>> supervisor kim: and do we require notice to mohcd for all of these units? >> correct. for all the units, we have a copy of request of notice for default. so that will automatically notify the lender whenever there is a default, but for the counter conversion b.m.r. unit that i mentioned, those were on the very old program. that time, we did not have the process to have that documenting ready, but mohcd, we have a system, andhat system actually sends daily e-mail updates for all our portfolios, so whenever there is anything happen to our unit, we get notification. >> supervisor kim: okay. yeah. thank you very much. i do have to say that 12 out of 1300 units is pretty extraordinary, and at some point, i'd like to have an

understanding of what we do to ensure people remain successful in their home ownership. but it is for this item before us. >> thank you. >> supervisor kim: thank you, miss yen, and thank you, miss benjamin. why don't we open it up for public comment on this item. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor peskin: madam chair, i would move item 5 to the full board with recommendation. >> supervisor kim: great. so w c adopt item 5 without objection, and we can do that without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk, can you please call item number 6. [agenda read]

>> supervisor kim: thank you. rachel alonso, the transportation financial analyst from the department of public works who's here to present on this item. >> good morning. the proposal allows us to accept a total expend of $926,426 in t.d.a. state grant funds. this is an annual funding source, and the expenditures are similar in nature to previous years' resolutions. the transportation development act of 1971 earmarkedne quarter percent of the general state sales tax for fug.

m.t.c. allocates funds annually to the nine bay a counties in accordness with the sales tax collected in each county. public works and the m.t.a. are submitting a joint resolution. improvements could include but are not limi to striping and signing changes, bulb outs, safe hit posts, and bicycle turn lanes. ic orks proposes to use $232,000 to repair public sidewalks, curbs, gutters and angular returns at various locations citywide. the remaining $232,000 will be used f planning and design of curb ramps at various sites throughout the city. locations will be selected from a list developed by public works and the mayor's office of disability. curb ramps designed with this grant will be constructed in from pk.ear 18-19 with funds

the m.t.c. does not require local matching funds, and i am joined today by m.t.a. and public works staff. we'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> supervisor kim: thank you very much. seeing no questions or comments from committee, at this time we are going to open it up for public comment for item number 6. seeing no comment, public comment is now closed [ gavel ]. >> supervisor peskin: and madam chair, i would make a motion to send this to the full bod with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor kim: thank you, and thank you, miss onso, for presenting. we will move this forward without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk, please read the next item. [agenda item read]

>> supervisor kim: thank you so much. and we have kerrie huang, long-term director of ageing and adult services to present on this item. >> good morning, chair kim and supervisor peskin. we are requesting authorization to enter into contract with brilliant corners for rental subsidy to facilitate independent living for eligible residents within the city and county of san francisco. services include rental unit identification and acquisition, rental subsidy allocation, unit habitability, tenant well-being inspections, and the modification of housing. just to give a brief background

in 2006, the community living fund was established under nio 10.100-12 of the san francisco administrative code to fund ageing in place and community placeme alternatives for individuals who might otherwise require care in an institution. perthe code requirements, daas provides the board of supervisors two documents: the community living fund six months report twice a year detailing the level of services and costs incurred, and second the annual plan once a year. the goal of the community living fund is to assist those who are at imminent risk for and to prevent institutionization whenever possible. this includes transitioning individuals from skilled nursing facilities like laguna honda hospital which has a dual purpose of allowing people to live independently while freeing beds up for those who

need it. this concludes our report. >> supervisor kim: thank you. and john, thank you also for being here today. i just had a quick question. this is a very low dollar amount, which is great. it's not that i want us to spend more, but i'm just curious, what can you do with $16,000? >>s 16 million. >> supervisor kim: oh, i'm so sorry. clearly, i just came back to work. this is a large dollar amount, then. could you explain -- it's closer to 17 million, thank you, supervisor peskin. could you explain what this contract costs cover, and am familiar with brilliant corners and their work, but what services would be provided under this contract? >> sure. e t covers everything fro point for the preparation for moving into the individual up till the time that they leave. so it does a lot of -- they do

a lot of work in terms of unit identification and finding appropriate market rate community settings in fair market housing, an it's looking also at accommodations that a person might need. for example, someone might need a roll in shower or an elevator because they need wheelchair access. they do things in -- in preparation for the move, including looking at floors and if there needs to be a rug or not be a rug. if someone has a wheelchair, maybe they need a harder floor. they'll do things like grab bars, and they manage all the logistics of w onehat might need prior to move in. once someone has moved in, they'll do regular checks more intensively in the beginning to make sure that person is settled in. this might include, you know, making arrangements with the landlord if something is not working properly. maey serve as a liaison between gement and the client.

thereafter, once things are stable, they'll meet with them every month to do what's called housing retention visits. this requires an individual going out and meeting with the client one-on-one and just kind of doing the -- you know, everything from the -- the habitability of the unit to repairs to any landlord tenant issues. if they need social services, they'll make the recommendation. if someone is ready for termination, they will make e arrangements, as well, and help ease the facility transition. >> supervisor kim: and how many clients will this serve? >> this contract has a capacity to serve probably up to, that amount. of course it's a moving target with rent rates going up. this contract currently serves 102 participants. we had a -- we transitioned a couple of new people out, and

then there was about nine people that transitioned in this year. that number is always moving and we're always trying to maintain a pipeline as much as possible so people can be housed. >> so brilliant corners acts as an advocate between a landld and a tenant, and why is that approximately $140,000 perindividual. it's a 17 million contract, and it serves, you said, roughly 120. >> yeah. i'm the director oftracon for the human services agency. the bulk of the contract is the rents itself. >> supervisor kim: oh, i'm sorry, so this includes the rent. >> yeah. >> supervisor kim: what portion of that is the rents versus the services? >> 16% of it -- i did the math riefore. it's about 16% is just administration costs, and the other three -- it's in the budget. the other 80-something percent is all rent. >> supervisor kim: the other -- i'm sorry? >> so for an approximate cost

of about 3 million a year, 2.4 is rent subsidies. >> supervisor kim: 2.4 of the 17. >> it's about 3 million a year, so 2.4 is administration. the way we setup our contracts is we have a set base amount, and then we contingency. >> supervisor kim: i understand. i understand. thank you so much for that clarification. just one other question. this is actually separate from this particular contract. several residents in my district are recipients of section 8 and work with brilliant corners and are having so much difficulty finding a landlord that is willing to accept section 8 even as a section 8 holder. so as a policy matter, what can we do to support our tenants

who are even -- you know, that are lucky enough to even get section 8, a rent subsidy and get them into housing. it's been incredibly painful to see in particular some of our s.r.o. tenants who won section 8, lose section 8 because it expires. >> it's a very challenging question, but the focus of community living fund and brilliant corners primarily are keeping people out of theit are individuals that if they were not assisted, they would be sitting in laguna honda or a skilled nursing facility where it would be thousands of double ant hin it's double than community living. so theeople that have access to these pipeline of units are folks that would otherwise require institutional care. it's a different population. these are folks that maybe need

help wh their activities of daily living. >> supervisor kim: so do you have a 100% housing rate with this cohort? >> yes. >> supervisor kim: so my question is separate and apart from this contract. because this contract with brilliant corners is before us, i'm asking what we can do to help these tenants find housing when they get a section 8 voucher and they're working with brilliant corners to obtain it, to obtain the housing. >> so this question's outside the scope of contract. >> i think this is a new contract to us that had been previously held by the department of public health, and we're taking it on. i don't think we're tully aware of what brilliantrsne has. >> supervisor kim: got it. thank you very much. all right. so seeing no further questions from committee members -- actually, is jennifer malvo

here from brilliant corners? could you come lea hi. thank you. thank you for being here today. >> of course. >> supervisor kiope i that you cu answer my question. so completely separate from the contract itself, given the scope of your organization, what are some of the challenges and ideas that brilliant corners has to help some of our tenants who have won section 8 but are not getting housing on our rental market here in san francisco, and what are some things that even legislatively or from an advocacy standpoint can the board of supervisors or city do to help these tenants because i have several residents in the tenderloin who have been fortunate enough to land section 8, and then languish because they're never able to find housing on the market, and then, their section 8 expires.

incredibly frustrating. >> i don't work on that particular program for brilliant corners. i do know what it is, and i can speak to what some of the challenges are. a lot of the challenges are poor credit scores. a lot of the landlords don't want to work with individuals that don't work or don't have high incomes. those are the main challenges that we see at brilliant corners. we're working internally on some of that f, but it's a bigger issue. it's not something that we can resolve, like, today or tomorrow, but those are the issues, like, landlords are discriminatory. in our case, in our program, we advocate for the client, so we speak directly with landlords and we build that relationship. unfortunately, i can't speak to the other program that brilliant corners has, but those are definitely some of the challenges that we have as an agency working directly with landlords. >> supervisor kim: okay. thank you. i'm sorry to put you on the spot, but i just thought that

you were here or brilliant corners is here, and this is something that has been dogging our office because t win n 8, d then watch them languish because they're not able to get section 8 housing. i'm just wondering if there are ways that we can support these tenants legislatively. >> i can put you in touch with the director of that program, information. give you more >> supervisor kim: okay. thank you very much. so at this time, we're going to open this up to public comment on ice number 7. seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ] wendy paskin-jordan madam chair, i move that we send this item to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor kim: thank you very much. we can do that without

objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk, will you read the next item, please. [agenda item read] >> supervisor kim: thank you, and we have mickey callahan, director of human resources, presenting on this item. >> thank you very much, madam chair, super peskin. i'll be brief but certainly i'm here to answer any questions. i'm here with community relations director carol isen,

as well. we're here with a number of contracts, particularly the fire mou's. there are many changes. our highlights covers most of them, but there are a lot of updates, but parties came with a lot tot table. as a result we did end up in arbitration. there were a lot of work that people wanted to do, and the results of these arbitrations are the agreements before you with respect to police and fire. additionally, we have a number of mou changes which reflect the agreements that we made with our unions to correspond to ab 119, new employee orientation, and some other minor changes really on the order of howusekeeping to deal with organizational issues and other contracts. i'm very happy to answer questions. maybe that's the best way to proceed. >> supervisor kim: okay. thank you so much, director callahan. there are actually no questions

at this time on these items. >> supervisor peskin: let me just say for the record, we've discussed this plenty in session, so it's not as though the members of this panel are just saying yes. we -- i think we have had maybe three, maybe four closed sessions particularly around local 798 and the p.o.a.'s contracts. we're familiar with the balance of these. i want to salute you and the employees relation division for all the work that you've done over these past many months, and thank you for your work with the board of supervisors. >> thank you. >> supervisor kim: thank you. so at this time, we will open it up for public comment on items 8 through 20. seeing none, public comment is now closed. >> supervisor peskin: madam chair, i would like to move items 8 through 20 to t full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor kim: and we have a motion to move that forward. without tionec those items

pass. mr. clerk, are there any other items before this committee? >> clerk: there is no further business. >> supervisor kim: thank you. we are adjourned.

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have brt as more frequently known the goal to get conveniently van ness and geary boulevard one of the most reliable transit systems in the country van ness avenue is a major connecter between potrero hill and mission on the south side of san francisco correcting connecting us to the marina and state highway in the financial with the western edition nehborhood it is mostly residential a lot of the geography of van ness the rain that is wide it was uses is a firebreak in the 1906 san francisco earthquake a lot of building occasion that helped of hoped to stop the fire from jumping van ness had a light rail or sprash separating and along geary 0 when we came

to the question of how to address the needs on haven because of its cost effectiveness we have found in the system with the new vehicles. >> the new mr. secretary is a change we will actually have transit in the middle ♪ the far legal unit and a broadly prom >> one of the reasons it is in the center a was it is an clouf right-of-way a set of pedestrians will cross from the sidewalk to the middle of the street a. >> to move the reliable along the corridor with this travel time had been signifying reduced we think the ripped will go from 16 thousand a day in that portion the corridor up to 22 thousand and we'll have those beautiful new one like this one. >> with the dedication of the

signal and saying between stops we were able to estimate a .32 improvement in travel time and a 50 percent reliability improvement as a result. >> we're pitting u putting in a up to date modern system of new thirty foot high light fixtures and pedestrian lights on the same pole again inviting a comfortable environment for pedestrians. >> it has become a 3 dimensional street project. >> the water that is my undersnding under the ground and the emergency firefighting water system month will be replaced and new street lights and traffic lights and the paving and stripping the trees both in the medium and on the side. >> the main core of the project goes from market it

lombard that's where we'll be replying the sidewalks. >> there are a number of trees that need to be replaced and they will be additional new planting. >> we're planting a lemon gum that gets to be 5 or 60 feet tall that comes over the offer head wires that wee when we get done van ness it will look like a new street it will visit fresh new looks like the grand boulevard again. >> we're going eliminating left turns off of van ness into the side streets and places the left turning traffic backs up the traffic and upgrading the signals to the mini traffic will flow more smoothly and traffic impacts as we execute the

construction signed we're working to minimize these but impacts that will likely shift theraffp frank and we'll up th traffic. >> right now that looks like we're skeleton to start in march ever 2016 are of our construction. >> in the past people prospective of bus traffic that go unreliable and noisy and very fluting we're here to remake the vehicles are on the streets and with the combination of the brt improvements much more rail l services with the technology. >> the public is in for ayou.

>> today, i wanted to kickoff

and welcome you to the first every family well forum (clapping.) >> compromising is carmen chu currently which this of the family forum we put this event dough went to a lot of community meetings and we're he and she about families worries and troubles aaron planning for the future and ahsha safai for buying a home and college and retirement and for many of the seniors how to passing on their prompts to their kids. >> the family forum benefits throughout san francisco i'm supervisor norman yee representing district 7 people are homeowners fritter buyers and they don't thinks the planning. >> what you'll notice if you walk around today's activities multiple languages transactions available for people in the

seminars and 101 couing a the today, we not only have vendors that have come here the seminars where people are lining about important topics was of most unique pieces we have one-on-one free counseling for people so important that people understand about taxes and how you transfer your assets to our next generation because we do it wrong as you may know to lose much money. >> we did if grassroots on the radio and worked with all nonprofit and partners to get the word out we personally went to community meeting to tell people about this event we'll have a whole line of people that will wait to ask skews i'm thinking about passing on my property or so glad i can speak but i cannot speak english well

created in first every family forum and hope that will bring a lot of people good information to plan for their future three hundred people signed up for 101 counterand we so hope that ia model for success for the future and hope to do more if we learn from this one to be better >> good afternoon, everyone. how you feeling? this is a really special day for us. it's our opportunity to acknowledge many of themazin young ple tha we have here in san francisco, and we have been doing this now for eight years, and it was something that mayor lee started. [applause] >> and he appropriately calls

it the "i am the future scholarship award" because he always thought a lot about our students and thought that they were our future and wanted to get you all off to a great st to make sure you get where you're headed. and our incredible mayor, mayor farrell has been helping to lead this work alongside us to ensure that you get to where you're headed. so we're really happy to have you here and your families. families are such a critical piece in making sure our young people get to where they need to go, and it's through our families that many of our young people have had the courage and the encouragement to g onto college and university. so we're glad you're here, as well. my name is hydro-mendoza.

i'm the president of the board of education here in san francisco, and so i'm really delighted to be emceeing. for me personally, this is something because of the both sides of the street that i work on, really special, because you are all sfusd graduates or are in college and graduated from sfusd. so this is our eighth year, and in particular, we just want to thank all of our partn ha been ived wh us. we draw from schol orships you've already received and through organizations that you work closely with, and so we want to thank our schol orship partners, many of who are here with us, the black college track, filipino graduates of san francisco, first track, teachers of san francisco,

masonic foundation of san francisco, mission economic development agency, mission promise neighborhood, mission graduates, san francisco achievers, san francisco alliance and black school educators, san francisco foster youth fund, san francisco university state project rebound, the association of chinese teachers, and a26 valencia. these organizations reflect the love san francisco has for our youth, so we want to thank you for being a part of that. i also want to acknowledge gina frommer who is our sponsor from the san francisco education fund. she has always supported the work that we do with our young people and with principles, teachers and paraeducators, and last, i want to thank pg&e for their generous support. andrea, you did this donation on behalf of mayor lee, and so it's really imporant for us to do this in partnership with

you, so thank you, and thank pg&e for all you do for our city. these partnerships, as i said,.

we expect you to be the next doctors and lawyers, the next mayors, the next supervisors, and people thatl lead our city going forward, so we're proud of you. you represent the future of san francisco, and congratulations to you all. thanks for coming out. [applause]

>> thank you so much, mr. mayor. so many organizations that we referred you to us we work with closely, and many are funded by our department of children, youth and family, and i just wanted to acknowledge maria fu, who's the director of the c.y.f. and lives, breathes, and ettas everythi eats everything that has to do with young people. we have a supervisor in our districts that does so much with plic schools. katey tang graduated from public schools. she invests in every single one of our schools in her district, so i'd like to have katey tang please join us for a little welcome. [applause] >> supervisor tang: thank you very much, hydra, and welcome, everyone, and congratulations. asydra mention, i did grow up

going to our public schools here in san francisco and proud graduate of sfusd, and so i definitely know how much it means to be able to support these schools in any way i can. like many of you, i grew up with an immigrant family and was the first in my immediate family to attend college and graduate from college and then go onto receive a graduate degree, as well. when i first went to college, i really worried so much about how it is that we're going to pay for college. my parents had to work overtime so much that i barely saw my dad on the weekends, he was just working and working and working. then i had a brother that was right behind me, and we were supposed to overlap in college for three years, so i definitely freaked out how we were going to pay for college. so i pushed myself to graduate in three years so we -- i could afford to help pay for college. some of my favorite experiences

were the extracurricular stuff that we got to do and earn some money at it, but i'm excited for all of you and the journey you have ahead, and of course all the support that you have from your parents and family and friends. just enjoy it. it's a wonderful time to do self-exploration and learn how to live on your own. so thankful for this honor today, and thank you to mayor farrell for continuing this tradition. so congratulations. >> thank you, supervisor tang. not often do you get to be in the room with the president of your college, and we are lucky to have a great relationship with san francisco state university and our president of san francisco state is here to welcome -- i know that there are six of you, maybe. how many of you are going to san francisco state. [applause] >> yeah. so if you'd please join us in

welcoming your new students. >> so the six of you, raise your hands again. all right. we're going to have a photo. okay. again, i want to reiterate the comments the mayor and the supervisor, etcetera, and thank all of your sponsors and all of the families that are here. i'm really excited for you. there there's a special responsibility that comes not only with your scholarship but going to college, and at san francisco state we talk about the responsibility of being an educ person and that your education not only is a great gateway for you, but it's a great gateway for your families weing forward. re actually conducting some research i wanted to share with you. 40% of our students are first in their family to go to college, what we call first-gen. we have about 50 -- about half

of our students. about 40% of our students are pell students, etcetera. ohat's interestin i you go to college and graduate, it's very likely that another person in your family, including your mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, will go to college. and the ripple, the wave that we're tracking now is really quite significant. i actually had the honor at commencement, not this year, a year ago to hand diploma to a grandma -- great grandma who was 84 years old who had put children, grandchildren, great grandchildren through college and who then finally said it's my turn, and she came to san francisco state, got a degree in poetry, and it was absolutely the high point of commencement. and her whole thing was getting

the first grandchild to go to school. and when i told her about, you know, our commitment to the responsibilif beg an ucatedpeon, it mea being active, being involved. as mayor says, we want you to be a good citizen, we want you to vote. we just want you to be productive in ways that you want to be, and that's when the world opens up to you. so congratulations. i'm really pleased that a bunch of you are coming to san francisco state. i'm on the 5th floor of the admin building. you are welcome. there are free food up there sometimes, but it's really terrific. we think of ourselves as managing talent. so one last bit of advice to hear from a university president, and th is in many ways, you not only look like

me, and i look like you, when i was in high school -- i'm from east oakland. i was one the few chinese kids on beball team at that time, and a counselor said to me, don't go to college and waste your parents' money, okay? and the only reason i got to college was a, i could play baseball, and two, i actually wrote a paper that was published when i was a junior in high school. and i couldn't understand why the counselor said to me not to waste my parents' money. so you get the opportunity for revenge like me because when i got my -- when i got my ph.d. i sent a copy to the counselor. [applause] -- andthen, i felt guilt, right? and so w i became a president, i was going to send him the announcement for that, but unfortunately, he passed away, and i did -- i thought, i

better not buck the odds, right, that kind of thing. but it's just you have to persist, you know? the world is complicated, it's challenging, but the is opportunity and the support, the scholarships, etcetera, is golden. it's like being drafted one, whether it's baseball or any sport. but it's an investment in your talents, and i believe that each one of you will take advantage of that. and i look forward to having you, wherever you are, whether you're at state or any college or university because you're going to make a difference, and that's what we expect out of you. congratulations. [applause] >> so i hope the grandchildren paid for their grandmother's education. yeah, that would be good. and katey, could you please talk to my son about finishing in three years? that would be awesome. all right. are you ready? we are going to announce our

award recipients, and if i can have the mayor and supervisor tang join us, we're going to have each one of you come up and get your certificate, and this is your opportunity, family, to take pictures. our first award recipients i claudia lu from lowell high school, going to chapman university. [applause] >> great. congratulations. erica carilla, mission high school, going to c.s.u. sacramento. [applause] >> great.

gemma moncana from john o'connell high school, going to san francisco state. [applause] >> yeah, then you can brag. great. very good. congrats. emony katz, leadership state, humboldt university. [applause] >> jennie qwan ku, from mission high school school, heading to

cal state university. go bears! [applause] >> jose domingues espina, from abraham lincoln high school, going to san francisco state university. [applause] >> stay there. the next one is a san francisco state student, as well. cassandra lowell montez from john lowell high school, going to san francisco state. [applause] >> all right. stay there, less, because i'm going to skip katja, and i'm going to have keenan larue come up, from mission high school, heading to san francisco state.

>> all right. our next recipient is katja suarez, from mission high school, heading to u.c. berkeley. [applause] >> great. keyona reynolds from george washington high school, heading to the university of washington in seattle. [applause] >> kyle chan frol high school, going to the university of california davis.

[applause] >> congrats. laura gian from lowell high school, heading to the university of california san diego. [applause] >> okay. leisha from galileo high school, heading to san jose state university. [applause] >> nadra mohamed from mission high school heading to holy names university.

[applause] >> nacina chambers from raul wallenberg high hoolsc heading to u.c. berkeley. oh, you changed your mind? sorry, you're right. you're going again. >> double major. >> double major, yeah. pamela campos adrizan from john o'connell high school, u.c. san diego. [applause] >> randy casares from mission high school, san francisco state university.

[applause] >> just go stop by his office any time. risen aljas from mission high school, heading to dillard university. [applause] >> robert verey from john o'connell high school, going to c.s.u. east bay. [applause] >> xiang huang from san francisco international high school, heading to u.c. berkeley.

[applause] >> and last, but not least, ling may liang from mission high school, san francisco state university. [applause] >> let's give our 2018" i am the future award" recipients a great round of applause. [applause] >> so each one of our award recipients will be receiving $1,000 that go towards their tuition, and we did not think abouher no were documented, we just wanted to make sure that you got the funds that go directly to your

tuition, so we're going to make sure that that gets taken care of. so that is the first step, is getting all your money together so that you c hd offnd come back and work in our city and make us more and more proud than we already are. events like these could not be put together or programs like these couldn't be run without the incredible support of two wonderful staff members, so marisa and erica, thank you for all that you do in reaching out to our young people and getti of t scholarships to us. so we want to congratulate you, we want to thank you. and again, to the families, congratulations. we look forward to hearing some amazing stories about what your graduates are doing going forward, and we want to just thank you again for joining us here with mayor farrell. congratulations.

>> wbroke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. we stard to help maclaren n. park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we

spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little t helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city

coming together but not only on the bureaucrside of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park therwas a broken swing set and half of -- for me, one thing i really like to t out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that re. there are still a lot of areas that need help

at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here.