that's not as important as the other questions, so, the -- you said deemed nonresponsive. can you reexplain why again? >> the contract management division looked at the bid and determined that they did not meet the l.b.e. requirement for 14% of the construction work. >> so the bid was basically thrown out? >> they were deemed nonresponsive. >> this had nothing to do -- they did not get a 10% reduction, the bid was thrown out so it did not matter. >> no, that was not a factor. >> ok, all right. that's the only question i had then. >> public comment, richard. >> good morning, commissioners. richard fong.

i want to address the playground, chinese playground from anthropology kal, cultural approach. i have talked to different people in the community and i have gotten very negative responses over the changing of the play structure to park and it's more park than it is activities for play, they were taken away the volleyball court, taking away moving basketball court, taking away tennis, and a lot of these sports already, are pretty well established at chinese playground and have been there even before the name change. so in this anthropology, what i have in mind is relatively simple. i'm trying to see if there can be brought in the multiple court

use on the plans to it, and basketball, taken out the tennis. so, i look at that, i'm trying to figure out, what can i do to make it more multi-purpose. so, that same for the tennis racquet, tennis game, they kind of have to be there when they have the volleyball tournaments. they do have their annual volleyball tournaments. so, all these things happening i myself talk to a few people in the community, they are very distraught, kind of disturbed. and they even want to hack at me saying that it's worthless for you to go speak before the commission. and i would say it's -- i'm going to try to see if i can retain some of the activities such as volleyball.

so that's recreation more than it is in planning. so, if the planning could coordinate with earlier activities that were ongoing at such location, i'm trying to salvage the use where there will be multiple use. the tennis court, the poles, you can't run across that in the basketball game. can be pulled out and sleeves put into the ground, the rest of it put into it. and the same poles will be used for the volleyball courts. so i'm trying to see mitigation that would be initial to the particular proposal where it would be multiple court uses. thank you. >> president buell: thank you. commissioner low. >> vice president low: just wanted to respond to richard's comments. there is a basketball court in the design and a multi-sports court, which is, which was

intended to be both volleyball, tennis, pickleball when available. but i would encourage your comments, if you feel it's inadequate, to talk to our project team so long as any proposed changes don't increase the budget. but i do want to point out, there was quite a robust community number of workshops where those uses were considered and resulted in the design that is before us>> president buell: thank you. >> any other public comment on this item? being none, public comment is closed. >> president buell: entertain a vote. >> so moved. >> second. >> president buell: all in favor? so moved. >> now on item 6, the san francisco zoo. discussion only portion.

>> good morning commission, general manager, nice to see you. tanya peterson, director of the san francisco zoo and first let us express our sympathy and thoughts with the gorilla foundation. we just learned that coco, she was born in san francisco, she just passed. spent most of her life at the gorilla foundation, and dr. patterson is devastated with the loss. summer at the zoo, i'll turn to our power point here. wells fargo wildlife theater, wellness and conservation programs, and two teen programs, nature trail and they talk about the animals this they have to take care of over the summer, as well as our talk on the wild. also teen interns go around the zoo with carts and educate the public. great way for teens to learn about animals and public speaking. today is the longest day of the

year, so we celebrate the longest animal, the giraffe, of course. and it's world giraffe day. actually, i was just saying zoo, giraffes are suffering silent extinction. we will participate in jeans for giraffe, bring in the old jeans. i realize the ripped jeans are going for hundreds of dollars. hard to give them up but it will go for conservation programs in africa and giraffe feeding as long as they are willing to. and connect wildlife with the visitors, come to the zoo early on bicycles, a great wellness for the families. so we have done this off and on. so popular, now offer it every second saturday through october as long as the weather supports it. you can register online, and

this is free for members and a small fee for nonmembers. great way to see the zoo. recently the pleasure of supporting families with disabilities. families who have children with, who are on autistic spectrum, sensory disorders, etc. our sculpture garden, raised with braille signs and the playground, built in construction with ucsf, specifically for children on the spectrum, were great hits with the families. we opened the zoo early so it would be quiet. we kept everything as quiet as possible, special sensor maps, etc. a great way to support families with barriers and other cultural institutions for them. we have some exciting births. we just gave birth to a young mandrel, there he is with his surrogate mother. his father is big joe, named after the infamous joe, and pandora mother.

a threatened species. you may know it's the one with the colorful nose and the colorful back side as well. they are threatened due to the bush meat trade in africa. we also had twins, i'm a mother of twins, so i was excited about this. this is our snow leopards, still off exhibit. the snow leopard is an endangered big cat. the parents are jimmy g and dala, jimmy g is the name of the 49 quarterback and he came out on father's day to meet his namesake and cubs, and they will be off exhibit until they will be calm. she's a first time mother. we'll keep you posted. and lastly, bragging rights, 4.4 stars on goggle map, i hear it's

the new yelp. and over 3600 reviews, so the social media experts say that getting almost five stars with that many reviews is a good thing. it's a new type of rating and new metric for us at the zoo. with that, i finish my report. >> president buell: thank you. >> is there any public -- richard, come on up. >> that was a very nice presentation, tanya peterson. i heard her talking about the giraffes. first thing that popped in my mind would be the earlier problems with incest, male giraffe breeding with daughter and that type of thing, put over to, across the bay, maybe at marine world. so, that sounds pretty good, that they have a genetic pool going. but i don't know how it's going

to work. so they'll have to be cautious of incest. and almost like a taboo word before civilized people, father-daughter relationships. so when i look at that, i say hey, you know, are they going to have a good genetic pool, i'm all for what she's trying to do. develop and keep the giraffes going. so talk about the zoo, had to do with the price increase they are trying to get, i don't know that -- >> that's on the next item. >> oh, ok. >> a separate item. >> thank you, ma'am. i stand corrected. all right. yeah. on that, it's terrific that you got baby kittens out there, and i guess they are going to have the same naming rights. and the mandrel, i could not figure out what the behind was all about, it's real bright red and passionate, i still don't know. and i'm glad they actually were

able to feed the surrogate mother. >> any other public comment? public comment is closed. discussion only. item 7, the san francisco zoo increase of admission fees. >> thank you, vince grub, c.f.o. with the san francisco zoo. and here today to request a price increase for the zoo. requesting an increase in admission fees by $3 across the board with the exception of seniors and $2 increase. and with this increase, we are retaining free admission for all children three and under. free days for san francisco residents throughout the year. muni rider discounts, free

access for children, for the department of children and youth and families, school groups. also s.f. united school district school groups throughout the year, during the school year, free access. additionally, we also provide several other opportunities for free access to the zoo during the year. for instance, this last january all children were admitted for free. s.f. and nons.f. residents, generated 12,000 visitors to the zoo. also during the napa cinema fires, we also admitted residents for free for several days, that was 4,000 visitors that came through during the crisis. and also throughout the year, various one-off day, people are admitted for free. the criteria for the basis for a fee increase is from section 15.6 of the lease and management

agreement. the first one being, we considered admission fees of comparable zoos in other locations. considered admission fees of other city facilities open to the public. we considered the level of operating expenses at the zoo, changes of c.p.i., and factors affecting labor costs at the zoo. rationale for the increase, the last fee increase in april of 2016. and should this proposal be approved, it wouldn't take effect for another 90 days, october 1st before it happened, so two and a half year interval since the last increase. prior to that, our increase previous was september 2013, and prior to that, 2008, 5 years. we don't come often for fee increases. proposed pricing is similar to other zoos. we are still below other zoos

and attractions. our zoo operating expenses have increased, c.p.i. has increased, 9.7% since the last increase. labor rates have gone up 5.5% over the last increase. capital investments of over $5 million since the last increase. and as you know, we have a two-tiered system at the zoo. s.f. residents pay less than nonresidents, and nonresidents is $20, and we are asking for up to $23. s.f. residents, $17, proposing $20. seniors, proposing an increase on nonresidents from 17 to 19, just $2. and $2 on s.f. residents as well. and $3 increases, children three and under are still free. the next slide is our group

rates. group rates are less than individual rates, the same concept. $3 increase on all levels except senior pricing. this is slide on the c.p.i. index, the last increase, gone up 9.7% cumulatively. increase in operating expenses, health insurance, 12 to 30%. what that means, our kaiser rates have gone up 12%, health net rates gone up 30% since the last price increase and this year alone, kaiser went up 10%, health net up 14.5%. like a quarter million dollars in additional health care costs in just one year. animal food increased 20%. comes with a price increases and mix of animals, we have wolves and bears and snow leopards,

carnivores eat more. labor, 5.5%. current contract through 2020. next slide. this is comparison of local admission fees, notice at the top again, two-tiered system. this is our current pricing, by raising $3 on san francisco residents still way below by the bay, below the academy sciences, and still below. and other entertainment venues, great american, six flags, comparison. you can see that even with the price increase we are still the best bargain in town for entertainment value and educational value. and i wanted to compare to other

zoos as well. our pricing, current pricing at the top even with the $3 increase on san francisco residents, we are still below the oakland zoo. still below the los angeles zoo. obviously way below san diego zoo. and the large zoos, the bronx zoo in new york, philadelphia zoo, brookfield in chicago and the cincinnati zoo are well below their pricing and we can expect price increases as well. even with that, we are still well below other zoos and i know oakland zoo will be raising the price with the expansion in the summer. so that's my presentation. i ask that openfully you will pass the price increase for us. >> we have public comment. richard. this is your admission fee.

>> good morning again. i'm not going to say too much on it. but i'm surprised that the zoo price and all the costs and everything else keeps skyrocketing up and up, and all you do is just lay it back on to the public. if you want to come in, you can do it. but they have also, the zoo have brought up different attractions, different views for public to draw out the people to the zoo. in general, i, after seeing the presentation on the political economics of it, i'm in favor of such. i agree with the committee. and other than that, when you get to my age and look at it, i don't know about, i got, i'm close to mark, i think, i got one on you, something. >> you blew my cover, richard. >> i think this is very good that we are, we are at this point in time where we have a

commission who is supportive of our lives and presentations available through various exhibits at our zoo, but if we are going to continue it as our zoo, we have to try to help the zoo more and try to get things such as grant monies and other available fundings. no mention of what possibility there would be in the state bond, parks, and the water as well as the natural resource that would have been passed by our constituency here at california. so, if they would try for something like that, and another point to bring up was that if there is available such funding according to our mayor, mark farrell, i like to say oh, farrell, but his interest, we

can gain advance from such fundings that's before, going to be a change of mayors in room 200. so, what's presented, if we can get some of that money in advance so they can get a head start on it, maybe there will be so much better for them instead of just trying to wait until the ticket could money comes in. thank you. >> is there anyone else who would like to make comment public on this item? being none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner anderson: thank you. i just wanted to publicly thank the committee and staff because i made a request in our joint zoo committee last month to consider maybe not increasing the senior rate quite as much. you know, we had pointed out that it was not a very large line item and that we wanted to sho shows deference and respect to

our elders and they listened to what i said and they made a change. i wanted to thank them for their thoughtfulness on that. >> president buell: motion, moved and seconded. all those in favor. thank you very much. >> item 8, 858 stanyan shadow on golden gate park. >> good morning, commissioners. yael golan, a planner with the planning division. joined by laura with the planning department. item before you is 858 stanyan street shadow on golden gate park. review of the shadow supports objective 1.2 in the strategic plan. strengthen the quality of existing parks and facilities.

planning code section 295 adopted in 1985. in 1989, creation and park commission and planning commission jointly adopted a memorandum which identified quantitative and qualitative criteria for significant shadows and parks under the jurisdiction of the park department. proposed project is located at 858 stanyan street and the haight ashbury neighborhood. golden gate park, most parcels and the park have a height limit of 45 to 55 feet, and 2 to 3 stories tall, a few 4 to 5 story buildings on stanyan and frederick street. this is a single story commercial retail building. proposed project is five stories

tall, here are some images of the project west and south elevations and laura from the planning department will now tell you more about the proposed project, public benefits and environmental review. >> good morning, commissioner, as you know the proposal is a four-story vertical addition on one-story commercial building in a commercial zoning district. it has a 50-foot height limit. existing rectangular building has a flat roof and covers the entire lot. it's not considered a historic resource. the existing ground floor commercial store front will be modified and three residential units added above. the proposed addition will result in a five-story building, measuring 50 feet high at the

flat roof. the planning code allows for height exemptions, planning code requirements, no variances or conditional uses are being sought. working with the urban design advisory team on design refinements. all very minor modifications and limited to window changes, deck guardrail styles, deck setbacks from property lines, so forth. none of these revisions will increase the height of the building nor affect the shadow. the only planning required so the adoption of the shadow findings by the planning commission. hearing date for that will be set after today's hearing is decided. this project will add three family size dwelling units to the city's existing housing stock and preserve the ground

floor retail space. environmental application was reviewed by the planning department and resulted in the approval of an extension determination. this concludes my presentation. i will be available if you have any questions and the project architect is also here should you have any questions for him. thank you very much. >> president buell: thank you. >> thank you, laura. golden gate park is over 1,000 acres and includes a wide variety of natural, cultural and historic features in places, including gardens, playgrounds, picnic groves, water bodies, trails, monuments and cultural venues. the nausew sh shadow would fall the parking lot and stadium. new shadow 7:00 a.m. and gone by

10:00 a.m.. present two hours throughout the year, average duration of about an hour and a half. the size of the new shadow 4,423 square feet, on the southeast corner of golden gate park and the keyzar parking lot. even though the image shows it falling on a green area, it's just because it is park plan but it's actually a parking lot. the largest new shadow february 15th, and october 25th at the same time, and cover .0099% of golden gate park. this is a map of the full year shadow impact. darker blue frequent shadow, lighter blue occasional shadow. and this is an animation showing the shadow enter and leave the

park on october 25th, the day of maximum shading. and this is another animation of the shadow on june 21st, today. the summer solstice, showing project shadow entering en in the morning and leaving the park by 10:00 a.m. now i will discuss the quantitative aspects of the shadow. golden gate park, around 1,000 acres in size and approximated existing shadow --.130%. existing shadow loads smaller than 20%, 1% increase and shadow

load. finding on a shadow impact on a park from a proposed development project is a policy decision for the commission. as such, staff does not have recommendation. this concludes my presentation on the 858 stanyan street shadow impact on golden gate park. available for questions as are laura from the planning department and adam phillips from three vision design would performed the shadow analysis. >> anyone who would like to make public comment on that item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> vice president low: these comments don't really relate to this particular project but just how we approach projects that cast shadows on parks. when we look at the public good of the shadow caster, i don't think we should refer as one of the elements of a public good as

being permits being paid. that's just something that has to be done regardless of whether you are hitting a park with shadow, plus i think that that runs afoul of the city attorney's opinion that can't pay cash for shadow. i think we should start to eliminate that as an element of a public good. i think it would be helpful also when we get to the qualitative analysis to actually talk about what activities are being interfered with the shadow that's being cast. in this case, i don't really care about a car being parked in shadow during the worst time of the shadow, but i think we should start to talk about more of a qualitative of how the shadow cast by the project impacts activities. and also i really would like to

have staff start making a recommendation. you go through the great analysis, but then you get to the end of the staff report and there's no recommendation and i personally would like to see some sort of guidance of whether staff supports this, staff doesn't support this, we may disagree, but when you read through the staff report and get to the conclusion, we make no conclusion. how are we supposed to interpret that? >> president buell: thank you, commissioner. all good comments. no other comments, we would entertain a motion. >> so move. >> moved and seconded. >> are we moving there is no significance? >> correct. >> president buell: that's correct. moved and seconded. all those in favor? thank you very much. >> now on item 9, the open space fund contingency reserve for deferred maintenance. >> good morning, commissioners. item before you is our f.y.17-18

deferred maintenance funding and what it is is discussion and possible actions to approve two things. one, allocation of $1,155,000 from the open space fund contingency reserve, from the deferred maintenance reserve subfund, to fund infrastructure deferred maintenance projects, and 400,000 from the contingency reserve, this time undesignated reserve subfund to fund wildlife proof waste receptacles and stabilize a build on marina green. as background, in 2010, the commission acted to divide the open space fund contingency reserve into three subfunds. the subfunds are comprised, 50% of the fund balance of the

entire fund for deferred maintenance, 25% of the annual to go into contingency reserve, and lastly, a subfund comprised of the other 25%. the fund balances of the subfunds are depicted in a, your attachment a. for the 17-18 deferred maintenance project, the department proposes to undertake a range of water, heat, sewer and air handling repairs that have impacted our building infrastructure and specifically you see the list in the package there, a long variety of boiler replacements and air handler replacements at a variety of recreation centers and facilities. at the palace of fine arts, we have two sewer lift stations which need upgrades so they stop malfunctioning. golden gate park, a central pump

station replacement of pump variable frequency drives, and in support of the 20-21 recycled water project in golden gate park. and lastly, music concourse fountains system needs some repair and upgrade, variable frequency drives as well. on the list there, all of those projects total the $1,155,000 we are requesting from the deferred maintenance contingency reserve. secondly, for the undesignated reserve subfund, we are proposing two distinct infrastructure projects. the first one is the continuation of the acquisition and installation of wildlife proof waste receptacles. in 2014, i was before you requesting the money from the undesignated reserve subfund to start this replacement of waste

receptacles using the two stream, bear saver waste systems you may see in a variety of parks already. the first phase was very successful, and we are now ready to continue that effort with the bear saver two stream receptacles in a variety of other parks. if the $200,000 funding request is approved, this installation of new receptacles would include crocker amazon, mclaren park, golden gate park, india basin and other parks. secondly in the request is the degaussing building on marina green. 1943, and once transferred to the city it has been in a steady state of deterioration since that time. that said, it is the ideal location for the harbor master's office to oversee the operations of both the west harbor and the east harbor. for that, and due to the

location and size, the building assessments from the department of public works and a second assessment from a private engineering firm has found that although it is structurally unstable, it can be stabilized, repaired and restored for $200,000 and then at that point it can be successfully repurposed into the internal renovation for the harbor master's office. it's 200,000 for each of these two projects, which totals the 400,000 in our reserve. in our request. back to attachment a, the balances of attachment -- of the three subfunds demonstrate that there is sufficient money to fund this request. in the fund balances in the deferred maintenance subfund, $1,150,449, and in the undesignated, 1,000,041 #

thousand $609. with that, our recommendtation to you is that the two requests from the open space fund contingency reserve be approved. >> president buell: thank you. >> any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners. >> commissioner mazzola: thank you. a couple questions, thanks for your report. so the deferred maintenance subfund, is that something separate than our maintenance department? >> yes. >> commissioner mazzola: it's not impacting our maintenance department whatsoever? >> the structural maintenance yards, their m. and s. funds and labor funding for salaries is separate from this, this is a request we bring to the commission every year to have additional funds to the m. and s. budget to undertake the infrastructure repairs. >> commissioner mazzola: second question would be, who would be performing this new work? not our maintenance people, this

would be contracted out, or -- >> this would be -- who is going to be, how is that going to work? >> combination of both. maintenance yard is prepared with these funds to undertake a number of the boiler replacement projects, and then other like the lift station and a couple others would be handled by the operations project managers, and that would be a bid and contract out. to -- specifically your question, we sit down with the maintenance yard and give them first choice, which ones do you want, and then the ones that they recommend be contracted out, we turn those over to the operations project manager. >> commissioner mazzola: maintenance yard will be involved in the decision making or offered to do some of this work. >> they have the right of first refusal. >> commissioner mazzola: thanks. >> commissioner anderson: on the degaussing station, is this the first time it has come before the commission for

consideration? >> the first time this particular stablization project has come. years ago we were considering the degaussing station to build it out for a restaurant, since that did not come to fruition, we have been looking at it as the harbor master station and that is further along now in analysis, we are discovering that it's going to need of stablization before the construction can undertake to build it out. i can't tell you which one is the chicken and which one was the egg. because a couple years ago at least conceptually it was considered to be stable, and we have done the engineering am sis and appears it is built on the seawall, the original wood timber piers and they can no longer hold the building the way it is right now. and so we do need to do the stablization first before we can

undertake any construction for whatever purpose. >> commissioner anderson: the question i have is there's an understanding that our seawall generally needs attention, so can you fit strengthening or reinforcing the degaussing building in context with the wall as a whole, like -- you know, are we basically kind of band aiding a portion of the wall for this structure while there's a bigger problem that's going to come down the pike? >> we believe that the building itself, you know, on its piers, once engineered and stablized will be ok. i don't really have the details where the seawall bond to pass and whatever their construction measures would be. i don't think it entails a full tear-down of the seawall, maybe some internal strengthening, which should not impact any

structures, but that's conjecture on my point. >> commissioner anderson: yeah, that's my concern, that, would those -- would the two projects be completely separate in any event? would you have to reinforce the degaussing building itself, separate and apart from any seawall repair that might happen down the pike? i'm just concerned about sort of spending money now needlessly when it might be able to dovetail with a future project. i'm not trying to throw a monkey wrench in the works, obviously i would like our harbor master to have a good office, but i'm just kind of thinking about priority here. >> the only thing i would say on that is that i am not familiar what phasing the seawall is going to take, and whether the harbor will be part of that phase or deal with the ones downtown or other higher priority sections of the seawall

first. but sarah, i think you might have some detail on this. >> my understanding is the seawall along the marina is not part of the proposed port bond. it is for areas under their jurisdiction. >> commissioner anderson: well, i just want to put that question mark out here. i wonder about the reasonableness or the sensibility of putting aside that kind of money now when we don't really know what's happening with the seawall. but let me ask another question. i've been in the harbor master's office where it is now, so if that port, if that office ports office to the degaussing station, what happens to the space the harbor master is in now. >> the current office, since you've been in it. >> tiny. >> very small. very tiny. it has no privacy for meeting with berth holders or anything. and so that would be immediately handed off to the assistant, or the dock attendants, and the

main maintenance function for the west and the east harbor will be conducted from. current by borrow space from yacht road, i don't know to say it's abandoned, but unused building from the p.u.c. and they are making noise, they want it back, anyway. so a much better division of labor and use of space to manage the large marina we have down there. and we have looked at whatever the seawall eventual engineering and reconstruction will be, but so far as i said, we don't believe that the seawall is actually going to be destroyed. it's actually going to be strengthened from within. and if we do not do anything about the degaussing station now, it will continue to deteriorate and will then require eventually demolition. >> commissioner anderson: ok.

thank you. that was very helpful. >> commissioner mcdonnell: on the deferred maintenance, probably a future request because what it, what the report doesn't represent is i'm assuming a billion dollars in deferred maintenance and you pull the opportunities to invest the dollars, i completely support but i don't have what that context is, because you chose these and not those, helpful to see those and maybe why context these, if it was purely financial we could squeeze this. i don't know. that would be helpful. >> we are getting there, commissioner. from all of our work and the life cycle project, with i we have been involved, the third year, and contracted with the firm, called v.f.a., and they are delivering to us a very robust and database that they have inspected, all of our

facilities and infrastructure with detailed condition assessments can show us the remaining expected life cycle, where the most critical need is, and we'll be able to rank order with a very comprehensive view what, where the most critical need is. we'll be getting that, we are meeting tomorrow. we'll be getting our first look at what the first phase of the condition assessments are tomorrow. they anticipate having all of their work done later this year, probably in the september, october time frame, to give operations a good look at making a database and grounded determination of where our most deferred, most critical deferred maintenance is. we don't have that yet, but we are very helpful and very excited to get this coming to us. but in the meantime we have done when we have come before you in past years. maintenance yard in particular

have looked at where the most critical repairs are. where the infrastructure components are, beyond repair. air handlers on m.l.k. pool have totally failed. they have the institutional knowledge when they try to fix things that they are beyond fixing. so we have relied on that institutional knowledge to help us get here. and next fiscal year when i come before you, we will have been able to base that on the v.f.a. condition assessment database. >> thank you. >> on that note, denny, seems we are always referring to the massive backlog of infrastructure repair needs and so on. when that report is done, 1 of 2 things might occur. individual commissioners could be briefed by staff, and get some sense of that, or it could be a presentation to the full commission. >> we are looking forward to

that, actually. we actually, one of our goals to provide you with that information. >> thank you, i'm going to ask, sarah, did you want to weigh in? >> to provide some context for commissioner mcdonnell's question, and i'm sure you are aware of this. as reminder, there are multiple ways we address the infrastructure issues, right? this is one smaller pot of funds that frankly there's a match-up between what the maintenance yard identifies as their most significant challenges not funded through whether it's general fund capital, m. and s. budget and it's a matchmaking that's really about the size of the pot of money essentially. as well. so, there are -- there are, just to reassure you that there are multiple sources that are doing this type of work from, this is one area that denny controls but we absolutely, we can, going

forward, include more information on the tradeoff decisions. >> the deferred maintenance is worked off 1 of 2 ways. when we have a full blown capital project, completely resets the baseline. and then secondly is either project management funds or the ongoing work of the structural maintenance department. >> president buell: commissioner low. >> vice president low: i'm dwelling on the degaussing station and hungry for some fish at the woodhouse fish. would the harbor fund be a source of contribution for costs or sharing of costs for, since it's going to be the harbor master quarters? >> we have looked at that and the marina fund does not have the capacity for this. when we, once we have done the stablization and are ready for the interior design, we will then look for the harbor, the

marina fund to perhaps be able to fund that part. because once we are done with the stablization and we have the building ready for internal renovation to compartmentalize it, we will see if we can share through the marina fund. >> will that matter come back to the commission for you? >> interior renovation? >> we can certainly do that. >> i think it's important to do that. commissioner anderson. >> commissioner anderson: thank you for your patience. back to the degaussing station. harbor master office. did you consider expanding the existing building where the harbor master is now as opposed to taking over the degaussing station? >> we have looked at that, commissioner. it's very limited footprint down there on what we call the mole there at the west harbor, and the difficulty with the existing

harbor master station is it just doesn't have the feel -- doesn't have the field of view to -- the east harbor is completely out of sight over there. and so when we look at positioning at the existing degaussing station, they can see the channel, the west harbor, east harbor, monitor all the activity, and attention to the berth holders, they have to drive over to be expected to the master operations. >> we have a certified e.i.r. for the west harbor project, permits, army corps of engineers and other regulatory agencies that did not contemplate an expansion of the current harbor master's office beyond what it

is. however, in that e.i.r., appealed to the board of supervisors and the board was sued over, if you recall, it does contemplate using this as an office. i think the regulatory, in addition to the physical constraints, the regulatory hoops would essentially be a nonstarter. >> thank you, there is the more germane point, thank you. than any of this stuff. >> does contemplate using the degaussing station as an office? >> yes. >> president buell: seeing no other comments. >> moved, seconded. >> commissioner harrison. >> moved and seconded. all those in favor? thank you, denny. >> now on item 10, general public comment. anyone who wishes to make general public comment who did not under item 4? richard.

>> i guess entertained by me, i hope i don't bring it down too much. i'm going to make -- the commission over fishing at lake merced. the state of california allows issuance of fishing license to veterans here in california. san francisco does not match of such. they have different stamps that are required and so forth on the fishing license. so, my request would be very simple, and some type of compensation, no longer a concession, of some people running the place. so, is there any way that veterans could get a chance to cast their lines, catch a few fish, enjoy what we fought for, our country.

so myself, disabled veteran, in the china-vietnam time, navy corpman, bang bang, corpman up, that was me. a lot of my shipmates have passed away, agent orange, those things. we are not getting hardly any of the benefits that should be be stowed upon us and i don't think too many of us are interested in -- in this case, myself, i sure would like to cast a few plugs at the east lake and see if i could get some bass. thank you. >> thank you. >> ok. >> is there anyone else who would like to make general public comment? seeing none, this item is closed. now on item 11, closed session. conference with legal counsel pending litigation.

anyone who would like to make public comment on this item? public comment is closed. commissioners, a vote, a motion and a vote to go into closed session, please. >> so moved. >> moved and seconded. all those in favor? aye. >> now in closed session. i need to ask all members of the public and staff to leave. >> many questions are raised by this, who are they -- i think we should just have a general discussion in july on what's happening at the palace of fine arts. so, i would like that calendared for july. second matter was an article on june 1st. it was a public announcement of the 2019 bond, $545 million, and there were several projects that were listed as part of that

bond. i think there should have been a discussion before that public announcement, so i would like staff to also give us a status report of how did these numbers come about, what's the status of these projects, particularly trying to avoid some of the mistakes we did with the 2012 bond, where costs were escalating, perhaps we did not have enough money. we went through entitlement battles, let's have a discussion about this $545 million bond, is it one shot for ten years, is it two bonds over ten years, let's have more of a discussion about this now that this is public. i would like to have that also on the july commission hearing. >> any other commissioners? ok. any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. item 12, new business agenda

setting. commissioners. public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. item 13, communications, discussion only. commissioners? any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. item 14, adjournment. >> entertain a motion. all in favor? aye, so adjourned. >> thank you, commissioners.

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