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Survey efforts, were seeing that 15 of City Employees report that they actually do use the bikes. So, a lot of departments are getting the bikes and theyre starting to get a good deal of use. 64 of the departments have moved to having some sort of pooled vehicle so individuals arent assigned individual vehicles, and that is a way of obviously reducing the amount of vehicles in the fleet and unnecessary travel. Promotion of teleconferencing and providing equipment for Video Conferencing is anothe...

Yes, thank you. All right, thank you very much. Comments from colleagues . Commissioner wald. Unless commissioner josefowitz wants to go first. Thank you. I was overly enthusiastic. Shes getting a little better than last year. Its been a learning process for everybody. All of the fleet everybody involved with the fleets this has been a learning process, to try and figure out how to get similar types of data and how to make it work. Great. I think, you know, we still below a lot of our targets, i...

That we really cant control. ~ its something that is driven by mosquito outbreaks, west nile virus outbreaks, various Public Health issues, and also those are almost universally very low toxicity products. They are mike robial products that are in storm drains or hormones that are in tiny, tiny amounts ~. So, thats the rationale for not looking at that. These are the top 10 most used hazardous products in the city based on active ingredient, pounds of active ingredient. Youll see most of them ar...

So, in general, i think im sorry, i missed one. I meant to discuss the little statistics at the bottom of this graph. We have overall at this point an 84 reduction in all pesticides since the beginning of the program. Since 2000, which is when we really got our system best organized, its been at 62 . Since 2007, which is fiveyear mark, its been a 6 reduction. As you can see its very bumpy, depending on climate, depending on budget, depending on all sorts of things. Depending on golf as well . An...

New vehicles, there are procedures set up for them to Purchase Green vehicles. So, to where we are in the status of the implementation. Concerning the first concept of transit first, 50 departments have now submitted to us plans. Theyre reweird to do this annually to submit plan to describe what their transit first strategies are for their own employees. ~ required the range of programs it doesnt prescribe specifically what they need to do, but theres a laundry list of item that they might emplo...

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...

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 have a maep of the city. All districts are over 85 percent. District 9 is the highest and 10 is the lowest. The darker color being the distribution between 9095 percent and the yellow between 8595 percent. This chart here is the seven 7 years of the over all park scores. The big bar is part of what this ...

Away. I think we should all be respectful of the fact that this is a real team effort to make candlestick what it is. Sometimes when i tell people that when i started out when i was the gardener outside of the stadium, people would say, whats there to do outside because they walk in and they dont see whats outside. I think we have 300 trees to take care and and the lawns and statutes, and its sort of the minutia of daytoday things that made my job a great place to work and a facility where we ca...

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 parks are still doing well. We h...

Evaluations. We evaluate every park once a year. The parks and recreation staff go out four times a year so every park is rated. We should have up to five scores of each park every year. Thats what makes the result of this report. As you can see on this chart, this is over all trend for the last 7 years. What you are seeing from light to dark green are within the quarter within that year and the diamond is giving you the over all score for that year. We are continuing the upward trend and this i...