We are going to split our time so you can watch a short video we have. Good morning. Talk into the microphone. Good morning, commissioners, i am a senior resident of the housing park project. I love the buchanan mall area that was transformed when citizen film and green street and others made it a point to make it a livable area. When i say livable, it was just a bearren land before. Nothing was there but neighbor a basketball court. Now there are beautiful flowers and herbs and Entertainment Center to it is and read a book in the warm sunlight. It makes tourists really want to stop by and visit and look at our murals to see what we are doing in the neighborhood. At one point we had a beautiful garden there were i would pick my Collard Greens and cook and eat them, of course. I am looking forward to the concept to be done with the new area because i am sure it is going to be successful, and i am hoping that as much funding as possible can be given to that area, too. I am sure the seniors, the children and tourists, would love to communicate and fit in that area like they have done where i live. I am hoping if there is any areas where i am living where they can improve what is already there, that be done also. I thank you for your time. Thank you. Is your video ready . Good morning. I am one of the youth leaders in the mall. I have been participating for five years now. I have grown as a young person, as a young adult, activist and community organizer. Talking about this block is doing the surveys throughout the years to get the Community Input at the community events, we heard that my Community Wants to be safe, they want to have a space to it is and relax in the neighborhood and they want lighting, something to do. We want to focus on this block as the lead before we do all of the other blocks because we see active participation right now from the seniors who go outside and participate with the fences. What if we were to give them adult exercise equipment to formally exercise. We did all of this work and heard their voices and were able to come up with the plan. Another thing is like i held my first Scavenger Hunt during valentines day at the senior building. I would love to see that open plaza used as a place to have the hunt and have the kids come and see look at the stuff i run and running up and down the buchanan mall. I would love to have you guys approve this Concept Design so we can have this, so we can give the Community Something and we can continue to foster that unity and revitalize that fillmore that we have and to live it again. If thank you. Tyrone. Good morning, commissioners. Thank you for having me this morning. I have been a part of the mall project since it started five years ago. It is personal to me being a San Francisco native born and raised in that neighborhood. As a youth i watched ms. Henderson it is in the kitchen and strategize. And to be a part of this project means a lot to watch the development of somebody come in as a youth and participate, bring in creativity to the table and find her voice to stand up as a new leader in the neighborhood. I am coming from a dynamic being part of the neighborhood and being from grove street i wouldnt travel to eddy street because of safety precautions. 20102011 i remember running through the mall with bullets flying over my head, and about 20132014 Shannon White was shot in the leg attending a concert and me and her having a discussion and having the knowledge it might have been somebody from our particular area that had committed that act towards shannon. That is when we would do something to unify the five blocks to allow a safe space for people to come out. We seen it active before and also watched the drugs take away from what the neighborhood should be. Seeing the generation over me that hadnt done anything to push the Initiative Forward to make it safe we took it upon ourselves to say start with this now being living examples what the space should represent. Giving i it an identity. Each block had an isolation people from one block want go to the next block. Now we see people from all developments coming out to mingle each other and take part in what is happening in the neighborhood, to see the festival and the pumpkin patch. I lived my whole life and never seen a pumpkin patch. To have members of the community comply santa and for the senior building to interact with people who look like me and dont look like me that come from different backgrounds and say this should be used in a way we all feel comfortable about using it. Taking pride in the neighborhood and also the area as a whole to say if you want something done, put forth the effort and you will see great results. Thank you. Morning. I am with the trust for public land. I had the opportunity to partner with rec and part on Many Community members on this buchanan mall since it started. Funding the activation which changed the communitys impression of the mall. Leading through the vision document and now through the Concept Design. I have had the privilege of working with many communities through the city and in the bay area. This is a communitydriven process. Everielingment is an element the community pushed for and identified. We are excited be the design and the opportunity we have to fund this projector this particular block through prop 68. We would continue to engage closely with our Community Partners in the rest of the design and with rec and park to bring this vision to life for the community. The time is now. You have been working on this for five years. There is energy there and great Community Partnership. I hope you will approve this and i hope to come back next year when we have a gift for prop 68. Thank you. I think the video is ready. The baa canaan the buchanan mall before was grass and dirt and a little alley and a lot of gun violence and bad things. My mom didnt let me go to that site. We are trying to bring light back to it and make it safe and do a project the community can be proud of. Do you have a couple minutes . Come here. What we could do to make it a place where people come and have fun or just make it where they feel comfortable like playing and walking through. We set out to do the community that involved longtime residents and beautiful activation. I want to know what you guys would say. You are on here with a lot of people. That is our first step to show the community we did something so that people could see what we have done and hopefully bring in more people to be part of it, too. The buchanan mall so we can hear your opinions and inputs what you would like to see at the mall. It is different in a way because of the cultural stuff. They meet up once a week. It is like everybody should get to do that for their community. Everybody wants the community that comes out together. When we first started i felt exactly like you felt. It was too big. They were just ideas like now, and it became the buchanan mall. The good think about this is the things we can build off this. The ideas you guys have the young people, the wonderful ideas. My vision for the buchanan mall is the rebirth of the community in the western addition. I want them to always have buchanan mall the rock and the foundation to say this is our home. If they were ever lost they would look back and say this is how they did it. This is how we will keep our home. Thank you very much. Is there any other Public Comment . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Commissioners, commissioner mcdonald. Another thank you. I lived in king garvey, spent every day there because that is where my family was. I did most of my play inside because it wasnt safe to go outside. I really appreciate the tenacity that it has taken to get to this point, to have the vision and then the fortitude to see it through to this point. It is exciting to be in this moment, thank you all for the leadership. It is exciting. Thank you. No other comments the chair would entertain a motion. I move approval. Moved and seconded. All those in favor. Aye. Thank you very much. We are now on item 10. General Public Comment. Any other Public Comment on items not on the agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 11 commissioners matters. Seeing none. Item 12. New business agenda setting. Seeing none. 13. Communications. Any Public Comment . No. Item 14. Adjournment. Move that we adjourn. Second. Moved seconded. All those in favor. Aye. Thank you very much. Lets get started. Welcome. Yeah. You can be excited. You should be. Welcome to the beautiful new playground, everyone. [ cheering and applause ]. My name is phil ginsburg. I am the manager of the recreation and Parks Department. Were so pleased to have everyone here to celebrate what is really a transformation for this playground, a place where childhood memories will be created and opportunities for imaginative play are endless. There are a lot of Community Supporters and folks that made this happen. Were going to introduce and recognize all of them during our short program, but im so honored to introduce someone who has kept her eye on this playground for many years. As District Supervisor and now as mayor, she is our park champion and chief. Our kids do not need an advocate, because theyve got mayor london breed. Mayor breed thank you so much, phil. Let me tell you, i cant be more happy than to be here today. I remember a couple years ago when we cut the ribbon on the new basketball courts and there were conversations going on and on and on about the playground and the next to do something better. The parents who bring their kids here on a regular basis reflects what we see here today. As much as i love. I grew up in sands, so im a big fan, but the fact is these kids are going to have a great time. We are so lucky in San Francisco that we have so many people in this community that are so generous and were actively engaged to shape what this playground looks like right now. We have amazing contributors who have invested so much money into supporting and making this happen. Our incredible partner, the Parks Alliance, thank you so much for your continued alliance and this playground. Thank you were jody pritzer for your major contribution to this project. And brian baker who hosted. Thank you so much for your work and for your advocacy. The work that you do to raise the funds and contribute to make this possible makes it happen sooner rather than later. So thank you, because the kids that are here today are going to be able to have a good time and enjoy this amazing playground. I know they dont want to hear a bunch of long speeches. I know they cant wait to get started with playing. Thank you to the nopa community and the ashbury community for your work and advocacy. It is so great to be here today to have this incredible experience. I know you are wondering why is sheriff vicky hennesey here today. Shes not here to take anyone to jail. Her granddaughter is a lover of this playground and we are happy to have her as a supporter, so thank you for your service to San Francisco. Fill, you say that i am the park champion, i tell you no one works harder to bring in the resources and move these projects faster to get these done so that you have these results today. Thank you and your team for the work that you continue to do. [ applause ]. Mayor breed last but not least, i started that and she finished it. Valley brown has been an amazing advocate for this community for decades and she made sure that we got this project done. I will say in absolute record time. We just broke ground on this project last year and in bureaucracy time, this is fast. Ladies and gentlemen, the person who was making it happen and doing the work for this community, your supervisor, valley brown. [ applause ]. Thank you, mayor breed. I remember when this was a twinkle in your eye, phil. I see the ashbury council is here. People have come here because this is an amazing park and the way that it was done with the contributor contributors made it what it is now. Look at everything. I was looking around. I cant believe how cool it is, and im going to take a slide down that slide. I dont know if anybody has done it yet, but i want to go and slide down that slide. It looks so fun. I have to say that the city is like a tanker in ice. Every time we try to do something, it takes that long. This is something that went fast because of community support, because we had private people coming in and saying lets make this work, and we can turn faster than a tanker in ice. Thank you, everyone, thank you, mayor breed, and lets play. Supervisor brown said it perfectly, lets play. The mayor has keys to the city and gives proclamations at the board and we give away park signs to true park champions. Thank you for all of your incredible support. [ cheering and applause ]. The mayor alluded to the fact that this was a Big Community effort. We need partners and friends. Government doesnt do it all alone anymore. We need the support. Im pleased to bring up our closest friend, drew beker. The alliance of Parks Department have worked together since 2013 or 2014 on lets play s. F. Which is our campaign to renovate the 13mo 13mostdeserving playgrounds around the city. It is a 30 million effort that has a significant amount of public money, but that wasnt enough to get it done. We are the Parks Alliance and is the San Francisco recs and Parks DepartmentWork Together on so many things, including our 150th Golden Gate Park celebration. This is part of that. The panhandle itself was practice for building Golden Gate Park. Around the park are 80,000 trees that were planted to figure out what would work best down the road. Im so pleased to bring up a special partner, drew beker. Thanks, phil. I want to give a shout out. Thank you, mayor, thank you, valley, thank you, phil. The Parks Alliance is so happy to be a part of this wonderful event. I would like to give a shout out to the civic committee. Thank you so much. You helped make this possible. I want to give a shout out. Thank you, liz, for everything you do. Also brian baker held an event before this. Thank you for you and your family to support us and the San FranciscoParks Alliance. Thank you so much. And the rec and park commissioners, we couldnt do this without them giving the okay to make all of this happen. We have partners with rec and parks and they dont get shout outs that much. I want phil, lisa, and abigail to know how much we appreciate what you do. It is so amazing to have one of the top rec and Parks Departments here in San Francisco. You have no idea how important it is to push these types of projects forward and make this happen and thats because it comes from the top. Your amazing manager, phil, ginsburg, lets give it up for him. This publicprivate partner that was alluded to, we raised about 11. 3 million for 13 playgrounds across the city. Our goal is to raise 14 million, so we have a little bit more to go in order to make this playground and close out this program and have the most equityfocused Playground Initiative in this country called lets play s. F. Lets make sure you visit lets play s. F. Make sure you are part of this movement to bringing this movement to 20,000 kids across this city. Its about making parts a part of each and every community. Parks are part of the big puzzle, about keeping the parks part of our story. We need to move neighborhoods forward building parks. Thanks for being a part of this movement and lets play. Thank you so much. Thank you, drew. This playground is about play and its about community. So representing our community today, we are so pleased to welcome 45 preschoolers from steppingstones preschool. Your granddaughter is here, but steppingstones has a spot in my own heart. Representing steppingstones and speaking on behalf of the community, im pleased to welcome a few members to share the importance of lets play. Hi. My name is rakoia. Im a director of a local preschool up the street, but more importantly im a mother of a 2 year old who is up there right now. I actually came here from l. A. I went to ucla. When i came to San Francisco and looked at the preschools for work and realized none of the preschools have outdoor spaces or if they did, it was tiny. So steppingstones uses the community for their playground. What a resource to have playgrounds like these. This is an amazing playground just for the preschoolers, but also now that im a mom, for communities like this for playgrounds that inspire community and imagination. We were just here in april for the ground breaking, and now its november and its incredible. Thank you so much, everyone. [ cheering and applause ]. Before we do our first slide with our steppingstones preschoolers and supervisor brown, we have some gratitude. I need to do some closing acknowledgements. We have a lot of gratitude for all of our supporters. Without their help and support as i said, this wouldnt be possible. Let me echo my thanks to the pritsker family. For brian and lesley baker, thank you so much for your support. For the folks from kaiser permanente, they have been big supporters. This weekend we lost an advocate for health and equity and diversity and true supporters of playgrounds and someone who understood the very important experience of play. We would ask you to take a quick moment of silence in mrmr. Permi mrmr. Permi mrmr. Permi mr. Permit permanentes honor. Thank you. Lets give a round of applause. Were also pleased to be joined today by sheriff hennessey and her granddaughter. Vivian liang, and then dmitri barstani is here with his mom, georgia. Are yo