display that highlight all of the amenities available in the park. we're continuing to welcome with the recreation and park team to see how we can encourage families to take free shuttle buses from the farther locations in our city straight to gold gate park. finally, watch for the library to really commemorate the park in a special way, with a limited edition golden gate library card coming this spring. we love our libraries, and we love our parks, and i know that all san franciscans love them, too. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> chairwoman: tom and then audrey and then bob. are you tom? come on up. yeah. >> hello, my name is tom

steele, and i'm here to represent "flagging in the park." we're a small grassroots group who organize community building gatherings in the national memorial grove five times a year, which i assume aren't familiar with, except, perhaps, for phil. so as these events started 23 years ago at the height of the aids epidemic, when a small group of friends gathered in the newly established grove to celebrate still being alive in the face of a very uncertain future. as well as to remember those already lost to the plague, these folks got together to do this by dancing together with vibrant silk flags such as these -- and i just wanted to show you these. they look like this, made of silk, and hand tie tie-dyed. for smrkwe believe those who wee

lost trafficking so young would want to be remembered for their vibrant lives. our events are always free and typically well-attended by regulars, for whom we feel we provide an uplifting experience in these times of growing isolation in our society. to spanned beyond our established core crowd, we very happy to be embraced. for the most part, we do our own thing, and most of society is not aware of what we do. so we're very happy to ar arrange a special event that day to represent the diverse vibrancy of our beautiful park and to demonstrate the beautiful aid memorial, and we'll show how to dance with flags, bands, hoops, and i

hope we'll see some of you there. >> thank you. >> chairwoman: audrey and then bob. >> good morning, commissioners. my name is audrey engals, and i'm here on behalf of the jamestown organization. we are serving thousands of students and families in our after school programs and other programs throughout our community. when we heard about this possible historical celebration event, we wanted to come and support the bid. and after the presentation that lisa just gave, i'm even more excited. one of our programs is a local performing ensemble. this is our most dedicated group of high school and transitional-aged youth performers, who have not only performed all over san francisco and the bay area, but also around the world. these students meet once a

week to hone their skills. one of our core values of the organization is artavision, which a combination of art and activist. these kids are singer-songwriter and performers and music producers, who use their talent to bring awareness to different issues affecting our community, whether it is through drumming or theater works, and everything in between. local/local is celebrating the people through their ideas, their art and their activism. wmost, if not all of our students, and all of our arts program. >> steve: actually,have grown un

francisco, and have many memories of golden gate park, whether that is from going to the playground, or going to other events, or visiting the museums and other attractions throughout the park. the celebration of golden gate park is not just a celebration of land and trees, but of celebrating san francisco and its dedication to the arts. our performing ensemble just this past year performed at the academy of science, and perform at the amphitheater every year. many of our students throughout the years have also made great use of the rec and park department's programs and have worked as student counsellors. i was just telling my own 14-year-old daughter she should get a job with rec and park because it would lead to graitd greater opportunities for her in the future. we all as individuals, and as a community, value our parks for the enrichment they have provided us.

it would mean a lot for our students to be able to perform at such an historic event as they watch the community shift and change to unfamiliar territory as their friends and families are displaced. they understand as young folks of color, performing music and dance from traditions, their performance itself is an act of empowerment and a declaration that they are still here and that they matter. we would love for the city to say that to themselves by inviting them to perform at such an historic event. i encourage you all to take the time later to actually look them up, to see their faces, and to see what it is that they do because they're my pride and joy and my work, and i think you guys would feel the same if you saw it yourself. >> thank you very much. >> chairwoman: bob? >> good morning, commissions, my name is bob feedler, the executive director of the stern growth festival. i'm here to indicate our support for and intent to

participate in the golden gate anniversary, 150th anniversary celebration. given -- we plan to do that by providing local artists and musicians to perform in different locations at different times throughout the celebration. and given that the theme is that it is everybody's park, that really marries quite well with our ethos, and we plan to provide a lot of diversity in those musicians, and hopefully highlight some different neighborhoods and different things to welcome everybody to the park and so given our 83years of partnership with the rec and park department, for which we're extremely grateful. grate, we're delighted and honored to be part of this celebration. thank you. >> thank you. >> chairwoman: is there any other public comment on these items? seeing none, public

comment is closed. >> commissioner lowe? >> you about to say i think we should take these up separately. for item 7, i move to approve. >> second it. >> so moved. commissioner lowe? >> on matter 8, i think we should be in the practice of getting a certificate of appropriateness first before coming to this commission, and understand that is not going to be heard until january 15th. i will move to advance this matter, but i think the better practice is that before coming to this commission, and when this commission is the last stop of approval, that we should have the certificate of appropriateness in front of us. second, i wanted to note in our board packet that was attached was a term sheet; it wasn't the actual agreement. i understand there is an agreement to come later. again, i think this should

be a practice where if this is the authorizing act under chapter 31, we should have the actual agreement, not the term sheet. on that basis, i would like to first note that under article 7 of the park code, this does give this commission the authority to approve the observation wheel and would move to approve -- to authorize the general manager to -- we would want the general manager to come back to us on our next commission meeting in january, and i believe that is january 16th, to report back, one, the certificate of appropriateness was issued by the historic preservation commission. and, two, to report back that indeed the agreement and permit that was issued to the operator is on the same terms and conditions that was in our commission

packet. >> thank you. is that in a form of a motion? >> i'll second that. >> moved and seconded. all those in favor? >> yea. >> so moved. >> chairwoman: item 9, the park and maintenance standards annual report. >> good morning, commissioners. my name is ben, and i'm with the san francisco recreation parks department, and i'm one of the administrators for the park maintenance standards program we have here, rawprunning alongsidehere.for ms is my second year as part of the program. i am very excited to

present to you our scores. what is new this year is that we decided to take a deeper dive into the scores. we decided to dissect it, an additional layer, so we could get more out of the data. and, also, we are, during this presentation, going to show you the controls' office online dashboard, where members of the public and people such as yourselves, the commissioners, can go on line, look up your favorite parks and learn a little more about their scores. so without further adieu, i will introduce to you allison emily from the control's office, who will complete the rest of this presentation. >> thank you. >> commissioners, thank you for having me here. can you guys hear me? >> we can. >> usually my voice is so soft. i'm, again, very proud to present this report. it was a great team effort, a collaboration between the controller's

office and r.p.d. i'm going to just go through quickly some high-level summaries that we took out of the report, and them emily, my colleague, will spend most of the time whacking you walkinu through this incredible new dashboard that allows people to explore the data as much as they want. i'll begin. just before i get into the scores, i want to remind everyone kind of how this program works. there is an evaluation form for every park. in fact, some parks are so large they're split up into smaller sections. there is a set of standard criteria that need to be met, and each park is broken up into segments called features. for example, children's play areas are one feature. trees are another feature. and then an aggregate score is made. we can look at overall skiers foscores for all parks, t we can drill down deeper

and say what about certain parks? this year in fiscal year '19, the average score is 92%, which is an increase from prior years. we are increasing slowly every year. and you can see one of the main drivers of this increase is actually just a decrease in the overall thread. for several years we would have out lier outliers. so that means throughout the city, wherever you are and whatever park you go to, you're experience will be more similar to someone else in a different part of the city. however, as we presented before, we do continue to see a geographic disparity between the north and the south. so there are no top-scoring parks really in the southern half of the city. this is a map of the 10

top scoring and 10 lowest score parks in the city. what i want to talk about a little bit is something new that we've started to do this year. we've created a methodology to kind of group the kinds of criteria that we look at. so we look at things like is there a certain amount of litter or graffiti anywhere? and we could see things like, is a wooden slat loose on a bench, which is dangerous. these are considered routine maintenance, which requires specialized skills to clean up, but with have the specialized staff and resources to do so. and the time category is repair. these are repairs of structural projects that will take a larger budget and a longer timeframe to fix. we wanted to create these categories to help our staff kind of determine not just which parks are

struggling and where, but what will it take to improve the response to these parks. it is a very different resource allocation to address problems of litter than it is to address cracks in asphalt. so while we are still perfecting the methodology, we were able to find some kind of interesting first takes. one of which we just looked at the extremes, which parks are on each end of the spectrum which need the most help with cleanup versus need the most help with repair. we can compare hilltop park, which needs cleanup help and repair, and we see it has struggled a lot with graffiti in the past, so it can be what is driving this category break down. and mckinley square, in the other end, has more structural problems, so cracks in the asphalt, for example. so when r.p. staff looks

it these, they can approach it differently. i'm going to turn it over to my colleague emily, who is going to take you through that online dashboard, and we're willing to take any questions at the end. thank you. >> thanks, alice. hi, everyone. i'm elli emily gonzales with the controller's office. we heard you're really interested in the accessability of this information. that is a data-rich program and we produce a lot of reports, but how can residence and operational staff as well leverage this data? so that was the lens we were taking. we were updating our dashboard to make sure this data was more accessible or unsdzable. understandable. i'm going to walk you through the dashboard so you will see exactly what you can expect to find there. let me see if i can do

this from here. our overall park scores, park maintenance scores is just sfcontroller-parks. and on that page you'll find all of our reports from previous years, including this one. and also a link to our dashboard right here in the middle. once you follow that link, i have already pre-loaded it -- you'll get to the dashboard and land on his landing page. we have information just about the program itself. you know, how these scores are calculated, which parks are included,etc. so that kind of program level information here at the front. and these tabs are really where you can dive into the data. let's take a look at the first one, the city-wide trend's tab.

theryou can look at the city-wide parks score -- let's just follow that one, as an example. here is before the dashboard is interactive. these are all of the sites that are evaluated here on the map on the right. and then in this table, in this graph, you can see you're looking at the city-wide average park score over time, over the last five fiscal years. you can change that graph to show how the minimum score has changed, which alice just highlighted. by clicking minimum score, you see this changes to represent the minimum score, and you've seen that in crease over time. you could also look at the standard deviation, which is a measure of how spread out the scores are across the city, and we have seen that that has decreased over the last five years as well. so a way to interact with the state in a new way. i'm a little snow on navigating this web. but you can look on the

same city-wide trends tab, the highest and lowest score parks, and you can see all of the years of this data. you can look through p.d.f. reports, and now you can look and click through the past five fiscal years and seeing before the top 10and bottom 10 maintenance-scored parks are. and you can click on those specific parks. here we can click on buchanan street mall, and it will not only adjust to zoom in on that park, but will show you the feature scores at that park. sites are divided into separate features, like lawns, hard scapes, etc. and you can see that granular data right here. i want to take you through the other tabs just

briefly. obviously you can explore this at your own leash at home. leisure at home. now you can look up any park and find information about that park. so you can just search a park by typing it in. or, here, i'll just select one. alice chalmers. you can see when you have selected a park, you'll see that the map zooms and on where that site is, and you'll see overtime how that park has been scoring in their annual scores as compared two the city-wide average, which is the gray line. and below you'll see the feature scores at that park, and how the feature scores compare to the city-wide average feature scores. where is my neighborhood park really shining compared to other parks in the city, and where is it struggling as far as maintenance. i think this is an amazing resource for residents. my friends have already been using it.

and i'll just quick through the other three tabs. the district tab is supervisor districts. this one has a map shaded by the average park maintenance score for each supervisor district. you can just click on any district. i'll click district 11 here, to see its average score. and then all of the parks that were within that supervisor district, their annual park score and how it compared to the city-wide average. just a key finding from the report is district 11 has been the lowest score supervisor district in terms of the average park maintenance score for the last five years. so you can kind of see those trends overniem. anovertime.and you can select te fiscal year to kind of track those. i'll move on to the equity-zoned portion. you can filter by year. it will show you the different parks that will

were labelled equity zone in that year. and this shows the score distribution for equity-zone and non-equity-zone parks. i'm not going to go into all of these, because the dashboard is use to your own adventure session. every single park's feature here is listed for users to interact with. so maybe i'm really interested in children's play areas in particular. we can click on children's play areas and really go into a deep dive. as this is showing f.y. 19, but you can select a different year. how many play areas did we evaluate? 161. they had an an rag average score of 81. and then you can see all of the score distributions for all of those children's play areas. there are a lot of ways to

interact at this point, and i'm not going to go into it, but you can scroll and see all of the children's play areas, or click on them from the map. you can click in the history gram and then the map will filter. and you could do that for lowest scores, too, and, again, you can do this for all of the features. we're really excited with this new improvement. i just have one more slide for you all, back to the power point. okay. our next steps are in our improvements to the program. so something we haven't spoken about is the data collection of this data, done by staff members in the controller's office and in rec and park. they're currently using a more outdated app, which will be transitioning over through a new app by

estry, and the data collection tool will be built in that app. and they will be working to implement this tool in the next fiscal year. it is our biggest task of improving that. and we'll be expanding the maintenance task, and we think it is really promising to look at this data in kind of a new way. finally, i wanted to highlight for you something we height highlighted in the report: we have over 100 evaluators in dozens of departments, which are going out with the standards to evaluate parks. it is crucial that everyone is applying the standards in the same way, and able to identify the same types of issues across time and across parks. that's something that we've been interested in, but we want to expand that analysis and the future. we look forward to your questions.

thank you so much. >> thank you so much. a very interesting presentation. mr. ginsburg? excuse me, do you want to ask for public comment. >> chairwoman: i have one blue card from albert. and then i'll see if there is anyone else. >> good morning, people. they was talking about standard deviations and statistical mechanics. when i look at it, it will be the application. how do you apply standard dedeviation. she is talking about how the numbers, as they decrease, there is less deviation. but there is another part to it. of the averages, there is also the key statistics to the averages that can be thrown out. i've been looking it over, and i kind of seem to come up with what is the lowest

score, such as mckinley, and it should be immediate attention. but then it wouldn't be so much of a drag on the other scores. so to make it more useful, this type of controller evaluation, probably something i would think about is money. they would be allocating from park maintenance, deferred maintenance. what are the funding that is available to immediately deal with a stat location, such as mckinley. meanwhile, as i look through all of this, it looks great, but there has been a continual increase. of the park maintenance, i would like to commend operations director danny kern to keep up the good work, and hopefully we can get your scores up. thank you. >> thank you. >> chairwoman: albert.

>> i don't know if it is good morning or good afternoon. >> still good morning. >> good morning. all right. can i see this projector again, please? do you have it working? okay. so right here you're looking at this october 7th, 2019 rec and park, strategic planning. so basically about the equity analysis and met metrics, 2019, discussion and possible action. there is an issue with that i have. here we go, change -- please keep that on. so there is a change and score, figure five, increases and do decreases in

parks' scores in 2018 and 2019. guess what? table four. largest decreases in parks -- n, but decreases, decline, in parks scores. here it is, park 165, lewiston playground. the scores are 85% for fiscal year '18 and '19, and then it changes, minus seven. here is -- this is lewiston playground. and this is the playground scores, and city-wide scores, and it shows the decline. here is a map -- this map shows the southeast district. these is the equity zones.

the equity zones show rec and park department parks within equity zones and other parks, and basically your guys -- this is all here. it doesn't lie. here it is again, 2015, 81.19 -- i'm real suspect about these numbers. district 9, p.s.a., three -- i'm very concerned about the numbers. i believe they're lower than what you guys are saying they are. [buzzer] >> save to help -- oh, no. total managed assets, educated three equity metrics, average parks evaluation score. [inaudible] >> a.d.a. compliance needed, equity

deficiencies, equity metrics, subsection h-1, and shall include mitigating any equity deficiencies in the plan. i'm so close to finishing. [inaudible] >> one more. san francisco, i need to talk to somebody. i want somebody from the lodge. >> thank you. mr. ginsburg burg? >> commissioner, i just wanted to thank the partnership at the controller's office, emily and alice, they're like the money ball team of park scorers. we've got data that we can slice and dice in any particular way. and i also really wanted to thank ben for his management of our program, and of course danny and lydia, who have been around. this is a really, really good tool.

this morning before i came here, i was doing my park inspection in section one in the fuchsia delv del of gold gate park. and if anybody wants to do a park inspection, what we've got the tool on our apps. it's pretty cool. >> thank you very much. seeing no other comments, that was information only. thank you. that was great information. and it is a great app, and we'll continue to enjoy it. and congratulations to the staff. the numbers keep getting better. >> chairwoman: item 10, is there anyone who wants to speak during public comment who did not speak during item 4. >> i would. >> you spoke already. >> i've got a lot of hot wind here. sorry. >> chairwoman: we're now on item 11. commissions, do you have any matters to raise? >> just one.

i would want to direct the commission secretary to work with the permits and reservation staff on updating the permits and reservation policy. i think it needs to be updated. >> thank you, commissioner. >> chairwoman: okay. any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. item 12, new bis agenda business agenda setting? >> seeing none. >> chairwoman: any public comment. public comment is closed. item 13, public communications. any comment on the public communications? please come forward. >> again, my name is albert san. advocates for a.d.a., and

friends of mclaren park. you know, when i got this announcement and i went online on computer, the server doesn't work. so, in other words, i distinct do idoesn't work. so i can't do it from home. so i had to go to the -- over here on the third floor, i believe it is, where they have all -- they put out these -- i know you guys supply it, but then there are commissioner documents -- i really apologize. i'm real tired. to get that information was extremely difficult. even they had an extremely difficult time trying to navigate the computer. this is in city hall. so i think under the sunshine law, i'm requesting for this information that you guys use to make a decision, all you commissioners --

and i respect you guys. i know this is not an easy job. but the public has a right to be involved and to be heard. so i'm asking on the sunshine law to make this more accessible. you know, trying to deal with the law is unbelievably difficult. so i would ask for more transparency. this is public funds. this is not your slush fund anymore. the bonds are public money, our tax dollar from the ballots. thank you. >> thank you. >> chairwoman: is there any other public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. we're on item 14, adjournment. >> moved. pie>> seconded. >> thank you very much.

(adjourned at 11:37)

i'm nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. when we sign up, it's always so gratifying. we want to be here. so i'm very excite ied to be

here today. >> your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. >> last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. without that we can't survive. volunteering is really important because we can't do this. it's important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area.

>> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >> the street, every time, our friends. >> i think everybody should give back. we are very fortunate. we are successful with the company and it's time to give back. it's a great place for us. the weather is nice. no rain. beautiful san francisco. >> it's a great way to be able to have fun and give back and walk away with a great feeling. for more opportunities we have

volunteering every single day of the week. get in touch with the parks and recreation center so come >> my name is amanda [inaudible] over see the girls sports program. when i came to san francisco and studied recreation and parks and towerism and after i graduated i moved to candlestick park and grain r gain adlot of experience work with the san francisco 49 and [inaudible] be

agfemale in a vore sports dynamic facility. i coached volo ball on the side and as candle stick closed down the city had me move in92 too [inaudible] >> immediate interaction and response when you work with kids. i think that is what drives other people to do this. what drew me to come to [inaudible] to begin with for me to stay. i use today work in advertising as a media buyer and it wasn't fulfilling enough and i found a opportunity to be a writing coach. the moment [inaudible] you to take advantage of how you change and inspire a child by the words you say and actions you do. >> you have a 30 different programs for girls through rec and park and fast ball, soft

ball and volley ball. i started the first volley ball league and very proud what i have done with that. being a leader for girls is passion and showing to be confident and being ambiggish and strong person. [inaudible] for about 5 years. programs offered thraw thirty-three rec and park and oversee thg prms about a year. other than the programs we offer we offer summer camp squz do [inaudible] during the summer and that is something i wherei have been able to shine in my role. >> couple years we started the civic center socking league and what an amazing opportunity it was and is it for kid in the neighborhood who come together every friday in the civic center plaza on green grass to run and play. you otonly see soccer and poetry but also see books t. is a really promoting

literacy to our kid and giving them to tools to make it work at home. real fortunate to see the [inaudible] grow. >> girls get pressureed with society and i know that is obvious, but we see it every day, magazines, commercials the idea what a woman should look like but i like to be a strong female role for it goals that play sports because a lot of times they don't see someone strong in a female role with something connected with sports and athleticism and i love i can bring that to the table. >> soccer, poetry, community service. we now have field of dreams. we are [inaudible] all over the bay area and excited to be share our mission with other schools across the bay to really build the confidence and character of kids when they go out to play and close their

eyes and think, why was [inaudible] we want to make sure-i want to make sure they remember me and remember the other folks who [inaudible] >> get out there and do it. who cares about what anybody else says. there will be poopal people that come up and want to wreck your ideas. that happen today eme when i went to candle stick part and wanted to [inaudible] people told me no left and right. whether you go out for something you are passionate about our something you want to grow in and feel people will say no. go out and get it done. i can be the strong leader female and i love that.

>> we can sweep by in front of a house in a matter of seconds. the only people who don't like it are the people who get the tickets. >> this is a street sweeping sign. don't let it get you. pay attention. [♪] >> in the morning, when we first go out, we start at six in the morning or seven in the morning. we call that our business run. we sweep all the main arteries of the city. after 8:00, we go into the residential areas and take care of all the other customers. >> the idea with the street sweeping program is to get the leaves and the debris off the ground. >> we -- for not only appearance and cleanliness but safety as well.

>> we will get anywhere from 2- 7,000 pounds per truck depending on the season and the route. the street sweeper and the choice of the use right now is an error sweeper. they have a motor in the back and it blows winds down one side and carried by air into the hopper. what will mess this up is new -- large pieces of cardboard or sticks or coat hangers. anything that is more than 12 inches. the tube on the tracks is only 12-inch diameter. >> people asked what they can do to help to keep the city clean. there are people that letter. leaves are one thing. any of the garbage you see is from people being careless.

[♪] >> one cars parked in the way, we can't sweep under the congress. to deal with this, we have parking control officers that are provided by m.t.a. and they go in front of our sweepers and pass out citations to people that are parking the wrong way. once the sweepers sweep past in san francisco, you may park behind the street sweeper. we all know parking is a big issue. north beach hasn't been swept since the eighties because of opposition. but we are getting a lot of requests to sweep. basically our trucks are 10 feet wide. we stick the brooms out and they are may be 12 feet wide. >> there are a lot of blind spots when driving a large truck pedestrians and bicyclists and cars. and navigates this 22,000-pound truck through the city. >> we involve the public here -- to adhere to traffic laws.

these routes were developed back in the eighties around the capability of the sweeper. things have changed since then so we have to adapt. luckily, public works is embracing technology and working on a system to alter our maps. this is literally cut and paste -- cut and paste. we will have a computer program soon that will be able to alter the maps and be updated instantly. we will have tablets in the checks for all of the maps. we will send a broom wherever it needs to go and he has the information he needs to complete the safety. what is needed about these tablets as they will have a g.p.s. on it so we know where they're at. you do get confused driving along, especially the inner sunset. recall that to the be made a triangle. >> thanks for writing along with us today. i enjoyed showing you what we do and i urge you to pay attention to the signs and move your car

and don't litter. with all