so rec and park now >> good afternoon. my name is ash galley work with the rec and park department. i'm here today to request an approval for the rec and park to accept a entrant from the knob hill foundation. the park is in the knob hill district at taylor and in sdprakt 3. the park is dissected by sidewalks and in the east direction with the circular fountain and the child pack is along sacramento street. the eastern play areas for the constrain and the western for the older children the play commit dates back to 1970 and the ground material it sand. for about 3 years the members have divorced their time to work with the community and rec and park staff to install a perimeter fence. the association has followed the gift and you outreach policies and standards of the rec and park commission they've held 7 community meetings and presented at rec and park meetings. on december 19, 2013, the rec and park commission apov

we've had community meetings with rec and park and no neighbors like the new design so rec and park suggested electrically lose put on the design they didn't like the design either. the structure is within the footprint of the existing one is to the true also. the new structure proposed you see this is 12 foot 4 inches wide. the existing one a 8 foot leveling and additionally to get the framework at the edge she they have to bring the framework out so the structure comes out another 4 feet from the existing structure. after our appeal was grant rec and park alternated the structure with a jack hammer >> (laughter). >> i complained to no avail the lead abatement was part of the project. the planning department determined states that the demolition of the convenience station would not have significant adverse impact to the historical resource because of the lead abatement so the lead abatement was part of the project and the planning department says it can be demolished because of the lead abatement. the tiles that were removed were not the evidence for lead and the floor remains intact. most o

bob palachio, superintendent for rec and park. i have a short presentation. i promise to be brief. the areas that i will be covering are summer camps, summer recreation programs, our scholarship program, special events and special programs this summer. rpd's role in violence this year. how we outreach and market our programs and summer hires, job opportunities as well as a quick summary and answer any questions that you may have. summer camps, we have 78 different types of summer camps this summer held at 48 different places. we have 5,000 registrations out of an available 15,000 slots. some of our summer camps is early childhood camps and we have summer and arts camp. some of that is discover camp and art camp. other camps are water front camp. some of those looks like junior and surf camp where kids go surfing and we have our quad i cans camp. camp neptune and training and our learn to swim camp which are important. we have our traditional sports camp which are baseball, basketball, and flag football and we're introducing lacrosse for kids this summer. we have alternative sports

when there are not enough resources under the rec and park to address that specific space. so, any time that it arises the question is could this be part of the rec and park and so this is a set of solutions when the rec and park either is not the right fit because it is for parks, or just is not not and it is not going to happen that way. and so, it is a good question, why it is not under rec and park, but it is really a set of tools that will help to address those spaces that are not addressed by rec and park and so the other question that you had about a map and a location. is a tricky one for us, and there are quite a few, eight or ten or so, many of them the community process is not really fully done and so us showing a map of where they are going to be would not be in the process and helping to decide on a case by case process and if there is not a full environmental review done for a plaza that it could put us in the jeopardy to say that there is a plaza and there will be a plaza in that location, but it has been, you know, the planning commission had similar feedbac

they've held 7 community meetings and presented at rec and park meetings. on december 19, 2013, the rec and park commission approved the conceptual plan for the renovation of the playground at huntington park. at that point, the commission asked they expend a grant in the amount of one point plus million dollars. so at this point that concludes my presentation. thank you >> great. thank you very much. without i guess we can go to public comment and when supervisor chiu arrives he can make his comments. ms. chang is there a written amendment or - >> we have worked with the city attorney's office to rise the language the resolution and the rec and park department will have the language. >> so is this the one copy. actually yeah. is it something you can read or dividing the file >> the duplicating the file and moving forward the piece of the file that would only include the expenditure for the playground. >> and then we'll keep the fence in committee. >> yeah. >> at the community meeting so it, happen. it will be helpful if we could get photos for the file and

rec and park has collected these funds from beach chalet. and we found that there is a lack of clarity about water uses and janitorial services. the lease allows for beach chalet to allow for water for the rent, with a portion of the facility use of the facilities. rec and park accepted beach chalet with reduction of 40%, with over $97,000 for the three-year audit period. if our test results are typical of the lease overall, the 20-year impact would be over $650,000. however the lease does not state how the deduction should be calculated. and neither beach chalet or rec and park could provide for this reduction. rec and park expected to have completed the implemented database percentage for the water usage credit by the end of last month. we will check back in on the status of what the percentage should actually be. and the lease does not state that beach chalet with deduct janitorial expenses for its rent. on an average they are deducting $236 per month. in our six-month period that we test in the audit. if the test results are accurate, it

we, hear from rec and park now their, their agent. >> i'd also speaking from this microphone. good evening. i'm marvin i'm a project manager with the rec and park department my preservation is primarily focused on the claims that were brought up in the appellants brief. and see our standing is the basis of the claim are 4 items one is that the structure could be renovated and replaced and the design of the design is comparable with the neighborhood and thirdly,ly there was work done after the work was filed and shouldn't have been done and the it is a historic structure. none of those claims have a boos basis to grant an appeal. first of all, i'd like to speak about the bond program that's the bond that's for 71 percent of the public. the element of that bond again, it the bond program to determine or not to be determined but renovated the freestanding restrooms in our park. as part of the bond those requires that a task force be determined for the replacement and the renovation. the restroom task force was widely publicized all the meetings were noted at the library as well a

city to do an inventory including land under private control and identifies which areas are and a half rec and park department not only where native plants we're not only protecting the remedy amenity but where they can be planted in the future anywhere can be claimed as a and a half area it says they have to be managed like rec and park department airs program that means cutting down healthy trees using heshd. there is restrictions on private land that is a huge land grab please remove policy 4.2 it's a level of mick management of city programs that doesn't belong in the plan so why what is it put in. it sets up a bio process and interesting the city tried to prohibited the development and land use but, however, at the meeting the entirely commissioners have discussed how to get around the decision. if you leave 4.2 in the rose they may claim a mandate to weigh in and you the planning commission will be one stop for the approval the land use instead of the only stop now. please take policy 4.2 thousandth out of the draft it's much too specific for the general guidelines like the rose and

and park department area it's a permanent decision this doesn't it up on the rec and park department program it says there are areas outside of the program we should consider but let's study that. >> that opens the door for management by that group of this type of effort management. i know it's not part of the rose but i objected to some of the 4.2 the under the influence on the bio diversity and it's a whole section in the rose. those are my concerns. i have a couple other comments our under the influence had been hydrahas to be taking care of things already, we've heard we don't have enough gardener and we were told to have a better irrigation system other than people waters the lawn. that money got used for other things this is the kinds of things we should be, 2013 i'm not saying it should deal with expenditures of money but spending money to take care of what we have now ever or put in new parks. i'm not sure i ask support of rose although a lot of effort went into it >> commissioner sugaya. >> yeah. i think for one thing the rose is only one element of the general plan. in and

and it sounds like we, the commission and perhaps even the city attorney, believe that the park and rec department have some responsibility to weigh the privacy interest against the need for the information, and it does not sound like that happened at all to the contrary, there seems to have been a concession that the information was relevant, which suggests to me that, perhaps the information should have been disclosed at a minimum, i think that the complainant is entitled to know the reason, to know the result of the balancing analysis, whether that would have been in the e-mail from miss gong or in a letter of some sort, and if there is a balancing that needs to be done, i mean that it clearly has not happened here. but i welcome thoughts of the staff or the other commissioners of the city attorney. >> okay. >> commissioner keane? >> i agree with the chair. and in terms of your conclusion. i would go one step further though, and say at this point, the record shows that this is material that should be disclosed under the mandatory disclosure provisions that we have. and it was not. an

. >> good afternoon bob superintendant rec and park department for rec and park. just as an intro to our presentation we are to foster the well-being of the san francisco diverse community by preserving the environment and providing recreational activities. so in order for us to achieve this we've spent time to get people into the parks and playground. i'm sure you're aware of in 2009 did department went into a complete reorganization of the rec and park. there's success over 54 thousand people registered for programs and 35 hundred programs those are formal directed programs and over 2 hundred and 80 kids participate in our after-school programs we have summer camps for 2014 and that will grow into the high 80s based on demand we have over 13 thousand kids already registered for our summer camps this summer and over 11 thousand people on wait listed there's a high demand for our programmed and the quality is driving that. the department in working with cv o given additional resources we'll expand first to learn to swim programs according to the cac darwin is the

you made commissioner we've provided the planning department has priority to do our colleagues at the rec and park the information to date. and if you saw we do have information kwaufbt for a number of projects but those promotions are at different stages and we've been requesting those types of reports just not received them. however, we've given the staff and they've shared the information to the best we can paint a cumulative picture we've tried to do that. to the second point i believe the effect if you, you know, if you were not to take a vote now if you wanted to wait you'll be stalling the 650 indiana project it's ready to go but that's a decision you definitely within our duties to make that call if you feel you want more information if there's other consideration you want to make >> i might weigh in it would be or in reduce the developers is on a timeline and it costs money to delay without diminishing the nature of the question let's see not approve the high-rises downtown until they're all built but we know that a street park is having activities around it we have to try to fig

where we talk about natural areas that are not within the jurisdiction of rec and park department and maybe having a more cooperated approach the idea is to have areas like in twin peaks the fire department and agencies that don't have the staff so no one is maintaining those pieces and put them under a krofrptd maintenance approach. the commission has received a number of concerns about the nature plans taking over the plans so i think there is a miscommunication about that. again, we added sustainability policy. we heard we wanted to highlight the plan on the award winning program we kind of highlighted about pesticides being used. i want to say thank you to everybody that's been a long and exciting process. i think i feel like we hopefully have a balanced document here today. thanks >> thank you. okay open this up for public comment if you call your name line up on the screen side of the room (calling names) >> if your name has been called feel free to step up 0 the appointed. anyone? >> good afternoon. i'm robin i'm speaking on the rose the rose policy is based on the trial group

i'm a resident which knob hill for almost 10 years and worked with the rec and park and would like to show any support for the playground and restoration of the project a couple of issues in the last few weeks some of us had to chase a small girl ran out of the park we chased her out into the street and the same week a small dog ran out symbol middle of the street and luckily it wasn't hurt. i would like to show any support for the fence for safety and otherwise for the playground i'd like to say i'm no complete support i'm about to become a parent and i genuine the knob hill association after leon will this from the public notice at the park last year joined the association and have been helping to make decisions and give input to get the community involved like putting up facebook and bring everyone into the conversation from the neighborhood. thank you very much for your time >> thank you congratulations. >> thank you. >> next speaker and i have call another card israel hernandez. >> i'm james i'm an architect and neighbor of the park. i returned from a lengthy project in texas i w

restroom task force was widely publicized all the meetings were noted at the library as well as on the rec and park department website. there was also an online survey conducted to receive feedback on restroom projects. and implicit the roll of the room task force was to review the projects and make pa recommendations for size that would be replaced or renovated. they also developed prioritizing improvements. as a consequent the restroom at the dupont courts was slated as a priority one project for remnant the reasons it's not a who ever wheelchair restroom and it will have to deal with the clarence requires and the slip requirements for the building. also the building is or was educated to his condition by consultant in 2006. and based on the system in the building is original to the building that is systems are well past their useful life and the consultant made notes the building is having a run down feel and assigned an facility index that's a rating system for measuring the physical condition of the building. and anything over 10 percent was considered poor condition it was 50 percent

one suggestion i made with regards to the area is to use a firm standard the national association of rec and park department standards they'll determine if there's enough courts and placed in the right location now whether or not $200 per person is being spent is that the $6,000 spent open the carmichael field. that's not a way of determining that i recommend you not adapt the rose without the elements of the elevation >> thank you. next speaker, please >> good morning, everyone. commissioners i'm ruth. and i want to acknowledge and applauded your staff for all the work for many, many years on this amendment of this element of our master plan. is it perfect i don't think so i hope you'll forgive me for tightening up grammar and there's points that are very valued but overall it's an excellent continuums i'm pleased we r with other cities we're acknowledging our diversity that our city niece to embrace many, many cities have biological diversity. we hear a false dichotomy this is totally unfounded but we a areers are real fans of the plants and we love the rose garden and the conservative

ginsburg, as head of the department of rec and park. and that it was a non-willful violation, and that would be