secure approval for the body and conduct any authority and which requires documentation and this provides fund -- allocation. with that, i would like to introduce kimberly of the department volunteer services who will tell you more about the greenagers program. >> thank you. i just want to give a few moments and discuss the program and would like to thank all of those involved in the park conservation program. it's to provide programs to kids in the neighborhood. an application and interview process that is competitive. the first

saturday at maclaren park, second saturday and take turns at facilitating meetings at various locations throughout other neighborhoods and they find research and use the project space to what they find. they meet with teens in their own age and lead a lot of crucial skills, teamwork and environmental education. we find this to be a creative natural career path for future opportunities within our own department, apprenticeship program and developing leaders in this field. greenagers earn a stipend monthly as the 501 c partners. they have a lot of fun with the blue water nation and camping trip and they host a

launch a day at the park. some of our alumni have been recognized as the bound youth summit and youth opportunities including the task force for the playground. since 2012, over 20 high school students have graduated from the greenagers program and donated services to over 25 parks and open spaces and over 27 events in the southeast district. in 2014, greenagers were featured and as well as the national recreation and parks month. we could not do this alone. it's in court with the san francisco

and alliance. this will help expand the program to the southeast. they have generally supported greenagers and we hope to be awarded the grant and will support additional neighborhoods as we have seen interest from other youth. i personally welcome you all to join us at the eco center. it's a public event. we will be congratulating all of these working youth and that will be on january 24, 2015. thank you very much, i appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> we do have public comment. sonya, carole bach, kirk griems. if you can come forward, please. c'mon

up. >> good morning, commissioners, my name is sonya, with san francisco park alliance. as part of the program parks alliance is in full support of the program. stewardship is one of the missions of the park alliance and program creating lifelong park stuart's for san francisco and committed to revitalization to the expansion of the bay trail and the park system to the southeastern neighborhoods. as we work to ensure access to parks and open states to all residents in san francisco we are creating these lifelong stuart's to ensure a more sustainable future for the park system. thank you. >> next speaker? >> >> good morning, commissioners, i'm

carole back with the port of san francisco and i'm the port project manager for the park. i'm so pleased to have the opportunity to address you this morning on this topic. kimberly very generously thanked the port for it's participation in the greenagers program but it's the port who owes a debt of gratitude to the staff particularly for the greenageers program for their participation in heritage park. in just 3 years, the greenagers have contributed thousands of hours to heritage park but more importantly they have help the us at the pork achieve a deeper and lasting commitment to the park within the southeast community that it was intended to serve. i think

that the fact that in only 3 years, the first members of the first two classes have gone on to leadership or employment opportunities within the recreation and parks or elsewhere is really a testament to the fact that that deeper and continuing commitment to the communities and the parks is is being accomplished. the port is happy to support the greenagers. it's been a fantastic partnership for us and we look forward to their receipt of this grant and continue strengthening of the program. i would also like to echo kimberly's invitation that you come out in january as having participated in the past, it's a fun and really inspiring event and the greenagers are an amazingly

energetic group of teens. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, month i name is jackie flynn. the executive director in the program in san francisco and we work with the greenagers program and every week we provide and participate in life changing experiences. every year high school students inundate my office all year long seeking opportunities. greenagers is an opportunity to learn and explore our city and allows them to think about their community and become active leaders in their community. i have had the opportunity to work

with the recreation and parks staff and i would not thank them enough for working with our kids and i would like to see the grant funding to continue to provide services to our kids. thank you for your leadership as well. >> thank you. next speaker? >> good morning, my name is kirk griems and i'm the manager and i too would like to echo what my executive director told you. before we get to the numbers and what we do, i would like to let you know that it's my job to engage our youth and engage you. let me tell you something, just 10 years ago, where were you? >> take it back 20 years ago where were you? >> 20 years from now, these

kids in these programs now they will be sitting in your seats and they will be supporting you and your grandchildren. this is the reason why i'm standing up here now to tell you that i'm in support of the greenagers program. you can hear from the staff and when i'm the one to get a kid to come to the greenagers program to get them to start with it, it's a definite start to the right path and partners have started with greenagers and they are supporting your grandchildren and your children. i would ask you to continue to support the next generation and the future. >> thank you. is there anyone else who would like to make public comment on this item? >> seeing none, public comment is

closed. >> entertain a motion? >> commissioner? >> >> thank you so much for that fantastic report and i'm certainly in favor of supporting it. can we make sure the date and time are on our calendar for the graduation? >> great. entertain a motion. moved and seconded. all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> any opposed? so moved. >> we can call items 8 and 9 together. father alfred boeddeker

park. you have three 3 minutes for each item. with that, we are ready. >> good morning, commissioners, general manager. it is my privilege to bring you the alfred boeddeker clubhouse lease agreement. you can't talk about the clubhouse unless you talk about the park. boeddeker park is the largest park in the

tenderloin neighborhood. it serves a community that is dense and diverse and in a neighborhood where grass and gardens are at a premium and for many of the population, this is the largest park they have access to. the previous version of this park, general manager ginsberg has a spoiler in there that is beautiful. the previous version of this park was a park that was absolutely designed to fail. it was a park that had a road through the middle for police to drive through, it was brick, it was steel, it had a clubhouse that was a bunker tucked into a corner into it. it was everything a park shouldn't

be. in 2000, the public parks raised $2 million in public and private funding and did an amazing transformation of the park. it is absolutely completely different. we began, so as the construction back in 2013, we expect to have completion december 10, 2014, right around the corner. we began the conversations with the community as we realized the park was going to come along, how would they like this park activated and we had multiple community meetings and what we realized is that this is a really important park, this is a really important place to the community. this is a place that has a

tremendous amount of folks. they wanted programming for all people, for kids, seniors, families, for adults. they have such a need for activation within a park. it became pretty apparent that this was not going to be able to be completed by any one organization. we did a unique approach. something we haven't done in any of our club houses as of yet. we decided we were going to bring in a collaboration with service providers to create a clubhouse partnership, but you can't have just a -- menagerie of organizations and the boys club of san francisco decided to take that on and they have been here for many

years and they understand the need and opportunities that exist there. they brought in collaboration with them we have central ymca, another vet eran organization and they really compliment themselves well, but in addition we also brought in safe passages of tenderloin based organization that helps kids get safely lieu -- lieu through the tenderloin. we brought in san francisco center and a theatre group through the boys and girls club. we are looking at a diverse and rich organization that is going to activate this clubhouse. these

community meetings told us a lot about what was going to be needed there and it took tremendous effort to organize that and being able to activate this properly. >> so here we have the boeddeker park community park logo. and we brought this to the operations committee and commissioner bonilla brought up the point that has been in the conversations from the very very beginning. how do we keep boeddeker park safe? we have this wonderful activation, we have this positive activation going on but we have to keep this park safe and we need to keep it clean and

fun. it works well for a park. but the security and safety approach to this was complicated and it's really a series of layers of safety that go into making this. the first layer is the park design. what they did was they made this clear and open. they made the fence that it was visibility from the street all the way through so police and authorities could look through the park to see it was clear. the clubhouse is designed so if you are in any space other than the storage, you can look right through the park. the building in the corner is now next to the clubhouse. when you walk to the park, you

walk by those windows and we have cameras, we have lighting and they are designed so it flashes down and doesn't create a nuisance as well. we started there. the second layer is part of activation. we are looking at this as being the most active and most programmed clubhouse that we have going within our system. we are looking at over 100 hours of programming per week, a full time clubhouse director that the boys and girls club have identified now and we are looking at an average non-programming staff on the site every single day monday through friday when they are activating it. when you count in the programming staff,

sometimes that jumped to 12 members on site. we don't want to count the saft side. have a roll call every afternoon and they are also going to be training volunteers and staff in safety protocols. we have recreation and parks and we have the weekends. we took the weekends for programming. recreation and parks we have mott just programming and staff we have classes over the weekend like zumba class and sounds like way too much fun and we have park patrol which will be able to access the cameras, it's the same system we installed. they can access the cameras remotely and they can look

necessity -- in the evening hours and make sure it's good and we have operation staff that come in the morning for park's opening and they come in and we have a guard that comes in and we are in the park all the time and part of that is adding the layers of safety. the fourth layer is the san francisco police department. we have worked very closely with the tenderloin station. they have attended the majority of our community meetings and we have worked very closely with captain turn as. he was walked the park with us and identified anything that would be issues. he assigned hamilton who is assigned to boeddeker park to be our

liaison officer and we have two outreach officers that are in the park. one is monday through thursday and the other thursday through friday. these are hand picked by captain turn as. they are outreach officers. they are not driving through the park with a squad car. these are guys in bike shorts in jackets participating with the program with program participants in the park. then we have a fifth layer. the department of public works, they are coming through twice a day. in particular they are coming at the end of the day when the park is closing and the kids are leaving the clubhouse so we can make sure they get out of the park and hope safely. they are adding a perimeter to the park to make sure any biohazards are dealt

with there. this is the second one. this is the resolution. the department internally, operationally, the community, the police department, everybody has felt very strongly that we need to set "the hours" of the park to match "the hours" that we have the clubhouse opened, programs and staff to make sure when you come to the park it's a park and what a park ought to be and nothing anything different than that. that's the resolution that i'm asking you to approve. key lease terms. 5-year agreement. will credit the tenant $2400 as long as they are providing the programming. there is really no charge to it. the key component to it, the community action commitment. this has been in incredibly powerful. what we want to make sure is the best day of boeddeker

is not the best day it opens. there have to be key features. we know the park is going to need attending and it's going to address challenges. one of the requirements is the committee action committee. they have been meeting for months and months and months. it has three subcommittees, one to evaluate our programming. we have jamie hopper, program represent at that -- representative to make sure and we have one for security, hamilton, sergeant liaison is on that one as well as parks and recreation. we are looking for a stainable process so the partners in this

community action really look at this as a starting line, not the finish line moving forward. there is the corridor the police used to drive up and there is incredibly beautiful lawn. the parks has walking paths outside exercise, it has a children's play area. it has basketball, volleyball, a stage. it has a community garden. the friends of boeddeker park involved in planning and looking forward to getting dirty again. there is the community garden. here is inside the clubhouse, you can see it's all glass. everything looking out is all glass. it's beautiful. it's a wonderful space. there is your before and after, the transformation of the park which is just been

phenomenal. thank you. >> thank you, >> we do have public comment. i'm going to call up some names. essan looper, betty trainer, kevin costey and jennifer ice cough. >> good morning, my name is ethan looper and the clubhouse director in the tenderloin, our tenderloin clubhouse, i currently live about a block away from boeddeker but i was born and raised on 20th and guerrero. first i want to ask you a rhetorical question. what can a park do? i went to the mission

playground. i learned to swim. i lived near dolores park. it was safe for me to go there on my own. what can a park do? one of my parents told me i will not step foot inside boeddeker park and neither will my child because of what that park did to her. what can a park do? the tenderloin is a very special place, but because it's so densely populated we are right on top of one another. we can't thrive on top of one another. it's in our dna to do that. this park is no different. this model can thrive in the tenderloin because it's what we already do together, collective impact. as the master tenant, we are not bringing boys and girls

club to the park, but we are bringing some of our values. i will share three that we are bringing. commitment to quality, it is going to be clean, it is going to be safe. the programs will be high quality. teamwork, safe passage, ymca, recreation and parks, working as a team to ensure that it is a successful endeavor, and collaboration, another one of our values, glide, as a programming partner. san francisco senior's center. a partly cloudy -- api wellness and other people are coming and saying i want to be involved in the success of this park. it might be at twitter who is not only come with money for the future success for the

saint frances foundation and come with money and support but it's the community coming together because we know what a park can do. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> hello commissioners. my name is be tty trainer. i'm with boeddeker park, the coordinator. we had our first meeting in may of 2003. almost on that first meeting attended by regular representatives they said what can we do to improve this park. we did things here or there and had work days and other programs, but structurally, they knew we had to make some serious changes as jeff presented in

his powerpoint, and thankfully with the coordination and efforts of the trust republic land and the recreation and parks we were able to make these changes . it was unbelievable. i know it was a sacrifice to have the park closed for 2 years. they were willing to do it. they didn't fight it because they knew they were going to have something wonderful. we had several community meetings and we are going to have our final meeting posted by the public land today this afternoon at 3:30 when we are going to tell the people about all the programming going on in the park. i think it's absolutely unbelieve ---ible. it's hard to believe. here is a park that was only open three 3 hours a day. it will now be open seven days 7 days a week all day

and into early evening. i don't think the people even believe it at all. i don't think they trust us. but i keep telling them it's true. it's going to happen. i would say it's the only park in the tenderloin that is open for everybody, for all ages as he said, for people that live in sro hotels. they don't have back yards. now they are trying to put up gardens on the roof, but for all, this is their green space to relax and do some activities in the park which we'll have plenty. i wanted to assure you that the friends of boeddeker park will remain in existence, will be meeting regularly at the park, we are going to continue our music in the park program, we'll be coordinating the community gardens. i