dogs, family. i was blown away. i did not realize this decision had been made. i don t know what to say, i am blown out of the water. there is no point in me saying anything. but i will. is this a boat house or not? it is a cafe. if you don t have the boats in the boat house, it is not a boat house. it seems like money and effort will be wasted on the starbucks- ization of stow lake, changing the atmosphere of the whole place. if it becomes an historical monument, which i hope that it does, a handmade boats that are there, they should be preserved. ithank you. michael, mary ann, christiana, raymond, suzanne, don gibbs, susan, and larry. if you could come up in that order, please. come on up. commissioners, i am dennis. i have two points. one, what is going to happen to the employees, including the fellow that just spoke? what i just heard from the mackenzie is the staff was going to be expanded. does that mean that the current staff would be capped while additional folks
walking around the liked on my several blocks in the week. i know that they are intelligent and thoughtful people. in eight days, i will celebrate the 30 years of sobriety. that happened in might conjunction as coming out as a gay man, father, a teacher, and an advocate i have embraced change. i have embraced change vigorously, but change with the purpose. there is no purpose in changing this lease to the ortega family. thank you. next speaker, please? hello, everyone. i worked for the proposal at stow lake. iphone the cafe on eighth avenue i don t the cafe on eighth avenue from 1979. we were the first in the neighborhood to offer vegetarian meals with a focus on nutrition. regarding the preservation of the interior of the boat house, i thought the commission was set for preservation. instead it seems to be for transformation. regarding the annual. revenues offered by burress and myself, we re guaranteed $75,000 more than the ortega enterprises. that is to say or take t
thank you. next speaker, please? hello, everyone. i worked for the proposal at stow lake. iphone the cafe on eighth avenue i don t the cafe on eighth avenue from 1979. we were the first in the neighborhood to offer vegetarian meals with a focus on nutrition. regarding the preservation of the interior of the boat house, i thought the commission was set for preservation. instead it seems to be for transformation. regarding the annual. revenues offered by burress and myself, we re guaranteed $75,000 more than the ortega enterprises. that is to say or take that offers guarantees of $140,000, compared with two other $15,000 by burress and myself. therefore, greater annual revenues. compared with $215,000 by burress and myself. it would be more money for san francisco, the committee, and the city, rather than going to new mexico, home of the ortega enterprise. it therefore, it seems to me if we would have been chosen, the city would be guaranteed to $75,000 more than the or
order, please. come on up. commissioners, i am dennis. i have two points. one, what is going to happen to the employees, including the fellow that just spoke? what i just heard from the mackenzie is the staff was going to be expanded. does that mean that the current staff would be capped while additional folks are at it? have you considered that? i know that i it won t get an answer, but i want you to think about it. these are real live people. you should not lay them off. they re not going to bring people from new mexico. they re going to hire people who are there. the second point, you need to realize there will be a much bigger carbon footprint. they have to fly back and forth all the time. they do that regularly. they re going to bring boats from carlsbad, new mexico, up here? that does not make sense. i know the whole thing is a cafe and increased revenue, but i heard a screaming and shouting match of the concessionaire s saying it would each offer more money. it is in
commercial so it does not happen. because i share that concern. i hello, once again. my name is jeff and i have been the manager of the boat house for 15 years. i want to talk about what it means to operate the boat house. the way that is built and designed, it is perfect for having safety as your number one priority. when you are there on any given day, the doors are wide open and you have to grab a life jacket, you are right there and right back on the docks. i think it is a tragedy to turn this into a cafe, bookshelf, nook, whatever you were saying earlier. people don t come out there for that. they come out there to get away from it. i think having the hoist and the shop and the boat repair and having it be a recreation destination instead of a latte destination, i think you are making a terrible mistake. terrible. [applause] i will ask again that we hold off on the applause or negative comments about speakers. i have spent many years at the boat house with my kids,