|
|
金门公园摩天轮要被拆除了！旧金山周二下午将投票决定！
supes committee votes to take down Golden Gate Park Ferris wheel
旧金山超级委员会投票决定在一年内拆除金门公园的摩天轮
Whether the much-loved and much-hated SkyStar Observation Wheel in Golden Gate Park will keep turning for one year or for four years will be determined by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors at its Tuesday meeting.
金门公园备受喜爱和备受讨厌的SkyStar观景轮是继续转动一年还是四年，将由旧金山监事会在周二的会议上决定。
By a 3-0 vote the Board’s Rules Committee on Monday referred the big wheel’s fate to the full 11-member board, thereby undercutting earlier recommendations of the Recreation and Park Commission that the 150-foot lighted amusement in the Music Concourse be extended for four years in the interest of economic recovery from the pandemic.
周一，该委员会的规则委员会以3票赞成、0票反对的结果，将摩天轮的命运提交给由11名成员组成的董事会，从而推翻了娱乐和公园委员会(Recreation and Park Commission)早些时候提出的建议，即为了经济从大流行病中复苏，摩天轮设施应延长四年。
“If economic recovery in my district is dependent upon a wheel then I am not doing my job,” said Sup. Connie Chan who represents the park and introduced the resolution to extend the wheel by just one year to compensate for the year of operation lost to the pandemic.
“如果我区的经济复苏依赖于一个摩天轮，那么我就没有做好我的工作，”Sup. Connie Chan说，她是公园的代表，并提出了一项决议，将摩天轮仅延长一年，以弥补因疫情造成的运营损失。
The Rules Committee decision came at the end of the usual two or three hours of public testimony, mostly pitting park and wildlife advocates against advocates for kid-friendly amusements and business interests who see the wheel as an engine of economic growth and a boost for tourism.
规则委员会的决定是在通常的两三个小时的公开作证结束时作出的，主要是针对公园和野生动物的倡导者，反对主张儿童友好娱乐和商业利益的人，他们认为摩天轮是经济增长的引擎和旅游业的推动力。
Underlying the issue is a simmering judgment of the San Francisco Parks Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy agency in favor of the full four-year extension. The Parks Alliance, which gets a small portion of each $18 ticket sold for the SkyStar, is one of several businesses and organizations subpoenaed by the City Attorney's Office last year in an attempt to trace how nonprofit groups may have acted as intermediaries for money as it flowed from contractors angling for city business to city departments, which may have used the money to pay for employee parties. The Parks Alliance has denied any wrongdoing.
这个问题的根本是旧金山公园联盟(San Francisco Parks Alliance)的一项酝酿已久的判断。该组织是一家非营利倡导机构，支持将公园的期限延长整整四年。公园联盟从SkyStar每张18美元的门票中分得一小部分，是市检察官办公室去年传讯的几家企业和组织之一。该办公室试图追踪非营利组织是如何充当中间人的，以获取从为该市争取业务的承包商流向市政府部门的资金，市政府可能用这些资金支付员工聚会的费用。公园联盟否认有任何不当行为。
“A corrupt government penalizes everyone if we allow a pay-to-play culture to fester,” said Chan, a former employee of the Recreation and Parks Department. Rules Committee chair Aaron Peskin described the Parks Alliance as “The same non profit where our now disgraced public works head was able to stash money.”
“如果我们任由付费游戏文化溃烂，腐败的政府就会惩罚所有人，”曾在娱乐和公园部门工作的陈说。规则委员会主席亚伦·佩斯金(Aaron Peskin)将“公园联盟”描述为“我们现在名誉扫地的公共工程负责人能够把钱存起来的同一个非营利组织。”
The observation wheel is owned and operated by SkyView Partners in St. Louis and was trucked to San Francisco in early 2020 to serve as a major draw for the park’s 150th anniversary celebration, which was scheduled to open April 4, 2020 and last for one year. But the pandemic stay-at-home order postponed the park celebration indefinitely, and as a result, the SkyStar only ran for 39 days in 2020. It finally opened again when the city was moved from the purple tier to the red tier earlier this month.
摩天轮由圣路易斯的SkyView Partners拥有和运营，并于2020年初用卡车运到旧金山，作为公园150周年庆典的主要吸引物。该庆典计划于2020年4月4日开放，为期一年。但是，大流行禁止外出的规定无限期地推迟了公园的庆祝活动，结果，这颗明星在2020年只运行了39天。本月早些时候，当这座城市从紫色城市移到红色城市时，它终于重新开放了。
The extension approved by both the Rec and Park and Historic Preservation commissions, extends it until Mar. 1, 2025. The resolution by the Board of Supervisors is to extend the wheel’s operation permit until February 7, 2022, with full removal required by March 15, 2022.
经Rec、公园和历史保护委员会批准，延长至2025年3月1日。监事会的决议是延长车轮的操作许可到2022年2月7日，与全面移除要求2022年3月15日。
“A deal is a deal and COVID has changed many landscapes, but the wheel went up during COVID knowing that COVID was here ” Peskin said in arguing for a 1-year extension. “This is consistent with the original deal relative to recouping money and relative to the 150th anniversary celebration of Golden Gate Park, a party that has not happened.”
“协议就是协议，新冠病毒已经改变了很多情况，但为了缓解疫情后的经济，摩天轮需要再转一年。”佩斯金在争取一年的延期时说。“这与最初有关收回资金的协议是一致的，也与金门公园150周年庆典有关，这是一个尚未发生的派对。”
Since the issue surfaced, there have been four public hearings, each attended by a minimum of two hours of public testimony. Tuesday’s Rules Committee hearing was announced as the last time the public would be heard on the issue and callers lined up to have the last word. At any given time there were 20 or 30 callers in the queue waiting to be heard.
自这个问题浮出水面以来，已经举行了四次公开听证会，每次听证会都有至少两小时的公开证词。周二的规则委员会听证会被宣布为公众对该问题的最后一次听证，打电话的人排队作最后决定。任何时候都有20或30个呼叫者在排队等着被听到。
Some callers suggested that the lines were being overloaded in a one-sided campaign engineered by the financial interests of the SkyStar, namely SkyView Partners, the Recreation and Park Department, and the San Francisco Parks Alliance.
一些打电话的人认为，在SkyView Partners、娱乐和公园部门(Recreation and Park Department)以及旧金山公园联盟(San Francisco Parks Alliance)的经济利益策划的一场单方面的宣传活动中，线路已经超负荷了，总是占线。
“Why can’t rec and park accept a one-year compromise that accommodates nature?” said one exasperated caller. “What’s next? bumper cars?”
“为什么rec和park不能接受一年的妥协，以适应自然?”一个愤怒的来电者说。“下一个是什么?碰碰车吗?”
Said another, “Golden Gate Park is a crown jewel. Why on earth do we need a Ferris wheel to attract visitors?”
另一位说:“金门公园是皇冠上的一颗宝石。我们到底为什么需要一个摩天轮来吸引游客?”
But that is the whole point, according to its promoters. The pandemic has left city merchants desperate for income, and anything helps.
但据它的推广者说，这就是关键所在。大流行让城市商人们急需收入，任何方法都有帮助。
“We need the entertainment options. We need the jobs. We need the income,” said one caller. “Tourism and event production businesses have been hit the hardest and we need this wheel in Golden Gate Park.”
“我们需要娱乐选项。我们需要工作。我们需要收入。”“旅游和活动制作行业受到的打击最大，我们需要金门公园的这个轮子。”
Some callers expressed irritation that the Board of Supervisors was weighing in on an issue that had already been decided by two committees. Some also expressed concern that the Board of Supervisors will next weigh in on other temporary use permits for the park, including Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and Outside Lands, making a two-thirds majority vote of the Board of Supervisors necessary for permitting any event.
一些打电话的人表达了对监事会介入一个已经由两个委员会决定的问题的愤怒。一些人还表示担心，监事会接下来会对公园的其他临时使用许可进行评估，包括严格意义上的蓝草和外部土地，因此任何活动的批准都需要监事会三分之二多数票。
“What good is it to have any commissions if the board can just override it if it doesn’t like the decision,” said one caller.
一位打电话的人表示:“如果董事会不喜欢这个决定，可以推翻它”
But Peskin was waiting for this one. He cited the city charter bolstered by voter referendum that made it clear that the Board of Supervisors has the final word on any major contract involving Golden Gate Park.
但佩斯金一直在等这一次。他援引了得到选民公投支持的市政宪章，该宪章明确表明，任何涉及金门公园的重大合同都由监事会说了算。
The fate of the SkyStar will be determined at Tuesday’s board meeting, starting at 2 p.m.
摩天轮的命运将在周二下午两点开始的董事会会议上决定。
原链接：
https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/S-F-supes-committee-votes-to-take-down-Golden-16028106.php
联系人:-
电话号码:
|
|
发表于 2021-3-16 09:22:31
发表于 2023-1-11 04:13:48