is there monthly who would like to make general public comment at this point. please come forward >> good afternoon. by now commissioners. >> still good morning. i'm lynn. maybe i'm a little bit nervous i remember in the 70s each of you from mo cd citizens committee we shared office when i was what the mayors place and you gloria in the mission and i hope i don't cry but if i do i'm sorry i don't know, you but i know people in the labor union.

my grandson plays successor this summer he was on a field 8 hours a day volunteering and he came home telling me stories and they live above me my daughter has stage iii cancer i had a son that had a brain tumor that lived near ocean beach. that i'm not looking for things to do but this whole thing mass been an unfortunate misstates characterization of needed resources that some of the finest people in the country are trying to do and somehow, you know, we need to take a set up a back. i spent about three weeks reading my grandson and said

your nuts everybody is saying those fields are fine and safe. but but but my daughter going through diagnosis. i've been a children's advocate not a tree huger but i grew up in the park and was a poor kid and i don't mean to take too much time but if you google health hazards you'll find pages and pages. i prepared hours of testimony to have meaningful i'm here to tell you i'll be happy to share with you everything i have an agenda

we're using the most toxic substance this knocks my socks off when my grandson was playing in 2008, i want to have it tested where do you go to the bathroom starbuck's there's n bathroom what are we doing >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. . no? our okay anything else who wants to make general public comment at this time seeing none, general public comment is closed. and we're on item 5 the consent calendar. >> let me make two announcements we had a request to take the beach la contract off the calendar inasmuch as this has been heard and approved

unanimously and gone to the board of supervisors and approved there will be an opportunity to speak under jane kim under the consent calendar this didn't restrict anyone's opportunity to speak. i'm going to recommend we keep it on the consent calendar and ask the secretary to read the corrected verse of the resolution that had a few typos just to make sure we're dot all the i's and cross the t's >> so commissioners you have in front of you today an amended verse of the resolution for 5 g the academies is non-substantive there were spelling errors the word subject in the title and the word resolve further resolve and those have been corrected and the appropriately in the

title is replaced that appropriating and the appropriate is being replaced that allocate and the third clause appropriation is being replaced to allocation to reform to the agenda. those are the changes in the resolution. with that, i do have speaker cards for the consent calendar. so we have eric hanson, rick. and jill to start with, please. if you could come forward one tattoo >> good morning. i'm eric i

thank you for the opportunity to speak i am a strong support of this project i'm a resident of the outer sunlight i have two sons my son will be going off to college he's by the end if spectacular projects that have occurred in the city and i'm hopefully my 8-year-old son will be able to use the beach son. i've been with that project because i saw the tremendous benefits that other parts of the city we need more fields for our kids especially in our part of the city. the project has been approved by every level of the government. but the ones that have suffered

there the delays are the kids in san francisco. i urge you to vote and moved this project and i i want to take the opportunity to speak >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi i'm jill i've been coaching her not city for 25 years youth 25 years adults and have been coming before the committees for every year in that time the sport has bloomed and because of that during practice time we're allocated one hour of practice per week for a 90 minute game that's 4 teams on one field you get a half of a goal may not. my girls get to play in the

field where no goals are. so far as what's been happening with the ones it's been beautiful what's going on at crocker. we'll get a full year of fields and in the night time just think the people are coach the kids don't have anywhere to play they don't get to play because there's no lit field and on top of we're coming with drought you don't have to water of the turf. an amazing project when crocker was slated to go we had games there and night fights would break out but now no fights no

bad elements the same thing can happen the beach la where they have areas around the fields and it it does have bathrooms. thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> morning thank you for laughing us to be here. >> i represent our 5 thousand adult players men and women who use the fields in san francisco open a weekly basis. i've been a successor player i'm going to date myself since 1954 using beach la consistently through high school as and a as an adult. this project is going to

revolutionize this city and continue the growth of successor for our kids to have safe playing fields. the nature fields we have today are safe is midget. beach la was closed and we took pictures of the gopher holes and it culminated with a boy with a component framework because he stepped in a hole we have to keep this safe because their using them for lacrosse and other sports ground sports so i urge you to approve this and move forward >> thank you. >> i have a few more cards

(calling names) in any order please. hi i'm pamela thank you. i'm the immediate past president of the coed program in the city and i have a two children. i've probably seen you all here before i go beg you to approve this contract. i've seen the adults with a lack of having access to the fields and children. with my daughter in high school we could have huge growth in the

fields with teams so thank you for your time i hope it gets approved >> thank you. >> next speaker >> thank you for the time i'm a volunteer i serve as president of the san francisco youth successor. we registration 8 thousand children to play in our leagues. you may not know our relationship to san francisco unified school district we're the sport and athletes program for the sport the vast majority of our high school have teams in our leagues. i would say more than that many of those have up to 10 teams in our leagues we have one hundred and 20 second grade teams alone

playing in san francisco. golden gate park and beach la have fabulous san francisco treasurers as is ocean beach a national treasure we bring the kids to golden gate park and beach la to practice during united states week no matter where you are in the city you can play on the fields and enjoy all of la it's crucial for the kids of san francisco they enjoy this great place and they do is through youth soccer. i i urge you to purchase this turf so kids can have the reap to stay in the city thank you very much >> thank you. >> next speaker >> hi i take it me again, it's the same subject i apologize. i

was told i could make general comments. >> you're fine go ahead. >> when i began reaching this about the toxic turf because i was curious people railroad were saying things what is unfortunate everybody is looking at us this is now a a national issue. i see on our children's plagued i would certainly be happy to volunteer but i talked to carl and worked for the city and the vikings are doing a great job but kids in bayview how does that tie into soccer the epa has

withdrawn their approval of the substance we're putting in the message i want to share as the greenest city in the country there are issues and if tlis there's anything that's traffic the fine people that have tried to educate you against the forces of the tire companies this is developed just like playgrounds before they banned arsenic they'll taken it out now no one who knows i mean no one i'd like to turn my file to you who say this is not toxic they're putting in cocoa nut huts and no bathroom at the franklin and let me tell you

what everybody is saying if you play on this stuff you shouldn't have kids under 3 i've got a policy position for school boards we're putting it in schools children should wash their hands before they eat their injecting lead. please take - think about it if nothing else take a peak and i'd like to answer some of the questions and be glad to help you while i'm here because the rest of the year i live in hot strings and doorway >> next speaker >> i'm leo cassidy i'm with the san francisco men's soccer club we have our organization has

exploded from 2 teams to 48 teams in 4 years because of the demand for soccer. and we got the world cup coming up here shortly in june here. and, you know, to talk about the stuffer every country in the world has turf and for where we come from ireland the weather it is so bad we have to use it because the fields get hammered and you can't use them. but to get to the point of 34 years of battering of fields that have been there since the 40s and 50s golden gate park ass is 11 hundred acres let's get

this done. thank you >> thank you. >> (calling names) if you could come up please. good morning, again catherine howard sf ocean edge we request the contract be taken off the consent calendar. the appeals court is considering the lower courts opinion on the environmental impact report. as yet there's no information from the monitoring plan we've requested a point surveys from the department but apparently, the department doesn't have any data or at least that's the response to our sunshine report it didn't include reporting on the nests in the area.

as of other environmental issues this will not save water we have to sunshine that they are different from the water you usage this project will cost water and grass is a major segregation plant anyone who says this is doesn't is not true. the toxic materials and the guarantee lack of the costs beyond what the city is committed to you building you have the letters. we believe those concerns need to be addressed in writing our confident before this contract. for the soccer teams we've supported the win win the west

side playground this is the preferred alternative in the cities environmental impact report it will provide an continental number of hours for children while protecting the habitat beauty. your decision today will have the future of golden gate park for generations we ask you table this construction contract and reconsider the sunset playgrounds thank you. >> joan there are two items you want to speak on so you'll have 3 minutes for each item. >> you want them both now. >> they're both content.

>> i'm joan wood i am one of the rare birds i'm a third generation san franciscan my mother born her and my parents met and married in san francisco so i have the respect for golden gate park you people don't have the same respect it's amazing and even underlying i frightening that you will approve artifical turf it's toxic i don't know how you can allow this to happen you have children. i object to the 60 feet high lights it's not been studied

what that is going to do to let habitat of the birds. other thing is 55 trees have going to be cut down they're called bushes by the planning department. i think you all should have so touch of shame for approving this fictitiously turf it's dangerous and i want to say like presently itself are not opposed to soccer. there's a procession of people that get excited but soccer i agree with that we're not trying to keep soccer away from san francisco children but make it safe. i hope you'll postpone this at least until next month we'll have a bitter experience we went

over there it was set up we can't testify they moved the deadline up an hour so people that chartered a bus we didn't get to testify but supervisor wiener and mr. gings beggar got to speak but the protesters didn't get to speak. thank you now i'm going to segue into my other topic. i live in north beach and looking good to a new restroom we have a popular park washington square park it's a stop for marathons we've been waiting to get this restroom. it seems funny to me

>> thank you for both. >> rick and other person. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm rich i am with two successors. my main concerns as ref is making it fun and safe for everyone safeties has been a concern for everyone beach - as a ref there's a 4r50ish9 but since the turf has been ardent we don't have to cancel any more when we have folks come to san

francisco they can go out and enjoy the parks that's it there's greatest fats i don't know if it's a win-win situation about moving the turf somewhere else is it okay it have it over here what's the problem with beach o lay. thank you >> thank you. >> next speaker hi i'm a 35 year residents - my credit ability was immediately - >> i've raised two children the first of whom is raising his own player that player was not allowed to go to field games it

is not under it was a rough part of town but now i've got a 16-year-old player he can go safely to crocker but now that's swarmed with other families and kids. the issue of toxic it and bay how many lined up to oppose it when it was in the mission when it was crocker it was the same turf. greg surstooped and said they don't like to go to beach o lay because of the things going on there. please support that, please

approve this budget and get it done >> is there anyone else who want to make a comment on item 5 consent calendar. frank >> i've never spoken on this but i really didn't know it was the right thing to do it's controversial there's good and bad things on both sides but if you approve the construction of initially turf it wouldn't cost that much to study and if it is we made a mistake and if not he really want to know if it's safe. it will cost more after construction i urge you to consult other and determine

whether or not this is an issue >> thank you. next speaker. >> i'm a parent at star king elementary school i have one child that is graduated and the other one is in middle school. i helped put together a soccer team with one of the most diverse schools it has a large number of students in the general strand around the neighborhood. it is the most diverse school in the district. soccer brought all the community together when you have schools that have different programs the kids and parents the teachers don't even really know each other. sunlight of soccer and weekly

soccer practices nearby the katrero center families got to know each other and it brought our schools together. the cool thing about beach la it's such a long drive but the most amazing thing is it gets us out there and it gets families that are on the east side out to beach lay and we get to know neighborhoods we're in. so we're happy that the facility is there but we're not happy about the state of the facility we're really having a difficult time convincing our kids it's safe. we fluid to make the changes we're mackey appreciate it as a parent who cares about environmental causes.

i would normally be opted to this but in this particular situation there are way two many kids from low income families kids who's families have to leave san francisco because of the affordability crisis and we need to give the families a reason to stay here we can't didn't have them moving away to pittsburgh or elsewhere they have to exist here. thank you. next speaker. . good afternoon. i'm glen i apologize i'm out of breath. i want to really can you remember you to pass this measure the soccer community