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. >> please call roll call. [roll call] this is the recreation and parks commission meeting of december 19th, 2019. welcome to everyone here today. remind you to turn off electronic devices during the meeting and take any secondary conversations outside in order for the meeting to proceed as

efficiently as possible. if you like to speak on any item , we request but do not require that you complete a blue card. each person will have three minutes for public comment on each item. please address your comments to the commission during public comment. in order to allow equal time, we will not respond to any questions during public comment. the commission may ask questions of staff after public comment is closed. if there is an item of interest that is under the subject matter jurisdiction, you may speak under general public comment. that is item four. if the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate the building in an orderly fashion. elevators will immediately return to the first floor and are not available for use. if you need assistance out of the building, please make your way to the closest area of refuge which is directly across the hall in the men's restroom. there's a speaker box. prosit and city hall security will answer. please note the commission will be calling item seven and eight together. we are now on item two,

president's report. >> thank you. i will be very brief. i simply wish to all of the public and all of my fellow commissioners and all of the staff at recreation and park a very happy holiday season. thank you. >> thank you for setting that great example for the general manager. [laughter] sorry, did i say that out loud? >> is there any public comment? public comment is closed. we are now on item three. general manager's report. >> i only have 37 items for you this morning, commissioners. >> thank you very much. [laughter] >> i too will extend a happy holiday and i'm so excited about this holiday season. i will share with you a wee bit what is happening in your department. got some good news to an 2019. the controller's office released its annual park maintenance standards this week which shows the parks were better maintained

across the city over the past fiscal year with less disparity between neighborhoods and continued improvements to formerly lower scoring parks. our department met 92% of its standards, exceeding our target of 90%. the score also represents a three-point increase from the previous two years, and a six-point increase over the past four. we are doing well. significantly, the report also shows and can you -- continued can prove mints -- improvements in the condition of formerly lowing -- lower scoring parks. in 2015, it got a 60%. in 2019, that score climbed 17% to 77%. earlier this year, the controller's office published a new interactive dashboard that shows all data that users can explore to see the highest and lowest scoring parks and how the scores have changed over time or look up a favorite parking get

level details on the maintenance the dashboard can be found on the controller's website. the results of this latest report are certainly a testament to the commitment of our staff, including our custodians, our maintenance crews, they also reflect the continued guidance and investment that we are making into our deferred maintenance fees that you all help us with each year. they certainly reflect the results of the confidence of san francisco voters as we have been able to renovate almost 100 projects and almost 100 facilities in the last 10 years. very good news. the biggest take away for me is, over the last three or four years with both ted -- with head and heart and wallet, our focus on narrowing the gap between our

highest and lowering parks and prioritizing deferred maintenance and equity zones is starting to show. it is starting to pay off. we are really pleased about that i wanted to invite everyone to yet one more awesome holiday party. this one is going to be at 900 and at india basin. the future park sights that we have all been working on this saturday, december 21st, from noon to 5:00 p.m. the event is in india basin project event collectively hosted by the recreation and park department the brando institute, the parks alliance and will include visits from santa, live entertainment, cookie decorating, rockclimbing and toy giveaways to kids. folks can preregister their children for the giveaway by calling 415-42-1877 --

(415)421-8777. usually a phone number has seven numbers. you can find out more about the india basin project. you can please visit the website just write down the path from 900 innes is the eco- centre. if you're looking for ways to get active this holiday season, the eco- centre is a couple -- is a couple of new and unique activities this month in addition to his regular programming and adoption investigation workshops were you can test your athletic skills against insects. i thank you have already done that, mr. president. >> i have. >> let me say again, you lost. you can test your athletic skills against insects. if your insect curious, this is december 26 and 10:00 a.m. -- from january 2nd at 10:00 a.m.

from 3:00 p.m. you can also learn about microorganisms that live in the wetlands on december 27th and january 3rd from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. the last weekend of december, first weekend of january all have some cool and also programming. for more information on occurring activities, you can visit our website. it is winter, his registration for our winter programs is going on now online and in person at 14 locations across the city. get the entire family out and into our parks and recreation centres. we have ever something for everyone. including fishing, canoeing, and kayaking. a basketball league for kids and drop in zumba and fitness classes for adults. with an eye on january, two quick announcements. applications for our summer 2020

work recreation program are being accepted now through january 10th. the program is open to teenagers 14 to 18 who live or go to school in san francisco and offers a valuable opportunity for them to enter the workforce, earn money, have fun, make new friends, and work will recreation and park sweatshirts. this past summer, we hosted 430 youth workers in our parks. nearly half of whom were in this recreation program. they were recruited, interviewed , and hired directly by our staff. celebrating its 58th year this year, the program has seen many of its former workers go on to have long and successful careers here at the recreation and park department, including stacy white and toby wiley. those interested in applying or folks who know teens who may be

interested in applying, you can visit our website. and then lastly, join us for our 306th annual luncheon in honor of dr. martin luther king on friday, january 17th from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the recreation centre. this year's keynote speaker is going to be a superior court judge. i believe that she is the chief. it offers community members to re-create -- reconnect and reflect on the life of dr. king. let's attend so we can reserve a seat for you. with that, we will take a quick look at all of the holiday events happening or that have happened in your beloved park

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[♪] and thank you for the video. i want to mention briefly that the tenderloin children's recreation centre, which honest to god, there were 500 to 600

people in there for toy giveaways, food giveaways, curling, cookie and crafts in a community that doesn't have much space and needs the love. it was quite joyous. i want to think my staff are all the work they do to give people a little bit of an extra holiday smile. that concludes the general manager's report. >> thank you very much. >> is there any public comment? please come forward. >> remind him it is on the general manager's report. >> this is public comment on the general manager's report. >> okay. >> can i use thick projector? may i please have the overhead?

>> overhead? >> take your time. no hurry. >> you are up. >> great. good morning. i am here to talk about the general manager report. if you look at this here, this shows mclaren park. i got this from capital improvement. if you look at every single map,

we are not on the san francisco visitor's map. we don't get much respect. we are not on this map. you see there? district nine, they shut us off at twin peaks potrero hill. the reason i bring this up is because we want our fair share of the bones. my question is, is mclaren park and the playground going to be on the next bond? nobody can answer this question except maybe you guys. >> i can't get a straight answer i can sit down if you don't have the answer? >> i don't think, under public comment, that there will be response to a particular question. the bonds are set out of the mirror's office so i would probably send you there. >> okay. i will go to the audit ethics. the last few days i have been at the controller's office. i need help under the sunshine law to understand a lot of these reports.

if you guys have an announcement , if you look at the back part of it, it is not even on here. all the paper that you guys have , i have a lot of the copies how can we follow the money if mclaren park -- if we don't understand the literature? you guys have it too. i went to the supervisor right here. they were very nice and the auditor is off the chart. the controllers. i have been very forthcoming. i need recreation and park to sit down with me and help me understand these reports. that's all i am asking. and under the sunshine law i am requesting this. thank you. >> thank you.

>> following the money. >> is there any other public comment? public comment is closed. we are now on item four, general public comment. this item will be continued until item 10. members of the public may address the commission on items that interest the public and that do not appear on the agenda with respect to agenda items, you will have an opportunity to address the commission when the item is reached in a meeting. i have several blue cards for this. when i call your name, please call forward. [calling names] >> thank you. good morning, commissioners. i am here representing the board of the one at vista neighborhood association. i'm here with three other members to update you briefly

with the current park assessment project and project and also to express the importance of being a project on the 2020 park file. first of all, thank you for approving this project. assessment project back in august and thanks to recreation and parks for helping fund and partnering on this project. thank you also to miller co., the lead landscape architect firm that is helping -- that is putting a lot into this project. finally, thank you to -- for including a member of buena vista neighbors on the. working group. i appreciate that. a lot of progress has been made on this project so far, assessing the peg's conditions and estimating the cost to restore the park. we expect much of this to be completed in early 2020 and ask that an overview be presented to the commission this february. this project is in follow-up to the 2015 capital improvement

planning projects that took place between recreation and park. we do not have updated cost estimates, but we expect those to be at the same level or larger than the 25 to $30 million that came out in 2015. there are three points i would like to end on. number one, the importance of preserving san francisco's natural resources. this is essential to the mission statement for the 2020 parks bond. [calling names] is certainly one of the city's most precious natural resources. number two, it is believed that many of the core features are in poor or deficient condition and this project will continue to the overall assessment of [calling names] -- buena vista's conditions. number three, and as part of the park bond selection process, buena vista should be viewed as a leverage funding. over the last decade, they have

received $1.3 million in capital expenditures. of that, we have helped raise 300,000 over the last five years to get at bags and private donations. they have also applied to grant programs for the last five years and is continuing to research and develop other funding sources. again, we hope to have an overview of this project presented to the commission in february. please know, we are committed to helping with the process of the 2020 parks bond. >> thank you [calling names]. >> good morning. my name is jean and for the past 30 years, i have had the privilege of living on the east slope of the park in the park hill condominiums. the old st. joseph's children hospital. i enjoy having breakfast every morning looking over the

magnificent overstory of the park. i'm here to speak on our park on behalf of the 136 homeowners in my parkhill community. so much for paperless. okay. buena vista parkas an urban wonder. it is a natural urban forest. it is the oldest park in san francisco's park system. it is the highest, most inland sand dune in the state of california. it has 36 acres with winding paths and sweeping views that incorporate three bridges. the park nourishes us, but the park is in decline. it has been under maintained for decades. it is chronically understaffed and chronically underfunded. historically it has been served by two to three gardeners.

only recently, while we did get an acting supervisor and the staff is now up to four gardeners, and with their hard work and care they are only holding the park together. buena vista park has received less than a million dollars in funding in the past decade. the department's 2020 parks bond mission statement includes a statement about improving sustainability. a sustainable urban forest at buena vista park could thin the overstory, improve the understory and add plantings that would regenerate. we could create a design guidelines for reforestation over time to make the park healthy again. if we make the park healthy again, then the ongoing maintenance cost could level off and be sustainable. if the park continues to

degenerate, the maintenance costs will continue to spike in response to the state of emergency it is in. emergency responses to floods, landslides, erosion, and most recently, fires. a healthy park will attract private philanthropy. together with recreation and park, our neighborhood association is working on a needs assessment and cost analysis to make buena vista park project ready. buena vista park needs to be adequately funded by the next park bond. we need to take care of the park so it can continue to take care of us. thank you. >> thank you. [calling names] >> hello, my name is stephanie. i am on the buena vista neighborhood association parks committee and i would like to speak from the perspective of family. i am a mother of two young children under the age of three

and we are avid users of the park with the playground, the pathways, going out and just exploring picking up sticks. it is a wonderful resource for families. i have lived in the area of the past 25 years -- in the past 20 years. in the last 10 years, eight houses flanking either side of me have converted completely from the houses that had no children at all to every single house now has children in it. we also have three public elementary schools that are walking distance to the park and we have two private schools that cover the k. through 12 segment of education. we have a lot of schools, we have a lot of families, and there is a growing need to make the park safe and maintain it in a sustainable way so it is accessible and safe for families to go to. of the 10 entries that there are to the park, there are only two

that are really useful or you are able to get into without going over off the side of the path or having to wander or, you know, you basically can't get through with a stroller except for two entries. that is due to the fact that there are no maintained pathways at the entry point. a lot of the paths you have to veer off the side because the stairs are falling apart and people are creating their own pathways because pathways have completely deteriorated. as part of our work, we would love to bring in public donation because there is only families that would support the park. in order to do so, these families need to see that the city is committed to support significant financial support with the bond in 2020. we would love to see that our weekend warriors, neighbors that are coming in, and working on the park and that are committed

are not just putting up fires. we are actually getting support from the city that they can be maintaining a sustainable and healthy park that is safe for everyone to use. we would love the park to be more welcoming to everyone. some people have even mentions that they are fearful to go into it with their kids because of how things are. we really cherish our 36-acre park and don't want to see it continue to deteriorate. we asked the committee to support the park with a significant financial allocation in the next park bond. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. >> go ahead. >> good morning. i have lived near the park for over 35 years and have walked a dog in the park every day for the last 18 years. i can say i am first-hand

witness to the great beauty of the park, but also to its unfortunate steady decline. my message for the committee today is that the needs assessment project has been going on for decades and now is the time to act. the buena vista neighborhood association has been working with recreation and parks park since the 1970s. i have seen the proposal for the master plan in a 1987, and that -- very little work seems to have been implemented. i personally have been involved with them and this issue since 2015 when the capital improvement plan started. we're waiting for those recommendations that came out of that process to be funded. and now with the occurrence evaluation that they have helped fund, that maybe -- miller and company assumes a very good work on, and their proposals are being priced and you will see them shortly. this project is very ready to go

, assuming that the bond passes on the funds are made available. i hope that this committee does not kick the can down the road and that if the bond passes and the funding -- if the bond passes and the funding is delayed again, the park will continue to decline, and it would be a tragedy to lose the environment that buena vista provides in the very centre of the city. particularly as it is densely populated. i hope that now, with the proposed bond, at the time has finally come to provide a resource that the park so desperately needs. that is it. thank you. >> thank you. >> matthew? >> i hope this works. the overhead might work. look at that. >> look at that.

this is a picture of the twin peaks area. i'm here today with a strategic plan update. i don't need the overhead anymore. the strategic plan update to remind me that perhaps a commission wanted to hear about some of the work happening outside of the park including some cooperative things. i am a very happy to announce the s. of urban riders. i want to talk about our project laguna hospital. i know at least some of you have seen this. i don't know if anyone else has, but this year we had 1,000 volunteer hours. about 200 volunteers. we had a grand opening celebrating that we restored about 2 miles of trail and habitat. supervisor yi was there. it was the number one voted category in that participatory budgeting. as part of how -- it is something you might be interested in thinking about. [please stand by]

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rec and park department. san francisco park evaluation program, evaluation forms -- i've been doing a lot of reading -- it puts me to sleep. a.d.a. walking asphalt paths, curb cutouts, pretty basic. here it is. look at this. you see this? this is the play areas for a.d.a. i got this a little while ago. this is what you use for metrics. i'm talking about the rec and park and the controllers. i will continue and bring lots of people in here with disabilities to demand that this becomes part of your metric system, your analysis, your strategic plan. here it is. it says: new construction, alter stration, barrier removal, path component, triggered by the work, route of travel from

public transit -- this thing is hard to navigate. the parking is so out of compliance, it is not even funny. toilet, showers -- that's not it. drinking fountains -- we have a problem with that. passenger loading zones -- i know most people don't go out to maclaren park, i understand that. but it is where we live. we need this to change. [buzzer] >> we need you to add this to the park's standard annual report, and we request that the audit teams at the controllers' office, which i'll be dealing with them, and the rec and park department, at the lodge to work together to accomplish this. this is critical. san francisco is known as the san francisco c.c., all are included, including the disabled. thank you. >> chairwoman: thank

you. >> public comment is closed right now on item 5. commissioners, is there any item you would like removed from the consent calendar? >> i don't see any. >> chairwoman: is there any public comment on the consent calendar? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> moved and seconded. all those in favor? >> yea. >> so moved. thank you. >> chairwoman: all right. we're now on item 6, san francisco zoo. >> power point. >> good morning. vince grubbs, c.f.o. at the zoo. >> power point. >> we've got it. >> our year-long 90th anniversary celebration concludes in december,

highlighted this month by our "joy at the zoo." which goes through the end of the year. our orangutans, judy and bonnie, had the opportunity to explore the outside. this was baroni's first time. he was first tentative but soon followed judy into the yard. as we continue to acclimate both species to their new habitat. earlier this month, the zoo hosted the san francisco fire department and over 100 kids, aged five to 12, for a day of hawaiian fun. the thrust of the day centred around cultural awareness and self-esteem. all kids went home with toys, thanks to the s.f. f.d. and the toy drive.

if you're looking for the perfect holiday gift, an annual membership to the zoo is the gift that keeps on giving, offering unlimited year-round programs, and there will be an additional bonus month added to the memberships. in honor of ugly holiday sweater thing, we invite you to show off your ugly holiday sweaters at the zoo all weekend long. on the 20th, the first 20 guests in their ugly holiday sweaters will receive a free zoo key. and make sure to tag us, and we'll share our favorite photos. there is still time to meet santa and his elves at tinse tinseltown, joy at the zoo will continue daily

until january 1st with santa and other cooking activities. and we're open on christmas day. and we'll be -- santa will be busy that day, but some of his reindeer will be on-site, and we want to thank all of our staff for working the holidays. thank you. >> thank you. >> chairwoman: is there any complic comment on this item. now hearing none, public comment is closed. we're on item 8.

>> good morning commissions, i'm lisa branson, and it is a pleasure to be here in the dead of winter, but thinking forward to celebration and fun for next spring that we hope -- that we really hope will inspire gratitude for what our forebearers created and also a spirit of community for the city. i'm going to take two items together. i'll read you the agenda language for both and then i'll walk through one and then the other. and i'm happy to answer any questions at the end. so the items before you today are discussion and possible action to authorize the department to grant a permit to the san francisco parks alliance to produce a celebration of golden gate park's 150th anniversary on april 4th, 2020, with events including food, music, activities, and the closure of all roads in

golden gate park accept crossover drive and the great highway on apri april 4th, 2020. and the second item is discussion and possible action to authorize the department to enter into a permit with sky star wheel llc, for the temporary installation, not to exceed one year of an observation wheel on the eastern side of the music concourse area, located beyond venues of concourse bowl, and bordering music concourse drive with terms substantially the same as the term sheet dated december 9, 2019. approval of this proposed action by the commission is the approval action as defined by the s.f. administrative code, chapter 31. okay. so first the event, and i want to start by saying this event is truly a partnership with the san francisco parks alliance, and it has really been a

pleasure work with them for more than a year in planning this. golden gate park has always been -- the golden gate park has always been a magical place. in its boundaries, people have come together on momentous occasions, including the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and the summer of love, for annual concerts, races, and other events. it is also a place where people can come to experience nature right inside the city limits, with a hike or a picnic. in 2020, we want to recreate, create, and celebrate the joy and magic of the san francisco treasure, past, present, and future. and while we're only talking about the permit for the event, i just wanted to take you through a little bit of the plan for the celebration to put it in the context of the year. so first, a little

history. for the boundaries of the park set by the state legislature on april 4, 1870, luckily o for us, april 4th falls on a saturday, so somebody wanted this to happen. the city founders, with the designation of the park, wanted a park like central park, so they brought the designer of central park out to san francisco to design a park. he took one look at the sand dunes on offer for the park area, said it can't be done, and turned on his heels and left. part of that story may be a pocketful, but what is true is that horticulturist john mclaren, and engineer william hall, figured out a way to make things grow in the sand, really representing the creativity, determination,

and can-do spirit that has always embodied san francisco. >> barley? barley and oats? >> correct. today the -- >> hold on. >> today th it is about 75 acres bigger than central park, and it has an array of culture venues. the event is being organized by the san francisco parks alliance, under the leadership of an honorary commit lead by mayor breed and five distinguished co-chairs. one -- >> including one here? >> including one here. one of the primary goals of april 4th and the year-long celebration is

to celebrate golden gate park as everybody's park. this means reaching beyond the park to ensure groups all over the city get to experience the park during this special year. we're planning free shuttles to the park on saturdays, particularly from equity-zoned neighborhoods, and we'll bring cultural group to perform on the stage and elsewhere in the park. so today we formally partnered with more than 75 community groups, many of whom will activate parts of the park and provide volunteers and april 4th. and we're in process with dozens more, and we'll certainly get to 150 partners by april 4th. and we also have a wonderful list of the city's most important cultural institutions and importance.

sponsors. all of these partners will help create a year of celebration in the park and around the city. each event, with its own special celebration flavor. outside of the park, for example, there will be a photography exhibit at terminal 3, and the anniversary will be at the public library at all 28 city branches. of course, the cornerstone of the celebration will be the aimtio april 4th community day, exactly 150 years from the founding of the park. there are so many -- you'll see from the map of the event, but we're planning to light up every corner of golden gate park, and i mean that figuratively because most of the activities will be in the day. from 10:00 a.m. to approximately 5:00 p.m. through the park with some events continuing into the evening in the music concourse. there will be lawn

bowling, model yacht racing, horseback rides, vintage baseball, soccer clinics, and more. the veep event will feature a kids' carnival, musical performances, food, and, as i said, events, including, of course, the wheel, which i'll get to in a moment. so in order to deal with the enormity of what is available in golden gate park and what it represents, we have decided the celebrations into four basic tracks: history and people, science, technology, and nature, recreation and wellness, and creativity and the arts. and park visitors on april 4th e to plan their visit according to those tracks. it is hard to see over the text, but there will be -- as you'll see on the map,

there are different colors for different content areas. so if you're interested in recreation and wellness, you'll be able to find those activities. there will be arts activities and science activities. one of the things i'm excited about is we're going to take the irrigation project going on in golden gate park right now, which will ultimately be the largest urban park water reclammation park in the country, and we'll highlight that as part of the nature and environment tract. we'll have a great blue heron watch. there will be a heritage picnic. the museum of craft and design is going to come and helped make flowered headbands for park visitors, and there will be a kids' carnival at robin williams meadow. so some of the more

nitty-gritty planning pieces: in order to move people safely around the park, and to harken back to the park's history before there were cars, we'll close nearly all of the roads in the park. leaving open kesser drive. we'll provide ultimate transportation to help people in the park get around, including shuttles, bikes, scooter rentals, horse and carriage rides, and more to come. and then in terms of broader transportation planning, we do recognize that this one-time celebration may affect the surrounding neighborhoods, and we're working with the neighborhoods to reduce the effects. so some of the measures that we're taking right now is working the m.t.a. to provide alternative or increased muni service, to

keep kesser and the great highway and cross over drive open, publicizing the event and any traffic changes in event, and we'll be doing extensive messages about the need for people to take public transportation, and we'll highlight the limited available parking around the park. and we'll also work with the m.t.a. to reroute the 44 o'shaughnessy, which is the only muni line that would be impacted by the road closures. and i just wanted to add that, as i mentioned, we'll be doing -- we'll continue to do extensive out reach and engagement, but we've already done quite a lot. and, frankly, the enthusiasm has been inspiring. so it's really helped us frame a lot of these plans. we've had two community meetings. one in may at the

auditorium at the san francisco public library in an effort to have the planning meeting not be in the park and continue the move to make sure that this was something for the whole city and not just the neighbors of the park. and then we had a community meeting in september at the orchid pavilion next to the conservatory of flowers. there were nearly 100 people at the september meeting. they generated 175 ideas for what they wanted to see in the celebration. and out of that meeting, and out of other outreach efforts, came the work with groups -- about 79 of whom had signed formal partnership agreements. those partnership agreements allow us to use our beautiful logo in their pearl material, and asked them to commit at least one volunteer to

help run the event. if only we could do every single idea that we've suggested, but we're working on a lot of them. and now -- so on to the wheel, which, of course, is going to be a central piece of the april 4th celebration and beyond. so the 150-foot wheel that we're planning in the music concourse harkens back to the first wheel, which was placed in golden gate park in 1894as part of the mid-winter fair. bringing the observation wheel to golden gate park will allow the park to highlight and celebrate the anniversary, drawing many visitors to the park during this year-long celebration, and will help visitors experience the fup anfun and grand grandeur ofe

1896 exhibition. and on to the bit about the logistics of the wheel. i want to be clear, there is no cost to the city or the department for the cost of the wheel. in fact, we expect it will generate funding that will help support these festivities. the operate will build out, operate, and disman dismantle the wheel. he will reimburse the park to restore the area to the pre-installation condition. the operator will pay a dollar for general admission ticket sold to the department, and 75 cents per senior or youth ticket sold to the department. the pricing of the wheel is $18 for a general admission ticket. $12 for seniors and youth

under 13. and there is a number of community benefits that we've negotiated with the wheel operator. so those include free rides for the public on the april 4th community day. and also 500 complementary tickets per month will be used to ensure that low-income residents of the city will have access to the ride. and they're offering 25 v.i.p. experience packages. and just a little bit about the logistics of the installation. i know this map isn't super eas easy to read, but you'll see in the upper right corner the proposed installation area, which is at the north -- excuse me, at the east end of music concourse. the installation is well away from the parts of the garage, which are underneath the music concourse, and are those blue rectangles, which

represent the parking garage, underneath the music concourse, with the tunnel in between those two sections of the garage in between. the wheel is about 130 feet in diameter, and 150 feet tall. the base is 72 feet by 57 feet, and the installation will include temporary sensing, support, fixtures and lighting. in terms of seismic safety, the support fixtures include 24-inch piers on an eight foot by eight foot platform. in fact, i believe we just finished the g.o. tech report, and they're going to be 40 to 46 feet deep. other approvals are in process, and construction

won't begin until those other approvals happen. and just so you know what the other approvals are: the state needs to approve the amusement park ride through the department of industrial relations. the department of building inspection will issue a foundation permanent. permit. and since this is a landmark area, the historic preservation commission will issue a certifcate of appropriateness, and that hearing is scheduled for january 15th. and then i just really want to close with sort of why we're doing this. so both the wheel and, really, the community day that will surround it, are designed to celebrate the park's past, present, and future, and its importance internationally, regionally, and to every neighborhood in san francisco. we want to inspire at least 150,000 people to come to the park on

april 4th, probably a lot more, and millions more to visit throughout this special year. and we want to build awareness and advocacy for the park and increase membership in all of the community groups in the park and around san francisco that steward and support what the park means to the city. so thank you very much. and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you very much. >> chairwoman: i'm going to call the blue cards i have. drew, michael, and then tom. >> good morning, everyone. happy holidays. it is a pleasure to be here. and i would actually say this is probably one of my favorite things that i've ever spoken on because celebrating this amazing public space and public park, cities don't get a chance to do this that much. and as you can tell, every 150 years.

it is truly going to be a remarkable experience for the city and for every single resident in san francisco, but also in the bigger bay area. it is -- i just want to say, the narrative of san francisco right now is not always happy, when you hear about our public spaces and our public realm. and i think next year we can use this celebration to help change and curate that narrative because we have one of the best parks in the whole world right here, and that's golden gate park. next year having over 150 community groups, all of us focused on golden gate park, celebrating the amazing things in this city, is going to be truly remarkable. one of the things we've been doing is going out and raising money for this with lisa and other other folks, and people always ask, what would be your sign of success for the golden gate 150th anniversary? and one of the things that

makes this park so amazing is the actual things that happen in it, the things that people do every day, the groups that make this park very special. and some of them are getting older or more mature and need to have the injection of some new life. yeah, i know. i'm with you on that one, trust me. [laughter] >> and we -- and one of the goals here is to introduce new people and new ideas into the park. so, you know, i'm going to take the model yacht basin. when phil first showed me that when we were there and went to the model yacht club, i was literally was like a little kid in a toy store. i could not believe that people were building these boats. i go out there with my dog and i watch those boats all of the time, and it is truly relax and really great. so if i can find, and we can find, that next person through golden gate 150th that can help that organization for the next 15, 20 years to se survive

and transform itself, we would have been a success with the golden gate 150 anniversary. and we also want to introduce the club to new things. who knows, maybe we'll have a drone club -- if it is legal. you never know what will happen and who will get inspired through the golden gate 150th. i want to say we're truly excited to partner with the department on this. i think it is going to be a celebration of epic proportions that we're all going to have a lot of fun doing. i think next year, 2020, is going to be an interesting year, with everything going on in the national sort of stage. [buzzer] >> and parks are the biggest piece of democracy that we have, open to everyone, and we should open that and be a part of that piece as part of our golden gate 150th. i also would like to say, it is pretty amazing that we're going to close this park -- >> thank you very much. >> -- close this park one

day to cars, and i'm very excited to have that happen. and the wheel is amazing as well. thank you. >> chairwoman: michael and tom and then audrey. >> good morning commissioners. mr. parks, mr. michael lambert, as department head for the san francisco public library, i want to thank all of you and general manager with the opportunity to partner with the recreation and parks department on golden gate park's 150th anniversary. the park sa very special place for the community, enhancing the quality of life for san francisco's residents. it is a place where residents can be inspired, make connections, and enjoy the company of one another. and above all, as the previous speaker mention the, a place where all are welcomed every day. for me, golden gate park is one of my happy places. i'm a big fan of the golf course. it is one of the finest such courses in all of

california. i can't thank you enough for the excellent stewedship of this park, and the neighborhood playgrounds that make san francisco so livable. this coming year, in celebration of golden gate park's history, we're tying the 150th year anniversary to our signature summer stride, summer learning program. this is the single largest program that we do all year. all aimed at ensuring children in san francisco keep reading and keep learning during the summer months. last year we engaged more than 35,000 people in this program. and we open it up to all ages, so that everyone in every neighborhood in san francisco can ben frit from the library's push towards more books, more learning, free events and amazing prices. as part of our partnership, we will be featuring golden gate park on all of our materials, including the game board, which allows people to

track their reading, and the program guide, all of our advertising and book marks. we will be exhibiting our 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