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..,. CHAIRMAN BEALS: No nominating report had been received from Commiss- ioner-Knecht: Mr. Beals asked the Commission to re-affirm its posi- tion concerning 'the development of Union Cemetery into a Memorial or IIquiet type parkll, suggesting that headstones be removed or buried, that the Union Soldier monument be left intact; -that a placque de- signating the names of those buried in the cemetery be installed; and suggested that a ¡etter be written to the City Manager concern- ing the feelings of the Commission and that a copy be sent to Coun- cilman Granger. It was mentioned that the State had paid severance monies to the City due to the bloCking of the Woodside Road entrance and that per-, haps some of these monies could be applied to such park development. On motion of Doris Thompson, seconded by Ann Gooding, and passed, the Commission approved the writing of a letter to the City Manager con- cerning the making of Union Cemetery into a Memorial or "quiet type park II. COMMcrSSIONER STUART asked if any reply had been received by the City Manager to his letter to James Carr of the S.F. Public Utilities Commission. Mr. Morton said that he had talked to Ralph Shaw, County Supt. of Parks, who-told him that the County is working on the poss- ibility of a county park in the Edgewood Road area, and that he, Mr. Morton, felt that the County would be in a better bargaining position to pressure S.F. for use of water department property that we could. Mr. Stuart said that it could be a joint venture and he would like to see it followed through. It was agreed that the Commission back Mr. Shaw and his efforts and Mr. Morton offered to draft a letter to Mr. Shaw indicating the Commission's interest. COMMcrSSIONER THOMPSON noted that that on her list of IIR. C. parks" that quite a number of areas were listed as IIparks" which were in fact either only slivers of planted areas, center street strips, left turn planted areas, road dividers, and such other spaces as reservoir areas, etc., which were in fact not parks, even though such planted or other areas under the park maintenance program, and she stated that she would hope that in working on the Master Park and Recreation Survey that only areas usable as actual park areas would be considered as parks and that the other fractions of Itparksll be designated only as open space, planted, or "beautifiedll areas. Adjourned - 8:50 p.m. Doris C. Thompson, Secretary