there is about 20 acres in the park t. is a lush guardsen and what you don't see and do see people and they enjoy it all the time, it is the center piece, but what you don't also see in the picture just a few yards from main street is wep spent 13 million on the park and within a year and a half we had 180 million dollars invested 1 plauck from the park. hotel, condoes, retail, office. we also had launched from this section is 18 mileoffs bike and walking paths from the water fall. 18 miles up river and 5 miles the other direction. we have tourism now. huge tourism trade. people from the greater at lanlta area come to? joy the rest jaunts down town and the park. the iminties are coming all the time. economic development, tourism, governor school for the arts located, but most of all it is something of tremendous pride for people in the community t. is the identity of the city now and the scepter piece of the city as it was 100 years ago. not bad for a park. thank you very much. >> i want you to know that wasn't too bad for

and build the park and maintain the park. it is not simple stuff. >> mr. [inaudible] in terms of the issues, how do you think about in-termoffs funding-last year we talked about park parole and-we is seen stuff around [inaudible] supervisor wieners district. i see my distict which is federal land, but just 420 one off incident but the pictures amazing and it impacts the experience for the rest of san francisco. how do you think about that in terms of needs in a growing population? >> we are going to get to that in the presentation mp we motorcycle profound investments in the green space through the public investment and capital plan and philanthropy. you are about to see the most spectacular play ground within the next 3-5 years. there is great stuff happening but we need to protect these investments. particularly with more people using our parks, more intensely that creates more use conflicts and we need staff a thmanage park use. it is that simple. it is a weakness in our organization. >> thanks >> we are going to focus on a

one of the biggest bras is parks. we had a 50 year old historic swimming pool they closed 5 years ago before i was elected and one of the campaign promiseicize to get that reopened and one of our big familiesm came to me and said, i grew up swimming there and i'll help you reopen that if you agree the operating expenses and we put it in the budget in perpetuity because he gave 500 thousand dollars to redo the pool and quee matched it with 350 thousand. wree a focused on the inner city parks. the developers are taking care of the new parks, but we have foogrow are inside the city >> put in a certain amount of open space as part of the plan, do they also aplije themselves to perpeteral maintenance to theope nl space? >> many do. probably 50 percent of them take up the maintenance of the open space. the other 25 percent the home owners association do it and the other 25 percent the-donated to the city and more often than that the developers will donate if we take it on >> there is a greater greenville fund in your tear or

i went over the parks. those are the technical names of the parks. i will have the map up for you in a second. we have p 1, p 2 and p 5 and the parks that are directly under the contract. the original contract was for 3 years and there was the bill to extend the contract for another 3 years. we are in that second contract term. the contract will expire at the end of this year. so later this year, oci will have to go out to bid for these services. so here is an overview of which director bohee covered. oci manages the park on behalf of cie and by the community facilities district no. 5. the park underlying ownership of puc. we have over 13 acres of these parks completed and the fourth park under construction that we are here before you today. so, you have a handout as attachment one. i'm going over the parks, the four parks that we are here today and we are going to start with p 6 which is the children's park and i was also before you for the commission to approve this schematic design for the children's park which is for this completion. just a refres

most of the parks are permeable so there are no fences. some of the neighborhood parks have fences, but think we need to keep more eyes on them like we would any other investment like a museum. like this building. we keep eyes on the things that we care about at night and we are not resourceed to do that >> i think we should be resorsed to do that. we need to get that done. >> if i just >> supers visor yee >> thanks for your presentation so far. i did pass out-i did ask for the report for the park rangers that are passed out to the rest of the colleagues. i realized when i looked more clously the numbers were reflective of past fiscal year so when i asked about the additional supplemental funding to have more park rangers i don't think it is reflected in this particular report you gave in march. >> i don't have that in front of me. i think the report asks for a date. it was for a fixed date so i think we said you will get another report from us in septwith updated numbers and when you asked for that we were still going through had hiring pr

quality of the park and what it met. what it meant is 9.3 million investment and the sources are the state parks that invested and our own recreation park bonds, it was grants if the fill philanthropic foundation all amassed in this investment and it come out with one of the best designed urban parks where i you have the 25/7 club house, a basket ball court and home grown flowers and reuse of water treatment and artificial tougher so more and more use can be had. thats a great investment and invite you to take a look at that park as our most reebt example of this collaboration. these kinds of investments in the park help the city become more successful, more inviting and more inclusive. parks are just like transportation and just like education, they are the great equalizers in citys that sometimes become more reflection of inequality. our parks have become at the center, the effort to equalize things and with the philanthropy we are proposing along with city investments, we can fake care of a lot of low income families t

golden gate park side is the fun part of the park (laughter). >> it goes to the richmond we also have part of upper market and we would not be park station without the parked so we have 19 parks in our district and all different size we have boss and alamo squares and twin peaks i don't know what park would be called if we didn't have those parks the only thing to come up with inspector monroe what about a groovy station that would be neat i have a foot beat that's cross-trained to work in the parks they're on bisexuals i have a homelessness outreach 40 officers dedicated to that and albert lake they coffee the panhandle and allotments they know what's going on around the beat and it is a traditional foot beat they go out to each individual merchant and that's something we're working on i work closely with phil ginsburg and chief the honda team and puc of the 7th corridor. >> we do have major events hate street fair 420 not an event (laughter). >> i'm trying to convince captain cherniss to help me out the hates street merchants fair and the festival and the national night out

it is very cyclic and with that comes economic development, the more parks the better the parks and more like lato attract better business and the type of business you want. one thing you can do is tell your elected officials what you see in the park. stel them what goes on in the park and how they can make your parks better. we rin big and buzzy sit squgz are not aul illways in the park, but you can tell us what you think and that is huge help for any elected official to hear from the people on the front line >> last but not least mayor lee >> i'm glad again for greater and greener conference to be here in san francisco. it is extremely interesting time, very positive time for ideas, for making the right investment choices and if i learned anything in the past few years, parks and open spaces have become a economic driver for the city and you can see the numbers, millions of dollars come into the had city because we maintain and create open spaces and parks and maintain historic iconic ones we already have that are the signature for many generations. it is a very netesting conversation

, 500 people in the park. that would be a significant number of people. in point of fact i think you have more than like 300 people per acre using the facility because you probably have 4,000, 5,000 people up there on any day when the weather is good. what that does when elevate the usage of a factor over 10 than normally expect today puts tremendous stress on everything. you need more police service, more people to pick up b garbage and you have rats on people's roofs when they run out of food in the park. it's not just good to have an idea to have a facility that size and a maintenance plan written in 2008 to actually figure out how many people, how many person hours, how much material and what equipment you need to maintain the facility. it's important to write down what you think you need, so that you have at least a draft plan to maintain something where you just spent more than $20 million renovating the facility, so that you don't destroy the facility because you have literally got people running around

it is no longer okay for the park to look good. they capture and absorb storm water and need to be drought tolerant so we need to think about investing more in the land and how the parks look. during the parks conference we spent time with our colleagues from the national park service and they go through a conversation as welt. it is very intereing, their conversation at the national park service or national park land is how to get more teepal to their parks. they do a very good job in land management but need to work on access and getting people to parks. the converse is true for local park system which is we are very accessible to people, but we fleed to take

if you would like to comment on an item that falls under the jurisdiction of the recreation and park on but is not on the calendar and as a reminder when you make public comment and you can make public comment on every item and commissioner buell three minutes for each? >> three minutes. >> and when you make public comment please direct the comments to the commission and they won't answer but after they may have staff to respond. we're changing the agenda today and item 9 is before eight and six, 7, 9 and eight and with that we are on item two which is the president's report. >> thank you. very briefly i just want to congratulate the general manager and all the staff that participated in putting on greater and greener. i think we had close to a thousand people from around the country and someone told me 22 countries were represented and i went to all -- at least the social events and some of the substantive things and i got a lot of positive feedback from people. they genuinely enjoyed it as as i did and hats off to everyone that made that happen and i am sure we will hear more from p

area will be reflected in the map. >> it is in the map already. >> it's small park. >> so let's look at some of the map options that you have this is sort of describe what is shown in each of the maps so in opposition one tenderloin to van ness, park to geary, southern to mariposa which in this scenario brings the tenderloin further down do keep park to geary the way you get the feedback from the neighborhood and inclusive of the piece of admission to bayview. >> this needs to be changed based on the tenderloin the issue that the chief raised around you said this map didn't reflect. >> that will be on the next option. >> okay. >> so let's go to that one and just so you know when your discussing those each of the options has the new district looks like if you look at this page in the palm tree you have option one is sb 3 b so the tenth version of the proposed map it shows you what the districts looked like in terms of cad and cable and population for the city so for each map the corresponding do not the citywide view so the next one is one that you are not interested

creting networks and that is why the san francisco park alliance is important and the [inaudible] they build community and studeredship around parks. flend of bodecker play ground was created because of the community planning process around bodecker and now we have that stewardship. equity is just a fundamental concept for us. parks are the great equalizer and great democratizeer and supervisor [inaudible] is a great example of a piece of [inaudible] critical open space >> the new bathrooms in [inaudible] will make sauch kiferance. i know like duloring park how many people go through [inaudible] square so it makes a difference >> the long-term theme-we have grouth in city and more people use our parks. we need it manage that grouth and respond to so we keep them well maintained for the next generation >> i had a couple questions about the citation issued by park patrol. there is increase and challenges in hiring, do you have data you can share on the citations issued by the park patrol and dem ographically on the individuals who received the citations >> we have data on citation issued

so businesses and homeownerships and others can park on their property this is the conversion of parkingf the freed spaces for other uses and helps to restore first responders first, the g f a limits the space on land but out of rh3 parking doesn't count in terms of limits on the commercial are housing you can have but not on parking if you have exist parking spaces you don't need g f a may stop you from converting other city policies courage ground floor activity but g f a force people to use the parking there's a limit amount of spaces do we want to prioritize parking over how are you above ground access parking counts but underground park will remain intact and 245i8 use the first floor for retail and housing existing buildings convert unused marshes if they choose about giving people the opportunity to kwhuz and the parking will allow the off-street parking to be located within 6 hundred feet third, the legislation gives the zoning administrator the authority to microwavely remove an inner acceptable requirement in recent years the city eliminates parking rishth or added exemption in

i think keeping the continuity with park station in terms of the perception of the community and the community feeling safe as opposed to now switching to northern station. we just got a new captain. at park station with which the community is getting familiar with. i think the perception of people feeling safe in the neighborhood on the streets is very important and i'd ask you to keep us with park. >> presidentthank you... is there any further public comment on the adoption of the redistricting maps? good evening. >> testifier: i think since the triangle is, then northern, and that it would help reduce crime and because they removed them to northern would hope that area become: as you say and reduce crime. he shouldn't run away from something that the cities are addressing a certain portion away that it's just another person that i don't think people should get privileged to be were they think it feels safer could all leave areas should be treated equally and just because you feel that one areas, then does me run away and throw it under the rug. i think should be put in northern inh

>> as the new parks come in. when we did the original contract back in 2009, the way the contract is structured you have three phases. parks that were already constructed and being maintained. you also had a set of parks that we call phasen parks which is the parks we did our best guess which parks were coming online as the terms on this contract and there were parks in mission bay that we knew were going to get done. two or three 3 years with the economy increases and the grant funds that we had not anticipated, they were not in that original contract as a phase in so we did not set that management fee but we always anticipated as any park that came on we would roll onto this contract and we needed to come back to you for this commission to get approval for management of these parks because we hadn't anticipated they would come on during this period. >> okay, thank you. >> so there will be additional hiring for this additional amount because we are adding parks. are they hiring more people? >> i don't know if mar

the first two items are rail, handrails on the park for a total amount of 740 thousand dollars. these items should not have been bid by olson, they're part of the landscaping contract that's already issued to bid. in discussions with olson, olson realized it was not part of their scope, so we asked olson to hold the price for 6 months and we're going the exclude this from the bid price. we will open the landscaping and compare the prices and if the landscaping is high e we will come back, if not, we will use the landscaping, but just to make sure. the third item listed here is we have security fence screening in the rooms to secure the servers and the computer systems, olson suggested a standard fencing design versus what we have speck as a custom design so, that will be a valued engineer item of a savings of 230 thousand dollars. the fourth item is again column protection covers, aluminum checkered plate come lumps in the back of the house, we expect custom aluminum covers, there will be a savings of 115 thousand dollars. the fifth item is a detail that we have for steel plate d

that is part of the park. and their confederate forces the regulars along with the heavy artillery men and all would form up on high ground overlooking sailor's creek and union army corps would cross the creek. at that time the creek was up because of the spring rain and generally speaking as the troops crossed over it was up to their waist. as you will see today when you go by it it is usually ankle deep. once union forces boarded the creek they formed up at the top of the hill was forces. the union army will form up, march forward going up the hill and the men at that time realize that the end was coming near and so a lot of the union soldiers took out hanker chfs and waved them at the confederate troops close enough to yell johnny lookout, we are coming. go ahead and surrender. with that the confederate troops froze and knelt down and fired a volley into the union line breaking it. union troops falling back towards the creek until they were reformed and made the final attack on the confederate forces. and in

parks alliance. the city parks alliance is a national urban parks alliance, not to be confused with the san francisco urban parks alliance. they are headquartered in washington, d.c. and advocate on urban park issues. advocate and educates. they do this every four years and it was last in new york city and we did host to get this conference -- -- our host committee and rebecca, [speaker not understood] the san francisco park s alliance et cetera. we have all combined to submit a bid that was selected and we had about two years' of planning and the conference is right on the horizon. so we wanted to not just mention this in the gm report, but have rebecca do a deeper dive with you to tell you about the conference for our world, this is as exciting as it gets. with that i will turn it over to rebecca. >>> thank you very much, phil and good morning president buell and the rest of the commission. >> good morning. >> thank you for taking the opportunity to learn more about this conference. i do have a powerpo

we ask that you support keeping the triangle in the park station at this time. we've had a lot of property crime. we had a violent death in november. and we have had in the last year a constant escalation of this trust really in the community in feeling like we were very vulnerable to crime. park station heard that cry from the community and has done everything that they possibly could and has been on the street and have gotten to know the neighborhood i think much better even recently. i think keeping the continuity with park station in terms of the perception of the community

there is the gilman park and other places there that is grayed out. nothing is going to happen and we just want to have everybody on the same page working together to make everything contiguous and beautiful and this is the neighborhood that we all live in together, so -- yeah, what we're looking for is very straightforward and working with you guys, with rec and park, with dpw, with lenar and residents of the neighborhood to make sure what is happening there is good for all of us. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker please. >> thank you. >> commissioners good morning. i am here to ask you to take down the signs that the department has installed around town and i hope to give you a few good reasons for doing that. first trails. about seven years ago a sign was in mclaren park and cited the code and says you must obey the sign and i researched and there was no code or regulation banning bikes on trails but human powered vehicles are permitted, bicycles are permit. i spoke with staff and showed a picture of the sign and he said "i hate that code and

one that again threatens the park and its wildlife. its future in uncertainty. >> are you excited to be here? >> very excited. >> reporter: we've traveled here with shabani. >> i'm resting up to be excited. >> we're seeing the nile. it's amazing to see the nile. >> reporter: she's a wild-expert and national geographic explorer born and raised in neighboring kenya. >> yeah, there they are, coming out of the water. >> rrr! we're speaking hippo. >> reporter: she's helping explore how this delicate ecosystem is returning from the brink. >> you're jumping out of your skin to get out. >> reporter: despite the wait she isn't disappointed. a special sighting right away. >> these are endangered. >> reporter: the rare rothschild giraffe giraffe. >> there's only about 1,000 left in the world. >> reporter: just one of the many vulnerable species that calls this home, including the elusive specialty, the african lion. >> our guide george says this area is known to be a breeding ground for big cats. that's what we're looking for. >> it's like looking

the park. and then also the park design itself, which approved in concept level in 2008, but since then the committee for better parks and recreation in chinatown have reached out to department, staff and developer to ask for fairly minor design changes to improve the usesability and accessibility of the space, as well as to recognize its historic value of the site of a former temple. third, park maintenance that currently the documents that have been approved outline that the developers will -- are responsible for paying for in perpetuity the siting and rec and park has express the interest in custodial gardening service and being compensated on that. on those three points we have had productive conversations. the reuben rose and architect form are responsible for designing 500 pine have started to work with the community to develop alterations that may respond to their concerns that conversation has not yet concluded. mr. fraten and i had a number of conversations about hours and denny kern h