2019106927cwt for Downtown Park aloe caution, turk, hyde minimummy park and woowoo park renovations, this is the special park allocation. Great. Good morning. Im with the Department Staff and great to have you all together today. Before i begin, i wanted to note one correction to the planning commissions packets, the first attachment illustrating the turk hyde is correctly labeled as attachment b didnt should be attachment a. The item before you today is the approval of an allocation from the Downtown Park funds for two recreation and Park Department assets. The first is an allocation of 550,000 from the Downtown Park fund for the renovation of the minipark and the second of 600,000 for the renovation of willie woowoo playground. They will continue to upgraduate the crucial neighborhood assets. The funding allocation considered today will withdraw 1,150,000 from the Downtown Park funds. Attached is the staff report for rec part and the draft resolution that you all will be voting on today. With that, you would like to hand it off to the Deputy Director of planning at re rec k to provide Additional Details for this allocation. Thank you, pa patrick. Im Stacie Bradley and the item before you, as patrick mentioned is the allocation of funds for two of our parks and ill walk you through the park area very quickly and then the two park renovations. If i could have the screen. The Zoning District is where the sea is levied and it can go towards parks that serves this district. We have circled turk hyde and willie woowoo wong is in chinatown. For hyde, were redoing the entire playground. This is in coordination of strengthening the existing parks. The park is expected to be opened in the end of the year and the renovation includes playground improvements, landscaping, irrigation, improved amenities and the current budget is 2. 25 million and we had provided bridge funding until we were able to come to the join commissio join. For the second park, its in chinatown and its a full park renovation. If yo. There is a new playgroundd new courts. The funding for this is to address unforeseen site conditions and close the budget. I am joined by our capital and planning director and our Capital Planning finance manager. If you have any questions about the project details or the financing, thank you. We will now take Public Comment on this item. I have one speaker card, full pp vitalli. Im with the trust republic land. Were a national nonprofit. Weve been doing a lot of work in San Francisco for the past 45 years and a strong focus in the tenderloin area for the past five or six years. We helped with the renovation park which opened five years ago and has been a model around the renovation in hyde turk. I want to support this fund to make sure this park is open on time. Its truly an asset in the community. Theyve been deeply engaged and will reflect their needs. Theres a limited open space and getting this open on time is critical and we hope that you can support this allocation and make sure this renovation is completed on time, and open to the community, thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning. On behalf of the committee for parks and recs in chinatown. Our committee advocates and preserves open space in chinatown for the last 50 years. As you know chinatown is the most crowded town in the city. 400 to families are living in singleroom occupancy buildings. Chinas playground, th was builn the 1940s and the only playgrounds in chinatown for 80 years and the most popular. In 2012, many of our constituencies have worked with mr. Ginsburg and the parks community, advocating for open space securing the funding for the chinas playground and a lot of the families attend the Committee Meeting with the incredible design firm of cmg and were looking forward to the opening next year, hopefully around Chinese New Year and where we create the plaza, where we call it the heart of the new design. With dozens of exercise machines and were anticipating that will be the heart of the new design moving forward, where it will benefit a lot of the families and seniors in chinatown. I hope you can support that from the funds. Thank you for your support for chinatown and open space. Next speaker, please. Public comment is close. In, i believe it was 1992, i recall joining the Citizens Group in the allday tour of a potential openspace site across San Francisco. One of which was the turk hyde site. And the question that came up, and i sort of would like to ask staff whether the accessibility of that particular site or any site, where there is not a control component, whether its a social Service Organization or are they related to it . Is accessibility substantial within suppose open spaces . Obviously when we do park renovations, sometimes the motivating is to improve mobility, accessibility. Not ada. With regards to the safety of the space . No, the amount of time thats available to the community. I mean, this is a playground. So for the sergeant mccaulley piece, there are to permitted activities that happen in a playground. For willie woowoo wong, its the community that will be doing the vast majority of the programming in the building itself. Commissioner moore. Ive been with the california bus for over 35 years and im looking at the willie woo owoo playground, im wondering why it is in desire tate. This state. Im wondering why making this particular site not only fully useful with the dense population and adults who are using that particular facility but also its a visual gateway to chinatown and to union square, so its an important land m foro acknowledge the park but giving it a phase that brings it into the family of welldesigned parks in downtown San Francisco. So im delighted to support it and see it realized as quickly as possible. Im thrilled that were doing this and i think chinatown and the tenderloin are underserved communities when it comes to playground and im thrilled were moving forward on this. Did you want to chime in, commissioner johnson . Not. Any comments . Seeing none on our side, what do we do next in. A motion. Someone on both commissions will be taking this separately and you need to make a motion seconded to approve or act otherwise. Commissioner johnson . I am delighted to make a motion to approve. Second. So moved on our side. I think we wait for them and they vote on their side. Thank you, commissioners. Theres a motion and a second to approve the allocation of the special park fund. So moved and that passes unanimously 40. The chair will entertain a motion. So moved. All those in favour. So moved. Thank you very much. So were done. Short meeting. 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1. Cut. We are here to celebrate the opening of this community garden. A place that used to look a lot darker and today is sun is shining and its beautiful and its been completely redone and been a Gathering Place for this community. I have been waiting for this garden for 3 decades. That is not a joke. I live in an Apartment Building three floors up and i have potted plants and have dreamt the whole time i have lived there to have some ability to build this dirt. Let me tell you handout you how to build a community garden. You start with a really good idea and add Community Support from echo media and levis and take management and water and sun and this is what we have. This is great. Its about environment and stewardship. Its also for the we implemented several practices in our successes of the site. That is made up of the pockets like wool but they are made of recycled plastic bottles. I dont know how they do it. There is acres and acres of parkland throughout golden gate park, but not necessarily through Golden Community garden. We have it right in the middle of [ ] i just wanted to say a few words. One is to the parents and to all of the kids. Thank you for supporting this program and for trusting us to create a Soccer Program in the bayview. Soccer is the worlds game, and everybody plays, but in the United States, this is a sport that struggles with access for certain communities. I coached basketball in a coached football for years, it is the same thing. It is about motivating kids and keeping them together, and giving them new opportunities. When the kids came out, they had no idea really what the game was. Only one or two of them had played soccer before. We gave the kids very simple lessons every day and made sure that they had fun while they were doing it, and you really could see them evolve into a team over the course of the season. I think this is a great opportunity to be part of the community and be part of programs like this. I get to run around with my other teammates and pass the ball. This is new to me. Ive always played basketball or football. I am adjusting to be a soccer mom. The bayview is like my favorite team. Even though we lose it is still fine. Right on. I have lots of favorite memories, but i think one of them is just watching the kids enjoy themselves. My favorite memory was just having fun and playing. Bayview united will be in soccer camp all summer long. They are going to be at civic centre for two different weeklong sessions with america scores, then they will will have their own soccer camp later in the summer right here, and then they will be back on the pitch next fall. Now we know a little bit more about soccer, we are learning more, and the kids are really enjoying the program. We want to be united in the bayview. That is why this was appropriate this guy is the limit. The kids are already athletic, you know, they just need to learn the game. We have some potential collegebound kids, definitely. Today was the last practice of the season, and the sweetest moment was coming out here while , you know, we were setting up the barbecue and folding their uniforms, and looking out onto the field, and seven or eight of the kids were playing. This year we have first and second grade. We are going to expand to third, forth, and fifth grade next year bring them out and if you have middle school kids, we are starting a team for middle school. You know why . Why . Because we are . Bayview united. Thats right. First off, i want to give a huge shout out to the Domestic Violences consortium and fearless leader of the event, beverly upton. [cheers and applause] Domestic Violence is an issue that spans many departments and agencies here in San Francisco. As a safety, we have worked very hard to develop strong partnerships. I want to welcome supervisor Catherine Stefani. [cheers and applause] supervisor safai, City College Trustee i. V. Lee, fire chief janine nicholson, we welcome her david lazar. Representing San Francisco airports, front seth francesca garcia, and on her way is the sharp director Kelly Densmore who is the new director of the office of Sexual Harassment and assault response and prevention. So tonights theme is building pathways to safety. We recognize that Domestic Violence is an issue that impacts every gender, race, sexual orientation, immigration status, and we need to meet our Diverse Community members where they are. We are so proud of our Partner Agencies that work so hard every day to expand womens safety. If you are from one of our Partner Agencies, make some noise. [cheers and applause] please stay until the end of the event. As the sunsets, city hall will be let let purple for Domestic ViolenceAwareness Month. This is the only time of the month that it will glow purple. It is truly magnificent. A wonderful selfie shot. So i want to welcome we are welcoming our president , the commission on the status of women, the strongest Womens Commission in the country. Lets give that a cheer. [cheering] the president the lifelong advocate for women and girls and has acted as a champion for policy change in education and community and economic development. She just stepped off a plane from india, so please help me welcome president rhianna zawart hi, everyone. I am very honored be here and to represent the strongest commission in the country. Im joined tonight by our Vice President , commissioners. Can we give it up for our commissioners . [applause] the reason why this commission and this department is so important is because every day we live the theme of this month which is building pathways to safety. According to the National Coalition against Domestic Violence, an average of 20 americans experience Domestic Violence every minute. That is 10 million victims in a single year in the u. S. And according to the coalition, Domestic Violence survivors receive 8 million lose 8 million working days. The numbers are there and they are scary. We cant get lost in the numbers because we have to remember what happens when people are victims and survivors of Domestic Violence. And what im proud of today with this commission is that we have provided an impressive dented 8. 6 million in funding to communitybased organizations working across the city to support victims and survivors of violence and their families with crisis lines, counseling, case management, legal services, emergency and transitional shelters. Can we give it up for a . 6 million in services for the city and county . [cheers and applause] for example, we provide essential funding to three Domestic Violence shelters including the first in the nation, the asian womens shelter pick the first in california [speaking spanish] and st. Vincent de paul society. Through these grants, we are serving thousands of victims and survivors. In 2017, our partners filled in 25,000 service calls, provided 25,000 hours of counseling and reach 12,000 individuals in violence education and prevention programs. Our Strong Network of partners and Provider Services and dozens in dozens of languages works to ensure that their work with the survivors is done in a culturally competent and sensitive way. Again, we always look past the numbers and the humanity. The people that faces every day to make sure that we are providing the needs of this community. So make some noise again for our Partner Agencies who are doing this work every day. We are so proud of you. [applause] even with all of that, the demand is greater than the supply. For every one person served in our Emergency Shelters, we are about four people who are turned away every day and placed outside of San Francisco. We have to do better. There is more work to be done to ensure that survivors and their families are on a path toward safety. Every day, survivors are faced with the impossible choice between remaining in an abusive environment that are potentially lifethreatening, relieving and becoming homeless. Or leaving and becoming homeless. We must invest in expanded services and more shelter spaces for Domestic Violence and their families. By providing safe places for survivors and supporting them to rebuild their lives, we can break the cycle of violence. Is our guest of honor here . Fantastic. With that, i want to introduce someone who i am honored to work with. Our supervisor Catherine Stefani , i know is not afraid to stand up and defend survivors and his leadership in this city and county is unprecedented when it comes to finding pathways to safety. Give it up for supervisor stefani. [cheers and applause] thank you so much. I want to thank the department on the status of women and the Domestic Violence consortium for sponsoring todays event and everyone who came out today to show your support. It is an honor to join Many Community partners as we continue to fight against Domestic Violence. I look forward to the day when we dont have to do this. We have made great progress in the city but we know we have a lot more work to do. According to a recent United Nations report, the most dangerous place for a woman around the world is in her home. More than half of all women, homicide victims in recent years , were killed by their partners or relatives, and while we know that it is not just women who are affected by Domestic Violence, women are far more likely than men to experience violence in the home. In the United States, more than one in three women will report experiencing abuse by domestic partners in their lifetime. This abuse impacts not only the victims, but entire families and communities. One domestic abusers have access to guns, the effects are deadly. We know that over half of female victims were killed by the partners in the United States are killed with guns. If you are a woman in