These cards first and will call for additional Public Comment after we go through the cards. Each person commissioner, three minutes . Three minutes. On each item under Public Comment. If you would like to address the commission on an item that is not on the calendar, but is under the jurisdiction of this commission, you may speak on item 4, and then that will be heard for 15 minutes. And if you are unable to get in during that time, we will continue that item to item 10. Last, just a reminder, when you do speak to the commission, please address your comments to the commission, and neither the commission, nor staff will answer questions during Public Comment. But they may ask staff to respond after Public Comment is done. With that, we are on item 2. The president s report. The president is going to ask a question before we formalize how many minutes we are going to speak. Quite a few people entered the room since i made that just decision. How many people are anticipating testifying b
We support the golf course and the Experimental Program and we hope desperately this can be expanded to other areas of mclaren park, as well as other parks in San Francisco. This feels like a winwin for our city and for the workers. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. David, jeff, Michael Carlin, commissioner arsed. Good morning commissioners. David de la torre, local 261. And on behalf of my father i want to thank you everybody present in support of this resolution. Commissioner tom harrison opened up with being one of the fortunate ones under the mentorship of my father. I got to say, i too, have been fortunate to be mentored by my father. I had a certain indoctoration into the labor movement. As a previous board member of the bbc. We used to meet monthly on a saturday at the village what they call the village. The board consisted of some of the residents, and the stories that they used to tell as far as the bloodshed and the violence within that community which made it a despondent
To see us get a jump on this year given your focus on the Community Aspect of the event is some investment for our skate board parks. We get a lot of feedback from folks that they like to see more elements or additional parks and i know that we had started that conversation last year but we didnt have enough time to make it real and i would really encourage you to work with dana where we can get the right staff in the room so we can do special when the event has ended and add a couple of elements at the skate board parks that we do have because theyre really needed. Absolutely. Thats one of the as you mentioned phil, thats one of the things we got a late start on. We talked to our builders on that and were interested in making that happen. And weve got a bunch of other ideas in addition to just skate elements that i think can help support that weve touched on with your staff already. Thats a big piece for us and were committed to doing that. Thank you. Is there any other Public Comment
Left. We have two kids over there who came in with me. We are in it together. We understand whats at stake here in terms of growing the program the way it should be grown. The first tea is really expanding. We have many kids involved with the program this summer. We really need the space. Our mission has to do with providing a safe environment for kids, having them make healthy choices, important choices, Character Development is at the forefront of that. When you talk about Community Outreach at its best, its first tea San Francisco. We started out in southeast corner of our city with kids from the bay view hunters point, the online registration encompasses es and these kids knee a place to play. We dont want Golden Gate Park to upset the balance thats been created there. We feel like theres enough room for everybody. When we talk about offering an opportunity for individuals to play golf, the public deserve a good venue for that. We wouldnt hender. Picture the little ones that are we
Rahon, then tony and lauren. Hi. Hes going to speak with this video. Terrick is going to speak with the video. When rahon comes up, we can play a video. Come on up. Im 16 years old and i grew up with the first tea and we actually placed this program we started the program with four people. It was me, jona, davon and malick and we grew up from the projects and there was gunshots. It started as a tea program and they asked us to play golf. We were, like, golf. We didnt play golf. They took us to harden park. We didnt know what it was. It was this facility and it had lines and you can see where people stationed a hit and we said we like this. And one day we started hitting golf and they said do you want to do this every saturday. And we said can we. They said were going to pick you up and do that. And we said who else wanted to join. We started calling up our buddies and they sad, brother, we dont play golf. And now were sitting at the table and going, remember when you didnt play golf. A