lisa bransten from the team is very involved in that. this is something of passion ate interest of the parks alliance and will depend on timing and the additional funding that we have. i think we should focus -- before we grab streets and acquire land and build new parks i think we should focus on delivering the public's expectation which is a beautifully renovated playground in the sites that we have, but we do have this pot of money we're hoping to leverage so the short answer is there is more to come on that. >> yeah, my only point being i don't like doing things twice so if we mobilize the resources for say any one of the tier one parks, whether we could maybe leverage that -- think bigger and use the opportunity that we have to expand parks, improve parks beyond the scope that we originally imagined. >> again commissioner and dawn if you have thoughts you could certainly dive in. we want to do the most -- deliver the biggest bang for the bucks that we have but we do have a responsibility to try to focus on all of the playgrounds on

following the board but after consultation with commissioners and with staff and particularly lisa bransten we were able to come up with a solution that i think makes sense and that is we will have all those items put on the consent calendar, and then if there's accompanying mou or some kind of requirement that a policy decision be made it will be pulled off consent and it will be heard. you're looking at me with confusion margaret so i will do whatever you tell me, but at any rate we're going to still hear them and put them on the consent calendar and we will buzz them through that way. we talked about the meetings. oh and i want to acknowledge that local 261 honored our secretary margaret mc arter. [applause] it was a stormy night but they made it. they did it. and with that i wish everybody, staff, commissioners and those interested in what it is that we do a very happy holiday. thank you. excuse me. commissioner harrison. >> i wanted to thank you for placing those on the consent calendar and resolves my issues very well. >> thank you for raising the issues. >> is there any public commen

lisa bransten from the team is very involved in that. this is something of passion ate interest of the parks alliance and will depend on timing and the additional funding that we have. i think we should focus -- before we grab streets and acquire land and build new parks i think we should focus on delivering the public's expectation which is a