francisco, so it's like coming home again. i've also been a resident of san francisco specifically in the marina for 42 years, so i am quite enthusiastic about this project. i have been a frequent user with my family of the big -- what we refer to as the big marina green, i've walked past the degaussing station, so i was one of the few people who understood what a degaussing station is, but it has been as pointed out, could certainly use quite an improvement and the idea that it is going to be run by a very responsible family operation is a real credit to park and rec for their selection process and we wholeheartedly, my family and i'm a member of the board of

directors marina association as well as -- and the first class of the nert, so i've been active in the community for a great number of years and enthusiastically support your hopefully approving this particular project, and also the notification issue is sort of a red herring, as pointed out, it's been made very public for a couple of years and since ms. kelly sent out e-mails to members of the marina community association, so if you're not a member, you come back later and claim i didn't hear about it, well, you haven't been very active to begin with if you haven't been getting the right notice as part of the association. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> christian na* and then august. >> hello, commissioners, my

name is christian na*, i'm the manager as the regional market street location, and i could understand some of the concerns if it was a big corporate restaurant going in, but you have to understand that it's a very small neighborhood restaurant, and the main point that i'd like to emphasize is -- and wood house, it's how much they care, it's very noticeable how involved they are and i think that it's not just a place that serves food, it's a restaurant with heart and i think it would be a great way to preserve a very special thing to san francisco which is the degaussing station. >> thank you. >> august, and then we'll have tegwin louis tien and jake hair. >> hello, commissioner, my name is august, i'm the new chef for

the wood house fish companies and i wanted to state my hope that you would approve this lease for the wood house lease company as i'm excited to work with the brothers and their family, i feel like they're very good managers and restaurant tao*ur and they like to reach out to all their staff and make sure everybody is in a good space and happy employees, i feel this would be great for the city, i hope that you approve it. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> taguan louis time. >> i just wanted to voice my support for this project because i love these guys, i walk into that restaurant, i go to wood house often and you can really feel the community that

they build there and i think that they would do a great job up in the marina and i would love to sit and eat a fish taco there. thank you. >> thank you. >> jake hair. >> my name is jake, i'm the manager of the fill mo*r location, i was not born and raised in san francisco. i'm from a small country town, my father and i built our house with two hands, we're very close with my family and i think those facts are one of the main reasons why they hired me, to be friendly, to push the community atmosphere that the restaurants have and i know that it is intensely important for the restaurants to be

integrate in the community and i know that the new location would be just that. i am in complete support. >> thank you. >> is there any other public comment on this item? >> hello, commissioners and thank you for the opportunity to speak. my name's nick ago lair ra, i'm also a business owner here in san francisco, we have a salon in union square area and i had moved into the neighborhood when the family had opened the fish company on 14th street, one of our concerns at that time since it eats a main thorough fair was it was a busy corner, we hope these guys really keep an eye on the ball and keep the neighborhood clean and safe and from the day they've opened, they're on 14th

street, they've done nothing but paid special attention to the lighting, to the facilities, to the respect of their customers and a lot of our neighbors right there in the neighborhood have really welcomed them with open arms because of that respect the family feel that dill and tyler and rowen have done for a fish company. we welcomed them to that neighborhood and were able to go to the restaurant, we know it's going be a safe environment, just like 14th street and have a great place to take family, to take friends and they really created a safe environment in a city where you never know what you're going to get. i've really enjoyed the fact that we've become good friends and in a lot of ways business partners, we've taken them as examples as to how a business can be respectful if r the community, to their family and

friends and likewise, we look forward to becoming and being family and friends with them for many years and hope that you do approve this location there at the degaussing station. thank you. >> is there any other public comment? >> good afternoon, commissioners, here we are putting in commercial restaurant in the tide land, how about that. without even consent from the community, this recreation and park department is to violate the process of noticing anything, whether it's their meetings, whether it's a project, whether it's whatever it is, okay, you guys are the

worst most illegitimate most corrupt commissioners ever to take helm of recreation and park and the commission in this city. the last tree in san francisco is this open space, its lack of consumerism and here you are chopping it down right in front of the very people that paid to live across from a space that didn't have that, and they're up here telling you in your face, it's going to ruin my residents and you don't give a damn because that's what type of people you are, scum bags, you don't care about people in this city. >> you know, we respect the right of people to talk to this commission, we wish that you would be respectful to this commission. >> let me show you an order from the sunshine committee about the way you handle the

recreation and park department's stables. let me show you something here. >> this show as stable that was open for 130 years, it was closed without those people getting involved and that's the same thing that's happening here, the same thing that causes our parks to be closed when we've got enough money and the city and the state turns around and says we don't have the money, same sort of thing, you're just blowing information and facts way over our heads and circumventing the right process for doing business in this city. san franciscans, we don't need another restaurant in the tide land. we've got hundreds of

restaurants in the city, we go to the tide land to get away from the city but you don't seem to understand that, and to tell you the truth, standing up in front of here and looking at your faces irritates me. i mean, you guys don't even concentrate, look at gloria's face, it's like doing 150 emotions in one -- >> maybe we can eliminate the personalities and give us your message. >> my message is don't approve this project, no one doesn't want it. >> commissioner martin? >> is there any other public comment? >> there's one more. >> good morning, i want to

speak on this, i want to speak a little bit about this project. i've been watching all along here at the commission, i believe that mr. nevin, he must be going through a lot of stress, i think he wants to do a good job here, i've been listening in on it for quite a while now, the part i wanted to get on the public record had to do with merits, -- employment, whether there's going to be equality, men, women, and the other thing has to do with the civil rights of it, are you going to have different race people and that's what i would like to get on to the public record that by law and by the rules, it should be included in the hiring process because i myself would have made notice of other people that there is a

possibility of employment through wood house. on other matters of it being a historic site, they demagnetize it so it doesn't get as reactive. they don't even do that anymore, so the other part when they had to get wildlife, i like fishing out in front there, i like to get 67 pounds, but when you go looking around the house there, i think they're going to be -- a lot of neighbors are making a lot of noise and they want to do some legal type of maneuver, they can, but if you're going to get this project done and have already issued the rfp, i think it's time for this commission to make a decision that's going

to be very important. i see four people here, their livelihoods, this has dragged on for a long time and they have complied with nearly everything that's required. i looked over the package and that's all i have to say. i tried to speak civilly. thanks. >> and we appreciate that, thank you very much. er >> is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner martin, did you have a question? >> no. >> commissioner low? >> if cassandra can come back and address the public notice to the neighbors one more time. >> absolutely, i wanted to show again the list of neighborhood

organizations that were contacted, i did reach out to all neighborhood groups, this was also put in the marina times over the last couple of year, we also worked with supervisor ferrell's office on the outreach plan, we feel like we did an incredible amount of outreach on this project and there may be people that fall through the cracks, we did post on site as well so neighbors could see that weren't part of these neighborhood groups, that they were part of this project as well. >> that was both for the rfp process as well as the selection? >> i was not the project manager at the teem for the selection and the rfp, however, i know that a tremendous amount of outreach was put in place for those approval processes as well. >> commissioner, i think it's worth noting that this is the sixth public meeting before

this commission on the topic. there were commission meetings, publicly noticed commission meetings bh the rfp was first issued and then after the results of the rfp, the panels recommended selection also came before the commission. >> and to that point, mr. general manager, i do want to note that this is the second of at least 7 public meetings that we will need to go through with this lease agreement? >> no question, this is the first step, we're recommending the lease to be approved by the board of supervisors, they have a number of different approval processes that they still have to go through. >> i also want to since i still have the mic., in the lease that's being recommended to the board of supervisors, there is a provision which does have a

modern terrain of operations during operational period which ranges from closing business to 9 to traffic, garbage, so under the stewardship of the general manager, i think many of the concerns of the neighbors will be addressed and will be under the watchful eye of the general manager. . >> thank you, seeing no other comments, one, i notice in the letter from the marina community association, and i quote that the marina community association is please hated the recreation and park department has had a lot of outreach and. i say that recognizing that, one, we never reach everybody and two, we never please everybody.

if you want to hear the beginning of most public comments i make, they start with everybody in san francisco loves their park, everybody comes and comments on them and rarely do people ever agree. park visitor ares able to find accessible food to enhance their experience in their parks, a combination of restaurants and takeout service are well received by park visitors. this issue is not motivated and i don't want it construed as motivated by trying to generate

more revenue nor the park, this is an opportunity on a piece of property where the facility has gone dormant for years and it's the consensus of the staff and i believe it's the consensus of the commission that this is xakly the kind of use that's appropriate here. i think having said that that it's a compliment to the staff that we got the response we did from the wood house people, a family owned business that you read the rest of the letters from around town are admired for the way they do business, so i plan to support this and encourage everyone else to and i'll entertain a motion. >> so moved. >> it's been moved and seconded, all those in favor. aye. opposed none, it's unanimous, thank you very much. >> we are on item 8, general public comment continued, at this time, members of the public may address the commission on the item that is are within the subject matter

jurisdiction of the recreation and park commission and that do not appear on the agenda. is there any public comment? seeing, none, public comment is closed. we are on item 9, commissioner matters? >> don't see any. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. we are on item 10, new business setting. >> don't see any. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. item 11 is communications. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, we are on adjournment. item 12. >> so moved. >> moved and seconded, all those in favor? >> aye. >> thank you very much. >> thank you.

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to open up our minds and communities to receive ideas from across the country, if not the world as to how we can improve it. it never is about what just san francisco is doing. a lot of our ideas are homegrown. the ideas are transplanted and that is the greatness of our city. we're an international city. we want to show what ideas are coming out of the far east, china, malaysia, the philippines, singapore as well as all over from europe. perhaps from africa and south america. we can learn from that just as we have done with concepts like sunday streets where people take back the streets and start having fun in our urban communities and bringing out the

children to enjoy the environment. this is our future generations so we have to have the best ideas. how to keep our environment and our strong. i want to tell you that there are a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for keeping our city grain trade we have at least three different projects that we have been focused on for a number of years. i have had the privilege with working with mohammed and our city engineers to accomplish this. most importantly with our community leaders and volunteers throughout every part of our neighborhoods. i hope that you do you is your time and take advantage of our wonderful weather to go out and do as many doors as possible of all the -- tours as possible of all the community gardens. we have a committee challenge program, one that i am proud to have headed up when we were at

public works but also the city administrator. this program today funds almost $900,000 this year in programs that are all committee pushed. it is attacks checkoff for corporations and individuals. the fund this through the tax system to provide almost $1 million every year and is put into a community-driven process where community leaders will apply on behalf of themselves or their own streets or gardens and they can get grants of up to $100,000 or as small as $5,000. they could be groups that have never done anything except to start talking to each other about how to increase their neighborhoods's interest in

reading and the environment. we have associated ourselves with the parks alliance and the clean city coalition to provide administrative support to any group that forms. as well as those groups that have school -- school themselves and gotten well organized and know what they're doing in their communities and want to increase their gardens. there will be gardens and a small ones, a few hundred square feet to those that are thousands of square feet large. i am taking over -- and taking over alleyways and the median strips, taking over long- abandoned areas and blighted areas. community groups and volunteers will form those alliances most of the time in concert with either dpw or our public utilities commission or our parks, recreation and parks department and we're open to

those kinds of collaborations'. the committee challenge grant is an excellent model. without anybody's knowledge, i still call the director and say what is going on. dpw tried to keep out of their business. now our city [inaudible] i am reaching in to find out, what are those great things the neighbor rwanda to do and i would like to go out there and visit them. i signed off last year in 2011 the urban agriculture " ordinance. the ordinance for us was another reflection of city policy with the board of supervisors that we wanted to increase the opportunities for folks to grow crops. to grow agriculture, to be able

to sell it if they so wish to to so we could have folks that already have that experience, but not necessarily at the corporate level. our urban agriculture is important to us. we have identified a number of abandoned lots all over the city and we would love to again excite volunteers and people who are interested in urban agriculture and the ability to distribute fresh produce to people who are in need. allow that to happen, working with our school district to see what can happen on their lots so the urban agriculture ordinance is something that you might want to take a look at. and finally, with our recreation and park department, the community gardens program, another broad program we have. taking lots, whether they are a few hundred square feet or thousands of square feet and activating them and hosting volunteers to be able to build

community gardens. we now have 35 and growing established community gardens in the city. and again, all run by volunteers. some of them that our individual lots and individuals will grow in them and there are lots that are shared responsibilities and shared neighborhood responsibilities to grow crops and to grow agriculture there for not only eating purposes or flowers or any of the things that individuals wish to have. and they are happening in our golden gate park as well as in our neighborhood parks. we're excited that you hopefully, you can see those as well. those are three small examples of hopefully things that you can visit while you are here. i understand you are going through my home time, seattle next year -- my home town. seattle next.

i was born and raised there. and of course, if that is not enough for you to do while you are here, you should talk to mohammed about getting tickets to the giants, the 49ers, or outside because that is -- outside plans because that is happening this weekend. that is the fun we have in our great city. we are a large city. i get to talk and write about the things we're doing, and i want you to know that the internment -- and permit, our commitment to greening are parts of what we're here to do because of the advocacy that you do across the country, keep of that work, keep reminding mayors like me and everybody else we have an obligation to take the greening ideas and put them into the urban setting.