i'm a longtime resident and activist advocate at delores park. i'm here to speak against rec and park's permitting process for the commercial food vendors in our neighborhood park. but also, their general practices for permitting. even though there are several well-established groups that are well known to rec and park, none of the groups for which i work, delores park dogs, delores park volunteers and the liberty hill association were notified of your plans to permit vendors for our park. we are not necessarily against local businesses as a vendor in the park at the busy summer season, but we are against rec and park unilaterally deciding to commercialize our neighborhood parks, especially without attempting to get community input. there is an important distinction between our neighborhood park and the tourist destinations like golden gate park and justin herman plaza, where you have permitted vendors so far. as a further insult, rec and park bypassed allowing others to bid on the job. in general, rec and park has been notoriously bad about outre

fancy houses in the hills down to delores park and the mission. >> noe valley is where the kids and families are. there is a focus on the parks. big focus on the school. a lot of attention is paid to the schools whether its james middle school or alverado school. there is attention focused on it. you go to glen park which is a village its a duality where we have our major transit transportations and connectivity about traffic and trucks and a lot of attention to how you keep the feel of the village and recognize we have to mitigate buses, park and ride and traffic going through the area. >> even though the castro represents less than half percent of the voters in district 8. everyone aggress its the hotbed of political activity in the district. that's exciting. >> i like to walk and i like public transportation and i like on bike and i also drive. the things are are not possible in the san francisco suburbs. >> i love the economy diversity, i love the dog parks we live 2 blocks away fra3 parks. the diversity of restaurants and stores and shops. cute neighborhood places. >> its a great place

that includes seven dufty, the -- includes dufty, delores park playground, and mission dolores theory give in addition to the outreach, our region mission dolores. in addition to the out of reach, it has been featured in an article. -- and mission dolores. in addition to the outreach, it has been featured in an article. as usual, we must approve, and they must clean up the vicinity of around their cards. this has been approved by the chair and the department. >> what is the range of products they serve? is it all coffee? >> and small baked goods. >> thank you. commissioner lee: on page five, you have a commencement date of august 20, 2010. how is that august 20? >> we will take a look at that. >> you have got to update the other dates in this paragraph also. >> public comment? >> please come forward. >> my name is maciel. our name was not on that list of the businesses we notified, and we have been there for 13 years. we have helped the lauras park area become a vibrant as often it -- dolores park area become a vibrant as the nation. i think it is a negative impact on the business alr

delores in particular. they will start to work with us to enforce all of the park codes, the relevant park codes for deloress well as we're looking at some increased police presence in golden gate park and one -- and buena vista as well. on a happier topic, as commissioner buell mentioned yesterday, was our playday on the green. we had over 2,000 children participate. and it was an enormous -- a smashing success. and then tomorrow is our first-ever day camp jamboree. it's going to start at 11:00 at kezar and there will be over 800 day campers who are going to participate. they will take part in a parade. they will sing camp songs. and they will also celebrate the 70th anniversary of silver tree day camp which is pretty cool. so please come one and all. and that concludes the general manager's report. commissioner buell: thank you very much. >> is there any public comment under the general manager's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. we're on item number four which is general public comment. 15 minutes. at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the pub

after school, alice and delores park thinking about human behavior. >> i don't know what people want to -- from me, for real. i have to say i think people just want me to be perfect. but you know what? i am capable of doing anything. it doesn't matter who i am or the way i look. what matters is the effort. i will study more. >> alice studied hard. she gets automatic a's. she's on the honor roll! -- she gets all a's. she's on the honor roll. >> oh, my god. i can't believe it? you see? i am capeable. don't call me dummy. now who do you think schnur i am a girl with just good grades. >> the morale of this story is that no matter what people think about you, all you have to do is show who you really are. even if the situation isn't good for you, you must make the best effort you can and you will succeed in this life. jenny chuasiriporn did -- life. [cheers and applause] >> all right. yell about the shooting, about the killings. mothers don't remember reality. phone call. angers, her client. who the media pictures fighting and screaming. wife drops the bottle. neighbors. let mep put some

we will be working with supervisor dufty and the friends of delores park playground. by right, the citizens have a say in dolores. we will try to make sure we have a variety of opinions and thoughts as we continue. we will come back to you at the october commission meeting with some of the feedback we have gotten. you are more than invited to the bataan that meeting as well. -- you are more than invited to attend that meeting. last night was a function in golden gate park. we had 75 enthusiastic part advocates there. it was attended by our mayor. we had the president of our commission serving as our illustrious auctioneer. our preliminary report is that the event netted about $500,000, which is really terrific. more important than the money raised was the level of support, enthusiasm, and passion for our parks and open spaces. it was a very celebratory event that could not have happened without the leadership of the parks trust. i want to thank them immensely for all of the work and sweat that was put into it. my own staff did a fantastic job in partnering with them a

neighbors say that delores park in the mission gets too loud and crowded even during the week. they say more and more people are use the park to drink and play loud music late at night. some neighbors say they are more important -- they have more important problems to deal with right now. but others say police need to find a way to keep their neighborhood from getting trashed. >> every weekend, i have to bleach my steps because of the vomit and urine. >> i'm having problems with with peeing. >> reporter: the city parks department says it takes as many as four gardners up to five hours to clean the parks on monday morning after a busy weekend. >>> barbara boxer and carly fee fiorina faced off tonight. our poll released three weeks ago shows fee rena -- fiorina leading. simon peres has more. >> reporter: job creator or job creator? senate slacker or senate work horse? those were some of the accusations thrown back and forth incumbent barbara boxer and her challenger, carly fee fiorina right here in the debate tonight. they started off joining hands. soon after, they separated like

too important delores' park meetings. is a link. >> this is updated daily. we have contact information for the capital manager. we also have additional meeting documents, park maps. >> the project calendar, i believe. >> get involved takes you back to volunteer. you can sign up to volunteer for this park. let us show them recreation. let us show them the cultural arts. we have a lot of multimedia functions within these pages. show them the harvey milk art center. let us show them the san francisco focus center. keep scrolling down. we have a slide show here that shows the current director of the photo center, his work, class work for the students that attend classes at the focus center. scroll back up. there is news and events. we are going to do the video. this is our news and events section. this is a master calendar that shows all rec and park events to run the city. >> is today's meeting there? >> yes. >> the family kite festival. >> scroll back up. >> we can go to videos on the far right. three announcements. i do not know if you can see on the screen, b

being put on by the same person that puts on the films at union square, washington square and delores park. >> that is not true though. i am on the board of that organization. this is not our film. so -- >> who puts your films on? who manages them? the person who set everything up and it is tom boss. tom is the person who is putting this film on. i talked to him. i talked to felder to find out what the procedures were. he says you have to get a permit. took me probably a week to figure out the website. filled out a permit and i sent it in. in the meantime, this was kind of an add-on that bridge thought would be good for community building. there seems to be a problem in san francisco around project areas where there is almost a wall. we are trying to break that wall down. so, there was an advertisement in the -- that came out august 1. this is a copy of the flyers that were posted on telephone poles and light poles. and we knocked on doors. if nobody answered, we put them there. we had a meeting that was attended by about eight people. no one was against it. we talked to the people directl

delores! she is one of the great performances and that is coming up! ♪ for >> this is just a little bit of aida, it is big, bold, dramatic and at the at&t park this fridayo opera house. and it is all part of the san francisco's aida and and dolor a sojic >> and view of the big boys. >> that is what they tell me. >> it helps when you been doing this opera. >> how long? >> 35 years. >> fantastic! >> and the character? >> complicated, she changes a little bit like gone but the wind. >> yes. >> she, like scarlett o'hara, but the man dies. >> right. >> and much as a change of heart. >> and with a graphic way with that dramatic opera. and what is this story? this is an ancient egypt. there you are. >> there is an egyptian slaves who is in love with the captain of a guard. at that capt. is felt in love a with fifthidand t is a messy love triangle. >> yes. andpharoahs it is a very complicated plot. >> complicated but a very great and i worked on as 25 years ago with the san francisco when povalready and it was a really big voices, and 25 years ago when pavoratti >> this set is a very colorful production. and he wanted a lot of color which you do not usually get