parts of mclaren park, the puc lands are around laguna honda and parts of mount davidson. but make sure we are looking at this and maximizing our natural resources so that people can use them as well as possible. some of these areas probably need improvements just to leave them as they are may not be the best thing as people talk about dog walking areas, recreational areas, we have a big shortage of playing fields and other things. these are things we need to look into. the other thing with regard to sharp park in particular, one speaker brought up the fact that before there was a breakwater, led to the silly the mend salt lake. it was basically -- laguna salida. it was an area that would not have supported the red legged frog or the garter snake. we created the environment and to eliminate the breakwater would eliminate those species. part of this whole thing is protecting something that was never there in the first place. i'm not saying we should not protect them, but they are not really indigenous to the area. the most important thing is to make sure my opinion that sha

i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in

this is the [unintelligible] pump station built in mclaren park.re very pleased with that project. last week, the program received the outstanding large infrastructure project of the year by the american society of civil engineers. we were very proud of that. this pretty much conclude my overall presentation. i can answer any questions you might have. supervisor chu: let's go forward with contracts. >> items 6 through 10 on the agenda relate to the amendments for private consulting contracts that provided consulting in the program. in terms of the big picture, out of the $4.6 billion, up $3.4 billion, or 74% of the budget, was for construction and financing. what remains is for what we call delivery costs. project management, engineering and services. of that, you can see that these services are equally split between city staff. the five contract amendments that we are seeking approval for today, it would represent 2.8%. this is a summary of the five contract amendments. the first are for engineering amendment services. the last two or contract ame