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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...

Meeting. We covered two items today on healthy food and Healthy Eating initiative and happy to note the certified coalitions have come together to bring health y exercise and regards to repurposing stores, Corner Stores that do not have food we heard there were three that were repurposed in bayview and one in tenderloin and one in my district and two on the way. We have been very successful of repurposing these stores. Its not only the food chains but the infrastructure with regard to new equipment and food and supplies. We also heard about the Needle Exchange program which continues to serve ...

Bond we were looking at rebuilding that project. Also we have looking at support from the School District there, jose ortega, ymca and other Community Organizations in that area. On a personal note my children grew up around Merced Heights playground and we remember i remember the tiny tot s program which gave me two hours of Mental Health therapy just having my kids provided a safe fun and educational activity for my children, and so with that we support this and we adopt the Task Force Report and were just waiting for you to say yes, i worked on the [inaudible] and the library at ocean view ...

Renovations that we did, so i want to make sure were going to invest considerable amount of money and a lot of different resources that we have these parks for as long as possible so i would like that addressed in the future efforts, and to continue planning with these quote unquote failing parks. Commissioner i think its a great question and in march we can come back with more detail but there are two questions embedded in your question. One is what is the current replacement cycle for assets and then what should it be . Because were certainly squeezing every month of life out of the play str...

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 ...