good job the san francisco public is a reminder of the importance of being presented and will continue to serve the residents for decades to come everybody. >> ladies and gentlemen, the chair has called the meeting to order please turn off our electronic devices and please rise for the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> . >> (clapping.) >> commissioner president loftus i'd like to call roll. >> commissioner president loftus

commissioner turman is excused commissioner marshall is commuted commissioner dejesus is in route commissioner mazzuco commissioner wong and commissioner melara commissioner president loftus we have quorum we present doorstep chief and joyce hicks director the office of citizens complaints question are a interpreter please i've yourself and please sits next to the lady you number one consent calendar receive and file action. >> i'm sorry, i'm sorry did you want to introduce the

doorstep chief and director joyce hicks i think i was thinking how did adults were trying to speed to the politics i'd like to thank dr. dennis chu with elementary school for hosting us and we'll hear from some of the students figure it out graders this is graduation from a figure it out grader i have one i take it exciting i'm glad you're here welcome everybody this is one of the ways we took the business of police commission out sweet spot community and do those meetings slightly differently i'll share we start off talking about who we are we have day jobs we serve the city this way we'll give you a little bit of background and the way the meeting will work we

hear from the captain and members of the community about what is happening at supervision and then public comment at the at the end i'll go through some of the after you hear into fellow commissioners commissioner wong. >> thanks for coming out i've been a civil rights attorney working on a public defender and a civil rights and doing domestic violence and as a result in the human trafficking. >> commissioner melara i i am an in my day job work in st. francis hospital and work with the services and at st. francis and also on the staff the usf school of social work. >> commissioner mazzuco and native san franciscan born in

the district i'm a criminal defense interest and spent an, an assistant district attorney on the gang unit and spent 9 years in san francisco with my my wife and i have two children we've raised in the city this is any farther part of concussion coming out and hearing with the community as station has to say and commissioner dejesus. >> i took 20 minutes to come up third street i'm happy to be here i'm an attorney on the commission over 9 years close to 10 years and glad to be here in chinatown. >> and my name is commissioner president loftus i'm an attorney and used to be a in san francisco any husband tom and i are raising our 3 kids in the outer

sunset and yeah, he think that's all you need to know (laughter). >> so the rules as you are figure it out graders know there are rules for the way we do all the meetings we'll video a public comment and limited to 2 minutes i know that oftentimes people feel strong about what they're saying my goal so make sure we hear if everyone we ask that for whatever someone is saying listen if someone sdruchz we'll have to deal with that to keep the meeting going. >> sergeant, next line item. >> consent calendar requested did police chief to september 7th autumn defishldz from linda to be placed in new vehicles and assigned to 10 district stations valued at 9

thousand plus request of the police chief so accept donations of a used television from the 1yd of the tuesday kin to delay crime blitz valued at $200. >> and colleagues, any questions on the consent calendar for people watching at home she lost her are son and looks at for ways to prevent other syzt kiftys that's one of the ways she does any questions for the chief. >> we have deputy chief do you want to explain why you're hear. >> good afternoon director joyce hicks i'm here on behalf of the chief chief executive officer that couldn't attend

because of an urgent matter he too share in thanking dr. chiu and thank you for hosting this at jordan cho elementary school i recommend you accept those gifts on behalf of the those who nominated and used for tools to better serve the community. >> thank you do i have a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> motion to accept those gifts. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> that item passes thank you deputy chief sergeant, next line item. >> >> item two reports to the commission discussion chiefs report this item to allow the police chief 0 report on recent police activities. >> commissioners, i present a short report opens the by the time to breakers 35 thousand

people that registered we estimated over 50 thousand participate we had a historically low incident of public intoxicate detentions and it went basically without incident no violent crimes recorded that's all i have to report went without a hitch. >> any questions for the deputy chief before captain lazarus. >> thank you that concludes my report. thank you, commissioners. >> george glen eagle captain lazarus. >> welcome to the punishment folks on behalf of the chief suhr i again want to welcome you to the central station we enjoy will you come out to the community we like the fact you get to hear if individual work or residents of the central

district we invite people to have an opportunity to get to meet you and talk with you face to face this is our second time as meeting the captain being in chinatown how for this and many communities are to use it central station and to indicator the vision of our chief to make that a kid centered event focusing on making kids first, we do that by having here at gordon jay allowing elementary school and members of the figure it out grade you'll hear if you've heard from before, before i start with the power point i'll go ahead and turn that on for a second i'd like to acknowledge some people that are here today, i'm so hatch their think present first i'd like to recognize my boss commander bob moser in the back of the room here today to

support me would everyone from central station stand up i'd like to see the central station police officers commissioners i've brought out a lot of the officers. >> (clapping.) >> yes. >> just so you know who our officers are that patrol in our community left to right mark and tennessee why that controls housing i'll talk about that but first time housing team they don't a joke and rose sergeant rose smith one of the investigators and randy is on my staff and handling the facilities officer cam and others two new recruits out of the please academy thanks to the - we can use all the officers and happy

the classes keep on coming and sergeant vanderbilt one of our investigators and a assert from the swing shift and officer sam is our chinatown foot beat officer and officer anthony our video retrieval and assert and sergeant eileen all investigators out here today and am oh, ryan jones the power point person thank you to him he's the power point person but the most valuable guys can put. >> beautiful power point together who am i missing from central round of applause for the central station and last week to thank have a seat and acknowledge any family that is a family event my wife julia and

nicholas graduating from high school and greg. >> (clapping.) >> you know, i have to say i couldn't do this without them the 70 hour workweeks and, speak for all the district captains because we have great families that support us this is another example supporting us and i'm grateful for coming out tonight we - you'll meet many members of the community and on the police advisory board please stand up very nice richard and gasping from chinatown and the financial and karen flood the executive director of business improvement and me chief executive officer from north point and fisherman's wharf that is the executive

director and jennifer handles my community meetings and from telegraph hill, wesley representing sf safe thank you for all you do and may newest member to the board executive director of cameron house thank you for being here this evening with that, we'll move forward thank you, again, for being here other members of the community i'm grateful maybe will speak later starting out the power point next slide we'll start this out like last time we are going to have a special guest speaker that will take over the meeting our fist grader that gives a little speak i'll be surprised if dr chiu has anything to do with that and

gifts for the commission and for the chief and director hicks with that (clapping.) >> good evening commissioner president loftus and the san francisco police commission and to executive branch and the officers of the san francisco police department welcome to my school i hope you enjoy the food and feel welcomed by my fellow students and me when this commission first used our school i remember i spoke before you and now i was a the third grader and now graduating next week and looking forward to starting my new life as a 6 grader in middle school a small finish in a big pond i'm truly looking forward to the

challenges of mission high school dr. chiu talks about obstacles this makes us stronger and smaller user smarter we over come our hardships and smarter we learn from our mistakes no matter how rough the road i'll keep a positive attitude and face the challenges head on chief suhr i like and respect you because you, you gave any school lenient and others captain lazarus who is my personal friend now along with or along with officer courtney who allows us to know them not just as an officer was friends all of the little kids the kindergartener and second grader a lot to meet him, i view

- more mature fashion overall i'm a graduating figure it out grader my principal and teachers have told me i have leadership potential and hopefully earn the title of president like commissioner president loftus i hope to be a leader especially in the community like our own 1k350e6 chief suhr there are people chris's you remember doctor chiu said overcoming obstacles makes us better if you need a 1020 back up i can get any fist graders to help you commissioner president loftus and commissioners we're always to honored you come to our school i hope you'll continue when i'm in middle school, high

school and college you never know may be one day it will be president on the san francisco police commission (clapping.) now my classmate corey chang will say a few words thank you (clapping.) >> good evening commissioner president loftus and executive branch last year, i drew a picture for deputy chief and chief suhr and tom said they really liked it so much that chief suhr said they make chief tom look like burt reynold i--i don't know who that that i hope you say you'll look like a movie

star with my picture too (laughter) >> (clapping.) >> commissioner president loftus i plan tobacco a teacher when i grew up because i want to help children many my community just like you, your president and always helping all people and community i want to give you a picture i hope you like it thank you (laughter) >> (clapping.) >> how about a round of applause for those future

leaders. >> (clapping.) >> okay. at this point the fist grad placing class will help to distribute a few gifts to the commission and folks.

>> of course we have one important doctor chiu and grace and her partner thank you very much thank you, thank you, thank you thank you great job. >> (clapping.) >> okay. if i can have grace retain she's headed to the middle in a week we have something for him and deputy chief and get graces mom to come up so grace has been a good sport in the middle of the third are fourth gratitude up here for deputy chief tom she was the mc

she agreed to come out tonight as well and done a lot for the community and us and she's a future leader as you may know a leader right now in the fifth grade so on behalf of the chief deputy chief sign will present but read it it says certificate of appreciation grace o in deepest outstanding service to our community in the san francisco police department sets an example is won't of the high seem awarded the 18 day 6 may by chef gregory sandra fewer. >> (clapping.) >> all right. thank you very

much everyone on to the next slide please one more award and talk about the central indict is the mcdonald's family come down if you folks come up one more award to present so alex is the 16-year-old junior at stuart hall i'm not going to read you anything but tell you on a story alex want to introduce our parents. >> this is my dad bruce and mom. >> on july 24th, 2015, as thirty minutes past mingled a young partner the young woman had a purse noticed the man she was suburb about sitting close to this couple and keep on and on the woman they felt uneasy as the conversation with the

boyfriend continued she noticed the man was getting closer and closer to the point she felt intimidate about this man and told her boyfriend time to leave the park the man jumped up and bolted and grabbed the purse and the suspect took off through the park over to union street and preceded on westbound on union the boyfriend chased after the suspect he feel down at some point and couldn't keep up the suspect makes it to mason and terminals left on uphill the police know suspects run downhill hfs the case that with suspect that got to mason just in time to run both alex he and his classmate who witnessed the

robbery that decided to forego personal safety for the good of the community and tackle the suspect took him to the ground and held on and detained him with the arrive of police and as a result a violent robbery suspect was taken into custody i won't ask when you were on the ground doing at midnight and glad you were there at the right time and an award on behalf of the chief i'll read it certificate of appreciation san francisco police department and alexander mcdonald outstanding bravery at great risk sets an example by the worthy esteem awarded you the 18 day of may 2016 by our police chief greg suhr congratulations and thank you very, very much.

>> (clapping.) >> all right. thank you very much thank you for dloelg on to the presentation next slide so welcome to the central district the northeast corner of san francisco we are divided the way we establish our police strategies divided into 5 car segments last july 2015 we redesigned all the borders of our district as a result we added a 5 car segment that means month of you can see was taken over by us from tenderloin that also meant that market street from the ferry building to thirsted and one block to mission was taken from southern station and calls for service

went if about 48 hundred calls to 69 calls for serve every month in the expansion of the area this is a beautiful part of our city as you may know 24 schools and 24 parks 35 hotels, 4 hospitals we went from 21 consulates to 35 consulates and pay attention to the consulates and we estimate about one hundred residents and 4 hundred residents that is 5 segments next. >> we have central station foot beats in the way i've been doing thing for the last few years every time an academy class y where can i put the officers to get them out of cars we've been able to tie in chinatown 4 officers dedicated full-time to a foot beat in the

daytime. >> health care providers. >> oh, no. >> address their demands. >> as i said i as i said i want to hear from everyone we are asked to follow the rules you're out of order you'll have a chance to speak in public comment you're out of order if you don't stop i'll have to recess the meeting and not be able to do do work we have to do tonight this is our last warn this meeting will stop we're in recess. >> assert please reconvene the meeting. >> we're back on record item 2a captain lazarus was giving us

his presentation. >> i'm to remind you there is a different format so with the commission can hear if from people in the neighborhood that want to raise issues with us and in order to do that we want to make sure we hear from everyone captain lazarus about complete his report and hear from the office of citizens complaints and i assure you everyone will get a chance to have their voices heard two minutes of public comment i urge you many of the members of the community came to address a number of issues and make sure we hear them ask for everyone are cooperations if people are out of order and do not comply with the rules of the police commission we'll not hear from everyone he ask for everyone's cooperation you're out of order, sir you're out of order.

>> sir you've heard you're out of order. >> i'm going to invite, i'm going to invite if i like us to hear you i would like you to follow the rules which to hear in. this is not this is not how weer able to do our jobs i'm inviting you to follow the rules that everyone here will follow if you're unable to do this meeting will in about adjournment and we'll not hear from including you about what you want i'm going to go back to the agenda if you keep on interrupting i mean, i'll be forced to journey 24 meeting and take away my opportunity and the opportunities of commissioners to hear from peep that's a shame

that would be a shame we'll have alls conversations not in the middle of this meeting captain lazarus please continue with our report >> okay. >> go back to the slide with the central district. >> okay in terms of the foot beat. >> you're out of order you're out of order so here's how this will go i'm going to say that would great sadness unfortunately, the important work the police commission will not continue tonight i'll invite a motion to journey this meeting people are out of order i apologize from the people from chinatown and central station that came to raise a dough have a motion journey. >> second.

>> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> that motion call the roll, commissioner buell, here. low, here. levitan, here. mcdonnell, here. just a quick reminder to turn off sound producing devices that could go off during the meeting. if you will have a secondary

conversation please take that outside. if you like to speak on a item today, please complete a blue card and unless otherwise announced by the president, each person will have 3 minutes on each item for public comment. if there is a item of interest to you that is not on agenda you may speak under general public comment is that item is number 4 and then continue to item 10. we usually allow 15 minutes on item 4 and go to item 10. last, please address your comments to the commission during public comment on items. in order to allow equal time the commission nor staff will respond to any questions during public comment. the commission may ask questions of staff after public comment is closed. with that, we are on item 2, the presidents report. >> thank you. briefly, one, i

want to welcome steve hanes who is the former director of the sterngrove. he is now the vice president for strategic growth and marketing at the zoo and happy to have you. welcome. secondly. as some know, at a recent rec and park commission meeting there was a lot of testimony around the challenges that the department faces with the vast increase in growth in soccer in san francisco and the limited number of fields despite many improvements to many fields. the commission asked the staff to prepare a status report on where we are and where we are going to try to meet those challenges. that staff report has now been completed and will shortly be on our website and there is one copy here if we have interested

party and thank the general manager and staff, dana ketchm for preparing that, it is a important issue. with that, that concludes my report. >> any public comment under the presidents report? seeing none, public comment is closed. item 3, general managers report. >> good morning, commissioners. few announcements and then we have a special presentation by san francisco state interns completing their internship with us and graduating shortly so it is a joy to have them and will introduce them in a second. i want to start off the meeting by sharing a bit of news we can be proud helping to create. this year san francisco has gin garnered a playful city u.s. designation from coo boom which is non profit dedicated to giving all kids opportunities

balance and active play so they can thrive. the report citing our cities hundreds of play groupds and play areas, 180 are run by rec and park and commitment to installing playground models to encourage play cuboom honored san francisco for the past 10 years since inception en1996 with shared connection with nature and insure all children can get out and play in their parksism speaking of play and play grounds, happy to announce the reopening of gilmore playground fry day june 3 from 3 to 6 p.m. parks impruchbment include a 2 in 1 playground, new pathways, renovated club house

restroom jz green field out door fitness equipment for adults funded by a grant from green field. will include sports, games and climbing wall and invite everyone to join us. good news but one of our more cherished and historic park buildings, the 137 year old conservety of flowers. in june will begin a project at the west wing to repair the detearierating muttons-muttons? what these things are are vertical strips of wood between the conservatory pains of glass which preserve the integrity of the building. there is lose and detearated glazing pudy that wood thingys that will be removed and a silicone cap with a sealen will be installed overit. the project is

anticipated to last 6 months with minimal disruption to public access to the building and very proud of staff and the parks alliance and all those that work at conserve ervety to commitment for preserveation. pancakes in the park. mu cleric park pancakes in the park funds raising may 21 from 9 to noon at lewis sutter club house in mu claren park. we will serve pancakes, eggs, sausage, fruit, refreshment for the low low low price of $10 for adults and $5 for children. help improve the park playground, picnic areas

and information kiosks and if you had a desire to cook or serve breakfast i'll be in the kitchen flipping pancakes and helping volunteers who do an amazing job hosting this every year. our first recognition this month is for the amazing and don't know if she knows he is gelting it, linda deveero who plays many roles in the community including the help mclaren park effort. linda is a district 11 resident and our-one of our volunteer extraord nars and member of the [inaudible] mclaren park collaborative and friends of jerry garcia amp theater and for the past 6 years she served on the cities park, recreation and open space advise rea committee

called prosac for the past 3 years as the chair. is steffan here? steffan is our new chair and welcome him, but i did want to take a moment to thank linda for her leadership z community engagement and commitment to the neighborhood and parks. to her leadership on prosac, she helped work with department to guide through the strategic planning process. linda is a advocate for park funding which we hope will come to fruition sometime soon. linda has been a wise council. she is a fierce protector of our parks, but through linda's leadership on prosac after a long time the department and prosac established the relationship that helps make the parks flive. there is not

an avent linda doesn't come to to get her hands dirty and help and support us. whether it is holiday tree lighting or extravaganza. she is very inspirational for those that work in our jobs to be able to partner with people as committed and active and engaged so it is my great honor and invite you up to say a few words linda, to present you with a certificate which elten has right there and to celebrate your amazing accomplishments. [applause]

>> thank you very much for the kind words. it is a privilege to lead the really dedicated members of pr sac and the group we have now is extraordinary and hope you have seen many of the work we have done and you realize i think it is very much on track especially since my predecessor less started the charge and run it like a business meeting. it is not about personalties it is about get thg job done. it is prev lij work wg you. still on prosac for 2 more years. i'm choked up but thank you very much for the opportunity and beautiful beautiful plaque, i appreciate it. >> thank you very much.

[applause] >> alright. is string of being impressed. i'm going to tell the inturns a joke. the inturns found out they were doing this 48 hours ago and linda spoke without any knowledge what so ever. today we have 12 graduating student from san francisco state university from park and rec torism. you got to meet them very briefly right when they were beginning their internship. this is the 7th year the program which has seen 50 student par pis pate half went on to work for our department. we talk in our strategic plan focus on work force development and this is work force

development and career pathways at work in this program. each year i'm amazed at the injewnuity and passion coming from the student in the program. there are they are certainly the recreation supervisor, analyst manager and general managers of tomorrow. i want to thank you eric [inaudible] and all the san francisco state professors for their partnership in the program. it isn't easy to make sure this is a meaningful and educational program. i want to thank jennifer gee and bob pulosity. i don't know if they are here today. there is jennifer. jennifer is moving on to a even bigger role in our department perhaps nothing is as poignant as the work with the san francisco state inturns. she is the glue of the internship program and does a

absolutely amazing job. each of the 12 interns was responsible for developing and completing a project that sought to improve upon a department function or solved a problem facing department operations. i asked them to share with you today. come on up you guys. i have given them 30 seconds because as commissioner buell likes to remind me, brevity is good. they will tell you about their projects and what they accomplished this spring and we'll start with sulean surono from community service and worked on a efficiency staff project. >> hi there. my name is [inaudible] i'm work wg the community services division with [inaudible] implement a schedule system. the purpose of this system and schedule and organize staff

hours. i researched several programs and looked at prices and features and [inaudible] i research several programs and looked at rices and feature tooz best fit. inclusion service weez have on call staff members so this keeps check of the hours and staff members accountable and keep track of time off as well. after research i trained several supervisors and coordinators to use the program so it eliminates confusion and the program we chose was called when to work and some of the features is stuff like group e-mails, schedule reminders and time off requests

and staff can put their availability on it and build reports from there. thank you. >> thank you for your service. >> next is jada johnson who worked in volunteer service group and worked on the sign language cafe. >> i did my internship that focus on asl cafe. what is a free program for anybody who wants to learn sign language or socialize. >> power point, please. >> what i did on this slide, i keep track of how many people there are . there are 185 people that went to the program from jan 2015 to april 2015. as you can see,

the highest number is 45 and lowest number is 1. so, but the most of them came to had program only one time. i'm hoping that we have a lot of people at the program. thank you. >> next up, jason swan son who worked with health and safety division on site emergency action plans. >> good morning. can i get the powerpoint up, please? what we had with the site emergency action plans, we have written or oral plans but we need written planwise the staff. we had a hand written system before so i was able to help develop utilizing the intranet to make it a on line system only accessible to staff and more efficient and saving time on adman staff and field staff on their

end. >> thank you for your service. >> next up is [inaudible] who worked with volunteer unit and created a volunteer recognition program. >> happy thursday. so, my project was to develop a formal and informal activity that shows the gratitude of all the volunteers of rec and park department. and appreciation blog post on the website and formal being a annual event. on the slide here, you can see that on our volunteer work party you get 35 volunteers who would complete up to 100 hours and that is nob nab with 3 hours-[inaudible] i just want to-my project was to appreciate the hard work of the volunteers and

providing their time. >> thank you very much. >> next up is andrew wong who works on community recreation council at [inaudible] recation center. >> andrew wong. under supervize supervision of [inaudible] my projects revolveed around the crc which is community recreation counsel to connect staff with community leaders and members that want to make a difference in the parks and with the help of sean [inaudible] able to create a on line application for the public to join crc throughout the city. the other project was create a crc hands hand book which is a guide to building and increaseive protectivity of crc's throughout the city. thank you. >> thank you very much.

>> kevin cefler who worked with golf and turf division on creating a autobon society certification at hardsing park golf course. >> good morning, kevin cesler. my project was autobon cooperation sanctuary program for golf which is an award winning program that assist golf courses and enhancing the wold life habitats. it [inaudible] harmful impacts to the golf course operations. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next i'll bring up abigail and daniel at the same time because they tag teamed-they were toorkt all most the entire internship and had the difficult and

challenging program work wg our staff enhancing some of the policy and procedures related to illegal camp abatements. >> good morning, commissioners. my part the project with the city wide camp abatement program developed manual for this program. what is in the manual it talks about backgrunds, goals, training and safe work practices. it is going to be-it is resource for this program that has all this description. i created a outside resource guide. if illegal campers ask for assistance the team will have these resources at hand with hours of operation, location and telephone numbers. >> i worked on research and development which included looking at other city policies and parks

regarding this issue as well as implementing a gis reporting and mapal system using existing technology. the golden gate investigation jury of 2013 recommendation as the mayor desire to learn more about these encampments. >> thank you very much. >> next up is erica [inaudible] worked on the special events website. >> my name is erica moda and worked [inaudible] >> can you advance the slide. i skipped poor megan who will go next. there we go. >> so, i updated the special events website and basically i added more content to make sure the information presented was clear and added more visuals to make it more appeals to the public and

also to organizers. on the slide right here you will see-i know it is blurry but two main pages i focused on creating [inaudible] where a organizer can find the capacity and also the non profit and the commercial rates for event sites and once they click on it it will take them to a destination page where you can see is the civic center page and has a list of detailed and in depth information. >> thank you. >> megan [inaudible] who worked on urban trails project. >> powerpoint, ploze. i worked with urban trails program and my project was to create a marketing strategy for creeks to peaks

trail. both of these will be found on the urban trails landing page and yeah, go take a hike. >> thank you very much. you telling me to take a hike? >> next up, caren clark, who did this really incredible assessment of dolores park visitor useage. >> good morning, karen clark and my primary internship projuct is pran, implement and analyze a stud y at mission deloris park. we decided to use a existing observation based model and adapt to the park and supplement with photography. we collected 59 data samples between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. 7 day as week which showed there was between 50 and 5400 park

members. here are the averages for the week days and weekends. the week days are in the forground in the blue and weekends in the red. moving forward, i am working with the next inturn who will capture the first summer data in june and july. >> is there a chart big enough for that? thank you very much. >> last but not least, justena lay who did the wonderful archivel project at silver tree camp. >> i worked on the silver tree preservation project. my project was to redesign the original photo poster boards. on the left is a example. i made hand painted signs that will go around the

glen canyon park. everyone i talked to during the internship seems like they went to silver tree as a kid or worked there so learned a lot about the culture and tradition. i'll work in the art room this summer which i'm excited to do. >> thank you very much. >> thank you inturns. we will join you for a picture and your contribution will become a legacy in this department pat that continue to help and serve the park users. [applause] >> ready? 1, 2, 3. one more.

1, 2, 3. great, thank you. [applause] >> very quickly rien as we concludesanch general managers report and thank you for your patients. we have a short video this month in parks. >> people with disabilities. we also offer specialized programs for people with disabilities where the program is really set for that specific population. a number of people participate keep increasing every year but we still [inaudible] fraction of

the people with disabilities in san francisco so that is something we are working toward increasing. here at the mission inclusion center, we [inaudible] programs that are in the morning but the main thing that happens here is american sign language after school program that wnt throughout the school year and that [inaudible] sign language after school program where it is completely accessible to kids who are deaf and hard of hearing. the staff are native speakers of american sign language or flute in american sign language [inaudible] maybe has a parent or sibling who is deaf or hard of hearing can join the program as well. the department model is get out and play. we are here to help make sure everybody can get out and play. there are a

lot of different agencies here offer recation for popeal with disabilities and [inaudible] show casing what we offer. >> that concludes the general managers report. >> thank you very much. >> any public comment on the general managers report? seeing none, public comment is closed. we are now on item 4, general public comment. it will be up to 15 minutes and have one