cover more people really, but i guess that i am not correct on that. >> but what it does is that it allows more individuals to be able who are not covered by their employer, who provides the insurance, it does, it actually does cover a lot more people in the lower, lower, lower, income in terms of being able to move on to medical, and move in there. and i think that where it kind of the question is, is, the idea of you were required to purchase your own insurance and making it more affordable, and to make it able to do that and so it allows the individuals to be able to say that i am going to take a look at the five different insurance entities, and they are offering the same type of thing, and they maybe it is a slightly different dollar values or you can purchase sort of, you can pay a little bit more and you are

going to pay a little bit more per month, then you pay less in terms of your co-pay. and you know? that type of a thing? and you pay a little less but then you pay more out of pocket. for your co-pay. >> and so, but, at least it allows you to look and actually sort of measure what you are going to get for the dollar spent. >> okay. thank you. >> okay. >> next item, please? >> item number 1 4, the president's report. >> okay, i just have one issue here. and seeing how the board of supervisors is on recess and there really is not anything to hear in the next meeting, if everybody is... i would like to cancel the next meeting and start again in september. >> how do we all feel about that? any comments? or questions? >> okay with me. >> wither going to have policy

meeting because we have a lot to talk about there, but in the reviewing the agenda going forward i did not see anything and so i would like to bring that up. >> seeing none, we will not have a meeting then on the 26th of august. >> perfect. >> and that is all that i have for the president's report. >> next item, please? >> item 15, the vice president's report. >> no report. >> public comment? >> we don't need public comment. i like to comment that that commission white. and he did a great job. and that is hence the reason. number 1 6, commissioner? >> do we have a commissioner report? >> i am moving forward about the agent is he office and and

i met with the member of the north beach business association and we are going to have the actual summit in october and i am definitely want to work with christian on his historical information that he is doing on ada and no eval merchant association have requested to be involved. and council district merchants, and so basically we will meet in september and get our laundry list in order so that when we have the actual summit, we will not be saying the same thing 20 different ways. and we are hoping with everyone in the same room, we might actually get some changes moving forward that will help the city. >> great. >> any other commissioner comments? >> seeing none, next item,

please? >> next israel em is item 17, general public comment. >> are there any members of the public that would like to make any comments on any future meetings. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> next item. >> 18, new business. >> do we have any new business? >> just have one question. s maybe you need to go back and research it but i was curious what i forgotten, what the follow up was to the work that the small business commission and the planning commission together with regards to making it easier for certain businesses to get a permit. >> the sb 4 p. >> yes. >> and so, i will... >> maybe you immediate time need time to go back. >> i think that that is a good item to new business is to get an update from the insider in terms of the number of businesses that have been able to partake in the sb 14.

>> okay. >> okay, next item? >> 19, adjournment. >> is there a motion to adjourn? >> i move. >> second. >> okay. all in favor. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> motion, meeting adjourned. pe.

>> i love teaching. it is such an exhilarating experience when people began to feel their own creativity. >> this really is a place where all people can come and take a class and fill part of the community. this is very enriching as an artist. a lot of folks take these classes and take their digital imagery and turn it into negatives. >> there are not many black and white darkrooms available anymore.

that is a really big draw. >> this is a signature piece. this is the bill largest darkroom in the u.s.. >> there are a lot of people that want to get into that dark room. >> i think it is the heart of this place. you feel it when you come in. >> the people who just started taking pictures, so this is really an intersection for many generations of photographers and this is a great place to learn because if you need people from different areas and also everyone who works here is working in photography.

>> we get to build the community here. this is different. first of all, this is a great location. it is in a less-populated area. >> of lot of people come here just so that they can participate in this program. it is a great opportunity for people who have a little bit of photographic experience. the people have a lot, they can really come together and share a love and a passion. >> we offer everything from traditional black and white darkrooms to learning how to

process your first roll of film. we offer classes and workshops in digital camera, digital printing. we offer classes basically in the shooting, ton the town at night, treasure island. there is a way for the programs exploring everyone who would like to spend the day on this program. >> hello, my name is jennifer. >> my name is simone. we are going on a field trip to take pictures up the hill. >> c'mon, c'mon, c'mon.

>> actually, i have been here a lot. i have never looked closely enough to see everything. now, i get to take pictures. >> we want to try to get them to be more creative with it. we let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. >> you can focus in here. >> that was cool. >> if you see that? >> behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. the see any more hills? >> these kids are wonderful. they get to explore, they get to see different things. >> we let them explore a little

bit. they get their best. if their parents ever ask, we can learn -- they can say that they learned about the depth of field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast. some of the things they come up with are fantastic. that is what we're trying to encourage. these kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for photography. >> a lot of people come into my esnd they don't feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing them and giving them some tips and ideas. >> this is kind of the best kept secret. you should come on and take a

class. we have orientations on most saturdays. this is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. >> ready to develop your photography skills? the harvey milk photo center focuses on adult classes. and saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes. >> please call the role. >> commissioner afoul? >> here. >> commissioner low? >> here. >> commissioner errata? >> here. >> commissioner [speaker not understood]? >> [speaker not understood]? >> here. >> commissioner mc donald? >> here.

>> commissioner levitt son has an excused absence. real quick, as a reminder if you have any electronic sounding devices, please turn those off so they do not go off during the meet ing. we would also ask that you please take any secondary conversations outside in order to have the meeting proceed as efficiently as possible. if you would like to speak on an item today, we have some blue cards over on the table. if you could please fill those out. and then if you would like to speak on general public comment, which would be an item not on the agenda but that falls within the jurisdiction of this commission, public comment is on item 4 and it is continued on item 13. and last, please address your comments to the commission during public comment on all items. in order to allow equal time for all, neither the commission nor staff will respond to any

questions during public comment. the commission may ask questions of staff after public comment is closed. and unless i'm otherwise stated by the president, each person will have three minutes. so, three minutes on each item. with that, we are on item number 2, the president's report. >> thank you. i'll be brief. >> i apologize. one item that i did forget to mention is that we will be hearing items 9 and 10 as one. they will be voted on separately, but they will be heard as one. thank you. >> thank you. and let me announce that item number 8, which is the southpark 345 brannan street shadow [inaudible] -- >> okay. >> shadows tend to do that. will be put over to the next meeting. i understand at the request of

supervisor kim. briefly, i went to the cabrillo playground opening on august 3rd and i want to congratulate the staff involved in that. there were two things that i saw that i think are worth noting. one is the donor recognition program there is very artistic, clever, discrete, and suitable to the site. and the second was that -- and i found out something i didn't know, that the dalia is the city flower and the friends of cabrillo street a dalia garden there. it's worth looking at. it's very nice. but it shows this effort of each friend group for each park being able to plan and model play grounds and parks according to the neighborhood and according to their wishes. and the thought occurred to me and i passed this on to the general manager that we ought

to take the opportunity to capture these individual achievements in different parks and duboce park comes to mind and the effort that was done between groups to work out dog areas on leach, dog areas on leash, the playground, et cetera. ~ leash i've asked the general manager into looking making 5-minute videos with those people who achieve those kinds of successes in each of those areas and then put them online on our site so that we can tell people who come to us and want to redo their playground or their park or want to take advantage of unique opportunities to go to the satiety and be able to see success stories in other parts of the city. ~ go to the site secondly, i came back last night from two days in camp mather. i hadn't been there in 25 years. i had a great opportunity to meet with the staff and the operations there.

and i was quite struck by how well things are going up there. and i took the opportunity because i was -- i looked like a regular old camper to talk to. a lot of the folks that were there -- well, i had my granddaughter with me so i looked pretty authentic. but everybody was giving a lot of kudos to -- this year to the place, the horse program apparently is substantially improved. the tennis courts look great. commissioner, thank you for initiating that and much appreciated. our own general manager instituted -- there used to be some long lines as they served in the cafeteria and he instituted a two-line system with a second serving line and now people don't wait in line. so, our general manager in abstein shad gets a gold star for that. ~ now, finally, i want to say that it is my pleasure to introduce a new commissioner,

eric mcdonald, who is the executive vice president and chief operation officer for united way bay area. and before i ask the commissioner if he'd like to say a few words, i want to tell you that tomorrow he's getting married. (applause) >> with that, welcome, commissioner. >> thank you. thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be here and i'm thrilled by the opportunity to join commissioners and the opportunity to support this great work. i, too, two weeks ago had the opportunity to spend a week at mather and it really was phenomenal. they're doing some amazing work. just a quick side note. while the two lines are successful in moving folks through, there are some folks who are concerned, now there isn't socializing time. when there was a long line, you could take your chance to catch up. now they're moving through.

it was all very, very good. and, so, back to the script. thrilled to be here and thrilled to have the opportunity, again, to bring both my knowledge and expertise, interests, and passion for our city and in particular our parks and i'm excited about the opportunity to join the commission. so, thank you very much for the welcome and look forward to our work together. >> we look forward to working with you. thank you. and lastly, i know that commissioner low went to the ping-pong festival press event. i thought if you wanted to make a comment about that. >> all you ping-pong players, come out on sunday to chinatown at portsmouth square. you can meet harrison barnes. even if you cadthv take the ball to the rack, maybe you can beat him in ping to betionv. i encourage all of you to attend the ping-pong event. it's a great event, hosted every year. rec and park is one of the hosts and it's wonderful that it's bringing people together. >> thank you. with that, that concludes my

report. >> is there any public comment under the president's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. we are now on item 3 which is the general manager's report. >> good morning, commissioners. denny kern, director of operations. i'm sitting in for phil today. he is at camp mather finishing his week up there. it's one of his most favorite places of all the great places we have in the park system. so, he's enjoying his time up there, although it's usually a work-cation not a vacation when he's up at camp. good to hear all your good experience up there, commissioner buel, and also commissioner mcdonald. so, getting to the report, it's hard to believe that summer is actually almost over, but we've had a very exciting month here in august. i'm happy to update you on how our parks are doing as we close up our very busy summer season. having mentioned camp mather, sadly the end of summer comes

with the end of camp mather and other rec and park. we are quickly moving into the fall season with registration for all of our fall activities and programs. perhaps the crown jewel in august of all the jewels in the park system is outside lamps and this is the sixth annual outside lamp festival we had in golden gate parkful kicked off last weekend offering another weekend at music park and the best culinary offerings in the city. this city's festival featured the longest of marquee performers including sir paul mccartney, red hot chile peppers, [speaker not understood], 9 inch nails, and today we have greg, ceo of another plan entertainment and sherri waser man of plan entertainment here to tell us about another successful partnership we've had with outside lams. so, both greg and sherri.

>> thank you so much. this is one of the more pleasant tasks i have. forgive me for reading some of this, but if you had told me six years ago that we'd be getting more press from our food and wine at the outside lambs and the music, i would never believe it. but if you get a chance to go on the internet, there's a staggering amount of culinary articles in the paper today where they're asking people to write in and say what their favorite restaurants were. [speaker not understood] lambs has become in addition to this wonderful music festival really the number one food, wine, beer, art festival of all the festivals in the country. this year over $80 million was brought into the local economy and we're really pleased that

we got a clean report from police chief suhr on the activity on the different incident report. and as you know, in addition to the money that the park district makes, you have full cost recovery for city services with outside lambs. so, over 200,000 people came to outside lambs. noise complaints were down for the second year in a row. we for the first time u-stream had a webcast which was a live feed all over the united states in the world showing off golden gate park and the performers. and it was really quite exciting, including sir paul mccartney, who said, i want to make sure my performance is good enough. so, his was the one feed on paul mccartney was done sunday night as the last act of the

festival, and he approved, a tremendous amount of material. 72 san francisco restaurants were involved in the festival. 36 northern california wineries and 16 northern california breweries including four from san francisco proper were involved. this was our sixth year. and to remind you, the first year of the festival, park and rec brought in $8 25,000. this year, the total permit fee paid to san francisco rec and park, and even phil will be surprised, is $2,225,7 96.94. this includes 89,$250 for the gardner endowment that we added last year ~. and 15,000 for the polo

generation fee, the polo field fee to make sure the fields are in mint condition. so, after six years arthur lambs has brought in $8.2 million to san francisco rec and park. and another thing that was new this year is we did a benefit for rec and park this past sunday ~ at the independent night club, which is our club. and we raised an additional $20,000 approximately for rec and park. ~ outdoor lambs >> bravo. >> on a humorous note, one other thing. this is the first time -- this is a true story -- that sherri was driving on the outside of the park. and for the first time there were neighbors all over the place asking us to turn up the sound when [speaker not understood] -- [laughter] >> it was a wonderful moment.

i assure you, the age of the people that live around the park. >> great, thank you very much. congratulations. >> thank you for letting us put the show on. >> you bet. >> thank you, greg. continuing with general manager's report, in other events, this coming saturday cai ewing a park, a 2008 park bond project will be reopening this weekend on august 17th. one of the most interesting features of this particular outer mission gem is the story of this retired and long-time gardner [speaker not understood] who transformed cayuga's naturalistic surroundings into works of art. [speaker not understood]. hundreds of his pieces have been restored by the arts commission and are on display throughout the park. he will be present at the ribbon cutting ceremony and the unveiling of a commemorative plaque. in addition, the park includes several green elements such as a living roof, a buyer retention pond filled with

capture stormwater, and rec and park staff will help celebrate the reopening by showcasing each of our rec competencies and their upcoming fall programs after the ceremony. moving from cayuga over to mclaren, make sure to mark your indicatedxv for an exciting upcoming event in mclaren park called saturday in the park, saturdays in the park. ~ calendars i'm going to [speaker not understood] for may wong who has posters about this. friends of jerry garcia amphitheaters producing six free shows at the jerry garcia amphitheater this fall. first show is saturday unction august 17. great group of volunteers is working hard to bring the shows to the park this season. thank you, may. lastly, coming up on august 21st at the random museum, our general manager phil ginsberg will be chuck of the san francisco chronicle to discuss

how rec and park is using innovations and partnerships to ensure access to open space as well as how groundbreaking youth education programs are training the next generation of environmental stewards. this interview will be included in the commonwealth club of california's nature 2.0 series. that concludes my portion of the general manager's report. i didn't see if linda is out there if there is a prozac report this time or not. >> [speaker not understood]. >> okay. so, we'll dispense with the prozac report and with that and turn it over to our videographer jamie hopper who will show you yet another month in rec and park. >> [speaker not understood]. powerpoint. powerpoint. ♪

>> it's been a labor of love and we're proud to be providing this gift to the city [speaker not understood] organizations and individuals. and to the city of -- or to the children of san francisco. and i'm very proud that our neighborhood finally has a playground to call its own. >> today is play day. it is the highlight of our summer season. as you can tell it's 90 degrees and balmy here. kids have a great time. [speaker not understood], just enjoying each other and rides and games, supporting activities. >> so thrilled that this is finally reopening, the final piece of the new and revamped commission playground. i tell my colleagues on the

board of supervisors they have to come to mission playground. it is just spectacular. every aspect of it is so great, and this is just the touch stone. >> we love making [speaker not understood]. >> we need to treat it with respect. [speaker not understood]. we need to keep it clean and we need to keep it fun it. that's what we're here to celebrate tonight. ♪ ♪