THE Covid-19 pandemic has certainly changed the way in which Guiseley AFC’s Community Foundation works as it moved from basically providing football coaching at holiday camps, in various institutions, in local schools and for home schooled children to providing an invaluable role in the local community. This has varied from delivering food and prescriptions to those in need to providing online coaching courses to keep youngsters motivated and healthy. Covid-19 also put an end to the foundation’s main fundraising events – the annual two-day beer festival at Coopers Bar in Guiseley and the annual golf day at Horsforth Golf Club.
thank you for giving me the opportunity and good morning commissioners and thank you for your work. i am here because i am a passionate supporter of this project. it is i think one of the very best projects that is going on anywhere right now in terms of a vision for great public space in noe valley . on tuesday i did introduce legislation to allow for the purchase through the open space acquisition fund. just backing up a bit in what we call downtown noe valley and the commercial area there is no public plaza, nothing. there are sidewalks which are very crowded, and there is no public space. you can go to the outside of the neighborhood and go to parks but if they re in the crowded highly trafficked commercial corridor there is no public space and that s why i think a number of years ago when a bunch of neighbors in noe valley got together and founded the farmers market and one of the few markets that doesn t have an outside vendor coming in. it s created by the neighbor
we have been successful receiving grants for 17th and folsom for the randall museum and other parks and all multi-million dollar grants and that is motivating us and we have another strong competitor here and we also want to pursue properties that have a range of uses and flexible to respond to the community s needs and demographics. the purchase price for this parcel has been identified as about $4.2 million but there is going to be a price reduction of $350,000 associated with remediation costs so we can use the acquisition funds to address those costs upon renovation of the park so that is great because that reduces again the cost of developing the park or burden on other funding sources so we re very happy to report that. the community has a concept plan. that plan needs to be vetted by staff. it does include a play structure as well as other park amenities and our goal is have the noe valley farmers market operate at the site with no interruption in service and we will w
parts of the bay area. lee will lets know if the entire weekend will be a washout. abc 7 news starts now. good afternoon. thank you so much for joining us. bank customers say they re fighting back today as part of a national day of action. they re taking their money out of big banks like chase, b of a, and wells fargo in search of cheaper banking options. we re live at herman plaza. he has the story now. reporter: this protest had no yelling or showght or marching, just people quietly pulling their money out of large corporate banks and opening accounts in smaller institutions. people like peter gable of san francisco who says he s among those who want justice. who want the large corporate institutions to hear that and to change their policies, to stop paying themselves very large bonuses and to act like small community banks that reinvest in their own local neighborhoods. reporter: he was not alone at the circle bank where others set up new accounts. i switched m