want to highlight the two upcoming budget meetings and make sure everyone knows wednesday 4th at boeddeker playground and hamilton reck center from 6:30 to 8:00 to talk about our budget and we're going to talk and begin to engage the public in our strategic planning conversations that we have been having some more on that to come, but we look forward to welcoming people at those two meetings. i think it's worth noting that the mayor in the state of city talked about san francisco's leadership on women empowerment issues and january 31st, which is national girls and womens in sports day, our department is holding our annual girls in sport extravaganza. all girls all day, those interested in registering can log on at sfrecpark.org online and we'll continue our employee quarterly recognition until next month, but i do think it's worth noting that we're celebrating the young people's teen musical group 30th anniversary and tonight at mcclaren lodge at 5:00, we will kick that off with an incredible photo exhibit celebrating their 30 years' of art in our city. they offer instruction during the s

include the hayes valley clubhouse and play ground, balboa park and very recently the opening of the boeddeker park and clubhouse. the trust for public land and parks and recreation has represented $16 million in investment to the parks in our system. at this point we do not know if the project, if the concept design will be recommending an intense renovation and/or addition or new building. that is the purpose of undertaking the feasibility study and concept design as a duo. our goal is with strong input from an architectal consultant through the rfp process and eugene friend's center and supervisor kim's center will look into the feasibility study and concept design that also includes phasing and cost considerations. in addition, to the gift in-kind services cal poly l will gift $50,000 to rec and park. phillip vitale is the project manager. we have been working on this project since the fall and trust for public land has outlined a robust community process and have issued a resource request for proposals for architectural services. proposed outreach including monthly updates to the friends

whether its bode boeddeker park and thank you for coming to the grand opening and if you come today, it's a complete transformation. $3 million in bond to renovate our parks, thank you again. we are also excited about the upcoming item later in the commission regarding tpl and gene friend rec center in terms of examining how create more density on smaller places to serve greater parts of our community. some may laugh about the importance of sunlight and the relevance of shadow on land processes, but let's face this is a somewhat cold city and san franciscans are impacted by sunlight. you can see this at dolores parks, one of our sunier and warmest parks and you can see people move down the park as the late shadowed move down. i'm one of those. when evaluating criteria to analyze a building shadow on the park, we not only evaluate the quantity of the shadow impact, we evaluate the quality as well. the new shadow primarily impacts the northern part of the park facing folsom street. this is different from the more industrial harrison street, which borders sunshine edge of the park that

so what we're trying to do in our neighborhood is make sure that boeddeker park stays a park for everyone to go into. other than, that you have to have a child. please make sure that this park doesn't have shadows. because once we start building everywhere, there is nowhere to sit, coffee shops and tea shops and stuff. so please support not adding this building. thanks. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is andy blue. and i'm here representing the plaza 16 coalition. we are a coalition of some 100 community organizations that are advocating for affordable housing in the commission district and here to support the soma community and asking this commission to oppose this project based on the shadow impact on victoria manalo draves park. our coalition is opposing a development in the mission district at 16th and mission and one element is the shadow that would be cast for you five months at marshall school. as development across the eastern neighborhoods is accelerating trespassly, tremendously the impacts to the neighborhoods. i would like to ec