>> aye. >> commissioner levitan? >> aye. >> and commissioner wei? >> aye. >> motion passes. >> thank you. >> we'll taking a ten-minute break and >> we are in session. >> okay, we are on item 10 washington square restroom renovation. contract amendment. >> >> good afternoon, commissioners, general manager, mary hobson from the capital division. before you is a request to modify the contract for the construction of washington square restroom. to an amount not to exceed $1,160,000. this amount is in excess of 10% above the original contract value, which was $979,000. you may recall this commission approved award of contract to fine line construction back in april. this project, the scope of work includes the demolition of the existing is restroom and construction of a new restroom at washington square park. the project went into construction in june. and has been proceeding slowly since then. we're at approximately 75% complete and anticipate the project being completed next month and open to the public towards the end of the month. so you will probabl

>> aye. >> commissioner levitan? >> aye. >> commissioner mcdonnell? >> aye. >> and commissioner wei? >> aye. >> congratulations, commissioner buell. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. thank you commissioner low and mcdonnell for your kind words and i hope to live up to those expectations and i see that the general manager -- acting general manager would like to say something. >> i know phil would not let this opportunity pass to say thank you to you all and president buell on behalf of the general manager and staff for the interest that you take in your role and the support you provide us. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> so we are now going to do nominations for the vice president. so i need a motion and second to open the nominations. >> so moved. >> second. >> all those in favor? >> aye. >> i will now ask for a nomination for vice president. commissioner levitan, i see you. >> it is with great pleasure and honor that i nominate allan low as vice president. he is a friend and a colleague and i think the teamwork between him and president buel

. >> commissioner levitan. >> nicole, the remediation grant, how confident do we feel about that and what happens if we don't get that? >> the apa actually called us and we were planning on applying for it from a year from now and they strongly encouraged us to apply for it. it doesn't mean -- it's given, but the epa has been so supportive of our efforts at 900 innes they have made a sustained commitment to the area, including the blue-greenway and india basin and 900 innes specifically. we will pursue it -- we will continue to pursue it. if we don't get this year, one thing our representative said if you don't get it this year, you will get terrific feedback how to get it next year. >> thank you. i think we have a strong application and we work closely with the department of environment and others on our application and technical assistance from the epa. there are two small changes. section 11, the words "equipment and equipment and components" have been removed agreed to by our attorney and pagenation has been updated. >> mr. ginsburg. >> commissioners, just briefly i wanted to tha

so with that, commissioner levitan. >> when an item come before us at the commission, it's our job to be objective and not have an opinion going into that item. and so really weigh the public's concerns, the demands of the department, what is best for the city? so with this, i really kept a completely open mind, a blank slate of opinion, and i won't speak for my colleagues, but i know us on the operations committee did individually go up to look at the story boards. and you know, at operations we decided to move this forward to today with no recommendation because again we wanted the community to weigh-in and our entire commission to hear the weight of those opinions. and it's very clear from today and a lot of other feedback i have gotten in previous week es how people feel and that is that the west side is preferred and keep hearing about the public safety and the traffic issues and i have to be honest that was something that really resonated with me when i went up to look at the story poles. there are people far smarter than i who could tell you exactly what the likelihood of impac

levitan. >>> coming up on the half february has been on fire.he dow on pace for its biggest monthly point gain ever. are stocks getting too stretched? the traders weigh in. plus, what's going on with alibaba? after all the ipo fan fare the stock down big time this year. star analyst bob peck on whether the street got it wrong. and is retail guru dana telsey cooling off on the sector? her call suggests she might be. we'll see you in about 15. >> all right. thanks. we'll be there. motorola today hand delivering mystery boxes this morning. i got one. inside the $150 motoe with double the storage, quad core processor the lte version slightly higher price tag than the last version but a screen a little bigger than the iphone 5, 150 bucks for an lte smartphone running lollipop android. this might be a game changer for the low-end of the market. we talk about xiaomi and some of the things happening in emerging markets. this i mean how do you make money in android when motorola now owned by lenovo, a chinese company, is able to put out a phone like this

levitan. we could do this. brendan: here's what i want to know from steve levitan -- how do i manage that footage once i have shot it? oh i am not -- olivia: they have a production studio behind them. tom: i would assume apple flew in like, 45 people to be sure that they got it done. let's do a data check. we will not use our itoyrss on this. what an interesting response to janet yellen's comment, yields come in dramatically, euro stronger, dollar weaker, nymex crude now solid below $50 $49.49. the vix $13.69. that is a big change. this is the flatness of the yield curve ever flatter off the yellen testimony. yen below $119. jon ferro with a nice job on this in ireland as our london team spoke with irish authorities was up under 1%. we should stop there and say that it's really something after ireland truly fell on the sword, unlike so many others. brendan: i also think michael noonan, who is the irish finance minister, can do a great job of teaching yanis varoufakis. you do not ask for things in public, you as

shelby holiday spoke with the producer of the show steve levitan.e bigger story to me was the fact that the entire episode takes place on claire's computer screen. i find that to be the most interesting part of this. we just wanted to do it in a way that seemed as real as possible. so we just used the devices that one would use in real life. shelby: picking up a device is really easy to do, and connecting with someone across the country is really simple now. i have a feeling that producing this episode and directing it they not have been so simple. what challenges did you run into? steve: there was a lot that when went into this. first of all the hardest part , was coming up with the storyline in which we could feature all of 11 or 12 of our actors, and still stay on one person's computer screen. once we had the original idea for the story, things fell into place quickly. it was not so much how are we going to feature everyone, but how will we fit all this into one episode? originally we were going to have the actors shoot themselves holding up a ph

. >> commissioner levitan is on her way and commissioner wei has an excused absence today, commissioner mcdonnell? >> here. >> this is the february 19th, 2015 meeting of the recreation and parks commission. we welcome everyone here today, but ask that you turn off any sound-producing devices that may go off during the meeting, which i need to do -- if you could please take any secondary conversations outside, as to not disrupt the meeting. and if you could please fill out a blue card, if you would like to make public comment. you do not have to. our process is that i will call any of the names from the blue cards first and then we'll ask for any additional public comment. so everyone can comment. when you make public comment, please address your comments to the commission, and in order to allow equal time for all, neither the commission, nor staff will answer any questions during public comment but they may -- the commission may ask staff to respond after public comment. one last thing, you will have three minutes, commissioner buell. >> three minutes. >> if you have an item that is not

. >> commissioner levitan is on her way and commissioner wei has an excused absence today, commissioner mcdonnell? >> here. >> this is the february 19th, 2015 meeting of the recreation and parks commission. we welcome everyone here today, but ask that you turn off any sound-producing devices that may go off during the meeting, which i need to do -- if you could please take any secondary conversations outside, as to not disrupt the meeting. and if you could please fill out a blue card, if

. >> commissioner levitan. >> it might be just the sight of me that always asks the question relative to playgrounds and children in terms of sight lines and security and maybe i'm being overly concerned about something that wouldn't apply here. but the design -- and i'm delighted there is unanimous support. so this is just me. the design seems like it lends itself to maybe not being able to see from the street, if people are in the park and there are things going on in the park that are not safe or appropriate, especially after hours. so my question is has the security issue from the standpoint of design been considered? and also, you say that the gate is a design element. and it looks from the drawing that the gate opens and closes. it is going to be maintained, locked? what are those issues? >> okay. first of all, the gate would lock -- the park would be locked at night, which is the purpose of the gates. it was heavily considered in the development of this concept design and, in fact by raising the park sight we have better sensibilities to the park. the vegetation would be low. s

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