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 lists all of the current and future projects that we have in our pipeline that is expected

to be done between now and three years from now. this table lists by name the neighborhood and the district. this table also cross references to three of our strategic plan initiatives, the status of all the current projects and the projected timeline. this next slide sort of highlights some of our capital projects that are ongoing now. one which is very important to us is the carbon, india basin is another one. garfield pool is another highlighted project here. finally, this slide sort of provides an overview of the

equity analysis as provided by the charter language. i'm proud of the work we are doing in this effort. thanks to phil's leadership on this and taylor. the top table sort of highlights the capital plan initiatives that specifically address equity. all of this equity initiatives are currently ongoing and include planning for building new parks in high needs and growing areas. collaborating on the civic center initiative. india basin is another one. in addition to the equity metrics, our equity metrics we use to evaluate the department's capital expenditure plan as a whole. this sort of illustrates our commitment to the equity zones. i want to emphasize in this slide, as you see, 53% of the

department's total capital assets are in equity zones. 88,000 for one thousand people in equity zones compared to about 31,000 for the rest of the city. with that, i end my presentation. i will be happy to answer any questions you have. >> president buell: thank you. >> secretary: is there any public comment on this item? okay. being none, public comment is closed. >> president buell: i don't see any questions. chair would entertain a motion. >> so moved. >> president buell: moved and seconded. all those in favor. [all ayed] >> president buell: thank you. >> secretary: next item. california maritime infrastructure authority membership. >> good morning commissioners.

i'm the harbor master and what i'm here to present today is the membership in the california maritime infrastructure authority. what this does is it gives us opportunities for further investigation, support for any potential financial information we need. it is a group that supports many of the ports and harbors in california. there is no fee to join. it's basically just that they require a board to approve. and so, that's why i bring it here to you today. take any questions. >> secretary: is there any public comment on this item? okay, being none, public comment is closed. commissioners. >> just a quick question. we're not already a member? >> no, we're not. [laughter] >> okay. that was pretty cut and dry. >> president buell: entertain a motion? moved and seconded. all those in favor. [all ayed] >> that was really impressive, scott. [laughter]

>> secretary: next item is item 12, recreation and park department budget fiscal year 2018-19 and 2019-2020. >> good morning. my name is derek chu. this is my first time presenting before you. so, i'm very excited to get with this presentation. i'm here today to present and discussion the recreation and park department's budget for fiscal years 2018-19 and 2019-20. the city's budget process has begun and we're here to talk

about the current budget outlook as well as where we're progressing in our development of the budgets for '18-'19 and '19-'20. currently, the city's budget outlook is mixed. revenues continue to be strong, but the city's expenditure budget is growing and outpacing the revenue budget, resulting in a deficit of $88.2 million and a budget year plus one deficit of $174 million. this is resulting in the mayor's office calling for budget reductions across general fund departments as well as asking all departments to absorb all cost increases and not allowing for any additional growth in department budgets.

fortunately, due to proposition b, the department is not required to meet the budget reduction targets for the next two fiscal years. the budget -- the department will continue to budget $15 million in general funds to support capital and deferred maintenance projects and the department will use new revenue and year over year revenue increases to cover costs and enhance the budget. so, as i noted, the department will absorb all cost increases using revenue increases as well as cost deficiency savings. the budget includes 3% on salaries in both years healthcare costs will rise. salary increases are 12% in budget year and 4% in the budge year plus one.

we are assuming average year of 2% increases in work order budgets to other departments. so, to put our current year budget in context, our budget is $221.5 million. it is comprised of $162 million in operating budget and $60 million in the capital budget. our person innocent positions budgeted are 954. -- permanent positions budgeted are 954. so, our budget is made up of three funding sources. the open space fund, which continues to grow, making the open space fund a very vital part of the component of our budget revenues. we also have general fund subsidies from the city, which will grow by $3 million per proposition b and other

expenditures that the mayor added. we also have earned income and bond funds as part of our overall budget. and this details some of the highlights in our earned revenue line items, including garages, program fees, concessions, permits, golf and the bond funds at the bottom. i would note that if you are looking at the memo that i provided, there is a typo in the table and it's corrected here on this presentation. again, by way of context, as a department our main goal is to deliver services and to ensure that we use our money efficiently, our resources efficiently. as you can see from this chart, 47% of our personnel resources

are put in park maintenance. 26% is in recreation and aqua c aquatics. as you look through the other slices with a fairly small amount in administration, with a focus on getting direct services to our visitors to our parks and facilities. this chart shows the breakdown of where our funding is. the vast majority of our funding is supporting salaries and benefits for our recreation staff and our park staff, our maintenance staff. as always, our strategic plan guides our thinking and our commitment to meeting the goals and the mission of the strategic plan as well as the operational plan and the capital plan. and per proposition b, we also

look through the lens of equity, using equity metrics which was mentioned earlier, just to ensure that low income neighborhoods and disadvantaged communities don't to receive resources, services, enhanced services so that they too can thrive along with the entire city. so, the department is looking at growing program revenue, looking at the open space fund and looking at leases and concessions as ways to grow our budget so that we can continue to enhance our existing budget and services that we're providing. we're also looking at cost deficient says as far as utility usage. it was mentioned our decreasing use of water, our use of power and electricity. we're also working with the department of technology on

using city wide technology to create efficiencies within our department. as always, we are going to be providing a great amount of outreach to the community, working with our partners, working with our community advocates and supporters in the field. we will have two public budget meetings as was previously meeting. one at betty ong rec center on february 1st and one at eng l -- ingleside police department on february 8th. we have a staff brown bag lunch scheduled, prozac meeting scheduled as well as other meetings as requested from our community. the next slide shows you our

timeline. we're here before you today to present an overview of our budget planning. over the next several weeks, we will have the community meetings. our budget is due to the mayor's office on february 21st. and on june 1st, the mayor's office will present the budget to the board of supervisors. so, again, i will be back on february 15th with the full budget plan for consideration. i want to give thanks to maria sutton, our finance manager and alex, our budget director. i'm new. this is my seventh month and it's truly a team effort from top to bottom. and thank you. >> president buell: thank you very much, derek. may we get public comment and then we can see if commissioners have any comment. >> secretary: is there any public comment on this item? being none, public comment is

closed. >> president buell: commissioner harrison. >> commissioner harrison: is there any projected savings from using the filtered water versus the fresh water in irrigating our parks? >> yeah. down the road there will be cost savings and efficiencies we will realize. we are still in talks with -- >> the answer is bye bye using less water we actually do save money. but reclaimed water, recycled water is not necessarily a cost savings yet because it's new technology and new processing. so, i don't think i expect us to achieve -- >> commissioner harrison: will it be even? >> i think it's a little too soon to tell, commissioner harrison. golden gate park won't be on line until 2021. it is possible we could actually

take a look and see whether we could do a apples to apples analysis where we are using reclaimed water. it is hard to do the comparisons side by side. old versus new. but i don't anticipate that to be a huge cost savings. >> commissioner harrison: thank you. just curious. >> president buell: mr. ginsburg, did you have other comments? >> yeah. it is related to this budget process that there is a charter amendment that is at the board of supervisors being discussed that addresses city baselines. we're not the only -- which we have, which is under both the open space fund and proposition b. proposition b was a modification to our open space funds. for purposes of talking about this, the open space fund is our

baseline. the dignity for aging and adult services and a variety of others that sponsors of the proposed charter amendment of supervisor peskin and supervisor tang. there have been -- they're collecting feedback. obviously there's a fiscal debate about what is the appropriate amount of discretionary authority in the budget process and how many -- our set asides and baseline good. this is a debate that has gone on since the beginning of time i think. so, as originally drafted, it had some pretty potential serious impact. i think it still needs some more work and i know there are a lot of community organizations paying attention to this. i thought the commission should be aware of it. for us, i think one amendment that was made yesterday is very significant is that unspent

funds in our open space fund can be carried over from year to year for investment in capital purposes. that's what we use those fund balances for. in a world of increasing cost escalation in our capital projects where at the time we do the planning we think the park is $20.04 years later we are looking -- $20 million and, four years later we are looking at something different. those fund balances are really important to us. and so, i'm relieved that it appears that that is no longer on the table. that is a trigger which is very similar to the current one which in proposition b that says in the joint report if there's a deficit exceeding the indexed equivalent of $200 million as of a fixed date, that number

doesn't remain constant, it grows as the budget grows, that based on amounts may not be increased. so, it gives our baseline as op proposition b grows by $3 million a year. if there were that trigger of a deficit, it would be a policy call up to the mayor whether or not to add to our -- to grow our baseline by $3 million. our baseline -- that is in our current language. so, it is not new. this is something the mayor's office felt strong about during prop b and there are baselines that look different for different departments all over the city. there's a lot of them out there now. our baseline is such that we are expected to absorb our own salary cost increases related to

salary. so, that would stink if our baseline were not increased by what is a modest amount that barely keeps up with the increased cost of government. i just wanted to let you know what is out there. it is still being discussed and debated. it is certainly possible that that could end up on the ballot. >> president buell: thank you. commissioner mazzola. >> commissioner mazzola: just to two questions. i'm assuming the fiscal year is june 1st to july 30th? >> right. >> commissioner mazzola: is that realized in the budget? >> it is not really a significant revenue generator that would make derek's top line. we would do it more to provide increase enjoyment to the community and my recreation staff is interested in doing it as i mentioned to you at the time. the challenges are making sure

we can fund security and overtime related to that event by keeping things for overnight. but it is something we have a desire to do. either way, it's probably at the level that you'll see the budget probably not a top line. but still we'd like to do it. >> commissioner mazzola: got it. thank you. >> sure. >> president buell: commissioner bonilla. go ahead. >> commissioner bonilla: are we anticipating having the same level of park patrols and gardeners in this budget or do you think there will be an opportunity to increase those positions anywhere along the way? >> at this point we're maintaining current levels but there is opportunity to look at potential increases. as i mentioned, the mayor's budget office has said no new position, which means we would be looking at alternatives, substituting positions for new positions. but it's still policy call that

the executive team is looking at. >> commissioner bonilla: that's why i asked the question. >> i don't see a lot of position growth in this budget. i do think we may an opportunity to actually turn down our attrition savings if we have any extra funding, which would allow us to fill vacant positions more quickly. all departments are actually expected to keep a certain number of positions vacant to meet that attrition savings goal. but i don't think this is a budget that is going to see a lot of programmatic investment taking all of our available resources and doing what we can to invest in deferred maintenance and capital. as much as i would love to tell you other wise, i still think

we're done pretty well -- we've done pretty well. we are probably 40 rangers short. we can always use more gardeners and rec staff. but what derek alluded to is that we're starting to see some different economic indicators and all departments are expected to be cautious. >> commissioner bonilla: thank you. >> president buell: derek, i have one question. on page three. paid parking is the age number that really decreases about 15% down. what's the genesis of that? >> there were issues with construction at several of our garages. so, we had to accommodate. >> president buell: union square? >> most notably union square. it is a little early. we are still looking at next year's revenue and there's the potential for increase. >> president buell: go back up. thank you. and thank you for your nine

months worth of work -- >> seven months. >> president buell: yeah. thank you very much. >> commissioner bonilla: good work. >> secretary: that was discussion only. so, we're now on item 13, general public comment continued from item four. if you did not speak on item four and you would like to speak on item 13, please do come up. >> public: thank you commissioners, for letting me come back. i want to add to the issue commissioner low brought up about collaborating with other departments. in soma, we are concerned about the central soma plan, if it is adopted. it has a great deal of money. i think it's over $70 million but i don't recall the exact number set aside for open space. the plan has written into it some of the intentions of planning to spend that money. i think it's really, really important and i've talked to mr. ginsburg about this.

it's very important that park and reck has input on how that money is allocated because in the past some of the development plans, park and rec has not had a voice. so, we've got other open space that is not what the community needs or wants. so, i think it's really important that we collaborate with other departments. the central soma plan is enormous and it will have enormous impact. some of this money, it's a very large amount of money, could be allocated to things that we don't really want. it's creating a very large park potentially over at 5th and bryant over by the tennis club. again, that's a neighborhood that's coming, but it really doesn't serve the people that live there now. it's part of that ring that's been created around the middle. i just want to reiterate i think it's real important. phil, i think we agree on this, that park and rec has a strong voice collaborating with other

departments. thank you. >> president buell: thank you. >> secretary: is there any other general public comment? being none, this item is closed. we are now on item 14. closed session. i believe we have one card and that is kevin sullivan. and again, as a reminder, you have three minutes. >> public: good morning, i'm kevin sullivan. i'm the director at pg&e. i've spent my whole career looking at impacted sides and trying to figure out how to best reuse them and manage them and clean them up. i'm here to address the questions about the east harbor marina. what i really want to reaffirm for you is our commitment to the environment, our commitment to doing the right thing out there.