item 43, the resolution authorizing the use of real property for purposes consistent with the joe dimaggio played crown master project. >> thank you colleagues and ladies and gentleman. we have a hearing of the resolution of necessity. this would clarify that the stated purpose of the site for the development and maintenance of the space is consistent with the uses contemplated in the joe dimaggio playground. we have the revenue it position of the park, and an expanded library within the same larger spark -- larger part. and this would ensure the adequate notice was required. as far as the hearing will go today, we have a representative from parks and recreation as well as from our library will make short introductory remarks. the city attorney is also available if you have any questions before or after hearing this item. we would hear from the former property owners -- and they will have 10 minutes to address the board with this item. mr. flynn has requested the right to speak. let me ask if they are present. if you could step up. here is how the hearing will go again. we'll start with in

and there are 30,000 people within a half mile of joe dimaggio playground. we have urban areas that are as dense as 76,000 people for square miles -- for each square mile. there was ever a situation for the need of many over one, this is the place. preventing the destruction of the library will not give him back his property. and this will not restore the money that the city has built -- has spent on this property so far, but it will affect the quality of life in this neighborhood. the needs of the neighborhood are clear. and i hope that the board will support this project and get us closer to a new library. thank you. >> i am mark, a north beach parent and property owner. the last time i came here, i was disappointed that this continued to this day, because when this conversation started, my daughter was in preschool, and now she is a junior at lowell high school. at a certain time, this is just kind of done. maybe you don't shake hands, but this is just done. let's get this project going. >> if there are members of the public who wish to speak on this item

and there are 30,000 people within a half mile of joe dimaggio playground. we have urban areas that are as dense as 76,000 people for square miles -- for each square mile. there was ever a situation for the need of many over one, this is the place. preventing the destruction of the library will not give him back his property. and this will not

i am here on behalf of the friends of joe dimaggio playground and the over 1000 north beach residentsport the plan for the new library. last week, the board of supervisors ruled unanimously to approve of this project. with the funding secure, we have to move forward on the playground innovation. i asked to approve this resolution, to extend this for the renovation of the playground. on a different matter, from the parents and children who use the playground, i would like to thank the general manager for finding a way to reopen the clubhouse. this is very appreciated during the summer holiday. >> this includes general public comment. we are on the consent calendar and one person would like to speak. this is just an inquiry, perhaps. i wanted to know if it was possible to get a copy of the lease for the playground, for the children's nursery school. is this something -- >> did you look into the general public information? >> this is in the consent calendar for today. >> is there someone else would like to make public comment on the consent calendar? public, disclosed. commissioners? >>

no yankee before him -- not babe ruth, not lou gehrig, not joe dimaggio, not mickey mantle -- no player in the history of the legendary yankee franchise has accomplished this. >> i would rather the focus to be on our team, but it's great that our team's been winning. it's even better that we won today. >> reporter: derek jeter is a rare breed. the yankees shortstop is in his 17th season of playing the same position for the same team. jeter led the yankees to five world championships, 12 times he's been an all-star. hard to imagine, for a skinny kid from kalamazoo, michigan drafted by the yankees right out of high school, hard to imagine for everyone but dick roach, the scout who discovered jeter. the yankees were worried jeter would decide to attend the university of michigan instead of sign. >> i said he's not going to michigan. they said where is he going? i said he's going to cooperstown. >> reporter: the hall of fame along with the baseball jeter hit today caught in the left field stands by a 23-year-old cell phone salesman who gladly returned it. >> like i said, he earned it. i'm n

joe dimaggio, and none of them never reached the 3,000 hits, and derek jeter the first to do so.the young fan, and the fan who catches the ball -- >> he didn't have to give it back, did he? >> no, he could have sold this ball, and there was talk this ball could have gone for thousands. a life-long yankee fan. what does he say? jeter worked his rear end off. he got to meet jeter, and the yankees went ahead and gave him tickets to the championship suite for the remainder of the season, and he made out. >> ice cream, how does that play into things? >> actually, guys, if you go to a game with your girlfriend and want to be a hero, maybe catch a foul ball, don't knock it into her ice cream. moves a point you don't need a glove. the ball landed right in the ice cream, and here is my question -- does the five-second rule apply here? >> i think you just frame it. you keep it in the ice cream. >> i don't know if i would want to eat that. i don't think there is a five-second rule there. >> if it were for jeter, you take it out and give it back still. >>> we'll tell you why a treasure hall

>> it varies and then it's probably worse now than it was say in the 1930's, joe dimaggio, the baseball player, who was one of the first huge italian athletes, sports stars, certainly in baseball, his nickname, which if you go back and read the newspapers his officially published nickname was dago. they would say dago dimaggiohad a good day. i mean it's a reflection of changing times, i mean, a lot of what the book is about is how it's a much better america because we've recognized our kind of individuality and the hybridization of things, and it's interesting that at the same time we are a much more comfortable with somebody. when tiger woods made it big a decade or so ago and called himself a cablinasian, he said he was caucasian, black, indian and asian. that's exactly right, and it's kind of curious that as we become more aware of and comfortable with like a much broader palette of who counts as an american, we are also sometimes set back by these kinds of ethnic slurs that were in common use 50 or 60 years ago. >> we asked you to come talk with us because of your book "the declarat