option for tobacco licenses. and also part of that conversation is how do we hold other departments accountable to this conversation because there is tangential fee schedules on tobacco, the department of public health and dpw are part of, and fee streamlining as a mitigation is going to be another tool i think this body needs to brainstorm. so please keep in mind, i'm going to be part of those meetings and i would love support. the first one is planned at the end of the month. we can talk offline about that. second thing, new business, i would like there to be more information about how to prepare merchant or merchant organizations for potential rfps for the city. there is going to revenue from the sugary beverage tax and we should try to support merchant organizations to get some of

that money. if there is a tool or workshop we can do or presentation, that would be awesome. >> president adams: does that involve lbe? no? >> commissioner zouzounis: they'll have to be registered nonprofit or entity of which then the merchant association could have a sponsor who takes the money, administrative -- fiscal agent. thank you. >> if i understand properly, you're suggesting that we have better outreach so that -- or enable merchants or small businesses to get a piece of this action? >> commissioner zouzounis: also merchant organizations. there are two examples i'm thinking of. the healthy retail program still has a pilot for fresh produce

delivery model they want to develop. so it would be rfp for somebody already delivering to store. how do we outreach and make sure that is open to somebody already doing that. and then -- >> just to be clear, anybody who -- any entity to receive money from the city needs to be registered with the city as a compliant supplier, vendor. bidder. and i think in this -- then they also have to be a registered entity and have a business registration. to have a business registration means for any of the merchants associations, then they need to have a 501 c-3. but they have to have some sort of business structure.

so is maybe something that is also brought up with the council of district merchants. if you were thinking about merchant areas being able to access some of that money, then to me that sort of seems like a good entity to help be a fiscal agent. >> right. we're having discussions about that. >> but i can -- we can ask the office of contract administration or the controller's office. and rick has done actually a phenomenal job working with our legacy businesses on putting together -- putting together a document on how to become registered with the city. and because we are now marketing in the legacy businesses as vendors that departments can do business with, because for those

that become 12-b compliant, then the city can do business with them. so we're also -- rick is also going to be putting together over the next 2-3 months, a guide on how best to do business with the city. so understanding how the payment process works, all of that. because it's very different than your traditional b to b. >> commissioner zouzounis: one last new business -- sorry, this should have been part of my report. i went to the reopening of the sav mor market on 3rd street and they also won their board of appeals for moving their license. so they are now viable in their new location. >> awesome. ok. any other new business items? >> this is not a new business item, i just wanted to add for

the record, sonny made great points about district areas that are having problems with construction and you know, owning a bar and restaurant on polk street and owning a bar and restaurant, i do a pop-up at may's oyster house. she's definitely onto something with the pop-ups to try to get some of these store fronts filled. i highly encourage anybody that wants to try a pop-up or something to that effect, that they -- you know, we give them a chance, because that's a great way to find out if they want to do small business in san francisco. >> great. i have one new business item. so it's my understanding that corporations can sponsor government activities, correct?

is there a mechanism for corporations to sponsor things like the legacy business program? >> well, there is. there is a process of doing accept and this happens with specific programs. >> the reason i ask is because one of the things that we could do to accelerate the legacy business program is to get more support on the onboarding side. we have one person who is not his sole responsible to onboard legacy business candidates. and so i think that if we wanted to reach out to a number of the large companies that have expressed interest in preserving small business in san francisco, like airbnb and square, they're

making significant donations to activities in the merchant corridors to individual merchant associations as well, that we could outreach to them and others if we had a specific ask. so for example, if we could fund a full-time position to assist with onboarding legacy businesses. i just think that program is such a hallmark of our commission and an area where we can have real significant impact, but it cost money and we're forever going to be budget constrained, and one of the best things we could do is have one or more sponsored positions. also internships. i was at square earlier this week, or last week, for a cdma meeting with square. and they had a number of interns in our meeting and i chatted with one of them who is a

princeton student, she was about to go back, but she said my internship has been awesome and i've been tagging around with the government outreach team and learning how this company is interacting with the city. it occurred to me, how could would it to be a get an internship at airbnb and you were to help legacy businesses? i think we should look into how could we facilitate these companies helping at a level making donations to san francisco city and county, and you know, all the p.r. benefits that come from that. especially with our program which is really, i think, shaping up, especially as we're finishing our branding program and start to roll that out. it will become a lot more visible. i know that the legacy business is grateful for the support they

receive getting through the process. if nothing else, there is the gratification of documented your history which you've never taken the time to do. not only for yourselves but for your children and grandchildren. there is nothing but feel-good out of that exercise. so the more of that we can do, beyond rent mitigation, all the potential financial benefits, but the mere benefit of going through the process of getting on the legacy business registry, i think is a beneficial one and one that we should try to do more than we do. because right now i feel like we're in a little bit of a reactive mode. again, that's part of your new supervisor orientation. here we are and one of the best things you can do is nominate legacy businesses, that gives them an opportunity to meet the businesses. a lot of times those owners are

the most active in their districts because they've been there a long time, and they've been fighting the good fight. those are the people the supervisors need to know any way, so it's a reason for them and their staff to outreach to them and say, hey, you're not on the legacy business registry, how can we make that happen? >> is 365 a legacy business? >> good question. >> commissioner dwigh >> commissioner dwight: look, i went to the opening of the terminal and closing of gumps this weekend. and it's just proof that even the most longstanding of institutions, whether it's fao schwartz, you name it, they come and go. and we all have to remember as small business owners and business owners in general, we're the first line of defense for our companies. we have to fight for ourselves.

and you know, whether it's the internet or amazon or a formula retailer or the city doing things that are kind of counter to our business interest. at the end the day, if we don't fight for ourself, we're going to go out of business. we can provide support. but even the most venerable businesses are vulnerable if they don't keep up with the times. and gump's admittedly didn't keep up with the times. whether they survive bankruptcy or not is to be seen, but there is a lot we can do to support businesses. >> can i ask a question of rick? >> commissioner dwight: sure. >> i'm the third or fourth owner of may's oyster house, it's the second oldest bar and restaurant

in san francisco. would i qualify for a legacy business? or you know, for the fact that i kept the name and kept the seafood going, et cetera, et cetera? >> there are three business criteria on the application process we look at. the business has to be 30 years old or older. there is exception for 20 years if they're at risk for displacement. they have to have added to the community or the city and then the third thing is have maintained their business model. so we look at all three of those. >> change of ownership is not a disqualification. >> that's what i'm asking, i'm sorry. >> change of location is fine. those don't affect the criteria. >> commissioner dwight: the answer is yes. >> i probably will do that with a blue light cafe, too, there is

another one. interesting. >> and so, commissioner dwight, we have met with both new supervisors' offices, we did meet with the aides of supervisor brown and i think one of their questions is always what is the outreach that you're doing? and at this point we're none, because we can't facilitate it. so i think to your point is, even the ability to take on new applications and help with that, but also the process of outreaching, and educating businesses of this opportunity, i think that's a good point to bring. and i think to your point of engaging the private sector, i don't know if commissioner corvi wasn't on the commission at the

time, but when the discussion of the creation of the legacy business was created, professor giles from usf had talked about engaging, especially with the larger legacy businesses to help support because we do have some very small businesses that, you know, probably would love to be on the legacy business registry. and especially those where english is not the first language, so the challenge of writing the application can be a challenge. so getting more support in that area to also bring on those -- >> you don't have to be writer to write a book, you just need to talk to someone who is a writer. so i think if we could fund again this onboarding and also to your point, outreach, we could fund more outreach efforts, especially as we have our tool kit with all the branding. it would be much easier for us

to really show, here's the package, here's the extra little bit of gloss you get to put on your business related to legacy business. that is helpful. but we should talk about how we can start outreaching. what is our ask to these businesses, corporations, who want to and have a stated goal of supporting small business? i think that there -- there is a huge demand for the ability to say we are putting our money where our mouth is to support small business, whether it's buying employee lunches from local restaurants to funding programs like this one. and this is low-hanging fruit if you're in the government affairs department of any of these companies to be supporting legacy business programs in san francisco. as unique as it is as well. and to be shouting that out to

not only within san francisco, but beyond where all of your others say, hey, look what we're doing in san francisco. we're not unique in the fact that small business is an endangered species in our city. every major city throughout the united states is experiencing gentrification and the displacement of small businesses. all the same reasons that we are. anyway, let's see how we can go reach into the pockets of our generous local businesses and have them support a very specific program. it's a lot different than saying we're going to levy a tax on you to pay for general things, or already heavily funded things like homelessness. big problem, you kind of hard to get your arms around that. you're throwing money into an awfully big pot there. but when you're donating money and you can donate a smaller pot highly directed and really see the results, that's where you

can get powerful -- it's a real powerful story and ability to sell that. enough said. >> but i think your point is, we could specifically reach out to the city attorney, so that you fully understand what we can do, what kind of ability to allow for the visual identity of the association of those that are contributing the money in terms of joint marketing. >> what i want staff to do is talk to the city attorney and any other departments that have to weigh in on this. what can we offer corporate san francisco to support the legacy business program specifically? because then we'll have -- here's what we're asking for. we want this to do this. we want this money to do this. and i think it would be

onboarding and advocacy, two major things, there may be others. let's find out. and does that mean can we fund a position? what are the -- i'm sure there are always kinds of issue with that, because there is the pension program. but it has to be sustainable. but then there are some things that don't have to be as sustainable. funding outreach programs, you can turn them on and off. you either buy the ads or you don't. if we could fund a stable position and then also fund p.r. efforts, that would be tremendous. and i think we could round up the funds to do that. so that's my -- that's what i'm gauging as i'm floating that idea with a few of the government affairs people. staff can report back to us. if we have no other new business, commissioners, i'll put it out to public comment. any public comment?

seeing none, public comment is closed. >> sf gov tv please show the slide. >> it is our custom to end with a reminder that the off thes of small businesses is the only place to start your small business in san francisco and the best way to get answers to questions about small business in san francisco. the office of small business should be where you go next. the small business commission is the public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you are a small business start here. item 8, adjournment. >> all in favor? >> aye. so be it. motion passes 4-0.

meeting is adjourned the 6:53 p.m. >> it's great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with.

>> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy her achbl heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy.

working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. i haven't tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. but here, we put a twist on it. why not have nutella, rocky

road, we have blue berry. we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally find from filipino food vendors, like the lichon, for example. it's something that it took years to come up with, to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor, and it's one of our most popular dishes, and people love it. this, it's kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. when i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually like our food. i think it's a wonderful

opportunity for the filipino culture to shine. everybody keeps saying filipino food is the next big thing. i think it's already big, and to have all of us here together, it's just -- it just blows my mind sometimes that there's so many of us bringing -- bringing filipino food to the city finally. >> i'm alex, the owner of the lumpia company. the food that i create is basically the filipino-american experience. i wasn't a chef to start with, but i literally love lumpia, but my food is my favorite foods i like to eat, put into my favorite filipino foods, put together. it's not based off of recipes i learned from my mom. maybe i learned the rolling technique from my mom, but the different things that i put in

are just the different things that i like, and i like to think that i have good taste. well, the very first lumpia that i came out with that really build the lumpia -- it wasn't the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon cheese burger lumpia. there was a time in our generation where we didn't have our own place, our own feed to eat. before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share the love. now, i'm taking the most

exciting filipino appetizer and sharing it with other filipinos. >> it can happen in the san francisco mint, it can happen in a park, it can happen in a street park, it can happen in a tech campus. it's basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the operating system. >> so right now, i'm eating something that brings me back to every filipino party from my childhood. it's really cool to be part of the community and reconnect with the neighborhood. >> one of our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers.

when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out

there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones.

we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that energy,

>> this is a meeting of the recreation and park commission. would the clerk please call the roll. [roll call] >> clerk: commissioner bonilla has an excused absence. today is august 16. if you could please turnoff any sound producing devices during the meet being. if you would like to have a secondary conversation, we would ask that you go outside in order to proceed as efficiently as possible. if you would like to speak on any item today, we request but do not require that you

complete a blue card. commissioner, will each person have three minutes on each item? >> yes. >> okay. you will have three minutes for each item on public comment today. if there is an item of interest to you that is not on calendar but falls under the jurisdiction of the recreation and park commission, that is item four, and then, continued again on item 12. please address your comments to the commission during public comment on items. in order to allow equal time for all, neither commission nor staff will respond to questions during public comment. the commission may ask questions to staff after public comment is closed. if the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate the building using an orderly fashion in any exit. if you do need assistance

getting out of the building, please make your way to the closest area of refuge, which is across the haul in the men's rest room. if you go into the men's rest room, press the button, announce your name, and security will assist you. i need to announce two changes on the calendar. the first is item 5-e on the consent calendar will be taken off of consent and will be heard on the general calendar. the second is item nine, margaret hayward playground renovation has been taken off calendar and will not be heard today. with that, we will get started on the president's report. >> there is no president's report. >> approved. >> okay. is there any public comments? seeing none, public comment is cles. we're on item three, the general manager's report. >> that's pressure, and i'm not going to live up to it, but be

relatively brief. this past weekend, i wanted to offer an outside lands wrap up. this past weekend was the annual outside lands concert. the three day festival featured 83 local restaurants, 41 local wienerys, 31 local brewerys, and a series of local artists, comedian, and speakers, including our former mayor, gavin newsom spoke. he was not the headliner, however. those were the weekend, florence and the machine, and miss jackson herself, janet jackson. this incident has become woven into the fabric and culture of our city. it also generates enormous economic activity, according to a 2017 economic impact report,

in 2017 numbers, the festival pumped $67.8 million into the san francisco economy and 75 million into the entire bay area. it created the equivalent of 75 full-time local jobs. over the past decade, the festival's contributed over 20 million to san francisco's parks. it pays the salary of a full-time gardener for the department and also contributes approximately 15 to $20,000 in material and supplies to repair and upgrade all of the areas in which the event is held. we do want to thank another planet entertainment, super fly presents, all of the staff for hosting this uniquely san francisco event each year. we know that this can be an inconvenience, we know that there's sound, that there's

people, that there's congestion, and we work very hard with our neighborhood organizations and the festival itself each year to minimize the neighborhood impacts. so we appreciate everybody for coming. we had over 200,000 people visiting the park this weekend. i wanted to give an update about camp mather. earlier this week, we made a decision to cancel the rest of the camp season at mather. the decision does affect the scheduled annual senior week -- [no audio] >> -- and our employee weekend for rec park staff and retirees.

i do want to state with respect to our outdoor teen experience, we're pivoting on that and we've partnered with juvenile probation and dcyf and mayor breed and her administration were planning a really lovely day for about 60 kids with a variety of outdoor activities including some lake time and a barbecue over in the east bay, some kayaking and canoeing for kids that won't be up at camp mather. through the past three weeks, we've been in contact with the tuolomne county public management and safety agencies, cal forest, our own department of emergency management, fire department, department of public health and of course our mayor's office, and we've all coordinated very well together on all of the impacts caused by the fires up in the sierras,

both tuolomne county and san francisco health officials released health advisories on july 30 due to hazardous air quality, and while the air quality is very recently improved in the area, power and phone service remains unreliable because of some infrastructure damaged by the wildfires. given that, we thought it best given the nature of the upcoming visits to postpone them. it's always difficult to cut people's vacation short, but mather is very resilient, and we're looking forward to another great season next year. hopefully, as you were walking in, you'll notice the civic center cafe talking shape. that is poepg in early october, so i'll be back in november with an announcement with that. we continued with our third thursday event. this is a civic center commons hosted initiative.

every third thursday of the month through october, from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m., and i guess today is thursday, so i'm talking about tonight, you can go out to civic center commons and join us for live entertainment, food trucks, off the grid, we have beach volleyball, food, beverages, and they're really starting to take root. for your information, you can givest go to civiccenterorganization.com. looking ahead, on saturday, august 25, at 3:00 p.m., fans of the historic boat playground

in golden gate park with literally and thank you elton pond and ryan kelly who wrote this are literally flush with excitement as we get ready to celebrate the opening of the park's rest room. the rest room which received tremendous support from supervisor katey tang. i actually think that's an understatement. supervisor tang very much drove this initiative on behalf of her constituents, and the 45th avenue neighborhood association will now allow neighbors to stay longer and play longer at the playground, which is so named because of the park's feature, a metal dorry, otherwise known as a boat. the give way will include a ceremonial first flush, which you're all invited to participate in. and then, saturday, september 8, we want to invite everybody

to golden gate park tennis center, where we will let the games begin. please come and join the tennis coalition, and rec and park celebrating the launch of the public phase of our campaign in the new golden gate tennis center. it includes a fun day of on court activities, games for kids, food trucks, a pickle ball demonstration, and a watch party for the u.s. open women's final. the event will help kick off the final set of fund raising to rhenvate the 124-year-old tennis facility which will also include new toilets. nobody -- okay. fall registration. it's not too early to think head for fall. fall registration for classes going on now. we're offering over 1300

classes in our fall season. we already had 10,000 slots filled in less than one week of registration for fall. already, 556 scholarships have been offered to community members valuing well over $100,000. please come out, and we have an amazing set of activities for the fall. and as we think about fall, let's take one look back, and our video today is summer, and then, i know that richard rothman, and he can come up during public comment and he wants to come up during general comment for something else, but why don't we wrap up here, ryan, with our look back and summer wrap up.

>> thank you, ryan, and a special shout out to lorraine banford and the park and recreation division. this is their hardest season, and they just deliver an

outstanding, outstanding community service to san franciscans. >> hear, hear. >> and that's the general manager's report. >> thank you very much. >> public comment on this item? this is on the general manager's report, okay, not general public report. >> i'm friends of jackson park, and a ten year enjoyment of the outside lands festivals, so i wanted to thank you for your support of this festival and thank you, phil, and your staff. it was amazing. there was a lot of moving parts. there was a lot of moving parts, and staff was on it. it was great, and i thank you guys for supporting this, and i look forward to many more years of that. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> next speaker.

>> richard rothman, vice chair, the parks and open space advisory committee. at this last meeting, we had james wheeler, a park manager come and talk about camp mather, and it was very informative about the -- i guess the virus out break there and how they dealt with the fire. i think we all got a better understanding of the issues of camp mather. and the other item on our agenda, stephen franz, who's our chair, did an excellent presentation about how to setup a friends group and went into great detail, so if any of the public or commissioners know of a group that's interested in setting up a friends group or neating more information, i'll volunteer him. i'm sure he had -- needing more information, i'll volunteer him. i'm sure he'd be happy to come and talk about how to setup a

friends group and how they can support the parks in their areas and rec and park. and the other thing i wanted to comment on was i live right here the outside lands, and i must say after eight years, i figured out how to deal with the parking issue, and it was pretty well run, and i didn't hear many complaints. the main was with muni. i understand the vendor is going to have an outside traffic consultant, and i hope that'll be shared with the public. so, you know, every year, there's always room for improvement. so we'd like to see that community. and also, since the richmond district gets the most impact, maybe a little bit of the funds can go to help pay for a gardener, or have a party for the district one residents,

since we have to put up with -- not put up, but make an inconvenience for this one and the strictly harley and the marathon that runs through. they all seem to run within two months of each other, so thank you. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else who would like to make public comment under the general manager's report? >> well, i always appreciate the general manager's report, but i'd like to make a friendly suggestion, if i may. i do enjoy the summer wrap ups, but they're mostly focused on the first part of department name, which is recreation. could i suggest that we perhaps have something similar at future meetings with park issues, and in addition to the recreation. thank you. >> thank you. >> so noted. thank you. >> is there anyone else? okay. there being no further public comment, this item is closed.

>> commissioner mazzolo? >> i know it was a hard decision for camp mather. the local i operate for, we had to make the same decision and cancel everything because of the smoke and the ash. i get it. safety and health comes first. a question, just out of curiosity, did the maintenance people go up and actually close it all down or are you waiting to do that? >> not yet. >> not yet. >> i'm actually -- we're tracking -- still tracking air quality for staff very, very carefully, and air quality has improved up there. >> yeah. >> we just made a decision this past year, so we're probably going to stick, commissioner, to our normal closeout schedule, which i believe it's september 10. >> okay. and then, the other, just to comment on the new bathroom and the first flush, i don't know

if you were around, but we had the royal flush when they built at&t park, it used to be pac bell park where the giants play, and they flushed all the toilets at once to make sure that the sewers could handle it. so we had the royal flush, and hopefully, we can do that for the warriors arena. >> i had a royal flush once. >> thank you both for the interesting comments. >> down the drain. >> oh. >> may we go to item four? >> please, quickly. >> we are now on item four, general public comment, up to 15 minutes. this item will be continued to item 12 if need be. at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest. -- interest to the public that are in the subject matter jurisdiction.

within the agenda item, you will have the opportunity to address the commission when that item is reached in the meeting. i have three cards, i have scott, richard, and jude. >> my name is scott brothman, and i'm back again. six months ago, i e-mailed ago the near perfect failure of rec and park staff to respond to my multiple inquiries. onnd month, beverly ng good respond to me and sent me another insignificant e-mail yesterday, you are fundamentally civil servants, starting with respect and integrity. i have also contacted several

people. responding to my e-mail to the trust for public land, he dismissed my concerns because the final product was approved by d.b.i., the mayor's office, and a certified program safety inspector. she showed no concern for the children who the playground exists. the holes in fences couldn't be as enticing as the holes in the egg shaped huts, and it goes without saying you are a bad guardian if you bring two or more children to the play. [inaudible] >> i guess the community,

including those with small children in their lives. clamored for a fence that would fail to function as a fence. i have e-mailed and spoken with mis-wilson, the executive director of the bay area children and women's center to get the original park built so the children could have a safe place to play. miss wilson's response, that's disturbing about the fence. i also called the california park and recreation society. they train playground safety inspectors. i person i spoke with assured me that my reading of california health and safety code is correct. recently i had begun circulating a petition available in ten languages to demand the fences be fixed. more than 80 people have already signed, and -- >> you have 30 seconds. >> and children's program staff as well as the principal, assistant principal and almost all of the teacher and support

staff at tenderloin community school. in the meantime, i still expect you to fix the fences and provide a full accounting of how you managed to circumvent state law and subjugate your authority. [inaudible] >> thank you. i might ask, just as a note, that to get a clarification on the state law at some point. >> commissioner, this issue has been well researched. the gentleman doesn't like our answer. we've responded to him and told him that the playground meets all of our safety standards. >> thank you. commissioner anderson, you had a question? >> i just wanted to wait till the end. >> being on. wait till the end. go ahead. >> richard. >> hi. richard rothman. i want to talk about murals,

first one about coit tower. as you know, i'm a city guide and give tours up there, and i'm not talking on behalf of city guides. supervisor peskin office setup a working group about -- talking about coit tower and the area surrounding it. and this past summer, oh, it's between memorial day and labor day, it gets very, very crowded up at coit tower. and the people who want to go up there and just see the murals cannot see the murals because of the lines inside. and last time when i gave a tour, the lines were over halfway around the building. most of the people in line were either on their iphone, talking to other people, feeding their kids, and not really paying attention to the murals.

and rec and park and the vendor have been very reluctant to make changes that on summer days, the lines could be outside and so that the people who want to enjoy the murals -- these are probably some of the most important murals, certainly, in the city and maybe in the country, and certainly, the first ones in this era and are very important, and femalpeople, yo know, come from all over to see the murals. so i just hope we can find a solution and that rec and park and the vendor are a little more flexible. this only happens between memorial day and labor day; otherwise, it's not an issue. and the other thing i want to talk about, supervisor tang gave the project $400,000, the last of the work, the masonry

work has just started. there'll be some money leftover. i just posted on the friends of the mothers building an article by this researcher in texas on the importance of the murals of the women artists and their -- and how they played in the -- in the women's movement. and we're still looking for the $6 million to do the next phase of the work. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good morning again, jude duckenbach, friend of the park. i'm here to advocate for increasing the 2019 parks bond so that many park projects can have the funds to do their project. we as jackson park would like to have a straight flush just to be able to get new bathrooms in there.

the after school program doesn't allow them to use the men's bathroom. it's bad -- in bad condition at this time. we know that it's a difficult situation, but we are working with rec park, with parks alliances, and with all the constituents to see what we can do to help increase this bond. sf planning shows that 40,000 new workers are moving into our corridor. as you know, the east side of the city is observing a lot of development, both housing and commercial developments, and so more office space, airbnb decided a huge lease four blocks from the park, and they're there every day, so they're park users also. so we thank you for your support of that, and we look forward to consideration. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else who would like to make general public comment, come on up. >> thank you again, commissioners. i am here on this item to mention is that to remind you that this year is the

centennial of the world war i armistice signing in 1918. i'm organizing events and exhibits around the centennial, and i've been working very happily with the department on a monument in golden gate park. it's called the hero's grove. next year will be the centennial of the planting of the redwood grove that was a memorial that still stands, fortunately. still stands as a memorial to the nearly 1,000 bay area people who died, men and women who died in world war i. i'm here to extend an invitation that i will elect to follow up with secretary macarthur that on the 25 of this month at noon there will be a commemoration at mother's

rock which was appreciated and installed by the city in 1932. it contains the names of men and women who died in world war i, and the committee has worked close we with my volunteer and armistice. we will have at noon a memorial ceremony that will acknowledge the installation of two memorial older seating that we're having installed in the site. not many people knew or still know about hero's grove, but i think this year in addition to the john j.pershing statue, they have three monuments in the park. on november 11, with secretary of state george shulze, i'm

hosting a centennial event in the green room at the memorial building and to remind you that we have both the green opera house and the veteran's memorial building as a monument to world war i. that will be on the 11th, the actual signing of the armistice. i do want to say i appreciate the work with the department on our project for august the 25. thank you. >> is there anyone else? okay. being done, public comment is closed. >> commissioner anderson, you wanted to make a comment? >> yeah. well, the gentleman who raised the safety issue about the children's playground and the civic center has left, but i wanted to just respond generally that we are very appreciative of all of our volunteers and activists and advocates out in the community. i want to thank everybody particularly the people who come to public comment, and you're help us keep an eye on

things. you are our additional eyes andeers, and we take the safety of the park users very seriously and particularly, the safety of our children. if you see something that seems amiss, i hope that you will continue to contact us. i know that we have looked into the civic center playground issue very seriously. you know, if you have a question about it, i invite you, when you leave city hall, to go out there and take a look. you know, if you have anymore comments, let us know, but we take it very, very seriously. myself is a mother of two children, and i would never want anything to harm any of us using the parks or anywhere. >> thank you. >> okay. we are now on item five, the consent calendar. as noted at the beginning of the meeting, item 5-e has been removed from the consent calendar, so is there any public comment on the consent calendar, with the excepti