back to rec night. in an effort to continue our outreach to the community about our department's new recreation model, we will be hosting back to rec night on september 29 at 34 recreation site as i cross the city. modeled after back to school night in our public school system, this is an opportunity for the community to meet the staff at their local recreation center or swimming pool, learn about our new recreation model and how they can participate and help determine the types of programs that are needed in their neighborhood. of course commissioners, you are all invited to stop by at any one of our 34 recreation centers across town and pools. on sunday, september 19, from noon to 3:00, the recreation and park department at the -- and the city fields foundation and a number of our community partners, including the neighborhood parks council, will officially open the newly renovated playfields. throughout the summer, athletes from the western edition have been enjoying the new fields and the consensus

rec and park has implemented recycling at all rec centers and composting has been implemented at most of our sites and that's something we're going to finish this year. rec and park and the public utilities commission which has been a terrific park for us have identified the top 12012 parks with the highest irrigation problems. $2.5 million has been allocated for repairs. our natural area staff has partnered with u.s. fish and wildlife services and city organizations to reintroduce the blue butterfly atop twin peaks and we're the first city in the nation to introduce the new green steam machine, a weed kill that are eliminates the use of pesticides around children's play areas. with respect to sustainable design, the department is committed to providing its newest parks and recreation facilities with sustainable features. renewable energy features have been included in all project designs. 100% of qualifying building construction and renovations meet lead silver standards and smaller standards comply with green building standards which were developed by this department. so we have the

we will be hosting "back to rec" site across the city. this is an opportunity for the community to meet the staff of their local recreation center or swimming pool, to sign up for classes and programs, and to learn how community members can participate and help determine the types of programs that would like to see. commissioners, you are invited to join us at all 34 of the sites if you can figure out how to do that. lastly, and perhaps most exciting, last year we talk about one of our department goals -- improving the way we communicate with the public. our department has been burdened with probably the worst website in city government at a time when it was most important that we have the technology and the tools to be able to communicate with the public. today, at long last, i am excited to share with you our new website. it is more user friendly and intuitive. it is a better communication tool for the public and staff. it is able to provide information on community events and news, better engages the public, and incurred his support wh

i have only been at rec-park for under a year. there was some original outreach a number of years ago. we had the publicly notified rec park commission hearing on august 5. on august 24 in the evening, i presented to the rincon hill neighbors at infinity towers, i believe. on september 2, we actually invited some of the community members who were interested in having a playground to come meet with us at the mcclarifien lodge and we discussed with them what that would entail. we are currently in the process of reviewing uses. they are actually interested in the concrete plaza just to the south. that's just to the right of the lawn. they're interested in that space. we're in the process right now of reviewing any sort of uses that might go on on that site. we have also connected them to the neighborhood parks trust so they could perhaps get involved in fundraising and looking how to make this reality. we are definitely behind adding playgrounds. and then finally, last tuesday night, we held a public meeting at peer one which was pre

do to preserve it at mission rec. it's a good program and we like it. president buell: one other question, too, regarding park unitas. they're talking about closing it. >> i put a memo in there that bob had gotten in touch with everyone and that they are not doing that. i apologize. president buell: ok. >> is there any public comment on this? seeing none, public comment is closed and 15 is adjournment. >> people move. >> moved and seconded. all those in favor. opposed, none. [meeting adjourned at 8:27 p.m..] . . . .

we have an emergency permit on file with rec and park for use of the cites. >> and in terms of rec and park most of the rec and park employees have gone through or going through training through the red cross. they are tied in to this they are a very strong partner. >> jamie. >> the same thing about park and rec and someone said about housing developments? >> yes. >> personnelly i would think if that come back to a neighborhood level. a lot of the developments have residents rooms and resident meeting that's an opportunity for team to do out reach and get scheduled into the meetings and talk about disaster preparedness and how to make a kit. there are quick easy ways to bring that topic up in the meetings and get people awear. >> is there an effort to get kits to people affording that and that sort of thing. >> that's a good question. there are challenges with giving out disaster supplies they require constant rotating and updates. twoshgs people use the supplies in the kit. which if you need them today you know then what are you going to do you will use the batteries and flashlights.

do to preserve it at mission rec. it's a good program and we like it. president buell: one other question, too, regarding park unitas. they're talking about closing it. >> i put a memo in there that bob had gotten in touch with everyone and that they are not doing that. i apologize. president buell: ok. >> is there any public comment on this? seeing none, public comment is closed and 15 is adjournment. >> people move. >> moved and seconded. all those in favor. opposed, none. [meeting adjourned at 8:27 p.m..] . . . . 1:41 supervisor chu: good morning and welcome to the city operations and neighborhood services committee. are there any announcements today? >> all persons attending this meeting are requested to turn off cell phones and pagers. if you wish to submit speaker cards, please place them in the container at the rail in front of you to your left. if you wish to submit copies of materials for members of the committee, please submit extra copies for the court. items sent out of committee today will be considered b

they created a flyer posted at the rec center, park and everywhere else. they held a meeting the following tuesday and invited members of the public to come and attend. there were about eight members of the public. they flyered every house across the streets and rang doorbells and talked to members of the public about it as well. the meeting was attended. feedback we received has been positive. supervisor maxwell support its as well as the bay view police station. this would be a community movie night and we are looking for your approval. >> is the applicant here? >> let me hear public comment. >> i live on the same street as the park and rec center and i love movie nights in san francisco. some of my best friends actually make movies. i am here to address the public outreach. the outreach did not happen. i never got a flyer. i live across the street from the little kids park. so somebody brokedown in their reporting back about the outreach i am afraid. when there is an outreach the people are enthusiastic and you would have gotten more than just eight peo

in 2007, rec and park constructed similar wetlands habitat improvements and public access improvements to india basin shoreline park and india basin open space. sorry. this is an example of some of the corporate volunteer participation with the environmental education programs. that is one of the points i wanted to make about the programs is that not only do they provide great value to the community but they also return value to the port, both in terms of many hours of volunteer labor that are contributed at the park, but also, less tangibly, in developing public and community support for stewardship of the park and the types of habitat the park houses. india basin open space is on the southern portion of india basin shoreline park. parts of both areas are constructed on port property, but were improved and have been operated and maintained jointly by rec park. rec park staff run a huge storage chip program and also in natural areas -- a youth stewardship program and also a natural areas program. both could complement the programs at heron's head park. similarly, india basin and heron'

and a great local landscape architectural firm did the con isn'tual work with park and rec staff and the mayor's office to see what kinds of things would fit best in this space. and during that process there was a lot of discussion over other ideas. and they worked with the mayor's office of homelessness about the need to find something that will activate this space to encourage folks to come and ution the space for more than -- and use the space for more than just a place to sleep at night. boston properties, they currently maintain this parcel as part of their original agreement with the city and all costs of maintaining the site today and going forward will be covered by bost properties -- by boston properties. that's the resurfacing, when the old materials wear out, the crushed oyster shells, they will replenish it and dampen it and the playing surface, tamp it down on occasion, the replacing of the turf, all these things would be done by boston properties. i mentioned the mayor's office of economic and work force development who have been definitely helping to push the ball forw

i think that's if the rec and park had negotiated with stowe lake at some point, i think the planning -- >> thank you. >> first of all, we were never informed about stowe lake adn teh rfq, and i think a lot of people were not -- and the rfq, and i think a lot of people were not. i agree with what bryan said. that is where i hide when i do not want to talk to anyone. i think to keep the food normal, when i hear of a branch that has what they are presented to the public is not the public, a kind of disturbs me. we have some very good purveyors made in the city, but i think we should look at san francisco products as much as we possibly can. 3, a gift shop -- i do not much need it. i think we should go into the recreation hangout, have a good time. something needs to be done with this building, and i think with the process, we could probably come up with some better compromises than what is here as far as the facility itself. i would like to ask the department to include all the groups because we are not always -, even though we have that reputation. we do compromises, and i think there

however, when we wrote our proposal, he agreed to every single item that the rec and park put forth.e agreed to buy a whole new fleet of boats, a beautiful state of the art electric boat's as well as the highest quality paddle and rowboats. i am partnership, a partner and i, having 25 years in the restaurant industry, 18 of those years put forth a proposal to exactly match the wishes of the rec and park department. we would continue to offer the stow lake pink popcorn and hot dogs, but we would also offer a small cafe in the boat house where customers could eat a sandwich or salad when they thought eating indoors would make it more pleasant dining experience. although there would be more seating, we agreed not to change the footprint of the boat house and made everything as per the city's request. we have been providing healthy and sustainable food much longer than it has been considered socially responsible to do so. i will skip the part about how we had an extensive recycling plant and so on, but in partnership with mr. mcclellan, who has had a proven track records of operating a b

this will be our third project with san francisco rec and parks. we've previously done a project at glen park. last year we did a project at mcclarne park. so this will be our third partnership with san francisco rec and parks. each in the prior -- of the prior experiences has been tremendous. we've gotten trems support and encouragement and involve from the neighbors. very multicultural involvement, in fact, at the other park project we had to do our project announcements in three languages to make sure that everyone there had a good, solid understanding of what we were trying to accomplish during the course of the day. the issue in front of you really is the camping and i wanted to provide youi wanted th some images typical of representatives can't environments. -- camp environment. we provide all the volunteers breakfast, lunch, and dinner on saturday. these are commercial style burner stove. what you won't see theire are te two fire extinguishers next to the stoves in the kitchen area. we have set up a table for volunteers to make their own lun

again here at the veterans memorial rec center, 251 city parkway. they are telling people to please come here if you need any help at all. live in san bruno, laura anthony, abc 7 news. >> thank you. we've been showing you the incredible pictures of the fire that broke out short lit after the explosion yesterday evening. and the heat that radiated out of it. mike found an important statistic here which is gas-fed fires like that one can reach temperatures of 3,000 and 3,600 degrees. that's why so many residents thought a plane crashed. that turned out to be wrong obviously. one frightened resident told us she thought the end of the world had come. >> fire coming down from behind our backyard. like all light. i thought this is judgment day. so it was really like the light. the noise. i think is say earthquake and then a little -- i think still -- you know, the sound. i'm really scared. and then fire's coming out and i go outside. my heart was beating so fast because the fire was so close like other houses and other neighbors. like i just can't imagine

-compliant, which the procurement standards do not allow the use of recs and the 51% goal.as you're going beyond that amount, only half of that percentage, to the 51%, could be made from recs. another clarification and addition based on feedback from this body and the pumplet u.c. at the last meeting is -- the p.u.c. at the last meeting is asking the proposer to provide details in terms of what they see as key metrics for evaluating the success of a program as well as what the proposer identifies as a target for opt-out rates, and if there's any issues associated to opt-out rates. and the last is pulling out of other areas and making its own sections abundantly clear that energy efficiency and response are fundamentally important to the portfolio. if you're going to try to do a side by side comparison of this document with the last one, there have been a lot of structral changes that are not substantive, but i'm quite proud of it, because this draft compared to the last draft, the team's worked really hard along with lafco, the city attorney and our own san francisco team t

within the department and parks and rec and d.p.w. and implements the priorities that are out there, i think we can give it a shot. president miguel: commissioner olague. vice president olague: i agree with the comments from peter cohen and not going to reiterate them and when we were looking at the neighborhood plans, i don't think the intent was to ever sort of go the route of in-kind and wasn't something that we have discuss ed in-depth or encouraged that and i didn't support that and members of both places were participating and trying to create a policy for in-kind agreements instead of an automatic green light on them. i feel comfortable with what is before us and especially a couple of years. >> there is the commitment of the department to come back and report on that faster review. >> it seems there is a public process attached to this and so i am comfortable with moving ahead with it today given that there's been a lot of public input and the opportunity for that when we have the in-kind come before us and will be back to us

you will assign the responsibility to rec and park for the mitigation measures that are contained in the agreement that we signed with north coast. the recreation and parks department, they would be paying the north coast county water district lowered costs compared to the capital component for that. >> recreation and parks is find the water not from us but from north coast? >> they pay a charge for existing water. they would basically be paying the constant and a charge for the water that is being generated. >> we are basically not part of the deal? >> we providing money for the construction of the recycled water project that it would be delivered by the -- water district. >> there is no direct offset. >> we consider these a demand because our water is going there. >> ok. >> so there would be an offset. >> yes. this would be about 3 million gallons a year or about 80,000 gallons per day >> right now, we are providing water and an agreement to north coast. the recycle water would be substituted for that. since the water would not be ours, there would be no reason for that agreement w

says -- parks and rec says there is a waiting list 3600 so they turned this unused track into double vaults. so people will be able to buy two plots for $11,000 each. >> this is actually right in the range, the midrange, to be honest with you. it's not on the high-end. >> reporter: robert lyles, cbs 5. >>> they caused outrage by padding their paychecks at the expense of average citizens and today, eight current and former employees of bell, california made their first court appearance. it was a bail hearing, but as dave lopez shows us, the judge is trying to determine where the money they want to use for bail is coming from. >>> reporter: >> first, need to to arraign all of -- we need to arraign all of these defendants. >> reporter: but that didn't happen because the one-time leaders of bell's government all wearing their issued jail garb through their attorneys said they couldn't enter a plea today. including robert rizzo, his attorney said mr. rizzo is ill in fact too ill to even understand the charges against him. >> this a complex case and for mr. rizzo to enter a plea i have to

the second is related to the use of recs. in terms of allowing you to provide the portfolios, there are benefits associated with this. there are some policy perspectives on that, so we limited those with a standard amount, which, right now, is currently 20%, with a goal of 51%. as you recall, the state requirements do not allow the use of these, so that 20% would be about them, and the difference between the 20% in the 15%i(.&m8zu2zÑi, half of thg from it, at most 15.5%. a figure that way, we can split the difference and it the value of the reduce costs for the portfolio but also giving a clear message that we're trying to seek the development of new resources. commissioner vietor: could i ask a question? >> the difference, 15.5%. is a 31% gap that could be made up. . we have limited that to 15.5%. >commissione: that means -- >> that is a number. they are of percentages. it is the 51% we're looking for in total. the 20% is gone. what is best left -- half of the remaining part can be used for this. that goes to 33%. vÑiat that

a memorial was held saturday at the fall ston rec center in the memory of joey treymont, the 14-year-old who died friday night crossing north of the bel- air bypass. they placed flowers, wrote sad notes and try to cope with the death of the popular boy. >> he was a good kid. we will miss him forever. >> reporter: joey played linebacker on the j.v. football team, played piano, wrote music and was well known in fall ston and bel-air. >> it is a shock to everybody. it is hard to believe he is gone. >> we have been at their house. we needed to bring the kids together. we had a ow youth minister there -- we had a youth minister there. they needed to be with the kids today. >> reporter: the police say the 19-year-old who struck joey had the right-of-way. >> north and south bound traffic had a steady green light. >> reporter: state police say the driver who struck the teenager probably could not see him when he was crossing the street because there was traffic stopped in the turn lane that was blocking the view. a business owner at the corner says he complained several times about the danger of

they would work with port and rec park to ensure the activities were consistent with and supportive of the natural resources management goals. i am proposing that we offer this grant opportunity for a four year term at a total amount not to exceed $415,000, including $119,000 for the fiscal year 2010-11 and $105,000 budgeted for 2011-12, and subsequent years' funding subsequent to each of those years' operating budget. i anticipate being able to advertise the opportunity in july with proposals due in august. proposals would be reviewed and evaluated by a selection panel of experts, including at least one representative from the surrounding community. i would hope to return to the commission at the end of september with a recommended grant. with that, i will close my presentation and be happy to take any questions. president fong: i have to speaker cards -- two speaker cards. the first one is jim chappel. do we have the item numbers given out? 9a, right? what does it say on your agenda? wells whitney was also going to speak on 9c. is there any public comment on this particular item. ? t

i was able to convince rec and pa the wickedrk -- i was able to convince rec and park that we could install this without doing damage to the city property. the engineer told us it had to be within 12 inches of the center line of the plaza. it disturbs my sense of symmetry. i kept trying to move my head. we had to listen to the engineers. there was very little latitude for artistic intervention. now that i have the city approvals lined up for the most part, i asked the gallery in new york if they would consider my proposal. joe baptista from the gallery supported the idea and obtained approval from the artist. this was the make or break moment in the project's history. thank you, pace gallery, joe, and zhang huan for loading us this wonderful piece of art. mr. howard adnd teresa hu met me for a drink. they asked what they could do. when i explained that i hoped it would help me to ship it from shanghai to san francisco at no cost to the city, that was my idea wish. my less than ideal wish was that they would do it and a great discounts. i caught them exchanging glances. howari caught them ex