mr. ginsberg said. usually i am on the opposite team. we found out about how faithful the family was in carrying beestings output -- carrying these things out. we think it is a win-win for the city and the people that are here using the park all of the time. thank you very much. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is michelle accused. i have been a ventura resident for 10 years and a mother of three. i am a member of two of the largest parents curves in the city. stow lake is one of the places that we all know that we do not visit because it needs rehabilitation. it is also important that my children have mobile and it -- local and organic member ingredients. i support this of -- the restoration upper stow lake -- the restoration of stow lake. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is dr. [unintelligible] patron of stow lake and the boat house, a breast cancer survivor that goes for health to the resources that stow lake. the paddle boats that are great exercise, as well as the beautiful landscape. kudos to th

mr. ginsberg called me last friday and advise me that based on some of the comments we had made in our report, he went back to the ortega family. that is when we first learned of the increase in the minimum guarantee. bacouif there was a higher amout potentially proposed by the current operator, was there a lower amount compared to the capital improvement. your concern was not the minimum annual at first. i believe that or take a's aspect was the $200,000 which they were able to do for capital improvements. >> to get into some of the selection process, the current operator proposed $23,000 in capital improvements at the site. as of last night, he warned me that he did not agree with that characterization that it was 23,000. i expressed some of those sentiments today. we reviewed his proposal, 23,000. furthermore, the documentation that was given to our commission on august 19th in advance of the commission hearings. this is the far right proposal of the corporation and it talks about the value of the proposed improvements being 23,000. this is public information. he has attended this. he was