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First of all, welcome, commissioner mcdonald, and congratulations. Prior to this meeting i electronically submitted to this commission a short video clip for your consideration. It is in part presented to address the shortcomings of the reports that have been generated by the rpd and zvi Fields Foundation partnership as well as the 2008 synthetic fields task force. It is specifically intended to address the scarcity of and virtually lack of medical testimony presented by the rpd and city Fields ...

Open space task force, the open space committee, and also as a councilmember. And in the process, we preserved more than 500 acres of open space through our efforts, political efforts in our community, our preservation efforts in our community. So, i just want to say that as a preface to my comments about Sharp Park Golf Course, in the entire time that i worked on these projects in our community, no one ever considered taking away the golf course. The golf course was always viewed as kind of an ...

Shopping until they find one that will tell them what they want to hear that [speaker not understood] is better, not what the law and the facts dictate, which is that the maintenance alternative is better and will cause less impact on the environment . The open space Contingency Fund is for acquisition of new park space. Its not a slush fund for [speaker not understood] produce a report. Its not a slush fund to pay for a change in gardening at sharp park which is what a lot of the restoration pr...

Will be targeted mostly for people using that park and not for not for native plant restoration. Thank you. Is there anyone else who would like to make Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . I entertain a motion. So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. All those in favor . Aye. So moved. Thank you. As a reminder, item 8 is off calendar and we will now hear items 9 and 10 together. 9 is the open space Contingency Reserve Fund, funding for the Environmen...

Council which represents, i believe, 20 plus neighborhoods west of twin peaks all unanimously oppose map. Theyve communicated that through the recreation and Park Department and to the mayor. Mount davidson, aside from sharp park which i dont know anything about and which is not within the boundaries of San Francisco, Mount Davidson is the most affected by map. I mean, their proposal is to cut down 1600 trees on Mount Davidson and the neighborhoods surrounding Mount Davidson all are opposed to t...

This saturday, if youre at the opening of cayuga and youre done there, please come up the hill. Well feed you lunch, and then you can sit back and enjoy the entertainment. So, once again, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you. Is there any other Public Comment under the general managers report . Okay, being none, Public Comment is closed. We are now on item 4, which is general Public Comment. At this time members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public th...

Staff resources for planning, design for the sharp park safety Infrastructure Improvement and Habitat Restoration project. This is the project that don was describing a little bit earlier. The sharp park sharp park is a unique project, a park for the city. Its located in pacifica but [speaker not understood] but is owned by San Francisco. It includes 27 acres of wetlands. You can barely see it in the image above. Thats the entire area of sharp park and the wetlands located to the west of [speake...

Replica of a prewhite colonization of the habitat. Because this designation [speaker not understood] as environmentally superior supporters were furious with the draft eir the is this why we now need a third consultant . Is rec and park going from consultant to consultant at great cost until they find one that will [speaker not understood] data similar map maintenance alternative is better . In the august 5th, 2013 we wall street journal article, [speaker not understood], native and nonnative pl...

Police officer vent on revenge is blamed for several shootings including today s death of an officer. Ken wayne is in the newsroom with late details. Reporter around 12 20 this afternoon one of four people held hostage by christopher dor ner for the last few days got lose and called police. The suspect rolled his window down. When the sect patrol truck came up with the two wardens inside, thats when he engaged in a shooting with our wardens as they were driving. Reporter after a rolling gunfight...

You about them and my ideas of how to address them. When i raised my kids in West Portal Playground there was a woman, i think her name was pat, who was on staff every day starting early in the morning, and she would literally rake the sand every day, every morning so that when the kids got there, any objects that might be in the sand had been removed. And she would sweep the sand on the sidewalk so that the kids could run around. That person there is no person like that any more. Nobody cleans ...