Respond to in writing in the comments and responses document and i believe what you are ruefr r referring to is the alternatives considered but rejected section. We will provide some more detail in response to your question in the cr anything else . I have a lot of comments but i can wait until later. Okay, commissioner johns. Has there been a presentation of this item to the commission before i arrived . There hasnt . I guess im surprised about that and was expecting that today, that there would be a presentation in order to, that we can look at the environmental document in context and particularly environmental documents, while absolutely critical to the understanding of the project, they can be kind of mechanical and kind of functional and what you miss is an overall vision for what were trying to achieve here. Because this is a huge change in the city, its very exciting but lets say i was expecting a presentation. And the other question i have, at some point i think it would be im
Understand that. Thats area aging. I appreciate you informing me. Otherwise, you know, three a is automobile with something, you know. Thank you. Now my next point of order will be what is the word snap, snap budget. Tell me what that stand for. Sure. If you look at the synopsis it has the full name written on there for. Its supplemental nutrition assistance prap education. Program education. Moving on, any new business . 1414daas area plan budget one time only federal state funding increase. Denise cheung could i have a motion to discuss . Second. Good morning president james, commissioners, my name is Denise Cheung today i am very happy to present to you our proposed plan of using the one time only which we call oto to help defaulting programs to increase the grant. With approval we will amend the grant accordingly. The first one is title 3b, supportive services. Can you hear me . Sorry. Your mic is on. This is an enhancement in the federal funding increase this program by 16,539. Th
Off the site. Why was that a criteria . Did you consider moving it within the 5m site . This is something we can respond to in writing in the comments and responses document and i believe what you are ruefr r referring to is the alternatives considered but rejected section. We will provide some more detail in response to your question in the cr anything else . I have a lot of comments but i can wait until later. Okay, commissioner johns. Has there been a presentation of this item to the commission before i arrived . There hasnt . I guess im surprised about that and was expecting that today, that there would be a presentation in order to, that we can look at the environmental document in context and particularly environmental documents, while absolutely critical to the understanding of the project, they can be kind of mechanical and kind of functional and what you miss is an overall vision for what were trying to achieve here. Because this is a huge change in the city, its very exciting
Think the Historic American Landscape survey would be helpful here. Theres a lot in that part of the city that the geology, the land forms, the landscape, basically that would be helpful to understanding the context of how were looking at the buildings and the infrastructure that is being proposed for change and renovation. So those are my ideas at the moment. Thank you. And i will just repeat commissioner wolframs comment about the alleyways. They have completely taken out the character of the alleyway. Thats my comment and i will draft this into a letter. Seeing no other questions or comments into the commission we will move on to the next item. I have one question and its a followup from what commissioner johnck was talking about. What is the process for because, you know, i opened the document and saw the 740 pages and almost fainted. I had to dig to find out where is the information that i need to look at this. And, you know, found one or two pages like that that, you know, talked
Advice than necessarily, you know, permits or approval, but id just like some clarification on that and then theres some other ideas that i have but for now those are my general. Thank you. Commissioners, any other questions, comments . Well open this up to Public Comment. Any member of the public have a comment . Seeing none. I would like to recommend we wrote a letter with our comments. I found this eir to be sort of unsatisfying, i guess, in terms of the preservation alternative. It was 740 pages and there was one drawing of the preservation alternative. Of all the 740 pages i believe theres only 11 drawings of any building at all, so there was a lot of text and as commission johnck said, a lot of it seemed very mechanical. But theres 3 Historic Buildings on the site and they are destroying one of them so thats onethird. It felt to me there were a lot of other alternatives that could have been explored which was a very sweet building. If this concept is all about revitalizing the al