of the park. it is absolutely completely different. we began, so as the construction back in 2013, we expect to have completion december 10, 2014, right around the corner. we began the conversations with the community as we realized the park was going to come along, how would they like this park activated and we had multiple community meetings and what we realized is that this is a really important park, this is a really important place to the community. this is a place that has a tremendous amount of folks. they wanted programming for all people, for kids, seniors, families, for adults. they have such a need for activation within a park. it became pretty apparent that this was not going to be able to be completed by any one organization. we did a unique approach. something we haven't done in any of our club houses as of yet. we decided we were going to bring in a collaboration with service providers to create a clubhouse partnership, but you can't have just a -- menagerie of organizations and the

this shows the parks that are scoring very high in the dark and parks that are scoring less. there is a percent between all the parks on the top and low end. all parks service areas are scoring about that 85 percent threshold which represents good maintenance. this is a little bit more detail on it. you will see the most of the psa's have had a minor fluctuation which has gone down a little bit. we have asked the controllers office to give us a little bit of guidance as to how much fluctuation represents the actual change that is subject -- substantial. the biggest drop is golden gate park and that biggest drop is changed since we changed the evaluation and we divided the sections that took many many hours into smaller sessions so the evaluators can get to every area and that was useful to the staff. of all of those areas, they drop. they were higher in prior years since we have been doing the evaluation. you can see that in the next slide. this slide, actually this is a great moment. we are at a crossroads. we are moving from a system we developed in 2006 and started using a

we get asked by other major city big park systems about our park maintenance scores as it has come up at other national park board meetings and it's an incredible useful tool and you get a little competitive and you always want to keep pushing and doing better. really this is not about scoring, this is about information. what are we doing well, what parks need more attention, handout you do we allocate staff and it's a really important tool. i also want to really commend and thank danny kern and lydia for their assistance in this program. >> thank you again. >> that was discussion only. we are now on item 11. >> excuse me, commissioner bonilla? >> sorry, i just had a question. on the lower performing parks, is this the intent of the staff to get together with the community and share those scores and engage them in helping to make the improvements so that we continue to up those scores in the lower performing parts? >> i will probably take that one and sarah may want to weigh in here, but steve did talk about how we use this internally and external one of the most important pieces of p

nobody from parks and rec came and said do you want a park on 23rd and folsom?a lot of people here and their family members are the ones who organized and get it. how can we ep[shrao-ur/] that we have access to it after we have built it. [ applause ]. >> julian ball, denise dory, guillermo alvez, nancy mcnery, katherine howard, et cetera. ? >> good morning commissioners, catherine howard and we support the kids and their efforts to open the playing fields to all players. it's important for city kids to have the opportunity to enjoy nature and also enjoying active recreation and this happens now in golden gate park. golden gate park has a special place in san francisco. that is why we have asked people to vote yes on h. i also want to talk about privatization, because this is what everyone is really here about today. if you think that the privatization of the mission playground is bad, just wait until proposition i passes. it's being described as "good for kids." that is not true. it was written to take away control of our parks from the neighborhoods. you don't

we have four parks, garfield, rolf park, larossa park, et cetera. we have been hearing rumbles for quite a few years now regarding those parks and access. it started with when the parks we're being rehabilitated. one thing i want to say, too, i have been hearing people say this is a rule -- you know, that people have to follow rules, but rules are not always right. rules sometimes don't work. so we have to have the power to be able to look at those rules and look at those laws and see how they are working or not work and like now it's not working. there was one family that i heard about that was at the park and asked to leave by a woman with a permit. the next day they checked to see if that particular hour and time was reserved and it was not. so the park sat there without being used. this is evidently a system that is not working and it's not utilizing that space. another instance is where -- i'm going to speak for rita alvarar. rita has been working with that park for decades, making sure that the park is activity and safe and making sure that pa

to controversial park renovations. lafayette park has many stories to tell. but its views, locations and one of the city's most desirable neighborhoods in the city, it has -- this park has a way of igniting people's passions about green space. and we've got the permit appeals to prove it. >>> yea! >> it is this passion that made la fay it park what it is today. and i want to talk about the community and partnership involved. so, in 2008 san francisco voter displayed their passion for this park by approving an $185 million bond to improve parks, rec centers and play grounds like this one all across the city. more than $10 million of that bond were invested here in lafayette park and you're going to see even more improvements around the city as we start implementing the 2012 parks bond. yeah. (applause) >> by the way, if you're wearing a rec and park sticker today, raise your hand. yeah, woo, look at that. but government can't do it alone, we know that, right? and it's the passion of groups like the friends of lafayette park and the friends of lafayette park pl

this shows the parks that are scoring very high in the dark and parks that are scoring less. there is a percent between all the parks on the top and low end. all parks service areas are scoring about that 85 percent threshold which represents good maintenance. this is a little bit more detail on it. you will see the most of the psa's have had a minor fluctuation which has gone down a little bit. we have asked the controllers office to give us a little bit of guidance as to how much fluctuation represents the actual change that is subject -- substantial. the biggest drop is golden gate park and that biggest drop is changed since we changed the evaluation and we divided the

in new orleans the national park is present at jazz national historical park. and it would be easy for the park service just to tell the story right in the middle of the french quarter but we're trying to tell the story further afield and making sure the homes of the musicians are saved in their context not as the last home standing, of course katrina got in the way of that. >> hello. i thoroughly enjoy each of your presentations. i actually grew up in rosealynn poreman andize bell told me to say i remieg rated. i went to coralsis high school at the back of the pullman porter museum however i didn't know that. it wasn't until i graduated from ucla, came back home to organize kids on the south side of chicago that i even knew the museum was tlx. then i got hooked up with lynn hughes the founder of the museum and then incredible what you said, dr. mal indiaependemalindh being sexist and then this woman finds this museum and gives him an opportunity to pay him some attention. but as a young person i didn't know anything about a.phillip randolph. and i'm sure that

park open on the weekends. that was going to be the time when we didn't think it could happen. you put your money where your mouth is in the sense that you will provide the staff and allow the park to be open. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please? >> good morning. my name is leslie, the associate executive director for the central ymca in the tenderloin and on behalf of the ymca in san francisco we are very very excited to be part of this huge partnership with so many organizations. the central ymca is extremely excited to be able to support the success of the park with so many hours of programming per week. we are excited to make this a very inclusive park for seniors and adults and you. i wanted to extend the support. >> next speaker. >> hi, i'm with the tenderloin safe passage, one of the organizations at boeddeker, safe passage is about a community effort to build a culture of safety in the tenderloin and we have done that by identifying routes in the neighborhoods where we have volunteers posted t

bow decker park. the much anticipated opening of bow decker playground will be open with be nearing completion on a project that is transforming tenderloin neighborhood park for an amazing beautiful park. the opening event on december 10th will feature a ribbon cutting ceremony with all of our partners. this is the third park to be renovated with tpl including hayes valley playground and balboa park in 2012. ppl has done a number of renovations in our city as well. last announcement, two acknowledgements. winter registration. it is amazing how quickly the fall season has come and almost gone. now it time to get ready for winter. registration for popular winter programs begin saturday at 10 :00 a.m. online and 13 sites around the city with hundreds of classes and sites for everyone in the neighborhood. we have art classes, martial arts classes and classes for seniors and yoga for adults. log on to our winter catalog today. two very special acknowledgements. the first, i would like to bring up rudy corp

single-unit park. those parks are keeping kids safe. i buried over 80 kids in the last ten years that we worked with. these kids that are here, every single one of the kids i have worked at either everett, mission or others in the community. i have emailed various people at parks and recreation and received little to no support until they video came out and we started being heard. i'm asking to you please come out and check our parks. do an assessment of the parks in the mission and it's embarrassing that we are saying that we have the best parks in the world when we don't. i ask you to come and see where you are putting our kids to play in. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you. [ reading speakers' names ] >> i have been playing there for 14 years and when it was asphalt, nobody cared about that field. it was completely abandoned

park's budget was cut dramatically and got rid of all of their rec and park employees.hat they did, they started to hire 6-figure employees who they gave bonuses to, to find people who would donate to rec and park to help rec and park and all of a sudden rec and park stopped serving the people in the city and started serving people with money. and what you have seen over the last five years with privatization is there is more emphasis on people with money than there are with people in the community that pay for the you ballot measures that rec and park has been paying for. so i want to thank the people in the mission for pointing this out. it's going all through town and as affected -- they are trying to keep the fields open much longer to collect as much money as possible. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> elizabeth. >> hi. i lived right across from mission playground since 1992 until 2005 when i ended up having to move out because of this displacement basically. somebody who had more money basically forced me out of my home. i had to move to potrero hill. i feel li

this park isory of about a gift that really all is after our founders. one provided a very large section of our existing parks department today. likes that perkins philosophy, so he informed his children that is what he is going to do. charles perkins was a friend of general palmer's, and he owned the burlington railroad, probably speculated on developing some of this land. so because palmer was engaged in wanting to make certain that the right environment for the people who were going to live here, he adopted his same philosophy. so when it came time to do something with this property, it was easy for him to make the decision that it would stay a park and be forever free to the people, and it stays that way today. unusual for a city parks and recreation department to have to take on something that really has national significance. this has always been a draw, and people come here for two natural reasons, in addition to health and other things, but they come to see america's mountain and they come for the garden of the gods. those are the natural reasons

i'm thankful for our city parks. get out and play. >> i want to thank sarah ballard and dave tolman for putting together such an amazing video and on behalf of the men and women at the recreation and parks we want to wish everybody a happy thanksgiving. >> we are on item six, san francisco zoo. good morning. i'm tonya peterson, director of san francisco zoo. i wanted to show you this picture. that picture was taken over a year ago and it reflects one of the greatest moments i have had in my career as a zoo director. the other great moment was a similar incident a year prior, two 2 years prior when i held and fed cassani, cabibi's older brother. and i was trying to change the diaper and just like my own son, there was a bit of a mishap. these are two of my greatest moments, not only because the zoo participated in saving endangered species, but we were able to save two babies who faced the ultimate rejection, that of their mother. in nature's cruel way, both infants had been rejected by their mother, but amazingly nur

city has well over 150 parks, but this is the park that is the most significant because of the national draw. it is unusual to have to maintain something like this with the same kind of dollars you would perhaps do a neighborhood or smaller community park. in 1995, a foundation was established by a benefactor of to create a system for the visitors center to be owned by the foundation and that the profits from the visitors center would go to help maintain the garden of the gods park. we are proud of that effort, because this is so significant. they attempted to make this a national park. they were trying to combined garden of the gods and pike's peak, but there was too much privately owned land between the two. that request was set aside by i think, and otherwise it would have been if not the first, the second national park. yellowstone certainly captured that. this remains a draw to an excess of two, two and a half million according to park records today. when you get that kind of attention, you know the economic >> lout the weekend, american -- americant the weekend, history tv is feat

support for maclaren park. no. one, we are having things done and it going to be a much safer route through the park. the other programs that recreation and parks has is green major which is most importantly the most important part which people come and play in the playgrounds and the field, without the green ageers, they are there to help us at least once every month and finally with all the amenities and the money and the attention that is being focused at maclaren park at the recent trail head planting which the general manager got on his hands and knees and got his hands dirty. >> dow -- do you have a photo of that? >> yes. i do. i have proof and also the glen eagles golf course, and the new trails coming in, thank you thank you thank you. i would like to extend an invitation to all the commissioners. i would love to take you through a personal tour of all of our highlights. again, thank you. as a small token we just wanted to label you with some of our maclaren park t-shirts. >> thank you very much. >> next sp

we have the park it in, park it out campaign in the parks. we have the pick it up on the street. and next week we'll be bringing in new buses into san francisco and we're working with the mta to make sure that when you ride the bus that the buses are clean. so, we have a booth over there. please visit our booth. we have lots of information, a bare minimum, sign the pledge that you want to see san francisco be a cleaner city. thank you for this event. congratulations, and i know we're all going to see many more of these parks all across san francisco as nice and beautiful as this one. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. when i say pack it in, you say... pack it in. pack it in. >> pack it in. >> if you pack it in >> pack it out. >> thank you. all right. our final speaker before we cut the ribbon is matt o'grady, the parks alliance. it is our nonprofit partner. they are with us every step of the way advocating for better open space, for more funding for open space, for better play grounds, for more parks, and we can't do it without them. so, i want to welcome matt. i also want to ca

the parks are working on a. we have a park 20 miles away and there is a heritage area in the city of detroit. there are a number of people who have said to me in the last couple of years, i think it would be great if the national park service -- and they fill in the blank with something in detroit that makes me shudder. whether it is the first baptist or the second baptist church of detroit, which is a lively congregation and needs no help from the park service that could not be resolved with a small check, but they certainly do not need rangers, and motown, absolutely needs no park rangers. i have fascinated by the opportunity that we could have on detroit with community activism. in new orleans, the national park is present at jazz national historical park, and it would be easy for the park service just to tell the story right in the middle in the french quarter. we're trying to tell the story through being active by making certain the homes of the musicians are safe in their context, not as the last home stan

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 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite p

if an suv comes to park at the last parking place there, it is impossible to exit my garage. there's a large pickup truck cab white with big letters macarthy on it friday afternoon. the the person leaves with a bottle of wine visits his friends he has a sticker and stays until monday morning at which time i can't get out of my garage it's not possible. i can show you some -- all i'm asking is to move the sign 8 feet i don't think it's very much. there's one other solution and if it that's impossible i can show you this. this would also be possible if you have designated that one place as compact i would like to get out of my garage when i want to. >> thank you sir. >> enough said. thank you very much. >> next speaker please? >> good afternoon commission. i sympathize with mr. hunt but the reality is this -- two large planters are put each side of his garage and that absolutely impairs visibility to make a 3 point turn to get out of his garage they are his planters on a public right of way. if you take the planters away by the way this is not just in an,al ye it's all over tel

in our parks and open spaces. the greenagers program encourages park usage by developing group leader advocates to foster community participation in parkland recreation enhancement projects. if awarded this department will support the greenagers to 2020. the request for the grant to secure approval for the body and conduct any authority and which requires documentation and this provides fund -- allocation. with that, i would like to introduce kimberly of the department volunteer services who will tell you more about the greenagers program. >> thank you. i just want to give a few moments and discuss the program and would like to thank all of those involved in the park conservation program. it's to provide programs to kids in the neighborhood. an application and interview process that is

we witnessed a parking employee writing citations for several cars who parked in the parking lot fore than 90 minutes. he used an electronic reader that looks similar to the ones the city parking enforcement officer uses. i caught up with darlene after she got a ticket in the laurel village parking lot from a company called parking control service. pcs. >> i was trying to find parking. i just wanted to run in and get something to eat. it looked like i couldn't park here. >> who do you think wrote that ticket? >> the meter people? >> no. it is a private company. it has nothing to do with the government. >> oh really? >> yeah. >> so your point? does it mean i don't have to pay it? >> that is the question. the attorney general doesn't think so. in 2011 she issued a legal opinion about this. >> according to the attorney general a landowner does not have the authority to issue these kinds of documents. >> that is david levine. he is a professor at hastings law school. he says harris' opinion is not law, but could be used as a defense this court. >> when the california attorney general iss

public lands that came with the skate park and there has been a lot of improvements in the park and now we are facing with the balboa pool design 50 years ago. the design led three particular community meetings initiated by recreation and parks and the last one he had to tell us the sorry news that there was $1.5 million in seismic renovation work that had been unanticipated and had to be closed. i'm here to thank folks and for shawn, the director of aquatics for attending the meeting last monday and making it clear to us that the department was committed to bridging this gap. i'm aware of the fact that tony moran was the miracle worker and we are $600,000 to the good although it's not come before the full commission. i don't have t-shirts for you. i'm working on this and you can anticipate something in that vein, but i don't want you to construe that as a bribe. i want to say thank you, and i want to say this you for making yourself available to the community and i want to assure you that the community looks for a role in helping to make the pool something that two more generations was

the city solution to the erosion of the park was literally falling down. we still put a chain link fence around it. we said, wait a minute, this is icon i can, we have to take care of it, so, we did. we also did studies on traffic, on the coyt tower bus, tourism traffic and we worked with the city to re-route the coyt tower bus so it would stop at fisherman's wharf and take people on the bus instead of in cars. i think we've been a very cooperative group as far as enhancing that part of the hill. the driveway that would come from the proposed project is just 40 feet maybe from where there are tiles on filbert steps they have my granddaughter's names on the steps. so, i have a great -- what shall i say? great interest in keeping that project safe. i have a great interest in keeping it beautiful and letting everyone enjoy the view. i am concerned about safety and [speaker not understood]. please, plea uphold our appeal. thank you. >> let me ask if there are any other members of the public who wish to speak on [speaker not understood]? okay. at this time why

the way the park feels for many months of the year. why didn't people make a stink out of this? this is blotting out the sunshine in the premier park certainly in new york city, maybe the world. where was the outcry? >> there was an outcry in the 1980s when the park was also threatened by overbearing developers. warren st. john had just arrived in the city as a college student. >> one of the first big civic actions that i heard about was an umbrella protest in central park organized by jacqueline onassis and others. and they were protesting a building that was going up on columbus circle that was going to throw a big shadow across central park. a thousand people showed up with umbrellas to form the line that the shadow would form. >> my wife judith and i raised our umbrellas and joined the line of neighbors from all around the park. jackie o.'s stature, combined with people power, caused the developer to back off and scale down the height of his new building. still big but casting less of a monstrous shadow across the park. now, with t

the park is rich with eucalyptus trees. long paths allow you to meander, perfect for a dog walking in a wooded environment. >> i enjoy the history. the diversity of nature that exists in such an urban city, concrete streets, cars, we have this oasis of the natural environment. it reminds us of what the history was. >> there is a section for dogs and plenty of parking. transit is available on the 28 bus to get you very easily. the part is ada -- park is ada accessible. it is also a natural lake. this is your chance to stroll around the lake and let the kids run free. it also has many birds to watch. it is a place to find and appreciate what you -- a wonderful breath of fresh air. come and experience in this park and enjoy the people, picnics, and sunshine. this is a lovely place to take a stroll with your loved ones. in the middle of pacific heights, on top of these hills, it offers a great square, a peaceful beauty, large trees and grass and greenery. it features tables and benches, a playground, restaurants, and tennis cou

while, and the ymca and we have the new play grounds and mini, park and sergeant park and the civic center there is great stuff happening around here and i want to thank supervisor farrell to bringing the show here and show casing this incredible partnership. and most of these days, it is about gratitude and we are thankful for all of the champions and partners and i want to start with the mayor who is the park champion and recreation specialist and supervisor farrell who really you know, lives and breathes parks and kids and families and i, see them at events like this all over town. he really drove this and we are super grateful for his leadership in getting this done and i want to thank google and sf city and we can't do it alone and we really need partners and we are so thankful for google and that sf city stepped up and understood the need and helped us to implement and i obviously want to thank the industry administrator and the department of technology and my last special thanks is for my own staff and here at this special site, we have glen who is our facility coordinator and susan

over 150 parks. this is a park that is most significant because it is a national draw. it is unusual to have to maintain something i guess -- something like this with the same kind of dollars that you would pledge to a neighborhood park. the foundation was established by a benefactor of this park to create a system for the visitor center to be owned by the foundation and the profits from the visitor center would go to maintain the garden of the gods park. we are very proud of that effort. it is so significant. they attempted to make this a national park. they were chided combine -- they were trying to combine garden of the gods and pike's peak. there was too much privately-owned land between the two. it was set aside by congress. park.the second national yellowstone certainly captured that. but this remains a draw. in excess of 2 million people. when you get that kind of attention, you know the economic benefit to our region to have that kind of visitation come here, to see our natural resources. >> find out where c-span's local content vehicles are going next, on-line

you responded to the park. could you respond to the objections that were made regarding the stability of the hill. >> what was prepared for the project was basically a geotechnical report that is used to a session whether the project is even feasible from that standpoint and what we use that information for is to determine there could be any secondary effects from the type of film. other than the effects. but the review of the geotechnical issues is strictly within the purview of the department of building inspection and they have established regulatory procedures. and even a hide ened requirement in this area of the safety construction. there is established regulatory program that addresses geotechnical concern. as the project moves forward toward the building permit stage. >> and a final question, i think obviously the entire city we're concerned about pedestrian safety. this is a project that could [speaker not understood]. wonder if you could summarize on that. >> it is proposing a three-page parking garage

we witnessed a parking employee writing citations for several cars who parked in the parking lot for more than 90 minutes. he used an electronic reader that looks similar to the ones the city parking enforcement officer uses. i caught up with darlene after she got a ticket in the laurel village parking lot from a company called parking control service. pcs. >> i was trying to find parking. i just wanted to run in and get something to eat. it looked like i couldn't park here. >> who do you think wrote that ticket? >> the meter people? >> no. it is a private company. it has nothing to do with the government. >> oh really? >> yeah. >> so your point? does it mean i don't have to pay it? >> that is the question. the attorney general doesn't think so. in 2011 she issued a legal opinion about this. >> according to the attorney general a landowner does not have the authority to issue these kinds of documents. >> that is david levine. he is a professor at hastings law school. he says harris' opinion is not law, but could be used as a defense this court. >> when the california attorney general