that is what is part of the plan that is presented. Yes, the Concession Management and that will be part of the package and so i think that he wil