>> all right. come on up to our commissioners. hi everyone. i'm san francisco mayor london breed and it's really great to be here today. what a wonderful occasion and what we've done since this pandemic is we've sworn in people to commissions via zoom. and sometimes in person maybe one or two people, but this is the first swearing in that we're having with so many people and i've got to tell you, i'm so very happy about that. so thank you all very much for coming.

[ applause ] i want to recognize our sheriff. sheriff, did you come to make some arrests or something? okay good. sheriff paul miamoto is here. thank you so much, sheriff, for being here. and we definitely have a quorum of commissioners including we've got our rec and park director phil ginsburg. we have our rec and park commissioner joe hallisey. larry mazola jr. and president of the commission mark buell. and when making a decision about who to appoint to the rec and park commission, it's really important to make sure that there are people who have a vast level of experience, but

also a sincere love for the parks of san francisco. i grew up here as you all know and i remember a time when our parks were not in the best shape and what we're seeing now i believe is really a renaissance of san francisco parks because i've gone to a number of our parks especially during this pandemic and i've got to say they are very beautiful and in amazing shape and people are using them and enjoying them like never before. and that is definitely, of course, because of phil's leadership, but also because of the commissioners and the decisions that they make and being strategic about when we bring a parks bond to the people of san francisco and the people of san francisco say yes every single time because we love our parks and we want everyone to have a wonderful

experience. look at how beautiful this area here is at lincoln park and this is just one example of the work that this commission does to protect and to preserve the beautiful parks for the kids, for the dogs, for our seniors, for someone who just wants to sit down and hang out and watch a movie. tonight, i'm going to be at which park am i going to? washington square. i'm going to washington square. they're showing 'princess diaries' at washington square. bring your blanket and bring your jacket too because you know it gets cold at night in san francisco. today, we're swearing in two amazing people and i'll start with larry griffin who as many of you know because he has been actively engaged in city government working for the office of labor standards, but he's also actively engaged with

labor and working to make sure that the city is held accountable to support its workers, that we do all we can to provide equity and fairness and his work as a former board member of the booker t. washington community center was really incredible. this was a center that when i first got my job under the mayor's youth employment training program we went to this center booker t. washington which we hung out here and there depending on if there were cute boys there that day. but we went there for our orientation and there was always, i mean, we were always welcomed there and what it's been transformed to in term officer this $35 million facility with 50 units of housing with transitional age youth and homelessness and others, this was a testament of his leadership as president of the board for six years.

he is a community person. he cares about seeing great things happen for san francisco and, you know, he's a great just genuine, good human being and i have always appreciated not only his advice in council, but also he would always say, mayor, you know we've got to do more to support this or board to support that. it's always something to help someone else and that's why i know he'll be a valuable member of this board. he represents labor. he represents the city. he represents his love for san francisco and the community and i know he'll do a great job for rec and park. so thank you so much, larry, for your commitment and your work. and technically he's retired so i figured he had some extra time on his hands to get back to the city in another way. so thank you so much. and vanita louie we know has

been an incredible involved person in san francisco in so many different aspects. it's so interesting because vanita is involved with the chinatown rotary club and you know all the work they do to support businesses, to give out scholarships and even recently the mask and the ppe that you provided, donated to c.y.c. and other organizations. that has been incredible. i don't know if you noticed, but vanita is always involved with great organizations and one of my favorite is gung moon and i know one of your dogs did a photo shoot at this park. and gung moon recognized your work. she's a dog mom. i'm a plant mom. and i'm proud of that. she has been a big supporter of our parks and advocate of open space and play space for dogs

in san francisco, but also an advocate for doing great things for people and making san francisco a better place. as a small business owner, she knows the challenges of what small businesses deal with in san francisco, but she always has a moment when anyone usuallies and her to get involved in something as long as it's a good cause, she will dedicate her time and be very involved in something that's going to be important and lead to great results for peoples' lives. and so she'll be a great addition to the rec and park commission, amazing individuals who i'm grateful and proud of their work in san francisco. and now with that before we hear from the future commissioners, i'm going to swear them in and make them real commissioners and then you will hear from them as commissioners. so with that, come on up.

come on up. you're the next contestant of 'the price is right'. anybody watch that? i did. i see we have a former mayor in the crowd. thank you very much mayor frank jordan for being with us today. and our assessor recorder joaquin torres. with that, please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, state your name, do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies

foreign and domestic that i bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that i take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i'm about to enter and during such time as i serve as commissioner for the recreation and park consumption of the city and county of san francisco. [ applause ]

>> i don't know about other mayors, but i've created a city sealed pen with my signature on them so when i swear you in, this talks about the history of our city and the significance of public service and so i wanted to present our new commissioners. i see phil already gave one of those rec and park, those big huge rec and park pens, but mine's a little petite and classy and sophisticated and so i'm going to give my -- you can put these on if you want or wear them whenever but make sure you wear them with pride. for the city and county of san francisco. [ applause ] >> so right now we're going to hear from your newly sworn in commissioners and so i'm going to start with you, commissioner

griffin. [ applause ] >> hello everybody. i wanted to thank the mayor for showing her trust in me to appoint me to this position. one of the reasons i'm really looking forward to this is as a native san franciscan, i grew up in these parks. i knew a lot of the parts of these parks that park and rec doesn't know about, but, no. >> that's why we brought the sheriff. >> yeah. it's an honor to have the mayor's trust to be put in this position. our parks are i think world class if not the best in the world. i was amazed to find out there were 230 of them so that blew me away. one of the things i just wanted to let you folks though is i've always looked at the parks especially going through this

last bout with covid as a great equalizer because it's where everybody goes. the rich, the poor, even the homeless, but it's a place for everybody to recreate. and our folk that is are working class or maybe struggling folks, they don't have an suv that they can pack the kids into and take them away for a weekend to the weekend home. they're going to the park that's within 10 minutes of every house of the city. so i'm looking forward to it. i'm looking forward to serving with these amazing members of the board. i know several of them and i look forward to working with them along with my new partner here. so again, mayor, thank you for entrusting us with these positions. [ applause ] >> i just wanted to thank everybody for coming out to the 17th hole.

the number 17 is my favorite number of all numbers. everybody knows, my e-mail has the number 17 in it. a lot of my passwords have 17 in it. it's really kind of crazy because 7:00 p.m. last night we found out the location was moved to here and mayor breed, thank you for appointing us and giving us the chance to serve the city that we live and love. what can you say more about your parks and open space and how we must protect these gems of jewels for now and for the future for families and for all our community, our residents, and our seniors and everyone who wanted our parks and i want to thank the commissioners that i will and my colleagues, our colleagues, larry, that we will get to know. thank you phil ginsburg.

thank you mayor frank jordan for coming. i want to thank all the supporters in the chinatown community for supporting me in this appointment. the former commissioner, allen lo, we wore some pretty big shoes so i'm going to try to put my small feet in his shoes and continue the work that he's done. there are a lot of parks that are earmarked for renovation that are important to our a.p.i. community and a lot of you are here, so i want to thank you. and thank you everyone and i have to thank my other half, my husband austin louie, he makes me whole. and london is right. i'm a dog person, she's a plant person. and moo moo is here. she's a therapy dog. i want to thank everybody for your time. it's getting hot and i want to

thank our beloved mayor london breed. >> all right. now time for the welcoming committee. i'm going to ask the president of the rec and park commission, president buell to come up and say a few words. >> welcome everybody to the 17th hole. i'm glad that's a lucky number. it doesn't work for me at golf, but that's all right. i just want to be very brief and say how lucky we are to have the parks we have, but how lucky we are to have these two new commissioners. i've known larry a long time and i'm looking forward to getting to know our new commissioner and i just say welcome everybody enjoy it and know that those 230 parks, larry, are now in your hands and they'll only get better. thank you. [ applause ]

>> and, i'd also like to ask phil ginsburg, the general manager to come up and say a few words as well. [ applause ] >> thank you, mayor. it's an honor to be in the presence of so many bosses today. i have my two newest bosses that join four other bosses. then we've got the big boss and the most important bosses are all of you. and it's your voices that really shape our park system and make sure that we are living up to commissioner griffin's ideals of parks being a place where we are all equal and equally welcome and that's what we strive to do and it is just an honor to welcome some new blood and some new perspectives and some new guidance which is always helpful because as the mayor likes to remind me, i'm on a learning journey. and so every day we learn

something new about how to steward this incredible park system. thank you. >> all right. we're going to get to signing and make it official. a lot of city paper work. [ laughter ] >> mayor jordan, you remember all this paper work. >> as long as somebody doesn't try to slip in my checkbook. [ laughter ] >> all right. this is all your stuff, vanita.

come over here and sign. you do all the yellow while i sign all this other stuff. also we just [inaudible] our house. [ laughter ] . >> okay. larry, you're next. >> no more property tax for the rest of your life. >> and you can keep the pen.

okay. it's official.

almost done. [ applause ] >> okay. and we're going to take some pictures and then you guys are going to -- well, at least some of you are going to have to get back to work. rudy's like do i have to get back to work? no. there's plenty of bosses here. so you're good. all right. thank you all so much. thank you. [ applause ] all right. on 5,

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something to do so i picked up this paper and in this paper i see in there play lawn bowling in san francisco golden gate park ever since then i've been trying to bowl i enjoy bowling a very good support and good experience most of you have of of all love the people's and have a lot of have a lot of few minutes in mr. mayor the san francisco play lawn bowling is in golden gate park we're sharing meadow for more information about the club including free lessons log are >> hi everybody, i'm the general manager of your san francisco recreation and parks department.

i'm thrilled to be here with all of you and our honored guests. we have our mayor, our assembly men, supervisor mandelman, our new assessor, our commissioners. to all of the honored and elected guests, we have a ribbon cutting for all of you today that is right up your alley. this is actually the ninth ribbon cutting of let's play sf. this happened -- let's play sf, none of us remember where we were in 2012 but if you were a voter here, you passed a parks bond in 2012 that allowed a community of your peers including some of our representatives i'll introduce in a second, to identify the most needy playgrounds around the city for public and private investment. we're also joined today by drew

becker, the ceo of san francisco park alliance, the recreation parks department and our commissioners and elected family here have worked together to make sure each of the 13 most deserving playgrounds is funded and neighborhoods are revitalized through a combination of play, creativity, of connectivity and if you look at this space, you can see the potential of this project. this project is also the beneficiary of the open space acquisition fund that goes back to the 70s. the city was smart enough -- this used to be a rail line, many who live in the community know this. look what we have been able to do with it. it's really quite special. this particular 1.7 million renovation includes something that is near and dear to my heart and to the hearts of so

many children in san francisco, a nature play area. part of our san francisco children and nature initiative. to give every child in san francisco a nature-based experience every day. it is little projects like this that really make the difference. so i'm really thrilled with that. we also have a lot of ada accessibility features in this project so we can all get out and enjoy our parks and play. we even have green space on that end of the alley for dog walking and exercise equipment and all kinds of fun stuff. this project was a mix of funding services from the let's play initiative and we also have funding from the 2012 community opportunity fund and some will speak to that in a second. let me just say a few thanks and then turn it over to our mayor. first to all of you for being patient. these projects take time.

it seems 2012 was a really, really long time ago but in playground time, it was like a blink of the eye. special thanks to dave who leads the jury commoners. i believe dave is speaking in a bit who wrote the application and dr. michael lindsay, i don't think dr. lindsay could be here today, but the school was very involved in the cof application and design and certainly they're going to enjoy the space. quick shout outs to our partners. the san francisco parks alliance, we wouldn't be able to do these projects without the caring, generous support of the parks alliance. the san francisco children and nature network, our city family from public works.

there are several here. thank you dpw, you guys are awesome. i see rachel gordon in the background i think. and everybody has a mask on. i shouldn't be calling out people by faces because i can't see them. again to our commission. to the parks recreation advisory committee, the committee of citizens that works with us to help develop these projects. i know karen and steven are here. thank you for your presence. to my own staff for their hard work. lisa is here, she has been the captain of let's play sf. i see nick here, thank you nick. michelle who leads an amazing crew. james, robert, i know i'm going to forget somebody. these are the people who so

lovelily and talently care for the space. our commission president likes to say victory has many parents and this is another victory with many, many, many parents. thank you to the entire team of people who have worked on this. in the interest of time, i'm going to turn it over to our mayor. mayor breed. (applause) >> thank you. we want to just extend heartfelt thank you to the people of this community, especially. it was your work, your advocacy that made it possible. people ask me in the last year and a half, isn't it hard being a mayor. we just went through a global pandemic. it has been tough. yes, it has been tough but being here today makes it worth it every day. i'm here with community. i'm here with people who care about san francisco. and who want to create these

amazing opportunities for our children, for our neighbors. that's what this city is about. the same thing happened when the pandemic first hit our city. we all came together like never before and yes, we are one of the densest cities in the country, which is why creating spaces like this are so important, but we also saw despite a global pandemic, we saw one of the lowest death rates anywhere in the country and seeing the highest vaccination rates anywhere in the country. so -- (applause) we should be proud. but i'm not surprised. it's what we do best. when an opportunity presents itself, we don't see just a problem. we see a solution. jury commons is a solution for the community. it created an old rail yard, a place that this community knew about for many, many years and used for many, many years but had a vision to make it into

something that can be extraordinary and that's what you created. all the greenery, all the plants, all the play structures and yes, the advocacy it took to get it done. reaching out to apply for fund ing with the city. you know how difficult the city can be and how difficult it can be to get funding from the city as well. i want to thank the parks alliance stepping in with the last bit of cash to get it over the finish line. it takes a village to make incredible things happen in san francisco and the village of jury commons has been instrumental in making this happen for the community around us and the entire city. this is an amazing accomplishment, one we should be proud of and one to take us to the next level for economic recovery. we know during the pandemic, our parks were everything for us.

our open space and parks, they brought us closer together. i don't know about you, but i didn't know a lot of my neighbors. during this pandemic, going outside, meeting folks, walking around, going to parks, you get to know people you never knew lived in your neighborhood. that's what this jury commons will continue. as we begin to open and recover and go back to our lives the way we knew it once before, this will still serve as an important gathering place for this community to make sure that our kids, our neighbors, we continue to know one another, support one another and get through any challenge that comes our way. thank you for being here today. (applause) i'm like to introduce assembly member chui.

(applause) >> thank you madam mayor, particularly for your leadership during these times. i'm a former musician and i usually don't verbalize the songs in my head but i have to at this moment. the song going through my head is the one that starts with "it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood". i'm going to stop there. it truly is a beautiful day here in this very spot. the mayor has thanked so many folks from her perspective as our incredible leader of our city. i'm going to thank so many of you as a parent. as someone who has a ritual with my 5-year-old son every weekend of trying to find a new park to play in. and what you have created here is not only going to be the destination this coming weekend, you have given not just kids a slide to slide on, adults

something to play on, but just another place for us to bring community together. when i'm in sacramento, my colleagues ask me, hey, you represent san francisco, san francisco seems to have a lot. why are you such a park advocate. i explain to folks that in our amazing city, seven years ago when i was first elected to the legislature, i would tell folks in chinatown, you have immigrant kids kicking soccer balls on top of housing projects and in the mission, you have latino immigrant kids kicking soccer balls down alley ways and a few miles away, the bayview, african american kids from time to time kicking balls on top of formerly toxic contaminated sites. this is why we do the work we do. we need to make sure our next generation of kids have the opportunities that every child should. the opportunity to play, to

thrive, to learn how to be in community with each other, to grow strong and to grow to become the next mayor of this city. i just want to thank all of you who are part of this amazing community. this village, whether from the public sector and from rec and park and with the commission, whether you work with rec and park, from the private sector helping to construct the spot. whether you're from the nonprofit with your vision, it takes all of you coming together. in particular, i want to ask, how many are jury commoners? raise your hand. you guys are the ones who really made it happen. let's give it up for them. thank you so very much. with that, it is my honor to introduce someone who represents this section of the mission, my good friend supervisor mandelman. (applause) >> thank you.

there are a lot of politicians to speak today. i will try to be brief. i do want to say three big thank you's. first to jury commoners and the neighbors. this was a project that came out of the community. i think i remember back several years folks in the neighborhood, dave and others were taking care of this park even in its prior iteration. the vision for what this park could become came out of the community, grant applications were done by community. even until the very end in figuring out that this park needed garbage cans god damn it. the neighbors stepped forward and e-mailed us and we forwarded e-mails to rec park and they figured out we need garbage cans. tremendous thanks. and to rec and park for both providing joy during the pandemic for finding ways to keep us safe, i remember phil

put in the dots around in delores park in early days thinking about social distancing and delivering a service i think people love, constantly our controller studies show people love our parks and grateful for the management they are getting and they really love it when we have beautiful new or renewed parks like this. and to the parks alliance, drew and the alliance, thank you for your partnership with rec park and the work you do in district 8. we were doing a movie night which was fantastic and lovely and delightful. but the mayor and i were out for a ribbon cutting for christopher park opening, there's a lot of great work happening through the partnership. as a neighbor, i live like a block away. and very grateful to have this as a supervisor, i'm grateful

for it. speaking of people who helped get us through the pandemic, the former head of the office of economic and work force development and now our assessor controller. >> thank you supervisor. it is a pleasure to be with everyone today, especially when you step away from the evaluations you have to do being your assessor-recorder here in san francisco but most importantly, i wanted to say thank you to dave, to mary for your leadership in making this happen. ensuring we could get the work done and investments in place. i know how important it is to wake up in the morning and know you have greenfield equipment to do exercise on and i'm happy to see you here in jury commons and to the department of recreation and parks and all of the work you do to make sure the spaces are open, healthy and safe for our communities across the city.

whether here, at jury commons, in delores park or all throughout special places, nooks and allies to enjoy each other, breathe fresh air, be safe and be in community, i'm so grateful to all of you and the parks alliance doing this in so many places around our city. it is needed for all of us of every age. and i'm grateful for drew becker and continued work he does to make this happen. with that, drew becker. (applause) >> thanks. i want to bottle that. thank you so much. really appreciate it. so happy to be here today in this amazing new space created by the neighbors for the neighbors and for this great community. this is part of our partnership with rec and park the let's play sf initiative. basically it's crowd sourcing for playgrounds that will impact

about 20,000 children when they're all open in a few short years. we have raised over $12 million for 13 playgrounds throughout the city. i want to thank the board and donors for making that happen. we are lucky to live in san francisco that prioritizes parks. in the past year and a half, we have realized how important they are to our life, specifically playgrounds. if you remember back in the day, a year and a half ago when playgrounds were closed. there was the outpouring of support to open our playgrounds and i think it reached the state house actually. it was amazing to see. it's really the community like you is what changes that. you change this space with that as well. the san francisco parks alliance is a proud to support the rec and park department and happy to support all of the amazing things it does.

it is by no big issue that the rec and park department is one of the best in the city and county of san francisco. people love rec and park department and under the leadership of phil, thank you so much to him and what he has done for the department. phil, thank you. (applause) investments like this are the reason why -- this is amazing, timeout magazine called san francisco the number one city to live in in the world because of great spaces like this all over the city. you're within a 10 minute walk of all public spaces. new playgrounds and parks and allies that have come alive. that's the san francisco we know and we're proud of. i'm proud to be a part of it and the parks alliance is a part of it and the rec and park

department is part of it and proud to be working for a great mayor like london breed making sure her dream is reality. i want to give a shout out to the capital team. (applause) it's under new leadership. stacy, congratulations on that. and then tara and alex, great job on all the work you do. sarah and suzanna and team, thank you so much. we appreciate being a part of it. (applause) >> thank you. >> i live around the corner on san jose avenue. (applause) i've led the jury commoners as we call ourselves since 2009 which literally means i buy the coffee. i'll stay on the thanks train or describe more parts of the thanks elephant. number one, laura who couldn't

be here, who started the jury commoners in about 2004. and started the organization that led to the work that led to us all being here. number two, in i think 2014, eric anderson, the park services manager of this area at the time got me to write a grant for the community opportunity fund, which was unsuccessful. a couple years later, mary who is right there in the purple mask wrote the grant that succeeded and that's why we're here today. (applause) super thank you to mary. and then number three, i want to thank smart folks at rec and parks, i don't think i fully know how it works but assembled

with a community opportunity fund grant money from the let's play initiative and it turned into a more substantial project and that's why the whole park is in great shape now. so what that got us, i want to point out a couple of things i'm personally super happy about. anyone who lived in the area used the old park remembers what it was like. the paths were the crater of the moon, you couldn't get through here even with wheels. it is all great now for everybody to get through here and use the whole park. and number two, a new irrigation system, the things we plant will stay alive for a little while. (applause) as a volunteer, i'm super happy about that. one more thing. if -- for everyone who is here and interested, this is not an end, this is the beginning of the next step.

for everyone here interested helping keep this park in lovely shape it is in today, find me before i go or google meet up jury commoners and you'll find us. join the group and we'll start coming and cleaning up and keeping it in good shape. thank you. (applause) i don't know who's next. >> now to the business of this thing and cut a ribbon. >> okay. are we ready? 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. (applause) ♪♪♪

>> we broke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of

bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer

by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of -- for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as

a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here. >> my name is amanda [inaudible] over see the girls

sports program. when i came to san francisco and studied recreation and parks and towerism and after i graduated i moved to candlestick park and grain r gain adlot of experience work with the san francisco 49 and [inaudible] be agfemale in a vore sports dynamic facility. i coached volo ball on the side and as candle stick closed down the city had me move in92 too [inaudible] >> immediate interaction and response when you work with kids. i think that is what drives other people to do this. what drew me to come to [inaudible] to begin with for me to stay. i use today work in advertising as a media buyer and it wasn't fulfilling enough

and i found a opportunity to be a writing coach. the moment [inaudible] you to take advantage of how you change and inspire a child by the words you say and actions you do. >> you have a 30 different programs for girls through rec and park and fast ball, soft ball and volley ball. i started the first volley ball league and very proud what i have done with that. being a leader for girls is passion and showing to be confident and being ambiggish and strong person. [inaudible] for about 5 years. programs offered thraw thirty-three rec and park and oversee thg prms about a year. other than the programs we offer we offer summer camp squz do [inaudible] during the summer and that is something i wherei have been able to shine in my role.

>> couple years we started the civic center socking league and what an amazing opportunity it was and is it for kid in the neighborhood who come together every friday in the civic center plaza on green grass to run and play. you otonly see soccer and poetry but also see books t. is a really promoting literacy to our kid and giving them to tools to make it work at home. real fortunate to see the [inaudible] grow. >> girls get pressureed with society and i know that is obvious, but we see it every day, magazines, commercials the idea what a woman should look like but i like to be a strong female role for it goals that play sports because a lot of times they don't see someone strong in a female role with something connected with sports and athleticism and i love i can bring that to the table.

>> soccer, poetry, community service. we now have field of dreams. we are [inaudible] all over the bay area and excited to be share our mission with other schools across the bay to really build the confidence and character of kids when they go out to play and close their eyes and think, why was [inaudible] we want to make sure-i want to make sure they remember me and remember the other folks who [inaudible] >> get out there and do it. who cares about what anybody else says. there will be poopal people that come up and want to wreck your ideas. that happen today eme when i went to candle stick part and wanted to [inaudible] people told me no left and right. whether you go out for something you are passionate about our something you want to grow in and feel

people will say no. go out and get it done. i can be the strong leader female and i love that. [♪♪♪] >> i just wanted to say a few words. one is to the parents and to all of the kids. thank you for supporting this program and for trusting us to create a soccer program in the bayview. >> soccer is the world's game, and everybody plays, but in the united states, this is a sport

that struggles with access for certain communities. >> i coached basketball in a coached football for years, it is the same thing. it is about motivating kids and keeping them together, and giving them new opportunities. >> when the kids came out, they had no idea really what the game was. only one or two of them had played soccer before. we gave the kids very simple lessons every day and made sure that they had fun while they were doing it, and you really could see them evolve into a team over the course of the season. >> i think this is a great opportunity to be part of the community and be part of programs like this. >> i get to run around with my other teammates and pass the ball. >> this is new to me. i've always played basketball or football. i am adjusting to be a soccer mom. >> the bayview is like my favorite team. even though we lose it is still fine. >> right on. >> i have lots of favorite memories, but i think one of them is just watching the kids enjoy themselves. >> my favorite memory was just

having fun and playing. >> bayview united will be in soccer camp all summer long. they are going to be at civic centre for two different weeklong sessions with america scores, then they will will have their own soccer camp later in the summer right here, and then they will be back on the pitch next fall. >> now we know a little bit more about soccer, we are learning more, and the kids are really enjoying the program. >> we want to be united in the bayview. that is why this was appropriate >> this guy is the limit. the kids are already athletic, you know, they just need to learn the game. we have some potential college-bound kids, definitely. >> today was the last practice of the season, and the sweetest moment was coming out here while , you know, we were setting up the barbecue and folding their uniforms, and looking out onto the field, and seven or eight of the kids were playing. >> this year we have first and second grade. we are going to expand to third,

forth, and fifth grade next year bring them out and if you have middle school kids, we are starting a team for middle school. >> you know why? >> why? because we are? >> bayview united. >> that's right. >> chair: good morning, and welcome to the rules committee of the san francisco board of supervisors for september 27, 2021. i'm joined by vice chair raphael mandelman and connie chan. our clerk today is ms. alyssa samera a. do you have any announcements? >> yes, mr. chair. the minutes will reflect that the committee members participated in this