Not just high volume tourists and then also workers during lunch time, high homeless population. Using the data to look forward how to improve cleanliness, focussing on those three areas would be a good choice. Great, so i know you want more information. So youre in luck. There is an annual report, which was recently released, that has all the data, map for each feature. Highest and lowest. We have a case study of the lowest scoring park. A lot of rich information there. And quarterly we updated website which is the sf parks score wiebely account and that will show up to date information at the park and feature level. A lot of information out there. We are open for questions. If you have any. President buell lets do commission questions first. Commissioner low. Commissioner low i think what this data, it does give us feedback as to a sense of where we can guide and invest our resources. Certainly the northern part of the city, with the exceptings of port smith square, embarcadero plaza, the turk hyde mini park, the Southeast Quadrant is really the opportunity for us to really invest our resources. It bears out from what weve sensed and this data really supports that. It does show, though, that year over year there was a 1 increase from 20152016. But 2016 to 2017, there was 2 jump and i was wonni wondering you had comments of why we had the 2 jump as opposed to the annual 1 . Ill trying to tackle that. There is a couple of factors in my mind. First of all, these are measurements that are taken in points in time. And there are mix of Data Collected about park futures, deferred maintenance that doesnt move very much. And things like cleanliness that moves a lot. And can vary on the day that the evaluation occurs, which is why we do it four times. But still. So youre going to see movement there. I was interested to see the drop in restroom scores from 15 to 16 and im trying to think what that may be, although it was a drop of pun point. I think prop b is working. I think the planning were doing, the focus on equity and while we still have work to do, if you go back to taylors presentation, youll see that 5 of Capital Investment for every one dollar is invested in the equity zone parks. Were making those investments. We see Alice Chalmers on the list, we just completed tennis court and Basketball Court renovations and its on the playground list. So were using all of the data to make investments and we have a year or so under our belt. Resurfacing, attacking some of the deferred maintenance issues that were capable of attacking. And thats helping. The other thing we did was we made a staffing decision at some of the parks in the southern part of the city where we created extra gardener complex, which covers parks in the southeast. We made staffing decisions as well. We dont have the resources to pull everything from one part of the city to put it to the other. We measure carefully acreage, the challenges associated with different property. When they make the staffing allocation decisions, we did have the ability to create this extra complex, so we were able to give some of our more challenging parks, our staff in some of our more challenging park areas, fewer parks to manage which has happened. And with more investment, well continue to do that. Now with the new Software Data from the Controllers Office, how do those two interplay in future planning . Again, commissioner mcdonnell asked how are you going to make decisions on what projects you tackle. So prop b, weve committed to put aside youre going to hear in in january and february 15 million a year were reserving for deferred maintenance. That comes before you, its for things likes court resurfacing, field, irrigation, boilers, different sorts of things. Were being much more careful we will look at the condition of those features based on data from the Controllers Office and this Capital Asset data. I would say that as an aside, the challenge for the Park Maintenance structure, Park Maintenance core structure, it is a mix of cleanliness and deferred maintenance features. What the life cycle system does, is really just Capital Asset classes and their condition. Then were able to make comparisons between parks in underserved neighborhoods and citywide. Were already doing this, but were formalizing a process to look at all three data sources to make prioritization decisions about investment. I think thats how we do it. Bond planning will include actually if you remember the Playground Task force, it was a mix of the criteria that you looked at, was a mix of controller Park Maintenance data on the playground, then the presence of pressure treated lumber. So that criteria, and you looked at high youth density, lowincome neighborhoods. So in a sense that was a little bit of a precursor for using all of the three systems for making prioritization decisions. So somehow its brought together there is a little bit of overlap quite frankly, but maybe a little more maybe a smidgen more subjectivity to be honest, in the park evaluation process, because there are moments in time. The capital process has a lot of sophisticated background how long is this access supposed to last from engineering perspective . And then you have where is it located . And then that gets to the heart of the equity issues were facing. President buell commissioner mcdonnell. Commissioner mcdonnell i always look forward to this perform, its telling in terms of opportunity for celebration, the aggregate growth is fantastic, and continued concern. In particular, the park scores in terms of the optics of this map are telling. In that, it certainly more data is better. But i guess a concern i have, particularly when you go to the equity zones and comparison of equity and nonequity on the range that is true painfully true in the equity zones versus the non, that at the risk of being at the risk of being controversial, do we need more data to tell us where to focus . I would argue we dont. Because at some point, we know what we know and we know enough to know where we need to be focusing our resources. I get the political context. I get the challenges, general manager pointed out in terms of you cant pick things up and move them physically or otherwise to other places. But it would seem to me that the conversation, whether its the geobond conversation, Capital Asset conversation, should start with, heres where we focus. And there are other things well do by necessity, safety, et cetera, but heres where were going to start. I would hope as we again go through this process, that will be the leading mantra, because it seems we have in the past at least, backed into, as opposed starting, were going to focus in these areas, these ways and other things well do, theyll be by exception. The one question i have is its a small question, you ended if you want more data, its online. It wasnt clear if that was rpd online, or controllers online . Controller online. Anywhere. Let me offer a smidgen of context on that. I know were out of time. The more data, the more were unlayering the onion. Five years ago, the bottom half of the city was red. Red, like 6070 red. And 85 and above is considered under this model to be a wellmaintained park. And we have now were getting there. We still have work to do. And you tie that with the equity metrics, where were able to monitor the level of investment were making in the underserved has neighborhoods, whether its bay view, exsellsier, and the other neighborhoods that have scored lower. Were going to continue to reap that. Your points are extremely well taken, but i think youre actually starting to see the fruit of that strategy long before there was this data. President buell commissioner harrison. Commissioner harrison ornamental beds, was it the absence or they were not kept well . A park is never punished for a feature that the park doesnt contain. Its only what is at the park that is not maintained. You talk about ornamental bed, what is that . Its a piece of landscape that has planting. Its not necessarily a box, but it could be. If you look in a different neighborhood playground, center beds might be considered around port smith for example, the beds that align sort of the kearney and stockton around the perimeter of that park. We have a mix of landscapes. We have lawn, we have so the ornamental bed. Lawn is different, but where were actually planting plants and arranging beds, we consider those ornamental beds. Using port smith as example, that is a problem. That area. Considering that, and then getting to the equity like the commissioner mentioned, i notice in the Previous Report you had trained are they new gardeners or current staffs trained . They were trained bay friendly practices, which is heightened level of ecology and sustainable ecology. Am i saying that correct . Were they current staffing . Yes. Its just part of the ongoing training and workforce development. There is a standard called bay friendly practices which focuses on sustainable planting pallets and how to use our existing soil conditions, our existing water challenges, to maximize the ecology of what we plant and take care of. Excellent. Also, in that, what are the Staffing Levels like compared to the north side of San Francisco and the equity zones . Are the Staffing Levels equal to that . Commissioner, thank you for the question. The staff is pretty equitably districted. There was distributed. There was several issues pointed to. So many of the lower scoring parks are a result of deferred maintenance that has not been accomplished. That drags down the scores. But to your question, our complexes are pretty much equally staffed. What we have done and phil mentioned it before, is that reorganizing the work down in the bay view, mclaren, crocker, thats where we created the additional complex. And we looked at our supervisory structure and moved two high performing supervisors, reassigned them down there to further motivate and organize the staff. And so and all of those decisions were based from last years report. That drove this. I would ask one more staffing change, which is relevant to you, commissioner, we have created a southern complex of apprentices. Were locating apprentices at crocker and in Golden Gate Park and moving them around, but we do use our apprentice workforce in the parks that are lower scoring in an effort to bolster staffing as well. You did mention by reducing the number of areas an individual might have to take care is also an improvement and i congratulate you on all of this, but id like to see, i think, it would be important to have more staffing, gardening around and i would hope those with these apprentices would be promoted to full gardener at some point. Thank you. I have one quick question. I found just as one example, the graffiti distribution map to be interesting and wondered do you share the information and try to correlate it with other departments that have tangential issues around the things youre discovering here . There is actually a Graffiti Task force that is citywide and we definitely participated in it all the time. We have a lot of conversation between the painter shop and sfpd in context of the Graffiti Task force, so we try to get more information and get together. I guess where i was headed and this is not the time or place to go deep in this, but there has got to be good information here that can be correlated to Income Distribution and employment levels and all these things and then you look at the issues were facing, because it seems while it might not be our charge to stop graffiti, it might be interesting to learn about the incentives to create it. With that, i dont see any other commission comments, maybe Public Comment . Clerk any Public Comment on this item . Being none, that is closed. Item 12, general Public Comment. At this time, members of the public who are not able to address the commission on item 4 may address the commission on items that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the rec and Park Commission and that do not appear on the agenda. Welcome city and everybody watching me on tv access, because i created this channel. The history will be told. Im here to tell and ask this com commission because of the recent article in examiner and im going to get on the editor of the examiner tt, because its fake news, opportunity news. It was some kind of conspiracy, because how in the hell i hope thats not a bad word, i done said it how is the hell the examiner supposed to be established paper here in the city is going to let an article get out like that right after the headlining of the legend of ed lee. It was perfectly placed so people reading about ed lee, they turn the next page, oh, renaming it after Justin Herman to ed lee. Not as long as im alive it wont be. And whoever did that is not about the community, its about a conspiracy. I wouldnt be surprised if silly willy did it. Silly willy is just a name i use in my book. See, im a writer, therefore i can use character names. I wont use the real name, but you know who im talking about, because thats going come out in the series called places, places all part of my cases. Over 20 years people say, he aint even seen a picture i took. If i took another picture, i got enough to fill this whole wall of things going down. You know what is going down . The black population is going down in this town. By the city, by the bay. Hey, im saying this because im happy, but i should be cussing the hell out the city and the community what theyve been doing, but theyd have city hall sheriffs coming out. Sometimes i rhyme, it come out naturally, because my name is ace, i have authority in the community, im the goto person for the black news, im coming back to city hall, you all, back by popular demand, not because im black, but back by popular demand. Conversations about racism and all that. Before the late ed lee, they were getting ready to line that up, when ed lee got into office in 2011, i got a picture. I had the black media. Everybody came but the sun reporter, i wonder why. When i come out here, im talking about black, white, all the main pressures in sight. I have to name names and i put a spin on it and name them the name i think. So lets go back, you read the article. Im telling you that you all need to tell whoever joined me to tell the examiner tt i need a full page add to rebuttal that. They didnt say anything about black community. Second of all, they didnt have no right along with the conspiracy. President buell thank you. Youre welcome. Clerk anybody else who would like to make general comment . Seeing none, this item is closed. Commissioners, item 13, commissioner matters. As a reminder this is to allow commissioners to raise issues that belief the commission should address at future meetings, but there will be no discussion at this time. President buell i see none. Clerk any Public Comment . Public comment is closed. Item 14. New business ascend setting. President buell i see none. Clerk Public Comment. I would like this sit down with mr. Ginz berg to talk about the minnie park in fillmore. I read you donated 300,000 to revitalize, but you dont have to answer, well a talk offscreen. I want to know, i want a full report on every park. What is going on, dollar signs. Need that by the end of year so i can do the report. My name is ace, im on the case. I got a report on all the Department Heads. She got the same name, because she knows me. And when she was a little girl, she came here, raised in the project. I was born and raised in the projects. So ace is saying, my family we outside the projects. My mother came here from the south. Worked in the shipyards. We had to struggle from the fillmore. I couldnt find a dam job. Im a contractor. Back in 1986. All the agents had all the jobs, contractors. They cant speak english, so i had to go down to the hutch and they started the redevelopment. I got no dont stop me. President buell well, youre wandering off the this is Public Comment, if i want to say, youre not supposed to stop me. Im going to leave anyway, because im getting upset. I want a reprise from your director on what is going on in every park and i want the mini park i want to know where that money is going to. Supposed to be going toward i dont know what building up to tear it down, you and i both know thats going to be housing in the future. You know it. Its going to be housing in the cultural center. My name is ace, dammit, you aint heard so much until i head back to city hall. I aint going to be here forever. No one can replace ace on the case. See as community, a, s service, and i hooked up with the prize. This is going to be something from my family once im gone. From my great granddaughters they might want to pick it up. President buell thank you. Clerk communications . Public comment . Seeing none this item is closed. We didnt have the opportunity to hear, as we have fort last few years, our elf. What is going on . Last month. Elf came last month. I was not here . I missed her. You sing for us. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas let your hearts be light from now on our troubles will be out of sight have yourself a merry Little Christmas make the yuletide gay from now on our troubles will be miles away here we are as in olden days happy golden days of your faithful friends who are dear to us gather near to us once more through the years we all will be together if the fate allows hang a shining star on upon the highest bough so have yourself a merry Little Christmas now [applause] clerk with that, item 16, adjournment. Id like to move for adjournment and thank you commissioner mcdonnell for the beautiful song. Merry christmas, everybody. In memory of the nicest guy i know, ed lee. Second . All those in favor. Thank you, all, and happy holidays. [ ]. I just feel like this is what i was born to do when i was a little kid i woul