4-Year Goals for District 11

By Mary M. Goodnature

As I have campaigned, I have heard many demands from my constituents.

1) Maintain or improve MUNI services, i.e., intervene on the Municipal Transportation Agency's Transit Efficiency Project proposals which reduce services to District 11.

2) Re-establish Safe Haven and Family Resource Center in the Minnie and Lovie Ward Recreation Center per plan and promise before the center re-build.

3) Complete court re-surfacing in the Crocker Amazon Park, i.e. the cracked and hazardous portion between the tennis and basketball courts. Also provide a court overhang for rainy days.

4) Kick off and advance the Balboa Park Station Area plan so that it is complete or near complete.

5) Enable the rehabilitation of the Geneva Office and Power Building to make it a thriving cultural and community center with performing arts spaces.

6) Organize the community to working closely with each other and the police to eliminate homicides and reduce crime rates to the lowest in the city.

7) Establish new elder day care facilities.

8) Streamline and re-price planning commission processes to allow businesses to start quickly with reasonably low financial hurdles.

9) Expand youth programs so the following life skills are taught: value-based living, work ethic, parenting skills, nutrition, meditation, trades, martial arts, conflict resolution, mediation, career planning, resume writing, interviewing, the value of saving money, investing, tax preparation, budget planning and management, home buying, appropriate and inappropriate use of credit, etc.

10) Streamline and re-price the Department of Recreation and Parks reservation processes to allow the community to quickly know whether a reservation is accepted or denied with pricing schedules readily available and set at rates that factor in taxpayers having already funded the management of public property.

11) Bury the power lines removing them from view. Get Department of Public Works and PG&E to align their trenching project work so wires can be buried when the ground is open.

12) Improve funding for the IT Bookman Center at 446 Randolph Street.

13) Complete Stern Grove and city-wide tree maintenance.

14) Plant more trees on Garfield Street.

15) Arrange traffic slowing on Garfield and Holloway Streets.

16) Restrict aerial moth spraying as well as ground level painting of the pheromone Perethrin on telephone poles.

17) Switch the bus route from Beverly to the frontage road of Junipero Serra.

18) Bring in higher end retail to Ocean Avenue, e.g., boutique clothing and markets.

19) Enforce laws to keep sidewalks clear for the handicapped.

20) Install a 4-way stop at Sargent and Monticello.

21) Incent all neighbors, including those lacking good English-speaking skills, in community efforts.

22) Establish and enforce a blight ordinance.