>> thanks. good seeing you guys. is there any public comment on this matter? >> good morning committee members, i'm dr. derek kerr, a whistleblower. an audit of the program is a good idea but it should not be a peer review audit. that would just buy into the biases and weaknesses that all whistleblower programs have. it would be important to get to an whistleblower advocacy organization, such as the government accountability project in washington d.c. one of the consultants could advise to the standards that a whistleblower program should have to meet the needs of the whistleblowers in the public. it needs to be an independent audit and not by the same folks. we heard a lot about the rising

quantity of complaints, but i want to talk about the quality or value of those complaints. since the inception, the whistleblower program has been plagued by minor complaints. the 2010-2011 civil grand jury found that 36% were true whistleblower complaints alleging fraud, waste, and abuse. then the whistleblower program developed a risk assessment policy that was designed to triage the complaints and sort them out into low, medium, or high risk complaints. for example, the medium risk cases involved potential losses of 10,000 to $50,000 or they implicate a mid level manager. the medium and high risk cases are not represented in the whistleblower reports.

instead, we get a preponder remembers of cases of low level employees who use work computers for personal business, who leave work early, or show up late, who gamble or sleep on the job, or who smoke in city cars and park them inappropriately. preventing these abuses is worthwhile, but where's the beef? we don't hear about the big money violations or mid to high level official misconduct. why not? if the whistleblower program does not receive such complaints, they should know why. if the whistleblower program refers such complaints elsewhere, they should know how many involve violations of criminal or ethics law.

since the whistleblower program already categorizes complaints according to their low, medium, or high risk, they should ask why they are not reported as such. thank you. >> thank you dr. kerr. any other public comment? good. can you call the next item. >> item number 6, opportunity for committee members to comment or take action on any matters within the committee's jurisdiction. 2019-2020cgoboc work initiates.

>> good morning, just to remind everybody the format of this agenda item is to have a list of administrative and committee functions that you are working on during the year and we can report progress on any of them as need be. i will just run down the list and stop me at any point with your questions or comments. standardized template. this was a desire of the committee during last fiscal year to look at the variations that you get from different programs and try to move towards a format you find most useful in terms of having them be common, use the same terminology, standard views for schedules and

expense reporting, and so we didn't do work on that last year just given your capacity and ours. we are prepared to do work on it during the current fiscal year. i think that chair chu has designated herself, volunteered to be the liaison on this subject, and i think probably what will happen between now and your january meeting is i'll have some of my staff refresh and build on a matrix that we worked on before that shows the bond programs, the type of schedule they're providing, what their reporting period is, so we can see the variability that exists and we can explore how useful the committee has found the reports and where we may look for improvements. so you have a period now, november and december where you don't have an in-person meeting, so i think we should be able to find time to have a liaison meeting on that subject if that

sounds appropriate. >> one other thing. can you ask them to go back and look at our previous meetings to you know, understand how we use it. brian was referring back to some specific information in some of the reports, so i think we can use that as facts on how we're using them, how that information is actively being used in a meeting. i know brenda also had interacted with the reports in an in-depth way. >> okay. >> the expenditure audit, this is where we have reviews of expenditures and bond programs. you will see issuances. mark, will you update us on your schedule, any changes that may

have happened? >> sure. just a quick update. so we completed expenditure audits of eight various projects. we have one ongoing, the 2016 public health and safety program. we will be issuing that in either december or early january, right in time for your next cgobos meeting in january. then we have plans to touch the programs we haven't touched before, including the affordable housing program and the sea wall safety. those will be deferred to next fiscal year. we want to make sure there's enough expenditures to audit and that will be the case for the 2018 sea wall safety, so we'll put that on our work plan for next fiscal year, and definitely the 2016 affordable housing, we should have enough transactions to audit by the beginning of

next fiscal year or end of this fiscal year. we're also planning on touchi touching -- or doing reaudits of the bonds we audited before. looking at those projects within those bond programs that we did not audit in the past, just to make sure we have a full extent in coverage of the various projects within each bond program and we can attest to the fact that we audited all of the various projects within all of the bond programs. >> do you have any concerns about the timing of the projects for the 2016 affordable housing? it sounds like -- i mean they don't start until next summer, a year from now or so. >> i have some, but i mean there weren't a lot of expenditures in that one the last time i looked. i understand that there's not much to look at. i believe it only gotten started on 3 of the 30 items that are in there when i was looking at it

in our report. so obviously, i love to see them as soon as possibility, but we can't audit what hasn't been spent. i understand that we have to keep an eye on that. >> okay. so the port -- for me, it's very much about black box over there, and we probably would have learned more if they come today with some information. so, it feels to me that, that's one that may creep up on us, maybe not the whole thing. it's not the whole parks bond. >> right. >> those have not been issued. >> i'm talking about the 2012 parks bond. it's that. >> right. a more detailed report would be key. >> got it. >> and with the content they get from here, i'll reach out and meet up and see if we can get to the bottom of it and get a

report. >> and we'll talk about it in our next meeting. that will end up having some concerns, particularly as we go into the sea wall where we will have a lot more money. >> we certainly can do as part of our work planning for next fiscal year is to revisit the bonds we have audited and figure out which portions or projects are attributed to the port and we can use that as our way to narrow down the scope of our o g.o. bond projects. >> okay. >> great, thank you. >> okay, next item 1c is the schedule of upcoming bond issuances. you have a memo in your packet and our director of public fitness -- finance is here to

answer any questions or comment. >> the sea wall, will that go to the board in april? >> it went to the board last april. it has been healthed held up a little bit, but we should have an update at the next meeting or the meeting after. >> great. and i'm sorry if i asked this last time, but the transportation and road improvement, 258, that seems like a large number for issuance. i looked at the encumbered and unencumbered. we have 50 million that's unencumbered. >> prior to determining the final bond amount, we will make sure there are projects they have planned for expenditure within the next 3 years per i.r.s. guidelines. one note that was mentioned earlier, we are pleased to report that we did sell the last

series bond for affordable housing last week, about 93 million and then we also sold the final series for the parks bond, which will be a port project, so that's in the amount of 3.1 million for that final port project. right now, we're just starting to do our work on vetting projects for both the public health and transportation bond to determine what size we will be bringing forward for issuance in the spring and we're evaluating some refinancing opportunities, given the low interest rate environments for our g.o. bonds. >> is the market looking favorably op our bonds? >> most definitely. we still have 2 of our 3 credit ratings are aaa and the next is aa-plus. that's a good thing. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> can i ask something. >> sure, please. >> on the 22b road improvement

bond, do we have a scope for that yet, a description? >> i know rochelle is here in the audience. >> he's shaking his head. >> it's something that we're just now selling the bonds last week for the affordable housing and parks. this is our next area of focus and we'll be determining that soon. >> yeah. we're just getting started. we haven't put a financing team together yet. i've been in contact with project managers for both of those bond programs and they're confident that there is a need for another to be issued. they're still in the process of scoping out and putting together an expenditure schedule. once they're ready, hopefully in the next few weeks, the plan is to meet with them and get their plans and the projects, and

matrix -- make sure their expectations are reasonable before we move forward with any bond sales. the last conversation i had, they were hoping to have an issuance for the full balance of the program bond. i put that in there as a heads-up to you that it could potentially be as large as that but we'll validate what they're asking for when we go over the projects. >> our next meeting is january. >> yeah, by then we should have that. >> all right, moving on to 1d. we're going to spend a couple minut minutes on this. again as a reminder, last year on your behalf, we had a public perception survey that was conducted by one of the providers in our pre-qualified pool, where we have a pool of providers that do public opinion

testing, focus groups, and work of that type. we use them for a lot of different purposes in the city. they did intercept surveys and tested two sites in the bond program that you oversee. we were testing public knowledge about the site before and after visitor use, their perception of the use of bond funds, some of the demographics of the people using those sites and we got some interesting findings and feedback on how people perceive the bonds and the kind of improvements that rise up highest in public favor. i think you were strongly interested in that type of content, wanted to do another bond. we're interested in focusing on affordable housing. so, i did a little bit of work reaching out to the affordable housing program managers and staff in the mayor's office of housing and community

development in the mayor's office to discuss it and had talked about bringing back to you a let's of potential sites that we could make the subject of a public perception survey. so, i have those sites, but let me add a couple of qualifiers before we look at the list. you know, as you observed in the discussion with member natoli and the expenditure's audit, there isn't a lot of money out the door yet in the affordable housing bond. there aren't any completed projects yet that were completed with these bond. that's something to keemenp in mind. you can do a perception survey focused on this bond. you can wait 18 to 24 months and choose another bond program to work on and by which time there would be more expenditures and hopefully completed projects in the affordable housing bond. those are two options.

at the same time, part of my discussion with bond program managers here is the public isn't all that cognisant of the difference in funding sources. so what you're interested in is getting more public understanding of the feeling around affordable housing, how the city funds those things, how the building processes goes, and the number of subjects we talked about that you can test here, you can go ahead and test some of those public opinion things, whether or not the funding source was g.o. bonds. that's an option. just to again remind everybody, we talked about there are a lot of things you may want to test in affordable housing. it's not the same as streetscapes where you're testing users and whether there are g.o. bonds or not and if they remember voting for it. these things are different. do you want to test the perception of understanding of stakeholders communities, the

residents of the projects, the neighbors, the businesses in the neighborhood, the housing providers, the housing managers, builders, or are you trying to actually test citizen voter understanding of how the city funds affordable housing and how it manages its work in that area. any one of those things is project interesting in legitimate possibilities. i'm putting those out there. lastly, the projects themselves, there are five projects they gave me, which is a mix of funding by the city zone housing trust fund, federal home funds, development impact fees, there's a good range of geographic spread, and different target populations, which were funded with these projects. i can detail any of them if you're interested in taking that approach. that's where i gotten to so far.

i'd appreciate your thoughts and feedback on how you would like to proceed. >> yeah. i still think there is a lot to be learned, even if we're not talking about completed projects. i think it's still interesting, especially because as we look at another affordable housing bond going on the ballot, a lot of things i hear from people when they ask me is, i don't see anything happening with this. i don't know about it. especially given the kind of oversight we're doing, i care a lot about providers, i care about construction, all these things matter. i think from our viewpoint, what we're really interested in is we require two-thirds of the voters to approve this, so i think their perception is an important component in this. their understanding of who is

being served and what exactly we are accomplishing with that money because a lot of people say nothing. they don't feel like anything is happening. so, i guess to that one part of timing, i think there is still some valuable things to be gained from this. as to some of the other points, happy to follow up more. i definitely have some thoughts, but i want to think on it a little bit more about some of the other aspects you brought up, for sure. >> i have a different point of view. i think we should stay within our jurisdiction, which is to ensure bond funded projects are carried out to the expectations as much as possible by the voters who approve them. it is not our job to start digging into what people think of affordable housing in the city. i would rather postpone peg's

suggestion when there are projects to pull on and look at something else the next couple of years. really, i'm interested in everything that you listed of course, and that peg listed, but that's not our job. our job is to evaluate bond funded projects and while it is important of course to make sure they're bond funded projects that the city needs, it's again, we are reactive. that is this committee's role, to look at projects after the bonds have been approved by voters, not to start getting into issues of parks or affordable housing or transit. it's not our jobs. i would actually prefer to wait on a perception study for affordable housing and perhaps look at one of our jurisdictional areas.

>> i think lauren makes a valid point. there is a lot of affordable housing going on and i don't know where the funding is. it's so complex and meshed in a lot of different things. for example, one of the ones off the top of my head was ping young, one of the things funned by a bond. clementine towers, there is a lot of confusion there. i think that's a valid point. it's after the fact for us. if we were to poll or to get a perspective, you know, accommodation of the residents in the project, the surrounding area, and yeah, the shops and owners in the area, does it bring business? does it bring economics and keep

it here? the

and gave me some edits and the clean copy with all those edits that was included in your packet today. if you have further comments or edits or suggestions, we can make them now and then you can approve it on that basis. the only thing i left blank on purpose was the date on the front, which we usually put the publication date when we push things out on the controller's

office website. just to remind you, an attachment to this report is my office's g.o. bond report. so you don't need to worry that your report needs to include detailed content on scope, schedule, and budget because all of that is here in that format. so just to remind you, that is how it will look. it will get posted. >> great. i think we're going to have to vote on this one. does anyone have any addition changes you like to see in the document? >> i had a question. there were edits that you made to my report and i read this. i don't see that there were any changes. >> it was just small things like tense or punctuation. >> oh, i probably needed that. [laughter] >> nothing material. we tried to preserve the original voice of each speaker. >> great to know. >> is there a proposal to vote

on this? >> move. >> second. >> i guess i move to approve this. >> just for the record, there is no member of the public present. >> great. >> great, thank you for your work on this. we will get it posted on the website and congratulations. >> thank you. >> item 2b, your work plan. the only change that i am noting is that you ask the port park program manager to be present at your january meeting. the slides they provided in the current packet didn't have details that you want to see, so you would like a bond program style report from them. am i understanding that correctly? >> i believe so. part is -- bart will meet with

them so he can give direct feedback on what we're looking for. >> a bond style report would be great. they weren't here. were they here the last time? i don't remember if they were. >> i don't remember myself. we will reach out to them and add them to your agenda for january. >> thank you. >> that's the only change to the work plan i'm aware of. >> great. >> yeah, the only flag i would say is that there seems to be quite a bit in january. that's life. >> what do we have in january? >> i'm also interested in hearing from the port since i don't think i seen them since i've been on this committee. technically they're done with

most of their stuff, so it should be a short report. >> that is our hope. >> so january 27th meeting would have bond program report, affordable housing bond report, liaison report for the public health and safety, and the liaison report for my program, and we hope to finish our fiscal year 18-19 summary report and present on that, and then the autd dit report for the public report for the expenditure that mark mentioned and you will be adding the port. >> do with want to do a paper report and not have them? >> no, i like charles to attend. i like the staff to attend. they only come once a year. i think it's important that they come. >> okay. >> okay, we'll try to manage the

schedule and we'll tell everybody to be tight and we'll look at the timing. >> that will be great. thanks. >> any other business? >> yeah, i had a couple of items. when i made the liaison report in our last meeting, i brought up seven questions that i asked of m.t.a. staff and i got an e-mail answer to all of them, both peg and mary were copied on that e-mail. if you're interested in seeing it, i'm sure mary can forward it to you. i think what i like to do is when we next hear from them, or when we have our next liaison meeting is to sit down and discuss them with the staff in more detail. they answered the questions that would be a follow up question.

it bares further discussion. on the 2008sfgh rebuild bond, i think my last report on that since we closed out any event, there was an outstanding claim passed through from one of the subcontractors from webcore to the city. the last i reported is that they looked like they were going to settle. i checked with the city attorney's office and they said in fact they had. there is a subsequent lawsuit by the city against the designer, claiming there is an omission. there is an omission insurance coverage, so there is a source of money to get that paid. in other words, they are not going to bankrupt an architect. the architect had to get this insurance in order to get the

contract from the city. the city always pays for it through the price they pay the designer. that isn't scheduled for trial until next year and even at that, it's an early date, no doubt the architect and its attorneys, which consist of the bond company will ask for a postponement. i'm going to predict right now it's going to settle short of going to court. but we don't know that yet. further, i don't know what effect that has on the bond, and how they reconcile the bond because it's money that was spent to settle the claim with the general contractor came from the bond as they recover any of that money from the insurance company for the designer, i don't know what happens. does that come back? does that reconcile in completing the bond process reconciliation? i don't know. now you know all that i know.

>> thank you for following up on those things. anything else? i think we're adjourned. thank you. parks and places of communicated and thanks to the mayor and the

department of technology and supervisor farrell and google. we had a very very unique partnership that was able to bring wifi to our most heavily used parks and squares. >> parks in particular are really important way of life and quality of life and so is connectivity. bringing those two things together in a project like this is right on target with what san francisco is and wants to be. >> it's all about breaking apart the divide. the people with expensive data plan can have access to information and economy. this is really breaking down the digital divide and giving people across the spectrum the opportunity to information and giving them mobility and freedom. >> particularly by investing in connectivity in park spaces we are also ensuring the connection to

digital inclusion opportunities and parks are designed for all neighborhoods. >> people are on the move. they are no longer chained to their desk tops at home. people can accomplish a lot and we prefer them being here an enjoying the outdoors and nature. given all the mobile community and mobile information that's available. we thought it was important to make it for our parks acceptable for everyone and give everyone the opportunity to live and to work and be at the parks at the same time. >> our full mission in life is to give them access to the internet, give them access to information. in san francisco you don't have to be bottled up in an office. you can be around and enjoy your work anywhere. it's great for the local community here and it

means a lot to me. >> in the park, you are people that can teach you about the trees in the park and you can go to parks and recreation .org and having wifi in our parks makes it more accessible. if you want more information about how to enjoy wifi in san francisco parks, go to .

>> let's get started. welcome. yeah. you can be excited. you should be. welcome to the beautiful new playground, everyone. [ cheering and applause ]. >> my name is phil ginsburg. i am the manager of the recreation and parks department. we're so pleased to have everyone here to celebrate what is really a transformation for this playground, a place where childhood memories will be created and opportunities for imaginative play are endless. there are a lot of community supporters and folks that made this happen. we're going to introduce and recognize all of them during our short program, but i'm so honored to introduce someone who has kept her eye on this playground for many years. as district supervisor and now as mayor, she is our park champion and chief. our kids do not need an

advocate, because they've got mayor london breed. >> mayor breed: thank you so much, phil. let me tell you, i can't be more happy than to be here today. i remember a couple years ago when we cut the ribbon on the new basketball courts and there were conversations going on and on and on about the playground and the next to do something better. the parents who bring their kids here on a regular basis reflects what we see here today. as much as i love. i grew up in sands, so i'm a big fan, but the fact is these kids are going to have a great time.

we are so lucky in san francisco that we have so many people in this community that are so generous and we're actively engaged to shape what this playground looks like right now. we have amazing contributors who have invested so much money into supporting and making this happen. our incredible partner, the parks alliance, thank you so much for your continued alliance and this playground. thank you were jody pritzer for your major contribution to this project. and brian baker who hosted. thank you so much for your work and for your advocacy. the work that you do to raise the funds and contribute to make

this possible makes it happen sooner rather than later. so thank you, because the kids that are here today are going to be able to have a good time and enjoy this amazing playground. i know they don't want to hear a bunch of long speeches. i know they can't wait to get started with playing. thank you to the nopa community and the ashbury community for your work and advocacy. it is so great to be here today to have this incredible experience. i know you are wondering why is sheriff vicky hennesey here today. she's not here to take anyone to jail. her granddaughter is a lover of this playground and we are happy to have her as a supporter, so thank you for your service to

san francisco. fill, you say that i am the park champion, i tell you no one works harder to bring in the resources and move these projects faster to get these done so that you have these results today. thank you and your team for the work that you continue to do. [ applause ]. >> mayor breed: last but not least, i started that and she finished it. valley brown has been an amazing advocate for this community for decades and she made sure that we got this project done. i will say in absolute record time. we just broke ground on this project last year and in bureaucracy time, this is fast. ladies and gentlemen, the person who was making it happen and doing the work for this community, your supervisor, valley brown. [ applause ].

>> thank you, mayor breed. i remember when this was a twinkle in your eye, phil. i see the ashbury council is here. people have come here because this is an amazing park and the way that it was done with the contributor contributors made it what it is now. look at everything. i was looking around. i can't believe how cool it is, and i'm going to take a slide down that slide. i don't know if anybody has done it yet, but i want to go and slide down that slide. it looks so fun. i have to say that the city is like a tanker in ice. every time we try to do something, it takes that long. this is something that went fast because of community support,

because we had private people coming in and saying let's make this work, and we can turn faster than a tanker in ice. thank you, everyone, thank you, mayor breed, and let's play. >> supervisor brown said it perfectly, let's play. the mayor has keys to the city and gives proclamations at the board and we give away park signs to true park champions. thank you for all of your incredible support. [ cheering and applause ]. >> the mayor alluded to the fact that this was a big community effort. we need partners and friends. government doesn't do it all alone anymore. we need the support. i'm pleased to bring up our

closest friend, drew beker. the alliance of parks department have worked together since 2013 or 2014 on let's play s.f. which is our campaign to renovate the 13-mo 13-most-deserving playgrounds around the city. it is a $30 million effort that has a significant amount of public money, but that wasn't enough to get it done. we are the parks alliance and is the san francisco recs and parks department work together on so many things, including our 150th golden gate park celebration. this is part of that. the panhandle itself was practice for building golden gate park. around the park are 80,000 trees that were planted to figure out what would work best down the road. i'm so pleased to bring up a

special partner, drew beker. >> thanks, phil. i want to give a shout out. thank you, mayor, thank you, valley, thank you, phil. the parks alliance is so happy to be a part of this wonderful event. i would like to give a shout out to the civic committee. thank you so much. you helped make this possible. i want to give a shout out. thank you, liz, for everything you do. also brian baker held an event before this. thank you for you and your family to support us and the san francisco parks alliance. thank you so much. and the rec and park commissioners, we couldn't do this without them giving the okay to make all of this happen. we have partners with rec and parks and they don't get shout outs that much. i want phil, lisa, and abigail

to know how much we appreciate what you do. it is so amazing to have one of the top rec and parks departments here in san francisco. you have no idea how important it is to push these types of projects forward and make this happen and that's because it comes from the top. your amazing manager, phil, ginsburg, let's give it up for him. >> this public-private partner that was alluded to, we raised about $11.3 million for 13 playgrounds across the city. our goal is to raise $14 million, so we have a little bit more to go in order to make this playground and close out this program and have the most equity-focused playground initiative in this country called "let's play s.f.."

let's make sure you visit "let's play s.f.." make sure you are part of this movement to bringing this movement to 20,000 kids across this city. it's about making parts a part of each and every community. parks are part of the big puzzle, about keeping the parks part of our story. we need to move neighborhoods forward building parks. thanks for being a part of this movement and let's play. thank you so much. >> thank you, drew. this playground is about play and it's about community. so representing our community today, we are so pleased to welcome 45 preschoolers from steppingstones preschool. your granddaughter is here, but

steppingstones has a spot in my own heart. representing steppingstones and speaking on behalf of the community, i'm pleased to welcome a few members to share the importance of let's play. >> hi. my name is rakoia. i'm a director of a local preschool up the street, but more importantly i'm a mother of a 2 year old who is up there right now. i actually came here from l.a. i went to ucla. when i came to san francisco and looked at the preschools for work and realized none of the preschools have outdoor spaces or if they did, it was tiny. so steppingstones uses the community for their playground. what a resource to have playgrounds like these.

this is an amazing playground just for the preschoolers, but also now that i'm a mom, for communities like this for playgrounds that inspire community and imagination. we were just here in april for the ground breaking, and now it's november and it's incredible. thank you so much, everyone. [ cheering and applause ]. >> before we do our first slide with our steppingstones preschoolers and supervisor brown, we have some gratitude. i need to do some closing acknowledgements. we have a lot of gratitude for all of our supporters. without their help and support as i said, this wouldn't be possible. let me echo my thanks to the pritsker family. for brian and lesley baker, thank you so much for your support. for the folks from kaiser

permanente, they have been big supporters. this weekend we lost an advocate for health and equity and diversity and true supporters of playgrounds and someone who understood the very important experience of play. we would ask you to take a quick moment of silence in mrmr. permi mrmr. permi mrmr. permi mr. permit -- permanente's honor. thank you. let's give a round of applause. we're also pleased to be joined today by sheriff hennessey and her granddaughter. vivian liang, and then dmitri barstani is here with his mom, georgia. are you here and can you raise

your hands? they're over there. thank you, dmitri and georgia for being here today. we're honoured to be here. his memory and gus' memory will live on. i would like to thank niko and marie who helped to work on the bench plaque that i believe are here. tim sieford and michelle welsh. steve courier from the parks and recs open space advisory. and then to the design and construction teams, you have an inspired design and project. they deserve our thanks. to the landscape project.

jeff cooper from c.p.m. services. and then to my own amazing team, the project managers for this effort, it takes a village, karen rupert, brett emerey contributed to this project. thank you, lisa branson, to your team to make this dream come to reality for our kids. we're going to have some honorary preschooler that is are going to join us. supervisor brown, if you want to join us too. the mayor is going to lead us in a countdown.

>> mayor breed: okay, supervisor brown, you're going to have to put a kid in your lap. are we ready, kids? five, four, three, two, one, let's play! >> thank you, everybody. in the words of our mayor, let's play. [♪] [♪] >> i just wanted to say a few words. one is to the parents and to all

of the kids. thank you for supporting this program and for trusting us to create a soccer program in the bayview. >> soccer is the world's game, and everybody plays, but in the united states, this is a sport that struggles with access for certain communities. >> i coached basketball in a coached football for years, it is the same thing. it is about motivating kids and keeping them together, and giving them new opportunities. >> when the kids came out, they had no idea really what the game was. only one or two of them had played soccer before. we gave the kids very simple lessons every day and made sure that they had fun while they were doing it, and you really could see them evolve into a team over the course of the season. >> i think this is a great opportunity to be part of the community and be part of programs like this. >> i get to run around with my other teammates and pass the ball. >> this is new to me. i've always played basketball or football.

i am adjusting to be a soccer mom. >> the bayview is like my favorite team. even though we lose it is still fine. >> right on. >> i have lots of favorite memories, but i think one of them is just watching the kids enjoy themselves. >> my favorite memory was just having fun and playing. >> bayview united will be in soccer camp all summer long. they are going to be at civic centre for two different weeklong sessions with america scores, then they will will have their own soccer camp later in the summer right here, and then they will be back on the pitch next fall. >> now we know a little bit more about soccer, we are learning more, and the kids are really enjoying the program. >> we want to be united in the bayview. that is why this was appropriate >> this guy is the limit. the kids are already athletic, you know, they just need to learn the game. we have some potential college-bound kids, definitely. >> today was the last practice

of the season, and the sweetest moment was coming out here while , you know, we were setting up the barbecue and folding their uniforms, and looking out onto the field, and seven or eight of the kids were playing. >> this year we have first and second grade. we are going to expand to third, forth, and fifth grade next year bring them out and if you have middle school kids, we are starting a team for middle school. >> you know why? >> why? because we are? >> bayview united. >> that's right. sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very minimal energy use. it still matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. so having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well.

we heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. it was super easy to sign up. our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. it's an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around climate change and it's so easy that it's hard to not want to do it, and it doesn't really add anything to the bill.