it is not limited to the natural areas program, but just to mclaren and golden gate park. now, the mclaren funding, the ordinance also says $10 million for mclaren park including all the kinds of normal improvements you might want to see at a park. but we do have a bond report that came to the commission as well as the board of supervisors, was approved by all bodies and we used the bond support how to implement the ordinance. so nothing in the bond report is in conflict with the ordinance, but it provides more detail, including things likes allocating $1.5 million of the $10 million in mclaren for natural features. and that's really important. it's not natural areas. it's for natural features and habitat restoration. whether it's in the natural area program or not. the four priority areas we've identified today, kind of zig and zag through the area. there are some areas in the program, some outside of it. the focus is on increasing access to nature, not limiting the expenditure of funds to only improving the natural areas program. that bond report also specifies this process happened. it outlines

recreation and park department and i'm delighted to be here today to speak in support of the mclaren park community garden fundingat is before you today. when i first visited the garden years ago i was struck by how charming and beautiful the site is, on the edge of mclaren park. the garden has been well loved despite the poor condition of the garden itself. it makes sense, besides being in an ideal location, it's at the end of the residential street where there is tons of community support. chief among them are wonderful, garden coordinator sean smith who is sheer today to -- here today to speak on behalf of the garden. this garden is in the area where there are many families that could benefit from increased access to community food projects like gardens. shawn and others have been advocating for a complete renovation for years because the state of the garden's infrastructure has been impacting community engagement. having recently visited all of the community gardens across the program, i can see how critical site design and build decisions are to enhancing community engagement at our sites. this increased fun

gave you a letter last time, it says, to whom it may concern, the park bond provided $2.4 million for major improvement to mclaren park. the funds come from the state, department general fund. help the southeast district of san francisco follow the money, cv 1 schedule, mclaren cost plan. page number 28. annual maintenance, six gardens assigned to maintain john mclaren park with three custodians we'll require to augment the existing workforce with completion of long term action and additional gardeners will be required. five gardeners are assigned to maintain john mclaren park acres. the master plan approved 1987 apparently had been swept under city hall without consideration to the hard-working underprivileged communities. to many specialties being created to glamorize and sway the new mayor, supervisors, not enough reinforcement for the gardeners labor force that make you guys look good. they should be taken more seriously. mclaren gardeners maintain 365 acres, will have opportunities to enjoy their time without a long-term debilitating injury due to being work, which amounts to slavery. not much different than modern slavery

about mclaren and the detail of what the bond ordinance said and what we were committing, to the 2000 bond set $110 million for parks, but not golden gate park. it said we would pursue leverage funding. we did. we got several hundred millions of dollars for additional funding which we leveraged against the 110, but because the public had been promised renovation of the entire system for those funds, as we began to fall short, and you know, ran out of money, essentially, after only -- not only completing what was deemed to be the first phase, despite the fact that we delivered many projects successfully, the department didn't get any credit for that. what was left was the feeling on the stakeholders of all the other projects in the pipeline and now they would need to wait for. this is just a time line, also showing the history of geo bonds for the recreation and park department. you can see in the 70s, the light green means it failed. there were a number of initiatives that tried to get off the ground and couldn't. and it's the 2000 bond and the 10-year capital plan we start to see major successes. and i think that's been important for us, there has been a balance of focus on neighbo