This is the recreation and Park Commission meeting of november 19, 2020. Please note that due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the meeting rooms at city hall are closed. However, commissioners are participating in this meeting remotedly at the same extent as if they were physically present. We ask listeners to turn down your televisions and or computers while listening on the phone. We ask for your patience if we experience any technical issues. Public comment will be available for aefp item on the agenda. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone by calling 14156550001. The access code today is 1462848651. When you hear the agenda item you would like to comment on dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. You will be lined up in the system in the order you dial star 3. While youre waiting t system will be silent. It will
Ill ask the general manager if you have any comment on this. We are essentially a low bid city. There is a bid process. The City Attorneys Office has looked into the contractor and for we are very close to being finished with this contract. Its not really new money per se. Its part of the contingency budget. Like any construction project we have change orders and modifications. This is within budget. Thank you, any other comments . This was at the Capital Committee. We were given assurances that moving forward they wouldnt be allowed to bid on projects. The problems and allegations against this contractor doesnt relate to this contract. There was a determination in order to complete the project, basically we had to finish the project. The allocation as it general manager noted doesnt require new money to finish the project but the conclusion was while we understand the allegations and the problems with the contractor. We just had to finish the project but moving forward, the commission
However, commissioners are participating in this meeting remotedly at the same extent as if they were physically present. We ask listeners to turn down your televisions and or computers while listening on the phone. We ask for your patience if we experience any technical issues. Public comment will be available for aefp item on the agenda. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone by calling 14156550001. The access code today is 1462848651. When you hear the agenda item you would like to comment on dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. You will be lined up in the system in the order you dial star 3. While youre waiting t system will be silent. It will notify you when you are in line and waiting. All callers will remain on mute until their line is open. Everyone must account for the time delays and speaking discrepancies between live coverage and streaming. You may email recpar
Analytical adrenaline going . I certainly hope so. Seriously, of all the times weve hosted this conference over the years, this has got to be one of the more fraught election cycles in our lifetime. Certainly a roller coaster counting process and still clarifying picture of what is happening down ballot for several weeks. So we have assembled a stellar team to help us navigate a couple of key questions what happened and why . Was there an expected gap between expectations and eventual results, and if so, what was the cause of that . And how are the two parties, democrats and republicans, now going to move forward in terms their programs and policies but how they position themselves electorally over the next couple of years. With that, let me turn the microphone to my coconspirator in this endeavor, ellen tess cano. Ellen im the cofounder of the inside american politics experience. Last year and this year at nyu. 2008 following the historic election of barack obama as president. , we co
Picture of what is happening down ballot for several weeks. We have assembled a stellar team to help us navigate a couple of key questions. What happened, and why . Was there an expected gap between expectations and results . If so, what was the cause . How are the two parties, democrats and republicans, going to move forward in terms of both their program, their policies, and how they position themselves electorally. The that, let me turn microphone to my coconspirator in this endeavor, ellen toscano. Hello. I am cofounder of the inside american politics series. Hosted for 10 years by last year and this year come up by the center at nyu. We started the annual Conference Following the historic election of barack obama as president of the United States. Together to discuss the election of joe biden. An equally historic Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman of color. A find ourselves in transitional and dynamic moment in the transfer of power from the current president , donald t