mr. ginsberg told me if we could make contributions, that would make him very happy. you don't come to the community and particularly an association that we never heard. you come to us first and say you're thinking about doing this. we will set up a philanthropic fund to pay both the security deposit of our current money and arranges to give you the least amount of money that you want to do your program. we want to continue the program that has been so successful since we have lived here. >> of reach has been very poor. the community kids, and i, were not aware to lease out this clouclubhouse. many of the people who lived in the area are not native english speakers. we request to disapprove the lease in consideration. that appears that this plan was a fait accompli. the genuine effort to work with the community sends the message that we don't count. apparently there was a web survey that determined almost all the responses. i think in the infinite wisdom of this commission, you do not allow this to happen to the playground. on the topic of leasing, the city charter co

mr. ginsberg? >> i just want to thank the team, danny and rick and caring and gm and kelly. -- and karen and jim and kelly. i feel like i am in class when i listen to jim. commissioner sullivan, thinking long term, echoing the conclusion of the report, is duly noted. i think we obviously have had a lot of conversations about identifying sustainable funding sources, but a subset of that, i think we need to come up with a strategy to figure out how to improve the work we need to do on this front. it is a concept that a lot of things come before this commission that are divisive. protecting our trees is not. i think if we take that sort of consensus opinion and figure out how to translate that into a policy idea, to dedicate funding for that purpose, i think we could actually take a very significant step in that direction. so i will do it to things, not remove the trap -- not remove the taxgs, and i will be thinkig about what this team how we can comeback with a strategy for augmenting our resources i