commissioner levitan: i want to add on. i feel the same way, i have excerpts but at the same time my feeling is if city college at the time -- felt strongly, they could be responsive with the contact we initiated with them. i think we're trying to do the right thing for the users of that program. it would have been nice for city college to care as well. >> and some -- sometimes you don't know what you have until cure about to -- you're about to lose it. >> i want to reiterate our commitment to the city college. we -- we very much share a mission. you know, city college is also in the recreation business quite frankly and there's a hot of simbi yose sis? in terms of shared space and instruction. we have a broad commitment to work with city college. and we'll absolutely continue those discussions. we have -- as you know, we have lots of facilities where we're in a position where we need programming. we'll work in the neighborhood, and perhaps in new neighborhoods and communities to try to keep this program going. i am -- with

commissioner levitan: to what we talked about earlier, we're sort of living it here. douked a lot and it is not enough. it is he said and she said. i'm satisfied there was affair amount of outreach here. i think we have e-mails and letters that suggested the folks that aren't crazy about this knew something about it a year ago. this is something that the department has worked very hard on. that's really clear. i appreciate so much the efforts that have gone into this. i think this is an impossible situation for us. given or budget situation, as president buell said, this is splitting the baby. so i feel like -- the work of the commission, the work of the department in the last year has been really well thought out. i'm sorry if there are people that feel they haven't been heard. what i feel is -- i'm sfwatsed -- satisfied with the amount of outreach. i really like the idea of this program in these locations. i like the idea of something dynamic, not to suggest the program that was there before wasn't dynamic, frankly if they were there 40 years, there's a good chance

commissioner levitan: i think personally, what i would hope to see out of this effort is some kind of a uniformity, frankly, a consistent road back, depending on what the need is, that we just sort of plugging in. we know it is good. we know it is reliable. you could argue or say publicly this is a reasonable amount of our reach, so, yes, some folks are going to say they did not know, but we can rely on that consistency. to my colleague's point, something as simple as putting notices in the recreation centers, i appreciate you saying that is arguably where we have not been good because our view of the, it's the easiest thing for us to be doing. we have not done it in the past, but it is good for us to do it going forward. when we anticipate, when we think something is a controversial issue or event and we need to do more outreach, half the time, we do not anticipate the reactions that are coming out. i do not think it is a matter of doing more out -- because you think we need to. i think if we do our jobs right every time, we will get the turnout that needs to be turned out. and the o

commissioner levitan: i think personally, what i would hope to see out of this effort is some kind of a uniformity, frankly, a consistent road back, depending on what the need is,