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Consider a municipal masterpiece. Thank you. Thank you. Richard. Commissioners, im richard harris, the San Francisco public park alliance. We have 6,000 members. Im also a San Francisco resident and have been a golfer in sharp park for most of my life. We support funding for the completion of the eir which is what is good for you on agenda number 9 of the sun ramp. This is 18year process. You hear the controversy here. There were two or three hearings here by the Planning Commission on the eir. ...

Species. The up land Habitat Restoration work includes three locations for a total of a half acre. You can refer to the diagram up here. Two of those locations are the horse stable pond and one is near Laguna Salada. Primarily its to remove ice plant anacacia an Invasive Species and will be replacing those with native vegetation that will provide more robust habitat for the special status species. The second request that we bring you today is for the removal of sediment and vegetation within the...

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 out the sand. The rec center is usually closed. Theres nobody there keeping the place clean and neat. And i guess thats for lack of money, which is a shame and later on in the program were going to be th...

Commissioners, im richard harris, the San Francisco public park alliance. We have 6,000 members. Im also a San Francisco resident and have been a golfer in sharp park for most of my life. We support funding for the completion of the eir which is what is good for you on agenda number 9 of the sun ramp. This is 18year process. You hear the controversy here. There were two or three hearings here by the Planning Commission on the eir. There was the extra hearing. I dont know how many thousands of co...

These people are not environmentalists. They just throw out environment. Anyway, i would like this program, this concept all together. But the very least, [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. Thank you. Julie. And then paul. And if there is anyone else, if you could just line up against the wall, that would be great. Go ahead. Thank you very much. I just im here basically to thank the city of San Francisco for moving forward on the protection of the species in making efforts to pr...

I am the Vice President of the Greater West Portal Neighborhood Association and also the chair of the land use committee. And i just wanted to talk to you a little bit about west portal today and what i perceive to be the park needs of that neighborhood, which is a real family neighborhood. I mean, i chose that neighborhood because of the open space in the area, very green. It had two parks within each walking distance of our home. Mount davidson and West Portal Playground, and my children both ...

We realize what a long process its been to put together the significant Natural Resource areas, managements plans. Weve watched that process for years, attended many of the meetings. And we hope that you can now go forward with that as it stands and not to remove sharp park from the plan. To do so and rechoirv a separate eir for sharp park would be to obstruct the excellent work thats going on right now and would just needlessly endanger what we consider a municipal masterpiece. Thank you. Thank...

Would be environmentally superior. There are officials at the citys rec and Park Department that said the report used a no definition of environmentally superior set forth in california law. So, with this third consultant, is rec and park consultant 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 details for the Draft Program for the next two 2 fiscal years. I will start. At this time the city is expecting a general Fund Shortfall of just over 100 million in fiscal year 1415 and over 118 million in fiscal year 1516. These projection are much lower and much lower during what was issued in the last budget project. The Economic Outlook has improved over the past year. Many uncertainties still do exist in these numbers such as the economic uncertainty, the results of this citys Union Lab...

Happens nearly every year that large numbers of california red leg ed frogs are stranded at sharp park under existing rates of water removal at sharp park. If we in accrues increase that rate of change, it will become worse. Its the rate of change that is motor most important to the species. It will adapt to small changes in the water level that occur under normal conditions. When the pumps are turned on and started to remove more than 10,000 gallons, its not able to adjust to. The department ha...