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speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the january 28thf supervisors' agenda. item number one is a hearing to considering appointing one member term ending 2023, to the oversight committee. one seat, one applicant. >> chairwoman: hi. is atori laou here? a beautiful name, did i pronounce it correctly? >> yes. >> chairwoman: is good. come on up. do you have any presentation or thoughts you want to share with us. >> i would like to introduce myself and share with you why i would like to join the committee, if that is okay with...

Just really just want to say that i think around equity that it comes down to a fundamental belief in what we believe, not just about parks but what we believe about people and what do we believe about segments of our population. I agree. Supervisor fewer when we do equity work thats what were really getting at, its about who we are, and who we are as people and what do we fundamentally believe and for some of us it is a paradigm shift, for some of us but if we dont have also people teaching us we wont know. And as a chinese woman and College Educated in this position, i have a huge privilege....

Lake and this is the entry way of Golden Gate Park and we invested money into doing a study at lincoln and ninth so that we can look at making that entryway to Golden Gate Park which is heavily used by so many folks all over the city and we want to make that definitely more safe and we also want to make it a nice entryway and look at signage and ways in which we could improve the experience and the ease of getting around in Golden Gate Park. So thats a whole other conversation. But ultimately, i think that just dialing it down a little bit, the bigger vision of making the changes, and the peac...

There were several points wrapped in there. You were talking about Golden Gate Park, and the Golden Gate Park master plan is a living, breathing document. It actually sits on my desk. There are a number of Golden Gate Park initiatives in the Strategic Plan and i would say to you from my last 10 years in this position that there is probably no more robust conversation than there is on any issue around Golden Gate Park. I think that, frankly, i think that we have more work to do getting other neighborhood groups and folks from other parks engaged in, you know, sort of park policy and park advoca...

Transparent process to discuss the plans of Golden Gate Park and specifically john f. Kennedy drive because its not just for people who manage parks, its actually about people who use the parks. And so i would love to have sort of a process to engage all park neighbors, stakeholders and moving forward and what that process might look like and are they willing to do that . What do you think, mr. Ginsburg. There were several points wrapped in there. You were talking about Golden Gate Park, and the Golden Gate Park master plan is a living, breathing document. It actually sits on my desk. There ar...