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Allocated to urban agriculture. So, that identified that these departments were playing a leadership role. The second recommendation, the one that im here to speak a little bit more on key tail on, is that the rec and Park Department should be the lead agency for the urban ag program. And finally, that San Franciscos public spending on urban ag is significant and should be used to leverage new private investment. Were really excited to have someone on board who can help us look for private funding to leverage this position and i also want to emphasize that were hoping that this addition would ...

Okay, thanks. And unless there is anyone from the city administrators office, why dont we now go to Public Comment. I have a couple of Public Comment cards. I want to first acknowledge eli [speaker not understood] from spur. [speaker not understood] from the San Francisco urban agriculture alliance. And then andrea i think its jag win from the white Spring Community garden. And anyone else who would like to speak in Public Comment, if you can please line up on the righthand side of this room. Eli. Thank you, supervisors. My name is eli zegas, im the [speaker not understood] program man erupt a...

Worked closely with San Francisco and Agricultural Alliance and spur for citywide Agriculture Program. Spur had previously released a report called the public harvest report that showed even though we had seen tremendous demand for urban agriculture, Community Gardening and urban farms grow across the city in recent years, there has been a notable lack of coordination among different agencies that govern urban agriculture. The legislate ition helped create the Program Designed to serve as a one stop shop for urban agriculture to assist in the formation of new garden projects, to provide resour...