groundbreaking for the new civic center the ground at the helen denver dillard family is funding good i think the mayor was very excited about it as well and has some very nice things to say about the department and what is going on. so i add my congratulations and with that i conclude my report. is there anyone who may wants to make public comment under the president s report? seeing none, public comment is closed. we on item to the general managers report. thank you president buell. for that and thank you commissioner low for being there. as the president noted, we celebrated the groundbreaking of two playgrounds at civic center plaza. there were $10 million film philanthropic gifts from the honduran foundation of which we are very grateful for. a couple other announcements. on march 3 and fourth sundown consider powering down your devices and kickstarting the weekend with i hiked a ride or a jog through your favorite part. national day of unplugging encourages people t
if we found a location made it home in hollow we could find a different date not in september but we could try and work in find something a little waiter in the summer possibly could we could try. yes. it sounds like the number of participants is somewhat of a moving target and you want to make sure that in the event of a complete surprise of population showing up that you would be able to bring in portal parties and things like that well, 70,000 people dissenting on the old and the park was not something we really feel the park can accommodate. yes. okay well i m kind of curious as to how we figure out how many people might show up. i know that we know with the attendance was for the 40th. well, what we talked about it s really a big challenge with free events. we are so fortunate that we have the hardly strictly bluegrass, that are free events, three days and really been developed. over the years. and so when we have free events we talked about ways to limit it. mak
let them know where you re at and they will assist you. and with that we are now ready to start the meeting. so i m going to very quickly roll call buell here loo low here anderson here bonilla here harriston here mcdonnell here we are now on item to which is the president s report. given the number of people plan to talk i will be very brief and simply congratulate the staff on a traffic groundbreaking for the new civic center the ground at the helen denver dillard family is funding good i think the mayor was very excited about it as well and has some very nice things to say about the department and what is going on. so i add my congratulations and with that i conclude my report. is there anyone who may wants to make public comment under the president s report? seeing none, public comment is closed. we on item to the general managers report. thank you president buell. for that and thank you commissioner low for being there. as the president noted, we celebrated the gro
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comment today? testing 123 good morning all. is on how many people in the audience intend to testify today? given the number then we will give everybody 2 min. that will get us out of here by late tonight. [laughing] go-ahead width so you heard that 2 min. on public comments. if you would like to make general public comment that means is on just general comment i m not on an item that s on the agenda. that is on item 4 and that it s continued on item 10. when you do make public comment we ask that you address your comments to the commission and in order to allow equal time for all neither the commissioners were staff will respond to questions to the public during public comment but they may ask staff to respond once public comment is closed. last, if the fire alarms activate you must evacuate the building in an orderly fashion. using any exit. please, note that the elevators will immediately return to the first floor and are not available for use. if you do need assista