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said the neighbor called the police the police said the neighbor called the police a big bang came from my address at the 94 it was july 17th yeah. on friday at this point, i was working peacefully annihilates night they didn't hear any bang for the tenants live upstairs we live in the garage units they said they didn't hear anything bang that shot or something going on and then my husband called the police asking for a report not on the report they pointed a gun to us today, i'm here i want to ask police chief
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why they didn't put the report on the police report they pointed gun to us >> so are you finished? >> oh, yeah, he hope the police can have the body camera so we can have the evidence what they the to us passenger seat guns. >> i want to make sure we got our remarks it is not a q and a but i see sergeant standing here willing to answer questions on behalf of the department and deputy director bottle discharge. >> my husband made the complaint to occ about this going on. >> it takes time the deputy director is there. >> i'm lucky i'm alive.
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>> we're apologizing for this, please to the occ commission. >> i forgot to ask you on the paper in sunday the city attorney. >> i'm sorry ms. brown but the city attorney is telling me. >> public comment is limited to 3 minutes behave to treat all the public equally and they have the suspects i'm talking to someone. >> i'm going to direct you to deputy chief he is unfortunately, the city attorney is correct i have to treat everybody the say thank you ms. brown any further public comment hearing public comment is closed. >> sergeant please call the next item. >> the awards of the commission action. >> all right. colleagues in
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packet a memo by chief suhr this is the follow-up on the wards committee meeting in june chief you want to talk about this. >> again, i think we've vetted the names we've matches them up against open cases finding none the actions of the officers were axiliary and all well deserving as recommended. >> i'll say i attend the wards committee meeting i think commissioner mazzucco has explained to everyone in daily a beautiful antic box it is used with marbles a different group of captains they take their role sorrowful and determine when the level of awards they should get
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you was able to observe that and count the marbles so this is that was the process that i was able to obvious just to clarify we've had this issue up before has the occ signed off no open cases for any of those officers sergeant. >> yeah. >> that's an affirm and chief the department did they're vetting sometimes we're done with our piece and the occ and there are other agencies mainly the district attorney's office that allow us not to call it cross we're not the realm. >> no open cases by any definition. >> that's my problem, no da no
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department of justice regarding anything. >> no any other questions colleagues. >> okay. do i have another motion. >> so >> second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? passes unanimously to congratulations to the recipients do we know when the ceremony is going to be done. >> in front of okay. >> okay great is there any public comment on the vote that we just held hearing none public comment is closed. >> public comment on all matters for closed session including public comment to hold item 8 in closed session and ladies and gentlemen, we're going to go into closed session and vote whether or not to go
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into closed session hearing public comment is closed sergeant. >> item 7 vote to hold item 8 in closed session to assert the trnt privilege with san francisco administrative code action. >> colleagues do i have a motion not to discolor relevant to the sections referenced >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? that item passes and so we're b open session colleagues, i made an error i invited a motion not to discolor that is the motion
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after closed session i appreciate my colleagues and so i invite a motion to hold item 8 in closed session and assert the attorney compliant privilege >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? that item passes we're now in. >> do you have a question? back in open session call the next line item arrest whether to discolor all matters in closed session administrative code 67.1 a action >> not to disclose>> all in
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favor, say i. >> i. >> that item passes unanimously we're okay i'm sorry sergeant next line item adjournment. >> motion to adjourn. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> nancy pelosi's - passes unanimously.
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>> and this place did not look like this this is unbelievable and it is the jewel of the tenderloin thank you, mr. mayor for making it so and boys and girls club over there and other
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entities and the big missing piece a kid's we're missing with only trophy we have to yeah oh, at the hall of fame without further and i do let me introduce the mayor of san francisco mayor ed lee. >> thank you. well it's fun to be here with the champion of tenderloin and the police station as well as the wonderful kids out here happy summerhouse life without school (laughter) well, i'm glad to be here joining you on to national night out we're doing that all over the city you'll be up in another place greeting the kids it is a night where we have a sized family kids coming out to really participated in 234ir playground and we have rec and park staff
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and we can neighborhood staff here we've got people running important office we have the united way and social services, we have community people most importantly the residents of the tenderloin who deferred this world-class particular to play in and have fun to be healthy and they enter in between with the rec and park volunteers tonight our social services provided up, up would the sport to make sure our neighborhoods are strong many say what national night out does i'm glad to be with the chief to make sure everybody is safe we have a couple of things in front of us chief what are the things for those of you who have yet to catch up those are the san francisco giants world series trophies so later on everybody that has
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cameras can take a picture of yourselves i have one with my business cards i give it to other marries and say what have you got in the way we celebrate the giants have been be us a great fund that helps to penetrate all the communities i'm happy they lent you will say here for more fun and a lot of great shoppers i want to give a note of appreciation for everyone that provides food and refreshment where we happen we have a new company that opened up their ice cream that is the human try if you've been to the ferry building you've lined up with many thousands of other people and they tent are donating ice cream for the kids how about that have a happy nationals night out and enjoy
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our communities, enjoy the relationships, get to know each other this is a time we ought to be knowing each other by our first names in the parked and streets this is part of was this the community is all about glad to be here celebrating thank you. (clapping.) >> your new champion trashing i'm handing it off and what more can i say we have lots food and ice cream and candy corn kids sugar up and playing music it might be a little bit of dancing enjoy the night i'm going to tu
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to our mayor, mayor ed lee. >> thank you. superintendent very glad to be here an earthquake shaking first day but i want to congratulate our superintendent. >> school board and emily murase president along with hydra mendosa that works with me and, of course, from the get-go i support the principles and teachers at the el dorado middle school is one of the finest i want to congratulate our teachers for the first day of school and mayor our kids are safe we had an earthquake this morning and all the schools are
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green and everybody it making sure the aftershocks we're working together as a city and school district thanks it our superintendant i want to graduate the patterns and families for bringing their kids to a finest public system in the country and in recognition of that we had a u.s. conference of mayors we hosted this summer all the mares got to make sure their entire agenda were on ipads to make sure we went paper less we had a few extras we thought a good cause and purpose to make sure that kids who have special needs particularly in different schools would be the beneficiaries of that so we've made a donation of those i pads to this school and another school as the centers as again,
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a part of the not only philanthropy of the city but the technology needs the school district has never ending things change all the time we want our kids to have the best but in particular those kids that are challenged to thank you for the opportunity to my understanding with the school district on this subject for a couple are years when we have technology like tablets they increase that possibility of teaching kids with better or for better opportunities i'm asking the school district give me our list through the superintendent and there optimistic the school board whatever the technology needs are if i can make sure i mention that to all the wonderful companies in the city they'll being sure to embrace the school district with the things they need with citywide
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certainly with the benny hoff foundation as they helped me in all the other technologies helped the schools continue to prove and maintain the best performance all for our kids i want to have and make sure they are the best opportunities for the wonderful jobs but if begins here at elementary school those in the middle school we've focused on into the high schools and everybody on the college or career packets that are sustainable and full of very positive careers our school district is here to make sure that our families are provided the best education in the world and, yes we are going to be an even better alternative in than any other school we're making record investments as we have and our city and school district understands and represents each other's roles after this i make
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sure i build housing for teachers with that announcement congratulations to the school district. >> let's continue been for the kids this agency the first day of school i'm existing i remember my first day of school i ran around and trying to learn everything and those kids will too with that, principle. >> well, thank you mayor ed lee what a great privilege to have you on our campus on the first day heather has lots of ideas we'll make that list to pass along. >> thank you very much for being on our compass. >> thank you so much i think this will be awesome for the students and we'll go a long way for the cameras.
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>> thank you. we have our board president dr. murase. >> i want to thank you thank you for the guest and our student we like to see we're going to her classroom oh, in a minute occupies willingly have a teacher other el dorado we like to grow our own thank you prairie for this wonderful gift. >> great let's have a great year of learning we'd like to put those devices to good use we're going to classrooms new thank you.
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>> thank you. this is great day a historic day i'm going to make it quick with this large historic budget i know we're all rushed to get what can to work we have san francisco and the
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exciting things we get to do i'm excited again for me and the supervisors for the department heads and commissioners there were many years we look at each other and said what do we have to cut and how to communicate with our communities about the highest priorities are and i know it is historic for many reaps but that this is the first time we've be able to enjoy a new cuts budget in the city and county of san francisco (clapping) that is really worth celebrating (clapping.) i want to thank the buyer board of supervisors for again unanimously adapting this yesterday so it we can get to work and implement all the things we've promised to do budgets are the revenues of the values of this city i know that the board and my office and the
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budget office and harvey rose and everyone 0 recognizes that for many, many years thank you to all the partnerships and deliver to the for the purpose of san francisco a balanced budget that september occupy our city a budget that reflects a lot of hard work between going and the people we serve i want to particularly thank our sxhoopd who is be able to make sure this has good leadership of the board i also want to thank a ignore to the i successful effort our budget schar mark farrell and all the budget and finance committee supervisor tang and supervisor mar and supervisor wiener and little entire members of the audience and thank you to supervisor christensen she gets to say this is my first budget signing and thank you to all the
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departments, the commissioners and community leaders and again, thank you harvey rose because you're able to find what the board needed and make sure weal doesn't compromise what we wanted that's a great job again you know this is a historic budget as i said and a historic time for the city because of fiscal discipline we've really had throughout the entire boards staff, supervisors and the departments and because of smart economic policies to focused on job creation, innovation and resiliency in our residents and our business community this budget we're making historic investments to make sure our city remains save and solvent for everyone so everyone
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will prosper our city budget invests in the pedestrian safety thank you to our public safeties departments they know we're a growing city the board knows that as well and our growing demands in the first responders be there and have the confidence of the public they'll be there any time something happens and sometimes before things happen we plan to hire 4 hundred police officers a hundred and 98 firefighters 55 paramedics 369-1-1 dispatches within the next two years and we can all agree that save san francisco is more than just about pedestrian safety it is about strengthening our social safety net and this budget delivers with many members of the board said we have to make sure that we support our service deliveries through the nonprofits and
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support our homeless services like your navigation center the 5 hundred new unit that back up that center and make sure that center is the model it should be and expanding our programs for seniors and children and youth people living and working here can now enjoy like not other time in our history a liveable city that's why we're investing in $253 million in the capital plan to improve our streets and roads make sure that assess with people with disabilities are improved and make sure we were water wise investments and address our drought i want to say thank you, again to the board for helping us and me make inpreened investments in probably the great choice we've had more years and decades have
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been in the making for avenue, i 7, 8, 9 to thank supervisor farrell and is supervisor avalos in helping me to develop a funding package that invests hundred and $40 million for the new resources to prevent evictions we're not going to stop implementing last week the entire board we're sending to the voters this november the largest affordable housing bopped in the history of the city $310 million bopped that will not race property taxes in san francisco i want to thank every single one of you are for your support and partnership we're going to make sure we fix our public housing and speed up the production of housing and for families and seniors and veterans and, yes we'll fix every elevator we're
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in charge of; right? to him (laughter) we'll also continue to invest in the diverse neighborhood and community and infrastructure again, thank you again, there's a much i think thanks to go around for the elected officials here but the people that do the hard work on the budget have to present the right stories and the right connections and so i want to peppering give a special thanks to people that are deliberating involved in that budget to make sure that the right facts, the right data presented, that no matter the department asks for we make sure that is connected up with the strong policies of the city i want to say thank you to the controller's office ben rosenfeld and the entire staff for working with kate howard and
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her entire staff to make sure we're on the right facts, working with, of course, as i said harvey rose and his staff and make sure we work with all of the departments again, i want to thank budget chair supervisor farrell so for his leadership in building a collaborative relationship with the finance committee london breed your leadership is in1r5ub8 because your passionate about a lot of things you care about i know this budget is a strong reflection of the vails you carry with that, please let me have wanting breeding to say a few words and supervisor farrell and going back to work supervisor president london breed. >> (clapping). >> it's a really exciting time in san francisco i'm so honored to be in a position to serve as
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the board president during a time we didn't have to make any cuts to some of the amazing programs in our community in fact, we're invest more 2, 3, 4 affordable housing and infrastructure and transportation the things that matter to everyday san franciscans so today with this budget is signed by the mayor i'm going to be really excited and rev ready to work with the different departments to spend all the money to improve san francisco thank you all for being here and i also want to say to the budget committee under mark farrell's leadership thank you for your working with members of the board of supervisors to make sure that every single vicinity that every corner of san francisco is impacted in a positive way in this budget it was an amazing collaborative
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project with harvey rose a lesion he's been doing and work on budget before i was born i love to say that i never thought i would see the day to work with smoking gun someone he's truly an intervention and kate howard the mayors budget director she was amazing i don't know how she makes the numbers work she does a great job i'm excited we've got a lot of work to do your leadership in the san francisco ethics commission through this budgeted demonstrates that we are making changes and making ways to make the city and county of san francisco the best city it can be thank you all for being here supervisor farrell (clapping.) >> thank you london and thank you, mayor ed lee for your leadership you know if there were one theme
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of this year's theme at the board of supervisors was the affordable the number one issue we dealt with as the board of supervisors during the budget process we were able to make recorded investments we've never seen from at the board of supervisors specifically $25 million as a new affordable housing which tacked on to mayor ed lee incredible efforts for incredible relieve to san franciscans and make sure our city is the diverse city we're able through the process to make sure we had 11 co-sponsors the mayors 3 hundred and step outside the box million dollars affordable housing and the mayor and the board of supervisors i think this year yourself e during our budget process the incredible leaps forward to make sure that san francisco is secure this the future i want to say thank all the people first of all, my bucket committee
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members vice chair katie tang to supervisor eric mar supervisor wiener and supervisor norman yee thank you and to all my colleagues that played an integral role and harvey rose this is harvey's 44th budget in the city of san francisco so harvey to deborah thank you to you so much to benefit rosenfeld and his incredible team this wouldn't have happened to todd for this and mission bay i michelle and everybody a special, special thanks to kate howard the mirrors budget director it is difficult to over sate how much that of an impact it kate had to mr. cobb and everyone in the marries team and room 2 hundred to my office to justin a
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margaret to the staff of every single board of supervisors office thank you for your leadership as well is it happens together as a city father and mother and a lot of back and forth and i know this is probable you're most fun time of the year i want to thank you for being in front of us to the treasurer carmen chu our assessor-recorder the follower budget chair that i let take my keys from. >> thank you this is the budget we can be incredibly proud of it faces all the problems and drives the city forward i'm excited to make it happen thanks everybody
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(clapping.) >> (laughter). >> done everyone. >> yeah..
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>> this is a meeting of the rec and park commissioner president buell commissioner vice president low commissioner bonilla and commissioner mcdonnell and just to note both commissioners commissioner levitan and he commissioner harrison has excused 9 and 10 will be removed from calendar item 9 is the memorandum of understanding approval and item 10 the ports insight square approval both will be coming back in september a few reminders please be
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advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, during the meanwhile meeting please take conversations outside and also each person commissioner has 3 minutes. >> 3 minutes. >> to comment on each item and on about general public comment and when you make public comment please comment to the commission in order to allowing allow equal time neither the commission more staff will comment during general public comment but the staff may answer questions when did public comment is done on item 2 the president's report. >> briefly i know we'll hear more about this from staff i want to congratulate all with outlands a huge success and give me the normal kinds of challenges traffic, etc. he think everybody
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did an extraordinary job. >> monument to make public comment under the president's report. >> not yet. >> okay. >> you would be the first to comment. >> i think under general public comment seeing none, public comment is closed we're on item 3 which is the general manager report. >> good morning commissioners former vacationed are just about over my kids are back in school what a great summer for rec and park a quick overview in summary we provided for 80 different that summer camps 12 thousand plus individuals participated in the camps phil our camps to 93 capacity our learner to swim programs were a huge success 4
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thousand at 96 capacity those are programs to teach kids how to swim we awarded nearly 5 thousand scholarships $750,000 for all to participate participants learned on some form of skwlip one in 3 and 90 percent of the folks that took the end felt summer survey recommend rec and park exams a hearty graugsz congratulation to bob and his division for all the tremendous work bob is on his way to camp mather with 70 kids with our teen experience are a variety of underserved kids now the fifth summer we've done this
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what is amazing about the program several kids on the trip have been on the trip boo and working with us in the program it is a spectacular inheritance for kids that don't spend a lot of time in nature be a little bit more on kathy know that commissioner mcdonnell just got back and but we welcomed all commissioner bonilla fantastic fantastic. >> great. >> we had over 5 thousand 5 hundred visitors in camp mather over the sum over 12 hundred cabins were rented 2 hundred and 28 seniors for the getaway weekend as i mentioned we'll have have 70 teams up on the fifth outdoor experience we've started registering our fall
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rummage registration is underway it is broken down into 9 thousand plus rental including scholarships with $70,000 this is a busy season for the staff outlands maybe over for those looking to get our go music fix the recent outside festival in october and i'd like to announce and shout out to saturday in mclaren park the jerry gary's theatre hosts by friends of the amp that features four saturdays no october this weekend enjoy a soul festive kicking off at one
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p.m. at the a.m. pa theatre bring a branth for a appropriation on august 5th commissioner vice president low and i prarnd in the mayor's turn out at ports insight square competitions within the supervisors and rec and park team while unmatched in spirit came up a bit short exiting the tournament after the fifthdz round. >> oh. >> we gave it our best that is what we ask the teams to do speaker the controller's office released it's bio quartering report bye for muni and, of course, our parks some interesting data san francisco residents continue to use their parks frequently in fact, more frequently than the last time the survey was taken
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72 percent of san franciscans are visiting a park at least once a month 74 percent of san francisco residents rate our systems as an a or b 79 paternities gave the program an a or b and with the shaping and planting so it is nice to getty positive feedback from staff there were a lot of comments been the advantageism in parks but more on that to come our recreation practice is no way we've hired 2 hundred and 50 kids over the summer this program happens year-round for 60 years the kids get work experience along with the professionals the applications for the 2015-2016 are available
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inventing monday august 24th for any high school youth 14 to 18 might be working with the rec and park department at any of the centers visit j job apps.or come and work with us in inspiration with the st. francis yacht club kids get an opportunity to sail on october 4th they'll learner the procedures and sail the water with professionals another free event parents registration on sf.org or call our number lass last but not least outlands 3 days of music, art, wine and
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food in golden gate park the lands festiveal was a huge success with 2 hundred and 10 thousand people with elton john and black keys and on the i'll invite my colleagues to share a little bit more detail i want to note this is such a large-scale urban event it is a huge success i want to commend and let another plan know how much we appreciate their cooperation with our agency and i want to give a big thank you to the planning staff and for their incredible work to park patrol and all our gardening and
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custodial crews for their efforts in pacific islander this off i want to invite mr. pearl and a another gentleman to talk about what their perspectives are. >> thanks phil for your kind words. >> i have to start by saying while we take great pride in what our company does no way we could do this event without the teamwork of city and city hall and rec and park and all the people phil mentioned i'm being redundant it is we can't thank you for the help you give us we work as a team from the gardening staff to everyone here in answering calls
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it is our farther event it is such a difficult undertaking and we're very proud of that i wanted to in 8 years we've made tremendous strides i want to give you some numbers to give you of what we go through. >> 2015 we had a total of 76 phone calls from sound to trash, that was a reduction from a hundred and 20 just in one year so there was a 37 percent reduction in total calls of 43 percent in reduction of sound calls just in one year much more over the 8 years part of that is zoo to the fact we have people in the neighborhoods the sound systems have gotten easier to
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adjust different speakers when we hear something depending on the weather conditions it changes between the 3 nights there's been a 58 percent in reduction in total calls since 2013 a 71 percent reduction since 2012 and 8 of since 2011 in terms of the economics of the show we had a total of 70 restaurants, 61 from the city of san francisco 61 restaurants were working at the festival showing people from all over the united states the quality of their food you know the one or two both sides of the restaurant. >> i got to stop i for a second as a note even though elton john agent that worked for him to a million festivals all the others festivals when necessary talk
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about their food and wine they don't light a candle you guys they do know what you do the backdrop of all you guys that make up san francisco all the people talk about it, it is pretty needed to here people from la or boston or new york see what we do it makes us proud. >> to you. >> i was saying about the trees a nice backdrop. >> we try to take credit for that. >> it just to keep going 34 breweries 8 were located in the city of san francisco, 27 from northern california and then 37 whiners from northern california at festival when i talk about
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you you know we talk about hotels and we're putting together once again san francisco state it will help us put together the economic money that is brought into san francisco we won't have have it for a few months because it is a legitimate study we're trying to analysis all the businesses including transportation and muni the lyft the uber how people get there that will be interesting to see and again, thank you it is such a privilege to do this festival. >> thank you very much. we appreciate. >> thank you, greg and sherry. >> all right. we'll wrap up the gm report by a short video this is particularly special you'll see who is married in
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that. >> thank you. >> my name is stacey i'm the executive assistant with the rec and park for 27 years. >> i'll pretty much controlled the managers life we work great together at the meeting he set up the meetings and phone call and the garden and the support staff anyone that comes in the room any number of things anyone that walks in on is with a great mile i love to greet people and this is an jaufrn everyday on july 8th the rec and park
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welcomed the people to the tenth year the workers worked hard to upgrade the trail in partnership with 12 61 and the rec and park department commission the department hosted the 7th award at the golden gate park it was in gardening and horticulture and men and women worked day in in and out to keep the scenes beautiful congratulations and the rec and park department hosted another year of playday at the recreation center with games for all ages and football and baseball and rock he will climbing live music this was a fun day for all out of the mark the music festival in golden gate park part of this legendary festival for the park systems citywide
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the next time you're in golden gate park get out to play. >> on behalf of any boss ac white that concludes my report for the general manager. >> (clapping.) commissioner mcdonnell. >> thank you very much thank you for the report just a couple of things i want to highlight first camp mather just jim and the team the entire staff continue to do a phenomenal job the first year the course amazing, amazing amazing experience i'm looking forward to hearing how the young people going up this weekends get to enjoy it just a great job secondly, outlands phenomenal thank you to the aspirin both the music experience the food and food and beverages
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experience i had occasion to go for the jazz festival up until quite honestly, it's goggles better and better i feel a need not to go to new orleans is it so not true i'm going to new orleans but atlantic beach but it is really a fantastic experience to thank you for brairng that to our city lastly the general manager i wanted to highlight another example of great partnership between supervisor farrell the mayor and the city park alliance that's the shared school yard project we've to 23 school yard and extending the amount of office space spabl to the families and as a kind plug another
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fundraiser next month in supports of that project so just a lot of great work happening thank you general manager. >> thank you, commissioner. >> is there any public comment under the general manager report. >> richard. >> good morning, mr. mark buell chair. >> phil ginsburg ivory heard about the pd can't do any good at the marries ping-pong tournament i had to take offense we want to clarify the issue they had different groupings the advanced seniors and players the advanced players play out of the brill i didn't they bully everybody out of sunset and win everything in the advanced level phil was straight as the other players not as much notice
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there are from china rec center nun from chinese playground as to what the facility should take down their they get their butt whipped get the record straight sunset bullies i got quite a few of the players 23, 50, 2250 upper level and 25 hundred in the ovenlgz so if we get better communication between the other facilities and get people to participate hearing d will have no choice but to go up. >> no where to go but up (laughter). >> i couldn't help remark about the concerts there would
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have been elton john, i remembered in the wartime the pinball wizard is that the same thing i wanted to make sure i had it right. >> is there monthly that is the general manager report so no other public comment? okay. we're on item 4 which is general public comment up to 15 minutes continued to item 12 this time, members of the public may address the commission items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. and go ahead our welcome >> commissioners. >> good morning general manager. >> my name is leno i'm the president of the united mission
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sorry for my voice and 15 years ago we created the golden gate park the garden of humanitarians as a fresh and one plays in the united states i'm here for the people for people that risked their lives prosecuted by terrorists and others in this place this area we organized for student and many visitors uses beverages and tables but last time the beverages is broken now our organization can pay and install new beverages in this place but it is an emergency situation
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if some beverages crash the carpenter from golden gate park never fixes and takes the beverages it is easier my proposal is install new beverages and we pay for everything we never ask some budget from city or grant from supply beautiful but we have a service to pay for this. >> thank you very much thank you, very much. >> richard. >> sorry i meant the other richard. >> i have something to ask of the commission i'm trying to help facilitate a request from dr. michael lee he is given the commissions a
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copy of his request there's something they've gotten completed and i talked with michael about this we were talking about percy the kind of person that goes up there and simply telephone rp d and the lights will be fixed they were too high we had them brought down lower this is a followup that percy passed away on 4th of july that was a conversation with michael california we do about the lights currently some of the problems that are occurring michael told me the staff people are not that interested in extra hours they're not going to be there the extra hour but the facility often doesn't have me staff so if you had that extra hour i
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myself will enforce having that done as michael said other people that have another timelines and time schedules to continue to work out basketball and tennis along with not many kids come out at night that has been going on for a little while now if i can help dr. lee maybe some of you like to know more about his background he works very active at the chinese rec center and trying to get him to betty honking recreation center he's very good extraordinary informed of what's going on in the community actively a rec and park kind of person endorses
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activities in chinatown they don't have enough tennis tournament the fellow was richard king they've gone out to san francisco state university so not much of the organized activities required i'm asking that i personally will recommend this the center hour it is not going to cost staff time and all the department has to do is exclude a memo to the electrician to work the timer an additional hour thank you. >> richard. >> good morning, commissioners and general manager my name is richard rothman i live in district 1 across the street from cabrillo playground you know the outlands was great i got to hear elton john from
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mire living room and i live close enough it was great but there's a problem parking, traffic we have a richard blog and there's about 60 posts on that not one has to do with about the sound but over 55 of them had issues with parking and even without any events out there, there is hard finding parking out there we need to come up with a plan rec and park, outlands, mta so that cars does not park in the richmond district during those events i have an idea some of the people on the blog had ideas i'm going to bring up or them up now the city of monterey with the at&t
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golf tourmentd if they can keep people out of the streets the other thing supervisor wiener's legislation about the hours of closing the park and i've read it twice and it didn't say playgrounds in there i talked to scott's office he says it does i don't believe that golden gate park and cabrillo playground should be in the same requirement or same hours friends of cabrillo playground will dr. the two meetings i don't see why those hours have to come before the commission to get changed you can right now the hour or so 10 o'clock i went around the 4 playground two said 2 clock and
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midnight and the playground is closed when the sun goes down your inviting trouble the commission needs to look at or staff they want the friends of cabrillo they've donated ping-pong tables wanting to sign an agreement if any thoughts stuff they donated gets damaged they have to pay for they've raised the money i don't know how much i wasn't active but they don't have the money you know to replace it and plus you know if the playgrounds open at night when their inviting trouble so that's why those two policies need to be looked at and changed thank you. >> thank you. >> watts.
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>> quite soon you and our associates will on the beach synthetic turnip in golden gate park all of you in the business partners worked hard to make this happen and spent a lot of money to present it to san franciscans. >> soon you'll throw another parties cut the ribbon and the feelgdz e fields declared save for years mr. ginsburg has proclaimed perhaps in our speeches to the kids and paternities successful facts not in dispute over 25 percent of the chemical make up of the i think field is known to cause cancer as determined by the state of california and you might mentioned the growing number of cancer cases being
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record for the children so the entire story you might praise your predecessors who are vigilant about protecting children's height for instance, when they band leads you might mention in 2013, the rp d received a memo and all the synthetic fields in san francisco this states lead was detected in the dust stirred up by the synthetic fields and the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention leads cases reproductive problems in men and women you might mention this commission knows of a safer alternated is slithering more expensive but you choose to energy your business associates
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to save money you might mention that despite what you know this commission maids the decisions to dismiss those as insignificant you might remind the countryside despite the efforts those facts and their consequences will not imagine low disappear seeing none, this item is closed we're on item 5 which is the consent calendar is there any public comment on this consent calendar and seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioners we'll need a motion. >> motion to >> there is a motion and a second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> >> item six the san francisco z
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zoo. >> hello, hello good morning tonya director of the san francisco zoo i think we have a power point presentation so if i point to the screen here i'm on the screen okay. we have finished our fiscal year i'm proud to announce we're 10 percent over projections that being the year prior the numbers were 8 percent over projections we've started the fiscal year july had a hiccup with a report of a missing snake i'm happy to report the snake was never missing and august attendance is back on track with over hundred and 557 visitors that's the
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fiscal year shortly under the projections of 3 hundred plus visitors the zoo camp is done with kids back in school this week it's a shock but a record of over 16 hundred campers hats off to the transportation department and the newly refurbished this is a historical dw pa building after the great depression i hope it is the main state of the art and we expand the reptile and brought in two new solution the parrots are instructed e.r. rescued and former pets and those can be changed so the animals have to go throughout the building to
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look for their food like in the wild adjacent to the rain forest it was important to talk about water there recent a water main that is a interact active aid for folks to learn about water this is the conversation in the south american rain forest and fun for the visitors i want to give you an upgrade on the lion house that's a picture of the our 13-year-old lion necessary i'll happy to announce she's with cub and the father what about our male she came to us from another zee zoo she's lost two cubs at the prior zoo we're guardian u guard and closing the interior of the
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lion house to get used to the new nest and she can fortunately movable comfortable so cross our fingers for lion cubs we'll watch her closely this may look like skunks those are blaek they have long hair on their bodies those are african monkeys threatened and they're known as sloppy eaters that is good are for the african jungle they spread their food we're happy to have them on exhibit you may have read we're trying our efforts at crowd forcing this is an vegetation for the pets you may have one more your dogs it is a bowl that
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encourages play wouldn't it be fun to custom build one more the run these we have 3 we asked for money to build the cups for our rhinos their species at great risk with the poaching for horns i'm happy to say we can close the crowd is ours site and have the food letters for our rhinos thank you for the donors the curator primates returned there i can. photo.org and our prove was to observed the rescued animal and it was quite amazing to see those return to the wild
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after being rehabbed threat inborn no is palm trees i saw a lot of palm trees but saw wild ones nun of us are professional foifrts that over and over ran hanging out in the jungles we're back with that knowledge we hope to make our future prim mate better i have 3 schematics on the efforts to expand the which i am he's this is the western side of our building and phase two to link the two areas and expand both the which i am does he habitat we'll do that through the trail
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systems that allows the chimps to go to the able lastly this is an interior shot of pachyderm building giving for space and habitats space for the chimps we know we - we're bringing those and thank you to my personal friends for underwriting this effort and expansion at the prime mate discovery center and lastly not to forget bic daddy is growing 3 times his body weight he'll be the feature of our labor day festivals and lots of rides and fun activities free for members this labor day that concludes my report. >> any public comment on this
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item. >> richard come on up. >> good morning. >> it was wonderful to hear her speaking about the new approach to the chimpanzee implicit if they're trying to use the trail approach what about other animals the only reason i wanted to speak about the which i am does he they're the type of animals they're the prime mates but it's taken a lot of work and the executive staff tried to get the drawings for what is going on at the zoo i michelle have to look at it and see exactly what is going on again my first look at it i looked at the