Please call the roll. [roll called] this is a recreation and Park Commission meeting of october 17, 2019. Welcome to everyone here today. We kindly remind you to turn off Electronic Devices and take any secondary conversations outside in order for the meeting to proceed. If you would like to speak on any item, we request you submit a blue card. Please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment. In order to allow equal time, neither the commission or staff will respond to any questions, but the commission may ask questions of staff after the Public Comment is closed. If there is item not of interest to you, you may speak under general Public Comment and that is item 4. Please note if the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate the building in an orderly fashion with any exit. Our leaders will return to first floor and are not available for use. Please make your way to the closest area of refuge across the hall in the mens restroom. Let them know where you are and they will assist you. We are on item 2, president s report. President buell thank you. A couple of things. Even though commissioner low is not here, i would like this express my gratitude that he handled last months meeting when i was out of town and everything went quite well. Secondly, i wanted to read an email that i received and ill just read a portion of it, because i think its important for the staff to hear it. Dear mr. Ginsburg, were writing to express our gratitude for the positive change that you and those who work for you have created on our block. The residents on oak street have experienced a vast improvement of our quality of life as results of changes to the median park and increased police presence. They say that the quality of their life was vastly improved. I mention it because i we want out to that went to that site with the general manager and we met with the community how long . Over a year ago. And its just a great demonstration, in my opinion, of how the staff has tried to be responsive to the public in following up on issues that often times are difficult to solve. Its nice to know that parks can make a difference in the quality of life. The last thing i want to say on the consent calendar, i know we have important item, h, the renaming of the will be in the Harvey Milk Photo Center. I want to take that off calendar and make it a separate item so people in the public can speak to this. And ask the secretary to give two minutes per presentation. Thank you. Clerk any Public Comment on this item . Item 3, general managers report. Good afternoon. It is harvest season. We have lots of harvest urban agriculture related updates. Last week our Agriculture Team hosted a day for 144 third graders from our local schools. Introducing them to the world of agriculture and farming in the city. They taught them about growing plants at home, nutrition, making cream into butter, grinding wheat into flour, composting and bee keeping. The stars of the day were 50 animals and insects brought in for the kids to get a touch on those found on the farm. Alpaca, ducks, chicken, goats, lamb and two hissing cockroaches. Ever heard a cockroach hiss . I havent. I want to give kudos to the team for putting it together. Staying on the theme, and staying at the farm, please join us this weekend for the 15th annual Harvest Festival event. Its saturday, october 19, from 11 00 to 4 00 p. M. , hosted by the friends of al maine farm. Farm fresh food and others. The farm is the largest urban farm in San Francisco and offers everyone the chance to learn where their food comes from, pitch in to help and take Fresh Produce home for free. For more on the event, visit their website. Staying at the farm. On november 2, please join us for another event from 10 00 a. M. To 1 p. M. For Garden Research day. We offer everything to get your home garden growing. So for more info, please check us out online. Were going to go down the road to shoreview park, where we were pleased to have been joined by commissioners mcdonnell and anderson, where we hosted an event to celebrate the upcoming improvement to this oneacre park. The park was transferred to recreation and parks in june 2017 from the office of Community Investment and infrastructure, formerly, redevelopment. The renovation will include new childrens play area, new picnic area, site furnishings, planting, new park lighting and new accessible paths of travel. The project is funded through a variety of sources including a Hud CommunityDevelopment Block grant. Yes, that is federal money coming into San Francisco. The california Natural Resources agency. And this commission was also extremely helpful in ensuring that we had the final piece of the puzzle in funding the playground. Were grateful. Completion of the project is anticipated next year. Moving west, we now arrive at the San FranciscoBotanical Garden. Where its newly transformed celebration garden will showcase iconic plants from the collection and provide a venue for special events. This 1. 7 million renovation was made possible through publicprivate partnership, including contributions from several donors and volunteers. What is not in my notes, but is true, this project was seedfunded pun intended with 75,000 from this commission in honor of the Botanical Garden 75th anniversary in 2015. It obviously took a little while to do the planning and raise the other money to get to the final total, but this project actually was planted by this commission. So another thank you to the recreation and Park Commission for doing that. We invite everyone to stop by and see the new garden soon. We continue west. And we arrive at scare grove. Where you can join us this friday, october 25, for our annual Family Friendly halloween event. This year is haunted houses, live entertainment, carnival ride, games, food, and a costume parade. Tickets can be purchased in advance. This is the Halloween Party of the year. Please dont miss it. For more information join us at rec and park. Even though its not in my notes, because i see linda in yellow, i should be announcing the final concert for hosted by friends of the amp, at the jerry garcia amphitheatre. This saturday, october 18. I dont do this, linda, but the artists name is stan sutherland. We have a great conperformance this saturday. These are free concerts in mclaren park, which if you have not visited mclaren park, it is truly, truly, a treasure. And we are so grateful to friends of the amp for all of the blood, sweat, tears and just love you invest in the jerry garcia amphitheatre. Please support them and show up next saturday. Lastly, i return back to Golden Gate Park on this whirlwind tour of our park system. I did want to update the commission on a milestone in our efforts to make Golden Gate Park safer for pedestrians and bicyclists. We were joined by supervisor vallie brown along with bike and pedestrian advocates and our sister agencies mta and public works earlier this month in Golden Gate Park to celebrate the last of 13 raised crosswalks recently installed in Golden Gate Park, capping three years of trafficcalming measures in the park as part of the citys vision zero initiative. We were joined by supervisor brown, walk sf, Communications Director lindsay, and in fact, we all, including me, helped stripe the new raised crosswalk on j. F. K. Drive east of 8th avenue on october 3rd. It was the first time in my ten years i have ever operated a crosswalk striper, president buell, so we can check that one off the box. The Improvement Project was launched in 2016, following an executive directive from then mayor ed lee and includes floating curbs along the bike lane, striping, hit posts and media extensions. Since improvements began, the number of vehicles battling over 30 Miles Per Hour has fallen 30 . We still have a ways to go. To make the park as safe as it could or should be. We plan to implement longer Term Solutions to keep pedestrians and cyclists safe in the park which sees 26 million visits per year. This month in parks, were going to see a video, because we had the great speaking of Golden Gate Park, the great pleasure of hosting the u. S. National lawn bowling championships at the lawn bowling courts in Golden Gate Park. The courts built by john mclaren. And included mini ill luminaries from all around the country, including teddy roosevelt. This is just a beautiful place where history meets recreation. We and the club and the commission has been supportive of this one too have done a lot of work on the greens and the clubhouse. They built a new history wall. And we welcomed lawn bowlers from all over the country for three to four days of pretty intense competition. The bowlers themselves believe this to be the finest lawn bowling venue in the United States of america. So with that, i will turn it over to ryan who will cue up the video. [ ] my lawn bowling jacket. This guy is quite a character. President buell impressive. And that concludes the general managers report. Clerk any Public Comment on the item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner mcdonnell as wonderful moments are important on their own, i want to pause to say thank you. The celebration at shoreview park, where were going to be making an investment in transforming this space for these children and their families was noteworthy on a number of levels. And so first, thank you to the general manager, the team, especially lamonte bishop for ensuring we were able to get to this moment. The context of this moment. As a native san franciscans, grew up in the fillmore i watched the citys transformation where these investments did not happen. And so to come forward now and begin to see these kinds of investment made in communities who traditionally have been overlooked, if not ignored, is noteworthy. I was particularly moved by one of the advocates from the community who spoke at the event yesterday and she said, you know, im really excited. Weve been working so long and hard on this. And she said, sadly, my kids, who were young when i started this fight, are now adults. And so they wont get a chance to take advantage of it, however, all of these kids and she pointed to the Wonderful Group of young people, Young Students who were there, will be able to. So it reminded me and again reminds me of a song i will not sing [laughter] the wine sang, its been a long time coming, but a change has finally come. Ive waited past evening, tell me when will i see the sun . And what is exciting, were seeing the sun in San Francisco, so thank you to the entire team. Thank you so much. President buell thank you. Clerk were on item 4, general Public Comment. Up to 15 minutes. This is continued to item 10. Members of the public may address the commission on items of interest within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and do not appear on the agenda. You will have opportunity to address the commission. I have one blue card. Deborah joseph. Thank you. I live next door to Cabrillo Playground in a house that my family has lived in 70 years. I see and hear everything on the playground. In fact, im the founder of the friends of Cabrillo Playground and as you know, we have a beautiful new playground that opened in 2013 and were usually rated top in the city. Its a wonderful, wonderful, playground, thank you very much. But were beginning to have a problem with skateboarders. As you know, skate boards do a great deal of damage to playgrounds. And we talked to them, we tried to dissuade them, but what it really comes down to is they need a place to skate. And in august our supervisor sandra fewer held a meeting about outside lands for our community. And along with the regular complaints about the noise, the traffic, the parking, a few people said, well, wait a minute, i live here, i have to put up with all this, what do i get out of it . Good question. Now i stood up and said why dont you talking to alan scott from another planet entertainment, why dont you pay for a skate park for our kids, Richmond District kids, sunset district kids, put it in the park, west of 25th avenue, accessible to all the kids . And he said thats a great idea. So thats my suggestion. They could call it another planet skate park and it would great p. R. The residents would see that something is being done. Theyre giving us Something Back and the kids would have a place to skate. Thats my suggestion. Why dont you Start Talking to another planet about a skate park for us . And i spoke with Aaron Anderson last year about potential sites and there are some. One i think he said was near the new soccer fields. But there are few places where they could do it. I just wanted to put this idea in your minds and see where we can go with it. Because we would like to give the kids a place to skate and keep our playground in tiptop condition. Thank you. Clerk any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We are now on item 5, consent calendar. Commissioners, i need a motion to sever that item from the calendar. So moved. Second. President buell moved and seconded. All those in favor. Item 8 shall be held separately. Any public motion on the calendar . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. President buell all those in favor . So moved. Clerk we are now on item 5h, harvey sorry about that. Were on Harvey Milk Photo CenterPhoto Processing Lab naming. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name it lamonte bishop and im with the policy and im here on behalf of the Harvey Milk Photo Center and to create a Photo Library and reading space in the lobby of the center. This request would meet our strategic plan, specifically strategy one to inspire space. And place, im sorry and the objective would be 1. 4 to preserve and celebrate historic and culturele resources. Al reso. Hees bn he is a historic documentaryian and civil rights leader. He began photographing fillmore first for assignments and then as a documentary maker. His black and white images capture the black community in 1940s, 50s and 60s. David grew up in foster care. In age of 12, he developed an interest in photography after winning a camera in a contest. He was drafted into the navy before graduation from high school. After completing a tour in the philippines during world war ii, he returned to his hometown where he read aboutancele adam ansel adams photography. He asked to join the program and when a spot opened up, mr. Adams invited him to live in his home while he found a place to live. And with no formal training, mr. Johnson came to San Francisco in 1945 at the age of 18, with his 5 eastman folding camera in his pocket. His photographs have come to be recognized for their depiction of the fillmore before urban redevelopment in the 1960s. They have been featured in documentaries and books, including his own book of photography, a dream so long ago, David Johnsons photographs of the fillmore, that was published in 2012 with his wife. His photography retrospect is was told he Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. And at the San Francisco africanamerican historical and cultural society. His lifestyle documentary documented Community Activities during an era in california. Mr. Johnson took an interest in the fillmore because he was searching for the neighborhood where all the black people lived. At the time, it was home to 40,000 africanamericans who had come to work in the city shipyard during the war. There were black shops, restaurants throughout the district and he felt it helped him catch the images of the community. And as a result, many of johnsons photographs depict the lifestyles of his neighbors, from couples dancing in jazz clubs, to black and while children playing together outside a local church. He opened the Johnson Photography studio with his late wife. He worked at the post office. But, of course, as things happen in San Francisco, due to high overhead costs, mr. Johnson was forced to close his studio. And for a while had estopped take he stopped taking photos professionally, but then in 1989 at the encouragement of his daughter, he submitted photos. That recognition from the 2001k. Q. D. Restarted his career. Hes been awarded a certificate of honor by mayor newsom in 2004. His name is engraved in the fillmore and hes received a Public Service award from the university of california for work in t