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Above 85 percent. If a park is getting 85 percent its in generally good condition. 69 percent have improved. If you compare this to last year, the numbers are different. Steve will explain in a few minutes about the reweighting we did in the scores. We retroactively applied it to these scores. So the trend should remain the same. So what you are seeing here is a distribution of parks. In the green we have parks that are over 90 percent and yellow under and red under 80 percent. You can see the p...

Refine that to solicit input from the operations staff and all the stake holders. Well do that internally and not involve the architects. Right. Are they putting in a wave for surfing. Its in community design. But definitely been a need for a little bit more varied recreational activity. All right. Im in for it. I guess the one thing that kind of hit me when i read through this is our soft cost is almost half, more than half of our Construction Cost. Is there any way we can control that to lower...

The pool itself. A proposal conference was held in midoctober. The pool itself, with over 30 attendees with engineers. A total of 30 proposals were received in the office this year. A Diverse Panel that includes architects and experts and project managers were assembled to review the proposals. Interview short list was conducted for four firms in early december this year. The project was overseen by the group. The cmd also applied the local Business Enterprise ratings for the four teams intervie...

Thank you very much. That concludes the president s report. So is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment on the president s report . Being none, Public Comment is closed and we are on item 3, the general managers report. Thats tough to top. A few announcements. Weve had a lot of focus on the stick and now monday is very likely the last game, last 9ers game, but we are continuing to work on keeping the facility activated and healthy until its time for it to come down. In honor of mond...

The program itself really revolves around a stakeholder process, it involves all the city departments that use pesticides. We meet monthly. This is really the heart and soul of the program. And i think its fair to say that there are hundreds of people, hundreds of City Employees involved with Landscape Maintenance and Building Maintenance who are not just on board, but really passionate about this program. Its really a great sort of institutional culture, i think, for the ipm program. What goes ...

Thank you very much. That concludes the president s report. So is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment on the president s report . Being none, Public Comment is closed and we are on item 3, the general managers report. Thats tough to top. A few announcements. Weve had a lot of focus on the stick and now monday is very likely the last game, last 9ers game, but we are continuing to work on keeping the facility activated and healthy until its time for it to come down. In honor of mond...

So what you are seeing here is a distribution of parks. In the green we have parks that are over 90 percent and yellow under and red under 80 percent. You can see the parks are still doing well. We had an increase this year for the parks scoring over 90 percent which is really good. There are still a few parks that are down there scoring less than 80 percent that i know the parks and recreation is taking a look at to make sure those parks will be increasing in the future. In the in next slide we...

The subcommittee will come to order. I want to welcome our witness, acting director botacelli, this is the first time he appeared before the Appropriations Committee and i appreciate you coming to testify and thank you for your service. The office of National Drug control policy is charged with extremely Different Task of coordinating multiple efforts to it address many different drug related issues at home and abroad. In addition, you administer some of the very effective Drug Prevention and en...

Point of view. That is extremely important. Can we be more transparent about how they conduct that activity . I think the answer has been yes. We are certainly trying to be as you heard say its difficult to do it. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has established a web site which i believe is new for them. They are trying to post opinions there. We are working hard with them to try to find opinions to redact, find ways to redact the opinions and posts them. The Intelligence Community h...

Issues of personal data so that needs to be worked out. I do want to followup and the chairman is generous with time that we are deeply concerned about privacy with lawabiding american with the right to privacy. Texans are passionate how do you do that . How is it in this era of the internet with the cellphone how should day approach this problem to attack protect the lawabiding citizens is to identify those like hassan did to talk to the site go overseas . Why cant they do to help you do your j...