Public comment will be af available. Each speaker will be aloid twallowed to speak. And the access code is 1460062303. When you hear the agenda item you would like to comment on, call, dial star 3 to be added to the cue to speak. You will be lined up in the system in the order that you dialed star 3. While you are waiting, the system will be silent. The system will notify you when you are in line and waiting. All callers will remain on mute until their line is open. Everybody must account for the time delays between live coverage and streaming. You can submit Public Comment byiuming rec Park Commissioner s. F. Gov. Org. Written comments can be sent to s. F. Recreation and Park Commission, 501 daniel street, San Francisco, california, 94117. Thirthis Commission Meeting labor available on sfgof. Org. Thank you very much. I will be brief. I take great joy in welcoming two new commissioners to or re recreation and Park Commission commission. Commissioner jones. We look forward to a very, very rewarding experience being on the commission. And i want to take a moment to profoundly thank tom harris and gloria gomia, both commissioner who served over 16 years on the commission. And at an appropriate time in a future meeting, we will be recognizing them for all of their service. But we could not have asked for two more professional and enjoyable commissioners than in tom and gloria. With that, that concludes the president s report. Thank you very much. Chairwoman we are now in Public Comment for item two, president s report. Please dial star 3to be added to the cue to speak. You have two minutes. Caller do i have time to speak . Chairwoman yes. Please state your name. Caller hello, my name is tom shanik, let me step outside where i have better reception. One second. Okay, can you guys hear me okay . Chairwoman yes. Caller okay. My name is tom shanik, and i appreciate your time. [inaudible] over th months or so, some friends and i have been on a Community Beautification project over there. There is a one stretch block of sidewalk with no houses [audio is breaking up] i hate to interrupt you, but this is comments on the president s report, not general Public Comment. Caller i am sorry about that. Im commenting on some other issue . Under general Public Comment, your comments would be appropriate. That will be happening in a few minutes. Caller oh. Im sorry about that. No problem. Caller so what is the best way you can comment in a few minutes under general Public Comment . Caller should i stay on . No. Just call in under general Public Comments. Help me out, ashley. Chairwoman ashley, youre muted. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, youre going to want to call back on i3ems for general Public Comment, if you want to comment on anything that is not on the agenda today. Paul, are there any other callers for this item . [inaudible] chairwoman were on item 3, general managers. Good morning, this is sarah madeline, sitting in for the general margin today. As usual, the Commission President said it best welcome to our two new commissioners, and a special thanks to our outgoing commissioners. Well be honoring them at a future meeting when the general manager can be here. I will jump in on the general managers report and try to deliver it with as much enthusiasm as our general manager does. The wait is over. You may have heard, the highly anticipated 150foot illuminated observation wheel welcomed its first riders. It will provide riders with sweeping views from the ocean to downtown San Francisco. For the 15 150th scenes sear. Bot150thanniversary. It is a symbol of hope and rebirth for the city during covid. The wheel is located in the music concourse, near the California Academy of sciences and the japanese garden. Under our Health Precautions in place, to reduce the risk of covid19, you must make reservations in advance. All riders Must Wear Masks and practice social distancing. There are 36 gondolas, and they are fully enclosed and cleaned between lightings. And the gondola can only be shared by members of the same household. And as this is a new element in Golden Gate Park, we are welcoming backup of all kinds on the wheel at sfgof. Org. And to purchase tickets, which are going quickly, it is skywheel. Com. And a special thank you to those out there hours and hours on end, making sure that the ride was both safe and getting it open as quickly as possible. In other good news, you probably have heard that San Francisco welcomed our kids back to our 179 playgrounds last week. And mayor london breed joined our general manager and other city officials for a kickoff on that at the Merced Heights playground. All of the playgrounds have signs reminding families of capacity elements, and other city and state guidelines to prevent the spread of covid19. We have high park rangers on site monitoring compliance and providing information to families. And there is more information on our website about hours. Because of the Health Guidelines and the fact that we have both Community Learning hubs, our Emergency Health and child care, as well as preschools on our facilities, those playgrounds are only allowed to be used while theyre in session. So we have modified our hours, and were working on an easy to use map that will help people understand when they can go to this playground. Next, we have, as i mentioned, the Merced Heights project. And we also have some recently finished upcoming Capital Projects to alert you to. As Health Alerts change, well be able to do smaller celebrations. But some of the playgrounds have opened last week, as i mentioned, and we recently renovated under the lets play initiative, including Sergeant John mccauley in the tinde tenderloin, and what were now calling the Redwood Grove playground in the claren park, which is a 2. 8 million renovation. By way of reminder, lets play is a partnership between the Rec Department and the San FranciscoParks Department, which they have 13 playgrounds for improvement. Other Capital Projects on the way and expected to be completed before the end of the year include Margaret Heyward and the roe playground. A couple other interesting things going on to talk about. We had an event called the dark side soccer tournaments, and Leonard Griffin and elite black College Players are offering soccer camps every saturday throughout this month, including october 24thand the 31th, from 10 00 a. M. To 11 00 a. M. And they will soon offer grades k through 6 every wednesday and thursday afternoon from 4 00 to 5 05 00 p. M. And that is on our website. As part of covid, the board worked closely with the m. T. A. On different road closures, including Goldengate Park, both j. F. K. And m. L. K. , and twin peaks has been closed. Weve been receiving consistent Public Feedback from them and from people, and were working with the m. T. A. And other city departments to create a survey about twin peaks and look for alternatives that provide access while still making that area available for recreation. And the survey can be found at sfmta. Org projects. And the annual conference is going to be virtual, and it is taking place october 27th and 29th. It is taking all of the best elements of an inperson conference, including education sessions, keynote speakers and exhibiteds exhibiters and pg them in a unique online program. Thank you very much. That concludes our report. Chairwoman item 3, were now in Public Comments. Please dial star 3 for comment on general managers report only. No hands raised. Chairwoman okay. Thank you. Public comment is closed. I also wanted to just make note on the record that commissioner anderson and commissioner halsey are both present. Okay. We are now on item 4, general Public Comment, up to 15 minutes. This item will also be continued to item 9. At this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public twain the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and do not appear on the agenda. You have the opportunity to address the commission when the item is reached in the meeting. So please dial star 3 to be added to the cue to speak for general Public Comments. Okay. Weve got a couple on mute. Chairwoman thanks. Please state your name, caller. Caller pelo hello. My name is richard rothsman. Im calling about two items. One is about coit tower. I dont know if the commissioners are aware there was a water leak up there a few weeks ago, which im very upset about. Apparently it was caused by there are two water attention in the building, and nobody goes there on a regular basis, so this water for i dont know how long it was leaking did cause damage to the elevator and some of the murals. And either somebody needs to live up there, which somebody used to, or those water tanks need to be emptied because we need to preserve the murals. I did talk to the art commissions staff, and they can be fixed, but it will just take time and money to get them fixed. The second item i want to about about is the a. V. A. Parking in the concourse area. Rec and park staff came to the disability council, and i can say that everybody who spoke was against the plan. This plan does not offer any easy access from full fulton street. It needs to be redesigned. Rec and park staff needs to reach out to the Disability Community and have a conversation with them, which i dont think they did. I helped try to connect the two together. And, also, i found out about the concourse authority, the Mystery Agency under prop j and 1998, and we need to get the rec and park needs to get that commission up and running because theyre supposed to be responsible for the Traffic Management plans. So before we even think about making j. F. K. Permanently closed, we need to fix these a. D. A. And park issues, and get the concourse facility to start doing its job when they get it from the commissioners. Thank you very much. Chairwoman thank you for your comments, richard. Next caller, please state your name. Caller hi, my name is lori chan. I live on bernett north. Im up on twin peaks. I dont know if you really have addressed this, but my neighbors and i have been inundated with trash, crime, loud, drunken partying all hours of the night, usually after 10 00, sometimes as late as 1 00 in the morning. We called the police department, the nonemergency line almost nightly now. And they come and chase the people away. And then maybe an hour later, another set shows up. But the problem is that we, as neighbors, have picked up all of the litter, the trash, the garage. We have people coming on to our property, climbing onto our rooftops. They are using our garden to urinate in, sometimes to defecate in, and its absolutely untenable. Our neighborhood used to be safe. I cant even walk out my door in the evenings anymore because im afraid of being con fronte con confrony these people who are partying and carrying on. I know they have put out a survey, and i appreciate that as progress, but i hope that the mayor will respond to the many, many hundreds of letters weve been writing to ask for relief from this unintended consequences of what has happened to our once peaceful, quiet neighborhood. Shattered glass all over because the cars that do park there and the people hike up. People drive by, they smashandgrab. They drive off and then leave the street littered with glass. And the people come back to their cars and knock on our doors to ask for help. So this is really a horrible situation that didnt need to happen. We had no input in it. It just popped up. I understand that it was supposed to be allow neighbors more open recreation space, and i have no problem with that. But we do have the parks. Even during the shutdown we had the parks. At Goldengate Park you had to distance and wear masks and all of the protocols. The people gathering up here are not Wearing Masks at all. Chairwoman thank you, caller, for your comments. Caller that is what im most concerned about. Chairwoman thank you for your comments. We have nobody else on the line, so seeing no further comment, Public Comment is now closed. Any questions or comments from the commissioners . We missed the fellow who called under the president s report. So if he is listening, have him call back under Public Comment at the end of the meeting. Chairwoman okay. So were now on item 5, the consent calendar. Is there any item you would like removed from the consent calendar, commissioners . Seeing none, the chair would entertain a motion. Youre on mute, commissioner lowe. So moved. Specceded. Specceded. Second. Moved and seconded. Do you neat Public Comment . Chairwoman yeah, we need Public Comment. Is there anyone . No raised hands. All those in favor . Yea. Yea. Chairwoman okay. Were on item 6, the San Francisco zoo. Hello, good morning. This is tanya peterson. Can you here me, ashley . Chairwoman yes. Good morning. We missed you this morning. It was on a zoom call with other responsibilities. Im sorry i missed it. [laughter] well, i congratulate the new commissioners and welcome them, and it will be a pleasure to work with you both. This hearing, im going to try something new, since a picture is worth a thousand words. My staff wanted to submit a video on all of the Safety Measures and updates were taking at the zoo to keep folks safe, and then a brief photo or two of our 21yearold lemur who has been returned. President , may i start the video . Please do. Pierk i thought we were going to be closed for two weeks. But we still had to take care of the grounds and provide for the animals. We went from making sure we were washing our hands all of the time to staying home fulltime. I was worried. Nothing like this has ever happened before. We really miss talking to the guests about our animals there. We miss the volunteers. At the current animal resource center, we missed all of our youth volunteers this summer. We missed having our entire Summer Season with the natural volunteers, which we have 110 of, and we missed all 90 of our junior zoologists. There are the rhinos here and our giraffes. We had a time to do a lot of training with our goats, horses, and even giraffes. We still hold birthday parties for our animals, like our onehorned rine nerhinoand senior chimps. It was fun to celebrate these milestones and share on social media. There are many maintenance projects, and our gardens really flourished. We got creative during the closure of the zoo. We did things that we never did before, like walk the penguins around and go to visit other exhibits and other animals so they could stretch their little legs. So it was fun. Im so happy we were able to pivot from our very popular zoo cam program to a modified zoo play. The kids were great in social distancing, and im so thankful to our wonderful staff for making everything move smoothly. We can social distance from a lot of other Staff Members due to the pandemic. We spent a lot more time with the animals, and we ramped up our training program, and so we spent a lot more individualized training with the animals, like the rhinos. With the public being around, it kind of makes that a little harder. So we really ramped up that a lot. To keep our public connected with us, we created a website called sfzooconnects. And we did summi some athome safaries in our backyards. A few months ago, you would have been able to see salmon jumping up from pool to pool. It is really quite spectacular. We celebrated the birth of a new manderin. We took advantage of star wars day, may the force be with you, with avisit by v. V. H. Mayor breed toured the zoo today to announce the reopening set for next week. It is so important we maintain our distance. The zoo will open to members on monday, and the general public on tuesday, but with plenty of modifications. [please stand by] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] that concludes my report. Im available for any questions. Thank you very much. We are now in Public Comment for item 6, San Francisco zoo. Please dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. You have two minutes. I dont see any hands raised. Okay. Commissioner . President buell we just accept that report, we dont have to approve it . Any comments or anything . President buell no. Okay. We are now on item 7, Francisco Park, donor recognition and naming. Good morning, commissioners. My name is lisa bransten, im director of partnership in the recreation and Parks Department and here to ask for discussion and possible action to approve a Donor Recognition Program for Fr