this is an incredible new rec center. it has been 50 years since it has been built, but it has been a 10-year struggle of the community. many of the people that are here to advocate with tremendous assistance to all wanted to thank the ong family for their support. also the rec and park department, dpw, and everyone is here. asian and neighborhoods and design, and many community groups have been key in supporting this. 20 years ago, over 20 years ago, when i could still run and jump the time, i used to play here regularly. i was an aspiring point guard on the basketball court. but i am so happy that new generations of young kids i can see back here will be the ones to benefit generations to come. also, mr. ginsberg mention the rec and park bond on the november ballot. we need to support that so that we have beautiful rec centers and play fields for everyone throughout the city, because it is an important part of making the city livable -- lovable and healthy for everyone. thank you for being here, everyone. i am proud to

rec and parks has a class for everyone.cover what is available now and get ready to get out and play. henri matisse. frida kahlo. andy warhol. discover the next great artist. get out and play and get inspired with toddler classes. experience art where making a mess is part of the process. classes and the size the artistic process rather than the product. children have the freedom to explore materials at their own pace and in their own way. talks love art, especially when they died into the creative process -- dive into the creative process. at the end of the classes, they have cleaned and washup. of.com great way to get out and play. for more information, visit sfrecpark.org. that out and play and get into the groove. rec and parks offers dance classes for seniors. first-time beginners or lifetime enthusiasts -- all are welcome. enjoy all types of music. latins also, country and western. it is a great way to exercise while having lots of fun. seniors learn basic moves and practice a variety of routines. improve your posture

the rec and park commission voted to accept this gift.m recommending this resolution go out with the committee report in order to help the department and with the huge crowds for the concert coming up in august. we are approaching this move forward to tomorrow. lisa branson from the rec and park department is here to answer any questions you might have. if there are no questions, we will go to public comments. seeing none no questions, is there anyone from the public who would like to speak. great. thank you. colleagues, can we move this forward as a committee report to go to the july 31, 2000 -- july 21 -- july 31, 2012 board of supervisors meeting. thank you. ms. miller, can you call item no. two? >> ordinates amending the san francisco help code by adding article 12c. >supervisor chiu: the legislation that we have in front of us is designed to encourage onsite water use and when the bill the. we opened a new puc building at 525 golden gate. this building is our real landmark. the building will use 60% less water due to a system that me

five rec senters are slated to close -- vigil. five rec centers are slated to close. they are upset the city is shutting them down. organizers say they started a movement this summer to get people to stand up against the closures and the city leaders who are make the decisions. the former naacp president for baltimore and local pastors will be among the guest speakers. it's planned for 7:30 tonight at mary rodman rec center. linda so, abc2 news. >>> it's going to be be a busy day in annapolis. state senate will take up a measure whether or not to permit table games in maryland. they are going to discuss allowing casinos. [audio not understandable] remember all this is happening on your dime. each day the special session cost you about 30,000 dollars. something to keep in mind. >>> 6:05. did you catch the game the ravens beat the falcons last night 31-17 and it was baltimore backups painter throwing three second half touchdown passes and flacco you know the guy, he was 9 of 12 on the night with 88 yards and one score for baltimore. next friday the ravens will be playin

nadia conrad wanted to make a brief presentation to the rec center. >> thank you. i am here with the office of tom amiano, and we wanted to congratulate this special day. we're happy to be part of the celebration. we love the fact that they chose a great and heroic individual to name this historic building after. so thank you very much for the invitation. >> thank you. [applause] part of what the recreation and park department has created to help us stewart, again under the model that we cannot do it along, all of our major recreation centers have recreation councils. the councils are composed of caring and committed community members that really will help us guide the center, help us keep it clean, help us protected, and tell us what kind of programming and special events are important to keep the center vibrant and robust. want to give a big shot to the betty ann ong community recreation council. many of the members are here today. [applause] our bond dollars allowance to build new buildings, but they did not actually allow us to put anything in the buildings. ag

this weekend four city rec centers arr closing....despite protests of dozens of residents.... the ccty has pledged to spend more than 19 million dollars to build three new centers......and renovate dozens more....facilities...m anyysay won't benefit those who need them... them... //neighborhood nats// here in north baltimore.... (8:42)i had a lot of memories.....the ending of an era.....(9:24)parkview rec center was the best place for the kids to go when they get out of schoool....summertime they had summer camp in there..... micheal littlejohn spent many of his childhood years at the parkview rec center where he now....volunteers....ann days.....this community staple is much more than what it seems....(11:32)earthquake that's where all of us went at....rec center director came over and allowed everybody to come in for safety.......and now.....the parkview rec center......has closed..... (9:12)it aint a good thing at all where's the kids going to go now..... parkview is one of four rec centers closingg this month....under the city's plan to overhaul its centers......mayor step

there was an oversight with park and rec that got a knowledge that they did not pick it up. the plans were already seen and approved. someone did not pay to pick up a permanenit and get it in the st. >> there was no impact on the project? >> i think there was some work that got done because of the issue of the permit. >> having signed off on it? >> it is not something we encourage. we prefer people to get it, and it helped, because of the process had not been done right, 15 days might have been gone. in how the appeal because the permit did not get issued -- it helped the appeal because the permit did not get issued until july. if it had been done right this should have been issued around the start of march. >> technically, until it is actually issued, it is not a permit. >> exactly, it is a permit application but not a permit. >> the complete review had already occurred. it was ready to be issued in march. >> it had gone through the planning department, and the other departments were still going through the review with a different city agencies with other permits. >> thanks

know from direct personal experience since 2008 that the french have worked tirelessly to help the rec and park department raise public awareness of the renovation and about the opportunity for public input. san francisco recreation and park department has notified park users and neighbors about the renovation of lafayette park and about the opportunity for anyone to have their say about it. recreation and park department has held numerous public meetings that were well publicized to gather public input ever since the bond was passed and the posted notices in the park and sent notices to those who live near the park. the project manager has announced her direct phone line #at all the meetings and gatherings to maximize public opportunity to express concerns and the recreation and park commission has held hearings to get input and get public approval. there has been ample opportunity for objewered prior to the starf the renovation. the appellant referred to the sf mime troupe. their 1965 arrest on august 7, 1965 in lafayette park inspired the idea of a community gathering space as a min

five rec centers are slated to close tomorrow. supporters are upset the city keeps shutting them down. the protest is organized by the save our rec save our city coalition. organizers started the movement this summer to get people to stand up against the closures and the city leaders who are making the decisions. the normer naacp president for baltimore and pastors will be among guest speakers. linda so, abc2 news. >>> 4:36. did you get rain yesterday? >> i heard a lot of thunder but didn't see rain. >> big storms across howard county. >> we had severe thunderstorms across the area. and for today, this morning, actually some severe weather popping up around virginia. this line of thunderstorms right here this is beginning to press closer to us as we go through time. but you can see the little swirl in the atmosphere up here. that's an air afterlow pressure and upper trough swinging through for today. and then we will have a cold front move through. that cold front has slowed down some. what is going to happen is we thought the rai

kids began to play in the chinese wrecks center -- rec center. >> i was 10 years old at the time. spent just about my whole life here. >> i came here to learn dancing. by we came -- >> we had a good time. made a lot of friends here. crisises part of the 2008 clean neighborhood park fund, and this is so important to our families. for many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard. this is where many people come to congregate, and we are so happy to be able to deliver this project on time and under budget. >> a reason we all agreed to name this memorex center is because it is part of the history of i hear -- to name this rec center, is because it is part of the history of san francisco. >> they took off from logan airport, and the call of duty was to alert american airlines that her plane was hijacked, and she stayed on the phone prior to the crash into the no. 9 world trade center. >> i would like to claim today the center and the naming of it. [applause] >> kmer i actually challenged me to a little bit of a ping pong -- the mayor actually challenge me to a little bit of

i know i also called rec and park every time before there was a meeting and said there are no signs of the part regarding these meetings. could somebody please get a signed up -- get signs up? one person had a lot of additional access, and i say it for whatever reason we do out reach, it kept many people out. i would like to say there are a couple of issues, and i would like to see the appeal of held. one is they have connected the ada accessible route to the no. 10 bus on washington street. this is problematic. they require the side entrances be connected to public transit. it is not a wheelchair accessible on washington street. buses cannot let people off on the sidewalk. there are no sidewalk ramps. the person would have to wheel into the street to get to the entrance. we brought this up with mary, and she basically said what went on in the park was her business. what is outside in t is not. i am disabled. there is no point of having accessible teachers inside if people cannot get to the park. the no. 1 bus would have been a great alternative. it runs all the time. they have got bul

. -- rec center. we cut the ribbon on the rec center.or the residents of chinatown, the opening was especially significant, considering the population and amount of open space in the area. i want to thank my planning director and project manager and everyone who had a hand in making that opening such a big success. some good recognition. next friday, july 27, san francisco beautiful hosts its annual event in which they recognize individuals and programs and activities that have contributed to the beautification of san francisco. happy to report that our department is receiving 3 awards at the event. the new is for the -- the first one is for the new helen diller playground which opened up this spring. and then we are honoring george wong, who has made sure that our parks are beautiful. the third thing which we are a part of it is the ocean beach planning process. we participated with spur and the national parks service, puc, and numerous other stakeholders and community organizations, to create a long-term vision and plan for ocean beach

the rec and park department seems to view db by -- of dbi as superfluous. for project like this with public funding, this sponsor defines the project and represents what needs to be done to dbi. let's consider. drainage work was done with a out a permit. the work was moved to a plumbing permit which they did not receive until two or three weeks later. the work went and checked for an additional two or three works and it was major drainage work. according to this inspection from the -- june 27, worked on the trench was complete. by june 24. and this was supposed to be non- significant work, in an area of the park that is prone to flooding, where we tend to have dogs and a lot of people. the geotechnical engineers spoke about the soil and raised concerns. dpw says they found 47% of the time, this will fail. we have a feeling soil -- failing soil test. all this work is done without nispect. -- inspect. public works may be looking at this. this is done in serial permitting fashion. it has done -- been done without inspection. president hwang: thank you. we can

is very clear from rec and park's presentation. this would not be in conflict with that position, that policy. with that, the planning commission did adopt the local coastal permits, there was also as you know, it was prevented -- presented in the briefing materials, there was an extensive evaluation of the project that was subsequently appealed to the board of supervisors and the board of supervisors did a poll that on july 10, 2012. the year has been appealed but it has not been maintained. with that, it will be available for any questions that the board may have. vice president fung: i have a couple of questions on the eir. >> sarah jones may be the best person to answer those questions but if you would like to ask of me. vice president fung: whoever would like to answer. tekotte a add. the responses included comments by the planning commissioners. does that constitute the full discussion and they made at the certification of the eir? >> sarah jones for the planning department. the comments from the planning commissioners that w

we have a lot of public projects, including rec and park projects. it has been challenging, meeting time lines, given how stretched the environmental planners are. i know that we had to go through a hole fire, i was really happy to see the projects moving alongi would be curious to hearm the budget analyst. >> sure the. >> what proposed are two positions that are general fund funded to work on the the city's own project. the way our protocols have worked for a long time is that when a city agency comes to us for environmental review, we automatically put them at the top of the queue. what happens repeatedly is that departments come in for their reviews, and we are pushing off the private project sponsors. it really creates a problem for us on the other side. what this would do is allow us to have staffed exclusively dedicated to those city projects. it would be primarily rec-park, three of our four biggest projects right now, and allow that work to move forward without delaying other projects. i will say that we are broadly defining "environmental re

we felt that with the individual successes we have in the city, whether it was doing these jobs at reck, beautifying the parks, working with the superintendents to create gardens, to our youth programs and the nonprofit areas -- they have been struggling. but the also thrived. we said we could form the difference. eric and i went about with hydra and others to focus on that commitment. at the beginning of this announcement, the department's all came together, all the major ones, airport included, the port. but all said, we will take on more than half of this. eric and i talked a little bit. that was a good foundation. why don't we take it another level? why don't we talk to our nonprofit partners, who have been extremely at the forefront of this? if anything, they have been creating training programs for years and years. but they also get a little frustrated. sometimes, we train, and it does not lead anywhere. the youth get to a point where they are ready for a job. then, the economy hits. we hear all over the country. we said, the other not that is missing is our private sector, our c

five rec centers in west baltimore are slated to close tomorrow. supporters say they are upset the city keeps shutting them down and protest is organized by the save our rex save our city coalition. that's the wrong video you are seeing right now. organizers say they started a movement this summer to get people to stand up against the closures and the city leaders who are making the decisions. the former naacp president with local pastors will be along the guest speakers. the protest is planned for 7:30 tonight at the mary rodman rec center on west mull bury street. linda so, abc2 news. >>> 5:07. it was a preseason game but a win is still nice. the ravens beat up on the falcons last night 31-17 at the georgia dome. baltimore backup painter threw three second half touchdown passes and joe flacco he was 9 of 12 on the night for 88 yards and a touchdown for baltimore. it was a night letting the unproven players show their stuff and omar brown an undrafted rookie out of marshall two fumble recoveries and a reception. next friday ravens are at home agai

access to a venture is part of sf rec and park's year-round activities in partnership with activitiesn partnership with families. vice president marshall: here. commissioner chan: present. commissioner turman: present. commissioner loftus: present. >> we have a quorum tonight. >> thank you very much. welcome to the wednesday, august 1, san francisco police commission meeting. we have a full agenda tonight with disciplinary matters to be held in closed session at the end. we have a special presentation that i would like to take out of order. and then we will move into general public comment. we expect several people to participate in public comment over one of the agenda items. rouble limits public comment to to finance this evening. -- we will limit public comment to two minutes this evening. >> chief's report, presentation of certificate of appreciation. >> thank you, commissioner. [applause] >> [inaudible] on may 29, 2012, at approximately 7:25, an officer was dispatched to 53 state street. the call involved a prowler in the backyard of the residence. as described, the suspect was a

can you give copies to rec and park and the zoning the administrator? we can take a rebuttal from recon park now. you have six minutes. >> overhead, please? >> commissioners, thank you for listening patiently and with an open mind to all the comments that have been offered today. i am somewhat disappointed to see the overwhelming about rehashine eir rather than the local coastal plan and it is equally adopted by the coastal commission. the with a plan for the health and form the decisions that municipalities have to make and it has been our starting place with the project evaluation. it has to be determined on balance, not by the specific criteria. the three policies, this project is clearly a meeting of those policies. if that on 3.1, will argue we are not degrading the visual connection between the park and the beach. if i want to show you a few visual aids of the plan. this is the lighting simulation conducted. we conducted a second simulation in response to comments that we received, both of which came back with similar findings and you can see that