the recreation -- so-called recreational fishing and hunting heritage act which fails to address the wilderness issues in title 3, fipping on public lands, we've had extensive discussion of that, no identified problem, no hearing, nobody's ever said we need this but it's in there. we'll allow mechanized film crew into wilderness areas. and then title 7 creates a loophole that will allow motorized equipment and vehicles into federal wilderness areas, not with permanent roads, with only temporary roads or driving offroad to facilitate hunting in wilderness areas or otherwise restricted areas, wildlife refuges and that, and we still find that very problematic. with that, i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: i urge adoption of the amendment and yield back my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from washington. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair the ayes have it. he amendment is agre

recreation is obviously a key component of our city's system. there's been a lot of discussion about maintenance of parks and the funding of that maintenance. a number of concerns, there were some ideas put forth and the element that are just sort of suggestions. i think there are some concerns about are we really going to do this or that, privatization. we tried to address and tried to get criteria for how that would be. i can keep going. >> i was particularly interested -- for instance, on recreation, were you looking at those types of recreation as historic resource he and how they played out on the land? i guess that was what i was interested in, how the terminology has evolved about what's considered, you know, worthy of preservation and consideration within our realm in the parks. >> recreational facilities? >> either building or natural areas. i think recreation is a -- can be considered a historic resource in terms of how it's laid out in the parks, yeah. >> i can answer. we talk a lot about the preservation of open space and making sure

. >> we're now on 12 the recreation of the open space of the general plan. >> let me make a comment there was some speculation we should hold this matter off but as i look at the process the effort was initialed in 2007 and under woo for 14 years and gone through collaborative efforts with stakeholders and is anticipated to be approved by the commission later in the spring it seems important we be briefed on this final document at this point. >> thank you. i'm stacey with recreation and parks department i'm joined by other colleagues from the planning department. they will step you throw the lastly draft of the general plan. the planning commission has seen different parts the rose or role it's resolution in 2009 and 11. this has a really great project after an enormous amount of effort and i happy am i'm going to turn it over to kathleen >> good morning. i'm kim. i'm from the planning department. and i'm here with other colleagues. i'm role excited to bring this back to you. this element is one of the 10 elements of the general plan and we've been going through a long process of updating

that's come from recreational pot sales.lorado and washington state are the only places where recreational pot is legal, and washington is still working through how to regulate sales, but we know at least eight other states from california to maine considering this, and when they look at the kind of money colorado is making from taxing marijuana, you've got think that's going to have some kind of influence over their decision. fred? >> all right, thanks so much, ana. >>> the next hour of the "cnn newsroom" starts right now.

i'm with the parks and recreation. the parks and recreation department request that we reschedule this hearing to make a decision on the design. the committee has a three phase review on the process. the project has already received a phase 1 and 2 approval. however, it has come to our attention that the project has not received the final phase 3 approval. this was an unintentional oversight caused by the design of the three separate restrooms and were packaged and heard together by the arts commission at the one and two approvals. out of the three approvals, one has not yet. with phase two, the arts commission has already received the findings. the purpose of phase 3 is for permits and construction drawings and for recreation of arts department to respond to commissions comments from phase 2. the parks and recreation department has already quoted the comments into design and is confident that phase 3 approval will be granted. the parks and recreation is scheduling the phase 3 approval for the court's at the arts commi

. >> the other thing we need to defer recreational dollars to line up with the recreational costs we tried to do that that way and we're keeping the projects would count for the money we're spend on recreational projects that is substantially more. >> one of the things we've agreed to say report on the first set of projects that kooets keeps it on the quarterly basis and provide the bright light for that. this seems inconsistent with that and by the time we come back to our next meeting we'll take a hard look at that but wre if we can't do it we'll - we need to have money in there for it. but we're going to take a second look at that >> i think what steve is saying is that trying to balance local and recreational water as far as the south is concerned given the fact there's an uncertainty of what the construction will happen we felt comfortable pushing it out but as we put money in the planning for participating in design in two years if he feel this project is x alerted we'll taking a look at that this was an exercise to balance the plan but it can chiang change every 23 years. >> t

i think we'll see continued growth in our recreational programming. as we move through the budget process we will, of course, be out there talking to folks to our staff and stakeholders to the community, labor and to the cities policymakers. we actually have two of our community budgetometers scheduled the first one is next monday at the applying log rejecting center so on monday the 27 and our second is monday february 3rd at the clubhouse from 5 to 7:30. i'm going to be at pro-sack with my presentation and be back to the operations committee on february 6th with an update and we're consider our plan to the mayor on february 21st and, of course, the mayor will submit his budget on june 1st to the full board. two minutes to spare >> not bad. i for one congratulate you on fiscally on sustainability and alive you living those are residing a waiver that happens to be in the tied as it were now and it's our responsibility to do that so i encourage that. i don't see any other comments from my fellow commissioners >> do we have any public comment on this it

and as was mentioned we're going to give you an up to date on the recreational space element. so we've been doing this for quite awhile the process started in 2007 i'm going to go over the process in a minute. the first draft was out in may of 2009 and in july of 2010 we had a review. the second draft ways out in 2011 and the final draft came out last november. so as i mentioned we've been doing this for seven years so there's a lot of community process. we started with a task force that was an in violation by the mayor and there were a number of working groups in the task forces. after that we went into a community base we worked with 27 groups with the parks hallway lines and had focused groups and went in the advisory council committee we went to the recreation & parks commission and the planning commission we've been there five or six times and we've had industries meeting and one-on-one meetings. so just to kind of step back a little bit and explain what is the general plan and what's it's role. we have 10 elements currently in the plan and various other plans like housin

is this just for recreational use? the point you make, are we going to see an uptick in resales to other states, or just even on the street? >> you know, smurfing is a problem. that's what they call it when you buy legal weed and sell it for a profit on the street. and that's been a concern -- been a concern ever since we went medical. and especially since the dispensary boom here in colorado in 2009. so that's a major concern. and i know we did a great story a couple months ago where we talked to the state patrols of neighboring states, including kansas and nebraska and just said are you concerned about this, are you seeing an uptick in the amount you're finding in cars and are you seeing a demand for it. and the answers were yes, they are seeing a demand for colorado pot in kansas, colorado pot in utah. >> all right. well, we don't have time to get into why it's called smurfing, but ricardo baca, we thank you and look forward to having you on again in the future. thanks. >>> it is bold, brilliant and a big bit questi

states taking up recreational marijuana use. though some communities claim things are just going to pot. >> it's just not good for the brain. >> and good evening, thanks for being with us. i'm joie chen. again at this hour a hoafd for -- hoped for turning point in ukraine's revolution, raising threats of new chaos, after weeks of battling with protesters, viktor yanukovych reached agreement with protesters, meeting some if not all of their demands. the country would revert to a previous constitution, hold presidential elections by the end of the year. a key opposition political leader, the form he prime minister would be freed from prison. but there is reason for some concern. the president is reported to have left the capitol city for his home turf. also his political strong hold in eastern ukraine, close to the russian border. in maidan square, where protesters have been through so much are in no mood for celebration. >> a lot of people on this square feel that that deal doesn't go nearly far enough and when vitaly klitschko c

that's come from recreational pot sales.f course, right now, washington and colorado are the only two states where recreational pot is legal, and washington is still working through its regulations for sellin pot, but we know at least eight other states that are considering this from california to maine, and you have to think when they look at the kind of money colorado is projecting to make from taxing marijuana, that could have some influence, christine? >> thank you. >>> facing the legal pot industry, the challenge, banking. the obama administration says it's okay for banks to offer services like checking and savings and loans for the legal distributors of marijuana. until now, the estimated $2.5 billion all in cash, and the administration is worried that's a public safety program. all that cash. the big national banks are saying, no thanks. the concern there is the difference between state and federal law. the federal government regulates banking transactions, big banks don't want caught in the middle. analysts tell us s

under the urination or acquisition of the pointing may be allowed under the jurisdiction by the recreation and parks department. only after the hour after sunrise or sunset. appendix 12 of the constitution our cities charter adapted in 19868 an ordinance that adapts be it or in added. the master plan shall be sunbathed and capable statement of policies for so far o san francisco the following policies shall be included in the preamble and which inconsistently will be resolved and they're assessing access to sunlight and voifs will be protected i'm asking you to protect our space from development. my remaining time this will personally effect me, you can't cut you tell through the soccer field so every morning i'm going to be passing through this area just lower the building so side shadows one way or the other won't be cast. and people can get there earlier and they're to be doing that under the impacts of the shadows. and the views will be lost so i please ask you to be the proper custodians and protect our environment >> thank you. >> next speaker >> good morning. i'm from the local 22.

the group approached the recreation and parks department in 2012 to enter into a private-public 16 implement a renovation of the south park. the group joined the improvement association joined up 80 with the park alliance and embarked on a community process in which they developed a master plan. following the 2012 park bond and the designation of the if you happened to south park the staff from the capital division including myself joined the project and implemented a community planning process deputy a conceptual plan for the renovation of south park. i have my colleague here to talk about the park and walk you through the other item your bagging being asked to approve today and a david. >> i'm sure everybody is familiar with the park itself. those are imagines the new configuration of the park restores the park part the master plan wants to address a few things the traffic calming slowing down traffic around the park and drainage issues regrading it settling. and hopefully accepting stormwater from the streets so no net increase from stormwater from of the park. you can see the plan there

i shared the open rec and park open space and recreation to prozach. i was on the community that wrote the golden gate park and master plan examine i shared the concord at gate park. as president of the neighborhood organization, the richmond district, i was intimately involved in the rehabilitation of nine parks and recreation areas. what's interesting is the richmond district and pa tril hill and dog patch has eight rec and park locations but the richmond which consist of low density, single homes has a three and a half mile border and a whole park boulevard and the green needs. the green benefit district will come into play that it can provide green which is needed now and for the next 20 years. there's a huge density coming in to patrel hill and dog patch. 1300 maybe 2,000 units. we need this for the next 10 to 20 years in order to maintain dpreen in the district. i appreciate your support. >> are there any other members of the public that like to speak on this. mr. yep. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm douglas yshg ep and i've lived in san franci

to the letter from the recreation and parks department note camp mediating supported this action and reasonable to the board had not seen the proposals of the plan. the next meeting of the board was held on february 5th and the department manager general manager phillip and recreational manager took the time to attend our meeting and tell the board the details about the funded allocation. i'm here to confirm that the friends of the camp appreciate the interests and in particular the sponsorship of this allocation as i understand commissioner mcdonnell as well as the san francisco recreation staff to use the fund to maintain the camp and improve the campers experience. at the february 5th general manager characterized sf rec and park as the three legs of stolen support the cam. we welcome in this case a certainly amount of hi personally. we're the shorter leg in this met for but whatever volunteers are noted and such as curtains and other things are to be divided and when the camper store is to be operated. we look forward to working with the department for this year and any way that

this is just for recreation and park. so, in general, i think -- i'm sorry, i missed one. i meant to discuss the little statistics at the bottom of this graph. we have overall at this point an 84% reduction in all pesticides since the beginning of the program. since 2000, which is when we really got our system best organized, it's been at 62%. since 2007, which is five-year mark, it's been a 6% reduction. as you can see it's very bumpy, depending on climate, depending on budget, depending on all sorts of things. >> depending on golf as well? >> and depending on golf. so, we are trying to find other ways -- other ways to lower that which i'll talk about in a second. a few other things worthy of note. what we are moving towards instead of -- along with with trying to get rid of the bad stuff on the list of pesticides are more prevention -- i'm sorry, more emphasis on prevention. one of the big accomplishments this year was the roll out of our pest prevention by design guidelines, which is a comprehensive list of things, ways to build pests out of buildings. we are also promo

seeing none, public comment is closed commissioners that was discussion only we're on item 7 the recreation and parks department budget for fiscal years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016. >> good morning, commissioners katie. good morning >> i'm here this morning for the commissions approval for fiscal years 2014-2015 before i get into the meat of my presentation which is focused on the general fund i do want to note that your commission packets included information about the open space fund this year in order to meet our charter requirements under prop c. and if you have any questions about that information if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. so i'm going to start this morning with a revised to your outlook you'll notice this slide as changed since january and primarily the changes in the non-salary cost increases that has decreased from 432001.2 millions for 2015-2016 and the primary reason the mayor's office are saying they're not going to ask us to absorb the costs for the next fiscal years so that's a significant boom the one hundred and 90 thousands of salary cost increases

sales and excise taxes on recreational cannabis.ijuana dispensaries had to turn in tax reports thursday. >> paid about $190,000 in sales tax collected in the month of january. >> reporter: official numbers won't be made public until march, the governor's budget office just released its own tax projections. it estimates the state will collect $184 million in tax revenues in the first 18 months of recreational pot sales. here is colorado's plan for spending that money. 40 million automatically goes to public school construction. that was mandated by voters. then the governor wants to spend about $85 million on youth prevention, and substance abuse treatment. 12.4 million on public health. about 3 million on law enforcement and public safety. and nearly 2 million on industry oversight. >> i don't think the people that are buying marijuana want the tax money to be used to discourage adults from buying marijuana. >> reporter: while not everyone agrees how the money should be spent, and although still early, there's no denying the apparen

there are now at least three dozen stores licensed to sell recreational pot in colorado.s nbc's gabe gutierrez reports, one of them is aiming high, trying to expand nationwide. >> in the mile-high city. >> this is like bringing kids to a candy store. >> at least one store says it never ran low on recreational pot. >> it's a sea of green. >> medicine man calls itself the largest marijuana dispensary in colorado. here under the watchful eye of armed guards and security cameras, the owners are building what they're calling the costco of weed. >> we're trying to make this into a industrial process rather than a stoner process. and i think we're being very successful with that. >> pete williams, his brother andy and their sister sally started selling medical marijuana in 2010. now ten relatives from three generations work here. there's kayla in reception. ryan on quality control. and grandma michelle counts the other kind of green. since recreational cannabis sales became legal in colorado on january 1st, business has been so good, these entrepreneurs are planning a $2.6 milli

he says it's disgusting to finance a recreation of this kind. the seige led to suffering, stor vasion, bombs and the painful death of so many people. the city has turned this into some kind of happy spectacle made of plastic and paper. he rejects it as t.s.a. less and unworthy. -- taste less and unworthy. i asked him if commemorations like these serve as a source of pride for modern russians and whether it's a way to display strength and influence the world over. he then becomes angry. he replizz that true strength can only be proven through culture, scientific achievement and education. not by historic recreations. most citizens think differently. they say celebrations like this are important, especially to give younger generations a feel for the true horrors of war. i meet some young people on the lavition prospect shopping boulevard. the candles of remembrance observation gets under way soon beginning with a minute's silence. usually the noise level here is ear-splitting. now, rare quiet. fireworks over the river cap a big day. ut one person

there are ample opportunities for hunters and fishermen to pursue these recreational activities. h.r. 3590 effectively everrides several important, commonsense conservation laws and elevates hunting and shooting ahead of all other legitimate uses of land. and it does so without including several important bipartisan re-authorizations sought by outdoor sportsmen and women and conservation groups. not only is the underlying bill bad policy, the process bringing this bill up is lousy desm spite the fact that the omnibus bill wasn't considered by any committee, the rule committees decided to close down the amendment process. the truth is that this rule makes in order every single republican amendment while only making in order one third of the democratic amendments. so much for openness and so much for fairness, madam speaker. i am particularly disappointed that last night the rules committee failed to make in order an amendment that i was proud to offer with mr. holt of new jersey. and several other of my colleague that would have re-authorized the land and water conservation fund.

we're going to turn off our recreational water features religious are the ones that fund sadly we just have one were kids can jump around in the water the water doesn't recirculate we have one at the minnesota park and julius con race a feature where water coyotes and that's going off and the children's corridor in the said. >>and sadly at lafayette we've got a flowing river we're going to have to turn that off. we are going to establish that once a month so the embarrass can dry out and we check for leakages. >> denny are you doing any posting of signs to let people know this the temporary. >> yes. we are there will be a variety of signage why this is turned off and i'll be addressing more of these every time they'll see this they'll have signage. we are going to reduce the run time on our decorative fountains and dell sole those water usage recirculate symbolly we are going to put there a sign so people can see when they're back on. there's two big exceptions huntington at stole lake and a john f. kennedy drive we are going to leave those on the water falls recharger huntington recha

the strongest sense of freedom most wabash inmates ever experience is their time on the outdoor recreation yards. >> for the record, we won that game. >> while rec is a time to enjoy some fresh air and exercise, it is also one of the times inmates are most likely to exchange contraband, including shanks. >> tell us what's going on out here. >> well, right now they're patting down the convicts that are going back in from recreation, to check and make sure they don't have any weapons. i guess there's been a tip that there was going to be some trouble. the officers just line them up, pat them down one at a time, make sure they don't have any weapons on them, pretty much as they come back in, and you'll find a bunch of times after that happens, they'll find a bunch of stuff thrown in the grass. >> as the pat-downs are conducted, officers will search the yard for discarded weapons. >> the inmates were standing watching the game. on this bench over here is always a good place. you'll see a shank. it could be buried just right underneath the grass. that's the place where they'll drop it and hide

. >> certainly parks and recreation and hotels and energy and steam loop system. so collectively, the city departments do use a fair amount. the director has the right number, about 5 percent of water is used by the city departments. >> 5 percent? >> yeah. one of the things we are working and plan to work with is the large water users of city departments. so one of the things that we are planning to ask for as part of this legislation relief is that is that they are ready to fund ready projects. one of the things that we are moving forward is the direct install program. when you actually rebate someone for their toilets, it doesn't cover the cost of in stalling them and this will subsidize that cost because we know that parks and recreation have a lot of facilities that have the old urinals or toilets that are 6 gallons per flush where the new ones are 1.28. this is a way to really reduce their water use and also reduce the city's water use over all so we have more water available for times like this. >> thank you, mr. richie. >> the next item is i would like to h

showing to the recreational director thank you. again. of the 7th series i look forward to this day because it signals just that fresh beginning seeing another about how far designed stamp and as both decreases said earlier it's an exception of our american culture and asia culture. i want to thank again sherman for your leadership at oc a that we take pride in not only a recreational subdivision e celebration this is national not international and i'm reminded again with allen's remarks we have a history. sometimes, it wasn't as bright as we wanted it to be but those days it's brighter and brighter i get to lead the city and a traffic internationally all over the world we have is strong citizenry that reflects our cultures. everyday i get to serve the city of this city but represent them in international settings pr i want to emphasis one greeting this year because i told anita elimination to do that. when you intermediate people in chinese greeting it is a prosperity greeting. sunny is happy new year and >> (speaking foreign language.)

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>> item number 5 is resolution retroactively authorizing the general manager of the recreation and park department to execute a five-year lease from february 1, 2014, through january 31, 2019, with one three-year option to extend, for an initial annual base rent of $662,400 with coit tower, llc, for the operation and management of coit tower, and reaffirming the commitment of the board of supervisors to protect and preserve coit tower and its murals in accordance with proposition b, passed by voters on june 5, 2012. ~ court title: >> thank you very much. we have [speaker not understood] from rec and park. president chiu, do you want to talk first? >> thank you; i appreciate your recognition for this resolution. it is one of san francisco's most icon i can structures. i want to offer my great thanks to the many community leaders and constituents from my district who live near coit tower and have spent a ton of time and energy over the recent years to get to this day. i also want to take a moment to thank the park and rec department and the arts commission for their work with the communit