playground. in the bid package there were 10 playground enhancements, and we will be before you within the next two months with a gift from the friends of lafayette park playground, in order to find, if not all, a large number of the enhancements to the program. that concludes my report. happy to answer any questions. >> is there any public comments on this item? being none, public comment is closed. >> entertain a motion? moved. seconded. all in favor? unanimous. thank you. >> item 12 open space contingency reserve fund. sunnyside playground club house. >> good morning, a capital improvement program. this is an expenditure of the reserve fund. we made a presentation a few weeks back to the capital committee which they approved. what we are looking for, it was a request from the friends and neighbors of the sunnyside playground to renovate a small storage space underneath the club house which is adjacent to the renovated plaza at that facility. currently, it houses miscellaneous equipment. they r

we are about to open a brand new playground in mission-dolores park. it will become one of the most spectacular playgrounds around the city. all over, we see new facilities starting to sprout, which is a good news. the challenging news is that we have about $1.5 billion of deferred means in our system. there are state parks in 2004, we have the 2008 parks bond. before that, they had not been touched with capital dollars and about 50 years. >> we had a recent discussion in city hall relating to america's cup and needs. as you think about it with the rec and park department and our parks, what are some of the things that go with that? and the slides are worn down, the trees need to be trimmed? >> will evaluate all of our property is on of variety of criteria. it goes to general condition of the building. and health and safety is fundamentally first. we have a lot of facilities in our own jurisdiction. the infrastructure includes irrigation, many of which are crumbling and not automated. it requires our limited gardening staff. we have leaky irrigation sy

helen keller playground reopening. this is truly some great news from the mission, with generous donations of more than one part $5 million from the mercer fund in honor of helen diller. with the great support of the friends of the delors park playground and other stakeholders. our major renovation of the delores park playground has been completed. we will be hosting a grand opening event on march 31 starting at 2:00 p.m., including air ribbon cutting ceremony, music, and entertainment for children and families. if you have had the opportunity to drive by the playground, it is truly spectacular. spurring extravaganza. april 7, another family- friendly end on april 7 with egg hunts, carnival rides, games, live entertainment, and the animal -- annual barbecue read cookoff. park and directing staff, police department staff, and fire department. richmond station has taken the rib award two years running. a lot of teams are ready to topple them. presells start on march 26. this is one of our great four family-friendly even

it was a frightening scene in pennsylvania where a school playground went up in flames.urveillance video shows the fire being fuelled by the rubber mulch the playground stood on. there's no word on the cause, but police are looking for teenagers who were seen in the area before the fire. the playground wold originally built to honor a teacher who lost her battle with cancer. >> a controversial way to get online access going on in texas. more than a dozen homeless people are earning money by walking around wearing mobile wifi devices that create 4g hot spots. an english advertising company came up with the idea. they're calling it a "charitable experiment." critics say paying homeless people to be walking cell phone towers is kind of insensitive. exploiting them a bit. >>> here's a look at your national weather. good morning to you, bill. lots of people talking about this. it's sort of like both sides of the coin here, you know. >> it's a good idea, but just give them minimum wage. why 20 bucks? >> they're also taking donations, as well. people can donate to them. >> all

eight out of 10 respondents spoke -- focused on playground equipment. maintaining the safety is extremely important. president chiu, you asked about the department doing a lot of things. there are a handful of the apartments that spend a lot of time focused on this. a lot of departments really share this mission. i agree it would be important to come up with a metric to figure out how we are doing. in terms of whether the metric is based on out migration or growth in public-school enrollments for growth in permits, you can probably figure that out. i am optimistic about the passion. we are all focused on this, we want this. do not underestimate the impact that our parks and recreational amenities play in this equation. what i thought i would do is to end a little bit on a happy note. president chiu: i recognize that every department needs a set of metrics to keep in to make sure that we are achieving what we need to achieve. while it may not be one metric, it would be helpful for us to come to an agreement to say, what would be useful for us to drive to

surveillance video shows the fire being fueled by the rubber mulch in the playground -- that the playgroundtood o. no word for the cause but three teenagers were seen in the area before. >>> miserable and dangerous conditions for drivers in parts of washington state. a dust storm caused blinding conditions that led to a 20-car pileup outside yakima, injuring one person. parts of interstate 97 had to be shut down due to all the blowing debris there. >>> finally, an unusual and sort of controversial way to get online access at the south by southwest event going on in texas. more than a dozen homeless people are earning money by walking around wearing mobile wi-fi addresses that create 4g hot spots. an english advertising company came up with this idea and are calling it a charitable homeless. but paying homeless people $20 a day is exploitation. it is kind of an interesting idea. a lot of people shaking their heads like, what in the world? >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here is nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> i want you to do that. >> oh, dow? thank you, bill. >>

while many playgrounds look different, and there's a lot of variety in how playgrounds look, the actuallay value was quite simple. so i started to research the need kids have for their children to play. we realized there's this very interesting idea out there in the world that kids need to create their own world. they need to have risk, the opportunity for failure, and they need to see what happens when they create something sin ghoul l singular. >> i didn't go to the blue school thinking that i was going to be the architect for the project. every part of it seems spontaneous and wonderful and the kids seem great. it's thrilling to be part of seeing it evolve. >> i hear all kinds of people say to me that they are not very creative. i think they are mistaken about it and the reason is, they are naturally creative. it's like people are born with powerful naturalness. if you're born into a home that has one language, you learn that language. by the time most people, in my experience, get to their education, they start to think that they are not very creative and the reason is they have not

my goal this year is to build them a playground. the current playground -- >> in 2011, he raised $29,000. the money he has raised so far went to computer and educational materials. 100% of the money you donate to his project goes directly to the orphanage. i wanted to find out more about josh through "right this minute" via skype in washington, d.c. we have 16-year-old josh kennedy noche. tell me what inspired you to put this much mayo in into this project. >> i wanted to give back to a cause. >> have you been back to the orphanage? >> no, ma'am. i have a brother and sister, they're kind of young. my parents want them to grow up a little. maybe next year. >> do you have a financial goal in mind? >> somewhere between $50,000 to $75,000. >> oh, nice! >> if you want to donate to josh's project, you can go to the website josh'syolkaproject.org. >> squirrel wants a snack. >>> this story in australia is a little more supernatural than supermarket. and you're about to see why. i found this video on addalade now. this is your standard super

nursery and playground. that is all. we cannot even take the children out of the front gate. our life is limited to these tiny spaces. >> even when levels are low, many parents will not bring their children back here. living with radiation is a risk they do not want to take. >> deaths have been reported among hospital patients in kenya. the strike of tens of thousands of nurses enters the second week. they faced nairobi, demanding better pay and working conditions. the government decision to sack 25,000 work -- the government is planning to sack 25,000 nurses for failure to return to work. the american economy created a better-than-expected 230,000 jobs in february. unemployment stayed at 8.3%. it did continue a trend, moving in the right direction. the president spoke at a event in texas. >> we just found out that last month, in february, we added 233,000 private-sector jobs. [applause] more companies are bringing jobs back and investing in america. >> our new york business reporter gave us for analysis. >>

there are people playing on the playground, the playing field we have, which is wonderful. there were kids going to the day care centers. right in the middle of it all, steps away from the school's most --was a group of vagrants rampaging, fighting, throwing shopping carts that each other, swearing. i got half a block away and i called on my cell phone. when i turned around, when they asked me how many people were involved, i turned around to count, and that is when they saw me and somebody screamed, she is calling 911. they came rampaging towards me and punched me. i am 65 years old, i do not need that. the police officers were there immediately. they tried to find this person named paul who punched me, of course did not. they came back and their attitude was, this is the way it is. the people are here and we just have to be careful to go around them. the other thing that bothered me, i got punched and i was screaming try to get someone's attention. everyone playing on the playground or feel that did not look around because the sort of activity is so common in our parks. w

some of the groups that participate are gilman playground, eureka valley program, richmond playground, telegraph hill neighborhood, cameron house jcyc, and hunters point youth groups. the program teaches children with disabilities. those who have hearing and sight impaired how to fish. the program took on an educational component four years ago. the children can go to the aquarium and learn about the fish they have caught and observe them in a marine environment. a marine biologist answers the questions. perhaps the thing i am most proud of, the -- it is a featured youth program at the international association of chiefs of police conference in chicago. thank you. president mazzucco: thank you. that program was started by herb lee, one of the first chinese- american police officers to encourage kids from chinatown to join the police department. i used to go fishing with them once a week. >> thank you. that is correct. next presenting will be officer rockwell, the scuffing -- discussing the sfpd operation dream. >> good evening. i am rafael rockwell. this past year is a year i coordina

a counter in stalled in the playground has -- completely decontaminated. a counter installed in the playground shows the readings. >> our life is limited to these tiny spaces. >> even when levels are low, many parents will not bring their children back here. living with radiation is a risk they do not want to take. >> for more on the continuing recovery effort and those affected areas, we spoke to our correspondent in the northeast of the country. you have just come back from the coastal area to see the rebuilding. how is it actually progressing? >> well, in terms of rebuilding, extremely slowly. there are things reappearing. roads have been fixed. bridges have been fixed. some shops have come back in prefabricated buildings on higher ground. people are living in temporary housing, prefabricated again. in terms of actually rebuilding the city, that has barely even started. what they have been doing over the past year is clearing the wreckage. they gathered it into a huge piles, hills, almost mountains of waste in parts of the area. they are trying to figur

have cleaned up the nursery and playground. that is all. we cannot take the children out of the front gate. our life is limited to these tiny spaces. >> even when levels are low, many parents will not bring their children back here. living with radiation is a risk they don't want to take. bbc news. >> on a much lighter note, the weekend is almost upon us, and for many, that means a trip to the movies. have you ever stopped to think why so many trailers are voiced by men? is this one of the last all-boy clubs that women simply cannot break through? >> in a world within our world, they have created a world unlike all the other worlds. >> how would studios rely on male voices when it comes to promoting films. >> it is a male-dominated field. they tend to go with men. there have been occasions that women have done trailers. it has been few. >> why is the business dominated by men? >> generally speaking, the physicality of the male voice tends to be a stronger presence, especially on trailers where it is in the theater. there is act

the school says it will rebuild and rededicate the playground in memory of a teacher at the school. >>> the man accused of sending suspicious letters to members of congress will be moved to another city. christopher lee carlson appeared in federal court in tacoma, washington, yesterday. u.s. marshals are expected to move him to portland. over the past month, several lawmakers and member of the media received letters that contained a white powder that turned out to be harmless. maryland senator barbara mikulski was one of the lawmakers who received a letter threatening to use a biological weapon. police arrested carlson on friday. >>> well, penn state's board of trustees has said that a failure of leadership led them to fire hall of fame football coach joe paterno. in a report released yesterday, the board said that paterno could have done more when he learned about an alleged case of sex abuse involving a former assistant football coach. a lawyer for the paterno family questioned the timing of this report. paterno died of lung cancer in january. former assistant coach jerry sandusky i

i used the comparison to the playground i am very familiar with, which underwent a beautiful renovation and i think that other areas of the city, especially the lower income neighborhoods, need the same kind of treatment. i also noted that on today's agenda there is only three items, so i would like to suggest an item that was in the examiner last thursday, march the eighth, entitled supervisor the bad behavior. it is a real eye opener. by. supervisor elsbernd: seeing no other members of the public, testimony is closed -- public comment is closed. can we do the amendment to accept this retroactively? done without objection. seeing no other questions or comments, we will send this forward without -- the recommendation, without objection. seeing no other items on the agenda, this meeting is adjourned. >> when stephen de staebler died, he was working on one of the biggest shows of his career, matter and spirit. it is a retrospective look at the many faces and faces of the life of an innovative artist from the california clay movement. stephen de staebler's developed in an area dominated by

we can work for ways that we can cooperate and share a playground, for example. how we get the word out, it is a slow process. i don't think there is just a silver bullet that we can just come on land. i think it is an evolutionary process that began years ago. supervisor avalos: just to say i'm sure all of the members of the board of supervisors actively take part in events that happened in schools and our district, - -in -- in our district. i have been at lots of school- sponsored events at the high school, the institute of technology, cleveland elementary school. the opportunity that we take doing the reading, we had a time capsule 100 years ago where it was opened and a great event. there are great ways that we can provide our connection to city resources, or just our name to support the school district. i think it makes a big difference. last year, i was very troubled that we had a very active discourse happening in san francisco. i think the mayor's race had been a big part of that. they were talking about the neighborhood school initiative. they did not ta