e tended to the staff can accommodate it so increase the staff make it happen we're pitting too much money into high-rise when we could you guys would not be in the panel if you didn't want something bigger this is one of the major aspects shelters are meant to be a flow not permanent it is temporary they could keep going keep it as an even flow those people need housing okay. those shelter are not meant to camp and post up for years a lot of those people view mlk and the elderly and transgender people and so many things that play a part you guys need to make it happen i have the money.

>> hello, i'm chris williams i'm grateful thank you for the opportunity to speak my story a brief i krienld across country to fight homelessness and hunger in the country i intend to make san francisco my new home my julian off point to pay it forward in my way i could using 38 my tenants of arts in the first few most i feel ill equipped in all fairness i've witnessed a desire to make a difference on both sides of the valuation i'm thankful for the programs you, however, i've witnessed the disparities and the inconsistent sisters and the

housing focuses and housing folks with more needs than an overnight bed and meals i can related the frrnz for the inconsistent search-and-seizure acids the exit plans and concert and quality of life scenarios and the activations but i believe this is not a place for the time sensitive femur furthermore i'll quote the charter and bar gravel failures but that's old news i'm homeless and tired as i speak i'm ill but i'm not deferred in continuing in my journey to wrestler that the inequalities and make a difference in the life of one more human being i believe the support services is one way to castle with the tide as the human plot in an unprecedentcy

of bans we don't need to rehash the old acronyms if you plan to fail we need action by passionate spirits that doing the right thing is more than a political karma but the right thing to do because it is the right thing to do period we need funding for the well trained and well paid resources required to effect real change thank you for your time and consideration. >> good afternoon. i'm mark ann anthony i was once homeless 14 years ago i can tell you horror stores in the shelters the staff was not formally

trained - oh it's this one excuse me. i'm so sorry the staff was not trained a lot of horrendous things going on and basically staff worked enabling a lot of the clients to do negative things i want to frame the word solutions i wish they were happening when i was once homeless i like to see some place do some creative financing to make something positive happen with this health care we have going on with mental health going on in the shelters i'd like to see more beds than 60 mercy a lot of my colleagues have said a lot of words but i want you to think about the right thing to do for

the community we're part of the human race and deserve a fair chance for housing. >> i'm manual jenkins i'm trying to touch basis with the board of supervisors type of thing thank you for assisting the homeless coalition and everything you you know thinking back when i was younger my grandmother was overly influential throughout the community a pillar to the america he name was mary baker and had property throughout california and nevada everything that was stolen by the federal government and also put a plaque

on the streets it's crystal methamphetamine mixed with tiger substance and it equals up to hiv and aids this is how it is made and i've done the research long story short my grandmother left me bans of the property and next across the street to emergency south i'm having a hard time claiming this property i want to let the supervisors know if you guys can help me i'll not have a problem with assisting the homeless i am key to a lot of the stuff that was taken in oakland and richmond it

is really under my name to the treasure island was also my property my sister sold it with someone else that was not speed limit to my gather was robert henderson a strong part of history it falls along the line of the civil government turning san francisco the federal government and thank you kim for being who you are and also i want to ask you if you ever receive writings that i left on our computer i'm going to leave some more stuff if you ever need me i can get in touch with me i do volunteer work here okay. thank you. >> thank you are there is there

anyone from the public who wishes to speak please come up. >> here i am thank you for having the meeting and bringing this to the table there was other rules that had me bothered because rules about tape recording i know you have to follow the california laws by it seems like they're trying to take away measures that the shelter workers would be - they're taking away measures where the homeless low document them being abused so we we were - i mean, i seriously digitally doubt of the homeless in the sherltsdz being going away should be addressed i feel like the council on homeless that was one won those are people that

should be dealing with this i don't know if they even meet anymore so the other thing i'd like to continuance so we can where i know this back and get the information they say their giving and i think the other thing i'd appreciate if someone takes an action you're saying the schools could be cited it sound like joyce crumb is giving excuses that's my main problem do better to hope i mean put passion and concerns to help people live better give them tools to live their life better all we get is excuses i think we need to hear from the high team the high team are laying it down and doing it and it seems like they're very important on this hearing i'm

also concerned how this meeting was posted to my type of notice as to whether this was going on so i think i have thank you. >> can i mention the tech companies they're giving out they're giving out some monies for this i want the tech companies could be reminded to invest some money into our shelter systems. >> i apologize your time is up if you want to wrap up with our last sentence. >> this is probably a long photograph. >> you're welcome to submit our comments to members of the committee separately. >> i just i'd like to continuance so we can get to the solutions we need more people in the department of public health the department of human services

are that are serious more dehumanizetion kcmo from the department - >> thank you thank you very much. >> okay i don't see my other members of the public that want to speak so ask our vice chair if we can close public comment. >> public comment is closed. wanted to give time to colleagues to make my closings comments. >> thank you, supervisor kim and for her ongoing efforts around this very important issue i thank you the h s a and the department of public health for their presentation i know that ms. crumb and mr. walling ton are conscious and the last thing i'll is to the department of public health is that further analysis of the data that i have i think would be really helpful

and if there are ways to create additional strategies in terms of how to address the needs of the some of the populations is very helpful to i supervisor kim. >> thank you supervisor campos i just wanted to thank the members of the public that came today it was a lengthy hearing as also an important issue and an issue with a lot of different angles and i think that you know beyond the meetings we've been engaging in it is important to have the members of the public to active gave me and an opportunity to educate the rest of the board as well as the public that are watching and wanting to learn more about how to address homelessness in our city thanks to the public for shareing their stories so thank you for spending our time to

advise us on the issue i wanted is to reiterate this of the called because of the rules it caused you know a really big conversation dialog around issues that have been long-standing within our shelters how we provide care to yields that live on the streets this conversation as evolved to something far bigger than whether or not we should have uniform rules a conversation of what do schools impose in terms of the godmothers gaps in the shelters one of the largest ones is the ability to provide health care services and housing for folks after the shelters i want to summarize some of the next steps one, of course, is what we've talked about creating a different model from the conversations, of course, addressing to the work this is

happening 3 full-time nurses and having enhances medical professionals on our hot team is a welcome edition and the medical respite it was put in the agenda and to do the plans this fiscal year to open up an additional 20 bed rest pit shelters next year and hearing on and on on top of we would like to enhance the services in our existing shelters i said over 50 percent of our homeless or sheltered residents are older actually, it is b 7.2 percent between 40 and 59 57 percent between 40 and 4 or 59 and 40 below 60 we're talking about folks over the age of 40 and not thinking of a place

where the seniors is staying how can we think that what i'm hearing from the community a need for the additional services we expect our shelters to provide looking at restorative practices within our shelters i know this is something that supervisor mar and i and supervisor campos are familiar with with the work skill i actually, the school district as an alternative to the suspensions to keeping our kids inside the classrooms that is a similar look we're talking about here and also opportunity for more radical housing it is unfortunately getting more and more expensive and finally i'll mention former supervisor duffey is working on a new application

for a center restore prying trying to intact individuals that have not been traditionally in our system in wheelchairs and comes up and hopefully that will you know learn interesting things from that pilot so this conversation continues really looking forward to working with human services agencies department of public health and the mayor's office on disability and all of our stakeholders both the service provider and our clients in the industries that are on the streets to continue to refine and work on a better quality system i think that is important it is not a blame game everyone is a resource between human services agencies or department of public health those policymakers need to think about how better to resource our agency to provide the quality services that you expect and deserve as a form of respect and

acknowledging did you humanist i think this feels important our office would love to take the names of folks that are not invited we'll take our contact information please come to my office to add our name so we can include you in further conversations. >> supervisor kim would you like to file this item. >> i'll make a motion to file at this point if we need a new request it will be different than the rules it was what the agenda was but deserves another conversation if under another title. >> supervisor christensen do you have a motion by supervisor christensen we can we'll take that without objection. again, we want to thank everyone for coming out and thank you for your time you said you know that the h 40 is pretty young we want

to thank everyone for coming out and madam clerk, any other business before this commission? >> there are no more items mr. chair. >> thank you. the meeting is

>> this is the meet of the recreation and park complication and secretary please call are roll. >> commissioner buell. >> here. >> commissioner low? >> here. >> commissioner bonilla. >> here. >> commissioner harris [stpho*-fpblt/] here. >> commissioner levitan is on her way and commissioner wei has an excused absence today, commissioner mcdonnell? >> here. >> this is the february 19th, 2015 meeting of the recreation and parks commission. we welcome everyone here today, but ask that you turn off any sound-producing devices that may go off during the meeting, which i need to do -- if you could please take any secondary conversations outside, as to not disrupt the meeting. and if you could please fill out a blue card, if you would like to make public comment. you do not have to.

our process is that i will call any of the names from the blue cards first and then we'll ask for any additional public comment. so everyone can comment. when you make public comment, please address your comments to the commission, and in order to allow equal time for all, neither the commission, nor staff will answer any questions during public comment but they may -- the commission may ask staff to respond after public comment. one last thing, you will have three minutes, commissioner buell. >> three minutes. >> if you have an item that is not on calendar, but falls under the jurisdiction of the recreation and park commission, you may speak under item 4, general public comment and continued again on item 12. with that, we are on the president's report.

>> thank you. let me start by saying, gung hay fat choy, happy new year to all of you. the only item i have is that this month, i gave the zoo management people the option to submit a written report inasmuch as the senior staff for scheduling reasons weren't available to give a personal presentation. but it made me think back to the way we schedule those reports, and hauling everybody down from the zoo once a month, we already have a zoo committee and three members of this commission sit on it. prior to 2008, there were no monthly reports presented to the commission, and i think was due to some issues at the zoo, that the commission took a more active role in what was going on. so what i am going to recommend is that we still get public presentations quarterly from the senior staff at the

zoo. and that we continue to get monthly written reports that will be public reports as part of this agenda, submiting it to the commission. and margaret, you are going to have figure out how we get public comment on those reports, because i think there may be people here today who are interested in at least voicing an opinion. and then would ask you to prepare a resolution that this commission can consider and ultimately vote on and hopefully adopt my recommendation of moving to quarterly reports and monthly written reports. that concludes my report. >> commissioner, since there are folks here today, would you like us to at least hear public comment? >> i would. >> on that item? >> i would. >> anybody here for the joint zoo item, we'll still hear public comment on that item today. thank you. is there anyone who would like to make public comment under the president's

report? being none, we're on no item 3 the general manager's report. >> good morning, commissioners and gung hay fat choy, mr. president and happy new year to everybody as well. the year of the ram and i wanted to share a few events that we're kicking off the new year in the right way. first is our annual community clean team event at portsmouth square, that happened this past saturday. i had the privilege of joining our mayor, our director of public works, mohammed nuru and his team and the chinatown community at portsmouth and we welcomed supervisor christensen at that event. volunteers spent their saturday mornings cleaning up graffiti, picking up trash, landscaping and beautifying our parks. the community clean team program is in its 15th year and we're proud to be a key city

partner in making our city more beautiful. the event was so enthusiastic, that chinatown civic leader, she herself could issue citations for littering and bad behavior in our parks. >> that should intimidate any potential bad behavior. [laughter ]. >> other chinese new year events including the adult basketball team at the rec center this friday and saturday. our tiny tot chinese new year celebration on february 25th. our chinese new year junior high basketball jamboree on february 28th and our annual lunar celebration on february 28th. we're also this month celebrating black history month. and we will be hosting a celebration a free celebration at hamilton recreation center

on february 28th. activities include music, spoken word, dance, food and more. this annual event is made possible with the support of our community partners including urban ymca and bring bridge the gap. the centenial anniversary kicks off this week and friday night at the palace, which starts for the public at 9:00 p.m. is 100 years to the day that the world fair opened in san francisco in 1915. we will have spectacular events, activities, exhibitions k light displays, and entertainment that brings to life the 1915 world fair. on saturday the february 21st, beginning at noon, the recreation and park department and its partners the california historical society, innovation hangar and foundation will host

a free public event. come towards the ground and watch engaging permissions ing performances including the california historical society, the exploratorium, maker media, the tech museum and spark lab smithsonian. for more information the public can check out ppe1.org. we invite the public to join the recreation and park department in the san francisco parks alliance for a community design forum on san francisco playgrounds. the forum takes place 9 to noon at the clubhouse at 19th and linda, participants will have the opportunity to offer input to guide future playground renovations in the city. for more information see our website, sfrecpark.org.

on the front table, each commissioner has a greened card, event hosted by the city park as license is coming to san francisco april 11 through the 14th. greater and greener happens every two to three years in big cities across america. it was last held in new york city in 2012 and welcomes approximately 1,000 urbanists urban park advocates, urban planners, landscape designers, from both the government, non-profit and private sector. for a series of really interesting workshops and eventuals and we're very proud to be the lead host agency for this event this year. and we're very excited about it and invite everyone to register for the conference. so pitchers and catchers

reported this week, believe it or not and so it's time to talk baseball and here is a really exciting opportunity for our young female players. hosting spring trainouts for girls ages 11 to 13 this saturday, february 21st at crocker amazon park from 10:00 a.m. to noon. they will be on diamond 3. baseball instruction and practices will be held two days per week and every weekend from march to may, culminating in your participation in the first girl's baseball national tournament in orlando florida, this summer. the team will be coached by our very own rocky henley, who was a member of colorado rockies women's baseball team and they had a couple of try-outs already. i went to one and it's so inspiring and there are some

really good baseball players out there. we invite everyone to join the recreation and park department in celebrating reboots national day of unplugging. in march, it's on march 7th, reboot national day of un[phr-ulg/]ing unplugging is only once a year to draw attention to the world around us and reconnect with family, friends and most importantly for our purposes, nature. it is true that our kids today are spending over 7 hours a day behind a screen of one form or another and less than 30 minutes a day outside. that needs to change and we encourage everyone to participate in the national day of unplugging. my kids particularly my oldest daughter will go kicking and screaming, but -- [laughter ]? >> the ginsburg family will be unplugging on that day. and as an added bonus, you can

unplug, but you can still shop. shoppers receive 10% off their purchases at sports basement now through march 21st, just mention national day of unpluging to receive your discount. i'm not very pleased to bring up kenji, the department of human resources director to present our quarterly employee recognition certificate of appreciation, and i'm so pleased and so proud to bring up dave christiansen, our department's award-winning. could ken, tell him when he has won. >> >> good morning commissioners and general manager ginsburg, kenji the director of human resources for the recreation and park department. to demonstrate the quarterly employee