katherine howard is an urban landscape architect and asla and a former chair of the environmental committee. and the golden gate park preservation. and michael wyans is the director and counselor for the golden gate auto bann society and myself i run several neighborhood groups and i was there to basically give the neighborhood response. and this was, this was the group who was going to be speaking on the fifth of may. it goes on to say, basically, did an investigation on us. because it is the recreation parks' letters and then to satisfied that the panel is well qualified and collectively they do not present a general bias that we can detect. so, any how, they at that point, on april 25th, we were acceptable as a group.

katherine howard is an urban landscape architect and asla and a former chair of the environmental committee. and the golden gate park preservation. and michael wyans is the director and counselor for the golden gate auto bann society and myself i run several neighborhood groups and i was there to basically give the neighborhood response. and this was, this was the group who was going to be speaking on the fifth of may. it goes on to say, basically, did an investigation on us. because it is the recreation parks' letters and then to satisfied that the panel is well qualified and collectively they do not present a general bias that we can detect. so, any how, they at that point, on april 25th, we were acceptable as a group. what transpired in the next couple of days, common wealth club started receiving calls and talking about the panel being biased. and so, any how, this just goes on. and ginsberg and buel were able to start changing this meeting, they changed the title, they changed the panel by adding mark beul and they changed the content and they were clearly unhappy with this meeting and

. >> good evening, commissioners my name is katherine howard i was one of the panelists at the common wealth club and i am member of the friends of the music club and the presidential alliance. i am a architect and i have been involved in park reservation it started with saving the trees in gold on gate park, since that time i have found it necessary to keep an eye on various projects planned for the park. golden gate park is really the prize for those people who see park land as free land for building their pet project from the proposed 1915 world's fair expocysing that would have wiped out the park to the freeways that were going to be built through the park. >> the soccer fields are a development. it could remove 7 acres of grass and replace it with artificial turf, it will add over 150 lots of sports lighting right next to the ocean beach, it will be on until ten every night of the year, ruining the wild life habitat and the beach experience for those who come to view the sunset to sit by the fire or gaze at the stars. lack of transparency regarding this project was evidence from

i have the utmost respect, particularly for katherine howard she is passionate about the golden gate park and i would not diminish her credibility in the least but i felt, and i stated that this was a one-sided, golden gate park under siege. it is under siege to some people and not to the majority but the people who feel passionate about the different issues in the park and i respect that fact. but i said that i thought that given the history of the common wealth club that they had a responsibility, one to have an unbiased title and two to have at least one representative from the department to be able to speak to the issues and so, having done that, they came back to me, and i was not involved with the staff, there was no conspiracy with staff on this, i take full responsibility. i got into the communications with them. and they ultimately said that we will change the title and i forget, it was a neutral title in my opinion and they said that they would not accept anybody, they would only accept me to speak on that side. so reluctantly i said i will do it. and so, we went forward un

katherine howard, sfocean edge.org. the bond funding includes funding for the west sunset playground renovation and we would like to point out that west sunset figures in alternatives involved in two legal actions going on, regarding the soccer field. for those people who are not aware, the beach chalet soccer fields are a proposal to take over seven acres at the western end of golden gate park to remove the grass and install turf. our organization has been working to try to provide alternatives to this project. meanwhile we are involved in an appeal to the california coastal commission for the local coastal zone and there is another group that filed a ceqa lawsuit in superior court. there is a simple solution to providing more hours of play for children and preserving the beauty and habitat of golden gate park and ocean beach for all san franciscans. and i put a picture here. that is our alternative, which is a simple swap in material where's you renovate fields with artificial turf. however, with a safe material, not

. >> katherine howard. yeah the common wealth club has had gay rights that is one sided i have not seen any right wing people listed. i think that it stands for free speech and exploring a variety of issues and ha is not relevant to your decision but it speaks to the fact that we are trying to have a broader public learn about our issues. i want to repeat that miss ballard did write as an official as the department she wrote in response to a phone call she mentions in the e-mail a phone call. she wrote a one page letter and signed it sarah ballard, director of public affairs, phone number and e-mail address and etc.. so this is definitely an official communication that she spent a great deal of time on and should have been provided. >> the only reason that we had a suspicion that these e-mails might exist is because the title and panel make-up suddenly out of the blue, changed, it was fine with the common wealth club for months and then all of a sudden, we get a call that it is changing >> if we had not bee

katherine. >> good afternoon commissioners, kather howard sf ocean edge. sfoceanedge.org and i have comments, unlike dennis, i don't think you will like them, but what the heck. we understand that funding is a continuing problem for the department and the department is now invashon island in two legal actions the appeal to the california coastal commission and the ceqa lawsuit in superior court over the beach chalet fields. if the department would consider the hybrid alternative for the fields it would save a great deal of money for the department. i don't know how much you paying the city attorney, but i think we can all agree this would be money better spent on trees, not on paper for legal briefs. that having been said, i do support increased general funding for the rec and park department and have i signed a letter to the mayor to that regard and i hope we can all work together for this. thank you. x thank you. >> anyone else wishing to make public comment? being none, public comment is closed of the commissioners. >> we need a mosto approve the budget

. >> instead of hyde and i howard, the students rated katherine martin. >> 8.0 for katherine.artin? 7.6. >> ten years later the female executive was seen as more likeable and who would they rather work for? >> katherine 83% like to work for katherine. martin, 65% would. >> again, he comes up short. >> when it came to the issue of trust. >> katherine 6.4. >> seems low. what about martin? >> 7.8. >> here is what one woman at the nyu school had to say. >> when we try to do our best to succeed in business it comes across as trying too hard and we become untrust worthy or something. >> yeah. this is exactly right. i think the success and likability penalty is one of the main things holding women back. >> because trust looms larger than any other factor in the eyes of these future business leaders. >> when it comes to women being successful, i don't think they're as trust worthy as if been would be successful. i think men would be -- men tend to seem more genuine and if women become more successful, they have an you will there are motive. >> a finding the real heidi found troubling