Thank you. Next speaker. I am hans carter, a member of the Leadership Group of the pickle ball community. We support this project. We would love to see this facility multiuse, and that we have been included in terms of getting some input from us to see that it has one dedicated Pickle Ball Court plus eight Pickle Ball Courts permanently lined is great because it is good to play in Golden Gate Park. I have been playing there for about a year. I have played in other facilities throughout the city, but really, the best place to play is in the park itself. We are a group of about 200 on our mailing list. We recently took a survey. Threequarters of our players are seniors. 55 and older, and half are female. Pickle ball is also the Fastest Growing sport in the nation according to the sports and Fitness Industry association. Growing at 12 per year. Definitely as the population ages and more people realize that it is duff on your bod tough on your body to play tennis they will migrate to pickl
Is a critical and beneficial piece of the project. The tlc is the Youth Development program for health and wellness and Emotional Development for under served youth. Currently it served elementary children in three rec centers. They are opening a fourth site and hopes for a fifth. When the Tennis Center reopens it will serve middle School Children that graduated from the elementary sites that show an affinity for continuing tennis instruction. There is a dedicated classroom space and rec room to be used for overflow for the tlc. The rec room can be used to accommodate alternate activities. It will normally house two pingpong tables during the day with a storage closet so they can be tucked away. Here is the garden area south of the building a place to eat lunch and outdoor teaching space, place for events and place to watch tennis. A small theater with movable tables and benches. A public art wall forms the south of building and faces the garden. We are working to select the artists an
That dont have access to this. We are strong supporters of that as well as the tennis facility itself. I encourage you to approve it. I think it will be a spectacular addition to San Francisco. Thank you. We have channing and if we have called your name, come up if you want to speak. If i havent called your name, i have gone through all of cards. If you want to speak come up and be prepared to speak. I am katie strange with the San Francisco parks alliance. We are extremely part to be a partner on this project of the department as well as the Tennis Coalition inspired by the extensive efforts to hear the various voices we can see today that will be served by this space. In particular, the tlc Tennis Learning Center is an important aspect for the future of recreation and tennis in our city. As you know it is a historic moment for tennis, for the park, for the city and inspiration alley this design matches that parks system we are creating. I will be second to admit i am not a tennis pla
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Squawk alley. We are live from post 9 at the New York Stock Exchange. John fortt joining us from out west in san francisco. Sara eisen, though, the big story outside p g headquarters in cincinnati. Carl quintanilla has the morning off. We have a lot to get to this morning, but we are going to start with that breaking news from cincinnati and the big proxy fight over the future of proctor and gamble lets get to sara. Sara weve got a discrepancy here in the vote, michelle. P g says that it has won and that nelson peltz was not voted to the board of proctor and gamble, but we just talked to nelson peltz of trian, and he says it is way too close to call and they are going to continue to go through and count every vote, make sure some votes were not done twice, and go through it, because we are told that this is a matter of 10 million votes, and the company with billions of votes outstanding. 2. 7 billion shareholder votes to count. So that is where we stand right now. The Shareholder Meeti