And more. Next, we have partnered with disney, a. Z. A. , and the Discovery Networks part of the pride. Since disneys lion king was first released in theaters 25 years ago, we have lost half of africas lions. In conjunction with the open of disneys lion king, the zoo is hosting a special lion king weekend. This weekend, july 20 and 21, therell be prizes, a special roaring contest, and more. Next week, we have march of the penguins on july 27. Penguin chicks are learning to swim, walk, eat whole fish and learning how to interact with their caretakers. The public is invited to walk as they waddle and walk to their permanent home on penguin island. In addition to watching the penguin chicks, guests can participate in activities such as cookie decorating, paper crafts, and more. And now until july 26, guests visiting the zoo can actually name a penguin chick by attending a penguin feeding and donating. Next week, we are celebrating 90 fest, and through this weekend only, we are featuring a 200 footalong 30foothigh zipline. Next, this is part of it actually, heres our zipline and our ad campaign, which is 90 years of summer fun. Next, are orangutans. They are brandnew that arrived recently that are still getting acclimated to their new habitat, and here are our two, male and female actually on one of the passageways that would lead to the habitat. In august, were celebrating the 40th anniversary bugiversary. Thank you. Clerk is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment on this item, item 6, the San Francisco zoo . Okay. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. This was a discussion issue. We are on West Portal Playground award of contract. Good morning, commissioners. Im the director of capital planning. I wanted to use this opportunity to introduce to you kelly rudnick whos the project planner. Although shes new to us, shes not new to the city. She comes from public works. She has managed several projects that have come before this body, including washington square. Were happy to have her, and youll be seeing a lot of her. Thank you so much. Good morning, commissioners. Sitting in general manager and secretary, thank you for that production. I am today presenting West Portal Playground renovation contract for jackie ho, who is on vacation today. So we bring to you the West Portal Playground renovation possible action to award a contract treaty construction in the amount not to exceed 2,095,000. This project supports the Strategic Plan strategy number one, to inspire public space, and objective 1. 2, to strengthen the existing parks and facilities and objective 2, to strengthen play, and 2. 2, to strengthen and promote the health, safety, and wellbeing of San Franciscos youth and seniors. The West Portal Playground is in the West Portal Playground and in district 7, at west ulloa road and lennox way. The port westal renovation project is part of two clean and safe neighbor parks bond programs. The Communities Opportunities Fund and the lets play s. F. Initiative. The Community Outreach process was mainly conducted during the Community Opportunity fund Program Application between january and march 2014. On november 20, 2014, this Commission Adopted the resolution authorizing r. P. D. To produce with design development. The proposed the scope of work that were bringing to you today for the project includes the new childrens play area, accessibility improvements to the clubhouse rest rooms, replacement of paving and waterproofing, fencing, seating, accessible parking, an access pass, and a nature nook, featuring drinking fountain, landscape, and irrigation. The plan is handicapped accessible and meets all a. D. A. Requirements in design. The project, beginning in fall 2019, is expect today last nine months. The staff requests the Commission Award a contract to treaty construction for 2,095,000. This is supported by president norman yee, and others, along with lets play s. F. And the s. F. Parks alliance and a donation from the friends of West Portal Playground. Thank you. Clerk is there any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment oh, richard, come on up. Didnt see you. Good morning, commissioners, mark. Good morning. I remember this project a while back, so when i get to see something on a slide, its really interesting. I just want to include if there was any possibility around the slide areas, Little Dragons that they could play on. Why im bringing that up is i didnt talk about it before, but in chinese, the culture, you know, that tunnel that youve got right out there, twin peaks . They always call them dragon, you know . So i just thought it might be a little nice for the people out there, when they get a little not totally disseminated from their culture. Its something that would be good for the few generations that you have asian culture. So that San Francisco being diversity influence and practicing, i just want to thank the planning department, r. P. D. For putting in the slide. Thank you. Thank you. Clerk is there anyone else who would like to make Public Comment on this item . Okay. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner low . Do we have any history with treaty construction . Have they done any other parks projects . Yes. Right now tooks might have to remind you, but right now, they are working on sorry. I had this this morning but ive forgotten. Yes. Theyre actually working on Merced Heights right now. They are also working on some public works project streetscape projects with public works, so we have vetted them. We believe they can do the work. Okay. Okay. Seeing no other questions, chair would entertain a motion. Move for approval. Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor . Okay. Clerk we are now on item 8, award of contract. Commissioners, general manager, secretary, kelly rudnick. Im here to bring you George Christopher playground award of contract. This is also for treaty construction in an amount not to exceed 3,335,000. This supports both Strategic Plan number 1, objective 1. 2 to strengthen the quality of existing parks and facilities, and strategy two, objective 2. 2 to strengthen the health of San Franciscos youth and seniors. There were three bidders for this project and bids were opened on june 14, 2019. George christopher playground is located in the eastern edge of Glen Canyon Park in the Diamond Heights neighborhood, bounded by Diamond Heights and gold mine drive and apollo lane to the southeast. The 6. 8acre site includes clubhouse with rest rooms, a softball field, tennis court, childrens playground, pathways with bench seating. The trails from George Christopher park and playground connect to nearby glen canyon. The George Christopher playground renovation is a named park in the 2012 clean and safe neighborhoods bond, and the purpose of the project is update the current playground for safety and accessibility and provide accessibility to the onsite public rest room. The Community Outreach process was held in 2015 and 2016 to get the communitys desires and conduct the outreach plan. Process includes conducting community surveys, prioritizing of desired play elements and feature features, incorporating feedback to iterative concept adoptions. The Commission Adopted it in june 2017, and since that time, the department of public works has continued to provide regular updates to Community Stakeholders, including through meetings to explore additional scope to the project. In june just last month, 2019, following a Community Stakeholder funding request, the district 8 Supervisors Office provided additional funding to support additional work at the playground consisting of the repurposes of three midcentury play structures and the expansion of the courtyard fence around the clubhouse. The scope of the work for this project includes the renovation of the childrens play area and associated amenities serving it. The plan is fully accessible and meets all a. D. A. Guidelines for accessible design. Again, i want to note that 140,000 was just received for this project in this years Capital Budget from the district 8 Supervisors Office for that equipment, so this award request, this request for approval of award includes a base contract amount of 3,335,000 which includes this addon work for this repurposed equipment since this funding was just received. The construction is expected to start in fall 2019 and has a tenmonth duration. And the project so supported by district 8s supervisor mandelmans office, friend of christopher park, Diamond HeightsCommunity Association and the noe valley nursery school. The staff recommends that the Commission Award the construction contract to treaty construction in the amount of 3,535,000 which includes change orders for 247,000 for the work identified for the equipment that was just funded by the Supervisors Office. Thank you. Clerk is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment on this item . Okay. Being none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Commissioner low. Maybe my math is off. 247,000 for a change order, but 140,000 was that back from supervisor mandelmans office, so isnt there a gap there . Yes, thats a good question. The the gap has actually been funded through some procedural general Fund Capital Funds that we have so were supplementing these efforts on our side also to make that whole. Okay. Sarah, did you want to weighin on that. Yeah, just to clarify, this was the community really wanted to see these what would you call them . Almost statues retained, and so we worked with the Supervisors Office to say if you come up with half of the money, well come up with half of the money. Okay. Seeing no other questions, commissioners . I would like to move for approval. This is actually a park that i grew up in. My mother referred to me as a park rat. I am a nonnative species. I move to approve. Its been moved by the park rat and seconded by commissioner anderson. All in favor . So approved. Clerk we are now on item 9. Good morning, commissioners. Im monica scott with the capital division. Im here before you to discuss the construction contract for yerba buena association to increase the contract amount by 339,000, bringing the total nottoexceed amount to 1,017,000, which is greater than 10 over the original approved budget of 678,000. I want to stress for the commissioners that this is not a request for additional funds. The project is fully funded. As you all are aware, this was this is a very Historic Site and there were a number of unforeseen conditions that arose in the course of the demolition of this site. We have conditions ranging from layers of asphalt to historic subbase structures for monuments dating back to 1888, so im here today to recommend i should say this is supported by the Tennis Coalition of San Francisco, as well, so staff recommends amending the construction contract for the demolition and abatement to increase the contract amount by 339,000. And ill just repeat the agenda wording, bringing the total nottoexceed amount to 1,017,000, which is greater than 10 of the original budget. Thank you. Thank you. Clerk is there any Public Comment on this item . Okay. Being none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Move to approve. Second. Move to approve and seconded. All those in favor . Okay. Thank you. We are now on item 10. Richmond playground im here for discussion and possible action to authorize the recreation and Park Department to enter into related agreements with the San FranciscoParks Alliance under the lets play s. F. Initiative for the renovation of stern grove playground and richmond playground. As we move through the initiative and ill give you the presentation, but i wanted to pause and say that these are the last two related agreements of the initiative, so its a really nice milestone to hit. So just for some quick background, as you know, lets play s. F. Is a Public Private partnership initiated to renovate San Franciscos 13 most deserving playgrounds. On november 13, 2016, the Commission Approved an agreement between the department and the Parks Alliance to accept up to 15 million for lets play s. F. And recommended that the board of supervisors approved the grant, and the board of supervisors gave that approval on february 1. Also, on december 15, the Commission Approved an m. O. U. That defined the general working relationship between the department and the Parks Alliance, and that agreement called for the alliance to partner on each park that would receive funding under the agreement. Both projects are tier two projects, which means that they will be largely privately funded. The agreements are nearly identical and map out roles and responsibilities between the partners and identify city terms for Design Services commissioned on public land. Completely coincidentally, the estimated budgets for both sites is 3,050,000. And i did also want to note that the Landscape Architects were selected by the Parks Alliance with support from the department after a thorough r. F. P. Process, and the two Landscape Architects are m. I. G. , who designed Childrens Center childrens corridor in Golden Gate Park and is now the firm is now working on hertz playground, and theyll design richmond playground, and jeff miller whos designed such playgrounds as Lafayette Playground will design stern grove. And im happy to answer some questions. I see we have some constituents in the audience. A row of ducks came in. Does he want to speak . Must have been something you said, lisa, go ahead. No, im finished. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Clerk is there any member of the public that would like to make comment on this item . Oh, richard. Hes stretching. It must be a long comment. I am. I was just looking at the occupational agreement and what comes up. You have it in the folder. I noticed one of them that we talked about it at committee, and there was the conflict of interest and now that might be bounced bang. If you do the consultation and the work, you cant do the bid. So i just hear that listed on that particular time is in contract. So of the bidders for different project, they also have the subcontractors. So of the issue, what happensim trying to formulate a question a rhetorical question. What happens when the subcontractors are in a conflict of interest . Thats a very minor question because im already looking as they already have the question and been picked up by park alliance. Thank you, richard. I think somewhere in there was a question. Lisa . So just to clarify, these are just award of this allows us to enter into agreement with the Parks Alliance so the Parks Alliance can enter into contract with Landscape Architects, so it doesnt have anything to do with construction at this point. Got it. And that the playgrounds will go through the full standard process, so this just allows us to start the participanto participatory process. And Parks Department enters into the contract with the architect. Correct. It conveys to the Parks Alliance what the city requirements are from the Landscape Architect so the Parks Alliance can make sure the architect meets the requirements of the city. Thank you. Commissioner mcdonald . Just a quick question. It just seemed odd that both plans have the exact same budget and the exact same funding. To me, too. At this point, theyre just estimates. Theyll once the concept plan is more fully formed, therell be a more detailed estimate, as well. But it is based on a professional cost estimate pro