they put that playground up. it's a very durable playground. sometimes he takes flak saying, look. so many things that need to happen to rebuild a busted community after a hurricane or something. and he says, watch the kids play, see how it transforms a community and it's one of the first signs of things are starting to get better. >> i have to agree with that. because you think, look. why isn't it schools and libraries? first of all, we need all of those things. but it has to be -- it's the center of a child's life and the idea that they will think of that community as the place that they grew up and loved and continued to invest in it and not just think about getting out of it. >> absolutely right. it is all, you know, mainly donations, money wise. it's not taking away from the other public buildings and things like that. remember the goal at the very beginning? a safe playground within walking distance for every child in america, that is his goal. >> a good one. sanjay, thanks. >> i'm just impressed the fact he built a playground. it takes brains. >> brain surgery thing? >> not

with the funding secure, we have to move forward on the playground innovation. i asked to approve this resolution, to extend this for the renovation of the playground. on a different matter, from the parents and children who use the playground, i would like to thank the general manager for finding a way to reopen the clubhouse. this is very appreciated during the summer holiday. >> this includes general public comment. we are on the consent calendar and one person would like to speak. this is just an inquiry, perhaps. i wanted to know if it was possible to get a copy of the lease for the playground, for the children's nursery school. is this something -- >> did you look into the general public information? >> this is in the consent calendar for today. >> is there someone else would like to make public comment on the consent calendar? public, disclosed. commissioners? >> i entertain a motion. >> all of those in favor signify by saying aye. >> we are now on item 6, the san francisco zoo. >> thank you. >> good morning, commissioners. it is a pleasure to be here. th

we don't know what exact playground features will include. that will be part of the community process that will go forward this fall. to work with them in detail what this first portion of the project, the funded portion of the project will include. you are seeing some ideas for the way the rec center can be reenvisioned and made better for the community. here's an image of the glade and creek area which we are proposing hooned the rec center. this is an opportunity to daylight a portion of the creek and bring some additional habitat and sort of another special resource that this park can offer. again we have $5.8 million in place right now. and we are -- one of the really -- one of the real privileges of working with public land and bringing the resources to provide funding for the outreach process is that more of that $5.8 million will be used for physical work in the park as opposed to paying for the planning process and then we have less of a budget to work with. that really meant that we could do more. there is also the trails program wh

supervisor chu: we have playgrounds that were built so many years ago that had our senate in the wood, if you can imagine that. some of the swing sets were breaking apart. we have stand still, some people would find broken glass and other things in the sand, so with the remodel, we are seeing completely new equipment being placed on the playgrounds. the new rubberized services, which gets away at the broken glass and other things people might find in the sand. there are so many kids in the district that i think everyone will benefit and see the changes as a positive. >> are there any other issues that concern you that we have not discussed? for a specific interest you plan to concentrate on through your term as supervisor -- or a specific interest you plan to concentrate on? supervisor chu: this year is going to be budget, budget, budget, and i think that will keep us pretty full. >> we have to wrap up, and we thank you for joining us on "meet your district supervisor." watch for the next episode of "meet your district supervisor" when we will be back with another of our 11 city super

-- the marina harbor, and mission playground. phase 2 projects are all in the design process. 140th birthday of golden gate park. fountains, gardens, ball fields, and even trash cans are getting a facelift. the planning team oversaw the completion of the north beach library and secured prop 84 grants. bonn programs are under way. last is our commitment to our own administrative deficiencies. as we reported previously, our staff has achieved a $370,000 reduction in workers' comp savings in the last 12 months. we did a very detailed custodian service analysis. custodians were reallocated to better meet needs. we are just beginning a reorganization of our aquatics program that will ensure more and better service to the public. it has been a very full fiscal year 2010-2011. we are looking forward to a fabulous 2011-2012. a very big shout out and thank you to the rec and park staff. i can tell you without a doubt that this is the hardest working, most dedicated staff. that concludes the general managers' report. commissioner buell: fo

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it also has 3 playground areas. the ampitheater was built in 1972. it was the home of the first blues festival. given the fact that jerry garcia used to play in this park, he was from this neighborhood, everybody knows his reputation. we thought what a great thing it would be to have an ampitheater named after jerry garcia. that is a name that has panache. it brings people from all over the bay area to the ampitheater. the calls that come in, we'd like to do a concert at the jerry garcia ampitheater and we do everything we can to accommodate them and help them because it gets people into the park. people like a lot of color and that's what they call a park. other people don't. you have to try to reconcile all those different points of view. what should a park look like and what should it have? should it be manicured, should it be nice little cobblestones around all of the paths and like that. the biggest objective of course is getting people into the park to appreciate open space. whatever that's going to take to make them happy, to get them there, t

the playground opened last month, and next week this fence next to me will come down, as the neighborhood will finally have its park back again. you'd be risking your health if you played here six years ago. this was once the home of what's called a burn dump. >> we found evidence it operated in the early 1900s, probably closed around the 1930s, and essentially burning trash and refuse materials. >> reporter: they found toxins including lead and cancer-causing chemicals. so the community has witnessed men at work in order to see kids

spending the morning guiding the kids from the cars to the playground. and it is necessary for that because there's so much traffic going on here, but i got a firsthand from him that it is verified that the speed of the streets and routes around our schools are dangerous. that they need to be slowed down. it has been shown in study after study, and the last one we looked at was the study in london as well where if you slowed down even a fraction of the speed, you can get a high increase in the amount of safety and reduction in the fatal -- fatalities that result from car collisions. for us in san francisco, today, we'd pick peabody to be the first school, the first of 200 in san francisco that by the end of this year and through next year and january will get at least three or four of these signs posted all around the routes contingent with the schools. it will buy our vehicle code reduce the speed from the normal 25 miles per hour or some of them 30, to 15 miles an hour all around these schools. that is going to increase the level of safety in a very dr

another part of wanted to bring in has to do with the repair work at the chinese playground. i have been tried to get that tennis court done for a long time. it has been patched up, the borders are over elevated from pavement work. i wonder what it never gets done. i talked to dr. lee about it, and he wants to hit tennis balls there, has been a long time chinatown tennis club member. a lot of people want to use the facility, but it is not really up to grade. will it ever be up to grade? and when you did the roofing work at the chinese playground, the same facility, when i looked at it, you are doing repetitive work that has been done many times. every time, it comes down to the same thing. >> thank you. >> andrea. >> hello again. some of you say you do not understand the downtown bond. there are a lot of us who do not understand the job order contract in process. it was sold to us as being a cheap and easy process for small projects. these are large projects we are talking about. i am not really sure how this applies, in particular, there is no public participation in this pr

china's playground is complete. there was a bit of a cost increase due to a waterproofing of the roof which also serves as an outdoor court. that is now complete and open to the public. the park slope stabilization is almost complete. that has also incurred a bit more money than allocated, but that was taken out of the contingency. the pool planning is complete. . that will begin once the poll closes for its annual maintenance. roof work at garfield pool is complete. you had authorized a substantial amount of money to replace the deck at one property. the cost and scope of the project put that project into the ada realm. so it is now considered an alteration, rather than a repair. so we are removing this project and moving it back to rec and park planning to further address the ada requirements, the scope of that work, which may also require an accessible path of travel from the concert meadow to the deck. that money will fall to the contingency balance. balboa pool. the planning is complete. that work will start in

. >> reporter: jackson says the chief was a driving force behind this playground that was built right behind the school district police headquarters to help keep kids out of trouble. charles says it does just that. >> because they get wrestless and stuff and they start vandalizing. >> this helps the community? >> yep. >> reporter: no matter how nice the playground, the oakland resident says a public official should not use the "n" word on or off duty. >> he should not use that work. >> reporter: they issued a statement that reads in part the chief is on paid leave pending the results of the investigation. this is standard procedure. we are not at liberty to comment further. >> so, i don't know all of the time if you used the word whether or not that means that is where your heart is, i don't know. >> the school district says there is no time line on this investigation but it will be concluded as quickly as possible. back to you. >> and one footnote according to our own phil matier he is actually married to an african- american wood. >> federal stkaoeults are handed up to an investigat

just like billy, he had to go solo at the ballet bar while proving on the playground that tap is for tough guys too. >> when my friends found out i was a dancer, at first they were like that's kind of weird. but then i'd like show them. sometimes i'd dance for them or show them something and they'd be like, whoa, you're really flexible. >> reporter: unlike billy, j.p. has always had the support of mom who's traveled the country with him, and he's had mentors like resident choreographer, kurt froman, who says billy's story is every male dancer's story. >> all of our billys feel the same way. they felt like the outcasts. people knew that they danced but it wasn't until now that most of them felt there was no need to explain. >> reporter: these days j.p. is doing all his talking with these happy feet. while he admits to sometimes missing regular school, his various school pals can now see him on stage and learn the lesson of billy too. to trive for what you meantcc1: do and just do it. >> i like that. the last performance for billy elliot is august 21st, two weeks from today. >>> if you

coming up, see who pitch inside to create a new playground in the east bay. and the heat willing on this weekend in parts of the bay area. our meteorologist will be here in three minutes with your weekend forecast. >>> you can watch all of our newscasts on your computer or mobile device. we are streaming live . >>> children in oakland have a new place to play. this playground was officially opened. it happened on their annual workday in the park. every year the vol up tear comes out to plant flowers, paint benches and maintain -- volunteers come out to plant flowers and paint benches and maintain the park. >> for the morning hours, bundle up but the afternoon, a different story. temperatures warming up nicely across the bay area. that will be the warming trend over the next couple of days. right now on the maps, we have the opposite with the cool temperatures with the fog still hugging a good portion of coastline down from point rays up around san francisco's oeg beach and pacificca and this batch going to the bay. that trend will continue with the fog bank e

. >> reporter: darrell hammond's dream is to build a safe playground within walking distance of everyn america. >> the real spark came when i was reading the paper one morning of every child. >> kids suffocated in a car. they had no place to play. it really struck a justice nerve with me. >> reporter: that's probably because his childhood wasn't so easy either. >> when i was 4 years old and my father left my mother and all eight of us children and after several years of trying to raise us, she had a nervous breakdown. and we had an option of becoming wards of a court or go to a group home. >> reporter: they moved to the home, separated into age group dorms, darrell kept everything he owned in a trunk, waiting to move to the next home. in college, darrell took another hit. >> i learned that i had a severe learning disability and was dyslexic. >> reporter: darrell says that it instilled in him the desire to give back. >>ist not neglected. i was not abused. i was given clothes and a great education. i just did not want to be a nuisance. >> reporter: and contribute he has. he founded a no

here's the new playground in yellow and the new tennis courts in green. . there's the location of the old tennis courts. commissioner harrison: thank you. >> we do have public comment. ashley hathaway. >> good morning, commission. i'm here basically as a representative from the glen park association board of directors. of which i am a member of the board. as park and recreation co-chair. you-all have a copy of our letter in support of these improvement plans. both for the trails and for the general park improvement plan. we just as a board want to reiterate that we support. we are generally in support of these plans. however we do recognize there are some community concerns. which we have tried to state as clearly as possible in this letter. some community concerns have sort of come up post drafting of this letter. some of which are these concerns about the trees. we also just want to reiterate that these comments are -- the position of the g.p.a. board and they are not an official position of the membership of the association, which is an important distinc

justice car and sex crimes there was a slam for being inadequate and keeping the threat from the playground. but i'll be back here with another update for in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime as more civilians die in nature and strikes in libya serious questions are being lost over the legality of the intervention. the former editor of the british newspaper the sun who says that libya was a good p.r. stunt for the british government i see shares his insights into the conflict that's coming up next for you in our own city and a nazi. today i'm talking to kelvin mackenzie former at the tell me from newspaper columnist he's spoken out against the military intervention in libya saying that libya is not worth an ounce of prestige blood's called mckenzie that's a very strong position to take i mean the government reckons that strikes prevented a massacre in benghazi so he that's worth a few british soldiers and so it seems well first of all we don't know whether there was going to be a massacre a big garci this was the p.r. this was the government push this world was cameron's person

escaped justice from sex crimes laws or slammed for being inadequate in keeping the french from the playground. and i'll be back with another summary of the news from in about fifty minutes from now the meantime as more civilians die in nato air strikes in libya serious questions are being asked over the legality of the intervention and i actually spoke to the former editor of the british newspaper the sun who says that libya was a good p.r. stunt for the british government and he shares his insights into the conflict that's coming up next in our interview. today i'm talking to kelvin mackenzie format that's healthy strong nice paper alex cullen there he's spoken out against the military intervention in libya saying that libya is not worth an ounce of personal blogs help mackenzie that's a very strong position to take i mean the government reckons that strikes prevented a massacre in benghazi that's worth a few british bombs and so it seems well first of all we know where there was going to be a massacre of big goals this was the pre this was the government push this was cameron the personal s

justice current sex crimes laws are slammed from being inadequate and keeping the pressure on the playground. as more civilians die in nato air strikes in libya as serious questions are being asked over the legality of the alliances intervention argy spoke to the former editor of the british newspaper the sun and says that libya was a good p.r. stunt for the british government and he shares his insights into the conflict that interview is next here on r.t. . today i'm talking to kelvin mackenzie former editor of the sun newspaper columnist he's spoken out against the military intervention in libya saying that libya is not worth an ounce of british blogs help mackenzie that's a very strong position to take i mean the government reckons that strikes prevented a massacre in benghazi so he that's worth a few british bombs and saltines well first of all we don't know whether there was going to be a massacre a big ol city or this is the whole this was the government push this was cameron's personal speech. in the end of the day that this is libyans fighting libyans and who are we to say who should

you heard people talking about it at the cafes, park playground, people who do not always pay attention. in that $0.10, it was the best thing we could have done for city government, even though it was a little bit messy. it was a lot of fun and an eye opener. it got people interested again. hello, and welcome to the department of elections ranked-choice voting instructional video. this video is part of the department of elections' ranked-choice voting outreach campaign and is designed to educate san francisco voters about ranked-choice voting. today we will learn what ranked-choice voting is, and who is elected using this new voting method. we will also talk about what the ranked-choice ballot looks like and how to mark it correctly. finally, we'll see how the ranked-choice voting process works and show you an example of an election using ranked-choice voting. so, what is ranked-choice voting? in march of 2002, san francisco voters adopted a charter amendment to implement ranked-choice voting, also known as the instant run-off voting. san francisco voters will use ranked-choice voting t

. >>> meantime ron paul's prosperity playground drew almost as many visitors and voters for than michele bachmann's. the candidate tooled around in one of the many golf carts. >> there weren't any left? >> are you serious? >> i'm dead serious. >> i've got to double the salaries of the people working for me. >> that's all right. i'll be fit and in shape. >> bachmann may have cornered the market on golf carts, but candidate cane was first with pizza lovers. his campaign handing out tons of god father's pizza. ♪ >> i think he sounds good. isn't it crazy that you see all these hidden talents that the candidates have. there's mike huckabee playing backup for him. all right. let's go to break on a little music. have i got a surprise for you! [ barks ] yeah, it's new beneful healthy fiesta. gotta love the protein for muscles-- whoo-hoo! and omega-rich nutrition for that shiny coat. ever think healthy could taste so good? [ woman announcing ] new beneful healthy fiesta. >>> we've been talking online today about the challenges president obama faces with a faltering economy and his approval rating