crocker am adon, the person who said it's an aberation, if you want to see a great complex in this city, go to crocker amazon and see what they do there, 1,000 kids playing soccer all day. it's an amazing place and we can build another amazing place. it's a great thing for the city and a great thing for the park. >> thank you. next group of players or -- ok. >> one more announcement. for those of you who are taking pictures, i really hate doing this all the time but when you use your flash it really does irritate some of the commissioners so you can take all the pictures you want to take, just don't use flash, please. thank you. i need some kids -- please stop bringing kids in. you keep doing that. please stop doing that. we're crowded. let some people leve and then bring some more in. thank you. >> i am an immigrant frp el salvador. i coach three-point different teams and this year, two of my teams were rained out in the first two weeks. i couldn't bring my team with me, but i'm bringing two of my sons. carlos and diego. and i just want to ask you to please on behalf of our children in

personally good friend of the person who just was here, leticia, and i want to say one thing about crocker am adon. i would like to invite every wunsch you on this panel to go out there some saturday and see the results. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is brendan done igan. i'm -- dunnigan. i'm here today with my children, dylan and devin. dylan plays on the vikings soccer league. you've heard from the vikings. he has a unique perspective because this season he's played on the artificial turf, of course and also on the natural turf. he can share with you his images and the things that he's experienced and the fact that that he feels it's much safer to be on an artificial turf surface and why he supports it. so i'll let him speak. >> i agree with my dad because i don't want my leg broken and artificial turf is safer than turf because you just don't want your legs broken. and when i have played before, the ball goes straighter on artificial turf than nonartificial. and on nonartificial the geoffer holes have to make you weave out so you don't go as fast for the ball. it's differ

crocker am adon playground, one of our theme primary ground sports facilities. this facility actually hosted three soccer fields before we did the renovations and through creative alignment we were able to add two additional soccer fields in the same footprint so we now have five full soccer fields the kimball in the western addition. nestled between two high schools we know this is highly utilized by youth organizations and neighborhood teams. it is a bustling facility out in the western addition. mission dolores. this say project that just had its first phase ribbon cutting tuesday of this week. it was an asphalt athletic field and we len 0 vated it with synthetic turf. it's a multifaze project. it was -- multiphase project. it was opened on tuesday and the latter half of the project with will be opened this summer. next, muni levy ward. this is in the planning phase and we hope to move forward and not -- be in the construction phase in 201. another field in disrepair in district 11. we'll help that area out significantly. the beach chalet soccer fields, the p