this is buena vista parks. this is quezar park. this is mount davidson. look out for the rock. this is on telegraph park. this is stern grove. this is a little known park above candle stick. here's my friend jake, standing by a wall. this was rosy play ground. they turned it into a park and it was also restored by wpa. i believe they torn down the house, which was unforgivable and the zoo is wpa. and here's the murals inside the mother's building. the marina sea walls and great aquatic park. the palace of fine arts. we wouldn't have and a little further in, lake merit, this pier. alva rado park and then, some of you my recognize this. the berkeley rose garden. did it have to be this beautiful. finally, i'm going to wrap up. san francisco is rich in the various kinds of arts projects. we have a fabulous collection of stuff here. there were four components. there was visual arts, federal theater, federal musics and federal writers. they employed many people. this is excellent to show the work. the visual arts project. it was especially important in san francisco because of dieggo

this is buena vista parks. this is quezar park. this is mount davidson. look out for the rock. this is on telegraph park. this is stern grove. this is a little known park above candle stick. here's my

this year we increased our daily outreach in golden gate park and in buena vista park from 1 1/2 hours to two hours daily, meaning we are out every single morning from 4:30 to 6:30 with our park patrol, with the san francisco police department and our -- the department of public health to engage our illegal campers and to offer them services and to remind them of adherence -- the importance of adhering to the park code. this year each week we removed three tons of debris from golden gate park. three tons of debris is removed. >> can i ask a question there? is that people dumping things? >> yep. >> as opposed to just wrappers from picnics. >> it is shopping carts, it can be mattresses, it can be, you know, clothing, it can be, you know, we are challenged by people dumping things in our parks and this just shows how regular and persistent of a challenge that is. and actually how much debris we're actually removing. one of the most important keys to keeping our parks safe is act vasting our park spaces -- activating our park spaces. we've brought fun experiences to our parks and plazas, i

$164,760 from the san francisco conservation corps to rehabilitate trails and retaining walls at buena vista park>> good morning share and supervisors. the item we have before you is an accept and expend of it in place valued at $164,760, stated in the resolution, and this is for work done by the san francisco conservation corps on the southeast slow. the work actually is rehabilitation trails and retaining wall work, and the project is in progress and due to be completed this month. the recreation and park department is recommending that you approve this, you recommend the approval of this resolution. supervisor chu: thank you very much. questions from the committee? supervisor dufty: i just want to say i'm happy to sponsor this measure, and i want to thank the conservation corps for their great work. supervisor chu: thank you. members of the public who wish to speak on item 3? >> good morning, supervisors. i have lived in san francisco for 50 years. i would like to speak in support of this item, but i would also like to add a comment i think is relevant in regards to the conservation corps. i t

$164,760 from the san francisco conservation corps to rehabilitate trails and retaining walls at buena vista park>> good morning share and supervisors. the item we have before you is an accept and expend of it in place valued at $164,760, stated in the resolution, and this is for work done by the san francisco conservation corps on the southeast slow. the work actually is rehabilitation trails and retaining wall

coordinate it all and we have this which is under used and we did a partnership with buena vista school and gar field park has a swimming pool and we want to bring that up to par and it' important for families and we have ground cover for the socce games and the big deal is rec rigz forecreation for the kids will hang out on the corner and they have nothing to do and we're trying to increase the number of recreation centers here and work with after school programs andful having the community and i think we have done a lot but we have more to do. >> our philosophy is it's easie to work with youth before they get into gangs and we have programming and youth into positive experiences and provid job opportunities and make sure they have somebody they can tal to and what is effecting them and bring youths together and create leadership groups and they can talk to each other about the ares affecteing them and do things about the ares an they would come to us in the after school program and are gang involved and it's our job to make sure it's neutral area and get them involved and they are understanding the choi

for delores as well as we're looking at some increased police presence in golden gate park and one -- and buena vistas well. on a happier topic, as commissioner buell mentioned yesterday, was our playday on the green. we had over 2,000 children participate. and it was an enormous -- a smashing success. and then tomorrow is our first-ever day camp jamboree. it's going to start at 11:00 at kezar and there will be over 800 day campers who are going to participate. they will take part in a parade. they will sing camp songs. and they will also celebrate the 70th anniversary of silver tree day camp which is pretty cool. so please come one and all. and that concludes the general manager's report. commissioner buell: thank you very much. >> is there any public comment under the general manager's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. we're on item number four which is general public comment. 15 minutes. at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and that do not appear on the agenda

park. we conducted a community meeting at the randsle museum, did outreach to supervisor's office, several neighborhood groups, including the buena vista neighborhoods at corona heights neighborhood association, week of done up to date, about 24 hours of direct outreach to park users. so with that introduction, let me just turn it over briefly to kathy to explain the event. thank you. >> i'm the founder and executive director of volunteers for outdoor california. we conduct largescale weekend-long volunteer stewardship programs -- projects on public spaces throughout northern california, primarily the greater bay area. many of our projects are much more remote than corona heights park. but we have a commitment to urban parks as well and in recognition of that commitment, we've made a commitment to work with san francisco rec and parks each year. 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.