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. [ ] im nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. When we sign up, its always so gratifying. We want to be here. So im very excite ied to be here today. Your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. Last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. Without that we cant survive. Volunteering is really important because we cant do this. Its important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. We have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area. Its fun to come out here. We have a park. Its better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. The street, every time, our friends. I think everybody should give back. We are very fortunate. We are successful with the company and its time to give back. Its a great place for us. The weather is nice. No rain. Beautiful San Francisco. Its a great way to be able to have fun and give back and walk away with a great feeling. For more opportunities we have volunteering every single day of the week. Get in touch with the parks and Recreation Center so come good morning everyone. Thank you for being here today. I just want to thank all of you for coming and give a special thanks to the va who is here joining us, theyre important partners in this project. The owners of the site, there they are. Thank you for making this site available and for being partners with the city on this and other sites to help address homelessness. We want to thank the nonprofit providers running the site, everybody from dish, if you can raise your hand. Many dish staff are here and providing services on site. Everybody from the Mayors Office and their staff. Thank you very much. This is an important day for sorry and dell seymour. I forgot my other boss, the local chair of the coordinating homeless board along with ralph peyton who couldnt join us today. This is the opening of a new Supportive Housing site in San Francisco to serve chronically homeless veterans, that adds to the 70 units we have, and this is important in mayor lees desire and hope to get i shouldnt say desire and hope, his initiative and order for us to get 1,000 people off the streets during the winter and this is 70 more units of housing to help achieve that goal. We have a few people who are going to give remarks today. First i want to invite beth stokes, the director of community services, beth as many of you know has been long time activist and leader in homelessness and used to be the executive director of Hamilton Family center that i used to be the director of back in the day and has done work in Southern California and here in San Francisco. She is new to her job and were happy and blessed to have beth stokes here. Beth, thank you. applause thank you jeff. As jeff indicated, im new to my position and im here to express my gratitude for all of you who have helped us get where we are today. Welcome to the auburn, the new home for 70 u. S. Veterans. applause cheering it is truly an exciting day as jeff indicated. Were deeply grateful for mayor breed for being here, we know its been a challenging time for the city and the city family. So thank you. I want to thank all our partners in the room this morning, there are many. To those who are not with us, to get us where we are. Where we are today in addition to the 70 homes is closer to ending chronic homelessness to veterans in San Francisco. We have 11 veterans who have moved in and one moving in today. Thats great progress. I wanted to loosely quote something i heard from mayor edwin lee that i heard not long ago that was u. S. Veterans fought for our country, they shouldnt have to fight for homes. I was very moved by that and its something i wanted to share. I wanted to acs is proud to be part of the team effort to provide solutions to homelessness in the form of Supportive Housing and ecs will continue to partner in Supportive Housing in San Francisco. For this project, the Master Tenant and lead Service Provider and proud to be part of what is a collaborative effort. With the finish line in sight, in all of our collective efforts to end chronic homelessness for u. S. Veterans and moving closer to a functional zero number is a remarkable accomplishment that requires Great Partnership and the auburn has many. I would like to begin, you know, the planning actually to thank a variety of people, i wanted to start with mayor edwin lees former office of hope and acknowledge that effort and how that started. That has been carried forward with great determination by the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. I say new but i know its been over a year and a half. Ecs would like to thank the Numerous Community members that helped to make it happen, many in our city family, our city supervisors for support and great effort, veterans administration, thank you. We would like to thank the department of housing and urban development. Hudd has truly been a partner, particularly with the obamas administration, the efforts of the president s wife and call to action to end veterans homelessness. And we would like to thank our local San FranciscoHousing Authority and of course San Francisco local home for efforts collaborative. And their work to hold us accountable to get to the zero number. So thank you. And the San Francisco association of realtors. In these partnerships new people step forward and step to the table and were grateful for their efforts and they help us turn a building into a home with their welcome home project so thank you to them. Last but not least, ecs would like to thank dish and their codirectors and their team. The operations of the auburn is a Collaborative Partnership with dish. And with dish, were excited to have the opportunity to work with them. This is our first effort in working with them. Were very excited, we thank them for their continued excellence and continued effort to get us where we are today. Thank you. Our board of directors and the remarkable team at ecs. Along with dish who rolled up their sleeves and worked hard to ensure u. S. Veterans had keys in their hand before the start of the new year. This includes our director of Housing Development and Asset Management and her team. Liz is here in the front row. Anna cooper, and i would like to thank scott ecker, and others leading the Supportive Housing team and i want to invite everyone afterwards, we invite you up stairs to room 302 to look at the accommodations at the auburn. With that, i want to turn it back over. Thank you. applause thank you beth and thank you for acknowledging this is sort of a bitter sweet moment. Many of us are mourning the loss of mayor lee but were grateful and lucky to have the leadership of london breed who is currently our acting mayor and mayor breed has picken up the tradition that mayor lee had of calling me at least once a day laughter when theres a homeless person on the street and needs help. That gives me great comfort, because like mayor lee, mayor breed is leading our city and has so many things to deal with, i cant even imagine but takes the time every day not saying move this person out of here, but hey, i see someone suffering, i see someone struggling, could you please get your team out to help that person. Please join me in welc