[applause] >> could you stand up for a second? we're blessed to have racks in our unit. i is want to say get out and play. >> because it is national parks and recreation month, we are going to show you not just one video today, but to. this is july in your parks.

>> how long do you estimate you have been volunteering? >> about two years. >> what keeps you coming back? >> i just wanted it to come to fruition. >> are you volunteering right now? >> yes. >> how do you feel about volunteering? >> it's fun. >> it helps the community? right on. he makes it a better place. >> that was july in your recreation and parks department. i would like to thank our staff who does such an amazing job

putting these videos together. jim wheeler said a picture is worth a thousand words and there were lots of pictures worth several thousand words. a little taste of all that happy enjoys in our parks. that concludes my report. >> commissioner harrison? >> a couple of months ago, i was curious and brought up our outreach policy and i was wondering when that -- where that is and what we're going to get a report on that? >> we did bring it to you several months ago for discussion and it is alive and well and being implemented all the time. >> i would like to see it. >> sure. >> our capital report was in april. this is july. do we have an updated version? >> we do our capital reports --

do you want to speak to that? >> commissioner, that's a good point. we will have an updated july report in about two weeks. we have had a shortage of staffing in financing. one of our members responsibility -- one of our members responsible for that has left and we have been struggling to keep up with that in her absence. we are looking to replace that position, so this should be a short-term laps. we look to have both the july monthly report as well as the quarterly report we provide to the general-obligation behind oversight committee will also be ready in the next two weeks. both of those documents should be ready for your review. >> i attended along with commissioner buell and commissioner harris and a community meeting at one of our community centers.

i heard about some of the work the center was doing on the advisory council that had been put in place there. it has been some time since the commission has heard a status update in terms of how the council was doing and how the policy is and how many councils have actually been appointed and are functioning. i would like to see if we can schedule on the agenda and update on the recreation advisory councils and so that we as commissioners know when is going on at the recreation centers and what kind of policies are in place to report back to the commission as to

what kinds of decisions and discussions are happening at that level. >> we would be happy to schedule that. >> we do have two members of the public. >> good morning, commissioners. like you, we have been waiting for a capital report for a long time as well. the reason i am here is because in regard to capital, as you know, sunnyside as a second surplus we are trying to make our way through and we are put in a situation again where we have yet another report and we have yet another, i should say for the first time, a package being sent to some contractors for pricing of our items and

once again it does not reflect what we have been talking about for years now. we received what we thought was the lost cost analysis from the capital division director. it's this. the package that was sent to the contractor is this. it does not reflect what this says. once again, here we are in a situation where this does not have to come before you. we have no recourse and no way of having this explained to us and we have nobody to get too to be able to say to them, wait a minute, how does this even happen? each time this division has put up a report of any sort that talks about money, and believe me, none of them say the same thing, we have responded back and sent hundreds -- spent hundreds of hours responding and we have not once got a reply. we are being told this does not have to go before you because it

is a j.o.c. we started out with $150,000. i think we should have a public opportunity to discuss this. from everything that we know, these so-called -- the so-called level of detail is not looked at or examined by this division, although the project manager gets the opportunity to do that. this project manager has not uttered a single word to us in person in two or three years. she will respond to an e-mail only if she is instructed to do it and she charges us for it. how do we have this discussion? we scheduled meetings again count -- to get -- that it canceled. we are told there is some opposition to what you want. we examine that opposition to the sunshine rules and explain how this is not a legitimate complaint. we go out into the neighborhood

and talk to the movers and shakers and they respond in numbers in this way and yet we have no way of getting this information back to you guys so we could have an informed decision. we're not asking for much of this money. the money has been spent on mistakes. exclusions, deferred maintenance, things that have been ignored for years. now the package being sent to the contractor has even more of those. [tone] we need this process to start over with us. we are the friends of group and we know what's going on. we need a process. thank you. >> thank you. >> i don't even know how or where to begin. because what we are asking for

is not something that is difficult and it's not something that should have been difficult. it was something there was promised to us september 3rd, 2009. we talk about joyful things. you have heard him use that phrase. these are things we deserve as residents and i have no idea why two years later we have to come to you and asked that we actually get the things we were promised. not things that were pie and the -- not things that or pie in the sky. we were told specifically that the fence was falling down would be repaired but it would not come from our surplus body. that has changed. we would be willing to do that and are willing to do that if

somebody listened to us when we say we can find the money to do this, we just don't need to spend the money you are willing to spend on this list of deferred maintenance because we do not need as much as you have listed. we do not need seven garbage cans when five are more than enough and five are what we were told we would get. i don't mean to get into the migration, but that's the kind of thing that has never been responded to. there is no indication to us that anybody has read the paper work we have provided. i don't know because i get to the point where i even wonder if maybe it's a language problem. maybe the english i know is not the english -- let me give a prime example. on july 5th, the list has gone

out to the contractor for pricing. we expect to get the proposal this week. yesterday, we got this e-mail -- we are in the process of negotiating prices with the contractor and will provide final pricing when it becomes available. given how busted everyone is, it may be a couple of weeks before we have the final prices. to might term, negotiating means this is what you have been told will cost, this is what you think it should cost, this is what we're going to end up with. meeting, to my mind, this figures are out there, they're just not willing to be shared with us until it is too late for us to have any say in it. that's not the first time it happened. i'm sure the process continues and will be the last time it happens. [tone] i hope the commission can have more say in terms of actually getting answers to what should

have been very simple questions. >> thank you. >> is there any other public comment under the general managers' report? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i have been hearing this complaint for a long time now. the same to folks. i'm wondering why there is a problem and how this can be resolved. >> maybe i can step in here for a minute and can tell you there is a meeting scheduled today and at least from my standpoint, to inquire on this with the folks from sunnyside. my hope is we're going to move the ball are -- move the ball forward and try to understand it and come to some understanding of what is the best way to proceed. >> thank you. >> we are now on item number four, general public comment, up to 50 minutes. at this time cobbers of the public may address the commission on items of interest

to the public with the subject jurisdiction of the commission and do not appear on the agenda. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when we beach that -- when we reach that point in the meeting. >> [reading names] if you could come up, please. i put the men as received. >> that is what i get for filling up the card so efficiently. i do have other things i wish to talk about. since i am both a member of [unintelligible] and a member of the sunnyside association, i want to give an example of what i feel is a failure within the budget you have passed.

when the presentation was made, the apprentice partners at how the department had worked for the union had come up. i asked at time because it was something that was noticeable to me -- there was a lack of how we involved the volunteers. you saw that on the video. there is a great reserve out there of goodwill toward parks because people want to feel a part of them. this is not just theoretical for me. last sunday, the mayor came and cut a ribbon for the circular avenue ribbon park. that is not rec & parks property, it was dpw property. neighbors spent a total, because we had to document it, we know over 810 hours in the last year were devoted to maintaining that three-quarters of a mile

strip of land. that is a hundred 10 hours our neighbors donated to the city to maintain a piece of property. i don't know why -- i'm not saying you would have gotten all 800 hours, but i'm saying that was 800 hours the community gave. that was zero hours to rec & parks because when we ask, we have to be approved by our resident advisory council, which is not residents of our neighborhood, it is residents of glen park because we are specifically negated from having a say in advisory council because our park is more than 1 mile from the recreation center itself. i appreciate the fact this

solution was offered and i could become a memory -- become a member of the advisory council. this has not ever been about me. i don't need another meeting to attend and another advisory commission to be part of. what is endemic to me is what is happening is the people who want to use my park, by neighbors, don't have a say in the programs being offered or, because, rightfully so, if you are involved in the glen park recreation center, you should be the people who use glen park. just as my part, because we happen to have a clubhouse, it should also be allowed to have say and what goes on. [tone] thank you. >> good morning, crashers. i'm with the golden gate park preservation alliance. i would like to inform the general public about the

revisions to the open space development known as the rose. this is a policy document that will cover planning for development and the direction all san francisco open space will be taken in. this includes our parks. this is now be reviewed by the planning department. i recommend the public go on line and read the document. we are working with a coalition of neighborhood groups to submit comments. if you are interested in other comments, contact us through our web site. thank you. >> good morning. i am one of two owners of the

tennis partners. my other partner is unable to be here. he is a national competition coach and he is traveling with some of the players in that program. i am here specifically to talk about the process currently underway for management of the tennis pro shop and concession services at the park. a process to give a quick recap from my perspective where we are is that we conducted a process. three firms submitted a bid and proposal underscored by a panel. our firm finished second by a very narrow margin. after looking at the results of understanding the requirements of participation, i noted in believed the other teams did not meet the minimal requirements to participate in the process. having participated in the many public contract awards with the city and county of san francisco, i believe those

minimum requirements are very important for a team to demonstrate they can actually execute on the proposal in front of them. i am here today to request the status of where we are in that process. it seems to become stuck. the second thing is to urge everyone to let's make a decision and move forward. after i wrote a protest letter, i stated the other firms did not meet these them requirements. staff then came back and certified every one of the teams minimum requirements to see if they met them. they went to a very intense process with their team and we demonstrated through written communication from the director of activities at the country club that scott howard, our director of tennis does have the necessary experience. briefly, the experiences you have managed a program with at least 3 tennis professionals that you have two or more years

of experience and in demonstrating this, you meet the requirements to participate. we confidently assert we meet the minimum requirements and we do not believe the other teams do. i think staff would have moved forward already with the other team if it were the case. my request is you consider a request to move forward and, if it is true the other teams do not meet those requirements, please allow us to move forward into great things at golden gate park. >> thank you. >> good morning. i wanted to speak alit to the meeting that was held on june 29th and many of you were there. they broke us up into little groups. this was the town hall meeting. it was occupied by a lot of

least two to one rec & parks staff, which was not a good thing. the striking thing to me about was the questions they had us discuss were submitted by the department which i thought was odd. more so, once the breakout groups were finished, it was staffed it was reporting. these tables were occupied by more staff and public but the one i wanted to speak most it was the last question which asks this. i understand this was a two-part question. what would be the best approach for the department to support friends of groups when conflicts arise between two groups serving the same part? those are very loaded questions. the first part is how was it the department to work more effectively with friends of groups.

the second part is when there are conflicts in the neighborhood. i have been at this every day for my life since 1986 when i moved into my neighborhood and found a war zone in my part. what i have found is the problem is not the residents. the problem is of the neighbors. these people come out of their houses and i showed you petitions who are the movers and shakers in the neighborhood. these are people who come out all the time and to work in the neighborhood. they are not the problem. they're reasonable people. most of the time they're scared to death or they are disappointed. they are afraid to pass off somebody or they are tired and worn out and don't want to do this anymore. when there are conflicts between the bread groups or residences, i have found it is because no solutions are presented. this just drags on add-on and i think sunnyside's renovation of

the surpluses are a prime example. no answers, the solution. rec & parks will make administrative decisions or clarify policies. everything is in conflict and after three years have gone by, the neighbors start bickering. then nobody could work with anybody and when the department wonders why there is so much anger out there and wide ballot measures are being presented, it's because they're disappointed and tired and want to stop all this and find a better way of doing things. the issue is not with the residents. the issue is how the department going to [tone] >> fran taylor