poison has been used all over glen canyon. nap is a misguided plan that diverts our tax dollars to a wasteful agenda. >> ♪ city country roads take me home with a song for those bonds make it safe make it pretty make it better, won't you? you make a blue-green city. make it better in the city night city was ous -- ours and i still can see blue-green city in my dreams wo-wo-won't you president chiu love the parks, do some park to love someone like you the trees and plants oh, how they grew love, won't you do we need a better better from you love you do ♪ thank you, mr. paulson. next speaker? >> honorable supervisors. supervisor chiu:. your district, our district? district three. i support the bond majors as -- measures as written. i'm a volunteer in the natural areas program. and i'm a forest-loving person and i would like to commend the city and county of san francisco and in familiar the board of supervisors over the last 20, 30 years for having pulled off what at one time looked to be impossible, a broad agreement by various

that is going to be and port project, the same thing with glen canyon that is going to undergo a lot of work. one of the most challenging parts of the new district supervisor is that we elect the supervisors by district. it is very important to pay attention to the district, be engaged in the projects in the district. we also represent the whole city. any district supervisor that focuses on the district without addressing the citywide issues is not doing his or her job. every day, i make sure i am working on the major citywide issues and the district issues. i try to be disciplined about that. >> how will you approach the tough choices? >> i think we have to start by looking at the most critical city services that we cannot do without. what are the ones that if they deteriorated, we will pay the price on? public safety falls into that category as a basic critical service. transportation, making sure we have the functional muni is critical. core public health services like dealing with mental on this on our streets -- with mental illness on our streets. if we do not provide services,

i lived a block away from glen canyon park, and i am very pleased with the work of the natural areas program has done, although i am aware of the fact that is not on today's agenda, but some people wanted to make it so. i am very pleased with the work proposed. i very much support what is proposed in the package that has now been put together for the 2012 package. i like to use the trails and mclaren park. i like to go birdwatching and wild flower watching, and i agree that should be a very high priority along with golden gate park along with the use of money to make them safer and more enjoyable. and i am pleased to support the portions of this bond measure that will support waterfront parks and open spaces, especially the blue green way. i also want to thank supervisor wiener and members of the staff for the compromise measure that have put together and form of the amendment you are considering today, so i support the bond measure and the amendment. thank you. >> good morning. my name is engageglen gage. i am here to support the changing the wording for the bond. i love the natural

on the glen canyon, twin peaks, mount davidson peace is the park. we used the bond funds to make a significant contribution toward making that isn't real. and doing work at those three sites. supervisor elsbernd: i do not think the answer -- there is the potential there may be some programs that could be funded by this, correct? >> there is overlap between the sites where we would want to do trailed restoration and sites that are included in the natural areas plan. supervisor elsbernd: more likely than not, the eir will not be here until, best case, 12 months from now realistically. could be longer. if you had to put a dollar figure on that program -- a ball park, the whole program? >> all the projects? supervisor elsbernd: and assuming it got approved. how much? >> the natural areas plan includes over 32 distinct park sites including sharp park which is 400 acres and it includes large portions of mcclaren which is over 100 acres. to be conservative, you'd be talking $30 million or $40 million. arrange to do everything -- a range to do everything. s