my name is teresa, i'm from the laborors local 261 and lcts. these are some of the students that will actually be working on the project. i'm here to ask you to please support this gift, not so much for bocce, but more for giving san francisco residents opportunity. with the economic times, these are folks that are like trying to make a career change and they need to get the skills and the training. so i'm just asking for your support to help our residents and to help give them some training. thank you. supervisor maxwell: why don't you come on up. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is earnestine weiss. i created the park. digging down 10 inches and filling this area with oyster shells will ruin the grassy area. bocce was played in another part of my park on the grass. it's favoritism of one group. it should be available for multiple groups. there is a crying need for soccer in the kids in the surrounding apartments where i represent thousands of people who live there and do not want this here for one special interest. the kids want to also

i want to thank the laborors for not only making this gift, but also really setting up a wonderful training program for folks who are coming up through the ranks. i see some individuals that may be part of that i also want to thank other private sector neighbors that were part of this wonderful idea. when i was approached about this, i had asked about neighborhood outreach. substantial neighborhood outreach was actually done before the introduction of this resolution, particularly of neighborhood groups within my district, but it became apparent when thfs introduced that there were at least, there was at least one neighborhood outs of my district on rincon hill that had not been adequately outreached to and i understand in the time period between when this was introduced a number of weeks ago and today, there has been continued and significant outreach and impeach tiff of the fact that a number of issues have been resolved. colleagues, i just want to let you know that i do have some amendments to this resolution i think to address these issues and i wanted to bring them up now so that the p

i want to thank the laborors for not only making this gift, but also really setting up a wonderful training program for folks who are coming up through the ranks. i see some individuals that may be part of that i also want to thank other private sector neighbors that were part of this wonderful idea. when i was approached about this, i had asked about neighborhood outreach. substantial neighborhood outreach was actually done before the introduction of this resolution, particularly of neighborhood groups within my district, but it became apparent when thfs introduced that there were at least, there

and i -- the great part about the laborors local 261 is they are as diverse as the city. and their membership and the folks they're outreaching to really come from all economic backgrounds. particularly from low-income backgrounds. and i think that we can work together with the training foundation and park and rec to figure out best way to reach out to folks and to invite them down. it's the perfect project -- i think it's a good project. will it tie every loose corner of the city together? no. but it's a great start to get this one area that is a -- the last 10 years, underused and underutilized and will enlisten the space. the one thing about bocce, everyone can play. it's something that doesn't take a lot of practice. you can come out once a year every day, and have just as much fun. so it's very accessible and we'll work with whoever you would like us to work with. and do as much outreach to make it as fun for everybody as possible. >> looking at the diagram, there is a kiosk at the very front. that kiosk at the entrance? >> that's a good question. pull back that scre

and as a result of these funds, 568 jobs were created and/or sustained including laborors, coordinators, electricians, engineers and expectors, quality control specialists as well as machinists and installers. so we remain committed to working with the federal government to retain and create more jobs and continue our efforts in seeking additional federal funding to support improving the m.t. arment. -- m.t.a. at some point we will be bringing back to the board a status update of the funded projects that we have under way so you'll have an update in terms of what's occurring with that funding at a more practical -- more direct level. you've read and heard a great deal of information of our september 4 service restoration at the st. francis circle project comes to an end, we're simultaneously preparing to restore service to the -- to our pre-- to our service modifications that we reduced 10%. we were planning on restoring. we were planning to restore approximately 6%. and based on some of the planning of our staff, we are going to be restoring a bit more than that. we've modified our ser