>> 2, 3 this is a meeting of the rec and park committee will the clerk la jolla please call the role. >> (calling names) we just a few little friermdz you have any electronic sounding devise please turn those off and also you will have 3 minutes on each item correct? under public comment if you would like to accommodate on an item that is not on calendar but does fall in the rec and park commission that's on item 4 and continued on item 12.

if you could please address our comments to the commissions in order to allow equal time for all neither the staff nor the commissioner will not respond but the commissioners my request questions and with that we're on item two the president's report. >> i want to thank the secretary of the commission we'll all on electronic derives we're going to save a couple of trees the ipads and thank you very much for all the work that went into it. now, it's my pleasure to acknowledge a former commissioner that has retired. i want to read a resolution and make a few comments.

whereas laurence larry mountain was born in pining bluffing arizona and began helping out his mother packing shelves latter he made clifrz for her store and his accept farts motorcycling and storage company. whereas larry began his career he was elected the chairman of the san francisco railroad in international representative and international vip in 1993 and over 38 years he retired in 2004 from that job. whereas, he proudly worked with and sometimes p had dpifsz well known with dianne feinstein and willie brown and edwin ed lee

and wrarsz he served on had any delve half a years and the planning commission 8 and a half years and was appointed to the committee it's exfoliating enjoyed how many years whereas larry has a deep finding of the committee meetings and larry stock exchange believes in the public outreach and whereas the rec and park and did not have been fortunate enough to have a person with a sense of commitment and whereas larry will be sorely missed as well as his input and you expertise now in front be are we revolted on

behalf of the city of san francisco they recognize larry b martin's contributions and to express his high passionate work and wish him a well retirement and enjoy with his daughters and grandchildren (clapping) larry we're going to present you with a signed proclamation east and you can get our picture taken and but i have your nameplate here and you probably want to hang into this by the way, you never know. let's present him with the certificate and get our pictures

taken. let's give him another round of applause. and that concludes my president report >> is under anyone who would like to make public comment on

the president's report. okay seeing none, public comment is closed. and we're going on item 2 the adjourn managers report >> commissioners i want to use my normal time today to briefly address the tragic adams that occurred on holy park which one of our employees was involved in a death. it's been devastating for christen's daughter and family and coworkers our thoughts and prayers public and private are with them. i've spoken on a few occasions and on behalf of the department i've expressed our condolences.

at this point the rp d employee involved has not been charged he's been placed on leave while the sfpd continues the investigation. we recognize this has been a dark time for the employee too. the core of our mission is to stuart save, clean and fun parks. the safety of our park yourselves is most important. we have vehicle operations policies that govern the use of our vehicle fleet. and we find this excel rare but that data is of little importance to us now.

supervisor coming past has going called for a report. we will have professionalism and grace. that complukdz my comments >> thank you. >> do we have any public comment on the general managers report? seeing none, public health department is closed on the general report. we're on general public comment on item 4 members of the public may talk about the interests within the jurisdiction of the commission and does not appear on the agenda with reporter to the agenda items your opportunity will be afforded when the item a reached in the meeting. anyone who want to make general

that's not on the agenda. okay. go ahead >> good morning. i came over today to remind this commission that the health and well-being is important to the city residents. in case i don't know carbon addiction clears the air pollution and sounds a safe habitat for wildlife and prevents landslides. we have a quote destroy the public building and it can be built in a year and destroy the land and it can't be reck identified and the city government and this commission

takes a casual position. there are many examples. in the la fast park about 683 were slated for removal some of them after talking with the neighbors how many of those interests were hazardous. how many were going to be used to build a shed. on affirming 23 trees were slayed to be removed. after our protest of the residents and the hearing the promise was to sell only four. and how much time do i have? 3 minutes >> okay. and in canyon park those were

homes formal prevent bats to remove tennis courts where the tennis players didn't want them to be to giltd build a new grand complains. the biggest, of course, is the nature of the area problem. during the existence there was a huge amount of trees in glen park and others. the count is not available. there's more to come. they kit 8 and a half thousand trees and you small trees are not couldn't. 50 thousand will be in the industry proper and 6 hundred of

them open mount davidson alone. there was the killing of trees and it needs to stop. their destroyed. thank you >> thank you very much anyone else who wants to make general comment. being that it's closed we're on consent calendar that is moved and second. all in favor?. so move forward. we're on item 6 san francisco's zoo. >> good morning tanya director of the san francisco zoo. the zoo wanted to add it's you comments and a thank commissioner martin and we even splurged and got something in p a blue box.

with that we had a very good summer at the zoo per projecting 8 hundred and 45 thousand visitors. and if i show any power point. perfect. don't have to see me. all right. we're doing a stretch school of more students prolonged. we went over 1 hundred and 80 thousand next year we're hoping with a new playground we should have a pike in attendance. so we went 6 hundred thousand more to go we're 5 thousand over budget. i want to commit we had two free

days over 9 thousand residents came for free so we appreciate everybody coming. we in september move forward our free day to september 11th to remind and honor those who lost their lives and over 2 thousand residents came. we had a terrific show up for campers we've gone up in a 10 percent of on line runldz for attention. but the zoo campers themselves was the best. i don't know what we got all the small white jackets bylaw but all the kids gatt got a chance to participate. this sunday is world rhino day.

there's boon our young black rhino he's named after alex boon and the black rhino is almost extinct. and this is the oldest black rhino in the united states and we have an asian rhino. the proceeds will be going to the rhino vision and congestion and anti poaching efforts. we've tried to keep the zoo fun so we brought in an outfit to zip through the zoo and the insurance and a liabilities on them that's great. the percent of every thing this weekend b will go to rhino preservation and we'll see how

this goes. in another effort to expand our target audience we'll have a our second silence disco co- could people can go to the zoo and dawns away and it wouldn't upset the animals. they'll be in the new bug exhibit which i have an image of that. our temporary exhibit is big bugs there will be art sculptures within the pack determine building the insect zoo is the largest west of the mississippi. so great news. the playground i don't know if you remember this is the structure that's coming together

there's the steel interior of the ban i don't think tree it's been painted and a opening in november. so thank you. again with the support of the playground and the family with their generosity. we've broouth in a new groifr she's actually, the one on the right and see how tall she is embarrassed to our baby. they grow. the giraffe does not have a name and we have a guerilla whose 2 years old and i understand names that reflect beauty are top. so i conclude my report

>> thank you. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. we now on item 7 district 6 open space task force >> thank you. that should work margaret. go ahead and pull up the power point >> commissioners good morning

planning director of the rec and park. we're here to talk about the open space task force. i want to acknowledge holly pierson and i'm pinch hitting for her. so i think the most important thing is to understand about district 6 i want to talk about the complicated environment it is. the district 6 open space task force come out of the negotiations that start out of the bond. where in discussion with the supervisor to identify parks for inclusion in the bond we looked at the sites that were actually

rec and park. there are other open spaces through mission bay and city planning. so in looking at those spaces we looked at the fact that many of them when i put the stars on are receiving some kind of capital investment. it became clear that the real need of district 6 was to identify alley-oop spacing for acquisition. it's because of that anticipated growth and we're thinking between all the neighborhood plans about 20 thousand new retinas on top of new residents. so that's just the residents there's also expected to be an

inclusion of other new residents. there have long been a number of resident plans and as you look at this map you can see that many of the neighborhood plans adapted in the past years are on the boundary or located in district 6. so with all this growth expected we have impact fees clearly calling up, up we have entrant for what we're able to obtain. there's a lot of opportunity so before the growth happens how do we cease those opportunities and development a strategy. so we took a new approach as you've seen from our acquisitions over the years they've have long been with a particle in mind. we wanted to do something more

pro-active so we convened a task force to consider opportunity across the district. the goal of this task iowa's force was to identify sites of development open spaces in district 6. the task space included commissioner leo and community members from all the different sub areas the trust republic land and the supervisors offices. in considering district of the major piece of information was the nature of the areas of district 6 the recreation calls out those based on population density and have a hive amount of children and seniors.

so based on that analytic framework the residents brought their own experience of district 6 to the destruction and in balancing those different factors made a series of recommends. to the extent we can focus our effort for new parks in the western park of mart and the tenderloin area and the eastern market neighborhood. there's also, we shared with the strrlgd a wide menu of rejectal amenities and the things came back as most deserved was the passive spaces rather than the active spaces like outdoor picnic areas. and also, if there had to be

choices made task force members felt it was better to acquire 3 or more small parks. i think that also reflects the practical ability of the opportunities that be are likely to be in district 6. in looking at the opportunity in district 6 there was kind of a rough inventory of spaces that might be opened abandoned parking lot and under utilized areas for example. the report prepared there's probably over 60 potential opportunities that mediating meet that board criteria but we

need to explore those spaces and rank them against the priority by the task force. there were 4 specific sites that come up to the eastern side neighborhood plans and actually, two of those sites the brady block are in active vesting with a combination of acquisition fees - i'm sorry impact fees could be to transition those to parks. there are two other areas like the triangle those are investing together by a broker hired by the department of real estate. they've put out an rfp to find a broker to evaluate those potential spaces against the

criteria by the task force. we've hoping they'll come back and present their finding. just again to put this in context of your overall priorities we said at the beginning of this calendar year our goal was to work on 4 main priority. the town square has been completed and francis reservoirs is still underway and 9 hundred inissa 20-year effort we have our fingers crossed and then to complete many acquisition with the idea that we could come forward after the broker completes the properties we will pursue over the next year with

that i'm happy to take any questions or comments >> margaret maybe we could open up to public comment. >> so i have irish smith and then alice rogers. commissioner commissioners i'm ricky live in district 6 i'm one of the community group folks that support the projects to convert the alley into a plaza and i serve on the committee of the tenderloin north of market working to make public assessable rooms and i severed on the open space task force and based on that report i want to

highlight that high needs areas district 6 qualities. since the time of the report i've heard from a number of new families that would like to stay in the city and a raise their children and be part of it and having playground case is a big part of the world they want to be in. given the cost of real estate and where we're in the project i hope you can support and move forward this project to district 6 in particular the tenderloin. >> next speaker. >> hi i'm alice rogers i served on the task force and rick said it well, to support this

proposal. it's time to acknowledge that our people are living in district 6 sensuous figures are 93 thousand people in district 6. we really, really need open space and people are mostly to the city not to be just in office building and residential buildings. i live on south park we have thousands of people who use our parks we know this is really, really viable please support this >> thank you. >> is there monthly who want to make public comment on this item? thank you >> thank you. let's hear from