we thought what a great thing it would be to have an ampitheater named after jerry garcia. that is a name that has panache. it brings people from all over the bay area to the ampitheater. the calls that come in, we'd like to do a concert at the jerry garcia ampitheater and we do everything we can to accommodate them and help them because it gets people into the park. people like a lot of color and that's what they call a park. other people don't. you have to try to reconcile all those different points of view. what should a park look like and what should it have? should it be manicured, should it be nice little cobblestones around all of the paths and like that. the biggest objective of course is getting people into the park to appreciate open space. whatever that's going to take to make them happy, to get them there, that's the main goal. if it takes a planter with flowers and stuff like that, fine. you know, so what? people need to get away from that urban rush and noise and this is a perfect place to do it. feedback is always amazement. they don't believe that it's in sa

to celebrate the excelsior district native son, jerry garcia, what a long, strange trip and has been. it will be this coming sunday, it is almost the 10th anniversary of jerry day. every day, there are more and more people and i fear in the future we will not be able to hold jerry day in the jerry garcia amphitheater. for this year, it will be in the jerry garcia and the theater, starting at 12 noon this sunday, august 7th. there will be several bands and this is an amazing event, attracting people from all over the bay area. i want to recommend colleagues that you attend and will be a lot of fun. wait until you see what is going on. that is all my items for introduction. >> thank you. supervisor mar: to pick up on a supervisor avalos'point about bicycle theft, on my first day of high school, many, many years ago, i had my bike stolen. my daughter starts middle school in two weeks and i want her to be writing to school as well. but your introduction of this item is really important. i'm going to be continuing to work with a safe route to school and the san francisco unified school dis

we thought what a great thing it would be to have an ampitheater named after jerry garcia. that is a name that has panache. it brings people from all over the bay area to the ampitheater. the calls that come in, we'd like to

some interesting things happened when carlos was there you know carlos is sitting backstage with jerry garcia from the grateful dead and jerry said we're going to be back here for several hours let's get high let's take some acid have a good time and then we play later and carl said ok so they got high and they started tripping yeah half an hour later they said ok carlos you on right now come on you're ready now and he said he was crazy because he was you know he was tripping so he goes on the stage and he starts playing the guitar and he told me afterwards he said you cannot believe this they could charge was like a steel snake i couldn't hold on to it it was moving in my hands he said but i looked out into the audience i saw only. three hundred thousand pair of eyes and teeth and the sound i saw the sound go out to the audience and come back into the martyr and then into my head i didn't know what i was doing everything illusion if you don't view this is a little in the book. woodstock really hits on you with such a mission watching the show here's the now hearing the story i definitely com