Mcdonnell talked about this we need strategies to invest it was brought up over the weekend so im not sure what the funding by the way, a track for equipment and more ball 2350e8dz 3 dont take care of the playground but some investments it has been helpful tool perhaps we mind or want to thank lydia and others it is really helpful in getting into the weeds us and very, very proud of this report. Commissioner mcdonnell. Just briefly a appreciate the report and the diligence around the transparent and the commitment to the accountability it calls for it lob helpful goord not only the mechanism the rhythm of wanting to have ongoing updates for the annually is good so have it closer to realtime like you just did you know each of the parks are so quite candidly to see the parks on the Southeast Side of city and kind of want to win that race laughter and so to have again, i dont know the right rhythm not every single meeting but as Capital Planning happens and heres where parks are in the cu
Of our most important principles. This year we will have offered 1. 1 million in scholarships. Up from 80,000 five 5 years ago. 1. 1 million in programs to communities in San Francisco. On the Park Maintenance side, thanks to the supported of the Controllers Office and this board over the last few years even in difficult budget times weve been able to maintain our Park Maintenance functions and in partnership with the controller we actually keep very careful data on the work that we do and i think you can see here that weve made significant progress in the last 6 or 7 years with respect to Park Maintenance. We operated parks on a quarterly basis and the numbers speak for themselves. Also on the recreation side, where over the last 45 years weve gone from being the recreation provider to our last resort to the recreation provider and thats something we are very proud about. You can see even in the last resources thanks to in partnership with the recreation staff and sciu, we reinvented
Of red tape and corruption for instance. For others. And it is perhaps going too fast especially when they point to be a widening gap between the haves and have nots. But the nations identity how its doing doesnt just boil down to how much you earn today in the fall spring kit so they wouldnt be looking at to identity identity playing a big role in politics these days and you cant help notice when you land here in delhi as well as an Election Campaign going on would it be going today in the false and get to the inside of the next superpower and set were doing it with them and you might remember as former number two to a coffee on a United Nations today. He is a state minister or member of palm and shush ito also of the writer of several books including humans act syndicate. Welcome to the shelf. Thank you to be with you. Do you just just to give our viewers a sense he spent a lot of years the United Nations twenty nine of the american nations and live and in politics and when you come
Through the business window and another shows that. He says he was targeted. This is just terrible. An Early Morning street fight, police say it started with an argument and ended with one man dead, good afternoon, i am in for tory. We are still following the story and it happened near there and janine de la vega has what one witness heard before police arrived. Reporter christine the the witness said he saw the fight. He said he saw those men beat that victim with a bat and then he ran and they chased him and police later found him dead at some other apartments and we have been following this story since then and we still dont know what caused the fight or why they killed that man. We talked to some witnesses who had this to say. Yeah, i saw the fight and they chased him and i saw that. Yeah. And the police initially received the call that was reported as shots fired. And the Police Originally responded to the call it was called in as a fight and so you know they want to know what hap
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