Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20180223

Examine what has happened. Is there anyone else who would like to make Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners, this is discussion only. Thank you. So we are now on item 7. The Recreation Park Department budget for fiscal 20182019. And 201920. While derek is setting up the presentation, let me extend a thanks to derek and his team. This is a strong budget, and this is the first he has done as the head of the finance administration and worked very, very well with the staff and the Community Stake holders. And notwithstanding, a little bit of financial instability city wide, we are proud of this budget. Good morning, Vice President low, commissioners. I am derek chiu, over eight months ago i started the recreational Park Department to attend glen canyon opening and the random Museum Opening and recently saw the new civic center. And this is a terrific place to work. And im very excited to be presenting the first budget. I stepped into some very big shoes that katie left behind. Im trying my best to work as hard and as well as she did. Fortunately, ive had the guidance and the Visionary Leadership of the general manager and his directors including denny, dana, sarah, don, and toks. And also the fortune of having a finance and accounting and budget team led by maria sutton, alex, antonio. So let me start. I start with the mission statement, which guides everything that we do, and including our vision to inspire, connect, and play. And with the five strategies of inspiring space, play, investment, stewardship, and team. In building our budget we relied on the strategic plan, operational plan, capital plan, and also looked at everything we do through an equity lens using equity metrics to ensure were providing services to everyone in our community. Those communities that are disadvantaged nor low income. We want to insure that our programs and services are accessible to everyone. Finally, more pragmatically, i looked at prioritizing recreation and park programs as Core Services. I looked at investing in capital and deferred maintenance projects. We looked at maximizing Revenue Opportunities and al reallocating vacant positions and unallocated resource to meet new and changing needs. Our fiscal year 1819 proposed budget totals 240. 1 million. As you can see on the slide on the left by program, our Largest Program is Park Maintenance at just over 52 . Thats followed by recreation aquatics at 25 and then you see the other parts of our Program Spending including structural maintenance at 10 , park safety 3 , administration 4 . On our revenues, our revenues are comprised of four main categories. Our open space fund, which is 26 of the revenue budget, our general fund support, the subsidy that we see from the city at 31 , our earned income revenues at 20 , and our other Revenue Sources at 23 . Our department resources, our staffing by program, and as again, as you might expect t majority of the staffing is in our Park Maintenance division that includes our gardeners, custodians, maintenance teams, recreational aquatic follows at 26 . And matching the Core Services and core functions, maintaining what we do and enhancing what we do and investing in what we do so were stronger. Administration is at 7 . Park safety grew a bit this year at 4 . Looking at our revenues and a little bit more detail, youll see the top three revenues open space, general funds supported, and earned income below the top. Just below that are the pieces that make up the earned income revenues, and ill briefly go over some of the changes there. In concession and rentals, were seeing about a 5 increase or 500,000 in the new budget year. Thanks very much in part well, all of these earned income revenues i deeply appreciate the work of dana catchum and the Property Management and permits and fees team. They were instrumental in working with us in growing the revenues upwards of 4. 5 or 7. 9 million. Permits and facilities rentals increase by 400,000 or 6. 7 . Program fees are recreation programs that increases by 4. 4 . And i think that speaks strongly to the work of ann marie donali who do the programming to meet the needs and the growing needs of the citizens and residents of the city Offering Services and programs that are popular and supportive of what people want. Our garage, paid parking revenue increases by 6. 1 . Our golf program increases by 2. 4 . The only drop in our revenue in the new budget year is in our marina, and that is going down 1. 8 or about 72,000, and thats because of the some of the changes in the slips and some of the work that were doing Going Forward as far as looking at the east harbor renovation project. I draw your attention to the other Revenue Sources which is comprised of bond funds, grants, gifts, bequests, and other balances. You will see that goes up about 10 million, and thats due to the addition of new grants that our grants team led by tony as well as by our Capital Finance manager antonio have been working on over the past several weeks. But do notice that in fiscal year 1920, there is a precipitous drop from just over 54 million to 13 million. That should not alarm you because we are only budgeting the new grants that we know of and have identified in the new budget year, 1819. We do not know yet what those funds will be two years out. When i come back to you next year, that number hopefully is something that will reflect closer to the 40 to 50 million range. We will have time to add to our budget when we do apply for them and when they are awarded to us and allocated to us. So where are we spending our money . What are we investing in . Breaking this up by strategy and strategy one inspiring public space to look at our Core Services and deferred maintenance and a project planner and an iron worker, a steam fitter, a plumber, and labor supervisor, several custodians, to supplement the Capital Planning and project management. Were adding a planning manager and project manager, and we are adding money to the Community Garden for deferred maintenance. In addition, for both the budget year and budget year plus one, 1819, 1920, we are adding two additional park rangers in each of those two years. Currently were at 45 park rangers currently. We are working to fill about eight of the vacant positions, and we will be adding additional positions. As i mentioned previously, were in the process this year of outfitting 15 park ranger vehicles along with laptops, along with body armor sorry, body cameras. And other uniform gear. In addition, we are maintaining our commitment to Funding Capital and deferred maintenance projects, and we are committing 15 million of our general fund support to projects including, as you can see, maintenance and renewal, playing fields, field rehab, street resurfacing, safety and security, signage and lighting, and then you can see some specific projects including the dog play area, the Tennis Center, 11th, buchanan street mall, and baby playground, hurts basin. In strategy two, inspired play, we are looking at investing in programs that support youth and senior, healthy and active living. The programs as you can see include an expansion of the peace Parks Program the late mayor lee created just last year. We are also adding a new dance for life program. We are enhancing and expanding the Tennis Learning Center program. We are adding an instructor to the sharon arts studio and a zumba coordinator. We are looking at providing Additional Resources for event and Program Activity outreach. We are looking at additional m sm s, materials and fly supplie, bike park, pools, and leisure and sports and athletics. And we are looking at connecting kids to nature. A focus that we started working on last year in collaboration with many other city and state federal agencies, and we are crow yating programs including art creating programs including art in motion, canoe mobile, garden to table, lets move recess, and also an existing program, early child ood childhood education. Strategy three, our investments to inspire investment. I know, it sounds a little goofy. I had to stick with the standard, though. We are looking at increasing community engagement, Publicprivate Partnership Development Services as well as project planning and development. On strategy four inspire stewardship, Sustainable Land management, we are insuring that our Natural Areas Division has the staffing and the resources it needs. We are adding an Environmental Review planner. We are adding materials and supplies for our park service are areas, the bow canal garden, the nurse the botanical garden, nursery, integrated pest management, and two gardeners to the natural areas trails program. Finally, on strategy five, inspire team, we are looking at investing in staff coordination and resources. Were adding funding for uniforms. Were adding upwards of 2 million for new equipment, mainly vehicles, but these include mower, stump grinders, passenger vehicles, crew truck, and so on. And the garden Apprenticeship Program, we are adding materials and supplies, equipment, and they will be receiving a ford f350 as well as adding two apprentice gardeners in the second budget year, fiscal year 1920. In the preApprenticeship Program, materials and supplies and another ford f350 truck, as well as additional services. So we are here, february 15. The budget, the department will be submitting the budget to the Mayors Office february 11 at which time we will begin negotiations with them Going Forward. I did receive additional good news this morning. The controller released the sixmonth report. And based on that, property taxes have gone up over the property taxes have gone up and the result is the recreationalened a Parks Department will receive an additional 2. 2 million in open space fund, so thats positive news. Hopefully that will grow further, and if it does, we will certainly work with the Mayors Office and the controller to take advantage of any additional revenue that we can come up with. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Okay. Being none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner harrison. I have a couple of questions. Early on in the report you talked about opportunities to relocate vacant positions and funds to meet new needs. What does that mean exactly . In the mayors budget instructions, and over the past many years, the mayors Budget Office has often asked departments not to add new budgeted positions to the budget. And so in order for us to maintain the flexibility to make changes to our staffing to meet new and emerging needs, what we do is look at vacant positions, budgeted vacant positions in our budget, not filled, and we look to move them to a new classification in order to meet whatever needs we may have at that time. So in the case of if we needed new gardeners and we dont have any budgeted guarden ins, we would look at other classifications that we have not used for many, many years that are vacant and reclassify to the gardener position so as not to grow the actual budgeted position count. And also, we are looking at this in some cases there are unallocated sources of funds that arent spent. We realize that Program Spending is not as much as we projected. We try to make efficiencies and reallocate those to other needs. One other question, and compliments on the apprenti Apprenticeship Program. I was confused by the wording. Two new garden apprenticeships and plus one i apologize. That is budget lynn g dlingo. B. Y. Is the budget year. We are currently in c. Y. , current year, and b. Y. Is budget year, and second year is budget year plus one, or b. Y. 1. And those positions would be added in 1920. It is a twoyear budget and we make investments in two years and start the apprentices and were planning already to grow and i think under your leadership and with the Great Partnership with 261 when the program started seven or eight years ago, we had 12. And with the additional two, we will be at, i believe, 33 or 34. Thats correct. So the Apprenticeship Program is growing and also in the preApprenticeship Program, which is something 261 has been partnering with city build on, and so i think the Workforce Development side, things are going well. Thank you for that. Excellent. Commissioner anderson. Okay. I have a couple of questions. I was looking at the line item for garages and paid parking. Theres three columns, and it increases over time. Does that take into account i noticed a significant drop in revenue, particularly Union Square Parking lot. What is a counterbalance to that . We did. In the coming year working with m. T. A. On estimates, we are seeing an uptick in the Union Square Garage based upon the scheduling of the construction and completion of work thats going on there. So and that is the main uptick for the garage increase. Does that include is the Mayors Office addressing decreases in revenue with some sort of subsidy or grant . No. No . Okay. All right. And then where in here does it work, for example, i had conversations with residents at the marina gray playground with an update on the springy padding on the playground. When we have Something Like that, where does this money come from . We dont budget per project like that except for the larger capital renovations that the general Fund Capital Plan does have funding for program resurfacings as they start to expire. There are a number of playground across the si city and marina green is a project and a surface in need. We are very pleased to have made it about 3. 5 million in new infor investment with the East Playground with the pump track and playground there. We try to spread the investments all over the city, and with a particular focus on equity zones. I get it. I understand that, but you can imagine when were attracting people to the new, shiny object, we want to be sure that the one next to it looks good, too. So ive talked with a lot of residents who are quite concerned with the resurfacing of that, so just curious if that is in the hopper around how does that work . Commissioner, as i said, we have funding, a bucket of funding for playgrounds generally and make decisions across the city based on need. Okay. Just a quick question. What also accounts for the drop in revenue from the marina . Changes in slip usage. 0. Some slips that were there were some slips that were down, and we are forecasting that the east harbor will be undergoing some changes in advance of the work that well be doing in the remediation and renovation. Dropping about 72,000. Thank you. Before i ask for a motion, i also want to compliment you and the staff on putting this budget together. It looks terrific. I know a lot of hard work went into it, and i just want to compliment your efforts in mutting this and as the first budget presentation. And we dont even remember katie i cant remember her last name. Anyway. Im kidding. Kidding. Commissioners, is there a motion . There is a motion. Second. All in favor . Any opposed . Motion carries. Thank you. We are on item 8t Golden Gate Park Tennis Center conceptual design. Okay. Good afternoon. The next item before you today is the Golden Gate Park Tennis Center renovation, specifically the discussion and possible action to i a prove the conceptual design to renovate the Golden Gate Park Tennis Center. Approval is action defined by the San Francisco administrative code chapter 31. The tennis senter is located in the heart of Golden Gate Park in district five if conservatory lie and the academy of sciences to the west, and sanyon street to the east. The golden gate tennis senter is park of recreation and parks greater tennis system which includes 130 additional free public courts. With stable maintenance and funding by measure b, and donor grants, we have begun to resurface 37 courts system wide. An additional 23 courts are slated so that that 1 3 has been tarring targeted for a recorrect cent photos on the left and historichis t hisser to cal on the right. The first two Tennis Courts were laid in Golden Gate Pa