First of all, welcome, commissioner mcdonald, and congratulations. Prior to this meeting i electronically submitted to this commission a short video clip for your consideration. It is in part presented to address the shortcomings of the reports that have been generated by the rpd and zvi Fields Foundation partnership as well as the 2008 synthetic fields task force. It is specifically intended to address the scarcity of and virtually lack of medical testimony presented by the rpd and city Fields Foundation partnership in the reports. The video tip is comprised of nationally recognized Public Health professionals including medical doctors, pediatricians, epidemiologists, toxicologists, neurobiologists, chemical engineers, as well as others. They are shown testifying about and commenting on the various Health Risks Associated with synthetic fields including key facts that dispute this commissions findings. The video clip along with others that have been provided to you can be found at You
Of this commission, Public Comment is on item 4 and it is continued on item 13. And last, please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment on all items. In order to allow equal time for all, neither the commission nor staff will respond to any questions during Public Comment. The commission may ask questions of staff after Public Comment is closed. And unless im otherwise stated by the president , each person will have three minutes. So, three minutes on each item. With that, we are on item number 2, the president s report. Thank you. Ill be brief. I apologize. One item that i did forget to mention is that we will be hearing items 9 and 10 as one. They will be voted on separately, but they will be heard as one. Thank you. Thank you. And let me announce that item number 8, which is the southpark 345 brannan street shadow [inaudible] okay. Shadows tend to do that. Will be put over to the next meeting. I understand at the request of supervisor kim. Briefly, i went to t
This saturday, if youre at the opening of cayuga and youre done there, please come up the hill. Well feed you lunch, and then you can sit back and enjoy the entertainment. So, once again, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you. Is there any other Public Comment under the general managers report . Okay, being none, 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 that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission but that do not appear on the agenda. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. I have one card and that is kelly watts. Sfgovtv have a video . First of all, welcome, commissioner mcdonald, and congratulations. Prior to this meeting i electronically submitted to this commission a short video clip for your consideration. It is in part presented t
And with that, that concludes the general managers report. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have Public Comment on this item . Please come forward. Council, were going to speak on 4 also . [speaker not understood]. Thank you. [speaker not understood]. Go ahead. Kathrin howard, golden gate prer vation alliance. And we have the screen, please. Thank you. Today im going to talk about the outside lands festival. As you know every year we walk the park and we give a review and our interest is in preservation of the park and trees in the park. Next screen, please. Trees need the roots. Trees cannot survive without roots. They breathe through their roots and absorb nutrition through their roots. They cannot thrive if their roots are continually damaged and they cannot thrive in compacted soil. What compacts soil . Heavy equipment, constant pressure. Next, please. This is a drawing from the Arbor Day Foundation and just very quickly tree roots, people think they go down, but they actually go out. T
Please call the role. Commissioner afoul . Here. Commissioner low . Here. Commissioner errata . Here. Commissioner [speaker not understood] . [speaker not understood] . Here. Commissioner mc donald . Here. Commissioner levitt son has an excused absence. Real quick, as a reminder if you have any electronic sounding devices, please turn those off so they do not go off during the meet ing. We would also ask that you please take any secondary conversations outside in order to have the meeting proceed as efficiently as possible. If you would like to speak on an item today, we have some blue cards over on the table. If you could please fill those out. And then if you would like to speak on general Public Comment, which would be an item not on the agenda but that falls within the jurisdiction of this commission, Public Comment is on item 4 and it is continued on item 13. And last, please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment on all items. In order to allow equal time f