funding needed to complete the project. and so that is why we are sharing information about the two additional funding sources. at this time, i would like to ask -- if you have questions, jim miller can come up and discuss a little bit about the current condition of the ramp or provide more information on the scope of work. >> do we have public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners. >> moved. >> seconded. >> all those in favor? >> aye. >> thank you. >> would you like to go to the general manager's report? >> i think i would like to hear what he has to say. >> thank you, commissioners. i will try to be brief -- sorry. >> i was just going to say we're on the general manager's report, go ahead, phil. >> we have a couple of items for people waiting patiently and if you could just hang with

me for a few moments. i am sorry i was late i was an event for the san francisco police league at harding and they were honoring supervisor elsbernd and i was there with a number of people honoring sean and the course is looking great. i told them cart path only, not allowed to drive on the fairways. and our rec and park team is doing a great job as we prepare for the return of the schwab cup in october. eye going to start with golf and tell you a story that you may or may not have seen of the first tee of san francisco, the mentoring youth that partner with. rayon griffin, a student at apg middle school won a national video contest sponsored by wells fargo and his winning

video he talked about how important the first tee has been for him and the lessons he has learned about life through the game of golf and he had the opportunity to play with professional golfer ricky fowler during a pro-am event at the wells fargo championship two weeks ago and this 13-year-old completely undaunted by playing with a professional golfer and stepped up to the first tee and ripped a shot and went on to break 1 00 for the round, becoming an instant hit for the spectators and media. this got national and (music) international exposure and i thought it was worth noting and we're very proud of our relationship with the first tee and this first story shares. >> herb theatre,open rehearsal. >> i had the golf channel on accidentally and saw the whol listen to the rehearsal. thing. >> accidentally. er ] >> last week the california

i think it is fun for them, they see our work process, coastal commission voted our discussions, unanimously to uphold the the decisions we make. project at the west wednesday it is good for us. of golden gate park and perhaps the most vetted soccer field in we kind of behavior little bit u.s. history and the vote means when we have people in the audience. that the renovation project can msk (music) >> we are rehearsing for our move forward. most expensive tour; plus two i wanted to thank you all for your patience in the project it concerts here. will result in additional hours of play and save nearly 6 we are proud that the growth of million gallons of water each the orchestra, and how it is expanded and it is year. the project is part of a being accepted. public-private partnership between the city and city fields foundation which has my ambition when i came on as music director here -- worked tremendously with us. it has and a successful it was evident we needed absolutely excellent work. partnership in our city for our also evident to me that i kids and enabled us to add 2400 thought everyone should know that. new san francisco kids playing this was my purpose. ball and 200 new youth sports and after we opened, team as a result of this work which was

that we have done together. a spectacular opening concert about five weeks after that the economy completely crashed. the theme is soccer today. so earlier this week, the city my plan -- and i'm absolutely dogmatic about my plans --were delayed devin dufty is work with the slightly. hope opportunity engagement announced that we are very i would say that in this very difficult timefor the arts and privileged to be hosting street soccer usa, the west coast cup, which is a tournament to raise everyone, especially the arts, awareness for homelessness and to bridge the good between our it's phenomenal how new century various communities. the has grown tournament takes place in june and includes both corporate where many unfortunate teams and homeless teams from cities across the nation, organizations have stopped. playing and competing with each other. this story got some coverage, during this period we got ourselves on national radio presence; and i think some people were we started touring, releasing cds, a dvd. saying huh? homelessness, soccer and i wanted to bring up the founder we continue to tour. of street soccer usa to tell us reputation grows and grows and grows a little bit more about the and it has never stopped going forward. tournament and show us a short msk(music) video.

rob, come on up. >> thank you for your time. >> come up to the mic. >> the bay area knows the orchestra. >> thank you guys for your time. and i wanted to show you a you maybe take things for granted a little bit. that is simply not the case will go on the road. couple of quick videos. the audiences go crazy. the basis of it is as we talked -- phil was just speaking they don't see vity about these new hours that we we are capable of conveying joy have for our youth across -- when we play. to have more hours to play sports and we feel the same way msk(music) with the homeless. we have youth programs that >> any performance that we do, teaches leadership skills and that a program, we're using the same principles that apply to team sports with that will be something on the program that you haven't heard our homeless population and we before. have folks who come in and we string orchestra repertoire is go into shelters and drug rehab pretty small. centers and teach them job and life skill through a basic i used to be boxed into small repertoire. curriculum. they set 3, 6 and 1-month goals 12-month goals and connect to i kept constantly looking for new repertoire and commissioning new arrangements. if you look at the first of the program you have very early, services. young vibrant mendelson;

>> another update, bay area fabulous opener and then you have this fabulous concerto [pwrao-erbgsz/] the women's professional soccer team in the written for us in the orchestra. is our gift. world league, basically triple air has announced kezar stadium msk(music) as their home stadium and the >> breeze will be competing now and then you have strauss, through july with six extraordinary piece. the most challenging of all. home-games at kezar. string orchestra work. 23 solo instrument, no violin section, now viola section; everybody is responsible for again while rob is loading up their part in this piece. the video about street soccer, the challenge is something that i felt not only that we could we have a couple of staff recognition items that i wanted to share. last week the board of supervisors did take time out do , absolutely cod but wanted . to recognize and thank various

members of our gardening custodial park maintenance staff who went above and beyond the call of duty to get our i can't tell you how aware i am of the audience. beloved golden gate park. not only what i hear but their 4/20 is the date when we are vibes, so strong. i have been doing this for a unfortunately welcomed tens of long time. thousands of visitors who did not necessarily use our parks i kind of make them feel what i want them to feel. as responsibly as we would have liked. and it was a mess. and yet, within probably 24 there is nobody in that audience or anywhere that is not going to know that hours, 24 hours, sharon meadow particular song by the fourth note. looked as good as new and that is a total tribute to our staff and thank supervisor london breed who took the time out to recognize our team at the board. and that is our encore on tour. and it's this kind of by the way. dedication and continued efforts, which are why this week travel and leisure magazine named golden gate as i am proud to play it, we are from san francisco. one of the world's most we are going to play that piece no matter where we are.

beautiful city parks. rob am i done stalling are are you ready? >> i'm ready. this is the portable street soccer that we hosted in washington, d.c. and last year we held it in times square new york. this is an intro to the event in 2010. [ music ] >> what you guys are proving is that we have - [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] it's amazing what you guys do. >> we gather in this community and that is what this country is about, showing off in the nation's capital. that is what we are doing with street soccer. [ music ]

>> to raise each other up and get people off streets. >> i have gotten housing and i am no longer housing. >> they are doing a lot to help out homeless youth authentic other homeless people. >> what can i say about these guys? it's growing and i hope it gets bigger and bigger and i hope more people become aware of it. >> it's gaining momentum everyday.

it brings local leaders and local citizens together with our national key marks around the country all coming together for a great cause. >> it's another way, a creative way in order to get people off the streets and get them involved with something positive. it's going to help their self-esteem. >> they know they are respected and there is dignity and it can change their lives. >> so this event takes place june 22, 2013 in jutin herman plause plaza. and we'll have those programs competing as well an open tournament for others to compete in. you know everyone thinks that the homeless person is the person begging for money and

you see people in uniforms helping each other out and they are sweating and runing and really challenging people's stereotypes of who the homeless are and what they are capable had? >> thank you, rob, from a park's perspective, so much of the conversation that we have about homelessness is really focused on the regulatory and kind of the negative and enforcement and when rob presented this opportunity to us, we really seized that we have a motto here that everybody deserves a chance to get out and play and here is an opportunity to do something positive for truly our most vulnerable community in san francisco and to promote health and competition and it follows along the lines of rec and park commitment to have positive change through sports. you see that in our programs and we're really proud to host that and grateful to have soccer usa for wanting to come to san francisco. thank you, rob. >> last, but not least, he has been waiting patiently and it's

time for our employee quarterly recognition and i want to bring up mark, who is the proud recipient -- mark, if you could just sort of stand right there. >> item. [ applause ] >> mark is very clearly popular in our department and that is because he makes everything work. mark is our information systems business analyst extraordinaire and so much of the front-end programs that we are able to provide are really dependent upon our technology and our systems. and you know, i have said often that our goal is to make the recreation and park department the most technologically robust and savvy and innovative parks department in the country and it's great to say that, but without people like -- without people like mark, it really can't happen. and so mark is this quarter's employee recognition certificate and i want to read

the accolades that his own colleagues -- this is a peer-driven award have said. mark pitts who started with the recreation and park department's misdivision in 2007 is the chief designer of our computerized business processes and data management for all of the different areas department. which has the benefit of saving recrea aolumbialy me d money of review of several years of at&t bills noticed inconsistent and inaccurate billing that mark proceeded to connect through the central bill system and ended saving recreation and park annual costs. in the last couple of years he has accomplished considerable innovative work, including create a revenue tracking system for the finance division, creating a cost tracking system and internal payroll system for over 650 temporary recreation staff weas move to our new rec model, the burden has been immense. the class system, creating a

tracking system between recreation and park and dpw and working on upgrating our total managed asset system, which all of our our deferred fix-its, our work orders in the system. mark has been in the middle of it all and we lost mark for a while. mark was a very highly coveted free agent, and another department lured him away, and we all were very sad. but then kind of like -- i don't know, cliff lee returning to the phillies, give me another example? he missed his family at recreation and park. and he came home. and it just show his true dedication to our mission and for that mark, we want to give you this certificate of appreciation. [ applause ]

>> i don't have much to say, it it all sounds excessive when it's enumerated like that. thank you. >> thank you for everything. [ applause ] >> we will conclude the gm report and jamie is going to put that up there and then we're done. [ music ]

[ music ] >> the parks are the core of the city and really what makes the city great and i am very proud that everyone has been able to accomplish it and i know we'll keep making things better and better and better and it's one of the true crown jewels of our system and so congratulations. [ applause ] [ music ]

[ [ [ music ] >> it has been well over 100 years and an incredible philanthropic organization that is focused on giving back and that really means something, something very important and something very serious in the parks world, where we are charged with stewarding over 4,000 acres of open space and 220 parks all around the city. we can't do it alone and we can only do it with the help of companies like yours and individuals like all of you.

[ music ] [ music ] >> and that concludes the general manager's report. >> thank you very much. >> is there any public comment on this item? being none, public item is closed and we're on item 13d. whing to make general public comment? this item is closed. commissioner items, commissioner matter s >> nothing matters. [ laughter ] >> no, commissioners' matters. public comments? being none, this item is closed. >> new business and agenda-setting, is there any public comment? being mon, this item is closed. communications, public comment? being none, this item is closed and we're on 17, adjournment. >> move. >> second. >> moved and seconded. so moved. [ gavel ]