assessments and we'll be providing the training for those who we have concluded can actually succeed and want to succeed. the administrative program office has launched tools to track all changes in projects. commissioners, one of the complexities of this is that most of you have seen project management plans in microsoft project or something like that, and imagine if you will that you have -- you overlay 150 dependencies which each of them are representative of a project. it is an extremely complex project because every one of those dependencies impact the epic go live so we're tracking that and loading all of that into one place. now epic -- epic has the e.h.r. contracts signed and they're very thrilled about that and they have project leadership team assigned to us and we have engaged them. epic has hosted a kickoff

meeting to go over their overview with our project leadership. they have delivered a project plan which we will be finalizing over the next few months. and they have also delivered their direction-setting schedule so we could start scheduling our people to meet and go over the direction setting. (please stand by). but we're going to make sure everybody is on the same page. we'll be on boarding the

employees that will be transfering to this effort. groupwork and key organizational scoping questions are being answered right now. preparation for direction setting, that is happening at this time. so we have a lot of work to get ready to build. but we have to have a lot of questions answered and we have to get everybody ready. so, we do have some risk. and the leadership is aware of this. so, i believe this is something that we could manage and what is a risk -- this is not a show-stopper risk, but one other big risk is the upcoming direction setting session will require significant time commitment from subject matter expert across d.p.h. and that ad has been a consistent message to them so they can champion and support their subject matter experts to participate and the other one, which i believe we are also green and trending is the implementation of the team.

and largely, unfortunately largely that depends on how much of our internal team can pass the assessment test from the bare minimum. those are the two risks. other than that, things are looking very hectic, but things are on schedule and on budget. commissioner, i'll take any questions you may have at this time. >> thank you. that is a very comprehensive report over your promise the last four years and formally started last month. commissioner, questions at this point? we will be receiving a regular report as this is a $370 million project or so -- >> $77 million, commission kerr. [laughter] >> right. we're happy that you're thinking it could be lower and

we'll be tracking this along and this is just the beginning of the journey. but you are feeling confident that we are going to stay on track and as you say, begin in mid 2019 in using the -- having a functional e.h.r. along with all the work you are doing to connect all the i.t. >> commissioner chow, to answer that very honestly, yes, i'm very confident that we'll be able to meet our goals. namely because we have a strong executive support as well as leadership support over at the divisions. especially the c.n.o.s. but i want to do a special shout-out for winona and albert who -- and alice and rowman who has been really exceptional.

now having said all that good stuff, i want to make sure we understand this clearly. epic is the foundation of the ecosystem. there will be many, many things that we could add on to make it better and more super. but that means the work still has to continue so our journey won't end here. this is just the start. but i think you are going to to be very please wased where we'll be in a few years. >> and commissioner, thank you for your leadership for incredibly competent leadership and he's changed for our i.t. needs and particularly for our patient needs and our electronic health records. i want to thank him for that. >> thank you. the biggest thing should go to barbara and greg and jenny for making the financing happen. [laughter] >> thank you. they'll supply the resources and you will put it together. thank you.

commissioners, any further questions? anything you would like to see at the next presentation. otherwise, we're scheduling these, what, every quarter -- >> quarter. >> quarterly, right. so, soon you'll start seeing this timeline become more defined and the contracts committee already saw three contracts come through that began to fill out. for the implementation and supplementation of epic itself. >> great. thank you. >> thank you again. our next item, please. >> sure. other business, item 10. if you note on your contracts, the elections are on march 20. other than that, we don't have any special meetings or events coming up anytime soon. >> commissioners, any further business that you might like to

bring up at this point that we should target or remember? your calendar is before you. there is softness to some of the items but you can see that we have a fairly filled calendar. i encourage everybody to be sure that when mark is asking you for the days of absence because of the fact that we do have several commissioners that -- well, certainly dr. pating is no longer here so we're down to our six commissioners again. and several have other commitments that we know during the course of the months. so i'll be sure that we have an appropriate quorum for each of our meetings, including the committee meetings. i do want to thank the commissioners for that. and once again, also the fact that our interim mayor felt that he wanted to stay the

course and i appreciate the reappointment in order to have us continue to do that. i see that as our charge now is to continue the effectiveness of this department under our very esteemed leader. so, with that, i do ask you that also if you see other items on the calendar that perhaps we've left out or hasn't quite been addressed yet and are on a list of to-dos that you think should be arising, but it looks like mark has taken care of most of the special requests since they're blank this time. i appreciate that. we are open and since it is no longer two officers but one, i'm pleased to work with mark to see that your requests are fulfilled. thank you. we can proceed to the next item, then. >> sure.

item 11 is the report back from the january 23, 2018 sfghj.c.c. meeting and dr. khou, i believe that you were going to give the update. >> yeah. we received the agenda. key on the reports was the true north score card and quality core measures. which actually are now really fairly well defined. there are a number of areas that we can identify as improvement and there are areas that still need to be worked on but we follow that on a quarterly basis. so, that, along with our routine reports, might note that they also noted that we're moving forward on the hiring of vacancy. there was public comment, i believe, the staffing. was it raidology? >> raidology. >> and we took that under advisement.

we'll continue to monitor that their concerns were properly responded to because it also appears that we do train a number of people who are on temp and then those well-trained people find other issues and it's under arbitration. we took that as public comment and will monitor it. and i believe that was the -- commissioner sanchez, did you have any other items? >> no. that's fine. great. thank you. we did our usual approval of the medical staff department which i think this time was just looking through here, just for the sake of completing this that we did review and approve

their bylaws. i forgot actually which department we did review. was it dental? i'm looking through here. >> sorry. i don't have it in front of me, dr. chow. >> just a minute. for the record, we should actually put that in. >> i can note it in the minutes if you'd like, commissioner chow. >> oh, oral emacilllary surgery. >> thank you. >> commissioner, the next item is a closed session so consideration of that closed session, there is no public comment request for that item. >> ok. so, a motion to go into closed session. and a second. >> second. all those in favour please say aye? >> aye. >> and we shall now go into closed session. thank you. >> open session and the question is whether to disclose or not disclose the discussions in the closed session.

>> not to disclose what we discussed in the closed session. >> second. >> and there is a second. all those in favour of not disclosing the discussions, say aye. >> aye. >> all those opposed? we shall not disclose the discussions. is there any further business? if not -- yes, commissioner sanchez. >> yes. i'd like to recommend that the commission close in memory of one of our great physicians at san francisco general hospital. dr. mitch grossmann who passed away. last week. dr. grossmann was my first boss as a general in '69-70 and was the associate dean and also the chair of pediatrics. and then from there, he went on to astounding efforts, but he always kept the focus on the

kids and our trainees, our undergraduate med students and our residents and our junior faculty and we has a number of sons and daughters and a number of them are health providers and his wife was key in many of the unique projects. they develop key programmes for childhood prevention. he was also served as a number of numerous positions nationally, internationally and was really a symbol of what the heart and soul and passion is of san francisco general commitment, duty and integrity. he really practiced what, in fact, he preached. and we lost a real exceptional, caring human physician. but he did leave a legacy of family and many, many providers and throughout not only general, but throughout the nation. because of his leadership and commitment.

>> thank you. a motion to close in dr. grossmann's memory. yes, commissioner bernal. >> i think i speak for my fellow commissioners also in expressing grat tuesdayed to mayor farrell for his wisdom in reappointing dr. chow and ensuring continued leadership on the commission. let's enter that into into the record as well. [laughter] >> ok. we'll enter that into the record and get back to talking -- and we realise that dr. grossmann has been one of those pillars at san francisco general. thank you for your comments. any further discussion -- was there a second to that? >> yes. second. >> ok. any discussion on that? all in favour of closing in memory of dr. grossmann, please say aye. >> aye. >> this meeting -- so a motion for adjournment is in order. and a second. >> second.

>> all those in favour please say aye. >> aye. >> ok. this meeting is now adjourned in memory of dr. grossmann. [gavel]

>> my name is philbegiginsburge director of your parks and rec department. welcome to this balmy valentine's eve. [ inaudible ] he thinks the big red slide was always fun, but this isn't about him. it was her, as much as ever. he missed her, hanging from her jungle gym lips, swinging

through memories. creaky hinges for laughs, but what does a child on the playground know of love, except that paradise is here and now beneath his feet. [applause] >> no, samuel clemens wrote that. i'm just reciting it. so one year ago today on valentine's day, we broke ground on the most transform ative playgrounds in our history. today, on valentine's day we celebrate their grand reopening on a day reserved for expressing love to who we hold most dear. [ inaudible ] today, on valentine's day we express love for our city and its amazing parks system. today on valentine's day, we

express love for this place, civic center plaza. this place belongs to all of us, whether you are young or old, rich or poor, whether you were born here or not. today on valentine's day, we say thank you. first of all to jackie and helen diller foundation. jackie, where are you? jackie, you've been unflinching in your generosity and optimism in our confidence to pull this off. to my colleagues at the trust four public land, your expertise, and your giant collective heart have helped make san francisco parks better. your work is noble and we san franciscans are lucky to play on your home court.

thank you to my professional family at rpd, your professionalism, yu your competence and commitment are inspiring. special thanks to the park and rec department for your leadership, and to my staff, and all of our park rangers and all of the park and recs staff are here today. [applause] >> to our city and civic center, cpd partners. there are so many to thank, chief scott and commander lazar is here and the entire sfpd team who has been so helpful. our home department, thank you for your work to showcase the potential of civic center commons as an emerging place of

joy, recreation, and civic and community engagement. lastly, to our civic and elected leaders, we thank you. may mayor farrell, supervisor kim, thank you, for ensuring we have a thriving and equitiable city. our city has one of the nation's best park systems, and it's because of your stewardship and support. a brief remark about our beloved mayor, ed lee. mayor lee was so excited to see the playgrounds open. these playgrounds will for decades project his light. it is my great pleasure to introduce our mayor, mark farrell. mayor farrell grew up in these city parks. he worked at the city recreation and park department, and because of his leadership on proposition b, we are well poised to care for this

incredible gift. ladies and gentlemen, mayor farrell. [applause] >> all right. happy valentine's day, everybody. anybody forgot to get flowers, we've got roses up here for you, by the way. i just want to say who an honor it is to be here. opening up parks is probably the best thing any of us get to do being up here on stage. first of all, i would like to get a round of applause for phil ginser for the entire rec and parks department. yes, i was at rec and parks for an entire summer, and they had me back at city hall. i want to say what an amazing thing to be here tonight to reopen our parks, because parks are all about families, they're about children, they are about seniors. they are the great equalizer in

san francisco. it is for everybody in our city to enjoy, and what an amazing place that we have, two new playgrounds in civic center for our city to enjoy. you think about this neighborhood here, where we have more families living here. you mentioned this is mayor lee's legacy, and i remember working with supervisor kim so closely, we talk about all the improvements going from fulton plaza to here, it's been an amazing transformation over the course of the last few years, and we couldn't do it without or partners, to the jill and helen diller family foundation, thank you for all of your support. please, a round of applause for them. and to all of the parents that are here today, i want to say thank you. thank you for raising your children here in san francisco.

we are giving our children an amazing gift that they may not know today, but years later when they can claim to be native san franciscans, when they can claim that they grew up on our parks and playgrounds, and they can claim to be the new generation of san francisco leaders, they can claim this. so thank you for being here on this amazing night in san francisco, and again, thank you to the entire park and rec department for all of do all the time. thanks, everybody. >> i am now honor today bring up guillermo rodriguez of the state department for public land. they have worked with us to build parks in some of our most needy and challenging communities, and we are the

park system we are because of them, and we are so proud to have worked with tpl on this amazing project. guillermo rodriguez. >> thank you, phil, really appreciate that. the trust for land has a simple mission: land for people, and what that means is not out projecting the sierras, it doesn't just mean growing yosemite park, it means growing cities. the projects in the trust for project land it s in the bayvi, it's in the tenderloin, it's here. we have a goal, a big, audacious goal, that everyone should be a ten-main walk to a park and open space. that's an impressive goal, and for the families who live here

in midmarket and the tenderloin and in hayes valley, what an amazing ten-minute walk to come to not just one but two amazing playgrounds, the most inventive, interactive playgrounds in the country. absolutely amazing. but as philmentioned, a years ago, trust for public land stood with the helen diller family foundation as well as mayor lee, they stood her and said to have a vision for san francisco. the reason we're here one year later is because of the amazing team work that was put together to make this happen. i want to shout out to ph phil ginser and the amazing park and recs department, to all of the staff that have worked with the trust for public land to make this

happen, thank you. a shout out -- you'll see it a little later, but to cory barr, who brought light to connect these two places. my thanks to bossman and plant construction who assembled this all together. >> and i'd be remiss and i didn't comment on another person, alejandra quesada an amazing person, and to all of the park and rec star who put this amazing evening together, thank you. lastly, i have to say none of this would have been possible

without the helen diller family foundation. you spent a lot of time going overall the details. the reason we're successful today is because of your personal leadership and dedication. what a wonderful gift to the people and children of san francisco. thank you, jackie, and the helen diller family foundation. >> thank you, fear mow. before i bring up our next speaker, let me thank alejandra quesada. [ inaudible ] [applause] >> all right. i am so honored to next bring up supervisor jane kim. supervisor kim's been on the board of supervisors since 2010 and has been a fierce and determined advocate for the people in her district, and the

idea that everyone deserves accessible open space. we are so proud to have partnered with supervisor kim to have invested more than $30 million in her district in park improvements during her tenure, not just here at helen diller, but also other projected with tpl, like south park, victoria manolo, and we've got up coming renovations planned. we thank supervisor kim for being such a great park champi champion. [applause]. >> first of all, i should just say i'm one of the lucky san francisco residents who is a 30 second walk from a park and recreation center. i live right across the street from general fred rec center, so i -- gene fred rec center,

so i do appreciate the team who does an incredible job activating and maintaining our parks and rec in district six. i am so honored to be here for the third opening of helen diller park. i still remember when ph phil ginsburg and trust republic land came to my office with the original plans on what we could do to transform the original area. and i had never seen a design to innovative and whimsical, as well. i'm sure many of our adults will be wanting to play on these structures, as well, joining their childrens, in quotation marks. i think it's amazing that we're

able to do something so innovative and amazing in san francisco. i represent a district with the smallest number of parks in san francisco. i also want to acknowledge our residents who have pushed us to prioritize parks and open spaces in our district. i see pat zamora from the boys and girls club, and it is really our residents who have taken the initiative to say we want to rhenvate bodecker park and make it a true oasis for our families and our seniors, and we accomplished that with the trust for public land, thanks inform phil2k3w i gin--

phil ginser and mayor ed lee. we are going to make district six the best place for parks in the city. so i just want to thank everyone for their immense involvement. i also want to recognize san francisco police department because if not for their partnership at bodecker park, we would not have been able to maintain the beautiful and safe environment that we have there, so i want to recognize the captains and professionals that have maintained that. we have deputy commander chief mike redman, and david lazar. i again want to thank the entire staff at park and recs, and of course we have our own district six representative on rec and park commission, allen lowe. thank you for being the d-6 commissioner on the rec and park commission, and i look

forward to playing on the park with all of you. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor. so he's not just the district six commissioner, he actually is the vice chair of the rec and park commission, but he does advocate hard for these d-6 parks. we are very, very blessed to have an amazing commission, seven citizens that just serve out the city and love the parks and provide us guidance and love and support, and make sure all voices are heard representing our park and rec commission tonight, and i do want to recognize commissioner anderson who is here, the vice president of the rec and park commission, allen lowe. >> so happy valentine's day, everybody. in the spirit of love, i've got to say i love these parks, these new playgrounds. it's creative, the design's inspiring.

as supervisor kim said, it's very whimsical. it's a message to all of us, just get out and play, and really, just get out and play, emergency, and let's dream again. and on behalf of the recreation and park commission, i want to give special thanks to the trust for public land for their continued generosity in supporting our parks, and i want to give a big thanks to jackie shapeer and dan shapeer for the helen diller foundation. we're lucky to have you supporting the city of san francisco. thank you very much. thank you, and enjoy your parks. [applause]. >> thank you so much, commissioner. all right. now, you're going to hear from my customers: three youth,

pauli pauline, charlie, and shada, three members of the boys and girls club who hangout at bodecker and will now have the opportunity to hangout at city center. we have an elementary school student, a middle school student, and a high school student. we're so pleased to bring them up to say a few words. >> all right. before i begin, the fact that everyone here today, everyone's smile made my heart feel warm and tingly inside to fight the cold weather. i believe that playgrounds are important because it provides a safe place for children. i remember the park before the

renovation. i remember as a child that this area was a danger zone that i should avoid. i remember finding myself repulsed by the smell emitting from the park, and then, it got renovated. i was amazed by how much the park changed. the streets were cleaner than they had been since i was a child. i genuinely fell in love with the beauty of this playground, and how well it's been maintained. i also believe that playgrounds are important because of the influence they have on the community, making it more colorful and livly like at bodecker park. imagine all the kids coming together as they laugh and play together, maybe even making new friends along the way. as they grow older, they will look back and tell stories how

impactful the civic center playground was to their lives. it was a place making ever lasting friendship, the place they looked forward to going to, and the place they call home. thank you so much for this beautiful park. [applause] >> hello. my name is pauline, and i'm in 8th grade. i have been a member of the boys and girls club for eight years now, and i sometimes visit bodecker while at the club. i like to do reading and art in my spare time. i have been living in the tenderloin my entire life, and throughout the years, i had spent a good amount of my time at bodecker, ellis, and also helen diller civic center playground. i enjoyed the tire swings, regular swings, and other

things at these parks, and i often made my mother and brothers push me around. i like being able to spend some time outside with my friends and being able to leave technology behind and be with my friends. i wouthink parks are important because it is a way to spend time with the people around you and wind down. it is a way to be active with your friend and possibly make new friends. parks have a magical ability to be able to bring people together to form a small community. it is a great way to stay active and improve your communication skills, plus, it's always fun to be able to see a new park with brand-new play structures just like this. thank you for giving us this park.

[applause]. >> hello. my name is shada, and i'm in sixth grade, and i have been a member of the san francisco boys and girls club in the tenderloin for six years. i love to read and watch harry potter, and i also love to swim. i lived in the tenderloin for seven years, and in that time, i have really enjoyed going to bodecker park, because it has swings, i climb the web, and it is a place to have fun. i am excited to have this park, because i want to see how people enjoy the new structures. whenever there's a new park, i try to go on everything there. if there's a new slide or monkey bars, i go on them. i am excited to try everything this park has to offer. i think parks are important because they are a place where kids learn to play with other kids, and they help us to be active.

also, parks are entertaining. to me, a park is where teams, kids and eve adults can gather up and play. they can share laughs, games, and most importantly friendship. also, what if there were no such things as parks? where would kids gather and hangout? for those reasons, i think parks are important. thank you [applause]. >> weren't they wonderful? all right, guys. for you, for you, and for you. all right. before we -- we get the show on the road and we flip the switch, and i bring up our very special honored guest, let me just offer a few additional thank yous. this effort at civic center, there are a lot of folks who are really investing a lot of love and attention, and i want to thank the downtown street team, i want to thank hunters.family, i want to thank

the civic center ebd, i want to thank our city administrator, naomi kelley, and the very special amy cohen for all of our civic center comments where amy has been very much of a driver in getting numerous city agencies and nonprofit partners to work together to make this a happier and healthier place, and amy, i'd like to recognize you as one of us as well. also, my profound thanks to jorge arias and the whole team from bossman construction, and to the amazing andy cochran for such an inspired design. but our most important guest tonight, and she's so modest, and doesn't like taking credit, and she's sitting in the back. she's my hero, and my dear, dear, dear friend, jackie.

this is for you; and now is the time for us to actually flip the switch. so why don't you and our three friends lead us in a count down. >> right on. >> all right. we're going to count down from ten. all right. here we go. ready, everybody! ten. nine. eight. seven, six. five. four. three. two. one. if everybody can turnaround and look in the square right here, and there's a tv camera. all right. the helen diller playground contains some of the most innohave ati innovative and interactive lighting programs on any

playgrounds. we've designed each to compliment the play found. the first piece connects the two playground with a forest of lighting fixtures spread across each playground. we call them pixel poles. they animate and grow like they have captured fog inside them. when visitors move in front of the poles, they lite up and slash with colors. the pixel poles have custom lighting fixtures created specifically for these playgrounds that exist nowhere else. the second project covers the plaza right in front of you all between the playgrounds. we call it carl. we wanted to ask, what if san francisco's fog settled down in the plazs to play wi-- plaza th

visitors. he likes to connect to different groups of people, so you may see the light forming connections across the plaza. it takes a great and ad venturo adventurous team to make this happen. this is a new combination of public instruction with custom hardware and software. they can grow and aadapt as the city changes. for the next month we'll be watching to see how the public plays and dialing in the project personalities to match. this new combination of playground building with new technologies will let us adapt to a changing city and kids at

play. i would like to introduce the margaret general kins dan-- je dance company, which has adapted movement for this celebration. the dancers are aalex carington, chin

>> four, three, two, one. welcome to the helen diller civic center playground.

[applause]. >> supervisor peskin: good morning. welcome to the transportation authority meeting for tuesday 13th 2018. alberto, could you call the roll please. (roll call)