i am very grateful for the parks i grew up in -- signature and grove to the south, golden gate park to the north and how lucky i was to have all of these parks free. recently my father is dan murphy, a bird-watcher and has been educating me proposition i and proposition h and says hi, phil. and then i saw this video, and i also feel -- somebody said they felt ashamed that they hadn't learned about the privatization of our parks until the video came out and i feel the same way. i did the research and looked on the internet and looked about the fields foundation and fisher and running our parks than what i experienced in growing up. i'm in solidarity with these kids. i'm so impressed by these kids and inspired by them and committed to stopping the privatization of our parks. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you. katherine howard. catana galvan,rds or [ [ reading speakers' names ]. >> akia, my family has been living in san francisco for 90 years. we have all gone to public school here. we have all gone to san francisco state university. we all grew up going to parks, playing all over the

get in touch with the parks and recreation center so come >> combpg edge welcome to the san francisco budget & finance committee october 15, 2014, sniemz is supervisor mark farrell i'll be chairing the committee i'm joined by supervisor avalos and momentary by supervisor eric mar i want to thank the clerk as well as the members of the sfgovtv covering the meeting jim smith madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. please silence all electronic devices. all files and documents to be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the october 21, 2014, board of supervisors agenda and also otherwise stated. >> thank you mr. clerk item one. >> approving the 2014 grant application for the united states department of housing and urban program not to exceed $27 million and before the board of supervisors approval process for all annual or reoccurring grant of $5 million or more. >> we have sf ta. >> i other people the crossroad we work to put together the application as well as home base important to understand this is a community process where the cb o are represented on the ran

the programming for each of those parks. the next one is equity. we want to ensure that the money spent on parks is equitable throughout the city and equitable in the neighborhoods most dense like the mission. we want to ensure there is a dedicated staff at mission play ground because that could have prevented quite a lot. we want to ensure sensitive to the communities and there is a language access ordinance that this commission and this department must be in accordance with and it's not. it's a charter ordinance that requires bilingual signs and staff available to speak to our community members, if needed, if their native language and that is not occurring. i thank you for the time and i hope you listen to the community and one last demand after this is done that we have a meeting and we follow-up and we get the solutions for this issue. because again, it's much bigger than mission playground [speaker not understood] >> cynthia cruz and tom temprano. hello commissions, tom temprano one of the presidents of the harvey milk d

a lot of activity around the parkged with the park what they provides in terms of activities and ways to enjoy the scenery and there's a lot of folks that have been involved in the forest from all parts of park and what's been important to note in this item before us is that the golf course is actually played a lot of roll in connecting with people around the park that kind of collaboration hadn't happened before with the glenn park. >> a thank you supervisor avalos that's kind of what i was going to do start out with part of our through the with the rec and park to find a lessee that will integrate the golf course into the community and neighborhood obviously we want someone to operate the course and in the lease the tenants glen park partners s are responsible for that capital improvements over the years of the management very little capital work done on the course this course was built when candle stick was built we began a negotiation process for the possibility 9 years extension in 2013 but just reached final ter

not just the parks. we used to live in a calm neighborhood and now it's overrun with traffic all the time and i would say to our friend colin welch, who has been famous because of this video who works for air b&b, i'm absolutely disgusted by his behavior and what is really a disaster and what is really weird is that air b&b got out without having to pay $25 million in back taxes which could be used for the city and could be used for the parks and could be used for the future of the youth of this town. and it's about time that mayor lee and parks and recreation and all the other organizations that are trying to sell the city to the highest bidder should stop and get on the side of the people who built there place and made it a beautiful place to live, who put in the bike lanes and the trees and fought for their parks. it's time for the city representatives to represent the people. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> my name is antonio medina and [speaker not understood] i have been doing it since 2003

between the parks and sidewalks that connect the parks and the emeralds and the parks and the chain that holds the necklace together are again the pads and sidewalks. the green way is to recognize the existing maritime and industrial uses along it. and as mentioned in the previous report, trying to integrate and balance new open space to bid to reconstruct it. and then this past july, we got the review and the review design approval from the port's water front design, for the park which has a variety of programs, including a new launch for the human powered boating for the areas for the children to play and a multty purpose lawn and a restoration for the slick way four and a new 19th street extension that will provide a new and a entry to the park. and again, a shot of the improvements that we did along the mission bay, and the park shore line this was the previous shore line, and with the, and about 5.2, 3.2 million dollars of 2008 bonds and we completed the shore line and the improvement and it is opened up now until it is time for the mission bay project delivers the new park, which i

and we're seeing this in several areas of the northern part of the park. rrator: since the researchers can only monitor a fraction of the willow from the ground, they must turn to the sky, using remote sensing. radar and advanced-imaging cameras mounted on airplanes and satellites provide data on many factors including tree height, soil and plant chemistry and even the health of the vegetation. dr. crabtree: the major part of remote sensing for ecologists, and the greatest utility is that they take detailed images and data sets over large areas. riparian habitats are extended over large areas through the entire ecosystem and we simply don't have the money or the labor force to go out and examine all these. but we can intensively look at representative samples of those riparian habitats and then turn to our remote-sensing data that covers the whole ecosystem and make great inference or extrapolate our results to the whole ecosystem accurately. narrator: one remote-sensing tool used by crabtree's team is nasa's aviris hyperspectral camera. dr. crabtree: you c

the platform had rosa parks, and the widowed mrs. eberle. ephine baker arrived from france, but when lena horne tried to interest a television interest -- and interviewing rosa parks, she was sent back to her hotel room. the national council women convened in washington. height thought the focus on that mosttion affected women, decent housing, child care, schooling, and employment. the council quickly went into action. -- theyrst program already had all these other things going on. it's what became known as wednesdays in mississippi. in october of that year, holly murray went -- polly murray went and spoke about the two decades of jane crow treatment by blackmail leaders. wastribute appeasement evident for the a tendency to assign women to a secondary, ornamental, or honor roll. for alls instead partnership that could attack sextus rumination -- sex discrimination. differencest these made all women subordinate to men. it was crystal clear that the fight against discrimination is of sex had to be fought simultaneously with the civil rights str

i request and ask that you please put people in the parks. hank you [ applause ]. >> thank you. >> hello my name is theresa and i'm a youth coordinator. our experience has been that as an environmental justice organization in the mission, when i first started working there at 15 years ago we had less than 1% of the paragraphs parks and highest number of kids in the neighborhood. i'm very blessed and honored to have these kids stand and we're going to keep coming until the changes are done. we built the park with a lot of community members and i think it was a really big victory, but then at the same time, you know, like we're in this space right now where it's like a lot of us who have been here for a lot of generations, our grandparents and parents have built pretty much the infrastructure of san francisco with our tax dollars and now we're being excluded from a structure because we don't have the money or we don't even have the internet access to rent a field; right? so what are the ways that you a community commission could be accountable t

renaissance, and in partnership with the land and we have the parkhat is going to hope in a short while, and the ymca and we have the new play grounds and mini, park and sergeant park and the civic center and there is great stuff happening around here and i want to thank supervisor farrell to bringing the show here and show casing this incredible partnership. and most of these days, it is about gratitude and we are thankful for all of the champions and partners and i want to start with the mayor who is the park champion and recreation specialist and supervisor farrell who really you know, lives and breathes parks and kids and families and i, see them at events like this all over town. he really drove this and we are super grateful for his leadership in getting this done and i want to thank google and sf city and we can't do it alone and we really need partners and we are so thankful for google and that sf city stepped up and understood the need and helped us to implement and i obviously want to thank the industry administrator and the department of t

so please be aware of this when you make your choices in regards to the parks, because the parks are definitely instrumental in the life of our youth and your future as well. >> thank you very much. [ applause ]. >> one last time for the speaker cards. [ reading speakers' names ] if there is anyone else that would like to comment under general public comment, please come up. seeing no other comments, general public comment is closed. >> first of all i want to thank everybody who came and testified and if it's not clear to you, this commission does take this issue very, very seriously and as does the staff and there will be plenty of follow-up. there is nothing on the agenda to take action on, but we do appreciate coming out and spending the better part of your morning here to let us know your thoughts. with that, i'm going to recommend a ten-minute recess and we'll get back to the regular agenda. thank you. >> we're on item 6, the san francisco zoo. tim woo anthropy. >> good morning. >> i know my report will be somewhat of a shift what we have listened to the last couple of hours is t

so within the mission bay there is a dog park for the mission creek that is well used and there may not be a need for a dog park, let's say, at cranco park but cove might be another location where it is appropriate and we will continue to work with our partner agency and leverage each other's resources so that we don't duplicate the programs and offer the unique opportunities for each of the open spaces. >> but both of my dogs are young, and so they are not going to get tired, is there any water or a taxi, that you can take around on the water? >> i don't believe, or none of our, and this pier 52 is a place for a water landing and there is a park there, and the other parks currently are not designed to accommodate the water taxis. >> and it seems like for the long way around to the end, there would be no water transportation. >> and that has ever been a consideration? >> are you talking about within the hunter's point shipyard? >> yeah. >> and that is outside of our jurisdiction, and i believe that they may be considering some form of water taxi or landings down the road. and but there

the fires are burning at least one ridge line in the park. one really spooky thing is that this is a full moon tonight, and you'll be able to see the smoke in the air by the moonlight, because the smoke is so thick. today have any idea what happened with the tanker? we are not given a whole lot of information, other than he was in tanker 81 out of hollister. it is a steep area and there are a lot of trees. we'll continue to follow developments on the wildfire. you can always get the latest information on our website -- kron4-dot-com. also - on our facebook and twitter pages. giants fans are celebrating the teams big win tonight. the team now advances to the next round. they'll face the cardinals in the national league championship series. kron4's j-r stone is live at a- t-&-t park. where there are a lot of happy people. j-r? how i don't even know where start. i was just down in the clubhouse with all of those players. i can still feel the champagne and smell the cigar smoke. in the video you can see what kind of party it was after the game. it

a solo the park goes from loud to louder. nats get within one. later in the eighth an opportunity for ian desmond. he can't make it happen. he left a total of five stranded. nats go down 3-2. not converting. >> we had opportunities. the guys in scoring position. we just didn't come through. >> we're down to it. we've got the first one, take advantage, it didn't happen. it doesn't mean it won't tomorrow. >> we have a long series ahead of us and we all realize that. and i don't think we're too worried about it. >> all right. let's go to camden yards. it was comeback city in baltimore. they trailed 6-3 before putting up a four spot in the bottom of the eighth right there. delmon young would clear the bases with the double to left. o's hold on for the 7-6 win and take two-game lead over the tigers. more national league action, cards and dodgers. say hello to matt holliday. and say hello to his three-run shot as well. cards take a 10-6 lead in the top of the seventh. they hold on to take game one. the final for this one, 10-9. on the soccer front d.c.

practitionersal times with the golden gate park and the foundation and the plazas and huntington park the department stopped the washing of all vehicles and equipment and halted the facilities that except with compromise in removing wastes waste in the bathrooms continuing the strategies we've using pdr that stangz for the time technology it is a big fancy word for a water probe we have a probe to stick into my landscape and it patrolling measures the water in the roots system to calculate the actual water that's need and no more so we're going to use that throughout our parks and golf courses and established a 10 percent restrictions in our capital projects we've noted it this to our contractors so they're pursuing the same goal and also four our concessioners with the 10 percent goal and how they can help us achieve that public education continues in your recreation areas or public restrooms where people gather to help us reduce the water uncle a reduce the shower times and ask them to report the leaks through 311 and for the previous discussion about the hospital

i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in

back live at the park, you're looking at the bleacher seats now. those are going for $600 on the low end. the cheapest way you can get into the park standing room only, is $554. those are the latest numbers from stubhub. if you are planning on heading here, you're going to run into some traffic. we have lots of tricks and tips for you on our website. kpix.com. live at at&t park, anne makovec, kpix 5. >> there will be a lot of traffic. >> yeah. >> it isn't going to rain saturday night during the came? >> there is a good chance we could see some showers. not a rainout so you don't have to worry about that, but we could see showers and it will be cool. today the game looks like a great day to have the game here in san francisco. going to see a lot of sunshine throughout the day and these temperatures going to be running above average. there is a chance we could see some showers rolling on through into the evening hours and then by sunday things clear out and it should be a nice day. hopefully they wrap it up by sunday. 70s and low 80s in the interior

there was a lockdown of this area in the south parking lot here at the pentagon. back to you. >> thank you. keep us updated. >> the world health organization admitted today it botched the response to the spiraling outbreak. president obama appointed juan deal with la czar to the outbreak here. one of the nurses infected with the virus is now in the d.c. area. our cameras were there as she landed in maryland early this morning. she is now at the national institutes of health. n.i.h. just provided abc7 with an update on that patient. >> what did doctors have to say? >> that press conference wrapped up about an hour ago, doctors saying she's in fair condition. she's in good spirits but is very tired after that long flight from dallas last night. take a look at the images. abc7 news was there when she landed less than 24 hours ago. she was transported by ambulance into the hands of some of the most highly trained physicians and nurses in the world. one doctor calling this hospital the house of hope. officials wouldn't release many details on her condition because of p

robert vogel, superintendent of the national mall and memorial parks. michael mccoy, acting director of the national vh chaplain center. representing the disabled veterans life memorial foundation, are its passionate, hard-working board of directors who have been charged with erecting this memorial and they spent the last 16 years working on this and have given countless hours of time to ensure its successful completion. mrs. lois pope, co-founder and chairman of disabled veterans' life memorial. thank you. co-founder and president, arthur wilson. secretary dennis joyner. treasurer gene murphy. mrs. diane mussleman. roberto bobby barea. we owe all of them a deep debt of gratitude. another round of applause for all of their hard work. thank you for your work. and sadly, there are three men who made enormous contributions to the memorial who did not live to celebrate this special day. the honorable jesse brown, former secretary of veterans affairs and co-founder of the memorial. and board members, the honorable gordon mansfield, former acting secretary of

of the park and very details conversation about what we can do in the park and utilize what we can. >> parks are where people can gather and where to relax and a lot of people in the city don't have back yards and this is where we come to be with our community. >> 1, 2, 3. [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> the work begins. (music) >> herb theatre,open rehearsal. listen to the rehearsal. i think it is fun for them, they see our work process, our discussions, the decisions we make. it is good for us. we kind of behavior little bit when we have people in the audience. msk (music) >> we are rehearsing for our most expensive tour; plus two concerts here. we are proud that the growth of the orchestra, and how it is expanded and it is being accepted. my ambition when i came on as music director here -- it was evident we needed absolutely excellent work. also evident to me that i thought everyone should know that. this was my purpose. and after we opened, which was a spectacular opening concert about five weeks after that the economy completely crashed. my plan -- and i'm absolutely do

>> hello, i am with the recreation and parks department. we are featuring the romantic park location in your backyard. this is your chance to find your heart in santa and cisco with someone special. -- san francisco with someone special. our first look out is here at buena vista park, a favorite with couples and dog walkers. both have a significant force. a refreshing retreat from urban life. the romantic past that meander up and down the park under pines and eucalyptus. hang out in this environment and you might see butterflies it, fennel, and then the lines. -- dandelions. is ada accessible. public transit is plentiful. we have conquered the steps, we have watched the dogs, and we have enjoyed a beautiful view. this is a place to take someone special on a romantic stroll and enjoyed a beautiful look out. welcome to corona heights located in the heart of this district. it offers a view of the downtown skyline, the bay bridge, and the east bay. it is one of the best kept secrets in the city. it is hardly ever crowded. on any given day, you w

of the reasons we wanted outreach is that we had a feeling it is important a program within the rec and park department a partner was going to establish satellite station site at developing middle school i'm sure you're aware of the original san francisco was located at harding and tom spent a lot of time during his regular clientele in meeting with the trustees and students to understand what they were going to be experiencing rather than hoping for the best he handled it the correct way. >> very briefing the modifications to this amendment o amendment in section 3.1 of the lease a vacant lots on sunnydale avenue included in the premises in the original lease thinking it might be utilized it's to the and at that time the department has slated that area for a different use we'll be pursuing later and the section 5.8 refers to the grant credit for work we may request of him because of the maintenance the deferred maintenance we've expanded that so he may request rent credits from the rent actually paid to us those will have to be approved in advance before the money is expended and a repair e

"yeah (laughs)" the east bay regional park district estis that about 6 thousand people make the hike there are only 42 parking at the stanford avee trail. sot: sonal gandhi / homeow ar alarms >> reporter: it really has become a social phenomenon to make the 3-mile hike up mission peak and snap a photo, but it's really become a problem for many homeowners nearby and this is the park district's solution, a new 7:30 curfew. it used to be 10 p.m. it's been in effect about a week. is thereset hike or a sunrise h out thanks, betty. on instagram #missionpeak has more than 88,000 posts. every weekend thousands make it to the top to snap photos against a spectacular backdrop. >> everyone wants a picture and make it to the top to prove it, take a picture. >> reporter: or else it didn't happen, right? >> yeah. >> reporter: the east bay regional park district estimates about 6,000 people make the hike of weekend. the problem? there are only 42 parking spots at the stanford avenue trail. >> mostly it's just a car alarms, door slamming at ungodly hours, littering. >> reporter: janelle gonzi says th

of the park and very details conversation about what we can do in the park and utilize what we can. parks are where people can gather and where to relax and a lot of people in the city don't have back yards and this is where we come to be with our community. >> 1, 2, 3. [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> the work begins. (clapping.) the airport it where i know to mind visions of traffic romance and excitement and gourmet can you limousine we're at san francisco inspirational airport to discover the award-winning concession that conspiracies us around the world. sfo serves are more 40 million travelers a year and a lot of the them are hungry there's many restaurant and nearly all are restaurant and cafe that's right even the airport is a diane designation. so tell me a little bit the food program at sfo and what makes this so special >> well, we have a we have food and beverage program at sfo we trivia important the sustainable organic produce and our objective to be a nonterminal and bring in the best food of san francisco for our passengers. >> i like this it's is (inaudible)

we moved to lot 24 which is the parking lot triangular in shape at the corner of embarcadero and broadway where they would have their shows and pair it with a number of temporary buildings and use about half of that parking lot and for a lease term of 10-15 years and we had a number of presentations in front of the port commission regarding the design and economic terms of that project moving forward and the port commission also directed the theater zinzanni and designers to rules commission, but it is also part of this city's northeast embarcadero district so there is another overlay that are not on of properties which is an extra challenge. at this teatro was a challenge on the design and how they fit into historic district and especially in the course of 2012 on the port commission and the neighborhoods found this was a particular challenge. so after some time to reflect and i believe runnels where in california was successful and came back to the port staff and started the discussion essentially saying perhaps the project was with temporary buildings was not going to suffice from an e