. >> commissioner bonilla and levitan are not here yet. >> we'll look out for them. >> we would like to welcome everyone to the june 20, recreation and park commission, please note general public comment on items 4 and 9, please complete a blue speaker card. unless announced the chair, by the chair, you will have three minutes for comments. we ask that you silence all cell phones and any secondary conversations should we taken out of the room we are on item 2 president's report. >> thank you. >> i want to commend the parks alliance and rec and park staff and i thought it was productive and we kept the mayor's attention for more than his allotted hour, which was good and i just encourage you to do those community outreach efforts to communicate with the city. i thought it all went well, i know we'll have an item for meredith thomas, and so i will withhold my comments about that until then and that concludes my comments. >> is there any public comment on this item? being none, public comment is closed and we're on item , the general manager's report. >> good morning, commissioners, tod

. >> commissioner levitan. >> i want to say that i have said before i live in the house that i grew up and mountain lake was my park and i don't think you have to be an arithmetic genius to know how old this park was, to tell you that the play equipment was there when i was a kid and it's long overdue and i want to thank them, because it shows us how organic this process can be and how right it can be. you see a need and you want to fill it and they have done a great job, as dawn has just said. and what has changed as claire said is that the demand for this park was grown a lot. when i was growing up, the presidio was a military base and nobody really used mountain lake except for the people who lived right there. now you have the presidio as a park. you have new housing at the health services hospital. you have a much more ambulatory society and mountain lake park has a tremendous demand and it's not just serving one neighborhood, but serving the entire city. so i think the process has been commendable. i am pleased to be involved, much, much on periphery and i am looking to seeing th