go ahead. >> good morning commissioner buell, president buell, commissioners, general manager ginsburg, i want to lend my voice to the speakers who came before me and associate myself with the comments made before me. i know of mario de la torre's legacy and his work is at every level of government today and beyond. and i can't think of a better and more worthy naming for this academy. i can't tell you how proud i am to be associated with this endeavor. i did not get into the leased at gleneagles ten years ago to change livers. i did it to save a golf course that i played at when i was young that afforded me accessible golf as a recreation. through programs like the first tee, we have hosted thousands of young children from the surrounding neighborhoods to have their first green grass experience at gleneagles and i have seen in the last eight years people turning into some pretty good golfers, but more importantly, these young people turn into very good people with great skills in dealing with all the teachers of the first tee. and i believe that this training academy is going offer th

reminder when you make public comment and you can make public comment on every item and commissioner buellinutes for each? >> three minutes. >> and when you make public comment please direct the comments to the commission and they won't answer but after they may have staff to respond. we're changing the agenda today and item 9 is before eight and six, 7, 9 and eight and with that we are on item two which is the president's report. >> thank you. very briefly i just want to congratulate the general manager and all the staff that participated in putting on greater and greener. i think we had close to a thousand people from around the country and someone told me 22 countries were represented and i went to all -- at least the social events and some of the substantive things and i got a lot of positive feedback from people. they genuinely enjoyed it as as i did and hats off to everyone that made that happen and i am sure we will hear more from phil and that concludes my report. >> anyone to make public comment under the president's report? seeing none public comment is now closed and now we're u

the keynote speaker on monday and our own chair mark buell is moderating the panel of mayors and parks that will also include mayor lee. >> i just want to say that was an excellent presentation by a college intern. >> i couldn't agree more. >> thank you very much. [ applause ] >> is there any public comment on this item? being none, public comment is closed. we are now on general public comment, this is continued from item 4. if you spoke on item 4, you cannot speak on item 10, but if not, and you would like to make general public comment, please come on up. >> good morning again, richard fong. i attended the betty ann ong center and having a technical issue -- i think it's more mr. ginsburg, i had spoken about they are trying to form a partnership with the rotary club and betty ann ong organization and they had in mind simply using the facility at mason street. so when they use the facility they have to pay the required permit issues and guarantee that the floor is okay and everything else. it's a partnership aspect that i wanted to look at closer. the foundation has an additional rot

. >> good morning commissioners, president buell, general manager ginsburg. i am joe fitting and now the deputy director of the san francisco zoo so i am excited. it's given me an opportunity to bring more of my passions to the zoo and let me show you some of them. we will start off with -- >> powerpoint please. >> -- earth day. now this is going to be really an interesting event. this is going to be on sunday and it's a great example of collaborations. we have an amazing group of people coming out and hopefully connecting our visitors to nature and we're highlighting our have special conservation conner that was developed five years ago to show you sustainable practices, so it's an area where we grow fruits and vegetables for our animals and promote migratory species and plant pollinators and talk about how to recycle and repurpose materials. we have an 1906 earthquake shack that we use as a interpretive center and off of the roofy we have rain barrel collections and interesting things happening in the space so this sunday from 11 to three come on out and yo

. >> eli, i have three more cards and commissioner buell has instructed me just to call them out and finish with, that even though if will be over 15 minutes. linda tom borden and karen phillips. >> good morning, commissioners, i'm wearing two hot hatts one as the food and agriculture director at spur and the other is as coordinator for clipper community gardens. i want to echo what was said about the urban agricultural program. super excited and has done a number of very clear advances. we have resource centers which we didn't have before. there is a website with a lot more information and there is clearly more coordination among city agencies. so i would say that a lot of things that we are hoping to see in the first year, which we have seen, which is fantastic. we're excited that the department has put money so that the position can continue as part of the normal budget and increase for funding for the community gardens. those are all fantastic things. there are hundreds of people using the gardens and it's hard for one person working quarter time to keep up with the requests and

on may 6th she'll be in san francisco sponsored by susie tompkins buell. 8th the former secretary of state will attend a lunch at the portola valley home of john donohoe. tickets for each event could cost $2500. nasa today celebrated 25 years of stunning deep space images from its hubble telescope. kate whitaker spoke to her about her favorite discovery. hubble pointed out a blank region of space and a lot of time was spent staring at nothing, really. and what we found was tens of thousands of molecules in this tiny region of space. just incredible and the telescope can't be surfaced but nasa thinks it will keep setting back images and in 2017 the web will be 100 times more powerful than the hubble, if you can believe that. >> wow! >> love those pictures. >> yeah. >> the weekend is here. >> what better way to celebrate -- >> michael is here with good stuff tonight. >> it's not, right? we have some artisan tacos here for you. they come from the taco shop in underdogs. it's located over on irving street in san francisco and kind of a unique experience becaus

buell day for basketball and all around the region plenty of sunshine and temperatures will be overnight gettingalities cooler. 50s tomorrow rain likely tomorrow afternoon. a few more sprinkles wednesday, thursday into friday and warm for the weekend. up near 70 and sunshine back. >> thanks tom. >>> atm fees and spending on prom. we are breaking down the >>> a new study finds customer service fees declining on pre-paid debit card but atm fees on the rides. bank rate dotcom recently certified the cards, 81% of the cards charged to check your cards' balance. in an atm up from 7% last year. the fee is typically between 50 krepts and cents ands 3ds. >>> average family spending $900 on prom. can't believe it's right includes cars clothes, tickets and food. seems like a lot. the higher your family income the less you plan to spend on the big night. families with annual incomes of $50,000 or more plan to spend about $800 on prom. those with less will spend almost $1,400 on prom. >>> i'm eun yang live at nat park for this beautiful opening day. coming up what's new at the park including some del