and mayor lee needs to fire rec and park general manager phil ginsburg. this battle over privatization of the parks has been going on for years and instead of trying to work with his critics he tries to marginalize and dismiss us. he one is of the most divisive figures in the city and with new leadership that works with everyone. [ applause ] >> good morning. my name is [speaker not understood] and i'm a parent. a life-long citizen of san francisco, i was born and raised here. so i have seen several different phases of what is going on with the city and unfortunately this period right now is the saddest and breaks my heart. this issue touches me because i have two young sons, actually in their 20s now and i have a 10-year-old. i have been part of the process of the new park coming up on 17th and folsom. unfortunately you say you have bilingual meetings and i don't think there was any and unfortunately the spanish-speaking parents, the people busy working and raising kids can't come to these meetings. what i witness in the meetings is that the majority of

this started in 2005, phil ginsburg had no experience with rec and park, but he was -- [speaker not understoodmark buell made a large donation to gavin newsom and became head of rec and park and suddenly rec and park's budget was cut dramatically and got rid of all of their rec and park employees. what they did, they started to hire 6-figure employees who they gave bonuses to, to find people who would donate to rec and park to help rec and park and all of a sudden rec and park stopped serving the people in the city and started serving people with money. and what you have seen over the last five years with privatization is there is more emphasis on people with money than there are with people in the community that pay for the you ballot measures that rec and park has been paying for. so i want to thank the people in the mission for pointing this out. it's going all through town and as affected -- they are trying to keep the fields open much longer to collect as much money as possible. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> elizabeth. >> hi. i lived right across from mission playground since 1992

and my organization is asking that phil ginsburg stand down from installing seven acres of toxic wasteorting of nbc show that there is cancer among soccer goalies and had our voters been informed at that time, the vote would have gone our way. so he should concede to the -- anyway, yeah. >> so it sounds like if you lose on the election count, that you will fight on the public health count, that basing on the nbc report that perhaps artificial turf causes cancer in soccer players. you were threatened with arrest yesterday during your protest. >> for five hours i had five different police officers come up, take my i.d. and for the kids in san francisco, i would do about anything. >> reporter: there it is. that's the latest here at golden gate park. they are now trying to replace the real grass with artificial grass at beach chalet field. >> and they reported they looked at the reports but they were not definitive. >> scott mcgrew? >> the unemployment rate has dropped. when you look at it as a trend, 200,000 each month or more, it's a good, solid trend. it was one year ago today that twit