and we will prevail, and we will get an injunction, and i think you for my time. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. [applause] next speaker, please. >> i am here to support this legislation with sharp park. as a goal for myself, i feel that the restoration of the park would be the best thing to do. we are pumping water out to see every day -- sea every day. it goes against the endangered species act. i think turning it into a national park would be the best way. it would open it up to use to anybody regardless of personal

interest or economic class. it would be saving millions of dollars as taxpayers. we would be saving a lot of water that we used to irrigate the place. thank you for taking the time to hear what i have to say. thank you. >> thank you. >> i am from san bruno. focusing the discussion only on golf is a mistake. the berm with beach activities and running are equally imperiled by the ordinance. this is a land use discussion about sharp park is open for health and well-being or is a new frog inclosure the confines people to narrow trails. modern recreation is a dishonest code for people out. supervisor avalos, you got it

right when he said to take it back. the national park service continues to reneg on its promises to keep recreation in place. the chief biologist crystallized the extremist thinking on recreation in 2005 when she said that ocean beach without people is an incredible habitat. people think of it as a sandbox with their backyards. the people of san francisco reserve officials who listen and promote local health and well- being. in listening to the discussion earlier today on ordinance seven talking about the federal government and how they are not listening to the people and how the fans are out of sync with san francisco and how money used for other things takes away from san francisco, to me that totally applies to this.

ggr runs about 80,000 acres of san francisco park. any money spent on the massive restoration is taking it away from other places where there is not even an adequate bathrooms. i encourage you to take more time. do not push this through to the board of supervisors before people have a chance to look at it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you for taking the time to listen to all of us. we have produced a lot of testimony for you to digest. i work for the san francisco bay chapter of the sierra club. we represent 30,000 members in the counties closest to the bay. this was a habitat's campaign, the idea of the sierra club

believe we can practice and more managed natural retreat of the coast line to protect the habitat for species and people. there are people that lived behind the golf course. eventually, the sea will rise and we will have to do with the way to protect them. in natural system will create dunes. the berm will erode. we can create the back area berm to protect the area. i am glad the mayor from pacifica is here to hear that. the natural shoreline is the best protection for those people. if you invest a lot of resources into a golf course including the current proposal to dredge the lagoon, you are only just to find a further need to protect the resources the city and county invested by building a sea wall. there are few places where you

have a natural shoreline. this happens to be one of them. it is rare treasure for that and the lagoon's system that is fresh water. you can read more about it in the study produced by the esa and pwa. it was not considered when the department was creating their proposal to maintain 18 holes of golf. i am submitting it for the record. i would also like to mention that they did not seem to be aware that there is a clause in the audience -- ordinance to maintain their jobs. if it is approved and the golf course is closed, they will offer positions to all employees consistent with civil service rules and collective bargaining agreements. [tone!] i am also submitting a, for someone who was not able to

be here. -- a comment for someone who was not able to be here. i want to submit 1000 petitions and would rather see it used as trios instead of a golf course. you have already received countless similar petitions. thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon. i am here representing the san francisco green party and the local grassroots organization our city. a few speakers were in strong support of the avalos legislation to restore it as a habitat. a few people have touched on the big picture, climate change and other human impacts to habitats. i want to bring that into sharp focus. i want to remind people that

last week, climate scientists said human beings have five years to get our act together on the climate crisis or we are facing a serious disaster. any scientist you talk to will tell you the human species and its impact on the climate have become the equivalent of emir of striking the planet similar to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. any biologist will tell you we are already on the way to losing massive numbers of species on the planet. you can see it happening all around us. that brings us to key species. these are threatened and endangered species because they

are hanging on by their toenails. they are not thriving. [tone!] with the global warming problems coming into the coast line especially with a berm artificially holding seawater in when it floods, the golf course is an anvil. the species are on that. the climate humans and induced are the hammer striking and will. we should restore it to the natural habitat without a golf course. -- striking the anvil. >> are there any other members of the public who would like to comment? now is the time. see no one come forward, i will close public comment.

i would like to thank all of them members of the public on all sides of the issue for being here and spending most of your day to be here. clearly we have a piece of legislation that there is a lot of passion about on both sides. i do believe there are good intentions on both sides of the issue. the environment to one is one that i happen to side with. -- the environmental one is the one that i happen to side with an think is critical. it is not just saving money for the city and county. it is about having the best method of protecting species. that is why i am supporting and came forward with the legislation. i want to thank all of the committee groups that came forward, especially the sierra

club, the wild equity institute, for their work on the legislation. the legislation in its current form is not without controversy. i believe with an amendment that we are moving forward with a process -- an ordinance that is not a project and does not require ceqa before its passage. that can hold out until tomorrow to move forward if we can move this out of committee without recommendations to the full board as a committee report for tomorrow, i think that would be one method i would appreciate. appreciate supervisor elsbernd 's support in that knowing he will not ultimately support the legislation. that seems to be where we're at

right now. the meeting has gone long. our other committee on a colleague -- our other colleagues on the committee is in the land use committee, supervisor mar:, does not have the ability to be here. supervisor elsbernd: has agreed to set the motion to move forward as a committee report without recommendations to tomorrows full board meeting. we can take out without objection. so be it. we will do that tomorrow. ok. madam clerk, after an hour-long discussion on this item, which i am sure will continue again tomorrow, we will adjourn this meeting. thank you for your time. >> yes, mr. chairman.

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