. >> commissioner levitan. >> here. >> commissioner mcdonnell. >> here. >> mine is on >> they should be on now. >> yes. thank you. so just a few quick eminders to please turn off any sound-producing devices. if you need to have a conversation, we would ask that you take it outside, so we can run this meeting as efficiently as possible. also, each person will have three minutes to comment under "public comment" on each item. if you would like to make public comment on an item that is not on calendar, but does fall under the jurisdiction of the recreation and parks commission, you may comment under item 4, "general public comment" and will be continued to item 13, if you do not have the opportunity on item 4. last, when you are making public comment, please address your remarks to the commission. the commission -- neither the commission, nor staff will respond to questions during public comment, but the commission may -- may ask staff to respond once public comment is done. so with that, we are on item 2, the president's report. >> i'm going to defer to comments made under another item

. >> commissioner levitan. >> here. >> commissioner mcdonnell. >> here. >> mine is on >> they should be on now. >> yes. thank you. so just a few quick eminders to please turn off any sound-producing devices. if you need to have a conversation, we would ask that you take it outside, so we can run this meeting as efficiently as possible. also, each person will have three minutes to comment under "public comment" on each item. if you would like to make public comment on an item that is not on calendar, but does fall under the jurisdiction of the recreation and parks commission, you may comment under item 4, "general public comment" and will be continued to item 13, if you do not have the opportunity on item 4. last, when you are making public comment, please address your remarks to the commission. the commission -- neither the commission, nor staff will respond to questions during public comment, but the commission may -- may ask staff to respond once public comment is done. so with that, we are on item 2, the president's report. >> i'm going to defer to comments made under another item

with that i thank commissioners levitan, low, and mcdonnell for using that portion of the fund.e also have an item on today's calendar, and i know commissioner kim, i believe is going to come and speak to that. so making sure it worked for the people as intended and we sent a message and thanking commissioner low for his work on that that "shadows matter on parks." and that we're trying to be as detailed, and attentive to that as we can, and i think commissioner low has brought us all to re-focus on the importance of the resolution and how we proceed. we've seen groundbreakings at south park, mclaren park, randall museum, which i think is going to be terrific. they have done a great fundraising job and it's a unique piece for the city. we have seen the opening of the joe dimaggio playground and dolores park twice, in two phases and larson playground and beach chalet and parenthetickally to say that i'm delighted to see that the federal government wants to analyze fears that somehow this turf may be a threat, but so far there is no substantive evidence of that fact and so we have

. >> commissioner levitan. >> here. >> commissioner mcdonnell. >> here. >> mine is on >> they should be on now. >> yes. thank you. so just a few quick eminders to please turn off any sound-producing devices. if you need to have a conversation, we would ask that you take it outside, so we can run this meeting as efficiently as possible. also, each person will have three minutes to comment under "public comment" on each item. if you would like to make public cot

. >> commissioner levitan. >> here. >> commissioner mcdonnell. >> here. >> mine is on >> they should be on now. >> yes. thank you. so just a few quick eminders to please turn off any sound-producing devices. if you need to have a conversation, we would ask that you take it outside, so we can run this meeting as efficiently as possible. also, each person will have three minutes to comment under "public comment" on each item. if you would like to make public comment on an item that is not on calendar, but does fall under the jurisdiction of the recreation and