but brava has always tried to be ahead of that trend. when i came in, i tried to make it about the work that shows the eclectic mission district, as well as serving the mission. those are the types of things that i feel build one brava is >> now i am. okay. this is a meeting of recreation & park commission would the secretary please call the roll >> commissioner president buell that were commissioner low. commissioner bonilla. commissioner harrison. commissioner levitan. and commissioner mcdonnell. so we are now on - well, let me read a coupling couple of announcements. welcome today is a special

meeting of the recreation & park commission for thursday, january 23, 2014. we ask you turn off any sound producing devices they can go off during the meeting and be disrupt. you will each have how many minutes >> can i see a raise of hands how many people plan to testify? so 3 minutes >> so he each person will have 3 minutes an any public comment? and we ask you address our comments to the commission. they will not answer any questions during any public comment? but they will ask staff to respond. and we are on tempo 2 the president report >> thank you. inasmuch as this room is going to be occupied later this

afternoon i'm going to make my comments very, very belief and would encourage people 87 if they don't have a full 3 minutes of '87 they do the same but not to minimize the importance of our testimony. i want to thank my fellow commissioners for the work they did last year in serving on committees and going out of their way for public febt and spend time at organizedometers that dealt dealt with park. but every standard of measurement from bond issue to report cards from audits by the city the parks have never been in better shape and i want to congratulate the staff the government didn't only a the systems difficult meeting where the public weighs in and i've

said before and again everybody in san francisco loves their parks and they all have something to say and railway do two people agree so we try to do our best. so on many not happy new year i landmark to a prosperous >> commissioner did you want to hear 12 a and b together. >> i want you to explain you how many minutes. >> any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. we are on item 3 the general manager's report >> happy new year commissioners and at the for your comments commissioner president buell on behalf of the staff we very much appreciate the recognition and it is a labor of love truly it's

an honor and privilege to at the ward in. a few announcements not spirit of new year we're well past january 1st and on to chinese new year. and betty rec center a senior dance on february 5th between 1 and 3. we have a which they think so celebration on saturday from 1130 and all those are free and that includes arts and crafts and kids mists where we have our clock celebration on february 12th and our chinese new year's event on basketball

players all free. next month we'll be slob black history month the celebration will be on february 15th we will be celebrated the holiday at the rec center and with the western community featuring spoken word performances and traditionally food. you can visit sf park owing for this events. earlier we announced a new citywide agricultural program we've been tasked with leading and providing urban farmer programs to encourage families to learner about healthy sustainable seafoods here. in addition to the gardens this program includes the

establishing an urban center and streamlining a weighless program for urban farmer projects. i'm very pleased to welcome hannah our new program coordinator who began with the city on tuesday and i city can't find her on e-mail. she was with the urban sprouts probation officer department and prior to her time hannah coordinated an urban farmers association and with prison activities and she as a bachelors from a college and

studied the food sustainable systems. she was with with the alliance of agricultural. on urban agricultural unu i had the opportunity to go with a couple of rec and park starved to orange county great park an incredible model of the program. a couple the highlight were great parks farm for fresh produce from the one hundred acre sold at the farmer's market and donated to local food banks and a partners with an association for food deserts in cities where people are located more than a mile from a supermarket who don't have a car.

the farm is a operated and a orange county operation. we visited the farm and food lab which is an agricultural garden that offers themed planters with fruits and vegetables and a pizza and spaghetti garden where they look. and other things fruit sallied garden and the lab was an amazing exhibit welcoming both students and kids but people of all ages. it was a reminder of how much potential we have in the city and our golden gate park is off to a good start with hannah's leadership i'm excited about the prospect of becoming an even

more significant player in the urban agricultural movement. we had a number of retirees in the department i don't know if any one of them are here but they all made incredible contributions i want to recognize many folks john and a truck driver and a crafts instructor steve parks and carla a recreation supervisor and romo washington and neil mar are both gardeners. i want to graduate them on their incredible careers.

i hope they don't learn from commissioner president buell they won't learn much. i want to recognize their professional service >> are any of them in the audience. >> they're not here today. >> please will express the commissions gratitude. >> someone who is here we have our quarterly program kim do you want to do it. ray from under our leadership kim has a quarterly recognition program where employees are pure animated for their contributions and on their fema at home of active living i'm excited to

recognize today levy johnson who is the coordinator and was appointed in august 2010. the department had a new leader services but liv i was assigned the recreation. his primary things are jogging ca a and liv i has assistant with our parks program and correct me if i am wrong levy is now in 12 >> we run 8 classes perry week and by the end of the year there will be more. >> pretty amazing in golden gate park was attended by my wife and daughter they wouldn't let me attend because they said

i have no rhythm. >> anyway there are free coming by a classes. there's a national best practice for free walks and those al at risk for chronic disease and he has the wellness grant for free classes. he's been highly involved with our public health department and he's been instrumental for the department encouraging staff to lead happier healthyier lives and i saw others participating in this i was not loud because i'm not with rhythm. you, you know, the other thing i spent 3 days in washington, d.c.

at a child obesity yes, ma'am possum. your children are the first generation with a shorter life expensecy first generation. one out of 3 american children a obese. this is a particular concern in communities of color and as and city and community it's something we need to do better and we need to make sure our kids are getting outside and getting the physical activity and eating right. today, we focused on the birth of our urban agricultural program that will hopefully help our child enjoy food and today, we celebrate with levy to get

our kids outside. so levy on behalf of the department congratulations (clapping) congratulations. well thanks again. first, i want to say thank you to my boss mr. jim without his faith in me running all those programs it wouldn't be possibly and again, a huge thank you to all my 26 staff without them

teaching it wouldn't be possible. i want to take this award on behalf of them as well. so again, thank you (clapping.) and now the fabulous jamie is one off our coming by a park instructors and had the pleasure of leading the program that my own family attend on saturday and she got rave reviews. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (children cheering) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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♪ happy 2014 >> happy new year and that concludes the general manager's report. >> is there anyone who wants to make a any public comment on the general manager's report seeing none, public comment is closed. we're on item 4 which is general public comment. we will use up to 15 minutes at that time, and that time, and public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda with respect to agenda items your opportunity will be afforded with the item is reached in the meeting. i have 5 cards (calling names)

if you would come on up and we'll get started >> good afternoon, everyone commissioners. i'm mark on here on behalf of responsible dog owners and i've submitted signatures that i gathered at the park in support of this request. we're asking the commission to grant us at the christopher playground the upper douglas park has been closed and it will not reopen for 6 more months. and this walter dog park is the only alternative. nicknamed the prison generated. it's indisputeable for the

reason for the aggressive dogs and foul odors. as of late a park rancher at christopher park said they have to leash their dangerous or be fined and this is when the parks are deserted. many of us have had our dogs at the park for thirty years. we've seen signs with restrict active words towards pets and an increased leash law. we are offend to go to another park outside of your neighborhood or we use the prison yard at walter. we don't want to create a dog park but we want to play with

our pets without being fined $250. we suggest the park rancher focus on dog-walkers who don't have control of large dogs vicious or dangerous daubz dangerous or the upon thater scooper laws. we think that dewy boss park has a simple solution with the designated dog park area rigging no fencing. the good neighborhoods sign might read dogs must retain on leash during organized games tea event and absolutely no dogs in the children's play area. it includes adequate off time

off leash time for the dogs to keep them healthy. i want to remember the spap had a successful year in 2013 there were more adaptations >> you're out of time. >> we've received our petition and comments i want staff to follow up on that requires certain responsibility on the part of park users to come together. >> richard and a commissioners i'm richard rothman i'm a resident of a district one and 2 items have to do with this district. i live across the street from the playground and our brand new playground that opposite side

costs $4.5 million we don't have a gardner. we've been asking for one it might be on the rec and park chart there's one nobody's come out. we're only asking for one person to come 4 hours per week. i hope this issue can be resolved soon to i noticed take a look the bus down today at park presidio i guess there were two employees they had the vests on at ca brill and a filling stone street. the next one there's water damage f to the murals and before they can be fixed the murals we need to fix the month

sdafk florescent of the building and not in the art collection so i think it's rec and park responsibility and finally, the good news is thanks to the art commission and alison in rec and park and the general manager thank you for submitting the historic preservation application to receive a grant to do a study of the mothers building and if that's grants approved we'll do the assessment of study to get it fixed >> thank you. (calling names) >> good afternoon commissioners. i'm stephanie the co- coordinator for the san francisco alliance and the founder of allied garden.

hopefully, this will be the beginning of february but i'm here to say we're excited about the new position and we as the u aa has the 50 organization of the meeting and levy has helped us create this position and we've excited to support you guys in whatever we can and looking forward to the success >> thank you. >> next speaker >> good afternoon. i'm kevin a board members of the human rights organization at the 16th and mission and an executive director of the gastrofestivity e festival started 6 years ago and now emerged with a german company. i've been teaching a class on

upper agricultural and it's transform active kids who don't know how to handle an ax and really having their lives transformed they talk about being able to plant seeds and see the stuff grow and eat the food how it's changed their lives. basically my folks want to support of the urban agricultural program and help you guys in supporting hannah and supporting the program. thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm eli i'm the foods and systems agricultural program manager at the spur and an active member at the alliances. i'm here to say i'm excited this program is up and off the ground

and anxiously awaited and mann hannah coming on board is exciting. i'd like to thank the department and phil for the leadership in rec and park really advocating to take this on. the department has a lot of resources and also dawn and linda and others who helped. there's a lot of work to be done. just a background in 2012, the supervisors passed measures to support of the agricultural and there are 11 agencies to fund it they've not been coordinating with each other. i want to see what's exciting is rec and park hosting an event to

fund across agencies. right now it's funded for one year and we're hoping this position will continue and seeing no research centers and people feeling they have a front door. in the next few months to see presentations at the commission and look forward to having those and how we can better support it. there's a lot of interest. i think at the golden gate community garden 3 thousand people signed up for plots and one of the goal is to create new spaces and i hope we can see that and you all will be supportive that he he helping rec and park and making sure the public is aware of what's going

on. that's an existing launch and looking forward to seeing more meeting >> thank you. >> anyone who wants to make public general comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. we're on item 5 which is the minutes. is - excuse me. is the consent calendar is there anyone who wants to make any public comment on consent calendar? seeing none, public comment is closed. and we do need a motion >> so moved. >> moved and seconded all in favor, say i. so moved. we're on item 6 when is the election of officers and commissioners i'll briefly go through the process. so we'll start with the president i will need a moved and seconded and to open the nominations we need a motion and second on each nomination.

once that is done we'll need another motion and second and i'll take roll. so for president is there anyone who would like to make a motion to open the nominations for president >> so moved. second. second. all in favor, say i. opposed? is there now a nomination for president? >> i would move to nominate with great pleasure and honor our current president commissioner president buell. >> is there a second. >> second. okay. we now is there any other nomination >> move to close nominations. >> so i'll do a roll call vote. >> sxhavg.

commissioner levitan. commissioner low. commissioner mcdonnell and commissioner president buell and congratulations >> that's correct very much (clapping.) we're now going to proceed with vice president is there anyone who wants to open the nomination for vice president. >> so moved. all in favor, say i. opposed? okay. the nominations are open for vice president anyone wish to make a nomination >> i would like to nominate commissioner low for the seat of vice president. >> great. >> okay. any other nominations. move to close income taxes >> and a second. commissioner bonilla. commissioner