every day. who participate in your recreation programs, who volunteer, who advocate, and who work in our parks. our accomplishments are your accomplishments. and without all of you our park system would not be as lively and vibrant. enjoy this look back at the past year in our parks. >> we have a great park system. >> a lot of folks. >> safe clean and fun. we promote our parks historic and cultural heritage and we're building the great parks of tomorrow. >> we were the first city in the country to place parks within a 10 minute walk of every residence. we cut 14 ribbons and broke ground on two additional park renovations. we bought land.

we planned for parks of the future. we make our parks safer and cleaner. we celebrated our history and culture. we promoted active living for the diverse and growing population. we help folks play ball. we let kids be kids regardless of whether they can afford to and connected them with the natural world. we let seniors be seniors and we made sure everyone can get out and play. in the last two years, we've hosted more than 172,000 events? our parks, little ones, big ones, fast ones, slow ones, strange ones, earthy ones. we inspire let'splaysf! a campaign to build new playgrounds. we created a new light art installation on the conservatory

iconic facade. we worked with the golden state warriors foundation to resurface the basketball court. we renovated the soccer pitch. we partnered with the san francisco conservancy to design a new park. we renovated and reopened south park and lincoln park. we helped to ensure that all san franciscans can get out and play. we didn't just inspire capital, we inspired sweat, lots of sweat. we aim to protect and enhance san francisco's natural resources from conservation, education and sustainable land management. we built for a better ecosystem. we taught our next generation about the earth. we call them green-agers. we save water, we cared for the trees. we cultivated a connective, engaged and aligned workforce

that delivers outstanding service. we measured, we innovated, we trained, we collaborated, developed, hired, recognized each other, we celebrated together. we're proud to be part of this team and we said everything matters, from the smallest park to golden gate park, our parks are diverse and unique as our amazing city. we're so proud to steward them on your behalf. remember, in 2018 -- >> get out and play! [ ♪ ] >> that was 2017, and that was the general manager's report. >> president buell: thank you very much. >> is there anyone who would like to make public comment under the general manager's report. richard? ok. >> president buell: so noted.

being no public comment, this item is closed for now. item 4, general public comment up to 15 minutes. this item will be continued to item 13 at this time members of the public may address the commission on items of interest that are within the jurisdiction of the commission. and that do not appear on the agenda. with respect to agenda items, you will have that opportunity to address the commission when the item is reached in the meeting. i do have one card and that is henry. you will have three minutes. >> secretary: go ahead. take a seat. >> good morning. thank you for having this open mic session. my name is henry and i'm a member of the group of seniors who play tennis in the golden

gate park tennis complex. i'm here to express my concerns about the plans for the golden gate park tennis center. in two ways. first is, my first concern is the way that the plans were developed. these plans were developed by a group called the tennis coalition, and they have been successful in raising funds. however, the design and the particulars of the plan were not subject to public input. the group appeared originally with its first presentation and all subsequent presentations to have a pretty completed plan and although many suggestions were made and were solicited by the group, there has been basically no basic change in the plans offered. my concern is that the public should be the ones making the decisions, rather than a private

selected group. and my first request is that the commission work with the recreation and park department to create group that has chosen -- is chosen by the recreation and parks department after a widespread advertising and application from people who actually use the tennis complex. and i suggested to people and the parks and rec department, because they're the ones who were there at the tennis complex all the time. and feedback can be exchanged freely and in large volume. that's my first request. the second is that the particulars of the plan that i am and most of the senior tennis people i play with in the mornings have concerns about the plans. the first concern is that four courts will be eliminated and no one was in favor of that in our group and i don't think it makes

sense to remodel the complex and have fewer courts. the reasoning that the tennis coalition offers an explanation is that putting up lights, that will give more time to play, but that really doesn't address the daytime loss of courts which is where most of the people play. >> you have 30 more seconds. >> the other things that we were concerned about is the expansion of the buildings for the children's learning center. and that could have been done without the remodel. the hiring of a for-profit company was unanimously rejected by our senior tennis group and we feel it's inappropriate to lock up the courts with having only one entrance and exit so that the whole place is now being viewed as a private space and public park which we option. >> president buell: thank you, we have your printed comments as well. >> john melvin?

>> thank you. i would like to echo henry's comments and offer an observation. this proposal has been put together by an elitist group who want a fancy tennis complex that they can bring their friends to. these people are mostly members of private clubs. they don't play tennis at golden gate park, they're concerned about a monument. i think it stinks. this is a senior group that relies on these tennis courts literally for their life. that's our exercise program and to rip these up for a couple of years so they can have something fancy is an outrage. and not taking input. this is designed so they meet the standards, so that means we lose four courts. we need more courts. so, anyway, that's difficult for me to control my emotions, but this is a really big deal and the parks department, farz i can

see, they defaulted the whole project to this private group. i would encourage you to put this back on a public track. san francisco is not a for profit city, it's a nonprofit city and this should be run by a nonprofit. among other things. but let's get back to basics. fix the courts, they're in terrible condition. we have three courts we can't even play for, i don't know why they haven't been fixed, down for more than a year, and why they're not fixed is beyond me. and sometimes we shop, we can't get a court. and seniors really need their exercise. so, anything you can do, we would really appreciate it. thank you very much. >> president buell: thank you. >> secretary: anyone else who would like to make general public comment? richard?

>> good morning. nice to see all you happy commissioners, hope you had a nice holiday. what i wanted to ask about is what can be done over the cost issue of the lake, the boat and so forth, the upper, trying to get people to help pay for the changes that have been provided. last time i was here, i had spoken against charging it to seniors and the equity funds. i was looking later on, would there be available the homeowners association who can help contribute some funding to that. they had earlier been the party involved with putting in the sun

fish family, large bass and all that other stuff. i wanted to be sure i got that across. and there is other part that had to do with with whole -- [inaudible] work at port smith square, that's nice. general manager ginsburg, and that's about all, other than i'm going to try to say something about this and get another crane on the arts, so i'll wait until the zoo time. thank you. >> president buell: thank you. >> secretary: any other public comment, general public comment? seeing none, this item is closed. we're now on item 5, the consent calendar. is there any public comment under the consent calendar? seeing none, this item is closed. commissioners we need a motion. >> president buell: entertain a

moment. moved and seconded. all those in favor, so moved. >> secretary: we're on item 6, the election of officers. i wanted to go over very briefly what the procedure will be today. we are going to -- i will ask first for public comment and once public comment is closed, i will ask for a motion and a second. and then a vote to open nominations once we open the nominations, i will ask for the nominations to begin. we will need a second. then we will do the same thing, close the nominations with the vote. and then you will vote on the nomination. so with that, that will be for both the president and the vice president. is there any public comment on item number 6, election of officers? being none, public comment is closed. so, for the election of the

president, i do need a motion and a second to open the nominations. >> moved. >> second. >> secretary: ok. and i need all in favor? aye, any opposed, no. >> aye, aye, aye. >> secretary: thank you, ok. so now commissioner anderson i believe you have nomination for the office of president. >> commissioner anderson: yes, it is with great honor that i make the following nomination and if i could just have a minute, current president? >> president buell: please. >> commissioner anderson: i conducted a not so independent poll with the universe of six very interested people on qualifications and learned that we have a gentleman and a poet. a poetic presidential person, who most of the time makes santa claus' good list year to year

and has a voice like robert wagner. i'm not sure those are qualifications for president, so i found another source and learned that president buell inspires resources, investment and confidence in the park system. and we've seen more people voting for park bonds than ever before. and increases and positive responses in our park surveys and increases in our park scores. and we've recently celebrated the fact that each and every san franciscan lives a 10-minute walk from our parks, you will under president buell's leadership. and on those grounds, i would like to again nominate you for the president in this next term. >> i second the motion, even though i disagree with the robert wagner voice. >> secretary: any other nominations for the office of president? seeing none, the nominations are closed. so with the roll call vote,

commissioner anderson? >> commissioner anderson: yea. >> commissioner bonilla: yes. >> commissioner harrison: yes. >> commissioner low: yes. >> commissioner mazzola: yes. >> president buell: aye. >> secretary: congratulations, it is unanimous for 2018. >> president buell: let me say before you get to the vice president how much, one, i appreciate this commission and the trust that they have placed in me. i want to express my gratitude to them for the willing to show up at functions to celebrate openings and good causes, but genuinely, i'm very grateful, thank you very much. >> secretary: we're now going to the election of the vice president.

i need a motion and a second to open the nominations. >> so moved. >> second. >> secretary: ok, all in favor? opposed? ok, so commissioner bonilla? >> commissioner bonilla: i would like to nominate the vice president for vice president. commissioner allan low. in doing that i want to say that i continue to be extremely impressed with commissioner low's involvements in the community. i think if we took a poll as to -- actually in attendance record, as to how many activities that commissioner low has participated in, i think he

would win hands down, in terms of all the commissioners. and i also continue to be impressed with his due diligence in reviewing our contracts, the contracts that come before us, and his level of proficiency in keeping us focused on the decisions that we make with regards to our contracts. and always, always keeping us out of harm's way. we need that. we need to continue to depend on that level of proficiency. his involvement in the community, which i will always marvel at, and with that, i am

once again express my nomination for commissioner low for vice president. >> commissioner harrison: i'd like to second that, but before i do that, i would like to say, it would be remiss not to remark on commissioner low's humor and abilities in that. he could give each one of us a little square needle and keep the zinger and keep the lightness and fun of this commission. so i would second commission low for vice president. >> secretary: any other nominations for vice president? being none, nominations are closed. so roll call vote. >> commissioner anderson: yes. >> commissioner bonilla: of course. >> commissioner harrison: yes.

>> commissioner low: [laughter] yes. >> commissioner mazzola: yes. >> president buell: absolutely. >> secretary: congratulations. [applause] >> commissioner low: thank you. >> secretary: ok. we are now on item -- did you want to say anything? >> commissioner low: no, let's just keep the efficiency and roll to the next item. >> secretary: we're on item 7, san francisco zoo. >> thank you, happy new year, congratulations president and vice president. i think, right? let me give you attendance update for the zoo. thus far we're at 480,000 visitors, versus budget of 474,000. so we're almost 7,000 over budget in terms of visitorship. so with that, i'll go to the slide show, because we have a surplus and due to the gifts of some of the board members, our happy zoo year promotion for the

month of january was freeadmission for children 14 and younger and especially on mlk, we had nearly 5,000 children take advantage of that. i thank the board and everyone for the support of the promotion. love is in the air, it's not quite valentine's day, but if you know, you have seen the snow leopard they're beautiful, endangered in the wild and we have two new ones to the zoo to mate. they are going off and on exhibit as they learn and explore, but can hear their mating calls throughout the zoo, so it perks us up quite a bit. we're helping the snow members in the wild. they're elusive animals, hard to track in the wild, so we're capturing their digital images, with that we create algorithm so the trackers in the wild can use the algorithm to assess whether they're seeing snow leopards or other cats in the wild.

i thank the staff again for the creative solution. i want to let everybody know we're moving our dragon, big daddy, and he is moved from the alley to the former taber exhibit. this is near the rhino. it's near the asian center of the zoo. you can see it's a flat space. the reason we're doing that, if you show the next picture here of big daddy, in the back there, those two little rocks popping out of his hips are actually needles, big nails. he had a crack in his lower back, so he needs flat space. we think the crack is developed because he's actually the product of an immaculate conception, if you will. the reptile, if they find no suitable male partners, she can impregnates herself. and doesn't need the male species. there is evolution at work.

[laughter]. >> what? >> uh-oh. >> i knew i'd get the attention at that. it's true, reptiles can do that. but unfortunately, we're finding that the product, so the male still have hope, the products of these immaculate conceptions aren't always the strongest of the animals and there are cracks. big daddy will get a new spot. and maybe you need your dad after all, i don't know. the dragon is famed for eating wild chicken, we don't do that, we give him cooked chicken, but speaking of birds, i want to point out the most attractive group of donors. this is the women's auxiliary. they wear hats. they can't get through the front door, the hats so big. but they will be raising money for the two condors, these are

beautiful birds that we have developed partnerships with countries in south america, they're facing crisis because they're prey, it's causing the condors to come into the cities, prey on small cats and dogs and the population there, think their children are at risk, so they're starting to stone the beautiful bird. we have two at the zoo and will raise money for the new habitat. i thank the ladies and the their gorgeous hats for the efforts. i thank mark sullivan for hosting a one-day workshop on february 10th, where with talent or no talent, he will teach you how to draw a bird or other animals. birds can be difficult, so have patience. thankfully, we do have a very slow sloth in south american tropical forest, that may be the easiest to draw, but i thank mark for hosting that. and speaking of other great volunteers, we would not be the

great zoo without january 21, we have a doe set workshop. it's great to have the senior citizens working at the zoo, sharing knowledge, and their wisdom. i thank you. more information is on the website. with that, i finish my report. >> secretary: any public comment. richard? >> with big daddy, i'm wondering is if the evolution superior, self-propagate, i never heard of that. so darwinian type of analysis, is he a superior animal that such animal can replicate on its

own? that's usually a sign like with chickens or stuff like that, they have both the ovary and the testes, if harm comes to the ovary, the hen becomes a rooster, but i never heard about a dragon self-replicating. gee whiz. mark, are you up to pace. >> the flat worm splits in two, but i'mlering as you -- learning as you talk. >> oh, my goodness, what i wanted to talk about had more to do with the palace of fine arts and other wildlife in the natural area there, i like that place very much. and also, i also see that the crane that was placed in there that is cared for by the zoo people, i believe it is, but i only see one.

is there more, possibly more than one, solitary numbers of one is difficult with even animals. why would an animal be in solitary there. i thought perhaps we could have another crane or others to accompany such animals. and the fish that were put in there, the koi fish, they're doing good, keeping the bottom clean, but they're prolific breeders, so i don't know which animals are attracted to getting the small fish, but that's part of that wildlife to it. that's the food chain. sometimes if you see the crane there, it doesn't even look like it's alive, so i thought maybe you had another one there. hopefully, i can get that from the zoo, where they find another matching crane. but i also heard from the director of operations it doesn't want them breeding, so

you got to have the same gender. >> president buell: thank you. >> secretary: anyone else who would like to make public comment under the zoo item? being none, this item is closed. this was discussion only. we're on item 8, the joseph l. alioto piazza, approval of a temporary art installation. good morning, commissioners, i'm here to ask your approval of a request by the arts commission to place a temporary arts installation of 40 sculptures by zak ove, called invisible men, at civic center from july 2018 to october 2018. if we could turn on the

overhead, please? thank you. there will be 40 identical sculptures that are reminiscent of figures. they're entitled invisible men. each is 6.5 feet high and weighs about 300 pounds. the pictures you see is of installation in other location. for stability, they will each be -- sit on a base filled with concrete and to hold them down. structural engineer has confirmed wind resistance, we spent a lot of time with the risk managers, that somebody couldn't tip them over. and the weight will be subject to a structural analysis that is consistent with the weight for civic center. they will be placed down the

decomposed granite area of the plaza. the arts commission gave us a little explanation of the art, because not my expertise and i want to share it with everybody. it's fascinating. they were displayed at somerset house in london, which is similar to our civic center and were designed to reference a play performed there in 1605 entitled the mask of blackness, which featured white actors in black face which was reflective of society shift toward preference for lighter skin in the 17th century. the artist alludes to the acclaimed novel, the invisible man, a pioneering consideration of racism and marginalized communities in america, told through the eyes of its black protagonist.

the handsup could be construed as channelling the symbolism of the black lives matter movement currently. at the time when slavery monuments across the country are being removed, this is a time of placing peaceful sculptures of black men, it is insertion rather than deletion. with the department's support this installation. >> secretary: any public comment on the item? did you want to speak? ok, please come up. good morning, commissioners, happy new year, i'm jill from the arts commission, it's a pleasure to be before you today. i wanted to thank the recreation and park department commission for enabling the arts commission to produce and present these projects.

we have the ideas, we fund the artists, but you won't property and i think it's been a very positive and fruitful relationship over the years. dana is terrific to work with, denny weighed in on the project, i'd like to thank them. i think together we make a great team. and i hope that you will support this project. it was enthusiastically approved by the arts commission on january 8th. and acting mayor breed has seen it and is supportive of the project as well. i'm happy to answer any questions you may have before your vote. >> president buell: thank you. i don't see any questions. commissioner bonilla. >> secretary: we're going to close public comment first. any other comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner bonilla: i was

wondering, will you have -- you've just given -- we just heard a description of the meaning of these soldiers. will there be something there, some signage or something for the public is that gives perspective, a little bit of background or history where -- how they originated and what the meaning might be -- because honestly, i wouldn't have ever in a lifetime thought about that is what -- that is what the meaning is. so i just wondered if that's going to be made possible? >> yes, commissioner bonilla, you raise a good point.

i agree with you that the public needs this information. and we're also going to work with our colleagues from the city team involved in the civic center commons initiative to discuss possible programs that might occur, dance performance, poetry reading, talks by the artists, so that it won't just be a visual exhibition. there will be hopefully other programming components. >> commissioner bonilla: thank you. >> president buell: i don't see any other comments from the commission. thank you very much. >> you're welcome, my pleasure. >> moved and seconded, all those in favor? so moved, thank you. >> secretary: we're now on item 9, the acquisition policy review.

>> good morning, commissioners, jordan harrison, capital planning division. >> the item before you is review of the department's acquisition policy, we are providing this review -- sorry. we're providing this review as a recommendation from the 2017 civil grand jury report that suggested that the commission consider our acquisition policy before january 2018. the agenda for this overview is a policy overview, a summary of the nomination process, plan and recent acquisitions as well as a

summary of our funding. the acquisition policy was adopted in 2006 and updated in 2011 with a lot of assistance from the -- provides general guidelines on how to go through the process and find the best sites for acquisition. the main policy goals are to select properties located in the areas of high need or open space deficiencies. leverage funding from other sources for the purchase, development or maintenance of the site. and include properties that provide a variety of recreational opportunities. -- informed by the park code, which provides guidelines for acquisition that focus on high needs again. the acquisition of properties where there is growth, which reits to the high needs russ--

the high needs. the two work together and the park code guidelines are integrated within the policy and discussed during the nomination processes. i'll go into more detail about the high needs areas defined by the open space element of the open plan. this map illustrates the high needs area and i'll walk through the components that led to the creation of the map. the deeper the green, the greater the need and the areas of focus for acquisition. so there is density, general density, household income. use and senior density. as well as the deficiency maps which show walkability for specific park types. all of these are within -- 2014

and are somewhat static. so this is one piece of what forms the acquisition thought process, but we also keep it flexible and integrate policy changes as they come. for example, the equity zones, which you're all familiar with from previous presentations. so that's kind of the overview of the geographic thought process behind the acquisition policy. i'll quickly go through the process. this process was worked out with prozac in 2011 and can be initiated by staff or a member of the public. they provide a site intake form which is available on the website to staff. staff conducts analysis among the different proposals. we provide that analysis and ask

for their concurrence or agreement with our recommendation and that puts the site on the roster of potential acquisitions. from there, it depends on numerous factors of which the department does not have complete control what is pursued, but that is how we create a consistent sort of apples to apples discussion of different sites. please stand by.

>> so, finally i'll just go over some quick -- quickly planned and recent acquisitions. the top part of these tables are acquisitions we know we will be pursuing within the next five years. i will briefly mention them. the parks are dependent upon the timing of the development of that site. the protrero is depending on the timing. and it is going to be purchased in this year in spring of 2018,

we're going to close the deal. it has been approved and the funding has been appropriated. we are waiting for the seller to close the deal. the second half is recent acquisitions, which i won't go into until you have questions. this map illustrates where they are and these are also in your packet. finally, i'll just go over the funding process for acquisitions. the department uses 5% subsidy from the open space fund. this funding can only be used for the acquisition cost. it can't be used for construction or maintenance. we leveraged funds from impact fees in the development areas of the city, grants, transfers from other agencies as well as gifts from donors. the balance is around $4 million and the estimated annual addition on property revenues

are around $3 million. and i also illustrate the funding obligations we have in the future, which we are monitoring. this illustrates how we are keeping track of money in and out over the known acquisitions in the future. that's a quick summary of our acquisition policy. we presented this to prozac on the ninth and they felt we were on the right track. several members who were there when the most recent policy was created in 2011 and they encoveraged the department to use -- encouraged the department to use both policies. >> president buell: thank you very much. >> secretary: i have public comment on this. jane wild, please.

>> public: thank you commissioners. jane wild, prozac district six. i will add that this -- jordan's presentation was made last week and we all congratulated her on the most succinct and understandable presentation of the policy we had ever had. i just want to admire her work on that. i live on mission between seventh and eighth in the heart of mid-market in the tenderloin, which on the maps -- i don't know if we can bring the map back. but it is sort of the heart, the densest equity zone in the city. we are blessed with amazing parks and our staff does an amazing job, i think, of maintaining them. but they are in a ring around the city. and the acquisitions are an inner ring and we are still left with this huge hole in the most needy part of the city.

the acquisition chart shows that about 55% of the acquisition fundses were used on equity zones since the year 2007. but that means 45% were not used in equity zones, creating a further deficit in the places that need it most. the grand jury report states a property should not be given priority based on funding, but need. we in mid-market have been begging for the acquisition of a small parcel that would serve our neighborhood and the desperately needing green space area. rec and park prepared a report. department of real estate negotiated the purchase but it was allowed to lapse in favor of other acquisitions. so, we are here to implore you to direct staff to reopen negotiations for these parcels still ability, 1133, 1139

mission street. rec and park already has the work done. we've just been told there's no money. we need to find the money. this is the neediest area in the city. yes, it will be expensive. it's the most expensive per square foot, but it is central city. it is expensive there. these parcels are the only opportunity we have for any green at all in the center of this area. paved plazas are not what we need. we don't need another u.n. plaza. we need green. i just implore you to work with park and rec. they have done the work. we need to find the money and we need to respect our equity plan and adhere to the process that we have. so, i thank you and thank you, jordan, again for that great report. >> president buell: thank you. >> secretary: is there anything else who would like to make

public comment under the acquisition policy review? being none, public comment is closed. >> president buell: commissioner low. >> vice president low: jordan, we spent a lot of time on defining equity zones and i just want to make sure the terminology that we're using, the acquisition policy relating to high need neighborhoods is consistent with our findings on equity zones and investing our funds into equity zones. >> there's a lot of overlap in the factors that created the high need map and equity zone. they are slightly different. the equity zone include metrics not included in the high needs area. but density and income are crew drivers of both. they're not exactly the same. >> vice president low: and should our acquisition policy be

har no newsed with -- harmonyized? >> i think the health indicators are important in understanding where we are going to prioritize acquisition opportunities. that's something we should go back and work on. i would be curious to see if there's any difference in how we are identifying and prioritizing acquisition areas based on the two different formulas. there might not be. but i think commissioner, i agree with you. i think we should think about harmonizing them. >> vice president low: and just more granular question about coordinating our acquisition policy with inter-departmental cooperation. particularly we saw the opportunity with the puc site, the department of real estate leads us in the acquisition of

properties that come available, including appraisal prices, doing the due diligence, investigations. how does our -- should our acquisition policy address that inter-departmental collaboration? >> i think that is a possibility. i think it sort of plays out from my observation of the last three years slightly differently each time one of these opportunities arises. it is hard to anticipate exactly how to guide that through a policy that's trying to be global and kind of high level. but i think that is another area that we should probably explore in expanding the acquisition policy. >> vice president low: particularly with the department of real estate. i think a lot of this is opportunistic. some sites come to us as the opportunity arises and sometimes we will have to deviate from the acquisition policy. but i think it's worth addressing some sort of

collaboration between the different departments within the city family as well as developing a process on acquisition that's led by the department of real estate so that we have the adequate information on valuation, environmental contamination, things of that nature. >> i think the partnership with real estate actually works pretty well. i think real estate -- probably should have john be here for this conversation. but i think once we identify -- acquisition opportunities come through a variety of different channels. we have our own criteria through which we are trying to prioritize it. the question is, how consistent are they with the criteria we've

identified. once an opportunity has been presented or we've retained or asked real estate to try to go out and identify opportunities within a certain area, that's how real estate gets involved and that's how we work with them on price and valuation and we actually work pretty in lock step with them and they make recommendations to us. that was one of the challenges with the other parcels that were -- that jane referred to. it is a funding issue and we're not getting into a debate. because we've had this conversation. but the cost per square foot given what we thought the use and utility of those parcels were steered us towards prioritizing the other sites. and we did that in partnership with real estate. >> vice president low: i guess just the related question there is encouraging more collaboration with other

departments that might have opportunities for parks and open space. schlage lock was a great opportunity. the transbay district's plan provides for parks but doesn't say whose parks they are. this is a bigger policy discussion about working with inter-departmentally within the city family on if there is an opportunity, what's our role and how could we play more of an active role in the development and management of the open space opportunity. >> thank you for raising that. i think we will have an opportunity to hear from a couple of months from the office of infrastructure on the shipyard open space. that is a related important issue. overall, the communication and

partnership with our sister agencies is pretty good. there are some very important emerging questions about this organization's role in some of the open space that's being developed, particularly through redevelopment areas that i think warrants our collective attention and engagement. but overall, the other thing i'm thinking about is our work with the office of economic development on some of the caltrans parcels underneath the freeways. and jordan and stacy in our planning division are involved in all those conversations and i think much more so than five, six, seven years ago. we've very much been at the table. we were at the table and it would be interesting to talk about because i think there are some good open space opportunities that are surfacing as a result of that as well.

all good points. >> president buell: thank you. commissioner anderson. >> commissioner anderson: i just wanted to comment i was recently at the shore view park property and it's an amazing piece of property, looking sort of southeast over the bay. and there's a planning meeting this coming saturday, on the 20th, from 1:00-2:30 if people want to get involved in k concepti conceptionializing that space. commissioner bonilla. go ahead. >> commissioner bonilla: what i just wanted to say is i've been on the commission a long time.

and i just wanted to reaffirm our general manager's comments in terms of the partnerships that we've had with the different city departments and with the department of real estate. that historically at least during all my involvement we have had partnerships with other departments in terms of property acquisition and we have had -- we have worked in lock step with the real estate -- department of real estate. and i think we've had an opportunity to really be involved in getting to the nitty-gritty of these properties and how advantageous they would

be for the community. so, i think we have some good practices in place. so, i just wanted to reaffirm and i guess kind of allay commissioner low's concerns. >> president buell: let me first say this was a recommendation of the 2017 civil grand jury to report this out at this particular time. i'm not so sure it wasn't insightful in looking at the complexities of taking advantage of other departments and how we lerj our influence and opportunities -- leverage our influence and opportunities to gain open space. with that, it is on the agenda as a possible action to do something. commissioner low, did you have any thoughts? >> vice president low: no. i thought this was a good opportunity for us to revisit

the acquisition policy and give us an opportunity to maybe harmonize that with our strategic plan as well as to, i guess, further our collaboration with other departments. >> president buell: okay. thank you very much. appreciate it. >> secretary: so, just to confirm, we're not making a moment? >> president buell: no. doesn't require one. >> secretary: just confirming. it a item 10 is the capital expenditure plan.

>> good morning commissioners. i have a short presentation for you today. this is discussion and possible action to recommend that the board of supervisors approve the recreation and park department expenditure plan for fiscal year '19 and fiscal year '20 as required by charter section 16.107. just a bit of background.

the capital expenditure plan is a new charter requirement that was added with passage of prop b. the charter language provides guidance on what the plan should address, including the plan of renovation of our capital assets, acquisition plan, equity analysis, using the equity metrics that was created with passage of prop b. the additional reporting the department provides include the monthly financial report that you get, the quarterly go bond reports that goes to the oversight committee, the city's ten-year capital plan that goes to the board of supervisors that is updated annually, and the budget request submitted

annually as part of the budget process. last year we provided the first annual capital plan to the commission, the june 2017 civil grand jury report also recommended greater linkages between our efforts and our strategic plan. the proposed capital expenditure plan covers two fiscal years consistent with the plan that was presented to the commission in december and the two-year budge cycle. the plan is -- budget cycle. the plan is comprised of three tables in your package today. the first table is the proposed capital plan for fiscal years'

19 and '20. the strategic plan will layer the capital plan efforts. the second table is the planned acquisition plan during fiscal year '18 through '22. and the third table is our capital projects from fiscal year 2018 through fiscal year 2020. all current and planned capital projects in the next three to four years. this table presents the initiatives from the current strategic plan specific to the capital division and our capital projects. highlights includes the players

initiative, the indian basin and the bond projects. project life cycles are part of that strategic effort. a comprehensive assessment of our park assets to inform the 2019 parks bond as well as a proactive approach to park maintenance. the second table of the capital plan includes all known acquisitions which was part of jordan's presentation moments ago, within the time frame of the five-year plan and indicates whether the future park is located in an equity zone. the final table of the capital plan