. >> we are on item #8, the lawrence park -- dolores park. >> hello. i am from the capital improvements division. the item before you now is de extension of contract for the helen diller playground at dolores park. this will include the bass bid as well as seek -- base bid as well as the first six alternates. just to give you background, the playground is a cooperative project by the recreation and park department with the neighborhood parks council and the delores park playground. the project was first bid in -- i believe it was september 2010. we received three bids, all that were beyond the available funds for the project. since then, we have been reviewing and by a-engineering project. we received five bids in 2011, many of which were within the available funds for the project. after the bid open, we received a protest from one of the bidders that indicated to us that the low bid, they did not mean the -- meet the 17% required by the project. we were waiting for the final determination from hrc. since that time, hrc has deemed that the bid was resp

. >> the fire hydrant in dolores park got its annual coating of gold paint, that hydrant saved much of the mission district. >> back in 1906 when the earthquake hit, japan was the country that responded first and responded with the most amount of support for san francisco. >> we're still dealing with the aftershocks in ya pan, and tsunami t makes me feel 10 times more grateful that we have a ready community in san francisco. >> and a giving xhuntd. the morning 'fess -- giving community. the morning festivities started with a bloody mary breakfast. folks dressed up in turn of the century garb with proceeds going to benefit the earthquake victims in japan. >> you met william delmonte and the other survivor rose clifr and ruth newman. >>> you tax procrastinators out there, your time is running out. today is the deadline to file your taxes. federal returns need to be filed by midnight tonight of. if you owe taxes, there's actually a benefit to waiting until the last minute t means you earned every last bit of interest on your money before you pay uncle sam. americans that have money coming

this week, the group began work at dolores park, working on the western slope to improve visibility at locations that have historically attractive nuisance behavior. they removed 12 truckloads of debris. they repaired and replaced irrigation devices and couplers. also, we've been undergoing a renaissance in anticipation of the spring and summer season. 6 porta-potty 7 installed -- have been installed. our manager has been logging regularly above all the -- blogging directly about all the activists at delors park. every year, the commission as i asked to grant a permit for the north beach festival, and it has often been a contentious issue. but i am pleased to announce that because of the great work by dana ketchum and the leadership of michael sullivan, we have forthwith festival producers and the neighborhood, and there'll be no controversy this year. i would like dana to give you an update. >> good morning, commissioners. i am going to put up a map so you can see what is changing. hang on. so, you will see on this map -- and i am going to pull it up for years -- a revised north beach

in addition, we worked with the friends of dolores park playground to build an information kiosk. we feel that was a really beneficial step in making sure that all users of the playground were involved in the process. we look forward to supporting the process as it moves forward and support friends of the large park playground on an ongoing basis -- friends of the lord's pardolores park. thank you to rec and park. we look forward to realize in this vision with you. >> thank you. is there any other public comment on seeing none this seeingnone, public comment is closed. >> i like the idea of having the informational kiosk on site. i think that's a wonderful idea. in light of our fiscal issues these days, i see that we have $250,000 from our general fund. can you explain that? >> the general fund was add- back from 2007 to 2008. it was committed by supervisor bevin dufty in order to bring this forward for fundraising opportunities. that money was appropriated several years back. >> thank you. i remember that. any other comments? seeing none, we entertain a motion. >> moved. >> secon

soon thereafter, we will invest another $11 million to revitalize and rebuild dolores park, and we have another $6 million or $7 million in glen canyon. on the capital side, there is so much good that is happening. on the recreational program side, we have special programming going on. we have some great stuff happening. tomorrow night at harvey milk, we have a great exhibit, and saturday is dov best in both parks, so there is a lot happening. thank you. >> next, we are going to -- supervisor wiener: next, we will hear from the director of public works. >> thank you, supervisor wiener, mayor lee. i am not a district a resident, but i lived across the street. regardless, i do look up to scott wiener. the parts i go to, the libraries that i go to are largely in district 8. the department of public works has two main areas of responsibility. one is the design, construction, and repair of police and fire stations, hospitals. that work is largely -- the work we do is largely capital-funded, thanks to the generosity of the voters and past elections in supporting general obligation bonds. we a

. >>> after the ceremony, the crowd moves to the top of dolores park in mission district they will repaint the gold colored fire hydrant, crucial in saving parts of the mission district that will be followed by breakfast. one of the only three earthquake survivors still living showed up at a luncheon he is 105 years old what he knows of the quake is stories he heard growing up in north beach. >> nothing of the fire, that's for sure. i was only 3 months old. so i heard plenty of it after. >> looks good at 105. his father owned the old italian restaurant in north beach. the family rebuilt it after the quake. >>> live coverage of this mornings breath laying ceremony coming up -- wreath laying ceremony at 5:00 p.m. >>> set back for brian stow seriously injured by dodgers fans he has been put back in medically induced coma, because he kept having seizures. stowe we mains in critical condition his family says doctors are keeping him under heavy sedation. he suffered a skull fracture when attacked march 31st after the season opener at dodgers stadium. despite a $150,000 reward police have not arr

will ride with the mayor, police and fire chief to the mountains, lay a wreath then proceed to dolores park. two others are still living but they will not make their way to the ceremony, the women are 108 and 109 years old. debra villalon. >>> the powerful storm system that has caused so much destruction in the south has moved out to the atlantic ocean tonight. it spawned the worse outbreak of tornadoes in decades. at least 43 people have died with 21 deaths in north carolina alone. survivors are trying to cope with the overwhelming destruction. rick writmooth explains. >> reporter: tornadoes bringing death and destruction. nearly 14 tornadoes came through. >> it's still ain't real. it hasn't hit me that all our stuff is gone. >> reporter: in stanford, lowe's officials moved customers into the more fortified part of the building. the destruction would have been larger if it weren't for their quick action. >> we started moving people to the back of the store. >> to me that's more than anything. >> reporter: north carolina governor beth perdue holding a news conference after surveying the dam

a few hundred rallied in dolores park. it was part of a nationwide demonstration by the united national antiwar committee. one protester says it is time the troops came home and that the funds supporting the war be used for peaceful goals. >> that someone should instead be put into schools and jobs here in the country. and to actually helping give reparation to the countries that we bombed. >> demonstrations expressing solidarity against the war on terror were staged in london and pakistan. >>> if you are still struggling to finish your taxes we have some good news for you, because of a quirk in the federal calendar, you will have a few extra days to file your taxes this year. ktvu's paul chambers is in oakland. >> reporter: ken, it's that time of year when people feel the tax-date crunch looming into the air. the sign behind me shows there are eight days left to file your taxes burb in all reality, that is three more days than years past. >> for more than two decades, robin swarn has pepped people file their taxes and kno

dolores street. are the only ones impacted 18th, 19th, and san jose? >> let me find it. supervisor wiener: i do not see anything except the stretch along the parknd where dolores ends. >> it calls for improvement and crosswalk treatments. that does not change the name configuration. the only place we proposed to change that is that san jose avenue. the seqa document include all the way up to market street. supervisor wiener: initially, there was a narrowing at market street. >> it is not in the mission street plan. is being discussed separately. we did not clear it with the environmental review. there is an issue about the historic nature of the dolores street median from the environmental review standpoint. we wanted to have that in the same document. supervisor wiener: there was some concern about traffic flow at market and dolores. speaking of the historic issues, what is the status of the 18th and 19th? i know there was some concern expressed. i was skeptical of the concern. there was concern that it would impair the historic nature of the medians if the pedestrian safety work were to occur. i am very much in favor of doing the pedestrian s

enhance what i think is a great sculpt chur art piece there on dough lower es -- on dolores in the corner. as far as parking looking at the mix of units, i am supportive of the one to one and think it's a higher end, higher quality project, and it's going to call for that in this particular case. a lot of discussion has been around kids and youth and baby strollers and all that, but i think i can foresee this particular building project, having more mature people who may need cars as well and may not be able to hop on a bike to and from work or wherever they go. again, i'm not sure where we're all at but i'm in support of one to one ratio. president olague: commissioner borden? commissioner borden: yeah. i think i made my point. the f line actually goes on market street so it's not even a block and you have a block away an underground station that takes you downtown, plus you can go out to noye valley and anywhere in the city is transit rich and there's few places that parallel this. i think the market octavia plan was a social experiment to a certain extent. the neighbor neighborhoods said they were willin

parking. i would like to run through the project. the project is located on the first block of dolores street. this covers two of the warehouse buildings that have been mentioned. these are the pictures of the warehouse building. as you know, you are familiar with the site across the street where you have approved the whole foods project. one of the things we have done is work with our neighbors and understand where they're coming from. you can see the outline of the two warehouse buildings and a lot of our neighbors have many ins and outs. except for the building north of us, here, we would be considered a key lot because these buildings actually abut our buildings. the buildings to the south where one of the previous protesters were, this is a modern building and has a deep recess here and has another like well. there is a very nice rear yard that is shared by the residents on rosalind place. these are pictures from the roof of our project. these are the residents on clinton park. not only do they cover 80% of the lot, these take out the rest. this is a light well in the court. in working ou

dolores street and upholding the integrity of the market-octavia plan. this took years of input. spur confirmed that these two and three bedroom units are not occupied by families. there are many other considerations besides parking and the size of units. there are schools, there are safety issues. i think largely affordability issues that contribute to the decisions by families. we do have plenty of policy in the city with two and three- bedroom units with parking and families are not saying here. before we promote these myths, we shall study carefully the relationship of these units and the size of the units and parking and see whether or not they affect the families' decisions to live here. this is before we start making decisions based on hearsay or what we think. again, i really appreciate all of your work and i would like to thank you again. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment? >> what i want to bring before you is this talk that is pretty hard. this is going round even with the sf puc. this is the infrastructure financing whatever. >> this is on the calendar. you cannot speak about this. >> i will speak about commission -- infrastructure in general. >> -- we have come here many times to te