We affirm sovereign rights and wish to pay respect to ancestor, elders of the chunty. Good morn and welcome to rec and Park Commission meeting of march 21, twept 2024. This is held in hybrid format in person at Hamilton Recreation Center with options to provide comment in person and remotely. We ask you turn off electronic devices. We ask listeners to turn down televisions or computers while listening on the phone and ask for patience if we experience technical issue. Public comment is available for each item unless announced each person has two minutes. If you like to speak on any item today we request but not require to complete a blue card and the blue cards at at the table by the door. Those that like to join remotely you may view live on sfgovtv or webinar using the link provided at the top of todays agenda. You may provide Public Comment by calling 4156550001 access code 26623606230 and password, 0321. When you hear your item called dial star 3. You will be line up in the system and the system will notify when you are in line and waiting during which time the system will be silnts. All callers remain on mute until their line is open. Please address comments to the commission. In order to allow equal time for all, the commission nor staff will respond to questions. The commission may ask questions of staff after Public Comment is closed. If there is a item of interest that is not on the agenda and under the subject matter jurisdiction you may speak under general Public Comment item 4 and continue to item aithd. We do not have the normal podium so ill use my timer to time 2 minutes so when you hear the chime know your time is up. You may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways by emailing rec park. Commission at sfgov. Org. If you submit by email it will be included in the file. Written comment ed may be sent to San Francisco rec and Park Commission, 501 stanyan street, San Francisco california 94117. The following announcements for those joining in person. If the fire alarm activate evacuate the building using xae exit. Bathrooms are the door behind me and to the right. The Commission Meeting is recorded and are available to view later on sfgovtv. We are on item 2, the president s report. Thank you. Thank you ashley. This is on. Can everybody hear me . Thank you for being here. This is lovely to see you all here. As part of our recreation and Park DepartmentRacial Equity action plan, the commission was tasked with expanding the ability of members to hear from Diverse Voices and one way of doing this is we are having annually meetings outside city hall and see it is working today because we have more folks here today then we often have at our Commission Meetings in city hall so thrilled and i want to express gratitude for coming out here today. This will be the second time that weve had a offsite Commission Meeting. Last year we had one in the bayview, which was also well attended at joe lee Recreation Center. We did that march a year ago. We learned a lot about the site itself, and we relized how amazing our rec and Park Department employees are and make our parks and open spaces so beautiful. We learned last year in district 10 about the way they function daily and how they can best serve the members of the community out there. This is just one way our commission is committed to improving access to the Decision Making process too, because you will be very much involved in all of the actions we are taking today. We are excited to be here in district 5 today. Thank you to members. All the community leaders. And the heart of the Western Addition, which is the first neighborhood i lived in when i came here to attend Uc Hastings College of law in 1988. I lived behind kaiser. Safeway was Shopping Center and japan is where i hung out. I love this area. Includes lower pack heights too, which is where my friends had a better apartment then i had at the time because i was a broke law student, spent a lot time of there and fillmore heights with great music and married to a musician. Gary connects to the Outer Richmond near the cliffhouse, that was a great place to hang out because i could go and chill at the ocean. Im sure a lot of you do that too. We are close to many amazing parks and open spaces here, including Hamilton Recreation Center which is a neighborhood hub with a lot of incredible amenities. I was looking at the resurfaced Basketball Court and amazing rec and park staff here and looking forward hearing more what is going on in hamilton later in today s agenda. I will take a break here so people can get seated. Please, welcome everybody. There are several empty seats up front. Come on in, ladies. Come on in everybody. I will pause just for a second so everybody can find a seat. Many know we are close to the Kimball Playground with a club house, a Children Play area and three baseball fields and green open space. We are also just a few blocks from one of my favorite city iconic areas, which is the japantown peace plaza, which is at the heart of japantown community and holds cultural celebrations, visitors and many residents who access the array of businesses in the area. We are excited about the Department Collaboration with the community on the japantown peace plaza renovation project kicked off last year in blustering conditions with speaker pelosi. It was quite a day. There are we are envisioning great things for the future of this vital public space. Not far from alamo square, my favorite park at the time with the iconic view of the painted ladies. We are a few blocks away from the margimate s hayward playground which underwent a 28 million renovation. As we are in the midst of Women History Month, i like to tell you a little about margaret hayward. She pioneered the establishment of public playgrounds in San Francisco and served as charter member of the citys Playground Commission. She was on the commission for 11 year s from 1908 to 1918 alongside our john mclaren. She is the only female commissioner to have a park or other recreational facility named for her in San Francisco. In 1908 elected to board of directors of the California Club and early San FranciscoAthletic Clubs where wives of the male members to further social causes. Part of the forefront of elevating the status of women. She was part of the Playground Movement in the United States. Hew maretens saw play grounds to social solution of urban environments where people lived in small places because they had poor air quality elsewhere. Hayward was appointed by mayor taylor to newly created Playground Commission and served 10 years before her passing in 1918. I would like to share this is the first Women History Month as a commission where we have been majority women commissioners. [applause] and i think still has the majority female executive and managerial staff. One man among three women at home. Good luck with that. Okay. Lets see what else. The 5 women on this commission, we all have a diversity of backgrounds and we have each our own unique perspective that we bring to this body, and i like to now pass it off to commissioner louie to share more what is going on with Women History Month. Commissioner. Thank you president anderson. March 8 is International Womens day, and as you know, San Francisco has a long history of supporting women, and every persons right to freedom, choice and equality, and i have to tell you, the origin of Women History Month is the origins of Women History Month dates back to 1978 and it started out not too from here in Santa Rosa California when the Educational Task force of the Sonoma County commission on the status of women, which i know commissioner schwartz has a lot to do, our San Francisco division, planned a women history week, so it started with women history day and sonoma brought it to march 2 to the 8 expanding to a week and we have to give homage and gratitude to president jimmy carter, because he was the one that declared march 2 National Women history. Progressionally all the president s thereafter realized how much women contributed to this count ry and expanded to a Women History Month. I want to quote something from president carter. He said, from the first settlers who came to our shores, men and women have worked together to build this nation. Too often the women were unsung and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed. But the achievements leadership, courage strength and love of the women who built america was as vital as that of the man who names we all so well know. So, past tuesday a trailblader mayor london breed herself, i attended an event at city hall and it was a nice beautiful event on the mayors balcony and we joined by the department on the status of women. Thank you commissioner schwartz. Some elected leaders and Community Advocates like myself, and i seei look out in the audience here and i identify with many trailblazers here. We have sandy mory. Thank you pat louie for coming, and all the other wonderful women here sitting in the front. This event this year women who advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion, and mayor breed herself said, thank you to the five women we honor today who have gone above and beyond to insure women across all communities of San Francisco have access to every opportunity and the women who are doing this work every day, not just in San Francisco, but around the world. Claw dean jang was honored. [indiscernible] maddie scott, and sissy swig. I also learned that day something very interesting. This is my take away, 54 percent of our commissioners that serve in San Francisco, we serve we do not get paid to serve, we serve in San Francisco, 54 percent are women. 58 percent of Department Heads are women, like we have a male wonderful Department Head here, but you know, hes not in the 58 percent of Department Heads are women and lastly, 45 percent of the city workforce are women. We want to give it up to all the women and they think for what you do for your communities and thank you for being here today. And with that, i pass it back to president anderson. Thank you commissioner louie. Wonderful. We all love may west, she has a great way of saying things. All is nothing a man can do that i cant do better and in heels. Remember that. Take that home. It really resinates with me the unsung hero aspect of being a woman and woman in leadership. Most of the people i work with and many happen to be women, they operate from their hearts and do what they feel is right, not looking for recognition and often they dont get it, so just remember that. When you go home, recognize the people in your life and what they do and youll probably notice it was your grandmother, your mom, your aunt, sister and instill in your daughters and granddaughters and nieces how important it is for them to feel appreciated, even when they are not hearing it. How important they are. Women truly are the architects of society. You think about what we do. How you would feel so lost if we didnt do the Grocery Shopping or make sure the kids get taken to the doctor, or ask you how you are doing. Attending to others. I had women who have died of Breast Cancer, friends in my life who died of Breast Cancer because they were taking care of the other people in their lives, so not looking for any awards here, not that what i mean, but just think how important the wem omen are in your lives and give everybody a hand. Thank you ladies alright. Lets see. Looking at these lovely notes. I want to thank the recreation coordinator here at hamilton, tara, where are you . Stand up. [applause] thank you for hosting. The facility is beautiful. Thank you for the flowers. I like to thank the staff here today making this meeting possible, including our Public Affairs team. Raise your hand if you are Public Affairs team. Thank you so much. They really helped us conduct this community outreach. And our local 261 folks who put this amazing greenery together and who care and maintain all our beautiful living spaces. Wave your hand if you are local 261. My brothers and ist isers. Gardeners. Yes. Also want to thank helping us bring all the technology of city hall to this offsite, including sfgovtv, rec park it and everything audio and visual, raise your hand. Wave your hand. Thank you everybody. [applause] we lost a couple of Community Servants and the city. Marsha mayemwas a sister of of mine in the saint mary congregation. I want to honor marsha mayem and mention David Johnson and pass it over to phil. Marsha cow founded the firm [indiscernible] she was parm of designing her Recreation Center. Inspired those around as a humble and passionate mentor paving the way for future female architects to create and design with passion and professionalism. The firm design her with vision of inclusive safe friendly family and youth focus place for neighborhood residents and visitors. Constructed the renew her Recreation Center will be a place for connection and Community Building for generations to come. On behalf of all san franciscans, we honor marshas contributions to our city and we would like to adjourn our meeting in her meeting later today and i want to give particular condolences to her spouse, bill. We also lost a incredsable artists photographer and activist in David Johnson who passed at the age of 97 earlier this month and youll hear more from phil about his photography that captured the essence of life and culture and African American history in the fillmore district. Commission, honored to have David Johnson be with us in 2019. He and his family were there when we voted and i was a part of the vote to rename the harvey milk Photo Processing Center in davids oner. We will also be adjourning in davids memory at the end of the meeting. I think ashley, is that everything . [indiscernible] any Public Comment on item 2, the president s report . Alright. Phil, please. Thank you madam president. Before i get into it, lets alsosome here early watchedi had the pleasure of swearing in our president as a off highway vehicle state commissioner under the state parks department, so she was appointed by the governor so give a round of applause. [applause] you are looking at two state Park Commissioner, phil. I are want to welcome everyone to hamilton and extend a warm welcome to commissioner staff, Community Members. I think president anderson covered most of this, but the off site meets are lovely and important this is a terrific traditions as noted. Evolved out of Racial Equity action efforts to make sure that we didnt just Ask Community to come to us, but we come to community, and very very very big shout out for our commission liaison, ashley summers. These things dont just happen. The planning to bring this meeting and all its audio, visual computer, all that stuff is really challenging and requires a lot of coordination and ashley, i know you had a lot of help from a lot of people in the organization, but i want to thank you for your vision on this and for such amazing execution. Congratulations. [applause] thank you ashley thank you a few words about hamilton, and a little later in my remarks ill ask Nick Williams to take a minute to introduce all the staff that are here and then director operations Eric Anderson, i know al i is here but if there are folks are you want to introduce so everybody sees. The idea of the meetings is people to understand what it takes to operate a f