disk golf at glen eagle cost 14 dollars if you pay at the clubhouse. there is an 18 hole course this is free. du see that shot? i won! am i was not very good now i have a huge respect for disk ball player its is difficult but fun. thank you for joining me in the excelsior this is goldenate adventures. you know the san frao recreation and park commission on february 20th, 2025 actually please call the roll.

commissioner anderson here commissioner halsey here commissioner clarke herrera here commissioner mazola here commissioner weintraub here commissioner louis has an excused absence and commissioners work will be joining us shortly as will our general manager who's walking and right now for the. >> as you're going to do the other intros yeah okay go ahead and take the san francisco recreation and park commission acknowledges that we occupy the unceded ancestral homeland of the raw material any peoples where the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula . we honor the raw material only peoples for their enduring commitment to mother earth as the indigenous protectors of this land and in accordance with their traditions the raw materials and have never ceded loss nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. the stewards of parkland we recognize our duty to honor the fallen through thoughtful and informed preservation and interpretation of ancestral land as uninvited guests we

affirm their sovereign rights as first peoples and wish to pay our respects to the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ranch community. good morning and welcome to the recreation and park commission. please turn off electronic devices and take conversations outside. public comment will be available for each item on the agenda unless otherwise announced by the president. each person will have two minutes for public comment on each item. >> comments or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available both in person in city hall room 416 and remotely please address your comments to the commission during public comment on items neither the commission or staff will respond to any questions during public comment but the commission may ask questions of staff. after public comment is closed general public comment is reserved for items not on today's agenda that is under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. public comment may also be submitted via email and us mail. please note that this commission meeting is recorded . >> we are now an item to president's report. thank you ashley. >> february has been a busy

month. >> we got to celebrate the year of the snake and had a citywide chinese new year parade and i think this happened for the first time. our very own commissioner vinita louis rode in the parade along with one of our newer supervisors of district two stephen cheryl and it was a real thrill to see her in the parade. spreading the good cheer that auntie louie does best. we had a few other events in february and i would love to have some of my fellow colleagues share their experiences at these events and we're going to start with commissioner carey winter. >> would you please talk about the free park reopening? sure. >> commissioner halsey and i attended the reopening of a spring park. it actually turned out to be a gorgeous sunny day between violent winter storms. so we got really lucky.

it's an absolutely beautiful park. it was filled with young children and dogs and seniors there was just built into the park and all of its elements. >> there is literally something for everyone there and i think it's also just another shining example of a complex but successful partnership among rec and park and neighborhood groups and ucsf which was a huge partner to the. to the project. it was really fantastic and if anyone has a chance to go check it out i highly recommend it. thank you commissioner winter let me see hold on a second. we also had a citywide job fair and our own commissioner and vp joe halsey attended. i'm wondering commissioner halsey if you might share with us about your experience there of course it was on saturday february the eighth at the county fair building a job fair

which featured all city agencies willing to talk to people that were seeking employment. >> there was representatives from the fire department, the police department. the biggest contention contingent though was from the recreation and park department and diana ju put this group together. i did communicate with her online and was able to get a list of names of the workers that day and actually share in that as well. >> it was a great day when i left early in the afternoon they had already had over 300 job applicants come in and i think they ended up with close to 350 for saturday afternoon. so it was very well attended. it was very well organized and diana ju and her team did a fantastic job.

thank you commissioner and housing of course february has been huge with basketball and we'll hear here from phil in a minute but at jackson park there's a new basketball surface and some art that phil's going to comment on. but we had a really good time and our new mayor came out and we were tossing basketballs around and playing with the kiddos and i was there and it was just a glorious glorious day and said going back into basketball there was a bet on a basketball jamboree which joe also attended and i was wondering if you would share with us what occurred there of course and actually commissioner louis was there earlier in the day. i was there later in the afternoon this basketball jamboree is an annual affair. it's actually been going on for many, many years and it used to be an adult event, adult teams playing each other very competitive. now it's segway it into a youth jamboree all sorry that's okay

. >> well all elementary boys and girls about 60 kids took part. the big surprise of the day though is that nike who was in town for the nba all-star weekend showed up to the betty ong rec center and they gave free shoes to all of the children playing in the rec center that day as well as jerseys and shorts. >> the shoes they gave to all these kids are these shoes are not even on the market yet. they're the kobe bryant black mamba shoes. it's the year of the snake. they thought it was great. >> every single participant that day was wearing these shoes by the end of the day. so it was a great affair. it was very well attended. kids had a ball and they got a

pretty good goodie bag when the event ended. >> so yeah it was fantastic. commissioner, can you can you raise your foot to see what kind of sneakers you're wearing? >> oh yeah, i did actually. >> did you get some joke? maybe that would have been some sort of conflict. yes, yes. yeah but but but but they actually nike actually had a huge truck parked on the street and when you went in there it was like a shoe store and they had every children's size you can imagine and it really was it's always a great event but that's this was kind of like frosting on the cake on the on this particular day though and joe would never to his own horn but in the basketball vein he is the voice of the dons at usf and we're very proud of that fact and he does a fantastic job and whenever i hear his voice i definitely sit up and listen a little more carefully . >> thank you. and now i would like to hear

from our lovely commissioner sonia clark career about the pre apprenticeship graduation. yes, the success center and liz simpson did such an incredible job, was honored to be there. you really emphasized the relationships that you've created in the community. all the different partners were featured. i was humbled to be with rick and park and with the staff that was there from rack and park to support and i was mostly inspired by the the talent the young people that graduated first of all the facility we were in they built so we're looking around and this is how we learned how to build this and we made this and we created that and it was just talk about hands on learning. so i think what you're doing there is really important. i'm so glad all of your different supporters came out and it really does show and to feature what you know what i've said before what real community collaboration is like it's not easy especially with transitional age youth and we

didn't have nike pull up but we did have really good tacos. >> so you know everybody gets a little something at these events and that's all that i don't know if that was a conflict of interest but i had some oh gosh. >> but thank you for including me. thank you for the work that you do and thank you for featuring rec and park and all of the collaborative spirit that goes on. >> appreciate it. and with that we conclude the president's report. okay. thank you. commissioners, is there any public comment on item two? okay. >> and no hands raised on our webex i presume? >> no. okay then public comment is closed for now and item three the general manager we had a public comment coming on come on up. go for it. good morning commissioners and thank you so much commissioner clarke career for coming out. it means so much to our young people just to see and to know that the community cares and is concerned and we want to thank you and and laurence obvious for coming out and we had you know, the families when you

just see the families come out to celebrate our young people who for the first time in their life have been publicly recognized for the achievements we hear about all the crazy things that our transitional age youth do but very rarely do they get much press or support for the things that they're doing positively and their hope and desires to help out with that. buchanan with your buchanan mile project and our training to to is geared to lead them to that. so again thank you for these opportunities for our community, for our young people and thank you for coming out and always being a strong supporter for young people. >> thank you. thank you and don't be too shy please let us know who you are, what your title is and what you do. >> i'm sorry. that's okay. my name is liz jackson simpson and i'm the chief executive officer for success in this. >> thank you and thank you for all that you and your colleagues do i know the deep and meaningful work that happens out there. >> thank you. any other comment on item two? okay. seeing none public comments

closed we're now on item three general managers report. >> good morning commissioners. >> first a really heartfelt thanks for being so out and about these last couple of weeks at it took most of my the gm report it's all covered so i can be relatively quick for me yeah i have a lot of that it was present anderson as you say a very, very busy month between black history month, lunar lunar new year all star game weekend. so i'll just try to comment a little bit on things that you guys did not already talk about. well, let's start with a quick shout out about the nba all-star game. it was a big weekend for our city obviously. and you know, in hindsight you can say what you want about the structure of the all-star game and its future but we were amazing hosts and the mayor had his whole team fire in and on call and and the city really,

really looked good. the event brought the league's top players celebrities, fans to chase to mosconi as well as a number of our parks as you guys noted, including union square where the warriors installed a halfcourt hoop for shooting contests and we were also joined by b patisserie as you have read and know who came into union square as a pop up and did really well and their food is delicious and they were lovely and everybody was kind of just chipping in make things happen out there. so this was the little fun fact the first time in 20 years that the all-star game has has been in the bay area and we're very excited as commissioner weintraub, you know, because you have a family member who's deeply involved in this. this was also a warm up exercise for the super bowl next january in the world cup next summer and while i am a

crazy sports fan and loved every second of the all-star game and will love every second of the philadelphia eagles repeat super bowl victory next january just wait till the world cup. that's when my real crazy comes out so but it was a lot of fun, a lot of coordination with city agencies. dana ketchum and her team in particular deserve a big shout out. commissioner anderson i'll talk about jackson in a little bit but we had a just a ton of amazing events lunar new year apparently we all were seated in different parts of the parade but i actually got to be a judge which was really fun and there were seven pages, maybe 75 different floats that rolled by that we had to score big shout out to argonne elementary school where my kids went for their participation in the parade might have been a homer soft score on that one.

it was just a really, really, really lovely event and again watching our city come alive and shine was was terrific at betty and ong in addition to the basketball tournament i wanted to highlight there the san francisco scenes chinese basketball team's legacy project. the team has been around since 1947 and there's an exhibit at that in and outside the percy chiu gymnasium. percy chu was a long time rec director at the recreation park department and you know he was at betty and then called chinese rec and his son derrick was our chief financial officer for a long time and the gym is named gym floor is named after percy. the exhibit has photographs, trophies and more. so we wanted to thank the san francisco saints chinese basketball team for the in-kind donation of all the sports memorabilia that you may have

seen in the gym. terry trio i think terry trejo was very involved in it. >> yeah. so thank you joe. big shout out to terry in the rec division for supporting that event. we have our superintendent nick williams with us today in honor of black history month. i wanted to invite you all to the annual black history month celebration and tonight at petro hill rec center it goes from 6 to 9. it's a community focused event. we've done quite quite a bit this month in honor of black history month. but this event honors our city's vibrant african-american community which obviously contributed very significantly to our culture, politics and social fabric. the event features speeches and spoken word performances and then you all may have seen by now the pbs special featuring a woman who is 91 years old who was also worked in our recreation division many, many, many years ago who came back to

golden gate park for the first time in decades and they took her on a tour and it was just all very delightful and she shared her own her her own history in that. thank you commissioners wynn traub and halsey and maybe am i if i'm missing anyone forgive me, kat, were you there at the u.n. plaza skate opening? no, you weren't. you weren't there but that was really great. that was our kickoff to all-star weekend. it was a partnership with converse and the skate park foundation. we added 20 100ft2 of scalable surface to the northeast corner of the plaza featuring these three unique scalable geometric art pieces designed by alexis sablone who's an olympic skateboarder and an mit trained architect and a professor at the university of chicago. she's incredible. the new design blends skateboarding with public art, creating an engaging experience for both novice and experience skaters. we're getting a lot of young people out there. the event was we were joined by

board president rafael mandolin d-5th supervisor bilal mahmoud again the skateboard project and their great ceo ben machine converse vp brandis russell and then alexis was there too. and then on saturday converse the skate park project and skate like a girl hosted a celebration to kick off the expansion featuring skateboarding competitions, giveaways. this was a build on the $2 million effort we undertook in 2023 that now has seen 350,000 people come to u.n. plaza each year for four healthy and happy reasons. we're very, very, very proud of this project. it's also result it resulted in nearly an 80% reduction in daytime crime in the space. >> it's really turned the corner. so i want to thank our partner the civic center community benefit district which we work very closely with the department of public works. we work closely with the san francisco police department. we work closely with in the space the library, the asian art museum and obviously most

and most special of all to our staff dan mauer in particular here who never stops hustling out there are wreck division who's always out there our park rangers keeping the space safe. this was not even a park space three years ago and now it's one of our most thriving locations. so it's a really good news story. >> and then the week before we were out with our partners ucsf supervisor sherman walton, the dogpatch community we unveiled the newly renovated a park a long time coming. >> this was the park's first major makeover in its 43 year history. the last time this park received really only minor improvements was 2005. the renovation aimed to preserve the park's open and natural atmosphere while also modernizing it to meet the growing needs of the community. we have a lot more people living there, a lot more people with kids and a lot more people with dogs and kudos to everyone who worked on that project. kudos to the community for the

very long, slow, arduous, sometimes contentious process to negotiate and navigate what the design of the park should be so that it's a space for everyone. and i think we've been very successful thanks to david fletcher who is the landscape architect on the space who also designed south park for us and it's incredible. it's got adult fitness stations, nature exploration areas. it's got new seating and tables ,fresh new landscaping. we preserve the redwood grove. the park now has lighting that's going into it these really beautiful boardwalk. >> it's it's stunning. so stunning that my daughter's in town visiting from brooklyn and this weekend i brought her and my wife emily out to india basin and then to a spree just to see it. it's that special this was an $8.5 million renovation made possible again through a

partnership with ucsf who i really want to thank and the dogpatch and northwest petro hill green benefit district. i already thank david fletcher and fletcher studio. it's a great project. we're really proud of it. and then moving just a little bit south east to jackson. >> thank you president anderson for for being there at the for the debut of this new mural at jackson playground. my staff wrote in my notes the court is being considered a slam dunk that's even almost to dad jokey for me and that's saying a lot last but the mural is really fantastic. president anderson as you know to mayor larry was there said he was sherman walton this was a collaboration between our department artist victor solomon who designs nba courts and actually is the artist who's redesigned all of the nba

trophies the most valuable player award, most improved player award and the courtside foundation and then of course friends of jackson playground. it's a teaser for what's to come in the space. obviously we are contemplating a major renovation of jackson playground. the project is in the works. we're partnering with friends of jackson playground. you know we're still working on funding and fundraising but the new mural was inspired by the colors of the san francisco bay features overlapping and contrasting circles to reflect movement and vibrancy symbolizing the energy of basketball. >> this was a generous in-kind donation from the courtside foundation diluted over approximately $50,000. and you know, we've done this on a handful of our courts. these murals on basketball courts are really special. they make you know, they really create stewardship within the community and and are exciting. so thanks to victor. thanks to the friends of jackson playground and more to come in that great space.

>> lastly, a little update on what's happening out at ocean beach and the great highway as we continue to plan for the park opening later this spring. i do want to highlight a really recent and significant volunteer event that was held along the beach. we had over 100 volunteers who attended a dune replanting event which prioritized replanting native beach wild rye grass along the dunes near judah and great highway. if you've been out there you certainly know that that sand movement is a real challenge in the space and that's because our dunes have have eroded. so this restoration work is the real way to make you know, to preserve the beach, to prevent further erosion and sand displacement and all those sorts of things. the replanting aims to restore the health of the beaches vital dune ecosystem by stabilizing the dunes and preventing further erosion. this too is a big partnership with the national park service, the california academy of sciences, san francisco estuary

institute, surfrider foundation and friends of ocean beach park quite a partnership and the project aligned with some of our goals outlined in the $1 million grant from the california state coastal conservancy board and then the california coastal commission's permit for the eventual transformation into the park. so more to come on this we the city is working very hard on some of the traffic mitigations that are really important in the sunset. but you know, the transition is starting to happen and we're you know, from a park perspective we know there's some angst out in the community about it and we're honest and open about that and want to work with the community to mitigate it and be good neighbors. but this is a really significant opportunity for our city and for our park system and we are excited about it and i think that's oh one more sorry go and get bandshell is back. our good friend stefan franz the fifth season begins on saturday march 1st i will be there. i invite all of you and stefan

texted me four times to ask me to remind you all to try to come on saturday march 1st illuminate rec and park are teaming up again 125 free concerts in 2020 illuminate helped us renovate the bandshell adding world class sound and lighting systems making it a real prime venue for small independent music. it's been a hub for really diverse music genres and legendary performances. we've had the kronos quartet out there victor wooten, pato banton, many others over the past four years think about this 600 free concerts drawing nearly a million people for them over the course of the four years. it's a great place to be will be open and operating wednesdays, fridays, sundays and even some select saturdays from march 1st through november . i really thought i was done commissioners lastly but this is important too if you are and

aren't though file or we know what an anto file is a person who loves flowers if you're an anto file then boy do i have a deal for you. our magnolias are back. they are in peak bloom in the botanical garden in golden gate park. it it is one of the largest and most significant collections of magnolias in the united states that right now are in full bloom from january through march with over 200 stunning magnolia trees showcasing their velvety silver buds and their large colorful flowers. yes, valentine's day is past but that doesn't mean you can't share the romantic aromas and breathtaking sights with someone special. thank you. daniel montes for that really poetic talking point. and here's a tip you can use the park's magnolia map to

curate your very own self-guided walk through the garden exploring all of the magnolias in full bloom. you can go to the gardens of golden gate park website to find the map download it. it's amazing. i never miss it. it's really fantastic. we have the opening of san francisco youth s.f. wible which is a partnership with flame and the fire department. this weekend we are expecting our mayor and our new fire chief to join me in throwing out the first pitch and participating in the parade. come on out to that one. it feels like spring is in the air. there's a lot of good stuff happening and i'll stop there. thank you. wow. okay. >> is there any public comment on item three? okay. seeing none in the room, is there anyone with their hand raised on our webex? no hands raised on the webex public comment is closed. we are now an item for general

public comment this is the time for you to comment on items that are not on today's agenda. >> if you have a do you have a general public comment? come on up. oh yeah, yeah that's fine. good morning mo. yes, morning. >> okay. i talk fast. don't worry. two minutes make me look like bugsy siegel but i can't see anything otherwise. i am maureen mcverry. i've lived on patrol since 1984. i do want to thank you very much for showing up, mr. ginsberg. and i especially want to thank you, ms.. anderson, for showing up. it was an incredible event. the artist his name is victor solomon and when you go there look at an aerial view online because i kept looking around oh, where's the mural where it's a mural. it's on the ground. okay. so friends of jackson park has been around for ten years. if a child was born when this organized organization was created they would not be ten years old. >> could we get this park done before they graduate high school, please? the thing i would like you to discuss among yourselves is the the rule that says we cannot start anything at the park

until we've raised the complete amount of money and this is a problem for us because it's kind of turning into the boy who cried wolf because we've had so many meetings and some little i believe that when those bold and that we have raised millions i believe when the bulldozers show up i think the funding will go up from businesses parks i think people will mainly want to get it done . so could you among yourselves talk about perhaps waiving that rule so that we can push this remodel forward bravo to a spree park but it now it's our turn. they've only been around for how many years did you say it is now been 77 years since our park got a remodel 1948. this is just unconscionable. >> okay, moving on a the commission please. >> please. all of you look at the plans. they're online. it's a great design. i know it seems like a lot but it needs to happen. >> the dog walkers fight with

the both teams. everybody's fighting with each other. it was not designed well in 1948 and it's time for a redo. it's like a house. it's falling apart and so but i know it seems like a lot but we have generated so much money for the city since 1984. >> now my daughter maureen read the chronicle a new flower market. >> you check it out pennsylvania next speaker thanks. >> good afternoon. my name is david hooper and i live in mission terrace and i'm here to make a general comment about the level of engagement with the community regarding increased services and improvements in the parks. >> boy i'm waiting to see what what was transpiring yesterday for the crocker amazon effort to improve a park that gets an

incredible amount of use because there are so many kids and families and active participants in the community in the excelsior crocker, amazon mission terrace, cayuga terrace, all of district 11 and district ten and and this is really appreciated. the general idea is that balboa park which saw major improvements starting 18 years ago including the renovation of the pool which is a great addition, a great improvement in the community is engaging the community is engaging about improvements further improvements at balboa park. why? because there are so many kids. i stand at the corner at our house and i see baby carriages. there's trains of them, there's scooters kids stopping at the corner waiting for their parents to show up so they cross the the streets so they can cross san jose avenue and go up to the improved balboa park. but there's still work to be

done and i appreciate the staff and their willingness to participate with the community and this all started with kaboom. please take their money. >> thank you. is there anyone else in here who'd like to speak during general public comment today? okay. seeing none and no hands raised on our webex. public comment is closed. >> okay. we're now on item five the consent calendar. before i take public comment on the consent calendar for commissioners, is there anyone who'd like to take anything off of consent today? >> okay, great. so now we'll take public comment and item five is there any public comment on item five k seeing none do we have any hands raised? no hands raised on our webex public comment is close. >> i'll take a motion and a second on approving the consent calendar so moved second. all those in favor state i i

any opposition none consent calendar is approved thank you commissioners. >> all right we are now on item six the san francisco zoo. all right. we'd love to hear from our zoo colleagues. come on up, ingrid russell. good morning. good morning. >> let me get my my presentation somewhere as a captive. >> got it. got it. okay, great. good morning. my name is ingrid russell. i'm a member of san francisco zoo's conservation and wellness department. and i'm going to give the update this month. >> happy year of the snake.

everyone at the san francisco zoo and gardens our mission includes all people and we are thrilled to celebrate san francisco's diverse community this year to help commence lunar new year celebration and local dance and music groups of all ages were asked to perform and connect with zoo visitors. we thank cheng ngai dance troupe and the fine angels chinese dance corps for their performances which received rave reviews and helped bring our different communities closer in a similar vein. as a community institution we welcome the collaboration of asian art museum chinese chamber of commerce and bay area council to invite residents of sanford's sysco's chinatown to the zoo's free day which was held on lunar new year. it was a first visit for many. >> also happening this month we the wu at the zoo returned.

>> we celebrated valentine's day by getting the insights scoop on the mating and breeding behaviors of animals during wu at the zoo and adults only fun and eye opening event . >> i'm sorry that i missed that. guests enjoyed a multimedia presentation on saturday february 15th and learned how san francisco zoo assists in the breeding process of threatened species through its successful breeding programs. >> little learners returned. >> it had been on hiatus since 2020. the education team real very positive learners launched our popular live program in january of 2025. the new little learners program airs live from the little learners cabin on thursday and saturday mornings from 1030 to 11 a.m. via zoom. >> the little learners program explores the abcs of the san francisco's zoo's animals with a focus on fun interesting facts interactive activities to

do at home and connections to hands on science and art projects. the program was developed to engage toddlers and preschoolers by following the education framework work of headstart which is pre-k educational standards and recommendations for early learners by first five of california. we have seen a large interest in little learners with over 160 sign ups. families and preschools are encouraged to register on our website and registration is currently open and free to the public to participate. >> just recently held our annual penguin round up and this time of year it's when the zoo embarks on the round up which is a chance to perform checkups from our medical staff on each of our 51 magellanic penguins. with the help of their caregivers, the zoo's penguins

were corralled and afterward each individual penguin was given a thorough exam which includes a body condition score meaning how round are they and an eye exam. check their feet and trim their nails and beaks if there's any overgrowth. each penguin also received a vaccine for west nile virus and was weighed. additionally, penguins were scanned with a metal detector to see if individuals may have ingested coins found in their pool which unfortunately is an issue for us since it's an open exhibit and we highly discourage guests from contributing by throwing coins in our penguin pool. thank you. the penguins were awake for their exams and some were a little squirmy in others but were all happy to return to penguin island after their checkup. here's to another healthy year for the zoo's penguins. lastly, speaking of endangered

species, the san francisco zoo continues its endangered species conservation strategy and we were honored to welcome two six year old western santa cruz giant tortoises to the san francisco zoo. the species are critically endangered and a species of galapagos tortoise and are found only on the southwest end of the santa cruz island one of the galapagos islands. these amazing animals are amongst san francisco zoo's critically endangered species. >> also on our critically endangered list we recently welcomed a red fronted macaw. these animals are social from the mountains of bolivia and also last but not least, we also welcome two critically endangered yellow named amazon parrots.

that's it for the zoo for this month. >> thank you. thank you, ingrid. >> is there any public comment? an item six. >> okay. seeing no public comment on item six public comment is closed. >> we are now in item seven golden gate park skate area naming proposal. >> good morning commissioners calling president anderson morning bird missioners. i'm beverly king with san francisco recreation and parks department. i'm pleased to present to you today the golden gate park skate area naming two zion skate on skate plaza park the name will recognize zion's

amazing contribution to the skateboarding community in san francisco. >> i didn't mean i don't mean interrupt. i think we're going zion skate plaza not going on zion skate plus a park. >> i know i'm not there. sorry. >> it will be reflected correctly on the slide. so just to give you a little background on waller's skate park. so this area was a busy roadway for quite some time until 1998 when the golden gate park master plan reprioritize set to be a community use space. it was converted into a parking lot in 2007 and then transformed into a skate park in 2011 with input from the skate community. there was a major remodel and upgrade to the plaza in 2022 with asphalt and skate elements and landscaping to really help a thriving skate community come together. >> this was a space where grassroot community members really came together with local skate shops and businesses to transform the space to a

thriving community that it is now. we had support from the low key skate shop idea acts as a skate club. thrasher and others who are really engaged in making sure that this space was meant for the community. so talking a little bit about who we are naming proposing naming this plaza after communities and built it is usually ignited by those who have a rare gift to inspire change and some leaders are born with the power to unite, uplift and transform. in zion one games is definitely one of them born in june 20th six, 2002 and unfortunately passed in june 19th, 2003. zion's journey was one of passion resilience and impact. born in san francisco, raised in new york, he found a profound love affair with skateboarding at the age of 11. he quickly became a fixture with the skate club mastering skate, mentoring young skaters and giving back to the

community. his heart was in for service and community. he loved skating and organizing skate marathons for cancer research food programs for the unhoused. toy drives, backpack giveaways and much more. >> after losing his sight to an unfortunate gun violence incident in 2021, zion was not deterred. >> he wanted to ensure that he can continue to skate and inspire others as well. he doubled down on this mission and co-founded the friends of waller to ensure that the skate plaza remained safe and inclusive for all. >> zion embodied leadership, perseverance and community spirit and values that our department upholds. so it is undeniable that the community supported around waller skate plaza being renamed after him. and so today we are presenting to you the zion skate plaza. >> talking a little bit about the community engagement in

january 11th we had a community meeting with over 40 people who came and attended and put their preferences in terms of what needs to be considered. before that the family members for zion as well as other community members had deep engagement with the community. so there was a lot of good feedback and understanding of what was walked into for the community meeting. >> so for the meeting there were different option names being present in zion. zion gaines zion. william gaines. overall the family was deeply overwhelmed by the community support and asked our advice because these were all great name options but wanted something that really behold the legacy of zion. >> so working closely with the department based on community trends. zion's family and lasting impact of park names. the department recommended that the wallace street skate park being located at 731 stanton tbe zion skate plaza. this will recognize his legacy

and everyone who has come before and after him in the skate community. the department will also install a commemorative plaque to honor his legacy, ensuring his story and impact lives on inspiring future generations. about his passion resilience and wavering dedication to the skate community. >> to end i would like to invite zion's grandmother batya to come up to have a closing statement and then we'll be happy to take public comment. good morning. good morning. so much that i can say but i have the best grandson. he was gentle. he was kind. he was loving. he didn't hurt anyone. i thank you so much for

honoring him because he deserves this. he didn't deserve what happened to him. no. but i want his name to shine. i want him to be known all over. he was one of the best skateboarders. i used to take him when he was 12. i would sit in the car. they didn't have cell phones then but i would sit in the car while he skated and did tricks and i would watch him. when he got older i was able to leave him at the skate park and he knew when i texted him meet me outside. but he was a good skateboarder. he was my everything. he was my only grandchild and i appreciated and i thank god for you guys. i thank god for him the time that we did have with him. i thank god. i just want his name to shine and i just want him to live on and i thank you and god bless you all.

>> miss betty, would you stay with us for a second, please? yes. >> we share your grief for the rest of my life but this would help me. i'm going to grieve because the love that i had for him occurred as cord. >> i did anything he wanted me to do for him because that's the love i for you. it takes a lot of courage to come up and say what you've said and it takes a lot of love to acknowledge how important zion was. >> it's a topsy turvy world when we bury our young. >> no mother or grandmother wants that and we sometimes wonder why the world doesn't just stop and grieve with us and yet it continues to revolve

which sometimes seems unfair. >> thank you for bringing this to us and allowing us to be a part of trying to help heal the wrongs. i really appreciate zion's commitment and contributions to co-found this group and i hope that you will come out and visit and spend time with the young people there. if you're not doing it, do it. i'm so glad you do. i would love to come and join you sometime. thank you. thank you so much. thank you. >> all right. do we have any public comment on this item today? any family members or come on up. >> hello again, liz jackson simpson ceo success nurse partner tears. but thank you all for considering this and making

this happen for charmaine, his mom and his grandmother betty zion was phenomenal. i don't know any task that he took on that he dedicated his hard to. not only was he an incredible skateboarder and even after his disability who could do that? that was ariel like that with very, very limited sight amazing young man. >> but he was also a prodigy and drumming he was an incredible drummer too. so anything this young man set his sights to he was able to achieve and that's all we want for young people is to provide them with the space and opportunity to realize their dreams and hopefully again his life has gone way, way too soon but hopefully family you see this as part of a continuance of his legacy and him living into perpetuity. so thank you commission thank

you. department of recreation and parks for considering this and i am in full support and whatever i can do as an individual, as a citizen here and whatever success it is could do to turn this dream into a reality, we're here. thank you for your consideration of that and would anyone else like to comment today? >> good morning. good morning. my name is natalie for here i'm zion's is so much i can say about zion you know how some people say oh my kid is so wonderful even though we know what they're doing? >> zion was really wonderful. he decided to be a painter at

16 years old he made us get his l l c he made us go all the way by all of the gear he painted what i said he painted my whole house. i can't even get it painted again because he did it right before he became blind zion literally went to the young kids in the community and taught them how to skate. he went to the different skate parks and took his time out and literally one of the kids didn't have a skateboard or didn't have a helmet. he will buy them one or call us and say somebody get over there and bring home bring him a skateboard like he always donated from his heart to the youth. so what we're doing now is we're doing we have done backpack giveaways, food giveaways, events just in a park for the kids to come out and enjoy. we have made weiler just a place of family and a place of

love and we've been sharing our love at weiler park hopefully now zion and all but we've been sharing our love there and i just want to say thank you guys for allowing us to be there and thank you guys for sharing your love because every time we went out you guys backed us up 100%. so i want to tell you thank you, zion father couldn't be here today but he wanted to let you guys know it's not enough words in his heart that he could say to let you guys know how much we appreciate you guys. so thank you guys so much for everything. >> and if you guys ever need us for anything else besides just zaya, let us know the whole family is your family now. thank you. thank you so thank you so much. thank you. thank you. okay, so anyone else who would

like to comment today hello hello everyone. >> i going we try not to cry this time and so i wanted to just to thank you guys for this whole process and it it comes with good and bad and i know since my baby is gone it's tragic but it's things like this that help me mentally and spiritually to move forward and to because of who zion is and was we have a legacy to kind of keep going even though like my sister always say he's so young so i he experienced all those life so yeah so it was like okay i feel i have to do better and so with that you guys make an a platform for us and i'm just thankful that you guys consider it. i'm thankful you guys even acknowledged it. i'm just thankful you acknowledge him in trying to learn who he is and feel you know you guys some of you guys already know him but in fact is that you guys are giving us this opportunity because weiler has been a little piece pocket

a piece and i feel god does give that to us and i feel it's a part but it's more than just a park sometimes certain spaces on earth can kind of fill a void and that's a spot for us there and it's when we're there i'm there every weekend my sister if i'm not there my sister and my grandma so we're there all the time and now they know oh this is this family. >> so it's like okay now we kind of be part of the cool kids you guys now this is recognizing who we are. you know we're able to like always do the board. i just feel we always have free range there and the blessing is that parker we've always been supportive of that and to allow us to do that and we have big plans because zion left us with a task list and we didn't share a lot of things. we made another binder and i was able now that i feel better this coming year to kind of write out what he always expressed her. so this is just the beginning and i know way and i just want you guys to know it that we're going to honor this place treated with integrity and try to inspire lives all ages

though that was he loved the youth but anybody in one we had received a lot of reference letters and i also put in a binder for you guys to read and i just kept flowing in and just kind of seeing how the impact he had on everyone and to is reverse the community had an impact on him because i think that's he kept getting poured into from strangers from people from everywhere and youth and things like that so i just want to say thank you and thank you guys for considering this and allowing us to have a space hopefully. >> thank you. you're welcome. thank you. okay. i believe was that our last commenter? okay. so anyone online that's waiting to comment? no. okay. so public comment is closed commissioners commissioner halsey just as in f y i turn to the remainder of the commission that was not present at operations on february 6th. commissioner clark herrera was

present that day filling in for president anderson. commissioner louis was there as well. just for the record, what we approved that day was the zion w gaines skate plaza. >> now this change in the title is better. >> i am 100% on board with this. just want to make that clear as to what transpired february 6th and what you brought to us today. i think the zion skate plaza is perfect regardless of what the title is. that's what people will call it. also the addition of the plaque which may include his full name and his bio is tremendous. >> i know commissioner larry griffin, our former colleague knew the family well and he would be in full support of this. >> and also i want to say that we we or i push this with the

the backing of commissioner clark herrera and commissioner louie. sometimes things will get passed during committee we thought more people should be able to hear this story and that's why we forwarded it to the general calendar. and so the commissioners who are not on the operations committee could hear this this great story and i think everybody is in full support of it. also i want to recognize barbara shami. i'm telling you that i spoke briefly with charmaine after the operations committee meeting and bev, you gave a great report today. >> thank you. barbara charming is one of the hardest working, compassionate people in this department and she was the perfect choice to bring this project to the

finish line and i know anybody that knows barbara knows this is true and charmaine knows this is true and just wanted everybody to know who the driving force behind this was so thank you, barbara, very much for your work on this project. wonderful. thank you. commissioner halsey phil, thank you commissioners a true to true to the pattern of the day commissioner was he took the air out of my balloon because i also wanted to thank also wanted to thank barbara for her work and stewardship on this one and i just wanted to speak to the family a little bit and say that i'm not sure in my 15 years if we've had an opportunity to honor a life in

our space that i actually knew and i did get to know zion unfortunately too close to the to the end of his life but i can see him and i can kind of feel his vibrating joy and so this is a this is an honor to do and charmaine, you said something that really resonated with me. you said, you know, spaces like this are more than parks. they they fill a void and i think you and i could job share because that is precisely why parks matter and why they're important they are more than just jumpy houses and slides.

they're a place where we connect the past to the present and the present to the future and you you you know, unfortunately through tragedy but you so implicitly understand that which makes this a you know, doubly sort of joyful honor to do so to all of you i just want to say thank you and and i know that zion's memory is going to be a blessing for all of you and for all of us forever. thank you, phil commissioner missoula thank you. thank you. and thanks to the family for being here. you know, if you don't know me i'm not big on renaming parks and renaming streets but and this this this is a this is a huge exception to me and this is right this is right to do it seems like this young man was

was well known in the park, cared about the park. it was his happy place. and i mean this is a no brainer to me. seems like this park exemplified everything that he was and to remember him by name in this park after him i think is a great idea and i'm just happy that it's on the agenda. and like i said, it's happy to support this project in his name and you guys called him z which is cool but happy to support z and keep his memory going. >> thank you. thank you commissioner mazola um charmaine mommy and travel dad you had an exceptional son. you have exceptional son because he's still with us. >> i love it that you named him zion because some of us know that means the heavenly city or the kingdom of heaven and i

feel like zion was an angel on earth and we should celebrate and rejoice at the time of the time that we had with him instead of focusing on so much loss he brought so much to the community and to your family and i agree with commissioner mazola that this is a worthy worthy renaming. i've been on this commission for a number of years and i think this is the one that deserves it more than any other and for all the right reasons because zion was such a positive force and because he encouraged others to engage in play and recreation. so thank you so much and may light perpetual shine upon zion the oh we now have a request to hear from commissioner zwart.

thank you for that. um just to add to that i think i don't think i know the importance of joy and how that has to be centered in our lives and especially now and forever more people try to take that away and so it is so important and i am so grateful that we are doing this to center joy and and positivity on such a beautiful, you know, human being. so thank you again for being here. we appreciate you and you know, looking forward to sharing that joy with other members of the community and spreading that light. >> thank you, commissioner. i think that's all our comments . >> are we ready for action? all right. if you'll turn to the wording of general count calendar item seven discussion and possible

action, we will have action to rename the waller street skate park located at 751 stanton street to zion skate park. i'm i'm sorry. yeah. zion skate plaza. >> yeah. zion skate plaza and authorize the department general manager to approve the wording and location of a plaque to explain the history of the naming. >> do i have a motion in a second? so moved, so and seconded all those in favor state i i any opposition? none. the motion is approved and thank you all for your hard work here and we'll just give our family a minute. >> yes. come on. yeah. natalie all right. thank you. >> oh. oh, thank you. if people feel that they'd like

to move on, it won't hurt our feelings at all. if you need to leave the room. >> well, anthony antonio sets up what we have coming up. >> item eight recreation and parks department budget overview. >> thank you very much commissioners. hello antonio. >> good morning. good morning. my name's antonio guerra. i'm the director of administration and finance for the department here to present our proposed budget for fiscal year 2526 and fiscal year 2627. >> so on today's agenda i'm going to try to roll through this. it's a somewhat of a long presentation but i will try to be concise as we go through this. we're going to look back at our past financials and look at our projection again, focus on what

our services and priorities are as a department a quick inclusion of our budget balancing principles that were adopted back in january a focus of our new park maintenance agreements and our annual capital and it submissions and then the core of what this budget is our budget initiatives and efficiencies as well as some revenue ideas from staff. and then finally potential fiscal year 2627 public impacts in case we aren't able to solve our deficit. so what's next steps? so here's the first look back slide and this was i believe it was included in our january presentation. but as a reminder our sources what we use to fund our expenses in the general fund our general fund support over the past five years have grown more slowly as a whole when compared to the city. so if you look at our sources in the general fund, our general fund support 5% growth

compared to the city's overall 10% growth of the general fund. and if you look at the total budget, our total budget has grown 10% and the city's total budget has grown by 70%. so that's one item to remember as we think about this budget. and then the second city costs have increased more than our revenue. so we are a baseline department. we are not guaranteed additional funding for city expenses that outpace our revenue. so compared to that look back in fiscal year 2021 on the previous slide our total budget has grown by 10% but personnel pay growth salary growth through the approved pay raises has been 19% and our interdepartmental services are our colleagues at the sfp. >> u.s. department of technology, ag city attorney's office, city administrator's office all of those costs that get passed down to us. that has grown at 28% and just

this one key bar graph on this slide our total general fund support grows from fiscal year 2021 to fiscal year 2024. 25 was $3.8 million and our work orders grew by 7.7 million . so not only are we getting less of the city pie the city the city family is taking more of our sources. and so as we look forward and this is again from the january presentation in year one of this budget we're trying to solve the million dollar deficit in year two it's $15 million now the overall city deficit through the city projections presented in the chronicle and through reports are $876 million over the next two years. we should point out next year $3 million of assumed general fund growth would be suspended if the deficit is above roughly $270 million. >> it is not at this point but we will find that out in march

. and the other thing to remember is that based on prop b, we have always been assuming an additional $3 million a year but that ends in fiscal year 2627 and our general fund is only projected to increase by $1.1 million because it is an increase based on a percentage of the city's aggregate discretionary revenue growth. antonio can you say those last couple of sentences again please? of course. so in year one of this budget we are assuming that we're going to get $3 million but if that deficit is above roughly 270 million which we'll find out in march, i'm all looking into my crystal ball. it doesn't appear that it's going to be over $270 million but never say never. we would not get that 3 million and then in year two of the budget, prop b was built in an assumed $3 million of additional general fund sources

on an annual basis that ends and we will now only receive an increase based on a percentage of the city's aggregate discretionary revenue growth which is the same way that other city baselines work. >> these are technical requirements or technical features of proposition b which passed in 2016. >> and do we have any idea maybe from years past before prop b or just kind of projecting if we don't get the 3 million and we use the fallback formula, what might that number be? >> there's there's there's let me try to answer it and tell you there's there's no fallback formula. you're saying if property didn't exist is that the question i guess it sunsets right? >> so we don't get the 3 million so then we go back to the formula just stated no that's actually not what happens if we don't if the there's a sort of a trigger written into the into the measure or that if the deficit exceeds 269.8 the city may not

show the city may withdraw what is otherwise a guaranteed $3 million worth of general fund increase. okay. you have to keep in mind that our operating budget is now posted to 52 to 50 and tony little above that now. >> yeah. so it's so it's 3 million on to 50 to 60 right so that is you know was almost less than a percent right so or right around 2% yeah if i have that right and then in 2627 madam president the the formula changes from an automatic 3 million that could be pulled to a percentage of the city's we're linked to how well the city's revenues come in and in 2016 that didn't seem terribly concerning but we're about to hit a really really rough patch

and the burdens that we have of being a baseline department and it's a mixed bag. there are some things that have been very good about proposition b but the burden of being a baseline department is the expectation that we continue to absorb all of our own cost increases in other departments that are not baseline departments and those are typically supported by the general fund those increases. so when salaries go up those are supported by the with an increase in general fund when you know water costs or power costs or interdepartmental work orders go up in other departments those are supported with additional general fund not for us and that is the real structural dilemma we face particularly in a climate where as antonio was about to explain revenues are are flat and because of the economy our open

space fund source has really flattened out and that one actually tends to lag a little bit behind the economy. so even as the mayor's you know, said a few times, there are green shoots everywhere and there are right. you know, we're hopeful that things are starting to get better but our open space revenues are expected to lag well beyond that. >> that's correct. >> and if i can add on to what the general manager just mentioned not to i don't want to confuse things but in the current year our open space fund property tax revenue is lagging by 2.4 million $2.4 million under budget according to the six month report. >> so it is an ongoing concern what the property valuations are in the city. >> okay. thank you if i haven't bond all for the corruption. >> no, no. thank you for the questions. i do want to focus on what's at stake and the danger of having a cfo take a talk about psychological needs and our

human motivations. we're about to find out but what we do believe here in this department is that every single human need of the people in the city has some type of connection to what we do whether it's safety keeping parks clean and safe and having park rangers making sure that trees that fall during storms are cooked or taken away by the our boots on the ground those psychological needs about love and belonging and esteem or we talk about our volunteer program and the type of events that take place at senior centers, our holiday events, the type of opportunities that we provide to young people across this city through the green agers program and internship and then self-actualization how we might be inspired to be the best version of ourselves if we're playing basketball on a regular

basis or attending a yoga class. >> we think all of that is really important and that's why this budget is really important and that we try to figure out the best way and a very thoughtful way of how we go about balancing so we can save these services. so i'm going to read all of these budget balancing principles. these were adopted last month but this is the core of how we have thought about this budget and how we went about trying to build the next two years of what our revenue and expenses look like. >> i think number set can you just focus on number seven for a second? of course. so all of these principles and i think every year the commission we revisit the principles that you know you provide us this commission provides us with the the wayfinding signs and the map to

have our budget conversations and to make budget decisions based on these principles one through six are sort of our values and what we do but how it's effectuated really sits in number seven and what we're about to lay out which is to advance policy decisions that that address our are our budget deficit that fulfill principles one through six. and you know our focus is really in making sure that we can protect our core services and to do that we do need to better align the money we earn with the costs of what we deliver. and you know, we need to continue to strive for partnerships and creative ways to make up for frankly a shrinking general fund subsidy. so that's where we set so on

this next slide we're going to talk a little bit about our our agreements to maintain new property. and the first is treasure island and yerba buena island. we have been working with tie to the treasure island development authority on a new park operations and maintenance interdepartmental services proposal and an eventual mou. we've discussed funding 15 fte, one manager, seven gardeners, two natural resource specialists, a park section supervisor as well as a plumber, a painter and an arborist tech and so the way that breaks out in year one of this budget title wants us to bring the manager on six months ahead of july 1st, 2026 when a potential transition would take place and then two months ahead for all the other staff. that's roughly $600,000 and then the actual transition the

full turnover to our maintenance staff and operations would begin july 1st, 2026 and that's $3.5 million and the source for that is treasurer and the community facility district funding. and then the second agreement that we have been developing is at the hunters point shipyard and this was brought to the commission last year as part of the budget process an moa is being developed with the office of community investment in infrastructure. upon approval rec park would begin operations july first in the current base 2526 budget there were three gardeners, half a custodian, half of a supervisor and one full time equivalent of funding for structural maintenance and once again this source is community facility district funding at the shipyard and so we're not changing that as part of this budget proposals we're keeping it the same. and then additionally there's other new parks that don't have funding sources that are coming

online in year one of this budget we're adding funding for the great highway twin peaks promenade and hers rec center and these could be new sites or renovations that is $1 million and that's the core of what we talked about in that deficit in our five year financial projection and then year two is $1.9 million and we are also including shoreline park and idea base and big green which has additional funding sources but the net new fte that will be added would be 11.6 antonio i think for four purposes is not to try to use the commissioners i think with respect to india basin the big green is the space at 700 ines that is being developed by building that will eventually come back to us. that is a ways away so i don't see in this budget cycle or maybe even the next any new cost impacts and that would be funded by community facilities, district funding. i also don't see any new fees

so that 4.2 that you see there is not coming anytime soon. i think that's just to let you know that it's on the horizon but not really a part of our budget conversation today. >> thank you. additionally we have our annual submissions to the capital planning committee we are submitting we have submitted $15 million in year one of this budget and 15.5 million based on escalation and you're to some of the key initiatives are playground maintenance 750,000 and your $1 million in year to court resurfacing is going up to roughly $875,000. >> our forestry program is key to talking about safety in the city roughly $800,000 in both years of this budget as well as paving a million and ada work is 800 thousand dollars. >> we also have a playing fields replacement program that we budget on an annual basis where we combine fund funding

with the city fields foundation to renovate our turf fields throughout the city. that's $3.2 million in both years of this budget and we have a committee on infrastructure technology here in san francisco. we are requesting additional funding for security cameras. it's it's not technically part of our general fund support. we're asking for more it's $125,000 in year one and $135,000 in year two as part of the mayor's priority to maintain public safety and clean streets. and so what is what are these type of investments have resulted in? we have a brief picture on this slide of just recent capital work funded by the baseline. so it's things like crockery, amazon green infrastructure, larson pickleball courts some paving at harding park go and park trail repair and other types of work that really make a difference throughout the park system. now under the budget initiatives and efficiencies for the next two years, the

budget summary overall for the operations of this department in year one we're looking at $263.5 million and in year two $270.7 million for operations. >> the vast majority of our budget, its operations and operation and specifically the operations division which is composed of parks and open space and recreation as well as structural maintenance and the parks safety which is which is our park ranger group parks and open space is 123.4 million recreation 35.8 and structural maintenance 31.9. we have also a capital planning division of $29.2 million when you include the baseline but then everything else administration is just 6% of our budget in both years. i do want to point out in year two of this budget we also are assuming $70 million for the

eventual build out of the east harbor marina capital project which we're kind of excluding out of this pie chart because then capital is so lumpy that $70 million makes it look a little too large. >> so happy to footnote that here. the other thing i'd point out if you look at the lower bottom the left the bottom left hand of this slide, the general fund support relatively flat or annual open space relatively flat but earned income is increasing in this budget. >> onto the next slide antonio can you explain the sliver of the pie that says volunteer services? >> what does that mean? yeah that's our volunteer program. so we have a volunteer program funded out of open space. they work with residents who want to volunteer within parks.

>> i don't know if there's anything else you want me to add. well, under sara matthews team is our volunteer services division that jennifer g oversees and it includes our green acres program, our stewardship program and all of our volunteer work. it takes a actually it does take staff to structure and plan and support volunteer projects. we just don't give people shovels and say go wherever you want. so there's a there's a staff that works on that and it's just through frankly a little quirk in history that we show that as an independent budget line and i think in part because the source for that is the open space fund. so we we show it we don't show all of our different divisions and programs but volunteer services has always had its own little sliver of the pie chart in her the way our budget is constructed. >> that's correct because it's has a different reporting line you know in our span of control well so there are expenditures but there's also value added.

oh absolutely. okay. yeah. you can't just look at one side of the ledger, right? >> like what we're receiving from the volunteer program. >> yeah. it's how you add it is in kind. we don't we don't we don't add you know we don't add to the sources for the value of the of the in-kind because it's a little imprecise. >> i just think it's a very important little element. >> absolutely. thank you for pointing that out. >> president anderson so the first major initiative that we have been planning for is a new scholarships and cost recovery model. and so what this would look like is a codification of our scholarships program. the scholarships program is currently a policy here at the department. we would like to bring legislation to put scholarships into that legislation and as well as a tiered cost recovery model where our recreation programs have separate prices

for seniors, youth and adults as well as individual tiers or whether or not a program is of an individual or benefit versus a community benefit. and as part of this budget we're assuming roughly $600,000 in year one and $1.2 million in year two of additional revenue. the second proposal is a recent middle of our court reservation fee that we brought last year well aware of many other cities that currently charge a fee for tennis court reservations and we're assuming roughly $1 million of new revenue from implementing a $5 per hour court reservation fee. >> the third big initiative and we're working on this right now is to initiate a request for qualifications and or proposals process for golf course operations and maintenance maintenance including leases. and in year two of this budget we are assuming that we are

going to generate some additional cost efficiencies and savings through this process and we're proposing to eliminate our general fund subsidy of roughly $6 million. >> and then kate parking we are proposing a budget that assumes net revenue from paid parking implementation at golden gate park. and we're assuming that we would generate $1.2 million in year one of this budget and $9.2 million in 2627 and that would be net revenue. finally we also want to look at cost efficiencies. >> we are projecting current year workers compensation savings of $200,000. this will result in budget savings in year one of this budget as well as vehicle leasing and maintenance. so we're budgeting $2.5 million

for equipment as well as half a million for vehicle leasing. i pointed this out if a few times aren't the average age of our fleet is 13.75 years old and we have gardeners operating ford rangers that are over 20 years old and we don't ask our administration staff to work with computers that are 20 years old. it's not only is it a little unfair we would be able to reduce our annual maintenance costs if we are able to purchase new vehicles as well as improve the emissions of the fleet and generate savings in fuel and power. so it is a it's a major initiative where if we can lease vehicles, get new vehicles this we see this as a as a major untapped source of savings. >> we also want to bring up some examples of revenue ideas from staff. there's four specifically that

we think are the strongest ideas adult sports league expansion rentals at camp mather where we could have outside companies or groups rent mather increase sponsorships and ads as well as look at seasonal attractions and festivals those those four seem the most promising to where we could generate significant revenue as well as some of these other ideas which potentially might be able to get smaller amounts of revenue. but i think that the four in green are the most promising. and then finally what are the potential impacts in year two of this budget? and i do want to point out this is a two year budget. if our revenue doesn't increase. >> so if we can't solve this structural deficit in fiscal year 2627, our park system will suffer the following impacts.

we group these into three categories but in park cleanliness we would need to reduce or eliminate the gardiner apprenticeship program. we need to eliminate our restroom monitors. we would have less frequent mowing a ball fields and meadows and reduce custodial services. and in recreation we would be looking to reduce recreation facility hours across the city from 60 hours to 40 hours per week. >> looking at a closure emission pool and or rotating pool closures elimination of general fund support at camp mather fewer summer camps and safety in parks as we mentioned the elimination of restroom monitors but also just a wholesale reduction in park ranger services as well as an increased backlog of deferred maintenance for playgrounds ballfields buildings, pools and parkland. >> our schedule today you're considering the budget.

tomorrow is the official charter mandated day where at 5:00 the system turns off to tiffany wong, our budget manager and her team and we need to be done. prozac was rescheduled to march 4th. we're going to go to the youth commission on march 17th to talk about these potential impacts. there's also that march update to the joint report that the comptroller's office provides where we will have confirmation on how much general fund support we will receive next year. and then in june mayor lurie will submit a proposed budget to the board of supervisors and budget appropriations committee hearings. so i also want to end on a note where i really need to thank my budget staff this year tiffany wong, judy evelyn i have tiffany swords. i have a whole crew of people michelle del mike they know who they are. if i'm neglecting them. alex chang on the capital side if you haven't noticed i have been working with a little bit

of a disability going to the doctor's office, going to physical therapy and not only that, this is probably the most influx budget we've ever submitted. and so while i am the one speaking, they're the ones really doing the work this year not saying to blame them blame me. i'm just saying they're the ones who have really done the work this year and i really need to thank them so i just want to share my thanks publicly with all the rest of the great staff as well as our key leadership team members. and i just want to remind everyone i know this budget was a. we do have a plan as a general manager said in his general manager report. >> spring is on the way we can feel spring. i'm trying to end on a slightly positive note so with that well because we've been tag teaming just a little bit let me conclude by thanking antonio and obviously tiffany and the entire budget team but you can just tell from his presentation presentations just how thoughtful antonio is and how

caring and protective he is of the work that we do. he's extremely creative, facil ,attentive and collaborative and we are very, very very very lucky to to have him in this role. this would be a lot choppier without him. >> so thank you antonio. i agree. thank you antonio and your whole team rather than thinking about it as doom and gloom i just like to think that we are dealing with practical realities and we have an amazing team led by phil and his executive staff and all of the support i know that we're in good hands. i know we're going to find solutions. i also feel like we're going to see an uptick in the realities of our economies here in san francisco. >> so we're all going to do our part to help. is there any public comment in

the room today? come on up. you'll have two minutes. i do have a couple of hands raised on our webex as well. commissioners looks like we're going to have a tie who's going to get their first come on up richard. good morning commissioners and staff. >> good morning. i'm richard harris with the san francisco public health alliance. we've given you three letters most recently about an hour ago on the on the matter of the management of the of the golf courses. we're glad that you're taking the of the path of new management agreements and they can be different types the what

we are not happy with is that you have said that this budget says that on one year notice this new management agreements have to solve a $6 million problem. we don't have those new agreements yet. those will be difficult enough to reach the a department has not done that has been talking about it for years, has not done it and now says cold turkey to golf if if a $6 million problem isn't solved in a year we think two things golf should not be singled out as among all of the two different things the department does for

cold turkey. no general fund sport number two this should be conditional on on some success with getting the new agreements and that's going to take time. you have you have five different golf courses that by the end of this year are going to be new agreements. >> thank you so we we have put our position in three letters mostly recently. thank you. one thing that you got this morning. >> thank you very much. next speaker thank you, richard. thanks, richard. >> my name's embry or i'm the executive director of scalable cities where a nonprofit that advocates for skateboarding for transportation and recreation throughout the city. i don't want to single out golf. that said, i heard the last meeting.

it's subsidized to the tune of 5 to $6 million per year. skate parks remain one of the top two most used facilities by people the average age of a skateboarder is 19 years old. the city benefits from at least a few skateboarding camps. that said, there are only seven facilities throughout the city compared to hundreds of tennis courts and at least five golf courses. >> there is a huge opportunity to get increased revenue from skateboarding facilities especially when they are designed for entry level folks. missing from this budget which i would love to see is an audit of the skate facilities in the city because there is an opportunity to increase the level of service and we know that supply creates demand to that same end. i believe there should also be an audit for small wheeled access in all of our parks facilities. there are many pathways that are full of routes that are disturbing them and expansion gaps that are too large to be navigated by things with small wheels and making a useful movement for people will increase the amount of use in

the facilities around the city. >> so i just want to highlight here that there is a tremendous area of opportunity within skateboarding and all non-motorized use propelled vehicles including roller skates and it's challenging for me to see new pickleball courts and grants being accepted for say six new baseball diamonds when we have skate parks at the intersection of many public transit stops that are in risk of being decommissioned unless our community comes forward and raises funds for design and building of those facilities. >> so we really like to see our support for this most popular recreational activity for young people in the city. >> thank you. thank you. >> thank you. is there anyone else here to comment on this item? >> come on up. good morning. good morning. good morning, commissioners. my name is natasha parks. i am a homeowner, a voter and a retired san francisco city and county employee. i've been a golfer for less than ten years but i have read

and agreed with the letters that the san francisco public golf alliance written by richard harris regarding the upcoming budget discussions today to raise golf fees at our municipal golf courses. i strongly agree and support and believe that ending the month of month operator leases and issuing our fees for new extending operating agreements will incentivize improving maintenance at san francisco's muni courses. i am hoping the committee can offer long term contracts to the different vendors at the golf courses to ensure these valuable resources are available for san francisco residents like me for the foreseeable future. i do not support raising fees without improving the conditions of the courses. if these courses continue to deteriorate we will lose golfer revenue and golfers will go to other surrounding counties. there is an opportunity here for better golf courses and increased revenue to the city. i have experienced this firsthand with the successful renovated golden gate golf course. although many may think this is a game or a sport for the rich

,women and people of color are growing the game new as well as experience golfers a.k.a. regular golfers, regular folks need reasonably priced courses to play and san francisco's many courses offer that opportunity to everyone at affordable prices. golf is appealing to me because it allows me to be outside exercise, socialize, enjoy other people that enjoy golf and play a sport that i hope i can play for the rest of my life. i invite commissioner weintraub who i know is a golfer based on that in online to come out and play a golf around a golf with the women's starting group meeting with our club and just see the course and the conditions of the courses that we have. >> thank you for your time and i appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. thank you. president anderson. commissioners general manager ginsburg thank you for allowing me to speak today. my name is andrew sun. i'm a resident of the richmond

district and a proud member of the century golf club which was founded over 75 years ago primarily by japanese-american, nisei and asian americans because we were not allowed to play at many of the private courses and we relied on public courses for the ability to grow our game for those that were that came out of the camps after the war and also for our young people. we are now 75 years old. let me congratulate the department on what i think is a remarkable budget program. if you look at your year to date analysis in almost all categories the budget we had that you adopted for 2425 were on target and or exceeding them. let me specifically go to the golf fund in particular because you called for a $6 million reduction from the general fund in 2627. was the promise long overdue of

essentially moving to reevaluate the contracts that we have with many of the vendors? as an example, the lincoln park golf course. received their contract in the year 220 2000 which is almost 25 years ago. i noticed earlier today you talked about replenishing your vehicles because they had an average of 13.7 years. i think it's long overdue that we begin to do this. >> i specifically want to raise the question of whether or not we haven't seen a plan a timeline, an analysis of the economic impacts of essentially moving to that plan. clearly there probably will be an opportunity to to replenish the general fund with $6 million maybe by 2627. but there needs to be a spelled out process. we need to do an analysis. we need to do an economic publication. we need to look at the capital improvements that are necessary. thank you. thank you, mr. sutton.

>> i'll put some submit some more comments in writing. great. >> thank you. is there anyone else in room for 16 to comment on this item? i have some online hands raised . >> okay. can you unmute the first caller please? >> good morning. my name is patrick goggin and i am the president of the gleneagles golf course golf club. i'm a covid adopter of golf and it pulled me out of depression initially. i want to thank you for initiating the process for the four rfq four for long term operating agreements and leases. this will increase investment in our courses. however, a last minute 11th hour decision to eliminate $6 million in golf but subsidies completely defeats the purpose

of the rfq process. it is unfair. it's unrealistic that new agreements and leases will cover this grand canyon size gap. this is an inequitable and unfair policy change. by cutting the entire golf subsidy and not doing so from any other activity we golfers pay for the use of our courses while other activities largely do not. this is a very upsetting and bad political decision. it's unfair to pit activities that other athletes against one another instead spread the pain of this 5% cut across the board and not single out golf. don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

find and find an equitable alternative to this unconscionable policy change. that will kill golf in our fair city. thank you. >> thank you. can you meet a meet the next speaker? >> hi, i'm paul hagan. i'm the on the steering committee of friends of balbo. i'm here to make a budget ask even though the budget is really in a mess. but antonio, antonio and phil, we want to be your best friends and thinking about having a fiscally sound structurally sound but a jet. so i also want to preface this with and i speak i think for our community we love our park and the amazing staff brandon johnson, our gardener who runs the pool they do an amazing job and we love it so what's the issue? we've got about a third of the park that's actually functioning for a taxpayer's right now boxer stadium is locked up and used very, very

seldomly. the baseball fields are in disrepair and often not used. we got a $10 million pool that is is only open about 40 hours a week. we lack lighting to use the park at night. we're really running a park at about half mast which i think is not only it costs a lot of money to maintain but is missing revenue opportunity and and really failing to address the needs of a park in an equity zone and it super it certainly falls short of of some of the guiding bulls around an accessible well program space so we have a few asks i think you guys the commission has has seen we've sent in some letters around our budget asks those are based on about 200 responses from the community we sent a survey in english chinese and spanish. it's not all of the things that we want. it is simply the short list of the top priorities. we think those things can be

done in a fiscally responsible way by activating these resources inside balboa that are are currently not used unlocking boxer stadium and to the public and more broad based permitting would generate a lot of revenue opening the baseball fields to multisport permitting would generate revenues and certainly opening up the swimming pool for more open swim and swimming lessons could generate revenue. we'd love to engage as a community and that conversation and add to those ideas about and really be a partner. antonio on on on ways to generate revenue or cost recovery thank you mr. more services thank you i'm out of time the next speaker. hi i guess that would be me. good morning commissioners. my name is lily atkins. good morning. i am the president of the harding park women's golf club and a san francisco native born

golfer born at mount sinai hospital. i'd like to say that i have read and agree with the san francisco public golf alliance letters written by richard harris regarding raising golf fees at our municipal golf courses. >> i strongly support and believe that ending months and months operator leases and issuing our fees for new extended operating agreements will incentivize and improve golf maintenance at these courses. i do not support raising fees without improving the condition of these courses. >> actually at harding park it is our 100 year anniversary. i'm not sure if you're aware of that in 1980 and 1998. our course was so deteriorated that it was used as a parking lot during the us open for the olympic club. >> a private country club? yep.

a renovation began in 2000 to. and since its reopening in 2003 it has hosted many professional golf tournaments even a tournament that tiger woods who everybody knows won. we have a great golf courses here all of our munis the longest consecutive golf tournament in the country and maybe even the world is the san francisco city tournament and that's hosted by our lincoln golf course in harding park. i believe that there is an opportunity to have increased revenue for the city by improving these courses and as a minority woman a somewhat american. >> q i believe. thank you so much. time is up. i don't believe we have any

other hands raised at the moment and see no further commenters and here public comment is closed. any comments from commissioners kerry? thanks. i just have a question. given that this is you know some of the most extreme budget changes we've faced in many, many years and the department has already tried to implement creative ways to to cover some of our costs through fee generating programs like court reservations or charging for, you know, programs in the park and that and so forth. we then met with resistance from the public as well as the board of supervisors. and i'm just wondering like what is our communication plan for both constituents to ensure that we are able to make some of these unpopular but necessary changes in order to weather the storm? >> well, i mean i think that it has already started during you know, this budget process and

it's the reason we have you know, we have so many outreach meetings and we come to you as often as we do so that people understand the why. right. like why are we making proposing some of these difficult choices? there will be more policy development over the coming months. as antonio noted, the mayor does not submit his budget until june and things move and things change and as we do on pretty much everything we do you know our responsibility is to hear feedback and process it and listen and answer questions and then ultimately to try to advocate for the policy positions that we think are going to ensure the most sustainable and healthy park system. we have to make some tough choices and we will do that. we have, you know, an amazing government affairs team. you know sara and bev and

lamont and many others who work closely with the members of the board and the mayor's office and obviously antonio and i work with the mayor's budget staff and some of the mayor's senior team and we'll do our you know, we'll we'll keep listening. you know this what we're proposing today is what we're proposing to send to the mayor's office by the deadline and it is the best way to balance the difficult financial spot we're in as antonio has noted several times during his prior budget presentation ones we have already kept over 60 positions vacant and unfilled. we are getting to the point where the quality that people have come to expect in our park system is going to start to suffer and where you know the access to our pools and recreational programs that people expect is going to shrink. so it's not a it's not a great

budget. i mean i don't you know it's and we're trying to do our best to keep things going at a level of of quality that we think san franciscans deserve. thank you, larry. thank you. first want to thank antonio and his team for taking this task up. it's not an easy one. i know we have some hard decisions to make so thank you guys for all your hard work putting this together. but i do have some questions and probably comments so give me some clarifications on a few things. so in the budget we want to raise the green fees for golf and we're also going to put an rfp out for golf courses. which ones? all five i think still is still in policy development and i

kind of think a couple of the folks that came to public comment are absolutely right. there needs to be a business plan and some analysis. we were further along than i think people think because lincoln and sharpe and a few of our courses apart from harding in particular you know have been on long term month to month leases and we have dana ketchum and her team have been exploring the feasibility of different types of arrangements to to make those management agreements or leases more more current. harding we know it's finances quite well. we know what we subsidize at the end of the day in many cities and counties around the country golf is a source of revenue in los angeles and new

york in a variety of places. golf actually brings in revenue. we are somewhat unique in the level of subsidy that we offer. it is and it is a beloved activity and i really appreciate the golfers who came to speak and i don't want anybody to feel too much angst at the end of the day we're trying to preserve golf and preserve the sport and we very much appreciate it. but golf more than a senior program functions as a concession that is really how it is typically treated in many public sector jurisdictions and we have not you know, we're sort of half and half out on on how we treat golf and it's gotten to a level of subsidy that if we really are serious not just serious if we're forced to really protect our or

our our core services and we have something that does function as a concession and can potentially bring in more revenue than it costs us, we have some responsibility to try to pursue that. so thank you. i understand that but the answer my question then i think if what you're saying is everything's on the table, all five are on the table including already. yeah. okay. so from from my standpoint, you know, privatizing the golf course takes away jobs and i can't support a budget that has jobs being taken away in it. i think privatizing golf courses is the wrong way to go especially hardy but all of them because people will lose jobs and and we have good union paying jobs right now that are maintaining these golf courses and privatizing these golf

courses means that a either nonunion people will come in and do it or be one one union will come in and do all the jobs like it's happening in other places in the city. so i can't i can't support a budget that has this in it. as far as the golf courses go, i have other questions to commissioners. all yeah, i just let me just respond to that one and then you can move on to your sure your other questions. and first of all i want to thank you and i appreciate really appreciate your perspective. i know exactly where you're you're coming from and so i hear what you're saying. there are just a couple of things that i want to make sure that you have in context. i think what we're trying to do here is avoid layoffs and at the end of the day if we cannot balance and we cannot generate more revenue from the opportunities we have to

generate more revenue than we have to cut across the board. and so i know that you want to preserve jobs. i think there is a method to do this if we can do this we don't we may not have to lay people off and we can have people work on other things. antonio shared with you some of the new spaces that are coming online that are funded by other agencies. so we we i understand your point and i'm not trying to be too cute. we wouldn't have in that sort of scenario we may not have a public sector unionized workforce at the at those jobs at the golf course but we wouldn't be eliminating the incumbents in those roles they would roll in to support the rest of the department's work. we have attrition every year we have these new spaces with outside sources of funding and as someone who i know cares

deeply about the workforce and i want you to know that i do too and this is why this gives me so much angst i think our stat antonio is that for every million dollars out of balance we remain it's about 7 or 8 jobs and so you see a $15 million problem in a year or two for every million dollars of revenue that we are unable to generate or to your question, commissioner weintraub, that the board doesn't approve or the mayor doesn't support or whatever it is you know, the alternative is is reducing our workforce. we kept 60 positions vacant last year. we're beyond the point of just not fill and by the way, that's sort of a reduction in jobs too even that you know, you and i have had conversations about you know, we need more plumbers or you know, more of everything and we're keeping 60 positions

vacant right now. the next the next step if we're unable to pull this off may very well be layoffs. well, thank you for those comments and i understand where you're coming from. but at the same time i can't approve or vote for a budget that privatized the jobs with the threat of losing jobs on an on the other side and i think you're at bare bones now and i don't even think you could cut if you wanted to i mean you have 60 unopened jobs and you're going to you're going to fire more people on top of that. i don't think so. i don't think that's happening. but anyways, let's move on other questions. >> so i saw in there that we're funding the great highway 300,000 a year for the two year budget. >> is that correct? it was roughly 600,006 that was funding for additional maintenance needs and there's a potential restroom coming online.

so is this normal or do we do this every year just because prop k passed? >> we have i can answer that. we we have actually regardless of prop k, we have a lot of acreage out there that's been ours that is our responsibility to maintain. so we do have a workforce out there. we're going to expand it very incrementally because we because the voters passed prop k, we will at some point have some other other maintenance responsibilities and we don't want to put too much on the backs of the workers that are that are out there. we're getting more acreage. so that's a space where we have to augment. you saw it's a very slight increase given the amount of acreage we're taking but we feel like to make sure that we're good neighbors in the sunset and that the space is safe and clean. we do have a responsibility to make sure that the that we're staffing it appropriately. i appreciate that because prop

k passed in the future is is the department going to be weighed down by a bigger budget now? >> is it going to cost us more because prop k passed? i don't really anticipate that where the where it is likely to cost us is down the road on way down the road on a renovation of the space for the time being and for the indefinite future i think we envision a space that functions as it does now on the weekends but perhaps with more of the elements that you might see on the on the jfk promenade some art, some music, some yearling you know some you know, relatively cost effective recreational features and

that's how i think that's that's our immediate plan to operate that space down the road like we have all over the city. it's a park that will need a renovation. thank you. as far as the parking in golden gate park i saw that was in the budget. so what it what does that what does that mean? does that mean parking meters throughout the park or section of the park? the whole park? >> what are we talking about? i think that the you know, there are a variety of ways to to do this and to scale it in and each have corresponding associated revenue. but just like the presidio and just like fort mason and just like major parks in almost every major city we would envision you know, a kiosk we're not going to put a meter

in every single spot. we actually also operate there are parking lots right now in golden gate park as you know that you know that are free. so you know, we would work with mta and try to develop a proposal that was park appropriate that was very, you know, affordable and accessible . right now it costs approximately $3 to take a bus to the park or to take a train to golden gate park to take muni. right. that's the meaning. right is three bucks but it doesn't cost three bucks to drive and keep your car in the park and you know it doesn't give us any pleasure to propose this. there's no but it is a best practice and you just you see it over at the presidio now you see it at fort mason now you see it in central park, you see it in big parks all around the all around the country. i think we would try to do it

in a way that like we do everything that honored the esthetic of the park and try to, you know, keep you know, the rates or potential rates at the you know, same cost that is to take a bus. thanks for the answer on that. i'd have some little heartburn on that too. you know we've already closed roads in golden gate park and now we're going to charge people just seems like we're driving cars out so that's not something that i want to do but so if the deficit gets better then the joint report how does that affect the budget and what cuts would go off the table? is there is there like a list of cuts in it if the deficit gets better we could add take some off. >> how do we do that? i mean i think to be clear in san antonio you can supplement i think we're trying as much as we can to avoid cuts beyond

what we've already done, beyond those 60 positions that are actually strongest you know, shrunk our apprenticeship program and you know, did some other things. this budget is not actually as presented is not a cut budget. it's a preserve budget. and i think if revenue were to dramatically get better we would rebalance based on some of the revenue initiatives that we're able to implement and look at the ones that were not . and then in a perfect world, if we were really able to do it you know we as you know and as we've discussed we have, you know, positions in the field that you know, deserve to be filled. so i think we would we would start there. all right. thank you. so one last question. you know, i asked this i think

last month or the month before but since we're in such dire straits in a money crunch, i asked if we could look at our open space fund or the commissioner's fund or whatever in the amount of money we have in there and the option of putting some of that money in cd's or rolling cd's since cd's are at like four, four, 4.5% at this point which could turn into hundreds of thousands of dollars which would be helpful in this situation and i just wanted to bring that up again and see if that's an option or not. >> i can i can take this one. phil i had this was back at the december commission. we were talking about the rainy day reserve and so our treasurer tax collector invest based on safety, liquidity and yield in that order and i apologize i couldn't remember it at the time. it's difficult when you're prepping for surgery but i will say that they do invest in short term investments but we do not have control. it's completely at that where we entrust our funds with the

treasury tax i think it's called a pooled account. >> yes. antonio it's a pooled so all of the departments that have reserves and funds they sit with the treasurer's office and it is the treasurer's responsibility to invest in to try to generate an appropriate yield on those funds. so we have we have no control over our funds as far as investing correct? we do not invest our own money and does it come back to us? >> yes. okay. yes we do receive interest back into the open space fund and the goal fund. all right. appreciate the answers from antonio and phil, i just got to reiterate that as a labor rep i can't support a budget that has a privatizing golf courses in it. >> so those are my comments. thank you commissioner mazola i

don't have any other commissioners with their hands raised any comments from others i a commissioner clark herrera sorry for just putting that on. i really appreciated your questions larry because there was a lot there to unpack and antonio i've seen this presentation in different versions from operations and the different meetings and these are such incredibly difficult decisions and complex decisions. i have seen the iterations of the budget now several times and this seems like it brings around the only options that we have for revenue generation potential like those top four that you highlighted. first it was a list of 20, then it was listed first. and so i know that you've called every single way i you know, love skateparks want to see that developed. i love governing.

i want to see that worked on but i'm not sure that we can keep operating unless we do this in the way that the mayor has asked us to balance our budgets. is that correct? we have to submit this in some shape or form to get approval or ultimately our our responsibility is to balance our our budget and to abide by the set of budget instructions that the mayor issues to this to ensure that the city balances its you know that the mayor balances his entire budget which he submits on june 1st that's that's our our responsibility this is a stage in the process where we ask the commission to approve the budget so that we can send it off to the mayor's office by the deadline and then there's a whole nother set of conversations which will take place over over succeeding months and there's new information. antonio mentioned the joint

report in march. there's a nine month report that's issued in may that may or may not change the city's budget forecast for and our budget forecast for the good or for the bad. we are concerned about open space funds meeting the amount that we've budgeted for them. you know, it is possible that we will have additional challenges come march, april or may. it's also possible and fingers crossed that things get a little better by april or may. so this is a stage in the process that you know, we are obligated to comply with. okay. thank you for your clarification. all right, ashley, it's up to you guys now. >> okay. >> you guys can see the language in the item. my ipad has died. do i have a motion in a second

pursuant to that language in our agenda so moved second all those in favor state i i any opposition? no there's one motion carries thank you commissioners okay we're now on item nine general public comment is there anyone who did not get an opportunity to speak during item four who'd like to speak now? >> okay. thank you everyone. thank you. antonio tiffani everyone did you want to comment on that? >> go ahead please. embry we're here with scalable cities. i apologize and thank you for your patience with all of my discussions about skateboarding. >> i'm sure i'll be seeing more of you. i realize i'm new to this commission but i spent plenty of time with dpw and the mta for me skateboards and small wheeled modes in general become a very useful lens to understand the built environment and understand

efficiencies and opportunities in public space. so just sort of want to make a general introduction here. this could be considered a comment about the budget but just in general too i just want to make it clear that status quo provision of tennis courts and golf courses and everything else you know, they're not just subsidized by the budget, they're subsidized by the lack of use hours that we see for other types of facilities. i want to make a general request here that we understand that the skate facilities that we do have could be made all the better with more public input. i understand that the great highway has a skate facility that's slated for it and i would like to request that a public process be opened up to make sure that we are not prioritizing speed and service of quality. there are opportunities to be very capital efficient and have facilities produced which serve all users. i'm impressed with the speed at which you when plazas first and second iterations were created

and also know that there is a lot of use hours left on the table because we're not planning for newcomers. most of our skate facilities in fact all of our skate facilities in the city are programed for intermediate to advanced riders and do not incorporate the whole suite of disciplines everything from downhill to sort of pump and jump type things you know flow parks, things like that. we have a transition and we have street skateboarding but there is a lot of other opportunity in the city. we have a lot of tennis courts all with section 3 or 2 saying no skateboarding i understand we want to protect those surfaces but if we do not create the supply we will not have the demand and we see that with golf when you have acres for golf you have golf advocates. >> thank you. thank you, aaron. just point of clarification in my opinion what you just said was what you already said and so normally in public comment and you get a chance to say it once. so my point i just you're done but i just want to clarify that. okay.

public process is what got me an email. okay. well thank you. >> thank you. is there anyone else here to comment during public comment casing none and no hands raise public comment is close commissioners we now have commissioners matters and new business any of those today i haven't seen any. >> okay move on to discussion communications any discussion on those? >> we're now an item 13 adjournment. >> can i have a motion to second to adjourn please? so moved. >> all those in favor say i. i any opposition we are adjourned at 12:17 p.m. and thank you everyone for your time

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number of tents that animal control has they have supplies and equipment and staff and volunteers. we simulate the need for cape ability after a disaster or earthquake. >> animal care and control is your city's animal shelter. we care for approximately 10,000 animals a year. we are opinion for san francisco's animal in thes upon effect of an emergency. we got our tents and practicing how to deal with that. >> this is the shelter is overwhelmed with animals after a disaster this shelter is full regularly. if we torch have an event that would cause a number of animals to escape or injured or stray or separate friday their people that's where we would respond.

>> pets are part of the family and need to make sure they are taken care of like people with the supplies and equip we are able to provide shelter for pets in addition to the existing shelter. >> we have formulated a plan so this in the event of a disaster we are hear ready to help and support the city. >> we are able to use the muni bus to transport the people. animals and other equip if the shelter. >> encourage people there is an evacuation order to take your pet with you. >> very first thing everyone should do is microchip the pet. and pack a bag >> shelter cert not a place where you want your animal to end up unless the last resort and like to keep most out of the shelter when we can. >> take care of your people and

your friend and family. pets need to be takenokay, we'rt started. >> mm hmm. good morning, everyone. i'm scott weiner of the honor of representing san francisco and northern san mateo county and the california state senate. and today we are announcing new legislation senate bill 395 to give san francisco an additional tool specifically low cost liquor licenses to reinvigorate and revitalize downtown san francisco. first i want to start by congratulating mayor laurie on a very, very successful weekend here in san francisco and i was exhausted looking at his social media as he was doing between the all-star game and what i think for my recollection is

the largest crowd for the chinese new year parade i've ever seen in san francisco is back and is getting stronger and stronger by the day. so thank you, mr. mayor, for your leadership. so we need to continue to build on the progress that we are making and we know that downtown financial district union square south of market yerba buena it is absolutely essential for san francisco's recovery for our economic vitality and for our city's future and not just for san francisco for the whole bay area. we know there have been huge challenges with remote work and all of the hangover coming out of the pandemic and as years of crime and public drug use that we're working so hard to try to address. and we know that we need to reimagine downtown for the future and have more diversity so it's not just the office but

more and more housing and retail and nightlife and food and drink other kinds of recreation entertainment and nightlife is a key part of that strategy. we know we see that when you give people a reason to be downtown, they go downtown. we've seen it with some of the street festivals. the first thursdays are bhangra beats or the chinatown night market. people will come. and so we need to keep building to give people more and more reasons to be downtown not just at night but to come into the office because there's more to do and there's more vibrancy. we've been working hard. i want to just really thank my colleague assemblymember matt haney who has also he has a select committee on downtowns and he's done a tour of the state because there's a lot of commonality. so thank you assembly member for your leadership. we also were able to pass the

entertainment zone legislation that has allowed on front street and other at the warriors arena and other parts of the city to allow outdoor drink and allowing the local bars and restaurants to sell onto the streets. and we want to continue to build on that success too that the state of california is being a good partner to san francisco and other cities in this recovery. we know that when people are trying to open up new bars or restaurants it is extremely expensive and one of the most significant costs is is obtaining a liquor license. it can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and we know that and i won't get started on my critiques of california's restrictive liquor laws which hamstring cities in many ways and assemblymember hayne and i constantly work to deconstruct that and give cities more flexibility without micro-management from the state

. and that's what we're doing here today. so sb 395 will create 20 new low cost liquor licenses for a hospitality zone defined by the city. and it will just allow some of these businesses to get going in a much more affordable way. and so with that, i want to turn it over to our sponsor of this legislation, mayor lurie. >> and you guys. >> good morning, everybody. >> thank you. senator wiener. well, it's great to be back in union square again after we welcomed hundreds of thousands of people over the last few days. >> i appreciate the shout out to me but it took everybody behind us all of our departments muni sfp, pd, fire

sheriffs, all of our departments, parks and rec everybody came together to pull off an incredible weekend for so long. this area has been a a hub for tourism shopping and dining. and last weekend people came from across the bay area and the country and frankly the world to take part in the lunar new year parade and all star weekend. and i was here throughout the weekend and every time i visited the streets were packed and teeming with people. people were enjoying the shops, eating at restaurants and even playing basketball on a court right here to get our economy going again. all of downtown needs to be at full strength. and this weekend was a great way to get people here. now today we are taking the next step with permanent solutions for this neighborhood

by adding 20 new liquor licenses. this legislation will bring new restaurants and bars, new people and energy. downtown san francisco is known for our world class food and culture. and last week we were named the culinary capital of the united states. >> we should be making it easier not harder for businesses to set up here. right now state law limits our number of liquor licenses and they are expensive and hard to get to. this high barrier sends in and sends the wrong message to businesses that want to come here. well, the message from r administration is san francisco is open for business. that's the message we are sending with this bill. and that's the message our administration is sending consistently.

listen to what we did just last week. we launched permit s.f. which will streamline the city's permitting process and help new small businesses open faster. we signed the fentanyl state of emergency ordinance, announced plans and announced plans for a 24 seven police friendly stabilization center so people can get medical treatment and police officers on patrol right here can get back on the street faster. and the board of supervisors land use and transportation committee passed our bill with supervisor dorsey and supervisor souder to make it easier to turn empty offices into homes. that was just last week the week before that we launched the speedy hospitality zone task force task force with dedicated resources to increase the police presence not only around union square but also around mosconi center and yerba buena center. this bill will allow us to do

even more for that hospitality zone bringing more restaurants and bars to our shopping areas and union square and yerba buena gardens. and we will continue to take bold steps to revitalize downtown. this work is urgent. and that's the energy our administration is bringing every single day every day. i'm working with senator weiner, our partners in government and our friends downtown to bring people back to our city. if you're a business owner this is your moment to invest. if you've stayed away, come back and experience everything our city has to offer. and if you haven't heard san francisco is on the rise. so let's get on board and let's go san francisco. >> sorry. thank you, mr. mayor. next i want to bring up one of our unsung heroes who's had the

ms.. mr. rodriguez who the ceo of the union square alliance and who has it's been a rough few years for union square, but i'm optimistic about this neighborhood's future and i just want to thank marissa so much for your incredible work and perseverance. >> so mr. rodriguez. >> all right. union square, how are we feeling? i want to hear you. we just came off of an incredible weekend. that's what san francisco is about and that's what union square is about. the billboards are still up and what do they say? we don't play. >> we don't play san francisco. i'm so excited about this great opportunity that we are talking about today. why? because san francisco's lifeblood is right here where you are standing. >> the hospitality zone is where we put our best foot forward.

it's where we greet our guests, where we welcome visitors not only locally our san franciscans, our bay area residents, our northern californians but internationally all over the world and nationally. this is us. this is what we represent. we can't move. the convention center west of twin peaks we can't move union square in 12,000 hotel rooms anywhere else. it is here and we have to continue to invest. when people come to visit us for two days, three days a convention just coming into town because they've heard so many wonderful things about our world class city, we want to put our best foot forward and guess what? that is? that is our food and beverage. that is our nightlife. that is the essence that makes san francisco so unique. that is our people. that is our culture. that is our innovation. and if we can't put that front and center right here in 27, 30, 40 city blocks, we are failing and we aren't failing anymore.

a light switch went off. the energy is alive. this weekend showed us that our city is all about it. it was in credible and it's going to stay that way. i'm excited for what this means when union square and yerba buena thrive. our entire city does our neighborhoods thrive and we are modeling this opportunity after a successful opportunity in our neighborhoods. let's continue to do that great work. i want to think oh i see them. >> i know they're in it with us. our state partners looks like the irs is behind me. >> that's because we mean business. we are serious. look at these guys. they're showing up. our mayor daniel, he doesn't play. we don't play. this is real. >> this is serious. this is our city's ability to continue to thrive on the line and we're going to continue to do the work. we're going to continue to make this happen. we love san francisco. we're so happy to be here and thank you so much for all you do to support us. >> and next when i ask up my

legislative partner in this effort. assembly member matt haney. >> good morning everyone. don't worry i'm not the tax collector. you know we're world class cities have world class nightlife. and in order for our city to thrive, we need world class nightlife. if you look around what's happening all over the world as cities have come back from the pandemic, they've done it with thriving restaurants, bars and people places for people to come out and enjoy themselves with each other, period. and what we're seeing in california in particular is the cities that have really invested and supported their nightlife have been the fastest to recover across the state. >> why is that? it's because people now in many cases have a choice of where they go and how they spend their time. we can't just rely on people coming in to our city during the day for jobs at their desk . now many of those folks have a

choice of whether they come in at all or whether they work remote people who have choices of places to visit, how they spend their time and when they have places to go out in the evening that are enjoyable where they can build community ,where they can experience arts and culture that's where they want to be not just at nighttime, not just in the evening but they also want to be there during the day. and what we're seeing in our downtowns including in this downtown is we're not just in eight hour downtown anymore. cities that are thriving are 24 hours. they're looking at what's happening during the weekends or looking in the evening and nighttime. and so i want to thank senator weiner for his leadership in understanding that and taking us there with entertainment zones and all of the partners who've come together to ensure that we are making it easier for nightlife can thrive to thrive not harder. our mayor said it our city's coming back.

we showed it this weekend. we have to be able to embrace the role that nightlife plays because when nightlife is thriving our businesses do better. more people come and visit. our entire city benefits from it as well. thank you, senator weiner, for your leadership and all of the partners who are here. we are going to get this done and make it easier to make things happen in san francisco. thank you, senator weiner, for your leadership. i'm next. in addition, it's not just about union square. it also goes south of mark. and i want to next call up jill jo lynnwood, director of external affairs at the yerba buena partnership. >> you know, thank you. thank you, senator weiner. mayor lurie assembly member me and marissa. so fun to work with. >> our organization comes from

the other side of market street from yorba buena which is the city's arts cultural and convention district. as you may know, we have 11 hotels. >> and this weekend at nba all-star we were so delighted that we understand nearly every one of those 11 hotels was at capacity. all of our restaurants and bars were sold out. the dawn club, the lark bar, the restaurants within the w hotel, the marriott, the palace everything was booked solid. and our museums and our galleries were absolutely full . >> the diversity certification that this that this piece of legislation is putting forward to give businesses an opportunity to open that might not otherwise well help us give give businesses another reason to choose to have conventions at moscone center and to choose

to visit our museums and galleries and visit our restaurants and bars. our ambassadors work seven days a week all year round to ensure that our neighborhood and union square alliance that the ambassadors in this neighborhood ensure that our downtown is clean and safe and welcoming. so as yerba buena and all of downtown's strong arts, cultural and entertainment community communities are driving our comeback, we are so supportive of this legislation as another signal that san francisco wants your businesses here and is where your business will thrive. >> and then our final two speakers i want to welcome up the supervisor for this district supervisor danny sauder who will be followed by ben lyman, a member of the san francisco entertainment commission. >> thank you, senator wiener. good morning, everyone.

i'm danny sartor, the district three supervisor having the honor to represent union square in our incredible northeastern neighborhoods. and i'm really proud to support this effort. i see it as the next step in the puzzle, the next piece of the puzzle to bring union square back. and on my way over here today saw many of those pieces in action. you know, we have our ambassadors who are working to keep this neighborhood friendly and safe. we have our sfp ready here with a concentration in the new hospitality zone. we have i was told about the toddler time here in the corner the 200 days of programing that are now in union square bringing people back into this square and giving people more reasons to come here. and i think that is certainly the theme that we've seen in this past weekend. we saw it in winter walk. we saw it on display. when people have a reason to come to union square they love it, they enjoy it. they will come here and that's what this legislation unlocks.

you know, we i was researching the legislation and i think it's interesting that it's tied to residents. of course we want to work to bring more residents downtown living downtown we've taken action at the board of supervisors to make that possible. but in the meantime we know that this neighborhood is changing. the office use is changing, the retail use is changing and there's nothing more san francisco than more restaurants, more bars, more nightlife. you know, imagine what this legislation can unlock. you can take the cable car down to union square and maybe enjoy a mai tai or an irish coffee or hopefully soon soon again in anchor steam. so those are, you know, the pieces as the cable car goes behind us. those are the the the opportunities and the promise that this legislation unlocks. so it's for me it's a no brainer i think for san francisco it's a no brainer for us to support this legislation and for this neighborhood to thrive with this legislation. >> thank you. >> the closer everyone.

i'm a big fan of this legislation and you can tell because i wore my most formal puff and sweatshirt today. >> i'm a bar owner and i also have organized many of the bar owners in town into a group. we have about 538 of us and when we talk about downtown we talk about it being almost like the circulator tree system for the whole city. it brings a ton of economic activity tax dollars that get spread out around the city and also a vibe it brings energy, it brings people it brings all sorts of intangible things that then go out into the greater city and fill us up. if downtown is the circulatory system, union square is the heart. so without union square as union square goes, the entire system kind of depends on it and that's why it's so important to put resources and effort and thought into into this. >> i believe a few things. so one thing is that our downtown is going through a reckoning and we have to bring it back and in order to do so we have to re-envision it. it cannot just be a place where

people go to work. i also believe that nightlife entertainment, performance art they're not going to be a crucial part of the of the re-envisioning of downtown. they'll actually be the main driving force for it because without them people simply aren't going to want to visit downtown. and we're talking about people who maybe are deciding whether or not to work from home on a friday. right. talking about visitors from overseas or other cities who would come to union square and shop and enjoy themselves are going to town and we're especially talking about people from there. even san francisco in the greater bay area who maybe never envisioned downtown as a place that they can go for nightlife. we're going through that reckoning now. a lot of our downtowns went through it in america over the last 2030 years. now it's our turn. entertainment is going to push that. i'm really excited about this legislation. it sends a message that union square and soma are back open and specifically for me a lot of our best nightlife and a lot of our best restaurants and hospitality and clubs they actually don't start downtown or soma. they start in the outer

neighborhoods. they start all over the city. but a lot of those operators have felt kind of priced out from downtown just it's really hard for them to get a foothold here and i expect that many people who are kind of thriving in other areas of the city will take a look at this and say now is my chance to move down here. and as far as i'm concerned that's exactly what we need. so i want to thank senator wiener. i want to thank mayor lurie for putting this together and the whole team i know there was a ton of effort put into it. i think it's a step in the right direction and let's go. >> thank you. thank you. that's that wraps it for us. >> we're happy to take some questions. i don't hurt any barrier. reporter i wanted to ask the mayor. yeah, we're going to work with raphael management board president on that. it's in the early stages but i'm very supportive and look forward to working with him on it.

what kind of about what that'll be up to the city will structure how it works yeah well they will go from there that's what they do. a lot of people work for jobs are good work. i want the boundaries be drawn. the city will draw the boundaries and i don't want to speak for mayor. i know there's been talk about, you know, union square. >> yeah. you ever going? i don't know if you want i mean we just looking at the hospitality zone so union square yerba buena center mosconi center really looking at it as a cohesive group. so that's that's the game plan but we'll work with our legislative partners on the board of supervisors as well. any other questions? okay. yeah, i love this. is there.

so you know, i don't know if is really whether it's like marketing later in time your quote. yeah i mean we're we're actually working now to make sure that our public transit systems are still functioning and not collapsing. so muni bar and you know always any opportunity to say this that the public needs to understand if we have inertia and nothing happens muni bar, ac transit caltrain will all have to enact huge service cuts and we we have to stop prevent that from happening and we will and that's why we're working in the state budget to try to support these systems and also to try to authorize a regional funding measure. other states fund public transportation at a much higher level than california does and

so we need to play some catch up. and so we need to shore up these systems and yes, i would love for them to go later. but job one is making sure that we assure them up and other questions. great. thank you so much everyone. >> thank you for thinking

♪♪ >> san francisco! ♪♪ >> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities,

symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place.

we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue

through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up

in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives.

>> my name is andrew england the owner and collector at real old paper. i'm a native to the bay areaismt grew up in oakland, spent high school years here and lived in hawaii about 10 years. moved back shortly. been in san francisco proper now for about 8 years. when i realized i wasn't a dealer anymore in san francisco, i found openings and decided to opening my own store in north beach in 2016. north beach was a great place to start. i got a neighborhood feel from it. i got involved in the community, but as far as business turnover, fisherman's wharf is 2 fold, 3 fold because there are so many more people here. we have been here going on 3 and a half years. i started as a hobbyist. i started collecting movie posters in high school.

not originals. just favorite. when i mouved to hawaii there was a gallery that specialized in viptage posters and that taught me about the variables beyond movies and that is where this is my career path and what iment to do. i with irked for them for 8 years, took a portion of pay in store credit so i built a collection basically and turned it into a brz. business. hobby turns business and forch int. i got bitten by the poster bug it spiraled out of control and i needed to a store to outlet my collection. san francisco has always had a viptage poster dating with 1970 with chicago new york and paris san francisco is a city with a area to buy vintage posters so people appreciate the time

capsule and history. all are vintage. most in the store is at least 40 plus years old, some back to the 1800s so we have some 140 years old. they are advertisement,b war propaganda from world war 1 and 2. movie and with travel posters and alcohol and tobaccos. thin pieces of paper meant to last maybe a mujt or 6 weeks. the lowest point was the pandemic. having to close the gallery so i didsant have a web store biltd or outlet and barely a instagram and told all the customers don't buy on line. can't be sure they are authentic or true colors or size or condition. it was very frustrating. it was a struggle until this opportunity presented itself and when i moved into this location on the wharf, there was still nobody here yet. we hadn't officially reopened but i rolled the dice, spent

everything i had left to build this place out, and give it one last shot. it worked out very well. it worked out very well. >> here we have the 1971 for the fight. ali and frazier first meeting. the one first professional loss. there is a lot that appreciate the story and understand the esthetic and message and nuances within the graphic. the champagne [indiscernible] wonderful piece. it carries both styles. it has the [indiscernible] in his garb. he has shoes and fits the earlier periods, but done in the style of art deco and that is what we offer and part of the experience knhing into the store. we will walk through the purchase and explain how we preserved it, what are the imperfections and what does the imagery mean. you have the older story and the newer story, pasted over the top. we will give you all that information.

about everything. it may not be your favorite piece until you heard the story. i are think i always had in the back of my mind a second location outside the state. i dream is tokyo, but i do a lot of consulting in las vegas with pon stars group so thought about opening a shop in las vegas. we like to branch out at some point. we are from here and where the company started and where we'll stay, we may just also open another store. i love being here. this is where my family is, this is where i was raised and not ready to leave that behind cht yes, people are looking for this store and there are fewer and fewer store fronts, brick and mortar like ours that outlet this thing. we offer the experience. i think it is very desirable collective subject matter because we are less and less acustoms. you can pick it while looking at it. examining the flaws and scale and color. you know what you are getting because you get that exact one. poster art is my area of

expertise and i have affinity for. poster art especially they are not meant to last are under appreciateated. real paper, the vintage gallery is 777 beach street, tuesday-saturday 11-5 and monday 12-5.

>> san francisco has always been very diverse, very progressive and not only open in other ways but music as well. musicians always want to try to find something new to play and if they are thinking about playing something new or different. i'm the product of the san francisco schools. i started when i was 10. i

joined the band and that was the most interesting instrument to play. and you have to be able to put yourselves in different situations. that's what made me better. if you do with two or three ingredients, that makes it pretty boring. most people know me for playing with carlos santana, touring the world all over the place. phenomenal place with music and also being around him you have a lot of fun and learning a lot about music and things beyond music too. this place is history, i have

been here many many times like any 70s and seen some really incredible groups and that is being here a number of times is kind of a full circle moment. it's really something that we cherish when we play is getting the energy back and forth with the audience and kind of a symbiotic thing. playing for the home crowd and your family is really a meaningful thing to be and just a fun place to be in. a lot of great memories seeing so many groups here over the

february 18th 2025. regular meeting of the municipal transportation agency board of directors. and parking authority commission to order secretary silva please call the roll before i call the roll i did want to announce that a side letter with t w local 250 a was sunshine at the january 21st meeting and while it was announced at that meeting that the ci letter would be