Secretary please call the roll. Commissioner buell. Here. Commissioner low. Here. Commissioner bonilla here. Commissioner harrison. Here. Commissioner levitan here. And commissioner mcdonnell. Here. A new few announcements this is the april 21st of the recreation and Park Commission and we welcome everyone here today, but ask that you turn off any soundproducing devices that could go off during the meeting. We also ask that you take any secondary conversations outside, in order for the meeting to proceed as efficiently as possible. If you would like to speak on an item today, please complete a blue card, and unless otherwise announce by the president , each person has 3 minutes for Public Comment on each item. If there is an item of interest to you that is not on the agenda, and is under the subjectmatter jurisdiction you may speak on item 4. There will be a 15minute limit on item 4, but it will be continued to item 14. Last, please address all your comments to the commission during Pu
No, thats really i am not that would be helpful if you wanted to add is that. I wanted to remind you when we did our estimates at a point and price tag and implementing copayments cancel making sure the resources are available because a lot of issues with that i think that is the first thing we need to have many place without the resources we cant extend the programs we need to make sure the sliding scale works and the information and the ability to collect the actual fees. I understand obviously said is to happen soon but cant see us getting part of the 20162017 you hear our pushing but lets do that right ive heard a lot about the issues and El Dorado Middle School some of those things take time a lot of the programs that parents started and are impressed and it does take time and worth doing it right certainly expanding something we dont have the resources to maintain is not what we want to do i appreciate the care and it takes time so i get that but i also want to say i want to comm
I was so scared and not to leave the home on my home. However park staff can prevent this from happening whether bullying or abuse from drunk people. When there is a person to look out and take care of that behavior or activities it makes the youth feel more confident to go out for youth safety there should always be some staffing in public parks. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. I am a resident from d3 and i live in an sro and its 8 x 10 feet room shared by a lot of people. The building is shared by 100 people and we share the same kitchen and bathroom and no where to hang out and have fun so a park is important to children and youth. It would serve as our living room and we could do fun activities. But theres one thing that discourage me from going there because there is a lot of Homeless People and people smoking. When i go there i feel like i was effecting by others people habit of smoking and i dont feel the environment very healthy and also the Homeless People make me feel unc
Preefficiencies in the neighborhoods and we can also see language accessible for the people. We thank you for scheduling this at a youth friendly time and enact our policy. We hope to work with you in the near future on these recommendation that the commissioners brought up today so thank you very much. Thank you so much commissioner chin. Are there any other Youth Commissioners that are here . Seeing none lets open this up for public comment. I have a number of speaker cards but i see theres a number of youth i should call first before the community representatives. [calling speaker names]. From the chinatown campaign academy. If you could come forward and line up on the right side of the room. [calling speaker names]. If there is anyone else that would like to speak please come forward as well so go ahead. Good afternoon. Board of supervisors. I am baifd and from Chinatown Community Development Center campaign academy. I am a resident [inaudible] and even though my neighborhood has b
A number of youth i should call first before the community representatives. [calling speaker names]. From the chinatown campaign academy. If you could come forward and line up on the right side of the room. [calling speaker names]. If there is anyone else that would like to speak please come forward as well so go ahead. Good afternoon. Board of supervisors. I am baifd and from Chinatown Community Development Center campaign academy. I am a resident [inaudible] and even though my neighborhood has been historically known as a dangerous neighborhood many kids go to play play basketball and do anything they want, but as we know ever since that hertz playground incident many groups that i went to avoided that neighborhood for a long time ever since that incident. The reason for it even though they avoided it go further parks and other parks didnt have the same resources as that playground. That park had [inaudible] basketball courts and baseball field and we resorted to a smaller park where