at the historic boathouse, in writing and verbally to rec and park staff.sponse to public concerns, rec and park to permit representatives testified in front of the board of supervisors, in front of the historic preservation commission, and the rec and park in commission on multiple occasions, promising to follow local, state, and federal laws while renovating the boat house. many promises were made as to the representatives of irritated family enterprises, that every precaution would be taken to ensure public safety, as well as to protect the environment. an early october of this year, many witnesses saw workers power washing, blasting, sanding, and scraping the paint off the boat house without using any netting tarps or other protective barriers. on october 25 of this year, a ph.d. in it neurosciences and a social clinical social worker collected paint chips. please see the display. thank you. collected paint chips near the boat house. these were taken to the center for environmental health in oakland to be tested. the test results were positive for lead.

we are investing funds in the harding rowboat house -- road boathouse. we are working on rudimentary cleanup. that started yesterday. the contractor went inside to remove the debris and garbage that has been there since the tenant walked away a while back. we are working on some building share -- show repairs. the work is in great shape, but the bathrooms were in disrepair. they represent a problem that needs to be dealt with right away. for the rest of this, let me point out the top floor. the bottom floor is where a large number of cruise region of rolling crews are tenants of the boat house -- a large number of rowing crews are tenants of the boat house, and store their boats there. this is not the long term, but house -- long-term boathouse i think lake merced needs. this would be a facility that could operate so that while collectively we are developing a plan for no facilities -- new facilities, we could find something reasonable or presentable. we have perceived add? -- add-backs as part of the budget process. i keep saying harding. lake merced ad

he paid no attention to 3000 signature petitions to keep the old boathouse. the city is now stuck with a cafe and souvenir shop instead of a working boathouse. therefore i strongly opposed retaining mr. ginsberg as general manager. >> maryland and and sandy. - marilyn and then sandy. >> it really is a funny kind of masth to burn $400,000 and in use 1.9 million to cover up the destruction. he does not just withhold information from you, he is also extremely deceptive when he appears before the board of supervisors. he much wanted non-resident fees for the arboretum, botanical garden has been generating very little income. so when the board of supervisors review the matter, he claims there are statistics, and they show that's the attendance is down by half, even san franciscans who do not to pay will not go there, because it has become a commercialized center. i have heard young mothers did up before the board of supervisors and complain that striding has become a ghost town. mr. ginsberg, oh,, well, a lot of people still go there. direct quote. you should be a

at and around the boathouse, there is a small amount of irrigation. the rest of the area is not irrigated. president moran: and the roads? >> we would be working with dpw on that. we probably have some responsibility for the roadways in the park. it is a short stretch. >> the money for rec and park is generally for gardeners working in the natural area. >> gardeners, and then the overall area. they tend to stay away from the natural area. >> but the area around the lake. president moran: who is paying for that currently? commissioner vietor: 4 the road maintenance? >> we give that to rec and park. it is for trash pickup. commissioner vietor: and the road maintenance is currently were ordered to dpw? >> again, the primary road is harding road itself. i am not familiar with how anything has been done there. it may have been done as part of the golf course improvements. president moran: it would certainly be more comfortable if it was clearer who is responsible for funding what kind of activities. it bothers me somewhat that we are funding the boathouse

specifically ordered by rec and park department for the boathouse at taxpayers' expense. this report detected a lead hazard, and it was kept secret from the public since 2007. the rec and park director has an entire industrial hygiene division under his management. even with this highly paid, licensed staff to take care of just these types of issues, and multiple warnings from the community about the presence of lead in the 68-year-old structure, mr. ginsberg allows the contamination of golden gate park to occur. it will impact the environment for years to come. the work area of the boathouse was never cordoned off. there were no signs of warning. let alone persons with respiratory or fertility problems about the presence of floating lead particular attention of speed up babies and children who are most vulnerable were not kept away from the area. there were no restrictions for anyone. dozens of gardeners were brought in to lanes get the area surrounding the boathouse at the same time the painting work occurred. how many to come the particulates on their clothing, hair, a

i oppose putting lipstick on the pay got there, the boathouse. it is a waste of money. we could have a stand-alone ada restroom out there and do minor cosmetic things. concurrently, we can start the long term process of a plan for a new boathouse, concurrently with the action on the gun club site. we do not have to do them sequentially. we can do it concurrently. i suggest we stop work on the boat house. it is a waste of money at this stage. >> commissioners, my name is dan murphy. i represent golden gate audubon and its 10,000 members. i have been active at lake merced, back into the 1970's. the golden gate audubon society agrees there is an urgent need for a new mou between the prc and rec and park. however, the mou before you does not meet your needs. it is far too vague. it leads to specifically identify the puc. the that should be the agency in charge of stewardship and management. the recreation and park department should continue to manage harding golf course and provide habitat restoration work done to the natural areas program. there seems little else, in terms

in minnesota a summer two ago when grant and his sister were cleaning out the boathouse, kathy said we really ought to do something with these boxes. they realize they contained more than 20 long version drafts of the farewell address address as well as memos and other material related to it. it was thrilling to me to be among the first person to look at them and a reminder that the material emerges all the time in the most unexpected ways. as someone pointed out i did a piece for "the new yorker" and as someone pointed out in connection with that had the vacation in florida or somewhere in the south all those years, undoubtedly -- almost surely can shuja their survival and therefore are much more prudent understanding of these things. >> i was wondering if you could talk a little bit about eisenhower's process in picking supreme court justices? i think he once said earl warren was the biggest mistake he ever made as president and william brennan they have been a second biggest mistake. was it a question of him not doing his homework when it came to picking supreme court justices an

that was the early boathouses.king at that map, sporting men would come out in the horses, have little races with their horses and carriages and the sea horse races, maybe get in a card game, have a drink of the way to the beach. >> but this was when there was county land, so there was no gambling. the move people out to county for the race track. >> they were away from intense public scrutiny out there. >> my of the state is there were four racetracks in the city. -- my understanding. can you name them? >> pioneer, union, in the side, and oceanside. >> there ago. maybe there are more. >> we have a big article on race tracks on our website. outsidelands.org. >> the ingleside, you can still see that. >> they developed where that race track was, just south of ocean avenue, they kept the oval of the race track and created urbano drive. >> i think we have some progress of that. >> that is the inner sunset. that is where >> lawrence lives > i do. >> you can see the inner sandbank. it is a big old sand hill. they had to