all around mclaren park there is a ring of community members who have been tedving to different parts of their play grounds or trees or patches of land. they have been doing great advocacy around the park, greater resources for the park. and it's really been part of what the legacy of franco mancini has been over the year. i met him in 2008 when i was running for supervisor. i didn't see him after that, but he took a lot of pride in his work, his stewardship of the park. he was pleased to know that there were many people who were running for supervisor in district 8 or district 11 who were park persons. that's how he deemed himself and people who cared about parks as park people. for him mclaren park was a place that he sunk a lot of his energy and a lot of his effort and we have really reaped that effort over the years. so, just wanted to recognize -- franco mancini from friends of mclaren park and how he inspired a number of people to become involved through exploring gifts and features of mclaren park. want to thank him for his work and recognize him here at the board. the rest i'm

exaggerations and now though are said less and less and people say more and more how fabulous mclaren park is. finally, saturday in the park was put on, the series was put on for i believe it was $15,000, but really the work that was done behind it was thousands and thousands of volunteer hours. no one got paid for doing it. what we put in the budget, we made sure the concert series could go on, paying for performance and equipment and all that. but most of all, we have volunteers working dedicated days, saturdays and even before that throughout the year to make it happen. the event featured some really great acts. i was able to go to a couple of the events. i couldn't believe what i was hearing in terms of world class performers playing the blues in jerry garcia amphitheater. we've had cultural events that served our ethnic communities in san francisco, young people as well. i know this year will be our second year that we'll be doing it. it's going to be a great [speaker not understood] to see move forward. i just want to say thank you for your dedication, your work, your involvement in

brought together a community and the under served neighborhoods of 9, 10 and 11 that surround mclaren park. and i think we've been successful at getting our side of the neighborhood at least acknowledged. and in the last bond i was very helpful in getting some funding that would be going a little bit of a way to improving mclaren park the next few years. i also served as one of the task force members of the community opportunity fund for the 2008 bond and i also was working with the task force to put together the plan for the 2012 bond. i'm involved in several community organizations and on boards and one of them in particular, i'm the treasurer of [speaker not understood] association which is in the mission district and gives a lot back to the community and i really support communities. as denis has said, that need funding for open space as well as funding for community places to go, parks to be in. and i think that's really what my role has been as currently the chair of prosac and as a member prior to that. i'd like to [speaker not understood] because my particular goal as the chair is

i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in

special remembrance of frank owe mancini who was instrumental in getting so many people involved in mclaren park. so, that will be -- is that the first? the first day. so, we're going to have a first day back we're honoring frank owe mancini and his legacy that includes your work. just want to say thank you for your volunteerism and for revitalizing the park and welcome. >> thank you, supervisor. (applause) >> [speaker not understood]. >> thank you so much. this was truly a collaborative effort. i appreciate being called up here, but i want you to just take a look at all the volunteers. and this is only a handful of the ones that could get off work or could be here today. there were over 45 people who spent their saturdays working as docents. we're going to get more training today in the area of safety, public safety through the castro community on patrol, one of the finest s.f. safe organizations that we have in the city. and we're going to continue to build on this so this can be a city-wide program of docents working in our parks to help facilitate events, keeping costs down, and also providi

the greatest golf architect in history, alastair mc kenzie, with the help of john mclaren who gave us golden gate park. it's an international treasure. and it is the creation of this golf course that we're fighting over. the golf course [speaker not understood]. that's what made the habitat possible and allows the sustaining of these populations. this is a project that wasn't cooked up last thursday in a garbage can in somebody's kitchen. it's been debated out in the hope. open. it's been transparent from beginning to middle to end ~. and the time is now to stand down and let rec and park do the job that fish and wildlife has tasked it to do in that biological opinion. that's where this came from and that's where it should go. please, allow this project to proceed. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, my name is victor [speaker not understood]. i'm a [speaker not understood] of san francisco, i'm also a senior golfer at sharp park. i'm here to support saving sharp park as an 18-hole golf course. the sooner the better. this environmental issue has delayed improving sharp park for