park. the city was in a very similar budget crisis in the late 80's and early 90's. the deferred maintenance to the park system of san francisco took numerous years, if not a decade, to catch up. as he sought in the presentation from phil, the number of years that recon park -- rec and park has realized a significant reduction in its budget, there will come a breaking point. one will be the line that shows the revenue that has been generated will stop, parks will not be a place where individuals and groups will want to come and use them and pay for it. secondly, the citizens of the city will not be able to enjoy what this city offers. on a final point, speaking to the need for increased park patrol, i can think back to about nine months ago on the way to work. i received a call that there had been a murder in the eastern part of the park. they originally told me it was within the growth. it was a tragic event. thankfully, it did not occur inside of the grove. but the violent crime that continues inside that part of the park as a result of the activity in the outer hai

parking. the lowest price the city can charge without creating a shortage. so the right price for curb parking in san francisco is rather like the supreme court's definition of pornography. i know it when i see it. and because san francisco set this policy goal for curb parking and how it should reform, the demand for parking will set prices. 30% of the households of san francisco don't own a car. and the city uses all the parking meter rev lieu to subsidize public transit. up until now, many poor people ride in buses that are mired in traffic, congested by richer drivers who are cruising for underpriced curb parking. you pay every time you board a bus, and that makes you think about whether you want to ride the bus. if you also pay the market price for curb parking every time you pull into space t. will also make you think about whether you want to drive. after shifting for a revenue goal for parking to an outcome goal and choosing the occupancy rate as a way to desire the effected outcome, elected officials will no longer have to vote on pricing. if too man

we imagine smaller neighborhoods parks and plazas in the city including portsmouth square, herman plaza, lincoln park, and upper douglas ca dog park. overall we have over 4,000 acres of recreation and open space we manage. we have an arena. i mentioned our 220 specific neighborhood parks but they include 179 playgrounds and play areas, 150 tennis courts and 82 recreation centers and clubhouses. soccer fields, ball fields, 35 community gardens, 27 off-leash dog areas, nine swimming pools, civil golf courses and three stadiums, vast inventory of open spaces and recreational assets. so as the steward of all of these various type of properties, it's our job to balance the many and often competing uses of our open space, from picnicers to ball players, from stolers to skateboarders, from naturalists to concert and entertainment lovers, our parks have been described as both the lungs and playgrounds of the city. they served everyone. we take our responsibility to steward, our historic assets and the character of the city's parks very seriously. we understand the importance of protecting these

supervisor avalos: was there discussion over this being implemented only in areas of the city where the park program was in existence? >> there was some discussion, but we have expanded the citywide time limit. we have moved at the city wide standard to two hours across the city as well. we are trying to give citizens more time to do what they need to do. right now the city wide standard is two hours. supervisor avalos: under the current parking meter program that we have, outside of park sf, how long does it take for a leader to get fix medicared? >> it depends on the exact meter. it takes us about 24 hours to 48 hours, once we are notified that the meter is broken. right now we do not have the backup software to tell us, in the background, and someone has to call us to tell us that the meter's broken. on sf park we can tell immediately. timing for those are much shorter. for the other city-wide meters, it takes 2448 hours. supervisor avalos: how often according to a collection? >> it depends on the routes. some routes we go there daily. other routes, we go there less frequently. we deploy

park patrol. we stored up to 50% of the city's real-estate. -- we steward up to 50% of the city's real-estate. we work closely with sfpd. we think there is a model which would improve coordination between the san francisco police department and our park patrol officers. we are also thinking that through and would like to bring that back to you. another one for us, which i think is really important to mention, is we have probably over 250 different buildings in our system. we have 4,000 acres of open space. our facility maintenance budget is $600,000 a year. this is not money that goes to pay plumbers. it is money that goes to buy pvc pipe. this is not money that goes to pay the salaries of carpenters. it is money that goes to pay for two by fours. if you break that down per acre of open space per year, it is $150 per acre or approximately $2,500 per structure. that is an area of great challenge and great need. we often get to the end of the year and are out of supplies to fix things. our staff has done an incredible job and deserves incredible stuff for doing more with less. but we are signific

we are in the process of trying to take a look at golden gate park, but frankly, there are certain locations in the city and certain types of facilities, which actually generate revenue that subsidizes those that do not. the idea of tracking inputs and outputs that each park becomes a little bit of a challenging conversation because we subsidize almost everything we do. so we use -- outside lands generate $1.1 million, does not all necessarily stay in gold and park. that goes into a larger bucket, which supports services, whether it be on the gardening side or custodial side all throughout the city. that understandably perhaps makes the numbers a little bit more challenging to understand. what comes in comes in, and we use it to provide the services that we provide. and that as an overview of how the department spends that revenue that we are generating, similar to pretty much every other city department, we devote the largest share of our budget to staffing. in the current year, we have a $72.7 million salary and fringe benefit budget. we spend over $17 million a year on services of other departments,

-- flees that area into the city parks. what is the city going to do to fund the inevitable cost increases? with such a dramatic budget shortfall all ready? we are pushing those costs from them on to the city and taxpayers, regardless of whether you are a dog owner or not. supervisor wiener: thank you. i have been working on this issue a lot. we talked a little bit about this before. i agree with you, sir. i think ggnra needs to take into account what the impact on the city are going to be before it moves forward. to its credit, i have a hearing on this on monday, and they will be there to listen to public comment, and they a been meeting with rec and park and animal control. i am more optimistic than i was a few weeks ago that they will adjust the plan. in my view, it is not acceptable. next question. >> hi. i am at the lgbt center. i the question for the mayor. -- i have a question for the mayor. oaw has been asked to review their budget. at the 30% level, they agreed tounfund programs. given the support for small business

the years, we love the parks you have made, and i am so glad that we stayed, right here with you, through the cityark years ♪ supervisor cohen: 80. mr. williams? -- thank you. >> good afternoon, i am mr. williams, president of the african american historical and cultural society, and i attended this. i want to thank supervisor: for the leadership on this and helping to bring this to a point where we try to bring this forward. as a number of people have said, this process has been going on for far too long, a lot of years, and we have a tremendously underutilized assets at executive park. by moving this board and allowing these good developers to put this asset to a better use, it will bring some tremendously need amenities to this sector of the city, to the southeast sector. just mincing that the jobs would be there -- just mentioning those. he mentioned that his hair could turn gray. he might lose it, too. koran i think this project will also help to integrate that with the city. i urge you to move this forward. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you, supervisor sohen. -- cohen. i am on the ba

authorizing the executive director to submit an application for statewide park program (proposition 84) grant funds for transbay cityrk. >> good morning. this item we are adding for authorization to apply for a state park grant program. it was authorized under prop 84 and they have recently begun a solicitation process. these are due april 1. we're looking for a 2 $5 million for a grant for the city parks, a rooftop park. the approval authorization is attached to your item. >> is there a motion to approve the resolution? >> second. >> all those in favor? opposed? passes unanimously. >> item 11 has passed without any members of the public wishing to address you. item 12. Ï»¿annual review of board policy no. 009, investment policy, and approval of minor changes to the policy. >> sarah will be reporting on this one. >> under our investment policy, you are required to review the policy every year. we are proposing just minor changes for your review this year. our investment policy continues to have the same three objectives that any governmental investment policy should have. first and foremost, safety of the principal.

funds, and today on your agenda, we're going to be asking for permission to apply for some park funds for the city park. so we're continuing to do that, and we will continue to look for funding to back fill or to augment our phase two work as we go ahead. that's all i have for today. if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer. >> i'd like to get our construction update. >> good morning, directors. steve rule with turner construction, construction management oversight. there we go. we had another great month of progress. we continue the demolition work, 46,000 hours now without any accidents or injuries to the workers. we completed the turnover of zone three, which used to be the old central portion of the old terminal to the subcontractor for staging of their shoring material that they've started construction on. and we completed the main demo on the bus ramps by completing the harrison overpass in the first week of may, so that is the end of our long closures and street closures there for the demolition. now it's just a lot of clean-up and processing of that material. with utility relocat

tourists and families for whom the ability to play in golden gate park is sometimes the difference, literally, between visiting and living in the city or going elsewhere. thus in the context of preserving golden gate park as historic district, we would have serious concerns with any form of landmarking in this park or others that restricts us from adapting to evolving recreation al needs or hampers our ability to maintain parks. we have some concerns about government under such a scenario. currently we have a commission responsible for overseeing the work of our department with a broad mandate to balance many and often competing interests. h.p.c. is a commission with a single mandate and while it plays an important and effective role in protecting our city's heritage, it is not necessarily charged with reconciling the complex policy priorities in our urban park system. it's worth noting the rec and park system has already adopted and guided by the golden gate park master plan, which has a very detailed and thoughtful road map on how best to preserve, maintain and enhance golden gate park as the class urban park it is. golden gate pa

city-wide policies for parking meters that are broken, giving you a parking cap. for example, if there is a 30 minute time limit in the city, this is particularly important for the areas that will not have time limits to create a use for a citywide policy to show that there is free parking in some of the areas and to issue fairness. we are asking for approval on this policy. we had originally recommended a 1 hour time limit, the board suggested two hours. supervisor avalos: was there discussion over this being implemented only in areas of the city where the park program was in existence? >> there was some discussion, but we have expanded the citywide time limit. we have moved at the city wide standard to two hours across the city as well. we are trying to give citizens more time to do what they need to do. right now the city wide standard is two hours. supervisor avalos: under the current parking meter program that we have, outside of park sf, how long does it take for a leader to get fix medicared? >> it depends on the exact meter. it takes us about 24 hours to 48

we imagine smaller neighborhoods parks and plazas in the city including portsmouth square, herman plaza, lincoln park, and upper douglas ca dog park. overall we have over 4,000 acres of recreation and open space we manage. we have an arena. i mentioned our 220 specific neighborhood parks but they include 179 playgrounds and play areas, 150 tennis courts and 82 recreation centers and clubhouses. soccer fields, ball fields, 35 community gardens, 27 off-leash dog areas, nine swimming pools, civil golf courses and three

in recent months, school districts in oklahoma city, jackson, mississippi, dallas and park city, utahnumerated policies that include sexual orientation and gender identity among their protections. and just last month, the state of arkansas passed an antibullying law, the eleventh state to do it. but state laws and district policies create only a patchwork quilt for protection of lgbt students. as a baseline matter of safety, we need to establish a national floor of protection upon which states and districts may build. as a national issue of equity we also need nondiscrimination protections for some of our nation's most vulnerable students. i encourage the commission to support the safe schools improvement act, a measure introduced in congress with bipartisan support in both chambers and broad-based support among education, youth development, health, religious and civil rights organizations. and the student nondiscrimination act which would extend nondiscrimination protections to students on the basis of their sexual orientation. you have heard testimony that to extend these protection

parks. >> where are the people going to go? they're going to go in city parks. we're marching into stern grove which is a city park as kind of a symbolic showing of what's going to happen if their plans go through. >> the national park service wants to restrict the places where dogs can run free in 21 areas of the golden gate national recreational area, including ocean beach, chrissy field and ft. mason. the park service says dogs can cause conflicts and do too much damage to the gnarl habitat there. opponents say the dogs have been there for years without causing problems and they say they've collected about 10,000 signatures so far and a petition they plan to send to the u.s. secretary of the interior. >>> there are some strong signs that the bay area's job market is starting to get back on its feet. new numbers show the bay area added 5400 jobs last month. those jobs are not evenly sdrbtd, though. the director of the business forecasting center told the oakland tribune that only part of theier bear with consistent gains, the only part is in the south bay. mean

it would include neighborhood parks, a city side art park, access to the water, sailing, and a fairly substantial urban form. the capital cost of the open space is about $124 million. the infrastructure is a total redo of the island. new utilities, new sidewalks. we purchased the land from the navy at a cost of $117 million, the cost borne by the developer. we will strengthen the island. 105 acres of the island will be significantly strengthened, as well as improvements to the perimeter for seismic reasons. there is also a significant plan for protecting against sea level rise. both of these have been in the works for five years, since our sea level strategy has been indoors. we raised the island about 2 feet above what exists now downtown, with accommodations to make changes in the future. this chart shows you in graphic form what we are doing to the island to protect against sea level rise. the mean high tide now is plus 5.5 feet from the low tide. the big flood elevation theme -- the flood plain is above 5.2 feet. today, it is plus nine to 12 feet from the low high tide. the grade

. >> smokers will not be a able to light up in cupertino city parks. cityassed the amendment to a new ordinance voting for the ban that is tougher than state law. they turned down another idea to prohibit smokeless tobacco projects like chewing tobacco. >> it could get the ax on monday. seven members of the unemployment insurance appeals board make $128,000 a year but they usually meet just once a month. six of the people on the board write right now are termed out lawmakers. >> this morning, stanley cup fever is reaching new heights in san jose. let's take a live look at the tank, it will start to get pretty busy. tickets go on sale at 10:00 for the home games against vancouver. tickets will be sold at hp pavilion at ticketmaster locations also are on ticketmaster.com. they are handing out wristbands for people in line. tickets are on sale because, of course, in game seven they survived a red wings team to advance to the conference finals for the second straight year. in the third period, patric marleau who hadn't scored a goal in the series came home for

we have the demand project for parking. the city has been a leader on various development projects and they are really helping us create the demand for more sustainable mode. the whole premise of this climate action strategy is to underscore the needs of transition. what ever we do creates demand for transit and we are one of the few cities in the country that has a system at full capacity. what ever we do, we need to make sure that we have the adequate supply of the transit system. next is the negro the complete streets program. that includes making our areas more safer walking. and your leadership on setting those goals, we really need to do these types of projects to see those goals have been. this is an area that we thought would have limited input from the city itself, but the influence on taxis and the provision of a lecture charging facilities. the average 10 times more than the resident vehicles in the city. we looked at all these different measures and we put them together with what they actually achieved by 2025. the reaso

it was lily hitchcock coit to give money to the city to beautify the city she loved of the park project worked to develop this south side and still that's the basis of our future project to address the north side. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor chu: hello, about an to the regular meeting of the budget finance committee. -- welcome to the regular meeting of the budget finance committee. our klerk today is mr. victor young. are there any announcements? >> please turn off all cell phones. if you wish to speak during public comment, please submit a speaker card to myself. items act upon today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda, may 10, 2011, unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: thank you very much. please call item no. 1. >> item #one. hearing regarding the city's five-year financial plan, a requirement of proposition a (2009). supervisor chu: thank you very much. this is the first time that it is required. we put together a five-year look into the future and so the hearing's purpose is really to be able to have us all understand

prepares to enforce a new law against smoking in city parks and on beaches. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: good evening. president obama fresh from that frosty meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu took his middle east peace plan directly to supporters of israel today. the president speaking to the american israel public affairs committee defended his proposal and tonight the reviews are in. witt johnson has more from the white house. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: president obama stood firm while providing reassurance to the crowd of nearly 10,000 pro-israel activists. >> the commitment of the united states to the security of israel is ironclad. >> reporter: the overall warm reception came two days after his stunning proposal, one no u.s. president has ever uttered publicly before. >> we believe the borders of israel and palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps. >> reporter: those borderlines which are a key palestinian demand were in place before israel's capture of jerusalem, gaz