may be one or two of you commissioners know this is a toxic site. in fact, they were trying to make it a park i was opposed to it by an e.r. no child and i call all the children at bay point my children no way should they be allowed to go there. and i'm glad you're not making a decision tonight because when i heard the speaker talking about green that building is not green that's toxic and i'd ask that you go on the internet and get the er that was done by the department and look up harris

park and you'll see how many hours to be there. it was built for the fact the youngest lady spoke about educating our children but i don't want to see anyone going to that unhealthy area. she talked to k34u79 leader. i haven't even heard of the group that she spoke about i've been here since 1948 and i want to say they pulled out because they knew it was toxic. we've never had wetlands there that was all bay and the majority of land is toxic because of the shipyard. and people are dying many people are dying and have diode and continue to die if i be having those young people and inhauling

the toxins they can't see. i want to know has the commission been there to get an okay. they meet i know they be meeting tonight because all programs should come before that commission for approval and acceptance and thank you have a nice day and merry christmas >> (calling names) i'd appreciate it if you'd line up and not waste time and after carol linda toby. >> good afternoon park commissioners. i'm an instructor at the department of technology at the city college. i teach technology and environmental montana course. you are coordinate interims in the tech programs and teach

interim support. thank you for allowing me to speak. today, i want to tell you what the ecosystem maples to me as an instructor involved in the workforce development working to provide the skills for 340ir7b9 students in the san francisco bay area. i will tell you how the eco center allows for visitationtion for the green center and monitoring of the wait and a place for oral communication. first of all, the park serves as a first and a wonderful facility. i think you guys know about the water system the need of landscaping that's all volunteer and the solar packages that have

energy from solar powered batteries. but the wastewater system is important. in my microbiology class we're interested in poop and we want to see what happens when it goes to the wetlands. the eco center allows my students to see it up close and personal. now the eco center isn't just a demonstration facility it allows you us to do monitoring pr i can bring my you students there they can take the sandal and finally, how to perform field test open microbiology tests. the fang that the director peggy who's the current director now allows us to performance those

tests is valuable. you can listens and look at it slides. and that's what the eco center allows us to do. finally, i want to tell you how the current eco center allows us to do the oral management. when i and my students invested this fall we look forward the history with the visitor i observed how students have experiencing with organisms and i observed the students and interims working together. this is only part of a valuable job skill in a job training the statistics are projecting a 25 percent in jobs >> your time is up. >> thank you and i urge you to

consider the eco centers proposals. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon, president and vice president and port commissioners and members of the community. my name is according and i grew up locally. i'm a student ignored in the city college. and i'm one of the students responsible for environmental monitoring of the eco centers wastewater wetland and educational environment related to native history. i saw the proposal for the eco proposal the shoourdship would

allow the students across the city from university to other levels to elapse about the environmental issues beyond the clamor. my insuredship has loud me with the help of the eco center i'm a laboratory technician. should the eco proposal be accepted i believe the bay institution in conjunction with the community organizations would augment our current effort to prove serve the community >> thank you. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. i'm toby taylor i'm a student enrolled in the sustainable ability course

at the egging could center i have been involved 3 semesters. i want to express any support for the bay recruit for stuartship in collaboration with city college. in addition i've been given authorization from one of our supporters to speak on her bailiff. i have the following statement program coordinator at the high school studies facility. the bay institute and city college have dedicated to serving the community and have reached out to make sure the stem academy is wretched. in staub green workforce skills

those institutions are a natural fit. i'm especially excited about the problematic of bringing our students to the eco center and talk about environmental curriculum which is in addition to the eco center i know the students will appreciate. i hope you'll support this effort to take this support and my support in consideration. (calling names) >> good afternoon thank you for the opportunity to comment on this exciting proposal and obviously a difficult decision. i'm the is it notable mission manager i'm here to voice my

support for the aquarium foundation and the city college of san francisco. as the sustainable ability manager i currently enjoy working with a have variety of local partners toward the facility from seafood to volunteer shoreline and coastal cleans up. i'm enlisted the opportunity to work with conditional as well as a number of new partners new to me to expand conservatism education at the eco center and i'm excited to learn be from the bay hunters community and a build that the community effort. this proposal reflects existing the working relationships with the port of san francisco and it represents the combined expertise of two fine programs

along with san francisco waterfront thank you very much for your time and good luck with our decision. (calling names) >> good afternoon. my name is clem ma i'm the director at the city college and a full-time faculty member marry conditional has been involved in existence 2012 actually we've been involved in the park since the beginning and i remember i brought students there i made a key to the plans of the park and it was all innovative plants. i'm going every semester. the invasive planning plants are

not there i forgot because i've nervous but i want to thank you so much for making this going into a park peculiar the students are not the people who can afford to go to yosemite. no one bangs the park and they see the heroin iron take off and it's a real experience for our students and the high school students but to come back to the invasive plants they did a tremendous job to maintain that eco center and the surrounding landscape and it's the expertise and i was there because i share half an office with peggy. i saw the learning curve would it takes to learn the imports and exports of monitoring the water and co-op this eco center open and my support is for the

bay institute and conditional because he scott wagner have the resources to organize the educational program and the technical expertise and of the incredible landscaper around that. thank you very much >> (calling names). >> president ho and vice president brandon i'm a constitute at the conditional in the sustainability in the eco center. i want to express my support for the center. over the last year and a half i've applied the knowledge and shooirtship of the park and building. perhaps more importantly i've neblthd with the professionals

in the field of sustainability and government agencies and environmental firms and elementary and high school teachers and college professors. this kind of development can't be taught in a traditionally classroom setting. i look forward to the possibility of sharing this up to this point with you tell future students and the community members should the institute be accepted. i'm here to read a statement from one of the properers. professor from the san francisco university regrets be able to attend. the collaboration between the bay institute accustom foundation and several departments is an exciting proposal it will create a strong

bond at the eco center as environmental action by providing activity for volunteers to learn about native plants and animals to connect stakeholders with the e cotton of their own background. those two organizations will continue to make bay view hunters point a place for interaction. the state university supports 24 since is it was built. it's my pleasure to offer my support to those institutions. as you know su serves thousands of students and we provide opportunity. in the community every salesmen our multiple racial and body totally appreciates the varied experiences they've had at the park and eco center.

etch semester i bring my standards there. i value the experiences they've had and knowledge gained from the expired education provided by the professors and students at the clinical college. i hope that you will take my support into consideration >> i'm elaine johnson i'm the director of bio link the advance center funded by national science foundation we provide technical support. we've been house defense

attorneys at the continually of san francisco since 998 and have been developing skills based programs for our students where they could get wonderful jobs. many of our students have come from the bayview hirpts point area and have been working in a variety of life science careers one has a job at the man technical and has started a girl's club. beef about that very, very excited about the possibilities of adding certificates and stackable credential were with that in mind last year we were part of receiving a $2 million portion of a 15 million take grant it stand for community

career training by the department of labor. with that funding we were creating an environmental monitoring certificate and have been working with the faculty who have been working hard at the park. it's my great pleasure to be here and share that with you and be very, very supportive of the proposal. thank you. >> (calling names). >> good morning, commissioners and staff. of the port. thank you very much for everything you do on behalf of we the citizens of san francisco. i'm thus exposed to talk with you today because inch i i'm a nonprofit consultant working is a lot of groups as well as a student at conditional.

i wanted to talk about commitment and passion and follow through. and my experience with both the bay institute and conditional. as a student and a professional. and i worked with the bay institute in 2005 on this planning and they talked at this point about a vision of acquiring the aquarium of the bay and they've done that and the passion i see in both organizations for the citizens of san francisco for the environment building for making sure as many people as possible are educated and their passion is evoked for this green city has made a real expression on

me. and so i hope you will choose the bay city college and the eco center. i know they'll go a phenomenal job and bring the commitment and passion to follow through with the endeavor. thank you >> (calling names) >> good afternoon and thank you for generally sharing time to people like myself and members of the community can speak l about this important topic. i graduated from conditional with two associate degrees and at that time, it's my understanding that he had founded the center and someone

spoke to that. in fact, i remember 2002 the first time on a bird survey we saw a green her iron and address it at that time that was seen there. place spaced scientific education is a critical missing link not only in our community or the united states but cross the world. san francisco and in the bay area are at the forefront and we have another opportunity to continue the world precedence. i came on i was just speaking oh, the conditional and the bay institute i don't know about the institute of san francisco but i have to say it's those groups working together that are going

to achieve the goal. city college experience with the ecological aspects it is going to be that foundation and remembering that conditional is not the ivory tower it's truly the gay and bridge as someone who is like myself a community college many years it is what it is. i've paved my way but the point is it's an institution hardly but the come that provides the opportunity. i have a lot more to say but it's scattered i'll just end. well, i guess just kind of how i started and that's acknowledging that place space education is going to be the way of the future to bridge the disharmony

and especially we need to create the space and the time is now for the children >> we appreciate you announce yourselves. >> hi, i'm = i didn't long i'm a previous student in san francisco that's currently been taught there. i'm also a transfer student to uc berkley. i took the class of eco when peggy designed the class to do educational education i worked in native landscaping so i helped to revitalize the landscaping that's still there.

a lot of my concerts or experience was there developing the landscaping. i went on to study the is there any additional public comment? in environmental education. i feel strongly that the education i got in peggy's class was the foundation i went to that to study at uc berkley. i'm here to support the bayview project >> (calling names). >> good afternoon port commissioners. my name is is wendy kwoung i'm a lifelong resident i went to city college of san francisco. i'm currently a interim at eco center and have been helping

with the maintenance and the curriculum at the egging could center. i want to depress my support for the eco center in collaboration with the city college of san francisco. i'm here to read a statement from one of the port elders of the proposal who couldn't come. katherine the teacher and board president the statement is the arts and literacy or walk for short is an educational facility for public and that's in east san francisco. they've served the at risk students for 15 years now. as a few minutes high school we come because we've struggled in school in eastern credits and

are in danger of dropping out of school. we integrated math and other projects. we have been working at the park learning valuable things about sustain appeals court first with literacy in the past two years were our collaboration with ucsf has been excited and kindling. they've compromised our students and have their lessons for our curriculum needs and provided resources for our program. i'm especially excited about correcting the law students and other students they can also recognize the viral science as a

value for a career path. this is in addition, that i know my states will are appreciate. we have not only been to see hour students graduate from high school but from - within jobs sorry. and working with the viral foundation they've opened up many opportunity as well as lincoln our students to hire education. thank you katherine board president ass. i want to add as a former student i would have liked to be able to or take to have been able to work with the board so i

appreciate in opportunity >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. i'm here today to represent the labors local union. the foundation and the local are behind the support between the bay institute and the continually of san francisco. the reason that the foundation has chosen me to represent them today, i'm currently a resident of the east side of san francisco and know to is importance. i've been a student out at the eco and understand the importance of hands on experience that's provided to all of san francisco public schools and the duties of city college at the eco center.

i also co-chair the horticulture program and see our policeman getting hands on exercise and they took classes through city college. as we all know the eco center is important it's not just a building would lots of potential growth and nourished by people who are passionate about that. i support myself also the bay institute and the city college being out at the eco center >> (calling names). >> hill hello, i'm david with the horizontal institute. we've been long term resident

with the conditional. we've been teaching our classes since the building was made available. during our time we've put in hundreds of hours and the horizontal design sits skrarl in the element center the liv machine the green revolver and the landscaping we teach to designer as a contractor involved we're going to continue our time there and expand those are oefdz and continue to expand our hours offering scholarships to people in the bayview. i'll keep it short. so thank you >> (calling names). >> dprooet and thank you for your care and care and caution