per week. we will miss that. but i believe that our granddaughter will be very excited in about 10 months with a new playground. we ask for approval of the construction contract and we look forward to the ground- breaking as soon as october. and we look forward to your action today. thank you very much. ashleigh hathaway, jennifer, and then ross. good afternoon. perhaps i am becoming a somewhat familiar face. i am also on the board of the glen park association as the parks and recreation share. i have been very involved in this process. i can also talk about the coolness of the recreation center in the wintertime. not having installation myself. although technically i cannot speak for those who are not in this room today, for the first phase of this park improvement plan, there is a great deal of involvement, with a great deal of feedback during all of the planning workshops that began in december of 2010. i intended all attended all but one or two meetings. there a
mayor and supervisor and other city officials who felt if the city had been involved in the examination of funding sources, there might be additional moneys made available. debonair and supervisor created a task force headed by the former planning commissioner who spent several months looking into this and made several recommendations. one of them was a bit of a gamble which we succeeded with and that is we ve made an application and got federal funds to build the underground transit terminals for the trains, $400 million. the other was the report that they made that is the item before us today, which is the day they analyzed and came to the conclusion that by rezoning and increasing the heights in that area, additional value would be captured. a bunch of it could be invested in building the train tunnel downtown. that is what you have before you. we ve seen approximately $400 million will be an additional city contribution to improving the regional at long-range trends for s
here, this is a catchword. people say that this is the lungs of the city, that makes the syllable and the wildlife that is here. thank you very much. [applause] good afternoon. i am michael rice, the president of the glen park association. briefly, i want to say that the glen park association board of directors sent a letter earlier this week that you now have urging for approval of the contract, and to move ahead with the glenn part improvement plan. this is a long and constructive process. it d have to balance expanding the playground, providing safer access, and relocating to the tennis court. and the recreation center building itself. this is kind of groove its cube rubitz cube because the pieces and dollars, they have been lined up with the appropriate compromises. i do have one regret. my wife and i have been taking our granddaughter to the playground, two or three days per week. we will miss that. but i believe that our granddaughter will be very excited in about 1
the glenn part improvement plan. this is a long and constructive process. it d have to balance expanding the playground, providing safer access, and relocating to the tennis court. and the recreation center building itself. this is kind of groove its cube rubitz cube because the pieces and dollars, they have been lined up with the appropriate compromises. i do have one regret. my wife and i have been taking our granddaughter to the playground, two or three days per week. we will miss that. but i believe that our granddaughter will be very excited in about 10 months with a new playground. we ask for approval of the construction contract and we look forward to the ground- breaking as soon as october. and we look forward to your action today. thank you very much. ashleigh hathaway, jennifer, and then ross. good afternoon. perhaps i am becoming a somewhat familiar face. i am also on the board of the glen park association as the parks and recreation share. i have been very
to order. based on my conversation with the sheriff s department down stairs, there are a number of theories on how long this meeting will take. i would assume there s an over/under somewhere, bets going on. i ve heard noon, i ve heard 2:00. i ve heard someone say well i have enough food that will last until midnight. so it will be our goal to be not have that food used and be concluded long before midnight. that said, we will take the necessary time to deliberate appropriately. so with that, we will call to order the final meeting of the redistricting task meeting. role call please. chair macdonnell? present for the last time. viss chair lam? present. alonso? present. me lawyerlara. present and not sure it s for the last time. mondejar? present. pilpel? present. member schreiber. present. member tidwell. there s your core mr. chairman. to welcome public comments on the minutes before we approve them. without objection with the usual gruff dr