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Experiences. Guest the federal government has tried to roll up waste and fraud, but when taxpayer money is involved it is different than a private enterprise. The ability for fraud to creep into Government Programs financed by taxes is much tighter than private enterprises because shareholders have their own money that they invest. There are a certain amount of problems. For instance, medicare, probably in the order of 60 billion per year in a wasteful and fraudulent payments. This is a huge num...

Host that breakthrough year, is something that took leisa the president s press conference. It was highlighted in the paper today. Here is president obama yesterday talking about the economy and his 2014 being a breakthrough year. Up and whathat all it means is we head into next year with an economy that is stronger than it was when we started the year. More americans are finding work ad experiencing the pride of paycheck. We are positioned for new growth and new jobs and i firmly believe that 2...

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 ...

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...

From the public about. One if the new Program Areas we have is pedestrian lighting. The cities Better Cities plan was adapted and better street lights plan was, you know, express the cities interest in encouraging pedestrian lights in corridors. As the chair mentioned, you know, those commercial corridors was improved pedestrian left to right become more active spaces so it helps the city economically so in following the deposition of the better street light plan excuse me. My staff and i presen...

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...

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 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 takin...

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 gap which is great in district 9 ...

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 have a maep of the city. All d...

Broadcasting today jonathan and supervisor yee i didnt. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Please silence all electronic devices. And items acted upon today will be on the next before meeting. Please call item one. Its a reliability of the street light plan. Okay. Thank you and i called for this hearing today on the state of San Franciscos street lights and strategies going forward. Street lights are a critical part of our industries utility and Public Safety infrastructure. Our street l...