Meeting to proceed as efficiently as possible. If you like to speak on any item today please fill out a blue card. Each person will have three 3 minutes on Public Comment for each item. If there is an item of interest to you that is not on the agenda and under the subject matter jurisdiction, you may speak under general comment item 4 and item 9. Last please direct your comments on the item. No commissioner nor staff will respond to questions during Public Comment. May ask staff after Public Comment is closed. The president s report. Single thank you. I item 7 is bow decker on mine. You are correct. It is item 7. Item 7 has been pulled off the agenda. Thank you. Briefly, a report. I want to thank for the last Commission Meeting and traveling through wild waters of controversy and bringing an end to a sound conclusion. I want to thank him for the glen eagles solution. Thank you very much. I want to note that i had the pleasure at my own expense to go back to the pga americas championshi
Down. Little things like we were a traveling team for the south bay. I was able to use my bosss van and we would like to thank everyone for helping us so much in the competition. Thank you. [ applause ]. All right. Now we take a quick look at this month in parks and as much as we love our young athletes, back to school. [video] one of the things we do is teach kids to swim. The aquatics programs are the most popular programs in San Francisco and the entire bay area. We have the traditional programs like tennis and basketball and kayaking program. Kids are able to go out on yachts and learn all the etiquette involved with it. That program is very popular as well. This month in parks, the San Francisco alliance is a terrific event that goes towards helping fund our scholarship program. This time San Francisco was able to open up the athletic fields. This began in partnership with the city field foundation. Our gracious partners that opened up many fields throughout San Francisco. Communi
Bonilla, harrison, levitan is not here yet. Commissioner mcdonnell, this is the meeting of the recreation and Parks Commission on september 18, 2014. Please note that agenda item 8 for bow decker park is now off the agenda. We welcome everyone here today and ask that you please turn off Electronic Devices that may sound during proceedings. Please take any secondary conversations outside in order for the meeting to proceed as efficiently as possible. If you like to speak on any item today please fill out a blue card. Each person will have three 3 minutes on Public Comment for each item. If there is an item of interest to you that is not on the agenda and under the subject matter jurisdiction, you may speak under general comment item 4 and item 9. Last please direct your comments on the item. No commissioner nor staff will respond to questions during Public Comment. May ask staff after Public Comment is closed. The president s report. Single thank you. I item 7 is bow decker on mine. You
The friends of camp mather in collaboration of the party. Most of my script is gone. What a n i am here to do today is to invite the commissioners and general manager ginsberg to be our guest this saturday. If you are thinking of coming, please do. Its going to be a lovely party and will raise more awareness about fire safety and the heroic efforts that people put into saving the camp. I also want to thank the commission and the department so much for your aid in putting this event on. This is never easy and there is a lot of work to put on this gala. Its going to be more than tshirts and there is a lot of details and we thank the commission for the generous offer to let the commissioners cabin to be available for one 1 week and other things the staff at the park have made available to us to be able to do this for the camp. Most of all we are here to celebrate 90 wonderful amazing years of camp and on wards to the 90s. Thank you so much. Is there any other Public Comment . Seeing none,
Coming up. Red panda day. A national celebration. We wanted to bring the red panda to peoples attention and highlight this beautiful creature. If you havent seen the red panda, you are missing something. This is the talk of the palm oil and disappearance of forest in asia. We are celebrating world rhino day. They are going down as fast as elephants. We have five of the species at the San Francisco zoo. Its all for the same reason, for illegal trad of their horn. We want to bring the part of the rhino and can ouple it with theel vanity. Elephant. To stop the killing. To highlight that day we have a great lecture coming to San Francisco zoo. We have obrien and inspector ann marie Law Enforcement at the federal and state level and they will come and tell you how this stop the trade of illegal animal products. They tell incredible stories. So if youve never heard how they do it, please come out to the San Francisco zoo this sunday at 1 00 and hear these amazing people and hear what they do