that hadn't been spoken about is a great place to get people to vote. and a great place to have a valley club. it is a place where people come from all over the city. we're not overwhelmed. just imagine what this can turn into if it becomes open space. and thank you for your consideration >> thank you. next speaker >> greetings.

i'm the founder of the project don't worry it started to feed the homeless people the brothers and sisters every it's tuesday that we started gathering at the market. due to our local community in a man and woman full way to bring home hewitt nutritious meal. what is better place to present our signature someone says cursory await worry when we presented it is the best giant

in san francisco i don't know whether that's true. i'm very, very thankful to noah valley farmer's market and when i heard about it to turn it going into the town square i'm wholly supportive of this idea. since we feed the homeless every tuesday we get most of our produce thanks to our generous farmers intend of the day they give us the fresh vegetables we you turn into our cooking on tuesday. i'm very grateful and going on out on tuesday we are very, very

grateful for that and hopefully >> thank you thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker >> i'm here i live a few blocks away from the town square. i really you're going to you support it. i think it would be a great edition to the neighborhood >> thank you. next speaker, please >> ergetic i work for a non-profit food service incubator. i'm here to speak in support of the accusation the noah valley farmers market has created a lot of turpentine. particular one of our businesses

isabel we're through the opportunity have been to create a strong brand and strong customer basis and we're looking for a restaurants space. so the farmer's market is not only to have an open spates but it is a great for the community >> >> thank you. next speaker, please >> hi i'm on the board. it's kind of the - the conspiracy at all aspect to all this very bad thing that happened to our neighborhood over 10 years ago and that

property is still shufrtd up. really what we're doing is an exception of that dialog. and i'd like to say we feel the responsibility to encourage that dialog across the city. it's much better to be articulate in front of the board of supervisors but it's not like that for the rest of the city. but we commit to try to make things happen like this all over the city >> >> thank you. next speaker, please >> hello, i'm dan roth i'm a 25 year resident of noah valley and i'm here to support the accusation. i raise any son there we've been

going to the market every saturday for years it would be a great loss if this doesn't happen. ion a selfish note i play music there ever so often >> good afternoon i've been a resident for the majority of the past 18 . i'm here to speak in support of the project that we can make this a wonderful project where all the stars are aligned so i encourage you to do so as you hear from all this public

comment. we're all in violent agreement that's one of my farther sayings. i'm in support >> thank you. next speaker, please >> i grew up in indian and i'm an entrepreneur here. i grew up in indian were there wasn't produce markets that or better still the vegetable man would come to your house including ice cream and sharpening knives and things. when i came here and saw the farmer's market i was like a boy

in a candy shop. as well you you know, i accounted play with the vegetables and feel what we're going to eat is right here. and that you know when we had kids, in fact, the two boys you saw earlier i'm happy to be their father. there they are. they almost every saturday as they were infants grew up listening to the music and integrating with the kids i wish it had happened sooner so i didn't have to lug those boys in the stroller favor than i did

>> thank you. next speaker, please >> i'm john hudson i've lived on the block of jerseys street for 20 years. we had our annual block party i don't want to speak officially for the folks but the topic of the noah valley park square came up repeatedly. i want to say that the 70 folks who are there no one was more enthusiastic about this. so if you can look on me as representing the 50 or 60 folks who couldn't make it here today because they're working a. >> thank you for feeding me at

that block party it was very good. >> good afternoon. i'm alfred i'm one of the vendor at the market. i've been doing that since 1985. and noah valley farmers market is one of those markets that has endured the test of time. about 3 weeks ago a had a 15-year-old students from the arts department requesting a job for the summer because he needed money to pay for his art supplies. there was no job listings or job opportunities anywhere he just

came up and asked me it i need help. and i said where did you get the idea to work for farmer's market. he said i came here and it looks busy. so i said come next saturday at the 5 clock. he waits a whole hour and starts a half an hour early and then he starts working for the rest of the afternoon and he stated afterwards. what i think it really employes is that the community has the opportunity to job train and share its work ethics that will

help with their future employment in other areas >> >> thank you. next speaker, please >> good afternoon. i'm a noah valley resident. i appreciate the chance to be here today to add my voice to the purpose of the development of the town square. i've been so impressed by the neighborhood groups. the way they've worked with rec and park and pulled the neighborhood together. identifying the rec and park funds was key and it certainly is what the fund was set up for. noah valley is open space deficient. there's a tiny little space and

there's always, you know, little kids sitting there what a great opportunity to give folks a place to congregate. it sounds like it has support. the location there is so key and really the businesses benefit every saturday when the farmer's market is going on. i keep up to date with the plans on the we get. they seem like they're checking all the boxes and it's lovely to go on a saturday and see your neighbors and buy fresh vegetables. it's a wonderful edition i

support this project >> thank you. next speaker, please >> i remember my mother lived up to treat street. my father in the 30s grew up on douglas street. so give my regards to noah valley. remember the old town square. tell all the farmers gang up on 24th street. that you will soon be there. keep all the budget lights yes and no remember to keep the dream green. give the rarldz to the old town square and it's good to know that city know that your budget city that your help and budget

money be there. thanks bye bye >> >> thank you. next speaker, please >> hi i'm molly fox i'm a junior member of the noah valley board. and i think this will be a great space amen (clapping) >> next speaker >> i'm one of the vendor at the market. since the inception of the market i've watched families to come together. i paternity in markets around the city and i strongly support

the town square and we look forward to seeing the new development thank you very much >> i'm a former member of the noah valley farmer's market. i want to add that most of the people in this room love this town and this is why we love it. the perfect san francisco story that's been written over the last 10 years. the government today what we do here is how an example of how government can be a wonderful influence and build the contacts for the community to grow >> >> thank you. next speaker, please >> hi i'm a co- founder of the

market. i'm not going to speak for i move today, i'm speaking for bill kennedy who owners the farm. it's one of the few based farms we were actually trying to court swanton to come to our market for a a long time. we're trying to do something more commented to sober justice. in the from bill kennedy. the creation of the noah valley market essentially on the ruins of the other businesses. the exception of the real foods and an apparent response points

to the heart of swanton's motorbike of sober justice. as a first organic farm in the country to sign with the farmers unions. we're dlild to be invited in. this is a market whose function is to celebration of quality and fairness. other markets have political - offer i'll try to skip through this. they'll all come together a to serve in this neighborhood. we have a you purpose learn ourself this is the establishment of a new farmer's market no guarantee for success

i'm sorry can't finish this statement >> any additional public comments? >> mr. chairman can we close the public comments. >> public comments are closed. i want to thank all the public speakers and folks to thank you for the years and years of work that have gone into first building the farmers markets as one of the core institutions of noah valley and building on that by recognizing the risk and opportunity of the sale of the parking lot onto the actually take the farmer's market to the next level and create a permanent space for the farmers market. this has been one of

the best opportunity and this is a project that truly is deep in the grassroots my worked its way up and the city came along and followed. that's how the community and neighborhoods have helped to change this. i'm proud to be a supporter of this project and colleagues i ask for support with a positive recommendation and i make this motion as to items 6 and 7 >> second. >> okay do we have any discussion? >> just want to congratulate the noah valley folks and i appreciate the public comments on the neighborhoods and want to

share a wealth of ideas and wealth of fund to help us you assure there's an equity on how we make the accusations. i'm familiar with the 24th street but i look forward to being part of the experience of farmers market but i think this is a great thing to support. and i appreciate the park and rec as well moving forward >> supervisor. >> thank you. i just want to thank everyone who came out to testify today. it gives me more insight how actively engaged the folks are. and to see the faces of the folks who are not in the area it

clearly demonstrates that folks throughout the city sees the need for more pop o open space. i don't based on some of the comments have some - a few additional comments for clarities. i heard the revenue from the sites it supports the maintenance. i don't think that's an accurate statement based on the possibility of the funds generated i don't see the cost for maintenance - >> he can't there's been a ongoing discussion about the maintenance issue. it's complicated. or more when itself community

came to us there was discussion that the revenue from the farmer's market would fund the maintenance to the community benefit along 24th street, however, given it will be a publicly owned park the public will maintain the maintenance that were so 0 the primary maintenance will be the responsibility. but the revenue from the farmer's market could provide some supplemental maintenance. but that's - i left that out of the presentation but that's one component >> so there seems like a real opportunity for them to take

responsibility from maintaining the park long-term. >> to have some role. >> to have a significant role. >> potential significant yeah. >> i'm sorry may i respond to that one issue? the cv ds have to pay into it i know the cv b is interested in this but ultimately this is the responsibility of park and rec. >> thank you for that clarification. i also i'm really exist about todd mentioning of the fact that they plan to look at other

optioned to raise the fund and i'm actually very excited about that. it's calory from the crowd that was here today that people are really committed to this project and have been working on that a long time. i am confident of moving it forward. i have a question about the 5 percent for the - a comment was made that for the open space accusation fund that only 5 percent of the fund went to acquiring the property and some went to the maintenance >> the park recreation and open fund is the $0.02 for every $100

of open space that money is for acquisition. we're only talking about - we're not talking about the open park rec fund there are two funds >> supervisors there's the one fund there's the one fund that was authorized for 5 percent of the open space fund was set aside that for the acquisition. but there's a sub fund for acquisition >> and last two questions i had well, actually iowa one is a comment. i'm assuming it wasn't clear

with the development there are bathrooms >> well, there's a restroom. we're necessarily the process though i i know there are a lot of members of the community want to restroom and the maintenance cost is significant so i'd like to say pittsburgh that that is undecided. i'd like to encourage making sure there are restrooms available. i know there's a lot of kids and kids loopholes have to go to the

bathroom. the things i want to talk about we're looking changing the code to allow for rec and park to have farmers markets at any of their locations. i guess there's currently one day a week? >> i believe the proposal to the legislation says to more than one day a week. the noah valley farmer's market has expressed interest if the two day a week plan >> but as we're going forward to the acquisition there's a option for a future farmer's market. >> i have a bit of a certain with that models because i've

had a challenge with rec and park consistently as to agreements they enter into for property and the ability to make sure that there is a real community process in terms of making those types of decisions are important to me. and i don't want to hear from rec and park before they make a comment to one day a week to farmer's market to 7 days a week. it opens it up for other neighborhoods to have it for the agreement for farmer's market. i'm not certain it's the way to go. certainly the community wants to

do something longer but we've not had that captioners in district 5. i'm trying to understand where we would want to make this kind of significant change for the rec and park >> i think it's a good certain but for additional contacts there's with only two farmer's market actually, one farmer's market in district 5 the the wallers market. it's new territory and it's something we're exploring to strike a balance for a