it took about 13, 15 years in public. >> this is actually in golden gate park, the casino. it was a controversy at the time to have a place that serve liquor and had card games in golden gate park. eventually, it moved to 24th ave. >> we still have the newly recently refurbished stop along the great highway. the beach shall i -- chalet. i always find it ironic that these federal highway funds were used to refurbish this place for drivers to get a drink. terrific. [laughter] >> there were farms, and there were dairies, as these houses are starting to be built, and they are more conventional residents is, and they are still a farm. in the distance, you can see it is still sand dunes. >> and water once again from windmills and wells. >> there is a few small lakes. some of the lakes are natural lakes. they are not all man-made. >> it took a while to get the water lines out there. >> you can see the huge sand dune behind it. it was a challenge to get basic services. people would build houses, and instantly, a huge sand banks would blow in the night and basically close-up people's

well, for one thing, the golden gate park, the roads, the park commissioners were very jealous about. they didn't want anybody to use the golden gate park roads for commerce or transporting things. they wanted to keep it for recreation. so for a long time i thought maybe they used that streetcaroline on lincoln way, used the rail, somehow put the cars on some kind of fladbed rail thing, brought them out to the edge and dragged them across the sand, perhaps on sleds or something. i finally came across what heyman did in an article. he actually somehow talked the commissioners into using the golden gate park roads. so he -- remember, the apparatus, most of the machinery, is taken out of these cars which makes them a lot lighter. they're mostly wood at this point. they're probably brought out, pulled by horses through golden gate park road. then in 1892, the great highway gets improved. then he's only got maybe half a block of sandunes to drag these cars on to his land. now, once you get these cars kind of sitting in the sandunes and somebody buys a lot three blocks away, i don't know ex

throughout the city, when they finish a job any particular location, have to go back to the art at golden gate park? >> correct. our structural maintenance yard is in golden gate park. generally, what they do, it is instead of coming back after the completion of every job, they leave themselves a space of time at the end of the day and come back and do all other data entry into the computers at the art. essentially, this would eliminate that need and they would have additional time over the course of the day to be of repairing things. this is an efficiency measure. supervisor chu: this is a coit- approved project? >> is. >>supervisor chu: i would like o leave this item open in terms of the maintenance service equipment. given where the department is, i know you are short staffed in terms of partners, custodians, and everything else. to the extent we can keep people in the field as opposed to having to travel back and forth to close out projects, i get a good investment. colleagues, if we can take the remaining balance of closeout for projects worth $35,342, take the remaining balance of the recomme

everyone donated a certain amount to create golden gate park. they also created smaller parks. there were all part of the deal. >> a lot of people got moved closer to downtown as part of the deal. if you are out in the middle of nowhere land and had a couple of acres, they would trade you a better acres somewhere else. >> how was it decided to put it where it is? >> it was controversial. people thought they could not put a park there because it was all sand dunes. people were pushing for a large city park in other places. it was a political compromise. >> between lincoln and fulton and the beach. >> you're saying, why did they decide that exact plot? they brought someone from new york to come up with a park plan. they eventually made it a rectangle. they had the panhandle part. the panhandle was the same with as golden gate park, but there was dealmaking going on between park commissioners and they decided they would buy the land and cut off part of the panhandle. >> the development of lincoln park is interesting. you can see the cemetery. >> on the map, it is a cemetery. >> wh

the golden gate park. we started the design because we are designing things at risk. maybe these projects are not good projects. the environmental impact comes out, and you cannot even do it there. these have been very challenging. >> i have been reticent to continue to work on designer risk for designer plans and golden gate park. to russia those projects to try to meet the overall wsip date and get it wrong did not make sense to me -- to rush those projects. while we have not change their schedules, it would not surprise me if they change in the future. the siting of recycled water in san francisco is going to be a difficult thing. if i may suggest, i think we need to keep the same deadline. what if it needs to be changed, it should be changed. we do not have any type of timeframe, it would be unfortunate. >> if you could refresh my memory, when are we going to resolve the issue? >> you have asked us to come back after you had conducted some out reach. to make sure we can do that, we thought again, as opposed to rushing it and trying to get it back to this meeting,

i'm with the golden gate park preservation alliance. i would like to inform the general public about the revisions to the open space development known as the rose. this is a policy document that will cover planning for development and the direction all san francisco open space will be taken in. this includes our parks. this is now be reviewed by the planning department. i recommend the public go on line and read the document. we are working with a coalition of neighborhood groups to submit comments. if you are interested in other comments, contact us through our web site. thank you. >> good morning. i am one of two owners of the tennis partners. my other partner is unable to be here. he is a national competition coach and he is traveling with some of the players in that program. i am here specifically to talk about the process currently underway for management of the tennis pro shop and concession services at the park. a process to give a quick recap from my perspective where we are is that we conducted a process. three firms submitted

the closer also includes jfk drive, which links the highway with golden gate park. circus will perform in the park. that's 36th avenue and sparkles lane. the san francisco symphony will perform at 2:00. the best part of the sunday streets program, it is all free. looks like a lot of fun out there. >> starting out with gray condition outside right now but things will brighten up. downtown in the lower 60s today. we see part of a broken deck out there. we have airport delays, 36 minutes on arriving flights. the deck of the clouds extends to the east, not as far at liver mohr or concord, but to the north as well. we are starting out with numbers in the mid-50s for some of the lower locations. we are looking at the breeze making its way through the delta into the sacramento valley this afternoon. eventually the fog in the next several days will make its way through the gaps, as well. we are looking at the cooling trend getting underway and staying with us. 9 degrees of cooling from yesterday morning in redwood city with 4 degrees cooler in san rafael. temperatures coming

i'm with the golden gate park preservation alliance. i would like to let the public know the spur worked on through the recreation department will be available and i recommend contacting spur for the report. there will be a noontime meeting to talk about the report and i encourage the public to attend the meeting and submit comments. >> thank you. >> would anyone else like to comment under the president's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> good morning, commissioners. we have been celebrating national parks and recreation month in july. my report for this month is a reflection and celebration of all we do. i have a few an quarterly employee recognition and a video highlights for the month. play day on the green. the san francisco parks track and recs & parks will host a -- will host -- your families -- something else to do with your newborn, you are invited to join us. we hope to see a big crowd out there. mcclaren by park design meeting #two. a second design meeting is scheduled for thursday july 28th, from 6:00 to 8:00

you might try the casting pools at golden gate park. there is a tournament that started at 9:30. heather ishimaru reports from an often overlooked spot in san francisco. >> across the street from the golden gate park buffalo, next door to the san francisco police department stables, follow the signs to a little slice of peace and beauty that sparkles like a gem. casting pools are 1938 wpa project guilt for the golden gate casting club. 89-year-old man he has been here for the last 30 years and comes every day. he is known as the godfather here. he says it hasn't changed in the last three decades. they say the club started at another lake in 1933. >> two people had cast at the same time and people would go there and were able to practice casting. >> they convinced the city to build the pond. >> inside the lot are lockers filled with the stuff of history. the club has 500 members but the ponds are also open to the public. >> relaxing. it's out in the open listening to the birds. >> the ponds are internationally known, one of the few urban places to practice and learn. he learned her

john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in parks. we have 317 acres and god knows there's plenty of room for both of us. man and his best friend. early in the morning people before they go to work will walk their dogs or go on a jog themselves with their dogs. joggers love the park, there's 7 miles of hiking trails and there's off trail paths that hikers can take. all the recreational areas are heavily used on weekends. we have the g

. >> the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or maybe illegal or offensive or awful in some way. i am in the profession of going around and interviewing botanists, horticulturalists and plant scientists. they all seem to have some little plant tucked away in the corner of a greenhouse that maybe they weren't supposed to have. i got interested in this idea that maybe there was a dark side to plants. >> the white snake root. people who consumed milk or meat from a cow that

i'm with the golden gate park preservation alliance. i would like to let the public know the

golden gate park is cooler at the coast. in the mid-50s right now.will be a really nice day at the beach tomorrow, i think the temperatures are coming up. sunshine and sacral, 85 degrees upper 60s and low '70's from upper beach to stinson beach, the sea breeze at about 20 mi. to 30 mph. a lot of sunshine after a little fog in the morning hours. a nice day to get out and about across the bay area. temperatures for sun they're getting up into the '90s for the north bay. the east bay, and the south bay as well, notice a couple of pink spots, we could see a few locations that reach the triple digits. 80's closer to the bay, then for monday, the fourth of july the sea breeze will push back into the bay, that will cool things down and will see some '70s for sanford's is going oakland. then everything comes back up for tuesday. warming up, the sea breeze will back off and the temperatures will rise and possibly more triple digit heat into the east bay. for tomorrow, in the '90s for sonoma, close to 100 degrees at fairfield, san francisco going up to the mid

county of san francisco for its support of the fine arts museum which includes the museum in golden gate park and the palace of honor in lincoln park. i think the supervisors' budget analysts and mayor's budget analysts and other departments which have participated in the construction of our budget and would say over the past few days we have worked with those analysts to come to an understanding and acceptance of a reduction in our budget of $41,950. we do accept that, supervisors. >> madam chair, the number is $41,931 of general fund reductions for your consideration. supervisor chu: given the department is in agreement, can we take that without objection? thank you. we can take that without objection. >> thank you. supervisor chu: our next department is the recreation and parks department. recreation and parks department? >> good morning, supervisors. i'm from the recreation and park department and i'm happy to say we have reached agreement with the budget analysts. i'm happy answer any questions. supervisor chu: the department is in agreement with those cuts? >> yes. >> of that 576911: hu

opponents are concerned about alcohol consumption, and increased traffic. >>> san francisco's golden gate park along with other city parks may soon have new business partners. the examiner reports, the recreation, and parks department is considering allowing new businesses to reopen to allow new revenue. >>> the city of south san francisco wants to snuff out teen smoking. councilmembers tell the san francisco examiner, they do not want a second smoking shop, so the city extended a ban on issuing permits for stores that sell tobacco. city officials are also considering anti-smoking campaigns. >>> firefighters will conduct a prescribed burn along the peninsula tomorrow morning. cal fire crews and researchers from stanford university will use the burn to study the impacts of fire retardants. just over one acre of grassland will be burned. cal fire says it should only take about one hour. >>> contra coste county investigators are looking for vandals who popped over more than a dozen fire hydrants. authorities say fire hydrants were open some time between friday night, and saturday morning. fire of

it also includes jfk drive with links the highway with golden gate park. park. the san francisco symphony will perform at 2:00. the best part of the sunday streets program, it is all free. the weather should be pretty good for that sort of thing. >> yeah. you will need the jacket. it will be gray throughout much of the morning but then we will see some sunshine. more widespread 60s and 70s this afternoon as the 80s go a little further to the east. in fact, we are looking at that stratus filling in right now. here's the look from emeryville. it's at about 2,000 feet, the deck of low clouds. it will continue to retreat throughout the day today. it will peel back. we look at numbers anywhere from about 5 degrees below the average today. 52 fremont. we are looking at numbers compared to yesterday cooler, about 8 degrees cooler this morning in redwood city with 6 degrees cooler and 5 degrees cooler in napa. patchy fog in santa rosa. we are looking at low clouds the coastal drizzle perhaps and cooler temperatures mainly inland. you have experience the cool down

tomorrow morning at the embarkadaro through the city, golden gate park, precidio and across the golden gate bridge and back. delays and parking problems. use public transportation and drive accordingly. >>> talk about the dog days of summer. take a look to beat the heat one bulldog tried to drag his swimming pool inside where it was cooler. >> a little trouble getting through. eventually did get the pool inside but lost all the water. there it goes into the house. >> we need to invite that dog to come to the bay where where he would love the weather. >> he is obviously in texas where they continue with the heat wave that has been 20 days and longer. >> and their drought too. >> combined with the drought. very miserable conditions there. not so much across the bay area where we see low clouds and fog continuing to keep temperatures on the mild side. we are below normal for this time of year. we are looking at mid to low 80s for the hot spots. should be in the 90s right now. but this persistent fog bank keeping things cool even inland to the inland valleys here. we saw the fog clearing t

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if you're looking for something unusual to do this weekend, you might try casting pools at golden gate parku can get free fly fishing lessons and there is a tournament there, sunday. and there is an often overlooked spot. across the street from golden gate park, next door to the san francisco police department stables, just follow signs to a little slice of peace and beauty sparkling like a gem. this is a 1938 wpa project. this 89-year-old wasn't here then, but has been for the last 30 years. and now comes every day to watch the entrance. he's known as godfather here. says it hasn't changed much. >> the historian says the club started at stow lake in 1933. >> there is a tiny platform. people would go there, waiting their turn to be able to practice. >> this convinced the stoi bild a lodth and pond. inside of the lodge are floor to ceiling lockers filled with the stuff of fish stories. the club has 500 members but are opened to the public. >> relaxing. and this is being out in the hospital. -- open. you know? you can see it's here. >> the ponds are internationally known. one of the few place

i got to work closely with some of the main players in the entertainment community at golden gate park and that was quite an education. also the power of building relationships. i am -- have a have a private interest investment. i am sensitive to the importance of an economy for the city and a vibrant economy in the nighttime community and also sensitive to the balances around public safety. i may city resident, a fourth generation, fifth generation. i live in the city. while some folks might look at the community at a distance, i lived it. i spent a lot of time at restaurants, less so at music venues. when i have done so far is i had one meeting with the cmac board of directors to get acquainted. we have another for august t2. in mhy -- my personal philosophy is i value what i participate or also have to question. this is often found at the root of our problems. i am the -- a liaison to this commission. if you have questions, i'm glad to answer them. >> i want to say welcome. we're pleased to have you on board. it is nice to know you have an nba. -- mba, that is cool. >> i understand

we are lucky to have golden gate park.so many other institutions. but also, a lot of community arts centers. there is all these community arts space is that i just love, and it makes our neighborhoods a much more colorful and livable as well. >> what motivated your interest in politics? >> i guess i have always been passionate about civil rights and equality for everyone, and i have a 10-year-old daughter, so having a girl has made me much more sensitive to gender equality and other issues, but i guess i have always been someone that is vocal about my politics, but as a supervisor, and having to listen to many perspectives before making key decisions. as an activist in chinatown, i have always felt that working families and people who work in our neighborhoods need to have much more support. it is always about giving more voice to immigrants or the underserved and workers in the city. that is what drives my passion as a supervisor. >> tell me about the process of running for supervisor. what did you learn from the campaign