raymond kimball playground and bartlett street improvements. i don't know if it takes a motion, or guidance. >> guidance is fine. bartlett convenient valencia and mission, a number of pedestrian improvements, a farmer's night one night a week. >> wanted some diversity -- >> and raymond kimball playground, the western edition, bounded by gary, l.s. pearson steiner. >> so it's -- appears the committee accepts your recommendations. >> great. >> for the reasons that you cited. >> we will go forward and hope to have the contract out to bid in the next month and report back at the next meeting. upcoming issuances, public finance, i'm sorry we did not get a moment to do this earlier, but the right place to introduce our new director of our office of public finance, anna van digna, not sure if i'm pronouncing properly. just a moment to have her introduce herself and she's taking the job that was -- we are very happy to have here. >> thank you, peg, for introducing me. good to meet you all. i want to just touch upon forward calendar through the rest of

we had the projects that we talked about last time, which was the raymond kimball playground, and good response, and we're now in the process of contract negotiation to get that survey underway. if it all goes smoothly, i anticipate wrapping up the contract in the mechanics month or so and -- next month or so and anticipate being able to be in the field in the late summer or fall. again when we meet with kristin, we can meet with her and get any final details before we finalize the contract. >> so let me just add, based on completion we would see the report sometime in the fall? >> right around the end of the calendar year. >> thank you. comments? >> pardon me. i had two comments i wanted to make. one, i think i heard recently there was an up tick in the bond rating for the city and county of san francisco maybe to its highest ever in the history of the city, and i think if that's true, you can confirm, but i think that's a -- a thing to be very happy about because it can lower our interest costs. >> that's correct, and thank you. so moody's upgraded the city to a triple a rating, whic