work with for the rest of my life and i could use that energy towards making a lot of money, helping someone else make a lot of money or doing something meaningful. i found the nonprofit working to save the rainforest was looking for volunteers. i went, volunteered and my life changed. suddenly everything i was doing had meaning. stuffing envelopes had meaning, faxing out requests had meaning. i eventually moved up to san francisco to work out of the office here, given a lot of assembly through los angeles county and then came up here and doing assemblies to kids about rainforest. one of my jobs was to teach about recycle, teaching students to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost, i'm teaching them they have the power, and that motivates them. it was satisfying for me to work

with for the department of environment to create a message that gets to the heart of the issue. the san francisco department of environment is the only agency that has a full time educational team, we go into the schools to help teach children how to protect nature and the environment. we realized we needed animal mascot to spark excitement with the students. the city during the gold rush days, the phoenix became part of the city feel and i love the symbolism of the phoenix, about transformation and the message that the theme of the phoenix provides, we all have the power to transform our world for the better. we have to provide teachers with curriculum online, our curriculum is in two different languages and whether it's lesson plans or student fact

sheets, teachers can use them and we've had great feedback. we have helped public and private schools in san francisco increase their waste use and students are working hard to sort waste at the end of the lunch and understand the power of reusing, reducing, recycling and composting. >> great job. >> i've been with the department for 15 years and an environmental educator for more than 23 years and i'm grateful for the work that i get to do, especially on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. i try to use my voice as intentionally as possible to suppo support, i think of my grandmother who had a positive attitude and looked at things positively. try to do that as well in my work and with my words to be an

uplifting force for myself and others. think of entering the job force as a treasure hunt. you can only go to your next clue and more will be revealed. follow your instincts, listen to your gut, follow your heart, do what makes you happy and pragmatic and see where it takes you and get to the next place. trust if you want to do good in this world, that . >> welcome. good morning, everybody. thank you for coming out on another amazing sunny day here in the city of san francisco. i want to thank you here for being on this critically important topic. you know, last year was a very challenging year for our residents here in san francisco

and for our visitors and everyone else who parked their cars on the streets of san francisco. nearly 31,000 cars were broken into in 2017 in our city, which is a crazy number. a total of 25% increase over the year before. and let me say i'm going to be the first to tell everybody and to make sure the residents of san francisco know that we believe that this is completely unacceptable. the status quo on our streets is completely unacceptable, and we have to do things better. our city cannot continue to thrive if people are afraid to leave their car unattended when they're here to live, when they're here to work, when they're here to shop or visit any of our amazing attractions here in san francisco. as i said many times before, parking your car in san francisco should not be a game of roulette. and i will say that since becoming mayor and previously as a member of the board of supervisors, i was the first one -- one of the first people to point out the problem and to acknowledge the problem, though, and i think it's

critically important. and also to acknowledge the work that our police department has done in response to this epidemic that we are seeing and we have seen in our streets beginning really in earnest last year. and the first to commend our police department for the efforts that they have done. you know, chief scott did not point fingers or blame others or make excuses. our police department went to work. last year at the end, they doubled our foot patrols here in san francisco, creates a unit specifically to deal with property crimes in san francisco, and we dedicated more resources at our district stations to report and investigate these crimes. and today as you've seen in the papers, we're proud to announce that there are results from some of these efforts. for the first three months of 2018, we have seen an over 17% decrease in our auto break-ins. we are seeing real progress. but again, the status quo is

not okay on our streets, and as a city, we are not going to rest on our laurels. we have a ton of work left to do. we will continue effective, targeted campaigns to address this challenge. so today, we're doing a few things. first of all, we are rolling out officially across the entire city of san francisco, our park smart campaign. what you see on the bus behind us, it will provide more informational resources to our residents and to our visitors. we are canvassing our car burglary hot spots and posting public messages throughout the city of san francisco that if you love it, don't leave it. and i want to thank in particular kelly nice and his entire team for their work on this advertising campaign. we do not want to give thieves the opportunity to take possessions in our cars. and i want to say this is a

very coordinated effort between our police department, numerous city agencies, our community partners, and officials from the tourism industry. this initiative is a key part of our effort to make sure crimes don't occur in the first place, and i'm going to quote chief scott in saying a crime prevented is much better than a crime solved. we are complementing these efforts as well with greater resources fore investigative teams. today we're expanding new efforts to expand fingerprint training at our different police stations throughout the city of san francisco. some three dozen members of the captain's staff from all police stations will have fingerprint training. they'll be joining our officers on the force who already have these skills, and by expanding these services and this training, we're going to expand our fingerprint database, providing new resources to crack down on car break-in offenders, and particularly

those who are serial offenders, and we've seen some of them being caught in our papers over the last few weeks. we know these measures, however, together are simply not going to solve the car break-in epidemic here in san francisco, we they are important next steps and important next steps to residents of the city, to visitors of the city to make sure they know and everybody knows that we are moving forward, and we recognize the issue and we are going to continue to do more. this approach is also going to include additional staffing in our police department. earlier this year, i asked chief scott to conduct an internal staffing analysis within the police department so we can determine the resources that we need within our police department to make sure we tackle this epidemic. let me say this very loud and clear: we have some of the best police officers in the country. the men and women that serve us in the san francisco we should be incredibly proud of, and we need to give them our respect every single day.

they put our lives on the line to protect us here in san francisco, but we need more of them, and i am committed to funding additional increases in our police department as we roll through our upcoming budget season here in san francisco. i am also urging our criminal justice partners, our judicial branch, our public defender and district attorney to work together on our proposal to have one judge specifically dedicated to auto break-ins. we need to make sure that there are consequences to the actions that are happening on our streets. like the other major issues facing our city, we are not going to solve this alone or with one single solution. by exploring a wide range of options and by collaborating together, we are going to make -- and let me say this, we are going to continue to make significant progress in this area. i want to close by thanking a number of different people and

groups who have been involved -- first of all, chief scott, to you in particular, to the entire police department, many of which are behind me today, to our 311 department, to the office of economic and workforce development, to our department of emergency management, to our office of short-term rentals, sf travel, and the partnership with our tourism industry, our community partners today, like troy from our fisherman's chafsh community benefits district. i mentioned kelly nice, but i'm going to mention him again, from nice advertising. thank you for their incredible help. and everyone else in the entire city family and every single resident that is demanding that we make san francisco and we are working to make san francisco a much safer place for everyone. so thank you all for being here today, and with that i would like to introduce the chief of our police department, chief bill scott. [applause]. >> first of all, let me say thank you to mayor farrell for the leadership that he's providing on this issue.

as you stated, collaboration is the key. it takes all of us working together to fight crime. to my left, i have some of san francisco's finest, our police officers from central station. we have our community, troy, and members of our community. we have our parking department here. it's a collaborative effort. no one entity can take on this issue alone, and we are so proud that we do have collaborative partners in this city. we're thrilled to be working with our fellow city agencies, our community ners, our leaders in the tourism industry, and we as a police department, as i said, we can't do it alone. that said, the news that the mayor just reported is very encouraging. but in addition to that, i'd like to point out, too, first three months of this year, our homicides are down by almost one-third. our burglaries are down, and we know as the mayor stated that our auto burglaries are down, and we will not rest on our laurels. those of us that have been in

this business know that we have more work to do. now the mayor has outlined some steps that we have already taken, but i want to put some context to what that means in terms of the drop in auto burglaries. we're talking about 17% for the first three months of the year. that's over 1,000 less victims, 1,000 crimes that we believe were prevented. doubling our foot patrols, we know that especially hads deter crimes, and these officers standing behind me are some of the best in what they do. we've reallocated resources towards our property crimes. last week, those investigators put together a spring of investigations that led to the arrest of several serial burglars in our city and the region. i want to go back to something that the mayor said and something that you'll hear me

say over and over again. when we talk about crime and particularly auto burglaries, prevention is the key. prevention is the key. we're asking people not to make themselves easy prey. make no mistake, we're not blaming people for being victimized. that is not what we're trying to do here. this is about doing everything possible to keep your property safe and to avoid being an easy target for somebody who's willing to take your belongings. the park smart message isn't just a reminder to drivers, it's a reminder to those that want to prey on others that we still have police officers that will make arrests. we still have undercover plain clothes officers doing surveillance. we still have a district attorney that are going to charge those crimes. we still have prisons, and we still have jails. that is a a part of law enforcement that will never go away, but we want to turn the

tide a little bit because those things are very important, and we will continue to do them, but we have to put more emphasis on prevention. we talked about the fingerprinting, and the mayor mentioned this. you know, we've had a lot of good arrests, and we know we need to increase our fingerprinting capabilities, so as the mayor said, we're training 36 personnel to do just that. we're encouraging people if they do have an auto burglary, go get your car fingerprinted. we need to get those fingerprints in our databases so we can help solve some of these crimes. in addition to that, with the mayor's leadership and guidance, we hope to have more officers in the field. we encourage the public, if you see something, say something. we encourage you to call us when you see these type of crimes or any type of crimes being committed. together, we will continue to make this city safer for everyone. again, i'd like to thank mayor

mark farrell for his support and his leadership on this issue. we could not do this without strong leadership, and that's what it's going to take is leadership from all of us to turn the tide on these crimes and make our city safer. thank you. [applause]. >> and with that, i'd like to introduce actually one of the two people that helped create the park smart slowigan, and that's commander david lozar. >> well, i want to begin by thanking our mayor, mark farrell, and our chief david scott. a little history about park smart. back in 2014, i served as the captain of central station, paying very close attention to all the auto burglaries that are that were taking place, and as the chief has mentioned, arresting those responsible is

a primary duty of ours, but what's equally or more important is prevention, the message that those that come to our city, who enjoy our city, the mer chapters and the residents and the visitors to simply keep their car empty. it was back then, supervisor mark farrell, district two, we worked together on putting ambassadors up on lombard street, and they had a goal of messages all the visitors coming through about leaving their cars empty. i'm sure mark farrell, you remember when we worked on that, and thanks to you, we got the ambassadors up on lombard street educating everyone. but i went to my police advisory board at central station about needing their help, and the community is very important in education and crime prevention messages. and i went to troy campbell who's the executive director of the fisherman's wharf district. and i said troy, we have to get a message that catches people's attention as they come through.

we thought about park smart, and so locally here, we put up our signs, letting visitors know they need to keep their cars empty while visiting san francisco. we're excited today because our mayor and our chief have decided to roll this out citywide, and inviting the marketing person -- marketing people that definitely contributed, the nice marketing firm, as you see the bus behind us. we're taking it to a whole new level in 2018. so we're grateful, we're grateful for all of our community partners. we're grateful that we're able to get the message out on crime prevention, and as we work on getting the message out of crime prevention, you can see the results that are taking place. with that we'd like to invite up our community partner, the executive director troy campbell, who was behind this from the beginning, to say a few words. thank you very much.

[applause]. >> good morning. so again, another round of thank yous, but thank you, mayor farrell, chief scott, commander lozar for making this a public service announcement. i would also like to thampg the d.a.'s office because we were awarded a neighborhood justice fund grant last year that helped us produce more of those materials. when park smart message was skeeved by the central station police community advisory board, it relied on cid, dic's, community organizations, all to put up the money to produce these materials and share them in their respective areas, however the goal was always to get this to be a citywide initiative and have it proliverate across the city. so for me, this is a great day. this psa is something that everyone can help do to help curb this issue. fisherman's wharf alone, we had

45,000 people a day that we're turning over, so just handing outpost cards with this message is not sustainable, so having it in static locations on signs, on meters, on buses, i think is going to do a lot in helping get this message out. will it solve this problem? no. it's one cog in the machine with the d.a.'s office, with the mayor's office, with the police department to help curb this problem. and i just want to ask everyone out there listening to me, to make it part of your vernacular. when you're talking to visitors, friends, anyone you run into at a cafe, the importance of this he is a message. this is something that people need to know, to park smart. thanks. [applause]. >> so thank you, troy, for that and again for all of your leadership here, and thank you all for being here. we're wrapping up right now this part of the press conference. what i want to do is direct

everyone. commander lozar is going to lead everyone there on a fingerprint demoto see what we're doing, so if you have any questions or want to see that, go over there. i just want to thank those behind me, and all of those who made this happen, in particular, our police department and the men and women who keep us safe every single day. thank you for being here.

>> the renovation of balboa park, the oldest in the city of san francisco, and now it is the newest part in the city of san francisco. through our partnership, and because of public investment from the two thousand eight fund, we are celebrating a renewal and an awakening of this park. we have it safer, happier, more joyous. >> 3, 2, 1, [laughter] =--[applause] >> it is a great resource for families, to have fun in the city, recreation.

>> this is an amazing park. we have not revitalized it without public and private investment. the critical piece of the process of this renovation was that it was all about the community. we reached out to everyone in this community. we love this park dearly and they all had thoughts and ideas and they wanted to bring their own creativity and their personality to bear on the design. what you see is what the community wanted. these ideas all came from the residents of this community. as a result, there is a sense of ownership, pride and responsibility that goes along with what is going to be an exciting park.

>> hi, i'm corn field and welcome to doing building san francisco, we are doing a special series, called stay safe, how you can stay in your home safely and comfortable, and we know that an earthquake is coming and there are things that you can do to reduce the effects of the earthquake on your home. let's take a look at that. >> here at the spur urban center on mission street in san francisco talking about staying in your home after an earthquake. i have guests today, pat buscavich and his dog, harvey and david, and both structural engineers and we want to talk about things that you might do before an earthquake to your home to make it more likely that your home will be ha bitable after an earthquake, what should we do? both structural and maybe even

important non-structural things. >> you hear about how to prepare an earthquake kit and brace your book shelves and water tank and that is important. what you have to be careful is make sure that you are not going the easy things to make yourself feel better. if you have a bad structure, a bad building, then you need to be looking at that and everything that you do to keep your collectables in place is small and compared. if you have taken care of your structure, then there is a lot of stuff that you can do in your house that is non-structural and your chimney and water tank. >> let's talk about what the structural things might be. >> and he is exactly right. you don't want to make the deck chairs safe on the titanic, it is going down, you are going down, you have to make sure that your house is safe. there are basic things that you need to do including bracing the water heater, not just because of fire hazard but because of the water source and the damage, but basic things are installing anchor bolts,

and adding plywood and strapping your beams to column and posts to footings and foundations are really easy things to do and most contractors can do the building department is set up to approve this work, and these are things that every home owner should do, and it is a little harder because you have to get a building permit and hire a contractor. but you want to be able to after a big earthquake to climb in bed that night and pull the covers up and say i don't have to worry about going to a government shelter. >> that is the main focus that it is great to have an earthquake kit to be able to bug out for 72 hours. here is a better idea, stay in your own home and in order to do that you have to be make sure that your structure is okay. if you have a house, the easy things to do with the wood construction is feasible. if you have a renter or you live in a concrete building, you need to talk to the building own , and make sure they have done their due

diligence and find out what the deficiencies are. >> when i have looked at damaged buildings,vy seen that a little bit of investment in time and money and structural work provides great dividends. >> especially if it is the wood frame, typical house that you can do the things that i was talking about, the anchor and the plywood in the first garage area, you know if you refinanced in the last three years, get some of that savings and it is a really good investment. and the other thing that i try to tell people, earthquake insurance is not the solution to the shelter in place, if there is a big earthquake and your building is damaged, you are not in your house, you may be somewhere else, if you work in the city, it is going to be really hard to commute from sonoma, you want to do what is necessary so that your house is retrofitted and a couple of years of earthquake premium could get you to a level that you could be in the house after a significant earthquake and it may have damage and there is still a shelter in place where you are at home and you are not

worried for the government taking care of you and you are living in a place where you can go to work and you want to have your wood frame house is really easy to get to that level. on top of the wood frame house, i mean every wood frame house in the west half of the city have a water tank and the water tank fall over because they are gas fired and start fires. and that is something that you could do for yourself, and for your neighbors and for the whole city is make sure that your water tank is braced. >> if you look at the studies that are predicting on fires, we are going to have a lot of fires and for every water tank that is braced there is a potential of one less fire that the fire department is going to have to fight and we don't want to have any more fires than we need to. so bracing the water heater is the first thing that you want to do. >> and so easy, and you go on-line and you google, earthquake, water and heater and you google the sites where you can find the details and you can put them out there on the hardware store and you can hire a small contract tore do

that for you. that is a couple of hundred bucks, the best investment. if you are in other types of building it is complicated. if you are in a high-rise building you just can't anchor your building down because there are no anchor bolts, but at that point, the tenant should be asking questions of the owner's and the managers about earthquake preparedness >> and don't take the easy answer, oh, our building is safe it was designed to code. that is not the right answer, ask the tough questions and see if you can get a report that has been given to you. >> what is the right question? will i be able to stay in my home after the expected earthquake? is that a good question to ask? >> yeah, you may be more specific if you talk to the owner, if it is not a recent building, if it is ten or 20 years old see if they had an inspection done and there you will have a written before that will tell you all about the structure. >> thanks, pat. >> thanks, harvey. and thanks david for joining us and thank you for joining us on

>> welcome to our land use committee meeting of april 30, 2018. i'm katy tang. supervisor kim. and supervisor safai. and we would like to thank sfgov. madam clerk. any announcements?

>> clerk: please silence any cell foepz and any paperwork is now with the clerk. >> supervisor tang: can you call item one? >> clerk: yes. ordinance amending the planning code to allow the owner of premises leased to the city and county san francisco. >> supervisor kim: i don't have opening comments. just want to bring up planning department staff to present. >> the planning commission heard this item on april 19 and voted to approve the ordinance with modifications. it's my understanding that supervisor kim has those changes in the draft. they are largely clerical in nature the commission supports the legislation as it aligned with

the general plan and facilities policy for police facilities that will help with police functions and reduce the risk presented by the most vulnerable structures. and provide assistance to reduce risks. >> supervisor kim: can we open it up for public comment? >> supervisor tang: any members? seeing none. public comment is closed. >> supervisor kim: i have one amendment to make. we need to change c4 on page 5, lines 4-5 to c1. is that correct? >> deputy city attorney, john givner. the document circulated has a number of amendments.

with the additional clerical tweak that you just mentioned, so if the committee would adopt a motion approving all of the amendments that reflect those. >> supervisor kim: yes. i would like to make a motion to amend the language as has been recommended and distributed to committee members. >> supervisor tang: without objection? all right. thank you. can we get a motion an the amended item? >> supervisor kim: so moved with positive recommendation to the full board. >> supervisor tang: without objection. item 2. >> clerk: the resolution responding to the recent proposal to expand the private marina located in clipper dove. >> supervisor kim: thank you. members of the community and of the public here on this item in regards to clipper cove on

treasure island. this discussion has been with our office a little over the last two years as we've been working to convene a discussion with both the project sponsor/developer as well as treasure island authority and sailing center and many stake holders that care so deeply about clipper cove. this proposed marina has been through many iterations since we first started discussing the development on treasure island over 20 years ago and has gone through many proposed it eeiters from the project sponsor as well as expectations of what the marina would serve. over time as we've been spending time with the stake holders, it's become increasingly clear to me that clipper cove is best served as a space for as many

members of the public as possible. and the current usage, both with the sailing center, which partners with many of our schools, as well as many of community organizations, provides the greatest access for so many families and youth and a great way to get to enjoy the bay. and while it's certainly a need also for us to create slips for large boats, it's my preference that we keep our commitment to public recreation and education and environmental protection in this public open space, so that's the resolution that i've submitted to the board of supervisors. so at this time, i would like to open up for public comment on this item, unless there are other questions or comments from committee members. >> supervisor tang: is the director of tida here? >> supervisor kim: yes.

he is available to answer any questions, if needed. >> supervisor tang: i think it would be helpful. i've been getting emails from many of you sitting here about clipper cove and what's going on there and tried to reach out to treasure island to understand what is going on. a lot of the comments or concerned that i receive are around use or sailing and so forth. so i want us to have a clear understanding of what is actually happening. so if you could do a brief presentation on that, that would be helpful, again, because this project is roughly almost two decades long and some of us were not around when that was developed. >> thank you, chair tang. yes. the project -- well, the planning has been in process for more than two decades. and last october, the title board unanimously approved long-term leases for the expansion of the marina and programs of the sailing center. these leases, which will come to

the board of supervisors for approval were not developed out of the blue. it's a continuation of more than two decades of work for the former naval station treasure island. the base was listed for closure by the department of defense in 1993. in 1994, the city formed a citizens reuse committee to study proposed development plans for the island. that committee drafted the original base reuse plan, which was endorsed by the board of supervisors, planning commission, the mayor in 1996. the reuse plan identified opportunities, constraints, policy goals and recommendations and has served as a framework for planning efforts the 1996 plan included, expanded and re developed the marina as part of its proposals. in 1998, the authority issued an

rfp to redevelop and expand the marina. in 1999, the authority entered into an exclusive agreement with treasure island enterprises. this was followed with a term sheet and layout for 400-slip arena the authority entered into a lease with treasure island sailing center and the continuation of those programs and expansion of the arena have been the subsequent planning for the cove. >> supervisor tang: director beck, you said last year the tida approved the long term leases for the sailing center. how long does that go? >> 66-year leases. there's a 66-year limit to leases on that property. the size and proposed layout of

the arena did not change from the time of the 2001 term sheet through 2015. the plan was evaluated in the 2006 e.i.s./e.i.r. for the development of treasure island and development plan rejected by the board of supervisors and mayor as well as 2010 updated development plan, which was unanimously endorsed by the board. finally, in 2011, the -- the 2011e.i.s./e.i.r. assumed an expanded, 400-slip arena, but did not re-evaluate because the scope was unchanged. by 2015, litigation challenging the ceqa analysis had been

forwarded. the proposed developer of the marina began planning for the design, permitting and construction. the first step in the process was to sit down with treasure island sailing center and look at plans necessitated by the navy's work and the reconstruction of the causeway from the island to yerba buena. between 2015 and 2017, treasure island enterprises met to refine the proposed layout including discussions facilitated by the board of supervisors and their staff. the discussions resulted in the compromised layout of a marina of 313 slips. the long-term leases approved by the board of supervisors have relied upon this compromised configuration. we've brought them to the board of supervisors so both programs can proceed with financing and

permit promises through the bay conservation development commission and joint aquatic resources application processes. so that provides background on the cove. >> supervisor tang: thank you for that helpful timeline. at this point then, what is -- not before us, but at least the proposal as far as 313-slip marina instead of the 400 originally contemplated? >> yes. >> supervisor tang: and then, again, with the sailing center, a 66-year lease that was just approved, so that program will not be jeopardized. >> yes. that's for the land sign facilities as well as central and outer portions of the cove. >> supervisor tang: okay. i just wanted that clarification because i'm not sure why all the emails i received were around this program going away. is there any square footage or anything being reduced? >> the proposed marina will

occupy a larger footprint within the cove and that requires some modification. obviously, with the smaller footprint, the sailing center has used all of the cove, but in the process between 2015-2016, the sailing center identified their needs, first a 1,600-foot program area, where they could conduct their classes with offsets from pier 1, the existing pier out there, and the stronger currents at the outer portion of the cove, as well as an offset on the inner side of 2060 feet to eliminate wind shadow from the marina facilities. >> supervisor tang: what was the offset? someone was coughing. >> 1,600-foot-diameter program

area and 500-foot offset from pier 1 as well as 200-foot offset from the marina wave attenuator to prevent wind shadow to boats anchored in the marina. >> supervisor tang: thank you for that. i have seen correspondence dating back to another board where it seemed like there was an agreement reached with the sailing center and treasure island. and so maybe when we hear from public comment, i don't know if anything has changed, but again, i was a little alarmed about the number of emails i received about clipper cove. i think we all agree in the

sentiment in the resolution preside president erving -- preserving the sailing program. >> yeah, the focus has been on the sailing and s.t.e.m. programs that they conduct with san francisco unified and other schools. so that's been the focus. >> supervisor tang: that will continue? >> that will continue. there were some race layouts for colleagiate racing that happened, my understanding is, twice a year, as well as some high school race layouts in conflict with the current layout, but we can look to those occasional uses and see if there's another course

configuration. >> supervisor tang: my last question -- the colleagiate and high school racing, how often are they using it? what will change as a result? >> those are interim uses accommodated in the cove over many years. the historical layout of the coaling ing ing ing ing ing i colleagiately has been twice a year. the focus in the project has been to continue the programs of the sailing center and expansion of the marina, as has been the case since '99.

>> supervisor tang: okay. >> supervisor safai: thank you to supervisor kim for bringing this resolution forward, because there's a lot of important issues brought forward here. i've heard from a significant number of constituents from my district as well, particularly around the issue of -- as it pertains to s.t.e.m. and unified school district and the thousands of children that use the marina on an annual basis, but there's a lot of really important environmental issues that are brought up in this resolution. and i know that there was 2006, 2011, and those environmental impact reports, some of the things -- how were the issues of the impact to the natural resources and discussion of dredging. this is something i've heard from eel grass beds. i don't know what it is, but i know it's important to the cove. how were the issues addressed and were they talked about in