. >> we are now on item 8, the golden gate park seguway tours. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am pleased to discuss with you today segway tours in golden gate park. it is a possible action to approve the selection of the san francisco electric tour company as the operator and authorize staff to enter into negotiations with the company for a lease to operate tours. as you know, segway tours are a fun, low-impact wait to see golden gate park's 2,000 acres. in march, we issued an rfp. in 2009, we conducted a trial. the trial operator followed eight route which was clever plea -- which was -- followed a route which was collectively developed. there was no known opposition or complaint. the selection process for this rfp require the operator have experience, the ability to finance the operation, and a robust marketing and business plan. we received responses from three entities. we had a three-member selection panel consisting of a member of the mayor's office of neighborhood service, a member of the streets division, and a capital division employees. proposals were scored on expe

golden gate park. i'm 100% confident that brian and his team, at the electric tour company, the work well with your staff, with your commission, with golden gate park users and create and operate a world class segue tour operation. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> lori, lauren, and then ross, please. >> good afternoon, corey roebuck from cable car sights. we have the motorized cable cars that have been driving around here since 1959 here in support of this item. i've actually had the opportunity to take a segway tour from fisherman's wharf. i can speak to the professionalism of the staff that was there. in the 50-minute training i had, the safety, courtesy towards other vehicles and pedestrians, very thorough. had no hesitation whatsoever in actually going out on the streets of san francisco. in fact, we brought our entire ticketing staff back, because we had such a great time on our tour. and my wife reminds me that i've promised to take her out as well. our tours crossed paths on at least thr

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

as i stressed national and by mid being instilled in services at golden gate park. ortega family enterprises has undertaken a wide variety of environmentally friendly management practices that have helped conserve energy and national resources while providing an exceptional model for kitchens and guests -- patrons and guests to follow in their lives. a strong focus on recycling and waste reduction has resulted in the designation of the ban earlier trading company as the first of on-cooperative sanctuary in the -- in new mexico. 95% recycled office products and 100% use of recycle food service material, water use reduction efforts and decreased energy consumption all speak to the conservation of resourcess. i would be happy to discuss the impressive track record at any time. it is also worth mentioning that our audubon-cooperative sanctuary program has been adopted by a variety of state and municipal park departments ranging from fort collins to los angeles county parks to south carolina and tennessee. i would also be happy to discuss these programs and opportunities

this plant will build a 40,000 square feet of buildings in one corner of golden gate park. the tallest building will be 30 feet in height. there will be new paving for the entry road and parking, nightlighting and gates. the purpose it is to use the aquifer water for drinking and treated water from the oceanside waste water plant for irrigation. we would like the people to come. we'd like the people to comment on the e. the i.r. and to turn in written comments. there's more information on our website. we are particularly concerned because the plant is being built above ground in gold epigate park where the master plan says it is supposed to be below grade. we would like to find another location for plant and fit absolutely has to be in the park, we would like different design alternatives so it can be built below grade and we have a lot more information on our website. thank you very much. president buell: thank you. >> lindsey? followed by rachel and followed by jamie. >> good afternoon, commissioners. >> i need you to speak into the mic. >> my name is lindsey. i'm a longti

archery at golden gate park. our play grounds. here it is in use today. this is bernal heights park. you can still see the gutters they put in there. 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

it is illegal to sleep in golden gate park overnight. the police say it does not detour homeless people. >>> if you find yourself in golden gate park towards the west end you will see fog around, right, mark? >> that is right. changes in the last two to three hours. the fog is on the increase. and the forecast beginning tomorrow right on into the holiday weekend. right now the maps i can show you this. a live storm tracker 2. there is the cloud bank off shore. it is slowly approaching the bay area coastline since about 12:00 this afternoon. there we go with the cloud deck already pushing into portions of san francisco and closetory ocean beach and right around golden gate park. there is a closer look right there. now there is san francisco out in the distance. there we go. the cloud layer pushing back into the bay. continuing to be on the increase overnight. the weather story is this. with the fog on the increase for tonight, cooling kicks in for tomorrow and more fog is expected this weekend. of the temperature pattern for tomorrow will

. >> their plan to build a water treatment plant in golden gate park next to the soccer field. the project will start this month. this consists of a complex building covering 40,000 square feet. one building will be 30 feet in height. this will include new paving and new parking. this will be lighted at night, affecting wildlife. this can be used in the park land. this is against the golden gate park master plan, and i would like to have more than one minute. i would like for everyone to come to the stoping session on september 23. there is more information on goldengatepark -- >> please come forward. >> good afternoon, commissioner. it is on the commission of nature in the city and the work at the recycling center. has since 1983, managing this in the 1980's. there has been a lot of negative press about the recycling center over the last couple of days. they're condemning the recycling center, and i want to tell you another story. we have recycling, a recycling center, but we have to have a native plant nursery in the city. we have planted over an acre of gardens of native pla

i'd like to fully support the addition to golden gate park. president kim: thank you. >> brian. >> good afternoon, commissioners, i'm brian huber. a couple of people mentioned my name earlier. the park staff did a great job of covering our operations. first, i want to thank you for putting this r.f.d. out here. it's a great opportunity for my company and to have a new activity inside the park. and i want to thank everybody that worked on the 2008 pilot program. they did the hard work on this and we're going to get some of the benefits of that. we operated the last five years, we are very safety-focused, and i'd like to welcome anyone to come out on our tours. we started doing test tours in the park and we don't have our route down yet. we're still working on that. we're offering free tours, so come on down and we'll take you out for the part of the route that we know. our material is not quite up to snuff yet, but we're getting there. the big focus for this is we want to co-exist with everything that's already in the park, pedestrians, even do

we're going to item number seven, golden gate park speedway meadow. jef>> good afternoon. my apologies for being late. we're back to present the resolution, we hope, on the cold color pigment. we had come to you and we had adjourned this at your request.

golden gate park the second annual horse shoe tournament. our annual show in the county fair buildings with our great partners. it is there, please join. sunday is sunday streets in golden gate park. we have a very busy weekend. last thing i want to remind you all around the corner on september 15th is the party for the parks. it will be held at the japanese teagarden in golden gate park. the very last announcement is i am very pleased and proud to report that our concourse fountain project is coming to an end. if you have been out there, they are testing the fountains now. you can actually see them on. while we may do a soft opening sooner, we will have our official turn on the fountains celebration on september 10th at 9:30 in the morning. and that concludes the general managers report. >> is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> thank you for arranging a tour of the outside lands. i got a chance to see the set occupy saturday. and then i came back on sunday evening and the one thing that i noticed was the size

we're going to item number seven, golden gate park speedway meadow. jef>> good afternoon. my apologies for being late. we're back to present the resolution, we hope, on the cold color pigment. we had come to you and we had adjourned this at your request. and assume responsibility on this and set up to meet with us about trying to find a compromise that will allow for this event that we learned is much loved by the public to take place, but the same time respecting and helping the park. we believe this is a compromise meeting many of these goals. let me go through some of the things that we have changed. the date is saturday, october 16. we could not do sunday, because sunday is the women's marathon. we moved this to one week later. when we have harley strickley, we have to

archery at golden gate park. our play grounds. here it is in use today. this is bernal heights park. you can still see the gutters they put in there. 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

one of the applicants had six years' experience leading tours in golden gate park. ortega, 20 years experience of preconceptions and public park lance. for the snow lake, 67 boats operating. for boat rental, one firm sites experience of one other principals working in all aspects of boating such as public safety, rental. 67 years' experience for the still lake corporation. experience managing capital projects, one of the principles was an architect and had 15 years of project management experience for that work. for the ortega families, they have managed 11 properties including your wouldst -- including muir woods. lastly, the stow lake corporation has done improvements to the boathouse, they have rebuilt the boat quist system. the proposed improvements, they propose a cafe, outdoor patio seating, the existing snack bar window would be retained and the existing office where it would be converted into a kitchen. for or take it, they proposed to run as a sense all portions of the building. -- for ortega, the proposed to renovate all portions of the building. they woul

the 1100 or so are seniors, living in senior housing. >> in upper haight activities in golden gate parknd the medical center have a big impact on the quality of life. let's see how the entities affect the haight and how haight residents affect the park and uc. >> haight ashbury neighborhood council is proud of the fact that the university of california san francisco parnassus campus is the only uc campus that was forced to impose upon itself and has maintained a growth limit, which is one of the reasons that we're very happy that they're moving to mission bay and that's where their continued growth will go. that's one of the real struggles, on going struggles in this neighborhood is dealing with ucsf, st. mary's, and other institutions. the previous three administrations have taken the position that recreation and parks department should be a revenue department, that it should basically produce enough revenue to pay for the maintenance of the park. the problem is, of course, that it doesn't. and that there is a fundamental and basic contradiction between maintenance of the parks, and re

most of my time is spent each and every sunday in san francisco golden gate park at sixth avenue, kennedyrive, and i've been here several times to speak to you, written letters, about the situation that's going there. and i want to take this opportunity to just let you know that we haven't had any movement to the problems that we're having there. each and every sunday, people come from all over the bay area to go skating in the park there on sunday. and what's happening is you got more and more people. you have skateboarders, you have bikes, you have a lot of different kind of people that are interacting here. and basically the law, and what's happening is this is outgrowing what i can handle. you have dogs that are loose, parents that are -- running into adults with their skate boards, people angry about the possibility of getting hurt. we have some people that went to the hospital behind accidents that happened between the clash of some of the people that come out there every sunday. now, i love this just to be taken care of, don't have to go to meetings or call police or any of that st

that's one of the restrooms in golden gate park. that's a plaque, carefully hidden. the gardeners prune the vine so you can have a chance of finding it. here's one at park and mont clar. they are using a facility that was built by that. finally, the public works is not well known, but should be. they gave grants and loans for dams and sewage. sewage treatment. airports et cetera. hopkins couldn't stand each other. and were constantly battling. they kicked the construction industry back to good health. the upper right one is the alameda park station. they could not aid the private agencies. alameda had its own electrical system. these are various projects. los angeles storm drain system. they raised the dam. your water is a product of pw a. they built the sacramento water reservoir. the fans were so well built that in fact, they are still in use. the engineers said we have to replace a ball bearing. we of course, have neglected our infrainstruct our and it's rated to be a d and dropping. so if you don't pay your taxes, things do fall down. much of it is things that wer