mr. conover. you have the funding to do the irrigation, draining and treeing, correct? but you do not have the funding at the moment to do the paving. >> we do not. >> so should you go forward with the project to do the irrigation and drainage and trees? and you are going to have -- you mention that you shared with us that the park will be closed up to one year. and let's say you don't get the funding for the paving until after that is completed. so the park then gets shut down again? >> i guess in theory -- so i don't have a perfect timeline on when we may or may not get funding. i would say if it does not become apparent in the near future -- i can't give you an exit date -- that we will -- that if it becomes apparent we will get funding for the pathways relatively soon, then we would delay this project until we knew we had the money. if something else came up and it just became an absolute no, then yes, we would just focus on the irrigation and drainage, and it would be above me, and i don't know when money would come for pathways at that point. >> how long of a proc

mr. conover that the homeless will be kind of solved by northbeat citizen, but they can't be.t is not an easy problem to fix. it is not that we're against the project. we for the most part believe it should eventually go forward, but in addition to appearing before telegraph hill dwellers, we are hoping the city will come up with a one or two-page plan perhaps with the police and telegraph hill dwellers and st. vincent depaul and north beach citizen that this is how we see 20 people living in the park and this where is they are going. they are not all going into shelters. they are not easy to be moved around that way. we just had a crime committed in the nearly adjacent park. perhaps you read about it in the paper. a woman sadly stabbed somebody else in the park, joe dimaggio playground. if we had the 20 people in washington square suddenly moved because of the park and closed to joe dimaggio playground, we need as a city buy-in from the community so we all agree this is going to happen and share the responsibility of taking care of those homeless people. thank you so much for