actual loss receipts for visitors going to the park. it is not dollars that typically can be made up, those are just lost dollars. it is very significant impact to the entire community's economy. host: is alcatraz a national park? people think national parks are forests and trees or do they not think it expands to other thing? guest: i think they do. we have 417 national park units, every state has a national park unit, at least one. sites like the statue of other thing? liberty, they are historic sites like hariet tubman and joseph stonewall, put in new york this past year, we have everything from cultural and historic to incredible natural resource sites like zion and grand canyon. it is a diverse system that helps protect history, basic story of our democracy and things like civil war sites. it is really, really critical people understand the impact it has economically for the nation when our national parks are closed. host: here is brad from international falls. hi, brad. caller: good morning there. i live around a national park. i l

access the park. >> i think that m.t.a. agrees with you. >> supervisor fewer: and i wanted to mention that i understand that you have the golden gate master plan and would you suggest having a hearing on the golden gate park master plan so that we can flush that out or how do you suggest that we actually address that -- this living and breathing document? >> i mean, i'll let you decide what hearings you want to call, supervisor. golden gate master plan is a document that was approved by the planning commission and this board. we use it, and we rely on it and it guides all of our management and policy principles with respect to the park. i'm happy to share it with you. >> supervisor fewer: when is the last time that we had an update on that? >> i do not know. >> supervisor fewer: does anyone on the board remember the last time that we had an update on the golden gate master plan? >> not that. the golden gate master plan was a document that was ratified close to around 2000, i think, maybe late 1990s. >> (indiscernible) it was

area around the park. we go into a really deeper dive in the report about the parks that were decreasing over the years. i won't go over that right now, but one of the features that decreased consistently across the parks were the on mental beds, so that's interesting commonality among the parks. we have that deeper information in the report and have already received a request from our staff about those details for these parks in order to inform operational decisions. it's a tie between the decisions we're making and the data we have. beyond the changes, we can look at this most recent year snapshot to see right now, where are the highest scoring and lowest scoring parks. that map is in front of you. in that report, we have that feature. this is the highest, 10 highest scoring and 10 lowest. the highest, fulton playground and ca borriello playground were renovated with under from the 2008 fund. you can see that 60% of the bottom parks are in the southern half of the city. you can almost draw a line across t

who is rented the national park system? we don't have a director of the national park system. we continue to see a lack of leadership from the secretary say he thought president roosevelt was someone he wanted to model. were please look at what president roosevelt said. it is not with the secretaries to. >> in response to this he said we welcome the resignation on expect nothing else. replace a man for inspiring the ethics management failure. >> it is appalling. every sense of my body is appalled. it shows the lack of understanding. these are science advisors and education advisors. nothing to do something that happened in personnel. to throw that out the values the office of the interior was disheartening to those public servants that volunteer that are on paid. >> host: in nevada is up next. >> caller: i will 14 miles from the lake mead recreational area. they wanted to close down the land. in our national forest here dying from bark beetle infestation and disease. these trees are dying to become a hazard in the fire season. you have to let people get in there if you look at

there are times in the park service where issues, for example was not until the early 2000's that the park service was able to fully discuss slavery as the basis for the civil war. and so that took a transition in the park service, the opening i think that the secretary has talked about. so they're going to be these tensions. there is a time now that who knows what we can say at this point, but there will always be people that care deeply about this and the park service i am sure who will keep working to tell the full story. >> next question please. question: [indiscernible] -- my question is relevant to the last point, is there any danger that the national monument might be overturned or changed or rescinded, anything like that by the current administration or in the future? thank you. >> well, in this current political environment one hesitates to make any comprehensive pronouncements about this. i mean, it seems like anything is possible unfortunately. there has not been -- my sense -- been much directed at the cultural and historical monuments and the reason for that is that the u

she has done a lot of work for the park service. no one can take michael's plays but she will speak from the perspective of someone who was in the park service. eric was not able to make it but he will come later for video that he made specifically for this event. he will be hearing from him virtually.om the governor of arizona from 1978 to 1987 was the u.s. secretary of the interior from 1993 until 2001. he is acting as counselor to governor brown of california working on issues of water reform. eric stoner is a professor of history at columbia. his book was a reinterpretation of the. mollie ross spent over 35 years in leadership in the national park service i-4 retiring. she helped president obama established 15 national monuments including this one. billy kaiser ling is the mayor of beaufort south carolina. prior to his election he worked on capitol hill. , we will asker do the first, we will ask the first question -- >> it began when i left law school. i had always kind of what the historical antecedents were of the revival of th

data study two is by the study of parked cars. over 70% of the cars are people that live in a close proximity. that stretches to noe valley. that also stretches one block away from my car. i fall into that.25 radius. instituting rpp in bernal will pit neighbor against neighbor. it is negatively affect caregivers, teachers, make no mistake about that. it will be fix the traffic problem in this city. there are too many people with too many cars in too small of an area. the data shows that we don't want it. the data shows that despite the feelings of the vocal minority, we don't need it. vote against the proposal to show that you're listening to us, and let's work together to seek alternate solutions. thank you for your time. >> thank you for your time. debra porter and then denise jones, and they can lineup over here. >> i'm linda kitlitz. i live at 28 coleridge. i've lived there 28.5 years. when i moved there, i didn't have the need for a garage because there was lots of street parking, and i don't have a garage. and my house has hi

as identified in the recent mclaren park visioning plan. the main public passageway providing park connectivity passes through the 93 -- narrow area. it will be at raymond and visitation avenues. if the 590 leland development goes forward, due to soil instability where the raymond avenue turn-around meets the higher visitation avenue, the area my be shored up and dpw needs to alter a portion of the turn-around to safely accommodate the sidewalk and pathway. it appears to have been no discussion between planning, dpw, the developer and rec and park about this situation. what will be the effect on overall design, number of availing parking spaces, and most importantly, safety. the proposed development will be -- will jet into existing open space, forming a visual barrier compromising open space and visitation avenues. only eastern parkways for children walking to and from their homes. we're considered about safety issues where open space will be narrowed and a blindspot created on public park land. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. ne

this year we are the very -- we are the number one park system in the united states, except for minneapolis and st. paul. and they -- >> supervisor peskin: they have an incredible park system. >> they have incredible park systems and they have a lot less density and they have a lot more space and they're built on the mississippi river and they have some, you know, they have an incredible park system and i got to be there this summer and actually i particularly loved the rail-to-trail bike network, the cross-town bike network they had, and they had the benefit of having numerous train lines going north/south, east/west through, and they have been converted to bike highways with on ramps and off-ramps and exits and it's pretty neat. but this is a sophisticated evaluation system and the trust for public land annually analyzes the top 100 park systems and they look at a variety of quantitative criteria. and we -- as the criteria changes a little bit and they add new park systems but we have never in the last several years been lower than five and this year we are at number three, and so overall

i know people are coming to the park because of special events that happen in the park. while we have a lot of parking, i'm not sure that we'll able to figure out how to maximize parking in the park. we're going to be doing parking surveys and going out there with some folks in the coming weeks to see exactly where folks are going when they park, how long are they parked for, and try to see if we can work with the mta on coming up with solutions on that. >> all right. is that it, orkid? okay. kate, you're up. >> thank you for your presentation. i must admit that i have not gun to the park frequently. it's a distance from my home. and, therefore, i don't know, as this may be in place. do you have tactile maps available? >> i have to look into that. i know we have various information booths, but i don't know the materials they have. i can follow up. >> if your committee is ever interested, if you would like to contact us, we have that service to create tactile maps that would truly help any individual visiting the park that didn't have vision. >> okay. thank you. >> thank y

the pricing. as i mentioned. there were parking sensors in the pilot and control areas so we could tell when parking was available and use that to make the changes. it is worth noting in 2014 this board voted to make permanent the pricing in all the areas. for those 25% of the meters and 14 garages we are doing demand responsive pricing since 2011 for six and-a-half years now. what is demand responsive pricing? we use the average occupancy four blocks for different times of day to judge what the price should be. you can see the occupancy buckets when parking is too full and that means people can't find a space when they arrive and they circle and create traffic and get frustrated. we raise the price 25 septembers per hour. -- 25 cents per hour. when it doesn't create more traffic we leave it where it is. perhaps the price is too high we lower prices. we vary prices by block, time of day, weekday, weekend. the 1600 block may have eight different price at 10:00 a.m. than 1:00 p.m. different that the 1700 block does. the 1600 block on

to parking. the2012 board of supervisors adopted glen park community development plan and the environmental lot refer to our lot as parking, stating if the parking lot along kern is ever developed, parking plans in the area include a gravel parking lot, and if you ask most people that have parked on our property, they believe it's free public parking. furthermore, the city has never taken steps to prohibit the well known use of parking at 21 brompton, so we request that the board of appeals allow the continued use of 21 brompton as a parking lot, albeit a paid parking lot. as we stated, we would like to develop the property sooner. the alternative will be to fence off the lot as is, we will eliminate parking, and traffic in the area is already very grim, and it will create more double and triple marking in an already grid locked area. it will delay long-term development for an unspecified number of years. alternatively, approval to proceed will provide he aesthetices, status quo and development with

and particularly the three things about bicycling, the trails, the bike parks and the playground, the mini bike park there is looking great, coming along. so we've had disagreement over the detail of this, but happy and thankful for the details and the goals they're accomplishing. >> president buell: thank you. >> clerk: anyone else who would like to make public comment on the strategic plan? this is strategic, not the operational. is that ok? ok. >> president buell: so the question becomes do we want to hear the operational plan and then vote on both of them? or having heard that, or do we need to vote now on this? clerk clrk i -- >> clerk: i want to make sure there is no more public comment on this. is there any more public comment? seeing none. >> president buell: i was clairvoyant. any commission comments? seeing none, we entertain a vote. moved and seconded. all those in favor? so moved. thank you. >> that was fantastic. >> wee. she'll be here all week. >> encore right now. >> clerk: we're on item 9, the operational plan. >> commissioners, the operation plan, we have the 5-year h

remaining allocation, toward the citywide parks and programs. i believe the previous presentation mentioned leverage funding. we do the same thing with our bond program. we have been able to leverage at this date, $30.8 million. these revenue sources include development impact fee revenue, philanthropic gifts, state grants and other city funding like the department capital baseline and other allocations. so, this is a status update of our neighborhood park program. we currently have six sites open to the public, two are in construction, and seven are in either planning or design. for citywide parks and programs, we currently have community outreach for projects in mclaren park and lake merced underway. we just went through the mclaren park visioning process, approved by the rec park commission in november of last year. and at golden gate park, the stanyan street entrance improvement project is now in planning. for let's play sf, we just had a presentation earlier in this meeting. 13 parks, concept design has been approved for five parks. two park

the parks service people we worked with took great pride in the tradition of the parks service fallowing -- valuing the highest level of scholarship, and there were plenty of precedents for the park service -- parks service hiring academics write theme studies like the one we wrote. they are people that you would think they would be calling on, or people who have done this work for the national parks service. example, we wrote this theme study as sort of an overview of reconstruction, and the meeting greg talked about, we decided there would be six within thex themes theme study, and one of those was political violence. we drew heavily on the work of foner, andn, eric others. it is in there in an unedited way, the way we would have written it. i think that answers the specific question you were getting at, about things that get tapered over. it remains to be seen how that gets substantiated within the monument itself, and there is an ongoing process that will continue about developing the actual site and what kind of interpretation happened there. one model i think is interesting that i

we do need to consult with the national park service and the i.r.s. about whether or not the sea wall would be qualifying. we think it is at the staff level because it is a contributing resource. to the embarcadero staff. >> and then piggy backing on some of the commissioner's comments about the potential for expansion or more funding for infrastructure. i think, you know, might be worth exploring and we've talked about this repeatedly, expanding the water taxi and ferry service and opportunities there. so, if there's a way we could start getings on the table for any funding that is coming that direction we may want to think about that and argue that building out more terminals throughout bay and partnering with the other cities in the area to help expand water service would be a useful effort to undertake. and then looking at where there might be support for p3 projects. it seems like we're looking for the funding, particularly for the sea wall. frankly there is a lot of large companies that are going to benefit significantly and we might explore whe

parks, 4,000 acres of open space, we have one of the most special parks in the entire country, but whatakes our park system so special are all of you. the people who use the parks every day. who participate in your recreation programs, who volunteer, who advocate, and who work in our parks. our accomplishments are your accomplishments. and without all of you our park system would not be as lively and vibrant. enjoy this look back at the past year in our parks. >> we have a great park system. >> a lot of folks. >> safe clean and fun. we promote our parks historic and cultural heritage and we're building the great parks of tomorrow. >> we were the first city in the country to place parks within a 10 minute walk of every residence. we cut 14 ribbons and broke ground on two additional park renovations. we bought land. we planned for parks of the future. we make our parks safer and cleaner. we celebrated our history and culture. we promoted active living for the diverse and growing population. we help folks play ball. we let kids be kids regardless of whether they can afford to and connected

challenges to the national parks. morning. a little bit about your association, who does it represent, what is the purpose? existence e been in for almost 100 years, created by director.onal parks we have 1.2 million members and supporters, our mission to we'ret national parks and nongovernmental, nonprofit organization and we've been at years now.st 100 host: one thing the association in, topics of shutdown come what was it like this time national parks, compared to the last shutdown in 2013? uest: it was difficult, the last shutdown lasted a couple weeks and everything was shut down. it shutdown was difficult, wasn't quite clear what was going to happen and of course it was a shorter time period, we a third of out national park units shut down. of also have reports graffiti and looting in the days, saw just in two trash building up and many things happening inside parks. parks third of the closed, a lot of visitors were shut out. happens, n a shutdown no staff on national parks to help with guides or safety or that?

he provided over the greater and greener parks conference where we brought the nation's park leaders and some of the nation elected officials to show off the park system. we presided over the centennial. he presided over the summer of love celebration. he led pride parades. giants and warriors championship parades that ran through our parks and facilities. he welcomed the world cup to civic center plaza. and there may have been no bigger san francisco deltas fan. although they were only around one year, they made significant investment into our stadium for generations of folks to enjoy and they won the north american soccer league championship their one and only year. i could go on and on, but i'll stop there. i wanted to say how much i'm going to miss him and how grateful i am, how much he truly loved and cared about parks and the city's kids. to that end, we have some really, really special kids. i thought this was the right way to end today's otherwise sad general manager's report. i want to welcome the young people's team music theater company to our commission. they are a perform

just one note, the park service is facilitating the improvement. they aren't doing the improvements themselves. >> and the design documents or things like that. >> yes. >> could require incorporation of a 30-year or 50-year plan for sea level rise. >> i was just speaking with one of our staffers about bcdc's review and the design has been well-received. and we were just talking about how bcdc's review does think a lot about how the design of the project will last through the anticipate sea level rise. i believe that has been covereded. but i will come back at our approvals and make sure that i have more detail on how that is being anticipated. >> great. well, thank you very much. and thank you for the detailed presentation. we've gone through many it rations of this and discussions and negotiations are pretty familiar with a lot of the details. thank you very much. >> yes. thank you. we've been through many, many rounds of discussion and brings back some of the terms, but nonetheless good to have a good overall summary so i really appreciate that a

so with our opening of the clinic, we are actually going to need parking in the front loading or unloading for our operation. we do have labs we need to pick up on a daily basis and we have lots of large medical equipment we need to park in the front and drop off and bring it in and out of our clinic. so our position is to hopefully we can reinstate at least some of the parking in front of taraval, otherwise it's difficult for us to operate without car able to park in front of our clinic. so that's our position. thanks. >> thank you very much, mr. chu, next speaker, please. >> marshal newman, eileen bokan, morgan sue. >> i'm marshal newman. my wife asked me to bring her comments they are please do not remove the l. taraval stop at 17th, walking an extra two or three blocks is more difficult than you might think for the elderly, disabled and care givers with children or babies. these people may have already walked several blocks, the extra four blocks may mean not being able to do food shopping at all. my own comment is to paraphrase an old saying, anyone who thinks that a person is too old

spaces that are close to the parish to park. really, getting as many people off the street and in those parking spaces inside the building is our request. i have here three pages of petitions from our parish requesting the things that i have started here, getting at much parking at possible off the street into the building. i'd like to submit these to the record. thank you. >> thank you very much. any additional public comment on this item? seeing none, we'll close public comment. i mean, i can start on this one. when i first moved here 20 some odd years ago, i lived on filbert and vanness just by the gas station. i had the view of, i think the chevron station beaming into my unit, and i can remember what a horrible experience it was kind of walking that down vanness, because there were three gas stations. you tended to walk to walk on franklin or another street where there wasn't a lot, either, but there was some street frontage or buildings that had frontage, so i think it's great what's happening to this portion of vanness. i

we planned for parks of the future. we make our parks safer and cleaner. we celebrated our history and culture. we promoted active living for the diverse and growing population. we help folks play ball. we let kids be kids regardless of whether they can afford to and connected them with the natural world. we let seniors be seniors and we made sure everyone can get out and play. in the last two years, we've hosted more than 172,000 events? our parks, little ones, big ones, fast ones, slow ones, strange ones, earthy ones. we inspire let'splaysf! a campaign to build new playgrounds. we created a new light art installation on the conservatory iconic facade. we worked with the golden state warriors foundation to resurface the basketball court. we renovated the soccer pitch. we partnered with the san francisco conservancy to design a new park. we renovated and reopened south park and lincoln park. we helped to ensure that all san franciscans can get out and play. we didn't just inspire capital, we inspired sweat, lots of sweat. we aim to protect and enhance san f

thirds issuance of the 2012 clean and safe neighborhood parks general obligation bonds, series 2018 to the recreation and park department foreign vagus, repair and construction of parks and open spaces. >> supervisor yee: here to present on 7 and 8, director at reskin, and later to present on 9 and 10, antonio guerra from rec and park. >> good morning, chair yee, and member of the committee. ed reskin, director of transportation to respectfully request your approval of all four items. i will be speaking for the first two. but as a member of the capital planning committee, fully support all four items the first two, the second issuance for the 2014 transportation and road improvement general obligation bond. you'll recall that is a $500 million bond that was recommended by the transportation 2030 task force, it was approved with 72% of the vote by the voters in november of 2014. the first issuance was about 67 million, this authorization would be for up to another 177 million and you can see the proposed subsequent issuance schedules on the slide and the

we unfortunately don't have parking meters in the park. we allow free parking for the spots that we do have.

once the park reopens. n side to drop off the family you're blocking traffic pay attention because, the way you do things at muir woods national monument have changed. while you can still visit the park unannounced and pay the 10 dollar admission if you are over the age 0f 16 under is still free you now will have to spend 8 dollars for a parking spot if you insist in driving to the park . if you take a shuttle to the park it's free nats: ambiance the park service hopes this will eliminate some of the shenanigans that have been happening during some of the busiest times at the park so drivers won't be caught making u-turns and driving the wrong way only to make another u- turn just to find a parking space nats: ambiance it will hopefully eliminate the backer uppers who instead of going around to find a spot . or simply driving to another parking lot which fills up rather quickly and you might find yourself waiting . and waiting and . waiting nats: ambiance now you could avoid the shuttle and the reservations

-- the use of this parking lot. the city authorized and the use of this space as a parking lot and operated it as a parking lot, and that sets the precedent. not the ongoing use over the last 30 or 40 years or whatever, but the city itself authorized the use and then operated it as a parking lot historically. so that -- that's a -- i don't -- i don't find that a slippery slope, and that would be the -- the intent of my motion if i were able to make it or anybody else. >> i would concur with that. i'm in the neighborhood quite frequently. that's a pretty dark, dark space, to be honest. like i said, just if we could get to a space where we're not setting huge precedent here, right? >> i would add an amendment, if i may. >> i have made the motion. >> you can make the motion. >> yeah, you can make the motion. >> can i say something first? >> yes. >> since we're about to make a motion. i am completely sympathetic, empathetic, whatever term you wish to use. i would very much like to see this happen. i have not been persuad

it shut down the dog park then. then again in december when they discovered the same situation was going on here in fremont because a lot of the dogs frequent both parks. live in fremont, roz plater nbc bay area news. >> thank you, roz. >>> a warning for parents and students at walnut creek. police say suspicious men are approaching school children. on monday around 4:30 in the afternoon men approached children near a middle school. two days later a man approached a student at a 7-eleven a mile away. the boy says the man started talking to to him and showed him a sexually explicit message on his phone. the boy called police. the second man is distinct looking, tall, thin and balanced. with a neon green cap on his left arm. >> a follow-up to the uc berkeley student detained by immigration officials over the holidays. agents detained him at the border checkpoint in san diego. he was visiting his girlfriend. his lawyers say he will miss at least the first few days of the upcoming spring semester despite help from politi

the east. people are parking all around the zone. there may be some on these regulated streets. >> director borden: thank you. >> thank you, director heinicke. director borden? >> there's a teacher permit in section 905, but that applies only to schools that are within an rpp area. if the area expanded to include fund elementary, then they would be eligible. >> director borden: [ inaudible ] something maybe to look at previous as related to schools. and then, i notice there's a nonprofit. do we know on average how often people -- is it that those people in the neighborhood are there for more than two hours on their visits? do we know the average time that people visit? >> well, i talked with larissa dugan quadra, and she indicated she has over 30 employees, so the two hour limit is obviously more useful for visitors who aren't staying there all day. the two hour limit is very difficult for employees who have been parking in the neighborhood. just understand the longer the time limit, the easier it would be. if you have a three hour a