Out and im not sure about lighting, but they didnt want a lot of young people to hang out. What im trying to say is how can we keep kids from doing other things . Things that are always complained about that they are just hanging out doing the negative stuff we hear on tv, if we dont have anything for them to do . Im using 17th and folsom because i was directly involved and if you look at the plan there really isnt anything for young teenagers to do there. The lawn i guess is for the young adults for the city to lay around and get suntans or whatever they do, but there is nothing for young kids so please look into this. Maybe its not to late to add a Basketball Court will for these young kids. Thank you. [ applause ] hello, my name is lauren tom, and i am retired attorney. Im a twogeneration im a secondgeneration San Francisco native. Im a parent. My husband here is a fourthgeneration san franciscan and we have seen the city go through a lot of changes over the years. I want to applaud
Its going all through town and as affected they are trying to keep the fields open much longer to collect as much money as possible. Thank you very much. [ applause ] elizabeth. Hi. I lived right across from Mission Playground since 1992 until 2005 when i ended up having to move out because of this displacement basically. Somebody who had more money basically forced me out of my home. I had to move to potrero hill. I feel like we are incredibly lucky to have such youth that we have in the Mission District, who are able to express themselves in such an honorable way and basically just tell the guys, hey, why dont we play together . These guys basically slapped them in the face, and now i hear that one of them actually kicked one of them in the back. So what are you going to do about it . What i mean is that we really need to learn a little bit of cultural appropriateness here. First of all the signs are in english and Community Standards are basically what we have to be all about. My so
Good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. Before anything else, i want to congratulate the kids who stand to up for the community. The reason im here today, when i saw the video, it encouraged me i have been in the Mission District for over 33 years. And i have been working with kids. When i start coaching kids in soccer, when they were 7 years old, at the age of 12 years old, i heard the rumors why are we wasting fields on kids from the Mission District . Lets be realistic, how many of them are going to graduate from high school . When i hear those rumors, i said this cant happen. So i spent a lot of time sharing notes on this issue, starting from 7 years old and finished when they were 18 years old and we went back and forth, back and forth, we were back on the fields when franklin was dirt. It was sand. I have to rent lights for us to practice on the fields when no one was interest and then after that, it got fixed and started renting it and we got kicked out and we had
Visible in the community as being targeted. I would like for the panel to acknowledge that the diversity in the city, the latin culture, the africanamerican culture and even the asian culture has made this city famous for the culture that is here. But that is exiting, because we know inequalities do exist in the city. We would like to see a stand taken against that. So we can continue to be present in the city. But any choices that you are making in regards to for instance our parks, please be considerate these are impacting to our future. These children are our future. These youth are our future and they are seeking every way to remain a positive, visible presence in our city and i hope this is being taken seriously. We know we live in a Capitalistic Society and we would still like to be visible in this society. So please be aware of this when you make your choices in regards to the parks, because the parks are definitely instrumental in the life of our youth and your future as well.
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