commissioner mazzola does have excused absence and commissioner macdonell will be joining you. if he could get everyone to come in and sit down. we would appreciate that. we can get started. reminder, this is the recreation and park meeting of november 16th. we welcome everyone here today and ask that you please turn off any electronic devices that may go off during the proceedings. we would also ask if you're going to have secondary conversations, you please take those outside in order to the meeting run as efficiently as possible. if you would like to speak on an item, we request you complete a blue card. you don't have to, commissioner buell -- >> can i get an indication of how many plan to make comments? two minutes. >> so you have two minutes for public comment on each item. if you would like to speak on item that is not on calendar, but is under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, you would speak under general public comment which is item 4 and then again it is continued on item 13. we would ask that you please address your comments to the commission during