thank you so much. >> president buell: thank you. >> clerk: i have angela then ken and victoria and then rory. >> thank you, commissioners. i didn't hear if we established a quorum on the commission. i wondered if you have. >> president buell: we have a quorum. >> okay, so this can go forward. i'm angela, i'm here following ms. thompson. i'm inspired by the things she gets involved in and mr. johnson's efforts and life long commitment to elevating who we are as african-americans here in san francisco. it is a sitting thing that i, who like him, go to the fillmore to see black people. to have a section of the harvey milk library designate that again, the warmth in the life of black people, the culture, the social, being visible finally in a city that has seen a depletion from 2010 at 6% to 5.6 right now, it's a fitting thing. thank you for considering this. i believe it will go forward. thank you. >> president buell: thank you. >> clerk: ken and victoria? >> hello. my name is victoria whiteball. and i'm here because my father, don whi

thank you so much. >> president buell: thank you. seeing no other comment, the chair would entertain a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> president buell: moved and seconded. all those in favor? so moved. thank you very much. [applause] >> we're on item 8, mclaren playground and group picnic area renovation. good afternoon, i'm a project manager. i'm here to amend the contract with cazadoro construction for the renovation project. to increase the change order amount allowed under the contract from 141,972 to an amount not to exceed $1.269 million, which is greater than 10% over the original approved contract amount. first up, commissioners, this is not a request for additional funds. the two projects i'll be speaking about here today are both fully funded. the mclaren playground renovation is a tier one project and is under construction and has budget of $3.6 million. this project has come before the commission for concept design approval. the low bidder on the project was actually 6% under our construction estimate, which doesn't ha

. >> president buell: thank you. a couple of things. even though commissioner low is not here, i would like this express my gratitude that he handled last month's meeting when i was out of town and everything went quite well. secondly, i wanted to read an e-mail that i received and i'll just read a portion of it, because i think it's important for the staff to hear it. dear mr. ginsburg, we're writing to express our gratitude for the positive change that you and those who work for you have created on our block. the residents on oak street have experienced a vast improvement of our quality of life as results of changes to the median park and increased police presence. they say that the quality of their life was vastly improved. i mention it because i we want out to that -- went to that site with the general manager and we met with the community -- how long? over a year ago. and it's just a great demonstration, in my opinion, of how the staff has tried to be responsive to the public in following up on issues that often times are difficult

. >> president buell: thank you very much. >> clerk: barbara? >> my name is barbara thompson, i'm community activist in san francisco and have been living here most of my life, over 70-some years. i want to thank a couple of people. mark, thank you so much. i want to thank you all of you for being a part of what we're doing here and i appreciate you. eric, thank you so much. i feel your energy. it inspires me and i thank you. sara, thank you. and chris, i want to thank chris for all he's done. and david. anyway, thank the commissioners for you hearing us and being part of this momentous adventure we're going on. thank you so much. >> president buell: thank you. >> clerk: i have angela then ken and victoria and then rory. >> thank you, commissioners. i didn't hear if we established a quorum on the commission. i wondered if you have. >> president buell: we have a quorum. >> okay, so this can go forward. i'm angela, i'm here following ms. thompson. i'm inspired by the things she gets involved in and mr. johnson's efforts and life long commitment to

buell aye aye. mcdonnell. 4-1, the ayes have it, thank you very much. we're on item 9, recreation and park department equity analysis and metrics fiscal year 19. >> power point. good afternoon, commissioners. taylor emerson. manager of strategic planning under the finance administration here for the fourth year in a row to present the equity analysis and the set of metrics with fy19 data. i think all of you have heard it before, but i find it important to return to the charter why we're here, what the direction is from proposition b, which became part of the charter in june 2016. i really like this one. i'm going to read the first paragraph. the department embraces socioeconomic and geographic equity as a guiding principle. and commits to expending funds across its open space and recreational program to provide park and recreational access to all of san francisco's diverse neighborhoods and communities. it sets forth then that we should develop a set of metrics and method for comparing low-income neighborhoods and the resources they have compared to the

. >>> i have a student at buell school that is been downed.oter, she said she's gone, i need some help. >> the little girl was in there too. >> she was on the floor. >> and the police and the medics came. >> by the time the medics were here, i remember him stepping in and taking over the room. he says you have to leave. and then when medics and police come in, you're no longer in control. >> was she still alive then? >> her lips were beginning to turn blue. >> back in my hometown of flint, michigan, a six-year-old first grade boy at buell elementary had found a gun at his uncle's house where he was staying because his mother was being evicted. he brought the gun to school and shot another first grader, 6-year-old kayla rolland. with one bullet that passed through her body, she fell to the floor and lay there dying, while her teacher called 911 for help. no one knew why the little boy wanted to shoot the little girl. as if the city had not been through enough hero in the past two decades, it was home to a new record, the youngest school shootin

region i don't think there is any other solution other than the 2 countries sitting together and buells that trusts that is necessary to come to a new push to settlement on this issue military is so lucian is not workable between these 2 countries at times for example by you have to sabotage the building of the dam in different ways i don't think that would work the only way forward for the 2 countries is to sit around the table and to hammer out a deal that works for most countries from a technical point of view it is very possible edge of the union conservative by the getting closer but i think they just need to start on the table and work out the differences left out every thank you very much for your time on those that is our ally live in kenya thank you. it's time for the weather now and here's evident with news of stormy weather either side of the mediterranean as yeah that's right lee is certainly not the week to be heading down to the med for some late season sunshine having fights as a result of some very heavy showers down tools that southeastern corner of here we've actually

. >> president buell: thank you. seeing no public comment, chair would entertain a motion to approve the equity metrics. moved and seconded. all those in favor? so moved. thank you very much. >> item 10, general public comment. any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. item 11, commission matters. >> commissions don't matter. >> clerk: any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. item 12, new business, agenda setting. >> can we give richard a category of his own? >> okay. we're on item 13, communications any public comment, seeing none, public comment is closed. item 14, adjournment. >> moved and seconded. so moved. thank you very much. at 62942 w together we can support your children. it's been my dream to start is a valley school since i was a little girl. i'm having a lot of fun with it (clapping) the biggest thing we really want the kids to have fun. a lot of times parents say that valley schools have a lot of problems but we want them to follow directions but we want them to have a

reporter: 450 billion is an buell figure? >> you want to define that, please? >> will scale up to a annual figure. reporter: annual figure of 40, to 50 billion? >> yes. within the second year. >> over less than two years. reporter: [inaudible] >> we discussed hong kong. i think great progress has been made by china hong kong. i've been watching, i actually told the vice premier, it has toned down a lot from the initial days of a number of months ago when i saw a lot of people and i see far fewer now. we were discussing it, i think that will take care of itself. i actually think this deal is a great deal for the people of hong kong to see what happened. i think is a very positive thing for hong kong but it really has, it's, escalation, really has de-escalated a lot from the beginning and we were discussing this. reporter: [inaudible]. >> we'll be looking at the blacklist and we'll be making a determination as to which companies would be on that list. reporter: mr. president, if the -- [inaudible] do you still think the federal reserve needs to cut rates? >> i do

with 87% of the students living below the official povrly line, buell and flint did not fit into theone cause of death among young people in flint was homicide. the football field in flint was sponsored by a funeral home. the kids have won 13 state track championships, but they have never had a home track meet because around the football field all they have is this dirt ring. years ago someone here named the streets in this part of town after all the ivy league schools as if they dreamed of better days and something greater for themselves. >> the children are doing well. faculty and staff are doing well, but we don't forget. we don't forget. it's -- >> it's okay. it's okay. i'm sorry. >> that's all right. >> from my cold, dead hands. >> just as he did after the columbine shooting, charlton heston showed up in flint to have a big pro-gun rally. >> freedom has never seen greater peril nor needed you more eagerly than now. >> reporter: before he came to flint, he was interview ed abou kayla's death and even his own nra website talked about it. >> weed to let the nra know we haven't forg