good morning. welcome to the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee, carmen chu, joined by supervisor kim. supervisor avalos is unfortunately tied up at a bay quality air quality management meeting. i would like to entertain a motion to excuse him. our clerk is mr. victor young. at sfgtv we have mark bunch and jesse larson. announcements? yes. please silence cell phones and devices. complete speaker cards and documents to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be on the october 23rd, 2012 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. thank you very much. just going back to the earlier comments, supervisor avalos unfortunately is tied up at the bay air quality district and will not be able to attend in time. do we have a motion to excuse? motion to excuse. we have the motion. without objection. call item one, please. one, resolution authorizing recreation and parks to accept and expand habitation
and jesse larson. announcements? yes. please silence cell phones and devices. complete speaker cards and documents to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be on the october 23rd, 2012 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. thank you very much. just going back to the earlier comments, supervisor avalos unfortunately is tied up at the bay air quality district and will not be able to attend in time. do we have a motion to excuse? motion to excuse. we have the motion. without objection. call item one, please. one, resolution authorizing recreation and parks to accept and expand habitation grant in amount of 163,587 from california department of parks and recreation for glen canyon loopside project. thank you, we have lisa wayne. tony moran, the grant manager. i will present the grant. i m here to present to accept and expend habitat conservation fund grant for glen canyon creek side loop trail. also
good morning. welcome to the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee, carmen chu, joined by supervisor kim. supervisor avalos is unfortunately tied up at a bay quality air quality management meeting. i would like to entertain a motion to excuse him. our clerk is mr. victor young. at sfgtv we have mark bunch and jesse larson. announcements? yes. please silence cell phones and devices. complete speaker cards and documents to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be on the october 23rd, 2012 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. thank you very much. just going back to the earlier comments, supervisor avalos unfortunately is tied up at the bay air quality district and will not be able to attend in time. do we have a motion to excuse? motion to excuse. we have the motion. without objection. call item one, please. one, resolution authorizing recreation and parks to accept and expand habitation
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. it s 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, it s 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 proj
declaration and ignoring the comments as to why this project is misguided. just to give you a little bit of information as to why this piece of property is so important, i want to give you a few minutes about what this place is like for those of you who haven t been there and describe the sources that are found there. the frogs species sometimes known as twain s frog because mark twain wrote a story about it and there is san francisco garter snake. under the circumstances a species that truly breaks my heart. it s the most beautiful serpent in all of america. it is our namesake and probably the next species on the san francisco peninsula to go extinct unless we do something about it. the recovery wild life association explained how to protect that from occurring. that plan demands that the population of that not only have that arrested but increase to transplant some of these animals to locations where they have been lost. that has not happened. the population of these spec