all the activity that has gone on to increase our outreach to l.b.e. and the fact that we should be increasing. i think that is phenomenal. can you please give me a breakdown of the l.b.e. for the contracts awarded? >> the contracts awarded during this reporting period, we had six contracts awarded. of the six, three went to l.b.e. firms, 50% of them. two of those want to o.b.e. firms, and one went to the business enterprise. >> percentages meaning, in dollars? >> i don't have those numbers in front of me. i can tell you that if we take out the outlier. >> no. [laughter]. >> total. >> i can provide that. >> if you can just let me know,

i would like to know that. and we always assess question because i really want to know if we are increasing equity in contracting at all. also, for the giants and forth for pier 70, those are both such huge contracts that i would like to see it broken out. i want to know who they are contracting with, what firms are being used, whether percentages are, but not just the numbers, and then mission rock, how much has been spent over ten years already? what have they been doing over the last ten years? i don't need to know that 40% of the respondents were o.b.e. you know, what have they actually spent, and what have they spent with the l.b.e. that would be great to know for future reports. >> i will include that in future

reports. >> thank you, thank you so much for this. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> item hbs informational update on deferred found issuance request and the amount of $45.8 million for the $425 million general obligation bonds to support phase i of the seawall, earthquake safety and disaster prevention program. >> good evening, commissioners. i am the port c.f.o., and i will endeavor to make this quick. i am here this afternoon with an informational presentation regarding the first proposed sale of the 2018 seawall bond. staff plans to return to commission at your next meeting on march 26th to ask for approval to submit a request to the mayor and the board of supervisors for the sale and appropriation of this first round of geo bond funding.

as you know, nearly 80 3% of san francisco voters approved a $425 million general obligation bond to fund improvements to the embarcadero seawall this past november. port staff -- they have been doing our due diligence and are proposing a first bond sale and the amount of $45.8 million plus the additional cost of issuance. the proceeds from this first sale would support planning and preliminary design for phase one of the seawall program. the bond measure received such strong voter approval because san franciscans recognize the critical role that the seawall plays in protecting tcd assets including transportation and utility infrastructure, emergency response facilities, and billions of dollars in

economic activity. throughout the program, the port has articulated six key goals to act quickly, minimize damage, improve resilience, enhance our landscapes, preserve economic resources, and engage the community. this first bond sale will help to support each of these goals. staff propose that proceeds from the first bond sale will fund program management including port staff, program development, project planning including technical engineering work such as site and geotechnical investigation, risk assessments, and alternatives analysis, and identification of potential pilot projects as well as stakeholder engagement and preliminary design. additionally we are proposing to use -- as you all know, the port

was awarded a new start from the army court last fall. since then, port staff and jacob's, which was formally pill , our engineering consultant , have been working very hard with the army court of engineering on the flood study. while our r.f.p. from our contract with jacobs envisions that the port might add flood control work to the contract, the contract that the board and this commission approved did not actually include that scope of work, so port staff expects that it is possible that we will return to the commission set at some point in the next month with a request to increase our contract scope with jacobs. this would also require approvals from the city charge it civil service commission as

well as from the board of supervisors. as you can see, the section highlighted here in green on the schedule slide shows that the port expects that the first bond sale will fund seawall program activities through june of 2021. the port continues to budget $500 million for phase one of the wall program and staff continues to seek sources, including contributions to the state and development of special taxes defines the remaining $54 million gap in phase i. the first bond sale will reimburse $6 million of the 9 million-dollar realm that the city charge at revolving capital fund made to the seawall program we would anticipate reimbursing the remaining $3 million.

at the porch is also proposing to reimburse $3 million in port capital that it has contributed to the seawall program to date, allowing us to reapply those funds to seawall program work that is not bond eligible. today is the first in a series of presentation -- presentations and approvals that are necessary to complete and appropriate the bond sale. staff will appear at the city charge a capital planning committee on monday, march 25th , and as i mentioned, return to the port commission for its approval on the bond sale. we hope to introduce legislation at the board of supervisors on april seconds. we will then have a hearing at the board touch a budget and finance committee, and are targeting board approval for the bond sale on april the 23rd. if all goes according to plan, we will sell the bonds in the

middle of may and then have proceeds in hand by the middle of june. well port staff are deeply appreciative of the passage of this general obligation bond, we continue to seek a wide range of resources to fund both phase one of the program, as well as the next phases of work, which we estimate may cost up to $5 billion over the next 20 or 30 years. we all appreciate the work of the lifetime. we are very proud to be showing the start of their protected waterfront and the city. i am more than happy to answer questions. >> thank you. is there any public comment on this item? seeing him, public comment has closed. >> who does the selling, do we pick the company, or does another agency?

>> the office of public finance manages the geo bond sale, so they pick the finance manager and the bond people. >> and do you happen to know, do they have a pool of people? >> yes, they do. >> yes, they do. >> do we have any say and how we direct -- >> they check in, but my response to them, they have a pool, they run through their list in order and they asked me if we had any objections, and i said to the people who were next in line, i said no. >> i just see this as an opportunity for the programs and beliefs that we had. it is our bonds, and we would be able to give it to a particular contractor that we want to give

a san francisco business to. so i would just throw that out, and if we really do have the action and we are just yielding completely to another agency -- >> we do have that action. because this is a general obligation bonds that the voters to repay. the office of public finance has that responsibility. we know there are lb programs, and very also share our goals. >> i hope everyone shares our goals, but delivering them, sometimes a little prodding is more successful. who is bond council? >> i don't know. we are waiting for the city attorney to find the bond council for the sale and then we have a revenue bond refinancing. they have an r.f.p. out and we

are waiting for them to select. >> is there an update? >> i don't know who they selected. but when it comes to the issuance of nec bonds including port bonds, that the city attorney's office selects a prime contractor that would be dedicated towards port property and port bond sales as well as a co- bond council so there would be what they typically referred to as a majority form and an o.b.e. firm, and they will quote me and it. >> who negotiates the fee? and do we have control of that and can renegotiate it? that is managed by the office of public finance. >> do they charged our fee on the 458 or do they charge the fee based on the cumulative bond sales that they will do for the day. >> it will be on our 45 a.

there are cases where you might partner with another agency that is also selling bonds at that time that were -- but -- that were alone in this sale. >> do we fill out the financial statement based on the port? >> it is a city charge a financial statement. >> thank you. >> president adams? >> i appreciate the good question. it is good to see you present, i hope you present more often. >> i'm glad to be here. >> thank you. no, this is good, and i see that on our next meeting, we will vote on this. >> yes, we will bring it as an action item. >> it seems like things are going pretty good. i will look forward to when you come back. it seems like you have a lot of support for the path, to the bond sale, and clearly it is what we are meant to do.

>> katy, thank you so much for this presentation. this is exciting. a lot of good stuff happening. i want to make sure that once we approve this, this is just for the bond setting. if once we decide how we are going to spend the money, then you are going to come back to us , or this goes into the capital budget, or how does that work? >> we'll be taking two pieces of legislation to the board of supervisors. a resolution appointing disapproving the bond sale, any supplemental appropriation ordinance appropriating the proceeds from the sale. so that becomes the budget authority for that $45 million. >> and so the appropriation is in here? [laughter]. >> yeah. >> so the items that we come

back to you with at the next commission meeting would be requesting the commission's approval as to forward of a request to the mayor and the board of supervisors both for the sale and as well as for the appropriation of funds. so by the time we come back to you, we should have a draft supplemental appropriation ordinance for you to review. >> we shouldn't have that for the info item? >> i think what katy is going to show is a budget item which is overwhelmingly designed and an engineering contract, but we can break it down into a subcomponent, and then there is an additional contract.

we will do the budget peace, and if you need additional time, let us know if you need to watch what reads. >> okay. >> i am just here to listen. [laughter] >> are you finished? if i can just loop around. i think we are just bellow -- better off. if we are selling bonds, at the end of the day we will publish

something different. because of the cost and everything that is associated. it gets added on. >> it is a 458 plus -- >> i think we are doing basically half a million and we share these moments and we know we are competitive. it just doesn't get lost. we wake up ten years from now or five years from now and say, hey , you approved these bonds, and we spent $25 million on costs. the transparency, i think would be helpful, because we will continue to go to the public and ask them for money, and we have the whole seawall to fund and following fair cost for all of this, particularly since we are not putting a bid, particularly because we are not in charge, i think we should create

transparency for checks and balances of their figures. >> okay. commissioner, specifically, are you talking about the transaction costs for the bond, or are you talking about the overall budget for the 45.8? >> for the cost. the council, selling them -- >> okay. we will work with them to get a fight -- an estimate for what we expect the transaction cost to be, and once a transaction is complete, we can report back on what they actually were. >> i'm not sure if i did not introduce my colleagues, but we will bid up cheaper than what we are going to take. that will give us our own sense of how the market will treat us in the future of our bond. >> we can do that. >> any other comments? >> no. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> item nine is new business. >> i would like to make a special point of -- i would love to get the commissioner's

comments on president brandon about the navigation. i think it ought to be on the records. she was here for most of this discussion, if it is okay, i would like for her to put her comments on record. >> i think that given all the comments that we did here from the public, i think the process was a little bit accelerated and i think that i would have differed that we need to have the mayor's office of homeless work with the community more on some of their issues and concerns. i think we are just the landlord and we are trying to be good and work well with city hall. i think we do understand the issue of homelessness, and i think the couple things that i thought we heard before all the comments were related to the size, the location, the safety, and the purpose is that on the one hand, we do know that we

want to the wall to have the best and highest use and this is always a not the best. if he were to proceed with the interim use and if the community was comfortable with all the issues that they raise -- raised , if the homeless, if the department of homeless can edify their concerns, that i think i would have suggested that we have a very clear transition plan in the lease way before the end of the lease, because this is an interim use, i think from the port commission standpoint, i would say we have to make a very clear it is an interim use. it is not a permanent use. that not -- that may not be according to what the public has said, but from our perspective, would you want to get the best and highest use in the long term , but there isn't -- we also want to work within the city family, and i don't think that we are in a position to address all of the issues that the public raised within the port commission, and i think it had to be deferred and sent back to

city hall and the department of homelessness to address those concerns in more detail, and i think the process has to be a little bit more detailed and probably the speed of this was too fast. the community was not ready, and i don't know if they ever will be ready, and i did not have the benefit of all the comments of my fellow commissioners in terms of what their reactions are. i think we want to be able to work with everybody. i think we want it to be a win-win for everybody. today, we are not in a win-win situation with the community and with city hall and ourselves. that is still missing in the equation. >> okay. , anymore new business? seeing none, can i have a motion

-- >> motion to adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. [laughter] san francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and

preparedness, not only for san francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] >> fire station 35 was built in 1915. so it is over 100 years old. and helped it, we're going to build fire boat station 35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on sea level rise. >> the station 35, construction cost is approximately $30 million. and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in china, and will be brought

to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of sea level rise over the next 100 years. that's what the city's guidance is requiring. it is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. so if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. >> it does have a full

range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. so that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. >> the fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. >> the access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. in that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utility's only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. so electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. >> high boat station

number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. >> currently we're staffed with seven members per day, but the fire department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. looking into the future, we have not only at&t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. >> there are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. we're looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but they're the only good reference

point. we look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. >> it is very unique. i don't know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. >> the fire boat is a regionalesset tharegional assete used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. we have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. this is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. we're proud to serve our community. and we're willing to help

>> we would also ask that you take any secondary conversations outside. if you would like to speak on an item today, we would request, boot do not require that you complete a blue card. if you like to speak on an item that is not on the agenda but does fall under the jurisdiction of this commission, you may speak under general public

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press it, city hall security will answer it. let them know where you are at, and they will assist you. and with that, we are an item number 2, the president report. >> thank you very much. i will be brief, but let me note that we are coming to the conclusion of women's history month and we have a woman in the audience who made history in city hall and at the recreation and park department. it is a real pleasure to welcome mary burns back to city hall. [applause] >> i see behind you we are welcoming in number of old colleagues back to city hall. it is nice to see them all smiling and here for a very nice occasion. with that, i will turn it over to the general manager to make some appropriate comments. >> are we still -- >> this is not the general manager's reports. it is an invitation to weigh in on this subject and keep this

part of the program going. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. president. it is an honor to guest star in president's report. [laughter] >> commissioners, we have the very distinct honor of recognizing a true pioneer and someone who blazed a trail in san francisco, and in the bay area at large. as you noted, marches women's history month, and today we are honored to have with us the san francisco recreation and department his very first female juror -- general manager, mary burns, who served in that capacity from 1985 to 1996 under dianne feinstein, agnew his anne frank jordan, servant for one mayor is a challenge, serving for three is a true testament to your fortitude, mary. she was one of only nine female department heads in the city in the mid-1980s. during her tenure, she supported

a 75 million-dollar bond to improve golden gate park infrastructure, worked with a variety of city groups and organizations on a successful tax measure for parks, oversaw the groundbreaking of the world-renowned national eighth grove in golden gate park, and welcome to 70,001 pope for a mass at candlestick park in 1987 that would be john paul ii. former staff members remember her cultivation of a work environment that allowed for creative solutions, and a real focus on working with teens and communities of colour. under her leadership, programs like the newspaper and friday nate fun or launched. after her tenure at the recreation and park department, she went on to consulting for a time, and then from 1998 to 2004 , she was the director of the san mateo county parks department, and in 2004, she became the manager of the sonoma county parks system. she was also active with the bay

area ridge trail council. since her retirement, she began writing and has penned many short stories recounting her memories from her years of public service and what i would say is that your legacy more than lives on in this department we went through a strategic planning process. in 2015, in which our department as a whole came up with five organizational values. they are respect, responsiveness , a focus on relationships, resilience, and results, and you exemplified those values to a tee, so your legacy continues in the recreation and parks department in 2019. we are so delighted to have you here and to have the opportunity to recognize your achievements. we stand on your shoulders as we try to move the ball forward, and we are so grateful for you

and for your years of service. [applause] >> mary, lest you think we purchased this, we grew it. [laughter] >> that is sweet. >> i had to install it and uninstall it, that's what i had

to do. [indiscernible] >> i will ask mary to say a few words and then i will encourage

anyone who came here to help honor her to weigh in if they would like. with that, welcome, mary burns. by the way, i knew mary back in the day. i worked for joelle leota when he was mayor and i volunteered for a lot of dianne's feinstein his efforts. mary and i crossed paths many times and i was the better for it. >> madame general manager, the mic is yours. >> thank you. i am so thrilled. i can't tell you how much i appreciate what you are doing for me, and if you don't mind, i have a few stories i would like to share. i am writing my memoirs, and so far, i am only writing the fun ones. [laughter]

>> but we had -- it was a very different day when i was general manager, for one thing, we had both the zoo and candlestick park, which took a lot of focus and effort, but i was very, very interested. parks and recreation, through a very early age. i volunteered in a learn to swim program one my hometown, i think i was about 15 and helped mom his learn to teach their small children how to swim. and then i went on to become a water safety and a playground director, and i still can use my playground voice when i need to. anyway, and i went to san francisco state and i had wonderful tales from their too, but i went to work for -- i

started volunteering in political campaigns. the first person i ever volunteered for was for john burden. john sends his greetings. i talked to him a few days ago. so then i worked for the state legislature. at the time, we had a planning director whose name was alan jacobson, and he was very supportive of parks and recreation. he just completed the open space for the city's master plan, and i was working for willie brown at the time. he came to me and said, would we sponsor -- would we sponsor the

candlestick state recreational area to be made a state park? it was just open space at the time. we took it to the legislature. the guy who was director of the parks informed us there was no place for urban parks in the system, if you can imagine. anyways, that was while -- he got his comeuppance. >> it was the first of many. the other thing that alan had came up with was this idea of having a lot more parks and trying to get parks in high need to neighborhoods, which were the minority neighborhoods, especially a category called waterfront hilltops and other spaces. we met for a year and dorothy's living room. we were coming up with an idea

to create a special tax tax set-aside called the open space fund. that is how that came into being we went on the ballot, and it didn't pass the first time, and i was very surprised because it did not pass in most of the high needs neighborhoods, so i went out and i had context in almost every one of those neighborhoods i went out and met with them and i said, why on earth did in past and to a person they said, because we want the parks, we would love the parks, but there is no money for maintenance, and we don't want to have the parks come into being and not to be maintained, because then the neighborhoods will be blamed for that, which is a very valid points. we went on the balance a second time and it passed. we are still gaining the benefits from that, so that was something else that i was very proud to work on.

and then i went to work for centre moscow knee and worked for him in the senate office for a year before he was elected mayor and moved into city hall when he was mayor. i lived through the first awful thing which was the passage of prop 13, where i was responsible for helping cut the budget, which really distrust me, but anyway, we had a lot of good things happen, a lot of support, and of course, george and harvey milk were assassinated to, and i worked for dianne feinstein in the mirror's office for two years before i came up to recreation and park. i was the assistant general manager for a few years and then a general manager. while i was general manager, i was very, very fortunate to have a wonderful staff, and i remember thinking, and hearing

it from somebody else, it's like the proverbial turtle on a fence post. it didn't get there by itself. i had wonderful staff that helped us do all kinds of things the infrastructure bond for golden gate park, i was told by 50 directors from around the country, that no no infrastructure bond would ever pass, not only did it pass, but it passed by 80% in the mission district and the bayview hunter 's point. so that was spectacular. then we finished the golden gate park reforestation plan and began implementing that. we had had a flyover of the park , and it showed a lot of the trees were almost dead. they had planted the trees whose

lifespan was 125 years old, and they were reaching the end of their lifespan, plus the ones at the west end of the park were hit by the salt air and breezes and they were in a really sad shape and they protected the rest of the park, so we came up with a plan that divided the golden gate park into 1200 squares, and the plan was never passed. two of those plans adjacent to each other replaced it to save times of the public would never know that these trees were being replaced, then a big issue came up because we needed to get rid of the wood of the trees that we were trapping -- chopping down, and the purchasing department went out to bid on that and did not find any bidders, so we almost said -- set golden gate park on fire because. [laughter] >> because the pile of deadwood and branches and stuff for all

composting themselves, so that was a bit of a setback, but the other thing -- [laughter] >> the only thing, going back to the fact that we had -- that was a really interesting deal because when dianne feinstein was mayor, eddie referred to candlestick as a pigsty. mayor feinstein was not pleased, so we got a whole bunch of money to fix it up and they were all kinds of improvements that we made, but we also -- the americans disabilities act had passed, and the a.d.a. coordinator insisted that we put braille signage in the room. [laughter] >> i refused. i said let him sue me, i will not be on the front page of the paper with that.

>> that is hilarious. >> anyway, as phil said, the pope's mass at candlestick, candlestick was built, there were far more men that went to games than women. there was no such thing as parity, and when we came to the mass, there were many, many more women. undiscovered that all over the area the nuns were in the men's room keeping the them and -- men out so women didn't have to wait in the line so long. [laughter] >> one of my favorite things that happened here, and i was so fortunate to be in the shop and have so many wonderful opportunities, were the mayor

feinstein who always wanted to get pandas for the san francisco zoo, and they were an endangered species, and the american association zoological parks and aquariums forbade pandas being taken out of the file and distributed to the zoos all over the world, so the chinese government would make a gift of pandas to the capitals of the countries, but not to zoos like san francisco zoo. that did not deter the mayor on a six-month loan we were

successful. i didn't know how long i have, can i tell a little bit longer of a story? >> it is your microphone. [laughter]. >> you will like this one. we went to china and the negotiations were amazing, we drope -- drink copious amounts of tea all through the negotiations. they took four days and they told us that since we were guests of the government of china, we would be taken around to see all kinds of other things , so one day they said we will go up to see the great wall of china, and we did, and of course, you can see it from satellite pictures they put it together before they had submit it. they put it together with rice water and dirt and kept it all

of these centuries in place. during the course of our little tour, they told us they would have lunch at the restaurant at the great wall of china, and the chef had managed to get something that african up -- every american loved to eat. we were told by the state department before we went that the chinese said we should take our cues from them, so we went through every lunch and dinner. we went through nine courses, and he said now the chef will bring out the specials. he said they cleared all the table, brought out new plates and chopsticks, and the door to the kitchen swings open, and the chef comes out, and he has a big silver tray with a silver dome over the top of it, and somebody had put a pedestal in the middle

of the table and he sets it down on the pedestal, and with a great flourish, pulled the top off the tray, and there and all of its glory, was an unopened loaf of wonder bread. [laughter] >> nobody laughed. it wasn't a joke. i have since talked to a woman i was thinking of who was chinese, and she said, that would have cost a fortune, and they went to a great deal of trouble to do that. so we each had two pieces of plano wonder bread that we would eat with chopsticks. >> oh, my goodness. >> and then i broach the next chapter of the story that is called pandemonium, for when it was at the zoo. we will have to -- you will have to read my book when it comes out. >> we look forward to it, mary.

thank you, very, very much. [applause] >> i will invite anybody from the general public at this point that would like to weigh in on behalf of mary and jim lazarus. >> three minutes. >> president, members of the commission, it is great to be back and great to be with mary. i've had the privilege of working with mary for many, many years. as many of you know, i was a deputy city attorney. i worked with mayor feinstein when mary was general manager, and one of the major differences , mary had to count for every park from the management by objective program, the number of tulip bulbs and other flowers planted per park to meet the annual goal, and i would suggest that the department suggested the general manager today that you do the same thing now. it's a privilege to read a pocket -- proclamation from

senator feinstein to mary. in honor of your recognition during women's history month, you have dedicated your life to the preservation of open space, enhancement of parks and access to recreation for all communities. under your tenure as head of the parks department in san francisco, san mateo, and sonoma counties, parks and open space sought increased financial support, new partnerships, and dramatic capital improvement. as your senator from the state of california, i congratulate you on this achievement and wish you continued success in the years to come. [applause] >> hello. my name is connie o'connor and i had the great pleasure of serving with mary as the commission president while she was the general manager, at that time, we had all the responsibilities that you have now.

i had fun working with her and phil and shawna and all the people at recreation and park, and her intellect, i mean i was amazed constantly at how much she knew about everything. she probably didn't know how many tulips there were at any given time. anyway, thank you for your service to this city, and thank you for making my tenure so easy , you really made me look good at the time. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> is there anyone else would like to come forward and speak? if so, please come forward.

>> good morning, commissioners. my name is bill along. i am the former chair of the bay area ridge trail council, still a board member. our organization was blessed, truly blessed by mary's involvement over more then a decade. our general manager can't be here today because of a conflict and that is very sad for her. she has also worked very closely with mary. she had that unique ability and in a board of 25 or so people of waiting for the right moment and then expressing and very plain language commonsense notions about what we were faced with

with at least 50 different opinions about what should be done and what the priorities were. and mary would wait until the right moment and with a magic set of words get us working together. she use that talent as head of the governance committee which is the toughest job in organizations again small. we have people from all around the bay with lots of different priorities. many works through all of that to come up with proposal which we are still following on with today. we are very grateful for that involvement and we miss her. we still have issues, and i think to myself, what would mary say right now? because she did have that manage -- magic ability that she could

distill out true wisdom and put it to work on our problems. today the ridge trail is still moving ahead. we have 375 miles of trail trying to connect up all the parks and open space i wish you were there. i ask myself, what would mary say right now? we have you in mind and we thank you for your involvement. >> thank you very much. >> mr. president, members of the commission, i had the incredible pleasure of spending several years with mary in the mayor's office and i maintained a relationship that i so treasure and value.

it was incredible to be a colleague of hers because as connie alluded to the which, intelligence, the political knowledge, and practical instincts made her be so successful then and in her subsequent jobs, and i have the opportunity to interact with her at all three places at the san francisco parks and recreation department, at the county of san mateo, and in the county of sonoma. today i serve as the interim c.e.o. of the greenbelt alliance , and another giant, women's giant avenue park history was mentioned a little bit earlier. and under her tenure, dorothy was -- dorothy park was established, and phil has been nice enough to allow the greenbelt alliance every quarter or so to be present to there. it a nice feeling to pull the whole circle together.

i love you, and thank you so very much. >> thank you. [applause] >> is there anyone else who would like to speak. >> that will do it. >> that concludes one of the more pleasant president's reports. thank you, mary, for all you have done. let me ask commissioner harrison to wait in. i was blessed that i worked for the park department for mary burns as a gardener. i just wanted to say thank you for your leadership at that time , getting us through all of these difficult hurdles, it was very interesting, and i love the job very much. we all respected you very much. >> thank you, mary. >> thank you, commissioner. let's proceed. >> are we done with the report?

>> we are doing the general manager report. >> i will try to be extremely brief, this saturday at 10:00 a.m. we will join the p.u.c. and the brace for the opening of two unique spaces in the visitation valley neighborhood. first funded by the 2008 and 2012 clean and safe neighborhood parks bonds, the renovated mclaren garden includes a welcoming entrance into the garden for herbs and trailing vegetables, sheltered gathering spaces for groups and face -- and fencing and utilitarian garden design and raised garden plots. located north of the gardens, they have chris construct a new rain gardens as part of his visitation valley green notes project. that project develops two distinct -- distinct green locations that improve community spaces and