>> meeting to order at 1003 a.m. could i have roll call, please? >> commissioner anderson. >> here. >> commissioner griffin. >> here. >> commissioner jupiter jones. >> here. >> commissioner louie. >> here. >> commissioner mazzola. >> here. this is recreation and park commission meeting of january 19, 2023. the san francisco rec reaction and park commission recognizes we occupy the home land of ramaytush oholone people. as

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meetings. this is just to allow to continue to have remote or hybrid meetings for the next 30 days. >> enough said? >> anyone have public comment on item 2? any public comment on the phone line? we have a hand, but i'm guessing that they raised it before this. i would say we probably have no public comment so public comment is closed. >> alright. item 3, president's report. i'm choosing to share this time- >> i need you to vote on item 2. >> sorry. can we have a motion and second to- >> so moved. >> all in favor state aye. no opposition. motion carries. >> item 3, president report. >> i like to share the time with fellow commissioners and i'll

start with commissioner griffin. >> well, i wanted to just make a couple remarks about the department's mlk lunch that was held last friday. it was an amazing lunch. lot of our departments showed up, but i think we can always do better on that in terms of attendance. we gave out awards to certain staff, but the highlight of the day for me was dr. cheryl evans. dr. evans is the executive director of the human right commission and extremely extremely bright young woman. she is quite a oriator and singer. her comments were something i think should have been recorded. were they recorded? >> no. >> that's too bad, because they were really right on the money. there were three of us there from

the commission, vice president anderson, myself and commissioner hallisy. why did i blank? sorry. anyhow, it was a wonderful day and the first time it happened in three years, or two years because of the pandemic, so hopefully next year celebration will be even bigger and better. that is all i wanted to say about it. >> i like to add that our apprenticeship program received award of excellence and i would like to continue to tout what a great program that and how it gives young people valuable skills and a opportunity for dignified pay and benefits and the people you meet that go through the program are so jazzed up, so motivated, it is really a wonderful

thing to see. i now like to share some time with commissioner louie. >> thank you vice prez sident anderson. this sunday is chinese lunar. it is the year of the rabbit and not that i am offering any predictions for the year, but there are some things to look forward to. it still requires a lot of our patience, but the rabbit year they say symbolizes hope and it is just not the rabbit, it is the water rabbit, which maybe explains the weather we were having. but, with water, water also helps our trees and our flowers grow, so it is a year of hope. we still have to

practice patience, but the lunar new year typically celebrated for 16 days and starting the eve of sunday, which is saturday all the way through-by the way, the chinese new year alaska air line sponsor parade is saturday february 4, but we celebrate until february 9. i'm very superstitious. deep roots in san francisco china town, so expect fire crackers to welcome the new year to scare away all the evil lasting spirits. they say it is supposed to be a more calmer year, we don't see that all in the world but we hope for that. as a rabbit falls under the-anybody that is a wood element this will be a very good year because it is the water rabbit. thanks.

>> thank you so much. i am born in the year of the rabbit, which is the luckiest symbol in the chinese zodiac and i woke up being very hopeful. it will be a great year. commissioner jupiter jones. >> hi, thank you. i want to share this time to highlight our event from our (inaudible) so for everyone here, rec wuty is a city wide program that offers free dynamic engaging cultural relevant (inaudible) public housing or housing developments. the program is designed to support participants and families by connecting to rec park programming and other relevant resources to promote a healthy and active lifestyle. there is a near and dear favorite programs of our department and over the holidays hosted the ttt season

of giving. stands for turkey trees and toys and from november to december they partnered with the sfpd, sheriff department, usf, project level, the a fillal randolph institute and housing authority to deliver 7 thousand turkeys and food bags, 300 trees and 15 thousand toys to families living in public housing in san francisco. a very amazing powerful event and shouting out the staff linda (inaudible) thank you. >> wonderful. thank you so much. i'll add to the report that, already in my life before i became a commissioner, but certainly augmented and supported by my experiences with the commission and all the amazing people i get to work with in rec and park with a very visionary leader phil ginsburg who may or may not be paying attention at this time.

>> always paying attention. always. (inaudible) >> i just enrolled in a fairly new program out of university of california called the climate steward certification program. beginning end of february i'll be taking courses and doing field study in pointe reyes. i ink the my capstone project (inaudible) for city and county of san francisco. i'm really really excited about this. i think it will be the beginning of my new life as a naturalist so that is my report. that concludes the president report. >> any public comment in room 416 on the president report? seeing none, i will go to the line. any public comment about the president report. we still have one hand raised. why don't you unmute them is and

i'll double check this isn't what they want to comment on and are then we'll move on. go ahead speaker. >> so sorry. i did this prior the meeting but it is for a different- >> that's what i thought. i wanted to make sure. thank you. go ahead and continue. >> i did want to invite everybody there will be a celebration at esprey park 1 to 2 at 20 and minnesota. it will be a groundbreaking there so everybody come out and help us celebrate, bring the kids and the dogs. >> seeing no public comment public comment is closed. we are on item 4, general manager report. >> good morning commissioners and happy new year. thank you for your various updates and acknowledgment of our fabulous programs, which is a good segue to where i wanted to lead, which is i think

you probably have seen online at this point our fabulous 2022 community report, which we do every year. we put it out the first week of january. this year no exception. it is certainly been a year and a lot of highlights which we are proud of including the completion of francisco park, the first park built in the city urban core since 1983. the creation of the permanently car free jfk promenade. the environmental cleanup completion and groundbreaking at endian basin waterfront. hurts playground renovation underway, construction has begun on the new rec center. the reopening of rossi pool which we were all at this time last year i think actually. waller street skate park improvements

unveiled. we secured additional $4 million in federal funding for buchanan mall. we were able to restore the japanese tea garden historic pagoda. we hosted world cup watch parties that saw over 10 thousand people show up to the various events over the month, and we welcomed 3500 campers back to camp mather for the first time following a 2 year hiatus due to the pandemic. it wasn't a perfectly smooth summer but at camp mather it never is. our parks had lots of big moments in 2022 and obviously excited for that momentum to continue and as i know all of you are-i'm so grateful to rec and park staff who really made this year a very memorable one. folks who are responsible for project management

and accounting and hr and our communications including the community report, our partnership to vision, administrative folks that can be a little more behind it scenes but these are the people you are more likely to see at a commission hearing, all of us working together to sport the men and women on the ground. you don't need to look any further then my next topic which is our storm and park impacts to really have a true and deep appreciation for our structural maintenance yard, the gardeners the park rangers, the rec staff, urban forestry crews that really go above and beyond to keep people safe and engaged even when circumstances make that really difficult, but they show up every day and in a world where so many of us have the opportunity to telecommute now or

work from wherever, it should never be lost on us the rangers and gardeners and structural maintenance staff and a lot-the rec staff too are there every day. they show up and i think that's a note i want to remeend us all as we express appreciation for our team and all the wonderful things we accomplished in 2022. if you haven't noticed, it has been raining. we have seen unprecedented amount of rain, 17 inches. our historic research reveals the city has not seen this much rain within a 3 week period of time since the mid-1800's. with rain comes flooding, downed trees, mud slides and tragedy. it has been widely report ed but worth

acknowledging we were heart-broken to learn last weekday one of our regular park visitor did suffer a storm related fatality in golden gate park according to the chronicle, she has been identified as san francisco resident 73 or old beth louise abe rams our hearts go out to her family and (inaudible) look out for hazardous occurrences 24/7 for the last 3 weeks and unfortunately these things defy logic, prediction, inspection, they just happen. the storms have also less horrifically but also resulted in a lot of flooding in our parks creating depending

upon your vantage point new and temporary lakes or very large puddles. most of the spaulths are expected to drain on their own. we are draining right now i just went past our crews on the way to city hall, we are draining peacock meadow. even though it is a spectacular visual, electricity and water do not mix so that one will be drained and the rest of some of the flooding we have been experiencing is actually going to happen on its own and i noted to a reporter yesterday, actually the park was designed this way. we have some low level meadows and valleys in spots that intentionally collect water and what is the advantage of that-? while it gets

in the way of some of the recreation it keeps excess water out of the storm system and as we know different neighborhoods have experienced flooding so the less water in the storm system the healthier the system is at a moment like this and it also recharges our aquifer beneath golden gate park is a big water table and historically going back to our wind mills that water table has been used to irrigate the park among other purposes. starting next year that water which is potable will only be used to provide a source of water for san franciscans and we will be moving to recycle reclaimed water in golden gate park which will quickly become the largest urban park in america to operate on recycled water so exseated for that development, and despite just the horrible tragedy, this

is all this rain has been a important moment for california and for the reservoirs and for the health of our park system in some strange ways too. as vice chair-i was going to call you chair or president and didn't- >> vice president. >> vice president, vice chair president sitting in the president chair's seat, as commissioner anderson announced, tomorrow we will be holding an actual groundbreaking for esprey park which marks a series of improvements to this two acre space in the dog patch that include lapd scape up grades, new irrigation, (inaudible) drainage improvements and much much more. the park was originally built by a clotheer

manufacturer espre as a outdoor area for employees and this commission has an interesting connection to esprey. when the company pulled out of the space, the city acquired the park in the mid-80's but the design was really never intended to accommodate what has now really become a dense and thriving neighborhood with lots of dogs so these improval ments are much needed and make a world of difference for our dog patch neighbors who visit the park daily and we will have space for off leash dogs and have space for young families as i think you remember really fun hearing on the concept design for this complicated space. anyway, we are thrill to be under construction. this project has great support from ucsf which deserves to be acknowledged and

absorbs a amount of passion energy and advocacy from the neighborhood so nice to move from the planning phase to construction phase when everybody can take a deep breath and know the hopes and dreams are in the process being realized. the event is 1-2 pmp 20th and minnesota street and hope to see people there. it will be a nice celebration and the first of many in 2023. i'm toggling between good news and bad news today. we did have another unexpected loss within our department. as you may have read this morning or heard on the news yesterday, the death of blanch, the swan one of the most famous swans in the city, blanch was a well known fixture at palace of fine arts lagoon to welcome visitors daily with her serene spirit. she passed away

yesterday january-she passed--a week ago. sorry, thursday january 12 at the age of 28 and she died at her home in sonoma county where she had retired to back in july, 2022 after responding most of her life at palace of fine arts. blanch is survived by her son stanley- [laughter] i'm quite serious, her volunteer caretaker gale hagerty and countless admirers including staff, city residents and tourist around the world. she was extremely well photographed. her physical beauty rivaled only by hur soul. she will be deeply missed. to honor blanch we are asking park visitors to step outside and enjoy a city park just

as she would have wanted. our delightful memories of blanch, may her memory be a blessing and we'll move on a special shout out- >> (inaudible) >> a special shout out totam ruapper ten who did spend most of yesterday drafting blanch's obituation. these are real jobs we have. i just wanted to share that with you. as commissioner griffin noted, last week our department celebrated dr. martin luther king, jr. day with our 39 annual mlk lunch event and the first in-person lunch since 2019 and commissioner griffin this is such a lovely event we always want more people i was thrilled with attendance at the event and appreciative of all the hard work that went into the event from the mlk

organizing committee. it was a huge success and attended by remarkable number of city officials including our mayor, senator wiener, supervisor (inaudible) chief scott, jenny nicoleson, assistant deputy chief and park alliance bord member shawn buford. commissioner griffin, commissioner hallisy and commissioner anderson and director davis who was not our key note speaker but surprise award winner and all mc by the new superintendent of park nick williams. it was fantastic and the theme for the keeping the dream alive award was further quest for equity inclusion which

certainly is consistent with human right commission executive director cheryl davis entire mission and approach. she received community award and apprenticeship program for focus on hiring and work force development and job training. received internal awards so we give one award to community member and a staff member or division every year. we were honored to celebrate dr. king's legacy of inclusion, but also to be able to recognize those like cheryl and our apprenticeship program furthering it. i really want to give a huge shout out to all the staff involved putting this on. the food was home cooked and yes, after a firm declaration that no, not again this year, i will not eat collard greens, i ate collard greens and they are pretty good. you can

teach a old dog new tricks. just a really lovely event. thank tuesday the retires and communities members. >> slight correction, it did happen in 2020. i was there. >> we can-before pre-pandemic. you are right, january 2020 we shut down in march. lunar new year, as commissioner louie noted begins sunday january 22 and commissioner louie can speak much more eloquently about the significance of the rabbit. i paid attention to the patience part of it commissioner louie in addition to collard greens two areas of growth for me. patience and collard greens. there are-with that said, there are so many events hopening in the

coming weeks. we have the basketball jamberee- [laughter] we take our job very seriously. >> we were waiting for that one. >> basketball jamberee saturday january 28 and wonderful incredible fabulous chinese new year parade the biggest lunar festival that winds throughout china town and union square saturday february 4 so very excited about this year's lunar new year events and moving on, i want to remind everyone that our very successful and also acclaimed green-ager program is accepting applications, youth applications for 2023. we are seeking stand-out 9 and 10 graders who live in or

attend a school in the city southeast and northeast neighborhoods to participate in the program, which runs from june-november. teens to get to work on leadership skills and improving the city green spaces and addressing neighborhood needs. we graduated our 2022 green-ager class and proud of their accomplishments and a number of you were able to be there. i was not for the first time, but sincere thanks for to all our green-ager graduates to contribution to the parks over the last year and we are thrilled to welcome this program into 2023 and we are now focusing very pleased to report on three different neighborhoods in addition to the bayview and china town. this program expanded to the tenderloin, so it is just terrific and a big shout out to my team that administers.

they do a great job. wrapping up here. the video of the week is last month's india basin shoreline park toy give away. let's take one last look at the holidays before we move on to lunar new year and women's history month and spring training and opening of base ball season and summer. one last look back at the holidays. our toy give away hosted by the indian basin project team lead by the a phillip randolph institute. huge success, more then 150 families attending. children picked out toys, all of which were free, music and snacks, visit from santa, raffle, lots of holiday activities. the ceremony for the new indian basin shoreline park (inaudible)

commemorated on the same day. designs created by local hunter bay artist (inaudible) and 5 neighborhood youth that task creating designs that embody their sevls and communities. i want to shout paint the boy. the give away and hike court made possible through the park project equitable development plan to serve to insure the park is good d zineed for the bayview hunter point residents. let's take a look at that and then we can move to other matters on the agenda. [playing video with music]

pretty cool from up above. so i hope everybody had a lovely

holiday and 2023 fulfills all your hopes for health, community and parks and that concludes the general manager report. >> thank you phil. >> any public comment on the general manager's report? seeing none, do we have hands raised on our comment line? seeing none, public comment is closed. we are now on item 5, general public comment up to 15 minutes. this item will be continued to item 16. at this time members of the public may address the commission on items of the pub lck within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and do not appear on the agenda. you have a opportunity to address the commission when the item is reached in the meeting. if you are joining on the line this isn't the time to comment on item 8. to be clear this is just for items

not on today's agenda. i do have one speaker card filled out for angus, if you want to speak now. >> welcome. good morning. i'm here to (inaudible) a man no one has heard of yet the man we owe a debt of gratitude when we come to golden gate park. 1872 when the park was more dream then park patrick was hired as the park's first employee. (inaudible) patrick was the form of the park (inaudible) supervisor the work that went to the park creation and maintenance. working 9 hour days 6 days a week, (inaudible) >> you have 30 more seconds. >> a working man who spent his life and gave his life to give us golden gate park. now 110 years after his death propose we give patrick quigly the long overdue recognition he

deserves. his name a feature in his beloved park in which he lived worked and died. thank you. >> thank you. >> members of the public i like to let you know you have a minute and you get a warning at 30 seconds so you can ignore that initial warning. >> would you like to speak during general public comment? come on up. >> i didn't see one for general, but that's fine. >> please. >> i'm here to report on golden gate (inaudible) golden gate held the annual christmas bird count in the rain on december 27. hundreds of volunteers spread over locations from north tower of golden gate bridge to lake merced to san francisco international airports

to tally birds and celebrate nature. all volunteer effort to serve airfb bird in north america which includes the park system you oversee. a total of 122 people signed up for the count all checking every (inaudible) forest on the land from sun up to sun down. all told san francisco rec and park properties logged 6 43 miles, 708 hours and 161 specious. 28.500 birds counted in the park when all the specious added up including rare (inaudible) >> go ahead and finish your sentence. >> [naming birds] >> would you submit to ashley and i'll circulate it to the commissioners please? thank you. >> thank you. thank you for coming. >> anyone else in room 416 who would like to

speak during general public comment? seeing none, i'll move over to our public comment line. no hands raised there. seeing none, public comment is closed. we are on item 6, the consent calendar. commissioners i assume there is nothing you like to remove today. >> motion and second. >> so moved. >> second. >> alright. all in favor state aye. >> aye. >> no opposition. motion carries. >> we are now on item 7, the san francisco zoo and we have ingrid russell joining remotely. >> welcome ingrid. >> thank you for having me. ingrid russell director of collections at the san francisco zoo. that means i wear a lot of hats but in general oversee the management of our animal collection. this is oo busy time of year

for me. i want to share a powerpoint with you to show you what i've been up to. hopefully that is coming through. >> yes. >> okay, great. so, i am the zoo registrar also and as part of my annual duties, this is a busy time of year for me. one thing i do is an annual census for our animals managed in groups, and a lot of say for example insects in the insect zoo, the prairie dog colony, groups are animals housed together and may be difficult to individually identify, so later in the presentation i'll give you some numbers to

update what the groups are and what our total count for the zoo is at this point. another duty is get updates from the holding facilities for animals we own out on loan to other institutions. this is a requirement of our accrediting body, the association of zoos and aquariums. currently there are 31 animals out on loan to 19 institutions across the united states. most are for breeding. another thing that i tend to this time of year are our permitting annual reports. we are under the auspice of u.s. fish and wildlife for the permitting for our eagle collection and that includes live animals and bio facts. eagles are something that are really highly

regulated by the u.s. fish and wildlife service. we need a permit for them and every year we are required to report how many programs we've participated in, how frequently the animal is on exhibit, that sort of thing and also our kawala are owned by the australian government. aside we are also inspected every year by the u.s. department of agriculture. we hold a permit or it is a license to have animals on grounds from usda and the california department of fish and wildlife does annual inspection, so that is a continuation of the other oversight or regulators. we had

really cool additions to our collection in 2022. in this photograph that's an (inaudible). this is the (inaudible) critically endangers specious and highly regulated, so they are not supposed to be in the (inaudible) so anyway, 5 were con fin skated by california department of fish and wildlife and now housing them at the zoo. we also brought in (inaudible) an animal in the collection in the past but it hadn't had for a while. (inaudible) new specious on exhibit. we received a pig pygmy hippo.

also yellow-crowned amazon to add to the tropical building and we are now i believe the only facility at all that exhibits yosmite toads. they are a part of our conservation template. we have a number of animals we focus on local conservation and these individuals are considered non releasable so we received permission from the california department of fish and wildlife to actually have them on exhibit. we are very proud to be able to showcase those animals to the public. we also bolstered some of the higher profile programs with mexican wolves. we have 4 female mexican wolves now near the bears. that is a great exhibit and big

project we undertook in 2016. we brought in a female koalas and breeding again which is exciting and a female komoda dragon for the exhibit so we do have two animals. they are not currently housed together but we have space now to accommodate both of them for potential breeding in the future. he is some images of the animals i was speaking of. the macaw is a blue collard mackay. (inaudible) a interesting story the bali mynah were all most hunted to extinction but the numbers are now

growing. pygmy hippo on the right and yellow crowned amazon on the bottom. these are the animals i mentioned that bolstered our breeding and conservation programs. the mexican wolf in the middle is a highly endangered specious. that program is headed by the u.s. fish and wildlife service. we were asked to hold animals for that program. komodo on the top left and very cute koala on the right. going back to our numbers, as of january 1, 2023 total numbers of animals we consider individuals, meaning not living in a group, 471 for our main zoo collection. that is only down about 10 from the year before. we have lost

some of our mega fauna. we were doing work on our lion and tiger areas so we have just two lions on exhibit around the lion house whil we complete that renovation. we do have more snow leopards on exhibit and also the addition of the pygmi hippo. including groups, so we have a back of house conservation effort that focuses on specious that i'll show later in the presentation, but we house thousands of local amphibians that we are head-starting, which is a way that you can bring animals in from the wild, but particularly with everything that is happening in

california around climate, these are amphibians, normally fond in water, couple frog specious that a lot of their areas dried up or really impacted by local climate change so we partner with the yosmite national park to bring in animals in dangerous in the wild. they go through a vaccination program and rereleased back to the wild and that is exceptionally successful over the 10 plus years we have been involved. many of the animals are small, so we can accommodate more. we have a really nice back of house area that we expanded over the years to accommodate more animals, and have increased our number of staff that are devoted to that, so in

any case, that is around the conservation number. the 2300 plus zoo, a lot of thanimals are in the insect zoo. this is a break-down of our individuals and group numbers. obviously it brings the number up quite a bit. here are images of our conservation specious. the local conversation animals we work with. top left is yosmite toad. (inaudible) yellow legged frogs. also still working with the western or pacific pond turtle and our (inaudible) we do raise them at the children zoo and they are rereleased here in san francisco. that is a seasonal project. this last slide is

just a summary of what our groups and colonys are. a colony is something more then 500. so many you cant possibly count. an example of our groups that are managed in insect zoo most insects are groups of animals you see there. we have many numbers of-that number is not right. there must be a extra 2. i say 52 groups rather then 250 groups. excuse the typo. prairie dogs total 23 now in that exhibit. we do still have peacocks but with -we have approximately 23 individual peacocks. number of ambibians are managed in groups. the total

numbers there with over 1800 being our conservation animals. one group of lizards and one group of fish. i think that's it. that was a lot of information but if you have any questionsimeer polk happy to answer. >> thank you. >> any public comment on the san francisco zoo report in room 416? seeing none, is anyone-nobody with hand raised. seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. commissioners did you want to talk about anything on that report? >> i have a question. i had a question about the fly. did you say you release those in san francisco and if so where are they released? >> the site i'm familiar with is close to where the golden gate bridge comes on to san francisco. i haven't been to the

site myself, i have only seen photographs of it and it is right along the shoreline, and so i dont know the exact name of that location, but of course this is all done with permitting in place, so our local regulators are aware of where those releases are taking place. >> okay, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> no other questions at this time. >> thank you. we are on item 8, the pickleball overview. i know dana is coming up to do presentation. reminder for those who are here in room 416, i have some speaker cards up at the front table there. if you haven't already filled one out and would like to provide public comment please go ahead and fill one out and bring it over to the desk behind me. for those joining remotely, you can dial star 3 now to be in the queue to

speak on item 8 once we take public comment in person we will move over to remote public comment. >> welcome dana. >> see if i can stand here. split the difference. good morning commissioners. i am here-this is dana ketcham director of property management. i also have with me beverly ing who is from our public affairs division who is going to be available to answer questions and help with parts of this presentation as well. today we are here to discuss possible action regarding the

possibility of creating dedicated pickleball courts at the stern grove tennis center or larsen court and baseicate ball. pickleball hawse grown like crazy. it started in 1965, it gained pop yularity across the united states and in particularly in the past few years. here in san francisco, we have had more and more developing fans of playing pickleball. during the pandemic it added to sense of community because it was one thing you could get outside and can do and see people and we recognize that we needed to address this growing interest. in 2018, seeing this happening, we created a working group consisting of pickleball community members and working to support the pickleball community by

identifying priorities, adding new courts, providing equipment, developing procedures and series of different processes. i'm going to skip a slide to this one. and in the course of those meetings, we established a couple things about what works best for pickleball. the community ideally would like a dedicated pickleball complex with fencing wrapped around, a location with ample parks and location with a restroom, but in the mean time we did some things to try to address the demand quickly and easily. we did create some dedicated pickleball courts, 11 of them but we also worked with them to dual align our tennis courts so they could be used for tennis and pickleball. starting in 2020, every tennis court has scheduled to be repaved had dual lines added to it. we also

provided dedicated pickleball hours at certain sites. what we learned in the pickleball community is they like to gather together and play and since they didn't have nets it was important to have dedicated time when they could come out set up the nets and play together and we created those sites at two places. one is presidio wall and the other the stern grove tennis courts and they worked with the existing community of tennis players and we negotiated and gave dedicated hours. we allowed for them to provide equipment storage boxes where they could keep it and over time that is further developed to us providing rolling nets at some sites so people can just roll the net out and play pickleball and finally, we created reserveable pickleball courts free reservation systems like we have for

tennis. so, today we are looking at these are sites in the city where you can play pickleball. some are outdoor, some indoor courts. and there is sort of a line between them. it is dual play, but we have-we worked really hard to do that. but creating pickleball courts has been a park and open space cudone drum because we only have a so much space and is challenging to find a outdoor location among the parks without taking away from other communities. hence we are sitting here today with representives from the pickleball and tennis community as we have tried to find the right balance because we also while we have 140 enits courts in our system,

they are incredibly popular too, and the tennis community we have a online system. those with exceptional of a few courts, they all get booked within 5 minutes of opening every single day. so, the tennis community and tennis also grew during the pandemic because it was a sport you could do. so, we have worked really hard to try to find the right balance. we have created 48 pickleball courts that could be used for both and we are continuing to try and find solutions. so, let's move on to kind of the where we are today and what we are trying to address. one courts that had been dual play was stern grove and when it had been renovated so actually a little further background-because of the demand for tennis

in 2017, we got a donation of every $800 thousand from the tennis community to up grade the courts because they were going to some courts and one project updated was stern grove and they said sure put in pickleball and tennis lines to be used for both. during the pandemic stern grove opened during the pandemic, we created dedicated pickleball lines at stern grove each day about between 2 and a half and 3 hours and things were moving along but as you know august 2021, the water line broke and major portions of stern grove were destroyed. the tennis courts were significantly impacted and had to be used as a staging area so

that closed down. recognizing there was a dedicated community playing alt stern grove we quickly moved and added pickleball at parkside and created dedicated hours there after negotiation with the park side tennis community who is very active and trying to find a good compromise with everyone. as the puc continued to work on repairs to stern grove, the pickleball community approached us proposing to convert the tennis courts into pickleball courts. it included 8-proposal would be 8 dedicated pickleball courts and tennis is no longer able to be played at stern grove. we held a meeting in november-first, we analyzed it and we looked at that

proposal, and i'll go through in a minute we felt we should look at other nearby sites as well and we'll go through the different proposals. and we held a community meeting with over 300 people attended. beverly do you want to talk more about that meeting? beverly will help me out here. thank you. >> good mornings commissioners. before we get to the community meeting port, we did actively work with the pickleball working group to go through the discussion for the proposal for stern grove and was apparent we needed to bring to a bigger audience and public to get feedback beyond the pickleball community. we held a community meeting with over 300 people, had all 4 options available and gathered feedback and had public comment so for a good hour or so we had feedback from tennis community, pickleball community and folks who played both. from that feedback afterwards we went back and

continued to analyze. we also did get over 300 e-mails in support of pickleball not just stern grove but in the city. it has been a very active process. we heard from all most everyone. we also heard from other folks that are not in the pickleball tennis world. when we were looking at different options we also did surveys at certain locations to get a understanding if there was interest for pickleball there and there was in other places. it is a grower sport and we are trying to accommodate and also trying to balance in a sensible way and the 4 options we laid out were things we looked through what was possible. understanding the priority the pickleball working group gave when looking at sites and what is feasible within our system as well. dana will walk through the next 4 and happy to answer community feedback later on. >> thank you. >> thank you beverly

for taking us through. it really was and beverly was instrumental in leading these many community discussions. so moving on the options we looked at, the first option we looked at was converting the two tennis courts and you can see them on one side of the screen, the light green color into 8 dedicated pickleball courts at stern grove and we looked against the criteria that had been developed early on and also criteria that is important when you look at building a major-significant complex to accommodate people throughout the city. and in looking at it didn't meet all of our original priorities or the department staff view of the necessary priorities. while it had 8 dedicated pickleball sites and it has reasonably ample parking for the city, the nearest restroom was a significant and

difficult walk away. it was not adjacent. the nearest restm restroom is in the (inaudible) building at the base of stern grove. there is a casual dirt path that when it is rebuilt will be there, but it is not easy to access. it had other pluses. it had less wind then larsen, potential for expansion to horse shoe pits and the pickleball community did favor this option. again, the challenge taking two tennis courts from the rest of the system, no adjacent restroom and the tennis community did not favor, strongly did nofavor this solution. option 2 was to go to larsen park where we have a tennis and basketball court next to each other and convert that into 8 pickleball courts. so, we would remove one tennis court and one basketball. there are

nearby courts near larsen that provide for tennis and basketball and there is a restroom on site. so, this did meet our criteria. it has ample parking. there is construction going on. i are was there yesterday so that makes parking bad now but the puc is all most done and the location has a restroom. there is a restroom right next to the court. it has less impact on the tennis and basketball community and there is potential in the future to expand into the adjacent field. the challenge is it was expected to take 6 months longer then stern grove and the pickleball community was concerned that this would take too long. option 3 that we looked at were multi-line courts for both tennis and

pickleball at stern grove following the current practice. this means you can play either set dedicated pickleball hours at this site and we could provide rolling pickleball nets at this site. this did not meet the criteria because it did not create dedicated pickleball courts and does not have a adjacent restroom. it only allowed for 6 versus 8 courts, so that was our analysis of this one. and then trying to be creative in the area, we also looked at the-there is a existing croquet court not utilized at stern grove where we can place 8 pickleball courts. the challenge with this site is that it is not a hard court, development would be extremely costly. we would have to-since we would be creating a entirely new facility we would

have to create ada parking and ada access to it and a much more complicated project and much more expensive project and it would take a long time. so, going back and looking at larsen which-i wanted to lay out where there are nearby basketball and tennis courts and we did have a meeting, we reached out to the larsen community. we contacted people who have made reservations at larsen. we contacted community groups at larsen and beverly's team did the intercept surveys of people out on the courts using the courts which is one where she ran into someone who said we can have pickleball here. that sounds exciting. that is one person. we did not have negative feedback on larsen. so, the department and staff walked away from all of this feedback and tried to come up with

a compromise that we feel very positive presenting to you, which we think addresses a number of the different concerns. let me walk you through it. one, we would convert larsen playgrounds, one tennis and one basketball court into 8 pickleball courts. two, the stern grove courts would continue to be dual line in accordance with policy about dual lining courts. during the larsen conversion, which is expected to take longer then stern grove, i might add there are delays on stern grove due to the storms, but it is still expected to happen this year, but during the larsen conversion, we would make stern grove a dedicated pickleball site with portal rolling nets. that means only pickleball play would be there. we would not reserve for tennis and put up

signs that say pickleball play for these seats. after larsen the portable nets and dedicated hours would be removed from stern grove so go back to a dual use park and with having larsen open with 8 courts nearby we expect to return to primarily tennis. upon the opening of the stern grove courts as pickleball, the park side courts with dedicated pickleball hours and which are somewhat controversial with the tennis community over there, would be removed because now they have the stern grove courts to use. and responding to the tennis community concern about conversion of courts and our concerns, we would pause any further conversion of sports courts to dedicated pickleball due to the impact on those communities and the mine time our capital planning unit is tasked with

identifying under utilized public space that can support pickleball complexes. we already identified one spot. we are pretty excited about, which is the (inaudible) a portion could be used to create dedicated pickleball courts and it is a flat surface. i should leave the presentation. recommendations up because i think it is helpful. since we made these recommendations last week and they will come and speak to it, but i can tell you we heard from the tennis community they thought this was a reasonable compromise and in general amenable to supporting the compromise. we heard back from the pickleball community that they were prepared to approve it but they did not want us to put tennis lines on the pickleball-on the stern grove courts

until larsen opened because they wanted a site where they could play pickleball without tennis lines on it. and we looked into that possibility and we understand their concerns. we looked into the possibility and the cost of adding tennis lines later and we think that is a fair proposal. they also asked we keep the rolling nets up there and we don't really want to support that at this point. we think that needs to be assessed at the time because we are going to open the larsen courts and once they open that is a lot of capacity and we want to decide throughout our system where the rolling nets should be placed. so, we tried in a very difficult situation to come up with a compromise that takes a little from everyone and gives a little to everyone, and with that, i'll be quite. thank you.

>> alright. i want to speak just for a couple minutes. one, on the public comment because we will have number of commenters. i would suggest if you are able to coordinate your remarks that each person who approaches the podium, try to say something different and unique each time. because we understand these issues very very well and it really adds value to our consideration if we can hear different things. if i hear the same thing over and over again, i start to not pay attention just to be honest. i heard it once, twice, that's enough. for the people on the phone, i want-you couldn't see the handout up on the screen, but i really want to highlight what dana just are talked about. this has been a very collaborative and iterative process with changes all the way up to the minute, so you just heard something that want even up on the board and that is the

willingness to have dedicated pickleball lines on those stern grove courts until it is not exclusively pickleball anymore. i want to emphasize. rec and park is suggesting that we approve this hybrid approach at stern grove that will be exclusively pickleball for a period of time until larsen opens. be sure that when you comment that you are understanding this iterative and last minute change. alright? let's go. >> i will start by calling the names i have in front of me for folks who are in room 416. if you haven't filled out a speaker card they are near the door at the front table. i will go to folks who maybe didn't fill out a speaker card and then

move to people who are called in on the line. as reminder you can dial star 3 to raise your hand to speak. i will start with lillian, then bill, then martha. lillian, come on up. lillian murphy. >> remember you will get a chime at 30 seconds so don't stop talking. >> good morning commissioners. lillian kim murphy member of the pickleball steering committee. as many know and quickly learning, pickleball is the new essential and recreation. it is still the case we consider option 1 to be the best option and clearly our first choice. stern grove is a more pleasant location with better wind profile, parking is easier and bathroom is adequate. this would deliver a much needed dedicated site in the quickest time frame. however we understand you have

concern about the bathroom and tennis coalition. we sport your proposal as a compromise. stern grove courts to be lined pickleball only in the beginning is a request we have and you are accommodating. thank you. we request the following to be considered in the planning of the larsen project. design features to mitigate 19th avenue traffic noise and two, design materials to maximize the wind protection to larsen. thank you to the tennis coalition for supporting the recommendation and sharing stern grove courts in the interim to accommodate pickleball growth in san francisco. we are all making compromises and look forward working with rpd and tennis coalition. >> thank you so much. and thank you for that. >> bill. and then martha. >> thank you commissioners for listening to us. on

november 4 there was a vote of the community overwhelming vote for stern grove. that needs to be respected. my issue is the bathrooms. little history, prior to pickleball, tennis and kids played in the park, there was a bathroom up top. 10, 15 years ago the bathroom disappeared. people used the lower bathrooms since then. when pickleball players played we had 30 to 60 people there a day. they were aible to use the bathrooms below. since reconstruction you can look the bathrooms have been moved 30 to 40 yards closer, closer to the community. the down hill walk is made much better, the stairs are not there, the stairs there on the west side drop off into the restrooms. restrooms should not be a issue. go to rossi. to play

pickleball you have to leave the court, cross the ball field, cross the street, go to the dog park to get into the bathrooms. if that can happen there the new bathrooms established or new trail established making it closer should not be issue. >> thank you. >> next, martha and then lillian and then peg. >> hi, martha part of the tennis coalition and i love both pickleball and tennis. we are supporting the larsen project. one thing is, we would ask that to pause on all dual lining and request not to have dual lining back at stern grove when it turns back into tennis because it creates conflict and it particularly also in places where the pickleball players camp and play when there is no reservation system on the courts and it isn't really clear

when the pickleball players have to move. we like to consider that. thank you. >> thank you. next. >> lillian. >> hello commissioners, lillian lynch, a tennis coalition. and we appreciate the hard and patient work of beverly ing and dana ketcham, they listened and demonstrated patience and creativity manifested by the propose compromise. brought together around the table and we expect to be around it a lot more as we develop compatible long-term solutions while further conversion are on hold. thank you. >> thank you. next. >> good morning commissioners, peg stevenson the incoming chair of the tennis coalition taking over from martha and louis. we do approach the hybrid approach. the same time we think it is important the

long-term look at spaces around the city that might be able to be converted for pickleball courtsment we want to change the narrative the place to do this is taking over tennis courts. the hours comet a the expense of tennis players and every hour reservable is reserved. very active community that needs more time and space. again, appreciate what the staff has done and gone through and appreciate your work on this and tennis coalition will submit a petition we collected with signatures as well as formal position paper so thanks for your efforts. >> thank you peg. >> louis. >> good afternoon, i'm a (inaudible) acknowledge the demand for pickleball and think that this is a fair solution but also can't underscore how important the pause is on future conversions. we think that we need

more imagination and creativity. there are flat spaces called parking lots and reservoirs. not every tennis court is a candidate for a pickleball site. also important to recognize that pickleball community is very vocal and understand it and understand their passion. the tennis community is 5 times as large and you see that manifest in the demand for tennis courts. we stand ready to work with them to offer our guidance and if we can on helping create a new pickleball center. we are proud of the goldman tennis center and like to have something equally as beautiful. >> thank you. >> joycelynne. >> my name is joyce tang and i and many pickleball community friends choose stern grove over larsen. we don't feel we should spend hundreds of thousands dollars to redo larsen but just use the money to fix

up stern grove. also, we question why should we not get more pickleball courts? we only have 6 permanent free designated free pickleball courts in all san francisco and yet we have hundreds, 140, 130 free and permanent designated tennis courts. why such a discrepancy? we have lots of pickleball player and we would like please give us the pickleball courts, and pickleball is very important in my life because i am a senior, handicap-i have parkinson and it helps my health so thank you mpts >> thank you. >> anyone else in room 416 who would like to comment? i didn't grab yours. come on up. >> good morning. my

name is debbie and i represent golden gate pickleball club and we are in support of your multi-purpose lines. we are trying to work to bring in the schools and youth programs and work with them and maybe eventually have a youth league that play with each other, and we want to bring in local tournaments and large tournaments. rights now we are hosting large tournament of 300 players but we have to host it in concord and we like to bring that resource into san francisco and play at the maybe both of the courts. so, we are hoping to be able to achieve that. my concerns for larsen is possibly if the courts are wet and they dry slowly, the amount of seniors that play in the morning slip when

it is wet. big concern of mine because i have seen a lot of people slip. am i done? >> yeah. >> and wind and parking. >> sorry, come on up suzy. >> third time a charm hopefully. i want to ditto what lily murphy said in support. if larsen is our only option that you guys are choosing then that's (inaudible) with additional (inaudible) that larsen be raised completely before rebuilding, because there are different levels, the basketball court is lower and in terrible shape so needs to be redone. the next thing the community itself would like to have a better understanding of why it makes more sense to tear tennis and basketball court to build pickleball courts at the cost up

to $300 thousand when you can save by tearing out the basketball court and adding one tennis court to larsen. makes more sense to me, for the city not to spend the money to rebuild 8 courts at larsen. also, we have a lighter ball, it is very windy at larsen and pickleball is much lighter. is that it or the- >> thank you suzy. appreciate it. >> anyone else in room 416 who hasn't had a chance? if you like to comment and didn't fill out a card go ahead and stand up over here near the tv so i can see how many folks we have. >> please line up and when you come to the podium you can tell us your name if you so desire. thank you. >> hi. i'm tonia (inaudible) a cochair of the golden gate pickleball club and we

are hosting pickleball tournament that we had to close registration a month early because of the amount of people who are interested and excited about pickleball. we wanted to hold it here in san francisco, but there just wasn't enough courts. if we have larsen would it be possible to hold a tournament using stern grove courts as well or having stern grove and converting some of the larsen, but we need more courts. that's just the basis if you want to make money through pickleball, which the city can do, then more courts will help. >> thank you tonia. any other commenters? >> seeing no other commenters in room 416, i'll double check again when we get to the end, we'll move over to our call-in

line. we have 4 people with hands raised. you can dial star 3 to raise your hand. if you can please unmute the first caller and listen for the tone playing in room 416. >> two of the courts remember stern grove courts where 108 thousand were used to resurface them. we are in support of the compromise proposed, however i do have concerns around accountability that when the courts are reopened they are not the additional conversations the stern grove courts should not go back to

be tennis courts as proposed here. i also think it is really important to use this as a example. one reason our organization donated so much money to the city to resurface tennis courts was due to differed maintenance on tennis courts. there is a great demand for tennis and pickleball in the city and this high traffic (inaudible) wears out over time. if these courts at stern grove reopen as dedicated pickleball courts it needs to be studied- >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello commissioners. this is catherine mcdonald and i do want to thank dana and beverly for all their work. it is a very emotional issue on both sides and as a parent who's children

play tennis as a captain of a tennis team, i can definitely say that it is impossible to get courts whenever you want them unless you are the first person when the spot open s up. we have an actual match tonight at 7 o'clock and i don't have a warm up court because i waited-i didn't wait, i just couldn't get on until 20 minutes after so we need these courts and also the speaker before said, i want to eiterate the work the tennis coalition we all did with raffles and constant donations, we have put in the money for tennis (inaudible) public effort and we appreciate. i play pickleball so it isn't a us against them, we appreciate the need for more pickleball courts, but they need to come from the pickleball community as well. - >> thank you. next speaker. we can hear

you. >> hi. this is peter (inaudible) i am the president and founder of san francisco (inaudible) so just speaking about the courts that were removed next to stern grove and also advocate and advisor for the golden gate pickleball club. the courts at stern grove were being used. there was a horse shoe (inaudible) lincoln high school disbanded when the courts were removed so there are people that play on this side of the city. since the courts are gone there is a opportunity for much higher activation and use of that site by pickleball and expansion at stern grove location is where i started playing pickleball next to horse shoe and there is a opportunity here for the city to get a much bigger activation out of that space. i would maybe recommend is a couple courts maybe located somewhere else on that side of the city

because it only leaves golden gate park for all san francisco. if there is future expansion for tennis or if there is expansion after the tennis larsen conversion, horse shoe courts could be converted to pickleball. >> thank you. . i don't see other hands raised. want to circle back, anyone else in 416 who didn't get a chance to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> before i turn to the commissioners, i would like to ask dana to comment on a good point that was made by one of the speakers. one of the-seth raised a concern around accountability we wouldn't continue to renegotiate the status

of the courts of stern grove. >> i think we are looking to make a decision today, so it isn't a renegotiation. that's why we-time- >> sorry dana, your time is up. >> i have needing that for a lot of years. i think that that's why we made it part of the compromise. so, that it is a overall plan of where we are going. i understand. >> and then with respect to the condition of larsen do you know if it is programmed for anymore renovations in 2023 or 24? >> i was at larsen yesterday walking the site so it is on two levels. we would not be making it one total level because those two levels are both ada accessible so there a ramp from the restroom from the upper and lower level. the courts would be

refinished as part of them to make them nice and smooth and the pickleball nets installed. depending on timing and funding, the fencing could be replaced and adding window screens but that is something the department will be working on once we move forward with this and our goal is to get it done as quickly as we can. i was out there walking the site- >> i like to correct the record, we have 11 dedicated pickleball sites right now. >> okay. when i'm not- >> your notes and i took them. not the 6 that was said earlier. okay. >> (inaudible) >> okay. >> please don't call out from the audience. >> so, first up i have

commissioner mazzola. >> thank you. quick question for you dana then a comment. how many courts are on slope boulevard again? >> on what? >> the grove side of slope? >> the grove side of slope-two tennis courts. >> two tennis courts. >> if they all dual lined it is 6 pickleball courts. if not dual lined it can be 8 pickleball courts. >> got it. >> now there are no tennis courts. it is a staging area for the puc work. >> i understand. thank you. i want to say that i support the hybrid theory here. i think the staff has done a great job listening to both sides of this important issue, and we have come a long way in seeing the importance of the pickleball community. obviously just as

important is the tennis community and everybody else so we want to try to make this work and think this hybrid thing does that. i just-the last item on the chart that dana showed earlier with the that outlines the deal here talks about pausing for further sports court stuff and i just want to make sure and ask staff--is that something we should have a sunset on, timeframe on or if nothing is done i hate for other sports courts to suffer and not get built because something hasn't been done on the other side. are you comfortable with the way it is written or should we have a sunset on that? >> i'm comfortable with the way it is written, because what we are talking about is conversion. we are not talking about building so we can

still build at the kesar lot but we are trying to take the edge out of the conversations for a period of time while we look for creative and other solutions that doesn't take the pressure between the two communities and put efforts into let's fiend other solutions because it is easy to grab at it tennis courts so that is why--you could obviously ask us to report back within like 18 months on what we achieved, and then relook at it at that time. that would be-i don't have objection to that. but we want to focus on moving forward and avoid the constant- >> happy to hear that. just didn't want there to be unintended consequence of that. that settles me.

>> commissioner louie. >> this is a topic we knew about and we really want to appreciate and thank the pickleball community, the working group and the tennis people. the tennis coalition. what i see here is we all want to play like in the same playground but the playground is only so big and it takes time to expand the playground and that's-i want to really thank the department for just listening and i have seen through this past year the completed projects in parks-qul have only been a commissioner for a year but i have seen

so many multiple wonderful completed park projects, and for sports. lewis sutter, they added-add a fence when they need it. nobody has all the answers today, so they are-we are listening to you,b it isn't for us to decide, we are the voice of you. being a oversight for this topic is one of the most difficult things, because you have to factor in balance, other sports, golf, anything, any sports, but the wonderful thing is, people that live in san francisco get to enjoy all this recreation. and so that's what-wonderful just like overnight the department reacted and listened to the letter that was sent in from the pickleball community saying, okay, we thank you but we don't like the multiple lines while we wait for larsen. what did they do

overnight? they updated the recommendation saying we'll have pickleball lines until larsen is completed, come back, spend more money and add the other lines. where are we? it is like in the living room with my two daughters and you got to come to kind of compromise. the same thing. so, i want to commend the department. i want to commend dana and bev and you too phil. my mother always told me, when it gets hot in the kitchen stay out but not in today's case. i'm going to unless other commissioners have something to say, i want to just really thank all the hard work we all love tennis and pickleball. we all love you, we thank you for coming

today and i would like to make a motion to approve the department's hybrid recommendation listed in the staff report. we will let- >> we will put the motion on pause before we take a second because commissioner griffin would like to speak. >> i too want to commend beverly and dana on the peace accord you have come to, but i do have a question. it isn't clear to me that-what happens while stern grove will be complete pickleball while larsen is being worked on, correct? where does tennis go during that time? >> well, i agree. it is a impact on tennis, but the plan is that we would take stern

grove out-we would take larsen out at about the time the stern grove courts would reopen and then tennis-pickleball is off park side. we are dancing that different game, but if we could get larsen going faster and believe me, i had lots of conversations about that yesterday, because there is reasons to do it, there will be a period of time where there will be this added impact of having another tennis court out, but long-term, hopefully in a year, we can sit and say hey we made this decision and look what we got. yes, when we renovate spaces, they close and they have impacts. rossi was closed. all these things that is part of renovations but there is still the park side courts nearby. the sunset rec courts. different courts in the system. >> great. i also want to commend the

pickleball community and tennis community for being able to work out this compromise and i think in the long run it would be good and i'm willing to support this. >> are thank you commissioner griffin. would you like to speak? >> sure. mostly just to thank everyone for working through this. starting with dana and beverly for-do you guys play? you play a little bit dana. >> (inaudible) >> dana, i'll play with you. there are a lot of people that enjoy both sports and this is why parks are especially. this is a classic land use issue. there was one comment that was made by i think peg stevenson, my former colleague before she went to blissful retirement that stuck with me and i think worth reiterating. that comment is that

the narrative needs to change about this conversation. it should not be a pickleball versus anything. this should be about and not or. it should be about figuring out spaces, yes in the system, but city wide. a public parks department does not own pickleball. pickleball is a-like any sport. we have facilities run by non profits and run privately in the town and yes we have athletic facilities that we host, so i think as if we all work together on trying to expand acsess and opportunity to this delightful fun growing sport, i think we need to change the narrative. [laughter] let me tell you again. when i say i want to change the narrative, >> thank you phil.

okay, before i ask for a second, i just also want to reiterate the great work of this department dana and beverly. i absolutely appreciate your advocacy. san francisco has its own special brand of advocacy, but i believe it is remarkable the speed and timeline that you guys have advocated and gotten. i know other sports like girls women baseball and frisbe golf who are also advocated and not able to get it goodies you guys are about to get so good job. we have to split the baby every time, it is messy business. i take a second on commissioner louie 's motion. >> second. >> have a motion and second. all those in favor of the hybrid

approach outlined-it was up on the board, right? no. we don't need it. we can show it. okay. this is what we are voting on. all in favor state aye. >> aye. >> it is- >> we are moving to strategic plan item 9. for those who are going to be leaving the room, please do so as quitely as possible and take your conversations outside and thank you for coming today. taylor, get start- >> we are going to take a brief bio break. 3 minutes. let's go. [recess]

>> taylor you can speak slowly. but let's get going. >> good morning. >> one thing i wanted to add, we are going to muscle through. i don't know how much longer this will take but commissioners if you want to eat or drink i will not notice and we are going to keep on rolling. alright. go ahead taylor. >> thank you. good morning. taylor emerson from- >> i dont think your mic is working. >> get a little bit closer. >> you can try to bigger one. it will swivel towards you.

bring it closer to your mouth. >> good morning taylor emerson, capital planning division here today to provide a status report on the last strategic plan and look ahead at the next 5 years. as the charter tells us, 5 year strategic plan establish reaffirm the commission vision goals objective for the department integrates equity analysis and metric. the mission vision goals and objectives are not changed from the last so we are here to reaffirm and going to highlight some of the new initiatives that will be focused on over the next 5 year period. quick look at where we are in time. our very first strategic plan brought to you in the spring of 2016. we had been working that

about a year and a half prior and then soon thereafter voters approved proposition b which is is a requirement to do a strategic plan fy17 was the first year under that 5 year requirement then there were updates in fy18, 19, 20 and 21 which concluded the 5 year period and i will be giving a status report on the last strategic plan today. as well as proposing the new strategic plan for the period fy-23 through 27. and then i will be back before you next in fy-25 to do a two year progress report and the new sub-plans the strategic plan is a 5 year look ahead and there a requirement for 2 subplans on the operational and capital side and then the next strategic plan will be before

you in fy-28. so, today we are talking about the last 8 years of focused lined organizational work and looking ahead at the next 5. the progress report starts with this chart that places all the initiatives in terms whether they are complete in progress or pending. i draw your attention to the first attachment in the staff report which details this information. 81 total initiatives, 38 were complete, 23 in progress for total of 75 percent undertaken or accomplished as the charter states. highlights on these achievements, the pagoda and are japanese tea garden is a inspiring place for

contmplation and beauty. the department did hire a new girl sports coordinator and there have been new very popular programs with strong enrollment inspire play. to inspire investment as we have seen today, this new form of participation being online and on the phone expanded community engagement and i know the department to the extent we are able will continue to offer these platforms to the public for feedback. we are in the process of restoring middle lake to inspire stewardship by transforming landscape areas to habitat for bio diversity and preserve thg lake for the future and adding increase access lighting and vegetation to the area. our team developed and installed a new app and trained more then

200 people to do park evaluations. it on the phone, super easy. seems (inaudible) the app and the park evaluations provide the department with really important information about the status of parks out in the field and allows us to make informed decisions about resource allocation. looking now at a subset of those initiatives, the charter asks we report separately on equity related initiatives, which there were 23 in the last strategic plan. 9 were completed, 7 in progress for total of 70 percent undertaken or accomplished. qui highlights, indian basin as you know the remediation is complete and construction is now underway and are the equitable development plan is in implementation stage. the tennis learning

center was one of the great inspiring play achievements. academic support and learning to play tennis. jfk investment and created broad engagement with new visitors to golden gate park. all most 10 million visits made to what is now permanently car free space. the eco center-remember this report is for the period fy-22 when covid was still more present then now. managed to provide more then 3 thousand hours of nature programming inspiring a new generation of park stewards. and that-this is a tally, numerical tally of all of the initiatives, all the strategic plans to date. 130 have been completed. i was a bit of a

skeptic at the beginning of the strategic plan process but i'm here to tell you this has aligned and organized our department and created a cohesion that is really impressive and direct you to the attachment in your staff report that details these 130 accomplishments. looking ahead, our road map for the future. next 5 years. again, all of the initiatives are detailed in your attachment. i'm going to highlight one under each strategic plan goal. inspire place, so exciting. as of july 1, 2023, all of the mission bay parks which total about 40 acres will be transferred to the recreation and park department. this is a huge new expansion of

our portfolio,er and these new parks join other new sites that will be opened over the next 5 years including 900 ennis(inaudible) new transbay block 3 park and recently added francisco so that is a lot of new property and new inspiring places to play. >> what's the date on that? >> july 1, 2023 will transfer from ocii to rec park. under inspire play, i chose to highlight this fabulous picture which is from the bayview swim and splash program which is part of the equitable development plan goal to deliver project benefits to current residents of the

indian basin and bayview neighborhood. learning to swim is a life saving skill and teaching water safety to youth at indian basin parks meets these goals. youth opportunities it is one of the 6 pillars including arts culture and identity. workforce development. connectivity, healthy community and housing security. little of side bar, you may remember from my equity analysis presentation a few months ago that we this year conducted a neighborhood level equity analysis that looked at access to amenities and services the departments provide and this revealed or allowed us to see gaps and surpluses and inform and guide several new initiatives in the strategic plan. this is just a list of a few of them. i chose

one from each strategy. identify acquisition opportunities and high needs area. access to park, open space is probably the most primary element of an equity analysis, and there are neighborhoods in the city that have disproportionately low access including the tenderloin and soma and we are looking there for the next opportunity to acquire and develop a park. some of these have been mentioned here. one thing we realize with 2.2a is that in the equity analysis there are some things we are doing but not capturing data about them, so part of our work ahead is not just to deliver more, but to do a better job documenting what we are doing. we are also going to support community opportunity fund proposal in equity zone neighborhoods. establish a new (inaudible) in the

tenderloin and as part of the equitable development plan offer job fairs in equity zone parks. back to looking at highlights inspire investment. i did want to talk more about the community opportunity fund which is hugely popular component of the 2008 and 2012 bonds and in the 2020 bond allocated $6 million for neighborhoods community groups and park partners to nominate capital projects for funding and these projects promote stewardship, enhance park identity and experience and leverage resources from the community. for the first two bonds there was $17 million of public money and $13.7 million in private money for more then $30 million total which generated 35 projects across the

city. this is picture of the community opportunity project at bayview playground which was a transformational project at that site. inspire stewardship, i know you heard about the recycled water project to bring new water source to golden gate park for irrigation and that alone will save 387 million gallons of water annually. next step in this strategic plan is to bring recycled water to lincoln park. look at whether that grass. the zoo and great highway totaling 420million gallons of potable water saved annually. this is the essence of inspiring stewardship and conserving natural resources and project i'm very proud the department is doing. under inspire team, looks like another swimming picture but

this is picture of our new effort to expand our work force development program to include life guard training. recreation and parks already has the city biggest and most successful workforce development program. the heart is our gardener apprentice which to date placed over hundred graduates to gardener positions of which 65 percent are bipoc people. we conduct summer (inaudible) intern programs for college level work experience. the extension to add life guard training help the department fill much needed life guard position which support open pool hours and increased park access. those are some highlights of the strategic plan. concludes my presentation. that presentation was so short considering it was reflects so much work.

>> true. >> i have a question. >> yes. >> i know that the restoration of the japanese tea garden pagoda is complete as it says in the material but i there is additional stone work happening on the (inaudible) is that the right word or base? >> base, yes. >> how does that kind of work in all of this? >> i mean, we don't cover every single project in the strategic plan. that work will proceed. there is language and don't have it in front of me but so don't have the specific reference but the partnership with the san francisco botanical barden on the garden of golden gate park includes the garden and conserve tore and that is in the strategic plan. there is a lot more work. once we start operationalize things it doesn't necessarily need to be in the future strategic plan. there is more work and more thinking that needs to be done about

those gardens. fencing issues and ada access issues and big project not too disant future at the conserve tore. i believe there is reference to our work with fl garden at golden gate park and if there is not maybe that is something we should consider a last second adjustment. with your blessing if you give me the discretion to take a look at the language and make sure that our partnership is really important and off to a great start and 3 gardens are consolidated and a lot of exciting program and opportunity for capital improvement. you know about the nursery. good stuff there. >> they think and i think you also wanted to comment further. >> just to thank taylor, thank-the strategic plan is little of a dry particularly after pickleball, a dry ho

hum presentation but it is important and i would just say to you all for context, it is one of the processing i think i-if i reflected any particular point in time i say i'm most proud about. we took this work seriously and long before some was required under prop b as a organization, we had some hard conversations to set mission vision and value statement and identify what our priorities were and with taylor's great help but with the support of every member of my leadership team and well beyond that, and under (inaudible) guidance as planning director, we have a robust strategic planning process and so we plan our work and we work our plan and we are able to hold ourselves

accountable to commitments regarding equity and access so think this is something we should all be quite proud about. >> we are. best practice-i still get calls regularly from other park jurisdictions around the country asking for me to help them, see what we have done. >> i also want to express that commendation. i affirm and confirm and excited because there is a all hands meeting february 1, and excited to hear about that as well so thank you for the excellent work. we really benefit from your efforts. >> thank you so much. >> and our endeavor to serve our community. thank you. >> you make everybody- >> approve the proposed plan. >> we do need to go to public comment in the event somebody would like to- [multiple speakers] >> it was cross talk. i'll assume it was all awesome. >> public comment. anyone in room 416 who would like to comment? seeing none, we have

one hand raised on the line, and you can unmute the caller. caller, are you there? hi. >> hello. this is (inaudible) i wanted to talk about the zoo logical society. >> you have to wait. i don't-are we talking public comment on what was just addressed? >> the strategic plan. >> this is part of the strategic plan. >> okay, go ahead, sir. >> thank you. i think in part of the strategic plan should include reexamining the agreement between the zoo logical society and rec and park. i have a copy and it is over 30

years old and there is some section in there that are not being fallowed. i think rec and park needs to assign a staff person to review this contract and this contract should be treated just like we treat the vendors or (inaudible) and coit tower and (inaudible) in trying to get them to cooperate. we never asked for any money. we just want them to be part of this strategic plan- >> thank you richard, time is up and duly noted. thank you. >> seeing no other callers on the line, public comment is closed. commissioners. >> i would like oo motion and second to approve the strategic

plan for fy23-27. >> second. >> all in favor state aye. >> aye. >> any opposition? motion carries. thank you taylor. >> thank you. >> thank you for the report. >> you are off and running for 5 years again. >> and don't go anywhere taylor because we are on item 10, operational plan. >> let's go. >> alright. so, the operational plan is-when produced about a mid-point of the strategic plan about 2 and a half years ahead and so i'm here today to report on the last operational plan and give you a look ahead at the proposed operational plan for the period fy24 and 25. there is a charter requirement. each annual or biannual budgetary cycle which is every 2 years to make a statement of which initiative the department plans to undertake or accomplish during this

period. i also need to give a progress report. much like the other one, the strategic plan this is a subset of the strategic plan. the things we said we were go ing to do within the next 2 years. 2 and a half years ago. alright. there were 44 initiatives in the operational plan of which 18 are complete and 15 are in progress. not going to detail highlights. we just did that. in the equity related initiatives, there were 12 in the last operational plan, of which 7 complete. one in progress. these are detailed in the attachments to your staff report. looking ahead, at the next operational plan, this is cover from the last strategic plan and with your approval we

will be publishing soon and put a copy online and do printed copies this year as well since it will last 5 years. of the 84 new initiatives in the proposed strategic plan the department plans to accomplish 33 of them in the next operational plan. quick highlights, inspire place. in the equity analysis one thing that we came to realize was that 60 percent of mini-parks are in equity zones which are (inaudible) extra parcels here and there were taken and parks. to have a heavy surplus of these in our-in areas that serve the most disadvantage residents, being the small parks typically under half a acre are a big part of the park experience there.

these photos are from a refresh of (inaudible) which rebuilt the retaining wall to keep the basketball clear, performed up grades to picnic area, rebuild the (inaudible) these type of renovations are designed and implemented by our yard. not capital projects, this is a yard and using our own skilled trade staff to do these relatively small site improvements that make a huge difference in the quality of park experience for many equity zone residents. we will be the strategic plan says we will do 3 over the next 5 years. inspire play, i know you will hear about lake merced west today. this property is in process and will serve park users of all ages fitness levels and experience at the unique waterfront natural setting over the next 2 years it will be complete.

alright. inspire investment. one of the initiatives in here sounds easy, work with park partners to meet target fund raising goals for indian basin park. indian basin the project budget now is $200 million of which $75 million is private philanthropy so a big initiative that involves lot of work over the next 2 years. inspire stewardship. we are go toog formalize and deepen our children nature connection by adding nature programming elements to all the after-school programs. like many initiatives this involved staff in the recreation division, in public fairs where children is nature is located, and our natural area staff so very multi-divisional work to add this important

benefit to our-and opportunities for nature connection in key realms of childhood early education and schools. last, inspire our team. a little snip from the headlines you may have seen. average time it takes to fill a existing position in san francisco is 255 days. if a gardener is to quit that is how long it takes the average time it takes to refill a existing position and this initiative is to conduct a lean management analysis. lien is approach to managing organization that supports the idea of continuous improvalment and looks at the system to see what small changes can be made to improve efficiency so we'll lean the hiring process, most of which set by dhr but looking what can rec park do to minimize this

situation. ben roseen enfield the controller said that there is no bigger challenge the city faces then the effective delivery of city service jz that is what back-filling positions requires. i are look forward seeing if you were to ask rec park staff what is their favorite initiative in the strategic plan, it might be this one because this is important to fill positions. alright. that concludes my presentation on the operational plan. >> is there anyone in room 416 who would like to provide comment on item 10? seeing none, you can raise your hand by dialing star 3. we don't have any callers with their hands raised so public comment is closed. >> commissioner griffin would like to speak. >> yes. on the hiring process, i really think that should be a

top priority. the fact it takes that long--i went to work for the city the second time back in 2000 and i didn't think i was getting the job. it had been promised to me and i found out like 3 quarters a year later that i got the job and it was just ridiculous. so, good luck on that. >> thank you. [laughter] >> it would actually help if we had somebody at rec and park that knew how dhr worked. [laughter] >> maybe who used to have the inside track. >> commissioners, this is why we did so well at this particular aspect of our job. we are 253 days. [laughter] >> alright. can i hear a motion and a

second? >> approve the strategic plan. all in favor state aye. no opposition. motion carries. thank you taylor. next up victim. >> we will call item 11 and item 13 together. >> okay. >> item 11 is capital expenditure plan and item 13 is 2020 health recovery bond second issuance. >> thank you. going to take a minute to get our visuals lined up. >> good afternoon commissioners. general manager and commission liaison. stacey bradley director of our capital planning division. i have two items before you today. first i'll go over the capital expenditure plan. a

lot of these my highlights have been shared by phil and taylor so i will go kind of quickly through this. and then going to spend more time focusing on the second bond sale of the 2020 health recovery bond. both are showing what we are doing at capital over the next couple years. this is why we are doing the capital expenditure plan which taylor explained. it is a charter mandate. capital plan is different from the operation plan in that it has many attachments to create the plan itself to show what we are working on, our pipeline over the next 2 years as well as our acquisitions and then our strategic plan nish tsks and what we accomplished. this is a overview of our division. we have over 59 active projects right now. you see the break down here between planning

design bid award construction and close out. we are very busy. our projects are over $600 million when you add them up together. i wanted to share how big the team is. we have been trying hard to staff appropriately and fill vacancies so at the moment about 31 people. we have 15 project managers, with 3 supervising project managers and one direct deputy director of capital when is a new position. our planning unit has 9 planners and 1 deputy director of planning. then we have program management which supports our equitable development plan as well as two people, one new on our community engagement team and we have admin staff to help us all run our satellight office and make sure we are doing our work efficiently. here we have a number of our

equity related initiatives we achieved over the years. over the past year. we have completed phase 1 remediation of indian basin and published equitable development plan. very exciting and we are now in construction for that project. for the park development and then we are implementing the new bond, which i will get into more detail as we move on. we also completed the feasibility analysis and we are in the process of developing the concept plan for (inaudible) you will see that later on. we now shifted that initiative to finalize the concept plan and complete ceqa for (inaudible) then we have going to work towards completing india basin and continuing to identify next opportunity which we are focusing in the high needs-air yeah,

likely the midmarket, tenderloin, lower polk area and also looking for additional senior center in the southeast to serve residents there. and the finalizing the mou and completing planning work (inaudible) at the 88 bluxum development on hold because the development project is on hold but once that pickss up it is no longer on hold and move forward with our new pool in that area. a few other initiatives i want to highlight, golden gate park completed the physical needs assessment at the senior center. we are in construction for middle lake restoration is the project i'm very excited about and be before you i believe next month requesting a little bit more contractual funding to go towards the cascade that connect the angler lodge casting pools with the middle lake. very excited we

are able to do that. and then we are also doing-completed some ada improvements at golden gate park like the ban shell parking lot behind the ban shell and also working on additional ada improvalments along jfk and stanyan street edge by the lodge. and then other things we are doing, we completed all of our park projects the named park projects from 2012. it was later then november 2020. covid hit us hard. and the others i believe we mentioned. the francisco reservoir, marina east harbor, in contract with planning and remediation for design and for our planning contractors. we also scoped san francisco first carbon zero facility. this will be (inaudible) the club house there. and we are finishing

lake merced west recreation eir today. next is our additional initiative in progress. some merged in the new strategic plan that taylor presented but we are still working to better coordinate and integrate public lands in twin peaks. working on the great highway extension. the pilot was approved at the board last year. we are working on codifying and streamlining the open space review process and increase open space in under freeway parcels with caltrans. and one thing that is maybe boring but working really hard to do our capital project design standards with operations to update them and make sure we are consistent across our projects. here is our go bond progress. 2008 is closed. 2012 as i noted rossi was

the last name project completed last year so all name projects are complete. we have city wide projects remaining. we are working on the mclaren trails project before you last month and there is still some of the golden gate projeths are currently in progress. then we have the 20s 20 health recovery bond mptd we are actively moving on all these and i will give you more on that in just a minute. and here are accomplishments. nice pictures. you can see francisco park. one of the francisco park, rossi, remediation at india basin. south sunset field. we did the field there. mclaren courts, and in construction or going to be in construction is (inaudible) buchanan street mall. next we have our

highlights within the equity zones. japan town peace plaza, buchanan street mall, mclaren park kicking off the visioning process. hearse playground before you later this year for contract award. india basin and the others. next we have our prop b general-2016 prop b general fund set aside. taylor covered this a in the operation plan but i want to highlight a few more things with repainting and resurfacing basketball tennis and pickleball courts. the skate park which is beautiful. the mural is stunning. they have also redone the playground surface at deloris along with water bottle fillers, gymnasium floors, pool renovation and turf replacement at mather and multiple other

improvements. they are very busy and are happy to work with them. this is our map for recent planned acquisitions. we need to add mission bay here so we will be before you to transfer mission bay over to the city. and over the next couple years we will have the transbay block 3 and potrero central park. that is the end of the capital expenditure plan is and next i'll delve into the second bond sale for the 2020 health and recovery bond. this image shows you the chart of what we requested funding for in the first issuance and what we are requesting in the second issuance. it will be no more then $30 million. the audit may be 1.5, so that is a little of a typo on

that one. but we are hoping for to be less then $1 million and going with two other bonds so our portion of the bond sale will be relatively small. here you can see our incumbrances and projected incumbrances through december 2023 showing why we need the second bond sale. we are shifting as we discussed with the contract award of gene friend to provide bridge funding. the maximum funding we would provide from the bond would include some funding from the contingency for the name projects and the programs as well as $3 million from playground, $6 million from sustainability and backfill with development impact fees as soon as they arrive. construction is expected to begin

mid-23. and these are the recovery park projects we plan to fund with the second bond sale so we will be funding up to $3 million for buena vista, south sunset club house renovations up to 3 million dollar with $2.3 million from state funds and crocker amazon baseball field has a $15 million budget to renovate baseball fields and improve facilities and richmond senior park at it golden gate park senior center has a 1 million dollar bond budget. we are not selling all the funds for crocker and richmond. those together we are selling $3.5 million to get us through planning and design at crocker and start the senior center work. here we have a remaining allocation of funds, $7.8 million going to city wide parks where we will be up grading existing

facilries restoration and natural features such as middle lake improving recreational assets. we also $6.3 million that plb going towards the community opportunity fund playgrounds and community gardens so we can move forward with our many projects that we want to deliver. that is it for my presentation and again, the agenda item before you are to approve the capital expenditure plan and approve and recommend the board supervisors approve the second bond sale of the 2020 health recovery bond not to exceed $30 million. thank you so much. here for questions. >> i don't have any request to speak. >> do we have any public comment? i don't see any in person. >> okay, i like to first move on item 11 to approve the capital

expenditure plan of fy-24-25. motion and second? >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor state aye. >> aye. >> unanimous. it is approved. item 13 to recommend the board of supervisors approve a second sale of the 2020 health recovery general obligation bond not to exceed $30 million et cetera et cetera. motion and second? >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor state aye rchlt >> aye. >> that is also unanimous. motion carries. >> item 12 recreation and park department budget overview. this item is discussion only. >> welcome. >> thank you very much. good afternoon. antonio guerra

director of administration and finance. i think as we prepare to get the slide- >> thank you stacey by it way. good job. >> and i think the slides are all most ready. they are ready. so, as i mentioned earlier this is fiscal year 23-24 and 24-25 budget overview presentation. this is a first of three presentations we'll be making to either the commission or operations committee. next slide, please. our agenda for today we will take a look at the budget cycle and proposition b. look back what was added in fiscal year 22-23 budget. look at the outlook and mayoral direction. look at the rec park budget over view and next steps s in the

schedule. first the budget cycle and proposition b. so, beginning in september when the mayor budget office takes a look at their assumptions for the deficit for the year in concluding in july the budget cycle will be in 3 major stages and we are in the first stage now, development and submission to board of supervisors. people always ask within the department who don't understand the budget process when do i get to talk to you about what i want to add and this is the time we talked about the capital expenditure plans, the strategic plans but this is when the rubber hits the road and we want to add the to budget because we have a goal developing a plan to accomplish the goals and objectives. next slide. proposition b as many are familiar with back in 2016, we are scheduled to receive a minimum baseline amount from the general fund that

is $3 million annually and previous hearings you often heard us use that $3 million number. that is through fiscal year 25-26 and then beginning in fiscal year 26-27 according to the language of the proposition, that baseline would adjust by the percentage increase or decrease in aggregate city discretionary revenues. ment so, not right now but in the future we will be talking a little differently about this baseline. and the thing we need to keep in mind is the city can suspend baseline growth when the deficit exceed $2 million. (inaudible) that right now is $261 million for the current fiscal year. the deficit is under that number so the threshold trigger will not be pulled but $270 million in 24-25. and finally, that

proposition extended the open space fund until 2046 ask that is 2 and a half cents of each dollar of assessed property value. as we develop the budget we have quite a few charter mandated plans. the strategic plan, operational plan and capital plan equity met rrks mentioned as well as the racial equity action plan phase 1 which includes what we put into the budget. i don't want to belabor since it has been a long meeting so move to the next slide since we talked about those. [captioning to continue in a moment]

we added 11 new positions in the budget and they are technically starting in may this fiscal year because if we are taking over operations on july 1, we will need to have a little

of a time to get ready and we are expecting additional community facility district funding from the office of community investment and infrastructure in fiscal year 23-24 to support those positions. we have the new operation model for the gardens at golden gate park where the botanical garden society-(inaudible) in 23-24 of the budget we are scheduled to open 900 (inaudible) playground rec center and we added 2 custodians 2 guardians and one supervisor. we talk about recreation leader funding where we added $1.25 million in 22-23 and 23-24. which basically gets us back to where we were in fiscal year 19-20. because we did have to reduce the amount of

temp staff funding available during the pandemic. we also added 3 recreational specialist positions to bolster athletics. we added 2 positions at the randle museum. m i think we need a few (inaudible) and two gardeners, one at sharp and one golden gate park gulf course. finally, in the mayor allocated additional 10 park ranger positions. we requested 40 bauds we believe 40 is the amount necessary for a park system of our size based on previous analysis, and i do believe that we will be requesting additional park rangers from the mayor again. we also have a disability access coordinator and program manager in the hiring process is underway for that position and they facilitate program and (inaudible) on the

fiscal outloor and mayoral direction. next slide. as i mentioned previously, next year deficit is $201 million. that is below the threshold of roughly 260, but in 24-25 right now that is additional $528 million, which significant and so that's a total of $728 million over the next two budget years and the reason for that is we had a weakening revenue outlook due to economy and loss of federal revenue from the pandemic where we were receiving reimbursement. we do have a higher base wages for employees and growing health benefit costs. the third bullet point we had lot of savings last year but this year we have increased pension cost due to the recent market downtown and new and growing general fund

commitments that increase annually. there are uncertainties to the forecast. the pace of downtown recoferby and office vacancy which effect the revenue activity that allows us to go as city government. high inflation and interest rate continued cut back in the tech sector and risk of recession. the following two slides if we move to the first one, tiffany, this slide is from the mayor's budget direction. it is city wide office vacancy rate slide and it starts in march of 2006 and i think the thing to point out, if you look at the great recession years, 2008, 2009, 2010, the largest office vacancy rate ever-the largest vacancy rate in san francisco was just above 15 percent but we recovered as a city to march 2019 during a

second.com boom to 5 percent. after the pandemic hit, and we started to see hybrid work schedules and softening of the economy, currently we are nearly at 30 percent vacancy rates in downtown and what we have been told by our city economist and the controller office is that while there will be a recovery of the projected recover is somewhat a new normal where we are not expecting office vacancy to improve to where it was any time soon. that has two effects on it. the first is, there is less economic activity, which supports city revenue, and the second is value of the underlying property, also potentially takes a hit, which as i mentioned earler i the open space fund is directly effected by

property tax revenue. the next slide is a look at our pension contributions over the years and i want to focus on the split there. last year we paid as a city $415 million to the san francisco retirement system. we had originally budgeted because we had an amazing year in the pension system. $305 million that made up our base. unfortunately the new estimate due to the system retirement system having somewhat a bad year is now $366 million. about 20 percent higher then expected. lt it is still less then fiscal year 22-23. we are still on downward trajectory but that is money we assume we were not go toog have to pay and that directly effect the forecast as well. next slide. so, the mayor has four key priorities and haven't changed since the last

budget instruction. recovery of local economy with focus on downtown and economic core. improving public safety and street conditions, reduce homelessness and transform mental health delivery and accountability and equity in services and spending. next slide. the specific budget instructions, departments-these are not very exciting because this budget doesn't look very promise due to the deficit numbers but we are told to prioritize filling reclassifying vacancies for core departmental functions and mayoral priorities. propose remaining vacancy. maintain the mayoral initiatives we added last year and recommend ways to fund more efficiently and also prepare for the outlook to worsen. so, specifically for our department as a budget overview and fiscal outlook-next slide. this is our base budget in fiscal

year 23-24, $246.5 million and 58 percent is spent on personnel. salary and fringe. that's the core of our department and 90 percent of that personnel is the rec and park of rec and park. operations. it is recreation, park and open space, structural maintenance, park rangers. the people you see out in the field and the other 10 percent is the administration. next slide. so, you often heard during the budget overviews about our revenues consisting of a third of the general fund, third of open space and third earned revenues and it isn't quite like that anymore. earned revenues have not kept pace mostly because of the pandemic. earned revenues are in the yellow bars. we had a high of 51.8 back in 18-19. we took a hit during the pandemic

because of less economic activity as well as less recreation programming. in the current budget $57.5 million which is higher then what we were back in 18-19, which is great, but if we were keeping up with inflation we would be much higher. in 23-24 base roughly $58.7 million so not quite where we were when you look at our revenues as a whole. the only ort thing i mention on the slide as we look at the general fund baseline in the 23-24 base, the far right bars is $85.2 million. what we have now for open space fund is $77.7 million and that is $1.9 million less then what we balanced around last year because the city controllers office reduced the property tax. so, already before we get started

that is $1.9 million reduction to the budget. next slide. so, on to the budget planning and schedule and i joked this slide is somewhat (inaudible) sunset or sunrise? i dont know but hopeful this budget will be a sunrise for the department. next slide. to the positive. so, we have our current operating revenues projected to come close to budget in the current fiscal year. not hundred percent sure we will hit it but we will be close. some revenue sources are good. some revenue sources are not as strong as we thought they were going to be but for the most part, we think it will be even. to the negative, we had a $500 thousand increase in retirement cost added to the base we need to take a count of before we open the budget as well as that open space property tax projection being lower then what was

originally budgeted. and what still to be determined is since this is a 2 year budget and we balance around 2 years, we are not sure we will get the $3 million of general fund in fiscal year 24-25 due to the (inaudible) threshold is $270 million and currently the projection is over that, but that is still to be determined. we also anticipate some greater then inflation price increaseess in water and wastewater rates from the san francisco public utility commission plus addition of the storm water surcharge. that is to come once we have more info, we can present that to the commission. our next steps are analyze all potential revenue changes, solicit program enhancement and efficiency proposal for divisions in the department, complete budget outreach and commission approval process and submit to the mayor balanced budget on february 21. the next slide budget outreach, we are currently presenting to the commission on

the 24 we will have our first community budget meeting in person, february 1 we have a all staff budget brown bag, february 2 we will have update at the operation committee and 7 go to prosac, 8 second budget meeting, 16 is february commission to consider the budget and on the 21 submit the budget to the mayor and controller office. finally june 1 the mayor office will submit the budget to the board of supervisors. that was a long presentation with a lot of information after a long meeting and happy to take any questions you might have. >> start with public comment. any public comment on this item? your hand is raised or in room 416. seeing-hold on one second. seeing none, public comment is closed.

>> commissioners. >> thank you for the presentation. what is the rate of request for reassessment? for property. do you know that or is that something we have to get from the controller? >> i think it has to come from the controller and assessor office. usually those go to the assessor recorder. >> okay. thanks. >> okay, we are looking at $221.6 million budget, is that right? i added up the 3 columns at the end of the graphic. >> yeah, those are the 3 main sources of revenue. it is a little more then that, so i don't want to add the grants we get or the occasional bond funding so for example last year for certain projects we got community-cop. debt from the city, so

these are three main sources of funding for operation. the entire budget includes money for capital, which is goes up, goes down depending what we receive. sometimes we get development impact fees for capital projects. yes, for the most part these are three key revenue sources. >> not trying to put you on the spot but maybe speak generally, when we do unexpected initiative like we did with the $800 thousand for the shuttles in golden gate park, yea, awesome. how did we come up with the funds? just for the general public. we have a sudden need, how did we do that? >> so, the way i do it is a cfo is we very often have general fund baseline money or have our operating budget. so within the general park open space golden gate park budget we have non personnel and already providing some shuttle service so we just add on to the purchase

order with the amount of money we have but the full year we do need to budget a full amount for the shuttle so that is how we do it. we budget on personnel, materials and supplies, it is overall-if we literally budgeted for every single line item the budget would probably be 1 thousand pages long. >> the shuttle was the year long 22-23 expansion of shuttle service was put in last year's budget and approved by the board. >> yeah. >> supported by the mayor. mid-year we use all kinds of tricks and antonio for those who may not know him, antonio comes to us after a lot of experience in the mayor office and spent time honing his craft with stacey our capital planning finance manager and he is as good as any in the business. >> that has been very important to our community. >> i will say, it isn't a trick though,

we do have-- >> trick was meant facetiously meaning we try to figure out--you never know what the year will throw so you start with the budget which is a planning document. strategic plan for the year. as circumstances shift you figure how to meet the need in the moment and there are very clear guardrails from the controller about using certain types of money for certain type of reason and other types of funding for other reasons and you can't mix those, but with that said understanding sort of the rules and (inaudible) can help us achieve a certain amount of flexibility throughout the year. >> well done. commissioner louie. >> we just want to commend you. i can't keep my personal finances in order and here you are balancing a whole department, so to all capital people, capital staff, stacey

antonio, thank you so much. >> yes. >> you're welcome. thank you. >> think that is it. that was just presentation for discussion only. we'll vote on the budget next commission meeting. thank you. >> item 14, lake merced west project ceqa findings and project approval. >> next speaker.

>> this is a surprise. this is surprise. we like to have another conversation about pickleball. [laughter] >> good afternoon commissioners. so, thank you-this is dana ketcham here to talk about the lake merced west project. today we are taking formal action under ceqa so i'll read the language. discussion and possible action to adopt california environmental quality act findings including findings of fact evaluation of

mitigation measures and alternatives and statement of over riding considerations for the lake merced west project. to adopt findings of consistency with san francisco general plan and priority policies of the san francisco planning code. section 101.1 and to approve a project to deliver improvements as generally described in the eir to be delivered in phases starting with sfpuc project for remediation of the site and fallowed by improvements identified in this plan. i want to thank the people who are here available to answer questions and joining me. first as part of this project team, our project sponsor partner has been the sfpuc. just a as reminder the sfpuc owns this land

and bring you shortly a updated mou with them and (inaudible) probably butchered hids name who is the principle environmental planner and incredibly helpful throughout this project. we also have julie moore from the planning department who guided through the project and planning and capital staff behind me, all instrumental in making this happen. with that, go back over here. so, a little of history back on lake merced. the pacific rod and gun club operated 1984 to 2005 offered skeet and shooting. it was deemed a cultural landscape that could be eligible for

listing in the national register of historic places due to historic association with sport hunting and skeet. after the gun club left, the puc completed a soil remediation project in 2016 due to debris left on the site due to shooting. background, i cant remember who was here at the time but after the remediation we did a rfp look ing for someone to come up with a plan for the use of the site that will look a lot like the plan i'm about to present. we worked closely with the respondent but the economics of trying to do that with some of the historic buildings still on the site made it not financially viable. that is why this eir was done.

so, the department proposes the project which would create recreational facility. we need the eir since the project would involve demolition of most of the contributing features of the historical significant cultural landscape and the planning department determined a eir was required. and the project plan that i'm about to present is for eir purposes. it is a wide array of potential uses. whereas the future capital project we will be coming to you may be more modest in scope without requiring further eir analysis. the eir analyzed tremendous detail and you have seen the plans, demolition of most contributing buildings of historicly significant cultural landscape. the possibility of a wide

array of potential active and passive uses and the impact of the possible construction of the 5 future buildings on the site. we have a number of objectives analyzed to review and contemplate the future, including taking advantage of the waterfront, maximize lake views, coming up with economically feasible plan, creating a office and storage yard for the puc and accessible and welcoming environment, code compliant buildings and enhanced awareness of these areas. the eir evaluated ideas for the site high level. it does not prescribe and we are not coming here today what exactly should happen on the site. after

this approval, we will work to develop those specifics through a community process and refine what is important at the site from boating to skate boarding, rope courts to picnicking. these ideas will be included in a rfp for the site where respondents give us their best plans and we will decide through a process what will happen. elements analyzed that could be included this is a great list. community buildish, playground, basketball courts-these are not necessarily all there, but these are what was analyzed. er restroom storage buildling walking park, skate parks, boating options, rope courts and picnic areas. so you will see there is a plan that was developed taking into account the various features of what it could look like and how they could be

placed to maximize all of these different features. there was a project variance that was also done. the community came back from the first analysis and concerned that maybe we would want a bigger boat house and this didn't study a bigger boat house and what the impacts so that could have impacts for future ceqa analysis require more ceqa work so a variant was done by the planning team, thauj, thank you, for a larger boat house and it concluded it did not change mitigation measures or the analysis. after the full analysis the proposal came back with some mitigation monitoring and reporting programs for the future that we together with the puc intend to comply with. the significant impact of this proposal is the

historical architectural resources, and there are 4 measures that we would be committing to do. documentation of historical resources, video documentation of that historical use, and emphasizing reminding interpretive programs oral histories. we are also keeping the elements of one of the skeet fields so when you go you could still recognize what was there. and then there were a number of less then significant impacts and we do have mitigation measures for those. so, where are we on steps? next steps. the planning commission unanimously certified the eir and its conclusions last week. today, we are asking you to adopt the ceqa findings, findings of consistency with the general plan and priority policies of the planning code and approve of project to

deliver some or all in the eir. next steps we have a lot of to do with the community and that is on us. we will work to develop and are issue a rfp for the site by this summer, and/or the concession may choose to develop only certain elements and that we'll come back to you with. thin mean time as soon as this is done the pu c beguns to remain work on phase 1 to demolish and remediate the building so the buildings come down and there is still clean up and remediation but cant be done until the buildings came down so hoping to get that done late 2023 and also the puc has a small area for a arborist office to support the work throughout the city and that construction is still in flux when that would start. we

are expecting once the demolition and clean up is done we will be able to open the space just for the public to walk through. thank you for the preezentation. i and this amazing team behind me are available to answer any and all questions. >> we are moving to public comment. i have one speaker card from sam, if you want to come up and speak. >> well can come sam. >> thank you commissioners, good to see all you. thank you dana, thank you the rest of the team. it has been quite an eye opening and invigorating exciting process over the past few years so i want to show my support from lake merced rowing community and say again what a incredible job every single person in here has put into this. a piece of amazing work. thank you.

>> commissioner griffin. >> we have one hand raised online. >> sorry. >> it's okay. first speaker. >> hi, i'm chris (inaudible) golden gate autobon and appreciate the work you are doingism i want to congratulate on the effort. i'm referring to the specific issues having to do with monitoring status and existence of at risk birds that we have at lake merced and the nesting birds. i have very specific questions. in the comment you mentioned a qualified biologist would conduct surveys of the project site for active nests during nesting season and would establish protective measures around active nests such as restricting certain construction activities in buffer zones during the time of year when and where

birds are breeding and nesting. what we would like to know, san francisco golden gate conservation committee is who is the qualified biologist and may we be in touch with this person regarding his or her schedule? >> thank you. your time is up. >> noted. >> do we have other hands raised? no further callers. public comment is closed. >> i'm go ing to use my chair prerogative to say can we come up with a response to that last commenter question? >> yes. we don't have a specific plan yet. >> okay. >> once we do, we will be coming back with the community with all of the details on how we are going to implement that plan, and we will be sure to share that. thank you. >> we still have a number of months to look ahead. thank

you. commissioner griffin. >> the one thing i'm not clear about is, how do we get around this historical thing? >> not a get around. it is a get through. >> this is what you are doing right now. we are adopting the seeking findings is included a statement of overriding consideration, which explains that while there are historic significant unavoidable historic impact to the historic resource we say the project the work done here the way we open it up to the public with all these different amenities is worth losing the-removing the historic features and we are still maintaining the skeet field and there are elements we are maintaining as part of the proposed project. but, that is the concept. >> and is it up to the

state to grant that? >> no t is up to us. the planning commission certified the eir last week, so they have said they agree with the findings, the work the staff and our consultant have done to say this is appropriate, this is a good analysis, and for the rec and park commission it is your role to say that you approve that this project or project similar to this will go forward with the understanding woo eare going to remove some of these historic resources but it is worth it because the project is worthwhile to do. >> okay. i just wondered since i'm a historical relic. >> it is part of the- >> we have to watch out for one another. >> absolutely. one thing we are doing is the mitigation measures is we are codifying things or taking pictures, sharing celebrating the stories and history and so we are

not are completing whipeing it out and say good bye, we are say ing this is something that happened in the past, we commemerate it and here is how be will use it in the future. >> we will see it in the library room? >> yes, and likely online. we are moving with the future. >> thank you. >> are thank you. >> thank you. commissioner mazzola. >> i want to say thank you for your work on the item. it is exciting. familiar with the spot. i live near there. i have been back in the bay many functions at the little club house out there, and it is definitely time for improvement out there and like the general plan and i'll support this because i think it needs to be updated and excited to see what the future holds for that spot so thank you. >> any other thoughts? commissioners you might turn to page 575

out of 675. the staff recommendation is what i like us to move and second. >> so move. >> take a look at that. it is pretty precise language. i would like someone to move to adopt the staff recommendation as worded on page 575 of our materials. >> i make the motion- >> we have to move and do a second. >> second. >> okay. all in favor state aye. >> aye. >> it issue unanimously approved. thank you everybody. thanks for coming sam, that was a long haul for you. do you have a dog? okay. what's next on the agenda? >> we are on item 15, closed session. at the moment we need to take public comment on

all matters pertaining to closed session, sosuming there is no one in room 416-we have one hand raised on our caller line. go ahead and unmute the first speaker. >> go ahead, please. i was following along somebody behind yesterday who looked a lot like you. >> caller, are you there? caller? >> i'll call this, zip, we are done. caller is gone. >> okay. seeing no further callers, public comment is closed. we are now going to- >> go into closed session as soon as everyone who is supposed to leave the room gets a chance to leave the room.

>> i'm going to stand up and go put the notice outside that this is closed session, so- >> we'll have a 3 minute break. be >> first we need to have a motion and second to go into closed session. >> that's right. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor state aye. >> aye. >> any opposition? none. let's go. [closed session]me a [meeting reconvened] >> propose no. >> second for that? >> second. >> all in favor state aye. >> aye. >> unanimous. >> i need a motion and second on whether to disclose se any or all discussion held in closed session. >> move not to disclose. >> second. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye.

>> no opposition. >> thank you. i just unmuted. okay. so, i do know woe don't have callers on the line currently and we don't have members of the public in the audience but i will run quickly through the next few items for those who may be watching or listening and are not clear on that. so, we have item 16 general public comment, seeing none, public comment is closed. 17 commissioner matters. anything from the commissioners? >> commissioner mazzola may speak. >> thank you. i was going to bring it up after phil's report but will now. i think it isn't every day the tragedy happened like what happened in our park and i would recommend that we have a moment of silence when we adjourn for

beth abe rhams. >> in her memory. >> anything else? seeing no public comment public comment is closed. item 18. new business. anything from the commissioners inseeing no public comment, public comment is closed. item 19, communications. seeing no public comment on communications, public comment is closed and we are on titem 20 adjournment. do we need a motion to adjourn- >> i like to affirm what commissioner mazzola said and i also like to add-i don't think we mentioned it before, but literally a large man in the india basin neighborhood association, large presence and huge advocacy passed the end of last year, michael hammond so i like to acknowledge the great life of michael hammond when we adjourn. >> okay. apologies for interrupting. we

did have a caller pop up on wanting to comment on communications. is that amenable? >> sorry? >> a caller popped up raising their hand wanting to comment on the communication item. >> okay. >> unmute the caller. >> this is dan clark and want to comment on a letter i wrote to the commission just a couple weeks ago. it is about (inaudible) it is about a (inaudible) part of that and power struggle between pg&e and how it effects the environment. >> please note you have 1 minute and get a 30 second warning. >> i understand. on the environment, if rec and park was ucis sesful in the negotiation with pg&e it would have removed 42 percent of the contamination that is in gas house coal.

they should have been going for hundred percent but were going for 42 percent. the deal they made with pg&e removes 15 percent which is opposite direction and really disgraceful fact and it was coupled with a broad where money was transferred from pg&e side to rec and park side of the ledger in a under-handed and sneaky way. all that goes to what i believe has been conducted over 20 year period and in the last couple years between rec and park and pg&e and the deal that was struck between those two. some time about a year ago. it is unethical action. it is immoral, i believe it may be illegal. - >> thank you. >> thank you time is up and we did receive your communication. i is a motion from

commissioner mazzola to adjourn. i need a second. >> second. >> all in favor of adjournment say aye. >> aye. >> adjourned at 156 p.m. [meeting adjourned](mus >> i started the o was with a financing and had a business partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to me so i bought them oust and two

weeks later the pandemic h-4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse business in a lifetime or the best. >> we created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasn't used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. >> what the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately

and created this. >> (unintelligible). >> where we would offer food delivery services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. we had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an old-fashioned one we created club hours where you can

watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a million dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. >> we got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i can't let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. and it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what we're doing. this

building used to be a- and one of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we don't realize how much we affect the community around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. and inspires other people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we

change the [music] >> welcome to the 2022

sfmta bus roadeo. today what we will see is competitions of different levels. we will see transit operators through a obstacle course. also see the office rfs maneuver the g4 cars through a course. (inaudible) [beeping] then also have a element of (inaudible) who are doing inspections and repairs and some of the equipment related to our buses. [applause] >> i enjoy coming to the event because of the camaraderie with the staff and seeing the departments and everybody meeting arfbd so the more we can do these things the better we'll be and it helps the agency grow. >> the winner of the local bus roadeo the person goes to the national (inaudible) one additional item we add

to the event and call it a fun event where managers at the senior level get to test their skills operating a bus. (inaudible) transfer officers (inaudible) basically maneuver the course and they (inaudible) >> interesting to see some of the main managers run the course out there. they haven't had as much experience but they did pretty well. i'll submit the bus damage for the bumps they did to the body shop for estimates. [applause] >> behind us we have vintage buses that were brought out for folks to see. some of these vintage buses are sfmta, part of the historical fleet. two others belong to the pacific bus museum and a personal bus of a individual that owns it.

we take great pride in the historical buses we have and try to keep it up to date. >> it is a way to bring employees together, work together as a team. a great morale booster something the employees have been asking for a year and it is great today because you can see how happy they were to once again do something they really enjoy. [cheering] >> first place (inaudible) [applause] third place goes to monica collins. (inaudible) >> this is my last roadeo. i'm throwing in the towel.

>> we are right now in outer richmond in the last business area of this city. this area of merchants is in the most western part of san francisco, continue blocks down the street they're going to fall into the pacific ocean. two blocks over you're going to have golden gate park. there is japanese, chinese, hamburgers, italian, you don't have to cook. you can just walk up and down the street and you can get your cheese. i love it. but the a very multicultural place with people from everywhere.

it's just a wonderful environment. i love the richmond district. >> and my wife and i own a café we have specialty coffee drinks, your typical lattes and mochas and cappuccinos, and for lunches, sandwiches and soup and salad. made fresh to order. we have something for everybody >> my shop is in a very cool part of the city but that's one of the reasons why we provide such warm and generous treats, both physically and emotionally (♪♪) >> it's an old-fashioned general store. they have coffee. other than that what we sell is fishing equipment. go out and have a good time. >> one of my customers that has been coming here for years has always said this is my favorite

store. when i get married i'm coming in your store. and then he in his wedding outfit and she in a beautiful dress came in here in between getting married at lands end and to the reception, unbelievable. (♪♪) >> the new public health order that we're announcing will require san franciscans to remain at home with exceptions only for essential outings. >> when the pandemic first hit we kind of saw the writing on the walls that potentially the city is going to shut all businesses down. >> it was scary because it was

such an unknown of how things were going to pan out. i honestly thought that this might be the end of our business. we're just a small business and we still need daily customers. >> i think that everybody was on edge. nobody was untouched. it was very silent. >> as a business owner, you know, things don't just stop, right? you've still got your rent, and all of the overhead, it's still there. >> there's this underlying constant sense of dread and anxiety. it doesn't prevent you from going to work and doing your job, it doesn't stop you from doing your normal routine. what it does is just make you feel extra exhausted. >> so we began to reopen one year later, and we will emerge

stronger, we will emerge better as a city, because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> this place has definitely been an anchor for us, it's home for us, and, again, we are part of this community and the community is part of us. >> one of the things that we strived for is making everyone in the community feel welcome and we have a sign that says "you're welcome." no matter who you are, no matter what your political views are, you're welcome here. and it's sort of the classic san francisco thing is that you work with folks. >> it is your duty to help everybody in san francisco.

>> order of the streets sanitation and streets commission. today is monday january 23, 2023. mr. fuller please call the role. it is 10:00 am. >> good morning, please respond with here or present. tomas harrison. >> here. >> commissioner hair shon is present. kim hartwood shoelman. >> here. >> commissioner is present. >> ion has an absence that he notified the commissioner president about. >> present. >> present. >> commissioner seme is present with four commissioners present we do have quorum for the sanitation and streets commission. due to the covid health