due to its location, francisco park would attract those around san francisco and would be a citywide park rather than just a neighborhood park. the park would serve by transit making it accessible forrian all city of san francisco. city of >> i represent neighbors on the working group. through my work on this community in the hyde center which is maybe about 5 blocks from the reservoir sight in district 3, i have learned how diverse the community that surrounds this particular parcel of land that's 4 acres. so, down the street yoou got north beach place which is a multi-income multi-race development where a lot of the teens and the families and seniors that we serve at tell hyde neighborhood center live there and the teen center which is a drop in center for kids and there is a francisco middle school which is an immigrant school and a lot of those kids come from a non-english background. most of those we serve on a daily basis, seniors, toddlers, preschool, most of these people are low income. we sometimes get caught up in the name russian hill. these four 4 acres of land, it sits in

the francisco park is for all of san francisco. this area needs it, but more importantly san francisco needs this as well. this would be an extraordinary legacy for the board of supervisors and a lasting tribute of it's stewardship for our beautiful city. thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors. kelly nice from san francisco's sports alliance. today you have two opportunities to make this a world class place. our mothers had the best for san francisco and let's do that for our children by approving this acquisition. thank you. >> goomg good afternoon, board of supervisors, i'm the chair of the middle polk neighborhood association. i would like to thank the team that put this project together. you have done an outstanding job. the plan was presented to the middle polk neighborhood association at our june 16th monthly meeting. it received 100 percent support of our members and a very enthusiastic 100 percent support. our neighborhood in those surrounding my neighborhood are starving for green space. while this particular park is not

recreation and park department to accept and expend a grant of $158,101 from the san francisco parks alliance to support various recreation and park department operationses for fiscal year 2012-2013. ~ >> okay, thank you. we have rec and park to present on this item -- on all of these items, i should say. >> good morning, i'm [speaker not understood] with the recreation and parks department. for item 3, the land and water conservation fund was established in 1964 and is a funding source for state and local governments for the acquisition and development of public outdoor recreation areas and facilities. the future site of the mclaren bike park is located at the southern entrance of mclaren park. it is currently used as an illegal dumping site for trash and unwanted furniture. the improvement supported by the land and water conservation fund include constructing new bmx and mountain bike trail for beginning and intermediate riders and installing amenities such as picnic areas and signage. by implementing the mclaren bike park project or city and its partners, san francisco urban rider

park department. thank you for your leadership, phil, stacy bradley, your team has been amazing throughout the process. to the working group from san francisco reservoir, i want to thank everyone involved. leslie, your support and leadership has been incredible. i want to thank our city's office, who spent a lot of time with our puc and rec and park departments, as well as in particular from my staff, margo kelly whose support has been unbelievable and we would not be here without her efforts over the past few years. again, from my perspective, certainly someone who grew up using this area, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity that i don't think we can pass up. i'm so proud of where we've come over the last three-and-a-half years. it's's been a labor of love for everyone involved and this is such an opportunity for our neighborhoods and san francisco, and i ask for your support. >> thank you supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. >> thank you. wanted to talk a little bit about my thought process around this conditional jurisdiction transfer which is i have really spent the last month-and-a-half really debating about. a lot of thinking aroun

matt. >> commissioners, i am the ceo of the san francisco parks alliance and i am delighted to speak before you this afternoon in favor of the transfer, for the san francisco reservoir to the recreation and parks department there is a many reason why this is a good move for the city and i am going to focus on three of them, the first is consistency with the general plan and the second as if this willful fill a need in a park neighborhood and finally this will not have a significant negative impact on the city's ability to acquire other parcels for the other neighborhoods that exist elsewhere in san francisco. i will address each of these one at a time. >> first as you know, the site for the san francisco reservoir, is already, designated as an open space, in the city's general plan. and the decision before you, would simply be consistent with that decision, making that is already in place. second, this is a park neighborhood as defined by the recreation and parks department and they have put a very clear set of criteria into place, in the open space acquisition fund, that guided in se

the three year collaboration with the francisco park working group has not only included the neighbors, but again, all the citywide organizations that have come to support this

san francisco parks alliance and the san francisco beautiful, the sierra club, the omega boys club. the neighborhood association. i saw don earlier, this childhood development center, the galileo high school which is just a few blocks away. we talked about some of the programming for some of their classes and what can be done at a vast park like this. the opportunities, the audubon society, the dwellers, the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. ultimately over 42 organizations have been involved in this effort. to me it was so important if we are taking on a project of this magnitude that it would be a coalition of not only city organization groups but the citywide. i think we've been able to do that. i know stacy bradley who is here is going to be speaking about the project. thank you for all of your help along the way. we went with 900 pro zach who also recommended the project and i want to thank them and the district 2 representative who are supporters of this project. this is a long long time making and required a great amount of effort but i have never been part of a proj

system, it's 14 percent of landmass in san francisco is parks and recreation property. 14 percent of san francisco property is parks. it's one of the best parks systems in the world and we need to do a better job investing in it. i have been very vocal during various budget cycles that we are not doing enough for the department in terms of gardeners, in terms of park patrol and in terms of the basic maintenance. we were able to put in more money but it's not enough. we have to do more. that shouldn't stop us from making the system even better. open space is one of the bige drivers of quality of life in the city. the thing about open space is once you lose it to development, it's gone. you are never going to get it back. so when you have an at some point to preserve open space, you have to strike while the iron is hot. even if you don't have a plan of a hundred percent in place at the time. if it takes you five 5 years to build it out, that's fine. it doesn't have to happen right away. but if you don't strike when you have the opportunity you are going lose it. it's going to

park. we understand the fight started at 5:50 p.m.. san francisco police say two men got into an argument with a man and woman. we don't know what they were arguing about. one man punched another man in the face. he ended up having chipped teeth. he was treated a the the scene. but the woman was punched in the face and knock the unconscious after she tried to break up the fight. she was taken to sf general for serious injuries. we don't have an update on her condition. when you hear about fights near a ballpark it brings up the thoughts of bryan stow. on wednesday a jury awarded $18 million in damages to bryan stow. the jurors ruled poor stadium security was the result of the fight there are leaved to be 30- 35 years old. one is believed to be african american, the other hispanic and it remains unclear exactly how they got away. live in san francisco brian flores ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a woman accused of killing a google executive may face charges in a separate death investigation in georgia. >> why you think it's an overdose? >> because that is -

>> san francisco parks, golden gate park transforms into one of the greatest music festivals of all time, let's journey, inside, outside land. ♪ >> to this, our 6th year doing the outside lands and our relationship with san francisco, rec and park. and we work very closely with them in the planning and working very closely with the neighborhood organizations and with the city supervisors and with the city organizations and with the local police department, and i think that the outside lands is one of the unique festivals in the world and we have san francisco and we have golden gate park and we have the greatest oasis, in the world. and it has the people hiking up hills and down hills and a lot of people between stages. >> i love that it is all outside, the fresh air is great. >> they have the providers out here that are 72 local restaurants out here. >> celebrating, and that is really hot. >> 36 local winerries in northern california and 16 brewers out here. >> and you have seen a lot of people out here having a good time and we have no idea, how much work and planning has gone into thi

or be dragon boat raise this is an urban setting this is why they choose san francisco to host it the urban setting the parks are extremely valuable on behalf of the city of san francisco thank you sandy tatum for your wonderful leadership in restoring our clubhouse it is restored for a reason. i'm standing be here amidst those trophies and i'm sure the commissioner will mention but let me city in addition to those world-class golf event that bring the best players from around the world in our country to be here and play here in the city to fill our hotels and our great restaurant and all our hospitality i wanted to say i appreciate the pga for another important reason. and i know that since commissioner fittings up took over in the mid 90s, the pga tour has raised over one billion dollars in charity for all kinds of causes across the country i think that part of the our dna we wish to have the first t program enriched by all the golf tournlts in alignment with the way we handle all the international fester in san francisco whether a worldly sierra's or superbly 50 all the money raised will go to philanthrop

project has very strong support from the india base and neighborhood association as well as the san francisco parks alliance and trust for public land. the parks and recreation and open space advisory committee passed a resolution in support of the acquisition. although they did site -- cite some terms about the remediation cost. the parks commission passed a resolution in support of the purchase and the use of the open acquisition fund to reconfirm the paper notes that will be used to finance the purchase. so, inclosing, staff accepts the recommendation in the budget and legislative analyst report and we recommend that the board approve the resolution as amended for the acquisition of 900 ns. thank you. >> supervisor avalos? >>supervisor john avalos: thank you for the presentation. i was able to visit this place a couple years back and saw it's potential especially linking the trail and you can see the gap and green space that is there. it makes a lot of sense. one thing to move forward with a thing like this, it's interesting there is probably an effort to have affordable housing at this site per

. >>> some drivers in san francisco today are probably saying it's about time. for the first time in a year and a half street parking in san francisco is free. the city decided to scrap its sunday parking meter program thanks to a boost in revenues. city leaders say they've repealed sunday meters to help out families and get people in and around in their cars. everyone we spoke to today found no reason to argue with that. >> like to support local businesses. and so anything that can keep people coming into the neighborhood to support those businesses is a good thing. >> now heads-up, a few select areas will still operate sunday parking meters including fisherman's wharf and the area around at&t when there are giants game. so not everything is free. depends where you are. >>> a developing story as the nation's immigration crisis does continue this independentance weekend. hundreds of immigrants, women and children, stream across the southwest border in pursuit of their own american dream. as nebraska's miguel almaguer reports their dangerous journey to get here can be the first trip of many. >> reporter: the flow of

and five palms will be moved into the park. >>> some people who live in san francisco's russian hill neighborhood is upset about the movie coming to town. it stars dwayne the rock johnson and called sanandreas. but people that live there say it means that they will not be able to park on their street. >>> time is 4:46. apprize teenous college -- a prestigious college is blocking -- they have been dualing each other for the past two decades. the alcohol design labels look similar to university logos. john wayne the state calls that ridiculous. >>> time is 4:46. let's check in with sal for a little look at friday morning traffic. >> i like the way you said that. good morning, everybody. let's go out and take a look at the commute. we are doing very well so far. and hopefully we will have a friday light situation where things are going to be a little better than they normally are. getting into san francisco still taking about eight minutes or less coming into the city with no major issues. also the morning commute looks good in oakland on 880 north and southbound. that traffic is moving