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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 have a maep of the city. All districts are over 85 percent. District 9 is the highest and 1...

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 over all score was and the Diamond Square was the highest district and the lowest district. You can see this year we had a narrowing of that g...

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...

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 mondays game we have a co...