>> that concludes the general managers report >> thank you very much. >> is there public comment on this general managers report? being none public comment is closed. we are now >> thank you bay soxs. >> now going to item 4 general public comment up to 15 minutes. at this time the members of the public may address the commission to the public within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and do not appear on the agenda >> margaret let's give everyone a chance to exist. thank you everyone for coming and congratulations again.

>> with respect to agenda items your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded at that item. i have 3 cards, kelly watts, lind a light hizeer and bill carline and you have 3 minutes each. >> i have a video, no audio. >> power up, please >> high commissioners. what filler rr left out about had womens world cup tornment is that the athletes sued the organizers of the tornment due

to the tire tur. they based the suit on the fact saying the turf caused injury. the organizer said they will not force the women to play on synthetic turf future events. i am asked to give a upidate. for the record on junetennially university released a year long research study that studied [inaudible] reported on 96 chemicals found in tire crumb and 20 percent were carcinogens. as you know this correspond with 2003 [inaudible] that over 25 percent of the [inaudible] in march a bill calling for a study of tire crumb was approve

bide the california state senate environmental quality committee. in may united states consumer product safety announced a previous statement released and used by the commission for reporting announced that synthetic turf was okay to install and play on was infact inaccurate. they renounced any such safety claims. this spring the san francisco examiner did a pole title are you [inaudible] over half the respondents peeking alt 83 other at 1 point prefer natural turf. also this spring the university of san francisco announced it will utilize organic infill instead of tire crumb. since sth rpd has all but acknowledges tire crumb problem, when they announced

plans to replace 3 tire crumb fields. this is up to your commissioner to make this decision but perhaps it is now time for someone to stands up and address cancer exposure to children on these fields by instead supporting organic infill. as of todays date, this is reasonable request, it is possible to address this and this can be easily remedied. as always i'm available to you for clarification or further information. thank you >> thank you. >> linda. >> glood morning commissioners and general manager. my name is linda lighthizeer and here today to speak on behalf of friends of camp mather. i want to give a upidate on the report i gave last month when we headed up to camp to do precamp volunteer work with the staff.

i want to report that it was a excellent precamp. we were able to do a lot of work up there helping out the staff, spreading a lot of the-what do you call it? --we were working on awning for the dining room hall deck and that is a area where we have really been good contributors. we have been able to buy awnings at a very good price and install them for the camper tooz use in the dining hall. we also took on something called a curtain project which was to replace all the curtains in camp which is over 122 cabins. we have 6 cabins that are replaced and washed every curtain. that was quite a project in itself. we

have also-we were there when the john oconal student was there which was a incredible experience. the stuntd experience nature and camp for the first time. then my husband joe and i were able to stay on for the first week of camp to be volunteer leaders and we got to be some of the first people to experience the ropes course which i think everyone will really luchb t. is a empressive set of courses. not just one, but there six or seven different areas you can go to and different levels so i picked what i thought was-they said chs entry level, but when you are 50 feet in the air balancing on little moving planks it does challenge you quite a bit. i watched a 7 year old do it and said someone has to get up there for the

other side of the life span so i did it and i am very happy i did. i also learned climb a cargo net is incredbly difficult but what is fun is to know you are totally safe and protection around you is very good. and the team building this sfaunsers and doesn't interfere with anything else going on in camp. it is in a great area not used now. it was also inclusion week and we had such a great time experiencing inclusion week. this is something that the department should be incredbly proud of. so many families had campers that have physical and emotional dish abilities and they thrived. thank you. >> thank you y bill carline. >> [inaudible] good morning.

i'm here to apologize and i have to say i'm regret being here at this time after a joyful resinitation by the bay soxs. i was here the fr the april meeting and told you one woman was issued 800 dollars in [inaudible] i learned it was one woman walking 8 dogs issued one ticket. i also learned the ticket issued for walking dogs off lease in mu claren park are dismissed because they were in a official off leash area. there is commotion and confusion over what chs a sudden and unannounced change in policy and which began [inaudible] no notice or

hearing and contributing years of policy and practice. we subsequently learned the signs have been changed by department staff who didvent the authority to do so. still it appears that the department is operating as all it has to do is-all it has to do is set or revice the policy is post a sign and reference park code 3.2. no rule or regulation shall be adopted or repealed without a public hearing. the policy of off leash at the amp theater was amended. the eir has not be formalized or review by the planning commission. with the snaugz all the signs, it appears the [inaudible] at

least in mu claren park. the signs say, this is a natural resource area, but that is not determined. by that sooin and use of park code 3.02 the [inaudible] an official dog play area. it is as if the department and community spent years formialating a dog policy and it is if there were no dog policy. commissioner i ask you stop the department from implementing the [inaudible] until the planning commission has passed the eir and at least until them, please take down those signs. thank you >> thank you. >> is there anyone else who would like to make general publiccome comment. being dunnitem 4 is closed. we are now on the consent calendar, is

there anyone who would like to make pub lm comment? we need a motion >> so moved. >> all in favor >> aye. >> so moved. >> we are now on item 6, the san francisco zoo. >> [inaudible] still got a little lion theme. thank you for your support on the consent item. thingerize going up at the zoo as well. let me go to metrix here as we get to the end of the fiscal year. may attendance was above budget with 92 thousand visitors versus the budget of 90 thousand. year to date nearly 100 thousand folks come to the

zoo. year to date attendance we arely over budget by 100 thousand as well. as you know we discount for folks who come in group jz that is getting close to 40 thousand folks coming through as discounted groups. this is camps, schools outside of the city. san francisco public schools come in free. we had muthder come in for free on fathers day and can't ignore the fathers so the fathers are free on fathers day as well and on july 4 we'll have both vets and active military come in for free. as i mentioned fathers day, dads come in free and will also take the opportunity to highlight floid in the for front. i think he fatherered 12 calves including bobby and errhine who are we little things and we are

also having a fathers bike about. this is a funiocan come to the zoo on bikes or triceicals and go through the zoo. lastly on fathers day we'll have jeans for giraffes when if you bring in new or orld jeans we recycle them and the fund go to conservation groups in africa and i just brought in all my skinny gene rrs that will never fit up again so i gave up on that. in oner of floid. you may have heard the puffer train was down for quite a bit. we always take her down, she is 100 years of age. one of the remaining steam engines in the country. she went out in jan and just

returned. that not only was at the dismay of many visters young and old and projected a loss of over 3507 thousand so that puffer is a cash cow. no one is happier than jany here, the lead train engineer. i keep telling johnny keep puffing so thank you jany for getting that back up. local conservation we participate with partners in california to make sure the local wild life stays afloat. we just recently relaced to the tahobasin 95 frogs. they were being whipeed out fwie a fungal disease called kitred that comes in through non native fish in the tahobasin. we bread and raised them for a year at the zoo,

innocumented them and have a string of frogs here that should be immune to the disease so they are released and we'll be watching them. a lot of volunteers and employees went there to release. as you may have seen the sculpture learning plaza opened this to great fanfare we had 1300 members come and open the plaza. this finishes out the childrens exploration zone near the playground. most of the animals and skeptures are species you do not find at a zoo. this is a rare tropical chameleon and understand supervisor norman yee would like the name right frz this guy. i guess it matches one of his suits. this is the head of

a grey whale. there is braille on each skullture so the blind visitors can touch the whale. i just have to point out this [inaudible] was so real life my husband startleed. this was made using the scales of a dead python shipped in from florida to assist the artist and it is quite amazing, looks life like. if you vafear of snaims perhaps skip that part of the zoo. on the very good news, as aknow we had a 6 million dollar face live of the tropical aviary. this is a building built post great depression. that large branch there disguises bird feeding devises. all the birds will be free

flighted. a lot of the parrots are rescue and abandoned pets. we get a chance to expand our reptile section. despite my comments on the reptiles we have a lot of boys to see the reptiles. there are caves to go under the reptiles and water files. we are bringing in a second sloth here. this is a 2 towed sloth, they hang upside down for most of their life so much so their fur actually grows upside down and algae will accumulate in them. they only come down once a week to go tothe bathroom and then go back up and that helps stimulate growth in the rain forest. this guy has not been named so maybe president you can help me auction off the name at the next zoo fest

>> happy to oblige >> [inaudible] >> they are really fascinating feature. with that iconclude my report >> thank you very much. >> any public comment on this item? being none public comment is closed. this was discussion only. >> sorry, commissioner harrison, just a comment yfs benefited by a quick tour of the sculpture plaza by jofity who i might say is extremely knowledgeable about the creatures of our world and learned something. the tasmanian devil is a marsupial. if you haven't seen it, go see it, it is extraordinary. >> thank you. >> wree now on item 7, hill top park ren ovation >> good morning commissioners.

my name is caren [inaudible] i'm a project manager from capital division. pleased to present this item to you today. item before you is a discussion and possibly action to approve the design for the hill top park ren ovation and approve 218 thousand dollars for the skate park portion located on the north eastern corn thorf park fundsed by the community opportunity program. approval action is defined by the san francisco administrative code chapter 31. this project is special for me to work on. the project was funded by a state grant overall. i have-we can turn on the-thank you. so, as you see here this is a overall plan for had design 234 park. we are rejuvenating and ren ovateing all the areas and added more

features. this project also hilites a important part numbership we have with both the trust for public land and also parks 94124. community group comprised of neighborhood and reside in a nairnd and who i got to know 33 the project and worked with the department over the last few years to work to rejuvenate a few parks. this park is called sun dial park by folks in the neighborhood do to the large sun dial and has great slides. one of the first skate bowl, the first skate bowl and other aminities. unfortunately over time there was play equipment that has been removed. i'll show a couple images. the existing scale bowl is not as fun as the new one. they existing one is just a circle,

it is probably great at the time it was built, but now it is not very challenging for skate boarders needs so thris is the new expanded more improved skate park that will be going in. this was made possible through the community opportunity program additional funding. one of the really great things about this project is trust and public land wurging with parks 94124 worked on a bunch of clean up days to bring people into the project, work on clearing out of the areas around the park that have become over grown and bring people to the process and anyhow how taprovide feedback on park design. this is a image of some of the material gathered during a clean up day and this is sth lour playground area now. it is a sand area and doesn't have play equipment at the moment, but it will

after this project is done. the project has gone through a community out reach process and has support and benefited from the community grant. that capital committee i was joined bytrudey [inaudible] she couldn't be here today because they are at a week long conference they all went to. i'll pass along a couple comments. she thanked the staff included but not limited to jim wheeler who provided design for the skate park and did fun days up there with program frz the folks in the neighborhood. lisa wan and robert wattcon and the volunteer staff. kimberley ceefer and her staff who helped with volunteer days and structural [inaudible] as they

provide feedback. today i'm joined by mia so she will probably dm come up in a couple minutes. thauchck very much. staff rementd aigds is to approver the hill top design for ren ovation and funding of 218 thousand for the skate park portion of the project funded by xhinety opportunity fund. >> is there public comment on this item? come on up. >> hi, commission. mia rogers from parks 94124. thanks caren. i want to say first parks 94124 is grateful for everyone vaubed in the process for the commitment to the project and listening to at times our very different views.

parks 94124 want today insure the communities voice was heard accurately and we are glad everyone involved is so on thatd same page. as a community resident and native and i whole heartedly say that has happened. i believe that not only have we encourageed the community to speak out and if they-i remember our original design had no swings and that was the first thing we heard from the community is like, where are the swings? we built significant relationships with the neighbor jz i view this partnership is a model for future partnerships. that's it >> thank you very much. >> is there anyone else who would like to make public comment? being none public comment is closed.

commissioners >> entertain a motion >> motion to approve >> second. all in favor? >> aye. so moved. item 8 is off calendar so we are on 9, the recreation and park department strategic plan >> thank you commissioners [inaudible] i'm very proud to present to you our 2016, 2020 proposed stuteejic plan. this is hurld in the operations and capital committee so it is not new for any of you so i'll try to go through relatively quickly and be available for any question or comments. why do we do it? a strategic plan is a important road map fl organization. over the last 5 or 6 years we faced a lot of challenges successfully but in

a reactive mode as the city economy has gotten better it allows a opportunity to think and to plan for the future and create a road map that will not only guide the department internally and provide a transapparent understanding to the park stack holders. it is also pornts because it is legally required. the park code section requires that we do do a 5 year strategic plan to be updated annually that established mission goals and objectives. the last time a plan fs done in this organization was i believe 2002, 03 under gol goldsteen. this is led by 2 very important planning documents that has come before the commission.

one is the budget process. that is-forms the year to year guide for the decisions we make and performants planning and management process where we had 7 core goals in the organization for the last 6 or 7 years that guided the work plan and the organization. so, none the less, it was time to redo this and we were very fortunate to be able to work with the harve rbd business school community partners program. this is a group of people that give probono time that pride expericize. we applied for a project and got it. andrew brown [inaudible] was to be here today. he had a family emergency. [inaudible] get toog our organization and best practice review. their projeblth was time limited and we have been work on this for

all most 2 years so wree grateful to have the support of [inaudible] and i'll bring her up to say a few words. sue and her firm tag teamed with [inaudible] and worked big pieces of it to continue to help particular on internal facil taiz and dedesign work to help us get to where we are today. among the external stack holders we worked with is prozac which has a advisory roll in the process and prozac has 23 appointed members 2 in each district and the mayor aproints a single member and created a subcommittee with whom we met on numerous occasions. i'm pleased to report prozac approved the strategic plan at the june

meeting. this is a list of some oaf the external contributor that were involved in the plan. we tried to reach out to and have hbs community partner program work with us on reaching out to a variety of exsternl stack holders that were conveners and represented different stack holder jz thipg there are a few here today who are repaired to offer public comment. i see the park alliance is here and john cunning ham is here from [inaudible] we did a lot of research of other agencies looked at their plan and operations. we loorked at strategic plans that were not park entities. most do a strategic plan and we were able to pick and choose elements from a variety of agency squz looked at a couple in the private sector and a few in

other cities. a lot of work was done with the internl stake holders. we touched on 35 different job classes. the meetings were arranged so they were cross divisional and cross hiarchical so we didn't have a conversation with just managers or gardeners, we tried to get everyone in the room together and that journey provided a lot of benefit as we were able to get to know each other and learn a little more about what was important toory numerous different business lines and operating division. we like to do things by the numbers at rec park see you see our plan by the numbers which included open houses, prozac meetings project