we fully understand how the data can be presented in realtime, et cetera. >> and also, that's a very good question. to speak to that and one of the things that we're doing differently this time, is that we're actually hiring full-time staff who will be the custodian of the information. and what i mean by that is that if you came to us and said, toks, how many square feet for asphalt do we have in the park? this is information we can pull up for you and give it to you. this is the type of information that the public will ask and we'll be able to provide the answer. >> i would just say in closing, i would encourage toward more data share than not. i know across the city, there is a concern, sometimes legitimized by the more they know the harder

it will be for us, i think it will help us the more they know. if they know swings are 82 on the list, it will manage their expectations around scream being the swing. >> sure. >> if you hear screaming about swings, let me know, because those are easy to fix. >> will do. be careful what you ask for. >> any public comment? >> first of all, i want to give my condolence to ed lee, because i know ed lee personally for a number of years, 25, 30 years. i knew ed lee before he got into politics. let me give you a short story. i knew ed lee, the one of the first times i meet him, history. me and another brother kicking tailbones in this city, the

summer came, he said, ace, come to the office, take this paper. you need a job, go down there to 25 ns, we going to get you a job. you think you like politics, go down there, they give you a job. conedy said, look at 25, i go down there, althoulo and behold is there, the jokester ed lee. the first time back in the paper. that's how i got my start politically. but then i had been on jack davis, helped elect the first -- not the first policeman -- who was that, anyway, so i'm around. i'm here for the city and i be back. although and behold ed lee wasn't even buried yet. i have somebody -- i know you all seen it in the paper, they was talking about the resident,

here's his legacy, but the next page said, name the name, justin herman, after ed lee. to the hell about having that about ed lee, he had nothing to do with the black community. another thing, you have not one black official say anything about ed lee publicly, because he say all you negros -- >> president buell: i think we're talking about -- under the rule, you can speak under public comment about whatever you like, this is about the agreement. >> i'm going to go there, sir. >> president buell: please do. >> you messed up my time. >> president buell: i'll give you a little more time. >> nobody said a damn thing, don't stop me. there is no justin herman. i wish i knew that. i'm on this case, the bottom line is this agency, made a big egregious mistake on his name. you didn't vote, did you?

but bottom line is, i want to know, like all the rest of us black folks, from that time when -- where does it go from here? because in the paper, this guy from real estate said name it justin herman. didn't mention about the black people who lost it, so i know it was orchestrated by somebody. fake news, alternative news. this department, you're responsible, where does it go now? about justin herman name. i ace washington declaring, i'm start ago committee to rename it barack obama. it cannot be challenged. it cannot be denied, it cannot be erased. my name is ace. i have three generations under me. park and rec, we're going to talk. you gave $300,000 to do what? to do what, tear it down and rebuild because the blacks ain't going to be there anymore. ray charles, they're trying to

get rid of you all. my name is ace, congratulations on -- >> president buell: thank you. >> clerk: anyone else who would like to make public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners? >> president buell: entertain a motion? moved and seconded. all those in favor? so moved. thank you. >> clerk: before we go to item 8, you can come up, i just need to make one announcement. and that is we're going to switch the order of 9 and 10. so we'll hear the strategic plan before the operational plan. we're on item 8. >> good morning, i'm gary mccoy, policy and public affairs commission, community affairs manager with the department. i am here to speak on naming the area known as sharon meadow and

golden gate park in robin williams. i don't want to repeat what is in the staff report, but highlight that the area known as sharon meadow has not officially been named by the commission and there has been significant press coverage over the last two years since this was brought forward with vast support by many folks and some in this room. including former mayor willie brown and late mayor ed lee as well. there is no known opposition and i could answer questions. >> clerk: we have public comment. anyone who would like to speak on this item, come on up. >> good morning, commissioners, my name is debbie durst, i'm the president of the board of comedy day and producer of comedy day. it still rings true with me and

just for -- i apologize, if you've heard it before, but for the commissioners not here at the last meeting. i'll read it now. dang it, they broke. the very first comedy day was 1980. we moved the laughter to the western end of the golden gate park for a few years when we outgrew the bandshell. but for the last 20-some years comedy day's home has been sharon meadow. it's a perfect fit. it's a day of agree comedy. there are very few things left that are free to the public. it's a san francisco tradition, so close to the history of hippie hill in the meadow. even more legendary was this one man. this man was talented, smart, funny and one of the most

generous and philanthropic. he loved coming year after year, hang out with the contemporaries and shower the stage with genius. comedy day has always been about bringing the funny. laughter is the best medicine and this man brought huge doses of it. you could feel the electricity come forward in waves. i felt compelled to do something for this man who was such a part of comedy day and city of san francisco in a way that would honor his memory and comic spirit for all time. with the help of phil ginz berg, mr. mark buell, the president of the san francisco parks commission, former assemblyman, maggie lynch, our late mayor, ed lee, beth, who did tons of research on the man known as william sharon and acting mayor

london breed, this hollow place of humor should be known as robin williams meadow. i look forward to seeing all of you at the last sunday of summer, at the 38th annual comedy celebration day, at robin williams meadow in golden gate park. >> president buell: thank you. >> clerk: next speaker. >> hi, i'm will durst, i'm her assistant, and i -- she and i are the only two people who have performed at every comedy day. so she's invested in this. the fact that they have the tunnel that is named after robin williams and you feel, oh, when you go through it, we got nothing. and i don't think william sharon

would be pissed. i haven't heard anything from him. so if you could do this, i think it would be great for the city and fort comics, because it would give us something to aspire to. thank you. >> president buell: thank you. >> clerk: next speaker? anyone else? >> i got to beat richard every time. good morning. >> president buell: we'll give you his three minutes, too. >> right on, i'll be a true comedian and not run the light. i'm a standup comedian here in san francisco. i've been attending comedy day for 20 years. i've been volunteer for them for about a decade. i've been performing here in san francisco for about a decade. and robin williams meant a lot to me. i think -- if you remember his first hbo special it was at the great american music hall four blocks up the veto and opened up

the show by saying san francisco, the city, my home, every time i'm away from it, i'm drawn back to it and conversely, every time i see robin williams, i'm brought back to the city. and as a comedian, i'm very, very proud to be standing in front of you, this is such hallowed ground, i've been considering it robin williams meadow a long, long time. i hope you can see making the name change for us today. >> president buell: thank you very much. richard? >> i've been looking over some of the requirements to get a place named after a person, and i'm looking the at all of you, i think this is going to be a very supportive commission in favor of the name change.

anyway, i remember good morning vietnam, myself having been a navy medic, we call them combat corps men, they give the congressional honors in world war ii, so myself, i would be spec ops, so that's my background. when you hear somebody coming out and talking about good morning vietnam, i thought that would be more the entertainment to try to boost the morale or go on the radio show or something at the time of the war. so being that robin williams had performed such, it probably had to come out later. it was a earlier variety show development. so mr. robin williams -- robin williams, i think i would be supportive not only for the good

morning vietnam, but possibly because he had received an academy award oscar. this fellow when i read about him in the newspaper, it didn't make too much sense. he was so saddened, seemed like chronic depression. and somehow it was part of his way of breaking out, where he would perform before different people. and really helped him along. i'm hoping that if you do make the particular change, that you can also somewhere include a wall of fame with different people who have performed at said comedy area, if that would be also possible. and then those behind me, comics, comedians, and others, they can also be honored. but be sure not to put on ri richa richard. thank you. >> anyone else? gail, did you want to speak? >> thank you, margaret.

hi commissioners, my name is gail, i would like to support you for -- thank you for supporting comedy since 1980 here in the city when we survived the 70s and we needed a good laugh and good come together. and thank you to the rec and park for their approval of a band of dedicated performers who keep showing up, year after year, have performed over 500,000 people in our glorious park. statistically speaking, i think that we could say we have had the biggest comedy event in the world. over 38 years coming up. so in honor of robin and all the dedicated performers, i would like to thank all of you for the

outcome today. >> president buell: thank you. cle >> clerk: anyone else who would like to make public comment? public comment is closed. >> president buell: commissioner anderson. >> commissioner anderson: may i invite will and debbie to come back up for a moment? is that all right? >> president buell: i think they have permission. >> commissioner anderson: i would like to hear more about the genesis of the idea. you mentioned the people who supported it, but i know there is a little more work that happened and would invite you to share a little bit more and wanted to thank you for inviting me to come out to comedy day, which i did, and it was a very joyous, embracing event with such talented people such as yourselves and thought you could give us a little more background. >> well, robin was such a part of the comedy community, such a

part of comedy day. like i said, he was there the very first comedy day. and he was always a great supporter of comedy day and not a lot of people know it, but if it weren't for robin giving us some money, there would be no comedy day a few years. he was just a silent supporter. >> he did it anonymously, so we couldn't mention amongst ourselves whether he had given money. we always heard that we got the money, because the eagle has landed. and that was the code word. >> he was known in the comedy community as the eagle. when we said the eagle had landed, that meant he gave the money for the show. >> president buell: he kept it going five or six years. >> at least, because it's nonprofit organization, no one gets paid. and everyone comes to perform, it's one of the biggest things to be invited to perform at

comedy day. it's kind of our company picnic. and we -- >> instead of barrel races, we -- >> yes, gail's husband, was one of the founders of comedy day. it was a very dark time in san francisco. we had lost a mayor. and jonestown had happened and all this stuff and there was a gray cloud. so jose along with a couple of other people decided to begin comedy day and robin was behind it. he did everything he could for this great san francisco tradition. and if not for him, it would not be here today. >> so thank you. >> president buell: thank you. >> clerk: i appreciate all that you have done on this, debbie, i know a lot of time has gone in your side. >> yeah, i used to have a lot more hair.

>> commissioner anderson: didn't we all. >> president buell: before i ask for a vote of the commission, let me thank will and debbie and the others for the contribution you've made to this effort and the culture of san francisco. you put us in a very unique place on the map and we appreciate it. with that, the chair would entertain a motion. >> so moved. >> seconded. >> president buell: moved and seconded, all those in favor? so moved. thank you. [applause] >> we are now on item 10, the strategic plan. >> president buell: i know you find it humorous and entertaining, but you don't have to sit through the strategic plan. now, that's -- >> but we do want that -- >> now that's comedy. >> i'll wait for netflix.

[laughter]. merry christmas. happy holidays. >> thank you, you too. >> good morning, commissioners, taylor from the finance committee that was funny. >> no pressure, taylor. take my strategic plan, please. >> oh. >> i am here today to present to you the strategic -- the progress assessment of our strategic plan so far. where we are in the indicators and a look ahead at the next five years. our long-term planning tool, the strategic plan for fy 2018-22. as a reminder, this is a planning process. we will be doing this through fy

46, prop b, starts with equity and the equity metrics and analysis feeds into the strategic plan and then the operational plan is a two-year look. it's a shorter term horizon that also filters through the equity lens and then we bring you the capital plan in january. and in february, the budget. and this is a sequence and a building, an evolution of our -- we need a synonym for plan -- our focus, our efforts. the framework has the mission vision values, the five course strategies and the objectives and those are not changing. underneath those, the actions that support all that are the initiatives and those change and refresh and get done and new ones come on each year. here today to stalk about the

two-year operational plan. equity is filtered, it's not at the bottom or the top, it's infused through all of that. quick assessment of where we are on these initiatives. for the five-year period, fy 17 to 21, we have completed 14 of those. another 49 are in progress, which together means, i think it's more than 90% are either started or completed. and the remainders are to be initiated in the coming years. just highlights of what we've done. the 10-minute walk, we're so proud of it, we keep talking about it. it's about the equity, 100% of san franciscans now live within a 10 minute walk of park or open space. we also, strategy 2, to support safe bicycling and through parks

and increase recreational bicycling in parks, the bike park in mclaren and these are both proud accomplishments toward this goal of more cycling. there are so many things about the hall that feel successful and accomplishments of new park, increasingly dense neighborhood. and there are opportunities for urban farming and community gardening there. i love they're doing a different community garden model there, it is actually community. they're all growing it together, instead of individual plots. i heard at the end of the season, they gave away 500 pounds of food. that is exciting. within the strategic plan itself, some of the initiatives are equity equity related and this is a shot of those.

some of those are internal learning. we got training, we have two people a year doing the government alliance on racial equity learning and they're bringing that back to the department. we've expanded our training -- our recruiting processes to reach now audiences and this, of course, is while we call this complete, it's also ongoing. we did what we set out to do this year and we're doing more. second class of greenidge, these kinds are from chinatown which is one of the most open spaced, deficient of nature neighborhoods and we're giving them environment learning opportunities. at mission playground, we started a spanish language

permit assistance. there is like a satellite permit office at mission clubhouse that has operating hours, and helps people get the permits for birthday a party or other organized events. new initiatives, there are six new ones. here they are, complete the jurisdictional transfer of properties. continue working on the civic center commons initiative. start working on the conservatory of flowers campus. and some work in operations with the nursery and plant palates. with that, happy to take questions. >> clerk: go to public comment? >> president buell: please. >> clerk: anyone who would like

to make public comment? come on up. >> interesting combination of performance here today, i'm ss urban riders and here to confirm and thank the department for the progress they've made on the strategic objectives, particularly, i pay attention to the bicycling and trails goals. and particularly the three things about bicycling, the trails, the bike parks and the playground, the mini bike park there is looking great, coming along. so we've had disagreement over the detail of this, but happy and thankful for the details and the goals they're accomplishing. >> president buell: thank you. >> clerk: anyone else who would like to make public comment on the strategic plan? this is strategic, not the operational. is that ok? ok. >> president buell: so the question becomes do we want to

hear the operational plan and then vote on both of them? or having heard that, or do we need to vote now on this? clerk clrk i -- >> clerk: i want to make sure there is no more public comment on this. is there any more public comment? seeing none. >> president buell: i was clairvoyant. any commission comments? seeing none, we entertain a vote. moved and seconded. all those in favor? so moved. thank you. >> that was fantastic. >> wee. she'll be here all week. >> encore right now. >> clerk: we're on item 9, the operational plan. >> commissioners, the operation plan, we have the 5-year horizon and then 2-year. of all the things we need to do

and should do, given our resources, workload, capacity, the priorities, what do you think we're actually going to be able to do in the next two years? and that's what the operational plan is. we've seen this before, but i want it to be a standalone presentation. the structure of it, it's a two-year look again. next month we'll be here with the capital plan. within the operational plan, which because of the timing, this progress assessment reflects five months of what is a two-year plan. i want to set the stage for that. we have completed 14 of the initiatives that we set forth to do. 42 of them are in progress and just four are yet to be starting. some of these that we're proud of that we've accomplished are farm camp, expand and connect children to nature. there are bees and chickens and

real farm chores out there. and the camp was full all summer. >> it was fantastic, yeah. >> adaptive programming to increase the number of participants. sometimes that means increasing the slots in the programs that are popular, adding new programs and making all of the programs inclusi inclusive, so people can participate in anything they're interested in. strategy 3, we mentioned the civic center playground a couple of times today. this is fantastic partner-driven renovation project that is going be an anchor for the civic center commons. i can't wait to go on the slide right there myself. great signage. signage really helps build stewardship because when people understand it and appreciate what they're looking at, in this

case, plans. they can care for it more. we've done great signage at hilltop particularly. within the operational plan, some of those initiatives again, these are all subsets, equity initiatives, four of these were complete, nine ongoing. commissioner mcdonnell, you asked for a list, it's attachment to the staff report. some of these still ongoing are implementing -- it's combined of a combination -- kind of a combination of park ranger and fixed posts. parked ranger are fixed and they can get to know the characters and be part of the community. we're also using this model at delores as well and kind of experimenting when hot spots pop up, crocker amazon, we can have staff onsite there.

this is not a very good picture, but if you can see how drab and uninviting that hope sf playground is there, we are working with other city agencies to address some of these failing playgrounds at hope sf properties. >> this is an equity initiative work, we're fully invested in the planning and this is partially a capital planning conversation as well, but we're thinking through additional facilities where some of the hope sf sites, for example, sunnydale, i think we're planning -- we're in conversations with mercy housing and some of the other stakeholders about a new gym. and we just purchased shoreview park which is near huntersview, so we're engaging in a lot more collaborative planning and

participating in, again, one of the mayor's legacies, the sort of reenvisioning of public housing and housing generally. >> mission slide again. we'll skip that. and with that, i'm happy to take questions. >> and just these were just a couple of delicious samples, some of the work that is happening. there is a lot 0 detailed work in the strategic plan and the operations plan and it is from the inspiration tal to the mundane. we're in a time of stability where the core mission and mission and values and five core strategies are not really moving. those are -- we continue to believe that's how we want to steer the organization, by inspiring place and play and stewardship, and team and

resources. and then so the tactics beneath those, how do we do that? where we've done a much better job in the last several years, in part because of taylor's leadership, is collecting data and how we want to move the needle. i've been here for 17 years and never been in such a continuous planning loop as we are now. i have to say, we like it. >> it works. >> president buell: terrific. >> clerk: public comment? >> president buell: let's go to commissioner comment. >> commissioner anderson: i would like to put a little pin on the public safety aspect. if we could start a conversation, if it hasn't already started, about helping san francisco police department collaborate and coordinate with the park patrol, like some

feedback from the park patrol, for example, they don't share the radio. i feel like those communications should be a two-way street between park patrol and san francisco p.d. >> if you look outside the civic center, you see a ranger and police officer walking through and doing a -- some of this is dependent upon the chief at the moment and the priorities of the police department, but because our own ranger chief has done such a good job and has so much credibility with sfpd, the collaboration and cooperation has never been better. i would recommend that the organization still needs another 20-30 rangers. we said we should be at 80. when i started we were at 12. now we're at 45? right? and so we're not there yet with the amount of coverage. it's 24-7 operation, 365 days a

year, 225 parks. it's hard to have a presence everywhere. but a number of key issue and events, we're working toward 20, obviously some of the ceremonies around the mayor's passing, we've been working very closely with sfpd. >> thank you, i support more park controls. >> commissioner harrison: i like that and i'm supportive of it, but i have a question and give me an example. i was reading here on performance indicators baseline, and i don't know how -- attachment a i guess, objective, condition of parks, fields, playground and facilities, i notice that the other end, that was not achieved. the goal was not achieved. how do we go about achieving such a thing? >> in that case we set the target at two. we set the target possibly too high. so when i say we didn't achieve

the target. i think we may have another year of data under -- to evaluate. we can then revisit the targets and see if they are realistic. >> we set the park maintenance target ott 90%. there is a little bit of history and you're going to dive into the park maintenance report. frankly, the way the scoring has changed, we've gotten a lot stricter about how we evaluate the parks and more precise and that resulted over about two years, or three years ago, in a 3-5% drop in the park maintenance scores. think that target was from the original data s. taylor interprets data literally. >> in that specific case, we did improve, but we did not reach

the target. >> i did see it was 80% landscaping, so i guess that's pretty good. >> right, that specific metric that you're looking at, is the result of the controller city survey, which is every other year, they contact citizens. it's a perception-based survey. do you think landscapes are better? that one. and so 80% -- do you think -- >> there is a couple of ways we're evaluating the condition of the parks. with the controller's assistance, this is the original park maintenance scores we were talking about toks ajike's item. we do it in partnership with the controller's office. the second way we're evaluated is public perception and that's based on controller survey.

commissioner, i'm not sure what metric you're looking at. >> commissioner harrison: attachment a, doesn't give a page. >> it sounds like that's a perception one, b for public perception, we're doing pretty well. >> commissioner harrison: maybe i'm getting ahead of myself on this one, let's talk about it during the maintenance. i'm good, thank you. >> president buell: commissioner macdonell. >> commissioner mcdonnell: fantastic and thank you for pulling out as i had requested the equity related initiatives and just connecting this, and perhaps a place holder comment, back to the item that toks ajike presented a moment ago around the assessment. software, which is one of the initiatives around prioritizing deferred maintenance, renewal and discretionary capital in equity zones. so i guess place holder and question would be, when we get

to the point of establishing criteria, i would love to see how this manifests or shows up in that. because i appreciate that it's not straight forward, tricky in terms of setting it into the context of all the other competing priorities, but i'd like to see that. >> this is work that i'm actually eager to tackle in the next year or two, where it will be a mix of waiting equity criteria, so there would be basically some sort of preference for parks and facilities in our equity zones. but that blended with the actual data and condition assessment of particular asset. >> yep, yep. thank you. >> we now have data sets from the controller. park maintenance will -- then we'll have project life cycle. and then we'll have the population characteristics which form the basis of the equity zone. and those three sources combined, i think, can help us

achieve a pretty transparent prioritization index for how we make choices on what to tackle first. >> president buell: public comment. >> richard? >> thank you for your presentation. i stand corrected what i said in the committee part on the equity and of seniors, and had something to do with what i thought would be where they used to be the shotgun club and fishing rod club, but there is another point i want to bring up. of the west south lake, i don't know, it sounds confusing, it's actually on the east side of the south lake where the work is happening, so it's not the west side. on the east side of the south lake, which is a large lake there, so when i look at that,

and i see equity, i thought why would seniors lose out on that much more funding for equity of seniors? that is not of the sites noted on different calendars of equity that placed out there, i thought it would be more in trails, roadways when i brought in the ada accessible to the south lake and the ada accessible to the north lake. where now they're doing work on the landing dock. supportive lines that don't get in the way of boats. so equities, i don't know what the total cost would be, but if there is a total cost for seniors and people who are of

such age that the park is going to try to give up equity and noted that you have seniors you don't have, maybe you have kane of wheelchair. so -- cane or wheelchair. if we have more accessible places, i thought we should get the funding where it's needed, a different source. so like where you have a different parks, like it's about 25th avenue and the golden gate bridge side of the park, over there you have a lot of russians and all the different other places, chinatown and the mission, there are equity places. if you use the access to a facility as -- total amount of funding, it wouldn't be very much to develop programs, so i just looking out for a few of us seniors and hope we can rectify

that through mr. phillip ginzberg. >> is there anybody else who would like to make public comment on the operational plan? >> yes, whenever i get a chance to speak anywhere at city hall, i'm going to take the opportunity and try to tell you all, because i done seen it all. i seen -- operations, stick to the script, ace. i'm going to be here when there is public comment and i've been informed, i say the right things, maybe at the wrong time, and it takes all the energy out of you going against the grain. you may say something that is real good, but i mess up the whole script. i've been doing that for years. and it's hard because i got passion. you know, i'm 62, i'm just like all the rest of you, i look a little younger, but i seen it and been through it. i had to go through it to get to it. people of color, i got to go

through more than most of you all. i'm no preacher, no teacher, but i know god wouldn't lead me, i'd be gone. i ain't got no money, no home. all i got is morale, i got a moral obligation. my family is across the bay. my daughters, they're probably feeling good, they have kids and they have kids. but papa still here in the city by the bay, trying to get these people to hear what i got to say. when i learn to do that, i got people -- queen bee, route 200, we know where we grew up, that's history. although i don't agree, i'm going to stand by her side until the time comes when i might have to split, because i'm not going to do that because she's a girl i know her. there is another woman coming with a better name than her and willie brown. i was her bodyguard. personal bodyguard when she ran.

i told her the election was being sabotaged. she had to go to the green party. i didn't know him. i know alley oto, what they did for the family and the blacks. go back to what i'm talking about now. yes, sir. i'm going to be talking about all the parks in my community. when i grew up, there was us. now you got people running around looking good in the parks, shooting all that, because you talking about big money you're spending in the park. but we is black, we're still in the dark. see, i don't cuss that much, sometimes it comes out as rhymes, i'm not trying to be no jesse jackson. god don't like unclean -- but i don't cuss, never did. but i can rhyme and tell you what i'm talking about. read between the lines. i could be rhyming and cussing at you at the same time, and you wouldn't know it. read between the lines.

when i get up here, where we at with justin herman, i want the truth. nobody pay me but god. i get my just reward when i gone. rest in peace, lee, because i'm still talking about the fillmore street. >> clerk: anyone else who would like to make public comment? being none, public comment is closed. >> president buell: seeing no further questions, chair would entertain a motion. moved and seconded. all those in favor? so moved. thank you very much. >> clerk: item 11, controller's office report on park maintenance standards for 2016-17. >> i'm going to set up the power point, just a moment, please.

thank you. good afternoon, commissioners lydia zaverukha, manager for operations in the department. i'm here to introduce to you the park maintenance standards report which you have seen for 12 years. i'm proud to be associated with the whole park maintenance standards for the last 12 careers from intepgs to what -- 12 years, from inception to what you're looking at now. we have a new format, interesting report, presented with the kind of detail you have not seen before. this is the 12th year as i mentioned. this is actually the third year

of the new data. if you recall, about three years ago, we revised the standards, that's what was referred to with the shifting in the scores. this is the first full year of the data from the new mobile app, that is built on a sales force platform. i love to say that, even though i don't know anything about sales force. what we're benefitting from is data at a detailed level we've never had before. when you look at the report, i need to thank the controller's office, they did the hard work, but you have detail and information sliced and diced in way we have not looked at before, with charts and information. what we haven't had before is the kind of data where we can look at statistically significant changes. a lot of times we've had changes, but not the benefit to analyze to that level.

the other thing about the report, is that it does not take a deep dive backwards again, because it's three years of new data. we went back just the three years. so i will take you forward. basically, these are the three major content areas of the report, so park scores are the whole property. overall, what are the scores for the park property? the next is features. looking at cpa, trees, the different features within the park property and then within each of the levels are the elements. we look at details within, let's say, a tree well, does it have weeds. what is the cleanliness rating in the restroom? that's how it's organized. we'll take questions at the end. i'll give you the overall introduction that was briefly discussed today, what has been the trend? we're proud, up to 88% this year. not quite 89, but almost there.

>> always round up lydia. >> i like that, too. what was established at the inception of the program was 85% was the good maintenance threshold and we've been hovering above that for the last three years. what is significant about the three year data points, 86, 88. this is three years of the much more stringent standards. we tried very, very hard to help a human being and guide them to precise information we were looking for. when we started, it was a bit more free form and now you're getting information in a deep and detailed way. i'm going to turn it over to the controller office, to alison, emily and joe is here somewhere. these individuals, again, i've talked about it before, i'm very proud to work with the controller's you woffice. the level of the detail is amazing and i'll let the people who did the hard work give you

the information. thank you. >> thank you so much to lydia, for all your support and that intro. as mentioned, we saw the city-wide average score increase over the last two years, over the comparable years using the revised standards. you can see that we looked beyond that mean, because we had a distribution of parks scores where each park score can be seen as a dot and the figure shown, like a his tree gram. and we saw not only was the distribution moving to the right, but the distribution was changing. because we only have three years of data, we're going to continue to watch this, but it's interesting trend that goes beyond just increasing standards, but what this could mean for how all parks are clustered around the city wide average mean.

we saw -- obviously, this city-wide increase is driven by park improvements. 61% of parks had increased score over the past year, so fiscal year 15 to 17. which is exciting large portion of the parks. most of those dramatic increases were often tied to renovations funded by the 2012 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond. so some else of those renovated with the funds, dolman playground, joe dimaggio, those were the most dramatic. we saw increases were subtle. volunteers from habitat for humanity, making big increases as well. i like to note those as well as the renovations made. in addition to these increases there are also some parks, lesser so, but some parks that

decreased dramatically in score. the most dramatic decreases are listed on the slide and these are individual changes in the park or the area around the park. we go into a really deeper dive in the report about the parks that were decreasing over the years. i won't go over that right now, but one of the features that decreased consistently across the parks were the on mental beds, so that's interesting commonality among the parks. we have that deeper information in the report and have already received a request from our staff about those details for these parks in order to inform operational decisions. it's a tie between the decisions we're making and the data we have. beyond the changes, we can look at this most recent year snapshot to see right now, where are the highest scoring and

lowest scoring parks. that map is in front of you. in that report, we have that feature. this is the highest, 10 highest scoring and 10 lowest. the highest, fulton playground and ca borriello playground were renovated with under from the 2008 fund. you can see that 60% of the bottom parks are in the southern half of the city. you can almost draw a line across the map and that's in contrast to the top 10 scoring parks which are almost all in the northern part of the city. looking at the park scores aggregated to the supervisor district level, we see trends to

the top and bottom parks, being a southern and northern distinction. we have districts number 1 with the highest average park score of 92%. followed by the districts 2 and 3, so northern crest of the city. and the bottom 2, district 11 with 83% and district 10 with 85%. just a note in that range. if you're living in district 1, your average park may be 92. 10 percentage points is the average park you would experience in district 11. so quite a big percentage point distinction there and i think that introduces a question about equity among parks which many people have mentioned today. we were able to look at specifically those parks labelled as parks serving equity zones. as rpd established following the june 2016 charter amendment from opposition b establishing the

zones and the park serving equity zones, we were able for the first time to look at the park maintenance scores in order to -- this will be the first year of benchmark of what is the distinction of park scores among these parks. on this slide, this is the park distribution of scores for the equity zone parks and the non-equity zones. you'll see the non-equity zone parks have average score of 89 which is above the average 88. and the equity zone parks have 2 percentage parks lower, 87, which i below the city-wide average. this is an important difference to consider as rpd manages the distribution of resources to pursue equity. and it's a good benchmark. we haven't had this data before, so we can look forward to studying this in future years and watching the gap to ensure we're moving in the right

direction. here's alice with more details. >> thank you, emily, lydia, joe, and everyone who works on this fantastic program. i want to take a moment and give a shoutout to those who participate, even phil does park evaluation. thank you to everyone in the crowd. when we go deeper from overarching park score, we look atrophiture scores. those are contained area of a park with commonality. you're seeing list of the features that we evaluate. you can see common one, lawns, children play areas, dog lay areas are tightly laid out in the map. and then there are overarching features such as buildings and amenities, which are looked at in the end.

so this is a map here -- sorry not a map -- a chart of the changes in feature scores over time and you can see that the last bar is trees. overall in the past three years, the trees have been the highest rated feature, which is in contrast to children's play area. that third category which has consistently been among the lowest. and so because they're among the lowest for the past three years, we're going to do a little spotlight in the presentation on children play areas. as i mentioned, they're the lowest scoring feature this fiscal year, 15 and 16, however, all of the top six -- all of the top six cpas have been renovated recently, so a great result from the bonds in the past. commonality between some of the lowest scoring is rubber surfacing. four ever the lowest scoring cpas, every evaluation they

failed on rubber surfacing. it's something to take into account. we hope the staff look at rubber surfacing when looking at renovations or resource allocation. this is a list of planned cpa renovations due to the failing playgrounds initiative you've heard spoken about earlier. those highlighted in orange are on the top -- sorry, our bottom 10% list of the cpa. in fact, most of those you see on the list are below the city average, so we're happy to see a lot of tie between the plans of capital improvement and cpas that don't score about high. you heard about west portal earlier and it actually got 65% on that distribution. just missed the cutoff of being in the bottom 10%. it's exciting to see movement on renovations moving forward. we're just excited to see, as

phil mentioned, we're in the era of data, city-wide and rpd. so we hope this information on scores at a feature level and park level can be used in operational decisions moving forward. we can go even deeper than features. lydia mentioned within the features there are elements. she mentioned cleanliness. that's one. we also evaluate graffiti, signage, structures, seating, a whole variety of elements of a feature that can be evaluated. so again, due to time, we'll just look at two. we're going to look at graffiti and cleanliness, those are generally hot topics in the public. you can see, we've done a spatial cluster analysis to determine what areas of the city are experiencing high rates of graffiti and low rates of graffiti n. the southern part of thesy, there are cluster.

something pointed out operation ply, internally, staff knows that mission delores park receives high rates of graffiti. talking about how can we apply policies to combat graffiti in areas such as this hot spot in the southerning area of the city? how can we take the data and make it operational? we often see high levels of graffiti in skate parks. you'll see the same distribution list and you can identify the lowest scoring on graffiti are in fact skate parks. due to time, i'll touch on cleanliness. it's one of the widest spreads of distribution. there is a big range from 33% up to 100%. we wanted to highlight some of the troubles that for example, our lowest scoring park, e