Commissioner lowe . Here. Commissioner mcdonnell . Here. Just to remind everyone, we request that you turn off any electronic sound producing devices that could go off during the meeting, so cell phones, if you could please turn those off or on silent. We request that you take any conversations outside. If you would like to speak on an item today, please create a blue card. Unless otherwise nounszed by the president , each person will have three minutes for Public Comment on each item. If there is an item of interest to you that is not on the agenda and is under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, you may speak under general Public Comment. That is item 4. It will be heard for 15 minutes and then continued again at item 12. Please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment on items in order to allow equal time for all. Neither commission nor staff will respond. The commission may ask questions after Public Comment is closed. If the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate using any exit. Please note that elevators will return to the first floor and are not available for use. If you do need assistance out of the building, make your way to the closest area refuge across the hall from the mens restroom. Inside the restroom is a speaker box, press it and city hall security will answer it, let them know where you are and they will assist you. Item number 2. The president s report. President buell thank you. Let me begin by simply saying no words can possibly express the sadness that we all feel in this department and this commission for the very tragic loss of our mayor ed lee. There simply arent the right words to do it, but first, we will adjourn in his memory. And two, as someone very high up in washington said in a text to me, in troubling times, he was a very, very decent man. And so we will remember him with sadness. With that, that concludes my president s report. Clerk anyone who would like to make Public Comment . Being none, we are on item 3. The general managers report. Thank you commissioners and president buell, i didnt realize how hard this was going to be. Yeah, i mean, were all heart broken. And so today, rather than run through a typical general managers report, i wanted to highlight the mayors commitment to parks. For us all. And in honor of the mayor, ill try to be short, because i am short. [laughter]. He was just were going to let the slide show run here, but he was such a champion of our parks. And certainly understood the importance of making them accessible to all residents. There were probably no single statistic related to parks that he was more proud of than being the first big city mayor to be able to brag that 100 of residents that lived in the city he led lived within a 10minute walk of a park. He would almost every event since we reached that honor, mention it right out of the gate. And that was because of how much he cared about infrastructure and investment. And during his tenure, under his leadership, we have invested over 350 million in parks. Including voterapproved bonds in 2012. The implementation of a bond in 2008, and although that was before his mayoral tenure, if you go back a little further, the mayor city administrator was the author of the citys 10year capital plan, which laid very much the groundwork for all of investment. Parks that were reopened during his tenure include chinatown, delores park, glen canyon playground and recreation center, lafayette park, reopened the sunset recreation center, reopened the joe dimaggio playground. Opened a new plaza where town square on 24th street. Acquired open space out of india basin, francisco reservoir, st. Marys which opened under his leadership. Under his leadership voters approved proposition b in 2016. Which really has been a true stabilizing force for us and will be even more valuable as we head into rockier budget times. Just in last year since proposition b, we have resurfaced total of 15 tennis and basketball courts, most of which are in underserved communities. He understood the importance of Publicprivate Partnerships and through you are partnership with the city Field Foundation weve renovated 21 soccer fields, added 80,000 hours of play. Through our partnership with trust for public land, we opened renovated bo decker park, balboa, the amazing playgrounds that have sprung out of the ground, right in our front yard of this building which will open on february 14th, have his fingerprints all over them. I remember vividly meeting in his office with my good friend jackie and folks from the trust for public land and we excitedly showed him the design and he said light, there needs to be light. And light he got. And light he will get. When these playgrounds open, youre going to see a Brand New Energy and face out at civic center. One of the things that i really connected with him and loved him for was how much he cared about our kids and how much he cared about active recreation, whether it was the mayor 3 on 3 hoops tournament, coming to crabfest, promoting the scholarships, whether it was supporting the summer camp programs, whenever he was around kids, you would see him smile and just light up. He loved sports, loved sporting events, loved community. He created his the mayors annual ping pong tournament which started and runs throughout chinatown. Golf. Whether it be the first tee and teaching kids who have never picked up a golf club the importance of the game, or having the worlds best come to harding for the president s cup. Am ex championship, the president s cup, all brought to San Francisco because he was our park champion and he loved golf and the pga knew he loved golf and knew he would make it work. He always came out to the events. Never missed a treelighting. In fact the last time i had the honor of being with him was at our treelighting this past year, where again, he bragged being the first mayor in a country where 100 of us lived within the 10minute walk of the park. Weve increased scholarships to San Francisco families. Weve run the teen outdoor experience seven years in a row, which was his vision to bring kids who touched the juve nil system, up to mather for a long weekend when it was just theirs. He provided over the greater and greener parks conference where we brought the nations park leaders and some of the nation elected officials to show off the park system. We presided over the centennial. He presided over the summer of love celebration. He led pride parades. Giants and warriors championship parades that ran through our parks and facilities. He welcomed the world cup to civic center plaza. And there may have been no bigger San Francisco deltas fan. Although they were only around one year, they made significant investment into our stadium for generations of folks to enjoy and they won the north American Soccer League championship their one and only year. I could go on and on, but ill stop there. I wanted to say how much im going to miss him and how grateful i am, how much he truly loved and cared about parks and the citys kids. To that end, we have some really, really special kids. I thought this was the right way to end todays otherwise sad general managers report. I want to welcome the Young Peoples TeamMusic Theater Company to our commission. They are a performing arts company devoted to bringing quality and professional level theater to young adults in the bay area. This is your program. This is a San Francisco recreation and park program. They offer quality instruction in drama, voice, acting, dance and technical theater. Founded in 1984 by diane price. They are selected by open audition only. This past month, under the amazing leadership of nicole, they won first place for the second consecutive year. They performed excerpts from their upcoming production of bat boy, the musical, this production will revisit the first show ever put on my nicole, who is celebrating her First Anniversary with us as director. [applause] the show [laughter] the show will take place on january 2628 and february 24 at the museum. And in honor of the holidays and our beloved mayor, i invite them to perform now. [ ] [ ] has come from the cold [ ] [ ] its a joyful moment may the joyful noise make some noise make some noise sing it proud all night long make it noise, noise, joyful noise make some noise praise god so like the prophets were told in the days of old, make joyful noise my soul make joyful noise my soul make some noise make some noise hallelujah all night long make joyful noise of joyful noise [applause] [cheering] well, thats a pretty awesome wow. Way to end the year in the general managers report, in honor of our beloved mayor. President buell we found a new way to open every meeting, thats terrific. Mr. President , can you join me for a picture . How about we all go . President buell the whole commission down, come on. [applause] commissioner, shes on the way out of the door, but i want to celebrate chris boettcher, who oversees all of the music programs, including this one, so thank you, chris. [applause] is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment under the general managers report . Ok. [laughter] seeing none, this item is closed. Were now under general Public Comment, is there anyone who would like to make general Public Comment . Ok being none, richard . Ok. What would our meeting with without . Can you sing, richard . [laughter]. Good morning, everyone. I just want to make a few Public Comments, i try to speak a little bit about phil but what happened every time i walk around in chinatown park and i see something wrong. One of the things has to do with the new, brand new, restroom facility. And one of the doors always locked, the one with nongender, family use, and everything else. Is that ever going to be open . Thats a very simple thing to do, open it. The room to whatever is holding it up. The other thing that i looked at, currently the location is going to be under a lot of renovations. I was thinking if it would be possible to get a temporary fix. I walk through there, i see the pot holes, theyre probably dug up by rodents, or unwanted rats. They have traps around there. Could they do Something Like, use soil impact, hanging around the temporary fix and top it off with some of the broken up bark so it doesnt look so because at night it gets spooky and it makes different sounds in the park. I think the [inaudible] a good job because a long time ago i had spoken when he, lee, his wife, she wanted her name left off, but she, herself has passed on and was a great sponsor of park activities throughout the chinatown areas, basketball namely. So of the interest, there was the slope in front of the park on the cray street side and she had shown me pictures of it. It looked awful because it wasnt cared for, there wasnt much maintenance done. I asked the maintenance about it. I dont want to fall down, its a very steep slope there, maybe even get a stick or something, break it a little bit. Thats how i remember edie. And then ed lee and those other people, who have already passed on. I hope im not going to be catching up with them. Thank you very much. President buell thank you. Clerk anyone else wants to make general comment . Seeing none. President buell before i entertain a motion on the consent calendar, we have a request to speak. We welcome you and send our regards to supervisor yee. Today i wanted to speak on 5c, the West Portal Playground and ill read a letter that the supervisor included in the report. Im writing to express my support for the prioritization of the West Portal Playground renovation project. West portal playground is one of the most utilized playgrounds in district 7. Due to the playground state of disrepair, the failing playgrounds task force identified it as a priority for renovation and is classified as a tier two approximating playground of the lets play sf tt initiative. Since 2014, my office has been working in collaboration with the recreation and park department, San FranciscoParks Alliance and the friends of the West Portal Playground to continue driving this project forward. While the project has stalled at times, my office has continued to work closely with all stakeholders, particularly with the Community Members to raise funds and donor recognition ideas. To maintain the projects momentum. The community as represented by the friends of the West Portal Playground, greater west portal neighborhood association, west Portal Merchants Association and students from west portal elementary school, totalling 160 Community Members are deeply invested in seat playground renovations completed on a timely schedule. It has been three years since my office first started collaborating on playground renovations and we want to see the project remain on schedule. I hope the Capital Committee will approve the commission will approve the concept wall design to the members can enjoy a safer and engaging playground. This concludes the letter. President buell thank you very much. Clerk any Public Comment . Richard . I would like to follow up on the West Portal Playground design. I seen the particular model, i see the dragon, everything else, what i didnt see was the kids chasing after the big train, maybe they could have dragon hands or whatever else. There wasnt very much for younger kids. Even though its designed for them, its a lot of open spaces. Where they have the dragon, i was thinking about, a lot of the parks have a spring, you got a little seat on it and the kids can chase after the dragon, or running along with the dragon. That was one thing i liked add onto the concept design. I liked the idea, a nice little park, portion dealing with growth [inaudible] plans, so on other issues, on the Geneva Community gardens, as well as the other geneva car barn, i believe that the i read the contracts between mta, there is something about locking in the 7year with the rooms that are going to be rented out at low cost. I wanted to include a possible addendum to that where there would be possibly interconnected rooms and it would be a display of earlier iconic type of structures, for example, even the i can think of the portals of the past out there. And that used to be on sacramento street before the great fire. Throughout the city here, we have a lot of iconic artifacts that would be beautiful. There was a place that people can visit. And it would be like a Recreational Park area. I hope to keep it open so that you dont just totally lock in. [inaudible] commissioner lowe, but possibly locking in on the 7year space. I like to keep the addendum option open. Thank you. President buell thank you, richard. Clerk anyone else would like to make Public Comment . Seeing none, this item is closed. President buell chair entertains the motion . Moved and seconded, all those in favor . So moved. Were on item 6, the San Francisco zoo. Thank you, good morning, tanya peterson, director of the San Francisco zoo. We support the supervisors efforts in regards to the west portal and appreciate it. I want to add our thoughts about our wonderful mayor. I first met him when he was at dpw and i was a board member for the zoo. The zoo is a Publicprivate Partnership as the general manager discussed. Way back when we were just little people, young people, we were charged with raising funds for our new education center. And as things go, there was a lot of value engineering, budget cuts, et cetera, but one thing was really important to ed lee at this point, the little door handles that had squirrels and things on them, ed thought it would be so great fort kids to open the doors when they saw the squirrels and other animals. We kept those in the budget and he personally screwed the door handles in himself. So here we are years later, hes the mayor and im the zoo director and hes standing in front of the door handles and he was tickled pink that the door handles was now there, he was mayor and i was zoo director and we were finally somebody. We thank him for that. And a chuckle, thats one of the bald eagles, one of the successful conservation programs and we were explaining to him we had to separate the parents from the offspring to protect the health of the eggs and we used technology to do so. He said i wish id has he that technology with had that technology with the two teenagers in my house. With peace and love. Speaking of programs, there is a product of 300,000 children have gone through the doors now since the mayor created these doors well have winter camp over the break. There is still some room left. Its one of the more popular camps. I encourage if you want to put a child in, do so quickly. We love seeing the children at this time. November was the neighbor month and we partnered with one of the neighbors and most recently we partnered with the Pomeroy Center. If you dont know, its behind the zoo. Often people go to the Pomeroy Center thinking it is the zoo. So we if somebody wore pink pomeroy colors, we donated to the center. They have one the largest warm pools for rehab and support disabled adults. They have free access, secret access to the zoo. And we were happy to give them 2,000 donation, 2000 people came through in pink, and then we also you can see the flamingo chick to the right, we named her pomeroy in honor of our neighbor. Love the Pomeroy Center, good work, good people. It is that time of year, the rein deer are here on loan from the north po