>> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. are you excited? it's budget time. yes. okay. welcome to the budget and finance subcommittee. i'm supervisor malia cohen. we have sandy fewer and

catherine stefani. we have sfgov tv. are there any other announcements. >> silence cell phones and electronic devices. cards to be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon will be on the agenda unless otherwise stated. >> that's great. thank you very much. call item one. >> one amending the administrative code to abolish fees associated with probation costs, restitution, booking, the sheriffs work alternative program, the automated county warrant system, the sheriffs home detention program, and to

abolish local penalties associated with this alcohol testing and court ordered penalties for misdemeanor and felony. >> i would like to introduce to you and welcome president london breed to the chambers who is a sponsor of this very important piece of legislation. president breed, welcome. the floor is yours. >> thank you so much for hearing this item in budget today. we passed this item at the rules committee and i'm hopeful that we will do the same here today. we have before us the legislation to make san francisco the first in the nation to eliminate our city's criminal justice fees. there are fees that have created barriers to re-entry, just when people are working to turn their lives around. they have disproportionally affected our community of color. many people don't have the toll that these fees can -- know the

toll these fees can play on communities. i know too well the devastation it causes for families. i've lived it and helped family members pay it. i've heard too many stories of wages being garnished when some are unable to actually pay it. we're talking about people who have already served their time in our criminal justice system. they've paid their debt to society, yet outside they are still burdened with the financial debt that they're unable to pay for years to follow. thanks to the work of the fines and fees task force, the investigation research done by the public defender's office and a collaboration with the courts, adult probation, the sheriff's department and the mayor's budget office, we were able to identify every single criminal justice fee that's levied on our residents and found these are actually incredibly costly to administer, and are extremely

inefficient source of revenue for the city in the first place. because of vast majority of people are unable to pay these fees, the city only collects anywhere between 9 and 15% of the fees administered, sadly, of those that are actually collected, they are done so through wage garnishments. a study from uc berkeley on criminal fees across the state found that most criminal fees are actually costing cities and counties more to administer the fees than to collect them at all. lastly, the fiscal impact and societal costs through social services, supportive housing, repeated incarceration outweigh the lost revenues from eliminating these fees. knowingly collecting fees that are drivers of this inequity and poverty isn't what san francisco is about. criminal justice fees are counterproductive, problematic sources of revenues. and there is an acknowledgment

across city agencies that these fees are high pay, low gain and should be eliminated. the tax collector's office who is the most often concerned about revenue loss is one of the main supporters of this ordinance. the adult probation department who collects the bulk of these fees supports this legislation. the mayor's budget office, our late mayor and our current interim mayor has committed to back filling the money. the sheriffs department supports it and has actually stopped collecting these fees in february when we introduced the legislation. i'm looking forward to ridding all of our city authorized criminal fees once and for all and making san francisco the first to do so. i want to acknowledge and thank those who have participated in this process for what has been a very long time. our public defender who is working on this issue with me directly, chief probation officer who is here for

questions, the sheriff and staff is here as well as our district attorney. many to the fines and fees task force who push forward a number of recommendations of reform and who has helped us get to this place today and to debt free san francisco, the community coalition that has been pushing for this type of reform for years, and without further ado, i'll ask ann, who i butchered her last time, the director of finance justice project at the treasurer and tax collector's office. for questions, we have other departments here as i mentioned, our chief probation officer, karen fletcher and folks from the sheriff's office, kelly kirkpatrick from the mayor's budget office. donna from the public defender's office and nikish patel from the

district attorney's office and i'm sorry if i butchered anybody's name. please forgive me. ann. >> thank you so much. thanks for having me here today. my name is ann stoolbrayer. i am in the office of the treasurer. over the past year or so, we have staffed the fines and fees task force and partnered with the mayor's budget office, worked with many departments in the courts. we wanted to take a hard look at the fees, fines, finance penalties we assess locally and identify certain fees or fines for reform if we found they had a dis bro portion al impact on low income people. the treasure is keenly aware of the importance of this revenue for our city. in many cases, we work with departments who recommend fees be based on a sliding income scale or ability to pay or allow for alternative payment methods

like community service. criminal justice administrative fees, however, are uniquely different. we work diligently to find the most revenue neutral alternative like basing these fees on alt to pay, but the more relooked, the more we came to the same conclusion, that these fees are high paying for people and low pain for government. for these fees, we recommend elimination and think that elimination is the best solution for four reasons. first, the collection rates on these fees are very low. they average just 17% across all of these fees over the past 6 years. the collection rates for the largest fees, the monthly probation fee, was 9% last year. for more than half of these fees, the amount of money projected to come in was so minimal that it wasn't accounted for in the budget. let's not forget that the fees proposed for elimination in this legislative are administrative

fees. the goal is to recoup costs, not create an additional layer of punishment. these fees are assessed on people who have almost always paid other consequences. the second reason is that these fees are disproportionately assessed on low income people who cannot afford to pay them. research shows that most people exiting the criminal justice system don't have jobs and those who do earn very little. so few people can afford to pay them that it just doesn't pencil out to conduct an ability to pay determination. the third reason is that these fees are also different in that the research shows they can actually contribute to resid victim and create barriers to entry for people. because they're collected through wage garnishment and bank account levies it drives them to underground economies and charging them can drive people to find quick solutions to come up with large amounts of cash. we're happy to share the studies that show this. and finally, the mayor's budget

office that we worked with closely estimates that the benefits of eliminating these fees far out weight the cost. elimination of these criminal justice fees will cost an estimated $1 million a year in forgone revenue, and we know that's a real cost. but eliminating these fees and the outstanding debts will lift 15 times that. $15 million off approximately 20,000 people in our community. we believe that's a tradeoff that makes sense. i want to -- this has been such a group effort to get to this point. our public defender conducted first of its kind research and the mayor's office dug in tracing how the fees were assessed and collected. karen fletcher worked with us from day one to work towards elimination of these fees, and i also want to point out the

strong leadership from vicki henisee who didn't wait and stopped collecting and told me this morning about another fee that she has recently eliminated. there's strong collaboration from our da and so many community groups and residents who just opened our eyes to the human toll of these fees. of course, very strong leadership from supervisor and board president breed. i'm proud of our city for coming together on this. thank you. >> i know the sheriff was here and i was wondering if you wanted to say a few words before we open it up to public comment. >> i wanted to second everything that ann said so eloquently and i think that this is something that we need to do. the other fee that i was able to get rid of just recently was $2

fee for cash being left for inmates in our jails which realize was in existence because we use like an atm at two of our jails. so i got rid of that fee a few weeks ago. because that doesn't seem fair to somebody -- if i'm going to leave $20 i have to pay $2 to leave it in cash. it didn't seem to be a very fair thing. so we're talking about fairness. we're talking about making sure that people who can -- that can't pay and are struggling any way are not burdened with this. i think this is a way that we're doing a lot of work in the criminal justice system to make it more equitable and i think this is just one of the steps. thank you very much to the treasure's office for leading this. >> thank you, sheriff. with that, is there another department that had a presentation? i only had one.

you were going to do public comment. thank you. so colleagues, i just want to also say that before we open it up to public comment, these are -- just to reiterate, these are fines and fees that are court fees, that are for ankle monitoring bracelets, all kinds of things that really are just unnecessary burdens on the folks who sadly have gone through this process. but this does not -- i want to be clear. sometimes when someone is arrested and they are prosecuted and there is a wage garnishment for maybe a robbery or a theft or something, that this does not take that into account. i had heard from certain people that they were concerned that for property crimes and other things, this might be impacted. this is not for those particular cases. their wages most likely are still being garnished for those

things. but these are like just standard, basic court processing fees that are truly unnecessary and add an additional layer of debt that, you know, we're not necessarily collecting mostly in the first place. it's just a way to help relieve some of the bedder especially for individuals who pay their debt to society. they're trying to start their life over and i've seen this far too many times where they're working for me at the complex and then all of a sudden, a letter comes in to garnish the wages and they just say, look, i just give up. this is not even worth it. i think what we're trying to do is give people a real second chance and not continue to cripple them with the debts of things that are just completely unnecessary. so with that, i will open it up to public comment and call a few name cards that i have,

including mary with a v last name. denny smith, danica, brittany, and eva. come on up. you can come on up. >> thank you. i didn't do a card. >> i'm sorry. just quickly before we start on public comment, i was wondering if would you like to hear from the budget legislative analyst. they have a report. >> just hold in line. i'm going to give the bla an opportunity. they're an independent entity that provides analysis for this body and helps inform our decisions. i think it's important we hear from them before we go into public comment. why don't you take the microphone. thank you. >> yes. good morning, president breed, chair. i think that sort of the case has been made out very well for

this. we did just look at the impact of the city. it would be a reduction of revenues of about $1.2 a year estimated, about 700,000 of that would be probation fees. another 200,000 is electronic monitoring, but as has been stated, the sheriff's department has already stopped collecting those fees. of course, there are other costs associated with collecting the fees that may offset the savings, but we consider this to be a policy matter for the board. >> thank you very much. now, we will begin with public comment. as a remin reminder, it's 2 min. a cost chime indicates 30 seconds remaining on your 2-minute balance of time. >> thank you, supervisor. i'm the legislative policy analyst for p.m public defender. he had a prior obligation. he's asked me to thank president

breed and all of the supervisors for their support for this legislation. i think almost everyone is a cosponsor at this point. it's been a high priority of ours for several years. our office represents 20,000 people a year who have been charged with crimes but are too poor to afford a lawyer. 80 to 90% are indigent and are assigned court appointed attorneys. a high percentage are homeless or have health or substance abuse programs. when they leave jail, they can be hit with thousands of dollars of court fees. they go through a clean slate program to get their record clear sometimes years after they leave the system and at that point they suffer up to 64% unemployment at that stage. those who are employed, most earn less than $,000 a year. the court will not clear their records until most of their debt is paid. one client is a single mother of two children. she works two minimum wage jobs to support her kids and pay

court fees. even though her income is above the poverty line, she has several hundred dollars a month taken for court fees. it has been ten years since she finished her sentence. she will not be able to become licensed as a nursing assistant until she pays off her debt and has her record cleared. these create obstacles for people wanting to move on. san francisco does not have to fund the budget on people who are facing homelessness and unemployment. this is the most regressive form imaginable in among the city that has the worst income inequality in the nation. we will work together to waive previously accrued debt. most of that would never have been collected any way but could continue to hobble people wanting to rebuild their lives. several other counties are copying what we're doing.

>> i'm sorry. that's two minutes. we've got a lot of people we have to get through. i want to make sure everyone has an opportunity. we have to be fair. thank you. >> supervisors, good morning. policy collector at the human rights commission. we are proud to support this legislation as my colleague mentioned, the vast majority of our criminal defendants are indigent and face significant hardships upon re-enter tree. fees amounts to thousands of dollars in debt, weigh people down at the moment they need to be lifted up. they restrict mobility and contribute to unemployment and exacerbate a financial situation for not only people reentering society but for their families and entire communities. although fines and fees are used to fund important government programs, it is counterproductive to fund them through what amounts to a regressive tax, really, on low income people and people of color. the commission is proud to support this and we look forward to working with our government

and community leaders to change this high pain, low gain aspect of our criminal justice system. thank you. >> good morning. i'm with the san fan district attorney's office. the da apologizes for not being here. he thanks everyone for their efforts. when we approach this issue of fines and fees, we look at it from the point of view of public safety. a lot of reasons that have been mentioned. it's in the interest that the fines and fees are eliminated. people do face a very significant barrier to re-entry when things are all even. but when you pose these fines and fees, it makes them difficult to reingrate them. we believe from that point of view, the chances of resaid i havism increases. we are if support of this

measure. we want to thank everyone for their support and thank you. >> come on up. like clock work. >> good afternoon. this bill is close to me because it's personal. i am on probation, and these fees do hold me down. as i integrate to get my life together, i have gotten a stable job. every week i worry am i going to get the letter that my wages are going to be garnished. i am a single mother. i have children. it's a worry every week. so i please hope that you guys all support this bill. it's really important. i try really hard. i have tried really hard to get my life together. i don't want this part holding me down. you guys have a great day. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. i've lived in san francisco for 44 years. i regret to say that i faced

incarceration more than once over the years. i can't add too much to the eloquence that's been shared here today except the fees i faced contributed to my eviction from my apartment and contributed to a terrible credit score. generally to a decline in my life that i'm still trying to dig out of. so -- and like mary, i had two kids at the time i was facing those fees. it's been a real struggle. so i think that the best thing to maintain respect for the justice system in this country, which has really taken a beating lately, is to remove fees like this which contribute to a freestanding prison industry really that has nothing to do with justice. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> yes. good morning, supervisors.

i appreciate your support for this effort. learning about the -- i'm david grace. i've learned certainly the world has learned about ferguson economics, ferguson, missouri, economics burying their own citizenry in debt. i just learned on the steps this morning that the collection agencies for this whole system has been privatized. so the privatized companies have a conflict of interest in that they can send people back to further debt by violating their private rules. so i very much thank the supervisors for looking at this whole issue in a justice direction. actually, i would ask that someone do an investigation into these privatized company to see if they've used conflict of

interest to fatten their own purses. thank you. >> next speaker. >> i beg your pardon? >> thank you. next speaker. >> i'm an attorney at lawyers committee for civil rights. we strongly support bringing an end to these kinds of fees in san francisco. not only because they harm people in our community, which we see every day in our work, but also it's just out of step with san francisco leading the way in progressive policies. many we also believe that absolute abolishment of the fees is the only solution. for people who have 0 extra dollars paying $500 or $25 are both harmful to family stability whether they're paid at once or on a deferred payment plan basis. i want to say these are actual human beings we're talking about who have to choose between paying administrative fees and basic necessities of life. so thank you very much for bringing this legislation and

have a wonderful day. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm with legal services for prisoners with children, only organization dedicated to ending criminalization of poverty. charging people with the administrative costs of their own punish. is a lose lose policy. as you've heard, it's a high pain issue for communities being saddled with this debt and it's low gain for the city agencies. when released, people begin the task of trying to get back on their feet after incarceration. they face a host of difficult challenges. many outside of the fees that would be affected by this legislation, reentering people in their families face thousands of dollars in debt related to their incarceration ranging from prison phone costs to bail bond payments. not only are they convicted of crimes before their incarceration, about you they have a difficult time finding employment because of widespread dis themiation. being ordered to pay thousands of dollars in debt just puts

added stress on these families. yet despite the significant harm these fees cause to people, there are of little benefit to the city. the $1 million in revenue collected is dwarfed by the $15 million that has not and cannot be collected. reentering people don't have this money and attempting to force them to pay it is inefficient and unfair use of city resources. we know they're hurting our communities and they're not efficient. it's time for san francisco to get rid of them. with ask for a yes vote and thank you for bringing this. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. i'm a staff attorney at legal services for prisoners request h children. i earn with people seeking jobs to support their families. we clear old non serious convictions from their records which have been stopping them from being hired for jobs which they're qualified. these convictions often several

years old mean they cannot get a job. i've seen it in san francisco and across the state. the judges will not allow people to clear their records as long as they have unpaid fines or fees. this is illogical and cruel. it creates a vicious cycle. people can't get a job so they can't pay their fines and fees so they can't clear their record so they can't get a job. and it goes around and around. you can't get blood from a stone. i'm asking for the county's compassion and rationale policy choice to support our residents in accessing jobs by ending this vicious cycle and passing this ordinance. thank you. >> good morning, supervisor. i'm thomas wright. i'm an low income tenant. i just want to say that these fees are kind of -- if you

already are low income and then you -- i can't even imagine what it's like to have the stigma of being an exo fender and trying to find work. it seems to be -- to me, it's demoralizing. not only should we get rid of these fees, but i think we also need to give ex-offender every opportunity to redeem themself so they can be productive members of society. i strongly ask that you eliminate these city fines and fees and thank you for the support to eliminate them. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> hollywood saint james. i want to thank the ones who shared before me. i listened and learned and i learn and listen. you know i am a member of highly engaged team. we are proud that we came to this final round of the budget for the fees that is tacked on to certain minorities and has been proven that this particular system doesn't work. so with the progress that's been made, we want to thank the community. we also want to thank the assembly members for allowing us to get to where it is now.

looks like everything is progressing right along, and we are asking to get a yes vote on this particular piece of legislation. thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> good morning. i'm javier. many express this as evidence of a system that is left them behind. we're at a moment when this can change. this proposal will inspire other cities to take steps to confront the gaps in the criminal justice system and make protecting low income populations a priority. we want to thank the supervisors who introduced and have shown their continued support and have shown leadership on making serious changes in this

community and we strongly encourage the passage of this bill. thank you. >> any other members of the public that would like to come on up? please get in line. >> i'm a member of the city as well as a member of the individual s, if. we fully support this measure. i mean, these fees have been really bad for the people who are trying to get back on their feet. i agree with everything the previous speakers have said on it. also, i would like to mention that, you know, i think there's an opportunity here, since they're putting fees maybe requiring some of the people to do some form of community service and that can be tied in with sort of intern or job training. so they really prepare the folks to get back on their feet and be product members of society. i hope you think about that and maybe add that in as a requirement.

thank you. >> thank you very much. come on down. next speaker. >> i have never spoken before you before or anyone here at city hall. i came to san francisco in 2010 during a really big crisis because my daughter lived here and she still does. during that period of time, a little earlier, i did have a problem with an arrest in a different california county. it turned out fine. the case was dropped, and i didn't have any fees. but at the time, i was unsheltered and staying at a women's place which was at least at that time a wonderful shelter. i just want to say, if i had to pay fees, it would have been very difficult for me. i don't really know what i would have done. i'm now actually living in district 8 in supportive housing

through community a town community development. this is a good idea. i hope you'll support it. >> anyone else? come on down. >> hi. good morning, supervisors. i'm here from the lawyer's committee for civil rights. in the last few years, lccr has been working closely with debt free sf and the city and county of san francisco on eliminating fines and fees that impact low income communities and communities of color. fines and fees like parking tickets and court documents lead to the criminalization of people because they are too poor to pay. they support this legislation as a step to work toward a debt free sf and we would like to thank the supervisors who brought this forward. >> thank you. anyone else? all right. we're going to close public comment. thank you very much. colleagues, i hope you'll join me in the board.

i think you should add your names -- oh. okay. supervisor fewer has already added her name and supervisor stefani has added her name. see that? that's how do you it. that's progress right there. democracy in action. president breed, any last minute remarks. >> i want to say thank you to, again, all of the advocates, all of the different city departments, my colleagues for moving this legislation forward. we know this is just a first step to many things that we need to do to reform our criminal justice system and i'm happy that san francisco will be the first in the country to do something this significant. with all the coresponse ors, i'm sure it will make it to the board of supervisors without any challenges. so thank you all again. >> all right. thank you very much. all right. i'll make a motion that we pass this with a positive recommendation. we can take that without objection, too. thank you very much. all right. congratulations. it moves on. >> please.s

>> resolution approving the issuancissue >> we're going to hear from the rec and park department. this is approving a clubhouse for the golden gate park center which has conducted a significant independent fundraising effort. we're going to hear from president breed. >> thank you. colleagues, the item before you today is a resolution to approve the renovation of the tennis center clubhouse in golden gate park as well as to accept a $24 million grand to make this renovation possible. the tennis center is located in district 5 and has been serving my constituents as well as many residents throughout san

francisco for over 100 years. this grant and the $3 million already approved by the rec and park commission will help facilitate improvements to the 124-year-old tennis center including a new 7500 square foot clubhouse, 17 new u.s. tennis association standard tennis courts, and the city's first dedicated pickle ball court which i know supervisor fewer is very excited about. importantly, this renovation will support the expansion of the tennis and learning center. the tennis and learning center has developed a strong partnership with hamilton recreation center and through these partnerships local students have received one-on-one tutoring, additional parent engagement, and tennis instruction. this new facility will serve middle school students throughout the city where they can receive over 10 hours of

personalized tutoring and five hours of tennis instruction every single week. additionally, the new lighting on all courts will allow for an additional 20,000 hours of play each year, meaning our kids and our families will have more access and time to play in a safe and clean space year-round. i would like to thank my colleagues who are supporting this important project and are cosponsoring this resolution. interview fewer, tang, safai and stefani. i would like to thank all of those folks who came together to raise the money necessary to make this a possibility. it's going to be an absolutely beautiful building, a jewel right in golden gated park, a place where all san franciscans can enjoy and are welcomed and i'm looking forward to getting through so that we can also see hopefully national tournaments in this location as well. so with that, i will turn it

over to dalia from rec and park to present on this item. >> thank you president breed and supervisors. good morning. i'm with the recreation and parks department. the item before you today is concerning the renovation of the golden gate park tennis center which is a $26.3 million collaborative effort between the rec and parks department, the tennis coalition of san francisco and their sponsor the san francisco parks alliance. within the recreation and park department system, there are 147 public tennis courts at 66 locations across the city. 40 courts have recently been resurfaced and 12 more are slated to be resurfaced by the end of 2018. rpd offers 200 tennis related programs and camps each year providing 4200 hours of

programming to all ages from beginners to competitive level play. these programs serve approximately 1700 people each year. the golden gate park tennis center is the hub of public tennis citywide. it's located in the literal center, the heart of san francisco, and it is a citywide destination serving approximately 20,000 people each year. there is a long history of tennis in golden gate park. the first two courts were built in 1894. they were added over time until 1937, at which point there were 21 courts in the same configuration that is present today. the current clubhouse is the site's 4th. it was built in 1960 and has seen few capitalism improvements since it was first constructed. some of the tennis world's brightest stars started out or hone their games through

including billy jean king, brad gilbert, peanut louie, all of whom are local supporters of this project. after decades of active use, the center is showing its age and it's experiencing a decline in activity because of current conditions. courts are too closely spaced together and are badly crafted, uneven. there is no lighting for nighttime play. the clubhouse and courts are not ada accessible. the clubhouse is too small to accommodate robust programming among other concerns. the proposed project includes 17 new full size courts in clusters or easy axe size with pathways for community members to gather and view play. the first dedicated pickle ball court, a recreational trend popular among -- >> did you say pickle ball. >> yes. >> i want to make sure i heard

you correctly. >> it's located along the northern edge at court 18. it's that baby court at the top of the screen there. a new 7800 square foot clubhouse will replace the existing 29 square foot building and a sunken feature court is outside the clubhouse to the east surrounded by spectator viewing areas and seating for 200. interview breed noted lights will be added to support even play which adds over 20,000 hours of playtime each year. the club house design envisions three blocks plus a player's lounge with views of the tennis courts. the northern core contains a front desk, check-in area, a pro shop and administrative offices. the central core contains locker rooms, a kitchen, and vending machines. the southern core contains a recreation room with

ping-pong tables and dedicated spaces for youth development program for middle school children, the tennis and learning program or tlc. the mission of tlc is to provide educational support, life skills, and leadership development programs that promote positive long-term outcomes for underserved youth. since 2014, tlc has worked with elementary school children in the underserved communities serving approximately 75 k through fourt fourth graders. we're opening a 4th site in the fall of 2018. eventually, a 5th site likely in soma. each tlc participant receives 10 hours of personalized homework help per week, additional tutoring support three days per week and five hours of tennis instruction per week. 82% of tlc participants have

improved by at least one reading level. 68% speak languages other than english and 92% are from multi ethnic communities. new dedicated classroom space at the tennis center will serve 60 to 80 middle school students graduating from the neighborhood sites who need on going academic support systems while they serve elementary school children. the effort to renovate the golden gate park center is between the recreation and park department, the tennis coalition of san francisco and the san francisco parks alliance. for more than a decade, we have been working closely together to bring this project to fruition with the goal of creating a vibrant hub of public tennis that's open to everyone. accessible and affordable to players of all ages, abilities, and socioeconomic levels with a wide variety of programs that promote tennis as a lifetime

sport. during the planning and development phases of this project, numerous community meetings were held where the issues and plans were shared for feedback. these included three community meetings spanning nearly two years, attended by over 450 people, smaller meetings with stakeholders and neighbors and an open meeting at the tennis center attended by about 50, mostly seniors. design features implemented because of community input include the dedicated pickle ball court, the new facility will have a single point of access off nancy pelosi drive to address safety concerns and better spacing between courts was a strong recurring theme both for safety play ability and social viewing reasons. currently we are engaged in construction documents and intent to break down in q12019 and reopen in late 2020; which

is the 150th anniversary of golden gate park. by accepting this $24 million grant in place, the city will be leveraging $3 million in public funds for a $27 million investment in a cherish remember reaction alphas i feel that has been serving san franciscans since 1894. thank you. >> thank you. all right. we appreciate your presentation. now, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to hear for the analyst to hear their thoughts and their analysis on this item. >> the resolution actually does three things. it approves the construction of the new clubhouse in golden gate park tennis center. it also provides the department to provide $24 million and approves a 50-year grant agreement. the budget on page 9 of our report for the center is about 26.3 million. 3 million has been noted comes from the community opportunity

fund. the balance would come from the san francisco parks alliance. of the 23.3 million they need to race, they raised $18 million so far. our recommendation is to amend the resolution to require a report on the fundraising by december 31st, 2018. our understanding is that they won't begin the project until the funds are in place. the other issue that reraised in the report is in the grant agreement itself, it does actually provide for the donors names to be on the center and we consider that to be a policy matter for the board of supervisors. >> all right. in your -- can you highlight the amendments, the suggested amendments, please. >> one amendment was very specific for a written report from the department's general manager to the board prior to

december of 2018, december 31st. detailing the actual amount of funds that have been raised by the park alliance for the club at that point. and the impact of the implementation on the project. thank you. are there any other recommendations. >> there was a policy recommendation no terms of the grant agreement providing for the donors names to be on the center. we consider that to be a policy consideration. >> do you want to elaborate on the naming of the clubhouse? >> so our understanding -- if i can find -- yes, on page 8 of our report, the grant agreement says that the -- it would be the lisa and douglas goldman and -- that's what we consider to be a policy matter. >> thank you for that consideration. supervisor, fewer. >> thank you very much. i understand that there are other opportunities for naming rights and i just wanted to know whether or not recreation and

parks department had a policy around naming rights. >> we do. we adopted a policy in the early '80s that has governed our -- any naming of facilities, including the recently opened helen playgrounds. i'm happy to share it with you, but the gist is that the naming rights are available to a donor who provides over 50% of the cost of that feature and the entire plan is approved by our commission and is also publicly available. so it includes everything from what you see in small facilities like little pavers with the names of families that have supported a facility, all the way up through the larger naming. >> thank you. okay. supervisor breed, any last minute business? okay.

public comment, ladies and gentlemen. if you would like to come up and comment on item 2, please come on up. welcome. >> yes. i'm david grace. i hate to take great opposition. i'm opposed to privatization. in looking at the description of this budget item, it makes it plain this is a 50-year contract to the tennis club. this is -- i would be opposed to any privatization of the park. we've had enough problems with privatization. if they want to make a donation for the development of tennis, i'm fine with that. but no 50-year contract. hong kong was given as a 100 year contract for one pound, if i remember right. so 50 years is way too long. the other thing is recycling is

being used generally for playgrounds and for tennis courts, but it's showing that some of the surfaces can be hazardous wastes, the tires, ground up tires and whatnot. i would be very cautious about developing with the usage of hazardous waste for surfaces. >> thank you very much for your comment. we appreciate it. we certainly have heard those -- that perspective shared before with this body. as a reminder, this is approval of the contract for the te tenns club. this is a grant. most appropriate venue for you to voice those concerns are going to be at the rec and park commission when it comes to the servicing of the tennis courts, naming rights, just as an fyi. please come on down. it's good to see you. >> hi. i'm the cochair of the tennis coalition and i was at the bay

area senior games on saturday playing pickle ball, and there were a lot of golden gate park people there. pickle ball is a mixture of tennis and ping-pong. you can put four courts on one tennis court. we have some pickle ball people here. it's a great, large, blooming group in golden gate park and we thank supervisor breed and supervisor fewer for such support. really proud of our work we've done to bring the community together. we have ping-pong communities. we have the pickle ball, and we have tennis along with tlc. it's going to be a wonderful community experience. the story of the tennis coalition goes back to a disagreement with a dog run and a tennis court and the tennis people realized that the dog people were much more organized. so we really tried to be -- got more organized. we just thank you for your

support and acceptance of this project. thank you. >> hi, everybody. i'm angela dorsey, and i grew up playing tennis at golden gate tennis park in 1972. this is my son. people always ask me, where did you grow up? i said golden gate tennis courts. that was 7 days a week from 3:00 to 8:00 at night practicing, and there is many of us -- there's a lot of us juniors that grew up playing in the bay area. a lot of us are teaching at different clubs now as we've grown up through the bay area. the tennis court was home. i think the project is an amazing gift to san francisco bay area. i'm looking forward to playing at the new facility. i bring my son there and my name is up on the plaque there in the clubhouse that is housed there

right now. it was selfish for me to be here. if you're not going to keep it, i would like to have it. but they told me they're going to make, you know, a beautiful wall in memory of hopefully a lot of us juniors that have come through there and brought tennis alive in the bay area through the '70s, '80s. we're all northern california ranked. we've played all over the world. people would come to golden gate park for our talent because we had so many talented juniors, it kept us out of trouble. we only had trouble at the courts, but, you know, we had wonderful families, parents that supported us and thank you. i hope you guys give more money. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, board members. you know me from the controller's office. hello, colleagues. but i'm here as a private citizen. when i'm not working on behalf of the city government, i play a

lot of tennis. i volunteer on two small boards of directors for non-profits, one is the one that's helping raise funds for the tennis center and the other is the gay and lesbian tennis federation. i'm speaking here with our formal support. great organization about 500 members of tennis players, all over the city. you don't have to be gay to join. anyone can join our organization and learn to play tennis. it's a great group of people. we're supporters of public tennis. we made a formal financial commitment to the project, $10,000 from our organization, which i know is not large in the context, but it's what we can afford and we're raising money from our members to support it. we have a big tournament every year. the u.s. gay open as i like to say. just like the u.s. open only smaller and gayer. >> sounds like fun. >> being played at golden gate park tennis center which it has

been for the last couple years and memorial day weekend. we'll be playing and enjoying the iconic park. just to say how important public tennis is to its wonderful to be here with such great facilities. other cities don't have what we have. sport for lifetime. some day i hope to retire and be able to play. i have a friend who is 95 and plays doubles every week with the same man he's been playing with for 40 years. it's lovely. i really am happy to see the city moving this budget forward. thank you. >> all right. good to see you, peg. on the other side. welcome. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm ortega. i'm a san francisco recreation and parks learning center. i work at the hamilton recreation site. we serve the rosa parks elementary population. the fillmore western addition is where our center is based.

that's traditionally, you know, historically an underserved population in the community. the children we work with are k through five. i'm here on behalf of the children i see and work with every day. i'm kind of lament to see at this current time that there's no place for our children once they reach fifth grade and beyond to continue with tennis or their love and environment for tennis and the support that we have for them. the tlc center and staff that work there is more like a family and i've seen a lot of the children over the years who come back. it's not like we get a new pool of students every year. they come back and build trust and trust takes time. with that trust comes a lot more improvement in their academics and literacy. some of our children suffer from different challenges and if not academics and literacy, some of them is behavior. their parents working, you know, single parents working or both parents working and there is not a lot of time to support them.

the tennis and learning center helps to kind of fill in the gaps that are missed within the education system. [ stand by ] we specifically gave $400,000 to the golden gate park cent