Policy that was designed to triage the complaints and sort them out into low, medium, or high risk complaints. For example, the medium risk cases involved potential losses of 10,000 to 50,000 or they implicate a mid level manager. The medium and high risk cases are not represented in the whistleblower reports. Instead, we get a preponder remembers of cases of low level employees who use Work Computers for personal business, who leave work early, or show up late, who gamble or sleep on the job, or who smoke in city cars and park them inappropriately. Preventing these abuses is worthwhile, but wheres the beef . We dont hear about the big money violations or mid to high level official misconduct. Why not . If the Whistleblower Program does not receive such complaints, they should know why. If the Whistleblower Program refers such complaints elsewhere, they should know how many involve violations of criminal or ethics law. Since the Whistleblower Program already categorizes complaints according to their low, medium, or high risk, they should ask why they are not reported as such. Thank you. Thank you dr. Kerr. Any other Public Comment . Good. Can you call the next item. Item number 6, opportunity for Committee Members to comment or take action on any matters within the committees jurisdiction. 20192020cgoboc work initiates. Good morning, just to remind everybody the format of this agenda item is to have a list of administrative and Committee Functions that you are working on during the year and we can report progress on any of them as need be. I will just run down the list and stop me at any point with your questions or comments. Standardized template. This was a desire of the committee during last fiscal year to look at the variations that you get from different programs and try to move towards a format you find most useful in terms of having them be common, use the same terminology, standard views for schedules and expense reporting, and so we didnt do work on that last year just given your capacity and ours. We are prepared to do work on it during the current fiscal year. I think that chair chu has designated herself, volunteered to be the liaison on this subject, and i think probably what will happen between now and your january meeting is ill have some of my staff refresh and build on a matrix that we worked on before that shows the bond programs, the type of schedule theyre providing, what their reporting period is, so we can see the variability that exists and we can explore how useful the committee has found the reports and where we may look for improvements. So you have a period now, november and december where you dont have an inperson meeting, so i think we should be able to find time to have a liaison meeting on that subject if that sounds appropriate. One other thing. Can you ask them to go back and look at our previous meetings to you know, understand how we use it. Brian was referring back to some specific information in some of the reports, so i think we can use that as facts on how were using them, how that information is actively being used in a meeting. I know brenda also had interacted with the reports in an indepth way. Okay. The expenditure audit, this is where we have reviews of expenditures and bond programs. You will see issuances. Mark, will you update us on your schedule, any changes that may have happened . Sure. Just a quick update. So we completed expenditure audits of eight various projects. We have one ongoing, the 2016 Public Health and safety program. We will be issuing that in either december or early january, right in time for your next cgobos meeting in january. Then we have plans to touch the programs we havent touched before, including the Affordable Housing program and the sea wall safety. Those will be deferred to next fiscal year. We want to make sure theres enough expenditures to audit and that will be the case for the 2018 sea wall safety, so well put that on our work plan for next fiscal year, and definitely the 2016 Affordable Housing, we should have enough transactions to audit by the beginning of next fiscal year or end of this fiscal year. Were also planning on touchi touching or doing reaudits of the bonds we audited before. Looking at those projects within those bond programs that we did not audit in the past, just to make sure we have a full extent in coverage of the various projects within each bond program and we can attest to the fact that we audited all of the various projects within all of the bond programs. Do you have any concerns about the timing of the projects for the 2016 Affordable Housing . It sounds like i mean they dont start until next summer, a year from now or so. I have some, but i mean there werent a lot of expenditures in that one the last time i looked. I understand that theres not much to look at. I believe it only gotten started on 3 of the 30 items that are in there when i was looking at it in our report. So obviously, i love to see them as soon as possibility, but we cant audit what hasnt been spent. I understand that we have to keep an eye on that. Okay. So the port for me, its very much about black box over there, and we probably would have learned more if they come today with some information. So, it feels to me that, thats one that may creep up on us, maybe not the whole thing. Its not the whole parks bond. Right. Those have not been issued. Im talking about the 2012 parks bond. Its that. Right. A more detailed report would be key. Got it. And with the content they get from here, ill reach out and meet up and see if we can get to the bottom of it and get a report. And well talk about it in our next meeting. That will end up having some concerns, particularly as we go into the sea wall where we will have a lot more money. We certainly can do as part of our work planning for next fiscal year is to revisit the bonds we have audited and figure out which portions or projects are attributed to the port and we can use that as our way to narrow down the scope of our o g. O. Bond projects. Okay. Great, thank you. Okay, next item 1c is the schedule of upcoming bond issuances. You have a memo in your packet and our director of public fitness finance is here to answer any questions or comment. The sea wall, will that go to the board in april . It went to the board last april. It has been healthed held up a little bit, but we should have an update at the next meeting or the meeting after. Great. And im sorry if i asked this last time, but the transportation and road improvement, 258, that seems like a large number for issuance. I looked at the encumbered and unencumbered. We have 50 million thats unencumbered. Prior to determining the final bond amount, we will make sure there are projects they have planned for expenditure within the next 3 years per i. R. S. Guidelines. One note that was mentioned earlier, we are pleased to report that we did sell the last series bond for Affordable Housing last week, about 93 million and then we also sold the final series for the parks bond, which will be a port project, so thats in the amount of 3. 1 million for that final port project. Right now, were just starting to do our work on vetting projects for both the Public Health and transportation bond to determine what size we will be bringing forward for issuance in the spring and were evaluating some refinancing opportunities, given the low Interest Rate environments for our g. O. Bonds. Is the market looking favorably op our bonds . Most definitely. We still have 2 of our 3 Credit Ratings are aaa and the next is aaplus. Thats a good thing. Congratulations. Thank you. Can i ask something. Sure, please. On the 22b road improvement bond, do we have a scope for that yet, a description . I know rochelle is here in the audience. Hes shaking his head. Its something that were just now selling the bonds last week for the Affordable Housing and parks. This is our next area of focus and well be determining that soon. Yeah. Were just getting started. We havent put a Financing Team together yet. Ive been in contact with project managers for both of those bond programs and theyre confident that there is a need for another to be issued. Theyre still in the process of scoping out and putting together an expenditure schedule. Once theyre ready, hopefully in the next few weeks, the plan is to meet with them and get their plans and the projects, and matrix make sure their expectations are reasonable before we move forward with any bond sales. The last conversation i had, they were hoping to have an issuance for the full balance of the program bond. I put that in there as a headsup to you that it could potentially be as large as that but well validate what theyre asking for when we go over the projects. Our next meeting is january. Yeah, by then we should have that. All right, moving on to 1d. Were going to spend a couple minut minutes on this. Again as a reminder, last year on your behalf, we had a Public Perception survey that was conducted by one of the providers in our prequalified pool, where we have a pool of providers that do Public Opinion testing, focus groups, and work of that type. We use them for a lot of different purposes in the city. They did intercept surveys and tested two sites in the bond program that you oversee. We were testing Public Knowledge about the site before and after visitor use, their perception of the use of bond funds, some of the demographics of the people using those sites and we got some interesting findings and feedback on how people perceive the bonds and the kind of improvements that rise up highest in public favor. I think you were strongly interested in that type of content, wanted to do another bond. Were interested in focusing on Affordable Housing. So, i did a little bit of work reaching out to the Affordable HousingProgram Managers and staff in the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development in the Mayors Office to discuss it and had talked about bringing back to you a lets of potential sites that we could make the subject of a Public Perception survey. So, i have those sites, but let me add a couple of qualifiers before we look at the list. You know, as you observed in the discussion with member natoli and the expenditures audit, there isnt a lot of money out the door yet in the Affordable Housing bond. There arent any completed projects yet that were completed with these bond. Thats something to keemenp in mind. You can do a Perception Survey focused on this bond. You can wait 18 to 24 months and choose another bond program to work on and by which time there would be more expenditures and hopefully completed projects in the Affordable Housing bond. Those are two options. At the same time, part of my discussion with bond Program Managers here is the public isnt all that cognisant of the difference in Funding Sources. So what youre interested in is getting more public understanding of the feeling around Affordable Housing, how the city funds those things, how the building processes goes, and the number of subjects we talked about that you can test here, you can go ahead and test some of those Public Opinion things, whether or not the Funding Source was g. O. Bonds. Thats an option. Just to again remind everybody, we talked about there are a lot of things you may want to test in Affordable Housing. Its not the same as streetscapes where youre testing users and whether there are g. O. Bonds or not and if they remember voting for it. These things are different. Do you want to test the perception of understanding of stakeholders communities, the residents of the projects, the neighbors, the businesses in the neighborhood, the housing providers, the housing managers, builders, or are you trying to actually test citizen voter understanding of how the city funds Affordable Housing and how it manages its work in that area. Any one of those things is project interesting in legitimate possibilities. Im putting those out there. Lastly, the projects themselves, there are five projects they gave me, which is a mix of funding by the city zone Housing Trust fund, federal home funds, Development Impact fees, theres a good range of geographic spread, and different target populations, which were funded with these projects. I can detail any of them if youre interested in taking that approach. Thats where i gotten to so far. Id appreciate your thoughts and feedback on how you would like to proceed. Yeah. I still think there is a lot to be learned, even if were not talking about completed projects. I think its still interesting, especially because as we look at another Affordable Housing bond going on the ballot, a lot of things i hear from people when they ask me is, i dont see anything happening with this. I dont know about it. Especially given the kind of oversight were doing, i care a lot about providers, i care about construction, all these things matter. I think from our viewpoint, what were really interested in is we require twothirds of the voters to approve this, so i think their perception is an important component in this. Their understanding of who is being served and what exactly we are accomplishing with that money because a lot of people say nothing. They dont feel like anything is happening. So, i guess to that one part of timing, i think there is still some valuable things to be gained from this. As to some of the other points, happy to follow up more. I definitely have some thoughts, but i want to think on it a little bit more about some of the other aspects you brought up, for sure. I have a different point of view. I think we should stay within our jurisdiction, which is to ensure bond funded projects are carried out to the expectations as much as possible by the voters who approve them. It is not our job to start digging into what people think of Affordable Housing in the city. I would rather postpone pegs suggestion when there are projects to pull on and look at Something Else the next couple of years. Really, im interested in everything that you listed of course, and that peg listed, but thats not our job. Our job is to evaluate bond funded projects and while it is important of course to make sure theyre bond funded projects that the city needs, its again, we are reactive. That is this committees role, to look at projects after the bonds have been approved by voters, not to start getting into issues of parks or Affordable Housing or transit. Its not our jobs. I would actually prefer to wait on a perception study for Affordable Housing and perhaps look at one of our jurisdictional areas. I think lauren makes a valid point. There is a lot of Affordable Housing going on and i dont know where the funding is. Its so complex and meshed in a lot of different things. For example, one of the ones off the top of my head was ping young, one of the things funned by a bond. Clementine towers, there is a lot of confusion there. I think thats a valid point. Its after the fact for us. If we were to poll or to get a perspective, you know, accommodation of the residents in the project, the surrounding area, and yeah, the shops and owners in the area, does it bring business . Does it bring economics and keep it here . The and gave me some edits and the clean copy with all those edits that was included in your packet today. If you have further comments or edits or suggestions, we can make them now and then you can approve it on that basis. The only thing i left blank on purpose was the date on the front, which we usually put the publication date when we push things out on the Controllers Office website. Just to remind you, an attachment to this report is my offices g. O. Bond report. So you dont need to worry that your report needs to include detailed content on scope, schedule, and budget because all of that is here in that format. So just to remind you, that is how it will look. It will get posted. Great. I think were going to have to vote on this one. Does anyone have any addition changes you like to see in the document . I had a question. There were edits that you made to my report and i read this. I dont see that there were any changes. It was just small things like tense or punctuation. Oh, i probably needed that. [laughter] nothing material. We tried to preserve the original voice of each speaker. Great to know. Is there a proposal to vote on this . Move. Second. I guess i move to approve this. Just for the record, there is no member of the public present. Great. Great, thank you for your work on this. We will get it posted on the website and congratulations. Thank you. Item 2b, your work plan. The only change that i am noting is that you ask the port park Program Manager to be present at your january meeting. The slides they provided in the current packet didnt have details that you want to see, so you would like a bond Program Style report from them. Am i understanding that correctly . I believe so. Part is bart will meet with them so he can give direct feedback on what were looking for. A bond style report would be great. They werent here. Were they here the last time . I dont remember if they were. I dont remember myself. We will reach out to them and add them to your agenda for january. Thank you. Thats the only change to the work plan im aware of. Great. Yeah, the only flag i would say is that there seems to be quite a bit in january. Thats life. What do we have in january . Im also interested in hearing from the port since i dont think i seen them since ive been on this committee. Technically theyre done with most of their stuff, so it should be a short report. That is our hope. So january 27th meeting would have bond program report, Affordable Housing bond report, liaison report for the Public Health and safety, and the liaison report for my program, and we hope to finish our fiscal year 1819 summary report and present on that, and then the autd dit report for the public report for the expenditure that mark mentioned and you will be adding the port. Do with want to do a paper report and not have them . No, i like charles to attend. I like the staff to attend. They only come once a year. I think its important that they come. Okay. Okay, well try to manage the schedule and well tell everybody to be tight and well look at the timing. That will be great. Thanks. Any other business . Yeah, i had a couple of items. When i made the liaison report in our last meeting, i brought up seven questions that i asked of m. T. A. Staff and i got an email answer to all of them, both peg and mary were copied on that email. If youre interested in seeing it, im sure mary can forward it to you. I think what i like to do is when we next hear from them, or when we have our next liaison meeting is to sit down and discuss them with the staff in more detail. They answered the questions that would be a follow up question. It bares further discussion. On the 2008sfgh rebuild bond, i think my last report on that since we closed out any event, there was an outstanding claim passed through from one of the subcontractors from webcore to the city. The last i reported is that they looked like they were going to settle. I checked with the City Attorneys Office and they said in fact they had. There is a subsequent lawsuit by the city against the designer, claiming there is an omission. There is an omission insurance coverage, so there is a source of money to get that paid. In other words, they are not going to bankrupt an architect. The architect had to get this insurance in order to get the contract from the city. The city always pays for it through the price they pay the designer. That isnt scheduled for trial until next year and even at that, its an early date, no doubt the architect and its attorneys, which consist of the bond company will ask for a postponement. Im going to predict right now its going to settle short of going to court. But we dont know that yet. Further, i dont know what effect that has on the bond, and how they reconcile the bond because its money that was spent to settle the claim with the general contractor came from the bond as they recover any of that money from the Insurance Company for the designer, i dont know what happens. Does that come back . Does that reconcile in completing the bond process reconciliation . I dont know. Now you know all that i know. Thank you for following up on those things. Anything else . I think were adjourned. Thank you. Please call the roll. [roll called] this is a recreation and Park Commission meeting of october 17, 2019. Welcome to everyone here today. We kindly remind you to turn off Electronic Devices and take any secondary conversations outside in order for the meeting to proceed. If you would like to speak on any item, we request you submit a blue card. Please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment. In order to allow equal time, neither the commission or staff will respond to any questions, but the commission may ask questions of staff after the Public Comment is closed. If there is item not of interest to you, you may speak under general Public Comment and that is item 4. Please note if the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate the building in an orderly fashion with any exit. Our leaders will return to first floor and are not available for use. Please make your way to the closest area of refuge across the hall in the mens restroom. Let them know where you are and they will assist you. We are on item 2, president s report. President buell thank you. A couple of things. Even though commissioner low is not here, i would like this express my gratitude that he handled last months meeting when i was out of town and everything went quite well. Secondly, i wanted to read an email that i received and ill just read a portion of it, because i think its important for the staff to hear it. Dear mr. Ginsburg, were writing to express our gratitude for the positive change that you and those who work for you have created on our block. The residents on oak street have experienced a vast improvement of our quality of life as results of changes to the median park and increased police presence. They say that the quality of their life was vastly improved. I mention it because i we want out to that went to that site with the general manager and we met with the community how long . Over a year ago. And its just a great demonstration, in my opinion, of how the staff has tried to be responsive to the public in following up on issues that often times are difficult to solve. Its nice to know that parks can make a difference in the quality of life. The last thing i want to say on the consent calendar, i know we have important item, h, the renaming of the will be in the Harvey Milk Photo Center. I want to take that off calendar and make it a separate item so people in the public can speak to this. And ask the secretary to give two minutes per presentation. Thank you. Clerk any Public Comment on this item . Item 3, general managers report. Good afternoon. It is harvest season. We have lots of harvest urban agriculture related updates. Last week our Agriculture Team hosted a day for 144 third graders from our local schools. Introducing them to the world of agriculture and farming in the city. They taught them about growing plants at home, nutrition, making cream into butter, grinding wheat into flour, composting and bee keeping. The stars of the day were 50 animals and insects brought in for the kids to get a touch on those found on the farm. Alpaca, ducks, chicken, goats, lamb and two hissing cockroaches. Ever heard a cockroach hiss . I havent. I want to give kudos to the team for putting it together. Staying on the theme, and staying at the farm, please join us this weekend for the 15th annual Harvest Festival event. Its saturday, october 19, from 11 00 to 4 00 p. M. , hosted by the friends of al maine farm. Farm fresh food and others. The farm is the largest urban farm in San Francisco and offers everyone the chance to learn where their food comes from, pitch in to help and take Fresh Produce home for free. For more on the event, visit their website. Staying at the farm. On november 2, please join us for another event from 10 00 a. M. To 1 p. M. For Garden Research day. We offer everything to get your home garden growing. So for more info, please check us out online. Were going to go down the road to shoreview park, where we were pleased to have been joined by commissioners mcdonnell and anderson, where we hosted an event to celebrate the upcoming improvement to this oneacre park. The park was transferred to recreation and parks in june 2017 from the office of Community Investment and infrastructure, formerly, redevelopment. The renovation will include new childrens play area, new picnic area, site furnishings, planting, new park lighting and new accessible paths of travel. The project is funded through a variety of sources including a hud Community Development block grant. Yes, that is federal money coming into San Francisco. The california Natural Resources agency. And this commission was also extremely helpful in ensuring that we had the final piece of the puzzle in funding the playground. Were grateful. Completion of the project is anticipated next year. Moving west, we now arrive at the San FranciscoBotanical Garden. Where its newly transformed celebration garden will showcase iconic plants from the collection and provide a venue for special events. This 1. 7 million renovation was made possible through publicprivate partnership, including contributions from several donors and volunteers. What is not in my notes, but is true, this project was seedfunded pun intended with 75,000 from this commission in honor of the Botanical Garden 75th anniversary in 2015. It obviously took a little while to do the planning and raise the other money to get to the final total, but this project actually was planted by this commission. So another thank you to the recreation and Park Commission for doing that. We invite everyone to stop by and see the new garden soon. We continue west. And we arrive at scare grove. Where you can join us this friday, october 25, for our annual Family Friendly halloween event. This year is haunted houses, live entertainment, carnival ride, games, food, and a costume parade. Tickets can be purchased in advance. This is the Halloween Party of the year. Please dont miss it. For more information join us at rec and park. Even though its not in my notes, because i see linda in yellow, i should be announcing the final concert for hosted by friends of the amp, at the jerry garcia amphitheatre. This saturday, october 18. I dont do this, linda, but the artists name is stan sutherland. We have a great conperformance this saturday. These are free concerts in mclaren park, which if you have not visited mclaren park, it is truly, truly, a treasure. And we are so grateful to friends of the amp for all of the blood, sweat, tears and just love you invest in the jerry garcia amphitheatre. Please support them and show up next saturday. Lastly, i return back to Golden Gate Park on this whirlwind tour of our park system. I did want to update the commission on a milestone in our efforts to make Golden Gate Park safer for pedestrians and bicyclists. We were joined by supervisor vallie brown along with bike and pedestrian advocates and our sister agencies mta and public works earlier this month in Golden Gate Park to celebrate the last of 13 raised crosswalks recently installed in Golden Gate Park, capping three years of trafficcalming measures in the park as part of the citys vision zero initiative. We were joined by supervisor brown, walk sf, Communications Director lindsay, and in fact, we all, including me, helped stripe the new raised crosswalk on j. F. K. Drive east of 8th avenue on october 3rd. It was the first time in my ten years i have ever operated a crosswalk striper, president buell, so we can check that one off the box. The Improvement Project was launched in 2016, following an executive directive from then mayor ed lee and includes floating curbs along the bike lane, striping, hit posts and media extensions. Since improvements began, the number of vehicles battling over 30 Miles Per Hour has fallen 30 . We still have a ways to go. To make the park as safe as it could or should be. We plan to implement longer Term Solutions to keep pedestrians and cyclists safe in the park which sees 26 million visits per year. This month in parks, were going to see a video, because we had the great speaking of Golden Gate Park, the great pleasure of hosting the u. S. National lawn bowling championships at the lawn bowling courts in Golden Gate Park. The courts built by john mclaren. And included mini ill luminaries from all around the country, including teddy roosevelt. This is just a beautiful place where history meets recreation. We and the club and the commission has been supportive of this one too have done a lot of work on the greens and the clubhouse. They built a new history wall. And we welcomed lawn bowlers from all over the country for three to four days of pretty intense competition. The bowlers themselves believe this to be the finest lawn bowling venue in the United States of america. So with that, i will turn it over to ryan who will cue up the video. [ ] my lawn bowling jacket. This guy is quite a character. President buell impressive. And that concludes the general managers report. Clerk any Public Comment on the item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner mcdonnell as wonderful moments are important on their own, i want to pause to say thank you. The celebration at shoreview park, where were going to be making an investment in transforming this space for these children and their families was noteworthy on a number of levels. And so first, thank you to the general manager, the team, especially lamonte bishop for ensuring we were able to get to this moment. The context of this moment. As a native san franciscans, grew up in the fillmore i watched the citys transformation where these investments did not happen. And so to come forward now and begin to see these kinds of investment made in communities who traditionally have been overlooked, if not ignored, is noteworthy. I was particularly moved by one of the advocates from the community who spoke at the event yesterday and she said, you know, im really excited. Weve been working so long and hard on this. And she said, sadly, my kids, who were young when i started this fight, are now adults. And so they wont get a chance to take advantage of it, however, all of these kids and she pointed to the Wonderful Group of young people, Young Students who were there, will be able to. So it reminded me and again reminds me of a song i will not sing [laughter] the wine sang, its been a long time coming, but a change has finally come. Ive waited past evening, tell me when will i see the sun . And what is exciting, were seeing the sun in San Francisco, so thank you to the entire team. Thank you so much. President buell thank you. Clerk were on item 4, general Public Comment. Up to 15 minutes. This is continued to item 10. Members of the public may address the commission on items of interest within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and do not appear on the agenda. You will have opportunity to address the commission. I have one blue card. Deborah joseph. Thank you. I live next door to Cabrillo Playground in a house that my family has lived in 70 years. I see and hear everything on the playground. In fact, im the founder of the friends of Cabrillo Playground and as you know, we have a beautiful new playground that opened in 2013 and were usually rated top in the city. Its a wonderful, wonderful, playground, thank you very much. But were beginning to have a problem with skateboarders. As you know, skate boards do a great deal of damage to playgrounds. And we talked to them, we tried to dissuade them, but what it really comes down to is they need a place to skate. And in august our supervisor sandra fewer held a meeting about outside lands for our community. And along with the regular complaints about the noise, the traffic, the parking, a few people said, well, wait a minute, i live here, i have to put up with all this, what do i get out of it . Good question. Now i stood up and said why dont you talking to alan scott from another planet entertainment, why dont you pay for a skate park for our kids, Richmond District kids, sunset district kids, put it in the park, west of 25th avenue, accessible to all the kids . And he said thats a great idea. So thats my suggestion. They could call it another planet skate park and it would great p. R. The residents would see that something is being done. Theyre giving us Something Back and the kids would have a place to skate. Thats my suggestion. Why dont you Start Talking to another planet about a skate park for us . And i spoke with Aaron Anderson last year about potential sites and there are some. One i think he said was near the new soccer fields. But there are few places where they could do it. I just wanted to put this idea in your minds and see where we can go with it. Because we would like to give the kids a place to skate and keep our playground in tiptop condition. Thank you. Clerk any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We are now on item 5, consent calendar. Commissioners, i need a motion to sever that item from the calendar. So moved. Second. President buell moved and seconded. All those in favor. Item 8 shall be held separately. Any public motion on the calendar . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. President buell all those in favor . So moved. Clerk we are now on item 5h, harvey sorry about that. Were on Harvey Milk Photo CenterPhoto Processing Lab naming. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name it lamonte bishop and im with the policy and im here on behalf of the Harvey Milk Photo Center and to create a Photo Library and reading space in the lobby of the center. This request would meet our strategic plan, specifically strategy one to inspire space. And place, im sorry and the objective would be 1. 4 to preserve and celebrate historic and culturele resources. Al reso. Hees bn he is a historic documentaryian and civil rights leader. He began photographing fillmore first for assignments and then as a documentary maker. His black and white images capture the black community in 1940s, 50s and 60s. David grew up in foster care. In age of 12, he developed an interest in photography after winning a camera in a contest. He was drafted into the navy before graduation from high school. After completing a tour in the philippines during world war ii, he returned to his hometown where he read aboutancele adam ansel adams photography. He asked to join the program and when a spot opened up, mr. Adams invited him to live in his home while he found a place to live. And with no formal training, mr. Johnson came to San Francisco in 1945 at the age of 18, with his 5 eastman folding camera in his pocket. His photographs have come to be recognized for their depiction of the fillmore before urban redevelopment in the 1960s. They have been featured in documentaries and books, including his own book of photography, a dream so long ago, David Johnsons photographs of the fillmore, that was published in 2012 with his wife. His photography retrospect is was told he Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. And at the San Francisco africanamerican historical and cultural society. His lifestyle documentary documented Community Activities during an era in california. Mr. Johnson took an interest in the fillmore because he was searching for the neighborhood where all the black people lived. At the time, it was home to 40,000 africanamericans who had come to work in the city shipyard during the war. There were black shops, restaurants throughout the district and he felt it helped him catch the images of the community. And as a result, many of johnsons photographs depict the lifestyles of his neighbors, from couples dancing in jazz clubs, to black and while children playing together outside a local church. He opened the Johnson Photography studio with his late wife. He worked at the post office. But, of course, as things happen in San Francisco, due to high overhead costs, mr. Johnson was forced to close his studio. And for a while had estopped take he stopped taking photos professionally, but then in 1989 at the encouragement of his daughter, he submitted photos. That recognition from the 2001k. Q. D. Restarted his career. Hes been awarded a certificate of honor by mayor newsom in 2004. His name is engraved in the fillmore and hes received a Public Service award from the university of california for work in the ash bury. His photograph captured the march on washington were featured in an exhibition at the library of congress in washington d. C. To commemorate the protests 50th anniversary in 2013. Mr. Johnson has photographed many prominent africanamericans, including thurgood marshall, jackie robinson, former mayor willie brown jr. He became as a delegate in the naacp chapter. In 2008, they held an exhibit called david johnson. And this past june, david returned to jacksonville where he received more than 50 proclamations from national, state and civic communities for his contributions. The commission provided guidelines in the naming policy which sets forth a criteria that people may be recognized for their contributions to the city and the recreation and parks department. Because of his significant contribution to creating an Educational Opportunity to capture the rich history of the fi fillmore, we would like to name the photo