i'm tim figaris. i was the ex-facility coordinator at gene friend rec center. i also served as a basketball, volleyball, baseball coach. so one of my biggest concerns is i'm supporting this solely because it expands it. at one time there were 200 to 300 kids that went to it daily and still getting that much. we used to have so many teams. as a matter of fact, there's a couple of kids in the audience who i coached, one in basketball and one in girls basketball. i want to make sure that becomes activated again. i want to make sure the parks and rec gets coaches out there. there's a lot of kids there that love playing ball and it keeps them off the streets. that's important. when the center goes up hopefully there will be inadequate staffing to handle that. as i said, the staff that was there before, we used to coach ten basketball teams and ten baseball teams and i want that to continue. a lot of those kids i run into. i'm retired now. we broke the link. they have their kids playing ball now in their communities. at one time when i got there, nobody played anythi