. >> my name is owen o'donnell and i think this is a terrible idea. if this passes and wind in november and we get a progressive mayor, i will predict in 2012 there will be an item on the ballot to reverse this. this does not work. we have a system of a strong mayor. he should be responsible for the departments that he is responsible to. please, do not pass this. >supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker police. >> greg miller. with the theory of a strong mayor, it would hold water if the mayor was charged with running our parks. i cannot think of any other mayoral election that was determined on whom best run of the parts. accountability does thnot mean o much here. i think parks are important. i think a lot of people in this room to as well, but there are other important matters. what we need is to have this commission, the primary policy- setting entity for our parks systems, to be open to the public, to public discussion, and have a thorough process of back and forth. we have major constraint on our budgets, and terrible decisions need to be mad