president buell: thank you. that concludes our report. >> is there anyone who would like to make public comment on the general managers' report -- i mean, the president's report. i apologize. >> catherine howard, a golden gate park alliance. i would like to thank president buell for the reminder on sunshine. there have been some incidents regarding that. if people are interested, they can contact us and we will send them some more background information. goldengatepreservation.org. you can address us there. thank you. >> on your report of reopening my park, it is ferry park, not sue beerman. it's a disaster. the lights go on and on. you know it was criticized and i will go into that later. thank you. >> is there anyone else? >> i am co-chair of south park improvement. we have embarked on a grass- roots effort to master plan the park. we raise money privately. we have been working with the department of rec and park on this. we have done several meetings. now we have maintained david fletcher to help us continue

president buell: thank you. >> is there anyone who would like to make a comment on item #6? seeing none, public comment is closed and we are now on items 7, the chinese recreation center. president buell: thank you. i introduced this item at committee, so i would like to make some brief comments. before i introduce this item, i would like to let everyone know how we will proceed. after i introduced it, i will ask the family to speak. following that, we will have the united states and then commissioner comments. i am truly honored to introduce this item. on september 1, mayor lee announced he was requesting to name the chinese recreation center the betty ann ong chinese recreation center in honor of betty ann ong, a native san franciscan. one of the planes, as most people know, did the world trade center on september 11. mayor requested this to not only celebrate her life, but to honor her heroism and make future generations aware of her bravel andrery and the lessons learned on september 11. she was born the you

president buell: thank you. >> reverend fong? >> after 10 years, talking about process, working to restore honor to betty ann ong has been going on for 10 years. sometimes there's petty politics in the neighborhood or the city. i thought the family and all of us did a good job of getting buy-in from everybody. i get to hand to you today the 3700 signatures. the family did it on line -- did it online. rich is one voice in the community. we grew up in chinatown to show that we are old-timers in the community. about 1000 of the signatures are from residents. those who live in the community have supported this. i disagree with the previous, enter, -- i disagree with the previous commenter. i must love all people. we all know that. we took it to the national level. nancy pelosi, feinstein, personally writing letters. i think we are well covered. what do you think, commissioners? i'm going to hand over to you. today, i'm feeling -- today is a blessed day of peace and justice. the family has been struggling for so long. their determinat

commissioner buell: thank you very much. before we go to general public comment, i will like to ask the mayor's office in supervisor mar's office to weigh in on this issue. can we get someone from the mayor's office? >> good morning, commissioners. my name is johanna, the environmental policy advisor for mayor lee peter i am here to speak on behalf of mayor lee in strong support of this project to the mayor feels that golden gate park is a world-class park and deserves a world-class bicycling in facilities and opportunities for people to be active, get out, and be healthy. i live about three blocks from the institutions at golden gate park. i take my two sons bicycling every sunday in the park, but i only do when the street is closed to vehicles because that is the only time i feel safe bicycling with my two children. so personally i look forward to the opportunity to take the mother days of the week when there is a bike lane. last year when the board voted unanimously to adopt a city-wide goal of 20% of bike trips by 2020,

commissioner buell: thank you. >> i am lawrence lee, a resident. from there, i bike downtown to go to work. i bike west through the part to enjoy some dirt under my feet, to find peace and the sculpture garden, sometimes to go to a late-night party at the museum. i really love those museums on those institutions. their 21st century institutions. not only with the architecture but the programming at the academy of sciences, working on educating people about climate change. and the museum offers a discount if you discountmuni -- if you take muni. this is the 21st century proposal that needs to happen now. it needs to turn into a 21st century park which meets the needs of today's residents, giving a safe place for children and adults, like myself, to learn to bike safely, to practice their skills so they can get out to the streets. i actually feel safer on market street than i do going through jfk. it is because of the level of uncertainty. i. rided -- i have rode my bike in the dark, and people honk at me. people drive at high speeds. that does not h

commissioner buell: what is the capacity? >> we have 800 stalls in total. commissioner buell: so we're talking 500 stalls that are constantly occupied. >> yes, the 60's and figure -- actually, 62 with the remaining number of stalls around noontime, which was 300. obviously when you get into pcs in and the institutions are running at full rpm, the place is full. with that, i would like to turn the presentation over to salina. >> good morning commissioners. we appreciate the opportunity to come before you this morning and present this project. my name is salita reynolds, a section leader for a livable streets at the mta. i spent my entire career, about 13 and a half years, planning and implementing bicycle and pedestrian improvements with the mta and throughout the u.s. peter i am on the pedestrian and bicycle committees of the national academy of sciences national transportation research board. hopefully i know what i am talking about. i am going to walk through the presentation here, and some of you have seen it a couple of times. but i am going to go ahead

commissioner buell: let's rapidly moves through ping pong. >> good morning. my name is a man tamanda ho, dir of the king kong association and coach in san francisco. first, i want to say thank you for the recreation and parks opportunity to run the labor day tournament. i want to say thank you for david lee also for giving me the opportunity for making the labor day tournament. it was very successful. to promote the table tennis development in san francisco, i think we need to get a more table tennis tournaments and defensd events in san francisco we have a facility portend tables, and we can have more in the future for table tennis players. thank you. >> are they ready? if you could please switch it on to the power point. >> what you are watching is the final match that was played for first place. [laughter] i think you want to show the tournament. commissioner lee. thank you, commissioner. publicity is thstunt. [laughter] ok. all right. that really conclude the general managers' report. >> any public comment on the general managers' report? please come forw

commissioner buell: moving along. would now like to bring up simpson's sister youth works to make a presentation to the commission about -- >> are you going to do power point? >> i do have one. my name is betsy bertwick. i am the director of san francisco youth works. here we go. a couple of weeks ago i went to meet with phil and ginsberg to present an award to the recreation and park department for our long-standing partnership that has benefited at this point hundreds of youths in the city of san francisco. when i presented as he asked me to come here and speak briefly providing an introduction to our organization and partnership. we are city internship program created by willie brown in 1997 to address a tremendous demand for youth employment opportunities, demand that is still among young people the highest-rated demand that they have four resources from the city. we place hundreds of youths annually and have placed 4500 use over the past 13 years. this program exposes young people to careers in city government an

>commissioner buell: i will be brief. that is the general manager and i and abroad committee and community work with a spur for the last six months on a report on the funding of the public parts and challenging financial climate, and i want to acknowledge the work they did and think them for taking the initiative on it, and managing the process. i think the record they came out with is a good one and will inform the public on where we would like to go, because as many of you know over the past five years, $41 million has been cut from the general fund, and it has been challenging to say the least. this was an effort, and will be an ongoing effort to try to find solutions to that problem -- term. i want to acknowledge spur. the chinatown resolution -- recognition center, we had a ceremony, which was really quite nice. in the process of preparing for that, i concluded that i think that is the largest expenditure for recreation center in the department's history in terms of the amount of money that is being put into that bea

, and i just want to a knowledge once again, author, writer, singer, and guitar player, evangeline buell, former president of the filipino american history society in the san francisco- berkeley area. she was the national president, i am sorry. also, isabel. this is the face of women who have it in their blood to pursue the strength of the filipina women. and to them, we offer the leadership of tomorrow. all of us to dedicate the future for both of you. thank you for being here tonight. and so here we are in the seat of power in the city of san francisco, and only in a filipino tradition can you combine power, leadership, and lupia. so i would like to call on our newest board member, a lovely -- i am proud of her. i knew her as a young girl, and she is really our host for tonight. so if you just keep quiet, you're going to get your food. ladies and intimate, board member of the filipina women's network, the one that can put power and lupia together, susie cansada. >> thank you, tita elena. i know everyone is hungry, because i can see the line for me already. i wanted to say, i look forwa

security council the danger overthrow political regimes buell was not created for that. well discuss what's happening in syria with a key advisor to president assad here's what's coming your way in the next hour. and the majority of the us that should have been passed or are now adopted will work to amend the constitution is underway the problem is that some states fund and arm terrorist groups operating in our towns intelligence this makes ordinary people's minds very difficult and puts them in real danger the position of the western countries encourages these terrorist groups and russian and chinese view that it's impossible to move forward without dialogue the alternative is blood spilling civil war into religious conscience. libyan revolutionary forces claim the seized parts of a convention center that served as a key base for gadhafi loyalists in his hometown of sirte over two days now libya's interim rulers have been waging one of the biggest assaults and yet on the most important remaining stronghold revolutionary forces say they now control most of the talbot sti

probably remember the perils of the whole world better off where there was a rift inside the port of buell which ultimately was one of the reasons for the collapse of the u.s.s.r. i remember before coming to power and it gave an interview where he basically said that russia will not survive another conflict in siberia it's so from the very beginning i didn't believe that there was a serious rift the big news of putin yet again running for. didn't brought up so many questions that nutriment that it had to need top t.v. hats to cross the t.'s and dot the ice storm so you know it's nice to know that people trust me as president and that my approval rating is quite high in the current circumstances but i also know that prime minister putin undoubtedly remains the most popular politician in our country has a point and his rating is even higher because the election campaign has just started ask ourselves a simple question which what if our people reject us. and permitted what will happen to these decisions by the convention because these decisions are merely the party's recommendation to vote fo

you could have 12-year-olds, stephen buell of collusion of gamblers, you are going to have people who aren't paying, they are taking your money and it's not even real, anything that can possibly go wrong does go wrong. >> to we have any idea approximately how much american money is being done on the sites? >> the numbers are huge. the r4 to $6 billion a year of u.s. gambling as the estimate that we are seeing offshore. that's a lot of money that people are spending not in the united states maybe they shouldn't be spending it and they aren't spending and fairly so that is money that can be brought back here and help us and to be done better. >> ultimately if it is on regulated is almost impossible to put them out of business. consumers don't know where to go because of the things they're doing is illegal because the gambling online and they are skimmed their fair to call the police because they think they might be arrested so we are finding consumers who have no place to go, no recourse in law enforcement that doesn't know what to do or how to do it effectively. >> one more question fo