bond we were looking at rebuilding that project. also we have looking at support from the school district there, jose ortega, ymca and other community organizations in that area. on a personal note my children grew up around merced heights playground and we remember i remember the tiny tot s program which gave me two hours of mental health therapy just having my kids provided a safe fun and educational activity for my children, and so with that we support this and we adopt the task force report and we re just waiting for you to say yes, i worked on the [inaudible] and the library at ocean view under the leadership of mayor willie brown at that time and we re looking at banks who are supporting us so we strongly want you to keep it going. thank you. thank you very much. is there anyone else who would like to make public comment on this item only? seeing no one public comment is now closed. commissioner mcdonnell. i m not sure if we re ready for a motion, so i have on
more expensive and not the budget at lafayette and had support from others. this will depend on leveraging the dollars with philanthropic sources or grant sources and we are working on that. lisa bransten from the team is very involved in that. this is something of passion ate interest of the parks alliance and will depend on timing and the additional funding that we have. i think we should focus before we grab streets and acquire land and build new parks i think we should focus on delivering the public s expectation which is a beautifully renovated playground in the sites that we have, but we do have this pot of money we re hoping to leverage so the short answer is there is more to come on that. yeah, my only point being i don t like doing things twice so if we mobilize the resources for say any one of the tier one parks, whether we could maybe leverage that think bigger and use the opportunity that we have to expand parks, improve parks beyond the scope that we origin
at bo decker for example at lily wong right now they have been around for over a decade in some places closer to two and merced heights and no one has been here in a super long time and so some of those are functional still. you can still play on them, but the trends and in design and whennure compare the quality of those play structures to mission playground on valencia street it s a dramatic before and after so we can certainly talk about what i think a replacement cycle should look like. i think the department has learned a lot over the past decade about how to improve the durablity of the playgrounds that we build and also the ease of maintenance. we made a number of policy decisions over the past 10 years. for example a decade ago we were ordering playgrounds from germany and fancy things from other places and we discovered the replacement time when you break it there is a lag time to order a replacement part from a high end designer in germany when the yard is here
heights play ground. i would like to introduce you to barbara williams and karen lacoi which she has the merced heights playground family. okay. that s also been helping. we strongly endorse this project for the following reasons. the 2010 census reported there was an increase of over 10,000 in population in 941 three two causing a shift in the district and district 11 from ocean avenue all the way over to holloway and i am sure commissioner mcdonnell worked on that project and how the community increased in its population. also the knowledge structure has been. also the building structure is in need of repair and brought up to ada standards and investing in the basic structure is a sound and good investment to the community. this is an under served community and welcome your support. the survey that we conducted under the leadership of karen mccoy gave support for tiny to thes, tots and seniors and adults. the courts and the athletic field and the play structure. recre
lily wong right now they have been around for over a decade in some places closer to two and merced heights and no one has been here in a super long time and so some of those are functional still. you can still play on them, but the trends and in design and whennure compare the quality of those play structures to mission playground on valencia street it s a dramatic before and after so we can certainly talk about what i think a replacement cycle should look like. i think the department has learned a lot over the past decade about how to improve the durablity of the playgrounds that we build and also the ease of maintenance. we made a number of policy decisions over the past 10 years. for example a decade ago we were ordering playgrounds from germany and fancy things from other places and we discovered the replacement time when you break it there is a lag time to order a replacement part from a high end designer in germany when the yard is here in san francisco and it broke