as needed to insure those facilities remain open to the public and that they continue to enjoy them. ina lot of our system was builtn the 1950's. what we're seeing over this past decade as the aging of those facilities and it was a renaissance of investment. these bonds were necessary to bring the whole system upgrade again. with our past few bonds and in 2012, i think we will be able to say we really reinvested in the backbone of the park system and put in a good course for another 50 years. that being said, we still have over $1 billion worth of need, even with these investments. i think what we have learned is that in addition to park users, our staff are also incredibly impacted by this outdated infrastructure. it makes it very difficult to maintain those facilities in these revenant -- renovations and modernizations are very important to making facilities that we can maintain his lead

and provide a high-quality experience for users. with that, i am going to let our staff talk for us. we have robert and james talking a little bit about these renovations and why they are needed and what they do for the park system. >> difficult to maintain. a new or playground would probably take half the time -- >> ok, let's see if we can get the video up. let's come back to this.

so what robert was saying, and hopefully we can get the video back up and running, but he was talking about playgrounds and pools which are a big part of -- >> now we cannot hear you. >> can you help me? >> try the video again. >> let's try it again. >> we have a pretty much obsolete -- they're not really fun enough for the kids. they did not draw them in. you have to give them a better product. the playgrounds are have, some are probably 40, 50 years old and a difficult to maintain. a new or playground would probably take probably half the time to clean than the older playground. >> all of the city pools are 60

plus years old. every year we close the for maintenance. but every time we close a pool for annual maintenance, we have overruns for time. we find more problems. so when we can rid of it, we can, number one, take care of mechanical closures that have cost us over 20 weeks worth of extra closures this year for the public cannot get access to the we have replace antiquated systems with new technology, like ultraviolet lights for water quality. the other thing it allows us to do which we will show you at hamilton pool is again put in bulkheads and a separate our 100-ft poles into two separate bodies of waters. right now, it is there's one team or inaba, labs or nobody, swimming lessons or nobody else. water exercise for youth, adults, and seniors, swim lessons for all ages, can all occur at the same time that people are able to swim laps and utilize the deep end of the

swimming pool. so we can have a multiple program. last year, 352,000 people visited our nine city pools. the year before that, only 320,000. the demand keeps growing, and our infrastructure cannot keep up as it currently exists. >> james, the head of the aquatics division, talking about the importance of our swimming pools. we have renovated many of them in the past two months. but -- ok, thank you. we renovated many of our polls in the past two bonds but we have three remaining pools that need to be renovated. many of them are some of our highest use polls -- pools, like rossi pool. our community outreach folks here about this the most. calls about one is the pool going to go up again? we have seen unusual delays.

the equipment is old. in is to be replaced. when we can replace these swimming pools, that will be an investment that can hopefully last another 50 years. the two dozen a clean and safe neighborhood parks bond was the first bond in the 10-year capital plan to that is explicitly designed to address these kinds of significant capital needs. not as for the recreation and parks department and waterfront open spaces, but also for public safety facilities and streets. the great thing about this plan is that it is based on the tax constraints. the idea here is that as we pay off old debt, associated g.o. bonds, which can issue new debt to replace it. with keeping consistent with the tax rate. the continues to be our goal. to stay under that kecap silicon the benefits without park users filling an additional pinch in their annual tax bill.

our 2008 bond was approved with some 1.6% of the voters. that is a steep threshold. we have to cross 2/3 but i think that success was based on a deep commitment to consist sets -- consensus-building and collaboration with neighborhood associations and park users. we have climbed up to now passed the 40 mark in terms of public meeting. many which have been very well-attended a back collaboration has been our focus for the 2012 bonds due, as well. we have been meeting with many neighborhood associations to collect feedback and respond to those concerns. that framework, i think, was successful, and we're trying to use that as we go forward with 2012. we have been able to allocate $185 million to park improvements across the system, as you can see how many neighborhood parks we have been able to touch with those funds. all those projects have been on

or under budget. that has been both because we have been extra prepared. we were very conservative in 2008. we allocated healthy contingencies. we had outside cost estimators look at and review our figures. we're carrying those practices forward in 2012. we have also had the benefit of a positive bidding climate. one of the silver linings of the poor economy was we could get very competitive bids on our projects. that is one reason why we want to sustain the momentum of the capital program, because we felt like we can deliver more park for your bu rightsc nowk. these are it -- for your buck right now. these things and accomplished with the 2008 bond. mission dolores park bank, the helen diller playground, a pretty fantastic. mission playground is around the corner for opening this summer. lafayette, we will have a ground-breaking suit. each one of these are reflected in a transformation not only of

the park above -- but of the neighborhood. that is sending you will see as we look at the specific projects we're proposing. several have the potential to not only improve the parks as a park recreational experience but also transformed the neighborhoods they are in. as we have conducted this outreach, what have we heard? what has been the main feedback? actually, it has been pretty consistent with what we heard in 2008. i continued interested in fixing what is broken. not adding new things to the system, new obligations, but really focusing on renovating the facilities that we have and bringing them up to code, making the modern, accessible, and safe and enjoyable to the additional emphasis on landscape. in the 2008 bond, we did a lot of building. a number of clubhouses and recreation centers, and we feel like we heard clear feedback to focus more on the landscapes themselves and the passive recreation features like playing

fields and playgrounds. focusing on our staff facilities. renovating the facilities that we know we have the resources to continue to staff into the future. i think one of the new themes is an interest in having golden gate park, lake merced, and mclaren receive funding again. golden gate park has been excluded from the past two bonds. mclaren has received some investment but not that much. same thing for lake merced. i think there is a real interest right now in investing what we consider to be our city-wide jewels. these are some of our signature parks, and it is time to invest in them again. taking that feedback and building off of this 2003 work, this is the map of the projects we are proposing in terms of the individual neighborhood parks. we have done our best to make sure there is geographic balance in this proposal, and you can see the $35 million in waterfront open spaces that this fund will fund. and a member of the port is here

to speak on the presentation of those projects. all told, these specific neighborhood park sites at up to about $97 million. the rest being allocated city- wide programs. and to the waterfront open spaces. these cost estimates have been vetted not only by recreation and park staff but also developed in conjunction with our operations and field staff as well as using outside consultants to help us review these numbers as well and provide their feedback on the level of contingency we should be using. while we do want to continue to benefit from a positive bidding climate, we're not counting on it. we have increased our corporation -- program contingency 2 $6 million for the 2012 bond. we have learned a lot from the implementation of the 2008 bond. so we have learned about the success of our cost estimating, and we are continuing those

assumptions in our budget. but also schedules. i think in our schedule development in 2008, we were overly optimistic. in this case, we have taken the lessons learned from that process, particularly around permitting in regulatory review. we have provided ample time for our projects to work their way through the city's regulatory system, as well as making sure we allow enough time for a community process where we know there is going to be a complex site discussion to adjust acknowledging that up front. we're also scheduling our projects to allow for a more balanced portfolio at any time. 2008, when strictly down the list in terms of the sequence of delivering the projects. that actually does not make much sense in terms of actual capital delivery. we're trying to balance larger and smaller projects more evenly across the five-year time span. we think that will result in a more realistic schedule delivery and certainly a less crazed

capitol staff. i will spend a few minutes talking about the actual projects that we're proposing. first, glen canyon recreation center. this is a very highly utilize recreation center used every day. this is an older facility. in the gymnasium, there is a place for the floor is pulling away from the wall. you can see a significant gap. improvements need to be made. overall usability, i think we have a great project here. $12 million of renovation. it builds up the master planning process that we conducted this past year with the 2008 bond in the first investment. we heard a credible community support for this particular project. received tons of correspondence about it.

i think is supervisor as well really supports this project. joe demolish a playground, another long-awaited project. decade's worth of planning. and work that we have finally an approved eir. we felt like it was important. we originally applied for proposition 84 grand, which unfortunately we were not awarded for jody maggio. we did get one for hilltop park, but joe amash g.o. did not get funding. we think it is born to make good on a commitment that has been around for a decade, and we're pretty excited about this project. this project will reconfigure many of the parkside features at north beach and add additional iphones space to the system as well. balboa park. we're focusing on just the swimming pool. balboa park has received several other investments over the past years including public land.

but the swimming pool remains as one of the last outstanding large investments to be made at the property. it is located close to transit. it has a lot of potential to be one of our swimming pool turnaround stories, like with hamilton. were the usage goes from ok to 130% more, which is what we have seen that hamilton, proposed renovation. george christopher playground. this is one example of many playgrounds i think we will see highlighted in this bond of what we call a failing playground. george christopher is an old playground. you can see the sand, the dilapidated ceilings it. it is pressure treated lumber, which is one of our main goals with this bond, to remove an address our pressure treated lumber sides. "our intention is to renovate this site and improve disabled access. if the funds a lot, also improve the tennis courts if possible.

sunset playground. west sunset, -- not the playground of that is the name of our property. the playground was completed last year. but we still have several play fields out there. over four play fields that are heavily utilized. our intention is to do renovations that grass fields with grass throughout this bond. this site is very well-utilized across the system and has strong support from the residents of district four and the supervisor. mountain lake park, another failing playground that is important to the community. as was talked about, our list of projects that we started with in 2008, a number of those projects have moved further down on the list or off the list because their needs have been addressed in some other way. with the thought of a-line park, which we thought was a district

two park, after community average, it was clear there was not strong interest to spend the money to renovate the property. we anticipate that as an expert on the two thousand on list, if we have savings left over on the bond, and we're feeling optimistic that those can be used to address that park. in substitution, we propose an mount lake -- proposing mountain lake park. garfield square. another swimming pool. in a dense neighborhood that has a lot of opportunity to come if we can renovate the swimming pool and some of the adjacent lanes to become a really helping improve the flow of that site and open it up in a way that will really promote and enhance user ship. you know, the mission is a sunny area that is family-packed. but because of this swimming pool's condition, it is not as utilize as it could be. with the renovation, we hope it will be one of those transformer the experiences and you will have a packed swimming pool.

this is the mosconi east playground. the rest of that site was done, and for reasons as a unclear about, this corner of the park was never touched. but we have a very outdated playground here, which stands in stark contrast to the rest of the site which is pretty fabulous right now. this is part of our substitution of waiting trade- offs of properties and using it mosconi recreation center's east playground. margaret has a word. this is a large site -- mark berndt hayward. the mob -- margaret hayward. this is adjacent to the 911 center. across the street from jefferson square. it has a heavily utilized playing field. playground, sports, and more. this is one of those parts that we feel like by making an

investment we can transform the neighborhood as well as the park. reconfiguring some of those features will make a huge difference as well as improvements to the fields themselves and the other park features. this is another transformation story. for those of you who have not been there, it is lacks the boeddeker park of chinatown. intensely concrete site. it has an unusual three later tears arrangement. we like to rethink that space and add some green to it. we're working with the community to think about what the best way to use the site in the more enjoyable way with less congestion and more visibility. this budget also includes renovations to the adjacent alley way which we are responsible for, which again causes real public safety issues in addition to the rest of the park.

another pressure treated playground that needs to be redone. 88 access improved. potrero hill. we're not closing the recreation center itself so much as the grass fields and the dog play area which have long been a priority for the community. this is a $4 million project. we felt like it was important to do to the next batch of projects since 2008. this nicely balances out the playground district. rossi pool. those lockers are a very sad story, as is the swimming pool itself. but it is great multiuse site that is heavily utilized to the playgrounds, plainfield, and the swimming pool which badly needs to be renovated. this is one of our highest used swimming pools in the system. those are specific neighborhood parks. as i mentioned, we have heard strong feedback and interest in funding city-wide parks.

to that end, we have allocated a total $15 million for city by parks with $2 million from expert -- let a precipitous $6.5 million for golden gate park and also for mclaren park. clearly, the needs of each of these parts far eclipses the amount of money we are investing in this bond. but we feel it is an important as men in step in the right direction pitta there have been planning process is now completed for each one of these parks. we have seen a solid run map for how to move forward with the community and prioritize the july improvement. i want to stress that point of those apartments will be identified in conjunction with the community. we do not have specific projects called up for each one of these parks. but we do have a good framework from various planning documents that we will use as a starting point for those conversations. mcclaren in particular has been an extraordinary level of organizing. it is made me feel really good to finally see all the different neighborhoods around mclaren

pulling together in support of that park. i think you'll continue to hear the support over the next few months. we have also continued the idea of having city-wide programs. we did is a large scale neighborhood park in renovations, making sure that we balance that with small but nonetheless and just as needed improvements across the system. there is over $35 million worth of improvements among these different city-wide programs, some of which we see in 2008 and summer which new ideas in 2012 -- and some which are new ideas for 2012. playground safety. $15.5 million now. to repair and renovate our most dilapidated playgrounds. we have a lot of data to help us make these decisions with the community, whether to the the san francisco park alliance scorecard, which had looked at her and bring all our playgrounds. we have our proxy evaluations from the comptroller's office as well as the actual community residents experience of those

playgrounds. our hope here is to tackle some of the pressure-treated playgrounds and those that feel like the most dilapidated in the system. each of those innovations often bring with it not only does it lacks is a preference but restroom improvements as well. -- the disabled access improvement but restroom improvements as well. this is showing failing to mediocre playgrounds. from getting f's, d's, and c's on the scorecards, and also our pressure-treated. water conservation. this is another one or this is just a first step toward addressing a larger problem. we had success working with the puc in applying for grant programs for large irrigation projects. we want the matching funds against the next grant round of $5 million to address our least efficient parks in terms of water usage. there are two good examples of

those parts were the irrigation is so outdated that we're losing millions of gallons of water a year. that also translates into money that can be used for other things. forestry. i want to emphasize that the focus of this program is addressing and three mediating hazardous trees that pose a risk to either life or property. in 2008, part of that bond we conducted 83 assessment. we brought on our professional arborist. -- we conducted a treat assessment. we tried to identify those entries which are brought highest risk -- worst condition and also posed highest risk. there were a dozen too high use zones. that is still the methodology we are using. not the methodology based on species election. this is not driven by the natural areas plan eir. this is it's ever planning process to reduce and eliminate

-- this is a separate plan process to reduce and eliminate the problem. we have seen two a fully mature trees all over. not even a bad storm. one of them fell on a car. one of them luckily had no damage. but we had, unfortunately, that incidents in at stern grove and many other parks. that is what this is designed to address. not to carry out or implement the natural area of the eir. here is some of these sites. you can see. another $4 million. an example of much of the first $4 million from the 2008 bond was taken up with the golden gate park and stern grove. now we can spread the program further to neighborhood parks clearly across the city which speaks to the depth of this problem. trails and connections.

in 2008, working with community stakeholders and others, we identified three criteria for the trails selected for renovation as part of the bond program. the criteria were access, conservation, and safety. access, many the trail was adjacent to or connected to a larger trail network. like the bay area ridge trail, for example. conservation, we wanted to use trails to provide access to but also ensure directed access that protected and made sure we were able to protect and conserve fragile habitats. last and most important, safety. many have our trails, supervisor wiener told a story last night about how he went up to billy goat hill and decided never to return because he was stripping down at the site. we were going to mediate those kinds of issues. our goal is that there be a

community process using these 30 criteria. last, community opportunity fund. this is in one of our great successes. just our $2 million awarded, we have been able to work on delivering 17 projects. we have leverage $13.7 million in additional funds. we are encouraged with that because we want to not only repeat the program but expand it. it has been the experience of the cac was of interest in expanding the upper limit of the amount of projects to be awarded. if you are going to look a larger project awards, it makes sense to have a larger program, less than you only get to do two projects. we wanted to increase at a $10 million to continue that program. actually, this slide is outdated. not $20 million. i am sorry. it is $10 million bid up with that, i would like to let the lane from the port talk about

our waterfront open spaces. >> to what could i am the port cfo. the port -- thank you. i am the port cfo. as expressed in our land use waterfront plan which was adopted now a decade ago, we have understood that we need to create continuously available open and park spaces for the public that have sequins and part -- a variety and provide an experience for the public can walk across our waterfront every 15 minutes, have an enjoyable open space. unfortunately, the port has not had the financial wherewithal to deliver on that mission. when the poor receive our assets to the city in 1968, there were quite a lot of deferred maintenance issues.

we had 39 piled supported peer structures. 80 substructures in the water. 245 commercial buildings. quite a few miles of streets and utilities to upkeep. all of that totals about $2 billion in deferred assets because of the port on its own -- assets. so the port on its own cannot do that for the public. very lucky for the port and the city, the rec and park department has joined in 2008 on the first bond, on our first bond. the first time received public support for our waterfront. the map here shows the parks who performed before it 2008, mostly for public-private partnerships. and those are in the green dots. the purple dots show the improvements we are performing with the benefit of the 2008 bond. from north to south, pier 45

improvements, the brand in pierwharf -- the brandon street wharf project is the purpose will open up a mile of water from that were previously inaccessible to the public. for the 2012 bond, the orange dots show what we're proposing. we are requesting $35 million. again, from north to south, additional improvements to pier 43 plaza, really to expand on the improvements we are performing up. construction is under way on that project. this will be a place for residents to visit and for tourists to enjoy beautiful babies. the northeast wharf plaza, a 2.5 acre park in front of our new construction -- a newly constructed passenger cruise ship terminal. it will be a public