wanted to reiterate how important this substation is in the area. i would like to think many of the partners that have been involved. many of our community organizations and merchants on sixth street. i think people are excited because a lot of work has been happening in the mid market area to increase safety. we have specialized resources and foot patrols to help monitor and many as our community organizations have really come together to organize how we can do better organization and discussion. the neighborhood is very excited. this is like a promise that is being fulfilled by the city. we are excited to see community policing happening on sixth

street. >> same house, same call. without resolution, this is adopted. >> item 27, resolution authorizing the sheriff's department to retroactively apply, except to expand $249,000 in funds of the office of justice program to reduce recidivism. >> in house, call? this item is adopted. >> item 28, or intercepting an error vocable offer for improvements on real estate. >> same house, call? this is passed on the first reading. >> items 29 through 31 pertain to the san francisco museum of modern art expansion. fire station number one housing and relocation project. item 29 is amending the zoning map.

item 30 is the ordinance of ordering the summer vacation of hunt street. item 31 is the ordinance amending the map of the community facilities element. >> on these three items, if i can ask supervisor kim, we need to continue this until january? >> yes, my apologies. i would like a motion to continue item 29, 30, 31. >> i would like to continue until january 10th. >> is there a second any motion to continue. colleagues, without objection, these will be continued. item 32. >> resolution approving the lease the property near the intersection of phelan and ocean avenues.

>> same house, call? this ordinance is approved. item 33. >> ordinance amending this act as the minister of code to establish a sentencing commission, set forth the purpose, powers, and duties. >> our sheriff elect and the current share of have some concerns about the legislation. there are ideas about how to address these concerns. i would like the opportunity to move this. i move that we continue this until january 10th. >> ok, this item has been moved to the 10th unless there is any objection, this will be moved.

why don't we go to our 3:30 special accommodations? >> i think you know that myself and supervisor avalos sit on the air quality management district. every year, we have a special competition among employers. this is called the great race for clean air. this is where they compete to produce the amount of carbon and our era and to help clean air and could practices among employees and workplaces too encourage car pooling, public transit. and we have stephanie anderson has worked with our boards here and a number of great

businesses and leaders that have really helped us to clean up the air in san francisco. we saved over 156 tons of co2 in the air this season and this has been a great obscenity to challenge employers to find alternatives to commute by car loan. all of these savings based on the employee community. the vehicle gas mileage and the number of miles traveled i think miss anderson might explain this more. the highest savings per participant and the highest of employee participation. the winners are chosen by county. all three of these companies, once both that the county and bay area level and they will each receive two trophies for this achievement.

i just wanted to say if the winners can come forward and announce for the savings per participant was her rare contractors -- was hererra by contractors. excepting the trophy for the creative video agency is the office manager. we have this senior benefits analyst and the senior staff and firm until health specialist. at the regulations to our great race for clean air winners. thank you for cleaning up the air and our area. miss anderson. [laughter] -- [applause]

>> we want to thank everyone who participated. there are a lot of companies to route san francisco. many departments participated and saved a tremendous amount of co2 by encouraging their employees to find people to ride share with. we are excited to presented trophies to these folks. we did work on getting clean air. thank you for your work. o

>> our next accommodation will be to someone that all of us know and love. i would like to invite --, if you could come up to the podium. [applause] for those of you that have not had the opportunity to meet her, she has been working for the city and county of san francisco since 1982. most of us were in grade school, some of us were in kindergarten. this is remarkable given that you don't look old enough. you were the first person we met when we joined the board of supervisors. you not only served the city and county of san francisco, you served this branch for 21 years. i have a proclamation from the

board of supervisors. the performance of your duties and responsibilities have been exemplary and i will not read all of the many responsibilities you have but whereas you'll recognize the importance of working as a team and offering us assistance, where as your knowledge and healthfulness will be genuinely missed upon your retirement, let it be resolved that the board of supervisors and the office of the prone and board, weeks blessed are very severe -- sincere appreciation for your talents, skills, for the manner in which to carry at responsibilities. we extend our very best wishes upon your retirement. congratulations. [applause]

>> before you speak, i would like to ask the clerk of our board if she would like to say a few words. >> like all of us, it is very important. i know that her husband is here. the board of supervisors and the office of the clerk of the board has been a family for you and i started working with you in 1995 and never really enjoyed the true pleasure of being your colleague. we thank you for error all of your involvement.

we will miss you. is not often that we find someone that we can share a personal moment with. you demand to see the photograph. now, it is your turn too enjoyed the vacation time and the leisure. when you come back to visit us tomorrow we insist that you can show us the photos. we miss you and we wish you well. much health in your retirement. [applause] >> i am glad to be here in front of my family.

i'm happy to be in front of my family, colleagues, friends, and being commended by the hon. supervisors. my mother and father must be very proud of me. they would be very honored. more than four years ago, i left where i was born and educated to start a new life and america had a very nice to me. i think you for allowing me to fulfill my dreams. i am grateful to work with the city and county of san francisco for almost 30 years. it has been an honor and a rewarding part of my life. i make a lot of --

all of you enrich my life and been so much to me. i would like to thank all the supervisors for your support and appreciative my service. i want to thank you, angela, for being a good boss and also a good friend. i would like to thank the deputy directors, managers, colleagues, and friends who are always there for be. all of you make my job so wonderful, rewarding, and enjoyable. i also want to thank the supervisors and aids who i had the honor to work with. it was hard to make the decision. retirement has been fantastic. i'm enjoying time with my dog,

my best friend. i am so lucky. i am also spending good quality time with my only sister and my two brothers who retired ahead of me. we just got back from a trip to china together. thank you all, you will always be in my heart. [applause]

>> ok. that concludes our special accommodations for the day. why don't we continue with the rest of our agenda? why don't we continue to our committee report item, item 42. >> at of 42 was considered by the special services committee and was forward it to the board with that recommendation. this is an ordinance amending the park code to require the recreation and park department to have a long-term agreement for the national park service.

>> thank you, president chiu. >> i am a father raising two kids in an area of great environmental challenge. i have a son who is very inquisitive. they would ask me about some kind of creature, whether it is extinct. he has asked me about dinosaurs. he has asked me about saber toothed tigers. last night, he asked me about by sen. i do know they exist but they don't exist how they used to exist. -- she asked me about bison. we have endangered species in the bay area. we have them on the bay. we have to ask how we will be able to a protect endangered species and make sure that we can offer the type of recreation that all this can enjoy in this city. we have great challenges about that. in fact, we have a budget

deficit that is about $10 million, $11 million a year and at great risk to our ability to carry out programming. we have lowered a lot of programming in san francisco. we have cut staff and raised fees paid to we have made it difficult for people to get involved in our rec and park's department. one area that we have a great challenge is at sharp park which is in pacifica. the golf course happens to be the habitat for the california red legged frog as well as the san francisco order snake. these are two creatures that we don't know how well they were so but over the next many years. -- they will survive over the next many years. i believe that the city has been looking at options and the rec

and parts department has done some due diligence on how to protect these species. they have not ruled out looking at the potential closure of the park. i have not been one who has been very shy about what my opinion is about what should happen. i think it should be close to protect the species. i am just one person. there are other people who have different points of view. i think that we should offer a range of possibilities on how we could program the space of shark park whether it is golfing, partial golfing, may be a nine hole course, or maybe no golfing whatsoever. that a full range is something that's the intent is behind this legislation. that is what we will be discussing today. i do believe that as the board

of supervisors, we have the responsibility to protect our environment, how we interact with the in farming, and to protect the creatures. we also need to make sure it that our rec and park department can carry out all of its functions. over the past five years in pacifica, the course has cost the city $1.2 billion -- $1.2 million over budget. over the last year, it was $90,000. we are not fulfilling our response ability to all of the other services. -- our responsibility to all of our other services. we want to up programs that will meet our financial responsibilities. to give an overview on this legislation is and how we got here, the golf course is owned

by san francisco but it is located in pacifica. it has provided us with numerous challenges over the years. the board has played a role in investigating a lot of these issues including leadership that will be provided by ross mirkarimi. the golf course was built on wetlands and they have played significant restraints on golf management. we are responsible for maintaining a sea wall and protecting endangered species, and for paying the bills. old and new studies by the city and outside experts regarding equity, financial investment, and permit the production have questioned the sustainability of the current actions at sharp park. this will inform the best

decisions of land use in san francisco as related to sharp part. -- sharp park. it allows policy makers to review a partnership to compare against other options. as the city continues future land use at sharp park, it is imperative that we know what we are investing in for both the short term and the long term. it is also imperative that we have options to review, including a popular and potentially problem-solving option of a real purpose sharp park in partnership with the national parks service. this remedy is the flaw in the decisionmaking process for land use at the park for ensuring that the board has the complete picture to review the option. note the option, not the mandate, to pursue a partnership

with the national park service. the ordinance ensures that before we commit to a long-term plan to invest hundreds of thousands or tens of millions of dollars into we know what options exist to best address the concerns of the residents, such as recreation supply and public access, and strategic financial investments. this ordinance does not mandate a particular land use outcome. in fact, rather than having a day -- than having a -- say we are going to end golfing, it offers us an opportunity to create a long-term agreement with the city for sharp park. it also determines it is not just going to be a single option that says we are going to close the park. there are a number of options

that this ordinance does provide. whether it is partial closing of the park or no closing whatsoever. this ordinance allows san francisco to continue having conversations with potential partners other than the gtnra other than san francisco county. it makes sure we can compare options side-by-side, including the partnership option. the amendment is based on public input from the san francisco public research association. it proposes that any agreement between the city of san francisco and the national parks service is subject to review and approval throughout all -- for applicable public processes, including a review by the board of supervisors. it is now a collaborative and more deliberate process than the one i embarked on a few months back.

the national parks service has indicated their interest in working towards a new public park. in order for the city to engage the -- in order for the city to engage, this ordinance is needed. i want to talk about the amendment as a whole that i passed out before you. it changes some significant language. i do not think it is significant -- is significant enough to carry forward to continuation. what this does is it deletes the language that says "shall offer to close at sharp park golf course." we are deleting that and adding "which should include the option of closure for the sharp park golf course." this should be included in negotiations but does not foreclose the other option is to

be explored with the national parks service. on section c, a few minor changes we have done at the request of the national parks service. there are other clarifications that are part of this amendment as a whole. i want to make some other clarifications about this legislation. the original legislation that i have introduced was done on september 6, three months ago. would provide a substitute legislation on november 22, just a couple of weeks ago. that did not require a 30-day continuance. we had originally intended this legislation to go into city operations and neighborhoods committee. it was moved to the budget and finance committee, believing there would be a financial impact to the city. there is no financial impact. we have this these ... -- this piece of legislation come to the neighborhoods and services committee because it does not have the budget impact. before we go onto public

discussion, i want to thank the organizations that have helped to sponsor this legislation and provided us with a lot of the framework for moving forward. it is not going to include all of the organizations that support us, but archanchology, the center for biological diversity, the national sierra club resilient have a tax program, nature in the city, what was formerly the neighborhood parks council, the democratic club, the league of conservation voters. , san francisco tomorrow, the san francisco women's political committee, saved the frogs, the ottoman society, the surf riders foundation, both the san

francisco and san mateo county chapters. i am sure we will have a robust conversation about this. my colleagues have expressed some concerns about possible amendments and i would love to hear them all. thank you. supervisor mar: i want to first say that i appreciate the dialogue and the debate in the committees between supervisor elsbernd and supervisor elsbernd -- and supervisor avalos in yesterday's long hearing. i want to explain that the land use and economic development committee chair has been watching the issue of chartres park and the alternative is used for years now. my dad was a golfer and was proud of being part of a golf club in the san francisco. it is similar to lincoln park in my district, but also a sharp part as well