minority of people insist at looking at dedication dedicated soccer fields in a man-made park and calling them sylvan meadows. well, they re not. tip point we really need to move forward with the conversation. we ve spent the last two years great effort and over $1 million. i think it s time to say let s move forward and with the renovation and i very respectfully implore you to do so. thank you so much. thank you. next group? hello, my name is andrea negativelson. i m a long-term resident of san francisco, long-term involved parent in youth sports and i m give up my speaking time for america scores and all these wonderful children. i want to introduce marty, the program director and colin, who is involved with this program. thank you very much. thank you. does this work? just put it right there and it will turn on. thanks. not all of us are going to speak, so we ll respect that. we ll just try to sum up our organization s concerns quickly with just a couple adult
favor of the renovation, you ve heard it before, many, many times from many people over the last couple years. it s safe to saipe the quiet majority in this debate are in favor of the renovation project but here we are two years out and it s stalled because a very well organized, very vocal minority of people insist at looking at dedication dedicated soccer fields in a man-made park and calling them sylvan meadows. well, they re not. tip point we really need to move forward with the conversation. we ve spent the last two years great effort and over $1 million. i think it s time to say let s move forward and with the renovation and i very respectfully implore you to do so. thank you so much. thank you. next group? hello, my name is andrea negativelson. i m a long-term resident of san francisco, long-term involved parent in youth sports and i m give up my speaking time for america scores and all these wonderful children. i want to introduce marty, the program director a
complex for sports. action for nature encourages young people to better their environment and foster love and respect for nature. for 10 years action for nature has given awards to children around the world 8 to 16 who have done something wonderful to protect or improve the environment. one of last year s winners was clair drosske of san francisco. her research shows showed that runoff levels of be artificial turf had dangerous levels of heavy metals and would to potentially be dangerous to the health of humans and wild life. in addition because of the proximity of the artificial turf to the ocean the runoff water could also endanger myron marine wild life. and synthetic turf does not biodegrade and would end up clogging land fills after 10 or 15 years of use. belinelli thank you. thank you very much. may i leave this with anybody? thank you. i m going to call several names at a time and if you ok. are there any parents with children? ok. why not don t we do t