mr. vigneau, please address the board. i would prefer you to give your comments to the board and mr.mauer will speak after. >> okay. well, i believe that this tree should not be cut, please. many, many persons who live in the area told me that this tree should not be cut also. it seems that there is no reason, no sound and indispensable reason to remove it. that is the only explanation i can give you and i wish also and i don't know at what point you persons will make your decision, but it would be nice if i were aware of an explanation, but it would be nice and it would be a good idea if any of you would be passing by and look at that. i am also sure you would have the same feeling that i did and like many other persons of the neighborhood, too. thank you. >> thank you. >> why don't you hold onto those so you can hear the rest of the comments? >> thank you. >> mr. mauer. >> good evening board members, dawn mauer with the recreation and park project manager. this particular project is one of our 2008 park renovation projects. a a year and a half ago we looked at the entire park as an

mr. vigneau, you have three minutes of rebuttal, if you have anything further to add? >> i appreciate your kindness in allowing me a few minutes more. what mr. mauer -- >> could you speak into the microphone, please? >> what mr. mauer presents, he showed me is the company who came to check on those trees, but i would be glad and satisfied if i would have seen the plan of the work that is going to be done. with this sentence, i will not any longer insist after this. thank you very much. >> did you just say you are not longer insisting on appealing this? >> what i mean is that i have mentioned that i suspect this tree was [speaker not understood] they went to make a lot of work in the park in that area and they want to replace the area where the children are playing and i believe they want to replace these with basketball courts and of course, they will make a lot of transformation, which requires machinery to be coming to do the work. >> okay. >> so you are saying that you suspect - >> excuse me? >> you are saying that you suspect that they want to remove the tree not b