with phil ginsberg and his staff. [inaudible]. collaborating partner, working in [speaker not understood] airs az of the city. i can say nothing but positive things about the progress [inaudible] and his staff at all levels, from 30,000 feet to looking, you know, looking through the bushes and the grass, it's a solid operation. all of the staff should be congratulated. we are proud partners of rec and park and know that there are issues obviously, but we have the greatest faith in the integrity and the good will and the vision of phil and the department and the staff at all levels. so, [inaudible]. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> good afternoon. thank you, supervisors. my nameis vanessa banks [speaker not understood] ~. speaking only as a representative, as a city official, i have been working for park and rec for two years now. ~ [inaudible] but i also speak for community as well in the apprenticeship program. it has been really helpful for a lot of people, but i have known to be inside of the program and i bel

thank you, phil ginsberg and the hatchery for hosting us. i use open data. our company was founded three years ago using open data. we are one of the first sustainable companies to use open data and be sustainable innovation, meaning we can generate revenue and keep mobile applications for government going. we are really excited to be here today. this is our official launch of apple-liscious. i would like to thank our team, kevin, rick robbins, moment of all [speaker not understood] for my cto and co-founder. this was a very long, long journey with the city, but we had the help of leaders like phil, mayor lee, jay driving behind the scenes, the efforts for business to work with government. and i think we've accomplished that with this unique partnership moving forward. we're excited now there's cross-department collaboration with the san francisco arts, with the san francisco public art which has now been thanks to sean working late last night, putting the public arts into golden gate park. this is providing access. it's providing efficiency, and it's provid

and then one other thing in terms of specifically phil ginsberg. he showed up at a ymca board -- richmond ymca board the other night. really remarkable example of partnership, in my mind. it was late in the evening. he didn't have to be there. but he just showed up to say that he wanted to be a partner with another organization that's important to at least supervisor mar's district. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> hello. i work for park and rec and also varsity baseball coach for june high school. park and rec 20 years, retired. as you well know. the park system how well they've improved. i've just been offered a lot of support by the staff that i work for. and i've seen the great things that we do here in san francisco for the kids and the community. and that's why i'm here to offer my support for our staff and for park and rec as a whole. that's it. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >>> good afternoon. thank you for the opportunity to speak. my name is angela bailey. i also work fo

and i think because of the very strong leadership in the department under phil ginsberg and very strong collaboration between [inaudible] 261 and the amazing employees of rec and park [inaudible]. groups who volunteer and work with our park employees to improve their neighborhood parks. and, of course, the voters who continually and overwhelmingly support investment in our parks [inaudible]. park system has [inaudible]. play grounds and replace broken irrigation system [inaudible]. levels of community engagement and parks that are really -- have struggled and are moving forward. and we continue to have recreational offerings and other programs that very well could have been cut. [inaudible]. and i really want to give a lot of credit to the management of the department, to the women [inaudible]. and to our city for making sure the department moves forward. so, yes, let's all continue to strongly support [inaudible]. to get on track to a middle class [inaudible]. >> supervisor, supervisor wiener . supervisor mar. >> [speaker not understood]. the presentation was wonderful and i just [inau

phil ginsberg stated, the department takes great pride in the gardner apprenticeship program as one ofhe partnership we created with local 261 to establish the very first ever state certified gardner apprenticeship program in california. and most importantly, to sustain it throughout difficult economic times. the program was instituted in june of 2010 and, in fact, the first apprentice staff was appointed out into the field in december 2010. there are 25 budgeted positions with a classification of 34 10, and we currently have 22 of them working with us. the department has invested $2.2 million in the overall apprenticeship program. and just to make the point of how critical and how important the program is to us, the $2.2 million investment is equal and very comparable to the department's preparatory unit which has a 24/7 city-wide coverage responsibilities and public safety park security functions throughout the city. the [speaker not understood] budget is $2.5 million project. the program -- >> is the park control in comparison, how many ftes? how many in comparison? >> 25. >> the [s

francisco, but we want to also encourage, examples we're going to be announcing yoyo working with phil ginsberg to provide data where are small parks or where the events are happening. what is the cost? how to get there in the hours that they're operating? a smart phone application for all of our events in recreation and park department, that to me is going to be invaluable to visitors and to our neighborhoods. bronwin who is working with us on data information from neighborhoods in our city, growth trends, that kind of data certainly is going to help a department like city planning who is trying to kind of figure out where the new neighborhoods in our city, what do we do from a planning and zoning effort, prioritizing. is it small businesses now in pier 70 area or do with we go high-rises downtown? what kind of people trends and business trends and constituent trends are happening in our neighborhoods * ? that data is there to be shared with our city planning. so we can plan for the future and make sure when we're not planning to limit the kind of growth that we want to encourage. >>> and then