i think bachi ball is a great thing. i have no problem with bachi ball or any of the things that people want to do. but this little spot here is very special. it's been a lot of different things that people have tried to do from the giant 18-foot stainless steel foot to the organ pavilion and all these different ideas. and personally, i wish that there was an opportunity for people -- if there was an effort to let's do the best thing in this spot, i would like to go in and try to compete with people that have great ideas to see if we can get a roller skating thing put in there. a multiuse thing where you can have lindy hop, roller skating, different events going on for a surface that can accommodate all these different type of activities. and i would like to partner with the recreation parks department to make this something that my organization can be involved with to have something permanent, something that is equivalent to kind of what we have in golden gate park every sunday that's free, inclusive fun and thousands o

i think bachi ball is a great thing. have no problem with bachi ball or any of the things that people want to do. but this little spot here is very special. it's been a lot of different things that people have tried to do from the giant 18-foot stainless steel foot to the organ pavilion and all these different ideas. and personally, i wish that there was an opportunity for people -- if there was an effort to let's do the best thing in this spot, i would like to go in and try to compete with people that have great ideas to see if we can get a roller skating thing put

another question i get a lot of, is how do you play bachi? people are excited but don't know how to play so come back to the commission at a further meeting to put up some form of signage that will have a short list of etiquette so folks can know what they're doing. and figure out how to best play with their neighbors. where do you get the balls? where do you get the balls? most it's bring your own ball or byobb. -- byob. and nobody has stepped forward to be the renters or sellers of the balls. the last question which we received from a few weeks is this a private amenity? there is no gate around this. there is nobody with any kind of preferred tee times. it's self-conserve. you come and have fun and play. in closing i want to bring up bengie. that's the u.s. bocce ball championship and he's become our advisor. people think i'm a bocce ball nut and i've played six times in my life but bengie makes sure we put together these courts in a manner that can both be used from professional level all the way down to a passive once a year player. and s

this is not an exclusive place for bachi. i told the bachi people when they were playing on 203, play over there. away from the people so that the other people can enjoy. this park was proposed to be a passive park. and that's what i fought for. and so to make a -- an accommodation, i said play on the other side. which is what i want to do is to make everybody happy. this is not the exclusive place for one party. the park is an open park for everyone. and we all resent the fact that they're going to rip up the grass and put shells and whatever the gentleman said in there, no. no way. you keep it grassy. that's what we made the park for. not for ripping it up. i mean, we like the grassy area. so please, keep that in mind. it's supposed to be shared with others. you can have a schedule for game time. have one -- one go one day and another another day and so forth and make everybody happy. then what's going to happen? are you going to give permits out to these groups to play? are they going to be charged or what's going to happe

i'm not so much against having bachi ball. i think that's great. but i think that that area, i think that the idea that we presented as a roller skating area was a very, very good one. and yet that was another idea that we haven't been able to go any further than come do our three-minute speech about. we are going to this craigs list boot camp. i am taking my board members through this boot camp and i am going to run them just like i went through boot camp in basic training so that when we come back we want to put this -- no matter what happens, we want to put this up and try our best to see if we can make this happen. it f it happens, great, if it doesn't -- if it happens, great, if it doesn't, and inject a lot of different great ideas and finding an idea that's going to use that space. because one of the things that i always hear is what are we going to do with this? what are we going to do with this? it's time to do something. let's do the right thing and the best thing that we can do. thank you. commissioner buell: thank you. >> is there any ad