for effective public/private partnerships to build world class parks that this city deserves. we rehe expectfully suggest that private donations and charitable organizations be exempt from this legislation at the least and that the board of supervisors slightly delay the ordinance to study it further to clearly understand the full impacts. in the past five years the trust for public land has had a strong partnership with the recreation and parks department and together has completed projects such as hayes valley playground and balboa park. for these projects, rec/park has successfully encouraged charitable donations, public private partnerships and a variety of public and private grants. this legislation would strain the flexibility needed to accomplish these projects. we are currently working with a generous donor to explore redoing the playground in front of civic center. the proposed legislation again concerning the budge and schedule of this project and challenge the donor's intent to make this city more livable and

have great public parks for all san franciscans to enjoy. thank you. ~ >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thanks. it's great to hear we're looking at the civic center play grounds. i don't think they've been redone since maybe the '93. i used to work at the conservation core and they did some work on that back in '93. my kids go there and play all the time. it's just not the standard it should be. so, right in front of city hall it would be great to see that happen. thank you for your support for that. ~ good afternoon, supervisors. joshua [speaker not understood] with bright line. thank you, supervisor avalos, for your continued work on the evolution of local hire in this amazing community labor partnership that has developed here in san francisco that's led to the success that you talked about. when you talk about 36% local participation on public works last year and 34 and 35% since 2011, remember that right before you passed the historic

landmark local hiring ordinances, 24 in the few years, 20 in the height of the great recession. so, to the speaker from trust for public lands, if you're still here, okay, i can give your card and share with you the report that local hiring does not increase costs. it actually -- we saw from the projects covered by local hire that costs actually decreased. so, that was important to know that this was really working to really put folks to work, not increase costs to the tax payers and not increase costs to folks like the donors who are going to potentially support these parks. so, but it is important. we do support taking more time to convene the mayor's construction work force advisory committee, the mayor has been very csus port i have of the implementation of the local hire ordinance. ~ and we wouldn't be where we were if we didn't have a chance to develop the community support, contractor support, labor, nonprofits, a fortedable housing folks. sound like we'll have a chance to answer those questions. i know we're very supportive.

we just met over at our office at bright line with about six different community based organizations that are supporting this proposal. we're very interested to make sure that we keep, as supervisor avalos said, the winning com benation to see this ordinance be prevailing wage and local hire. local hire and prevailing wage. we see it as a package that supports the community work force that supports everything we are trying to do ~. i'm a member of the local hire task force, look forward to that, and all of us getting together with the union labor contractor [speaker not understood] come back the 21st. thanks. >> thank you. any other members of the public wish to speak? okay, seeing none public comment is closed. [gavel] >> thank you. as a amendment of the whole, like to have it accepted, motion to accept the amendment of the whole. >> which can take that without objection. [gavel] >> and then we want to have more time for the city to discuss how to move forward on possible amendments. we've been hearing from rec and park certainly on the issue of donations that go to the park

system. also from the port and developments that are happening on the port. i think they want to make sure that they are going to have an ease in implementation of the new legislation that we have here. so, i want to give more time for that. so, would like to continue to the call of the chair to have our meeting hear this legislation on may 21st. >> he may 21st. okay, motion to continue this item as amended to budget committee meeting for may 21st and we can take that without objection. ~ [gavel] >> okay. madam clerk, do we have any other business in front of us? >> no, mr. chair. >> all right. we're adjourned. [gavel] you.

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country and world and a place like the contractor center to identify the business in san francisco >> the reality is you need training and that's what the center is here to train and make you better qualified to go work with the city and county and to be successful at the end. >> that will give people the competitive edge e edge at receiving contracts with the city. >> we have krafshth services here that help you find out where you need to get the skills forbidding. >> i mean local businesses participation in city projects is a winning factor it helms help the business their local

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just about expensive eat but food for everyone and there's organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it

assessable to everyone. more and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from we'll look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new heights. so what exactly it, your honor agricultural >> it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionally we've been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has a more a farming way of farming.

>> so tell me 0 what's growing in this garden. >> a really at all plant. in the one of the rare places, you know, people have access to green space 24 is one of the places to grow things like the purple floor. it is sort of recognizing that the more diversity in given space the better not to just have one thing by everything supported each another >> it provides the community with an opportunity to get their hands dirty and reach 0 out and congressmen with the community in ways they might have not otherwise to engage with one other. >> now the dpw urban planning

program so see how the garden community. >> so i grew up on a farm in air force base we picked the foods open the trees and share with other families and as i drive around san francisco i see any trees with apples or mrumdz and lemon trees i can see the food going to waste and brought that idea back to the department many of the trees where the fruit would go to waste we origin or crop and pick other fruits and delivery this to food banks or shelters to people who need them. >> i'm here with nang wong hello nang. >> hello. >> i need to understand house this gleaning work. >> we come and harvest like for

example, we'll come over here this is the lemon and plug it like this. >> (laughter). >> made that good, good and ease. >> the trick is how not to hurt the branches. >> like the thing. >> i'm so excited about this. the people are so passionate about where the food goes to the private property owners give us the food they're happy that no of a t is going to waste >> oh. thank you. thank you. again job aura natural

>> (laughter). >> from backyards to back lots let's take a look at the food and community bonding at the free farm. >> my idea was to start growing food and giving it away. and getting my neighbors to who had space and having a kind of event that brings people together not to run our food program this time around but to share the wealth of the abundance of our welfare. we were all divorce and as part of our philosophy of working together and working together. >> what's the most rewarding aspect of volunteering for the free farm stand. >> well, we could is a generalic satisfaction but

something about giving food away it's giving something i brought that in and sort it and gave it to you it's primitive to be able to give something some basically to someone else. >> now serving number to 49 come on down. >> we have the capability of producing this food and in san francisco you can grow food all year round so the idea we're capable of prougdz food in our own backyards we're here to demonstrate an bans of food and i think that giving it away for free we show individuals it in have to be a comedy. >> we build time together and it's the strength of any ideas

of the connections we'll turn that connection and the more connections you make no mistake about it the more you can have a stronger power and not have to rely on money that's the people power. >> in this episode we've seen the urban farms and gardens provide more in fruits and vegetation people can have the special produce available it can be a place to give back by donating food to others and teach our children the connection to the earth and environment it's truly