the recreation and park department will be responsible for irrigation. it goes on to talk about what your requirements. it talks about a lot of site access for construction. it talks about a project-related mitigation measures and who is responsible and takes that responsibility and gives it to recreation and parks department. it talks about the retrofits to the irrigation center to be able to use recycled water, and it makes a recreation and park responsibility. it makes recreation and parks responsible for training their staff, and it has the requirement there be a site supervisor who knows what they are doing and routine inspections. there is nothing in item 12 that approves or disapproves the project. it simply says if you have the project, recreation and park is responsible for spending the money and being responsible for it. whether we like it or not, back in 2008, they approved the project operator -- the procter. we said if policy makers are making the decision, let's hold on. we are waiting for policy makers to make the decision recreation and p

, sunnyside clubhouse, and other recreation and park department facilities. supervisor chu: thank you. we have the general manager before us. i want to say congratulations to you on a wonderful event that scare growth. we saw lots of kids and lots of families there. >> it was a terrific event, and the rain did not scare everyone away. this is the first of two give resolutions before you. this one was a kid from san francisco parks trust in the amount of $155,000, and this was really significant in our eyes. the parks trust supported us, and as you know, through our 2000 and 2008 parks funds, we have been able to renovate a number of facilities, but they did not contemplate putting anything in those facilities. we are extremely challenged with respect to materials and supplies to deliver quality and effective programming. during the last budget season, we pointed out that based on our current budget, the average, we have 25 full-service recreation centers, each one given approximately $16,000 in materials and supplies, and the national recreation and parks sta

recreational services to the community. it includes private non- commercial lodges, meeting halls, recreation buildings, or community facilities not publicly owned. without a doubt, the reference organizations primarily serve children under 18 years of age. there is no requirement in the planning code that they be state license. my client, the chinese gospel church, meets this issue. it provides social counseling and recreation gathering services to the sunset community. it is private. it is a non-commercial facility where people meet regularly. it is open to the community and not publicly owned. these facts are undisputed. they are not controverted. hence, the permit to operate the mcd in that particular location should be revoked or should not have been granted in the first instance. in this regard i can only characterize the planning commission's brief filed in support of the permit as being otherworldly. it attempts to pigeonhole various organizations into categories that exclude them from the explicit protection given

the joseph lee recreation center holds program for adults, youth, and tots. there are a variety of activities available, including basketball, flag football, table tennis, a teenager hiv prevention program, a homer program, cooking, gardening, our class, dance, and board games. activities for teenagers are offered from 3:30 until 5:00. the cost of operating the joseph lee recreation center is $378,000 per year. the fund gift of $54,021 per year will allow the center to serve citizens, helping to keep residents engaged in healthy activity. given our department but the challenges, we are grateful for the support. we can no longer do this alone. philanthropic partnerships will allow us to serve all constituencies, but in particular, those underserved communities that need it most. >> thank you. any questions from the committee? why don't we open this up for public comment. any members of the public debt would like to speak? seeing nothing, public comment is closed. thank you again for your presentation and to the family fund for all of their support for our recr

chairman, you understand that protection should not come at the expense of recreation.you understand that the city should not be wasting stimulus bonds. you understand that real species recovery and building a better public is something that go the eyes of the public. [tone] funds need to be spent by next september. we are counting on you for this issue. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker. after ernestine, we have adele carpenter. >> i am rachel and i am here for the same reason as barbara. i am a resident here in san francisco and a senior at usf. i will talk about the pacific recycling water project at sharp park, which is not on the agenda. i wanted to bring attention to the fact that this recycling -- recycled water project is going to devote 80% of the water to this golf course, which in no way am i against the use of recycled water. unfortunately, the future of sharp park golf courses on certain. the use of sharp park may soon change, which means the $5 million recycled water pipeline project may be a waste of federal stimulus dollars. furthermore,

the inspiration came from the recreation and parks signs that we see all through town. my first time, i saw the fleming and i said that this ha+ to be our new logo. everywhere you go, this is synonymous with the great parts of san francisco. we feel that fleming is an untapped resource for additional revenue. a lot of focus has been on the golf course. the 18-hole golf course has merits. g hopefully you will see the symmetry between the two brands. as we get into a national branding, i thought it was some point to talk about what the brand promises. this is bringing the magic of the pga tour to life. you notice that these brands are very similar. they were designed that way so people would instantly recognize +o pga-operated property.

colleagues, i believe there is a representative of the recreation and parks department here. if i could invite nick to reflect on the general manager's letter and welcome him back. president chiu: without objection, could we allow this individual to speak? >> thank you supervisors. -- thank you, supervisors. incorporating all of those parts that are adjacent. we have been committed to a healthy lifestyles very seriously. and healthy menu consisting of organic, locally grown products. in addition to the practice that we are already undertaking, our general manager has proposed to increase the partnership with the school district such that any proposed food vendor operating the park adjacent to a school, we would include the principle in the evaluation of whether or not such a park use would be appropriate. and we would coordinate with the principle of the school as well as the nutritional director for the school to help determine the appropriate location and then appropriate menu -- and inappropriate many -- an appropriate menu. >> i would like to acknowledge my staff member t

i also really want to thank our recreation staff. they poured their hearts and souls -- we now do a quarterly family event, so every fall, we have scare grove right around halloween. we have our tree lighting in december, and in the spring, we have eggstravaganza, and in the summer, we have marina played on the green where we bring kids in the city for a day of rights and activities and conable fair, so that has become now a part of tradition to do these quarterly family events. i wanted to turn back to the prop c scores, and i want to thank the controller's office for their support. i really do want to extend our thanks to the staff for all their great work, and the last person down there i want to thank the deserves an incredible amount of credit is our director of operations. he has overseen the program since its inception, and this has really professionalized -- denny's involvement has professionalize our department and staff and made it more accountable and transparent, and it does not happen without a lot of work and great mana

i am not a recreational pot smoker. i have worked in a professional office environment for 40 years. this is the second time i have had to defend my rights to better health. several years ago i had a sleeping disorder, insomnia, for needed desk, and our steel arthritis -- and osteoarthritis. i also suffered from chronic stress from working in a fast- paced environment. i received my medical marijuana card in 2009, was seeking medical marijuana. i sleep all night long, my lower back pain is completely gone. i used to think marijuana was addictive and a gateway drug. i now think that used properly as a medicine, it has worked wonders for me. please consider the permit issuance. there are others in my neighborhood cannot get around to other places and you will of thousands of people like me in sunset park side." president peterson: thank you. the next speaker, please? >> good evening. i have lived in san francisco for 60 years. for three years, i have been bringing my birds to the bay area bird hospital directly next door

key recreational and heart functions. we're very proud of our track record with historical renovations. only in cases where the community saw the need for a new, larger library was a new building design. we have received numerous historic preservation awards. we are very proud of our carnegie library, our workers progress buildings. we have several of those. and our century-old library that just celebrated 100 years last year, and with the opening of the park side library i invite you to attend this saturday, we will have renovated six mid- century modern library buildings. the existing building is not seismically safe, and it is woefully inadequate to meet the needs of a contemporary library and in keeping with the goals of the branch library improvement program, which is safe, accessible buildings. the library commission endorsed the new site. i urge you to reject landmarking the existing north beach library, as doing so will impede our progress towards realizing that vision toward a state of the art library for north b

a water treatment plant is a non-recreational building. because the charter section 4.113 regulates these approvals and requires them for new buildings, it is this commission pose a responsibility to implement these parts of the charter, so before public funds are prematurely spend on project plans and an eir for the golden gate park site, the first step is to find out if the new factory will be approved by both the board of supervisors and the voters of the city. it is important to understand that the charter specifies voting on new structures, which is a separate issue from the program to use recycled water, which i personally support, but not the factory. please agendize this matter as soon as possible and remember, the facility does not have to be located in golden gate park. all the plans of until late 2008 located this at the oceanside treatment plant. there are lots of ways of handling this. if you are not going to be the stewards of golden gate park, who is? and it is in the charter, so i'm sure you would like to do that work. than

first, i wanted to create a single emission's pass for all of the recreation and parks department. this pass would be good for one day. the japanese tea garden and botanical gardens. it would have resident and nonresident rates that would provide a few dollars' savings, and it would require all contracts or grant agreements to collect entrance fees and authorize this at recreation and park facilities, that it be approved by the commission. until now, there is no process that requires that each of the board of supervisors or the recreation and park commission be given that authority for approving the particular agreement. we would like to see a process of sunshine instituted so that this is now being instituted and held accountable. next, i am submitting an ordinance for amending the re- entry console. it has been doing extremely well. they have distributed more than 13,000 copies of its getting out and staying out of the criminal justice resources system guide. jails and prisons. they will finalize the reentry strategic report december 7. they will convene a statewide network this

all the recreational areas are heavily used on weekends. we have the group picnic area which should accommodate 200 people, tennis courts are full. it also has 3 playground areas. the ampitheater was built in 1972. it was the home of the first blues festival. given the fact that jerry garcia used to play in this park, he was from this neighborhood, everybody knows his reputation. we thought what a great thing it would be to have an ampitheater named after jerry garcia. that is a name that has panache. it brings people from all over the bay area to the ampitheater. the calls that come in, we'd like to do a concert at the jerry garcia ampitheater and we do everything we can to accommodate them and help them because it gets people into the park. people like a lot of color and that's what they call a park. other people don't. you have to try to reconcile all those different points of view. what should a park look like and what should it have? should it be manicured, should it be nice little cobblestones around all of the paths and like that. th