Innovation, to education, and includetionthv i. For all San Francisco residents, but its also as i mentioned before a significant step towards bridging our Digital Divide in our city. It provides local groups and Community Residents access to the internet they might not have had before, as well for our rec and Park Department as phil knows all too well many rec centers still use dial up service. When we think about registering our children for camps and play grounds, what we need to do in our daily lives, but also our government on a daily basis to use technology, this will be an incredible boone to our rec and Park Department and something we should all be very excited about. In terms of the details of the gift, google is providing a 600,000 financial gift to our city with no strings attached. I think a lot of the prior debate around free wifi in San Francisco that never moved forward was because of different questions about Business Models or so forth, to emphasize this is a free gif
More than we think we can. In order to bring benefits, bring equity, bridge not only the Digital Divide, but perhaps bring the whole innovative spirit to every community in San Francisco. This is what i think this wifi effort of our 31 parks is saying. And the nice thing about it is that when you study what were going to do here and accomplish with the 31 parks, and that we along with our Technology Partners, our communications partners, our department leaders, new ones as well as old ones, are saying this is just the beginning. This is literally the beginning of a continued effort to innovate, innovate, and innovate. And i like what mark said. Not only are there no strings attached. Really the benefits are targeted at our residents and our visitors, but that the only thing were going to see is wireless connected to our fiber. Were learning that. Were learning that our fine and some of the backbones that weve always had to depend on can be improved on. I have to admit, the new director
Example for the nation as well as honestly probably anywhere in the world. And one thing that i already have the port folks here is that i would love to make my pitch and i made it to ram before and it is not just in seattle, they have a pocket park and a beach. And you get away from the traffic and you hear the water on the beach and it is fantastic and so i love seeing the water meeting this park. But i would love to promote it in more spots along the wharf downtown and stuff so you can drop in and where that new park is down at brannen and i would love if we had a pork ket beach, otherwise, i would agree, anything interrupting your access to the water i would love to see not there. Slip way two and three and that would be great if it that was open. Anyone else. No. And fantastic, thank you guys very much. And any Public Comment on this . To be official . No. And great. We are done. And we are adjourning in the memory of alice kerri and all of the work that she has done in the buildi
Strings attached. The money will come through sf city which will manage the installation of the wifi network from beginning to end, and our department of technology will accept that gift on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco. And ultimately rec and park will be the host of the wifi network on their properties. And at the end of the day, its going to be all San Francisco residents who benefit from this. After going through all the necessary steps in city hall, the timing right now is that we believe installation will start in december of this year and should be completed by the spring of next year. So, this is going to be a project that will become reality very, very soon for the residents of San Francisco. Again, on a personal level, im incredibly proud to have led this project over the last two years. Its very gratifying that when you see an idea from the initial conversation to the project itself to now bring it to reality, to a city and park where i used to play ball in
Is illegally raising the rent you should see the rent board and final a petition for illegal increase and have a hearing. If he is calling you homophobic names check in with the Human Rights Commission because they handle those situations and there are organizations that testified here today that do that. Yes organizations are all fine. Ultimately it depends who you talk to. I went to the rent board with this problem. There are a lot of rent increases i dont have because at one point charging 200 more than the market rate. When i got the apartment in 87 i was happy to find a home, and like i said i laifed in the hague for 40 years and loved it. I now tell people i live on corner of hague and resentment. Its not the summer of love. Its thank you for having me. I have the two wherein testimonies and i was going to read them into the record before they cut me off. Do you have a question . This is very quick. I want to say one thing that is lacking is there is a lot of people being ellis a