what we want their community to look like and the alley to bring the open space and create pedestrian safety where there's not as much spates thank you to the staff for this program and your time today. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors first, i thank you for having this hearing for this awesome and creativity program i'm here with the san francisco beautiful to wage my support for the program there's no doubt this helps the better streets plan by encouraging beautifying and pedestrian safety i'd like to before your accident to the finding of the programs for the citywide reports that from the

productive of san francisco beautiful it helps us to realize this program is good and want to support it's permanent 90 percent of the parklets used to spend money wildly but you know the physical improvements like the parklets and plaza impact the offer all feel, and, secondly the study found socially the new parklets rated highest amongst the people and one of the highest observed activities in the parklets and adjacent sidewalks to the plazas provides the proposition of neighborhood interaction so not only in the commercial zone but this is working great and finally the community wanting to

keep those spaces active and clean and the pavement and parks ask folks to work together to create a connection and the sense of ownership around those those a ma reasons sf beautiful supports the promissory note program last year they supported the park let operations we look forward to your collaboration so i request you support the program thank you. >> thank you very much >> next speaker good afternoon, supervisors as the parks alliance pavement to parks we asking act as a fiscal especially the triangle i support the program formalizing the agency role is necessary to address the current

and future needs pavement to parks led to the creation in the areas it is needed the most that's why we support in program wholeheartedly. >> thank you very much any public comment madam chair may we close public comment. >> all right. any discussion. >> i want to thank the department for the helpful presentation this is a successful program optometry levies and it is popular which is why we have staffing challenges to make sure we have the resources necessary to make the program a success so i hope we'll keep that in mind i know i will as we powerful move into the process madam chair i'll move item 4 to the call of the chair. >> i have a motion to move to

the call of the chair and cemented by supervisor kim this motion is made madam clerk , any other business before this commission? >> there's no further business. >> thank you. this committee is adjourned.

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supervisors, norman yee. scott wiener, cindy wu, phil tang, wane young and shou young and norman fung. when you get a list like this, i would like to say if there is anyone i didn't acknowledge, i would like you to raise your hand and i would be happy to welcome you. one of our friends rick quan is here. good to see you here, rick. the honorable mayor of san francisco and the cousin david lee is here. [ applause ] >> one of the most ferocious players on the court, one of the most genteel and fun guys off the court. damon green.

[ cheers and applause ] his nickname is the senator which is why i have him separated from ed lee because when you talk about election results, i don't want to have two politicians together. one of the rising stars as he is. [ cheers and applause ] and a man who continues to dominate the nba from seattle to all star weekend to years in the league office in phoenix and now the president of the warriors, lebron james business, rick welch. [ cheers and applause ] now, events like this are always important to the warriors because there is two baseball teams in the bay area. there is two football teams in the bay area, but there is one basketball team and this is the one team. we are the bay area's

team. you think about it whether it be from napa and sonoma all the way down to fresno to sacramento and tahoe, san jose, oakland and san francisco, our new home. this is really something where millions and millions of people come together for one squad. this happens to be at 36 and 6, the best team in the nba. [ cheers and applause ] we always say about coming to a warrior game and the crowd with this collective bay area molestation lestation mojo that our players feel it and if you were there friday night to see clay thompson to go from 37 and a quarter. i know we are worried about the san andreas fault but

that building levi taetd on its own. it's so important to the warriors. if you think of san francisco with the largest population of chinese outside of mainland china. it becomes a key part of who our fan base is and we reach out to our fan base of all races, carried, ethnicity. really for china this is a place where we the warriors have traveled. harris and damion has traveled. i have traveled with the olympics. it really shows you how the nba can be identified on a global bases. what i found out in china is that every city in

china must have a basketball court. that's by state law. no matter where you are in beijing, shanghai, places the warriors have visited or the agricultural areas there is always a basketball and always someone like tramd green is. we have an account for the very first team to get involved with social media, internationally in china. it's important to us. we have a special unveiling today that links the warriors specifically with something very special in the chinese new years. >> let's hear from eric welch. >> let's hear it for bob. [ applause ] . >> we are going to have some

fun today but i want to do something a little serious from the beginning. we are at the betty young recreation center and we are known for the history with the warriors and you need to know who betty was. she was a flight attendant who took off from a flight from boston. the first flight that hit the world trade center building and somehow during that flight she had the presence of mind to be the one communicating to the people on the ground what was happening, who had been the perpetrators of this horrible event and showed so much strength and courage. she was born in san francisco, she grew up here in chinatown and she's a true american hero. it's important that you remember that. thank you. [ applause ] >> is her sister here? where

is she? right there. stand up. thank you very much for being here today. thank you. [ applause ] >> so today we are here to recognize and to celebrate the importance of the chinese community to the golden state warriors, how about that. is that worth a round of applause? we are the bay area's team and i'm sure you know that three of the five largest asian communities in the united states are right here in the bay area, in san francisco, oakland and in san jose. you may or may not know that this today's nba 20 percent of the players on our nba rosters come from outside of the united states. no more important than in the history of --

has opened a whole new area of basketball and interest in the nba in china and everybody will forever be indebted to yaw to keep people's mind in china to enjoy the nba and basketball more than ever before. in the last four 4 years we have staged that the warriors are asian heritage night and we have a special celebration for chinese new year. we would like to think of ourselves as innovators, we like to think of new things. not all of them work, but we would like to try them and we want to make everything a better experience. and we have a team to introduce the short sleeve jerseys. that's coming up in just a moment. today is an at some point to celebrate our

relationship with the chinese community because we are going to make a little bit of history. the warriors and rockets are going to unveil a special uniform they are going to wear on the court in honor of chinese new year. [ applause ] . so we have two very appropriate representative. not only are they two of our star players in the starting lineup but two players that not only traveled to china with the warriors but they also on their own taken trips to china and been involved in the culture of china and met the people of china and have on their own time understood the connection between china and the bay area. so without further a do, we would like to ask barnes and green to get up. this is where the drum roll comes.

and unveil the uniforms that the warriors will be wearing this celebration of the chinese new year. go for it. [ cheers and applause ] wait. there is more. >> wow. >> all right. very nice. how about that. thank you, guys. back to you, bob. >> now, as exciting as it is to see harrison and dramon when we left the warriors, it was difficult because we had to leave the other warriors and we left the guys standing on the curb very upset that they were not chosen to wear the chinese new year jersey. these are great. first and foremost is

where to get them? >> thanks for asking, bob. >> that was a trick. >> starting right now you can go to warriors.com and preorder these jerseys. the first game is on the 20th against the san antonio spurs. the shop will be full of chinese new year jerseys and if you travel to travel they will be available there too. >> we are g -- going to wear these four times, they are going to be broadcast here and in china. i will again the broadcast with ni how. going to china, you have gone a couple times with the team but you also went on your own. tell me what struck you with the chinese people and the

fervent and interest in the nba baseball? >> actually i have been three times. i also went with u.s.a basketball. the mannerism and their appreciation for you to come to their country just to play basketball, i mean, they will give you the world there. just the mannerisms and they make you feel like one of their own and you can't thank them enough. coming to the bay area, my rookie year, coming from michigan state. i was so homesick. so to go all the way to china, i was homesick in a day but they make you feel at home with their mannerism and appreciation. i can't thank coach enough. [ cheers and applause ] >> harrison, does it give you an idea of how maybe small the world is that a

dramon green and harrison, and the knowledge that people had about basketball. they knew about teams and players and the whole bit. >> i think that was one of the most surprising thing about china is how knowledgeable they were of the teams and they knew about our coaching staff and how we played and they tried to imitate how we do our fast breaks and how wild and the energy that we are. that was great to see. not only do our fans here recognize but the people in china and they really do care. >> rick, initially with the dream team, the idea was to really make the nba available on a global basis. nothing says more global than china

and that fervent basketball. your linkage between the nba and china. what's been your experience between now and 2015 that highways taken leaps and bounds in the next century of it? >> already today china represents the largest market in basketball than anywhere else in the world. it's the only country in the world where we set another company, nba china to grow the sport of basketball in one country. that doesn't exist any where else in the world. longer term, we give all the credit to yaw and the houston rockets for establishing the connection with the nba but over time, the golden state warriors has to be the chinese team that we look to because of the amazing chinese population here. so long-term, we want to be china's team.

>> tell me about the uniforms themselves. tell me about the design. i see the warriors slate a little bit like on saturday. there is a lot of different accents and color teams. what was that in >> slate is a lucky color for the warriors, we are 5-0 on our saturday night game. we never lost a game when we were wearing the slate color for the jerseys and yellow a tip of the hat to china and of course warriors have yellow in our color scheme too. on the shoel on the waste band you see celebrating the year 2015, the year of the goat. i just want you to know that. it's been a 2-year process to have us go through development and be

able to present what we are presenting today. from a basketball point, gog is a greatest of all time. when you think of the warrior season so far in our franchise season in the whole year, this is the greatest we've had. [ cheers and applause ] >> i think dramon when you think of the chinese community and the culture there is such a sense of family and you see multi-generation really people hanging out together as well as attending games and the honor of people that have come before them. the camaraderie of this warriors team is so exceptional that it should be a high school team or youngster team, yet it is an nba team. what is so special about this years warriors and this group and this staff of players together? >> it's amazing the chemistry

throughout the entire organization. it's not just the players or the staff. it's the entire organization from the marketing department to the pr department, everyone. you can feel that love, feel that bond. it shows where this organization has come over the last 4 years from an organization who, i mean, you look at the calendar from what i have heard and you mark it to a win to now you wonder what's going on. it's a testament to everyone who has been involved from building this from the organization to rick wells to joe and peter buying the team and revamping everything and everybody is super close and it's a family. it's building the family and when it helps that, winning games always helps but