all right. and for our next acknowledgment commissioner buell you talked about how harding weathered the storm. you know it's a big park system and we had lots of storms and it was a pretty dicey 10 days for our staff and before i go into this special recognition i want to commend danny kern and the entire operations term for their preparedness. our park system weathered the storms very well. we lost a small number of trees which is to be expected but we had minimal fleeding. our facilities were in pretty good shape and we prepared very well for the storm and we responded very quickly to emerging colleges in our park system or on the streets adjacent to the parks because of the storm and i want to thank him for his leadership. one aspect of our response to the

storm is we are -- our rec center's function is more than just places for fun and rec kreegz. they're community centers and in an emergency or disaster we provide shelter and so today i really want to acknowledge and commend everybody who participated in the shelter operation which housed over a hundred people for about 36 hours. >> [inaudible] >> oh it was two and a half days. it was two full nights. these folks really went above and beyond with the storm with less than five hours notice these individuals accomplished a herk layerian task of putting this in motion and did it seamlessly and in partnership with the human services agency and the red cross and many other partners. so i want to recognize who is here. tim fageris and his staff and a

coordinator. steve [inaudible] and the entire park service custodial staff. bob lote and marcos is here. come on up folks. our park patrol supervisor who provided around the clock support and jennifer from the division and made sure that we were able to staff the facility and keep it safe and operating. we also had some other staff that i think that are here that worked with our team leaders. raina and george who are here and provided wonderful support. this is important to have our city leaders call on us in a pinch and to respond as quickly and as effectively as you all did is really terrific and not only do i want to commend you and the commission wants to commend you and we have sunny from supervisor kim's office to

provide a further special recognition. >> hi. this is weird. you guys are behind me, but i echo everything that the director said. the supervisor actually had an opportunity to tour the shelter. she lives near by the rec center as you know and she had the opportunity to go in and a maced as the efficiency and the relaxed environment and a different experience since she's has spent a night in another shelter and went through the process. i believe the staff played a critical role in that and the recreation center is not just a recreational facility and is serves all of the residents and many have relationships with rec and park staff like tim and

steve so we're very appreciative and i would like to -- read this for you guys. on behalf of the board of supervisors in recognition of your rapid mobilization to shelter the 246 individuals -- that was the number i got during a severe storm that came to the bay area with over 6 inches of rain and the wettest month in the last six years and the board of supervisors gives the commendation for your passionate response and accommodation for toaz in need for safe shelter. >> thank you sunny. do you want to join me with a picture of the team?

[applause] >> going to powerpoint. >> now commissioners our monthly video this month in parks. hold on. >> wait. >> commissioner bonilla. >> i just had a quick question. >> could you speak into the mic? >> i am curious how the newly renovated facility did in light of the new design? >> not only did it held up extremely well we actually had programming during the storms

which was terrific. >> great. i am glad to hear that. >> okay. shoot away. >> all right. >> i am kimberly and the director of the volunteer program here at the san francisco recreation and park department and we -- [inaudible] and engage passionate people of san francisco who want to get out and give. >> i like the satisfaction of giving something back to our community. >> i really value the green space we have in san francisco. >> [inaudible] >> and it's fun. i don't know. i like it. >> surdivision supports 184,000 hours of volunteer service annually. [inaudible] also the program and youth stewardship program as well as all of the recreation programs. one of the great things i get to do is support large events like

national public [inaudible] clean up day significant events nationwide about volunteering and giving back. from there it's a gate way for pee to learn about service and the community and a way to register and get involved and join us and that's what we're doing. i say many hands make life works and voluntarism is a sign of the community coming together and making san francisco parks world class. >> we started the month in december of the kick off of the [inaudible] international -- [inaudible]. on december 4 we celebrated the 85th annual john mclaren tree lighting and included arts and crafts and live entertainment and a visit

from santa. [inaudible] and the tenderloin community came together to open the park after a 9.3 million dollar renovation. online registration is happening now so visit our website and we hope to see you in the park and rec kreegz centers soon. >> happy holidays. >> thank you commissioners and that concludes the general manager's report for 2014. >> is there any -- oh i'm sorry. >> no, thank you. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing no one public comment is now closed. we're on item four which is general public comment. we will take comment up to 15 minutes. if need be we will continue to item 9. at this time members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within

the public matter jurisdiction within the commission and not on the agenda. for items on the agenda your opportunity to address the commission is when the item is reached in the meeting. i have one card and that is for richard rothman. >> good morning commissioners. i am here to talk about the mothers building. i have been here before talking about it and i am happy to say that the grant application that the zoo, the art commission and rec and park from the historic preservation fund which is the fund that was set up with whoever owns am blooming dales because they dook down the stain glass in the empourium set up the fund for preservation assessments and rec and park and the others were awarded a grant for over $100,000 to do an assessment of

the building and i wanted to thank dawn for stepping up to the plate and making this grant application happen and coming to the meetings with me, and talking to the preservation group that rec and park is serious about fixing up this building. these murals are just absolutely beautiful and so hopefully the study will take about three months and in the spring then we will know how much money we need to fix up the building and thanks to everyone. >> thanks to you. >> is there any other general public comment? seeing no one public comment is now closed so we're now on item five which is the consent calendar. -- oh yeah, is there any public comment on the consent calendar? come on up. >> good morning commissioners

and general manager ginsburg. i want to thank again the park staff, particularly tony moran on the urban park greening grant and i hope you think it's valuable to receive and almost a million dollars to add to a transformative project in mclaren park and mansell corridor and i believe the view of the country -- that nothing has been done on the design of mclaren park and take the lanes of traffic and two lanes and take the other lanes create bike, pedestrian just walkways with trees and this grant will add all of the green features that contribute to really finalizing the project in the way that we hope it all be so i am glad you hopefully agree to

the consent calendar and push it forward and again the supervisors we hope -- we're going to lobby with them and make sure that happens but thank you all for the fine work and thanks to the capital department for the good work finding grants because we were originally not going to get the additional funding and that would have been one shoe off so thanks again. >> thank you. >> is there any other public comment on the consent calendar? seeing none this item is closed. commissioners we will need a motion. >> i will entertain a motion. >> second. >> it's been moved and seconded. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> so moved. >> now we on item 6, the san francisco zoo. >> good morning. holly peterson on behalf of the san francisco zoo and i want to thank you -- [inaudible] our

group of donors tend to be animal oriented and not building oriented and we thank you for your efforts on that. i am pleased to report that the zoo suffered little damage through the storms. thanks to pg&e actually on that rainy thursday we had power at both the vet hospital and at our cafes so we were able to provide warm lunch for our members and staff so that was great, and it appears the only damage we have is sewage back up at the chimp exhibit and one of the oldest in the zoo and i thank everybody. november attendance just before this graph here is -- it was over 63,000 visitors budgeted for 48,000 so we had a great november and thus far year to date is 410,000 versus 377,000 so ahead of budget which is

good news going into the rainy season when no one comes to the zoo. because we're at the calendar end and those on joint zoo i apologize but i wanted to show where we are quickly as we end the year. we compare and budget on a three year basis so here are our attendance figures for the last three years. the green is the total attendance. i did want to point out the members which is the color of orange. you can see this last year in 2014 when we opened the new playground our membership went up and every year we offer free admission to over 100,000 folks. that's that pink color and interestingly while we're still over 100,000 we had less free visitors this last year so i think that's showing that the value proposition of the zoo is holding strong, and then why do we track attendance? one, because it shows that our

mission is relevant, but also it helps us pay expenses and i want to give you a pie chart here. the largest slice of the pie is on the right, animal operations. our expenses for this year are estimated at 6.7 million just for animal operations itself. building and grounds again we are a 99-acre park as well and buildings grounds are over 4.3 million in expenses. where our revenues come from? thanks again on the next chart thanks to the city $4 million comes from the city and the roases slice there but we really need to get the revenues from the blue piece of pie there which is admissions and the dark purple which is retail and parking. those are people coming through the zoo actually through the gate both paying for retail and parking and admission covering

the bulk of our expenses there. again i just a quick dashboard here on the last three years, head count, and while attendance goes up we can employ more people and need to employ more people so for the last three years it's gone from 214 to 243 persons. also with that we can promote more folks. we went from five promotions to 12, and we were able to last year to fill 128 positions because you see how we're holding there throughout the recession and lastly you know that our zoo keepers are members of the teamsters union and thanks to the work of the hr team the union grievances have stayed relatively the same, one a year. we will work on getting that down and the last dashboard i have is also again as revenues increase we can invest in our animals. last year we had 1600

animals and this year we have 1744 animals and i just wanted to point out some of the new animals and species that came to the zoo this last year the wof wean and pandas and lemurs and we have eight species of lemurs at our exhibit and speaking of animals as i announced last month we had a new [inaudible] langer and it's a he and staff decided to name him "steffen curry" after the warriors player. it's about time we acknowledge the warriors and thought he was the color of curry the spice and matches the point guard and a little fun there. we are building the south america collection with the af vary and the a adjoining exhibit and we brought in

twoant loops and the smallest in the world and come from south america. they're sweet. they're hard to see. very tiny but they're a courtable and in the lapunty exhibit and we have these and they're adjacent to the playground here and you can see them in the holidays and the new exhibit is there and kids are enjoying it. speaking of kids we too have a winter camp for two weeks. provides relief to frazzled parents including myself who still have to work and buy gifts during the holidays. this is almost sold out. we have the highest attendance ever for student winter camp this winter so thanks to the team back at the zoo, and then i just wanted to remind everybody we're doing our third annual zoo lights. full

programs starts tomorrow and through december 30. we will have the lights off for christmas eve and christmas so staff can spend time with the families. again this is free for members. we will have santa. we have a number of animal exhibits open and the giraffe bar and the komodo dragons and reindeer. we feature local musicians and this friday is the el camino dance group and saturday the popular ray tones but look at our website for rain and other schedules but so far we're ready to go and i wanted to thank the very high end retailer, neemen marcos and there is an expression that one person's trash is another man's treasure and they didn't need the trees from last year and a lot of the trees came from neemen marcos.

they don't useornments twice i guess. [laughter] anyway i will leave that one alone. just a reminder one of the greatest world's best biggest lego displaying will end in january and in the pachyderm building and sean kennedy built the lego displays and quite amazing. . the hummingbird is in the air and i invite you and the kids to come see them and a quickly where we are on repairs. i explained this to the joint zoo commission and saw the report of the our investigative igator -- [inaudible] but this is what the panels look like and for each of the doors. the black buttons causing it to either go up or down and the stop button. as

you're aware of the protocol for each of the doors is keep the hand on the red button and staff if in operation and four and a half feet high and 30 seconds to close. the speed is akin to a garage door if not slower. what we're doing now is retrofitting each of the doors so that it's no longer needed to press the stop button but if you relet's your button from the black button the door will stop on its own automatically. it's called a pressure control release system and i will show you a diagram. those are the safety protocols that are next and remain next to the door. there was a lot of press about the protocols and unless you need me to go through them but this is to remind the operator how to utilize the doors. this is the diagram of the back of house of

the gorilla world. the blue indicates where the panels are currently. the orange arrow there in the bottom left corner and i don't know if i can get the laser there. that's where kabee and her grandmother slept so you can see where the operator was vis-a-vis the door and what we're going to do now -- i believe the next picture is provide another operating panel over in a second place in that top corner so there are two places now for a operator to utilize the doors providing more flexibility and enhance visibility and with that i finish my report and happy holidays. >> thank you. mr. ginsburg. >> thank you mr. politic. i wanted to. >> >> thank you mr. president. i wanted to thank the staff for hosting us at the employee event. we're at the zoo for a

lovely sunday morning brunch and we had several hundred people. i think 300 to 400 people from the department and staff and their families. commissioner low and his family were kind enough to join us and we folks explored the zoo for the day and the staff was fantastic and the zoo looked great. and we wanted to say thank you. >> thank you for coming. i appreciate it. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing no one public comment is now closed and this was discussion only. >> thank you. >> we are now on item 7, esprit park 800 indiana street shadow impact. >> thank you.

>> good commissioners. i am holly peterson a planner with the rec and park's capital building division and the report is shadow impact on esprit park on 800 indiana street and we have the developer for the project, avalon bay communities here. i think they want to say a few words after my presentation. we have the planning department staff here who have been responsible for the project entitlements and environmental review and here to answer any questions that you may have. just a brief overview of the policy for shadow -- analysis of shadow impacts on parks on rpd owned parks from proposed new buildings over 40 feet in height. the shadow analysis requirement was enacted through sunlight ordinance, proposition k and codified in

the planning code and addition to the actual ordinance there was a memo prepared in 1989 by the recreation and park department and the planning department which provides guidance how to evaluate shadow impacts on parks, both quantitatively and qualitatively. the proposed project 800 indiana street is located in the dog patch neighborhood at obviously 800 indiana street. it will include up to 338 new residential units and will be approximately 58 feet in height and this image shows the relationship of the proposed building to esprit park. as you can see it's kiltie corner from the park to the southwest. and these are the proposed building elevations showing the building envelope and the design. i know it's hard to see from where you're sitting for the proposed

project. and just a brief description of esprit park. it is 1.83 acres located between 19th and 20th street in between minnesota and indiana streets and fairly densely planted around the perimeter with trees and open meadow in the interior and has an athletic circuit or exercise equipment and benches and picnic tables and frequently used and particularly for dog walking and dog play. looking at the new shadow that would occur on the park from the project at 800 indiana the new shadow would occur during the fall and winter months from october to march and occur in the late afternoon within the last two hours of the solar day. the memo provides guidance how to look at shadow impacts and it looks at the solar day which

ends one hour before sunset so this project the shadow would occur during the last two hours of the solar day. the average duration of the shadow is 45 minutes and ranges from 37 minutes to one hour and 54 minutes and the area of the park that would be shadowed by the proposed building is the southern portion of the park. i will show an image of that in a moment. so the guidance from the 1989 memo provides policy criteria for both smaller parks under 2-acres and large parkers so what it says that parks with less 2 acres in size that are already shadowed by 20% no additional shadow should be permitted. parks more than 2 acres when shaded less than 20% an additional 1% shadow load should be permitted, so as i said esprit park is 1.83 acres and the metric used in shadow

analysis is total available sunlight and measured in square foot hours and the methodology looks at the existing shadow conditions in the park and square foot and how much would the proposed building change that in percent change so for esprit park the current load is 10.85% and the existing shadow is that much of the total annual sunlight. the 800 indiana street would increase had load by 0123 percent and bring the total load on the park existing plus new building to 10 .97 of the total available sunlight. this image shows the shadow on esprit park on the day of maximum impact which is december 20 at sunset minus one hour so you can see where the

shadow is located on the southern section of the park and i think it's worth noting that a lot of this area is currently shadowed by trees. this slide shows other development projects, proposed projects in the pipeline in the vicinity of esprit park and there are two other projects besides street that have been reviewed for impacts and 650 indiana and on tennessee. and in both cases the new shadow by the proposed buildings wouldn't have a significant or adverse impact on the park. this table shows the details of the shadow impacts on esprit park from all three projects. that is 800 indiana as well as the 2 i mentioned that were reviewed and the far

right shows the cumulative shadows on esprit park so for all three projects the total increase in shadow load on the park would be 0.2 six 9%. the existing conditions plus the new shadow from all three projects would bring the total shadow load to 10.85% and looking more qualitatively at all three projects there would be new shadow both in the morning and in the evening hours. there would be new shadow all year around sept for the month of september and the new shadow would be located on both the northern and southern sections of the park so i think it's fair to say there would be small amounts of new shadow dispersed throughout the day and year and across the park. and the capital committee heard this item on december 3 and forwarded