continue these items for a week. and but, first i will open this up to public comment, if anybody wish to comment on 5 or 6, seeing none, public comment is closed. >> >> why don't we continue it for one week just in case, and if they want to continue it for long and her don't have a week, if it is not time urgent we can wait for that as well. so moved. >> we have a motion to continue, and second and we can take that without objection. >> madam clerk do we have any other business in front of us for the ten a.m. meeting? >> no, thank you, we are adjourned.

yours trully ace washington is on that ship. >> thank you, next speakers. >> my name is deborah and i have worked in the arts community in san francisco for 20 years. i have 17 och the years running intersection city arts. i'm the ceo at yeerba braina for the arts and also a member of the arts alliance. i feel i have a perfective i want to share and one is cultural equity is real concern and we are grateful you are looking tat. we need to come together and insure the arts community and all the diversity is afforded. it is time to focus on this. the arts committee and our city have not gained from the division among us. they have not gained. i would like to see us working together

and in addition to this report i'm pleased that the san francisco foundation is also doing some work on this so policy link and so is the ford foundation so i think we can work together. i'm happy to report the arts alliance is committed to community organizing and working across the field. we are totally supportive of cultural equity. you will see us work together and see it grow and the impact of that and i'm hopeful for the future in san francisco. i want to share something dareen walker the president of the ford foundation wrote. this is a paraphrase on his reason why the ford foundation supports the arts at the core of their strategy. their strategy is about social justice so it is important to understand that.

he says, less art leads to more inequality amore inequality leads to more injustice. we need more art and all our art institutions >> student be committed to their goal as civic assets public benefit institutions that change the paradigm in our sit a. thaupg >> thank you very much. next speaker, please >> high supervisors great to see all of you today. my name is [inaudible] i want to let you know that i'm working with arts alliance. what i'm excited about is we talk about a new day in terms of the arts advocaers work in san francisco. what happened in the a past is there a decision in the arts xhunty and cultural equity is a issue and need to address that. what we have seen is the piece of the pie that the community received in the city budget and the city increased has decreased so all the arts in san francisco

suffered. many other oregs and issue areas have seen their revenue increase with the hotel tex we talk about 95 million dollars over the last 10 years the arts community hasn't seen. that is all aspect of the art community and what you will see in the coming weeks is budget process is community [inaudible] desire to support the work of the small z medium sizeorts organization and make sure there is cultural equity. the arts is much stronger if they unit and work together oppose today divided and i'm excited about the future and thankful the work aba is doing and the arts alliance is supportive of their work >> any other members of the public wish to comment on this item? seeing none public comment is closed. supervisor mar >> i want to thank everyone for coming to speak. it is

beginning of everyone coming toorkt to think about how we build in strategies for cultural equity within the arts for the city. seattles office of art and culture is already doing it. there are many places to look from your community trust mpt i think we should be looking at key documents and what fred blackwell and tar eroamo from the san francisco foundation i'm pleased they are vaurfbed so we can look at a broader analysis and best practices. i'm interersed in long term structural changes as recommended by the arts task force a few years ago and as president breed menshzed thmpt short term budget issue is ponchtd, but the longer term building of cultural equity and

social justice [inaudible] into what we do as a sitoo arts is at the center oof everything that is about our city as well. president breed >> thank you aenchd everyone for coming out. this is a informative hearic and on the same page with supervisor mar. we can continue to advocate and come to the board aerfb single year and talk about equity, but what is more important is we fleed to fix the problem. there is problem and we need to make sure we come up with solutions that make sense to make sure this process is fair and equitable and that is what i'm committed to doing so thank you for coming out. i appreciate it and also glad to hear the larger institutions and medium and small institutions are all coming together to try and work together. i know that is a straugal in the arts community for many years and it is all centered around funding, but we

all have a role to play in the arts. the small institutions are just as pornts thaz large institutions in providing the new artist the first opportunity to be a part of the cultural fabric of san francisco. we got work to do and committed to make sure we develop the right process to do that >> should i move we table the items >> supervaseer mar made a motion to table item 2. we'll take that without objection >> thank you everyone. at this point we'll move to item 1 >> item 1 [inaudible] parks and recreation services and services for childrens and families [inaudible] recreation and park department and [inaudible] >> colleagues as we dive head long first into our budget season here at the board of

supervisor jz sticking with our hearings that we called for to really introduce before the heart of june, today i want to focus on families in san francisco both the services offered and the status of where we are as a city. i believe everyone shares-families are huge priority for myself and for the board of supervisor jz want to make sure we have a one hear ing that focuses on that area so we can tie it together. kicking that off is the core department or one of the few that is at the center of this and that is reck and parks department. i want to thank fill [inaudible] i want to thank the department heads for sticking around and [inaudible] who is here for being here for this first hearing and want to kick it off. fill, thank you for being here >> thank you for visor jz

thank you for framing todays hearing with a focus on children and families and parks. it is important as our city continues to grow and we become more and more dense focusing on why the parks matter is a important discussion. san francisco was fortunate to welcome about 10 days ago a thousand park professionals from big cities around the word, 20 different countries from every state in the country to a conferencethality happens every 2 or 3 years on urban parks and it is what we talked about for 3 orfore daze. the chalthss with big cities are not unique, but because of san franciscos growth we find ourselves faces some of the challenges as critically as anyone. 85 percent of america lives in a

urban core. 95 percent of california lives in a urban core. our planning department predicts i think we are now the second more dense city in the nation in san francisco and the planning department predicts new 80 new presidents and 97 now housing units in the next 25 years. it is very nert esting to note that i think since 1994-since 20s 0491 percent of all new housing units created in san francisco were 10 units or more. 91 percent of all new housing project are 10 units or more, which means no more back yards are built so the parks matter. if we can flip to the presentation and the first slide. i think we are there.

supervisors you may have these slides in front of you. >> we do. >> just some highlights of a rather long story for public land and san francisco park alliance have engaged in the study with our department on the stats relevant to why parks matter in san francisco. we talked about density. obviously the goal is to be the most sustainable city in the land and our park system alone absorbs 750 thousand feet of storm water every years and purifys 135 thousand tons of air pollutant. there is

discussion about childhood obozedy. 1 in 3 people in san francisco are over wait or obose. we spent about 11 hour as day behind a screen. les than 30 minute a week outside. the important role that our park system plays to heth care can't be understated thmpt summary you have a cdc study that shows access to open space sw access to places to exercise increases the likelihood och something exercising 3 times a day by 26 percent. recreation and open space contribute sig cnthly to the mental helts and safety of our communities. there is a summary from la, but i want to point in to the work in san francisco with the pea soup program. we bring kids

from underserved communities and challenging environments that haven't experience td nature up to [inaudible] apprenticeship program are all examples of our work in connecting communities with nature in a effort to keep them healthier and safe. as we noted really are parks are becomes san franciscos back yards which is wonderful, but i'll also present challenges about the future. little about reck and park by the numbers. it is a vast system. it is 15 percent of the citys land. well over 220 parks and 179 play grounds and counting. you see the basket ball [inaudible] of note is the 27 recreation

centers. we have a very very robust recreation program. there are uben parks departments athround country that have got out of the business of recreation and out source to partners. we are not doing that. aquatic, out door reck riation and everyone has a opportunity to play in our system. one of the things that i'm most proud about since our team has been together at reck and park is the scholarship fund increased from 80 thousand a year to over wn.1 million a year. we subsidize over wn.1 million a year in free or subsidized programs and it operates as free or reduced lurch program at the school

district. taking a quick look at the 14/15 budget, about our operating budget is about 143 millions [inaudible] it ebbs and flows dependent on when we issue new debt and our bonds and receive grants and receive philanthropic gifts, so you will not see a logical line in the caltle budget. we are very blessed through the 10 year capital plan and the support of the mayor and board of superizvoors to have 2 bonds in the 6 or sev years since 2008. each bond wurths 185 million dollars and 1508 went to parks and 30 to 35 went to the port, but we are renovating the parks. because our system is so vast it is important to

keep in mind we have a long way to go and people don't always see that particularly when you see a new park ren ovation or play ground but there infrastructure is old and aging and the budget is well over a billion dollars. some issues that we have been thinking about as we move forwards in 15/squaen and 16, 17 is growth. we want people living in cities and using mass transit and want densty but that it creates the need more fr more parks thmpt drought is here, it isn't going anywhere. it is going require us as a city to make significant decisions about investment in

infrastructure and give thought to the way we change our land management practices. it is no longer okay for the park to look good. they capture and absorb storm water and need to be drought tolerant so we need to think about investing more in the land and how the parks look. during the parks conference we spent time with our colleagues from the national park service and they go through a conversation as welt. it is very intereing, their conversation at the national park service or national park land is how to get more teepal to their parks. they do a very good job in land management but need to work on access and getting people to parks. the converse is true for local park system which is we are very accessible to people, but we fleed to take