mclaren park tennis block party on saturday september 18 from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. we will co-hosts a tennis block party to celebrate the recently resurfaced tennis courts at mclaren park, another instance of brecht and park -- of rec and park community partnerships. we will urge enjoy tennis games, music, and prices. -- prizes. 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 w

i'm the president of friends of mclaren park.ne of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he 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 31

planning division has spent about 30% of their hours their hoursmclaren -- looking at mclaren park and the kinds of things that can happen there. the second-highest number is in district 10, so going back to the fact that we really want to look at how staffing is deployed in that area. one interesting thing that is mentioned in the report related to cleanliness, and she really did confirm i am looking at cleanliness gore's those features that are primarily managed -- solely managed by custodians such as restaurants consistently scored very high where we have direct control. occasionally, we have shared responsibilities for a cpa, and it works much better when the custodians are the primary responsibility in terms of those activities and they continue to score high. going back to the fact that they were added in 2007, we continue to see that reflected in our stores in terms of cleanliness. recommendations from the report, right at the top of the list of concerns was again, as we just talked about district 10 and 11, the controller's office suggests we look at it, and we are actively goi