Hello, my name is tom steele, and im here to represent flagging in the park. Were a small Grassroots Group who organize Community Building gatherings in the National Memorial grove five times a year, which i assume arent familiar with, except, perhaps, for phil. So as these events started 23 years ago at the height of the aids epidemic, when a small group of friends gathered in the newly established grove to celebrate still being alive in the face of a very uncertain future. As well as to remember those already lost to the plague, these folks got together to do this by dancing together with vibrant silk flags such as these and i just wanted to show you these. They look like this, made of silk, and hand tie tiedyed. For smrkwe believe those who wee lost trafficking so young would want to be remembered for their vibrant lives. Our events are always free and typically wellattended by regulars, for whom we feel we provide an uplifting experience in these times of growing isolation in our society. To spanned beyond our established core crowd, we very happy to be embraced. For the most part, we do our own thing, and most of society is not aware of what we do. So were very happy to ar arrange a special event that day to represent the diverse vibrancy of our beautiful park and to demonstrate the beautiful aid memorial, and well show how to dance with flags, bands, hoops, and i hope well see some of you there. Thank you. Chairwoman audrey and then bob. Good morning, commissioners. My name is audrey engals, and im here on behalf of the jamestown organization. We are serving thousands of students and families in our after School Programs and other programs throughout our community. When we heard about this possible historical celebration event, we wanted to come and support the bid. And after the presentation that lisa just gave, im even more excited. One of our programs is a local performing ensemble. This is our most dedicated group of high school and transitionalaged youth performers, who have not only performed all over San Francisco and the bay area, but also around the world. These students meet once a week to hone their skills. One of our core values of the organization is artavision, which a combination of art and activist. These kids are singersongwriter and performers and music producers, who use their talent to bring awareness to different issues affecting our community, whether it is through drumming or theater works, and everything in between. Local local is celebrating the people through their ideas, their art and their activism. Wmost, if not all of our students, and all of our arts program. Steve actually,have grown un francisco, and have many memories of Golden Gate Park, whether that is from going to the playground, or going to other events, or visiting the museums and other attractions throughout the park. The celebration of Golden Gate Park is not just a celebration of land and trees, but of celebrating San Francisco and its dedication to the arts. Our performing ensemble just this past year performed at the academy of science, and perform at the amphitheater every year. Many of our students throughout the years have also made great use of the rec and Park Departments programs and have worked as student counsellors. I was just telling my own 14yearold daughter she should get a job with rec and park because it would lead to graitd greater opportunities for her in the future. We all as individuals, and as a community, value our parks for the enrichment they have provided us. It would mean a lot for our students to be able to perform at such an historic event as they watch the community shift and change to unfamiliar territory as their friends and families are displaced. They understand as young folks of color, performing music and dance from traditions, their performance itself is an act of empowerment and a declaration that they are still here and that they matter. We would love for the city to say that to themselves by inviting them to perform at such an historic event. I encourage you all to take the time later to actually look them up, to see their faces, and to see what it is that they do because theyre my pride and joy and my work, and i think you guys would feel the same if you saw it yourself. Thank you very much. Chairwoman bob . Good morning, commissions, my name is bob feedler, the executive director of the stern growth festival. Im here to indicate our support for and intent to participate in the golden gate anniversary, 150th anniversary celebration. Given we plan to do that by providing local artists and musicians to perform in different locations at different times throughout the celebration. And given that the theme is that it is everybodys park, that really marries quite well with our ethos, and we plan to provide a lot of diversity in those musicians, and hopefully highlight some different neighborhoods and Different Things to welcome everybody to the park and so given our 83years of partnership with the rec and Park Department, for which were extremely grateful. Grate, were delighted and honored to be part of this celebration. Thank you. Thank you. Chairwoman is there any other Public Comment on these items . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner lowe . You about to say i think we should take these up separately. For item 7, i move to approve. Second it. So moved. Commissioner lowe . On matter 8, i think we should be in the practice of getting a certificate of appropriateness first before coming to this commission, and understand that is not going to be heard until january 15th. I will move to advance this matter, but i think the better practice is that before coming to this commission, and when this commission is the last stop of approval, that we should have the certificate of appropriateness in front of us. Second, i wanted to note in our board packet that was attached was a term sheet; it wasnt the actual agreement. I understand there is an agreement to come later. Again, i think this should be a practice where if this is the authorizing act under chapter 31, we should have the actual agreement, not the term sheet. On that basis, i would like to first note that under article 7 of the park code, this does give this commission the authority to approve the observation wheel and would move to approve to authorize the general manager to we would want the general manager to come back to us on our next Commission Meeting in january, and i believe that is january 16th, to report back, one, the certificate of appropriateness was issued by the Historic Preservation commission. And, two, to report back that indeed the agreement and permit that was issued to the operator is on the same terms and conditions that was in our commission packet. Thank you. Is that in a form of a motion . Ill second that. Moved and seconded. All those in favor . Yea. So moved. Chairwoman item 9, the park and maintenance standards annual report. Good morning, commissioners. My name is ben, and im with the San Francisco recreation parks department, and im one of the administrators for the Park MaintenanceStandards Program we have here, rawprunning alongsidehere. For ms is my second year as part of the program. I am very excited to present to you our scores. What is new this year is that we decided to take a deeper dive into the scores. We decided to dissect it, an additional layer, so we could get more out of the data. And, also, we are, during this presentation, going to show you the controls Office Online dashboard, where members of the public and people such as yourselves, the commissioners, can go on line, look up your favorite parks and learn a little more about their scores. So without further adieu, i will introduce to you Allison Emily from the controls office, who will complete the rest of this presentation. Thank you. Commissioners, thank you for having me here. Can you guys hear me . We can. Usually my voice is so soft. Im, again, very proud to present this report. It was a great team effort, a collaboration between the Controllers Office and r. P. D. Im going to just go through quickly some highlevel summaries that we took out of the report, and them emily, my colleague, will spend most of the time whacking you walkinu through this incredible new dashboard that allows people to explore the data as much as they want. Ill begin. Just before i get into the scores, i want to remind everyone kind of how this program works. There is an evaluation form for every park. In fact, some parks are so large theyre split up into smaller sections. There is a set of standard criteria that need to be met, and each park is broken up into segments called features. For example, childrens play areas are one feature. Trees are another feature. And then an aggregate score is made. We can look at overall skiers foscores for all parks, t we can drill down deeper and say what about certain parks . This year in fiscal year 19, the average score is 92 , which is an increase from prior years. We are increasing slowly every year. And you can see one of the main drivers of this increase is actually just a decrease in the overall thread. For several years we would have out lier outliers. So that means throughout the city, wherever you are and whatever park you go to, youre experience will be more similar to someone else in a different part of the city. However, as we presented before, we do continue to see a geographic disparity between the north and the south. So there are no topscoring parks really in the southern half of the city. This is a map of the 10 top scoring and 10 lowest score parks in the city. What i want to talk about a little bit is something new that weve started to do this year. Weve created a methodology to kind of group the kinds of criteria that we look at. So we look at things like is there a certain amount of litter or graffiti anywhere . And we could see things like, is a wooden slat loose on a bench, which is dangerous. These are considered routine maintenance, which requires specialized skills to clean up, but with have the specialized staff and resources to do so. And the time category is repair. These are repairs of structural projects that will take a larger budget and a longer timeframe to fix. We wanted to create these categories to help our staff kind of determine not just which parks are struggling and where, but what will it take to improve the response to these parks. It is a very different resource allocation to address problems of litter than it is to address cracks in asphalt. So while we are still perfecting the methodology, we were able to find some kind of interesting first takes. One of which we just looked at the extremes, which parks are on each end of the spectrum which need the most help with cleanup versus need the most help with repair. We can compare hilltop park, which needs cleanup help and repair, and we see it has struggled a lot with graffiti in the past, so it can be what is driving this category break down. And mckinley square, in the other end, has more structural problems, so cracks in the asphalt, for example. So when r. P. Staff looks it these, they can approach it differently. Im going to turn it over to my colleague emily, who is going to take you through that online dashboard, and were willing to take any questions at the end. Thank you. Thanks, alice. Hi, everyone. Im elli Emily Gonzales with the Controllers Office. We heard youre really interested in the accessability of this information. That is a datarich program and we produce a lot of reports, but how can residence and operational staff as well leverage this data . So that was the lens we were taking. We were updating our dashboard to make sure this data was more accessible or unsdzable. Understandable. Im going to walk you through the dashboard so you will see exactly what you can expect to find there. Let me see if i can do this from here. Our overall park scores, Park Maintenance scores is just sfcontrollerparks. And on that page youll find all of our reports from previous years, including this one. And also a link to our dashboard right here in the middle. Once you follow that link, i have already preloaded it youll get to the dashboard and land on his landing page. We have information just about the program itself. You know, how these scores are calculated, which parks are included,etc. So that kind of Program Level information here at the front. And these tabs are really where you can dive into the data. Lets take a look at the first one, the citywide trends tab. Theryou can look at the citywide parks score lets just follow that one, as an example. Here is before the dashboard is interactive. These are all of the sites that are evaluated here on the map on the right. And then in this table, in this graph, you can see youre looking at the citywide average park score over time, over the last five fiscal years. You can change that graph to show how the minimum score has changed, which alice just highlighted. By clicking minimum score, you see this changes to represent the minimum score, and youve seen that in crease over time. You could also look at the standard deviation, which is a measure of how spread out the scores are across the city, and we have seen that that has decreased over the last five years as well. So a way to interact with the state in a new way. Im a little snow on navigating this web. But you can look on the same citywide trends tab, the highest and lowest score parks, and you can see all of the years of this data. You can look through p. D. F. Reports, and now you can look and click through the past five fiscal years and seeing before the top 10and bottom 10 maintenancescored parks are. And you can click on those specific parks. Here we can click on buchanan street mall, and it will not only adjust to zoom in on that park, but will show you the feature scores at that park. Sites are divided into separate features, like lawns, hard scapes, etc. And you can see that granular data right here. I want to take you through the other tabs just briefly. Obviously you can explore this at your own leash at home. Leisure at home. Now you can look up any park and find information about that park. So you can just search a park by typing it in. Or, here, ill just select one. Alice chalmers. You can see when you have selected a park, youll see that the map zooms and on where that site is, and youll see overtime how that park has been scoring in their annual scores as compared two the citywide average, which is the gray line. And below youll see the feature scores at that park, and how the feature scores compare to the citywide average feature scores. Where is my Neighborhood Park really shining compared to other parks in the city, and where is it struggling as far as maintenance. I think this is an amazing resource for residents. My friends have already been using it. And ill just quick through the other three tabs. The district tab is supervisor districts. This one has a map shaded by the average Park Maintenance score for each supervisor district. You can just click on any district. Ill click district 11 here, to see its average score. And then all of the parks that were within that supervisor district, their annual park score and how it compared to the citywide average. Just a key finding from the report is district 11 has been the lowest score supervisor district in terms of the average Park Maintenance score for the last five years. So you can kind of see those trends overniem. Anovertime. And you can select te fiscal year to kind of track those. Ill move on to the equityzoned portion. You can filter by year. It will show you the different parks that will were labelled equity zone in that year. And this shows the score distribution for equityzone and nonequityzone parks. Im not going to go into all of these, because the dashboard is use to your own adventure session. Every single parks feature here is listed for users to interact with. So maybe im really interested in childrens play areas in particular. We can click on childrens play areas and really go into a deep dive. As this is showing f. Y. 19, but you can select a different year. How many play areas did we evaluate . 161. They had an an rag average score of 81. And then you can see all of the score distributions for all of those childrens play areas. There are a lot of ways to interact at this point, and im not going to go into it, but you can scroll and see all of the childrens play areas, or click on them from the map. You can click in the history gram and then the map will filter. And you could do that for lowest scores, too, and, again, you can do this for all of the features. Were really excited with this new improvement. I just have one more slide for you all, back to the power point. Okay. Our next steps are in our improvements to the program. So something we havent spoken about is the Data Collection of this data, done by Staff Members in the Controllers Office and in rec and park. Theyre currently using a more outdated app, which will be transitioning over through a new app by estry, and the Data Collection tool will be built in that app. And they will be working to implement this tool in the next fiscal year. It is our biggest task of improving that. And well be expanding the maintenance task, and we think it is really promising to look at this data in kind of a new way. Finally, i wanted to highlight for you something we height highlighted in the report we have over 100 evaluators in dozens of departments, which are going out with the standards to evaluate parks. It is crucial that everyone is applying the standards in the same way, and able to identify the same types of issues across time and across parks. Thats something that weve been interested in, but we want to expand that analysis and the future. We look forward to your questions. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. A very interesting presentation. Mr. Ginsburg . Excuse me, do you want to ask for Public Comment