having that on one spot where they can go and know about the different opportunities when they're happening is things we've been working on. >> thank you. all right. seeing no further comment, we have bob palachio from rec and park department. >> good afternoon, supervisors and commission erz. bob palachio, superintendent for rec and park. i have a short presentation. i promise to be brief. the areas that i will be covering are summer camps, summer recreation programs, our scholarship program, special events and special programs

this summer. rpd's role in violence this year. how we outreach and market our programs and summer hires, job opportunities as well as a quick summary and answer any questions that you may have. summer camps, we have 78 different types of summer camps this summer held at 48 different places. we have 5,000 registrations out of an available 15,000 slots. some of our summer camps is early childhood camps and we have summer and arts camp. some of that is discover camp and art camp. other camps are water front camp. some of those looks like junior and surf camp where kids go surfing and we have our quad

i cans camp. camp neptune and training and our learn to swim camp which are important. we have our traditional sports camp which are baseball, basketball, and flag football and we're introducing lacrosse for kids this summer. we have alternative sports camp which are fog city camp and then our skate boarding camp which is popular. we have outdoor recreation camps. that is the most populated camps, you know that over pine lake and our indoor rock climbing camp. we have teen focus camp. those fill up and the ones we're most proud of and they have a leader and training camp. and we have surviving the city on $5. it teaches kids how to actually have a day

in the summer on five bucks and then also how to navigate the entire city. it's mainly -- that one is geared towards teaching kids how to get across a city on muni on mass transit and it's geared towards those leaving middle school and heading to high school and has to travel to different parts of the city. we have our neighborhood camps which we do throughout the city through many of our large rec centers and other properties. we've seen those camps and we do the streets of san francisco, when nature calls, and each one has a theme each week. in addition to those camps, we have adoptive camp. if they have a fun and successful summer with their piers, we do

that at silver tree and discover camp and we'll be looking at additional spot to grow that camp. in addition to our regular camps, we have our recreation programs. some of those programs are city wide senior programs that happen at various locations across the city. we have junior giants baseball to partner with the community fund. we have our dance classes, zumba and digital arts and there's hundreds of programs. the registration is may 17th for those programs. that's when registration opens up. we also have special events and special programs that happen. they'll be happening this summer helping people helping parks where we do walking programs. we do free zumba and yoga classes at 13 different locations in the city and those are free of charge. and we're doing play day. we've

chosen a palega and we thought that was the most appropriate place to serve the bay view and vegetation valley. we have our asl emergent camp where people are learn american sign lang. we're doing that at mission play ground and it's interesting to me. we have our mobile rec where we by rock climbs and bmx and skate boarding throughout the neighborhoods in the city where we don't require kids to come to us. we go to them. we have our green ageers program which is 9th and 10th graders and they learn gardening. that has been a successful program over the last two years. we also are doing food

and nutrition programs. future chefs where kids will learn to cook and buy healthy foods and we're going to do our next addition of the rec idol where kids over the city try to go for that title. our scholarship program. one of the programs that we're proud of at rec and park, we've already awarded $6,000 this summer. we're up to $1 million this year. we have scholarships in the 75 percent, and 100 percent range. depending on which one you qualify for. most people qualify for 100 percent. one of our guiding principals is no one will be excluded from participation based on ability or inability to play. >> a question question here.

i'm curious in terms of scholarships. it's assuming, then my assumption is rec and park charges for their activities. >> for many of the activities, we charge and many we don't. it defends on what commission or what board approved. >> when you say scholarship, basically it's still city funding. >> correct. what we do is look for people to donate to our scholarship fund. we do different events like we had the extravaganza where they take a camp with our department. our violence prevention and strategies role this summer, once again we're

doing late night basketball which we call peace hoops. we do that at hamilton recreation center and we partner with the san francisco police department and the mayor's office as well as supervisor cohen to put on a program that runs, i believe, it's about 8 weeks in the summer. it targets the transitional age youth population, specifically in those folks that would need a little bit of extra help. it's not just a basketball program. it's a social services program. we try to help them get back their licenses and help them deal with their child support. we also have the camp teen outdoor experience which is a program where we take 50 youth that are either on probation or currently incarcerated and we partner

with juvenile probation to take those up to camp mather. last year we had to move that program to a different property so we're excited to be back at mather this year. we have our leaders and training program. we do that throughout city. we have a good one where kids learn the skills they'll need to become life guards. we also try to activate our parks as much as possible throughout the summer. we know the more activated the park is with healthy activities, the better that park will be for the summer. we also work closely with sfpd in constant communications with them as well as park patrol and our cbo partners to find new ways of not only patrolling and policing our facilities, but again activating them in a

healthy way. recreation, jumping to employment. our summer jobs for youth and adults, we have over 500 summer hires this year. recreation is the city's oldest standing youth program. we're hiring 235 youth this summer and we've also ramp up an additional 132 leaders which are the folks who lead our courses and programs to help with the camps. we hired 103268 coordinators which help lead those camps and we have an additional 100 life guards, and cooks et cetera that we employ for the summer. we also have the 20 kids that participate in the green agers program. it's pretty extensive. how do

we outreach and market all the things we do. we do collateral material, the fliers and post cards and we try to get those up in our facilities including our pools and rec centers and any of the businesses or our cbo partners that we can. we have banners that we use. we send out an e news to 50 to 60,000 folks and we have our rec and park website where we're posting the new things we're doing on. we use social media such as twitter and facebook. partner website and newsletters and city agency and the supervisors are good about getting that out. direct outreach to the san francisco school district schools, so we use a few times a year, we do the mailers that go home on tuesday's or wednesdays to the students across the city. we do direct outreach to

recreation centers and our facilities so we have our people walking outdoor to door making sure that the community is aware of what's going on. we have online calendars for special events. we promote on media. i don't know if you've seen our sftf bus ad that's encouraging those to sign up and we also use newspaper ads. just to sum advise what our goal is, obviously is to provide quality programs, have safe and clean open spaces this summer for kids and families to participate in. and then we rely on our customer and community feedback so we can improve the following year but as we go along, we can make improvements through the summer. we look to have productive partnerships. we're partnering with lots of folks and we continue to increase that number, and as a

result our quality of what we're able to offer our department has gone up. if you have questions, i'll be willing to answer those. >> mr. palachios, thank you for your presentation and very thorough and gives me a lot of thought about my kid's summer action. when is the time, has it passed for signing up for summer programs and camps. >> summer camps, you can sign up now and on may 17th, the summer programs will actually be open, so we do two different registration. the summer camp registration is so big and there's so many thousands of people that jump online at the same time, we do it at a separate time. we started that. there's lots of room in many of the camps and the summer camps begin may 17th. >> great. i've been signing up and it's really hard to actually -- a lot of people sign up at the

same time and i've missed a lot of programs. i'm impressed by the programs you offer for all those of all ages. march 17th -- >> may 17th. >> i miss speak all the time. summer programs sign ups. >> don't get discouraged, the first 30 minutes are rough. the server has the capacity to have so many people on at a time. if you stay on the first 30 minutes, you'll be fine. >> thank you. >> okay. >> commissioner mendoza. >> thank you. so this is -- not the same, but similar with regards to camp mether this year and whether or not it's going to be

open from the difference from after the the tragic room fire, can you tell us a brief update on that. >> camp mether will be open to its full capacity. we're going to have 11 weeks of family camp. the devastation will be seen by everyone who gets up. once you get to the camp, you're not going to see it. we've been fortunate that we've had a number of commissioners as well as the pc be supportive of rec and park in getting the things that we need to get done at camp mether to have a full family camp this year. we hope to add new amenities and create a little bit more better experience at camp mether which we're going to do and we're working on it now. we're happy to have mether up and running again. and people will see once they're in the middle of the camp, you don't notice the

damage that the room fire created but you'll see it on the way up. the entire forest is closed around us, which will be a challenge, so we have messaging to do with the folks that will be attending camp, but all the amenities that are in camp, the lake, the pools and the horseback riding is a good. we're happen -- we're happy to have those kids especially those who are returned kids. >> it was incredible how close the fire came to camp mether. i toured a month and a half ago, and it was 50 feet from the calf -- cafeteria. off the softball field in our tree area, you can see the trees behind just ungulfed in flames.

>> people, i really don't think understand how close we were to losing the camp. it was feet as you you said. it was not something that you were just hearing or thinking about in the distance. people were fighting it from the edge of the camp so we're very, very fortunate that the structures are still there and most of the infrastructure that helps the camp throughout the summer is still in tact. we've got some work to do. we have a large group of people going up. >> the other camps didn't make it. >> camp tujunga and they had tough times and berkeley cam p did not make it. they were engulfed by the fire. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> do we have other presentationsal -- presentations as well. who

is next up? >> hello, i'm sharon zimmer and i'm from the college and career readiness at the san francisco school district and i'm a supervisor there. i'm really happy to introduce carlene cardenez who is our coordinator and a huge help to do the improvements for our summer internship program. getting started, i'm going to quickly -- the cte program are school year programs, two year programs. we have 24 cte academies at sfufd representing 12 industry sectors. those are two year programs that align to california state standards around cte industry sectors. and they're

taught by cte credential teachers within that industry sector. we have work base learning throughout the year and this is -- this was referred to earlier as match bridge and dcyf helping us out with that. those are guest speakers, field trips, job shadows. but we're talking specifically about summer, so let me get onto summer. we are using the term a little bit more around a productive summer -- productive summer and with that said, we are looking to -- we have 75 paid internships this year. we are going to be expanding, so last year we had 86 paid internships that came through our private and public connections. mostly through our advisory boards and that included i believe 30 from youth works which was also referred to tonight.

we're going to drill into these numbers at the last slide. the intent of the summer internship is really to expand the learning that's happening in the school year programs. so to give them the 6 week intensive, you know, all day experience as opposed to these one or two hour experiences. and we're also exploring and letting the students expand, so if they're at the one of the health programs, they have an opportunity to apply to other industry sector programming and this is because we actually have more opportunities this year, and i think that has a lo the to do with having a work base coordinator. details about our program. it's six weeks and we have 77 placements. the students receive a

$600 stipend and that is coming through the actual donation from an industry partner or and or a donation from one of our other partners such as united way or dcyf. each of our students become temporarily employed. they complete the whole hr packet and it's supervised by our straf. they're at a contact host site. that completed an mou and that provides worker comp types of language for our students. i'm going to let darlene talk about additional parts of our summer programming. i thought it

would be great if just to make it clear, we have other new programming coming on and i'm going to let darlene explain that. >> i'm darlene and we had a utility and building program and we're trying to launch it this summer. this program is -- the students stipend are funded -- we want to have 36 students to participate with the goal of 20 students per program. we're going to have two programs. this is going to mirror the dates and times. students who need credit recovery can take a credit recovery during the first period and they're eligible to

complete the summer program and students will receive $600 for their participation in this program. we also have another program that john oconnell and this program is going to target 20 students and we expanded the student enrollment to include those for agriculture at john oconnell and ibd and a college at lincoln. this is a five week experience that includes three days of classroom instruction and two days of work base learning, work site visits. again, students will have an opportunity to complete credit recovery if the morning and they'll participate in the program in the morning and students will receive a $200 stipend and this is a

partner between sfusd program and we're launching an automotive program. the students stipend is funded by the labor agreement. the goal enrollment is 20 students. this program is a five week experience and students will earn ten credits towards high school graduation and it will be two week rotations to one of the muni areas. we're excited to launch a media production house. this is going to be launched ought galleo. this has 20 students and we have 10 students to participate in the first session and another 10 students to participate in the second session. students are going to utilize their media arts to put together a public service announcements for our non

profit areas. we're getting non profit organizations to help so if you know any, please let us know. students are able to earn 2.5 credits for this program. we have stipends funded by comcast. this is sprout funding the teachers. we're excited to talk about our students success structure. one thing that we're careful about is making sure all of our students receive an orientation prior to being placed in summer internship program. we're going to have a week long orientation that's 20 hours long and that's going to focus on professionalism and literacy since this is the first paid organization for our students. all of our

students will have a work site visit by their summer internship counselor and check on the students and the host to make sure both parties are mutually satisfied with the placement. it's important for us to get feedback from students and from the employers. this feedback was done last year and we were able to make recommended changes so we can have a better program for this summer. and i apologize. i think we have run out of time on this item. >> so what i'm going to do is open up for questions from board members and then open up for comments. commissioners fewer. >> thank you supervisor kim. this isn't a question, but i wanted to let the supervisors know because the city has generously funded summer schools and it has been hard years for us. this year

we have dedicated $2 million towards credit recovery and part is to offer summer school at the following high school sites, ball bow y'all high school, george washington high school and galleo and they'll serve high school students throughout the city offering classes to help them graduate to those who are behind and need graduation recovery. thank you very much. >> thank you commissioner fewer. i know that was a priority on the school board, but on the board of supervisor to insure that we fund summer school which is a critical piece of our education system and was sadly cut for one year when we have massive state cuts. it was an unfortunate decision, but i'm glad we were able to fulfill that need. >> commissioner wynns. thank you for the presentation. i'm interested in what students go to these programs that are located at certain schools during the summer, so do we get students from other schools or do they get filled

with students from the school where the program is located? >> sure. i can answer that. the way we organize our recruitment, we expanded it so we're not having hospitality students only apply for hospitality. we listed all of our different opportunities and students were able to rank their opportunities based on their interest. which provided us with additional information about the importance of providing exploration opportunities this summer. we expanded it which is the first time for us, so we have students at other students, they're not ct students because they're sophomores or students that for example at low have an interest in building construction, so we have a lot students applying for programs and again, students that are interested in exploring summer programs that's unrelated to their academy, so it has been exceeding for us.

>> what's the result? do we know yet. you can tell me. >> tomorrow is the deadline to get all the applications in. so we'll probably know that in a couple of weeks. as of today, i received 150 applications from kids throughout the district, but i'm anticipating 75 more. we have 220 spots total. >> enough for them to get into some program. >> yes, they'll be able to participate in some program and most likely their first choice. >> i want to know what schools they come from so we can see if we got a mix and seeing how much access they have to programs that's not in their neighborhood. >> we have a data base that we were able to collect data and where the placement is, so we can share that information in the future. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> supervisor yee. >> just a quick question. have

you ever thought of not you personally, but the school district, thought about how you could somehow combine this effort with the kindergarten to college fund? >> they're only little kids. >> i know, but there's supposedly an account for each student. so my question is, whether or not anybody has explored the possibility of rather giving all the money to -- it's not very much, but the stipend total to the students, is there a possibility to put some of it into that account to help them save for their college and maybe find