fully before closing the park to the public. homeless outreach is a major concern. the department is coordinating with the san francisco department of homelessness at supportive housing and the police department to engage with the homeless population prior to your -- prior to and during the park closure. they will undertake a large pest control and route eroded eliminn effort prior to the construction start. ongoing monitoring of traffic will also occur during construction. a plan will be provided to business groups and community groups for review and comments before we commence with the construction contract. parking specifications will require the contractor use the vallejo street parking collage -- garage and parking equipment and debris will be stored on site at all times. we will also be hiring an archaeological consultant and have an as needed contract in place to eliminate any potential schedule inc. plot -- impacts of any unforeseen archaeological items. local businesses, the department will be working with local busines

i am with the park alliance. we're so grateful to be working with the recreation and park department on this. it is an amazing opportunity to see neighborhoods transform with the input of the community. the designs reflect robust engagement efforts that we have done, hand-in-hand with the project managers, the design team and the park's alliance staff, et cetera. they are beautiful and reflect these communities, while remaining conscious and conservative in approaching the budget in understanding the climate we are in right now. as lisa mentioned, our board recommitted to this campaign and we are excited to take on the challenge at head and really dive in to our efforts to raise the funding to support this. we look forward to furthering those efforts through the tier two playgrounds at identifying ways to identify -- engaged communities and transform these neighborhoods. >> president buell: thank you. >> clerk: is there anyone else would like to make public comment on the site and. being done, public comment is cl

we had over 200,000 people visiting the park this weekend. i wanted to give an update about camp mather. earlier this week, we made a decision to cancel the rest of the camp season at mather. the decision does affect the scheduled annual senior week -- [no audio] >> -- and our employee weekend for rec park staff and retirees. i do want to state with respect to our outdoor teen experience, we're pivoting on that and we've partnered with juvenile probation and dcyf and mayor breed and her administration were planning a really lovely day for about 60 kids with a variety of outdoor activities including some lake time and a barbecue over in the east bay, some kayaking and canoeing for kids that won't be up at camp mather. through the past three weeks, we've been in contact with the tuolomne county public management and safety agencies, cal forest, our own department of emergency management, fire department, department of public health and of course our mayor's office, and we've all coordinated very well together on all of the impacts caused by the

it speaks towards the party and the parks, the party for the parks. coming up next month. >> president buell: the 15t 15th? thank you. thank you, lease sb nine we are now on item 12, which is general public comment continued from item for. if you would like to make general public comment and you did not comment under item from farah, could you please come forward? being then, public comment is closed. we are now on item 13, closed session. is there anyone who would like to make public comment on closed session? being done, this item is closed. i need a vote on whether to hold closed session to confer with legal council regarding pending litigation. >> president buell: all in favor? so moved. >> clerk: i need to ask everyone to pl >> clerk: communing -- communications, commissioners? public comment? public comment is closed. we are on item 17. adjournment. >> president buell: seconded. >> clerk: wait, wait. >> vice president low: i would like to make a motion to adjourn in memory of sean

and i would like the next time this comes up, that the national park looks at all the national parks the city of san francisco and they look at everything. we are at this stage now where san francisco, and the national park service can be a leader, or a follower. i think the port and the national park should take a focus on the environment. if we all are dead because of pollution, there's no customers. there's no visitors. in conclusion, i want to say that we support this, but we think that we should take a higher view of the whole environment. we have to start in san francisco. again, i want to thank the national park, on the port commissioners for being so patient. and also, i think we have to think about the staff. elaine and her staff. but also mr martin and the rest of the gang that has taken a lot of beatings. this is a great opportunity. thank you. >> thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. prior to the commissioner's discussion, might, do you want to address any of the concerns brought up? >> can you address the enforcement issue a

the park service did not do that. a lot of the work i think the park service did, the port and the staff wind it up doing that work. that left a bad taste in my mouth. but i do see, finally, it seems like the park service has come around somewhat. there was some behind-the-scenes thing that went on in d.c. they were very slow and responded to a letter. she expressed they did not give her the respect responding to her. i don't know about bureaucrats. i'm just a working guy, but sometimes where if you get caught up in that, you get stuck up in a file and they can't seem to figure it out. i believe in simplicity. i am a working guy. but sometimes bureaucracy just blows my mind if we can't get through that. that being said, it seems like the union has made some strives towards -- forwards. you heard them all. they are willing to go forward. i want to thank support staff. you guys were beyond. he did a lot of the park service and you carried their water. i think they can do better in the future. they didn't show me that the

i'm here to advocate for increasing the 2019 parks bond so that many park projects can have the funds to do their project. we as jackson park would like to have a straight flush just to be able to get new bathrooms in there. the after school program doesn't allow them to use the men's bathroom. it's bad -- in bad condition at this time. we know that it's a difficult situation, but we are working with rec park, with parks alliances, and with all the constituents to see what we can do to help increase this bond. sf planning shows that 40,000 new workers are moving into our corridor. as you know, the east side of the city is observing a lot of development, both housing and commercial developments, and so more office space, airbnb decided a huge lease four blocks from the park, and they're there every day, so they're park users also. so we thank you for your support of that, and we look forward to consideration. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else who would like to make general public comment, come on up. >> thank you again, commissioners. i am here on this item to mention is

the arrows on this slide point to the trans-bay area parks. th the blue arrows point to the two parks that ocii will right lane, project three, and under ramp park. this is a photo of the newly completed salesforce park. and this is a conceptual rendering for transbay park for block three, that was included in the 2006 streetscape plan. once ocii kicks off the design process for transbay park, we will begin with community outreach to get feedback about what the neighborhood residences and workers would like to see as part of the park, the schematic design of the transbay park will be entirely different from what is shown here, but it will be based very much on what the community desires. this is the current site plan for under ramp park, which stretches from just south of folsom street, north ward to howard street, with a direct connection to the salesforce transit center. this brings me to the action items that the commission is considering today. again, the commission is considering the approval of two contracts which related to the implement

in the middle of the park is a in the middle of the park is a statue of jackson. he unusual thing about the statue is that it was built -- sculpted or whatever they do to statues in 1854. it's the first time in history that having a statue of a man on horseback with the horse on two legs. that was an engineering feat for 1854. people say gil, it is andrew jackson. why do they call it lafayette square? the answer to that is, it started out life, pierre l'enfant laid it out as the president's park. the question was whether it would be white house grounds, or open to the public. it was not until thomas jefferson said we need a smaller government, we will put this outside the gates of the white house. it was still kind of a building zoned for the white house and the federal office buildings. in the war of 1812, there were troops there, when the white house was burned, there were questions about whether or not the capital would stay here. finally, in 1818, the first house was built. first, i should tell you, it is the beautiful victorian era homes, 19th-century homes al

the park is only open during the daylight hours so they can empty the park every night. in san francisco, ktvu fox2 news >>> happening today, a former republican candidate for mayor of san francisco will lead a protest outside twitter headquarters. richie greenberg and others believe first amendment rights are under attack by companies like twitter and facebook. several tech companies recently limited or removed users who were violating hate speech policies. among them alex jones known for spreading baseless information and promoting conspiracy theories. greenberg believes the decisions by tech companies is a form of censorship. that protest today at twitter begins at 11:00. >>> google is declining to comment about a workers petition against a secret project to develop a search engine for china. about 1400 google employees signed a petition citing urgent, moral, and ethical issues. the workers are demanding that google be more transparent. the beijing government has blocked its people from access to thousands of websites, including google or facebook. google has tried to

in the netherlands we visit a floating park that tackles plastic pollution. and we have a look at how windmills can change the energy situation in tanzania all this and know coming out on eco africa. natural habitats incident in asia have been threatened by deforestation lifestyle grazing and climate change but there's hope for this i would region in two thousand and ten it's a nation state made eight thousand hectors east of the city of the national park since that considerable reforestation and remit so his asian efforts have been made the promise of the once again home to ostriches gazelles and a variety of reptiles so let's go there and see what's been done so far. he's been a ranger in doom a national park for twenty three years every morning he scans the horizon these days the local wildlife is thriving the unique ecosystem in this region in southern has been regeneration since it was made a national park. the park is flourishing and the animals here are reproducing. the animals are free to roam although the mountain range forms are not full barrier ever

space, not just all the city ka's parking space. i think that -- i think the other is whether we can -- also, i never heard anything about smart traffic lights. you know, sometimes you sit a a light and there's no traffic. seems we should be figuring out how to have smart traffic lights and maybe more video cameras to capture -- and if people know that there's cameras on the streets, you watch some of the television channels, cctv is there, it did he pers people's behavior. it changes people's behavior, so i think that's something also to take a look at. i guess lastly, i want to say while this is really about public safety, overall, it's not this unrelated to traffic congestion. and the area that i always bring up is when we have a cruise ship come in, wow, traffic on the embarcadero becomes impossible. so i think that the m.t.a. is considering along with all of these other issues, along with public safety is it is related to congestion overall and what are we doing about is it? >> commissioner makras. >> i think i agree with everyt

but all of our parks do have signs regarding the rules of the park. so i'd have to check in to see what the signs are for the rules of that because a lot of our rules in general for our parks are no adults without children present with them. but that's more of an overarching thing. we do often have park rangers out there and so if there's a concern where you see something that isn't right and you don't feel comfortable addressing it we also have a number it our park patrol accessible to the public. you can always call and they can always step in and talk to people if you feel that it's not safe for the kids there or in general. >> that's all of our parks. >> thank you, council. i appreciate everything. last but not least our co-chair jim blacksten. >> good afternoon. i have learned a lot from your presentation and from the questions that have been posed by colleagues here and i think that the programs that you are putting together here are excellent. so i as a person who is a disabled person in the business world i'm always interested in finances. i'm

am and is part of the overall national park service, all of the circles are also national park serviceoperties. it is a separate entity from the portion of the park that takes care of the mall. however, i hope it is not the same bench, but do you have anything there about hush money being paid in lafayette park? since thetest fear book has come out is someone will come up and say, you mean, you didn't know about the hush money? [laughter] i don't know the hush money story. i do know that they found wires on bernard's bench. that led to some speculation that he was being wiretapped. other people thought it was part of the anti-gay thing to collect evidence. ok, tell me. that apparently cash was paid off during the watergate scandal in lafayette park. >> oh. shew. the next book, next edition -- >> you sure you weren't paid off to not put that in there? [laughter] >> i wish i had known that. that would have been front and center. and if anybody else has something, just don't tell me. i spent 36 years. [laughter] well, the forward to this book is written by john kelly, the great washington

park. it will connect the 1.5 million waterfront park continuing to rec-park's properties and terminating the shipyard's park. the private sponsor is committed to creating a community district that will enhance maintenance and support of the spaces. i understand that this commission was briefed last week on projections for how high the ocean could rise. an opponent of the sea level rise strategy requires that these projects agree to form a facilities district that will contribute to future reap sources for sea level-rise mitigation. like pier 70, india basin and all future bay projects will be required to create districts that establish a site-specific tax. it ensures that future dollars are captured for protection of the areas beyond the borders of the projects. additional benefits include the project will make $10 million contribution to offsite transportation and sustainability fee. the sponsor will construct neighborhood transit, including a bike lane connecting the sites, with existing bike lanes on hunter point boulevard. build will pail school facilities fee of $4 million. there will b

for the last two decades of his life guardian lived in this park the park well one of his masterpieceshere he was able to put all his imagination into architecture for the first time. nature was his source of inspiration he wanted to penetrate her mysteries and capture her force and in a strength his viaducts of costly hewn stone with slanting supports could be the work of nature herself. pillars rising out of the earth and reaching up towards the roof like tree trunks with stone bark a clump of trees supporting a vault in place of bounds. originally this was to have been an exclusive residential area but that plan was dropped and the park was left as an open space where the people of pass alone could relax and enjoy the weird and wonderful interplay of nature and art conceived by gowdy for their pleasure. a wall set with colored tiles and pieces of glass and fashioned to form a bench runs right through the middle of the park a sculpture winding its way through the landscape like a sea serpent an ancient mythical beast captured in stone. the serial mosaics covering its surface made up