my name is linda light haiser and i work with help mclaren park. alioto-pier here to accept the award on behalf of the founders of the organization, the real movers and shakers who couldn't be here tonight, chuck and [speaker not understood]. [cheering and applauding] >> their family is in peru, which is where [speaker not understood] hailses from. they're so disappointed they couldn't be here tonight. but the back story on this is chuck grew up in the portola. and next to mclaren park and he spent his whole childhood there. and when he and she married, they wanted the same childhood experiences chuck had had, and even better ones. so, they have spent their time working on the play grounds and all the other aspects of the park. and they worked so well and collaboratively with all the other park groups that represent mclaren park. parks alliance and rec and park department. i know they want me to thank everybody who has been such an integral part of giving them this award and all the work we still have to do on mclaren park. so, thank you for chuck

moving from cayuga over to mclaren, make sure to mark your indicatedxv for an exciting upcoming event in mclaren park called saturday in the park, saturdays in the park. ~ calendars i'm going to [speaker not understood] for may wong who has posters about this. friends of jerry garcia amphitheaters producing six free shows at the jerry garcia amphitheater this fall. first show is saturday unction august 17. great group of volunteers is working hard to bring the shows to the park this season. thank you, may. lastly, coming up on august 21st at the random museum, our general manager phil ginsberg will be chuck of the san francisco chronicle to discuss how rec and park is using innovations and partnerships to ensure access to open space as well as how groundbreaking youth education programs are training the next generation of environmental stewards. this interview will be included in the commonwealth club of california's nature 2.0 series. that concludes my portion of the general manager's report. i didn't see if linda is out there if there is a prozac report this time or not. >> [speaker

my name is linda light haiser and i work with help mclaren park. alioto-pier here to accept the award on behalf of the founders of the organization, the real movers and shakers who couldn't be here tonight, chuck and [speaker not understood]. [cheering and applauding]

i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in

. >> the clerk: item 5: 130826: [accept and expend grant - mclaren park connector trail project - $186,746]1308265.sponsor: avalosresolution retroactively authorizing the recreation and park department to accept and expend a land and water conservation fund grant from the california department of parks and recreation in the amount of $186,746 for the mclaren park connector trail project for the period of september 16, 2011, through june 30, 2014. >> the clerk: sf 512341234 >> good morning, this is the maclaren park and trail. this is an expense for a land water conservation grant in the amount of $868,000 to the maclaren park connector trial. this is be used for park entry ways in the south side. it also plans prooment to the watch trail directly south of man sell and we'll install signs throughout the maclaren park trail system. the grant award includes a 7 percent surcharge representing about $12 12,000 that will be kept. this is a land conservation grant and director of real estate to record a memorandum of unrecorded grant agreement of maclaren park. the state has issued one for the gr

john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in parks. we have 317 acres and god knows there's plenty of room for both of us. man and his best friend. early in the morning people before they go to work will walk their dogs or go on a jog themselves with their dogs. joggers love the park, there's 7 miles of hiking trails and there's off trail paths that hikers can take. all the recreational areas are heavily used on weekends. we have th

pÉrez de mclaren entrÓ en decima posiciÓn. la prÓxima escala es el 22 de septiembre en singapur. >>> en tokyo sigue la fiesta luego que el comitÉ olipimco le dio el derecho de organizar los juegos del 2020. y tokyo se impuso por votaciÓn de 60 a 23. todavÍa hay protestas en madrid. y toda una pena para los espaÑoles, los esperamos para el partido crucial entre estados unidos y mÉxico. >>> muchas gracias. y confunden con un ladrÓn al prÍncipe andrÉs de gran bretaÑa. con ♪ ♪ >>> la policÍa britÁnica confundiÓ al prÍncipe andrÉs cuando intentaba entrar al palacio, fue intercertado por los agentes y dos dÍas despuÉs que fuera detenido un presunto ladrÓn en el recinto. >>> un dicho dice que cuando el mariachi toca el mundo canta, eso paso en guadalajara, mÉxico, donde cientos de mariachis rompieron el rÉcord guinness desde la tierra del mariachi. nuestra reportera nos cuenta cÓmo se vivio este momento. ♪ >>> ni la lluvia les cortÓ la inspiraciÓn, bajo la inspiracion del mariachi vargas, los cientos de m

understood] de angelo, yei engineer [speaker not understood], [speaker not understood], our insured mclaren young and insurer consultant mka. so, it has taken a host of people working on this project nonstop, but we're really gratified to have pier 29 back looking as beautiful as she does and actually being filled with people as she is right now. so, if i could, i'd really like to thank a crew of people so please join me. (applause) >> okay, where am i? i know it's a lot. i forgot to mention the california preservation foundation is going to publish a book in honor of their 30th anniversary. the book is being published by heyday books and written by j.k. da neen forward by john king. 50 projects received this award over the past 30 years and one of those projects is this building, the ferry building landmark no. 90. so, we're very pleased by that honor as well. not on the calendar, but i did want to mention that this thursday, august 15th is the third thursday of the month which means it is the third celebration of third on third in the bayview, which is a fairly new event beginning this pa

. >> i'd like to just call your attention that mclaren park, second-largest park in san francisco and also the southeast side and definitely i believe warrants consideration for a tap station. >> great. we'll keep it in mind. we do have plans to install a couple of additional tap station over the next few years. the funding mechanism has yet to be determined. i'm working on that. i'm actually the person managing that project. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you. i would -- i don't think that we can emphasize this enough. i think that you have to think about the equitable distribution of these locations. if you go back to the map for the water fountains -- >> the schools or -- >> not the schools, the parks. you can see that the southeastern quadrant is just -- i mean -- and i would actually think that the public policy analysis would be the opposite. where people are drinking less, that's where you would want to make the water found tans available. >> something to take in consideration the high obesity rate. ~ fountains >> in the latino, african-american communities, that's probably whe

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. ♪ i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in