And she would literally rake the sand every day, every morning so that when the kids got there, any objects that might be in the sand had been removed. And she would sweep the sand on the sidewalk so that the kids could run around. That person there is no person like that any more. Nobody cleans out the sand. The rec center is usually closed. Theres nobody there keeping the place clean and neat. And i guess thats for lack of money, which is a shame and later on in the program were going to be theres going to be some discussion of funding for some other things. And i would say its a higher priority to have somebody there keeping the place clean and safe. There was a tennis court there is a tennis court right next to us, portal playground and i used to play tennis there all the time. I believe its the only was the only lit tennis court west of twin peaks in the city. That tennis court has been without a net for years. Its usually basically what its used for is smoking dope and breaking y
I am the Vice President of the Greater West Portal Neighborhood Association and also the chair of the land use committee. And i just wanted to talk to you a little bit about west portal today and what i perceive to be the park needs of that neighborhood, which is a real family neighborhood. I mean, i chose that neighborhood because of the open space in the area, very green. It had two parks within each walking distance of our home. Mount davidson and West Portal Playground, and my children both went to west Portal School. And, so, i just some of the changes that ive seen in the neighborhood in terms of access to open space in fact, all of them have been for the worst. And i just wanted to talk to you about them and my ideas of how to address them. When i raised my kids in West Portal Playground there was a woman, i think her name was pat, who was on staff every day starting early in the morning, and she would literally rake the sand every day, every morning so that when the kids got th
Boom and felt the ground crash under his feet. In fact, some ski resorts will see more than a foot of snow today alone. We have Team Coverage tonight. With ktvu reporters covering todays much needed rain. First to bill martin with how much rain the bay area got today. Reporter the morning commute was a mess as you know. We saw one to two inches of rain that continues to impact not just the bay area. Over toward, working your way toward fremont. These showers moderate to heavy at times. Up here toward vallejo, more scattered showers. Driving was messy tonight. Visibilities get reduced. These scatters showers like were seeing over here down near fremont are going to continue throughout the evening hours. Fremont getting pretty good rain right now. You can hear it coming down if youre out near the fremont area, margerie drive. Were going to go to san jose and we have heavy rainfall here as well. Its been pretty productive storms coming through the bay area. The showers are going to contin
The details for the Draft Program for the next two 2 fiscal years. I will start. At this time the city is expecting a general Fund Shortfall of just over 100 million in fiscal year 1415 and over 118 million in fiscal year 1516. These projection are much lower and much lower during what was issued in the last budget project. The Economic Outlook has improved over the past year. Many uncertainties still do exist in these numbers such as the economic uncertainty, the results of this citys Union Labor Negotiations as well as continued cost in increases in employee fringe benefits. As for the budget instructions for our department is to reduce general fund support by 1. Percent in fiscal year 1415. To 40,000 and by 1 percent which equates to 67,000 for 1516. We dont receive much general support from the general fund. There is an additional one 1 percent contingency reduction in fiscal year 1516 and instructions by the mayor department is reveal of departmental fees and well be submitting a
Happens nearly every year that large numbers of california red leg ed frogs are stranded at sharp park under existing rates of water removal at sharp park. If we in accrues increase that rate of change, it will become worse. Its the rate of change that is motor most important to the species. It will adapt to small changes in the water level that occur under normal conditions. When the pumps are turned on and started to remove more than 10,000 gallons, its not able to adjust to. The department has said there is no changes to the pump house protocols on the one hand while on the other hand they say these pumps are the basis for the environmental conditions of the project. Those Baseline Environmental conditions have never been considered by any Environmental Review document ever by the recs and Park Department or planning department. There is no document we can reference to understand what the environmental consequences are of those existing pump house rates and this project it says on i