This was an american an american concentration camp. So in placing a plaque in the wording, i want to end by saying this words matter and the truth matters. Thank you. President buell thank you. Clerk i know we have a couple of other folks for Public Comment. Please come forward. Good afternoon, commissioners, president buell, members of the commission, general manager phil ginsburg. Thank you for taking this issue up in your agenda. Im a longtime advocate for [feedback] as you know, San Francisco is one of three left in america. And im here to urge you to support the recommendation from your Operations Committee that met recently, which your committee did approve the signage for the issei Memorial Park plaque. So i would like for you to support the whole exact wording as it is. And im here to support the letter that was committed to you by submitted to you by paul osaki, the director. I am a Third Generation japaneseamerican and i was born in one of those american concentration camps.
The purpose of the sign is to share with park visitors, the cultural and historical significance of the generation and their connection to cottage row. We have received about 22 letters of support. And two letters of opposition from the same person have been submitted. Im happy to show you a couple of photos. Neighborhood. Cottage row is in the historic district. Thats the black outline. The park is in green. And the red rectangle shows the approximate location of the front bed along sutter street. This is a photo of the new garden. And that is one of the boulders. And this is a temporary sign. The actual sign will be embedded onto the rock. And these are three photos showing similar types of signage in our parks. That concludes my presentation. Thank you. President buell thank you. I have one blue card. Mickey . Good afternoon. My name is mickey and im here to support the Japanese Community efforts to place a plaque in the issei rock garden and its wording. For the past 40 years ive l
This was an american an american concentration camp. So in placing a plaque in the wording, i want to end by saying this words matter and the truth matters. Thank you. President buell thank you. Clerk i know we have a couple of other folks for Public Comment. Please come forward. Good afternoon, commissioners, president buell, members of the commission, general manager phil ginsburg. Thank you for taking this issue up in your agenda. Im a longtime advocate for [feedback] as you know, San Francisco is one of three left in america. And im here to urge you to support the recommendation from your Operations Committee that met recently, which your committee did approve the signage for the issei Memorial Park plaque. So i would like for you to support the whole exact wording as it is. And im here to support the letter that was committed to you by submitted to you by paul osaki, the director. I am a Third Generation japaneseamerican and i was born in one of those american concentration camps.
I know we get great value, but you know, there is no reporters here, but man, if i were a reporter id be asking a question about why is a bathroom 1. 7 million and thats the reality we deal with in rec and park and any other department. Im amenable to moving forward on the project so it doesnt get to be more. Commissioner harrison yeah, the project is great. And i would normally support it, but because of the prefabricated restroom, i will be unable to support this. For a lot of reasons. But anyway, just want to put that out there. Commissioner mcdonnell quickly, another math question. Im in full support. I look forward to moving forward with the project. The opening paragraph and its repeated elsewhere says, to increase the change order, the change order amount allowed from 141 to 1. 2 million, the change order amount isnt 141 to 1. 2 million, the change order is 141 to 244, Something Like that, so the language is inaccurate. Right. But this is typically how we word the contract incre
The community had for the c. O. F. Raised 30,000 for playground equipment. And then in addition at this time was able to raise an additional 150,000 for playground equipment through the Public Health foundation. So as i mentioned before at Capital Committee, the grant award that was a federal grant was actually retained detained in washington awaiting some signatures for them to give us the award money. So we couldnt start the project. At the time, i started to go to all the different communities around there to let them know what we were doing with the project because some time had passed, especially since 94124 had Extensive Community outreach at the time and there was a lot of support for the project during that time. When i went out, the Community Requested to be able to have an area where they can have Community Events on a lawn, such as picnic tables, bouncy houses, barbecues, things like that. Because we had most of the area dedicated to the field, it was hard to have it along k