A. M. To 5 00 p. M. On mondayfriday, with two or three on hand to help with usage. Approximately 30 laptops and tablets have been secured. Users with their own devices would also be able to access wifi from inside of their vehicles. We hope to grow this program as philanthropy and other resources permit. This ties into the philosophy behind the Community Learning hubs, but, actually, there was a decision to stand this up prior to the Community Hub development that grew out of our Planning Efforts with our Equitable Development plan leadership committee, facilitated by jackie, and apri, and several members of our team as an immediate need for this neighborhood. As we all know, and we are experiencing this very second, technology is simply critical to move on with our lives, whether were a student, or an adult looking for work or trying to stay connected to relatives. And this Equitable DevelopmentPlan Initiative is designed to strengthen the existing community in the bayview and the indan basin neighborhood, to ensure they will have the ability to you know, robustly function, notwithstanding the covid restraints that we all face. I want to provide a quick budget update. Yesterday the Appropriations Committee heard for the second time the recreation and Park Departments proposed fiscal year 20202022021 budgets. It t totaled 626,000. In 2021, and 294,000 in 20212022. And theductions were temp Salary Reductions and additional supplies reductions and some reductions to our vehicle budget. In 20212022, they impact our temp salary and attrition targets and some Additional Savings in materials and supplies. We worked well with the boards analysts and we do not believe that this will adversely impact the departments ability to provide services to our parks and for our park users. The departments budget had has critical funding to provide staffing at these Community Learning hubs we just discussed. The emergency child the continuation of our emergency child and youth program, covid19 Adaptive Strategies for park maintenance, enhanced cleaning and disinfection, and the ranger social distancing and mask education and distribution program. And provide funding for our scholarship assistance for youth in Public Housing, shelters and foster care. The budget and Appropriations Committee will complete the deliberations on the budget on august 26th. A full board is expected to pass the budget on september 29th and the mayor is expected to sign the budget on october 1s october 1st. I want to thank our entire budget finance, h. R. And Business Team as well as our Property Management, Public Affairs and operation teams for their incredible work on this challenging budget cycle. Related to Community Learning hubs, but broader, the San Francisco department of Public Health issued a new directive last friday, august 14th, regarding allowable use activities. The new order categorizes these activities as outside of school time programs. And they are intended for all children and youth in elementary school. The format of oesp programs are small cohorts of 20, similar to summer camp hubs. Our fields and parks and some indoor spaces are available for this use. If the groups are interested in providing outofschool programs in our spark spaces, visit our website at sfgovpark. Org, to a link for an application. No outside lands this year but on august 28th and 29th there will be inside lands. Outside lands is proud to present inside lands, a free virtual festival, featuring two days of music and neverbeforeseen footage to celebrate the past 12 years of the festivals history. On august 28th and 29th, at 4 00 p. M. , anyone can log on for iconic archival sets, exclusive Live Performances and interviews with artists, plus features with the festival curators and the Small Businesses and community that make outside lands truly one of a kind. Followthetwitch. Tv outsidelands c followthetwitch. Tv outsidelandsc hannel, for everything inside lands. We will see you all inside. Lastly, a special kudos and recap of the pga championship. The pga championship at harding park concluded in an historic way last weekend as one of the most broadcasted sporting events in history with more than one billion with a b billion viewers. The eyes of the sports world were on San Francisco, and on t. P. C. Harding park and its pristine greens. Thats a cal berkeley alum and used a bit of homefield advantage to dominate the final two rounds and to win his very first pga championship. You just grew alans head, thank you so much for that. I want to thank all of our staff who made this tournament an incredible success. Lets be honest, it wasnt the pga championship that we had hoped or planned for, but when you talk about resilience and making the best making lemonade from lemons, we did that. Our teams work represented San Francisco and our department to the entire world. A special thanks again to kevin teehan, and the entire golf and turf team, dana ketcham and the Property Management team, and our urban forestry team, and the treetoppers and commissioner buell had noted, the canopy was outstanding. To our good friends who help us to host the t. C. Harding park, tom smith, who actually had a dream come true and was able to play in two rounds as a marker, because there were an odd number of people that made the cut. And to our Public Affairs team, to commissioner buell for your leadership and excellent Public Relations and the days and the weeks and months leading up to the event. To commissioner mazzola for being out there and cheering on and rallying our hardworking crew. This was a big success. And it was just such a pleasure to have something to cheer for for a change and something to be proud about our city. And that concludes the general managers report. And im sorry and im sorry for the echo. I will figure that out. Clerk okay, if theres anyone on the line, and would like to comment on the general managers report, please dial star, 3. It doesnt look like we have any takers. So the Public Comment is closed on the general managers report. Item 4 is general Public Comment. This is up to 15 minutes. At this time the members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and that do not appear on todays agenda. With respect to agenda items you will have an opportunity to address the commission when that item is reached in the meeting. Again, if youre on the line and you just have general Public Comments, please dial, star, and then 3. Caller hi there, this is adam loto. And i put my hand up in the comments for Public Comment. My apologies, this is my first time so i dont know if this is the perfect time for this. But i wanted to put a concept in front of the council. Im a local resident in marina. I have lived in San Francisco for 11 years. With the public hesitant to go indoors and to use gyms for fitness, i think that theres an opportunity for the parks and Recreation Team to expand the offering and to add value to the public for fitness and activities. And as an idea, id like to propose what concept im tentatively calling chestnuts sports club, to explore using the musconi park in the marina and expanded fitness space and leveraging the area near the basketball and the Tennis Courts that are a little dilapidated right now, for a concept of, say, an upgraded turf workout area and updated golf facilities. To fund this could be a kind of private public venture and a Neighborhood Partnership that would ask and advertise for residents to donate something feasible around 5 a month to become an air quote, a member, which would be a badge of honor. Plus cool merchandise in which i could help to develop. And all sales would go towards maintenance of the space. This could be a pinpointed test to something that could be rolled out more to parks, considering the impact of fitness activities that covid has had at our indoor spaces. And acknowledging the challenge by updating underutilized space in parks. Ill take that comment offline. President buell thank you. Clerk thank you. Next caller. President buell hello . Caller hello, sfgovtv. Hi, i am cliff barter. And im calling in to thank you all for the continued street openings on the great highway on j. F. K. Drive and at twin peaks. Theyre all really phenomenal outdoor spaces. And ive been lucky to continue to enjoy them through the shelterinplace. I wanted to note in particular that Golden Gate Park was noticeably cooler this weekend than most of the city in this unprecedented heat wave. And i think that it was really useful to the people of San Francisco to have that much more usable space in the park provided by j. F. K. Being open. And i also just want to note that i was glad to see the changes made to accommodate the muni 44 bus route. I think that the smal smart strt markings there to redirect the bus is also a great change to keep more of this street open while letting traffic flow. President buell thank you. Clerk seeing no other callers on the line, excuse me, Public Comment is closed and were on item 5, the consent calendar. President buell any questions or comments from staff . We can get Public Comment . Clerk yeah. Again, if anyone is in the public line and would like to comment on item 5, the consent calendar, please dial, star, and then 3. President buell are you on mute, stacy . Clerk caught myself. Yes. Public comment is closed. President buell thank you. Chair would entertain a motion to approve the consent calendar. So moved. President buell is there a second . Second. President buell moved and seconded. All those in favor . Thank you very much. Clerk all right, were on item 6, the San Francisco zoo. Stacy . Clerk yes . I wanted to let you know that i made it in. Clerk youre good. Hello, this is tonya peterson, the director of the San Francisco zoo. Can you hear me, stacy . Clerk good morning, tonya. Well, im pleased to report that the zoo is now open. It opened in a limited fashion on monday, july 13th. We did so while also running our child care and zoo camp programs, which have now concluded on friday august 14th. Of course, our camp programs were run differently this summer, per the Public Health officer. We converted them from one week to three weeks. We did require the temperature checks of the participants and the family members and instructors, face coverings were also required unless an exemption proven and we did employ twice as many staff to just make sure that we were complying with all of these requirements. Unfortunately, due to the change mainly from one week to three weeks, we had about a 50 refund request from parents. Many parents did not feel comfortable obliging for the three weeks, but those who did i think were very pleased and a lot of the participants who did come to the zoo this summer were children of essential workers. So we were pleased that we could host them. And now that the camps have finished, or we have begun working with the Health Officer to increase our attendance safely, we limited our attendance to about 1,500, to 2,000 people a day, while the camps were running, so that a third of the zoo could be saved for the children. And there was really no mixing of the public with the zoo camp programs. But now well take advantage of opening up those spaces and those entries and exits for new visitors. On some good news, we have six penguin chicks, so if you do get a chance to come to the zoo we ask that you use the Online System so you come in at a reserved time. We can limit congestion at the front gate. But i suggest that you go back right to the penguin chicks and see these six fluffy chicks. They just graduated from fish school. And because of the way their feathers are, they are right now larger and the parents and them are just adorable. So its great to have some highlights during these difficult challenging times. And, lastly, i just want to thank all of the visitors and the members who have just an outpouring of love for the passing of our male giraffe, lloyd. He, sadly, died on july 24th. He was our oldest and tallest giraffe. He was 18 years old and 16 feet tall. He was a reticulated giraffe that is at risk but not the highly endangered category. It is the giraffe most commonly bred at zoos. He produced 11 offspring and had 24 grandchildren and five greatgrand kids. He was the first and the tallest giraffe that youd see in our african program, and he is missed by all of us. President buell thank you very much. Clerk were on Public Comment for the San Francisco zoo. And if youre on the phone line and you would like to comment please dial star, 3. No . Seeing no one on the line, Public Comment is closed. We are now on item 7, letsplaysf . Hello, commissioners. Im lisa bransten. Director of the partnerships for the recreation and parks department. And im here virtually with the Deputy Director of the Capital Division to provide an update on letsplaysf initiative. And let me move some things on my screen. So very briefly, as you will recall, letsplaysf has its origins in the 2012 clean and safe neighborhoods parks fund, which allocated 15. 5 million to renovate playgrounds across the city. But didnt specify which ones. And then this commission convened a task force to select the site and when they prioritized 13 pra 13 playgrounn lowincome neighborhoods dense with children. That was more than twice the number that could be renovated with the 15. 5 million, so the department partnered with the San FranciscoParks Alliance to raise private funds so that all 13 could be renovated. Were pleased to report tremendous pg towards the goal of bringing new playgrounds to San Franciscos children. But especially the 20,000 children who live a 10minute walk of these sites. And next slide, please. I have noted by the checks on this map that we have completed seven playgrounds across the city. Of course, they all remain closed with all San Franciscos playgrounds because of the Health Emergency. You will hear more details from cara in a moment. But in addition to these seven completed playgrounds, we just finished construction on one site and about to go into construction in another and were in some phase of planning or design on all of the remaining four. And then just as a reminder, the heart of this initiative is balanced on three pillars of community, creativity and wellness. The Detailed Research that shows the beautiful public Spaces Designed with Community Engagement to inspire the community. The idea that play helps to nurture growing brains and the knowledge of getting kids outside and moving creates mental and physical wellbeing. Through these pillars we honor the combined commitment of the Parks Alliance to 20,000 children, 13 playgrounds and equity. And while the benefits of great new playgrounds make a lot of common sense, were backing these assumptions with data. At Washington Square playground, there was a 97 increase in total use after the renovation. And a nearly 600person increase of use by children. So we know that these renovations cause more people to use these sites. Today weve only been able to do the comparison study at Washington Square because the play grounds remain closed. But we did have prerenovation measurements at all seven completed playgrounds and well take counts when the sites reopen. And then a little bit about the covid impact. Aside from just keeping the playgrounds closed, the Health Emergency has had other impacts on the initiative. In march, some of the construction projecthave to pause, but they were declared essential public work and work was able to resume with health and safety protocols. Open sites remain closed now with play structures wrapped, but they do stand ready for San Franciscos children. And now im going to turn it over to cara who is going to take you on a bit of a virtual tour of some of these new sites. Great, thank you, lisa, and good morning commissioners. Im the program lead to letsplaysf initiative and the departments Capital Division. As lisa mentioned we have made a lot of progress since we saw you last and we have a lot to share with you today. So ill go ahead and dive right in and give you a tour of all of our work so far. First up, theres projects that were completed last fall a