immediately reduced the sound. not at the end of the next set or when it is convenient for them. the second point that i want to make is that these concerts' advertise somewhere between 50,060 thousand attendees for each of those three days. the same number people that attended the 49ers football games. supervisor mar: bluegrass is probably higher than that. >> ok. consider that when 49ers fans go to a football game, they go on a special, purpose filled access road and go into a special, purposed facility. right now we are trying to pit 1 gallon of concert in to make 1 quart size part in it is not working. i keep hearing the message that it is not that much of a problem, forget about it. i in the end, they're not

opposed to a concert in the park as long as they stay away, but they're not doing that. i like a wonderful idea that we share the love to around the city. thank you. [tone] supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker? >> my constituents are going to hate me now. thank you. [laughter] >> the afternoon, supervisors. my name is louis marino. every year i have tried to add to this. i am going to speak of my own experience. i have never had any problems with garbage or the illegal units. as a resident in the region, i have tried to support it.

for my own kids, going into the park, it is not a healthy culture of the event. my family in chicago, they talk about the bay breakers. we do not have any big issues. we support this 100%. thank you for your time. supervisor mar: thank you. >> my name is timothy wright. i am a san francisco native. i am here for a couple of reasons. number one, the most important part of this issue is the jobs created from these events. these are tough times. we need jobs here. park in iraq is doing a great job. i lived in the inner richmond.

i get notices from the bottom a call it -- the group that sends it out. it has gotten a lot better management. i think that these are great things. i grew up going to music festivals all my life. i think that to stop that would be terrible. one other thing that i would like to say, supervisor colin, i have lived out in that district and it is -- supervisor: -- supervisor cohen, i have lived out there and it is a hidden gem. my biggest complaint is i might have to wait to get a table in a restaurant, which does not bother me. these are my neighbors, they support me, and i have to support them. thank you very much. supervisor mar: i will call more with my last remaining cards. [reads names]

those are the remaining cards that i have. >> hello, i own a restaurant that is often mistaken for outside lands. it is the historical nickname of this city that we live in, which has a big leak in friends, though it does maintain some sort of extent right now. i have lived there for most 10 years. my wife and i settled down because we saw so much potential there in our little block, which has grown a lot over the last five years. the restaurant has been a significant part of that. there is a residual awareness of businesses. as soon as i mentioned the around a fact, people came in to

try places they never would have come to before. then they remember that and they tell their friends about it. there is a residual financial impact on the businesses out there. beyond that, being a parent of a 3-year-old daughter, i want to agree with the woman who appreciates having a safe place for her daughter, finding a cultural contribution in an environment that is positive. from a food perspective, san francisco being one of the premier world-class destinations for food culture, i think that outside lands in particular has done a particularly good job in sourcing and representing at aspect of our completely amazing food culture in san francisco. thank you very much. supervisor mar: outlands is on

judah and 40 it? >> 45th avenue and judah. it was really wonderful for us to be able to walk that festival and enjoy a lovely night. supervisor mar: thank you. mr. paulson, i did not call your name. you will have to wait. next speaker? miss debbie joseph? >> thank you for this opportunity. a gentleman that spoke earlier mentioned a parking exclusion zone. what a great idea. if you would like to know how to accomplish this, ask the organizers of this also be dealt festival. the issue placards to the residents who put them in their cars. anyone who is not a resident is towed. this is the problem. it would go easier for the residents it when they got home from work, all of the parking was not done. the other really egregious issue is a lot of people in residents

had to park in their driveways because there was no parking on the street during an then the mta ticketed them if they were just a few inches past their parking spot. many of the houses are not big enough with their driveways. why this has to be done on the backs of the residents, i think that we can all managed to get along. we live there all the time. supervisor mar: the sausalito parts festival? >> correct. by family has lived in that house for over 60 years. we have seen it all come and go. the opportunities are wonderful, but please consider the residents in involve us in more of these meetings. we have never been contacted to participate in any of these meetings, but we would like to

be heard. [tone] supervisor mar: the number of the parent teacher organizations around the schools, i have been meeting with them as well. they have been involved in engaging in the activities for the event as well. next speaker? >> my name is dennis juarez. i work for the hardly strictly bluegrass festival. it was held the first weekend of october. the staff of the festival collectively takes a big sigh of relief, and be relaxed. every year, we seem to start to plan the next best of a lead of that earlier, because every year we learned little bit more. we have had various meetings with city and community organizations. we listen, apply, and implement.

i think that the people who are opposing today, they have to admit that things have gotten better. as far as the immediate economic impact, last year i was smart enough to pre-order a kosher meal. when we got there at noon on saturday, they were out. the only other time that happened was the year before that hardly strictly bluegrass. san francisco, new york, chicago, they have world class parts with world-class events. if we are going to remain a world-class city, we have to continue. supervisor mar: the last cards that i recently got, i have nick bologna, sandy -- and walter paulson i think is still in the house as well. next speaker?

>> my parents brought me up, bringing into golden gate park for various large events. i specifically moved to san francisco because it was a music city. i think that there might be a good case for this. it is specifically why i moved to san francisco. i wanted to be in a city that cherished music and had a history of music. i am looking forward to my son growing up to a concert in the park as well. one of the ladies that spoke against it, i asked her how long she had lived in san francisco. i thought that it was interesting that she had lived here after the culture was developed. i would never move to alaska and then petition that people stop having the dinner odd because it affected the environment. it is part of the history.

i'm concerned that the people that come here and are against music in the park, they came here after it was established. they should not move here and try to change the city's needs. people move here to be a part of a music city. if they do not like it, they should move to a city that does not chairs that, not try to change who we are. supervisor mar: thank you. >> in the executive director of the save the way this coalition. i am no stranger to these events in the impacts of the events on the house. many years ago, the uniqueness

involved festivals and events. be participated in the eco lands i have not heard a lot spoken about that, but there is a tremendous effort to support the nonprofits and to give them a huge outreach opportunity and to showcase their work to in aurora range of audiences. it has been successful for us. we also participated in the beach cleanup, including with several other foundations, and there is another that participated in this as well, so i wanted to commend another planet for what they do. i think they run a fantastic festival. there are solutions. i am willing to put up with that. in terms of being a resident there, it is one of the reasons

i moved to san francisco. i have lived here for about 20 years, and i believe in a culture, and i believe san francisco has a unique ability to put on these events and a tolerance i value. so thank you very much. supervisor mar: next speaker. >> hello, my name is -- i have volunteered and attendant. i believe that the benefits of these festivals for our city and our state and the worldview people of of san francisco far outweighed the deficits. what i've heard today was a lot of plans for increased risk management and mitigation plans

for helping the residents of the community, but it has also been said that golden gate park is here for the benefit of all of the residents of the city and of the bay area, not only san francisco residents. i told my brother the other day about a festival given, and he thought that was amazing, that people in california were amazing, and he actually said that californians should rule the world, because what we do here and how we facilitate such it beneficial environment for the community, the musicians, the people who live here. there are a lot of people in the audience that derive income from these festivals, and, again, i believe the benefits far outweigh the small problems that come up, and it is usual for the few to spoil it for the many. these small things that happen with some of the crimes are the

few people. the thousands and thousands that attend, most of them are law- abiding, well-managed, and grateful attendees. thank you. supervisor mar: vdot thank you. i should alert people that we have decided to paul item number 5 before item number four, and i do not know if you were alerted, but we are going to continue. next speaker. >> to speak. supervisor mar: because so many people had wanted to speak, we had to limit its to two. >> ok. i am here to testify that as the world health organization has reported, these are a health hazard that causes not only hearing loss and other physical and mental stress. one report labeled noise and

modern plague. in short, it makes our space uninhabitable. recon park would not allow toxic waste, but it allows toxic noise pollution to bombard our neighborhoods all because of money. new members of the commission need to experience at least eight hours of this nonstop racket to get some idea of what the residents have to suffer for three days every year. it does not matter about the young people or the elderly parents that you have. see how they react to the pounding noise. you would have to be there to get the full effect. 45 decibels is considered the normal safe limits. over that is very, very dangerous. and is anyone monitoring the cars that are there for three days? that cannot be good for anyone's health.

and for the so-called hot line, it is as useless as yesterday's spit. we ask for the volume to be turned down, but nothing is done for 24 hours later. no more hot lines. if they are truly serious about being good neighbors, we want the cell phones and even the general manager so that we can get some immediate relief. they have had four years to correct the noise problems and have failed completely. there are 45 competing with each other and blasting their noise at each other. ok, when to end by saying this is just one of many reports that talk about noise being the modern plague. please stop destroying the health of thousands of your fellow citizens. supervisor mar: thank you.

next speaker. >> hello, my name is fred. i am in richmond resident and live only in a few blocks away. i also have a 21-month-old baby who has now gone through two of these festivals. supervisor campos: can you poll -- supervisor mar: can you pull the microphone closer? >> did you hear what i said? someone who had a baby who was extremely young during the first festival, and is now a bit older, it was minimal the disruption, and it did not annoy me at all. the noise levels are barely noticeable to me, it even if just a few blocks away, taking

him to the festival for the first year, i was impressed with how safe it was and how positive everything was. i speak, the in may not be relevant, of english festivals, and the organization here is a much better that i cannot even stated. i would not feel safe taking my baby to any festival in england. i was perfectly happy to take him in the festival and around the perimeter in the festival in a week or two after, being really impressed with how well the park looked. going back to the park afterwards, how well it looked there, because i take him there regularly, so just as a parent, i have to say it has been a positively overwhelming experience -- an overwhelming least -- overwhelmingly positive

experience. supervisor mar: i have no more speaker cards. we have supervisor fewer. >> it is true that san francisco has had a long history of having events in the park. as my husband's said, there was one episode at the manners, but having said that, i just want to make one suggestion and have raised three children there. we all enjoy the park, it relies the part does not belong to us. it belongs to the citizens of san francisco. my only suggestion is we have more traffic control, particularly at intersection where there is very low lighting and no stoplights, and i am speaking specifically of crossover drive. as people leave the festival,

there is very little lighting, and it is anyway a very dangerous intersection. i would like to see more traffic enforcement, and as a previous speaker said, i would love that the richmond residents could park and not get tickets. thank you very much. supervisor mar: and now we have the planning department from richmond. >> my name is -- from the planning department of richmond. we worked with the concert. they came to us, and we worked on mitigating issues that have happened. you all got the letter that explains the different issues that we have mitigated with a couple other community groups. that is something that we have worked on, and we have worked on in all of the years. pahang a couple years ago,

others were brought to us to work to make that concert even better for us and to mitigate issues, and we work very well in concert -- yes, in concert. there is a pun for you. if you have noticed, one of the things i can say is that the noise issue is always going to happen because it is a concert, there is music, there is noise, but this has changed over the years because the concert promoters have listened, and they have worked to fix these. i know that they will come to us again this year, and we will work with them and see what we can do to help. that is what we do as a community organization, and the promoters have been wonderful, always open to talking to us and there to listen to our needs. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. before the next speaker, i see a

person year from an entertainment group. thank you for being here. >> chair mar, members, i moved to second and fulton, and i resided there for five years, and i really love the park and the solitude of the park, but historically, especially in the 1970's, i really loved the big gatherings. there was the concert that took place at the pavilion, where phil gramm came in and brought in bob dylan and the grateful dead and the starship and 20 other acts and basically save the san francisco sports program in the schools and raised a whole lot of money. then there was the unity festival in 1975, when i was still living at the park, where the grateful dead and the starship played for free.

an amazing time. my favorite weekend of the year is the first weekend of october. i would never miss it. that is because of hardly strictly blogger's. when i started going about five years ago, what i remembered was that it reminded me of a simpler san francisco, a simpler, gentler time, a friendly time, where there are no hassles. never seen a fight. i have been there for hours and hours and hours. i have never seen it came during -- never seen angry and pushing people. i was amazed at how big the bike lock up was, and this is a wonderful lesson for our city, and we need to cherish it. we really do. let's help people have better

festivals and more festivals in the park. supervisor mar: sir? >> i remember when my father taught me how to ride bicycles. you may remember this. ♪ some parks may be large or small go ask the parks commission when they were just small, when the park place tells you which concerts to go, and you might been there, and you are listening, and you are watching them go ask the park manor when it

was small and before the concert began, remember john mclaren who brought in the sand. fix it up, and land use, today, today ♪ and ♪ if i were a park carpenter, and you did a concert with wavy gravy, would you fix it up anyway? would you fix it up maybe? save my part through everything, save the park through soros, so will you not fix it up, fix it up for tomorrow? ♪ supervisor mar: thank you. [applause]

from the carpenters. >> good afternoon, chairman, and supervisors. the carpenters' local 22. our part in this is for economic reasons. all of these events, which are monarch -- one more reason why people from all over the world come from san francisco, are set up and taken down by carpenters. this is our work. this provides thousands of hours in set up and take down for each one of these events. to take this away is to take away jobs from the brothers and sisters of mind right here, right before you. we ask that you keep these jobs in san francisco -- that you keep these events in san francisco, in golden gate park. we think it is a good thing. we have been here a long time, and we plan on staying.

supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. please come forward. and, sir, if you would like to make any comments, you are welcome to, as well. >> my name is -- and i am a part owner of -- i was not going to talk today because we are still grieving the loss of him, but i just wanted to say, thank you for your support. he is a really generous man, and what he did across the city, not just for music, is wonderful, and our interest is to work with the neighbors and work with the park, and for the event to continue. he was gracious enough to leave us a fund that i and another partner have the availability

of, and we really want to do it and get back to the joy and love of music. it is what warren would want, so that is all i want to say. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. it was great seeing him honored along with others at the end of the grammys. would you like to speak? i know there have been a number of issues raised, and i know that they are trying to address the various issues. one issue that was brought up was noise and the decibel levels, and maybe there'll be another mechanism for monitoring and adjusting it. i