>>> hi, my name is ron sundergill. i'm the regional director of the parks [speaker not understood] association here in the city. our organization has 800,000 members and 113,000 members in california. we urge the board to put aside the controversial and preliminary mitigated negative declaration for the pumphouse project. we further request that the direct the department to prepare an environmental impact report for the project. we are deeply concerned that the rec and park's judgment it would cause ecological harm that is not mitigated. the department prepared a mitigated negative declaration rather than environmental impact report. and as a result, no alternatives to this proposal were considered that means that none of us, you, the supervisors, the public, the commissioners have had an opportunity to review that accomplish the exact same goals the department has. which is to tree deuce aquatic vegetation. these options are less ecologically damaging and less expensive to i am metv. in fact, those appealing the mitig