• Commissioner Stern joins the National/NYC Audubon Societies in a press announcement for International Bird Preservation at 11:30 AM today. The announcement takes place in Central Park's Belvedere Castle, located at West 81^st Street and the West Drive.

• Bids were received from contractors on Wednesday (11/28) for the Reconstruction of the Frederick Johnson Park Tennis Courts in Manhattan. Frederick Johnson Park is located on 7^th Avenue between West 150^th and West 151^st Streets. More info>>

• Today at 10 am in the Olmsted Construction Conference Room, the First Deputy Commissioner's Office meets with the Deputy Director of Construction and the Brooklyn Directors of Capital Projects, Planning and Construction to review all in-house projects and Consultant Project Management (CPM) construction in Brooklyn. The group will focus on the latest site activities across the borough, progress of construction schedules, upcoming final inspections, and punchlist completions.

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• Today at 12:30 p.m., First Deputy Commissioner Moss, Deputy Commissioner Garafola, and Staten Island Borough Commissioner Paulo will meet with Parks personnel from Architecture, Construction, Design and Planning at the Cromwell Recreation Center on Staten Island to review the progress of interior improvements and expedite the reopening of the facility. The Cromwell Recreation Center, located on Pier 6 and Murray Hulbert Avenue, is currently under capital renovation. More info>>

• The First Deputy Commissioner's Office has begun evaluating Parks Opportunity Program (POP)/ Supervisor deployment on a district and borough-wide level. POP participants are assigned to shifts of 7:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., or 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Parks is working to provide appropriate Crew Chief and Supervisor of Parks Maintenance Operations (SPMO) supervision and distribution of POPs across districts.
• Clove Lakes Park in Staten Island celebrates its 80^th anniversary on December 2^nd. The park is located between Slosson Avenue, Victory Boulevard, and Clove Road. More info>>
• The Parks' Intranet Unit has updated and expanded its master internal database of all properties in the Emerald Empire. This improved database will serve the agency, from Borough Operations to Government Relations, by facilitating the exchange of information about the agency's most basic resource: parklands. More info>>
  

• Operations Management and Planning (OMP) meets with the Deputy Commissioners to review a draft of the Preliminary 2001 Mayor's Management Report (MMR).
  

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