War ii, so myself, i would be spec ops, so thats my background. When you hear somebody coming out and talking about good morning vietnam, i thought that would be more the entertainment to try to boost the morale or go on the radio show or something at the time of the war. So being that Robin Williams had performed such, it probably had to come out later. It was a earlier variety show development. So mr. Robin williams Robin Williams, i think i would be supportive not only for the good morning vietnam, but possibly because he had received an Academy Award oscar. This fellow when i read about him in the newspaper, it didnt make too much sense. He was so saddened, seemed like chronic depression. And somehow it was part of his way of breaking out, where he would perform before different people. And really helped him along. Im hoping that if you do make the particular change, that you can also somewhere include a wall of fame with different people who have performed at said comedy area, if that would be also possible. And then those behind me, comics, comedians, and others, they can also be honored. But be sure not to put on ri richa richard. Thank you. Anyone else . Gail, did you want to speak . Thank you, margaret. Hi commissioners, my name is gail, i would like to support you for thank you for supporting comedy since 1980 here in the city when we survived the 70s and we needed a good laugh and good come together. And thank you to the rec and park for their approval of a band of dedicated performers who keep showing up, year after year, have performed over 500,000 people in our glorious park. Statistically speaking, i think that we could say we have had the biggest comedy event in the world. Over 38 years coming up. So in honor of robin and all the dedicated performers, i would like to thank all of you for the outcome today. President buell thank you. Cle clerk anyone else who would like to make Public Comment . Public comment is closed. President buell commissioner anderson. Commissioner anderson may i invite will and debbie to come back up for a moment . Is that all right . President buell i think they have permission. Commissioner anderson i would like to hear more about the genesis of the idea. You mentioned the people who supported it, but i know there is a little more work that happened and would invite you to share a little bit more and wanted to thank you for inviting me to come out to comedy day, which i did, and it was a very joyous, embracing event with such talented people such as yourselves and thought you could give us a little more background. Well, robin was such a part of the Comedy Community, such a part of comedy day. Like i said, he was there the very first comedy day. And he was always a great supporter of comedy day and not a lot of people know it, but if it werent for robin giving us some money, there would be no comedy day a few years. He was just a silent supporter. He did it anonymously, so we couldnt mention amongst ourselves whether he had given money. We always heard that we got the money, because the eagle has landed. And that was the code word. He was known in the Comedy Community as the eagle. When we said the eagle had landed, that meant he gave the money for the show. President buell he kept it going five or six years. At least, because its nonprofit organization, no one gets paid. And everyone comes to perform, its one of the biggest things to be invited to perform at comedy day. Its kind of our company picnic. And we instead of barrel races, we yes, gails husband, was one of the founders of comedy day. It was a very dark time in San Francisco. We had lost a mayor. And jonestown had happened and all this stuff and there was a gray cloud. So jose along with a couple of other people decided to begin comedy day and robin was behind it. He did everything he could for this great San Francisco tradition. And if not for him, it would not be here today. So thank you. President buell thank you. Clerk i appreciate all that you have done on this, debbie, i know a lot of time has gone in your side. Yeah, i used to have a lot more hair. Commissioner anderson didnt we all. President buell before i ask for a vote of the commission, let me thank will and debbie and the others for the contribution youve made to this effort and the culture of San Francisco. You put us in a very unique place on the map and we appreciate it. With that, the chair would entertain a motion. So moved. Seconded. President buell moved and seconded, all those in favor . So moved. Thank you. [applause] we are now on item 10, the Strategic Plan. President buell i know you find it humorous and entertaining, but you dont have to sit through the Strategic Plan. Now, thats but we do want that now thats comedy. Ill wait for netflix. [laughter]. Merry christmas. Happy holidays. Thank you, you too. Good morning, commissioners, taylor from the finance committee that was funny. No pressure, taylor. Take my Strategic Plan, please. Oh. I am here today to present to you the strategic the progress assessment of our Strategic Plan so far. Where we are in the indicators and a look ahead at the next five years. Our longterm planning tool, the Strategic Plan for fy 201822. As a reminder, this is a planning process. We will be doing this through fy 46, prop b, starts with equity and the equity metrics and analysis feeds into the Strategic Plan and then the Operational Plan is a twoyear look. Its a shorter term horizon that also filters through the equity lens and then we bring you the capital plan in january. And in february, the budget. And this is a sequence and a building, an evolution of our we need a synonym for plan our focus, our efforts. The framework has the Mission Vision values, the five course strategies and the objectives and those are not changing. Underneath those, the actions that support all that are the initiatives and those change and refresh and get done and new ones come on each year. Here today to stalk about the twoyear Operational Plan. Equity is filtered, its not at the bottom or the top, its infused through all of that. Quick assessment of where we are on these initiatives. For the fiveyear period, fy 17 to 21, we have completed 14 of those. Another 49 are in progress, which together means, i think its more than 90 are either started or completed. And the remainders are to be initiated in the coming years. Just highlights of what weve done. The 10minute walk, were so proud of it, we keep talking about it. Its about the equity, 100 of san franciscans now live within a 10 minute walk of park or open space. We also, strategy 2, to support safe bicycling and through parks and increase recreational bicycling in parks, the bike park in mclaren and these are both proud accomplishments toward this goal of more cycling. There are so many things about the hall that feel successful and accomplishments of new park, increasingly dense neighborhood. And there are opportunities for urban farming and Community Gardening there. I love theyre doing a Different Community garden model there, it is actually community. Theyre all growing it together, instead of individual plots. I heard at the end of the season, they gave away 500 pounds of food. That is exciting. Within the Strategic Plan itself, some of the initiatives are equity equity related and this is a shot of those. Some of those are internal learning. We got training, we have two people a year doing the Government Alliance on Racial Equity learning and theyre bringing that back to the department. Weve expanded our training our recruiting processes to reach now audiences and this, of course, is while we call this complete, its also ongoing. We did what we set out to do this year and were doing more. Second class of greenidge, these kinds are from chinatown which is one of the most open spaced, deficient of nature neighborhoods and were giving them environment learning opportunities. At mission playground, we started a Spanish Language permit assistance. There is like a satellite permit office at Mission Clubhouse that has operating hours, and helps people get the permits for birthday a party or other organized events. New initiatives, there are six new ones. Here they are, complete the jurisdictional transfer of properties. Continue working on the Civic Center Commons initiative. Start working on the conservatory of flowers campus. And some work in operations with the nursery and plant palates. With that, happy to take questions. Clerk go to Public Comment . President buell please. Clerk anyone who would like to make Public Comment . Come on up. Interesting combination of performance here today, im ss urban riders and here to confirm and thank the department for the progress theyve made on the strategic objectives, particularly, i Pay Attention to the bicycling and trails goals. And particularly the three things about bicycling, the trails, the bike parks and the playground, the mini bike park there is looking great, coming along. So weve had disagreement over the detail of this, but happy and thankful for the details and the goals theyre accomplishing. President buell thank you. Clerk anyone else who would like to make Public Comment on the Strategic Plan . This is strategic, not the operational. Is that ok . Ok. President buell so the question becomes do we want to hear the Operational Plan and then vote on both of them . Or having heard that, or do we need to vote now on this . Clerk clrk i clerk i want to make sure there is no more Public Comment on this. Is there any more Public Comment . Seeing none. President buell i was clairvoyant. Any commission comments . Seeing none, we entertain a vote. Moved and seconded. All those in favor . So moved. Thank you. That was fantastic. Wee. Shell be here all week. Encore right now. Clerk were on item 9, the Operational Plan. Commissioners, the operation plan, we have the 5year horizon and then 2year. Of all the things we need to do and should do, given our resources, workload, capacity, the priorities, what do you think were actually going to be able to do in the next two years . And thats what the Operational Plan is. Weve seen this before, but i want it to be a standalone presentation. The structure of it, its a twoyear look again. Next month well be here with the capital plan. Within the Operational Plan, which because of the timing, this progress assessment reflects five months of what is a twoyear plan. I want to set the stage for that. We have completed 14 of the initiatives that we set forth to do. 42 of them are in progress and just four are yet to be starting. Some of these that were proud of that weve accomplished are farm camp, expand and connect children to nature. There are bees and chickens and real farm chores out there. And the camp was full all summer. It was fantastic, yeah. Adaptive programming to increase the number of participants. Sometimes that means increasing the slots in the programs that are popular, adding new programs and making all of the programs inclusi inclusive, so people can participate in anything theyre interested in. Strategy 3, we mentioned the Civic Center Playground a couple of times today. This is fantastic partnerdriven renovation project that is going be an anchor for the Civic Center Commons. I cant wait to go on the slide right there myself. Great signage. Signage really helps build stewardship because when people understand it and appreciate what theyre looking at, in this case, plans. They can care for it more. Weve done great signage at hilltop particularly. Within the Operational Plan, some of those initiatives again, these are all subsets, Equity Initiatives, four of these were complete, nine ongoing. Commissioner mcdonnell, you asked for a list, its attachment to the staff report. Some of these still ongoing are implementing its combined of a combination kind of a combination of park ranger and fixed posts. Parked ranger are fixed and they can get to know the characters and be part of the community. Were also using this model at delores as well and kind of experimenting when hot spots pop up, crocker amazon, we can have staff onsite there. This is not a very good picture, but if you can see how drab and uninviting that hope sf playground is there, we are working with other city agencies to address some of these failing playgrounds at hope sf properties. This is an Equity Initiative work, were fully invested in the planning and this is partially a Capital Planning conversation as well, but were thinking through additional facilities where some of the hope sf sites, for example, sunnydale, i think were planning were in conversations with mercy housing and some of the other stakeholders about a new gym. And we just purchased Shoreview Park which is near huntersview, so were engaging in a lot more collaborative planning and participating in, again, one of the mayors legacies, the sort of reenvisioning of Public Housing and housing generally. Mission slide again. Well skip that. And with that, im happy to take questions. And just these were just a couple of delicious samples, some of the work that is happening. There is a lot 0 detailed work in the Strategic Plan and the Operations Plan and it is from the inspiration tal to the mundane. Were in a time of stability where the core mission and mission and values and five Core Strategies are not really moving. Those are we continue to believe thats how we want to steer the organization, by inspiring place and play and stewardship, and team and resources. And then so the tactics beneath those, how do we do that . Where weve done a much better job in the last several years, in part because of taylors leadership, is collecting data and how we want to move the needle. Ive been here for 17 years and never been in such a continuous planning loop as we are now. I have to say, we like it. It works. President buell terrific. Clerk Public Comment . President buell lets go to commissioner comment. Commissioner anderson i would like to put a little pin on the Public Safety aspect. If we could start a conversation, if it hasnt already started, about helping San FranciscoPolice Department collaborate and coordinate with the park patrol, like some feedback from the park patrol, for example, they dont share the radio. I feel like those communications should be a twoway street between park patrol and San Francisco p. D. If you look outside the civic center, you see a ranger and Police Officer walking through and doing a some of this is dependent upon the chief at the moment and the priorities of the Police Department, but because our own ranger chief has done such a good job and has so much credibility with sfpd, the collaboration and cooperation has never been better. I would recommend that the Organization Still needs another 2030 rangers. We said we should be at 80. When i started we were at 12. Now were at 45 . Right . And so were not there yet with the amount of coverage. Its 247 operation, 365 days a year, 225 parks. Its hard to have a presence everywhere. But a number of key issue and events, were working toward 20, obviously some of the ceremonies around the mayors passing, weve been working very closely with sfpd. Thank you, i support more park controls. Commissioner harrison i like that and im supportive of it, but i have a question and give me an example. I was reading here on Performance Indicators baseline, and i dont know how attachment a i guess, objective, condition of parks, fields, playground and facilities, i notice that the other end, that was not achieved. The goal was not achieved. How do we go about achieving such a thing . In that case we set the target at two. We set the target possibly too high. So when i say we didnt achieve the target. I think we may have another year of data under to evaluate. We can then revisit the targets and see if they are realistic. We set the Park Maintenance target ott 90 . There is a little bit of history and youre going to dive into the Park Maintenance report. Frankly, the way the scoring has changed, weve gotten a lot stricter about how we evaluate the parks and more precise and that resulted over about two years, or three years ago, in a 35 drop in the Park Maintenance scores. Think that target was from the original data s. Taylor interprets data literally. In that specific case, we did improve, but we did not reach the target. I did see it was 80 landscaping, so i guess thats pretty good. Right, that specific metric that your