we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of -- for me, one th

$250,000, that requires the department to maintain the trail improvements funded by the grander in maclaren park for the duration of july 1, 2017, through july 30th. so some background on this granted. in 2012, the residents of san francisco passed proposition "a," the clean and safe neighborhood park bond, and that bond allocated $2 million to improve trails in mcclaren park, and $1 million to improve natural areas. the trail improvement allocation was intended to be leveraged for a grant funded state, local, and private funding for the four trails that were prioritized through the community process. in 2017, the department applied for an outdoor environmental education program grant to fund the rehabilitation of the interior trail within mcclaren park, and the department was awarded $250,000 in 2018. we allocated the grant funding through the fiscal year 2019/2020, and 2020/2021, 156-59. based on information that we had at that time, we believe that grants that were less than $1 million could be appropriated in through the budget process, but we later learned that the grant contract performanc