fun. thank you for joining me in the excelsior this is goldenate adventures. >> the upon sab upon fran rec and park meeting of january 16 at 10:06 a.m. call the roll >> commissioner anderson >> here >> commissioner hallisy. >> here >> commissioner herrera. >> hee >> commissioner mazzola. >> here >> commissioner wintroub. >> here >> south american commissioner

zwart. >> [ramaytush ohlone acknowledgment] good morning and welcome to the rec and p commission. turn off devices and take conversations outside. public comment available for each item on the agenda unless announced each personal have 2 minutes on each item. why comments during the public upon comment president are available in person and room 416 and remote. address your comments to the

commission. neither the commission nor staff will responded to questions during comment the commission may ask questions of staff after public comment is closed. general public comment is for items not on the agenda under the jurisdiction of the commission. public commission submitted e mail andus mail >> this meeting is recorded. we are on item 2 the president's report. >> thank you. good morning and happy new year. we wanted to say we appreciate everyone's involvement. all the people this come out and attend our commission meetings. who share what they would like to have help in their communities. we are all ears for that, a shout out to the various friends of. lots of friends and neighbor who is help care take, parks and reshg centers and spaces in the city.

we would not be here without you. want to say a huge gratitude for all that. and because we are so proud we are such committed activist in our own communities we wanted fly our colors here is our colors. commission jackets we wear with great pride. and the cool new hats may be the report can tell under the circumstances about the new hats. this is the first meeting we serve under our new mayor lurie. i was struck by some words during his inauguration. that he is about openness and transparency. out in the various neighborhoods listening, observing, asking questions. we appreciate that. we are proud it serve this new

administration, we are there to here to talk with the mayor if there is anything he needs from us. i god a christmas card from a family member of the future rachel sullivan park. you may recall we had family members here and greed a new park will being called after a wonderful community activist who lost her life too early. it is from arlene, i hope you remember me i'm arlene the little sister of rachel sullivan of the future rachel sullivan park. i wanted to wish you a merry christmas and thank you for your support, happy holidays. we appreciate receiving notes like this. do i have anything else? that's all now. if i think of something i may

break in. thank you. for item two. >> is there public comment on item two in room 416? do we have handos web ex. no. public comment is closed. we are on item athlete general manager's report. good morning. i'm still in 2024 apparently. good morning, commissioners happy new year. welcome to 2025 and as we jump in the first meeting of the year, we want to share some of our accomplishments from the past year in the 2024 community report hot off the presses if you read your rpde news went out

yesterday. thank you eton as always for such incredible -- captures the work we do so well. some capitol highlights include opening the first half in water front park. rejuvenating golden gate park. reopening reimagined richmond play ground. on the program side we welcome 325 thousand visitors.

11, upon sen 20 supported our park 4,000 plant starts and 6 huh human cubic yrsd of compost. this is certainly was a transformtive years for full report at sf rec park. organize and i recommend >> at the board of supervisors that will extend the park code to include treasure island and yerba buena, mission bay and any future parks managed by under a lease or agreement. previous when rec and park

assumed responsibilities by state agencies minipark or soma west and skate park we had a separate park code amendment always required to apply the park code it each of the properties. if this passes. all parks under rec and park care and management under park code jurisdiction. regulations will apply in open space we our friends in treasure island development authority and in the process of opening more parks to the public and wish to apply the code to enforce park hours. >> you have heard this legislation before.

will make its way to the allow to do our jobs clean and safe and healthy for all. yesterday, we kicked soccer and u.s. soccer foundation with our mayor daniel lure and he supervisors walton and chen. community members and youth soccer players opened the first ever afc minipitch will bay fc as you know is the bay area's professional women's team. while for the time being, they

play at the stadium in san jose. we in san francisco have welcomed them with open arms and -- they will be building their practice facility and team headquarters on treasure island with conversations about a permanent home for bay fc looming. so, this new min empitch opened with a ceremonyial first kick followed by a clinic for a lot of the local youth including the bayview united hosted by pay fc players and coaches. it was lovely. the minipitch including both materials were donated through a partnership with united states soccer foundation. bay fc and sixth street foundation. sixth street is the primary investors and part of ownership group of bay fc a san francisco company. new minipitch measures 50 feast by 84 feet.

is a customized hard court surface that transforms what was an under used area to a safe and accessible soccer space to learn to play. this distinguishes from the full side fields used for games and league play. one of i will walk out on this for a second and i know commissioner hallisy is with me as the u.s. works to assume soccer level of soccer prominence around the world, one thing we don't do well is make it easy for kids to just pick up a ball and play pick up like in basketball or in sandlot baseball. soccer in america happens essentially a play to play model where you have to be on a team and pay a fee and there are structured games. some of you take your kids to various man ticka so they can

play you drive two hours play 8 minutes. and then drive back two hours. we as a count wee rew need to do a better job of making easier for kids to just pick up a ball. and that is the only way the coach will lead the u.s. men's national team to the same level of prominence as the u.s. women's national teach which does better at this. despite our access channels. anyway what i wanted say, was that this is a golden opportunity for our kid to tackle their 25 soccer hopes and dreams. puns are back. [laughter]. yesterday, we -- and thank you president anderson and vice

president hallisy for joining us, celebrated the martin luther king birthday at our 41stanual mlk luncheon, the values of equality and community which he championed over the course of his young life. short life. at the event, rec and park gave out the keeping the dream alive awards to honor those who embody king's legacy and important to note that i do not choose the awards they are upon chosen by staff who are involved in the mlk lunch so it has a meaning to the recipients. the community award went to the india basin water front park development plan committee a group of 20 community leaders that worked very closely with us on our best in class equal style park at india basin.

that group is a passionate bunch of passionate dedicated residents worked to credit a vision for the park that uplifts the community and ensures that it achieves a variety of goals including cultural identity health and safety, economic opportunity, workforce development opportunitiesful we should be proud of from 2024 but in this era of park creating. the team gave out the internal keeping the dream alive award goes to a rec park employee or a group to rec and park's partnership division. philanthrophy is vital to the department of lisa and abigale and joel and susan and kaitlyn i'm sure i'm forgetting.

andt amar! this small but mighty group works behind the scenes to secure criminalitied revenue that is the margin of excellence for your work. when we get from the general fund and from few of our coffee carts and parking garages provides margin of survival. but it is philanthrophy that helps us with margin of excellence. let's play sf. golden gate tennis center reasonination. india basin park and our new bay fc minipitch. i want to thank you to the team, i will say everybody's name againful it turns out they are in my notes. telit aabigale. susan, kaitlyn and joel they are an incredible shop that gives us depth and perspective and

support for our park system. >> not just lunch its is service. if you are interested in giving back, this new year please volunteer with us in our parkos saturday january 18 in honor of martin king junior and the holiday and our day of service. we have volunteer opportunity in cites from the bison and golden gate park. to the new exploration area and every in in between. full list of events this saturday and sign up visit sf rec park. org lisa we said a lot of nice things about you and your team that you missed. [laughter]. in addition, we celebrate the legacy of martin luther king junior with joy. join us at india park and join us for rec fest sunday january

19, 11-throw. free food. fitness stations, rec activities. contests and more, for information about the upon event and the schedule for the park's food pavilion we rotate bayview food in and out of our pavilion well is a schedule for them you can show up at the park when well is manage that you fancy. visit ib waterfront park. you can get it through our website but india basin has its own url. of january 25 we invite to you enjoy the photo center on 50 scott street for the celebration of organiziana for 7 generations. on saturday january 25, 2-5. the exhibits by lana cap lin explores the do you understand

examining the lives of successful inhappen tanlts and evolution of photographic history and convention. this runsllow saturday march first for more information visit sf rec park. speak of the randall which is in harvey milk the you can people's musical theatre company known wpt ncc opening night performance once upon a mattress. on january 31st. you can invite [inaudible]. president anderson you ought to go. this production celebrates this amazing theatre company's 40th anniversary by reviveing classic. i don't know this was suggesting anything about your age

president anderson? but this was the first musical they performed in 1985. it is a lively retelling of the princess and the pea. it runs at the museum theater on the weekends of january 31 and february 7. friday and saturday shows beginning at 7. . 30 and sunday shoes beginning at 2 p.m. lots of websites i'm throwing out for more information and purchase tickets visit ypt mt c. org or for one call does it all vs rec park. >> lastly as we look to the chinese new year and lunar new year, the chinese new year basketball jam borey will be

february 8. we are very excited. this is a fabulous chinese newier tradition in san francisco and part of the alaska festival and parade. come out to the court to see which players from the communities slither through screams to get buckets in the year of the snake. that was pun number two if you are counting. and that, commissioners concludes the general manager's report >> thank you for this robust report. >> do we have public comment on the general manager's report? i have no blue cards. and there are no hands raised on web ex. i will close public comment. we are on item 4 general. >> i have a question >> commissioner mazzola. >> thank you. >> thank you general manager for your report. happy new year.

>> my pleasure. question on the new park at treasure island. i know we added india basin and deposit maintenance at treasure island i assume? >> that say conversation to be had that we are phase nothing with treasure island. >> yea. >> it is our hope we want to create one park system they have an interest in us supporting those parks, yes. >> great. >> the question i had obviously, is with the online and with [inaudible] cuts and hiring freezes and the shops [inaudible] as it is how would, >> how are we going to do this. our shops are amazing, i know that you know that. they're incredible. there is funding attaches to some of the new parks that we are taking responsibility for. and they if we do assume a level of responsibility for tida a

conversation in progress. funding would come with that. down the road, when the 700 build project is complete there is a cfd and funding that come with that. so, the answer this may not be satisfying as we are doing the best we can. we have a careful balance here. between sacrificing quality today, right. we have the staff that we have. and the city has the budget that it has and you will hear more from antonio about our city budget. and you know we know based on the people that are in our various shops. it is not just trades it the park range and engardio gardeners. we are mindful and when we been new park spaces we are mindful

of not wanting to sacrifice the quality of what we do. but we have a responsibility to think about the city's nes network of open space not over a one or two or three year budget siechl but over a 50 year horizon. i take that responsibility seriously. we know that we are good at our work. and we than a cohesive park system that does not have managed by 17 or 18 different entities with their own rules and all with their own jackets and with their own permit styles. that's not good for the average san franciscans and park user. we balance today. we are assuming the work well is funding coming with it. we analyze we have a really robust tool might be worth share with this commission that we use

to analyze exactly what type of staff and kind of staff we need to manage certain open space based on acreage. that will is when they are funding and then is a mix of so it is a weird thing, right. the status quo we are told that there are hiring freezes and budget cuts and you are going to see very difficult budget news. right? we are trying to juks that pose that with funding that stabilizes our shop to manage this work we will have an eye on this this is something we need to work that park advocates need to work we understand that parks not amenities and bounce houses and jumping houses. parks are vital for san francisco.

our parks are manages sustainable through good and bad budget cycles. and that's part of my job description >> appreciate that. one more question unrelated. i live by 19th and sloat and the entrance. >> i should have begin you. yea. something happened. >> yea. thank you, commissioner mazzola that should have been in the upon report a lot have seen it. on tuesday morning at 2:30 a.m. we lost a very eucalyptis tree at 19th sloat nobody was hurt no property was damaged.

the casualty was the metal truss that sits at the 19th and sloat entrance to stearn grove. which are partners the festival uses to feature concerts and creates a welcoming climate in the main entrance. not only entrance but the main one. that came down. so it has taken us a day or two for us structure ral maintenance shop to plan and remove the truss. we are keeping it safe and figuring out what we can rehab and it will take a bit of time but we plan on getting that thing back up as soon as we can. >> thank you. i wondered about that. i swore i thought it was a quake. it was loud >> it was -- >> yes. >> i sadly, i typically sleep

limp i did get what alert at throw in the morning from our park rangers. and that day i did not go back to sleep. >> got up in the middle of night. people around. >> yep >> thank you >> we are o item 4 general public comment up to 15 minutes will be conditioned item 15 public may address in the jurisdiction of the commission and not on the agenda. is there anyone to comment for item 4? hi. richard. good morning commissioners i'm richard and i serve on the park and open space committee and representative for district one and half of the gold even gate

i'm concerned and talked to you about the chain but you know with the passage of prop k, the unless something is done. the chain of lakes is you know in the afternoon it is just jammed. >> and -- i tried to set up a community meeting you can ask sarah with rec and park and mt a, mt a does notment to talk gave a phony excuse. you know their plan for the stop sign on 41st and sloat will not might affect the chain of lakes

it is a small 2 lane. the stop signs other ones that hold it up and -- and cross jfk and mlk, although most of the bicycles use jfk and that's what slows it up. i don't think prop k implemented until they come up with a plan to ease the traffic on the chain of lakes. by rugs the number of cars. you have thes outside lands concert. which is a perfect storm for the richmond district residents. this is just madness and needs to be slowed down. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else to comment for general public comment? okay.

come on up. jury room good morning i'm rose neymary a finance chair of the san francisco zoological society. i was hardened to see that the big official donors to us have released 400,000 to help complete the madagascar exhibit. i wanted point out the society criminalitied 58 million dollars in capitol improvements to the city zoo and funds 96% of the total cost to operate and upgrade the facility. these efforts are sustained with little reliance from the city. the board continues to disagree with the animal commission's report. i'm sorry to interrupt you. probably this should wait until

item 6 on the zoo report. if you withstood mind pauseing is items not on the agenda. >> sorry. >> we heard you. thank you. >> is there anyone else to comment on items not. >> i was looking at you. may be you? hi. commissioners i'm [inaudible] chair of sf urban riders the local [inaudible] group in san francisco. so i wanted talk about what we did in 2024. we have advocated funding for the trail rec park got it for connecting twin peeks to the mid town terrace neighborhood and laguna honda hospital you may be familiar than i have 60 acres of open space part of the city's open space system. we had a small bid had couple huh human volunteers and did

hundreds of hours of work maintained the trail and habitat it is liked by the public. we do volunteer at mc clarin p. and hi as always i welcome all of you to visit the projects we work of reach out to me and that's all. looking forward to more trails and bikes in the park. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> anyone else to comment on item 4? and there is in hands raised in the queue. public comment is closed. all right. weer item 5 the consent calendar anything commissioners would like to remove before i take public comment? >> okay. any public comment on item 5? are there hands raiseod web exfor item 5. seeing none. public comment is closed for 5 am commissioners? i will take a motion and second.

so moved. >> second. >> all in favor of approving consent, >> aye. >> opposition? none. it is approved. >> thank you, commissioners. on item 6 the san francisco zoo. a visual? >> okay. sfgovtv will put it up. >> good morning. i'm jeff pace the cfo of the san francisco zoo. and i want to give you an update on the planned completion of our mad gas gar project this is

phase 2 under work for about 6 lemurs in the forest the largest lemur clnlt. overnight years we have increased our madagasgar animal collection thanks to private donations. we have commenced a multimillion dollars capitol campaign and its named after the main donor the lipman madagasgar center. part of this expansion, we initiate low designed and built

a 2 story exhibit for madagasgar's carbon carnivore. itllows visitors to view dual level habitat and i conic bao bab tree the tree overnight madagasgar center represents madagasgar's i conic trees 6 of 7 species exist in madagasgar. one species was declaired endanger erred on the red list due to gold mining, climate change and agricultural land bring not just animals that are threatened with extinction. this icon was created by giant

branches and crane was used to hoist each the 3 branch in place. appearing air born workers steadied and fastened it to the trees trunk i have at upper walk way inform interior of the tree visitors seat insects of mad gas garb. we have been approved for the next phase of expansion. so, what we'll be doing is essentially, completing the basin of the madagasgar area. and that includes putting in new windows, doors and gates. a pond for pelicans. we will put in small are ponds for tortoises and they will be

able to actually sort of like parade into the existing areas so that folk consist interact with them. it will be a very, very awesome thing. over the last 6 years we invested, we, the zoo, invested 7.if i have million dollars. the remaining is 4.4 million dollars you see it is in a continuous investment over that period of time. we expect to start in february. and complete by september. we went out to bid we solicited bids from throw contractors and one declined a bid. one bid came in 2.8 million

dollars. and it was incomplete. one at 1. 4 million dollars and was very complete. we decided to contract with pacific construction. and commissioner mazzola asked for a list of subcondition tractors, we will provide that. we negotiated contract and we are ready to go. so, thank you very much. this is very exciting for us. and we are thrilled to be able to finish this project we have been working on for a number of years now and thank you so much. thank you, jeff. >> thank you. >> is there public comment on item 6? rosemary. >> anyone else is welcome to come up. >> not quite groundhog day here

i am again. and i sorry i didn't want to steal jeff's thunder on the lipman's pledge. i'm rose mayor and he since 200 the society criminalitied 58 million in capitol improve ams to the city zoo. currently funds 96% of the cost to operate and upgrade the city's facility and the efforts are sustained through domations and attendance with little reliance on the city. approximately less than 4%. and the board disagrees with the way that the animal report came out. and -- before the report was released, we were exactly tracking last year's attendance numbers. but since the report was released, we seen a drop in both attendance and donations. and in november we saw a 17% decline in attendance and

december we saw a 20% decline. we have also unfortunately experienced decline inspect donations and if the trends continue, in the future, it will only result in less money for improvemented to the city zoo. for animals and for our hard working staff and staffing and no one wants that. so. that's it. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >> thank you. anyone else here to comment on item 6 today? >> i will comment. i want to shout out to all the hard working members of san francisco zoological society. and all that they do in commitment to our zoo and helping to raise necessary funds to keep our zoo on point wanted to given the beautiful madagasgar exhibits special thanks to the lipmans gave a huge donation to start that. i was honored be at the opening

ceremony of the first phase of the of madagasgar area. and got to upon spend time with maria and cannot send enough gratitude to wonderful san franciscans like the imman family who raise us up. give our commendations to the family. thank you. >> we have no further public comment on item 6. commissioners do you have anything else before we move on. >> don't see. >> okay. >> we are on item 7 reasoning vagz and park face cal 25-26 budget over view and principles. this is not an action item to approve the budget, discussion only and action to approve the principles.

>> thank you. map dam president and commissioners. i'm antonio director of administration and finance for rec and park departmentful thank you for indulging me as i sit down to do this important presentation. along side me who -- you see is my right hand person. tiffany wong the budget manager in the department. and today, we have a brief i will make in brief as possible there is a lot of information in here but the presentation is structured as a quick look at the city's over all fiscal outlook and budget instructions are own budget over view in fiscal outlook are proposed budget principles for commission adoption today as well as am

budget practices from other agencies we'll considering during the budget process and nexts steps and schedule. you might have seen in the san francisco chronicle, that the city has a combined 866 million dollars deficit over the next two years. and the one thing i want to point out on this slide is that our baseline which many of you are familiar with. prop b guaranteed a 3 million dollars in less the city hits a deficit threshold that this year is roughly 270 million dollars. right now the year one is 253 million dollars. we will get a final confirmation of that deficit number in march when the city updates the internal projections. based off of property values and how much revenue is coming in the city. >> priorities that we are begin by the mayor maintaining core

city service continuing significant progress and manage unhealthy behavior improve service deliver and he reporting across all areas of services and rethink how best to deliver public services and which services the public sector should prioritize as well as think about structural changes to the city budget. and the specific instructions to departments, i think00 autofirst swon one got the most the fact that all general fund spending reduced by 15%. we had to submit these proposals to the mayor's office. in our favor is that the way it is cathed for us anything boost baseline number in the budget office not 15% of entire general fund it is any above that. reexamine contracts and nonpersonnel expenditures.

eliminate vacancies with no new ft e and the city is told to prioritize staffing key areas with public safety and essential operations. we gone beyond consider back in december now there is a hiring freeze. and but i think -- this does not really make the paper under that is layoffs are not prefers if necessary to meet specific the budget submission. and the final one was to reorganize to eliminate redundancy. that is a year two thought experiment we go through with the mayor's budget office. now for our financial projection this is an update to the exercise we performed last year fiscal year 26 a million dollars deficit this is the first year of the budget process. and then in fiscal year 27 a 15 million dollars deficit.

this guess out to fiscal year 29, 30, 25 million dollars. some key changes reduction in salary and benefit funding this is part of some adjustment wes made to reduce our personnel. budget. 7.6 million dollars deficit including work ords. increase in revenue and million dollars increase in projected new park expenditures. this deficit prosecute jection based off the same city assumptions the city use the financial plan and updated ones specific to us regarding our internal debt service and our own internal work orders with agencies. and before we start talking

about we are planning on think burglar this upcoming prg process we need to look at the hard choices that were made last year. it greatly affects how we think about this budget of specifically, the reason yet deficit within down we had on going million dollars mid year budget cut left year. during the board of supervisors phase and june one budget process lost soda tax funding. sen.throw million dollars in over all program reductions. to be implemented by 25/26 the first year of this budget. and basically we doll it keeping vacant positions open. not back fill new 1s and reduce nonpersonnel services and material and supply spending. we were not anticipating layoffs. but were anticipating 50ft e or

full time e8511 employees with unfunded by fiscal 26 and also part of the june first budget a reduction to 15 million dollars general fund baseline of 700 thousand. the board of supervisors part of add back cut cuts as well in left year's budget and 0. 4 million in the upcoming. that's a lot. and gosh i'm not providing good news yet. we will get there hopefully but i think to add more context to this conversation if we are just look at past history, what happened since the pandemic fiscal 21 process which is june first, 2020. if you look at our own general fund support grills. versus the city's gross in the

general fund we are 5% the city 11%. if you look at over all total budget growth our growth the past 5 years 10% the city 17% we are not keeping up with fellow city departments. and within that amount of money we have, that 10% total budget growth, our personnel pay growth up by 19% and ourin are departmental service growth up by 28%. so those are our fellow agencies like the city attorney's office am puc, add administrator's office the cost they charge back to us. the bar chartos the slide shows our general fund or 5 years despite prop b went up 3.8 million dollars. and work order growth up by upon 7.7 million. so, even with when we have, it is going to other city agencies.

the cost of the work orders, the actuals on the left of the bar chart. 15.7 million looking at prior to the pandemic. and this is three specific reporters puc work order, costs with the department of technology to provide e mail and other service like friends at sfgovtv who are broadcasting now. and -- shops who maintain our vehicles. that was a littles under 16 million the budget for the current year was about 26 million dollars. and then in the future, we seen the slide before, our utility's budget has continued to project -- grow all the way out to 2030 temperature did lower

and used to be higher. it is 21 million dollars once you get out to 2030. if you go become to fiscal 23 we are 11 prior to the power rate increases and storm water surcharges. go to fiscal 2009 not including cites like candlestick park are no long in operation, utility budget was 5 million dollars we were not paying for water. that was the expenses, looking at revenue. flat fiscal 24/25 and 26 load in the the budget i was trying to find the most boring way to show what flat looks like. here you g. 3 bar charts that are flat. that is the growth in our budget. compared to the cost increases that are going on in the city. and thenneen revenue source i forgot, rew have three source of

revenue. general fund support. we have our open space fund. and we have earned revenue. this third leg in the 3 legged stool earned revenue has not grown. we are just you say we recovered but not growing. fiscal 19, 36.2. 39.3 left year a bit of growth of 3 million dollars that is something but we are not keepingum with when we need. and this was eluded to in the general manager's report. we will come become to the commission with more information about all this. part of the projection we have part of the looking at the 5 year forecast is figure out where we'll be operating. in the future. some of these cites we already own. some other agencies are asking us to take on. they have revenue for you to do

the work. so, as part of this deficit this includes the costs for the following; gardeners, custodians and structural maintenance yard. there are different ways of doing it we have the estimates based off best practices and our historical actual it is how much hours it takes for them to maintain the cites based off asset class. for the yard, we have estimates based off actuals based off of similar site in the system. the cost and the reason why we have 8 million dollars deficit 1 million dollars were costs for great highway south ocean beach, or cost on the great highway. twin peeks promenade we assume we will need money for maintenance as that opens in

25-26. rec center adding costs for the operation of that site. and you will notice the shipyard hill top a site ocii is asking us to take on we are in conversations assuming approval by this commission the cost maintenance there would be covered but assuming 5. 6ft e and treasure island a souffléing the commission approves and the treasure island development authority those would be covered by community facility district funding. >> i want to step n. commissioner mazzola this is the question you were asking and you know -- its not everything we need. but you know at least the space we could not have absorbed the spaceos our existing resource. at least these do come with

dedicated support. >> and -- finally to end on that. 32.2ft e asumd as part of our deficit projection trying to figure out how much money we need to maintain or employees we need to maintain these space. this is a large increase in the amount of space we are going to operate in. i am somewhat speak to the choir here when what a shame we had a fancy gift that had all the amazing pictures. all of the cool stuff and it is not work. probably because your cfo does not know how to operate a power point. i will say that other than the skate boardser at un plaza you can imagine the [inaudible] in san francisco not in the 49 area

miles -- we believe we are >> i will queue this up. the next section is what the heck do we do? we have to make tough decisions noseverybody will like. and it is important that you know to share the, why, why? why do we make tough decisions. it is so we can what's at stake is the w we do every day all overnight city. and the important role that parks play in am the health and license of our city. and -- there is a significant amount at stake. we have this -- this team is commission and worked hard over many years to get to our parks to the point that they are at now. and we still have room for improvement, right? we are aware of that.

we cannot afford parks are too important in our view, for where we are now to slip. there is a lot at stake. >> thank you. mr. general manager. and part of this, y, how we balance this budgetful and -- we are proposing today for potential commission adoption a revised set of balancing principles most of this is word smithing and adding mayor lurie to the words in the budget principles. i will read this apologize. we have cut these down from 9 to 7 it is a reconfiguration of most of what we have written in the pastment i don't think there is any major changes here. the first is make budget choice responsible and responsive to

the on going budget deficits. make budget choice best support city's continuing economic recovery. and most directly aline with mayor lurie's priorities a strategic plan and commitment to equity. budget choice uphold the role parks play ensuring space remain safe, clean, accessible and well programmed. make budget choice honor voter investment in parks by min miegz cuts to dedicated funding for maintenance. make budget choices that sustain our responsibility environmental stewards and support the climate policy. make budget choices that continue to support and cultivate a diverse connected and engaged workforce this delivers outstanding service. it is budget related policy decisions that best fulfill protecting investment and core services but better alining earned revenues and with best

practices and by utilizing new partnerships and technologies to philadelphia our mission as efficiently as possible. how do we do that? look athideas that other city agencies and agencies within the city or the state have done to raise ref now in parks or operate more efficiently. these are ideas we noticed and we wanted to share them with the commission. the first is some have been discussed before the first is paid park. common on park cites fortmason. port, presidio and california state parks charges for paid park. and we are a wear presidio collects throw million dollars annually through paid park

program. the second idea that we have been looking at golf. the golf program received over 16 million dollars in revenue to cover 20.million dollars in expenses result nothing a 4.throw million dollars deficit. there are other jurisdictions like los angeles county that use net revenue received from golf course operations to support rec and park operations. of course, operators. >> yes. >> golf course operators. sorry. >> rec cost recovery. now recovers 69% of cost. we have previously stated intention to run without any general fund subsidy. look at the rest of programming we are 11%. if you do include [inaudible] it is 15 temperature is 11% costs

are not recovered by revenue to the tune of 89% and we are aware of other city agencies that develop an over all cost recovery target saying you need to aim for a percentage of cost recovery as well as individual program goals depending on who benefits whether the public, versus individual benefit. we take body this a bit left year aware of other city departments that have advertising that support operations and there are park systems elsewhere in theination that do this. we have the high line. in new york city has a baptist advertising. this is something that we have discussed in the past. and then i believe this is relatively new not the vehicle losing piece but mentioned in the presentation that we spent 6.6 million dollars on central

shops maintenance work order. and the average age of our vehicle system 13.75 years and a lot are 20 years or older. we want to look at alternatives include vehicle lose to smooth the costs of procurement and allow staff to maintain our own fleet. and then one item this was brought to the commission last year and was instead of adopting the fee the board gave us initial different evergeneral fund support other cities like berkeley and los angeles, seattle and oakland this charge court reservation fees. and we have updated our calculation to projerk we could get a million dollars in additional revenue from a per hour court reservation fee scent out of 123 neighborhood courts.

this is basically a slide we had left year the consequence other same if we don't solve this deficit there will be wirfs park maintenance and more broken stuff. dirty stroms and shorter hours. reduced public safety. few are programs for sids and seniors and if we don't have money there are few are parks in the future. budget out reach and schedule today is january 16th all staff next week. prozac meet nothing february here on the 6 and the full commission considers the budget on the 20th the end february we will submit our budget proposals to the mayor's office. we are going to the youth commission in march now and i mentioned that date earlier about the update to the joint report. and june the mayor will submit his budget to the board of supervisors.

with this i'm happy to answer questions. do we are public comment in room 416 on item 7? okay. i have a comment. i know the zoo talked over a period of time about the possibilities of demand based pricing. and i might throw that out to you whether if you are looking at increasing golf fees or parking fees. may be that is something to consider. in charging a higher amount on demand days such as weekends, that's all. >> thank you. >> is there other comment on the budget? okay. commissioner mazzola. i will check on web exquick,

sorry. public comment in our web ex? okay. public comment is closed. go ahead commissioner mazzola. thank you for that report. definitely dire. although, you know i have been african-american awhile and every time the budget come out they give the wirfs case and my hope this number drops and we near a better position than we think we are now. but with this said, these are tough decisions no doubt. but thanks for laying them out for the board to see. question i have you know labor now is trying to meet with the mire regarding the hiring freeze and what it means the paper said until june 30. i don't know if this is true or not. trying to figure out what it means. my question to you guys would be

what would mean to you in this department as far as back filling a position or -- more than that the position that has been a job offered to somebody. what are we doing in this instance? i will ask antonio the mayor made clear his first citywide department head meeting which i attends was last thursday. the day afternoon he was sworn in. and that's when he announced the hiring freeze and did more then and there that the mayor's budget office and controller's office cancelled all of the what we all rt f requests question to fill. this is where we have an approved budgeted funded position that is already in the hiring pipeline. you need that buffer engage. they were all cancelled.

sxfrm the hr folks citywide have the toughest job in city government now.

. i think we all understand still coming out of the pan dem and i can the change in the ways which people work what on the tax base. they are real. the government really are escalating we have personnel you have materials and supplies very significant changes to supply chain related costs. water, power waste par, storm water. all the interdepartmental work

orders. and you know and -- i well understands and will appreciate your roll commissioner mazzola as a labor advocate. we have to be honest that -- salaries benefits and learn contracts having a significant impact on our -- part of the equation here. our expenses are in a very structural way increasing more rapidly than our revenues. it is math. we have to reduce expenses or increase revenues the answer is both. i think. >> it can'ts be with smoke and mirror. what antonio presented what is different from others that we come before you in difficult budget times is the structural long-term nature of the challenge. now do we think the economy will get better. >> yea we are seeing what the

mayor referred to green chutes. >> and our we are dependant on open space revenue. forgive me for taking time. >> we are reliant on open space fund. we get 2-1/2 cents of every hundred dollars of property tax revenues. they are shared with the city and the state. the city's share we get 2-1/2 centses every hundred dollars. in bad budget cycles when the property taxes increases over many years during my tenure they tend to lag behind the economy. so, we are they are now caughtum or in the. they have been in the the last couple years. and feign as the economy increases we don't amount open space fund meeting property tax revenue. tell take a few years for this

to catch up. we go to earned revenues. garages are down. for a variety of reasons all over the city. garage revenues are a big source of revenue. the other types of earned revenues concerts. concessions. these other things we advocate for. the things we know you support. but they sometimes run into political opposition for whatever reason. without a big picture. without the perspective and lens this commission has. our recreation the -- we pride ourselves on ensuring everyone has access to our recreation programs that is a value in our organization. that will never change. we approached this from a weird perspective. we built a scholarship program

that provides free and reduced cost programs and services to those who qualified based on very clear objectives targets we models the districts free and reduced lunch program. our other programs have to get to a place where they are less than an 89% subsidy. we cannot afford this and we will have choices. which is to try to recover more costs or provide fewer programs. and neither is a great outcome. so. you know -- we have to look at things the mayor asked us all departments he said, one of what's the service further from your core and what are the

services that you knowledge others can do better? you know and this did rub up against traditional this is bump up against you know labor religions issues. right. you wear two hats and great at both. i mean that genuinely. we are at a time when we really have to think about what other services that are most fundamental and important for us to protect. our workforce is the best in the business. i don't want to trim our workforce. it mimean us thinking about new partnerships in parts of other areas. you know -- parts of when we do that others may be able to do cost effectively. this is challenging and changing as i can recall.

>> thank you. >> um -- i appreciate that if someone offered a job they will not get that yanked out that was my biggest concern. if we vote, yes that does not mean all those things that are on that list will happen that is a list of principles this could happen. with the public the mission we wanted share how are we going about this work. we still have another month to really you know sharpen our

pencils on the ideas and then once we come to you with them, there is another 4-5 months of discussions with the mayor's office and with the board and the communities. um -- with labor. but we wanted be transparent. about how we are making decisions. what are the things that are this is our way finding sign. that is it. ment to be general and meant to be an approach a philosophy. a set of principles that guide us. we may not there should not be decision that -- violates these principles we make. >> thank you. may be trade offs within them but not something this violates. >> thank you. >> all right. we have received a letter from

the california native plant society yerba buena chapter. i will read a bit of temperature it is written by bob hall the conversation chair. of the california plant society saying, dear commissioners. i write to urge an increase in funding for the natural resources division in your annual budget. stewards of san francisco 32 natural areas spanning 1100 acres this division shoulders a responsibility protecting enhancing habitats this support 50 sen pleasants and the diverse wildlife this dependsos them. thank you very much, will you foil this all right i appreciate your input, mr. hall. that's it for commissioner

comments. other comment sns are you hearing from the public. are we done with that? >> no public comment. >> now commissioners you can take a vote on the budget principles. >> i vote we approve the propose the budget principles of the departments. >> second? >> all in favor? aye. >> opposed? >> none they are approved and thank you very much arn tone i don't. and tiffany. on item 8. fiscal year park evaluation's report. welcome.

>> good morning. commissioners. hopeful low i can follow that you want with something light hearted. i'm ben with the rec and park department here with angels fret controller's office and we are here to present the 17th edition of the park maintenance standards report. background on the report. back in 200 throw a voter approved prop c. which said that the department needs to establish park maintenance objectives and then issue a report on how we scored against them. that is why we are here today. before i pass it on to angels tow go over the slides with the exciting scores, i wanted give an over view of the scores. the citywide score was 91% the same as prior year. and throughout the report, you

will see that the message the scores are telling us we have been doing a great job at keeping consistent maintenance. and all the scores are pretty much similar. the one thing i will point out is that if you look at the trends, the past 5-6 years, the scores within all of the parks on average across our systems the scores are tightening. meaning the standard deviation is shrinking. suggests we are doing a good job at giving even distribution of resource across all park in our system. and making sure that all of the parks get the same level of maintenance throughout the city. i think we are proud of this work and it is excite to see that reflect in the our scores. so with that, i will hands it over to jesse.

>> thank you, ben. hi, commissioners. >> ben mentioned we will share the rus of san francisco park evaluations for the 2024 fiscal year that were conducted july first of 23 to june 30 of 24. for context the evaluations for the parks are done on a quarterly bases by both rpd and the controller's office staff jointly. staff evaluates the parks physically travel to sites to conduct inspections using park maintenance standards that is shown here. they are used to assess and measure park conditions. and were designed to be objective and specific for this purpose. there are close to throw00 park maintenance standards during 24 a total of 764 evaluations were

completed across 171 parks. and each evaluation received a score which represents the percentage of maintenance standards that were successful low met. a score with be a value 0 to 100 and zero means the park failed all standards and handled % meets all standards. and in this slide we have a graph showing the maintenance score over time. the citywide score is the over all average across each park maintenance score. this provides a look in the over all park performance cross all the evaluated park in san francisco. you see a blue line represents the score over time. and you see that it is increased since 2015. in fiscal 24, the city score is 91% has stayed consistently at

since 2022. has set minimum and target goal park scores the minimum goal of 85% shown in the dotted gray line. serve a baseline parks that meet this goal are considered to be well maintained. the target goal is set at 91% shown in the dotted yellow line. and this is the department's official performance goal. the minimum goal met consistent low for the left 9 years. and excludeing 21 when evaluations were not conducted due to covid-19. the citywide score met target goal of 91% since 2019. now we will look at the park maintenance scores by supervisor district. when reviewing the average maintenance park scores for 11 districts all districts scored similarly and within 2

percentage points of the citywide score of 91%. we mentioned earlier. scored by supervisor district trend similar at this time city score and staid the target score of 91% during the left 3 years. now in this slide shows the average park maintenance scores by park service area. p service area are used by rpt to organize maintenance operations, each service area has their own manager and staff to perform maintenance activities. and here we see in the table there are 7 service areas. we see the total parks this each area and average score break down. all sen park service areas scored similar and averaged throw percentage points of the citywide score. here in the slide we have the equity zone scores over time.

and equity zones are impacted by the historic environmental health risks. such as hazardous mrougz pollution based on environmental justice communities map developed by planning department and a commitment to ensure the communities went equity zones maintained ps in the graph on the left are the maintenance scores of parks inside the equity zone and the left are scores over time of parks outside of the zone. and the equity zone parks average a score of 90% in 24 and parks both inside equity and outside scored similarly. the bar graph here shoes maintenance scores by park features allows you to understand how specific park features that are evaluated for such as athletic fields, restrooms, trees, lawns are performing in doing across san

francisco parks. in the bar graph we have all the types of features listed that are evaluated for and the 1 the purple borrow are the active recreation features and the blue other passive. active mean the features physically used by park visitors restrooms and peopley seating areas. and versus passive are less so used these are like trees and lawns. and for fiscal 24 active features scored 89% and passive scored 92%. compared to active features passive scores better they're less used. in the park evaluation data we examine the highest and lowest scoring parks consideration of trend the score and geographically where they are located the map and table shoes the 9 highest scoring parks and

the 2024 physical year. all the parks all of these highest scoring parks scored navy-99%. and they are the first in the northern and southeastern parts of the city. most of these parks had relatively high scores in the past years. and the scores have staid consistent for on anup ward trend. when looking at lowest scoring parks they scored the ranges of 89% on the northest and south of the city. most of the lowest scoring parks had a notable decrease from left year and had scored better in prior years. further evaluations will help to understand if the decrease is a trend or may be related 24 year specific factors. such as storm damage or external

factors benched at evaluations. and we will continue to explore the potential trends around poth the highest and lowest scoring parks and electronic them upon over time. and left low before we conclude, i wanted highlight along the annual park report we published last november this includes the information that we shared today. we exciteingly launched new interactive dash boardos the website for anyone interested including the public can access explore and learn more about parks. in san francisco and about the park evaluation data. we hope that the new dash boards will serve as a useful tool to support and spot light the work around park maintenance and performance. thank you. >> thank you. >> do we have public comment? on item 8 in room 416?

do we have hands raiseod week ex? for item 8? public comment is closed. commissioner wintroub? i want to commends you. i love data and i enjoyed reading every bit of this report. e approximately in seeing the equitable attention paid to parks across the city. congratulations. i just had read this report after reading the doom and gloom budget report and curious about you know what is the view. i know we touchod this already in the meeting today. how do we maintain 90% plus scores in a you know budget contraction environment like are we going to is it through maintenance? a lot of low scoring parks where they needed capitol improvements

i believe are a different source of revenue what can we pull on maintenance and cal top projects >> this tool is incredible for us and important but not perfect. it is a mix of what we evaluate is a mix of daily operations and then deferred maintenanceor capitol need in parks. if you see a big critic in a sidewalk right then if you see a crack in a sidewalk, for example this does not get fixed until it gets fixed. no gardener not even a member of our yard may be to fix temperature it is a capitol renewal issue. so the scores have a bit of a blends of both. it is more than a clean liness score but not quite facility commission index score, it is a hybrid between the two.

leaning more towards sort of daily conscience but it has a healthy amount of real infrastructure scores that you notice. i do these myself. -- and -- you know the answer is the same. you know we -- you know we need to continue to advocate for resource on the operation's side and advocate for resources on the capitol side and recognizing the budget climate understand that we need to pick and choose what core functions are. and be -- you know throughout noise on best practices to have the revenue we need to do this most fundamential work. i'm proud of overhaul staff for the scores. i'm mostly proud of -- the effort that we made over the last several years to close the

gap the traditional equity gaps with the highest parks and highest score in some of our walingy neighborhoods and parks in the lowest. we have been intentional about that. we have prioritized some of the deferred maintenance resources in our equity zones for this purpose to close this gap. but this is where you know stacy bradley's amazing team come in and lisa and all the contributed revenue that her team brings to the fold come in to play. and this is obviously where eric and carroll and -- haley and -- you know our structural maintenance and park maintenance teams come to play to keep it all rolling. and you know there is a bit of a sport's metaphor. sometimes you get hamstring, your team has to deal with an injury or you lose the yankees

lost upon in free agency theyville to pick up the slack. and i need a metaphor, quick. so, the team is operating at a very high level. i think that is the most fundamential message here. and we are going to maintain at this time team will continue to perform at a high level there is a point where the electric of resources begins to have an impact that was what the slides that antonio showed here is what happens if we don't fix the problem. here is what will happen. >> commissioner louie. >> thank you for the report. i like find this very entertaining, useful, i was wondering as far as when you go

out to evaluate like a rec center or a play ground; how long does it take you? do you have how big is your team? would you be may be considering. >> offer us to do a tag long? you know? one time next year >> you can come with me any time >> i did it and enjoyed it. >> i'm flexible will i invite all to you do a park evaluation. i have left over from quarter this is don't get evidences. reach oust. i can hook you guys up! >> commissioners you are more then and there welcome to participate t. is fun and interesting. >> you are like the health department. you know. >> basically to answer the first part it depends when park you are assign today is a randzom selection based off a script. you with be evaluating minipark

that takes 10 minutes or a section of golden gate or mc clarin that takes a couple hours. you have an app you go out and you are have an assignment. you can look at the map tools out line the bound easier you know exactly which section to evaluate. if you go out to golden gate, huge you are assigned a section. so based on that app, you know where to go. it gives every feature and every park standard. and you answer them true or false. take a picture if there is an issue. comment if you like to. yes. >> so like the health department when you get a score, does the play groun director or rec center director have to get back to you in repairing something that might00 eye only saw two rec center on the list.

keep would like to see all rec centers. all of them are on the list. we actually score all of our facilities. and it does not operate exactly like the i think you refer to make sure everybody understands what you are talking about, when thes healing department does restaurant inspections and you get a score you put in the window not like that. and not quite as regular latory. this does feed our maintenance work. there are opportunity to up load things that are broken or need to be fixed or need to be addressed well is a system ben and his team feed information to our park maintenance.

go to ourt ma system. well is a system this helps with follow up. not everything can be followed up if you see -- you see litter on a begin day and there are thing this is go into this. could be winds and he you are doing an inspection and treasure can could have gotten toppled over by person or animal you will get a bad grade on x member piece of litter, right. well are variables which is why we do them 4 times a year the controller does them twice a year. >> they do it 4. >> i didn't know that. but it does influence our work.

last year when you visited i expressed my enthusiasm for data and what i like is that you can relate the data and you know cut it up. thank you for that. a couple questions. to pull on those to be clear this is only for the facilities. and this does not go into you know equity when you talk about programs offerings, et cetera, correct snk >> this is mainly a park maintenance aesthetic evaluation. that is at the baseline that is what it is. and we use it like phil said so -- our deliveried maintenance team takes a look at sxoers dependoth trend of if something scored terrible low like edge if at a park at an athletic field he will look and it is obvious

it is failed the last 5 dwleers and may help push this project for his team a little higher because of the scores that were given this is the examples that the park evaluation scores used. >> i do remember former commissioner and myself and ani asking the kroger's office to look to what it would take to also do a score accord and to measure the equity across the program this is we offer. as well. so, if we look into this as well. i really -- enjoy this. because -- as you pointed out we do have a long list of deferred maintenance and needs and even though we are 90% in many areas we always know well is room for improve ams i get asked we need more lights or director ginsburg point earlier what if they have

a bad day. i'm concerned about the budget impacts how do we not only maintain our scores but raise them high and address what is needed? >> commissioner. we can have side conversations but -- you know the -- this is not a tool we use for programming. >> no. i understand that. and so that's why i asked the controller's office to look to what if they would -- be interested in taking that on and what that would look like. i think it is that's worthy a deeper conversation. that's when i'm asking for. i appreciate that. no more commissioner comments. thank you. >> thank you. i did want top say something -- i loved the page about conclusions and next steps andmented share with everybody

that 4 park features are children play areas, dog play areas, out door courts and athletic fields. yea. >> and two park elements that interest visitors are cleanliness and graffiti. good work on all those things >> we'll call item 9 and 10 together. the capitol expenditure plan and operational plan. and commissioners, eastbound though we call the items together if we could at the end have two separate votes. >> and i believe staff will talk about item 10 first is this correct? >> thanks, okay. good morning, commissioners. taylor emerson from the planning

of capitol and planning division. i'm here today to do reporting on the upon extent to which we have achieved the goals set forth in the strategic plan. the exact charter provision is here. it says that we need to within the plan which is a 5 year plan there were two subplans one on the operational side and the other the capitol expenditure side both will be reported today. and each of those is a mid point 5 year plan is a long look ahead. and the charter okay, those are goals what are you going to under take and accomplish in the next two years. and then at this point we provide an assessment of the progress and then the next two

and a half years. these are not exact dead lines there is a rolling aspect. this shoes that today we are right in the middle of the strategic plan time line. and alternate operational plan capitol plan have a few more months we start the clack again today. i think this is the eighth time that i have been before the commission to report on our progress. and i'm happy and proud to say that you have been we have planned our work and worked our plan and we have in fact, achieved 90% of when we said we were going to dom the first time

we got an, a, i think. i'm providing the progress assessment in terms of 5 strategics. so, we have completed 8 of the initiatives under inspire place and 4 in progress. you can seat rest of the chart there leading to a total of 90% under taken or accomplished. i'm going to provide a quick highlight. for each of these. inspire place the most exciting everyones the department in the period has been the significant expansion of park land under mission became 7 parks transfered our jurisdiction. 2080 and planning on more in the future. this say generational expansion of city owned parks and more ahead as we heard today. >> one of the -- part of the

india basin. excuse me. i know you know about the development plan has few opportunity. and achieve that we have built and delivered switch and splash programs. [inaudible]. knowing how to swim is a life saving skill. 200 children have had this transformtive experience. provided at martin luther king pool. our investment. inldzia basin is exciting and we have the part of what has made it -- big and wonderful as it is is the philanthrophy component.

our partnerships division had a goal of 75 million dollars in fill an thereupon and he raised 70 million which is 93% of the goal this it is an accomplishment. but it is a significant achievement. stewardship. one of the initiatives to expand the golden gate park nursery propagation for pleasant material in support of biodiversity. the left this silvy pleasant is coastal sage on the arrive bluff luin our nursery operation is impressive and the manager wrote, [inaudible]. natural populations and encourage them to grow. upon planting them we amplified our stock and introducing several never in the parks

before and [inaudible], [reading fast]. our team -- one of the goals to create a rec park employee mentoring program to support new staff hired by matching them with current staff. if you are new to the city it it is a new vocabulary and work place and environment and these are voluntary people say i have a mentor i'm a mentor to a mentee. and it it is a graving program and success thankful we will continue doing it. all right with that the charter says we need to provide progress on [inaudible] initiatives. this set of number system a subset what we just said and 93% under taken or accomplished. as of the end of december.

and [inaudible] an exciting program strategies to recognize native american history. we are working with the american indian cultural center and developing a ramaytush ohlone garden project in the west end of golden gate park. this is initial clearing of land where this will be. inspire play goal to promote diversity [inaudible] expand out reach. lottery adjustments partnerships, programming, and sfaf recruitment. and in 20 the summer of 24, 46%. campers at overnight entire season were indigenous or people

of color participates. this is a proud success for us to share amazing resource. inspire investment real time technology in all parks and facilities. we have used data collected by technologies to really power understanding of park visitation trends and patterns and to report on changes and un plaza is the most exciting applications of this data. by useing data we are able to say how many visitors are well and fulton square the adjacent parcel that houses the farmer's market. and to understand more about which days are the most popular. the time. where people are coming from. this has been a great tool in

advocating for resources and continued success of the site. inspire suredship [inaudible] we did successful low build a new coher with base in the the tenderloin connects kids to out door learning a paid wage and actual experience doing environmental green jobs. and lastly inspire team to produce 4 job faris in environmental justice community parks. this is produced in chinese and other languages as well. and we did [inaudible] this is one of those comcomploet well is complete and on going had one initiatives that is now complete and on going. all right.

with that. quick report i'm going to share now with our director of capitol who will do capitol version of this the charter mandates much bigger recommending. thank you. >> thank you. taylor. good morning, commissioners. i'm stacy bradley the director of our capitol and planning division. as tailor brings this up i will report out on our charter mandated areas. so first this is a quick over view of what is required in the plan which the staff report does a good job of sharing and the next slide is what are the upon differents elements within the capitol expenditure plan. i'm going to step you through a quick over view of the division, accomplish ams and our renovations long with renewals so you can have a good broad

view of everything that we presented. and a lengthy written form. >> this is an over view of our number of projects. we have 75 active projects. you see how they work down by phase on the left side of the screen. well is am we have -- the life cycle of a project to dp flew the planning, design that award, construction and close out. and all of those different elements require a lot of our teams work and efforts. we completed 18 projects in 23 and 24. and we are expected to complete over perform 10 in 2025. next our accomplish ams. also you see the strategic plan initiatives that aline with the accomplishments the rest of the slides will c have that information. so can you see the connections between when we are doing in capitol and how they connect to the strategic plan.

we have opened over the past couple years the play ground our let's play sf project. middle lake, this was a beautiful renovation and really turned out limp law school merced trails improvementos north and south side of like merced including trail improvement and adding exercise equipment poth sides. and inld why basin i will get in that in detail completed phaseings one and two opening up 900 ennis a former industrial water front to the public. the bottom left kroeshg amazon field replacement and beautiful new elements. sometimes we do mirj rehabs and that is our soccer fields you see here crock are amstwron it is quite an improve. this one is really beautiful. and the big one we have done since original fields went in were completed.

we completed un plaza this was a skate element. this was a new one for us. but as you all know very exciting and has delivered well for the community. including us who work in the area. then on the right you see pictures of our construction. japantown peace plaza jean friends rec center they're major 20 between the bond projects that are under way. i will note on jean friend that there is a lot of work happening under ground, dpeem soil make to ensure we have a stable recreation center. the urn the subsurface work be the most work we doll for any of our recreation centers. this area used to be a marsh and getting the grounds stable is a big under taking. >> then i want to share photos

of the india basin phase 2 opening the biggest project to date. i think that most if not all of you were there and it is really an accomplish am from our team of next we have an over view of our geo bond programful 2012 the second peace we are almost done has been awhile we are almost done. we have wo remaining projects that are within our city punishes and promise. so one is the mc clarin trails done the end of this year and the other is stearn grove, which is part of the let's play sf opening that in the summer and our left project that will be part of the 2012 let's play and the 2020 named health and recovery bond project is the mall start with let's play and identify it additional funding

through both 2020 bond and many grants. i know we were brought this to you in december and it is one of our very exciting project it is we are able to identify all upon funding and delivering it all at once instead of phases as we had originally anticipated the 2020 bond i went over some of our projects in construction. the that are not. the named parks the upon final india basin phase off to bid now xindzing the bid period to february and we will before you in spring to award that project. and we have buick an an street mall should start next month. we have a dozen projects we are working on with the citywide park and programs. including the twin peeks trails.

portsmyth triand then i will also go out to bid later this year. and then i just want to note that on this slide with off the information you have been learn about this budget, this is our funding has been going far. weave have a number of projects under way for the 2020 bond we also are not going to get the 80 projects that we got in the 2012 bond from that funding. the program fundings source this is the projects are costing more and funding are not going as far. we are looking forward to next geo bob measure slated for 2030.

we have some fund for example transit certainly identified for this effort. we have the project with pg and e at the marina. we have the pavilion the 2020 earthquake safety and emergency resilience on the easter bond program and we are also working on the great highway which you know was approved through the prop k on the last fall's election. next we have our project in environmental justice communities. highlighting some of them most of them are from the bonds i touched base on. on the right side you see rachel sullivan park formerly 11th and natoma you approved the concept plan last year and if any up design this project is one of the called out in our strategy plan to complete the ceqa and

concept plan, which is all done. next i'm one of the things the expenditure plan focuses on or identifies it be reported out is urban forest rew. other thing is water conversation. we will touch on both throughout the presentation this is urban forest rew you seen usd a grant we are excite the 2 million dollars received from the usd a to create a preaprenticeship prospect will help us flan everplant 400 new trees and maintain trees in the southeastern communities of the city. we are using the maintenance building at 900 ennis to house this program. great collaboration and excite body this program. next we have our replacement in maintenance. buckets. part of our general fund set aside. and hit a number of our

strategic plan initiatives. we worked closely with our operations capitol teams to all of the renewals and replace ams to keep our systems updated and dedicate 15 million dollars for the efforts >> going to highlight play grounds we have multiprong approach to our play grounds. kelly will be here today with our very first purchasing agreement. for play grounds in the the first we are bring the one chemical will allow you to dot second item here on the under our capitol improve am plans which is our play ground renewals. this will allow you to focus directly in the footprint of a play ground and improve both the surfacing and the equipment. this bridges the gap with play ground maintenance which is where we redot surfacing of the play grounds which you see

images on the right from hamilton how many an improvement it makes. sometimes parks need not just resurfacing but play structure replace ams and that is when we are working on with the play ground renewal program and using our cooperative purchasing agreement on the legislation that was passed last year, our first project will be bernal heights rec and continue our renovations we are working on our current rounds through a partnership with caboom and customer will be up later to step you through our first concept plan approval for that program. >> finally we have upon forgot to highlight in an earlier slide. this one. upon shares our irrigation improvements and every time we do an irrigation improve am we are able to do water conversation. and then throughout all major

capitol projects we incorporate water conversation efforts. >> and finally i will end with acquisitions the left peefts plan this is over view of projects that have been approved and opened to the public as well as upon the approved projects that are not yet open to the public but under plan and design. our latest is 246th street, which you all approved last year and the board also approve today. weave do currently own that site. and then we are currently look for a new space in tenderloin and lower knob hill. searching for the right site now have three we are reviewing and hoping to be able to move forward on one later this year. that is it for my presentation thank you and taylor and i are here for questions. question i will call public

comment on both items at once. is there public comment on items 9 or 10? anyone on web ex for item 9 or 10. public comment is closed. as i mentioned, commissioners one discussion but take two votes >> commissioner mazzola. >> thank you, taylor and stacy for that good report. exciting jobs going on and coming up. i had a general question about bonds. we are using money from 2012 do they have an end date are they separate? is it depends on what the bond is? >> yes. they are all separate and do a variety of issuances. so when the voters vote that gives us the authority to spend

the money about does not allocating projects and to move forward on our capitol plan. but it does not necessarily say when our issuances are. we had throw issuance for 2012. every sometime we do an >> everissuance we come for approval and guess throughout board. we have done two issuance for 2020. and we have some funds remaining for third issuance the city shifted a bit on how they have done it over the time i have been here. from each agency rung their own bond sales to partnering to be efficient as possible. so the office of public finance let's us know we are doing a bobble sale. do you have needs we can wrap in this bond sale? and then move forward. we did and were added one for

our second sale of the 2020 bond we did to make sure we had funds in place to go in construction for jean friend. so -- the answer is nuanced answer. we try to deliver everything within throw years of the sale by date that is a big effort for us it is hard. it is heard for us to accomplish everything in throw years we try to get most of the funds encumber period moving as quickly as we can and within that throw year window. sometimes with the 2012 borne bond we are down to a percent this t is in the a big deal it is lagging by more than 3 years if it was 50 or 80% of an issuance taking longer we get pressure from the office public finance to pick update pace of our spending. . >> the reasons that sometimes

these things lag, throw greers issuance. bond dollars live with us for awhile. it is tricky because we would not our spending was high for the 12 bond by the time 20 bond came around oidz we would not might not have been eligible to be on the ballot in 20 the argument would have been you got this stuff have you not done that why do you need more being right? but -- the bond dollars are not a hundred % of the funding source and that is more common. so, you know we have a few small projects and we try to tackle big once first if there are reasons there is a bit of money left from the 12 bond and we are -- well under way on the 20. makes sense. >> and who holds the bond money? where is it?

does it earn interest? >> i believe part of the city's general coverers and city owners a set enter rate on all money not spent. we get interest and the upon interest does come become to the department of the sort of some of at this time getses has to be used for administrative purposes. we are able to use and reinvest the interest in our bond program. >> thank you. >> thanks. take a vote. >> i move 9 and 10. >> we will vote separately. 10 first. >> 10, fine 10, first. >> do i have a second. to approve item 10? >> all in favor, >> air. >> opposition?

>> none. item 9, >> i move item 9. >> second. >> all in favor? aye. >> opposition? >> none. >> 9 and 10 are approved. thank you >> thank you. weer item 11 the state of williams bench min bo bo request accept and spends. >> come on up. etch good afternoon, commissioners. all of my colleagues and constituents as well. i'm joel on the partnership's team with the department of receration and parks. thank you to lisa and dolly curry for giving me this project to work on and present to you today. i'm appreciative the item is 11, it is the discussion and possible action to recommend the board of supervisors authorize the department to accept and extend the request in amount of

throw. 6 million dollars for the estate of william benjamin bo bo to provide improvements to parks and approve recognition of the bo bo estate in projects receiving 250 thousand dollars or more. that second item will be detailed in. see on staff report this is came you to the end 20 upon 23. we received a notification of mr. bo bo's passing and the estate itself. this came from the mr. frazer mr. bo bo's lawyer. the next step was in 2024, the executor during this time reviewed the will and found this portions were left to mr. bo bo's nieces. some to friends as well. with the remaining portion of the estate divided with 80% to the department of rec and parks and 20% to the society for

prevention of cruelty to animals. mr. bo bo loved animals and we are appreciative of being mentioned. commission president asked we give a small background on mr. bo bo himself. mr. bo bo grew up in the midwest. joined the armed forces and serviced thisination before move to san francisco. he came to the city, found work in his business the design center. found love with lori his partner and family with chad their dog. they lived on clay street. ata plaza off leash dog area were important to him. worked out every day. liked to travel and he was a great member of the community. in discussion of this estate itself we talked about discipline informed the nieces

of mr. bo bo that throw.6 million dollars name instead estate for the sole purpose installing new benches with a plaque in memory of ben, roar and he chad is great for a lot of money for new benches and use the funds in the spirit of the request itself. this was a suggestion made and we were asked to come back and discuss what potential upgrades or actions could be taken in the spirit of the will. an important and of course move back and forth with him themselves to make sure we were going the same lines. we have three separate traufrns of funds suggesting. is this is afforded and iing go through them now with you. mr. rid everbo bo lived near @a medicinea park the sgsz was to activate the 2016 master plan

that was preaching approved by the commission this portion of the plan that we're suggesting includes a 40% or 1.4 million dollars allocated to implement improvements to the spacing rise and a portion of the east facing rise of @a plaza. involve an expensive project of resurfacing the different rises. improvements including new benches and this is something this mr. bo boment in the the estate. wants new seating. replace the idea to replace 11 benches which all are passable but they are are in need of support. and adding 20 new benches. in this project we have had add a plaque in memory of ben roar and he chad as requested and add to the existing recognition space that has approved by

commission in the past medallions in honor of ben, roar and he chad two for the side of the actual request. this portion is supported by friends of @a plaza park you can imagine. they had no idea this potential was coming. it was a nice conversation had. . item b sen 20 thousand dollars to build 15 new benches in park furnishings. in each location zealed a plaque in honor of ben issue roar and he chad installed across our system where his largest touched us we could show appreciation and return. and upon the final a 40% would be allocated to support rpd corrects and refurbishments yet to be decided upon but in any of projects that come about we would have donor recognition if

the project surpassed the 250 thousand dollars mark. this is a great item. it is an interesting item and -- to honor this important community member i think is appropriate and i think that we established a way in which to do so. so before i finish, i would like it say the staff recommends that the commission recommend the board of supervisors the department authorizeed accept this request. in the amount of 3.6 million dollars. this item needs to finish with the probate court system. so if you do authorize the board to accept, that would be great but still do have to finish the probate court process that should happen in march. thank you. >> thank you. joel >> thank you. do we have public comment on

item 11? do we have hands on web ex? i don't have one hand. you have two minutes. [inaudible]. hi i'm [inaudible] i'm an sf park's user i sought article about this item and think what sf park system propose to do with mr. bo bo's request is disrespectful. the leaders chosen it drive up real estate price by not building housing and that's why sf park system receiving a large gift am upon given the poor track record the parks commission should not go against mr. bo bo's wishes and move 80% of money a general fund and used how the city wants.

sf park benches are near great shape urge you to retain the money to repair park benches going forward. >> thank you. >> i don't believe we have other hands raised. public comment is closed. commissioners. >> thank you. i want to put it out in the universe thank you mr. bo bo. and for your family roar and he chad. it goes to show you never know about people of you never know. i hear he was a man of few words a quiet man who went about his small and significant life. and what a beautiful generous thing. so thank you ben. and wonder if i might have a motion and second for my colleagues. >> i move we recommend that the board of supervisors authorize the department to accept and extend this request in amount of

3.6 million dollars >> seconded. all in favor? >> aye. >> opposition? >> none. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, joel. >> okay. weer item 12 kompan contract award. good afternoon will commissioners president, general manager. i'm the deputy director for capitol at rec park. before you today is discussion and possible action to award a contract to kompan inc. as needed play ground and fitness equipment site accessories, surfacing and related products and service throughout cooperative purchasing agreement. amount not it compete 4 million dollars. and for approving the general

manager's determination the contract is eljabl for cooperative purchasing procure am was competitive and use of the procure am in the city's best interest. the rec and park capitol division estimating we the see costs and time savings and smaller projects using new cooperative contracting. this legislation introduced by mayor breed updated chapter 6 section 6.77 b. authorizing chapter 6 departments enter in construction contracts under 5 million procure. conducted by other agencies. contracting with that will increase impact. capitol dollars. left month, this commission approved the cooperative contact for field turf to improve efficiency when replacing

synthetic field turf play fields recap how it works. it is a contracting method or governmental agency can participate and combine buying power through a publicly advertised competitively bid process with the goal of saving time and money, allows public sectors to benefit from bulk buying discounts and negotiateded price reductions dependoth scope of service and the size of the project. it is not new to san francisco. it is used to procure furniture and operating equip. the cooperative contracts include flexibility to ensure municipalities meet all gentleman requirements. this includes all san francisco contracting provisions local buildings enterprise. prevailing wage.

project labor agreements, et cetera . you know, the department has a large portfolio of projects. we have over 140 children's play areas and numerous out door fitness areas special get asks for new ones all the time. play grounds are highly used and require maintenance. up greatd and replacement when they reach the end of their useful life. we are excited to use contracting an effective methoded to remule areas in a more efficient way. used bid and willing award project for each project. a shorter schedule means reduced soft cost for city staff time additional cost savings expected by contracking with the play exercise equipment vendor reducing mark ups.

it is the first sight we anticipate useing on to replace the equipment and resilient surfacing. i'm available for questions. do we have comment for item 12?

any on our web ex? no hahns public comment is closed >> commissioner mazzola. >> thank you. thank you for the report. so, this cooperative purchasing is confusing and i just -- i have more questions how does this -- coinside with the citywide under the 5 million dollars fresh hold for general fund but if it is a general obligation bond. how does this work.

the master contract is the 4 million dollars contract. and then individual projects get -- a work order or a po. each of those contracts that the master but each the contracts is required will have all of the city requirements including pla. we do see this as a mechanism for more of the small are renewal projects for instance, where we just to a replacing equip and play surfacing they are less then and there a million dollars. but absolutely, if they were

bond money and did individual project that was over a million, it would include pla. this does not -- the philosophy is not to end runt new purchags requirements. somewhere good than i are when they are. what this does is reduces soft costs over head. on small construction work. small amounts of construction work. this it is how we -- avoid you know when we have when we do a ports smith square and soft costs related design and a lot come through contracting. putting xhg something out to

bid. evaluating temperature if drives up the cost to something that san franciscans don't want. and we can't afford. we are well behind the 8 ball on this one. every jurisdiction is uses this. every park system uses this tool. and for whatever reason, we voluntary this is the best practice for helping to dot small are scale renewals does not affect a major park renovation, it is -- like kelly said. a play ground surfacing project. frankly, a fencing project. where we can source the equipment without the contractor that is a mark up and put stuff out for rfp a soft cost mark up.

there is a lot of stuff is this come between the budget and the delivery of the good or service or improvement the publicments yoochlt does this -- seems like this was because of the 1. 7 million dollars bathroom debocle. that was one thing this drove this legislation. but would this new legislation open the door to more modular stuff? >> the answer is, i mean to have an honest answer forow restrooms we need to do modular. you know not there is a difference with full park renovation. modular would be possible. we'll be inspect compliance with the pla has modular language in it. so we will comply. that is the language in the pla. there is not a one size fits all solution.

we are not suggesting 99 p.s. of bathrooms will not be modular. some -- that might provide an opportunity. activelies in the done because of the toilet this is has been in the works for years. the toilet noe valley highlights the challenge where we had a modest construction budget but on top of that this is less been mod lawyer is a piece but not all of it. when drove this price per television was the construction and the design and all the city agencies that were involved in you know doing this project. but when you have a small construction budge can't have soft costs that are 50 or 60%. . soft costs are constant.

we have to do it all ourselves from scratch. most jurisdictions use these national cooperative purchasing models. typically do they bring in their own workforce? do we buy the stuff and we install it? >> i would say -- its -- for us it is going to i don't know how this is run through you know -- the -- country. but the way that we are planning on doing it is contracting directly with the manufacturer. i'm to add-on where we see the time savings is through going for play grounds choosing a play ground equipment of purchasing immediately upon decisions of this is when we are doing and here we purchase it before we would have had to go out to

contract to 3-sick months before we get a contractor who will purchase from the manufacturer and can't start building until we get under contract. just of that isly-sick month savings time before we start having starting the equipment creation of the equipment. then, being able to directly go to the contractor to create the product and then they will create their team. it has to ash line with how we have create our master contract. we have the lbe requirements that are required if the master agreement and agreeing to different percentages this each purchase order so it alined with the available and -- when is available for each construction contract.

appreciate the answers. thank you. >> >> i think i wanted layout the general perspective for this i think we covered it. >> thanks >> thank you. >> no other comments from commissioners. on the -- item 12. award a contract to kompan inc. nod to exceed 4, 995, 000 we am approve the general manager's determination it is eligible for

cooperative purchasing and competitive and use of the procure am in the best interests do i have a first and second? move. >> okay. second >> i will second it. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? >> none, this is approved. thank you so much for this. >> on item 13 tenderloin recreation center contract design. don't let me forget to read a letter of support from our new supervisor. on this. >> all right. >> good afternoon i'm customer the project manager. and i will -- put njie my slide show in. >> the item is discussion and

possible action to approve conceptual design for the reshgeration play ground approval of this proposed action by the commission is the approval action as defined by s footwork administrative code chapter 31. >> this project is in line with our supercross therein. inspire place. 2, inspire place. inspire investment and 4 inspire stewardship. the project brings together a partners fostering new relationships and strengthning the community. some krshtd through philanthropic and others with organizationed eventses and programming. we are proud to collaborate with the following philanthropic partners, caboom ending play space and equity for good and

wuyee children's services with low income investment funds with wuyee green school yard grant by cal fire has been able to get landscape for design service. our partners played a role in shaping the design. to name we have san francisco children and nature. occupy top who served 80 children in after school program. glide who preschool uses the space and tenderloin community benefit development benefit district. and street soccer usa san francisco. tenderloin reshg center in the heart of tenderloin on elis

street. the red linity straights the area 16,000 square feet. the expectancyive asphalt yard has basketball hoop. soccer pitch and play ground equip the play ground is along the front leaving it exposed noise and activities of the street. the play grounds equipment install in the 93 is not code compliant and posts at the footings. the site offers minimal access to nature with noticeable lack of trees and shade. in may of 23 san francisco rec and p department joined caboom in effort to end play sprays inequity through the narcoticive will lead ambitious plan to access it quality. and nature rich children's place

spaces in communities that lack resources. tenderloin rec center in an environmental justice community. defined comblars it san francisco with elevated pollution levels and low income residents identified the first site of 4 to receive improve am in phase one of this initiative. tenderloin rec center is identified to the map the green bubble 4 and the vipiral justice community is appeal peach on the map. serving the population of children and families for over 30 years. tenderloin neighborhood has the highest concentration of children in the city the lowest professional assess to open space the center bustles with activity. glide and wuyee uses it in the morning for proirm out door

space. for preschool children. and up on top after school program service 80 children in the afternoons. additionally, treat soccer usa the byes and girls club, southeast asian development community, tenderloin achievement group. city kids and others from the community utilize this space it is always packed with children and families. the green school yard project provides opportunity for trees, shade, nature and heat reduction. trees trees improve health. one million dollars graen school yard grant will fund design service, removal of surface. addition of 16 trees and a thousand square feet of mrarntding. nature based play solution out door classrooms and new irrigation. the total budget is 3. throw

million. the funding sources include cal fire grant and head start grant for 1 million dollars. caboom a goal to raise sick 25 thousand dollars for this project and already raised over 400,000 and rpd2020 bond will fund the remaining balance. partnership division abigale will bring agreements in the coming months. we are close to finalizing the agreements there are a few nuances we are working out. >> cal fire grant requires aggressive time line for this project seth completion early 2026. we currently are in the final stages of design and plan to tissue for bidding in early spring. in august we held 2 community out reach events for this project.

in the morning, children and nature and urbeen aghosted a nature play day with wuye sxeshgs e and glide. apple tasting. butter making worm investigating. later participates up on top street [inaudible] and byes and girl's club. glide, friday women's and children's group, neighborhood. shared ideaings how they use the space and envisioned improvements the public notified through posters. stake holder groups e mails andus post. feedback garthed through hard copies and online questionnaire. materials look --.

feedback garthed throughed hard copy and online questionnaires. materials are provide in 4 languages english, arabic, spanish and chinese. the following images capture events the children build course of and a half parks. children are engage in the activities including selecting favorite play features from design imagery. we see minds at work building their play spaces. image boards and questionnaires used to garth feedback. second event in sept concepts presentod image boards. i like to credit maria for her amazing photographer she captures events really well.

here we see participates engage nothing play and providing feedback at event in the september. okay. the data highlights the role the tenderloin rec center play in the community. 72 percent visit weekly and live within a mile radius. many users engage in the programming including preschool activities. after school, soccer and friday fun days. the primary languages spoken are english, arabic and spanish. we learned play space design would best suit use and towers and slides, swing censor and he natural materials climbing and balancing and quiet space were all popular. here are the post are boards which participates placed

stickers on favorite features. one highlight that influenced the final design was adding of a buffer with the play ground and the street was desired. sensory and natural materials trees and planting were ranged high. and quiet play like natural exploration was essential. what we learned large open spaces needed to maintain programming. space and furnishing flexible to accommodate users and uses. picnic tables, benches and with backs and other fleckable seating are needed. visibility and good sight lines are important. and protected areas for #whether should be considered. in september throw options were presented to the community. 72% a majority selected opgsz

throw. organizes the reorganizes the space. shifts the soccer pitch to the front of the property and the play ground to the rear. the finalized design enhances functionality. belle relocating the portable sockir to the front of the property. acting as a buffer with the street and the play area. moving of the children's play area to the rear improves privacy. featuring natural wood play sprushth everstructures the play areaicateers to children of all ages. and any the rear corn blendses. offering a space for discovery. local low sourced carved wood and walls add exploration, seating and balance activities. new tree and plants enrich the environment bring nature and

wildlife inform flexible seating near the intrns space for groups, classes or play retreats and asphalt promotes programming and events. this rebalance active play and quiet space kraeth a multifunctional community space. tell address ad a bring the front ramp hand rails to code and the drinking fountain to code. the equipment is made of natural materials and linked for connectivetivity the tower and slide combo offers high play value in small affordability. corking used for play surface similar to rubber. it is comprised of natural cork. maintenance yard is looking forward to the benefit material bring from environment am stand point and maintenance i was

surprised they were enthusiastic about it. the norring east corner is filled with nature exploration. a log fortin a side bar. a product similar to mulch but for use in play grounds. log steppers access in the planning areas for connection with nature. other elements let's see. other elements include embank. and nest swing. we are including seating that would be a place to adjacent to the soccer pitch and double as out door class space.

staff recommends that commission approve the design for the tenderloin rec center play ground approval of this action by the commission is approval action defined by administrative code chapter 31. thank you and i would be happy to answer questions. >> thank you. >> do we have public comment in the room. do we have handses. >> yes. please come on up. should be more clear that's what i mean. you will have two minutes >> hello i'm shawn and i'm here behalf the low income investment funds i urge to you support design for the recreation center.

4 years ago [inaudible] back there director of rec and park children and nature program joined with the vision it green more space for children and families in low income communities. since, lift, rec and park and partners worked to make this vision a reality. over the past 4 years we renovated 21 early out door spaces installed nature exploration area. and created nature gifts for children. . the tenderloin is home to throw,000 children under 18 and has the highest density of children in the city and offers minimal green space. recognizing this, lift worked with rec and park to secure a million dollars from cal fire to transform the tenderloin reshg center it a natural oasis. this new space will bring

benefits to the community. tell support the center in the neighborhood that lack out door space offer more opportunities for nature am play and provide needed access to green space. om behalf of families i urge to you support this critical being project. >> thank you. any else feel free to come forward. sooinldy with children service. i'm cindy with [inaudible]. >> and we want today say we are excite body this project. and on behalf of wuyee and children of the tenderloin we serve our center in the tenderloin we don't have our own play ground. we have to go to public play

grounds. to give our children out door time. and the upgrade of this play ground will be incredibly beneficial to our children and families both at school and during the time they are not families will have access. so, please, please -- [inaudible]. i we rew lie on tenderloin rec center for the children to have out door time. a place to play every day. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> any other public comments in the room? okay. i think we might have a hand on web ex? do we? no. we have 3 hands raised. go ahead, please. >> good afternoon. can you hear me.

>> yes. >> thank you. i'm [inaudible] i the [inaudible] and [inaudible] representative and [inaudible] tenderloin resident i'm here to ask to you approve the design for the rec center. the tenderloin houses 3500 children with access to green spaces and nature. i am a fan of the children's nature initiative as it brings nature to the kids especially in the areas as the tenderloin that lack open spaces. i doment to thank rec and park and [inaudible] for creating a safe community give back to the concement and i am here in support of that. thank you. >> thank you. jury room this is bill fritzer

representing up on top. today i was newscast able to be [inaudible]. [inaudible] summer program out of tenderloin rec center. most notablely our partnership with san francisco reshg and park solidified during covid and organizations worked to provide the one. largest learning hubs at the tenderloin rec center during that time of today our program service 80 families every day with after school program of expand to a handled in the summer remember with all the knowledge and expertise statements strangers are strifrjers i want to say how imppressid am with listening

skills and ability to show respect for use and children and families of neighborhoods it has been a joy to work with them. they have incorporated all of the uniqueness of the neighborhood and that facility in their design. and i have can't stress this enough how wonderful the process has been i hope the construction press is as uneventful. i'm excited for the project as presentd and i promise you it will be utilized and protected in the future. i than is always a concern. and -- i want to thank wuyee for their stewardship. i'd like to invite the commissioners i know you love the ribbon cutting to come boone by for and spends time looking at the amazing place and the activities that happen every day. i will host you or you can drop

by any time and i'm excited for the project. >> thank you. >> thank you very much >> next speaker, please. >> thank you. invitation accepted. >> i'm alex i'm director of [inaudible] working with abigale and [inaudible] amazing transformation. caboom is excited abi part of this at the tenderloin reshg center. we value and support bring nature to the heart of the tenderloin community. health and well being of children are connect the to the places which they live, learn and play. making it essential to connect children with nature and early education and neighborhood settings. research demonstrates a range of physical and emotional benefit for children spending time in nature. caboom is upon excited bring physical emotional and social benefit to the kids in the tenderloin community.

thank you. >> thank you. that was our last speaker. public comment is closed. >> before i call i want to read a portion of our new elected supervisor in district 5 mahmood. is that the right district. he said says i'm write to express my fingerprint for improvements to the play area at the tenderloin reshgeration center it represents an opportunity to enhance the safety, accessibility and enjoyment of the out door spaces for children and families and one of san francisco's most densely populated neighborhood. thank you for writhe inform sarah? >> yea. thank you. ipmented add this is a complex project. a variety of partners with i guarantee from the state and philanthrophy we thanked many people. i wanted say thank you to elena

and seaned rainotropics seaned raand worked at tenderloin and a great connection to the community and spotters of the project and -- just are out there doing the work every day. wanted to make sure to acknowledge that starch is in the audience and thank everyone for the cool project. [inaudible]. projects are a little different than standard play ground reason vapgzs they take extra work and chairman we are grateful to everyone for being enthusiastic about it. >> before i lose another commissionering i need a motion and second to approve this action item >> moved >> second, >> aye. >> any opposition? >> none. all right. thank you. and if anybody has more comment about this please, happy to hear

it. >> otherwise let's move on to item 14. >> visitation pedestrian bicycle safety project. concept design. item 14 visitation pedestrian and bicycle safety project. no one else can leave. let's move long year getsing hungry. what's going on there. tech. come on, tech. >> are we take 5. no taking you now.

>> i'm headline the events. right. >> yes. >> okay. good afternoon. commissioners, president. and of course everyone else. i'm project manager here with the capitol division i'm here for a discussion and possible action to approve a concept design for visitation pedestrian bicycle safety project. approval of this action by the commission is the approval action defined by code chapter 31. and i will shorten my presentation i'm sure you know a lot about temperature it alines with the strategic plan. and let's see. let me orient you. >> great. >> just really quickly visitation off through the valley neighborhood. and you know where in supervisor district 10.

the visitation avenue bike safety improve am project aim to enhance safety through this critical corridor. i want to orient you. at the top you see that. [inaudible] at the top in the very middle is the visitation valley middle school. it is a muni stop northbound for the 58. and then at the bottom we have all the great amenities. we have hunt street there is cough men pool. [inaudible] center. hertzke play ground. ball field can basketball court. then there is the glen eagle golf course on the east side you have the rain garden. which is per in with puc and mc clarin community garden. at the south we have the

househousing development that is happening there with hope sf. in length it is about half a mile. and about 270 feet in elevation. imagine you are climbing 25 stories. if you are going from the top to bottom of how many steps this is critical project. . the scope is 8%. and as i said it is to improve period of time, traffic calming and the bicycle infrastructure. >> let me take you through. there is no sidewalks, it is dark. there is parking on either side. there is scattered guard rails. the roadway narrows and widens and there is limited vidzability. and one crosswalk.

>> so these are our goals. and. it is basically creating safe area for pedestrians. slow traffic, expand the bike network connected to the city bike network within the neighborhood. that is important. and then of course, create parking in high demand areas. the out reach broadly right this is connected to the vision plan from 2018 and then the mc clarin collaborative works on interconnecting all amenity this is is only for vs shun avenue within the mc clarin park. i should say -- you have a list of all of our supporters in the become they are specific low interested in segments we target what they are interested in whether safety, bicycle, pedestrian. and then we have a lot of city agencies we are dealing with.

mt a. fire department, muni. okay. and i will take you through here that shows on the right. the tom the i conwhat we are focusing here it is sidewalks and lighting. we are putting in i will quickly get my numbers here. new sidewalks right. you will be able to walk from there to hawn. and there is 140 linear feet of new sidewalks we will have pedestrian lighting that is lighting low lighting. we don't ascii the night sky so we are able to safely light the path way. and then a -- this is a sidewalk. you see the arrows that showing a diagram on the right this shows how the sections would lockup and down visitation. crosswalks. connected to the sidewalks,

right. we have the sidewalk at the school which is critical. we are improving that so you have the median you go from one side to the other safely. then on the other side is a new sidewalk. brings you down it another crosswalk. brings you to the crosswalk at lee land. it is a new sidewalk that brings to you hahn. and there is a surprise after. about the walk. traffic calming leaderships. you heard them all. now the sidewalk narrow the roadway, improve visibility. have medians in the middle. install speed tables we are work through the tool kit to incorporate and make it safer for buss and the fire department to go through. and the bike path. we will have a bike path in road protected by circumstance rail

barrier with the traffic and the 2 way bike lane from mans tome the new crosswalk wherely land avenue is you see it by the green that guess down and then from there, it is going off road that way tell offer parking and the high amenities area and go off the road. and it will be a shared paved path that is pedestrian and bicycle that will take us to the property line at the south. eventual low connect to sunnydale part of the greater network we have. and that is still being worked out with hope sf. and park. so, parking just briefly, we have parking as a community had requested in the high demand areas close to the amenities on southern part. and park where the school is.

and of course the parking lost that is top of there will stay. and here is the schedule. so we are hope to we are in the middle in design now. and we are hope to go out to bid in winter. at the end of the year and then construction next sum and opening bait over a year later and then we have listed all of the funding that we have received to date or working through. we have a number. grants and that's really excite to work with all of the organizations. and that covers it up. i'm available for questions and i want to say that this will is connected with mc clarin p my colleague and the program manager lauren chavez leading this and grit to work with. and i also have here brian who

is our planner and he knows off the technical stuff. we are here to answer questions. >> thank you. >> >> thank you i know you are here to comment. come on up. >> you have 2 minutes. i will take less then and there two minutes to get lunch i snuck out a bill i'm matthew sf urban riders we are in support of project it is where bicyclearctivity. these are not trails. [inaudible] the commission this is great butt trails there is a trail happening also this is great. i want to comment about lighting. parks are dark spaces that is good for animals and the sky. safety is a [inaudible]. and the other thing is context.

the bam bottom where the bike path will go off the woodroad next to the golf course come up before the status how the golf course could be an amenity for the community the area is a steep climb. go and up over to crock are amazon but viz valley has no park space access wonderful in the future for that option. in support, thank you. >> anyone tolls speak on this item? >> do we have any hands on web ex? no. public comment is closed. >> commissioners need a motion and second. on this action item. >> all in favor? >> aye >> opposition? >> none. >> all right approved unanimously by these

commissioners. good job. >> good job, everybody. >> item 15. general public comment is there general public comment? seeing none and no hands on web ex. i will close general public comment. and commissioners anything for matters, new business, communication. i will take all those now >> great. okay. public comment on those? >> okay. public comment is closed. now on adjournment. do i have a motion and second to adjourn. >> so moved >> all in favor, >> aye >> we are adjourned at 1:12 p.m. thank you, everybody.

>> brainchild the executive director 6 housing clinic in the neighborhood for it 90 years and talking about the history like the first web about family history and a lot of the clinicians found with a group of the community members. with the owner of cadillac the housing on the west coast and the

tenderloin is a permanent climax of history of the neighborhood and the community art gorilla for whatever reason artists in the neighborhood. and we do public events as well as walk in (unintelligible) for residents we have been known for has nothing to do with historically artist surveys and that makes us very unique and work producing about the cafe and a riot happened in the neighborhood in 1966 helping us on market street year-round indefinitely we think that the arts is an incredible way of experiencing history and really helps people think of themselves as history persons and especially for the house

play really a part of the - and think that is generates for the - we are aware the art is important for people and important for the community mba and can be a really assessable and engaging way to see history well. >> those are the ways as the art and history you're not going to see emotionally in the .

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san francisco most famous that as many of 15 thousand commuters pass through that each gay. >> one of the things that one has to keep in mind regarding san francisco is how young the city we are. and nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. there was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in san

francisco. and then the gold rush happened. by 182948 individuals we are here to start a new life. >> by 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and left town in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map of san francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. but by 1875 they know they needed more so the ferry building was built

and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the ferry building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to that area also. but by the late 1880s we needed something better than the ferry building. a bond issue was passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in san francisco they thought that was a grand ferry building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and san francisco had grand plans for this transit station. so he

proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two how and was not completed and killed. but it opened a greater claim and became fully operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but market street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and mission street up to nob hill and the fisherman's area. and then the earthquake hit in 190 six the ferry

building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. and 80 percent of the city would not survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a dennis herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and

2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to chance to show how electrical cars and we're going to get on top this. >> take 10 years for the city to rebuild. side ferry use was increasing for a international exhibition in 1950 and people didn't realize how much of a community center the ferry building was. it was the center for celebration. the upper level of ferry building was a gathering place. also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or world war two

had a parade on market street and the ferry building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted to to be a gathering place in that ferry building hay day the busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our international exposition 18 million living in san francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in

1918 san francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and san francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what we're supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away. >> the way the ferry building was originally built the lower level with the natural light was used for take it off lunge storage. the second floor was

where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting point to talk about because such a large building one major stairway and we're talking about over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the ferry building and the embarcadero on market street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have san francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. as the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach

san francisco. and automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a result marin and other roots varnished. the dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. take the care ferry and to san francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. >> when the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up

where our sales force transit center is now another way of getting into the city little by little the ferry stopped having a purpose. >> what happened in the 40 and 50's because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a world trade center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of ferry building and completely impractical. after

the cars the tower administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united states. so they had an intrastate free plan the plan for major freeway systems to go throughout san francisco. and so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. the plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the san francisco saw had human services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. which cut us off from the

ferry building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. and that was the renaissance of ferry building. >> that land was developed for a new ferry building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didn't want- that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store. >> the san francisco ferry building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a

shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a reliable ferry system once the ferry building will be there to surface. >>

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accessible for all and safe. hello, san francisco. i love it when i can cross the street in our beauty city and not worry whether car can see me and i want me and my grandma to be safe when we do. we all want to be safe. that's why our city is making sure curb areas near street corners are clear of parked cars and any other structures, so that people driving vehicles, people walking, and people biking can all see each other at the intersection. if cars are parked which are too close to the crosswalk, drivers can't see who is about to cross the street. it's a proven way to prevent traffic crashes. which have way too much crashes and fatalities in our city. these updates to the shared spaces program will help to ensure safety and accessibility for everyone so we can all enjoy these public

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. welcome everyone to the our city our home oversight committee. it's january 23rd, 2025 and we're going to start with a call we're going to call this meeting to order so we'll start with roll call. >> thank you chair williams vice chair de antonio member friedman here member haddix hear member jackson. >> absent member preston here member shifrin your member martinez