r commissioners, studies show that vastly higher amounts of cancer causing dust is created when implosion is used for building rather than mechanical removal and prohibited in urban areas. i'd like to kick it up a notch and say you don't need a study because this kind of demolition absolutely should not be done in a in a city in an urban area in particular a 2005-case study by environmental health health health calgory states clearly problematic issues surrounding public health protection in effected areas that could extend

10 to 20 kilometers down wind think of the map you just saw and think about the fact that it totally did not account for a 10 to 20-kilometer down wind blowing on these materials it's absolutely ridiculous to think that we could do an implosion in an urban area and think it's a safe and good idea. so this quote goes on to say that could extend 10 or 20 kilometers down wind suggests that implosions that implosions should be prohibited in metropolitan areas. we should not do these kinds of implosions in metropolitan areas period. >> >> you can read the full pdf or click on the web link and

the deal here is that mechanical removal creates more jobs and local jobs i think that lenare is trying to accelerate its process and save money and we need to protect the public and tell them sorry. and the final thing is a mechanical demolition makes it much easier to reuse materials we need to save those materials not blow them up. thanks. >> thank you. [applause]. >> mckenzie. >> thank you. commissioners i'm dennis mckenzie diamond consulting and education it's -- i've been writing for 25

years and i also teach high school for the last 13 years and my comment today was about the eir being presented between your department and the planning department so my comment today on this issue is that my proposal -- i've could i've asked last week to use the opportunity as they begin the process of eir to study my proposal for high school classroom inside the arena and the issues here today already -- my proposal is to deal with the positive affects of education and what this proposal can mean for our city and entire environment and again, we're talking about these last items have been about the natural resources our human interaction and relationship with the earth and

environment is important so i mean for the benefit -- let me briefly read this comment my proposal on my website basically i'm asking for this study to take into consideration the classroom. i'm asking the eir to study the long-term positive social economic implications of a high school classroom that can provide san francisco and the entire bay area and diverse cross can crosscultural community as a whole and i ask government agencies involved and responsible for creating this successful partnership with the warrior's the workforce development commission and mayor's office to consider the opportunities available to initiating these

possibilitieses that my classroom can provide. i believe a strategic a strategically located classroom will create a wide variety of jobs and businesses and benefits for our diverse crosscultural community including oakland and entire san francisco bay area for generations to come and the copy i gave to you of this letter i wrote on on september 29th i provided this to you a couple of months ago on e-mail and i wrote this letter as a summary because of the new agency of the new agencies involved i needed to summarize everything. my understanding no decisions by political leaders or government officials were ever made without taking into consideration the next 7 generations and that's for a

deeply knowledgeable reason. everybody talking here before as i sat and listened creating jobs we don't have yet. we don't have any sister city relationships yet. my proposal is to create a a model bring a model. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we will read your correspond ance thank you for that. >> do we have any other speaker cards. >> no other speaker cards. >> exactly. so in public comment we can only receivement comment comment. we can't respond. the commissioners might have questions for those members of the public who have given public comment. >> item 7 report of the chair. >> i have no report other than

i encourage commissioners including myself to read carefully and closely the information we've received regarding the warriors project that was not on this calendar it's on our next calendar. >> next item. >> the next order of business is item 8 the report of the executive director on the major phase for the golden state warriors discussion madam director. >> thank you madam secretary really following on the chair's remarks and members of the public continuing to join us thank you. there's an inform al there's an major phase document available for the public. there there will be

an in-depth presentation on january 6th at the first meeting of the year for those of you who also like to hear more about it there are ongoing mission bay citizen's advisory meetings and planning department on december 18th will hear a presentation about the proposed golden state warriors arena and event center. the second item there was an informational memorandum distributed to commissioners today regarding the demolition of the of the candlestick stadium and you heard public comment there were a number of letters. there are public meetings because that item is not calendared and no decision before you today. but nonetheless there is a public meeting in the community tomorrow and if i may announce

that public meeting -- yes. it's through the request of a number of the members of the public here present. there is a meeting scheduled and facilitated through the supervisor's office and the residents of the area that's december 17th at 630 that's an opportunity for people to hear more about the proposed plans and over all plans for candlestick again scheduled for tomorrow and in addition the regular meeting and the this again is in your packets and january 12th at 6:00 p.m. the full meeting the matter proposed demolition will also

be discussed and the previous matter requested and over all update on the candlestick development plans and that's scheduled for for january 20th. >> and then the third matter and i think perhaps it will come up -- it is with sad news to report 2 passings of former colleagues friends and extended family the first is jennifer matz a workforce development director former director of the economic and workforce development a former mentor and friend and legislative aid attorney survived by her two young children and there was a beautiful quaker service for her for her for her for her at pier for her at pier 27 and

a dedicated public servant and market revital ization and more recently for the office of economic development and the golden state warriors and giant 's project with the port and it's with great sadness that she's left us and former deputy director helen -- helped to build yerba, buena and her husband was killed unfortunately in a car accident and his services are january 10th and we certainly will distribute information a number of you know helen and her work and we mourn with their families and certainly celebrate their life for both jennifer and sam.

>> thank you. >> i need to ask if there's any public comment on the report of the executive director? do we have any speaker cards? mr. washington i need to interrupt you we're running out of commissioners. it has to be on the executive directors report. >> thank you. she did not mention 1 word about the situation at -- it seems like we don't exist and that's in

that's in the western addition and also there's no mention that all the black businesses are closing on fillmore and no mentioning? it's ridiculous. it's appalling it's appalling. i respect you all to come addition. >> all i can say is the rules prevent me from giving immediate feedback. i'll be happy to talk to you about it offline. >> the next order of business is item 9. madam chair. >> do the commissioners have any questions or matters. >> the only question i would have if there's an opportunity

for us to talk about the implosion at candlestick and we can agendize it or have a conversion a conversation with lenare about that. >> i need to understand with more clarity even if it's in it's in a bullet memo what is it exactly that lenare submitted to the planning department how is that with any understanding we had about their plans is it consistent or inconsistent with the environmental impact reports or records or documentation. this is just off the top of my head what liaison role does the planning department have with us before they take action and is it staff or planning

commission approval so the sooner we receive that information -- this is more of a comment rather than a question i think we can decide what we we do next. >> and if i said that too fast i think the record will pick it up okay? >> next item please? >> the next order of business is item 10 adjournment. >> we're adjourned. >> on that note happy holidays everyone thank you for for your comments. >> >>

>> good evening everyone with we readies to light a tree. >> yeah. >> that wasn't loud enough. >> are we ready to light a tree. >> good work everyone and welcome to holistic golden gate park i'm filling beginning beggar the manager of our park

department and thank you to the performance tonight and others so tonight is our 85th annual holiday tree latin-american truly one of our signature events in the city's history alongside in the back is our esteemed president mark u he will give me a round of applause (clapping.) tonight behind me is a group of park lovers i'm going to introduce so first i want to introduce the rest of our commission flowering and megan and maggie and eric mcdonald and others (clapping.)

and you're going 0 hear from him he's going to help us light the tree are our parks chief mayor ed lee (clapping) also behind me who's been here several years in a row our spribl e incredible district attorney george moscone our assessor carman chu is here supervisor mark farrell and it's entire family are up here (clapping.) we have john from our moscone and from the mayor's office of

disabilities is here you're going to hear from them but we have our incredible sponsor keeping up and iga gay from kaiser and other person is from the other company here let's talk about the tree this tree behind us 85 years ago you don't think mclaren who was our one of our key fourpd in golden gate park our park superintendent started a tradition of lighting this tree and mile-long of trees that end here in mclaren lodge this is san francisco's official holiday tree and the cypress are over one hundred and thirty years old and despite losing some of its

limitations it's standing at all and supporting over 5 hundred and 50 lights let's give a big round of applause for uncle john's tree (clapping.) so this is the night that offers up the time to get together one of the most important aspects of parks it's sense of place; right? an opportunity to get together to create community and think about our tasks and to see our past, present, and future and people that are going to help us light the trees and brought kids this is something of san francisco's fabric and we remember it's pretty amazing this holiday season offers the opportunity to reflect american people things we are they've for i'm thankful to work with our

amazing staff everyday and help to manage our 2 hundred and 20 parks around the city and most porcelain importantly on behalf of the rec and park department we are thankful for caring about our parks and enjoying them and supporting what really is the best park system in the united states of america. (clapping.) >> so, of course, now and then none of this would be possible without the rec and park department i want to shout out to our superintendent of recreation a gentleman i call p t barn newspaper that's bob (clapping) i also want to congratulate linda and all of bobs managers and our entire recreation staff

our treetopers and our story maybe sad maybe not this tree has been around inform a long lesson time and those of you over time know it's lost some of the lower limbs in big storms throughout the decades well thankfully and even though mayor likes to talk about rain as a sign of prosperity thankfully we have a big storm but we lost one the big tree limb and our tree toppers predict 4 this will be around for decades and decades a shout out to our tree toppers. >> yeah. >> i also want to thank our partners and special maintenance staff and frankly everyone that works other mclaren leveraging

looming and the respect respect i will say to you rec and park department it is the hardest group of city employees around give them a shout out all right. i now want to introduce to you our mayor who recall him mayor but at mclaren lodge he's the park champion he loves foist and loves to play a big hundred to mayor ed lee (clapping.) >> thank you phil happy holidays everyone well, what you deserve is a very short speech so we're going to give you that because those kids want to play i walked by in the snow this is outside play for kids i want to

say a hearty thank you to phil beginning berries and the staff that deserves that but mostly i'm thankful for the people of san francisco those times of trying for families but all the others are getting prosperous and prosperity what we need to do that is share that in the city of san francisco and especially a recognition of many more families that may not be able to receive all the things they need you want to ask you to reach into our hearts and make sure you help others this season of giving tonight our police officers and first year are here to collect toys for families in need help them do so in their dream effort to collect toys for the needy i know you'll join me in not only

a welcome way to thank our partners we have great announcements this year when companies like google decided to help us put wifi in our urban parks now you've got zinc can and kaiser hermosa beach us throughout the year we're going to find more partners to make sure our parks are remaining for all of the people and families to use this is an incredible city a wonderful city it is a 3 times world series champion city that's what we get to represent (clapping.) i'm proud we worked together but mostly proud of people that live lessor day to day great partners when we brag about the city i

visit other places i'll talk about the people that are here essence of innovation in our city thank you very much and happy holidays (clapping) thank you, mr. mayor we have a couple of other speakers i want to first introduce randy through did public affairs if kaiser permanente at the rec and park we share with our tag like we're not - we like to say our mission is really to help families thrive we're grateful for kaiser to port this, please welcome randy up to the podium. >> thank you phil i'll keep to short i wanted to say happy holidays we're thrilled to be here to celebrate the tree lighting and we're fortunate to

have the best urban rec and park department in the country there are 2 hundred and 20 neighborhood parks in san francisco that's a lot of opportunities to get out and thrive so we love the rec and park department and happy to be here and courage you all to get out and get active and healthy and winner you all a happy and healthy holiday season thank you very much (clapping.) thank you randy. >> our other tag like from the rec and park department we like to say get out and play you said it and so our next partner that helps us is ken weber if monk knows play as you sit here now can welcome ken. >> (clapping.) good evening, everyone what an

honor to be up here with with mayor ed lee and phillip and you'll i all those people that work hard to make san francisco whether we love playing on a cell phone or tablet that's why we're proud of our partnering rec and park department with the san francisco parks alliance on behalf of as you sit here now gases more than one thousand based employees we want to wish a safe and happy and hopefully happily lit holiday season. >> one piece of business left what is that. >> the lighting of the tree. >> we're going to light the tree. >> actually, my wife is boggs

me around (laughter) before you before we do one thank you to two other organizations here tonight the ferries is the san francisco parks alliances two folks are here thank you to them (clapping) and also who i saw in the crowd representing the hard working who take care of our works vince from the local. >> (clapping) we're now going to light the tree our swiss is in the back there so there's a switch that is going to light the tree and the mayor is going to pill the

switch and joining him a syosset who is here i asked them to come up i met yvette before the ceremony stated she's with her own parents talking about this is a generational connection she's been here since 1969 come on up and join the mayor on the sign. >> yeah. i think the switch came from candle stick park we want to make sure it works mr. mayor 3 may not be the best example. >> here's our switch and she's here with her daughter and husband mark all right. and also lilly come