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Of our colleagues on the commission. Commissioner covington i will second. Vice president nakajo thank you commissioner. President cleaveland commissioner hardeman, you wanted to add something . Commissioner hardeman were being watched by the Mayors Office and board of supervisors and were sitting here telling everybody that yes, we know were not supposed to ask for a new title, now what we want is one and a half positions. I think we have handled this very poorly. I think our discussion makes us look like were more interested in getting our opinion about getting a grant writer than actually getting a grant writer. I was convinced by statements from staff that were going to have a grant writer and the staff has rewriten it to give us that. We say we want a grant writer because we want a grant writer which i find confusing and im sure the Mayors Office and board of supervisors who are the final vote on this probably thinks this is confusing for them to absorb what were saying too. Im going to vote against this motion. President cleaveland thank you commissioner hardeman. Commissioner veronese. Commissioner veronese commissioner hardeman, i appreciate your passion on the issue. And i believe that the Mayors Office and board of supervisors will see that we are passionately advocating for the future of this department and i will bet that in the next 10 years as i look back at approving and voting on this particular measure as we sit here today, hundreds of millions of dollars will flow into this department over the next 15 years because of this one vote. And so if the Mayors Office is a little bit confused, he he shouldnt be confused or he or she or whoever it is there should not be confused. Were a commission sitting here to make important decisions on the future of this department and this is one of the most important decisions well make this year. President cleaveland all in favor of improving the budget with the additional amendment from commissioner covington. Can we separate the two items . I would vote for the budget. But i dont want to vote for the amendment. Commissioner covington theres a motion on the floor. Theres no reason they have to be combined. President cleaveland do we want to separate the motions . Commissioner covington theres a motion on the floor, if theres a motion on the floor you have to vote on the motion. President cleaveland all in favor of approving both the budget and the additional aye. Opposed. President cleaveland four aye one nay. Thank you very much commissioners. That was a robust discussion on the budget and it is i guess the most important document and process we go through annually. Mr. Corso, would you just briefly reiterate the three Top Priorities in the budget for this department this year. I think were still having those discussions at the Budget Committee level. But overall i think theyve been as they have been, equipment, staffing on a higher level, equipment, staffing and Educational Outreach and continuation of those efforts going forward. President cleaveland thank you and thank you to the commission for your continued support. Madam secretary, please call the next item. Item seven report from chief of department joanne hayeswhite report on Current Issues and activities and events since the Fire Commission meeting on january 24, 2018, including budget, academy, special events and outreach to other agencies in the public and report from operations Mark Gonzalez on overall field issues, bureau of Fire Prevention and airport president cleaveland chief in light of the time, please keep the report as brief as possible. Chief hayeswhite thats easy for me. Were going to have to strong arm but im ready to roll. My report since the last meeting january 24th, i can skip budget since we had a robust discussion. It goes without saying how much of a valued member mark corso is to our team. I appreciate his expertise, patience and professionalism 24 7. Its not an easy job. I have good news, i know commissioner hardeman was talking about the drones and commissioner veronese. We have a new assistant to the team, i would like to ask him to rise and briefly ill tell you about our selection in former capital Michael Cochrane and now assistant deputy chief. H please step up and say a few words. Thank you. President cleaveland commissioners, chief joanne hayeswhite, assistant deputy chief, i want to say what an honor it is to be here. I look forward to serving, continuing to make sure that were prepared, ready to respond and recover from any incident we might have. Chief hayeswhite thank you. President cleaveland anything youd like to say personally about your background and looking forward to doing. Im Third Generation San Francisco firefighter, my family has 90 years of Proud Service for the Fire Department. Prior to that, responded to 9 11, that got me to ground zero and homeland security. And a lot of major incidents and im ready to go. President cleaveland welcome aboard. Congratulations. Thank you sir. Chief hayeswhite we bid farewell and congratulations to the chief retiring at the end of next week after a very well revered career. Did a great job in the field and in Service Training captain for two years and served as director of training. Jeff, congratulations to you. Do you want to step up briefly . laughter good afternoon commissioners, chief. I want to thank you all for the support you have given me while in this position. Its been an honor chief. The support ive got from every uniformed person behind me to allow me to do a good job. Im happy with where our decision is at right now. For those sitting behind them, good luck. Be prepared, we since i have been at the division, we put out close to 250 new recruits and its been a great ride. Im looking forward to retirement. Thank you all very much. President cleaveland chief, i would like to give you a standing ovation for your service. Thank you. applause president cleaveland commissioner hardeman would like to add to that. Commissioner hardeman chief, so many compliments when people heard you were retiring. The interesting point, you cant compare the Police Department to a Fire Department, i was reading a couple days ago that the Oakland Fire Department has less than one third of the students entering the academy graduate. And your Graduation Rate with your predecessors has been great, so keep up keep up the high Graduation Rate and bring in great recruits you have. Thank you for your service. President cleaveland very good point. Thank you. Chief hayeswhite to continue regarding decision of training as you know, last week we graduated 47 recruits into the Fire Department in the initial field assignments. We are on track to hire a class of 54 the end of next month. 124 comprised of 42 members off the list and 12 from station 49. We do have an entree level class currently in, they began the 29th of january. Its a six Week Training Program and their graduation for march 9th in the afternoon. Since the last meeting, proud to promote permanently 10 new members and named 14 new acting assignments. Congratulations to those members. Had the opportunity on the 25th, police chief, myself, the sheriff met at the department of Emergency Management on january 25th to provide an eoc policy Group Briefing to mayor mark farrell to let him know what goes on in large scale emergencies and what his role would be. As mr. Corso indicated, weve had Budget Committee meetings, one january 26th and one last friday and we appreciate the Committee Members work. Many of you were there on the 26th, participated at a career day on the 30th of january. Provided an awsf briefing, not only in the last reporting period of supervisor fewer and katy tangs office but also to commissioner peskin. Participated in the metro chief Conference Call february 1st. Attended the chamber of commerce event on february 2nd. There was a budget meeting here at city hall. Thats when we were able to get with the mayors Budget Office and budget director Melissa Whitehouse who has agreed to meet with the Budget Committee, a date on the books for early march. Appearing before the philippine consulate february 6th to provide an overview on Emergency Preparedness and that was well received. The 7th of february, i participated and testified at a government audit and Oversight Committee here at city hall to discuss the expansion and additional redundancies built in the city. I spoke about the 123rd Academy Graduation on the 8th. Budget committee on the 9th and yesterday had the privilege to attend with deputy chief nicholson, the rotary club acknowledged two of our members, lieutenant brice peoples for his career in general but specifically to a dramatic rescue last year april 6th where he single handedly brought a woman in distress down wooden stairs during a working fire. He was acknowledged as was paramedic dan azzereta who does great workmen of mentoring. I wanted to remind the commissioners that we have the Chinese New Year parade year of the dog february 24th convening with the Asian Firefighters Association at approximately 4 30 at second and market. Look forward to seeing you. The next step is to be chief gonzalez. Good morning. Dep chief gonzalez. There are two greater alarms in this reporting period. January 16th, 1529, hours, at taylor. There were a few comments but it was a quick coordinated attack with a goal of keeping fire out of the attic. It could have been a third or fourth alarm. Very steep hills, deep buildings and large buildings. The third alarm january 23rdrd. This was assistant chief, three or four members of the staff responded to the fire. I think commissioner hardeman may have responded as well. Units did a good job. They did a partial roof collapse at the fire. They pulled the units out and Personnel Accountability report, all units were safe and the fire went out. I have to go back commissioner veronese youre correct about the tsunami. Not wanting to cause a public panic, that was the goal. Means of alerting if they were necessary would have been used absolutely. This was a slow moving potential approaching danger. Opposed to the danger of a wildfire coming over the hill or your local earthquake that happens right now. I believe the correct alerts were used and the strategy of Higher Ground and evacuate. Theres also mention of the stress unit. The stress unit is one of the most important units but i will always say the most important are men and women and engines, trucks and rescue squads and the ambulances. They are going into the fires, theyre going down the smokey hallways, ambulance crews are on their own dangerous neighborhoods late in the morning. The stress unit is an important unit. There was a red alert, there was a sea lion attack january 11th. A group of firefighters and paramedics walked the city civic corridor. I have to address on the alert, it all has to be capped and one word. You text that to 777888 and then you will be signed up. It has to be all caps and one word. Ems working on response vehicles, bike medics, possibly a third as a back up. The airport wants to just fund two of them right now. Well do it with their funding at their direction. We feel it should be for maybe next fiscal year, that should be implemented in the next few weeks. Fire prevention, i have the report and applications, permits, violations, complaints, etc cetera. One thing i want to mention about Fire Investigation is that the coast guard did a good job to assist in getting on the backlogs. Whatever needed to be tightened up was tightened up. Its down to 88 from 130. So thank you. Also attached to the report is my report. If you have questions im available. President cleaveland thank you for your report. Im going to request my fellow commissioners if they have questions of you to send them directly via email. Each of us has your comments. If we have follow up, we do it with the chief. Madam secretary, any Public Comment on the chiefs report and chief gonzalezs report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madam secretary im going to ask that the next two items, 8 and 9 be tabled. Commission report and agenda for the next meetings. In lieu of the time. And ask that we have Public Comment ongoing into closed session on the two closed session items, review of our Department Doctor and a disciplinary hearing. So, do i have a motion from so moved. Any Public Comment on president cleaveland any Public Comment . Seeing none, thank you. Public comment is closed. So well move on into closed session, so well have not only did the total death on our streets from traffic collisions decrease dramatically in 2017, pedestrian deaths did as well. Since 2013, fewer pedestrians have been killed on our streets. This is really good news. You know, no one wants to see the accidents on the side of the road, no one wants to experience going to a crime scene on the road knowing your loved one has been hit by a car or sadly tragically killed. This is about bringing that number of 20 from 2017 down to zero. We dont want another death on our streets because of human error, because of anything that we can avoid. If we change our behavior, we change our roads and we do a better job here in the city and county of San Francisco. My ask of the public, number one be aware of your surrounding, be aware of the law, be aware of the street signals and crosswalks and try to work within the laws designed to keep you safe. Look at where we were and look at where we are. This vision will be a reality. We all have to remember that all of us, all of us every single day, no matter how you get to work, school, wherever you go, all of us are always pedestrians. This impacts all of us. School starts again on monday, so i hope as you are reporting today you will encourage people to slow down, to be mindful, to recognize that youre going to have more cars on the street on monday. Were going to have more kids on bikes, more kids walking. Please, be slow, be safe and be mindful. I just want to urge everyone at the sound of my voice to make some corrections. If you operate a motor vehicle, think about it, think about the person standing on the corner. Think about how fast youre driving. Think about the stop sign youre about to come to. Just think. And just doing so, youll help someone live another day. I guarantee that. I guarantee that. Good morning. It is thursday, february 15th. This is the regular meeting of the San Francisco recreation and Parks Commission will the secretary call the roll. roll call commissioner buell and mcdonnell have excused absences. Please turnoff your devices. Also, if you would like to have a secondary conversation we request that goes outside. If you would like to speak on an item we request but do not require a blue card. Unless otherwise announced by the president each person will have two minutes for Public Comment on each item. If there is an item of interest not on the agenda under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, you may speak on general Public Comment, item 4. That is continued on item 9. When you make Public Comment, please address your comments to the commission in order to allow equal time for all. Neither the commission nor staff will respond to questions during Public Comment. The commission may ask questions of staff after Public Comment is closed. Last, and if the fire alarms activate you must evacuate the building. Please note elevators will immediately rush to the first floor and are not available for use. If you need assistance please make your way to the closest area across the hall in the mens restroom. There is a speaker box. Security will as test you. We are on item 2, president s report. Before the president s report, can the secretary check the mics of the commissioners to make sure everybody is working. I would like to make this the Vice President s report. You will hear shortly from the general manager of the many great park openings that we had. I wanted to really recognize that a lot o of the park openins and the grand ope openings is do the great work of the general manager and staff as well as the beneficiary of generous contributors and supporters particularly the trust for public land and Helen Diller Foundation and ja jackie and dae were blessed to have them in our lives. You had hear more from the general manager on the park openings. Second, i want to recognize tomorrow is the start of Chinese New Year. To the entire city of San Francisco and the department. That is my first great cantonese. Meaning happy new year, good health, may all your wishes come true. That is the conclusion of my Vice President s report. Is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment under that item . Being none it is closed. We are on the general managers report. Thank you. Happy new year. It is a time of many blessings, and commissioner lowe you articulated it. We are very grateful for a lot of wonderful things that have happened in the parks since we have been last together and over the last several years. I am going to try to run through them and offer a few other announcements. With apologies to those who celebrated valentines day with boring flowers and chocolates. Yesterday we celebrated the new helen diller playgrounds which we hope you saw as you were working in. They were made possible by a generous 10 Million Foundation from the foundation and with the Ongoing Partnership with the trust for public land. This is the third city play grounds renovated through the helen diller family foundation. The two were predecessors to this one. It is one of several projects we partnered on with hays valley, balboa park and hill tom and the relake ship goes back farther with the partnership projects. Buchanan mall is another one we are working on with gpl. We were in district 6 yesterday and we were joined by three amazing kids who spent a lot of time at bodecker and are involved in the boys and girls club. The city invested more than 30 million in the Park Improvement this is the last several years including not just civic center, south park and we have upcoming work at the Sergeant Mccoy playground and the mini park. They were opened in honor of may your lee. I was mayor lee. I was with them when we showed him the design. He was so excited but he said when he looked at it, he said this looks amazing. What if there were some lights. That embarked a very ambitious lighting element to these playgrounds which you saw part of last night. The big piece of it went on about 10 minutes after we cut the ribbon. That is show business, as they say. The lighting elements are extraordinary and unique. That was his vision. That is pretty special. We are not done. There is some construction fencing up around the civic center because this week we break ground on the second phase which is for the street cafe which will open this summer and serve coffee which i was looking for around civic center this morning and soft ice cream and sand witches. It will open this summer. Your staff is amazing on this. Great partnership and we couldnt have done it without the philanthropy. Jackie who is on Maternity Leave is the lead project manner. Leadership was fantastic. The guarding suppression staff, custodial staff, park rangers, the permits and reservations. Last nights opening planned by Public Affairs division was extraordinary. What would the Commission Meeting be like if they didnt say victory has many parents. There were a lot of reasons for the success of the project. As commissioner lowe noted and i had the great pleasure of being joined by commissioners anderson and bonilla. We reopened the randall museum. Two years, 9. 5 million with a little assistance from the grammy awardwinning musician mr. G we opened the 9 million project made possible by a 6. 5 million state parks grant, some government money, add backs from senator and supervisor scott weiner and money from our capital plan and yet another example of great philanthropy. The friends of the randall are wonderful and helped us deliver the margin of excellence raised another Million Dollars for the garage which is a stem lab focusing on science, engineering, technology and staff. It incorporates new animal exhibits. Over 100 live abmans grouped by animals. In one exhibit you see different species. That is cool. All playing nicely together like here at city hall. Seismic upgrades. Ada accessibility. New food concessions and what makes the randall so special admission to the museum is free, and many of the weekend programs are very nominal they cost a nominal fee. If you are five, 15 or 150 there is something to do at the randall. It is really special. It is Chinese New Year. We also celebrate lack history month. Last week black history month. Two of our park employees were honored at the board of supervisors. Park ranger kar. After serving for 6 years in the marines. He has spent more than 50 years with the city. 28 with muni and 23 as a San Francisco Police Officer. He has been a park ranger for the last park years. While at muni he was a 10 time cable car ringing champion and has traveled all over the world and been on Late Night Television and maybe, you know, recreation and Parks Commissions prominent celebrity for his cable car bell ringing. Interesting story. While he was at muni and ringing the cable car bell and riding. People noticed he was good at spotting pickpockets. Somebody suggested he become a Police Officer. This was later in his life, and at the time this goes back to i think like the 1980s. He was denied the opportunity to become a Police Officer because of his age. He sued the city and county of San Francisco in a lawsuit that went to federal court, and it is one of the most important age discrimination cases in federal law. He won and went on to have a long and productive career as a Police Officer. In his glory years he is spending time with the ranger television and great public ambassador in the parks. He is very special. Robert muhammad is the acting Park Services manager for area 4 which includes stern grove. He is a San Francisco native who grew up playing what was then ocean view and sunset rec. He was a big reckid he manages the parked where he plays every day. The story is that robert and his wife have made rooms available in their home as kids have gotten older and they had space for homeless pregnant women. Pretty amazing. Both of these gentleman are a reminder of the great people who serve in our parks. It is special. About 10 days ago the San Francisco chamber of commerce released the results of the annual survey poll surveying on the top issues the city is faced with. Parks topped the list 70 approval rating. Eldon pond gets the assist more popular than steph curry, baseball and thanksgiving. While there still remains a lot of angsts over quality of life it is a direction of the staff that you provide us to do our part to keep San Francisco and its parks clean, safe and beautiful. Last month i offered a quick update on proposed changes to the soccer field. After distributing to the community we received feedback from over 20 groups and individuals to date. We have made modifications based on that feedback. Additional comments are due february 19th. We are aiming to finalize the policy in march. This was the product an extensive study to respond to the amazing growth in youth sports and the shift particularly in travel soccer which is a bigger business and we need to make sure that is consistent with our Public Benefit plan. The commission passed a policy years ago that is still very applicable dealing with Administrative Guidelines and regulations for making sure that people understand what is needed to be an approved Public Benefit. Thursday, february 22nd, we are going to be joined by the San Francisco Parks Alliance and city officials at the 11th annual crab fest at the cultural center. This year as it benefits the recreation and Parks Commission Scholarship Program in honor of mayor lee. We are going to bring to the commission in the months to follow an item in which we would name the Scholarship Program after mayor lee. This is something he cared about a great deal and very focused on equity and access. The program has grown considerably in the last seven or eight years. We now give away the Scholarship Program offers well all most a million andaquarter free and subsidized Youth Programs and summer camps. It is fun. A lot of crab. Live entertainment by macy black man. There are visits visit Parks Alliance. Org. On saturday february 24th from 10 00 a. M. To june we invite you to the Geneva Community garden opening. There will be raffles and a potluck lunch. Also on february 24 we invite everybody to join us for opening Day Festivities to mark the 2018 Baseball League season. We are moving to spring. Pitchers and catchers have reported. Sfybl opens at kimble from 10 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. It includes a home run derby and team parade and more. Each spring we serve over 4,000 youth baseball players, girls and boys ages 4 to 14 from t ball to pony League Levels and numerous teams on our very, very successful girls baseball program. Lastly, mark your calendars for extravaganza on march 31st when we celebrate the spring family event at the newly named Robin Williams meadow in Golden Gate Park with games, food trucks and raffles. More to come. Before i conclude with our video this month on parks, one final announcement. I am honored and happy to announce our chief urban for rester Kelly Cornell will receive a 2018 Good Government award from spur next month. The Good Government awards recognize outstanding Job Performance and manager excellence. They have been doing it for 38 years. This is a unique opportunity to make a difference within City Government and the community atlarge. Kelly, who worked for our organization for a long time, is speaking for the trees, manages the 140,000 tree canopy and the management plan. Did remarkable work at the camp where the fires destroyed the urban canopy and almost forced us to close the camp last summer which we did not. He worked hard to preserve the red wood grove and created the greenway diversion program. He will be back in march. I couldnt pull him here this morning after he was given the award in march. Now for our video in parks we focus on our spring registration and day cam registration which begins in march. Thank you, bryan. All of that is your very special park system. That concludes the general managers report. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none the Public Comment is closed. We are now on item 4, which is general Public Comment. At this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and do not appear on the agenda. With respect to agenda items you can address the commission when the item is reached. I have three cards. You get two minutes each. Steve, judy and sandy. Good morning, commissioners, Vice President lowe commissioners, director ginsburg. I am steve nicago, the Community Organizer for the japan Town Community benefit district. For 45 years i was executive director of the senior center. As the point of information i am the Vice President of the San Francisco Fire Commissioner. I am for inclusion of the japan town peace plaza in terms of the 2019 recreation and park bond. As you know it is one of three japan houses left in the United States. Los angeles and tokyo, san jose with San Francisco, we are 110 years old. Historically we were the gateway for japan in terms of the United States. Everything came through from the east, the far east through asia through San Francisco. We also experience, as you know, in 1942 executive order 9066 where 110,000 japanese americans were pit in concentration camps. With that for us in japan physical geographical area was total removal of the japanese community. We returned in 1942 at the 50th anniversary of the peace plaza we development by the then director and the city policy. What we want to do is celebrate the peace plaza in terms of making that open space and our part of the neighborhood of San Francisco into a beautiful location. It was one of the favor projects of the late may or ed lee in feelings of the peace plaza being part of this particular bond. Thank you very much, commissioners. Judy and sandy, please. Good morning commissioners, thank you so much for my minutes with you. I am judy, a board member of the japan town task force and the president of the San Francisco chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. More importantly, i am someone who was raised in japan town. My family arrived after world war ii. I was there watching as all of that was demolished and rebuilt. I come with that sort of message. This was a vision of japan town that was put on us and hundreds of residents and businesses went through what was considered the second relocation. The Community Since then has fought very hard, very diligently to maintain the neighborhood. I am talking about the importance of this to our future generations and the way we feel about our community. There are many, many event that happen there and over its 50 years the Cherry Blossom festival is 50 years old. The street fair is 40 years old and the Japanese American Citizens League has been in that neighborhood and worked there for 90 years. We are pretty embedded in this community. We would like to see that our efforts as a community to preserve japan town and the boundaries and areas is considered and remembered. Thank you so much. Sandy. Good morning, commissioners, director ginsburg. I am sandy morey. I am representing the board of directors. Our mission is to preserve and make sure we have a japan town four the future years of our community. I want to bring your attention to the issue of the peace plaza, one of your city parks. It is a very important part of your community. We have an ad hoc Community Working on the peace plaza remediation project. We have been meeting with your department and other departments like the mta, chief administrative officers and the Mayors Office and budget people. This is a very complicated project because it involves so many departments. What we would like to do is partner with your department to come up with a Concept Design for a renovated peace plaza. Right now the plaza is in shambles. We would like to Work Together with your department on this and therefore we would like to participate in your 2019 park bond process. Thank you very much. Is there anyone else. Richard. I saw the hand go up. Good morning. I am trying to speak about the francis reservoir. I was able to participate in the last show before it comes before this commission. There were a few items i thought might be of interest to different commissioners such as kat anderson. It is the doll play area has been increased 40 . It is going to be improved over the drainage due to location, slopes, they are going to try to use pipes there with holes to drain through. They have gravel and then the artificial turf. Myself i thought they would need more to drain more thursda thor. I looked at it and i was looking at the ada access way. It has along winding access that is popular. I look at the steep slope of hyde street. The main entrance they use is the corner that has a lot of wind effect blowing over the main entranceway. I was looking four the entrance, exit. I was looking at the francisco way before the slope is not as rough to try to navigate. If you are an old timer such as commissioner tom harrison whom i have known for so long. I looked at it. When it does come before this Commission Next month, i would like a little attention to include it in the and sillarrie entrance to the park from the sanfrisco side. Thank you. Anyone else who would like to make general Public Comment, not on an item listed today . Okay. This item is closed. We are now on item 5. Consent calendar. I have several cards for that is if i call you come up. Martha, julie and peg and paula to start with, please. Thank you. More than 10 years ago a group of advocates met at the Tennis Center to form a group to advocate for public tennis in San Francisco. Some of those people are here today. From that came the tennis pros, unite state tennis representatives to help public tennis and out this of that came renovating the Tennis Center. We have now come to an exciting place. I want to thank bill ginsburg and dana keech emfor the constant work to form the partnership and the partnership with the Parks Alliance. We appreciate all they have done. We have larry dodge, who was the visionary architect who helps us get to this point. We learned a lot about how to run and manage a Tennis Center. We have met with people from denver, new york, here in california to hear what makes a public Tennis Center him. We learned a lot and formed a wonderful project out of that. I want to thank my cochair who has worked very hard on running that part of the process. Finally, last wednesday was a Beautiful Day at the Tennis Center, and there were people playing pickle ball, tennis and pingpong. I know those people we listened to them and made a project that works for everybody. We hope that you accept and support this wonderful project. We appreciate the money the city has put into it, too, thank you very much. Next speaker. Good morning. Thank you all for having us here today to give us the opportunity to speak in support of the Tennis Center renovation project. I am the fifth generation from california and grew up playing tennis. We did not belong to a private club and hit the local high schools. My parents taught us how to play and my favorite memories are the mixed doubles team. I have been playing for over 50 years and developed many friendships. While i am happy when i win a love set. I never expected to find it on the court when i met fifeature husband across the net. It is about family, friends, marriage and community. One of the best parts is the community engagement. It is good to hear about as far back as 70 years ago. This is a public facility we take community earn put seriously and modified the plans to incorporate the good suggestions you have heard. I believe in the power of the sport and how it teaches more than stroke mechanics. It is about the important things g. Sports good sportsmanship, have been fun, making new friends and exercise. These reasons are why i support the tennis and Learning Center and great work the recreation and Parks Commission is doing to deliver these opportunities in San Francisco. Tennis can be a pathway to success. It will be clean, safe, accessible. More programming for more people. We expect it to hi humm on all cylinders. It will be a facility we deserve and can all be proud of. Thank you for your consideration. Peg, paula, kay, lois, please. Good morning. I am peg stevenson. I am here to support the project. Thank you for hearing us. I am here in a tennis player and board member for the gay lesbian foundation. You dont have to be gay to join. We have straight members, too. Our members enjoy all of the public Tennis Courts and Golden Gate Park. We have made an organizational commitment where we are donating money to it and raising money from members. We play tournaments and casually. We have a big tournament every mem day weekend going on for 30 years. The last three were in golden gate partly cloudy. We are happy Golden Gate Park for the United States gay open. It is like the u. S. Open only smaller and gayer. We invite your play. It is a couple hundred players from around the country to enjoy this wonderful facility. I want you to know how much our members will support it with our time, dollars, enthusiasm. The nature i have been involved with the tennis process and i am companyfident we will keep excellent public access. I am excited about nights for light. I live mere deloris live near deloris park. The chance that if we have 9 00 to 5 00 jobs it is pay huge benefit to work with the teams. Thank you for your support. We are enthusiastic about the project