i am michael rice, the president of the glen park association. briefly, i want to say that the glen park association board of directors sent a letter earlier this week that you now have urging for approval of the contract, and to move ahead with the glenn part improvement plan. this is a long and constructive process. it'd have to balance expanding the playground, providing safer access, and relocating to the tennis court. and the recreation center building itself. this is kind of groove its cube -- rubitz cube because the pieces and dollars, they have been lined up with the appropriate compromises. i do have one regret. my wife and i have been taking our granddaughter to the playground, two or three days per week. we will miss that. but i believe that our granddaughter will be very excited in about 10 months with a new playground. we ask for approval of the construction contract and we look forward to the ground- breaking as soon as october. and we look forward to your action today. thank you very much. >> ashleigh hathaway, jennifer, and then --

i am also on the board of the glen park association as the parks and recreation share. i have been very involved in this process. i can also talk about the coolness of the recreation center in the wintertime. not having installation myself. although technically -- i cannot speak for those who are not in this room today, for the first phase of this park improvement plan, there is a great deal of involvement, with a great deal of feedback during all of the planning workshops that began in december of 2010. i intended all -- attended all but one or two meetings. there are great majority of supporters in the glen park neighborhood. many people use and enjoy this park on a regular basis. i can say that from being part of this process, we're all excited about the future of this contract because we can build this construction. i thank you for your time with this, and i am looking forward to moving forward with this. >> thank you. >> good morning, commissioners. jennifer with the trust for public land. i am happy to be here today to support this project. usually the trust gets

i am michael rice, the president of the glen park association. briefly, i want to say that the glen park association board of directors sent a letter earlier this week that you now have directors sent a letter earlier this week that you now have

i am michael rice, the president of the glen park association. briefly, i want to say that the glen park association board of directors sent a letter earlier this week that you now have urging for approval of the contract, and to move ahead with the glenn part improvement plan. this is a long and constructive process. it'd have to balance expanding the playground, providing

i am michael rice, the president of the glen park association. briefly, i want to say that the glen park association board of

the glen park association, i wonder if the people who show up at this meetings are more biased to construction. the people i talk to do not want us. they want to keep this area as the last undeveloped park in the city. no one is objecting to the ada bathrooms, but i want you to think about the long-term effects of cutting down at 100- year-old tree. the rumors that i hear are about the fire roads being paved over, and the writ -- the creeks will be diverted. this is more of the entrance area, but i would ask you to keep in mind that the association's that may be speaking here do not necessarily represent everyone in the community. i intend to go into more of these meetings going forward. >> and is there any other public comment on this item? public comment is closed. what's the matter is in front of the commission. commissioner lowe: i was wondering if the department could come back and talk about the tree removal, and the net addition of trees? >> i would be happy to address this. we have very specific numbers on this, we have presented this and i will repeat this here. for this particular pr

there are a couple of additional letters of support i have provided and the glen canyon park board association provided another a letter and i would like to provide that if i may. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you very much. we will hear public comment and then get questions. >> [reading names] >> and here to speak on behalf of the san francisco [inaudible] we support this project and we would like to see a lot of these improvements being made in glen canyon. but having said that, we are very concerned and rather shocked by the number of trees that are going to be affected. i would like to say two things about this. one is the number of trees seems to be very high and secondly, the criteria for the removal seems not to be related to whether they are hazardous are actually in the way of the project, but another criterion altogether which is a grab bag of various criteria. i would like to talk to the transparency of the process. a lot of community meetings were mentioned that they were held and people associated with our group were at many of them. the understanding we had was the

glen park. which is an area of strong support. just because the name is not the same as the sunny side conservatory does not mean that the association does not support the sunny side conservatory. i believe that's about it. i have been beating the same drum for a long time, you're probably tired of hearing it, but thank you for your intention and thank you for all your effort. >> thank you ma'am. richard goldman? and then paul hogarth and kevin stall. >> i have some maps for the task force. thank you. hi, thank you for your time and your work. my name is richard goldman, i'm a sunny side resident in my 20th year in sunny side. and i've been for most of that time ack tiff in the sunny side neighborhood association, including serving on the board as treasurer. as you know sunny side is one of the oldest neighborhood associations in san francisco. it was formed in 1974. it was primarily formed to save the sunny side conservatory from demolition of the city, as well as improvements and neighborhood cohesion. the map that i put up for you to see, that you have before you on the overhead are the boundaries of sunny side neighborhood assoc