Three minutes. Clerk each person has three minutes per Public Comment on each item. If there is an item of interest to you 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. And then continued again on item 10. Please address your comments to the commission in order to allow equal time for all, neither the commission nor staff will respond to any questions during Public Comment. The commission may ask questions of staff after Public Comment is closed. Last, if the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate the building in an orderly fashion using any exit. Please note that elevators will immediately return to the first floor and are not available for use. If you need assistance out of the building, please make your way to the closest area of refuge, which is directly across the hall in the mens restroom. In the restroom is a speaker box, press it and City Security will answer. Were on item 2, the president s report. Well, it comes with Great Sadness and a little bit of jealousy, but mostly out of love and support that i have the responsibility to announce that our very own Margaret Mcarthur will be retiring at the end of june. This is after 30 years of government service. No, way, shes not that old. Thank you 20 years for this commission. She has been the bedrock, the foundation for this commission. Deep institutional knowledge. Keeps us in line. Mostly keeps me in line. [laughter] reminds me of when my ethic documents are supposed to be filed. And its going to be with, i guess to quote nat king cole, youre going to be unforgettable. Thank you. Commissioner low youre not going to sing . Commissioner mcdonnell unforgettable, thats what you are. Commissioner low thank you. Public comment is closed. Were now on item 3, the general managers report. I will not sing. We have a brief summer update as we end the near the end of may. Soon school will be getting out. And were gearing up for day camp. We are offering 91 camps. So 51 sites. Our camps are for ages 417 and we have over 10,000 registrations. But fear not. There are 1500 spots left, so if you are a procrastinator, there is still room for you. We have over 2000 registrations in our summer learn to swim programs. These are the most indemand programs, but there are still slots left in those programs as well. Were proud to announce that over a thousand of the summer campers are receiving scholarships this year. Were gearing up for camp mather. This is the 95th anniversary of the camp. They will be 11 weeks this summer with over a thousand families visiting and great improvements to the facilities, including the new rope course and the resurfaced tennis courts. Have a good time up there. And as you know, were one of the largest used one of the largest departments that hires youth in the summer. This summer we have over 200 teens working for us helping to support those camps i mentioned. And finally, this saturday is registration for summer programs. Those are the smaller classes, onehour classes, that type of thing, not a full camp. So that happens this saturday online or at our 14 registration sites around the city. We also have a bit of good news this week. And testament to the hard work of our employees. The Controllers Office has released its 2019 city survey. Which is the citywide survey of San Francisco residents and their opinions of our Public Services. The things they experience every day from the streets to the state of the parks, muni and the libraries. And some of our highlights including our overall score was a b . Trailing only the library in ranking of city services. The quality of landscaping and plantings, rec centers and clubhouses, programs and activities received our highest marks. Fields and courts received the biggest jump, they rose 9 . And park ratings are at their highest rates ever. Thank you to our staff and the commission for guiding us to be delivering such Good Public Service for our residents. Letsplaysf Community Day at merced heights. Join the Parks Department and the Parks Alliance for a Ground Breaking event marking the beginning of two playground renovation projects. It will happen this saturday. Excuse me, not this saturday. June 8 from 10 30 to noon at merced heights. This is to celebrate merced and alice chalmers. We had a Ground Breaking in the pan handle for these five projects as well. The summer solstice event at the conservatory of flowers. Join us for a flower power night under the stars as we kick off the summer with the surrealist summer solstice say that ten times jam in the park. Similar to previous years, this will be a fun night of free live market, psychedelic and iconic songs from various artists. It runs from 6 00 to 10 00 p. M. And the light show starts at 9 15. I believe we now have a video of that Ground Breaking celebration. [ ] that concludes the report. Cochair is there any Public Comment on the general managers report . Okay, being none, Public Comment is closed. Were now on item 4. General Public Comment up to 15 minutes. This item will be continued to item 10. At this time members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and that do not appear on the agenda. With respect to agenda items, youll have the opportunity to address the commission when the item is reached in the meeting. So i have two cards. I have jackie and i have mark. If you could please come up, and then if anybody else wants to make general Public Comment after theyre through, please come up. As a reminder, you will have three minutes. Good morning, im jackie boss. Im a parent at Live Oaks School, which is a school opposite jackson playground. Firstly, we, the parents at live oak are so happy that you put the bathroom guards in at jackson, its made our kids safer. We used to see syringes and condoms here, so now its safe. The park hasnt been renovated since last century. At the moment there is a broken slide. The slide has been broken for 10 months. Lots of things are breaking. The rendering on the wall is falling off. There is a patch in the fence. The fence is half falling off. Its in need of renovation. We would like it to be a priority park. Its a very at the moment its a very popular park. Its being used a lot. And the rec park estimates are that 30,000 people will be using that. At the back of Live Oaks School used to be a parking lot, which is being turned into apartments and there are high density apartments coming up everywhere. After i drop the kids at school, ive tried to go for a run and there is nowhere to run other than the playground. Its all uphill and then there is industrial areas, so you need to use the playgrounds there. This is kira. She wanted me to tell you shes going to Live Oaks School in kindergarten in the fall. The old people in potrero hill rely on jackson playground. Its the one that all the people want to have facilities at. Sometimes when weve got a permit for soccer to play at jackson playground, they put six teams on at once. Its a very heavily used playground. Does this work if i put pictures . Do you want to see pictures of the broken slide, the broken fence . I took some this morning. This is that is like the patched up concrete. The whole park is full of patches like this. The tiles that the kids run on. Kids trip on the tiles. This is all of the concrete rendering is falling off like this. Its a pretty rundown playground. There is under the swings, the tires are falling off. This is an example there is a lot of play structures. The kids use these and there is concrete underneath. Thank you. Clerk mark . Hi, mark sabatino. I need your help with an ongoing issue at the top of bernal heights. We live at 95 andover street, that is a paper street that abuts the boulevard just to the west of the top entrance. We bought our house in 1997 and at the time there was an up hill piece of land fenced into the house that we inquired with the city if we could purchase, they said, no, we could take care of it. Weve been taking care of the property for 20 years. The fence fell into disrepair a couple of years ago so we replaced it with a redwood fence and our neighbor behind us followed suit and extended the fence to replace the cyclone fence she had. That was a continuation of the cyclone fence. There was a complaint made about the fence reported to rec and park because they took over the property in 2004. After we advocated to have the gate moved. Rec and park ordered us to take down the fence and weve since been in conversation with you about that. But weve had recent events that have gone south on our trying to work through that in a manner that satisfies our need for safety and privacy. There was we were asked to sign a letter saying that the property wasnt ours, which we have no problem is. Weve went through negotiations with director of operations, dennis kearn, how we could make the property accessible to the public, but also protect us. After a couple of conversations, we agreed we would lower the fence from 72 inches to 42. We did that earlier this year. And then we had an incident on the hill in february where a car crashed through the gate of the entrance of the park right next to our house and was lit on fire close our house. And were just feeling very vulnerable up there. Weve had our house tagged since then and we recently received a letter from mr. Kearn, after making the modifications we agreed upon, to remove the entire fence. This would open up the hillside to the public and we have a lot of not safe traffic up there at night and were asking to get a setback where we can put up a barrier, a wall, a few feet off our house at the lower part of the property to separate us from the goings on in the park. So that is we need help. Commissioner low thank you. Clerk is there anyone else . Come on up. Ill be brief. I also live at 95 andover. I want to make it clear that we, as mark said, we never said the land was ours. We were told to care for the land which we did and have spent a lot of money with retaining walls and caring for dead trees and keeping the fox tails trimmed. We dont want the land. We would love the city to take it back over. All were asking for is a few feet off of our doorstep, so that when there is car fires, people have dead bodies dropped near our house. Nightly activity up there, the drinking and the partying is very dangerous and its right at our doorsteps. All we ask is for a safety barrier. Our house has been tagged. Weve had cars pull up every night. Its an ongoing issue. Im afraid well need to be calling 911 instead of the nonemergency number. I dont want to live that way. I love San Francisco. I want to stay in my home. Im just looking for safety. Thats all, thank you. Commissioner low thank you. Clerk anyone else who would like to make general Public Comment at this time . Come on up. Good morning. My name is olga. Im a resident of bernal heights, native of San Francisco. And im one of the individuals that are that brought this issue up to the Rec Park Department. One of the individuals, because its not just me. We would they can have a fence, the sabatinos, i understand their concerns. We have a Backyard Fence that fronts the street. And we have a fence there, you know, protecting us. But its on our property line. And that is what we ask. We ask that the fence be adjacent or on the property line. Thats what we ask. We face wool street. Our backyard. Ive got an email from rec park to the City Attorneys Office talking about the lots that now have been extended where there are encroachments into albertbe hill park. This is rec park land. Its not private property. And it looks like private property. I went up there before the hearing just to see if anything is done. They did lower the gate to the size of the fence, but it still looks like private property. No one is going to go in there, even though its supposed to be open to the public. No one knows its public property. And its just going to continue and other neighbors are going to encroach and there is an email from a constituent to rec park, december of november of 2017, and he first reported it. He sent another email to rec park saying that beverly has encroached and continued on with the fence and she was laughing saying her car port is on rec park land. Its egregious to me that this happened. There is a here i go again with this there is a letter a picture i want you to see. Hopefully, it will be the right one. Sorry. Sorry. Is that the first tone . Hopefully, ill find it. Oh, thats it. I closed it. Okay. Well, lets see how this goes. So this in our records request to rec park, this is inside. That is rec park property. Commissioner low thank you. Clerk is there anyone else who would like to make Public Comment . Come on up. Commissioners, good morning. My name is bud ryerson. Im a resident of bernal heights. For several years weve been concerned by the encroachment that we see all over bernal hill park. One of our neighbors has bragged to us that he built his Swimming Pool entirely on rec park property. He actually did. Your own Rec Park Department has recommended a full survey of the southern border of bernal hill park and we think that is a good idea. Last month we spoke to you about the encroachment of the Property Owners at mull tree and andover street into bernal hill park. Since then, weve learned that since then we learned that encroachment notices have been sent to the Property Owners and theyve been given until the end of this month to remove the fence they built without permission on park property. We enthusiastically support this decision. But its not the end of the month yet. Encroachment notices have been sent to the Property Owners before, and before their lawyers have responded by threatening to sue the city, to enjoin rec park from taking down their fence. So here today, in front of you, we urge these two encroaching Property Owners to call off their lawyers to join with the neighbors, to take down the fence they constructed without permission and restore our public parkland to the public. Its just that simple. Its easy and its the right thing to do. And we commend rec park for doing the right thing. And we thank you for your time. Clerk is there anyone else who would like to make general Public Comment . Being none, this item is closed. Were now on the consent calendar. I do have one member of the public, richard. Good morning. Im just trying to take another look at the issue, i just had a conversation with supervisor sandra lee fewer and there was something to do with the cost of the place, as well as things around the particular project. I, myself, was very enthusiastic when i heard about the 5 million from the parcel tax, 12 per par sex they were able to get just about 5 million. I like that very much. And then there was the other park, we had the foundation, 25. 5 and we have the Environmental Justice cleanup. But one thing i kept on hammering over is the cost of the particular project. The parks are only dealing with one, two, three small parcels and has a cost that goes up to 120 by the time it gets built, 125 million. And in the back of your mind, if you remember if you can be patient with me for a minute, there is a problem with, what do you get from this particular project . Im looking at the fiduciary relationships. Im hoping that the developers of the 1500 units would be more generous to this particular project. It has very high estimate cost. And if you compare it to the embarcadero center, 50 million for the whole place during the year 2000 . So were jumping way up scale on the property value. Thats all i have to say about that particular piece. It is good work that the people of the project the project manager getting the funding. I like that very much. One small other thing to say about the japanese teagarden and Maintenance Fund part. At committee there was estimate of 12 million. And there was a few remarks about such costs. I wanted to include the entire small fence compound instead of just the wooden pagoda unless you really develop the entire area, which isnt in the plan. Commissioner buell had pointed out that people were willing to repair the wood work. But the 12 million estimate, i would like them to include the entire compound. Thank you. Thank you. Clerk anyone else who would like to make Public Comment on the consent calendar . Seeing none, this item is closed. Motion . Moved. Is there a second. All in favor . Motion carries. Clerk were on item 6, the San Francisco zoo. Good morning. My name is chris conners, im the Vice President of operations at the San Francisco zoo and i have a power point presentation on what is going on at the zoo this month. It is spring and that means babies. [laughter] two weeks ago we announced a contest to name our four new prairie dog pups. The public could commit up to four names. We received nearly 700 entries, comprised of 2700 submissions with the most popular name as blossom. The winning names chosen were sprout, radish, walnut and meadow, which won over many game of thrones character names. [laughter] video b role was sent out and it was picked up by pretty much everyone here in the area. Cbs local and multisocial media outlets. In continuing with our 90th anniversary, we have opened up the zoo an hour