i got to know glen eagles a few years ago and tom shay's children and my children go to the same school at [inaudible] and tom suggested the idea to host a fundraiser at his golf course and upon so we did so and familiar -- phenomenal for the school and we noticed the welcome being nature of the staff and the professionals we observed there. since then that excited a lot of the other folks that participated in the fundraiser and we scheduled others and i think other schools are considering it and seems to me like this course is a well kept secret. since then i have golfed there on numerous occasions and what struck me is the incredible diversity of players that are there and having golfed at different courses it's something you don't see, certainly in the higher end courses, so to me in this day and age you need courses like this and management like this to bring these equality and access for everyone to these courses so i am here to support it and thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker and as a reminder if you have handouts to commissioners please hand them to me and i will distribut

you haven't heard anything less than positive and moving forward with tom shay. there's a track record. you heard folks who are going to be national models for the community golf and work force. like the last gentleman said and nobody is into it. if it's a continued conversation you will see more folks that will support decision and respectfully ask you to support the lease extension in closed session and we are waiting to hear the news and celebrate and keep glen eagles and keep the operator in place and put the community to work and all of the things you heard about and we're excited about and if i haven't said it enough we respectfully request your approval of the extension of the lease. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> hello commissioners. i am sam and a new resident living in the richmond and the first time before this commission so you heard a lot of different perspectives but i think one is missing is the youth perspective from an actual youth so offering the program under tom shay's leadership, the first tee program, the job training skills th

tom shay asked me if we could act in a big brother role for them and we established that relationship and did well with that. as a result i was able to with the blessing of my golf course help glen eagles out tremendous. in 2010 they under went a grass resurfacing project and i donated my time and resources and staff were able to restore all of the greens to near perfect conditions and to this day they're some of the best greens for the price at which you could play golf. we all did this for the betterment of golf realizing that people don't st

tom shay asked me if we could act in a big brother role for them and we established that relationship and did well with that. as a result i was able to with the blessing of my golf course help glen eagles out tremendous. in 2010 they under went a grass resurf

we are with tom shay. we with glen eagles. we're with a track record. where we want to go is everything you heard today and the community work force opportunities, the chance to continue to work with first tee, everything you heard about this being the community's golf course. this is created a ground swell of excitement of approving the lease, moving forward. congratulations for joining us commissioner wei. welcome to the commission. is this your first meeting? >> yes. >> welcome. this is a fun one to make your first meeting but we wondered was there going to be -- you know, when this was discussed we highlight lose glen eagles or the operator there was a ground swell of support in the community and leaders and a lot of folks saying we can't let this happen especially with the good things in front of us. this gentleman or someone sending around emails and july of the golf course. i was there in june before -- there was talk we might lose glen eagles. i wish you couldy see the photos from june. look at june. that's why you're not seeing the photos and b