Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Its hard to hear you. The code provides weve been looking at the order on mobile food facilities which is very similar to the code. The code provides the prohibition set forth in subsection 4 which is a 75set radius provision shall only apply if a restaurant has direct street access to its primary access. Very similar. The problem is the ordinance doesnt make sense. A restaurant cant have street access to its own entrance. What it means is does the public have access to the primary entrance directly from the street. Where the restaurant okay. Right. Its written in a way that doesnt make any sense. It does stem from a public works code. If i was standing at the juice bar am i more than 75 feet from this food truck . I believe so, yes. Thats all i need to know thank you. Is there any public come on this item . How many people are here for Public Comment . Vice president lazarus . A few minutes . Okay. First person, come on up. Yep exactly. You have two minutes. Thank you. Thank you for waiting. Good evening. Good evening. My name is emilio. Bay area resident. I for one think its exciting and productive when young people put together a business like this and it should be encouraged by the city, not made more difficult than it already is. I very much enjoy the hometown creamery and support their endeavors. Thank you for your time. Next speaker. Welcome. Doing great. My name is elise. Thank you. I love the hometown creamery. I live on the same block at the main place is at. I really like that they are a Small Business. I know they have really like the footprint of having a mobile food truck is not a lot of cost. It really helps. I dont know why if theyve already got the permit why it would be overturned. Its just really good for them to have a Small Business. We dont want to make it harder for Small Business folks to operate in the city. Especially downtown i think its really cool to be able to have the San Francisco hometown creamery. Its a tiny little cute little truck if you havent seen it in real life. I support ice cream and Small Business owners and i wouldnt want equinox to take that away from them. Thank you. Next speaker please. Fill out a speaker card. Thank you. Hello. Good evening. My name is vanessa. Im a San Francisco resident. And tonight gives me a whole different level of respect for everything that you are doing, given how late you have to be here. I am trying to wrap my head around everything thats been discussed. And it seems like at this point its like half of a dozen egg situation where we are splitting the difference. I would like to see that we are supporting Small Businesses and that we are allowing people in San Francisco especially nontech entrepreneurs to build their businesses and do it in a way that we are being inclusive of people in our community. It seems like we are always kind of pushing one direction and not the other. And it would be wonderful if we could create opportunities for locals to build this business and allow people in our city to have delicious ice cream. So hopefully we can consider this as an option. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Thank you. Hello. My name is noah 30year resident of the San Francisco bay area. Thank you for all the work and time you have put in tonight. My second time, being here i felt a moral obligation to come not particularly happy about being here. Im sure the young gentleman and the daughter arent particularly happy to be here either. Im sure they would rather be scooping ice cream at the shop or i know they teamed up with local charities and schools to create unique flavors for Disaster Relief in the past but they are not doing any of those things right now and ultimately because of a few landlords large corporations like equinox feel threatened by a 1960s vw Ice Cream Truck. I think its absurd. I havent heard one legitimate rebuttal that passes the smell test for why this truck cant be here. So back to what some of the other folks said, i think its really about what you want in your community to look like and reflected and do you want it to be big National Organizations who can send their expensive lawyers here to defend them . Or do you want it to reflect the Cultural Diversity of the residents of San Francisco and support local businesses like hometown creamery. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any other Public Comment . Okay. Well move onto rebuttal. Mr. Gladstone. Okay. Im going to be very quick. First of all the restaurant lies on a public business to be in the black. Just as much as it relies on patronage from the gym. The restaurant never would have accepted moving in there separate from the gym it has nothing to do with ownership of the gym. It would never have moved in there if it was true that you have to pass by a gym concierge and show your id before you get into the restaurant. And by the way, let me show this here. You walk in from the street. The concierge is not standing there. He is out of the picture and asking for ids over here. You walk in the entrance and you turn right here. And you are not in a long entrance to the restaurant. You are in the lounge area of the restaurant right here. We showed it to you. Its labeled the lounge. Its on the floor plans. Its on the permit which well somehow you in a minute that the lounge area starts here. It is not a hallway to a restaurant far away. If you take d. P. W. To its logical extension it means if we put a restaurant where the he can equinox club is, that would not have direct access to the street because one can come here and go to a restaurant here before one reaches further into the building to reach the equinox restaurant. It doesnt make sense. I also wanted to mention that we went to the permit holder and suggested a compromise. He has other places in the city. There are other places just across the street. We did some measurements across the street of whether he could be across the street. And we found that it meets all the mfs guidelines. Im sure hes a great restauranteur. He has fans. They would only have to cross the street. Its not a big burden. I want to point out that i was involved in the case of phils coffee truck. Whats important to note about that even though its not before you is that situation was a similar one where the mff was within a 75foot radius of the entrance but you had to go up an elevator to reach the restaurant, meaning the issue at hand was the same issue. However d. P. W. In that situation and exclusively said that was direct enough access such that the restaurant could be considered a restaurant within 75 feet. The result of that hearing was that the mff food truck could not get a permit and it moved to a different location. Thats an extreme version of whats happening here. Its much more direct than it was in that case. And we hope that the permit holder will take into account the compromise and would look at the location across the street because the law requires that. Thank you very much. I have a question. Im trying to find the site plan you showed. Did you provide that . Im not seeing it . In order to really understand the location. Because in my mind this hinges on the 75 feet yes. Its not in our brief. But we are going to show it again. The floor plan. You are saying you turn in the door go right or left and its right there. And it seems to not be the testimony of the public works or of the permit holders. I think we should ask public works did they walk into the entrance and get ided and stop by the concierge. My question is the location of the earth bar relative to the main entry. Where is the earth bar . The earth bar we serve food here whats the distance between there . Theres a lounge area here and called out in the permit as the lounge of the earth bar i cant see it. Do you know if that distance is scaled between the entrance and the lounge itself . Thank you for looking at scale. I dont have a scale here. But you can kind of tell the scale by looking at the dimensions that do appear. But frankly again you walk in the entrance. Im sorry, could you look at the television so you can see what we see. Back out other direction. There you go. Sorry. I didnt know you couldnt see. Thats all right. You walk in the entrance here. This is an opening. This is a wall. Where the concierge is at. Heres the concierge desk. Here is the wall. When i walked in and i should ask d. P. W. If they did. You cant go beyond this point because the concierge is asking for your id. Can you show the way you would get to the restaurant . You go in you go in that double door. And you walk down here. You see people at tables. We showed you pictures eating products from just answer the question. The distance. You walk right down there and i cant tell you the distance between here and here. Thats fine. A couple things that are challenging to me. Obviously 75 feet, where are we measuring from, et cetera. But i think whats challenging for me is the way the earth bar is not really signed. So it would seem to me if i were outside walking on the street i wouldnt know earth bar was there unless i was an equinox member or went into the ally as the permit holder say go into a door i cant get into and wonder where is the earth bar. So it strikes me this may be the way to get to the earth bar but it doesnt signal its the primary entrance to a restaurant. Its signed as the entrance to the equinox facility. I have a question. Does the earth bar sell ice cream . We have a menu. Would you like to look at the menu . An acai bowl and Something Else it has smoothies. I think i got my answer from colleague. Thank you. I have some questions. You said the earth bar is not owned by you represent the owner of the building . Correct and obviously the owner of the building and owner of equinox are different. Yes. Equinox is a tenant. A at the. And earth bar is a separate tenant. I dont know if its a subtenant of the equinox. But the code doesnt talk about the relevance of that. Im not sure which one it is, frankly. Okay. Im wondering because you say they are not owned by equinox. They are not owned by equinox. Whether they are a subtenant, i dont know. Code doesnt ask that question. Are you familiar with westfield mall . I am is it your position that the primary entrance of the restaurants by the Movie Theater do you know where those restaurants are . Yes is it your opinion the entrance is the front door of the mall. I dont know where those restaurants are. Do you know where the food court is . The food court downstairs no. I dont. I know where it is next door at the nordstroms. Its underground. Just take my word for it. Is it your position that the primary entrance to the restaurant at the food court is the front door to the mall or instead Something Else . I think if its down in the basement the front door is the front door of the actual well, you know i dont know. I cant really tell you. Because thats not a situation thats discussed in these ordinances. I dont really know. Well, its pretty important to me because thats sort of what we have here. I think you made a good observation earlier that i thought was the best observation about that. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. We will now hear from the permit holder. No, you go, no you go so we were told, it was our understanding that when theres a break, thats when its that 75foot no longer applies. So here if you were to step inside and you were at the bar it would be greater than 75 feet once you enter from there. But thats what i wanted to close with is our goal is straightforward and simple. We want to build a contemporary business. We want to create as many jobs as we can, San Francisco. Manufacture as much ice cream as we can in San Francisco and contribute and engage with the community as much as possible. Its imperative we grow our business in order to survive. Weve been open for fouryears now. With continued increases in operating costs and trying to keep the majority of our team members above minimum wage, we are struggling to continue to manufacture our products with the highest standards while keeping our pricing accessible to all demographics. Because we have limited resources we have to be creative. We are a small independent Family Business with no outside investors. Our brothers and i are the sole owners, and we are doing everything we can to keep it that way. Through the bus we have found a unique and creative way to utilize the limited resources we have and put it towards expanding our business in a legal way that benefits the local community and adds value not only to the surrounding areas but also the tourists and cultural experience of San Francisco. Creating a contemporary San Francisco institution is not easy. We request the board not overturn the permit and allow my brother and me to continue our pursuit in growing our business. I would be happy to answer questions. Im very supportive of Small Business. Im supportive of your business. I went to gordos and my daughter wanted an ice cream so we got one. You have a brick and mortar and you say the struggling lost of operation. What about the brick and mortar in that area because they have rent as well as their employee costs . Sure let me finish. Would you like a food truck or an Ice Cream Truck in front of your brick and mortar on ninth and irving . So within the block and a half about twoblock radius there are five other places that have ice cream. And within a block away theres an Ice Cream Truck in Golden Gate Park thats a block away. A little bit farther thats where the parking structure is. Thats almost three blocks. If you cross lincoln. Cross lincoln, because you are at the corner of irving and you are threedoors down where the old mortuary was. If you go to that one block then you go into the park, pass a hall of flowers then you are going to where the parking structure is so its really two and a half blocks. So if you were to have an Ice Cream Truck directly in front of your food truck in front of your brick and mortar would that affect your business and how would you feel if that were the case . I can sigh during our Due Diligence we checked if there were any ice cream operations near it and we didnt find any again, there are other restaurants. There is a easy breezy. There is another place down the street. Those are also brick and mortar. What my question primarily was is you understand how difficult it is to operate a brick and mortar in San Francisco with the health code the restrictions, the rent, the insurance employee costs. And here, you know, the question was would you like a food truck or mmf with your similar product in front of your brick and mortar . So i think as the question was asked the gentleman before they asked if they served ice cream. That would be like asking if there was an acai truck or smoothie place in front of our shop. So if they moved in front of your business, it would not impact it . Thank you. That was the question. It was stated the appellant approached you guys about an alternate location. Did you explore that location . What was your conclusion . We reached out in an email. Last night i got a phone call about whether we would think about that. Its my understanding that would cause us to have a problem with someone else. Exactly. Impact another restaurant . Not impact another restaurant. But it would require us to do a 30day notification again. Weve already went through this at the public hearing at public works. And then it was appealed. And then its two months later. And so if i remember correctly it would require us to restart the application process all over again which we submitted this in december, i think, of last year. And was it the appellant who appealed at the public working hearing as well . Right and the suggestion to the alternate location came prior to this hearing . It was brought up to me last night do you sell anything beside ice cream out of the truck . No, strictly ice cream no beverages. We can do hot cider. But because of theside size of our vw it limits us to pretty much just ice cream. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Anything further from public works . Of course. I was hoping to bring more color on the 75foot from the actual food facility to the earth bar restaurant. So this is a tool that public works uses. Its how we review a lot of these permits and it has a measuring tool. So just as an example, i measured in the line you see here is 82 feet so its shorter than that. If i do an aerial photo. Its hard to see. We need to move it down. Like is it the upper left . Its this line okay, sorry. So that was 82 feet, i believe it was. This is the proximate. But you can see that at 82 feet, it would still be quite short of the earth bar restaurant. I just wanted to i know you had some concerns about the plans that were presented. It does seem pretty clear to us that the actual restaurant in and of itself would be more than 75 feet from the truck. And then just to show again the gap. So as you enter the entrance there and turn to the right there are benches and i believe there was a pro shop that it was called that looks to me like probably around at least 40 feet before you would actually enter the vicinity of the restaurant itself. And then the applicant or the permit holder asserted if they were to go to an alternate location as suggested by the appellant that the process would begin again. Is that true . What part of the process would have to begin again . Most likely wed have to review what the new location would be. If it was just a matter of one parking space then the same notification scope potentially it could be done administratively. But if it were a larger move, we would have to renotify the public per the code. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Commissioners, this matter is submitted. This is an interesting case. Certainly can see why there may be some confusion over what is 75 feet from what or where where. It seems obvious to me that it would be hard as a member of the public to know the earth bar is there. And its more than 75 feet from the location of the proposed mobile food facility even if it was a fullon entrance to the street. If the door from the earth bar opened right at the earth bar it would be outside of the radius. Im sensitive because its also a Small Business. I dont know if its a chain but its a business that employees people that has a clientele its trying to reach in order to provide its product but also to provide jobs for the folks that work there and provide what it provides. It doesnt seem to me that its product wise huge competition which i think part of the regulations we have is to prevent the restaurants from competing and digging into each others businesses. Hopefully folks at the equinox want to keep healthy and have the acai bowls. And its not there every day. Its there three days a week so its not in full competition with the earth bar hours. I would not about against the appeal. You would be prepared to grant the peel. The appeal. Sorry. They remove like or similar food from the ordinance or for the approval. Several years ago weve had a lot of mffs come before us and food trucks. And i find it strange that the building is represented but yet the earth bar doesnt have a problem or representation here having a problem. But at the same time fundamentally i am a strong proponent of Small Business brick and mortar. And i think by having food trucks and mffs in that facility, especially in this day and time where brick and mortar are having such a hard time, i cannot support this. I do support their business. I think its a great model. I supported them when they were in front of macys. But in this case i am not prepared to support them. I have a question for d. P. W. Am i correct that on various days and various times there are other food trucks on that block particularly on the north side of pine between montgomery and samson . Im not familiar with other mobile food facilities on that block there are some plenty on pine. [off mic] im sorry. Cant have a member of the public responding. You dont know any other permits for food trucks on that north side of pine . Im not quite sure we had one from we saw pictures. Yes. Okay. Yeah. So i needed to note that. Thank you. Just making lunch plans or never mind [laughter] they just opened up their first brick and mortar themselves. So congratulations for that. I think the only way to make sense of this ordinance and the resulting public works order is to exclude earth bar from it. And the reason that i have for that is because i think that the primary entrance of earth bar cannot be the front entrance of the building itself. It has to be something thats actually at the earth bar, probably the 3 feet in front of it where people stand. Otherwise i dont know that you could read 9 and 9 feet together to ever make sense. And so like the food court at the westfield mall, i think 9 feet applies because its a 75feet requirement does not apply. So i would deny the appeal. Who is going to make a motion . I move to deny the appeal and uphold the permit on the basis that it was properly issued we have a motion from commissioner tanner to deny the appeal and uphold the permit on the basis it was properly issued. On that motion. [roll call vote] that motion carries 30. And the appeal is denied. Is there any further business . This concludes the hearing we are adjourned. Still a lot of people wonder since the trees have a lot of issues, why did we plant them in the first place . Trees are widely planted in San Francisco. With good reason. They are workhorses when it comes to urban forestry. We have begun to see our ficustrees are too big and dangerous in San Francisco. We have a lot of tree failures with this species in particular. This is a perfect example of the challenges with the structure of the ficustrees. You can see four very large stems that are all coming from the same main truck. You can see the two branches attached to one another at a really sharp angle. In between you cant it is a lot of strong wood. They are attached so sharply together. This is a much weaker union of a branch than if you had a wide angel. This is what it looks like after the fi c. U. Resolution s limb ic another was another limb fails. We see decline. You can see the patches where there arent any leaves at all. That is a sign the tree is in decline. The other big challenge is the root system of the tree are aggressive and can impact nearby utilities and we can fix the sidewalk around the tree in many cases. We dont want to cuts the roots too severely because we can destabilize the tree. In a city like San Francisco our walks are not that wide. We have had to clear the branches away from the properties. Most of the the can canopy is on the street side and that is heavyweight on those branches out over the street. That can be a factor in tree limb failures. A lot of people wonder since these trees have a lot of issues. Why did we plant them in the first place . They provided the city with benefits for decades. They are big and provide storage for carbon which is important to fight Climate Change and they provide shade and really i think many people think they are a beautiful asset. When we identify trees like this for removal and people protest our decision we really understand where they are coming from. I got into this job because i love trees. It just breaks my heart to cut down trees, particularly if they are healthy and the issue is a structural flaw. I have also seen first hand what happens when we have failures. We have had a couple of injuries due to tree failures. That is something we cant live with either. It is a challenging situation. We hate to lose mature trees but Public Safety has to always a principal analyst recently appointed as acting administrator responsible for developing all of the rates and charges for the Water Power Services we provide. The main things i work on are rates. It is really trying to figure out how much money we need to fund our operations and maintenance and thinking how to collect the money in a way that is fair to customers and sincentives for Water Conservation or installing Stormwater Management on their property. I nominated erin for the many accomplishments she has provided especially for the financial sustain ability. The reality required a lot of work retooling policies Financial Planning as well as many rating and charges. Er ron served in the projects including update to water and sewer rates, update to 10 year Financial Plan as well as setting the budget for fiscal 2019 higher 2020. I am pleased with working here. I feel like we have tons of work to do. It is important work. It has a direct impact on peoples lives. She has a unique ability to get to the root cause of the issue and help develop consensus around a solution. Not only is it troubleshooting what the questions are, but also coming up with what are the alternatives. I think a lot of the satisfaction from the job is looking back over the past few years and seeing cereal concrete change we have been real concrete change and that gives me pride. The team very much appreciates her hair color and the world of finance and accounting tends to foster conformity and boring guys like myself. I very much admire the fact that she walks her own walk and creates her own path and i think we all can learn a little bit from her. 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Lets get started. Welcome. Yeah. You can be excited. You should be. Welcome to the beautiful new playground, everyone. [ cheering and applause ]. My name is phil ginsburg. I am the manager of the recreation and Parks Department. Were so pleased to have everyone here to celebrate what is really a transformation for this playground a place where childhood memories will be created and opportunities for imaginative play are endless. There are a lot of Community Supporters and folks that made this happen. Were going to introduce and recognize all of them during our short program, but im so honored to introduce someone who has kept her eye on this playground for many years. As District Supervisor and now as mayor, she is our park champion and chief. Our kids do not need an advocate, because theyve got mayor london breed. Mayor breed thank you so much phil. Let me tell you, i cant be more happy than to be here today. I remember a couple years ago when we cut the ribbon on the new basketball courts and there were conversations going on and on and on about the playground and the next to do something better. The parents who bring their kids here on a regular basis reflects what we see here today. As much as i love. I grew up in sands so im a big fan but the fact is these kids are going to have a great time. We are so lucky in San Francisco that we have so many people in this community that are so generous and were actively engaged to shape what this playground looks like right now. We have amazing contributors who have invested so much money into supporting and making this happen. Our incredible partner, the Parks Alliance, thank you so much for your continued alliance and this playground. Thank you were jody pritzer for your major contribution to this project. And brian baker who hosted. Thank you so much for your work and for your advocacy. The work that you do to raise the funds and contribute to make this possible makes it happen sooner rather than later. So thank you, because the kids that are here today are going to be able to have a good time and enjoy this amazing playground. I know they dont want to hear a bunch of long speeches. I know they cant wait to get started with playing. Thank you to the nopa community and the ashbury community for your work and advocacy. It is so great to be here today to have this incredible experience. I know you are wondering why is sheriff vicky hennesey here today. Shes not here to take anyone to jail. Her granddaughter is a lover of this playground and we are happy to have her as a supporter, so thank you for your service to San Francisco. Fill you say that i am the park champion, i tell you no one works harder to bring in the resources and move these projects faster to get these done so that you have these results today. Thank you and your team for the work that you continue to do. [ applause ]. Mayor breed last but not least, i started that and she finished it. Valley brown has been an amazing advocate for this community for decades and she made sure that we got this project done. I will say in absolute record time. We just broke ground on this project last year and in bureaucracy time this is fast. Ladies and gentlemen, the person who was making it happen and doing the work for this community, your supervisor valley brown. [ applause ]. Thank you mayor breed. I remember when this was a twinkle in your eye, phil. I see the ashbury council is here. People have come here because this is an amazing park and the way that it was done with the contributor s contributors made it what it is now. Look at everything. I was looking around. I cant believe how cool it is and im going to take a slide down that slide. I dont know if anybody has done it yet, but i want to go and slide down that slide. It looks so fun. I have to say that the city is like a tanker in ice. Every time we try to do something, it takes that long. This is something that went fast because of community support, because we had private people coming in and saying lets make this work, and we can turn faster than a tanker in ice. Thank you everyone, thank you, mayor breed, and lets play. Supervisor brown said it perfectly, lets play. The mayor has keys to the city and gives proclamations at the board and we give away park signs to true park champions. Thank you for all of your incredible support. [ cheering and applause ]. The mayor alluded to the fact that this was a Big Community effort. We need partners and friends. Government doesnt do it all alone anymore. We need the support. Im pleased to bring up our closest friend drew beker. The alliance of Parks Department have worked together since 2013 or 2014 on lets play s. F. Which is our campaign to renovate the 13most 13mostdeserving playgrounds around the city. It is a 30 million effort that has a significant amount of public money but that wasnt enough to get it done. We are the Parks Alliance and is the San Francisco recs and Parks Department Work Together on so many things, including our 150th Golden Gate Park celebration. This is part of that. The panhandle itself was practice for building Golden Gate Park. Around the park are 80000 trees that were planted to figure out what would work best down the road. Im so pleased to bring up a special partner, drew beker. Thanks, phil. I want to give a shout out. Thank you mayor, thank you, valley, thank you, phil. The Parks Alliance is so happy to be a part of this wonderful event. I would like to give a shout out to the civic committee. Thank you so much. You helped make this possible. I want to give a shout out. Thank you, liz, for everything you do. Also brian baker held an event before this. Thank you for you and your family to support us and the San Francisco Parks Alliance. Thank you so much. And the rec and park commissioners, we couldnt do this without them giving the okay to make all of this happen. We have partners with rec and parks and they dont get shout outs that much. I want phil, lisa, and abigail to know how much we appreciate what you do. It is so amazing to have one of the top rec and Parks Departments here in San Francisco. You have no idea how important it is to push these types of projects forward and make this happen and thats because it comes from the top. Your amazing manager phil ginsburg, lets give it up for him. This publicprivate partner that was alluded to we raised about 11. 3 million for 13 playgrounds across the city. Our goal is to raise 14 million, so we have a little bit more to go in order to make this playground and close out this program and have the most equityfocused Playground Initiative in this country called lets play s. F. Lets make sure you visit lets play s. F. Make sure you are part of this movement to bringing this movement to 20,000 kids across this city. Its about making parts a part of each and every community. Parks are part of the big puzzle, about keeping the parks part of our story. We need to move neighborhoods forward building parks. Thanks for being a part of this movement and lets play. Thank you so much. Thank you, drew. This playground is about play and its about community. So representing our community today, we are so pleased to welcome 45 preschoolers from steppingstones preschool. Your granddaughter is here but steppingstones has a spot in my own heart. Representing steppingstones and speaking on behalf of the community im pleased to welcome a few members to share the importance of lets play. Hi. My name is rakoia. Im a director of a local preschool up the street but more importantly im a mother of a 2 year old who is up there right now. I actually came here from l. A. I went to ucla. When i came to San Francisco and looked at the preschools for work and realized none of the preschools have outdoor spaces or if they did it was tiny. So steppingstones uses the community for their playground. What a resource to have playgrounds like these. This is an amazing playground just for the preschoolers but also now that im a mom for communities like this for playgrounds that inspire community and imagination. We were just here in april for the ground breaking, and now its november and its incredible. Thank you so much everyone. [ cheering and applause ]. Before we do our first slide with our steppingstones preschoolers and supervisor brown, we have some gratitude. I need to do some closing acknowledgements. We have a lot of gratitude for all of our supporters. Without their help and support as i said this wouldnt be possible. Let me echo my thanks to the pritsker family. For brian and lesley baker, thank you so much for your support. For the folks from Kaiser Permanente they have been big supporters. This weekend we lost an advocate for health and equity and diversity and true supporters of playgrounds and someone who understood the very important experience of play. We would ask you to take a quick moment of silence in mr. Mr. Permit mr. Mr. Permit mr. Mr. Permit mr. Permit permanentes honor. Thank you. Lets give a round of applause. Were also pleased to be joined today by sheriff hennessey and her granddaughter. Vivian liang and then dmitri barstani is here with his mom georgia. Are you here and can you raise your hands . Theyre over there. Thank you, dmitri and georgia for being here today. Were honoured to be here. His memory and gus memory will live on. I would like to thank niko and marie who helped to work on the bench plaque that i believe are here. Tim sieford and michelle welsh. Steve courier from the parks and recs open space advisory. And then to the design and construction teams, you have an inspired design and project. They deserve our thanks. To the landscape project. Jeff cooper from c. P. M. Services. And then to my own amazing team, the project managers for this effort it takes a village karen rupert brett emerey contributed to this project. Thank you lisa branson to your team to make this dream come to reality for our kids. Were going to have some honorary preschooler that is are going to join us. Supervisor brown, if you want to join us too. The mayor is going to lead us in a countdown. Mayor breed okay, supervisor brown youre going to have to put a kid in your lap. Are we ready, kids . Five four, three, two one, lets play thank you, everybody. In the words of our mayor, lets play. [ ] [ ] i just wanted to say a few words. One is to the parents and to all of the kids. Thank you for supporting this program and for trusting us to create a Soccer Program in the bayview. Soccer is the worlds game and everybody plays, but in the united states, this is a sport that struggles with access for certain communities. I coached basketball in a coached football for years, it is the same thing. It is about motivating kids and keeping them together, and giving them new opportunities. When the kids came out they had no idea really what the game was. Only one or two of them had played soccer before. We gave the kids very simple lessons every day and made sure that they had fun while they were doing it and you really could see them evolve into a team over the course of the season. I think this is a great opportunity to be part of the community and be part of programs like this. I get to run around with my other teammates and pass the ball. This is new to me. Ive always played basketball or football. I am adjusting to be a soccer mom. The bayview is like my favorite team. Even though we lose it is still fine. Right on. I have lots of favorite memories, but i think one of them is just watching the kids enjoy themselves. My favorite memory was just having fun and playing. Bayview united will be in soccer camp all summer long. They are going to be at civic centre for two different weeklong sessions with america scores, then they will will have their own soccer camp later in the summer right here, and then they will be back on the pitch next fall. Now we know a little bit more about soccer we are learning more and the kids are really enjoying the program. We want to be united in the bayview. That is why this was appropriate this guy is the limit. The kids are already athletic, you know, they just need to learn the game. We have some potential collegebound kids, definitely. Today was the last practice of the season, and the sweetest moment was coming out here while , you know, we were setting up the barbecue and folding their uniforms, and looking out onto the field and seven or eight of the kids were playing. This year we have first and second grade. We are going to expand to third forth, and fifth grade next year bring them out and if you have middle school kids we are starting a team for middle school. You know why . Why . Because we are . Bayview united. Thats right