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The exiting issues and i am sure that if he is going anywhere soon, he is going to keep us on our toes on that and so we are expecting that, i already had that discussion with him this morning, prior to the hearing, he brought up something there, but a second means of egress from a third level that is the first that i heard that have and the discreptcy on the plans. I think that all of those issues will be sorted out at the addendum stage, process. Thank you. Thank you, good evening, president hwang. The project remains compliance and we see no reason to grant the rehearing request. I am avail...

Presentation. So, i am also a park user and i would like to say thank you for hearing the appeal and considering our concerns. It is absolutely not correct that spending a half Million Dollars for a repeated Community Workshops replaces the compliance with the Environmental Control regulations. The workshops are more about marketing a product, rather than the project so that they can make sound decisions. If you look at the certificate of determination, it is specifically says that there is no work in the natural areas, and that there is work on the hillside. There was a quick email that was s...

Presentation that chris made. First of all, i have a question about whether it really is work putting in so much pesticide into the natural areas. And the fact is that i dont think that the numbers that weve showed on that graph for Pesticide Use are accurate. Going back to what i said in the database, just off the top of my head, there were two months of data missing in 2010. There was at least one month of data missing in 2013. There were three or four different reports that didnt get included in 2012. So, i think the database is working to its greater accuracy. I dont know if its there yet....

For moe mosquitox, for example, that we really cant control. ~ its something that is driven by mosquito outbreaks, west nile virus outbreaks, various Public Health issues, and also those are almost universally very low toxicity products. They are mike robial products that are in storm drains or hormones that are in tiny, tiny amounts ~. So, thats the rationale for not looking at that. These are the top 10 most used hazardous products in the city based on active ingredient, pounds of active ingredient. Youll see most of them are for golf courses. Joining us now is [speaker not understood] which...

Conference we cosponsored, the city of crest and Parks Conservancy and many thanks to them for helping out in that effort. Based on the Design Training which is the first of its kind in San Francisco, we had this past year, and every year we have a complete round of annual pesticide safety and ipm trainings for anyone who is remotely involved with pesticides. And, of course, our monthly meetings at the ipm Technical Advisory Committee which its about 10 times a year is what it amounts to. I also wanted to mention we launched a project to turn the pest prevention by Design Guidelines into a lea...