Beautifully renovated playground in the sites that we have, but we do have this pot of money were hoping to leverage so the short answer is there is more to come on that. Yeah, my only point being i dont like doing things twice so if we mobilize the resources for say any one of the tier one parks, whether we could maybe leverage that think bigger and use the opportunity that we have to expand parks, improve parks beyond the scope that we originally imagined. Again commissioner and dawn if you have thoughts you could certainly dive in. We want to do the most deliver the biggest bang for the bucks that we have but we do have a responsibility to try to focus on all of the playgrounds on this list at once over time before we talk about expanding scope at any one particular site. We do have i think thats correct and i also think in terms of leveraging more broadly there are a number of playgrounds that managed to attract additional funds already in terms of impact fees and add backs so that
Spent months in planning to make sure this was a successful experience for the public and both the Committee Members and i think greg moore from the conservancy says sometimes you need to go slow to go fast, and we took the time we needed to prepare and be thoughtful and focused about the issues we wanted to put in front of the Committee Members and i think that has paid off so im going to take you through today a little bit of the context within which we did our work and the process and then our ultimate recommendations and look forward to your feedback and questions. So a little bit of our context. As you are probably aware within the 2012 San Francisco clean and safe neighborhoods park bond we allocated about 15. 5 Million Dollars to focus specifically on playgrounds. Now that doesnt mean the only playgrounds were doing through the bond and as noted in the staff report a number of other projects that are part of larger renovations include playground projects and as you look at the m
And so finally i think that the what we have before us in terms of a recommendation captures three things they think are important going through the process. One that the recommendations represent where both highest in need in terms of conditions but highest opportunity with regard to leverage of resources is represented here. Also the geographic kind of distribution across our city is also i think well represented, not the entire city, but i do think well represented and something that dawn said a few minutes ago around the bang for the buck. It was helpful to have a fuller picture with the capital plans across the city to utilize the small pool of dollars and two final things. One, the opportunity that we have to do the rebranding. I think we should do that. I am hopeful this is ensuring that the parks across the city are beautiful spaces for communities and families, so i am hopeful at some point we dont need a failing playgrounds task force or anything by any other name frankly bec
More expensive and not the budget at lafayette and had support from others. This will depend on leveraging the dollars with philanthropic sources or grant sources and we are working on that. Lisa bransten from the team is very involved in that. This is something of passion ate interest of the Parks Alliance and will depend on timing and the additional funding that we have. I think we should focus before we grab streets and acquire land and build new parks i think we should focus on delivering the publics expectation which is a beautifully renovated playground in the sites that we have, but we do have this pot of money were hoping to leverage so the short answer is there is more to come on that. Yeah, my only point being i dont like doing things twice so if we mobilize the resources for say any one of the tier one parks, whether we could maybe leverage that think bigger and use the opportunity that we have to expand parks, improve parks beyond the scope that we originally imagined. Agai
Mean the only playgrounds were doing through the bond and as noted in the staff report a number of other projects that are part of larger renovations include playground projects and as you look at the map all of the red dots are the playgrounds in the San Francisco park system. Its one of the our numerous assets and one of the park features that draws the most loyalty and interest and enthusiasm and feedback from the many park users. Of that entire universe of playgrounds we renovated 83 already and that goes back to work from the 2000 park bonds that was passed so we did a tremendous body of work over time but as youre aware resources are often not enough to meet the full universe of need, and so even with the 83 renovated playgrounds we still had 55 playgrounds that hadnt been renovated in the past decade so this was the universe that the task force looked at and thought of the plays how do we evaluate which ones need additional investment and which ones are okay . So we look the at