fundraisers and i could list some that were already doing and then mostly neighborhood holiday parties for the businesses that are in the neighborhood, so it's a very specific um, it's a very specific event plan once again, this is, you know, owned by a large company. this is not going to be, um you know, our band is going to be wedding bands, you know, we're going to have you know the dj, the traditional djs and wedding bands that play an events and if you were to go to a traditional christmas party, whatever that version of entertainment would be. so that's the overall you know, three pronged effect, and then me and my company are running that you know, i spent the last 12 years running a very similar company for clint reilly, three blocks down the street, including the julia morgan ballroom, the merchants exchange club and created a restaurant. our director of operations vicky tom spent 19 years as the

director of operations at the olympic club before its spending five years with me at clint reilly companies. and lillian fan who's my director of events spent six years with me at clint reilly companies before moving to michael minute as their director of events. and we have a presentation. if we're interested. come back here. and use the arrows to walk. you know, more or less. this first slide is telling you what i just told you, um, although we do have you can see the capacity there so we can do up to 1072 people. that's when we combine all three spaces, you know, quite frankly, that's a rarity. the 2 72 concentrated for a public event. is also, you know,

quite frankly, um not gonna happen a whole lot if you go into the public space currently which is already open, you'll notice there's somewhere between 2030 to 40 people there having lunch potentially on a daily basis, and we're hoping to increase that, um, for i mean, honestly, not really for financial gain just to bring activity to where we are and to bring some vivacity to the neighborhood. okay so you can you know you can see here. it's pretty much what i already said. so i'm going to go to who were already working with. so you know, right off the bat. i mean, i have a history of doing events in my career, so we launched with doing a mission. dolores academy luncheon for father jagan's 80th birthday party. um and i'm quite sure we didn't get any noise complaints for that, but we definitely had a good time. we are. we did some we did the sports auction with the

guardsmen. we have september 23rd event with sf parks alliance. the junior league is on our calendar. the christie yamaguchi's always dream is on our calendar. um san francisco ballet, the san francisco opera we these are the types of events that we already have scheduled for the upcoming 2000 end of 2023 and 2024 year. from a liquor license perspective. we currently have a, you know, 47. that's in hand. we have a 58 catering permit, as well as 68 portable bar permits as well. and i think you can. you can see here. we're talking about all of our liquor licenses and when we posted it and that we had a chamber of commerce hard hat tour, we did all the requiring outreach the abc on site inspection we walked through,

with officers saying actually also walked through with officer moren. oh and we've been in a full outrage. we had san francisco travel there. we had. mosconi center with us we had the downtown district benefit district with us. so we've we've gone through the motions with the community. you can see the live posting here that's been up. and you know, as we as you just read, we sent out the letters to more than 500 community outreach to our neighborhood, all businesses. we don't have any residential in our neighborhood. and that's uh, that's the story. okay thank you so much. what a beautiful space. yeah, it should be fun. okay commissioner has any questions? it looks like a really gorgeous space. i look forward to seeing what? what you do with it. me

too. laura we think we're going to be open september 9th. that's our that's our hope, and we're getting there. great yeah, it's just it's exciting to have new things opening in the financial district for all the obvious reasons, so thank you. and i don't know how much sterile entertainment you're going to be able to get away with in san francisco. i don't think we do sterile energy. well, you know, we in this business, you know, we definitely have you know adam sandler's singing the wedding singers for a lot of our events. you know when i say we're doing 40, saturday's 30 of them will be involved white dresses. most likely so you know they can get crazy, but in a different way. okay? all right. thank you. um, any other questions? no okay. you can go ahead and have a seat. thank you. is there any public comment on this permit application? there are no public comment on this item. okay.

thank you. public comment is closed. okay commissioners. do we have a motion to approve this permit? i'd like to make a motion to approve this permit. second. can we have a vote, please? yes president, camino vice president sleiman, commissioner perez, commissioner thomas and commissioner torres. hey your permit application is conditionally granted. please follow up with deputy director azevedo for next steps. okay in our last permit application on this agenda, i'm bringing up senior analyst rice. thank you. good evening, commissioners. the final permit on our regular gent. tonight is an amendment for a one time outdoor event permit from valencia corridor merchants association to host outdoor entertainment and amp. sound with extended duration for their dancing in the streets series. the serious features bands, djs, drag performances

and dance lessons over three blocks section of valencia. the proposed dates and times are saturdays from august 19th through november 18th from 5 to 8 p.m. we're bringing this permit to a hearing due to the high density of sensitive receptors and permitted businesses and the valencia commercial corridor. states permit is an amendment because the series officially kicked off on saturday, july 22nd. we administratively approved them to the first saturday's in order to prevent a gap in operations before coming to a hearing tonight for the remaining dates. senior folder permit application . the events, scheduled locations and site plan and their neighborhood outreach materials. during the events. initial dates we received five complaints at the sound was too loud, and we received two letters of opposition to this permit with the same concerns about loud volume, you'll find these items in your folder. we did not receive any recommendation from mission station within the response

window, and we assume we have no issues with the amendment. staff is recommending approval with conditions listed in the memo. in terms of a sound limit. we're recommending that the volume battery amplified sound does not exceed ambien levels at 100 ft from the property plane because they this area is densely activated without rectified sound and be the area has a large number of sensitive receptors. here to speak with you this evening is renee, colorado on behalf of the valencia corridor merchants association. mm hmm. thank you. i'm renee. i'm here representing the valencia quarter emergency association for amplified some permit. um we're going to be hosting djs, drag performances, um, salsa event. ah ah ah and i'll be on site every saturday. um 5 to 8. ah i have reached out to, um we did pascal notices on

the footprint larger than needed . this is because i wanted to make everyone aware, um, like the commissioner was saying, um ah, there is a lot of homes there. um and there is past complaint, so i want to make sure that we keep the decibel levels low. um, 100. ft. should be no problem. um the speakers that the djs are using our five inch speakers to at most, so they're not large. it's not large equipment. um, by any means, yeah. okay. thank you. um any questions? no, okay. good. all right. well, thank you. why don't you go ahead and have a seat? is there a public comment on this item? we had someone from before. there's one on zoom

. is there anyone in there is nobody in the room. okay? one. oh sorry. there's one person in the room one second, i'll keep the super brief. this just sounds awesome. please more of these sort of activities in the streets. we know it generates some noise, but that makes a vibrant city. it's all within reasonable hours. this area was built for this sort of thing has a long history of wonderful activities. i'm looking forward to this. i'm glad they're producing it. my name is scott paper. i used to be a mission and some economic celsius. i'll speak on item seven later. thank you. thank you. okay alright, will bring in as one person on zoom. russell orloff. if you can hear me, please mute yourself and you have three minutes. okay um, i love the valencia street closures. it's loads of fun. unfortunately there is a, uh, downstage right in front of my building where the djs play right across the street from tomatoes, and it's very, very,

very loud. um this last, uh, initial run that they had at two o'clock. they did a sound check the walls of my building were shaking. they then started playing intermittently between two and five. there were supposed to start at five. i believe and kept going till eight. so it was basically six hours of really loud music, and i don't know that there's uh any way that that music that loud enough for people to dance, too, is not going to be very annoying to people in the buildings all around the sound stage there. i was hoping that maybe they could just do the sound stage with the dj at our end of valencia street once a month and maybe switch it up, you know, let the amplified music be on some of the other blocks. sometimes maybe let us have some of the, uh, you know, the quieter unamplified bands that play up the street. it's uh you know, i get off work at

four. every day i come home, and if it's you know, 4 15, and there's like music playing outside my window for 3.5 hours . um you know, i can't take a nap after my work, and i think people are allowed to have a reasonable amount of quiet time , um, in their own homes, and i talked to some of my neighbors about this. a lot of them are older people who don't necessarily know how to you know, coming to these meetings on zoom or will not send emails and they don't like it either. they're upset about it, but they're just going to like, live with it and be miserable. i'm just thinking. maybe there's some compromise. where where you know they can have the party in the streets. but the corner of valencia in 21st doesn't have to be ground zero for super loud amplified music. every saturday . between now and november 18th . it's just too much. um yeah, that's all i have to say. thank you. okay thank you. is there additional public comment on this item? no more comments for

this item. okay. thank you. commissioners i would like to just for the record and provide some context that i didn't include the amendment, which might be helpful for this conversation is that there is another activation happening on valencia street that noise pop is producing called summer of music from from 2 to 5 o'clock on many of those same saturdays. ah! it's fun. put that up there. dylan how long does summer of music run? i can look it up shortly, but it's um it was 12 saturday, starting in june or something. so it's almost over, though it's i think it's september. i want to stay and please forgive me. if i'm wrong. i need to confirm that just, uh , confirm with stuff. this was the summer music series that we approved few few meetings ago. yeah, that is correct. mhm.

okay? all right. do we have emotion? my motion to approve with staff recommendations. can we entertain the idea of switching up the amplified sound. not just in that one corner per the request of the one from one of the neighbors. is that something that we can ask the promoter? if they could, they would consider doing something like that. i'm not sure it's something i'd be comfortable conditioning, but i think you know, having some education and outreach. i also think that you know if the permit is 100 ft. um then maybe just this is just a sound limit. educating opportunity here where maybe the sound can be as loud as it has been. it also sounds like this, you know? this is was summer of music to me for some of that, at least, you know. but

you know, my feeling is always that that that's why we're here. and when somebody like the caller is having an issue, then we bring people together and we turn things down and we sort things out, and that's why we that's what our permit does, you know, and it brings you into our our spectrum and then and then it's their job. nurse. i am inclined to agree. i think that i also appreciate what? um, the public comment that we received but also. knowing how, um delicate and difficult it is to implement, um, events of this nature that to try and switch things around can prove untenable. so i think i agree with vice president clinton that this is a learning opportunity where and do outreach and help bring folks together. so i have

made a motion to approve with staff recommendations. second thank you. um can we have a vote, please? yes uh, president camino i rice president lyman high commissioner says commissioner thomas i commissioner torres. alright. okay your permit application is conditionally granted. please follow up with senior analyst rice for next steps. hey the last item on the agenda is item number seven hearing and possible action to suspend permit number ec 1452. to revoke it should say revoke sorry. okay, i'm gonna say it again. yes, it is. probably it's okay. it's okay. i have the capacity

correct myself. it's alright. not embarrassed. just on television. you guys okay. the last time item on the agenda is item number seven hearing impossible action to revoke permit number e c 145 places of entertainment issued to jose montesinos special suspension notice served to caesar montesinos db a straddles nightclub located at 358 ocean avenue, san francisco. okay so i would like to provide an update regarding this matter. the entertainment commission's executive director weiland as charging parties submitted a complaint for suspension of the place of entertainment permit for stratis nightclub on july 14th 2023. the hearing was initially set for august 1st 2023 but was continued to today.

august 15 at the request of stratus council due to a family emergency. i granted the continuance under section six and 13 of the hearing procedures. on wednesday, august 10th director weiland submitted a new complaint for revocation of stratus place of entertainment permit based on new information they received on august 9th. director weiland invoked their right to seek hearing on the permit revocation within five days notice under section three of the hearing procedures, which provides that when the charging official determines that exigent circumstances apply notice shall be made to the parties in writing, not less than five days prior to the date of hearing the term exigent circumstances means circumstances which pose a substantial risk of serious harm to the safety of persons or property. the charging party's determination of exigent circumstances shall be in writing shall include the

grounds upon which the determination is made based on the existence of exigent circumstances, and the chief of police chief of fire department or director of public health must concur in the determination. the charging party included as an exhibit to their complaint, a written determination that exigent circumstances exist, which included a written concurrence from the police chief william scott, as required by section three of the hearing procedures. the parties were required to submit their pre hearing documents and the permit holder was required to submit their answer to the new complaint by sunday, august 13th however, on monday morning, stratos is counsel requested for another continuance due to another emergency this morning of august, 15th. the parties came to an agreement to postpone the hearing yet again to september 1920 23, and that's stratus would suspend its entertainment

operations until the hearing on september 19th. in order to accommodate stratos is attorney and balance that with public safety concerns raised by the charging party. in light of this . i propose that the hearing on the complaint to revoke the place of entertainment permit of stratus be heard on september 19th. i also proposed that the commission require the parties to submit a written stipulation that would include a statement regarding the agreement they made on august 14 and 15. regarding the postponement of the hearing date and suspension of stratus is entertainment operations until september, 19th and a new briefing scheduled for the september 19th hearing. i would like to require the parties to submit that stipulation in two weeks by tuesday, august 19th. so i asked the commission to make a motion. just for clarity. um in two

weeks on august 29th, we would submit by august 19 august 29th in two weeks. yes. okay. yes, okay. okay? how should the motion be constructed? is there. just a little confused. all right. sorry. i'm happy to make the motion i just don't want this is more official than we're used to. so i just want to make sure. alright, so. i would like to motion that. i would like to move that the hearing on the charging parties complained to revoke stratus. this place of entertainment. perfect permit be set for september 1920 23. is

that one motion and then we have to vote on another motion. or how does this work? does anybody know you can include all of it? and i would also like to move that the parties submit a written stipulation by no later than tuesday, august 29 2023 that would include a statement regarding their agreement to postpone the hearing. date and suspension of stratus is entertainment operations until september, 1920 23 and a new briefing schedule for the september 19th 2023 hearing. seconded. thank you. is there a public comment on this item? there are no public comment was kidding. just kidding. also speak for a moment. just fully recognizing and brief that you're this will be heard later. clearly there problems. i'm a neighbor of stratus. no seas are working hard. i see him working hard all the time. i know they have uniforms. security outside , they do their best to keep their guests and people in line is generally peaceful situation

. of course, there's been two incidences that haven't been but are building a business is right next door and i found the new positive neighbors and i appreciate that they keep the end of the block active. um and again. i know they're working hard and nobody wants to see what happened happened again. but hopefully there's a path that can help keep that business opens. we don't know the blood splatter around spot around. there. but maybe i'll see you on the 19th. thank you for your understanding. take care. thank you. is there additional public comment on this item? there are no more additional public comment on this item, okay? okay here we go. um okay. public comment is closed. sorry. go ahead. okay. can we have a vote, please? yes. ah president camino vice president sleiman, protest commissioner thomas and commissioner tortoise hey. alright the last item on the

agenda is number eight commissioner comments and questions. i just wanted to, uh extend appreciation to another commissioner, mr many youku tl, who is trying to revive halloween in the castro and in my first months on the entertainment commission. i did see that, uh events. of that nature did fall within our purview and limited coding language and i'm not sure exactly how that pertains here. but i would just like to ask if it might be helpful to connect many with entertainment commission staff just to see how we could be supportive in this effort, um, as he's bringing a lot of constituent groups and communities stakeholders together, and i'd like to see it. absolutely yeah. were him and i are connected so perfect.

i want to congratulate commissioner perez for the 30th celebration of istan this past weekend. it looks like a very beautiful, very filipino. mhm events, so congratulations to you and your team for centering our culture in san francisco. thank you. all right. come on, you guys. the dog days of summer. i got nothing. i got my stuff up front. okay well to the baby's going back to school. yeah. right tomorrow morning. cool starts. okay? alright is there a public comment on this item? no public comment on this item. okay. seeing non public comment is closed. this meeting is adjourned at 7 11. thank you.

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what you accomplished took a lot of hard work. there was a lot of blood, sweat and tears on that field where you were practicing probably longer hours than you really wanted to. and i know that your coaches really pushed to push to push you very hard, to get to a place where something like this was possible . but these teams are more than just about winning games. it's really about creating teamwork. it's really trying to put forth your best foot and realizing what you're capable of. there are long term relationships that are established as a result of hard work and going through such a challenging time together. and we in the city and county of san francisco, as the mayor, i want

to express just how proud i am of what you accomplish and what you delivered for san francisco, because it's not just about the base ox. it's about the entire city and county of san francisco and what each and every one of you represents. i want to take this moment to acknowledge phil ginsburg, who's going to be talking a bit. i don't think anyone's a bigger cheerleader for the base. oxton phil ginsburg, because. he is so proud to talk about this team, even when you're not present and about what you all are doing and being this all female baseball team that represents san francisco. he, along with our various commissioners who he will recognize in just a moment who are joining us here today. but it means a lot to be here with family and friends, to take

a moment to pause and reflect on all your hard work. i want to just also go back to the 12 you team that even though you came in third, you got to understand why you came in third in the national. and that is a big deal and it is definitely time for you to fight harder and harder and harder and continue to go up the ladder. the 14 new team, from my understanding, they've been they've been working together since they were nine years. i think that's the term that they used. and from the time they were nine news, all the way to 14 news, they had their minds and their sights set on this national champion and they delivered it. and i want to say congratulate to all of you for doing the hard work to make us proud for doing the hard work that even though we know some of you play for teams in your respective schools, you still have to study hard and teamwork and the work that you do to have

good grades in order to play you still take the time out to be a part of this extraordinary team. and i always look forward when we launch our baseball season in san francisco at kimball park. my favorite team to walk by is usually the base ox of all of the women who are playing baseball out there, toughening it out just as much as the boys . so we're going to do two things to really, really exciting things. first, i want to announce that in honor of your win, city hall will be lit up in orange tonight. for all of you. and i want to ask coach burke and coach alcantara to come up forward to accept a proclamation. to all the

coaches, to all the assistant coaches, to the staff, to the volunteers. we want to express our appreciation because we also know know that the reason why you work with this team has everything to do with your love for baseball, but also your love for supporting young people and helping to lift them up and because of your hard work and their hard work combined, what i want to do today is something very special. today, officially , on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, we're going to declare it base day in several cisco. thank you. thank you so much. all right. and at this time, as

i said, you know, if girls can play baseball, men can be cheerleaders. so, phil, i'm looking forward to seeing you in a skirt with pom poms cheering on the base ox team as their number one fan. ladies and gentlemen, the director of rec and park for the city and county of san francisco, phil ginsburg . all right. okay well, thank you, mayor. the mayor says that i am the biggest bay sox fan, but as we all know, the biggest fan of kids and of sports in this city is our mayor who comes out to every opening day at cbl. cheers for the bay sox is loudly as i do in all of our kids so let's make her an honorary part of this team, shall we? all right. are you are you now that's what i'm talking about.

well done, mayor. all right, folks, you're here. you've been in kentucky. you finished third. you won a championship. i think that was that last night. you were no how last week you were at over at oracle with your names on the big screen. this we're having a moment here. bay sox. and by the way, you know, we got women's world cup. we got the bay sox. it is women in sports are having their moment and you know, there's a saying that we like to say is bay sox fans throw like a girl right. amen. amen so a little bit about this amazing history of this program. mayor this started in 2015, and i want to give a big shout out to one of the founding mothers of this program, rochelle rocky hensley or henley sorry, is rocky here is rochelle. oh, there she is.

rocky. rocky played professional baseball for the colorado silver bullets, has been an amazing member of our team. and this in many respects, rochelle, rocky, whatever you would prefer to be called at the moment, you know, this is your dream come true. we started this program in 2015 with one team, 12 girls now we've got five teams. we've got 60 girls, we've got a national third place finisher, and we've got a national championship. so i want to give a big shout out. the mayor singled out a couple of folks. i want to repeat to the 12 and under coaches. sandro alcantara and justice alcantara for can you both stand up one more time? where's justice.

okay. our 14 and under coaches james burke and karen sanchez, a volunteer here. we have a amazing group of practice coaches as well. manny blackwell, dan resnick and vlad hernandez. and of course every program in every sport needs a team mom or a team dad, someone that keeps the trains running on time. make sure people are where they're supposed to be. registers for tournament points is the center point of all the information. and this particular team mom is very special because she is also a wreck and park

commissioner annie jupiter jones is. yes indeed. i also want to sing out, single out just a couple people from the amazing rec and park recreation staff because today is about the bay sox but the broader message is youth sports are alive and well in san francisco. every everybody plays and i want to give a big shout out to our recreation superintendent, nick williams, and our manager of sports and athletics, jimmy chin . so we had 23 or 20 423 or 24 girls playing on these two teams, 24 i think you said about the 12 and under team, all of these girls created such a great team atmosphere. every player was welcomed with open arms. the positive team culture helped help propel us to an amazing

tournament experience. and when asked about the 14 and under, team coach burke said every single player had their moment. it was truly a team win and i don't say that lightly. it was pretty amazing. and before this year, mayor, the 14 and under team that won this national championship had only ever won one game at nationals. one game they put in tons of work and finished as our national champions representing san francisco. and before i close up with a little cheerleading mayor, i definitely want to acknowledge three of our other commissioners who are here, our vice president of our commission, kat anderson commissioners joe halsey, who was very involved in in, in cbl and flame for your entire life, right, joe? i mean, pretty much

at the fire department, you ran the show. did you ever anticipate a national championship for a women's for a girls baseball team? now and commissioner vinita lewis our mayor, our commission meetings, do you think they're serious business and a whole lot of noise? it's basically just a base love fest. all day, every day here at city hall. right all right. so i before i bring back bring up commissioner tim. mom, the mayor asked me to do a little cheerleading this place. we have a microphone, but this place has pretty good acoustics . it's got a big dome up there. they can hear us all over this building. and the mayor hopes that there are still a few people working around here today. so here's what we're going to do. bay sox and fans and supporters, everybody stand up. we're going to raise the roof off this joint. when i say we are, you say base ready? we are. we are. we are. when i say

base sox, you say champs. base sox. bay sox. when i say bay sox , you say sf bay sox base all together. now we are number one. we are number one. we are number one. all right, let's go. bay sox. and mayor. i didn't even do that with pompoms. all right. let's bring up our commissioner , the woman who keeps it all together. commissioner jupiter jones. are you ready to come on up. to the mic is yours. and what i'm going to present to you, i don't have a proclamation, but the mayor asked me to. to bring the magic back. so for each team member, if you guys look outside, you see that little ferris wheel and there's a big slide that's going up. starting on thursday, civic

center gets its first summer carnival, complete with, you know, corn dogs and water ice and soft ice cream and rides and games and for winning the national championship and for finishing third in the nationals. each and every one of you gets one of these free carnival passes which commissioner jupiter jones is going to give out. so thank you. nice to talk you guys. so i didn't know i was talking, but i just want to say on on top of everything else that's been said about this amazing program with its amazing players, it's amazing coaches. it's amazing families is just how much this program could only happen in san francisco. right. because for this to happen, the city has to support it. the city has to believe that girls can play baseball, that girls can do anything and they have to put their money where their mouth is and make sure that it happens and as a city kid, i know that

this could only happen in san francisco. so thank you, mayor. thank you, everyone in this city for supporting this. it doesn't happen without you right? so i'll leave it at that. and i think i'm introducing our 12 year coach coach andrew, to come up and give us some highlights about the 12 youth team. all right. thank you very much, commissioner jupiter jones. i i just want to say when i reflect on the teams i've coached, the most important thing is, is having an atmosphere where girls feel seen by each other and by the coaching staff. and i do want to say that i, i feel like our 12 youth team did a great job of embracing one another, support each other when we had tough times and celebrating like mad when we had good times. so i just want to say 12 of you, i'm

very proud of you and the most important thing to work out and leave with is that we all have this journey of baseball. we fall in love with it. we have big dreams and i want you to know on this journey of baseball , i want you to enjoy it. work hard and remember head, heart, hustle will always get you far, no matter if you go just to the base box, to high school, to college, if you think about those three pillars of our program, head, heart and hustle, you always keep your head in the game. you don't give up on yourself or your teammate and you work hard. even when the coach isn't looking. it'll help you be successful. people and baseball players. all right. and i believe i'm now able to introduce use the 14 year coach james burke, because i'm not it anymore.

uh uh, also didn't really know i was going to be talking for too long, but hello and thank you to city of san francisco and to the mayor london breed for having the san francisco bay sox girls baseball team here today to be celebrated for their amazing special victory this summer. and the baseball for nationals in kentucky. i'm extremely grateful . i was extremely grateful and happy to be able to have the opportunity to coach the bay sox this summer. i've always heard nothing but amazing things about the bay sox. i've had bay sox on my middle school teams and even in rec and park. and when i finally got to step in and be the coach this summer, um, it lived up to all the expectations that i thought it was going to come with the effort, the amazing effort from all the

girls. this summer was just truly remarkable. we were like, hey, what if we practice three days a week this summer? what if we go ahead and practice with the san francisco 14 new team as well? and we just keep getting better and better and better and every girl showed up to every single practice. and the girls, if they couldn't make it to practices because they were breaking other barriers in joining other teams and playing another tournaments this summer and continuing baseball. so again, one of the big things that i really loved about this summer was the base represented san francisco well, and they represented baseball in san francisco well. there's always a lot of talk about baseball in san francisco and the talent. and again, we're just always proving how san francisco baseball does have some of the best talent in the united states. and i love that the base proved that here. i do want to do some shout outs real quick. first to manny, who's sitting there, honjo annie, i saw firsthand how you kept this program going through all these

years. it's amazing what you've done. your leadership is the reason why these girls have won this year and you've kept this program alive through your leadership and the way they just represented everything. so well is because of you. so thank you very much. that was very awesome . also, i want to give a shout out to african park for keeping the program alive. it's been amazing. shout out to the parents. this is a big thing. yeah. um, i'm firsthand knowledge. what i'm saying. if the parents all support and create a positive atmosphere, teams can do wonders. and because of that, the base ocs were able to do what they did this summer and do so well. the culture was just amazing. and again, shout out also to all the past players of the bay sox and the current president, players of the bay sox. you're all amazing. there's so many

cheerleaders from the from the past teams who always come back coach talk up the program team that give back and then the present players today who were keeping it alive and really making this one of the most awesome programs and giving it an outlet for girls to play baseball in san francisco. so again, it was just a really awesome and i said it before, all the girls on this team had a moment. it was truly remarkable. i've i've coached middle school, high school, college and i've won a couple championships and this was truly actually felt like one of the one of the most unique awesome amazing championship wins because every single player on this team did something special to go six and zero in any tournament is hard. we had nine pitchers, three catchers. i can go on and on and on and they did it. they won. it was truly amazing. everybody had a great time. and thank you again for everybody here. great

job. way to put in the effort. thank you very much. all right. i'm back. before we move on, do we have any of our young ladies who might want to say a few words today. come on up. hello, madam mayor. general manager ginsberg, park recs commissioner and the coaches, players and baseball families. my name is simone and i'm the captain of the 14 new team i've been playing with the bay sox for the past five years, and i

know i speak for all the girls in our program when i say that we are part of an amazing organization filled with growth, encouragement and many unforgettable memories and lifelong friendships. playing with the bay sox has taught me many skills, including leadership and determination that translate to all parts of our lives, not only baseball. this summer, we traveled to kentucky for the annual baseball for all nationals tournament. we went six and zero, winning first place in the 14 new minors division. this accomplished. it proves how far we have come as a team over the last few years, despite the fact we were a public and city run entity. unlike most of the competitive travel teams, we play against. last year we won one game at nationals, which at the time was a big accomplishment for us. after losing by a landslide each and every game back in 2021. as a team, we have put in so much time and effort to get to this point and it's so exciting to see our work wasn't for nothing and our perseverance has paid off so that we can call ourselves national champions. we wouldn't have been able to do this without all the coaches who have gotten us to this point. coaches karen, manny, andrew and justise, not to mention the head of our program, annie jupiter

jones, who have stuck with us through the highs and lows of as a team with coach burke able to give us new perspectives this year. so on behalf of all the bay sox team, thank you so much for all your time, effort and constant support. we're also extremely thankful and grateful to have the city of san francisco and its parks and rec department for providing girls like us the ability to grow together as a team and opportunity to represent the city on a national stage. our hope is that the foundation built, which we have been lucky enough to be a part of, will continue to grow and allow us to keep succeeding both on and off the baseball diamond. thank you again. and go sox. hi my name is belén henriquez carillo and i'm the 12 you team captain. and i've been with the base since i was six. i'm lucky to be able to be in this organization for a very long time, thanks to this organization and parks and recs , i've been able to play in five

sf ibl seasons and go to three bfa tournaments. although i'm very grateful for that. the best thing about baseball is the people. thanks to the base oks. i've made many friends and am able to play with people like me now. i can finally have people i can relate with and share the same interest in baseball as me. i also want to thank all of the coaches for being very supportive and accepting anybody, regardless of their experience or skills. that way, anybody has an opportunity to play. bass has had a positive impact on my life. thank you base and i will always be grateful for that because girls belong in baseball. thank you. okay, we have one more thing now . i don't know about you, but i love wrestling. and usually you get a belt when you wrestle or you box. but today we, the bay

sox, they're getting a belt for playing baseball. so so we have some wwf style belts. to really honor the team and to our to our great team captains. didn't they do a great job. so this team is not only creating folks who work well together, but it's creating leaders. so thank you so much to each and every one of you, to all the parents, to all the players. congrats relations. we are again so very proud of all that you have done, which means you got to work even harder. and maybe we make it four days a week of practice next year and so with that, thank you also for coming. and we'll take a few pictures and you can enjoy city hall while we're here. but don't forget to come back tonight. see, this is