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 you here and can you raise your hands . Theyre over there. Thank you, dmitri and georgia for being here today. Were honoured to be here. His memory and gus memory will live on. I would like to thank niko and marie who helped to work on the bench plaque that i believe are here. Tim sieford and michelle welsh. Steve courier from the parks and recs open space advisory. And then to the design and construction teams, you have an inspired design and project. They deserve our thanks. To the landscape project. Jeff cooper from c. P. M. Services. And then to my own amazing team, the project managers for this effort, it takes a village, karen rupert, brett emerey contributed to this project. Thank you, lisa branson, to your team to make this dream come to reality for our kids. Were going to have some honorary preschooler that is are going to join us. Supervisor brown, if you want to join us too. The mayor is going to lead us in a countdown. Mayor breed okay, supervisor brown, youre going to have to put a kid in your lap. Are we ready, kids . Five, four, three, two, one, lets play thank you, everybody. In the words of our mayor, lets play. [ ] [ ] 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. Good afternoon, everyone. Hi, there. [applause] so my name is jackie flin, im the executive director of the a. Philip Randolph Institute, San Francisco. I want to thank everyone for taking the time to gather with us as we prepare for the thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving is a time when families reflect on the hard work and sacrifices made throughout the year. Traditionally we celebrate a harvest, one nurtured by our elders, gathered by hard working parents and gathered by people who care. All year we make sacrifices so our children can play, learn, grow grow, and this thursday, enjoy the feast. In San Francisco, we are putting families first. Im humbled to lead an effort in leading the largest turkey giveaway in San Francisco in which 5,500 families in need will receive a turkey. [applause] im honored, supporting the citying across the city. Its an honor to introduce someone who works tirelessly. Shes creating a city where no families and no children are forgotten or left behind. Shes realizing the dream of the city with opportunities for all families to thrive. Please welcome the mayor of the city and county of San Francisco, mayor london breed. [applause] hello i love coming here. Every time i go here, i get more and more excited. Im excited about this community and all the Amazing Things that continue to happen here. And i want to start by thanking a. Philip Randolph Institute for all their incredible work. [applause] thank you. And also a special thank you to the folks at bayview station and all the officers. [applause] our police chief bill scott is here. Our fire chief, Jeanine Nicholson is here. And let me tell you, it does take a village. I know we got today is really about giving. And let me just tell you, it is really a blessing to be a blessing. And i know that in so many ways, we are going to be handing out turkeys here, thanks to foster farms and whole foods, but we also know that many of you who are cooking those turkeys are going to be sharing them with your family members and neighbors and friends. [applause] so i want to take this time to acknowledge and thank the folks who are here volunteering. Your supervisor watson is here as well. [applause] but i also need to pause and explain to all of you why the mayors of san jose and oakland are in the house. [applause] let me explain. See, what had happened was we had a bet and a couple months ago, we had a bet, first it started as the battle of the bay, we are battling for the bay. To clean up the bay, to clean up our city, to love our cities, to show love and respect to our community. And let me tell you, first the bet was between me and oakland mayor libby schaaf. [applause] and then at the last minute, mayor liccardo was like hold on, i want a piece of that. So he joined in. [applause] but guess who won, San Francisco. [applause] but let me explain, mayors. Let me tell you. We had not only the most volunteers, we had the most volunteers from the Bayview Hunters Point Community in the citys history. The bayview showed up and showed out. That we have more volunteers but oakland collected more trash. So they won in the trash collection, because we couldnt find stuff to pick up. [applause] we cleaned up our city. But the fact is, let me explain, let me explain, mayor, let me explain. The fact is we are all one bay area. We are all one community. We work as partners to address some of the most challenging issues that you all know we face around homelessness, around housing affordability, and we know that the only way that we are going to get to a better place is not if we work in isolation but if we come together. And this was an opportunity to come together and have a little fun. [applause] so im wearing my giants, even though they was losing and stuff. I still love them. I still love them. Im a giants fan. I still rep, even when they losing. Im going to still rep the warriors even when they losing. We share the warriors. But them niners though. [applause] so just i am just let me tell you, and im going to let our mayors have a chance to say a few words, but im so happy to be here. I feel the love. I feel the energy. I feel the excitement. And thats what makes this an incredible community. You all make this an incredible community. And as we continue to address some of the challenges, we are here to make better decisions so that future generations who grew up in what we know followed the conditions that existed when we were younger or when you were at the old one, we cant let that continue to happen in our city. And thats why were changing things for the better. [applause] yes. You all know im from o. C. , but i love double rock, i love hunters point, i love this city. And my plan is to continue to work with you all to make it a better place for all of us to grow and to thrive and to be safe and to prosper. So with that, i want to turn the mic over to the mayor from oakland who is going to talk a lot of mess. Oakland mayor sam. [applause] thanksgiving. I cant talk mess on thanksgiving. No, im not putting that on. [laughter] [off mic] to come tog