mr. roddy, are you hear? good morning. >> good morning. >> chairwoman: thank you for being willing to serve. >> no worries. i'm patrick roddy, and i've been working in the city since 2011, and working in the tenderloin since 2013. i did a lot of work around the alcohol prevention coalition, the store frontage work, and i'm working with that, and helping youth around the abc argument around certain stores should sell alcohol as well. but i recently -- now its been going on three years -- been working at boddecker park for boys and girls of san francisco. in that time, it has been eye opening to see what is going on and what is happening, and the advocacy, and the former person who had this seat, anna g., i worked closely with around the parks network and how we connect as parks. really what it comes down to is that in the tenderloin, if you give everybody in the neighborhood a piece of open space, you get half a yoga mat, which really isn't acceptable. when you look at the equity of some of the parks and how s

mr. roddy, are you hear? good morning. >> good morning. >> chairwoman: thank you for being willing to serve. >> no worries. i'm patrick roddy, and i've been working in the city since 2011, and working in the tenderloin since 2013. i did a lot of work around the alcohol prevention coalition, the store frontage work, and i'm working with that, and helping youth around the abc argument around certain stores should sell alcohol as well. but i recently -- now its been going on three years -- been working at boddecker park for boys and girls of san francisco. in that time, it has been eye opening to see what is going on and what is happening, and the advocacy, and the former person who had this seat, anna g., i worked closely with around the parks network and how we connect as parks. really what it comes down to is that in the tenderloin, if you give everybody in the neighborhood a piece of open space, you get half a yoga mat, which really isn't acceptable. when you look at the equity of some of the parks and how s

mr. roddy, are you hear? good morning. >> good morning. >> chairwoman: thank you for being willing to serve. >> no worries. i'm patrick roddy, and i've been working in the city since 2011, and working in the tenderloin since 2013. i did a lot of work around the alcohol prevention coalition, the store frontage work, and i'm working with that, and helping youth around the abc argument around certain stores should sell alcohol as well. but i recently -- now its been going on three years -- been working at boddecker park for boys and girls of san francisco. in that time, it has been eye opening to see what is going on and what is happening, and the advocacy, and the former person who had this seat, anna g., i worked closely with around the parks network and how we connect as parks. really what it comes down to is that in the tenderloin, if you give everybody in the neighborhood a piece of open space, you get half a yoga mat, which really isn't acceptable. when you look at the equity of some of the parks and how s