Through 70s was a Thriving Black Community known all over the world. It established black businesses. Black people werent allowed to leads outside the fillmore because of racism so we were a self sustaining community. The beautiful thing about the fillmore is that you had white, jewish, you had all people from all over the world coming to shop and spend their money in black businesses. It was really the togetherness that we all strive for. My daughter and my great uncle played jazz on fillmore. But the city, the federal government and the state through redevelopment agency, through the board of supervisors who held the power decided to use imminent domain and bulldoze the fillmore. 40 square blocks was bulldozed. That red dot on the picture, thats where sheafway is. You can see st. Marrys marrysa theydral. Thats the National Distribution center for the newspaper. It was the fillmore heritage center. You can see the highrise building projects. They bulldozed our community and put us in
Northern california section of the United States tennis association. He is very professional, thorough and dedicated to the sport of tennis and very accomplished tennis player. His selection of lifetime activities is a winwin for Golden Gate Park and the growth of tennis, which is a sport of a lifetime. I have a personal interest. I am a long time Special Olympics coach for tennis. Everybody is looking forward to all of the ad adaptive opportunities at Golden Gate Park, which we know lifetime tennis and dana gill can deliver. I am very much supportive of dana and lifetime activities as being the operator. Thank you. Shawn. How are you . I am shawn. I am a tennisaholic. I dont like speaking in public because i get very nervous. Forgive me. We are not really scary. If that is what you think. So where to start . I was born in 1963. When i was 19 19, i moved to sn francisco. Very close to Golden Gate Park. I didnt know anyone. I was going to school and i found a wall to hit on, and i hit a
Devices and take your secondary conversations outside. If you would like to speak on any item today, we request but do not require you to complete a blue card. Unless otherwise announced each person will have three minutes on each item. Please address the comments to the commission. To allow equal time neither the commission nor staff will respond. The commission may ask questions for staff after comment is closed. If there is an item under the subject matter of the jurisdiction you may speak under general Public Comment. If the fire alarms activate, leave the building. Elevators will not be available for use. If you need assistance go to closest area of refuge, the mens stream. Me men mens restroom. Briefly, i want be to congratulate staff and the secretary to the commission on the William Hammond hall awards, and also commissioner harrison and mazzola for work in anticipation of that. Wwe honor 12 employees and expanded not only gardeners but trades as well. It was truly inspiring to
Courts in places where there were at least four or three courts. With four courts we put two in the reservation system. If there were three, there were still two walk up courting. We received feedback from the community. We held a subsequent Community Meeting in september. In october we added 12 more tennis complexes and additional courts. Since seven months ago we are over 10,000 now reservations through the free system which allies the anxiety of people about the closure, reduction in number of courts and the comments are i have never been to that park and that city. That is wonderful. There are so many places we can play. The map shows you the green for the original courts we had. It was pretty empty in the eases part of the city. It is where we had three and four courts. We spread it out. Now we have three online reservations throughout the city. We may expand more. People are excreted about this. There had a few things we are working out. Should it be an our rath an hour rather th
For staff after comment is closed. If there is an item under the subject matter of the jurisdiction you may speak under general Public Comment. If the fire alarms activate, leave the building. Elevators will not be available for use. If you need assistance go to closest area of refuge, the mens stream. Me men mens restroom. Briefly, i want be to congratulate staff and the secretary to the commission on the William Hammond hall awards, and also commissioner harrison and mazzola for work in anticipation of that. Wwe honor 12 employees and expanded not only gardeners but trades as well. It was truly inspiring to see the people who make us look good up here who do the daytoday workout there in the parks and making the improvements. Thank you. As my want there are two emails i am aware of i will read a portion of. I have decided not to identify those who send us compliments for fear they may change their mind. My comments on the balboa park renovations. The landscapes is a jewel. Then to mr