This is responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. Acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Welcome to the San FranciscoRecreation Park Commission meeting this morning at 10 00 am. , thursday, april 18, 2024. When you are in line and waiting. 4. Unless otherwise indicated, speakers will have 2 minutes to provide comment. Public comment will be available unless founsz by the chair. Recreation and Park Commission meeting 18, 2024, 10 00 a. M. City hall, room 416. Please address your commission to the commission directly the commission may ask comments from the public and blue cards available at the table we ask you to fill out a blue card Public Comment maybe submitted email and Postal Service and included in the file were on item two the president s report. Thank you ashley im going to pass to the general manager and if i have anything to say had the bill is done i will. Turn your mic on. I through ashley. I think were going to the gm report i think would you like the president s report to you want to call Public Comment on weighing to move on to the president s report. All right. Good morning, commissioners. I think we have an action pack. Report and with a couple of presentations for you tend will be lovely and try to get through that. Earlier this month the last time we gaktd with celebrated thursday and thank you to those commissionersable to be out there and president anderson and commissioner louie that is a first. It was really a fantastic event and london breed attend and had surprise visits for the rafrpgz and had jeff for the Young Peoples Team an incredible and also lgbt celebrated did california science first birthday the amendment shares a original birthday with Golden Gate Park and one year we came into the park. And what is the celebrations without cake had a big cake thank you to the mayor and more importantly shout out have not staff work care for this crown jewel were hiflts of its a fantastic place were happy to celebrate and excited to announce the new innovative way for the Pickleball Court and moungsz at rec park we transitioned in the old system to the new one will really it. Phase one is reservations for the following locations alice park and others. Starting this week reservations will be at the website that i Just Announced and day to all locations and starts on monday april 22nd report the reservations the new system is for intuitive book from our laptop and many in addition to creating segue to the ports by single users providing a daily schedule on the court and have access for arithmetics over the 5 years and the department has the number of Pickleball Courts by a lot im sure someone will get up in Public Comment and talk about that and had 87 today and rolling out the system and hearing feedback from the community this sunday is four, 20. Or saturday it is for 20. Were excited this year will be different we will pull it off the event on the hill in previous years will be a little bit different a full day of activities with the field day from 10 00 a. M. It 4 00 p. M. Will be kick ball turns out and corn hole and something called something vocal dont forget to bring our tiedye and your favorite flavor of gummy in honor of earth day with a tradition be there as a team and go to the link and click on San Francisco 40s these looking high and low to celebrate 4 20 were in the middle of San Francisco april 13th there the 20 world class growers and check out this at sfgovtv. Com whetherer you go. We are excited to announce a Ground Breaking live treatment from 2 00 to 4 00 p. M. And for all san franciscans that is that and the culture heart of compound and for festivals and Community Celebration like the Cherry Blossom festival and other festivities and the yearend festival San Francisco and in the mid 1960s that was designed and inspired by the capital and symbolize goodwill and philip that is one of the last three remaining penalty towns in that city that is designed by the Community Engagement with the task force Plaza Committee and plaza will have all the participating and ceda to make sure that remains a Community Gathering for all. During construction the chinatown will remain open but the project is that flaunted the 2020 San Francisco health and recovery bond where a hard any 25 million and an additional 9 million in grants and bell ringing the Economic Development for by nancy pelosi thank you, Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be there and to get it and or next weekend and 6 million from the agency thanks to the family members and look forward to opening the plaza for 2026. On sunday april 28th we are hosting a different recognizing the one hundred anniversary of our camp mater it is mart though some sail it a different way it doesnt matter well done laughter . Camp mater is for generations in San Francisco families oh, the unique outdoor expense and activities like horse backpack riding and more free event at the center about welcome the Upcoming Season and give a taste of camping in the community and a presentation on the camp and samaritan park of park and crafts and signing wall and food trucks will be on hand for rich times and it is in partnership with the friends of camp mater. Um, coming out and get a taste of summer. That sunday april 21 we will be hosting a state festive at the u. N. Undertaking it is paradise we are provide to announce in event from 11 to three on sunday and by rec and park a wonderful nonprofit like a girl and for the town skate boarding and a contest and more come out in the heart of the downtown and support of overall skateboarding community and delighted to announce the eco center, 14 is important someone to celebrate sharing anniversary as well as earth montana month and learn from the organizations get our hands dirty and join the free games and workshops and refreshments and more the rec and park will be hosting the rescheduled partner park screen popups part of the celebration providing live jazz and the limited edition park your print and so come early and get things and the eco system serves Government Agencies on the outer periphery of the shoreline with 7 miles of beautiful waterfront and an outdoor explosion agency that won the award this is a cool nature playground and it is being unique space for learn and deserves to be celebrated on the 14 birthday. And okay a clearing tree work as part of the trail Improvement Project i want to share some upcoming things what the park will be doing and in areas like upper resolution and cleaning and removing trees hazardous and want to make sure the safety by allowing more sunshine back prepandemic that was a significant natural area in terms of at Significant NationalArea Management and this was essentially a master plan for Natural Resources and that is one of the key were on our way and starting to implement obviously folks are good at reaching trees this is good for the planet and good for the environment and strengthens and promotes the bio different in the space. For every tree removed by rec and park more than one in return for greenery and tree coverage a greater and more constitutional environment and will last to 2025 we hope to end up with a fabulous individually healthy even a more environmentally healthy place and serving to avoid the north birds and that will be use following all the environmental rules and regulations and will transform mclaren park and followup management on i have do we have our oh, okay. Okay. Okay. At the eileen im going to bring up our fabulous 2024 interim for a short presentation on their program as some of the things theyve achieved that was established in not between rec and Park University and includes u s f and now in the 15 year so coming up to meet i and share a little bit about their report your Fabulous Group of our interims i have gotten to know personally theyre fantastic and so were going go to. calling names. we have are so pleased to have you yourself congratulating from some place or another come on and share. Welcome dont be shy. You want me to turn it on . There we go. You can use that one. I my name is im a congratulate student bell ringing im here to talk about the special Development Office space and phil said that was established in not and expanded for undergraduate and congratulates students from the university and the university of San Francisco. So each interim we talk to professionals with the rec and park and kind of shadow them on their careers and journeys so each interim has a focus deals with the unintelligible with the administration and Recreation Program and those our practice well be presenting on may at the lake merced final project for neither project im focusing on commission in the Commission Role ive gone through one hundred and fifty years of files and photos and have reposted who is the historian and. calling names. to talk about about the preserving in the Public Library and with the finding i found i have started to get stories in the vault and i think you guys are read them and theyre connection for everyone in the rec and park will be able to read any newsletter and able to sit in on Commission Meetings and attend Community Events for the community and my project is todays documents are more information as the Commission Liaison said. Hello, everyone my name is im curbing a senior in the be environmental studies and with the professional Development Internship program placed with the Research Program with that program ive been helping with the administration updating the list and as well as assisting with the interview and application process for the summer and mainly creating environmental presentation material. Thank you. Hi my name is julie congratulate at San FranciscoState University in geography and Information Science ive been with Public Health and working on a couple of projects mostly supporting fema and all the storms that happened last year a lot of work that went into this is a little portion of that material and then my second project is working on the general work at the general facilities for working group the action plans. Thank you. Im an under congratulate student with the Administration Program and with this internship ive taken on two projects with the volunteer Services Deals with increasing volunteer capacity as focusing on resemblance tension and other projects with the deals with with Recreation Organization through the calendar and conduct and cooperatively facility events throughout the year. Thank you. Hello good morning. Im congratulate student at the university of San Francisco and upper management and in the park the eco system and i lead stewardship from secondgraders to adults and we have our eco system second anniversary and that is exciting help we get a lot of those coordination internally and externally were have over one hundred people signed up that is a free event by a we ask people to enhance the restoration of that land and lastly, on a plant identification project in the aspiration area will see the garden is identify the species to help to educate others. Thank you. Thank you. Well already theyre impressive get to the point not like me and interims to be celebrated your program is unique this is not just a work but over the years um, the 14 or 15 years in the program have been ideas and projects that our interns are worked on weve incorporated in our projects and i know i a little bit thank you, for being devoted to parks and to the environment and our profession and in the matter of, you know, where youre career takes i hope it stays with parks or directly you know, the messed up world out there so thank you all for being such fabulous no pressure by the way, thank you for being a Fabulous Group of people and compassionate and willing to challenge and that inspires me i think another generation coming behind og to carry of mantel to make sure our parks and beautiful acceptable joyous i appreciate all you guys have done clapping. philly want to shout out to elliott i want to thank you, in the past few months youre wonderful to work with professional and funny and i really on you have inspired me to keep on going. Thank you all right. Last but not least weve got over the next meetings we um, wanted to introduce the commission and the public a little bit more to the fabulous incredible rich recreational programs we offer youre out and about come to events i know youve had an opportunity to experience this first hand but that is so extraordinary we want to share a little bit more about what our Recreation Division dozen were delighted to begin this series of short presentations with elaine who manages our culture Arts Division elaine take that away. All right. Just a minute. Okay. And good morning, everyone my name is elaine Norbert Brown im the culture art manager and recreation we have 6 Different Things have the Culture Arts Department for athletes and our neighborhood Enrichment Services and Community Services and you might be hearing from us for a while i was honored to be the first speaker in San Francisco because ive been working with the Culture Arts Department and not and try to be as brief as possible. Ill start with the Mission Statement to have high experiences that promote creativity and enjoyment and support for all individuals of all ages we strive to inspire, educate and gave me our community through the arts and really quickly negative declaration our overview we have three rec supervisors one we have robby and. calling names. and im kind of filling in here. And culture arts have 4 art centers sharing our studio harvey milk has two interests they offer schedule and different programming one art and science museum. We have the two largest outdoor day places in San Francisco and silver tree and have citywide art programming for all the other rec centers as well. And we have two full service rec centers the gymnasium and things like that and one clubhouse. So really quickly i have a brief overview of different art centers sharing the studios it is the Community Center for the things you dont find at other places surrounding the maintain a glass and jewelry making and there is about 75 Program Offerings for adults and sharon is our coordinator there and Harvey Milk Center is we have lots of things young people teaming for theatre comes companies and how wide craft and other programs Elementary Schools and have digital and visible art classes and mixed media drawings and performing arts ballot and have photography and started upstairs for artwork have anymore ways to offer exhibitions instead of just downstairs and we have an annual art and pride exhibit and drag performances that is the only one in the city run by rec and park all of our staff have been putting together this drag performance for 10 years this year will be the tenth year we have rentals and robby our coordinator and Harvey Milk Photo Center and the largest arts on the westfield if you havent been there we have that is amazing. We have classes in black and white and photoshops and o s o r and one hundred and 75 member develop their black and white photos and have is the David JohnsonPhoto Library it is adventure who is our culture arts manager for years and years it is wonderful addition and our photo labor after David Johnson and melissa is our director shes incredible to keep it together. And Mission Art Center is the other side of mission in the courtyard and young people in the Theatre Comp