Transcripts For SFGTV Recreation And Park Commission 20240712

indiscernible . indiscernible . You may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways, email, park and rec commission. If you submit Public Comment via email, it will be included as part of the matter. Written comments may be sent Via Postal Service to sfrecreation and Park Commission in San Francisco, california, 94117. Please note in meeting is recorded and will be available on sfgov tv. We are now on item 2, the president s report. Thank you, stacie. Im just going to be very brief and i want to call out two representatives of rec and park who i think deserves credit. One is stacie white for figuring out how to make all this work and get us all organized to have a public meeting. Thank you, stacie. I very much appreciate it. The person i would like to call out and express my gratitude is commissioner Eric Mcdonald for drafting a statement on behalf of the department and the commission, expressing the outrage at the murder of george floyd and the subsequent demonstrations around the country. So commissioner, thank you for helping us move that forward. With that, that concludes my report. Is there any Public Comment on item 2, the president s report . Im waiting to see if anybody is logged into the queue. Again, is anyone on the public line that would like to comment on item 2, the president s report, please dial 10. Seeing no callers, Public Comment is closed. Were on the general managers report. Good morning, commissioners. I would like to echo president buhls thanks to commissioner mcdonald for drafting the Commission Statement and thought i would take a few minutes this morning to share a few additional reflections that i had shared with staff over the past couple of weeks. Obviously between the pandemic and all of the very painful recent murders of africanamericans across the country, our department, our community has been grappling with a lot. As if the trauma of covid werent enough, the painful recent murders have rocked us and asked us to take a long hard long in the mirrorrer. Mirror. Our world has 4 of the population but 25 is incarceration rate. Africanamerican americans make up 13 of our population but 30 of its population and 22 of otheitis documented poor. These are undeniable facts that have to force us to take a long, hard look in the mirror. Some of us are feeling pain in ways which are direct and immediate. Were all angry but some of us are raw from the trauma of systemic racism that results in both everyday indignitities and brutal violence. Were all scared, but some of us are actually terrified because were raising children that we cannot protect in cities, fraying from brutalities, fear and the consequences of institutionalized racism. Throughout the past several weeks, i think weve begun to see a cultural shift in this decades old discussion on race. Protests in the streets around the world and the definitive stance in the black lives matter movement, people of all backgrounds have begun to take a stand and saying what many have been saying for generations, enough is enough. So how do we take advantage of this moment and turn our social media posts, public declarations and words on Racial Injustice into real action . I want to highlight a few things were doing at rec and park. It touches every aspect of our department and engrained through our equity zones and embedded focus by measuring data on Capital Projects and park access, volunteers, Recreation Programming, park maintenance, kids and nature. We have been able to begin to more equ equitiably distribute. There are 3,000 people over 12 million and im proud to report this summer on a modified summer, weav weve provided over 8,000 to San Francisco families including full 100 indiscernible . I want to thank the outreach efforts engaged in by our Equity Program ambassadors, some who live in Public Housing themselves. Sf children and nature has been our cross sector that works to ensure all children and youth growing up in the city have the same opportunities to play, learn and grow in nature. And in initiative is launched in all hands district 10 effort to support environmental education. Weve added 19 create with Nature Programs in neighborhoods and regular neighborhood play dates. This year, had we been able to do it would have been the tenth anniversary of our teen outdoor experience where we have brought kids, many of whom have had interactions with our juvenile Justice System to experience the wonder, its beauty and its nature and to develop Team Building schools, teambuilding skills and many who have worked with us in our department. And, obviously, last commission meeting, you approved a bond that includes several very important and transformational importance in San Francisco an. The indian basis at the southeastern shoreline at Bayview Hunter as point and a key part of this project is to preserve equitable and inclusive growth in the neighborhood and ensuring that this project does not displace residents but strengthens the fabric of the existing community through the creation of our first of a kind Equitable Development plan establishing very clear commitments to the existing community with strategies around arts, culture and identity and concepts of spacial justice, development and Small Business opportunities and youth development. Within our department, over nearly 15 of our workforce identifies as africanamerican. We have posted a series of workshops on race and now require one equity focus for every point of our part of our employees performance planning. In fact, later today at 1 30, were very proud to present our first workshop on the first segment of our race conscious series via zoom, where commissioner mcdonald has graciously agreed to facilitate a discussion after we watch an impactful film on racial biased, which i have previewed and its quite powerful. I think our department has always strived to be an antidepressantch positivagent oe floyd tragedy and subsequent incidents have really challenged us to recommit our efforts. There is no question we have much more learning to do and much more work to do. But its important to share that we are listening and we are participating in dialogues and we want to take action. And we are going to continue to look for ways both budgetarily and operationally. If that wasnt enough, we do continue to exist in a covid19 pandemic and while were starting to reopen, many aspects of our work and the programs and services we provide will need to evolve. So i would like to take a quick moment to have our planning director present information on the recreation and Park Departments covid Adaptation Plan which is really our roadmap and tool kit for the future. Stacie, i think if youre ready to go, i would welcome you to stay a few words. Thanks, phil. Today im representing the departments doc, Department Operations center as the planning chief. My team has been a crossdivisional effort of Lisa Brinston and janice paris and from capital erin buckley from ops and we have ben juan and weve had support from tiffany wong and michelle who has joined us from permits and i think i got everyone. So we have a really wide range of departments and divisions that are represented on our team and theyve been able to provide a really great pulling together of all of the information and helping us plan for how were responding to the pandemic. And we have a quick presentation to show you. Carry, if you can bring that ont up. Our main focus is to keep our park staff safe as we manoeuvr through the pandemic. So the next slide, youve received this infographic as a part of the go ahead you received these infographics as a part of an attempt with the budget, as well. So what im going to show you is the graphic representation of the cities phased reopening and how it aligns with the work were doing in rec and park. Thanks, go ahead to the next slide. And so this is showing our park facilities and amenities, how they align with the phases of reopening from the city and go ahead to the next one. This one is an easier way to see it shows our amenities and facilities that were never closed. The ones that were working on reopening through the health order, amendments, and then the ones that are still closed and canceled, i have a couple that are moving from when we posted the picnic areas are shifting to now be open. Were align, i the Health Orders and the information that were getting from the city and the state. Next slide, please, and this last one is showing our recovery toolkit. This pulls together our staff suggestions and consolidates information and guidance from San Francisco from the state, from dhr, dem, ca lohas and nrpa has been a leader in providing guidance how to open. And were pulling all of this information and creating an Adaptation Plan that well present in more detail. So this is a quick teaser for you. I would like to actually invite commissioner mezola to introduce our rec and parks video. Thank you, phil. Can everybody hear me . Yep. So the video this month is a collaborative effort put together by my international union, the united association, along with the tradeswoman, inc and the California Division standards and state building trade skids and its a recruitt video for women in the trade. Theyre highlighting a member of mine, a woman named cynthia wheeler, a rec and park employee. She grew up in the San Francisco Housing Authority and ended up becoming a labor an laborer anda plumber and moved on from the Housing Authority and became a general foreman on a job replacing meters throughout the city and had 60 people under her. Extent subsequently she was elected to local 38 finance committee and the first woman ever officer in local 38. Were proud to have her as a member and cynthia wheeler, part of our family now. So i would like to hit the queue on rolling this video. If you could try the video. Thanks. Like, i know how that works and i figure out how to fix stuff that you do, see. I love learning, because you never know everything about plumbing. So much to learn. [ ] ive done the water meter job where we change all of the the water meters in San Francisco. I started off as a general foreman with 80 people under me and i worked at the San Francisco Housing Authority and so we did get a lot of upgraded. Grades. The walls got tore out and we do do all of the maintenance, anything that can do wrong with your plumbing, we fix. Thats what we do here all over the city. I have five kids, four women and one son and they all in the trade. They all plumbers. [ ] all right. I was wrong. I said she supervised 60 people and she supervises 80 people, which is really cool and shes well respected at local 38 and were happy to have her at the rec and Park Department. Thanks to local 38. Thank you to commissioner mezola for putting that video together and that concludes the general managers report. If there is anyone on the at t line that would like to comment on item 3, the general managers report, please dial 10. Sorry for the delay. Were having an issue with the at t bridge itself. So just hold on a second and well get everybody back nine. indiscernible . That echo is really bad. We have a caller on the queue. Can you comment on item number 3, the general managers report . Hello . Well try this again. Hold on, please. Caller, if you would like to comment on the general managers report, please do so and state your name. It sounded like we reverted back to aol days of dialing in. I dont know what to say. Ple park which hosted the San Francisco Golf Championship known as city. And sandy played if the city starting when he was a student at stanford back in the early 40s. He was a member of the sanford golf team that won backtoback ncaa championships in 1941 and 1942. Sab di wensandy went on to becoe president of the United States Golf Association from 1978 to 1980. Federal electio1980. He was active in introducing youth to the game of golf through the first tee of San Francisco chapter out of harding park. He was a Firm Believer learning the inherent rules of golf could change life. The future foresome is the benchmark in development and education for making a difference in the lives of underserved kids. Next slide, please. Harding park will be hosting of the pga championship this august to sandy cadums stewardship of the course. The statue would be temporarily locatedded ilocated in the clubd moved to the tatem center which would be its permanent home. Next slide, please. This concludes my presentation. Any questions . Who was a better golf, sandy or mark bule . Mark. I was a franked of sandy tatem and if you look under the word gentleman, you would see a picture of him. He was an extraordinary human being and a friend to all. Its nice to see him being honored. Were on Public Comment for this item, item 7, harding Park Golf Course and if there is anyone on the at t phone line that would like to comment, dial 10. Seeing no callers, Public Comment is closed. I would like to move to approve, not only with sandy tatem, a fine gentleman, maybe a scratch golfer, almost as good as you. [ laughter ] hes also a fantastic attorney an and so i move to approve. Second. So moved and seconded. All those in favor. So moved and thank you very much. Ok, we are item 8, golden gate playground and field renovation award. Good morning, commissioners and general manager ginsburg. Im a project manager with the capital division. The item is to award a construction contract to treaty construction in an amount not to exceed 1,393,200 for the golden gates height hague. Playground. This is in line with our plan and strategy two. This project is program stemming from the 2020 park bond that seeks to inspire creativity and play and this is also a part of Community Opportunity fun program, a program from the fund bond. With the assistance of public works, they advertised the playground and field renovations last february and five bids were opened in midmarch. A summary is attached for your reference. On may 15th, public works contacted the administration confirm that this was the lowest responsible bidding. Upon contract certification, construction activities will commence later this summer, but construction duration of approximately nine months. Completion is targeted for 2021. This is an amount not to exceed 1,393,200 for the golden gates height playground and field renovation project. Thank you. Thank you. We are now in Public Comment for in item. If there is anyone on the at t line that would like to comment on the Golden Gate Heights playground item number 8, pleae dial 10. Operator you have three questions remaining. Caller, you have two minutes, please state your name. Question my name is frank moto with the golden gates Heights Association board. I want to say that we began working on improvements on golden gates park in 2013. The pathways have not been paved since 1953 and the Playing Field floods after it rains and dries in the summer. Together with Marina Morena and others, i put together an application in 2014 for numerous outreach section have raised more than 15,000 and put in hours of work and the golden gates park. We are very excited last year to see the renovation included in this package, because the playground has arsonic which is dangerous with children and with your staff, we delayed the improvements so they could combine with the playground improvements, save money and coordinatests. I want to thank ale alexus wardd everyone on the staff. Operator you have two questions remaining. Question im karen metro. Im a board member of the Golden Gate Heights Metro Association and ive been the Community Contact for the park project since october of 2017. Between june of 2013 and july of 2015, our group held a number of Community Meetings and sent out an Opinion Survey which helped to develop this project. Of the 250 residents responded and 400 total attended the meetings. Out of this projecout of this, e was developed. There was an upper field tor for drainage, including more accessle pathwayaccessible patha butterfly garden. The Opportunity Fund was awarded in 2016. Since then, our group has achieved our matching fund goal, gotten half the pathways paved and created a butterfly garden and continually held volunteer days. In 2018, we received the great news that the group, lets play, granted funs to update the parks sad playground. That required more Community Meetings and surveys. I would like to thank supervisor norman yee for hi this project d i would like to thank everyone for their help along the way. And a big thank you to alexus ward for doing the heavy lifting in getting us to this vote today. After seven years, four surveys and countless hours of work, i urge you to approve our fund. Thank you. Thank you very much. Operator you have one question remaining. Caller, please state your name. Question hi, im suzanne and i am with the San Francisco parks alliance, the project manager for the initiative. I just want to voice my support for the award of the construction contract to creedy construction. They worked with us on another, lets play sf playground and did a great job and deliver the project on schedule. So i fully support the award awf this construction contract. Thank you. Operator you have zero questions remaining. Hearing no other questions in the queue, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners. Questions, comments, entertain a motion. Tom harrison, i move this item. Is there a second . Second. Motion seconded. All those in favour . Aye. So moved. Thank you very much. We are on item 9, physical year 2021 and2022 budget. Good morning, im the director of finance for the recreation and parks department. I am presenting the departments revised fiscal 2021 and 2022 budget plans, as well as budget balancing principles for the year review and approval. The next slide, please. The city has experienced unprecedented revenue losses and significant expenditure costs due to covid19, the shelterin place on the shutdown of the economy. This is dont to a projected citywide 1. 7 billion deficit. We advise budget submission on a compressed time frame to meet the mayors request and we expect that the budget will continue to take shape over the next two months as with the departments, mayors budget staff and Controllers Office engage in deeper forecasting and analysis. Next slide, please. The Mayors Office made a few Key Assumptions including delaying a wage increase from june to next january and revising cpi assumptions and assuming no additional koa covid costs and no Additional Support or loss of state and federal revenues and no augmentation in the revenue fund. On a more positive note, the citys reserved position is better than in the prior two recessions. There is a rainy day stabilization refund fund of over 630 million, a general reserve of 150 million and much of which will be used to help offset the projected 1. 7 billion deficit. The next slide, please. The department has responded to the mayors budget instructions by freezing hiring, except for direct covid19 response and essential positions and because the department is a baseline department under proposition b, we are required to close our own budget deficit generated by projected earned revenue losses or increased expenditures. Because of the scale of the citys budget crisis, under prop b, the department will not be receiving annual 3 million allocation for the baseline as the budget deficit trigger of 200 million was reached based upon the 1. 7 billion deficit that the city is projecting. The next slide. The mayor issued priorities of which our department follows and it is to maintain core, recreation of Department Services that provide critical government functions and it is to evaluate all operations for realignment with the citys covid19 operating measures and guidelines and prioritizing services for vulnerable populations with a focus on equity by providing services for underserved populations. The next slide. The budget balancing principles were approved by the Commission Ten years ago during the 2009 budget crisis. We are submitting for Commission Approval a revised set of principles which reflect the Current Health crisis and the more explicit commitment to equity. The revised budget principles include making budget choices over the next 24 months that adopt a covid19 Public Health guidance and which most directly align with the departments Strategic Plan and commitment to equity. To continue the essential parks play during the pandemic by ensuring our spaces remain safe, clean and accessible, but preserving programs and services that support equity access and vulnerable populations. And by honoring voter investment in parks and facilities by minimizing the dedicating funding for main maintenance and pursuing new partnerships with service delivery, operation efficiency and revenues impacted by covid19. And finally, continuing to support and cultivate a connected and engaged workforce that delivers outbreak service. Next slide, please. Over the past few weeks, we have engaged in budget outreach and we held our first recreation and Park Department virtual town hall in may with almost 300 employees attending. We have put online a survey for employees to propose revenue rates, ideas and efficiencies and we will continue to engage in additional outreach and engagement with labor and Community Stakeholders in the coming months. Next slide. The budget cycle has changed and the mayor released her budget instructions last month on may 18th and this past week, we submitted a planned proposal to reduce our budget deficits and were meeting today to review and approve our budget proposal. On august 1, the mayor will submit her budget to the board of supervisors. By the end of september, the board will approve that budget and on october 1st, the mayor will sign the new budget. This compares to the regular cycle which would have us right now in budget negotiations with the board of supervisors and budget hearings in june with passage in july and the mayor signing the budget in late july, early august. Next slide. So the recreation and Park Departments proposed fiscal year budget of 203. 7 million is 15. 9 million less than the fiscal year 1920. Budget it will be with the adjustment with cost of living for salary, healthcare, Fringe Benefits and overhead costs, as well as contractual obligated services p. As a result of the covid19, the fiscal year is projected to be 15. 9 million. And this is largely due to increases in the following revenues, special events, Recreation Programs and classes, our parking garages, the closure of camp ma thankther. , other leases and concessions,n athletic fields and finally, decreased revenue in golf fees and concessions. Next slide. So how are we proposing to close that 15. 9 million budget deficit . We are proposing to reduce the Salary Budget by 5. 8 million and this is based on the citys current hiring freeze on nonessential function positions and the general slowdown in hiring overall. We will also be reducing our temp Salary Budget as we will be modifying our Recreation Program model to meet Public Health guidelines for the foreseeable future. And in addition, were making some reductions on the overtime budget. We are also locating deficiency savings, one of the mayors directives was to determine ways to reach services, especially clientrelated Services Online rather than facetoface and so were looking at measures to take that into account and then consolidate office space and move some front office and back office Services Online. And in addition, were always continuing to look at Revenue Growth and opportunities and we are looking at the possibility of paid parking to help offset revenue losses, as well as other opportunities based upon the new environment that we are experiencing. In operations, we would be making various upon personnel savings reductions in our structural maintenance division, in the open space and Parks Division and at the zoo. And we will find savings on the operating side from the cancellation of this summers season, as unfortunate, as that is, and we will find savings when we modify and or postpone seasonal events under health and directives. We are looking at reducing our general fund capital baseline by 3 million, currently at 15 million and the best reduction will reduce funds based on need, looking at project scope and instruction, right sizing, rephasing and rescheduling those projects and many of those projects will have been and will continue to be affected by covid19. And finally, were looking at the use of surplus allocation from the open space fund balance, as well as portions of contingency reserve in the current here to help balance this years budget deficit. In regard to our general fund capital savings, we did use our best judgment to make necessary reductions to our general Fund Maintenance by looking at the existing balances and or pipeline of planned work for next year. We certainly Prioritize Health and safety, legal mandates and equity and some of the projects that we will see reduced savings including fields, borders and walls, camp mather, concession maintenance and taping. So im asking to approve the budget plans for the Mayors Office as well as the newly revised budgeting principles. Thank you. Operator you have one question remaining. Caller, please state your name and just a reminder, two minutes for your comments. Im richard and im trying to make some comments over what was said about cutting project fundings. The square of our equities own area, there was an article, mr. Lee, the consolidated companies, they said that it was rescheduled or something . And that it wasnt going to be happening after eight years of planning. Theres another one that happened at the peace pagoda, also on facebook. And thats what i would like to try to get a clarification on. Are they or arent they projects to be expedited on . Thank you. Thank you. Operator you have one question remaining. Hello, caller. Please state your name. Hi. The United States in the world is experiencing the covid19 pandemic, Climate Impact and bio diversity losses at the same time, it is possible for our pd to lead the implementation of San Franciscos Natural Resources area plans and San Franciscos supervisor by a diverse resolution during covid19 with the assets that our pd currently has. Our pd has two nurseries which propagate their native plants. Please install and maintain local native plants and only local native plants and all park and green spaces during and after covid19 to provide the basis of the food web to enhance bio diversity. Propagating native plants in your nurseries to use in parks and green spaces is budget neutral. And please require all Capital Projects indiscernible . They need to maximize the bio diversity in each project. When the rest of the funding for the Capital Projects becomes available in future years, having the plant list contain all native plants permits local bio diversity to be enhanced as soon as permissible. You have zero questions remaining. Public comment is closed and commissioners. Just a question to derick. Once this budget is presumably approved, what are the chances or what is the process after it leaves this commission and maybe modified in the future . There would be opportunities to modify the plans and the proposals. The Mayors Office will be reviewing all submissions between now and when she submits the budget on august 1st. So a good month and a half of back and forth discussions between our department didnt ae Mayors Office on her priorities, the commissions priorities, the gms priorities. As always the process has been, there will be a lot of back and forth over the coming weeks. So there will be opportunity to continue to dialogue on the issues that we are finding important and are critical. As other priorities come up over the next while, as a result of capitaofcovid19. What does the hiring freeze mean . How many vacancies and things like that . There was a hiring freeze shortly after the sheltinplace took effect in march. The Mayors Office and department of Human Resources limited hiring to essential services, workers and Critical Health workers based upon the covid19 crisis. So there is very limited hiring allowed and going forward, currently our department has approximately 180 basic positions of which over 130 actually need to remain vacant, to meet our annual attrition savings in our budget each year. And going forward, we are assuming the hiring freeze will continue. We will prioritize position hiring and we will work to backfill positions that vacate during the year. We cant hire as we would like, but we have worked with all of our divisions and well work with them during the year to ensure that Core Services continue to be provided. Then if i could ask a followup. Sure. Will there be any impact on any of the Apprenticeship Programming our Program Supports . In the one Apprenticeship Program that our department operates, the garden apprentice program, we are maintaining the full cohort in place now that is over 3 34 apprentices and we wil continue to train them and work with them to gain their 3,000 hours needed to complete. One area that we are looking at, though, is that, again, based upon the hiring freeze that will be in place, and based upon Public Health guidelines, we might be looking at not filling the classes as quickly as we would normally. Normally, i believe, we fill classes twice a year, but as we metriculate the 34 apprentices out, we may slightly delay when the next class or cohort would start. But none of the existing apprentices will be negatively affected by this. And the program will continue. Thank you. Commissioner harrison, did you have a question . I didnt. Commissioner bonia. My question is, when is the department scheduled to completely reopen . If we will be adjusting and if we will have to be adjusting our budget relative to a completely opening of the department and from what i understand, we might be in the same situation relative to covid for an extended period of time. So are we going to keep working on being proactive and engaging staff and planning, if it should be the case where we hav our but will continuously have to be adjusted relative to covid. Derick, let me chime in on that one, if you dont mind. Sure. And ill offer a few reflections and step out of the queue here. In specific response to your question, that is why kc bradley presented an overview of our Adaptation Plan which aligns closely with state and local Health Guidance and also National Recreation and park associations best practises. I spend hours a week with my colleagues in other major cities engaged in this planning and we have a robust planning unit as part of our Operation Center doing all of this work. It is also in our budget principles that some of the choices that we are making, for example, on both sides of the ledger, the decision to shut not to operate this summer has had an impact. It has revenue impact and some cost savings or salary efficiency impact. And that decision is a budget decision, but its made in complete alignment with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do during the pandemic. We are losing very significant sources of revenue, such as some of our biggest festivals, all of our adult sports, youth sports, we dont pay youth sports organizations dont pay permit fees, but adult recreation organized sports do. And all of our permits are special events. The revenue that derick eluded to in three or four months alone in this fiscal year, we lost around 20 million in revenue. Very, very significant. What you did not hear derick sas here, i think this is our most significant budget challenge, even exceeding the challenge that i think commissioners were around for. We decentralized this budget process in which we asked each to be responsible for meeting these budget tarts and we were e able to dial it back. There is a lot of uncertainty about our earned remov revenue t year which is 25 of our budget. We understand there will be cuts to the general fund support, but we understand that and our openspace funds will be relative. Open revenue is a complete wildcard. We will not be able to host events like outside lands and some of the larger events. The question is whether we can do it next fall. We just dont know yet. So weve had to think about contingencies. We have to come up with new revenue ideas that replace the revenues impacted by covid. Eth eth owe have made smart redn ways which will be uncomfortable but not devastating and most importantly, you know, we have preserved the employment of the men and women who have been doing the work, particularly these last three or four months. I would like to thank derick and his team which had to be turned around literally in the last 30 days. Just to answer the question, so, best case scenario, we dont have initial increase in covid, when is the department expected to completely reopen . I dont have that sure. The reopening both at the state level and local level is based on phases. We are now in phase 2b, where there are corresponding Health Orders that allow certain types of activity. And so as of last monday, people can begin to congregate in our parks at a group of not larger than 12 and if theyre eating, not larger than six. All of the little wrinkles have impacts on how we operate and our budget. We have not been given permission to operate our swimming pools or any indoor Recreation Programs other than Emergency Childcare summer camp program. Team sports are in a state of flux. There can be youth camps but adult camps have not been allowed to return. So phase 2b, theres a phase 2c which is expected midjuly and phase three in midaugust, all dependent on whether there is a renewed spread of the virus and there are several Different Health benchmarks that our Public Health officials are looking at carefully. There has been no contemplated return, full return, so the things that will come online last will be some of the activities that generate the most amount of revenue for us, unfortunately. This is ending issues of racism and violence pe perpetrad on black people in particular, that i would encourage a filter, that, perhaps, even in this dire straits that filter still be applied and we try to radically region what would this institution and by virtue of one of its boldest statements around priority, and that being budget and how those resources are allocated, what might and how might continued evolution of the Department Look like, what might that look like in th and what ae implications of that . Commending all that youve done and efforts and steps and investment and transformation and equity zones and the value of all of that and continuing to challenge ourselves around applying that filter, to have it what we do in these difficult times and thank you very much. Thank you, for those reflections, commissioner mcdonald. We agree 100 and that weighs heavily on us and we will continue to use an implicit lense of equity and impact on our communities of color and other highly vulnerable populations. Derick, did you want to make another comment . I just wanted to follow up on bills comments. I wanted to thank him for his words and for the commissioners. One of the incredible things about working on this team is that we are smart, we are intelligent and flexible and i really value creativity and i thank tiffany wong, our budget manager, maria sutton, tiffany soyez, dana catchem and i thank my codirectors for all of their support, sarah and denny, as well as bill and the commission for this support that have given us to make this work. We will remain flexorableable ri think they said were only in the second inning of a long game and that, were going to have to Work Together to make it happen, to get to the end. And so, thank you to the team i work with. Thank you, derick. I do think implicit in the assumptions that are in the budget are the unknowns, that there are some difficult estimates to make on where well be and i doubt seriously that that portends more money in the budget later and there may be less. To the degree we can b degree wr and flexible with all. With that, if theres no other comments, the chair would entertain a motion. Motion to approve. Thank you. Is there a second . Second. So moved and seconded and all those in favour . So moved and thank you, phil, thank you, derick, again, good work. So were now on item 10, general Public Comments continued from item 4. At this time, member whos are not able to address the commission on item 4 may address the commission on subject matters of the rec and park and do not appear on the agenda. If there is anyone on the at t bridge line and would like to make a comment not on the agenda today, please dial 10. Operator you have one question. Im mr. Fong. I think i made a mistake. Im talking about the wrong type of projects. On facebook, there was an article, and there was indiscernible . I can get a clarification to be done on that. And i just need a clarification on that. Thank you. Well, richard, your comment is accepted and ill ask phil offline to get back to you with any response on it. Thank you. Ok. Operator you have zero questions remaining. Seeing no further comments or questions on the general public line, item 10 is closed. We are moving now to item 11, closed session. At this point in the meeting, i would like to ask all staff that has already presented to go on ahead and leave the meeting at this point. We only need the commissioners, our City Attorney general and general manager on the line at this point. Move not to disclos disclosed session. So moved. South carolinaed. Sout seconded. Ok next item. I do hav dont have a big pf view, but i know that we visit the equity metrics on and annual basis and so, in part, i would like to have that become more frequent and maybe the metrics arent the right frame for it, but i would like it to have elements of the metrics of the budget, especially given that it was going to be an evolving kind of fluid process so were regularly visiting how well were doing with regard to prioritization. I would like to request that. I would recommend you and the general manager have an offline discussion about the best way to meet that examination. Expectation. Thank you so much. Seeing no other comments,. Move to ajourn. Stacie, are you on mute . Yes. If there is anyone that would like to comment on item 12, please dial 10. Operator you have zero questions remaining. Hearing no questions, we are now on item 13, new business and agenda settings, discussion only. Commissioner, mcdonald, your hand is no longer raised. Seeing none. Anyone on the at t line that would like to make comment on Commission Im sorry, on item 13, new business agenda setting, dial 10. Operator you have zero questions remaining. Item 13 is closed. Item 14, communication. Seeing none. Is there anyone on the at t bridge that would like to make a comment on communications, please dial 10. Operator you have zero questions remaining. Item 15, adjournment. I think commissioner anderson move we ajourn. Is there a second. Second. Thank you, stacie, for a very challenging day and thank you, phil and see you all in chicago. Thank you all for your patience. I appreciate it