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It will ring the fire department, and they will be able to assist you. I did receive a communication regarding the passing of an employee, doctor carlin. Dan was an enthusiastic team member who never lacked for a kind comment or word of encouragement. He made me feel welcome here immediately upon my arrival at this department and always sought to be helpful. Ive heard it said that dan is probably the few people we know who lived his life with vigor and had very few if any regrets. He was one of those people who could fit into any group and bring the fun do it. Almost everyone knew dan and dan certainly knew everyone. Living a great fun life was more important. He warned me about this on many occasions. Dan will be very much missed here in the carpentry shop where he spent time. So with that, i would ask that we adjourn the meeting today in his memory and turn it over that concludes my report. Clerk is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment under the president s report . Okay. Seeing none, this item is closed. Okay. We are now on item 3, the general managers report. Mr. President , commissioners, thank you for adjourning todays meeting in memory of dan. Dan was an extraordinary employee, part of our carpenter team. Dan was someone who had a smile that could light up a park, light up a room, light up a building. Incredible amount of love and invested an incredible amount of love and time for camp mather. About 1. 5 months ago, getting ready to open up for the season, dan led the charge to get it ready for the season. He worked up to 18 hours a day trying to get things done. And he did it with a smile because that was who he was. We spoke wi all i can say is that he will be missed and his memory will be a blessing for all of us. Turning over to more joyous topics, yesterday was play day. We were visited by over 1,000 kids, the large majority of which were our kids from the bayview, but we had kids from not just from our summer camps, but from nonprofits from all over the city who came for rides and games and activities. We opened up the pool. There was paddle boarded and kayaking and food paddle bore boards and kayaking and food and the pool. It couldnt do anything but put a smile on your face when it was there. So it was joyous, but seeing these kids outside, running around, being treated like kings and queens for a day was really something special. I want to thank lorraine banford who oversees these events every year, and it was really, really, really remarkable. Turning or moving from the bayview to the mission, i want to talk about ian chanka hall and its community garden. Presented by liveable city, the liveable awards honor individuals and institutions that have made contributions to San Franciscos liveability. The hall opened in june 2017. It brought much needed green space to a dense, diverse neighborhood that was searching for a welcoming communal space. It was literally a parking lot. A committed group of volunteers helped us to transform the Parks Community garden into an area representing neighbors from across the globe. The group hosts cultural events and grows produce often hard to find in local groceries. As you know, our Program Supports and manages a program of 40 Community Gardens and growing. We have a couple more on the horizon, where members can grow produce and cultivate ornamental plants for person use. Each is run by a committed group of volunteers. Moving back to the bayview, supervisor shaman walton joined local kids on a newly renovated Basketball Court for a game. Rec and park, as you know, has been making a significant investment in the southeast part of the city and specifically in district 10. I dont know over what period of time, but Capital Projects in district 10 right now total about 80 million, and the Operations Division alone has invested nearly 1 million in resurfacing projects in district 10. And since 2012, district 10 has received well over 40 million in philanthropy. So a lot of good things. Bayview playground, k. C. Jones is in the Construction Design phase. Youngblood coleman, you know quite a bit about india basin which is in the Concept Design phase, and a variety of other improvements beyond the court resurfacing projects are underway, so a lot of good things happening in the southeast sector of the city. All right. Lets turn to soccer. Fresh off the excitement of the u. S. National womens soccer teams stunning world cup victory in france earlier this month, we are proud to partner with street soccer u. S. A. And other agencies and nonprofits to bring two fields to the city for a summer of play. There are open field times for youth and adults. Theres organized team play. Anyone can use the courts, so for more information, visit our website at sfrecpark. Org. We move on to Golden Gate Park and stern road. We have the stern road festival. Outside lands comes to Golden Gate Park august 9 through 11, but now, through july 22, the San FranciscoBotanical Garden hosts its annual flowerpiano event, placing 12 pianos in some of the gardens most beautiful locations and inviting anyone to come and play whatever they want. This year, flowerpiano invites more people to play, more performances by professional musicians and special events for families including two new even time flower piano at sunset. Theres also been a piano sing along, free lessons, flower piano at night, including one this evening, and its where the garden is all lit up, and there are food trucks. Its really amazing. The 12 pianos are tucked away within the garden and are available for the public to play 9 00 a. M. To 6 00 p. M. Through july 22 except during select performances. If this piques your interest or youre interested, contact sfbg. Org. While were still in the summer, it is not too early to begin planning for fall. Registration for all begins online and at 15 select locations throughout the city. We have something fore everybody. You can log on to sfrecparks. Org to register. Next week, i and several others will be attending the greener park conference in denver. We hosted this conference in San Francisco in 2015 where well share the role of parks and Recreation Departments today. I will be involved in two sessions, one creating Family Friendly downtowns, where ill be discussing our work at Civic Center Plaza and best practices for driving equitiable investment in parks, were really proud to be taking such a prominent role in this conference, and we will certainly report back next month. All right. We do have a brief bit of recognition before we conclude the report. It is National Recreation and park month, and so in celebration of National Park and recreation month, we want to give some recognition to an outstanding volunteer group. We really like to thank airbnb, who has become one of our most active and dedicated volunteer groups. Volunteers from airbnb over the past year have dedicated their time and energy to improving our park spaces and proving to be really Traffic Community members. Including at victoria manolo park, where 10 to 15 volunteers gather to cleanup the park. In total, airbnb volunteers have provided more than 2,200 hours of volunteer time in the last year alone, making them easily one of our most prolific volunteer groups. We have several of them here with us today, so mr. President , join me in offering a certificate to them and offering them an opportunity to say a quick word. Thank you, airbnb. [applause] good morning, everyone. Thank you so much for welcoming us here today. Were incredibly honored to be receiving this recognition, but really and truly, we want to thank you all for opening your doors to our volunteers and allowing us to support the wonderful park and Recreation Department that we see do amazing work every single day. I thank you all for creating space in the city thats accessible to everyone, and so really just want to be grateful to you all for creating that space for us to volunteer. A little bit more about our program. Each employee, a fulltime employee at airbnb has four hours a month to volunteer in our community, and we want to make sure that our employees have an opportunity to give back to the city that gives us all so much. So thank you all for the space, and i dont know if you have anything else to add. Keep volunteering. [applause] all right. Commissioners, we conclude with the video of the month before he you do, ryan, let me back to soccer. You see the Womens National team push for equity, but one of the real challenges in the sport of football or the sport of soccer in the u. S. That we face is the u. S. Soccer federation and all of us have to do a better job of exposing this game to communities of color, particularly african americans, making it more affordable, making it more accessible and more equitiable. If you look just im a soccer fan, so im going to go off a little bit. If you look at frances success and their success on the field, it is focused on communities of color, and its something that the u. S. Does not do well. We are engaged in an effort to introduce the sport to communities that have not historically or traditionally had access to it, so your recreation and Parks Department has created its own soccer club, bayview united, and ill turn on the video. [video] and that concludes the general managers report. Thank you very much. Clerk is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment on the general managers report . Okay. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed, and we are now on general Public Comment. This is up to 15 minutes. If the 15 minutes is up, this item will be continued to item 12. 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 that do not appear on the agenda. With respect to agenda item, you will have the opportunity to address the commission when the item is reached in the meeting. So im going to call up the first five cards, and then, well have an opportunity to continue. Susan, micah, bob, maureen, and denise. Hi. Im susan, and i have a tale of three gardens. In 2015, rec and parks installed beautiful plants in the north park library and the dimaggio playground. They are beautiful, but the only species that they attract is the invasive norway rat, and the hawk that may eat the rats. In another park, rec and park installed a variety of native plants, that is attracting native wildlife. We have multiple species of birds, and because rec and park put nonnative native parks, i have multiple native plants in my park, we attract birds and bees and we have biodiversity. I want to encourage you to continue planting native plants. In fact, please plant exclusively native plants so we can meet californias and San Franciscos Biodiversity Initiative as well as improve San Franciscos resilience to Climate Change. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Clerk next speaker, please. If i called your name, come on up. My name is micah kemp. Im 16 years old and a rising junior in high school. Ive been playing squash for six years and im a recently certified squash coach. Squash has been dubbed the worlds healthiest sport. Its up and coming on the west coast, and im working with a Nonprofit Organization called squash rights which is an Afterschool Program based in oakland that benefits underserved bay area youth. Id love to meet with any commissioner interested in this project. Lets make the city better together. Thank you. Thank you very much. Clerk next speaker, please. I want to thank you very much. My son went to college back east and learned how to play squash there and loved it, so i do support that wholeheartedly. I wrote my remarks. Commissioners, i want to thank you for the opportunity to speak again. Thank you for your service to our city. Last month, you must have felt assaulted by the citizens of potrero hill and dogpatch, but i want amaze i was amazed by the amount of support. [please stand by]. And they are both in the planning pipeline, 20story towers. During the last in the business section during the last month in the San Francisco chronicle, which is setting on my kitchen table, chase added 34 million to the project. It will a jewel in our skyline. So we want no phases. We want the construction to be done without phases. Half this generations children will be affected if its taken many years excuse me. Thank you very much. 2020 bond. Thank you. Thank you very much. Clerk okay. Bob or denise . Good morning, commissioners. Today, i urge you to update rec and park policies and practices to manage all parks trees incorporating Climate Change and biodiversity which are the councils top two priorities. I have a dense stand of combustible trees in Glen Canyon Park. The other taken in 2013 when the trees were fairly green. The other, a few weeks ago, showing more brown. We want healthy parks, not to follow the unfortunate example of ucsf reserve on mount sutro where a significant portion of standing trees were found to be dead or unhealthy. Neighbors from Diamond Heights, glen park, and mt. Davidson have communicated our fears of wildfire to rec and park. I urge you to promote cal fire and u. C. Guidelines. Perhaps youve seen combustible trees within the Defensible Space of homes and overhanging utility lines along the bosworth entrance to glen canyon. Planting local native plants. Plants in the rec and park Golden Gate Park nursery are overwhelmingly not native to San Francisco. Removing dead, dieing and unhealthy trees from our parks would provide opportunities to plant local native plants in support of the citys biodiversity resolution. Thank you. Thank you. Clerk next speaker, please. Hello and thank you for that great list of achievements that rec and park is achieving. Im here to talk about another issue i know youll knock out of the park. I want you to try to set a measurable goal of restoring biodiversity in city parks. A recent study in the jec ecological journal mclaren and Golden Gate Park represent ample opportunities to help tackle the biodiversity crisis that youre hearing about so much. The study is titled nonnative plants reduce richness and host lepidoptris plants. Nonnative plants supported significantly fewer caterpillars of significantly fewer specialists of general species, even when nonnative were close relatives of the native host species. I realize these parks were alter altered before your time here, but now you have the opportunity to fix the damage a long time. New york citys local laws of 10 and 11 of 2013, laws, not a resolution. They actually have teeth to them, represent an evolving approach to protect our native plants by focusing on biodiversity rather than individual plant species and reflects an increased understanding of plant conservation. Seen through this lens, the protection of native plants is linked with the protection of sustainability of ecosystems. Its time for San Francisco rec and parks to get real about the effects such unnecessary plantings are having on our local caterpillars, moths, butterflies, bees, and birds. Please set a goal, a measurable goal for future plantings of, i dont know, 80 of native species or more and start conducting an inventory of biodiversity in your local parks so you can have something to measure against. Thank you. Clerk so i have two more cards and then well be done with this portion of Public Comment. I have brioni and sean, if you could come forward, please. Hi. My name is brioni doyle, and im here talking in support of justin park. I really want to emphasize that we are getting a huge influx of new residences in the neighborhood, and we really feel that the park needs some love. A lot of it has not been updat updated as marie spoke to in half a century. We worked with the community and had a number of Community Meetings to represent what they want for the park, and we want to get on the bond to help support that money to do that project, and we ideally want to do that project in one phase so that it can be completed in time to support the huge number of new residents that were going to have in potrero hill. Thank you. Thank you. Clerk sean . Hi. Good morning. My name is sean ingles. My family goes back about four generations, and ive been lucky to live