Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20180216

Good morning. It is thursday, february 15th. This is the regular meeting of the San Francisco recreation and Parks Commission will the secretary call the roll. roll call commissioner buell and mcdonnell have excused absences. Please turnoff your devices. Also, if you would like to have a secondary conversation we request that goes outside. If you would like to speak on an item we request but do not require a blue card. Unless otherwise announced by the president each person will have two minutes for Public Comment on each item. If there is an item of interest not on the agenda under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, you may speak on general Public Comment, item 4. That is continued on item 9. When you make Public Comment, please address your comments to the commission in order to allow equal time for all. Neither the commission nor staff will respond to questions during Public Comment. The commission may ask questions of staff after Public Comment is closed. Last, and if the fire alarms activate you must evacuate the building. Please note elevators will immediately rush to the first floor and are not available for use. If you need assistance please make your way to the closest area across the hall in the mens restroom. There is a speaker box. Security will as test you. We are on item 2, president s report. Before the president s report, can the secretary check the mics of the commissioners to make sure everybody is working. I would like to make this the Vice President s report. You will hear shortly from the general manager of the many great park openings that we had. I wanted to really recognize that a lot o of the park openins and the grand ope openings is do the great work of the general manager and staff as well as the beneficiary of generous contributors and supporters particularly the trust for public land and Helen Diller Foundation and ja jackie and dae were blessed to have them in our lives. You had hear more from the general manager on the park openings. Second, i want to recognize tomorrow is the start of chinese new year. To the entire city of San Francisco and the department. That is my first great cantonese. Meaning happy new year, good health, may all your wishes come true. That is the conclusion of my Vice President s report. Is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment under that item . Being none it is closed. We are on the general managers report. Thank you. Happy new year. It is a time of many blessings, and commissioner lowe you articulated it. We are very grateful for a lot of wonderful things that have happened in the parks since we have been last together and over the last several years. I am going to try to run through them and offer a few other announcements. With apologies to those who celebrated valentines day with boring flowers and chocolates. Yesterday we celebrated the new helen diller playgrounds which we hope you saw as you were working in. They were made possible by a generous 10 Million Foundation from the foundation and with the Ongoing Partnership with the trust for public land. This is the third city play grounds renovated through the helen diller family foundation. The two were predecessors to this one. It is one of several projects we partnered on with hays valley, balboa park and hill tom and the relake ship goes back farther with the partnership projects. Buchanan mall is another one we are working on with gpl. We were in district 6 yesterday and we were joined by three amazing kids who spent a lot of time at bodecker and are involved in the boys and girls club. The city invested more than 30 million in the Park Improvement this is the last several years including not just civic center, south park and we have upcoming work at the Sergeant Mccoy playground and the mini park. They were opened in honor of may your lee. I was mayor lee. I was with them when we showed him the design. He was so excited but he said when he looked at it, he said this looks amazing. What if there were some lights. That embarked a very ambitious lighting element to these playgrounds which you saw part of last night. The big piece of it went on about 10 minutes after we cut the ribbon. That is show business, as they say. The lighting elements are extraordinary and unique. That was his vision. That is pretty special. We are not done. There is some construction fencing up around the civic center because this week we break ground on the second phase which is for the street cafe which will open this summer and serve coffee which i was looking for around civic center this morning and soft ice cream and sand witches. It will open this summer. Your staff is amazing on this. Great partnership and we couldnt have done it without the philanthropy. Jackie who is on Maternity Leave is the lead project manner. Leadership was fantastic. The guarding suppression staff, custodial staff, park rangers, the permits and reservations. Last nights opening planned by Public Affairs division was extraordinary. What would the Commission Meeting be like if they didnt say victory has many parents. There were a lot of reasons for the success of the project. As commissioner lowe noted and i had the great pleasure of being joined by commissioners anderson and bonilla. We reopened the randall museum. Two years, 9. 5 million with a little assistance from the grammy awardwinning musician mr. G we opened the 9 million project made possible by a 6. 5 million state parks grant, some government money, add backs from senator and supervisor scott weiner and money from our capital plan and yet another example of great philanthropy. The friends of the randall are wonderful and helped us deliver the margin of excellence raised another Million Dollars for the garage which is a stem lab focusing on science, engineering, technology and staff. It incorporates new animal exhibits. Over 100 live abmans grouped by animals. In one exhibit you see different species. That is cool. All playing nicely together like here at city hall. Seismic upgrades. Ada accessibility. New food concessions and what makes the randall so special admission to the museum is free, and many of the weekend programs are very nominal they cost a nominal fee. If you are five, 15 or 150 there is something to do at the randall. It is really special. It is chinese new year. We also celebrate lack history month. Last week black history month. Two of our park employees were honored at the board of supervisors. Park ranger kar. After serving for 6 years in the marines. He has spent more than 50 years with the city. 28 with muni and 23 as a San Francisco Police Officer. He has been a park ranger for the last park years. While at muni he was a 10 time cable car ringing champion and has traveled all over the world and been on Late Night Television and maybe, you know, recreation and Parks Commissions prominent celebrity for his cable car bell ringing. Interesting story. While he was at muni and ringing the cable car bell and riding. People noticed he was good at spotting pickpockets. Somebody suggested he become a Police Officer. This was later in his life, and at the time this goes back to i think like the 1980s. He was denied the opportunity to become a Police Officer because of his age. He sued the city and county of San Francisco in a lawsuit that went to federal court, and it is one of the most important age discrimination cases in federal law. He won and went on to have a long and productive career as a Police Officer. In his glory years he is spending time with the ranger television and great public ambassador in the parks. He is very special. Robert muhammad is the acting Park Services manager for area 4 which includes stern grove. He is a San Francisco native who grew up playing what was then ocean view and sunset rec. He was a big reckid he manages the parked where he plays every day. The story is that robert and his wife have made rooms available in their home as kids have gotten older and they had space for homeless pregnant women. Pretty amazing. Both of these gentleman are a reminder of the great people who serve in our parks. It is special. About 10 days ago the San Francisco chamber of commerce released the results of the annual survey poll surveying on the top issues the city is faced with. Parks topped the list 70 approval rating. Eldon pond gets the assist more popular than steph curry, baseball and thanksgiving. While there still remains a lot of angsts over quality of life it is a direction of the staff that you provide us to do our part to keep San Francisco and its parks clean, safe and beautiful. Last month i offered a quick update on proposed changes to the soccer field. After distributing to the community we received feedback from over 20 groups and individuals to date. We have made modifications based on that feedback. Additional comments are due february 19th. We are aiming to finalize the policy in march. This was the product an extensive study to respond to the amazing growth in youth sports and the shift particularly in travel soccer which is a bigger business and we need to make sure that is consistent with our Public Benefit plan. The commission passed a policy years ago that is still very applicable dealing with Administrative Guidelines and regulations for making sure that people understand what is needed to be an approved Public Benefit. Thursday, february 22nd, we are going to be joined by the San Francisco Parks Alliance and city officials at the 11th annual crab fest at the cultural center. This year as it benefits the recreation and Parks Commission Scholarship Program in honor of mayor lee. We are going to bring to the commission in the months to follow an item in which we would name the Scholarship Program after mayor lee. This is something he cared about a great deal and very focused on equity and access. The program has grown considerably in the last seven or eight years. We now give away the Scholarship Program offers well all most a million andaquarter free and subsidized Youth Programs and summer camps. It is fun. A lot of crab. Live entertainment by macy black man. There are visits visit Parks Alliance. Org. On saturday february 24th from 10 00 a. M. To june we invite you to the Geneva Community garden opening. There will be raffles and a potluck lunch. Also on february 24 we invite everybody to join us for opening Day Festivities to mark the 2018 Baseball League season. We are moving to spring. Pitchers and catchers have reported. Sfybl opens at kimble from 10 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. It includes a home run derby and team parade and more. Each spring we serve over 4,000 youth baseball players, girls and boys ages 4 to 14 from t ball to pony League Levels and numerous teams on our very, very successful girls baseball program. Lastly, mark your calendars for extravaganza on march 31st when we celebrate the spring family event at the newly named Robin Williams meadow in Golden Gate Park with games, food trucks and raffles. More to come. Before i conclude with our video this month on parks, one final announcement. I am honored and happy to announce our chief urban for rester Kelly Cornell will receive a 2018 Good Government award from spur next month. The Good Government awards recognize outstanding Job Performance and manager excellence. They have been doing it for 38 years. This is a unique opportunity to make a difference within City Government and the community atlarge. Kelly, who worked for our organization for a long time, is speaking for the trees, manages the 140,000 tree canopy and the management plan. Did remarkable work at the camp where the fires destroyed the urban canopy and almost forced us to close the camp last summer which we did not. He worked hard to preserve the red wood grove and created the greenway diversion program. He will be back in march. I couldnt pull him here this morning after he was given the award in march. Now for our video in parks we focus on our spring registration and day cam registration which begins in march. Thank you, bryan. All of that is your very special park system. That concludes the general managers report. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none the Public Comment is closed. We are now on item 4, which is general Public Comment. At this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and do not appear on the agenda. With respect to agenda items you can address the commission when the item is reached. I have three cards. You get two minutes each. Steve, judy and sandy. Good morning, commissioners, Vice President lowe commissioners, director ginsburg. I am steve nicago, the Community Organizer for the japan Town Community benefit district. For 45 years i was executive director of the senior center. As the point of information i am the Vice President of the San Francisco fire commissioner. I am for inclusion of the japan town peace plaza in terms of the 2019 recreation and park bond. As you know it is one of three japan houses left in the United States. Los angeles and tokyo, san jose with San Francisco, we are 110 years old. Historically we were the gateway for japan in terms of the United States. Everything came through from the east, the far east through asia through San Francisco. We also experience, as you know, in 1942 executive order 9066 where 110,000 japanese americans were pit in concentration camps. With that for us in japan physical geographical area was total removal of the japanese community. We returned in 1942 at the 50th anniversary of the peace plaza we development by the then director and the city policy. What we want to do is celebrate the peace plaza in terms of making that open space and our part of the neighborhood of San Francisco into a beautiful location. It was one of the favor projects of the late may or ed lee in feelings of the peace plaza being part of this particular bond. Thank you very much, commissioners. Judy and sandy, please. Good morning commissioners, thank you so much for my minutes with you. I am judy, a board member of the japan town task force and the president of the San Francisco chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. More importantly, i am someone who was raised in japan town. My family arrived after world war ii. I was there watching as all of that was demolished and rebuilt. I come with that sort of message. This was a vision of japan town that was put on us and hundreds of residents and businesses went through what was considered the second relocation. The Community Since then has fought very hard, very diligently to maintain the neighborhood. I am talking about the importance of this to our future generations and the way we feel about our community. There are many, many event that happen there and over its 50 years the Cherry Blossom festival is 50 years old. The street fair is 40 years old and the Japanese American Citizens League has been in that neighborhood and worked there for 90 years. We are pretty embedded in this community. We would like to see that our efforts as a community to preserve japan town and the boundaries and areas is considered and remembered. Thank you so much. Sandy. Good morning, commissioners, director ginsburg. I am sandy morey. I am representing the board of directors. Our mission is to preserve and make sure we have a japan town four the future years of our community. I want to bring your attention to the issue of the peace plaza, one of your city parks. It is a very important part of your community. We have an ad hoc Community Working on the peace plaza remediation project. We have been meeting with your department and other departments like the mta, chief administrative officers and the Mayors Office and budget people. This is a very complicated project because it involves so many departments. What we would like to do is partner with your department to come up with a Concept Design for a renovated peace plaza. Right now the plaza is in shambles. We would like to Work Together with your department on this and therefore we would like to participate in your 2019 park bond process. Thank you very much. Is there anyone else. Richard. I saw the hand go up. Good morning. I am trying to speak about the francis reservoir. I was able to participate in the last show before it comes before this commission. There were a few items i thought might be of interest to different commissioners such as kat anderson. It is the doll play area has been increased 40 . It is going to be improved over the drainage due to location, slopes, they are going to try to use pipes there with holes to drain through. They have gravel and then the artificial turf. Myself i thought they would need more to drain more thursda thor. I looked at it and i was looking at the ada access way. It has along winding access that is popular. I look at the steep slope of hyde street. The main entrance they use is the corner that has a lot of wind effect blowing over the main entranceway. I was looking four the entrance, exit. I was looking at the francisco way before the slope is not as rough to try to navigate. If you are an old timer such as commissioner tom harrison whom i have known for so long. I looked at it. When it does come before this Commission Next month, i would like a little attention to include it in the and sillarrie entrance to the park from the sanfrisco side. Thank you. Anyone else who would like to make general Public Comment, not on an item listed today . Okay. This item is closed. We are now on item 5. Consent calendar. I have several cards for that is if i call you come up. Martha, julie and peg and paula to start with, please. Thank you. More than 10 years ago a group of advocates met at the Tennis Center to form a group to advocate for public tennis in San Francisco. Some of those people are here today. From that came the tennis pros, unite state tennis representatives to help public tennis and out this of that came renovating the Tennis Center. We have now come to an exciting place. I want to thank bill ginsburg and dana keech emfor the constant work to form the partnership and the partnership with the Parks Alliance. We appreciate all they have done. We have larry dodge, who was the visionary architect who helps us get to this point. We learned a lot about how to run and manage a Tennis Center. We have met with people from denver, new york, here in california to hear what makes a public Tennis Center him. We learned a lot and formed a wonderful project out of that. I want to thank my cochair who has worked very hard on running that part of the process. Finally, last wednesday was a Beautiful Day at the Tennis Center, and there were people playing pickle ball, tennis and pingpong. I know those people we listened to them and made a project that works for everybody. We hope that you accept and support this wonderful project. We appreciate the money the city has put into it, too, thank you very much. Next speaker. Good morning. Thank you all for having us here today to give us the opportunity to speak in support of the Tennis Center renovation project. I am the fifth generation from california and grew up playing tennis. We did not belong to a private club and hit the local high schools. My parents taught us how to play and my favorite memories are the mixed doubles team. I have been playing for over 50 years and developed many friendships. While i am happy when i win a love set. I never expected to find it on the court when i met fifeature husband across the net. It is about family, friends, marriage and community. One of the best parts is the community engagement. It is good to hear about as far back as 70 years ago. This is a public facility we take community earn put seriously and modified the plans to incorporate the good suggestions you have heard. I believe in the power of the sport and how it teaches more than stroke mechanics. It is about the important things g. Sports good sportsmanship, have been fun, making new friends and exercise. These reasons are why i support the tennis and Learning Center and great work the recreation and Parks Commission is doing to deliver these opportunities in San Francisco. Tennis can be a pathway to success. It will be clean, safe, accessible. More programming for more people. We expect it to hi humm on all cylinders. It will be a facility we deserve and can all be proud of. Thank you for your consideration. Peg, paula, kay, lois, please. Good morning. I am peg stevenson. I am here to support the project. Thank you for hearing us. I am here in a tennis player and board member for the gay lesbian foundation. You dont have to be gay to join. We have straight members, too. Our members enjoy all of the public Tennis Courts and Golden Gate Park. We have made an organizational commitment where we are donating money to it and raising money from members. We play tournaments and casually. We have a big tournament every mem day weekend going on for 30 years. The last three were in golden gate partly cloudy. We are happy Golden Gate Park for the United States gay open. It is like the u. S. Open only smaller and gayer. We invite your play. It is a couple hundred players from around the country to enjoy this wonderful facility. I want you to know how much our members will support it with our time, dollars, enthusiasm. The nature i have been involved with the tennis process and i am companyfident we will keep excellent public access. I am excited about nights for light. I live mere deloris live near deloris park. The chance that if we have 9 00 to 5 00 jobs it is pay huge benefit to work with the teams. Thank you for your support. We are enthusiastic about the project. Good morning. I am paula murphy. I lived in San Francisco for the past 25 years. For the past 10 i have been playing tennis in San Francisco mostly on public courts. Jumping off what peg said i want to focus my comments on what a huge benefit having lights at golden gates Tennis Center will be. Imagine you work for a living, which i think most of us do, that you cant afford to be a member of the private club, and you play doubles. Mosmost of us of a certain age y doubles. You know, what are your options for playing tennis other than weekends . You get into your cars or on your bike or whatever, Public Transportation and go across the city and all four of you meet there and you just cross your fingers and hope that nobody is playing. Often times there is someone playing, there is people waiting. Then you decide, okay, are we going to wait two hours and stand here or try to go somewhere else . Then you all get in cars or on your bike and go somewhere else and hope the same situation doesnt await you. This will help you know for sure you will be able to play. You can make a reservation and play after work. It will increase access phenomenally. For people who play tennis and cant afford the private clubs and need to work for a living that is a reason to support the project. I hope you agree. Kay, lois, david, trish. I am kay christianson. I support the project in the park. I think it is an incredible gift to the city. As it stands now some of the courts are barely playable. They have big cracks. Some have net posts that rusted out. There are no nets. I have played from for over 40 years. I would love to see the park Tennis Center restored to the former glory. Thank you. I am highway lois. I started in the 1980s. I would like to say i was nominated and elected the San Francisco captain of the year in 2014 for the u. S. Ta norcal because i have been captain out there numerous times, and i have wonderful teammates and memories from playing at the park. The park is in need of great repair and i look forward to seeing it not only restored to the former glory but a new glory with lighted courts, with reservation systems, with on going maintenance, and continued aspects of the San Francisco community. I appreciate all of your support, and i will continue to support the project. Thank yothank you very much. We have henry, kevin and larry, please. Good morning, commissioners and general manager. I am trish robins for 10 years the all volunteer Tennis Coalition envisioned this moment being so close to the renovation of the Tennis Center. It was not wellknown 10 years ago. We met with groups and individuals, and gradually we drained their trust and deep partnerships with the San Francisco recreation and Parks Commission with the goal of making tolden gate partly cloudy golden gate partly cloudy Tennis Center we are doing it four our kid was the opportunity to build an educational piece to the Tennis Center with the expansion of the tennis and Learning Center for underserved middle school kids which will be headquartered there. We want a safe and accessible public tennis facility to serve everyone 5 or 95. Did i mention we are all volunteers . Thank you for your support. I am david glass sil. I have been playing tennis at Golden Gate Park. I started about 70 years ago and played on the lowell team. We couldnt play at night out there. It came 5 00, we were finished because it was getting dark, and there was no light. I think one of the main things is making the Tennis Center where everybody can play. They can play up to 8 00 or 9 00 at night or 10 00. I dont know exactly what time it will close, but i think it is very important for the young people who are growing up in the city to have a place to go where there is plenty of courts and they can really enjoy it anytime of the day. All of the people who work can be there at night. They can have leagues at night like the tennis Club Downtown has. Even the Golden Gateway they have lights and their clubs at night. I would urge you to put this through and give us a chance to have the great Tennis Center. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello commissioners. I am kevin fry. I am a uspta tennis teaching professional and have been for about 10 years, and i would just say it is nice to have a public facility that will have diverse interests and competing interests all sort of meld into one. That is pretty awesome. I also think that Learning Center program to have kids there and have a safe place for them to play and be able to play late at night is going to be awesome with lit courts. I thank you for the opportunity to be able to do that at the park. Thank you. Next speaker. After henry is larry i donna, jim and john. I am here for diversity since i have suggestions to improve the proposals. I am henry broadcast. I am among 50 seniors who play in the mornings at Golden Gate Park. We agree lights are a wonderful thing, and we like the commitment to access for children and nonwealthy adults who dont belong to a private club. However, there are elements of the plan that i think the commission should consider more closely. First of all, the oversight and the development of the plan has been done in a insulated fashion. It started out with two groups. It has not expanded to include all of the tennis playing public. The Needs Assessment has not been done. We also think that the decision right from the begin to turn over the park to a for profit tennis vendor is dangerous because that vendor will be tasked with keeping up the courts and paying his staff. As we go ahead to try to serve all of community that we want to, the rates will go up and with the plan the number of courts will go down. The tennis playing public will have less access at higher cost. This is exactly the opposite of what the benefactors wanted. When we look around at other places like sunnyvale and Mountain View Mountain View courts are rented out to patrons and they go for 12 to 24 an hour and lessons 100 per hour. This is needed to pay a staff for the extended hours we are talking about. I want to caution the commission to curthat the wonderful access that night supply does not take away from the daytime usage because they may be different people using them at different times. Larry, donna, jim, john. Mr. Reader, and charles. You can come up please if i called your name. In any order. If you can come up, please. Good morning. Thank you for your time. I am here on behalf of support of the parks. The 10 Tennis Coalition and the parks and ministration to improve the tennis facility at Golden Gate Park. I am a tennis player. I tennis player. I play everywhere i can. I play in the private and public parks around here. I think this is an amazing project, it is remarkable. It is with all levels of the community. It is a well overdue improvement for the city and for the community. I think the minimal additional amount of money the city needs to come up with to fund this project shouldnt go unnoticed especially given 22000 hours of usage by all members of the community this project is going to provide. I think the city and commission should be proud to have a community that is this committed to having aim provement in the parks for tennis and sports and community in general. I appreciate your time and thank you for your approving this project and going forward. Next speaker, please. Good morning. Jim sutton, member of the Tennis Coalition. I have been playing on the public courts in San Francisco for 35 years, the plaza, marina, used to play at Golden Gate Park. To be frank, they are too close together years ago i stopped playing at Golden Gate Park. My wife and i are excited to be involved. My son was on the High School Team and won the city doubles championship at Golden Gate Park last year. I will tell you as the parent and observer nowhere to it is, nowhere for water, the clubhouse is outdated. Bathrooms are unare down. This is a wonderful process. A call out to phil and his staff and everyone who worked so hard. The Tennis Courts and volunteers also the Parks Alliance. It is a wonderful partner. We have had a lot of public meetings. There are a lot of different people. We were surprised ho how many different interests are interested in the parks. It is interesting to see how many more groups will be able to play at the new renovated courts. Seniors in the morning and lessons in the middle of the day. So many more High School Teams with time to play in the afternoon. There will be the great rec and park camps. I hope that you support all aspects of this project. Thank you. Next speaker. Good morning. I was born in San Francisco, raised in Golden Gate Park. My family is behind me. I want to say it is wonderful to see progress. I have been involved in after School Programs for over 30 years, and i will probably go from tennis to pickle ball and maybe pingpong. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good morning. Thank you for having me. I moved here 40 years ago from france. I enjoy spending time in the beautiful parks and raising my two daughters on the soccer, field and Tennis Courts. I learned to play at lafayette park. I am in full support of this renovation project. It is badly needed. I have been in many nonprofits. More recently the city youth. People are passionate about caring for others and making sure everyone has access to the activity they need. I serve as board president of the city youth and see what happened to kids if they do not have a solid support system at home. The tennis and Learning Center can provide underserved people with that. It is an introduction to a sport with building blocks. I look forward to spending time at in center. I can watch, weight for my wife and grab a cup of coffee. Thank you for your time. Next speaker. Hello. I am one of the organizers of the senior tennis that plays three days each week at Golden Gate Park. This plan looks great. Everybody says wow, all these new courts, a lounge, a lot of tennis. Unfortunately, for us it has very, very severe unintended consequences. Our senior group will be destroyed by this plan unless you can please make some changes. First of all, most people dont know we are losing four courts. We cant lose courts. We dont have enough to begin with. Secondly, the seniors play in the morning. We play doubles for an hour andahalf. Under this plan, reservations are for an hour. Most importantly, the seniors are offered a lower rate. If you are a for profit operator you are not going to put the lowpaying seniors in there. You will try to get the courts out on lessons, you are going to encourage tennis camps, do all of that stuff. I just know our group is not going to have enough space. We played doubles for an hour andahalf. You cant play doubles for an hour. After you rally there is time for one set. That needs changed. My request is please consider a special break for seniors. We need an hour andahalf in the morning for our group. Nothing wrong with reserving the courts for seniors, and also it is possible in our pinto revise the our opinion that it takes up a lot of room. I would encourage the changes. The group of us would love to work with the recreation and Parks Commission. We didnt have the opportunity before. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker. Good morning. I am charles higgins. I grew up playing Golden Gate Park. I played on the High School Team and later was the executive director of youth tennis advantage working with kid from the mission and we used Golden Gate Park twice a year for big gatherings, a very important place for young people to get out of the neighborhoods and experience the Golden Gate Park in a meaningful way. The redesign of the courts and clubhouse is going to be impactful for these young people to experience a world class facility and a sport they can play the rest of their lives. Currently, the High School Teams play there and fill up the courts when they play the matches and the all city matches in the late fall and late spring. It is here again a spectacular facility for accommodating young people. I very much encourage you to support the project. Thank you. Next speaker. After this gentleman i have called all the names for this item. For item five not item eight. Please hold up. If there is anyone else who would like to speak on item five, could you please come forward and you may speak. Go ahead. I am larry dodge here on behalf of the coalition. I helped to design part of this project, and i think the concerns particularly the seniors have are part of a balancing act the operator will take into account, and it will be addressed in probably two different ways. One is through the agreement we come to what the requirements are that that operator will include. Then it is almost a daytoday, week by week quarter by quarter balancing act by operator to have all of the users who want to use it come out with the best conclusions they can. That is the advantage of having a operator with experience in tennis. It is called experience. It is . In the ness in the necessary in th in the tennis c. I wanted to make those points. Thank you. Next speaker. I want to say a couple things here. I have been doing this for a long time all my time i have been doing this, okay . I want to see that the ladies here today and by goods all of the time. Now they dont have that time any more to get that other line to do this any more because i want you to keep doing the things you have up here. Do all of the things you were ever to do it. I want to see you do that. It is not about hitting out and getting a draw. It is like we say things sometimes. I will tell you some times you have to know what is going on. It is for that. This guy is for that. The way you guys have done this all of the timeout here. This is how it should be as you have been doing all your time. Do not get what you need. You dont need that stuff any more. You dont need to look at that what do you call it . What do you call it . Anyway. Thank you for your time and thank you for your time. I will see you again. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am willis salisbury the cochair of the Tennis Coalition of San Francisco. I would like to speak where we concluded that an operator is the best way to make sure we are going to achieve the vision we have which is that this beautiful facility will be stunning and operate understand an ex larrie in a way to be the bedrock. We did the homework and saw most municipalities concluded the experience of someone who has run the facility will make a great difference in making sure it is maintained. It serves people in a balanced way. We are going to have continuing interests but new interests once this place is thriving with the kind of program we envision to make it the heartbeat of tennis in San Francisco. I want to speak to the question of accessibility. Accessibility. There is no constraint how long a court can be booked this. Is something the operator may consider in terms of balances. It is a question of 30 minute increments. No constraight. A different way of booking than today. The good news about the center like golden gate partly cloudy is that there is a natural withthem. Kids rhythm. Working people are going to play and senior this is the morning. There will be new programs they should attract new and different players. We want a operator to bring this to full life wherever body loves to play and they feel they will be treated fairly. We do intend to have an ongoing advisory process and feedback with the operator so the operator only succeeds when there is a Double Bottom line. A bottom line for that operation but where the public is satisfied and proud of this facility. Next speaker. [please stand by]