>> commissioner anderson, here. xhishzer hallisy, here. commissioner louie, here. xhishzer win traub, here. commissioner zwart, here. commissioner mazzola and commissioner jupiter jones have excused absences today mptd the san francisco rec rereakez and park xhickz recognize we occupy the homeland of the ramaytush oholone people. we honor the ramaytush oholone people for commitment to mother earth. in accordance with traditions, the ramaytush oholone. as for all people who reside in traditional territory. as stewards of park land we recognize the duty to honor fropreservation of land.

we affirm sovereign rights and wish to pay respect to ancestor, elders of the chunty. good morn and welcome to rec and park commission meeting of march 21, twept 2024. this is held in hybrid format in person at hamilton recreation center with options to provide comment in person and remotely. we ask you turn off electronic devices. we ask listeners to turn down televisions or computers while listening on the phone and ask for patience if we experience technical issue. public comment is available for each item unless announced each person has two minutes. if you like to speak on any item today we request but not require to complete a blue card and the blue cards at at the table by the door. those that like to join remotely you may view live on

sfgovtv or webinar using the link provided at the top of today's agenda. you may provide public comment by calling 415-655-0001 access code 26623606230 and password, 0321. when you hear your item called dial star 3. you will be line up in the system and the system will notify when you are in line and waiting during which time the system will be silnts. all callers remain on mute until their line is open. please address comments to the commission. in order to allow equal time for all, the commission nor staff will respond to questions. the commission may ask questions of staff after public comment is closed. if there is a item of interest that is not on the agenda and under the subject matter jurisdiction you may speak under general public comment item 4 and continue to item aithd.

we do not have the normal podium so i'll use my timer to time 2 minutes so when you hear the chime know your time is up. you may submit public comment in either of the following ways by e-mailing rec park.commission at sfgov.org. if you submit by e-mail it will be included in the file. written comment ed may be sent to san francisco rec and park commission, 501 stanyan street, san francisco california 94117. the following announcements for those joining in person. if the fire alarm activate evacuate the building using xae exit. bathrooms are the door behind me and to the right. the commission meeting is recorded and are available to view later on sfgovtv. we are on item 2, the president's report. thank you. >> thank you ashley. this is on. can everybody hear me? thank you for being here. this is lovely to see you all

here. as part of our recreation and park department racial equity action plan, the commission was tasked with expanding the ability of members to hear from diverse voices and one way of doing this is we are having annually meetings outside city hall and see it is working today because we have more folks here today then we often have at our commission meetings in city hall so thrilled and i want to express gratitude for coming out here today. this will be the second time that we've had a off-site commission meeting. last year we had one in the bayview, which was also well attended at joe lee recreation center. we did that march a year ago. we learned a lot about the site itself, and we relized how amazing our rec and park department employees are and make our parks and open spaces so beautiful. we learned last year in

district 10 about the way they function daily and how they can best serve the members of the community out there. this is just one way our commission is committed to improving access to the decision making process too, because you will be very much involved in all of the actions we are taking today. we are excited to be here in district 5 today. thank you to members. all the community leaders. and the heart of the western addition, which is the first neighborhood i lived in when i came here to attend uc hastings college of law in 1988. i lived behind kaiser. safeway was shopping center and japan is where i hung out. i love this area. includes lower pack heights too, which is where my friends had a better apartment then i had at the time because i was a broke law student, spent a lot time of there and fillmore

heights with great music and married to a musician. gary connects to the outer richmond near the cliffhouse, that was a great place to hang out because i could go and chill at the ocean. i'm sure a lot of you do that too. we are close to many amazing parks and open spaces here, including hamilton recreation center which is a neighborhood hub with a lot of incredible amenities. i was looking at the resurfaced basketball court and amazing rec and park staff here and looking forward hearing more what is going on in hamilton later in today 's agenda. i will take a break here so people can get seated. please, welcome everybody. there are several empty seats up front. come on in, ladies. come on in everybody. i will pause just for a second so everybody can find a seat.

many know we are close to the kimball playground with a club house, a children play area and three baseball fields and green open space. we are also just a few blocks from one of my favorite city iconic areas, which is the japantown peace plaza, which is at the heart of japantown community and holds cultural celebrations, visitors and many residents who access the array of businesses in the area. we are excited about the department collaboration with the community on the japantown peace plaza renovation project kicked off last year in blustering conditions with speaker pelosi. it was quite a day. there are we are envisioning great things for the future of this vital public space. not far from alamo square, my favorite park at the time with the iconic view of the painted ladies. we are a few blocks away from

the margimate s hayward playground which underwent a $28 million renovation. as we are in the midst of women history month, i like to tell you a little about margaret hayward. she pioneered the establishment of public playgrounds in san francisco and served as charter member of the city's playground commission. she was on the commission for 11 year s from 1908 to 1918 alongside our john mclaren. she is the only female commissioner to have a park or other recreational facility named for her in san francisco. in 1908 elected to board of directors of the california club and early san francisco athletic clubs where wives of the male members to further social causes. part of the forefront of

elevating the status of women. she was part of the playground movement in the united states. hew maretens saw play grounds to social solution of urban environments where people lived in small places because they had poor air quality elsewhere. hayward was appointed by mayor taylor to newly created playground commission and served 10 years before her passing in 1918. i would like to share this is the first women history month as a commission where we have been majority women commissioners. [applause] and i think still has the majority female executive and managerial staff. one man among three women at home. good luck with that. okay. let's see what else.

the 5 women on this commission, we all have a diversity of backgrounds and we have each our own unique perspective that we bring to this body, and i like to now pass it off to commissioner louie to share more what is going on with women history month. commissioner. >> thank you president anderson. march 8 is international women's day, and as you know, san francisco has a long history of supporting women, and every person's right to freedom, choice and equality, and i have to tell you, the origin of women history month is the origins of women history month dates back to 1978 and it started out not too from here

in santa rosa california when the educational task force of the sonoma county commission on the status of women, which i know commissioner schwartz has a lot to do, our san francisco division, planned a women history week, so it started with women history day and sonoma brought it to march 2 to the 8 expanding to a week and we have to give homage and gratitude to president jimmy carter, because he was the one that declared march 2 national women history. progressionally all the presidents thereafter realized how much women contributed to this count ry and expanded to a women history month. i want to quote something from president carter.

he said, from the first settlers who came to our shores, men and women have worked together to build this nation. too often the women were unsung and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed. but the achievements leadership, courage strength and love of the women who built america was as vital as that of the man who names we all so well know. so, past tuesday a trail-blader mayor london breed herself, i attended an event at city hall and it was a nice beautiful event on the mayor's balcony and we joined by the department on the status of women. thank you commissioner schwartz. some elected leaders and community advocates like myself, and i see-i look out in the audience here and i

identify with many trail-blazers here. we have sandy mory. thank you pat louie for coming, and all the other wonderful women here sitting in the front. this event this year women who advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion, and mayor breed herself said, thank you to the five women we honor today who have gone above and beyond to insure women across all communities of san francisco have access to every opportunity and the women who are doing this work every day, not just in san francisco, but around the world. claw dean jang was honored. [indiscernible] maddie scott, and sissy swig. i also learned that day something very interesting. this is my take away, 54

percent of our commissioners that serve in san francisco, we serve we do not get paid to serve, we serve in san francisco, 54 percent are women. 58 percent of department heads are women, like we have a male wonderful department head here, but you know, he's not in the 58 percent of department heads are women and lastly, 45 percent of the city workforce are women. we want to give it up to all the women and they think for what you do for your communities and thank you for being here today. and with that, i pass it back to president anderson. >> thank you commissioner louie. wonderful. we all love may west, she has a great way of saying things. all is nothing a man can do that i can't do better and in heels. remember that. take that home.

it really resinates with me the unsung hero aspect of being a woman and woman in leadership. most of the people i work with and many happen to be women, they operate from their hearts and do what they feel is right, not looking for recognition and often they don't get it, so just remember that. when you go home, recognize the people in your life and what they do and you'll probably notice it was your grandmother, your mom, your aunt, sister and instill in your daughters and granddaughters and nieces how important it is for them to feel appreciated, even when they are not hearing it. how important they are. women truly are the architects of society. you think about what we do. how you would feel so lost if we didn't do the grocery shopping or make sure the kids get taken to the doctor, or ask

you how you are doing. attending to others. i had women who have died of breast cancer, friends in my life who died of breast cancer because they were taking care of the other people in their lives, so not looking for any awards here, not that what i mean, but just think how important the wem omen are in your lives and give everybody a hand. thank you ladies! alright. let's see. looking at these lovely notes. i want to thank the recreation coordinator here at hamilton, tara, where are you? stand up. [applause] thank you for hosting. the facility is beautiful. thank you for the flowers. i like to thank the staff here today making this meeting possible, including our public affairs team.

raise your hand if you are public affairs team. thank you so much. they really helped us conduct this community outreach. and our local 261 folks who put this amazing greenery together and who care and maintain all our beautiful living spaces. wave your hand if you are local 261. my brothers and ist isers. gardeners. yes. also want to thank helping us bring all the technology of city hall to this off-site, including sfgovtv, rec park it and everything audio and visual, raise your hand. wave your hand. thank you everybody. [applause] we lost a couple of community servants and the city. marsha mayemwas a sister of of mine in the saint mary congregation. i want to honor marsha mayem

and mention david johnson and pass it over to phil. marsha cow founded the firm [indiscernible] she was parm of designing her recreation center. inspired those around as a humble and passionate mentor paving the way for future female architects to create and design with passion and professionalism. the firm design her with vision of inclusive safe friendly family and youth focus place for neighborhood residents and visitors. constructed the renew her recreation center will be a place for connection and community building for generations to come. on behalf of all san franciscans, we honor marsha's contributions to our city and we would like to adjourn our meeting in her meeting later today and i want to give particular condolences to her spouse, bill. we also lost a incredsable artists photographer and

activist in david johnson who passed at the age of 97 earlier this month and you'll hear more from phil about his photography that captured the essence of life and culture and african american history in the fillmore district. commission, honored to have david johnson be with us in 2019. he and his family were there when we voted and i was a part of the vote to rename the harvey milk photo processing center in david's oner. we will also be adjourning in david's memory at the end of the meeting. i think ashley, is that everything? >> [indiscernible] >> any public comment on item 2, the president's report?

alright. phil, please. >> thank you madam president. before i get into it, let's also-some here early watched-i had the pleasure of swearing in our president as a off highway vehicle state commissioner under the state park's department, so she was appointed by the governor so give a round of applause. [applause] >> you are looking at two state park commissioner, phil. >> i are want to welcome everyone to hamilton and extend a warm welcome to commissioner staff, community members. i think president anderson covered most of this, but the off site meets are lovely and important this is a terrific

traditions as noted. evolved out of racial equity action efforts to make sure that we didn't just ask community to come to us, but we come to community, and very very very big shout out for our commission liaison, ashley summers. these things don't just happen. the planning to bring this meeting and all its audio, visual computer, all that stuff is really challenging and requires a lot of coordination and ashley, i know you had a lot of help from a lot of people in the organization, but i want to thank you for your vision on this and for such amazing execution. congratulations. [applause] >> thank you ashley! thank you! >> a few words about hamilton, and a little later in my remarks i'll ask nick williams to take a minute to introduce all the staff that are here and

then director operations eric anderson, i know al i is here but if there are folks are you want to introduce so everybody sees. the idea of the meetings is people to understand what it takes to operate a facility or operate a park, so some of the presentations that you will hear today really revolve around either district 5 or hamilton or parks here, so we get a deeper dive in how we run things. and this is a great site, because this hamilton was the very first facility where we cut a ribbon following a capital renovation after i became general manager in 2009. the ribbon cutting was march 2020, momentous occasion so we are working all most 15 years into the newly renovated

hamilton recreation center and as president anderson noted, it is a incredsable hub of joy and when you combine with kimball across the street, this complex is as robust and offers as many amenities as any complex we have throughout the city, so it is really quite extraordinary. so, with that, before i go further into my report, because i have a few announcements, nick, why don't you introduce all the recreation staff. you can come up and speak in the mic. >> we also have empty seats. three people from out there can come and sit. we have one here, two here. >> beautiful day in san francisco. just want to take a few moments to recognize and to publicly

appreciate our recreation staff who works so diligently to create programs and services that serve the city of san francisco. if i can just have briefly all our recreation staff to stand. [applause] and then very briefly starting with jimmy, can you introduce yourself and title very briefly? thank you. >> [indiscernible] >> my name is [indiscernible] >> [indiscernible] >> tara, facility coordinator.

>> [indiscernible] >> michele lee, the recreation supervisor. >> [indiscernible] [speakers introduction] >> thank you for allowing a brief introduction. we like to show value to staff when we have a opportunity. thank you very much. >> thank you. [applause] >> hello everyone. director operations eric anderson and i'm presenting a little on maintenance later and wanted to introduce some of our key staff involved at hamilton and parks a in the area. first i wanted to introduce lydia, our manager of asset

management unit and has been such an incredible staff person and leader over many years in inovateing how our facility and infrastructure are maintained and taken care of. also, we have right there, haley geara, superintendent of structural maintenance. her and her staff do so much of the work of our infrastructure maintenance. assistant superintendent martin hickey for structural maintenance. hiding in the back is allison mccarthy, our not so new anymore manager of park service area two, which covers a huge sloth of really important parks in the city from union square all the way to here in western addition, all the way out to potrero hill and all the parks are so important as they all

are. ali. and dana weller our project manager from the structural maintenance yard. [applause] okay. i think i got everybody. alright. eel pass it back to phil. >> we have other staff here today. wonderful staff today too. commissioner louie wanted to me to shout out lamont bishop so i will do that because lamont is amazing. we will not introduce everyone here. you will hear from us throughout the commission meeting as we do a deep dive how a facility operates and how we take care of and the programs we offer that is the just of the off site meeting. let me get through a few announcements. i want to start my report by recognizing the passing of renowned photographer and civil

rights advocate david johnson. jackie, barbara is here today. david passed away march 1. this was a sad moment but i want to point out david lived one hell of a life. he was amazing human being. i had 24 pleasure getting to know him and jackie you and barbara you and i go way back, but david is very fitting we are talking about david here, because we are in district 5, home to historic fillmore neighborhood where many david's most famous photos were taken. he studied under acclaimed photographersansal adams and miner white and through his photography david shed light on the city vibrant black community in the fillmore capturing the neighborhood jazz

era and pivotal moments in the civil rights movements. works featured at library grass and bancroft library at uc berkeley. our harvey milk photo center honored by naming both the library and the processing lab after him and it was a joy to have him with us to celebrate that moment, jackie. the center operates the oldest and largest community wet dark room in the nation and if you head to harvey milk photo everything is digital now. we are kicking old school at harvey milk so go check it out. at harvey milk or if you look up, harvey milk photocenter.org you can see a gallery of david's work. he was a talented artists.

one of the foremost chronicleers. he was also a-a lovely human being and so jackie loss is tough. in my culture we say may david's memory be a blessing and may he always fill you with light and make you smile and so, president anderson honored to ajourn the meeting in his honor as well. >> thank you. we say light shine upon him. >> jackie you like to say a few words? you are more then welcome. >> thank you jackie. >> thank you. i want to say thank you very much for this honor and everything about david you have

said. phil and staff , you have been so gracious and all the supporters. and it is wonderful to be in this spot and having this done here. i want to tell you, i live right there in an apartment building tour down on fillmore back in 1957, so this is especially meaningful to me. also, i was a park and rec commissioner in california and i have an award for the california state commission of parks and recreation commission. [applause] >> that's awesome. >> but, i like to recognize my son, michael johnson and his wife cornelia. [applause] and also my friend

barbara tampson. again, thank you for the privilege and your honoring of david and we are going to set up a david johnson foundation for scholarships for photography at the harvey milk center. thank you. [applause] thank you commissioners and phil. >> thank you jackie. michael, i did not connect the dots when i saw you and your wife in the other room. as i was walking in, you recently retired i believe. congratulations. michael fsh a dispatcher in the ranger unit. michael when you want to come back we talked about doing some video stuff and pod casting and i'm down. i don't think your wife wants you to come back so fast, but you are more then welcome. our blessings to you and the

entire johnson family. your family has mide quite a imprint on san francisco, so thank you. alright. a little bit about district 5 because that's what we are here to talk about. smack-dab in the middle of the city. it is a cross roads where cultures and people come together. the fillmore, japantown. other folks from japantown task force here, which is one of three surviving cultural districts in the nation. you got haight street and all the vibes of peace and love. the hustle and bustle of civic center and so much more and ali takes care of all of it. i want to highlight ongrowing improvement projects happening in the works. as you may be aware, we are undergoing a process to renovate historic cezar pavilion. the pavilion is actually-it was

the locker room of the 49ers. we also have kezar stadium, but getting a make over. built in 1926. the pavilion is host to variety of sports events and activities. the amazing san francisco bay area summer proam, john greenburg has been at the commission meeting several times and me-duking it out to be the most senior rec and park employees. they both have been around for the department well over 50 years. $140 million renovation is in the planning phase. mostly because we don't have $140 million yet, so we will continue to plug away at that, but we are very excited to start to tackle. buchanan street mall. this pedestrian walkway and 5 block city park is being

renovated with input from neighbors and community organizations. the park has undergone many changes since it opened in 1975 under this project we hope to create a more equitable safer space that connects and unifys the blocks, adds greenery, storm water manlagement and community space to celebrate the arts and excited about that one. across the street is kimball athletic field. this was one of our key city fields, sports renovations and it is so important the space is hustling and bustling every day. we are about to replace the turf, the soccer field gets new drainage and turf material that utilize natural infill, improves lighting, ada improvement, the project is currently in design phase and anticipating starting construction later this year

and then i assume there will be folks here to say a few words and i see director here to join us as well. japantown peace plaza getting awfully close to a long last a ground-breaking. the space is the harft heart of san francisco japantown. renovations include paving water proofing the blauza, plantings and seating and creating more inviting space for celebrations and cultural events. construction set to kick-off later this spring and sure we will be hear ing from folks more about that. alright. on very exciting news. usa today that great national newspaper that it is, has nominated golden gate park, our golden gate park for the readers choice best city park in the united states award.

[applause] we are facing off against 19 other parks from major cities all around the country, including new york, chicago, portland, dallas, hawaii. that is not a city though. commissioner louie. honolulu. thank you. and so we-there is a competition. this is the one election where you are actually allowed to vote early and to vote on. you may vote every single day through april 8. please check our enews. we are blasting this thing as far and wide because san francisco needs a win! but this park is recognition and validation for our incredible staff, our incredible volunteers, all of our parks group, civic leaders, including those present from the parks recreation open space

advisory committee here today. we all work together to insure that golden gate park is just one of the best in the country, and after april 8 it will be the best in the country! alright. so, you can vote at 10-10 best usa.com. you can vote once a day until polls close monday april 8 at 9 a.m. and the results will be announced on april 17 and coincides with the month that celebrates golden gate park 154 birthday. super exciting. and by the way, to that end we are throe throwing aert party

for golden gate park april 4. it is get out the vote type celebration so come join us. exact time and location still being hammered out. i think we hope to have our mayor with us, but please join in golden gate park to sing happy birthday and maybe a little treat april 4. our annual spring fling is back. we will be at crocker amazon on this next saturday, march 30, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. where nick and ann marie and their incredsable magicians of recreation and fun will create yet another free family festival with egg hunts, carnival rides, book mobile and more. we will have free bike val et. join the fun, bring the whole

family. it will be egger siteing. repairs on had club house got underway. that deserves a round of applause. this historical landmark [applause] was really badly damaged during a storm of march 2022, when a 85 foot eucalyptus tree fell cutting the roof. setting off the indoor sprinkler system and result in flooding. workers replace the roof, rafters, eves, finishes, wood and froors and lights salvaging as much of the original material as possible. this is historic resource. the project will cost 2 and $2 and a half million and we expect reimbursement from fema, but that is not an easy process. the last time we did major work on the building was 1986, so we will turn lemons into lemon aid

and spruce up the place while we are fixing it. we are anticipating that all the work will be completed and the club house will be back open by the end of the year. this space is a interesting piece of san francisco history first built in 1892 and served saz a road house people traveling through maybe on there way someplace else. this is where they went for a bite to eat, maybe to dance or gamble or do whatever, but this is what that building was for. today it is used for much more wholesome weddings, birthday parties and community events and we want to insure san franciscans can continue using the place. a important part of city history so thank partners, public works for construction management and engineering and architectural resources group for handling the conversation and preservation aspect jis the is a ver good #340e789 moment

to shout haley and martin and your team and also our urban forestry unit. this is a serious note. during the storms, real stuff happens in the parks and these folks are our front line staff that show up when they are called upon. whatever time. they are the first to arrive at a scene when a tree falls when there is major damage and not always fun work, sometimes it is actually really tense work and sometimes it is very dangerous work, and they all-the reason we are able to rebuild is because of the amazing response of park staff, maintenance staff and urban forestry staff so let's give them a big round of applause too. [applause] okay. next up i want to call up our rec and park racial equity director patrick lynch who as part of the general manager report will present a brief

update on the department's racial equity work since this is our official racial equity off site meeting. take it away patrick. >> thank you phil. good morning everyone. this will be brief because we have so much to hear today. i will take you through five slides but i won't read them completely because you can read them, but i'll narrate as we go through the presentation. like phil, i was a bit-march, because my mother taught me that every month is woman month. three sisters and a wife, so i understand. even though we are here, we are going to focus on women and are then what you will see on this particular slide is that, this did not just happen.

this is very intentional. our general manager said i am looking for a diverse organization. looking for a variety of perspectives and experiences. i want to welcome knowledge while building trust and we have today 75 percent of our executive staff are women which should be applauded for that. 69 percent of our leadership team is comprised of women. so, when you have been throughout san francisco and think how did we do this, it is because it takes a entire team. historically we know that san francisco was managed very differently, but this is where we are today, so thank you. next slide, please. when we get to next slide, there we go, we are happy.

this is our 9 classifications and we want to show the public, we know this internally, but it is not just within our executive staff, but historically where are we with our classifications is our management staff? our supervisors, directors and the like. we took a snapshot where we were in fiscal year 19-24. when you look at those raw numbers, say fiscal year 24, green being female, purple, blue, the males, you see that we are at 40 percent for women, same in fiscal 23 and you say the numbers are not quite different in fiscal year 21, 22. what i want to point out to you is that, they are significantly different because the ratio is different. so, there are two [indiscernible] in the position, fiscal year 24 and 23.

in the previous years, look at fiscal year 22. 5 to 9. so, that is a refer to as a trend line. next slide, please. this is my-i so enjoy eric's crew and interacting with gardeners and especially apprenticeship program, so once again, this is a snapshot of a very intentional action. in 2020, 28 percent of the positions were filled by women, and in 23, 45 percent. >> wow. >> next slide, please. the is a snapshot of the racial equity action plan. what you find on the far right, we have 7 focus areas.

required to submit the racial equity action plan. ours, not only the 7 focus areas on the right, but oen the left you see a number 92. 92 action items. those 92 action items you see bar graph below and they are then dispersed within those 7 particular areas. so, as a high level look at that. out of 92 action items, 47 have been completed, we are working on. 35 are in progress and 10 we haven't started. so, we are a department that continues to work in this particular area. next slide, please. part of our racial equity action plan, one of the action items was to distribute a

diversity equity inclusion and belonging survey. so, our department did that first and this are some of the results from four of those particular questions. let me share with you the structure. we focus our action relative to the survey. we had three themes. of those three themes, there were three questions within each theme. staff was asked to respond either strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree or strongly agree. this is is a snapshot of their response. i want to bring that to your attention. that concludes this brief summary. ready to answer any questions and if anyone from the public wishes to have access to the full reports, they are rather thick and long, just give me a

call and i'll sit down and go through them with you and i feel very comfortable distributing it. once again, thank you for your time. >> patrick, thank you very very much. appreciate it. [applause] okay. i will wrap up the gm report with one final presentation. last but definitely not least. we will have a update every commission meeting from the park recreation open space advisory committee and the chair wendy who will present a brief report and i want to acknowledge our district 5 representatives here today, salazar and hillary brown, thank you both for joining us today. [applause] >> i have to adjust this accordingly. good morning. wendy odd gone, the district 1 representative for park rec and

open space advisory and also recently reelected as the chair of the committee, and i for the new commissioners like to introduce myself why i do this work. i was raised low income, latch key kid in san jose and [indiscernible] transit operators, librarians and rec and park staff. with that, our chair report, we just had our officer elections much like the commission we are all the officers are women. myself, cynthia salazar the first vice chair and sophie who couldn't be here today is our seconds vice chair. we also have a new member from district 8 who is our district 8 alternate. her name is sarah. our past discussion we just heard flaum new disabled access coordinator on rec and park's

ongoing improvement to disabled access. had a very robustdition cuz on the community benefit agreement in district 1. using public art to add value to our park spaces. we also talked about community frauss which stemmed from the renaming of stow lake to blue heron lake and we had discussion on mission bay park acquisition which proceeded by a amazing tour of the mission bay parks we were acquiring. in april we will be having a presentation on parks and rec as the tool of environmental justice where our community speakers will share with us the important work they are doing to transform under utilized spaces and beautiful parks and working farm for low income communities of color. we'll also be talking about our bio diversity in the park and happy to have nancy from the blue heron program talk about

her program which includes internship for school children. i was at park [indiscernible] both days had the wonderful opportunity of seeing a blue heron and they are truly majestic. the committee also expressed desire to hold a joint meeting with the san francisco public utility commission citizen advisory committee to talk about the impact implementation of updates to the water system improvement program that will play a role in how we use water. i contacted their chair and i will be keeping the commission and department ised of development. president anderson gave us a state of the department in january and last year commissioners have come to see us and so we love to extend invitation to the commission to come and return. we love to have you back commissioner louie and with

that, since we are in district 5 i want to call up our district 5 reps, cynthia salazar and hillary brown who liver live in the district to say a few words about themselves. >> my name is hillary brown. i grew up in the fillmore and i live in the mill fillmore. one of my favorite parks growing up was hayward. this is also was my youth home, i mean my youth park when i was a kid growing up. another thing i want to say is, the representatives are women, me and cynthia are both women of color and i'm glad the decision was made to have hosted here in district 5. represent people of color.

that is all i want to say. >> thank you hillary. [applause] >> good morning everyone. thank you commissioners for having us. i represent d5 and vice chair fl community. i phave plived in the tenderloin for the past 23 years. i went to school across the street when it was benjamin franklin middle school so the area is dear to me. visited japantown. i'm here all the time. i love--really excited for the renovations coming up. super excited for all the work happening at united nation plaza. thank you phil, for keeping us in line for all the renovations and happy to be here and to serve. >> thank you cynthia. [applause] >> thank you all very much. i feel really honored to get to

serve next to amazing community advocaitds like cynthia and hillary. >> thank you. [applause] >> that concludes general manager's report. >> wonderful. thank you phil and everybody who participated. >> any public comment on it general manager's report? anyone on webex? >> i have a comment from commissioner hallisy, please. >> i thought it would be fitting since we start march madness today, this is a little addendum for general manager ginsburg that kezar pavilion was the home court of the usf dons when they won back to back national championships! [applause] with bill russell and kc jones.

>> i'll work that into my talkic points. >> please do. >> thank you, i appreciate that. other famous nba legends to have played include jason kid and steph curry. >> any other commission comments? mubing on to the consent calendar, item 5, right? >> we are on item 4, general public comment which is 15 minutes. so, i have a few speaker cards for item number 4 and as a reminder you do not need to fill out a blue card so if anyone is here for public comment i'll call for other folks. that would be the time for people on webex to raise your hand pressing star 3. this is for items not on today's agenda. lastly, you have two minutes,

but there is no timer at the podium, so i'll put two minute timer on and when it goes off, please you knoe your time is up. i'll start with peter and laura and bill, so please make your way up to the podium. thank you. >> if your name was called, go ahead and get in line. we have several empty chairs. there are four up front if you want to sit down. >> good morning. peter. 30 year resident of san francisco and member of the san francisco pickleal ball community. in the event it hasn't been shared with the board i like to read the text of a letter sent to mr. ginsberg march 14 from lawfer of chefner and wood. the subject is request hearing removal of pickleball courts. our office has retained on behalf of the community of san francisco pickleball players all joined about 2000 persons

courts 3 and 4 at the presidio. it is our understanding the san francisco recreation and park department is proceeding immediately to remove the pickleball lines from courts 3 and 4 at the playground. this letter is request the department [indiscernible] held in findings remade on on the matter. as we have come to expckt we receiveped no response to the etaller letter and the lines were painted over this week. it is clear park and rec has no intention to comply with the rules and regulations and hold the public hearing on the matter. you left us no option then to pursue legal action to enforce compliance. thank you. >> thank you. next. >> laura and then bill and nen emily. >> hi. my name is laura.

i notice one of your priorities is dei, diversity equity inclusion and pickleball really is something a program that provides that. i don't know if you are familiar how open play works, but anybody can come, everybody is equally inviting, all communities, all capabilities all education anybody can play and this is the beauty of the pickleball community. i feel many recent actions of the rec and park has been destroying that opportunity and community. we talked about how the pickleball lines are being repainted over. one of the opportunities that we had is stefani office provided $50 thousand in funds to help promote pickleball, and we are wanting to know how is the $50 thousand being spent because the pickleball lines to

repaint them cannot be $50 thousand worth. we had a quote, it is only $850 per court we so like transparency on that $50 thousand. we are also noticing the new pickleball courts you are offering to us really are not in great geographical places to create community. they are in neighborhoods where there is absolutely no parking, and that is really disruptive to the community. you succeeding scattering that beautiful committee built and the real ask here is to give us a hearing and that is what we need. thank you. >> bill and emily and then alice. >> my name is bill, here to talk about rosy courts 1, 2 and

3. court 1 at rosy has double lined, two courts for pickleball. court 2 is double lined for two courts for pickleball. court 3 is double lined for 4 courts for pickleball. those lines meet the standards of park and rec. they do not meet the line standards for the pickleball community. the one thing that court 1, 2 and 3 have in common, they are park and rec does not supply any nets for people in the community to use. the reservation system for rosy court 1 and 2 are on spotry. anyone wants to win the lottery, if you can find them you got it. court 1 and 2 for rosy do not exist, therefore cannot be resevered. court 3 does exist mptd you can reserve court 3 and what it says right there, tennis only.

tennis only. this court at rosy were built in 1950 paid for with taxpayer dollars, not tennis player dollars. repeat, taxpayers. everybody here. the courts are supposed to be for everybody. park and rec is now making a proposal rosy court 1, 2 and 3. here is the hours they break down per week. tennis players get 224 hours. pickleball players get 21. is this treatment of the pickleball community fair and equitable is the question to you? please raise your hand if you feel this is equitable treatment of the pickleball community. i see now hands raised. therefore, as the saying goes, the ball is in your court. what are you park and rec-

>> sorry bill, your time is up. >> what do you do park and rec commission. >> bill, sorry, your time is up. i have emily- >> we need fair access to court 1, 2 and 3. >> i have emily and alice and i then i believe it is airs. >> emily, before you speak, i want to clarify that when we have public comment, the commissioners we are here to listen and receive. we don't participate, so we don't respond. the fact no one raised their hand is kind of unfair. we wouldn't have raised our hands even if we wanted to, so just know the fact we didn't raise our hands is not comment. we just don't respond. we are hear to listen. thank you emily, welcome. >> good morning. so nice to see commissioners. former commission president of

the status of women when i worked for 15 years as department head and worked with general manager ginsburg so delighted to hear patrick lynch's report today. i'm dr. emily [indiscernible] simply here to thank you for your community minded engagement on the peace plaza. al in particular, mary ann cost project manager and beverly ing and are general manager office is essential partners. march 2022, the leadership of the community had a very tough meeting with general manager ginsburg who told us that costs skyrocketed from $25 million for renovation to $33 million and that we had a $8 million problem. this is one of the first issues that came up when i joined the task force but through the work

of our cochairs of the peace plaza and sandy in the audience, we were able to secure in partnership with rec and park and in particular beverly ing $6 million from the state and 3 $3 million from nancy pelosi creating $9 million addition to the budget. there will be a groundbreaking ceremony in april after which there is a a two year period for the construction. our peace plaza committee meetings meet monthly next tuesday. our meetings are open to the public via zoom. we meet with rpd staff twice a month, which is a big commitment so we look forward hosting the commissioners in japantown for the groundbreaking. >> thank you. >> alice and aris and then-

>> good morning. thank you for having this meeting here that joins our communities together. good to see you. i'm alice, i'm secretary for the japantown task force and also on the planning committee for the peace plaza. i want to thank each and every one of you for all your support. we are looking forward to the groundbreaking ceremony. we have gone through a lot of different meetings and the designers have been wonderful. thank you to mr. ginsburg for facilitating many meetings kwr having your leadership team come out. thank you so much. i just wanted to say that peace plaza is different from the regular park. we are going to or designing it so that the community can come together, especially during very important events. we have our cherry blossom festival there and that's utilized when we have a event

coming up, which is sad and happy. we are hoping this plan comes to fruition and we want to thank everybody from the bottom of our hearts. thank you. >> thank you. >> aris and [indiscernible] >> good morning commissioners. i want to thank you for coming out to our community and i was at the ceremony where our honorable london breed did honor one of the commissioners for women month. i am glad so many department heads are here. ultimately we want to know how we can partner with park and rec as a community. as you gave your report, this is the hub. one of the last hubs of the african american community in western addition from all the destruction. the lower fillmore park where you reopened again. we have lot going on, but the

sports and everything in our partner with jim with aquatics, brought the olympic team out and they swam. we do family day every year. black family day, so we have several things we want to be in part of and when you first opened back up with our center director [indiscernible] and she was wonderful. [indiscernible] we have another director which we are working with now and she has been great. tara has been great for us. it is not hard. it is hard to fill shoes in our community center, so she has been great at it, but we want to know how we partner with park and rec as a community. you had a program but we want to do programs. we want to do sports and so ultimately how does the community partner with you?

and ultimately now with state parks looking to join forces and bring community to parks and our wonderful general manager, how do we put all this together? that is a question and hopefully somebody can answer that. >> thank you. >> i have catca and gale. >> hi. i was [indiscernible] i chose to build my life and build my family. i live [indiscernible] presenting a group of parents and we have a question to ask. before i say that, thank you for your news letter, it is a inspiration for my family and a reason we are not moving somewhere else. people are saying, sf isn't a good place to raise a family. i think you are contributing to making it a better place.

my question is, why-i see the-a lot from the aquatic department which is great. the question is, how can we improve access to the pools? increase the hours and the days? i do not understand why we cannot go on sunday to the swimming pool. i understand people need time off. the first question, why sunday and monday are closed and what can we do as citizens, parents to help and the other question is regarding the swim lessens. they are also very rare and scarce and it takes a [indiscernible] water safety of our little ones and what can we do to improve the access and yeah, i don't know [indiscernible] i happen to be

thin meeting. i hope someone will respond to me or someone explain the procedures, but thank you. >> we don't respond to public comment but you are correct, we have a lot of aquatic staff here, so i'm encouraging my aquatic staff to meet with you after you get off the dais and talk through some of the issues. >> fantastic. thank you. >> alright. gale. >> good morning everyone. my name is gale heart, born and raised in fillmore san francisco. this gym was my second home. i used to sleep here. my mom used to call my sibling and say get her out the gym to bring her home. that is how much i love fillmore and hamilton rec center. i'm a owner [indiscernible] a small mobile business and i just am here today to see how can park and rec have a space for black business owners who

give back to the community. i apply, i submitted everything, but i keep getting denied, so i just want to know, can you provide some space or let us have conversations so where we can have some financial stability, especially for the black businesses that give back to the community? that's all i'm here for. thank you. >> thank you. i think we just have one raised hand on the webex, so why don't we unmute the caller and we will be at 15 minutes chair, so move on to item 5. there is another opportunity for general public comment later in the meeting so you can stay or join the webex. if you can unmute the person with the raised hand. >> can you hear me ashley? >> yes. >> eileen bokeen with speak,

sunset parkicide education and action committee. the following are comments at the city capital planning committee meeting march 18. commenting on the rec and park cip for capital planning purposes, there appears to be discrepancy between the park listed on the rpd website and ones [indiscernible] in the rpd enews of march 13, an article refers to the great highway park, even though this does want appear to have any official or legal status. the great highway park is [indiscernible] even though rpd was the permit holder, the department [indiscernible] oral argument to a member of the board of supervisors. this bos member also cited the great highway park, and went to cite a bench which has been

installed in the median strip of the upper great highway. afterwards based on a public records request, this [indiscernible] installed, despite concerns expressed by dpw. >> your time is up. i apologize. chair, i just was notified we have one additional speaker here in the room who would like to speak during general public comment so not require them to sit for the next hour or so. can we have judy come up? >> yes, because we are at our time limit. >> thank you. i actually put myself in the wrong category. so thank you very much commissioners. good morning to everyone. judy, the president of the japanese american citizen league, the san francisco chapter. our headquarters is located in

japantown, and just like somebody else over here, benjamin franklin, jr. high school is where i went and i swam for pe at the hamilton pool when they were distributing these ugly stretchy gray swimming suits that never stayed up. anyway, i have a lot of memories here. i was raised in japantown, so i'm here to report on behalf of our chapter that we have been working more then two years now in developing a design and proposal for a 2200 square foot mural depicting the history of japantown. the japantown history mural. we have been working diligently for more then 3 years actually to tell that 116 year history of a community and a story.

the proposal is put the mural on the wall, the exterior retaining wall at the peace plaza and this is facing the geary corridor, so that is quite a large space blank since the building that plaza. we will be presenting this final draft design and proposal to the commission as soon as we complete all our public and community meetings, which should be within the next month or two. i also want to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to beverly ing and abigail maher so supportive in structing through the complicated process. we did not know what we were supposed to do navigating the public consultation process, so i want to make sure that we publicly acknowledge their support and their guidance on

this project. thank you very much for letting me speak. >> thank you so much. >> alright. we are now through with general public comment so i close public comment. we are on item 5, consent calendar. i do have one card for consent calendar for public comment, so before i do that, commissioners is anything you like to remove from consent calendar today? >> no. >> i'll call the first speaker, richard rothman. >> hello richard. >> good morning. richard rothman and i wanted to speak on the grant proposal for the upper great highway and i support it. i attended and listened to the board of appeals hearing and won't comment on what the commissioners say, but i'll leave that to somebody else.

i will comment on the presentation by the staff and nobody-they talked about traffic, but nobody talked about north/south traffic. i represent-i'm on the park and open space advisory committee representing district 1, and i'm very concerned about the traffic on the chain of lakes. i invite you all to come out on a friday afternoon after 3:30 and see what goes on in the parking lot of chain of lakes becomes a parking lot for a couple hours, and something needs to be done. i was very disappointed that the staff who from mta, rec and park and the planning did not talk about the north/south traffic, so i want to make sure that when they do the traffic data that they include the

traffic from north/south and come up with a plan of how it to allev the congestion because it has a impact on district 1 residents. thank you. >> thank you richard. >> thank you richard. i have one hand raised on webex for item 5, so please unmute the caller. >> eileen boken with speak. once again these are speaks comments at the city capital planning committee meeting on march 18. on the rec and park commission agenda for march 21 is item 5e with great highway pilot project study, grant application, authorize rpd to apply for coastal conservancy grant of $1 million for great highway alternative projects. however, at the february 15 meeting of the coastal conservancy board of directors,

awarded rec and park a grant of $5.5 million to implement the india basin water park phase 3 under agenda item 15, and at the coastal conservancy meeting february 15, the director stated that the conservancy have their overall budget cut by $394 million and would now be focusing on existing grants. for this and many other reasons, we strongly oppose to rpd applying for the grant to the coastal conseverancy for the great highway alternative project. thank you. >> thank you. i believe that is our last speaker, so i will close public comment at this time. commissioners. >> do i have a motion and second to approve the grant-the action item on the consent

calendar, please? >> i second that. >> i need a first motion then a second. motion. second? >> second. >> all in favor of approving the items on consent calendar stay aye. >> aye. >> any opposition? none. the items are approved. >> commissioners, we are on item 6, the san francisco zoo. >> chris, come on up. welcome. >> good morning chris connor and over see special project at the san francisco zoo. item 1, wolverine introduction lead to play and frolicking. animal introduction can be complicated. the two introduced at the wolverine habitat after edward came out of quaur teen.

edward being the youngster is respectful gaveing hairten harrison. seeks out compangenship as he is still learning how to be a wolverine. both boys seen playing and chasing. harrison is the older from north american subspecious. edward, a smaller one from the european subspecious. during the time harrison is napping edward is climeing trees, rooting through bushes and approaching harrison to get him to play. number two, more animal connections for zoo visitors. many thanks owed to animal care and ambassador team providing zoo visitors opportunities to learn about the zoo animals. this spring the teams have added visitor talks for our newly arrived asian horses and taper and very popular penguin

feedings twice a day. zoo vet provides presentation to uc davis studsants. for the past 8 years san francisco zoo chief vet, provided presentation on marsupials as part of a zoo medicine cours for uc davis vet students a. portion of course involves guest lectures for specific topics focusing on certain spec ease. in addition to the lecture, a day of clinical observation in zoo hospital is offered to the final year uc davis students. item four, the faur lawn move closer to the san francisco zoo. on february 29, the greater far lawn national marine sank ware advisory council held a meeting at the zoo, protects wildlife

habitat and cultural tresource from diverse and bountiful marine environments in the world and area of 3295 square miles off the coast of san francisco in central california. the waters within the sanctuary are a nationally significant marine ecosystem and support abundance of life including threatened and indaiskered specious. works with community stakeholders miles off the coast of san francisco in central california. the waters within the sanctuary are a nationally significant marine ecosystem and support abundance of life including threatened and indaiskered specious. works with community stakeholders through council on priority issues and provides a opportunity for these communities to engage in the management of the sanctuary. members of the council represent many constituents along the central and northern coast including fishing connoisseursation research education and more. finally, spring is bringing a number of events to the zoo. march 20 is world frog day and san francisco residents free

day. march 31 meet and greet with easter bunny, always a popular one, and april 4 is senior morning and april 20 and 21 will be earth fest. that concludes my report. >> thank you. >> thank you. we'll take public comment on item 6. anyone here to comment on item 6? okay. anyone with hands raised on the webex? seeing none, public comment is closed. we are on item 7, the recreation programming update and i will be sharing your presentation from here. >> eric, welcome back. >> good to be back. good morning everyone. well, we are going to do a on my part a hopefully quick spectacular overview of maintenance at hamilton rec and asset manage strategy for the place and throughout the

department. >> i'll do it, just say next slide. >> next slide. so, i wanted to highlight first everybody maybe thinks rec and park about maintenance and parks. but we are very deeply intentionally involved with infrastructure and facility maintenance and it is big business and big deal with all the rec centers, facilities and infrastructure. hamilton is a great example. it is a really intensive facility with both a pool and rec center, and what i will do with the presentation is take you through how the department is grappling with maintaining our infrastructure with hamilton being a great example. next slide. so, again, hamilton last

renovated 2010. it is at that age where we are-it is a great opportunity really to look how we are doing here. next slide. and so, really i wanted to give you a brief primer on maintenance for the department and i bring up this slide. this was a cherished slide, fame said on the desk of former director of operation and it is life cycle slide and every we do in the department comes back to this in terms of infrastructure maintenance. what i will do today is walk through these life cycle stages as it were and how they relate to hamilton. so, you know, our first in this is preventative maintenance and then our routine repairs and maintenance that we do. a category we call major

maintenance which is replacement of systems like plumbing systems or that can mean repaving a area. really components of a entire property. next slide. and so, for those of us from the department in the room, this is a very familiar acronym, but everything all maintenance that is work order based flows through one giant and powerful piece of software. could be use [indiscernible] [laughter] but it actually is focused the people who respond to these work orders are the work centers of the structural maintenance team, integrated pestmanagement and urban forestry. park maintenance, custodial maintenance is different nature.

renewable and so on so not all recorded in our work order database, but these main work centers respond to work orders from the field staff and it is a very in addition to managing the work, dispatching the work it is a great tool of tracking everything we do, and the system is also enabled to do preventative maintenance work orders. in fy22-23, rpd had 17.300 work orders and hamilton that number was 174. next. and then a brief spotlight on pool maintenance, which is actually our mest intensive type of maintenance type of infrastructure maintenance with the department. our station area engineers go to pools every day, checking

water quality, monitor building system, heat, watt, pool heating equipment, all the different building systems that go into it. very intensive, and so that's really for hamilton a great example of what's going on here. next slide. and also with the presentation, since hamilton was built this department made real leaps in how we manage our assets, and as i mentioned before between our structural maintenance, our asset management unit with lydia here, our capital team, there is two really key initiatives. one is preventative maintenance initiative that has been ongoing but is set to initiate and complete soon and other one i'll talk about later is our life cycle database. currently our preventative maintenance initiative is near completion and the goal here

is-has been over the last 3 years to collect every asset in the system that requires a preventative maintenance task and that is about 6,000 that have been collected and these will annually provide essentially a automated reminder system and tracking system of all the preventative maintenance and the maintenance was-it isn't like we were not doing the maintenance before, but this system really gives us a robust system of tracking and managing preventative maintenance, which of course is key to that early diagram we do not want to be shooting ourselves in the foot and not doing that and having of course worse maintenance problems as a result. we are hoping-we are getting close to the final testing of the system within the next 45 days so that is a important initiative that started 6 or 7 years ago. next slide. and so, as a example for

hamilton, there are 80 pieces of equipment that will have preventative maintenance work orders what you see on the slide which is cut and pasted straight from that database, from fire alrm system, pool pumps and filters. it gives a sense of complexity of had maintenance and overall management approach we are taking. next slide. and then in the next phase of the life cycle is our what we call major maintenance and that is essentially replacements of systems that are part of this property and so, recent examples are structural maintenance team really designed and rebuilt the boiler system for the building in 2023. a very intensive effort. next slide. and then recently this year our operations differed maintenance

team conducts projects such as the gym floor refinishing and the children play area resurfacing completed in 2024 and this really corresponds to 13 years later. that is a very typical life cycle for especially the resurfacing. next slide. so, finally, the other big initiative over the last which really started 7 or 8 years ago and lives with the capital team is the life cycle database and this database helps us track the condition of the facility in terms of its essentially what is depreciation of the overall facility over time. essentially, this database has every or most assets within the department cataloged and tracking the condition of the overall property and drilling down as you see on this slide,

each of these separate facility areas, the rec center, the playground, play area, play fields courts, and it gives a powerful tool to examine the condition of the asset, and in this case, it tracks what is known as the facility condition index, which you see that little line there and that is essentially the cost of repairs to bring to new condition, versus or divided by the cost of replacing the whole facility. in this case, a low number is good, which means your cost of repairs are relatively low related to the cost of the whole replacement of the whole facility. so, the good news here is, hamilton is one of our best-one of the best conditions in the department and you can see the playground is zero, which is

actually great. that means it is like brand new and that is partly due to the recent resurfacing. when you look at some of the courts you see they are mid fair range. we have it on the plan to repave those courts, resurface in two years, so as we are doing these system repairs and replacements, that will-we update the database and the database continues to be a living document that reflects ongoing maintenance. i would note for instance our play fieldss. just because something says it is poor doesn't always reflect the thing looks bad or not useful, but it does reflect for instance, the irrigation system, which is older under lying the field. so, with that, that's a snapshot of where we are with hamilton, what it takes to do

things. again, shout out to our team and i may leave this slide up in case stacey has any comments, because the capital team really works heavily with this database and uses it quite extensively. >> thank you eric. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you. stacey bradley, director of capital and planning division. this type of image is something we use a lot to help understand the facilities and so we can look across our system at the various systems at our various facilities we have, so we can plan capital improvements. this is a map of the projects we have in either recently completed or planned in

district 5. i want to show-the redistricting recently last year or two, the shape of d5 has changed. it used to include debose and now includes kezar pavilion and golden gate park and tenderloin and un plaza so little different then it used to be. next slide, please. i'm following up on phil's comments as he shared most of a lot of these capital highlights. fillmore we opened to the public in the end of last year. can see some of the commissioners in the upper right and a lot of the women on my team and the mayor in this as well as our designer, pro bono designer from the community is a woman. this was a very female lead project and it looks lovely. we are very excited about how it turned out and want to give

thanks to the community and to the team who delivered it. including marion who is going to be share about her in a minute as well. another thing. next slide. un plaza, this was a new facility we added for skateboarding as well as exercise and other act ivation. on the left you can see the pyramid, a skateboarder griding oen the new pyramid and then oen the upper right is a exercise class on the exercise area is a fitness space and the opposite side is a space where you do a variety of moves to help keep yourself as fit and possible and the bottom right is where we have some chess tables and we also

included foosball table and ping-pong so a lot of different opportunities to gets out into un plaza and play. that is also open and was opened last fall. next slide, please. this one is marion's project and excited about it and a number commented on the project. the meeting emily noted was one of the first ones when i was in this position having to tell the community that we are $8 million in the hole was really challenging , but we came together as noted to solve the gap and we are going into construction this spring. we are very excited about this project. next slide, please. we also have buchanan street mall. this project is is a full renovation of all the different blocks in the mall. five different blocks, and this is going into bid. we are planning going to bid

award in the next month or so and starting construction later this year. ideally in the fall. this again i think is going to be really an amazing project and transformative for the community. next slide, please. last emage image is across the street with our play fields. we are renovating them. it is currently in design and we expect to plan the renovation as best we can with the play that happens there, so it should happen later this year. it will go into construction later this year, possibly early next. and along with these we also have tenderloin rec center where we are working on the playground in partnership with wu yee and [indiscernible] i want to bring back to the original image with hamilton and facility maintenance. once we take on the major

project it is because the number is close to 1. when you get close to 1-one of the images eric showed, you need to completely redue the entire facility. doing fixes no longer work, so that is usually when we get it, when these numbers are close up to 1. thank you so much and next i will hand it over to [indiscernible] about the visitation here. >> thank you. [applause] >> good morning commissioners. president anderson. my name is--the deputy director of planning for the department. i will be talking about visitation trends here at hamilton rec center and hamilton playground. i will use these two names interchangeably. the data i'm going to present is for entire facility, not specifically the rec center and the data is a new tool we implemented in the last couple must justs called placer and it

uses geo location information from a panel of phones to extrapulate information and provide data on visitation trends across the country. next. in 2023, nearly 105 thousand annual visits occurred at hamilton by roughly 28 thousand visitors, so visitors can visit several times a year, which i'll get into later. weekly visitation ranged from a thousand to 3600 visits. the lower end that spectrum actually happened on weeks with holidays like july 4 weekend or week and christmas week, and then high visitation weeks occurred early march, early august and late september. the highest visitation days were wednesday followed by friday and tuesday.

weekends saw lower visitation then midweek days as you can see. next. so, the average visitor at hamilton stayed for about a hour and a half to 2 hours indicating visitors were well engaged with the facility and spent a significant amount of time at the park. nearly 20 percent of visitors spent over 2 and a half hours on site. we don't have data on specific facilities or activities within the park that were visited. visit peaked in the afternoon at around 5 p.m. reflecting high usage after work and school. there is also high visitation around 10 a.m. then declining and rising in the afternoon again. and the visit frequency was nearly 4 visits per visitor in 2023 indicating visitors came

back. this is pretty similar to other recreation centers which both had visit frequency of 4 in 2023. next. and finally, these two images show heat maps of where visitors came from to hamilton. the left side you see the san francisco and the area immediately south and the right side the entire bay area. within san francisco hamilton drew visitors all over the city with about a third visitors libing within two miles and the rest father away. nearby residents from 94115, the western addition and japantown had the highest visitation and they accounted for about 16 percent of total visits in 2023 and they were fallowed by the outer richmond and west portal, which each

accounted for about 11 percent of visitation. other neighborhoods with 5 percent of visits were the sunset, russian hill, bayview hunter point, ingleside excelsior and crocker amazon. when looking at only reoccurring visitors, these trends are more pronounced. the light purple which indicate fewer visits disappear from the map and orange and red show significant visitation are still very pronounced. as you can see, there were also visits from outside san francisco and throughout the bay area. most of these were one visit per year, but some areas with frequent visitation and higher visitation and are those included, san pablo, south san francisco and daly city which account for 4 percent of all

visit s or 4600 visits throughout 2023. that is it for my presentation. sorry for all the numbers and figures. tried to keep it short. >> thank you. welcome tara. >> thank you. i enjoyed all the data. i also stock our google page and yelp pauj because i learned how to become the manager of those, so i can see how many people are leaving reviews and stow so great to pair with the real life data and see how we are doing. my name is tara peeks, the facility coordinator at

hamilton and had the privilege [applause] thank you. i had the privilege of calling this my home three years. i have been with the department close to 9, part time before i came on board at hamilton, and this really is a my home, and i just really enjoy the community that i get to be blessed to be a part of and serve here at the hamilton rec center. i want to go through as quickly as i can. i was tasked telling you everything we do here, which is a lot. without further ado, our first-our day starts serving early childhood, so we host a program that is now city wide and many rec centers and i don't know who to credit with the clever name we call place to play because it is literally a place to play.

a place nanny, caregivers, mom, dads grands parents can bring the young ones preschool age. i raised my two boys who are now in high school in the city and when they were that young you get the grandparents that wants to buy your kid the enormous riding vehicle and you are like, i live on the third floor walk up and never going to work. we provide activity and chance to literally play, get to know and socialize with other kids. it has been a absolute privilege to see some of the youngsters come back after the pandemic and have their first opportunities to socialize togethers at hamilton. we also partner with the library. they come in some time to help with story time if we can't get the librarians to read. i sometimes read or my fabulous assistant capri. we had young ones or have one now and joy to read. i'm into literacy so we try to fold into play time when we can.

also, serving our youth here at hamilton, we are as you probably know across the street from a middle and high school gateway, so serving the youth is a huge part of what we do here. that starts with tlc after school program under leadership of [indiscernible] not here because she is probably getting ready together for there l the kids who will descends upon this place in a few hours. we serve 28 children from rosa park elementary and the surpriser is chany hail. tutoring and metership and top notch tennis lessens, they have also an opportunity to learn movement through the hearts and line dance company which is arranged by a program coordinator.

there is a jewish school not far by. they had several participants come and really passionate about teaching children to be aware of their bodies and movement and space and she's added a mindful component and it is gained a lot of populearity for 9-12 years olds. i don't know if jimmy is here. it was incredibly important to me, my kids were rec kids from day one. they learned all of their passion for sportss through our rec leagues so really important when we came out of the pandemic to get as many rec teams back at hamilton.

so we started in the fall hosting a flag football team. i had nothing to do with it. i was not coaching out there. they did make the play-offs the first season back. the junior warriors basketball team, we host adteam or 2 or 3 every season since i have been here and also have a pinto sfybo team which moved practice to the kimball side of the field and we also are home to indoor soccer sunday thanks to na te. i come by sunday and it is a bustling place sunday in winter time due to the youth soccer league. for fitness. this past year we updated the fitness room. many probably know our

incredible staff took every one of us together to run emergency child care center during the pandemic and as a result-that is before picture. it was all hands on deck. any room to hook up wifi or lap top. the fitness room became a storage room, catch all when i came in here. i think if you hit next it--not sure-here it goes. so, when i where came on-board it was one of my first orders of business to get our fitness room up and serving the community. as soon as air quality and pandemic protocols would allow, because it is a very tiny but mighty space, so we keep it locked and then people who it is a perk if you have a play pass and i know who uses the space and you will clean up after your self-. it is like a library card, it

is free, but if you don't rerack the weights i'll talk to you. that's our fitness room and we offer zumba classes. right now two times a weekly, thursday mornings and saturday mornings, so actually we did not have zumba today. i recognized a few that didn't [indiscernible] and then, our coordinator recruited julia martin to teach a half yoga class wednesday evenings here. >> i'm it coming. >> yeah. and then for our seniors, i super enjoy working with program coordinator [indiscernible] she has such a heart for seniors and it is a privilege to see so many of threm utilize this space as their own. every tuesday we host a class in the room.

i say this room is a work horse. if is is down for a hour between activity it is a strange day. we have a three hour tango class tuesday afternoon. we also host two saturday line dancing classes on saturday mornings and those i will tell you probably in all of my 9 years of working for the department, that was one of the greatest impacts i always stay with me. seeing the seniors still taking line dancing on zoom, they got it figured out, they kept going during the pandemic and to see them hug and greet each other for the first time coming out of the lock-down that moment was still with me as the importance of community. that gets me up in the morning. i had to give them extratime. i was like take the room. have tea, do your thing. they were so glad to be back. and so, also returning this spring is our long standing

tradition hosting a tea and social club. their group has been so long. most are residents of japantown. the women i was meeting with who is already a retirement age can tell you when her grandmother used to meet at hamilton. three generations have been coming here for that tradition. they have been a little hesitant to return because we are talking about food, drink and karaoke so a lot of things they are very concerned about the levels with illness, but i'm excited they are coming back in a few short weeks. on to the [indiscernible] we do have a very loyal longstanding ping-pong group that comes in here every tuesday and thursday. tuesday night after tango and thursday afternoon and i adjust ed the ping-pong schedule to be earlier in the day thursday

this year and been very pleased to see that we had more women and children participating who are concerned about leaving the rec center at night, so very glad that that has been a success and we also host pickleball three mornings three hour a week, tuesday wednesday and now friday. friday is a new addition. i found out about the challenges of sharing the space at presidio wall. i read it in the chronicle. i e-mailed my contracts and said look, i can't offer a outdoor space yet because can offer another day of pickleball because many are in the richmond and japantown neighborhoods and so this is one of the closest rec centers and so i was like, if i can get you another day in here and that helps you out, i'm happy to do it. they really like their indoor pickleball in addition to outdoor. when the weather is nice i see

a fewer of them, but we also see 30 to 40 tuesdays every week and it is all most as popular wednesday and friday as well. then as of recently, many of you know that gene friend is going to be undergoing complete renovation and their-lost the friday night slot so we invited over here for thursday and quickly got the word outd. that has been going on about a month so hosting badminton as well. on to the pulse and life blood of this rec center and that is basketball. i appreciate y'alls note when we hit peak time. i say i agree. we hit peak time at about 5 p.m. here. kids get off school, we see our middle school and high schooler play ball as early as 3 or wednesdays when i prioritize the gym for them because it is early release, but on every evening you can see basketball

and i drug my right hand [indiscernible] ran away. there he is. i say he came with the building. [applause] please give him a big hand. i could not have come into this space without him. he was the connection. i have now three years begun to know my faces and names and the teens trust me and i appreciate their love, but from day one, he knew which had to call their grandmother to check in after school. you can't replace that institutional knowledge. he holds it down every night. after thyme done playing can toddlers and he comes at 5 p.m. and we couldn't close without him so hand to him and his crew. he is not here yet, because they all check in the evening. this isn't his usual shift.

he is normally here to close. we are open till 9 week days so [indiscernible] that keep this place going and they are hoopers which is a huge advantage because they can sniff out any issue with calls or people. i think we have the greatest basketball team and players that come here and run the floor. they are also respectful of each other, they always know how to share space, but it is probably large part because of the incredsable gentleman who trained them how it is done. i will keep going because i'm taking way too much of your time. our summer camp which aquatic team will share more about started three years ago also when we reopened the facility after the pandemic. it is a completely different brain child then what we had prior to the pandemic. we used to have a dedicated aquatic camp which entertain and delight those that are going to be future swim team

and future life guards. but it wasn't necessarily the camp for person who just need to get swim readiness and safety. we also used to have a camp sports and athletics and all that. we did three years ago is combined forces and created three times the fun. myself and ang league anderson still with the department but moved to another camp now, this was our brain child. we worked together to create a camp. you have noticed we have a gym and pool. we are pretty special. so, each day campers are offered the opportunity to move through play and sports, complete art or stem project and then learn through play at the pool. they get dedicated pool time, which i had not been working part time when my kids were young there was no way to get to early morning swim and separate camp, so this allows the working moms and dad to

drop them off and know we will handle the rest. it has been a really blessing. we used to do it in two week-my slide slid. i had a slide. hopefully hers will show. with the day camp, we are able to host double the number of unique campers this year because we moved to one week for mat so 250 children will be guaranteed at least 4 swim lessens and chance to get in the water and more confidence about their swimability. lastly, but not least, we are only in the community because the community. this is the shell but the rec center are the people in it. we partner with a number of community based organizations to host numerous events. you heard from--did he run away? aris and [indiscernible] brothers for change have been huge partners in the community

and every year they kick off the school year with a bang in september with their black family picnic is and host field day with mo magic which requires all sorts of youth camps from the western addition and allows a field day they can walk to. we kick off the summer with [indiscernible] free concert and bbq with the village project. lead by adrian williams. if you have not met her, she is a force of nature and you are missing out. and each december she also partners with us to host a kwanza celebration on the second day of kwanza. and then, we just last week in this year hosted the community action meeting with members of fillmore united because as you know, things like what's happening to the grocery store,

safeway, access, important the community has a place to talk and exchange ideas and feel heard seen and empowered so proud we are able to do that. and then every third friday we host dinner and movie. free event with the families in partnership with ymca. thank you for hearing us out. that is little something we do here at hamilton rec center. that is my week! thank you all so much. [applause] >> hi. good morning commissioners. ann nice to see you. michelle lee, recreation supervisor for aquatic division and wanted to go over what we do. hamilton pool reopened from renovation in 2010. before hamilton pool was

renovated, it looked like all the other pools. i used to swim here as a youth for the swim team at hamilton pool and then pre-pandemic able to after closing rosy pool come supervise hamilton pool. we currently have two women serving as facility supervisors and 40 percent of our leadership in aquatics are female. so, going in hamilton pool, we are the only pool in the city privatizeed and rec and park facilities that have water slides. we have two water slides. the two water slides as you can see are the yellow slide, which is the serpent slide and orange slide the drop slide. we also have a lap pool, which is 6 lanes and 25 yards each. we have another smaller pool

that is joined with the water slides we call the teaching pool because we can teach multiple lessens which is shallow for the younger kids. we also provide a range of different programs. we have for youth and adults. we also have swim lessens for youth and adults. over a period since july we had about 13 thousand people come through our facility, which about 4 thousand are adults, 3500 are youth. we also serve veterans who are able to show their veteran past. our veteran cards to use the pool for yee free and we have multitude of swim teams that come through our facility. touching upon lessens because it is important for our youth to learn how to swim and be water safe, since july we

offered about 56 lessens. 50 of those are youth lessens and we serve 280 youth within the lessens. then we have been able to have 6 of it the lessens for adults and 36 adults within the lessens. we also host a array of swim teams here at our facility. our largest swim team we do host here is the sf tsunami a lgbtq adult master swim team. they swim here three times a week, they come year-round. they have about 2,000 visits since july 1. our second team that we host here at hamilton pool is the sf seals. that is our year-round youth

swim team. they swim tuesday-friday after school for two hours and they had about 2,000 visits sense july. from january to may we also host a multitude of high schools. it is actually the most popular facility and pool for our high schools to request, which we cannot accommodate every single one. but we do host jewish community high school and they swim three times a week as well as drew high school and wallenburg high school. during the high school swim season, we also do host swim meets for the league which is private school league in the city and host the sfusd swim meets. wallenburg is the home team and

host. the camp runs about 7 weeks. this year it runs one week each session. it has been running for about three years, and we collaborate-we as in the aquatic staff collaborate with the recreation center in providing a dedicated 30 minute daily swim lessen structured to the participants in the camp, and then after they alternate, so the older kids get swim lessens, the younger get their fun time and then they alternate the times. the next day the younger kids will get the structured swim lessens and the older kids get their fun time.

in the three years that we have been running this camp we served about 170 youth. moving from having dedicated aquatic camps and rec camps and combining it together makes it more cohesive for working families to be able to get both the best of the worlds. thank you again for having me. >> thank you. [applause] >> alright. i pleev that is the end of the presentation. great. now we'll have public comment on item 7. i don't have any blue cards for item 7. anyone here to comment on item 7? any raised hands on webex? >> i have a question.

because i also raised my children in the city and was looking for lessens for babies and toddlers, i was particularly interested in the public commenter. i don't know who can let me know. are we having conversations in aquatic about increasing hours, particularly having things on sunday? i don't know who can speak, steve. somebody want to speak on this? michelle, nick. okay. nick. the head man. tell me about any conversations we are having to expand aquatic offerings? >> we are in continued conversation about offerings for the public but there are constraints we are facing. the times that have been allotted are carefully thought through to serve as many constituents. we have a lot of swim teams that generally will take up some of our rental spaces that

happen mostly sunday and mondays. and then we also have some budget constraints. nation wide we run into situations with shortages of life guards and those in those things. never the less, we are always open for conversation and we'll continue to work with community commissioners to create times that work for the public, but the times we have now are pretty stretched thin. >> okay. we have human resources issue first and foremost really? >> human resource issue and budget constraints that-we are working up against those. >> okay. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> any other questions or comments from commissioners? alright. >> thank you everyone. we are on item 8, general public comment. anyone else who didn't get a chance to comment during item 4 or anyone on webex with their

hand raised? okay. seeing none, public comment is closed. we are on item 9, commissioner matters. commissioners, any matters? >> i see none. >> okay. we are on item 10, new business agenda setting. any new business from you commissioners? alright. item 11, communications. >> wanted to reiterate as i said in the past, we get a lot of communications from community members on various things. we collect them all. we read them all. ashley makes sure she flags things sometimes deeper conversation happens between commissioners and members of the public, but we take all your communications seriously, so please do continue. there is a way to address us at the end of the agenda. we have a e-mail dedicated to communications that come to

commissioners and ashley monitors them all and she makes sure i know exactly what is going on at all times. >> alright. we are on item 12, adjournment. >> do i a hear motion and second to adjourn? we will be adjourning in memory of marsha matem and david johnson and we crafted letters and beautiful commemorative certificates for the families. motion and second to adjourn? >> so moved. >> second. >> i hear a second. all those in favor of adjourning with our memorial say aye. >> aye. >> any opposition? none. we are adjourned at 12:20 p.m. thank you everyone. >> thank you. [meeting adjourned]

>> 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1. cut. >> we are here to celebrate the opening of this community garden. a place that used to look a lot darker and today

is sun is shining and it's beautiful and it's been completely redone and been a gathering place for this community. >> i have been waiting for this garden for 3 decades. that is not a joke. i live in an apartment building three floors up and i have potted plants and have dreamt the whole time i have lived there to have some ability to build this dirt. >> let me tell you handout you -- how to build a community garden. you start with a really good idea and add community support from echo media and levis and take management and water and sun and this is what we have. this is great. it's about environment and stewardship.

it's also for the -- we implemented several practices in our successes of the site. that is made up of the pockets like wool but they are made of recycled plastic bottles. i don't know how they do it. >> there is acres and acres of parkland throughout golden gate park, but not necessarily through golden community garden. we have it right in the middle of >> the stewardship program is a (indiscernible) based program. we work with student kind r garten through 12 grade and work with

scrks fusd and (indiscernible) focus on 5 themes. sense of place, plant adapation and animal adaptation, water soil or (indiscernible) depending on the grade level and accommodations the class may need the educators work to adapt the programming to be whatever works best for the class, so they can gain activities (indiscernible) some don't, we try to meet students where they are at and get comfortable connecting in the space and feeling a sense of ownership and safety within their (indiscernible) >> the first component of a youth stewardship program trip will be a in clasds visit where we go to the school, we give a presentation on the natural history of san francisco, we talk about the concept of a habitat, so what does a habitat contain, understood, water,

shelter, space. >> children at this age, they learn best through using their senses, having the real life experience and (indiscernible) students also learn about responsibility and it is a great message for student to learn, if you take care of environment, the environment will take care of you. >> so, when we finally get the kids outside, we have two main components to the field trips. one is going to be the restoration component where we are working on the habitat and parks by pulling out (indiscernible) or maybe watering, and then the other side of our trip is going to be the educational component, which can range from a nature walk with a sensory theme where we are talking about what we smell and hear, to a focus on plant

adaptation and animal adaptations. >> (indiscernible) >> just a great opportunity for students to learn more, connect with nature, and hopefully what they learn from the youth stewardship program they can take with them for the rest of their lives, and they will appreciate their environment more. hopefully, when they appreciate it, they take care of it more every day. >> (indiscernible) >> so every year we open the application up in the fall. interested teachers can apply for a classroom visit and up to two field trips to the city park of their choice. field trips are 2 and a half hours long and like i said, they can happen in any city park (indiscernible)

[♪♪♪] >> i just wanted to say a few words. one is to the parents and to all of the kids. thank you for supporting this program and for trusting us to create a soccer program in the bayview. >> soccer is the world's game, and everybody plays, but in the united states, this is a sport that struggles with access for certain communities. >> i coached basketball in a coached football for years, it is the same thing. it is about motivating kids and keeping them together, and giving them new opportunities. >> when the kids came out, they had no idea really what the game was. only one or two of them had played soccer before.

we gave the kids very simple lessons every day and made sure that they had fun while they were doing it, and you really could see them evolve into a team over the course of the season. >> i think this is a great opportunity to be part of the community and be part of programs like this. >> i get to run around with my other teammates and pass the ball. >> this is new to me. i've always played basketball or football. i am adjusting to be a soccer mom. >> the bayview is like my favorite team. even though we lose it is still fine. >> right on. >> i have lots of favorite memories, but i think one of them is just watching the kids enjoy themselves. >> my favorite memory was just having fun and playing. >> bayview united will be in soccer camp all summer long. they are going to be at civic centre for two different weeklong sessions with america scores, then they will will have their own soccer camp later in the summer right here, and then

they will be back on the pitch next fall. >> now we know a little bit more about soccer, we are learning more, and the kids are really enjoying the program. >> we want to be united in the bayview. that is why this was appropriate >> this guy is the limit. the kids are already athletic, you know, they just need to learn the game. we have some potential college-bound kids, definitely. >> today was the last practice of the season, and the sweetest moment was coming out here while , you know, we were setting up the barbecue and folding their uniforms, and looking out onto the field, and seven or eight of the kids were playing. >> this year we have first and second grade. we are going to expand to third, forth, and fifth grade next year bring them out and if you have middle school kids, we are starting a team for middle school. >> you know why? >> why? because we are? >> bayview united. >> that's right.. >> a lot of water heater in san

francisco look like this may be yours doesn't too do you know it is the post earthquake problems we'll show you to brace our water heater hi, everybody i'm patrick director of quarter safety for the city and county of san francisco welcome to another episode of stay safe today, we'll talk about bracing water heaters water heater failure is a leading problem with earthquake fires you have a a single source you'll have in our home. >> how are you. >> so what are we looking here. >> this is a water heater 3 weighs from 200 to nine hundred

pound during an earthquake that weight will try to move sideways we need to secure is. >> we'll brace the water heater our model home in south of market we'll use a simple kit interest the hardware stores from $20 it the the clean up itself single thing to do what necessary look like. >> this is what you'll find in our kit a inch and a half wide strap to attach to the wall around the water heater and so you want to compare this in some garages around the city and state which is called plumbers tape innovate as strong and we need to brace the water heater if you find this you'll want to

replace it with a streetscaping kit. >> we've put blocking so that way we streetscape the water heater a nice fit it is important and important probation officer mention you need to move our water heater to strap is it talk about to a license plumber they'll come out with a firm once we streetscape those obviously we want to follow the manufactures instructions. >> typically the instructions will require the strap one strap be installed to fit the top third of the water heater and the bottom on the bottom 1/3rd away from the controls if it is above a certain size 50 gallons a third train e streetscape in the middle of the water heater. >> a lot of time i see older water heaters on the ground

obviously explain why this is required and the mr. chairman is required if you pa a water are hereto in the garage gas fumes can accommodate and the pilot light will ignite the fumes so you want to above the grouped level. >> so why not go ahead and he get started with the bracing. >> we're joined with peter from construction he'll help us

>> there you have it for not a lot of 340e7b in a short time we were able to reduce the risks as you can see secure and even in a big rumble bell not going to come losses thank you for watching we'll give is one more big push as you can see with meter. >> hello, i'm captain tom the

coordinator for the san francisco fire department. this oversight is the three and 4 anniversary of loma linda earthquake i want to go over a few things to help you preparation building a supply kit and supply kit does is not have to be put together all at once take your time on the website have a list of recommendation and have enough food and water to feed your family through three to 5 days and purchase the fire extinguisher if you have an extinguisher at hand will stop a small fire from being a by fire it is simple to use check the gage make sure it is charged and then repeat the word task task stand for pull to pin aim the

novel and screws the trigger and successes to the because of fire the last recommendation to look at the gas meter electrical gas lines cause fires in the loma linda earthquake and we want to show you how to turn off the gay only turn off if you hear gas or hear hissing and coordinator nathan will demonstrate how to turn that off. >> with a whenever i'm going to turn it over one quarter turn. so in on holler orientation in turn off our gays meter don't turn it back on get a service call from

>> this meeting will come to order, welcome to the march 28, 2024 public safety and neighborhood services committee. the i with like to thank jim and james for staffing this meeting. madam clerk, do we have any announcements. >> clerk: yes, please make sure so