Jurisdiction, you may speak under general Public Comment. That is item four. If the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate the building in an orderly fashion. Elevators will immediately return to the first floor and are not available for use. If you need assistance out of the building, please make your way to the closest area of refuge which is directly across the hall in the mens restroom. Theres a speaker box. Prosit and city hall security will answer. Please note the commission will be calling item seven and eight together. We are now on item two, president s report. Thank you. I will be very brief. I simply wish to all of the public and all of my fellow commissioners and all of the staff at recreation and park a very happy holiday season. Thank you. Thank you for setting that great example for the general manager. [laughter] sorry, did i say that out loud . Is there any Public Comment . Public comment is closed. We are now on item three. General managers report. I only have 37 items for you this morning, commissioners. Thank you very much. [laughter] i too will extend a happy holiday and im so excited about this holiday season. I will share with you a wee bit what is happening in your department. Got some good news to an 2019. The Controllers Office released its annual Park Maintenance standards this week which shows the parks were better maintained across the city over the past fiscal year with less disparity between neighborhoods and continued improvements to formerly lower scoring parks. Our department met 92 of its standards, exceeding our target of 90 . The score also represents a threepoint increase from the previous two years, and a sixpoint increase over the past four. We are doing well. Significantly, the report also shows and can you continued can prove mints improvements in the condition of formerly lowing lower scoring parks. In 2015, it got a 60 . In 2019, that score climbed 17 to 77 . Earlier this year, the Controllers Office published a new interactive dashboard that shows all data that users can explore to see the highest and lowest scoring parks and how the scores have changed over time or look up a favorite parking get level details on the maintenance the dashboard can be found on the controllers website. The results of this latest report are certainly a testament to the commitment of our staff, including our custodians, our maintenance crews, they also reflect the continued guidance and investment that we are making into our deferred maintenance fees that you all help us with each year. They certainly reflect the results of the confidence of San Francisco voters as we have been able to renovate almost 100 projects and almost 100 facilities in the last 10 years. Very good news. The biggest take away for me is, over the last three or four years with both ted with head and heart and wallet, our focus on narrowing the gap between our highest and lowering parks and prioritizing deferred maintenance and equity zones is starting to show. It is starting to pay off. We are really pleased about that i wanted to invite everyone to yet one more awesome holiday party. This one is going to be at 900 and at india basin. The future park sights that we have all been working on this saturday, december 21st, from noon to 5 00 p. M. The event is in india basin project event collectively hosted by the recreation and Park Department the brando institute, the Parks Alliance and will include visits from santa, live entertainment, cookie decorating, rockclimbing and toy giveaways to kids. Folks can preregister their children for the giveaway by calling 415421877 415 4218777. Usually a phone number has seven numbers. You can find out more about the india basin project. You can please visit the website just write down the path from 900 innes is the eco centre. If youre looking for ways to get active this holiday season, the eco centre is a couple is a couple of new and unique activities this month in addition to his regular programming and adoption investigation workshops were you can test your athletic skills against insects. I thank you have already done that, mr. President. I have. Let me say again, you lost. You can test your athletic skills against insects. If your insect curious, this is december 26 and 10 00 a. M. From january 2nd at 10 00 a. M. From 3 00 p. M. You can also learn about microorganisms that live in the wetlands on december 27th and january 3rd from 10 00 a. M. Until 3 00 p. M. The last weekend of december, first weekend of january all have some cool and also programming. For more information on occurring activities, you can visit our website. It is winter, his registration for our winter programs is going on now online and in person at 14 locations across the city. Get the entire family out and into our parks and recreation centres. We have ever something for everyone. Including fishing, canoeing, and kayaking. A Basketball League for kids and drop in zumba and fitness classes for adults. With an eye on january, two quick announcements. Applications for our summer 2020 work Recreation Program are being accepted now through january 10th. The program is open to teenagers 14 to 18 who live or go to school in San Francisco and offers a valuable opportunity for them to enter the workforce, earn money, have fun, make new friends, and work will recreation and park sweatshirts. This past summer, we hosted 430 youth workers in our parks. Nearly half of whom were in this Recreation Program. They were recruited, interviewed , and hired directly by our staff. Celebrating its 58th year this year, the program has seen many of its former workers go on to have long and successful careers here at the recreation and Park Department, including stacy white and toby wiley. Those interested in applying or folks who know teens who may be interested in applying, you can visit our website. And then lastly, join us for our 306th annual luncheon in honor of dr. Martin luther king on friday, january 17th from 11 30 a. M. To 1 00 p. M. At the recreation centre. This years keynote speaker is going to be a superior court judge. I believe that she is the chief. It offers Community Members to recreate reconnect and reflect on the life of dr. King. Lets attend so we can reserve a seat for you. With that, we will take a quick look at all of the Holiday Events happening or that have happened in your beloved park system. [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] and thank you for the video. I want to mention briefly that the tenderloin childrens recreation centre, which honest to god, there were 500 to 600 people in there for toy giveaways, food giveaways, curling, cookie and crafts in a community that doesnt have much space and needs the love. It was quite joyous. I want to think my staff are all the work they do to give people a little bit of an extra holiday smile. That concludes the general managers report. Thank you very much. Is there any Public Comment . Please come forward. Remind him it is on the general managers report. This is Public Comment on the general managers report. Okay. Can i use thick projector . May i please have the overhead . Overhead . Take your time. No hurry. You are up. Great. Good morning. I am here to talk about the general manager report. If you look at this here, this shows mclaren park. I got this from Capital Improvement. If you look at every single map, we are not on the San Francisco visitors map. We dont get much respect. We are not on this map. You see there . District nine, they shut us off at twin peaks potrero hill. The reason i bring this up is because we want our fair share of the bones. My question is, is mclaren park and the playground going to be on the next bond . Nobody can answer this question except maybe you guys. I cant get a straight answer i can sit down if you dont have the answer . I dont think, under Public Comment, that there will be response to a particular question. The bonds are set out of the mirrors office so i would probably send you there. Okay. I will go to the audit ethics. The last few days i have been at the Controllers Office. I need help under the sunshine law to understand a lot of these reports. If you guys have an announcement , if you look at the back part of it, it is not even on here. All the paper that you guys have , i have a lot of the copies how can we follow the money if mclaren park if we dont understand the literature . You guys have it too. I went to the supervisor right here. They were very nice and the auditor is off the chart. The controllers. I have been very forthcoming. I need recreation and park to sit down with me and help me understand these reports. Thats all i am asking. And under the sunshine law i am requesting this. Thank you. Thank you. Following the money. Is there any other Public Comment . Public comment is closed. We are now on item four, general Public Comment. This item will be continued until item 10. Members of the public may address the commission on items that interest the public and that do not appear on the agenda with respect to agenda items, you will have an opportunity to address the commission when the item is reached in a meeting. I have several blue cards for this. When i call your name, please call forward. [calling names] thank you. Good morning, commissioners. I am here representing the board of the one at vista Neighborhood Association. Im here with three other members to update you briefly with the current park Assessment Project and project and also to express the importance of being a project on the 2020 park file. First of all, thank you for approving this project. Assessment project back in august and thanks to recreation and parks for helping fund and partnering on this project. Thank you also to miller co. , the lead Landscape Architect firm that is helping that is putting a lot into this project. Finally, thank you to for including a member of buena vista neighbors on the. Working group. I appreciate that. A lot of progress has been made on this project so far, assessing the pegs conditions and estimating the cost to restore the park. We expect much of this to be completed in early 2020 and ask that an overview be presented to the commission this february. This project is in followup to the 2015 Capital Improvement planning projects that took place between recreation and park. We do not have updated cost estimates, but we expect those to be at the same level or larger than the 25 to 30 million that came out in 2015. There are three points i would like to end on. Number one, the importance of preserving San Franciscos natural resources. This is essential to the Mission Statement for the 2020 parks bond. [calling names] is certainly one of the citys most precious natural resources. Number two, it is believed that many of the core features are in poor or deficient condition and this project will continue to the overall assessment of [calling names] buena vistas conditions. Number three, and as part of the park bond selection process, buena vista should be viewed as a leverage funding. Over the last decade, they have received 1. 3 million in capital expenditures. Of that, we have helped raise 300,000 over the last five years to get at bags and private donations. They have also applied to Grant Programs for the last five years and is continuing to research and develop other funding sources. Again, we hope to have an overview of this project presented to the commission in february. Please know, we are committed to helping with the process of the 2020 parks bond. Thank you [calling names]. Good morning. My name is jean and for the past 30 years, i have had the privilege of living on the east slope of the park in the park hill condominiums. The old st. Josephs children hospital. I enjoy having breakfast every morning looking over the magnificent overstory of the park. Im here to speak on our park on behalf of the 136 homeowners in my parkhill community. So much for paperless. Okay. Buena vista parkas an urban wonder. It is a natural urban forest. It is the oldest park in San Franciscos park system. It is the highest, most inland sand dune in the state of california. It has 36 acres with winding paths and sweeping views that incorporate three bridges. The park nourishes us, but the park is in decline. It has been under maintained for decades. It is chronically understaffed and chronically underfunded. Historically it has been served by two to three gardeners. Only recently, while we did get an acting supervisor and the staff is now up to four gardeners, and with their hard work and care they are only holding the park together. Buena vista park has received less than a Million Dollars in funding in the past decade. The departments 2020 parks bond Mission Statement includes a statement about improving sustainability. A sustainable urban forest at Buena Vista Park could thin the overstory, improve the understory and add plantings that would regenerate. We could create a Design Guidelines for reforestation over time to make the park healthy again. If we make the park healthy again, then the ongoing Maintenance Cost could level off and be sustainable. If the park continues to degenerate, the Maintenance Costs will continue to spike in response to the state of emergency it is in. Emergency responses to floods, landslides, erosion, and most recently, fires. A healthy park will attract private philanthropy. Together with recreation and park, our Neighborhood Association is working on a Needs Assessment and cost analysis to make Buena Vista Park project ready. Buena vista park needs to be adequately funded by the next park bond. We need to take care of the park so it can continue to take care of us. Thank you. Thank you. [calling names] hello, my name is stephanie. I am on the buena vista Neighborhood AssociationParks Committee and i would like to speak from the perspective of family. I am a mother of two Young Children under the age of three and we are avid users of the park with the playground, the pathways, going out and just exploring picking up sticks. It is a wonderful resource for families. I have lived in the area of the past 25 years in the past 20 years. In the last 10 years, eight houses flanking either side of me have converted completely from the houses that had no children at all to every single house now has children in it. We also have three public Elementary Schools that are walking distance to the park and we have two private schools that cover the k. Through 12 segment of education. We have a lot of schools, we have a lot of families, and there is a growing need to make the park safe and maintain it in a Sustainable Way so it is accessible and safe for families to go to. Of the 10 entries that there are to the park, there are only two that are really useful or you are able to get into without going over off the side of the path or having to wander or, you know, you basically cant get through with a stroller except for two entries. That is due to the fact that there are no maintained pathways at the entry point. A lot of the paths you have to veer off the side because the stairs are falling apart and people are creating their own pathways because pathways have completely deteriorated. As part of our work, we would love to bring in public donation because there is only families that would support the park. In order to do so, these families need to see that the city is committed to support significant Financial Support with the bond in 2020. We would love to see that our weekend warriors, neighbors that are coming in, and working on the park and that are committed are not just putting up fires. We are actually getting support from the city that they can be maintaining a sustainable and healthy park that is safe for everyone to use. We would love the park to be more welcoming to everyone. Some people have even mentions that they are fearful to go into it with their kids because of how things are. We really cherish our 36acre park and dont want to see it continue to deteriorate. We asked the committee to support the park with a significant financial allocation in the next park bond. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Go ahead. Good morning. I have lived near the park for over 35 years and have walked a dog in the park every day for the last 18 years. I can say i am firsthand witness to the great beauty of the park, but also to its unfortunate steady decline. My message for the committee today is that the needs Assessment Project has been going on for decades and now is the time to act. The buena vista Neighborhood Association has been working with recreation and parks park since the 1970s. I have seen the proposal for the master plan in a 1987, and that very little work seems to have been implemented. I personally have been involved with them and this issue since 2015 when the Capital Improvement plan started. Were waiting for those recommendations that came out of that process to be funded. And now with the occurrence evaluation that they have helped fund, that maybe miller and company assumes a very good work on, a