we retained them to do park master planning and cost estimates for the total area of the park. we are going to go into detail design and bid an award for construction. the planning and design his gradual is an enlargement of the green phase and that is where we had awarded the company to do. for its existing conditions and opportunities and constraints. to improve the due diligence we had done for the preferred master plan and planning. develop alternative park master plan concepts, developed a draft plan and phasing plan, again, our estimate was $30 million. we knew that we did not have $30 million so we had to work with the consultants who had a cost estimator on board to determine how we will spend the funding we have in place. how will we scale the project based on the funding that we have in place. and then finally, identification of a first phase of construction we awarded the contract for $700,000 to do that initial work also recognizing that san francisco public works wanted to retain the right to do the detailed design work, should they have the capacity when we got thr

that research was already ongoing in the park. it is coming to fruition now. >> are there other places that you are overseeing work like that? >> yes. some other examples of the work that is being done is increase of how do we interpret homes to teach the african american research and the national historic landmark >> we have done work in shenandoah national park on lewis mountain. telling the story of the segregation that occurred in national park. it was consistent with the jim crow area of american history. we were not immune as an agency to those larger social segregation's that were going. being very honest about the national park service where we were. there is a lot of work going on now.>> what do you see happening here five years from now? >> five years from now i see that the exhibits will be included in the carter g. woodson home. we are figuring out our long range plans for the exhibiting space. the study of african-american life and history. we have an agreement to locate some of their headquarter activities here at the

turkiya lowe cecil retired from the park service, but barbara is still with the national park service. she is the superintendent at -- national historical park. >> have you talked with them? turkiya: i have barbara on speed dial. she is a mentor to me. she is a person that has stood up at multiple parks. -- the harriet tubman site, she worked on that and site. also, the underground railroad to freedom network program we have. she said work hard, be passionate, engage the public in what you are doing so that everyone has buy in, everyone can tell their perspective and story, how they engage with the parks, so yeah. >> how does one stand up a park service site? turkiya: well, ok we go to , first designation of the park unit, either through a presidential proclamation, which is the national monument, or congressional legislation. and then that entails determining the boundaries, determining the management structure of a park. is it going to be wholly managed by the national park service, or like carter g woodson, will it be what we call a partnership park, where we enter into an agreemen

package 2 in red will construct most of the park along with the 19th street parking lot. package three in green will complete the roadway along 19th street in georgia street. it is federal funding that needs to be bid separately as david mentioned and consistently with federal bid standards. package 4, in orange, will provide hazardous materials abatement for building 49 and package 5 will complete the rehabilitation of building 49, including public rest rooms. this table summarizes cost of the five proposed bid packages. costs are divided by design and planning cost and completed construction bids, construction management, and a total. bid package one is site preparation and it is complete. combined cost for this contract were about $6.2 million. bid package 2 will construct the park along with the parking lot and we currently have bids for this contract. the estimated cost for this package is $25.1 million. bid package 3 is to complete the roadway along 19th street and georgia street. we're expecting to have this completed by the end of 2019. the estimated cost is $1.5 m

poachers represent a major threat to any animal species in the park. rhinos have been targeted for years powder made from their horns is widely used in traditional asian medicine many people believe it has special powers. peter is back in the air this time to study the rhinos migration patterns. his team will attach transmitters to the animals. i their work draws a lot of attention from tourists. the tranquilizer will soon take effect one of the men tries to keep the animal from falling on to the road. tourists capture the rare sight. the transmitters are strapped to the right of his front legs. bus's colleagues drill a hole in the rhino horn and insert a microchip if the animal is killed and poachers sell the horn the authorities could use the chip as evidence in a criminal case more than one thousand rhinos were killed in south africa last year . with the beautiful big female and and these are the ones that we really should be protecting you know because these are our breeding animals and this is the future of water and i was intrigued by these animal

the animals in the park are protected by human rangers and wildlife researchers. at the same time humans are their greatest enemy. there's a new threat for the elephants in the park it appears that when they come into contact with humans they can contract the human form of tuberculosis. veterinarian peter bus is searching for elephant herd to try to find out how many of the animals have been infected. you need the helicopter actually just to control it and keep it in the area where you can access it from the ground because generally wants a dog that they want to take hold and they are in the context of the go to sleep. they could be a few kilometers away from where the ground team is. the mission calls for an experienced pilot and a good marksman. it takes real skill to hit an elephant with a tranquilizer dart from a moving helicopter. the elephant takes cover under some trees bus tries to drive it back into the open. the dark lodges in the entrance ramp now his job is to keep the elephant from running away the helicopter circles the animal for six minutes. then th

the adjacent india basin at shoreline park has a peer. in order to get far enough out, even to hand towers, they have to go 600 feet out into the water to get deep enough for even that. >> thank you. so the lease term is our typical lease term for the open space? first of all, we have to exchange properties. correctly in and out of the trust because of the barriers. >> this is a little different. we will own the property but the m.o.u. will be limited to the 66 years. >> it will be 66 years. and then, i am not sure i fully understand all the trust exchange of the ins and outs. if you could summarize that again. i thank you say there is 19 acres that go that go in and some go out. we want to get the land lands to be continuous for the open space is that correct? >> is a total of 14 acres. 9.5 acres will be in the port possessed jurisdiction process jurisdiction after the exchange. >> recreation and park will have full responsibility for maintaining the space? >> the m.o.u. will cover the entire area. >> this is more or less, we are granting

it speaks towards the party and the parks, the party for the parks. coming up next month. >> president buell: the 15t 15th? thank you. thank you, lease sb nine we are now on item 12, which is general public comment continued from item for. if you would like to make general public comment and you did not comment under item from farah, could you please come forward? being then, public comment is closed. we are now on item 13, closed session. is there anyone who would like to make public comment on closed session? being done, this item is closed. i need a vote on whether to hold closed session to confer with legal council regarding pending litigation. >> president buell: all in favor? so moved. >> clerk: i need to ask everyone to pl >> clerk: communing -- communications, commissioners? public comment? public comment is closed. we are on item 17. adjournment. >> president buell: seconded. >> clerk: wait, wait. >> vice president low: i would like to make a motion to adjourn in memory of sean.

i love the national park service. i do not think it will be short-term. >> when it is over, how will you measure your success? ms. lowe: if i have provided tools and resources for the historians that are operating in the national park service to do their work, to do exciting research, to do public education. if a child comes to me and says, i was inspired to do historic preservation or public history because i saw you as an african-american child or women and child in this position, that would be a wonderful legacy for me to have. either of those, or both. >> turkiya lowe, thank you for your time. ms. lowe: thank you. weekend, wehis feature flagstaff, arizona where we traveled to see its historic sites. located 80 miles south of the grand canyon, it rests within the world's largest continuous ponderosa pine forest. learn more about flagstaff all weekend here on american history tv. >> we are at desert view, the eastern end of the grand canyon and it's called desert view because you are looking out into the painted dese

often we at the park service in the past have stuck with the storyline when a national park unit is designated as such, there is congressional legislation or a proclamation that tells us the major theme we are to interpret. but we are not limited to those themes. even if we were, there are multiple perspectives for what it means, what the legacy is for those events. so we have to be facilitators in a sense, where different visitors or partners come with us -- come to us with competing or similar interest and perspectives and we do our best to incorporate those. where did you get your start in the park service after you got your phd? i started in the park service before getting my phd. i was talking about howard university and the public history site. i was so determined to go to law school, even though i enjoyed and the public history site. i the class and it opened up new avenues, my professor at howard always said i should work for the park service. she invited me to lunch one day and it turned out she was dropping me off for an interview with the nps. that was 19 years ago. i was an intern

on the way to the national park we need some local farmers many of them use the national park land although this is illegal they graze their cattle coach game scavenge and chop down trees this form a forest ranger understands the farmers often have no alternative the community around here are too poor very poor and a lot of the poverty level they were on was arrested in the park and be jailed and they were forced to pay fines. among the range explains the ground rules for visiting the gorillas always keep your distance as human germs can prove fatal if transmitted to the animals and i can be authentic for me and what she minorca for certain you're going to call with a policeman and if you can fight it's the first time the growers have seen the grapes sour so most are more excited than afraid. and then they're off into the heart of the rainforest there's a lot of money to be made from gorilla watching in rwanda and uganda. trackers for the gorillas daily movements it often takes hours to find them but today we're in luxembourg. a short walk takes us to a family of nineteen gorillas by the si

we had over 200,000 people visiting the park this weekend. i wanted to give an update about camp mather. earlier this week, we made a decision to cancel the rest of the camp season at mather. the decision does affect the scheduled annual senior week -- [no audio] >> -- and our employee weekend for rec park staff and retirees. i do want to state with respect to our outdoor teen experience, we're pivoting on that and we've partnered with juvenile probation and dcyf and mayor breed and her administration were planning a really lovely day for about 60 kids with a variety of outdoor activities including some lake time and a barbecue over in the east bay, some kayaking and canoeing for kids that won't be up at camp mather. through the past three weeks, we've been in contact with the tuolomne county public management and safety agencies, cal forest, our own department of emergency management, fire department, department of public health and of course our mayor's office, and we've all coordinated very well together on all of the impacts caused by the

developed comprehensively from the park down to northside park. northernmost area of the shipyard project. the first step in executing that vision is creation of a unique signage pilot for the entire 1.. we are underway with this effort working collaboratively collaboratively with the port, r.p.b., pg entity, planning department and five points. with that's starts, we configured our development, the grid and the open spaces with an effort to increase open space, public access to public view corridors, periodic public gathering spaces and multiple paths to, from and parallel to the shoreline. onto our development program. we are proposing to build 1500 --dash 1575 new housing units including 25% affordable, approximately 200,000 square feet of retail, small office, community space and childcare facility. this program allows us to dedicate a new 5-acre park to the city which combined with a rehabilitated india basin open space, will result in a new 11- acre park for the community. plus approximately 3 acres of public open space within the development

and equally popular was the park. and people really came out for the free activities and the family-friendly events and they continue to do so. so we think that the neighborhood block party set the right tone for what is available at the park and how people should treat it. and we were happy with the outcome of that. we did go through -- i have gone in front of our branding and markets for events and so i won't do that. but we had a social media campaign, both paid and unpaid and our earned media earned i think that at least 75 stories in the lead-up to the week before the event and publications, local and national. very happy with that as well. and we hosted a series of tours as i said and the ribbon cutting, i want to share a few photos with you, though you lived it. we activated the big board and really welcomed people to the transit center. and just wanted to share a few photos of the ribbon-cutting ceremony. here's the bus deck. this is my bus, the 38 express from many years ago. and the double-decker bus and the

the future. i believe a path that national parks where. nature is preserved and protected need to seize the felt the animals or the small and the big ones. a deal where the people surrounding that reserve have access of course benefits then that are you one area where people are happy to do this it people are happy to see flooding and that accommodates all people who wants to play with lice. now a lot of work and certainly planning goes into maintaining our beautiful national parks and not just on land but also i'd see they are marine protected areas too like the coral reefs of south africa's coast the former unique eco system and many functions from what appears to cation to cost line protection they also provide habitats for all kinds of animals and plants all that makes to refinance durban well worth protecting but it also gives scientists valuable insight into how such a sensitive system can be protected from the long term effects of climate change. this is how go to your script produce and spread for hundreds or millions of years they'

on the way to the national park we need some local farmers many of them use the national park land although this is illegal they graze their car to poach game scavenge and chop down trees. this form a forest ranger understands the farmers often have no alternative the community around here they're too poor very poor and a lot of the poverty level they were on was arrested in the park and be jailed and they were forced to pay fines. from the ranger explains the ground rules for visiting the gorillas always keep your distance as human james can prove fatal if transmitted to the animals and i can be a fanatic for me and what she might know for certain you're going to call the police and if you can fight it's the first time the growers have seen the great apes. so so most are more excited than afraid to like we'll and then they're off into the heart of the rain forest there's a lot of money to be made from gorilla watching in rwanda and uganda. track as well as the gorillas dating movements it often takes hours to find them but today were enough for. a short walk takes us to a family of ninetee

manager of the poland iceberg national park. fortunes a very serious problem in felines but. almost every two three days there's an incident where that i was killed we are now in a situation where the. that i made off and i know killings exceeds their reproduction he wants more dinosaur killer than one was being born. you need to get the poacher the guy who's walking into that example with a gun provide him with a no tell it a source of income in order to minimize poaching i believe that for as long as people see people underground see money in poaching it will continue but in time. with with what improve intelligence gathering we'll be able to know and i dissipate when these guys are coming their modus operandi and we've been in the position to have been quite a big impact and thus reduce the excess into that is if. you believe we need to open not is it for everybody and make sure that even those people of lower with low income can access these resists for self intertainment and also for educational purposes so i don't think t

i'm going to focus on the park access. first, starting with -- at the main gateway to our project at aurelius walker and innes aven avenue. there'll be a transit stop here as well as bike share and other transportation amenities. and now the view into the park through the open public market that will house start-up, small, temporary or semi permanent retail to support the public parks with a focus on bayview retail businesses. here's another view of the public market and how it incident fac interfaces with the big green. this slide illustrates the cove terrace which is where 900 and 700 innes merged. this is the pinch point of the site and we worked very closely with r.p.d. to figure out how to accommodate the uses in this area. 1800 parking spaces that were referenced earlier are tucked into the hillside, emphasizing the pedestrian focus on this project. there is a rendering of one of the primary public gathering spaces within the project. again, as you go outward towards the bay, the intensity and density of development d

the arrows on this slide point to the trans-bay area parks. th the blue arrows point to the two parks that ocii will right lane, project three, and under ramp park. this is a photo of the newly completed salesforce park. and this is a conceptual rendering for transbay park for block three, that was included in the 2006 streetscape plan. once ocii kicks off the design process for transbay park, we will begin with community outreach to get feedback about what the neighborhood residences and workers would like to see as part of the park, the schematic design of the transbay park will be entirely different from what is shown here, but it will be based very much on what the community desires. this is the current site plan for under ramp park, which stretches from just south of folsom street, north ward to howard street, with a direct connection to the salesforce transit center. this brings me to the action items that the commission is considering today. again, the commission is considering the approval of two contracts which related to the implement

and party for the parks was last weekend. we will weave more of these into the updates in the coming months for this month's video, we will take a look at the boat playground. because it follows so nicely with the model boat anniversary at spreckels lake. [♪] [♪] >> on that happy and joyous music, i conclude the general manager's report. >> clerk: is there anyone who would like to make public comment on the general manager's report? >> i do -- >> seeing then, public comment is closed. we are now on items for which is general public comment up to 15 minutes. this item will be continued to item 12 if necessary. at this time members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter and jurisdiction of the commission and do not appear on the agenda. with respect to agenda items, you will have the opportunity to address the commission when that item is reached in the meeting. i do have one card and that is scott. if you'd like to come on up you will have three minutes. >>

the park service was very much in the tourism business. there was a senator from indiana, benjamin harrison, who i don't think ever visited the grand canyon in his life but for some reason was devoted to trying to make the grand canyon national park. three times he proposed bills to make the grand canyon national park. he was elected president and again proposed but could not get it because it took congress to declare a national park. arizonans did not want to see private land taken away from the pioneers and turned into public land. harrison could not do it even when he was president. he did make the grand canyon a national forest which is sort of bogus because inside the canyon there are not many forests. that was one step forward and then teddy roosevelt came along and he was dedicated to the canyon but in a very paradoxical way. teddy roosevelt went to the north rim to go mountain lion hunting. there used to be a lot of mountain lions there and there were hundreds of them that were killed over the years. the forest service hired a rang

space, not just all the city ka's parking space. i think that -- i think the other is whether we can -- also, i never heard anything about smart traffic lights. you know, sometimes you sit a a light and there's no traffic. seems we should be figuring out how to have smart traffic lights and maybe more video cameras to capture -- and if people know that there's cameras on the streets, you watch some of the television channels, cctv is there, it did he pers people's behavior. it changes people's behavior, so i think that's something also to take a look at. i guess lastly, i want to say while this is really about public safety, overall, it's not this unrelated to traffic congestion. and the area that i always bring up is when we have a cruise ship come in, wow, traffic on the embarcadero becomes impossible. so i think that the m.t.a. is considering along with all of these other issues, along with public safety is it is related to congestion overall and what are we doing about is it? >> commissioner makras. >> i think i agree with everyt

and of course, it is the location in mclaren park which is the city's second biggest park after golden many people don't know the neighborhood in the first place if they haven't been there. we call it the best neighborhood nobody has ever heard our. every neighborhood in district nine has a very special aspect. where we are right now is the mission district. the mission district is a very special part of our city. you smell the tacos at the [speaking spanish] and they have the best latin pastries. they have these shortbread cookies with caramel in the middle. and then you walk further down and you have sunrise cafÉ. it is a place that you come for the incredible food, but also to learn about what is happening in the neighborhood and how you can help and support your community. >> twenty-fourth street is the birthplace of the movement. we have over 620 murals. it is the largest outdoor public gallery in the country and possibly the world. >> you can find so much political engagement park next to so much incredible art. it's another reason why we think this is a cultural district that we

but all of our parks do have signs regarding the rules of the park. so i'd have to check in to see what the signs are for the rules of that because a lot of our rules in general for our parks are no adults without children present with them. but that's more of an overarching thing. we do often have park rangers out there and so if there's a concern where you see something that isn't right and you don't feel comfortable addressing it we also have a number it our park patrol accessible to the public. you can always call and they can always step in and talk to people if you feel that it's not safe for the kids there or in general. >> that's all of our parks. >> thank you, council. i appreciate everything. last but not least our co-chair jim blacksten. >> good afternoon. i have learned a lot from your presentation and from the questions that have been posed by colleagues here and i think that the programs that you are putting together here are excellent. so i as a person who is a disabled person in the business world i'm always interested in finances. i'm

the parking is at parity with the parking rate units. the b.m.r., consistent with what we've done, the parking provided is at the lesser of half of the market rate for parking rent at the time where the operating cost of the parking garage. which is less. the b.m.r. unit interiors will be comparable to the market rate unit. they'll be comparable high-quality but not identical finishes. and the tower rental amenities will be equally shared with both the podium residents and the tower b.m.r. residents. so this slide has got a lot of numbers on it. it's meant to point out the broad range of affordability that we're able to achieve at transbay block 4. you can see, i just want to point out, and sort of a specific a.m.i., so, as low as 50% medium income is $58,640 and then at 120% a.m.i. it's $142,100. these moderate a.m.i. ranges will provide family rental units which in san francisco, have been historically very difficult to finance and develop. of the two, block 4, 140 will be low income and 207 will be moderate income. and in a few slides

the c.b.d. will maintain and has maintained various parks in the school district, including the new city park on the, i think -- as park and public realms have a large impact on general benefit, determined to be the most equitable way to portray the general benefit amount. identified general benefit, grant in kind donation and volunteer hours to meet these requirements, and on april 10, 2017, owners association voted to rename the c.b.d. to the east cut community benefit district. and there are no questions for staff, i would invite mr. robinson up to present on the workings of the east cut c.b.d. >> supervisor kim: thank you. and i see that andrew robinson is walking up and want to recognize lauren post, the former president of the board of directors of the east cut c.b.d. for attending today, and i know you were so integral once, and many volunteer hours so thank you for your leadership and acknowledge the current president, matt letuchy for the continuing leadership. >> great. thank you very much. good morning, supervisors, supervisor kim, supervisor brown. and thank you to lauren post for be

because parks are hyperlocal, you go to the same park frequently. you notice when things have been painted or there's a seasonal planting. and these things make you feel like you count and that the department cares about your park experience there. so we're really taking this information, which was anecdotal before and now is documented and applying it to our future operations. real quick, it's not just us. equity is a conversation across the city. many departments are participating in the government alliance and racial equity, which teaches us about an ecosystem, a systemic inequity, and how to recognize and root it out. the controller has done a big review of department and programs. the director's working group, which is the biggest departments in the city has committed to a value that it's shared in our work. the human rights commission is leading the way. department of human resources has approved a policy to deidentify applicant information. so names and the name of the college you went to will be removed starting october 1 in the resumes that

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we are here at the park at a popular wedding venue along the potomac river.ot given access to the active crime scene. cars are coming out of a very dark area. the crime scene is around the bend where all these cars are coming from. i was able to walk up earlier and i could see a parking lot that was rffed with crime scene tape. police officers were out there with their flashlights looking in the dark and checking aroun a dumpster. you can see the police activity with some of them leaving. the sheriff's office confirms man was shot at this private party when there was a confrontation around 8:30 this evening. the victim who was shot was taken to the hospital. we are told it was not serious injury. the victim is expected to be okay. there is an extensive search going on at this time for the shter. police a working with the victim to try to identify the shooter. of course they are t goingbe talking to anyone here at the party this evening to try to get additial information. loudoun county sheriffs office, many officers are working to try to find that shooter and