Those first and then open up to everyone on each item. How many minutes do you want . General Public Comment. Because we have 15 minutes in the first period lets give 3 minutes and well look at other items. 3 minutes on general Public Comment and then he will see how many people want to testify. During Public Comments the commission nor staff will respond to Public Comment while it is going on. Commissioners may ask staff to respond when comment is closed. We go to ititem 2. This will be brief. Many heard my say over the years 220 parks in San Francisco that everybody has a opinion and rarey do two people agree. Having said that the chamber of commerce in the survey of services enSan Francisco reported that the San FranciscoRecreation Park Department had the highest rating of approval in San Francisco at 70 percent positive rating with only 14 percent voicing discontunt so i would like to give my congrat ulations to general manager and staff for do a extraordinary job. Any Public Comment on the president s report . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. We are on item 4, which is general Public Comment is the first speaker is catherine howered and once she is done leo you can have your folks come up. Good morning commissioners Catherine Howards [inaudible] march 2, examiner contains a article about the concern otartificial turf. 200 players developed cancer afterplaying on the material. [inaudible] rec and park will replace a few fields with something other than the infill and there is no problem for Players Health on the current field. I have a flier i would like to give you from healthy soccer sf about the impact of infill and artificial turf on players. If rec and park is truly serious about Players Health, they will immediately replace all fields with a proven healthy infill and if they are truly certained about the environment they will replace not only infill but plant new grass fields which is the healthiest and safest and best environmental alternative. Thank you thank you. Next speaker, come on up. [inaudible] each of the members the commission. Ill ready. I think it is fine. First of all, good morning to everyone and the fist time i do this so i apologize if i break any procedure. Well be sure to tell you if you do. I know you will. But im here representing a number of families, players and clubs that participate in San Francisco soccer life. What we feel what we are asking the commission is investigate practices we think are not appropriate for San Francisco park and rec or rec and park. Let me be very clear, we are [inaudible] on the working and perform ance of San Francisco rec and park for the field man agement which we are very happy and agree they are doing a good job. The intrusion and pollution with the management of the San FranciscoSoccer League or sfys. The reason is this pollution which is causing in a situation of unfair, unclear practices and rules is causing clubs and families to be negatively effected by decisions that are unclear, rules that dont adjust to whatever the outcome wants to be and then lack of explanation and [inaudible] of responsibility. We respect what rec and park is doing and [inaudible] that is what we want to do. What we want is for the members that are actively involved and the management of San Francisco park and rec to sus feign from active roles in San Francisco youth soccer organization. This practice also calls term oil in the recent elections. We believe in the elections of the board member of San Francisco youth soccer. We believe like every democratic processes there are candidates that are elected and perform and have the same members have the right to choose whether they did a good job and whether they have the right to stay on for the next term. Like i reelection you can squin moves, members express their vote. We are verywe feel good about that particular process, but now that is diverted. That is one thing, the intrusion. The second part which is very important is that the reasonwhich is threatening to take away fields every time things are not in line. [inaudible] im not referring to breaking the rules, im talking in absence of rules when the behavior is not in line with what some of the people, some of the management think your team is threatens which means you dont have a club or team and kids dont play. We appreciate it. Next speaker, please. Good morning [inaudible] im a parent of 4 kid in San Francisco, this is my second time coming here. My main concern is transparency and equal for everybody to have access to fields in San Francisco. Now everybody pushed the [inaudible] those clubs have violated the permit process that you have set up where people are not supposed to make money. Vikings have two million in access and half a million in the bank. Our legal has a half million in the bank. The place they try to funnel all the best players to, San Francisco elite, we play against them and there is no diversity. 14 to 16, there wasnt a latino girl or boy so if you have your best players in one club and dont have kids of color you are lying to yourself so i ask the panel to look at that. Im okay as a parent if my kids have a better place to go but if there is no transpairns and equal Playing Fields for the kids it is never good for the kids in San Francisco. Our kids are pushed out of the mission and the majority are in the bayview and for you to tell me there is no African American, asian or lutino kids 14 to 16, it is embarsing. Park and rec darms who travels. 3 members of San Francisco youth soccer legal, we have 5 team squz all our teams have to win out to travel. Now they want to change the rules so the teams are allowed to travel before they hit the age of 15. For us, we need a even Playing Field for our kids to have a chance to go to college, to use soccer as a means to get a better education. Right now we dont have that. Park and rec made decisions that are really impacting that and got papers here, the same 3 people on the board are on the board of San Francisco vikings, San Francisco elite and they just change their names around. It is the same people but they change their names. If this was somewhere else this is boarder line conspiracy and today im sorry i didnt bring copies but ill email you what i have because it isnt right for park and rec to do that. Again, i ask you to please create a Oversight Committee from you guys to help us clear this up. We all want to Work Together. I was part of the 11 people nominated, i am a San Francisco resident and want what is best for our kids, there is no lutino or African American or asian there. Im for pro socker. Thank you. Next speaker. Heny pegler, happy Saint Patricks day. Happy Saint Patricks day i was a volunteer coach of a u 10 team that i have been a volunteer for a number of years and that team has consistently done well throughout the league. We were informed we wont be able to travel because we didnt meetd certain criteria. As a result we havent been able it practice on fields for 6 season. The team is 4 fire fighters, two Police Officer kids and have no place to practice in the city. We have forced to go out site and play on [inaudible] it is a conflict and problem for the parents who have to travel. I was told the team had not reached certain criteria, which my understand is there a Committee Forum who gets the right to travel. The teams that were traveling, clubs that i coach beat that team that was given the right to travelfelt the team that wont allowed to travel because they were not considered good enough, the gold league, silver, league and District Club twice and golden gate individual finalist so this team is capable of traveling and competing at the highest level chblt i understand there are restrictions on fields and it is hard to accommodate all the teams, but the bottom line is these players if they wasnt play they will quit. It isnt a challenge, it isnt good for the players they are playing against and not good for players trying to develop as player jz go on to collegeism one of the fears within the club is volunteer for different teams and joined a [inaudible] team and stayed there as a volunteer coach. I brought it up to a higher level about the way we were treated and it was fear the club would be retaliated against and would lose access to different fields so for that reason i didnt bring that forward earlier on. After 6 seasons the families said we cant do this anymore. We are not driving to pacifcaor daly city. We hope someone will give us the field or pay for field tooz play. It isnt right and need a better system in place so we understand the process. Thank you all for your time. Next speaker. Just to let you know you will hear two bells, the first bell means you have 30 more seconds so dont worry. My name is shawnee simp son and San Francisco native, grew up in San Francisco, played youth soccer in San Francisco and polished and professional soccer in San Francisco. A few years ago i started night school for law school and was coaching a few team tooz make a little money to get through school and the San Francisco field is a league called nor cal since inception. The rec and park representative made a role you cant play nor call which i ignoreed because with law education i looked through San Francisco codes and rec and park paults and there is no rule that says San Francisco youth are not allowed to play in the nor cal league. I wencht to the office to rent a field for the team playing the nor car legal and told you are not allowed toerant fields, but i was still given a field. As i was 4r50e6bing the representative told me, simp son you need to get your organization in line, which im not sure what she meant. I know some have a slip of the tongue. It was offensive but as a San Francisco citizen and dont see why the rec and Park Organization is telling youth soccer where they can and cant play. I think that the clubs should be able to decide if a child is able to play nor cal or not able to play nor cal. Nor cal is a competitive league. If you do a bad job with the club the parent will not longer want to be with your club so i would help rec and park will get outf the telling of children or clubs where they can and cant put the youth of San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. We have time for two more speakers. Thank you and good morning. Mikemic neal and director of soccer clubs here in the city. In the past we had a youth 13 team that was not allowed to travel. They won all the perspective prep league jz played a age group up and we were not given permits to travel in nor cal. Now this fall we see other organizations get two trachbl permits that never competed before in a prep league and they are desinating the other clubs in the city. There is a undr 13 girls team that is getting permits to travel when they have never once practiced or played together and they are taking away from the other clubs in the city and this organization is able to have a relationship with park and rec and get what they want. We ask that [inaudible] good morning. Joe mu cormic and coprecedent [inaudible] all over europe. In 2010 we formed a Youth Program to give kids a better place to play soccer in San Francisco, a alternative to what was there. We kept the fees at a minimum. For the first 3 years we ran at a deficit. We pay to give the kids a chance to play. The club grew and grew substantially and over the last year or 2 i noticed something that is disturbing, the fees in soccer have gotten out of control. I told myself raise your fees or lose your teams. Listen, raise your fees, lose your coaches, lose your players to my face. This is the prose precedent of the league. If he is saying it to me who else does he say it to. [inaudible] charge 2500 to 3,000 for kids to play soccer. My son is one of those kids. This year the fees went up to 2500 plus. There is no one African American or hispanic american and one chinese. It is a white affluent club. Over the years seeing that location, San FranciscoVikings Soccer Club [inaudible] if you go back to the records and ask you to look at the location for summer camps for the last 10 yearsism. Saf viking soccer club received [inaudible] 6 to 8 weeks in a row. It sin the records. Everyone has been pushed all over the city. The first year [inaudible] San Francisco vikings. Who has it 6 weeks in a row, San Francisco vikings. Who is the president of the San Francisco viking . Liby is involved with the San Francisco youth Soccer League. 25 percent of the votes from the viking soccer club and it is wrong. There are 13 on the board and 25 percent are San Francisco viking. The San Francisco youth board and academy board. [inaudible] thank you. Last speaker. Good morning commissioners. My name is leo casied and this is dave and rb son and combined together and we are one of the largest soccer clubs in San Francisco. We have 8,000 members in our club. Our club is one of the oldest club since 1961 and we believe we have the best volunteer based in the city. We have a girls team you just heard of that got banged by sf rec and park and those girls were 10 years of age, 4 years passed and now they are 14. Why on earth rec and park is involved in sf youth soccer, how they run their business amazing me and it is absolute degrace how long that went on for and what [inaudible] a team for 4 years and who is the [inaudible] it is a absolute outrage. Continuing on, we do a rec tournament and we do it for the kids in our club. There is no other rec tournament in the bay area for kids at this level, it is always about the elite players and this that and the other so we requested to do that tournament this year in [inaudible] on beach la for 5 years. We stood in the corner for beach la for 5 years. The kids sit on corners and on voting day we participated at every hearing [inaudible] we got denied for a reason. Now, there are members on the rec and park commission, members of sf viking and sf viking league and it is all tied together and you guys have to investigate and put the [inaudible] together of why and where and when and what is going on. There is a lot of stuff these people are well educated and very savvy, these people are very very very calculated behind the political process and all we ask at the end of the day is for fairness level Playing Field for everybody across the board. I really appreciate it, thank you very much. We are probably all going for a drink now shortly. Thank you very much. Happy Saint Patricks day. Real a quick i would like to see if there can be more transparency in the public approved benefit process because i did apply way back when i started the club and i was new to soccer in the city at that time and didnt understand it so much, but i have come to understand it seems like it is tightly guarded with the big 3 organizations, so i just wonder if that is open to everybody or if that is locked off. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We are at time for general Public Comment. The item will be continued to item 11. With that, we are now going to go to item 8, ceezer stadium approval of permit with scsfllc. Before we start the presentation i ask the general manager if staff can prepare a report for the commission on the Staff Perspective on this. Keenly aware of the fact soccer is growing at a rapid rate in San Francisco and that the demand on all the fields is challenging. I might add that that is our participation in the program, not the politics internlly of all the clubs, but having said that i like to get the Staff Perspective back to the the commission. If i can include in that a articulation the role the department plays in the process. It is my pleasure to do that. It seems to be soccer day on saint pattys day and let me say a up couple of things. Your observation is correct, this is a unfo