women helping rec and park so thank you very much. ed >> thank you ann i feel and . >> commissioner harrison. >> yeah. just a short comment. i know ann and janet when i worked for a living. and very supportive of the conservatism core not only for the work they do and the work ethic and the trainings they get from doing those training for rec and park in particular but they teach the folks college diploma and assistance with bank accounts and stuff things they don't teach in school. those are extremely survival tucks so thank you ann for what you do >> thank you ann.

>> well thanks for indulging us and i thought it was important to remind us have to t this great relationship. >> i promised to keep it short there have so many other things i'm not going to talk about but i'm going to end this with a short video with rec and parks ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we campaign we're coming out and doing things in the community. every single time the mba shows up you come out with your hands and heart so thank you annoys for being hero we look forward

to this and i want you to come to this park it's a golden secret like the golden state warriors. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> let me tloul how to build a community garden like that you start with a really good idea and then you add a great deafly community need and entire you mexico in an extraordinary amount of patience and you add

contingent and corporate support like folks from echo core and levies and sun and water and presto you get this. awesome >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (shouting and screaming). >> four blocks today, i came and played in this park on the appointment and in the equipment on i wouldn't i am going any other place i'd rather be my

parents and sisters are here. i walk in this park and to the neighbors and to the moms and dads this is a glorious time in our neighborhood whether it's tim or it's for mcclarence park we're seeking a transformation here open the local level. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> happy thanksgiving and that concludes the general manager's report. >> thank you general manager. would anyone like to comment on the general manager's report seeing none, public comment is closed. we're on item 4 which is the general public comment.

(calling names) so if you could come up and as a reminder i have 3 minutes each. come on up. >> good morning. i'm mark hawthorne i'm representing a couple of organizations which you know 33 camp has had it's choomgdz with the foyer and so forth i want to say that as a member of the friends of camp massachusetts our committee who are obviously devoted to helping the commission. i know that mr. kislingbury has been in contact are our president joe in helping to

counterfeit the cam so again, i want to extend myself there. the other organization i represent it the horseman's association. and again, i'd like to offer our assistance in things in san francisco to help out especially berry kit field for example, that is in disrepair and the area is closed to horse riders and so forth the gates locked it makes it difficult for people to bring in their rigs and a horses and try to do an event and i would as the president of the organization offer our services to the recreation and park department to help to improve the facilities through our

organization and perhaps developing a friends organization and getting other atrocities to assist in this venue i think it's important that san francisco don't lose out on the ability to come out to golden gate park and learn about horses. so thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker, please embed and speak. i know but - go ahead and go ahead and speak i'll pass them out. >> so there was a lot of talk about the good things in recreation and i'm going to talk the recreation and park last year like last week the spray was applied again, the herb acids were applied again god

knows how many years we were claiming for 13 years. it's not nice at all. those herb side and anything but nature it was completely unnatural it's a criminal problem. the herb acids are toxic and they're leading to several cancers including prostrate and a luke and cancers and more and more things are being found in those chemicals and all sorts of problems miss carriage and loss sperm count and distractions and you've heard how important this is. and why are they using city parks to restore somethings

that's negative. it's something which somebody declared to be nature which presumably has been grown here 1 hundred years why not 5 hundred why not many years ago. herb acids are toxic and more toxic by the nature areas has increased and dramaticly since the 2009. i gave my chat so i don't know remember it's 5 times more than it was before and complaining about it i pay a number on this no's they told you oh, according

t the manufacturer it is save and the courts upheld the federal and state find for the attorneys it's not by any stretch of the illness as safe as table salt. it's clarified as tier two and spreads and didn't breakdown easily. it's breakdown is toxic and it's been 3w5u7bd from europe and neighborhoods are fighting against it being used in california. thank you very much. thank you, very much. >> i'm asking it to be discontinued. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> still mothers calling on

congress to reform the chemical laws the actor lead the way and she's worried about the chemicals kids are exposures to everyday. i'm a mother. i'm tired of debating about artifical tomb and those black platelets that are every were and they contain denying seen and all kinds of carbons and now flame retardants what's good for a satire is not good for a child. there's no such thing asia acceptable lead for children. i'm so tired of read into the record quote-unquote is product it safe only to find out the product was funded by the

industry. we know you have the talent pool to do better and things we're exposed to everyday like synthetic playing fields have begun un plaza tested in aggregate. for me and many of us today, this is simply not acceptable. there is nothing more important than protecting the health of our children and generations to come and no one's profit margin can justify profit for future generations >> bailey's and her supporters are pushing to put safety ahead of property. alex cbs news >> jennifer your meeting with the members of congress. >> the rates of asthma and all

kinds of which would illness that have gone up. >> there was rubber that was put in there's a fill of refurbished tires that carry are carried by california. somehow children are thinking it's okay to play on >> you mentioned the existing law is because the united states has never followed the precautionary rules. >> there's bipartisan groups but 0 no one's profit margin can justify harming children. >> thank you. this is the same material that's been used at

many levies like a hundred thousand tons of this stuff. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. i'm ronnie represent the forest alliance and have lived in san francisco for 40 years between market street davg and i'd like to make a statement and use the overhead for one item or two. is that viewable. i generally am speaking after the natives that are involved in the control of the san francisco rec and park department. natives are not the only stakeholder in our parks,

however, the native area program includes everyone but them the reason i say that their quin and using the parks as an excuse taking the popular prognosticated we saw how wonderful the parks are to go in and saying this go background needs renovation elizabeth's other areas get december mat this year this is the children's tree in grand canyon park this is a climbing tree kids love to play on and there's no reason this should have been taken down it's not an invasive tree. there are stakeholders that the rec department needs to know

about including myself i love the nature getting into out symbol parks we love to see the keeping you informed oats and there's rock clifrmz and people experiencing. get out into nature. all of this should be included in the plan that the native area program is a part of. and to make the alternatives and grand canyon is being having the trails widened and including the favorite tree the commission needs to know this is a unique and special wildlife area and what's being done to it. to create we'd patches is the

way of it instead of trees >> thank you. >> and the last speaker card is for linda. >> there we go. >> hi. when you said linda i didn't know who you were talking about i'm called sunshine and once again it's time of the year to see people like me at uncle square too i think it was many years about 20 i told the north pole was far too cold & so i decided to jump plays and uncle square was where i decided to stay. i want to wish everyone a happy mccain season and i'll be in

union square i looked to seeing everyone there >> thank you. >> there anyone else who wants to make general comment. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. we're now on item 5 which the the consent calendar. is there anyone who wants to make a comment on consent calendar >> seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners we need a motion >> entertain a motion. >> it's been moved and second. >> all in favor, say i. . so moved. >> okay. we're now on item 6 which is the san francisco zoo. >> i'm tonya peter i'm president of the san francisco zoo.

i'm casual this is the for the first time i've ever worn jeans at city hall. (laughter) >> so you're not the person i thought you were. >> again, we gave shirts out to celebrate our new background and got a logo. this is actively a remodel of a ancient and rusty prognosticated. this is the slide. where we are on attendance. year to date we're 9 thousand 20th century 2 hundred over projections. our prognosticated opens this subpoenaed and wool have a members productive in the morning of november 24th i want

to thank our general manager whose going to inaugurate our banners. so your major donors have a chance to play on saturday. we light up the zoo last year, we do the it for a week and this year we're to do it through the weekends. in terms of the animal updates oh, no let me talk about the playground. we want to emphasize there are frogs and turtles all kinds and as a reminder it's 3 zones and the next slide we have a parlor

cap those are for kids have to 8. this is a gentle reminder to have the kids reunite. on the left we have a river play area for the toddlers. there's some messaging will water conservatism on the right is for the elder children and this is for a bit of risk-taking we have other things for the disabled. this is a remodel of the eleanor friend playground that's been there roughly 29 years and we had a $3 million face lift now the animal updates. those are not pigs although they

look like that this is a south american wild boar. we only knew of them as fossils. i'm happy to report we now have 6. they don't care who their mother is and they'll nurse on all the mothers. also on animal news. the big guerilla is there and her grandchild is there. just this week we introduced grandma to the baby. the mother had not taken over nursing. this is quite credible she feeds the baby with the bottle she

takes a sip first and they've been together w about 48 hours. she's the main mat relic of the herd so they leave her loan. okay. and then i have lastly. this sunday people mint and bell arrive to inaugurate our playground and savnt will be here and i need to thank moisture airport who donated pumpkins >> there any public comment on this item.

seeing none, public comment is closed. we are now on item 7 which is the san francisco children's and nature forum san francisco children's outdoors bill of rights. >> hi, good morning. i'm xoiftd this is my first time here so good morning. i'm here to speak on behalf of the san francisco children's bill of rights. this highlights our development. so thanks to you on behalf of this measure for your support. i manage an jewelry categorically program. for the last 15 years this program has given san francisco youth a be hands on shooerp.

last we served 8 hundred and 50 thousand students from 39 organizations working and learning in the parks. this year we've received thirty plagues and began emergency room with our students. you might wondering wonder what this is it's a project for the nature forum. the forum is a board coalition of organizations collaborating to inspire agencies such a our department to connect young san franciscans to europe nature and i recommended those. our department through the ymca program helps us to experience 7 bill of rights. this is the result of two years of community consensus promote

in english and chooibz and spanish for other organizations and environment. the bill of rights is a set of experiences in which every child has the right to harvest a fruit or very many and plant a seed and watch it grow and visit and care for our local parked and play in the sand or in mud, discover upper wildlife and the trees and plant. so describing this a third grade student sums it up you taught me how to get adopt and dirty i will start in my background and traffic the world. so with the commissioners endorsement we promote the san francisco youth to explore the

nature. i want to introduce a member from the presidio steering committee and he's to talk about the committee do you want all those folks to continue standing behind you? forever >> forever? (laughter) >> okay. thanks san francisco i didn't. good morning, commissioners and a quick shout out to all the kids and colleagues in the highway that were here to support this initiative. just a quick show of hands how many of you grew up in on a urban area? okay. great. how many of you are raising or have raised children in an urban area? okay. great. and how

many of you are kids growing n up in on a urban area. kids which all ages here. i just wanted to give you a quick back story of how we came to this moment in the history of our city. it was back in 2005 that i statewide collaborative called the round table of parks and tourism came and collaborated in the bill of rights. in the past 8 years there's been more than 25 other states and a cities to create they were version. also what happens happened in the is last 8 years we hit a big landmark in our history back in 2007 when most human beings live in cities that do you want.

it was last month that the city of ontario created their own charter and we've come up with a outdoor brtd that's most relevant. what can kids growing up in this place we call san francisco experience. so the forum that san francisco i didn't mentioned came together 2 years ago it represent a collaborative of pediatricians and form and inare formal educators and other parks people. we are addressing several questions. what can be done to protect a child rooted in nature and how do we make visual a child's right to see nature and what policies are connecting families with nature. so this initiative is now before

you. i want to speak on behalf of many folks who are working for the park lapd's. so on behalf of parks and presidio trust we join rec and park as clearly the leader so we can work as a community i want to pass out drafts which is in 3 languages. we want to achieve the endorsements the rec and park logo would be in the blue area but the role out would happen in the springtime. i want to end with a short quote by a former child growing up in san francisco. i exported every foot of the valley thoounl u