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And so finally i think that the what we have before us in terms of a recommendation captures three things they think are important going through the process. One that the recommendations represent where both highest in need in terms of conditions but highest opportunity with regard to leverage of resources is represented here. Also the geographic kind of distribution across our city is also i think well represented, not the entire city, but i do think well represented and something that dawn said a few minutes ago around the bang for the buck. It was helpful to have a fuller picture with the c...

More expensive and not the budget at lafayette and had support from others. This will depend on leveraging the dollars with philanthropic sources or grant sources and we are working on that. Lisa bransten from the team is very involved in that. This is something of passion ate interest of the Parks Alliance and will depend on timing and the additional funding that we have. I think we should focus before we grab streets and acquire land and build new parks i think we should focus on delivering the publics expectation which is a beautifully renovated playground in the sites that we have, but we ...

Lily wong right now they have been around for over a decade in some places closer to two and Merced Heights and no one has been here in a super long time and so some of those are functional still. You can still play on them, but the trends and in design and whennure compare the quality of those play structures to Mission Playground on valencia street its a dramatic before and after so we can certainly talk about what i think a replacement cycle should look like. I think the department has learned a lot over the past decade about how to improve the durablity of the playgrounds that we build and...

At bo decker for example at lily wong right now they have been around for over a decade in some places closer to two and Merced Heights and no one has been here in a super long time and so some of those are functional still. You can still play on them, but the trends and in design and whennure compare the quality of those play structures to Mission Playground on valencia street its a dramatic before and after so we can certainly talk about what i think a replacement cycle should look like. I think the department has learned a lot over the past decade about how to improve the durablity of the p...

Reiterate or under score that dawn did mention. First the staff. I would agree with dawn having participated in a number of these process and ones that had the passion and commitment to parks and open space that could potentially be therefore very contentious and this was not for a number of reasons. The first of which in my mind was the incredible Staff Support and analysis that went into preparation that dawn referenced so again thank you to dawn and the entire team, and then secondly the masterful facilitation skills of steve his last name . Cansian. Was just phenomenal in guiding the proce...