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They are of the region. And they do have great capability. We dont have much discussion going on with them right now but theres a new government and i think its one we should look to. Turkey is an ally of ours. The turks are in a very difficult position. It seems to me we need to be careful and use force where it accomplishes ends. But for example, try to go in and end the syrian war, i dont think we want to own syria. It is a very, very complicated country. As are some of the others in the middle east. I agree basically. We have to be in the middle east but not of the middle east. Thank you b...

Preliminary scoping just to see how far down the budget we would be able to get . So in march we would like to come back with the plan okay with the 15. 5 Million Dollars this is the number of playgrounds we think we could do in the first effort and the schedule for those. I think the other main piece of the feedback from the Task Force Committee which was mostly at the last meeting that we rebrand this program and while failing playgrounds sells gets you votes for bonds its not necessarily the inspiring title that you need to engender stewardship and commitment over the longterm. I was unable...

Beautifully renovated playground in the sites that we have, but we do have this pot of money were hoping to leverage so the short answer is there is more to come on that. Yeah, my only point being i dont like doing things twice so if we mobilize the resources for say any one of the tier one parks, whether we could maybe leverage that think bigger and use the opportunity that we have to expand parks, improve parks beyond the scope that we originally imagined. Again commissioner and dawn if you have thoughts you could certainly dive in. We want to do the most deliver the biggest bang for the buc...

Spent months in planning to make sure this was a successful experience for the public and both the Committee Members and i think greg moore from the conservancy says sometimes you need to go slow to go fast, and we took the time we needed to prepare and be thoughtful and focused about the issues we wanted to put in front of the Committee Members and i think that has paid off so im going to take you through today a little bit of the context within which we did our work and the process and then our ultimate recommendations and look forward to your feedback and questions. So a little bit of our c...

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...