i am very happy that money is in the bond for joe demaio -- demaggio. that is a project that will be a tremendous benefit to the northeast portion of the city which is in desperate need of open space and library space for everyone but particularly for kids. and this is unfortunately, there is a small group of people who have just held up this project and made it difficult and increased the cost and it is tremendous that we as a city are irish boss -- are showing our commitment. supervisor farrell: we will open this up to public comment. i have a number of speaker cards. we can do you going. [names are called] why did you come forward? we have a huge stack, so i am sure you are part of it. is ri [a jere. [ -- rupa here, please? you a first. >> i would like to address the issue of the national areas program. i would really love to be able to support this bond, because i think there are some great projects under it that are very badly needed. at the same time, i am very concerned about the expenditure to support this in ramp. i know the expenditures would

i am very happy that money is in the bond for joe demaio -- demaggio. that is a project that will be a tremendous benefit to the northeast portion of the city which is in desperate need of open space and library space for everyone but particularly for kids. and this is unfortunately, there is a small group of people who have just held up this project and made it difficult and increased the cost and it is tremendous that we as a city are irish boss -- are showing our commitment. supervisor

south park as well as a strong desire to seek increased funding for mclaren and the inclusion of to demaio've developed a proposal that responded to these themes and the feedback of individual districts to develop a list of neighborhood parks to see reflected on this map. the total budget for this parks measure is $195 million. you can see it spread out between neighborhood parks, citywide parks are a continuation of city-wide programs and funding for waterfront parks and open space under the jurisdiction of the port. those funds for the recreation -- and park projects are broken out in the detail. you can see on the side which i will go through. we have $6 million from program contingencies which is part of a fiscal conservative practices we adopted in the last bond and have paid off for us as we continue to be on or under budget. supervisor farrell: if you could reiterate, projects are on budget or under budget. that probably has a lot to do with the construction climate and bids that we have seen. >> it does. it is good planning. we consider the fact -- we're going to use the contingenc