it was more important that we continued to support us in collaborating in those efforts i left gosh 16 years ago to raise my children i said good by and worked with the community and as a volunteer coming back and looking forward to the right. >> event >> thank you very much (clapping.) i know we have a representative from supervisor kim's office so, please. >> thank you commissioners and i'm joined with april from also from your office we are just incredibly proud and so chieftd to celebrate the silver anniversary i wore silver together tim because of the

anniversary of the rec center i don't know what 50 juniors we had a little tribute a special acknowledgment for the staff amazing it go walk into the rec center meeting on wednesday morning i see tim sitting down there surrounded by the community workers to champion the program and it is a wonderful we want to acknowledge the efforts and have a special conformation accomodation for staff you're going to hang it on the wall (clapping.) as well as the family of eugene and benny and jason and we're

really looking forward to working with them in the coming years to renovate and to continue to look at this institution thank you so much come on come on for your investment and being part of that feeling too (clapping). >> appreciate it. >> we're just grateful to be part that this when we see how many lives voluntary changed as that neighborhood changes we want to carry on your grandfathers legacy so thank you. >> thank you, very much. (clapping.) anyone else want to say a word

we have a motion and a second up. >> morning commissioners and community members i'm quentin i representative the united players with the filipino health initiative based in the south of market. >> i'll crisis from the center. >> and we want to thank the commissioner for the eugene recreation center it is a parlor in our community i've been around 90 for 10 of the 25 years i can say the rec center was the home the united playaz we moved your headquarters to the south of market due to lack of open space and the ability for our general youth in the neighborhood to gather so i want to thank you and thank you to the generous staff for opening up the space to insure safety aid quality programming for the community members. i also want to acknowledge a

lot of community members couldn't make it so it a school day our neighborhood school betsey carmichael filipino educations center is will celebrating the event by a lot of the hearts are with us today to celebrate the rec center so thank you, again, for supporting us and thank you guys for the staff for the hard work and looking forward to next 25 years to make our community stronger thank you >> thank you (clapping.) >> morning mr. president and commission i love starting the morning that way it is so exciting i represent the tran transfer loan our phillip when is the project manager is with me in spirit we wanted to give a taste of the eye towards the

next 25 years the transit is collaborating with the friends family and the incredible staff and rec and park to look at a feasibility study to figure out how to move jean rec center it is such a strong committed collaboration when we i sat here a couple of months ago license to the presentation i texted phillip and said get ready for a robust process we had 2 hundred and 50 people attending focus groups the outreach and participation is huge we feel that embodies the legacy of eugene friend for the rec and park this is translating this the friends family we're honored to work with those folks their and

father and uncle and most importantly all but community who is represented who are continuing that robust legacy so we really lord to keeping you apprised of that status moving forward is it so going to be a fun ride thank you very much. >> thank you, very much (clapping). >> hi, i'm debbie i am one of the old workers from eugene one day he said you remind me of my wife i said oh you're married to a black woman i asked his wife why he said because of yours fight i didn'tness and keep things ♪ line oh, that's why i remind you of his wife i miss him and grateful to be part of this

center and thank you all for inviting me here today >> thank you (clapping.) all right. i think we've got everyone weighing in i want to congratulate everyone involved and we'll see you in 25 years thank you (clapping) >> is there any public comment on the president's report seeingo egg no one the general manager report. >> i'll be belief some other exciting news in our department it is this is kind of a happy commission meeting 0 lovely to see i want to call out our fabulous san francisco bay socks next week 12 girls between 18 and 23 are traveling to the

first girls baseball in orlando florida a historic event that brings together the past, present, and future of the women's baseball of the original 19412 all-american professional female baseball league our team is lead by a coach how was a member of the silver bultd bullets of the 199 nos we'll wish them luck and hopefully come back with great stories and we'll honor them at a future commissioner meeting i want to acknowledge and honor our telephone and under junior tennis team from golden gate park that will be competing in the championships you remember

we pleaded and exploded and one in san francisco this is hard and we'll need them to be celebrated we have jennifer honoring this is a park index it as a rating of parks in the 75 cities of the country and san francisco is at the top of the list based on park access and park size and facilities investment and 5 factors but in any event san francisco finished figured out of '75 minneapolis tied for first and washington, d.c. was one point ahead of us and san francisco finished above new york city and chicago. >> gee we're proud and one of the ears we ranked the best

we're personally most proud is access nearly 99 percent of san franciscans live within a 10 minute walk of the park that's the nations best statistic and our goal and intent to celebrate with this commission when we reach hundred percent because we will great news (clapping.) once again we have our is street successor cub over the weekend in the heart of the civic center to improve the city through sports in august sponsoring fire successor with rob and usa have been tremendous partners for some of the challenged polyps to get out in the parks to play and last year rec and park will have

a team entered into this year's tournament and we'll have more information for everyone as we draw closer to the event if you want to participate in may 28th at 4:30 join supervisor mar and the paperwork commission with a ribbon cutting ceremony marking a beneath taking art in lincoln park their playgrounds and oats region of honor you may have seen this flier - i want to give a quick wrap up in celebration of arithmetic month we supported a stewardship on the front that was just last month the total number of volunteers that

included youth and adults 2 thousand 5 hundred total groups one hundred and four total hours of volunteer programming in the month of april loan 8 thousand 2 hundred and 12 so while everyday is earth day i want to commend and celebrate both not only our staff but everyone that step up to the plate and demonstrated this stewardship in our paperwork last but not least and perhaps in honor of rob who unfortunately may have slipped out we have this months video if you want to cue it up thank you. >> and it is celebrating our beautiful natural parks. >> thank you carli.

>> my name is curious i work for the san francisco recreation and park commission for seven years as a gardener are the recreation and parks department has 4 thousand acres of land of open spaces with the natural areas like twin peaks and glenn common and other areas remarkable a city of this size as open spaces we're really lucky to have to those jewels and access to a them so the natural areas it reverses the last of the wild spaces left in san francisco twin peaks is an incredible example, in fact, we have the only population of the mission butterfly anywhere in the city it is a vulnerable species it spends it's entire life on a

single plant and needs a particular place to live they don't fly from her po to mexico they barely fly across the road last year, we equipment x expected two to hundred butterflies we know our work is paying off people like the blue mission butterfly this is planet earth to april is earth day we volunteer earth or earth day but we're protecting our own homes in the natural areas and rec and park he do that everyday. >> i can see clearly now the rain is gone. >> parks on april 18th we held the festival with the support of

eco center over hundred parents learned about renewable energy and tried rock climbing and on the crafts keep an eye out for july and october on april 23rd we celebrated take our daughter to workday to think about the futures and learn about things we love the energy the department on may 2nd did parks awe alliance and the rec and park supported the volunteer work party to beautify the park space. >> bright bright sunny day. >> so again everyday is earth day but a little taste of what happened in april to that that concludes my presentation.

>> this is a knows for you who knows we're going to adjourn to a joint meeting with the planning commission at 11 and 1045 this clock is slow but 1045 conclude and have an intermission please come back and we'll resume or stick around inform the joint meeting with the planning commission. >> public comment. >> any public comment on the general manager's report seeing none, public comment is closed and since it is 1044 do you want to wait until we come back for 11 thirty. >> there's 15 minutes of public comment we'll >> analysis this. >> commissioner president buell commissioner low commissioner bonilla commissioner harrison

commissioner levitan sxhgd commissioner mcdonnell we're on item four general public comment up to 15 minutes continued on item 12 at this time the members of the public my may address the jurisdiction of the commission and that don't appear on the agenda respect to agenda items your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded and everyone has 3 minutes blue cards the first one is (calling names). >> so if marking up is here it didn't appear she is next. >> good morning, commissioners i'm listened here on behalf of the friends of kathy sent an

e-mail earlier today you'll get it with pictures of a recent recent workday we had up at camp over mother's day weekend we went up to get did came readies by getting the general store opened up and chasing the mice out of the electronics but everything is going well, we wanted to thank the department for getting the new backdoor it is wonderful and jim worked hard to make sure that happened we have a new manager andy merrill has been an just a minute manager for two to three years he's going to assume the duties we're excited is it is an energetic group of folks taking over we had a had an to checkout the

road scores it was instead of it is amazing big a low bigger buena but if blends in well with the environment and the camp err happy thank you to the commissioners to make that happen it's going to be well, well received next week on tuesday another group of us are going up to help with this general maintenance issues to help get the camp ready think i told you we have a long term friends of camp mather project replacing of curtains in all the cabins we're getting there i promise you they'll all be washed and many other things that folks will be getting together over the that three or four week prior to the beginning

of camp we're also continue over the community opportunity fund process i'm happy to report we've made it to the first round and now getting more information to the department and beefing up our application and we've hopeful we'll get successful in getting the court fund through that mechanism we'll find out in december thank you so much for camp mather and we'll make you proud. >> thanks so much. >> is there any other public comment for item 4? seeing none, public comment is closed we on item 5 the consent calendar. >> any public comment or do we need it. >> any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> entertain a motion. >> motion to adjourn i mean

(laughter). >> so moved so i second the motion to journey please disregard everything unify you've heard > all in favor, say i. > so moved. >> on item 6 san francisco zoo figure out where we are. >> we're not adjourned sadly. >> good morning tanya director the san francisco zoo hello nice to see you if we could have the projector please the slide show or the - okay. great we're getting close to the fiscal year end we end up on june 31st i wanted to give updates here as we come colored to the end of the year we're staying hundred thousand dollars above budget i want to

a significant portion is free admission over 80 thousand folks come through the zoo free and maybe hundred thousand folks at the end of the year arrest your zoo has sold-out the zoo camp that be sold-out as well i have to thank joe the head of the education we're looking to bring in trailers to support further kamgsz in the future if kids can't come to the zoo we are mobilizes going out to hunters point they made 4 hundred and 20 visits this year are under written by corporate sponsors thank you. >> and mother's day we got roses and fathers got that in free two.

>> we participated in the national animal day this is the dungeon and all the zoos closed a exhibit of an endangered amen we had signs saying extinctions look like this and only kids were blocked if you don't say your kids in the future won't see penguins or whatever the animal we all participated and provide to do so, now big daddy so memorial day we're to have are cardinal days that's the name of our ca anyone dragon he'll play stage and all car naturals are free a great day at the zoo

speaking of kids expect for the holidays may 29 kids get to room through the zoo on their own and this is under written in large part by the corps sponsors perfect for kids 12 and under the teens with are sophisticated but if you're interested please let me know our vips are the winners yes, this one is a first grader at robert louis stevenson that one our science congest his entire class gets to come for free at kids festing and exciting numbers our sculpture plaza owns on june 6th this was one the first auctioned items

sculptures of animals not at the zoo most are endangered braille writing so blind children can touch those animals and is it ties into a zoo metrological connecting those will all have a connection and best of all it opens up the asphalt area by the playground that had some hazard trips and falls in an old tent that was a great way to take care of maintenance so thank you to the donors as well and if you know what a selfie is the those trajectory this is our bus shuttles on the animals taking selfies of themselves in the city that is kind of fun under the pro bono of the swirl advertising so thank you for that. >> speaking of summer i want to

do it t a precursor on summer pricing we'll make an formal item commission but zoos across the country is exposing seasonal pricing if you go on the bay bridge you'll understand this but this attention most of the attention is coming through the summer months particularly june july and august our proposal will be going forward to explore peak or seasonal summer pricing again, the gate as we call it our mission is over 50 percent of our operating budget again we'll go into more details i wanted to show you where we were with the san diego zoo at the top and adult is $48 a day at the san diego you know it didn't

stop there are they charge you all the way through we like to compare ourselves with the law zoo adults are $19 and the senior fees there at the san francisco zoo the la the san francisco resident is 15 and non-adult we're at 7 by 7 we want to compare ourselves with them we offer free mission 12 times a year and providing access to community services as well as the school kids for free we'll fine that and the oakland pricing is 1, 74 nearly 7 by $7 with that, i'll show what we're

considering our cfo will make that a formal proposal so the numbers will be good for katie the proposal is to go up $2 on non-peak times and $3 for peak time we'll need rec and park or joint sdwoo approval for the joint times obviously typically come down if we've made a mistake we've had two increases over the last 10 years one two years ago in 2013 and prior to that 5 years 2008 during the recession we didn't increase the prices but the cumulative haks consumer price index harassed gone up so to keep this in consideration and formally considered wait next week and lastly as i mentioned we still

need donations to keep our operating budget $22 million i want to thank you to those who attended commissioner mcdonnell open the far left where is your jacket by the way. >> oh delivered it, too late pay yes. i noticed that we're going to have to work on that for lecturer and be phil ginsburg and his wonderful wife. >> yeah. where's our leopard jacketed gosh, it was so fun and orlando giving me advice thank you all i'm not sure the auction went as well await you commissioner president buell get you on the calendar for next year it's it. >> commissioner levitan. >> i say that i was there recently with my little one

you're doing on amazing job we're incredibly blessed i've been to the san diego zoo and it's fine but the value the layout and offensive that playground that extraordinary you're doing 80 a topnotch job we're lucky. >> commissioner harrison and i want to second commissioner levitan'ss comments i took my granddaughter out there was a wonderful experience she got tessie at the playground but. >> made me poor. >> the friends, family as well thank you. i appreciate our comments. >> thank you very much. >> public comment is closed. seeing none, public comment is closed we're on item 7 open space contingency preapprenticeship