We honor the ohlone through thoughtful and informed interpretation of inses tral land. We acknowledge their sovereign rights and wish to pay our respects to their community. Good morning and welcome to the recreation and parks commission. We ask you that close any electronic devices. Public comment will be available for each item on agenda. Each person will have two minutes for Public Comment on each item. Comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available in room 416 and remotely. Neerpt the commission nor staff will respond to any questions during Public Comment. The commission may ask questions of staff after Public Comment is closed. Generality Public Comment is reserved for the jurisdiction of the commission. Public comment may be submitted via e mail as well as the u. S. Postal service. Please note this Commission Meeting is being recorded. Were now going to the president s report. Thank you, ashley. Im going to talk briefly about one of the great programs we have in our recreation and Park Department. That would be the greenagers program. It started in 2012. It connects teenagers to the open green spaces of their neighborhood. Tales a sixmonth longs program. Its quite a commitment for these teenagers. Many weekends are involved. It fosters camaraderie, team work, and a love of their community. Its very physical work. They learn to use tools during the course of this six months. For the gardening pirpses of their community. Last saturday, commissioner louie and i attendedded teenager graduation for a group from the tenderloin. Their focus was owe bowe decker park in the tenderloin. It was a great ceremony. Friend and family were present to witness this celebration. We had a great day. It was a great time. Its an amazing program. Green agers were teenagers. I want to recognize the leaders of this program. Theyre not here in person today, but i would like to mention their names in an open forum here. That is trailsy phan, afterra az streedo and he have lin ramirez. We congratulate this group from the tenderloin. I also want to recognize someone else here today. Its bittersweet to the announce that our great intern anna lee alvarado is here for her final meeting for her tenure. Anna lee we thank you. That is the substitute president s report for today. Now well call Public Comment on the president s report. Is there any Public Comment on the president s report . R. Okay. We have one raised handed on our webex. Gl ahead and unmute the first caller, youll have two minutes. Are you there . Ill wait for the report. Public comment is closed, well now move to item 3, general managers report. Good morning. First of all, acting president hallisy, thank you very much for the summary of the green agers presentation. Its one of the things im most proud about during my tenure of launching this program. Its hard to believe its now in its 12th to 13th year. Its a beauty. Thank you for acknowledging our staff who are terrific and do a wonderful job of making it happen and thank you to you and commissioner louie for attending. I was in the bayview for an event for our candlestick state park and as ill comment on later, i was at another event for paddle, yet another emerging racket sport. I wanted to give a shout out to all the moms in the house and all the women who have blazed trails trails at the Recreation Department over the years. Testimony is also Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage month. It serves as a reminder and celebration all the contribution made to this city over generations. It is interesting to reflect on the fact that so many of our park and park futures hold as much to the Aapi Community and are named after some prominent aapi pacific leaders. These include most recently hahn peace and friendship part. Willie wong playground park. Our japantown. Golden gate park. Victoria, an olympic medalist, we have a massive amount of investment coming stoon port smith square. We have our golden gate pavilion park. The neighborhood play park and playground and many, many other wonderful places. So all over all throughout the month, there will be wonderful celebrations all over the city. Including next thursday, may 23rd, our annual rec park aapi heritage month luncheon. I have not been eating for the last week in preparation for it. Because it is impossible to get out of that lunch without stuffing yourself. Its a fabulous event and i look forward to seeing several of you there and happy aapi month. Last monday, i am proud to report, we unveiled we celebrated the unveiling of 10 thu child care expernts Family Child Care homes that have been renovated with new outdoor play spaces. This is a very quiet but fundamentally important initiative. San francisco was honored to participate maybe it was 2014 or 2015 now. We were selected to be part of a cohort of cities sponsored by an Organization Called the league of cities and another Organization Called the children and Nature Network on which i now sit on their National Board to explore ways that we can improve nature access for kids. This program, the point of the endeavor was that this is not just a parks issue. This is not just a parks issue. So to be a participating city, we had to have representatives from San Francisco tune fied school district, from the mayors office, from the Parks Department and from the nonprofit community. Can. Out of that cohort and training, we founded San Francisco children in nature expp we hired a basically an executive director maria durno who will you call know who is technically a rec and park employee, but she serves the collaborative which has now probably over 34040 participating organizations. And we identified base on some analysis in a study what our most pressing nach gaps were that they thought we could address. We thought to focus this particular phase on improving nature access for preschoolage kids. We have a number of both institutional preschools and family owned and family operated preschools throughout the city at that provide a very, very Important Role and focus, but their outdoor spaces are landlocked. For those of you who spent times as toddlers or young ones are currently a parent of a young toddler, it will is no easy task even given our 10minute proximity to parks. It is no easy task to move the 2 to 5 set a quarter or hafer a mile to a beautiful outdoor space so weve brought parks to kids. And so we have now renovated a total of 21 preschools in partnership through San Francisco children in nature with rec park leading the way. But also with the lowincome Investment Fund lift that has been a wonderful funding partner and adopt thises their mission too. And we most at all of these spaces, not just play spaces but theyre vibrant learning environments for kids. The transformed areas are new planting areas in gardens, logs, tree stumped for climbing, mud kitchens and all kind of natural loose parks. Education for the children in nature efforts involves working with childhood educators in outdoor education. This is i know there was something on bravo or whatever when you make over a house, renovate a house, thats what this is like. The before and after pictures are funny. Weve done 2 and have 4 to go. But we are 21 and have four to go. I was joined by well over a quorum of the board of supervisors which included melgar and mandelman, safai and chan that all attended the Ribbon Cutting ceremony. This is also a wonderful effort and partnership with the office of Early Childhood education and the low income Investment Fund. Well probably come back and do a more robust dive into the San Francisco children in Nature Initiative but were leading the way in this across the country. Its one of those quiet and sweet ones but has a tremendous amount of important impact and im proud of maria and all of the participating part fers which include the school district, the office of Early Childhood education, the ymca, the presidio and academy of sciences and many communitybased projects that are contributing. While you were celebrating our green agers, i attended with the mayor and state park officials a cleanup event on gilman avenue deer Gilman Playground and candlestick part. The neighborhood struggles a little bit. Were stuck waiting for investments on infrastructure and development. Candlestick state park is the only one in San Francisco. We have ss links, a wonderful civic and volunteer greep who was out doing a robust cleanup all along gilman avenue and from there, i went off to a big event for paddle in the park at embarcadero plaza. Paddle is a cross between squash and tennis and while pickle ball is the largest and most intensively growing racket sport in the state, its bomb becomes the most popular in the world. I participated and did not pull a hamstring. This was a wonderful effort. A shout out to dana and her team for working with the paddle folks to find some space. They are the first public paddle courts in california so were a bit ahead of the curve and significantly we view this asen important activation strategy for the downtown embarcadero and downtown area. Down down has to become a place where its no longer a place where people have to be so we have to make downtown a place where people want to be. This goes a long way in doing that and were grateful for the paddle folks for their interest in this particular space. Back to Golden Gate Park. If youre near skate and place at golden place park and forgot your skates, dont sweat it. Weekend skate rentals have washed. Were proud to be partnering with the legendary david miles otherwise referred to in San Francisco as the god father of skate to provide skates for youth. Rentals with 20 bucks an hour and five bucks for every hour there after. Skating is historic part of the culture in Golden Gate Park and were proud to deliver this new amenity for visitors. The first superintendent codesigner, first built a roller rink at the childrens playground in 1891. Roller skating has a long and proud history in Golden Gate Park. Skate in place was created in 1986 and now gets skaters from all over the area sim briezing fun and selfexpression and futuring many people who used to skate there regularly who have gone on to great things including our mayor who used to skate at skate and place quite a bit. I recommend heading there on sunday. Thats when the fay plus Disco Roller Party happens, a San Francisco tradition. While youre there, rite on the edge of the jfk prom nod, wish it happy birthday. Im proud of everything the promenade has accomplished in its short life as a permanently people first space. Since its closing to cars in april of 2020, its seen 12. 6 million visits. Making it San Franciscos most frequented open space. There was an average of 8,000 visits on weekend and nearly 6 of 6,000 visits per weekday. Thats a lot. Once on the high injury network, jfk is a hub for interactive art, walk, dancing and rolling. Them pedestrianfriendlial is enhanced with upgrades. Today there is a freeshuttle piano, live music and art installations and i want to give a shout out to a i luminade. Its been a fantastic partner. Theyve raised private money and theyre out there steward the space. Youve seen the yellow chairs. The promenade and for people who spent time in San Francisco or people who vont been to Golden Gate Park, theyre blown away. Its been a lovely thing. New things on the promenade that i want to highlight quickly. There is a new exhibit on the promenade called natures future is our future. Its in coordination with earth month and will run in november. It features 12 California Historical markers from the future. Highlighting the importance of naturebased climate solutions. Thanks to this is a partnership with the Nature Conservancy and the exploreaer exploreatorium. This has you flashing forward a hundred years and reflecting on all the good decisions this country made over the next 1 shun years. To save our planet. Its very powerful. On top of that, we have new and refurbished public pianos out there for people to sing and play. We have our popup beer and wine garden which is going to relaunch saturday may 25th and dana, i believe its called the rail tail which identifies its location next to the wonderful piece of popup art on the promenade, the whale. It will debut memorial day weekend and in addition to the popup beer and wine garden, there is fls that space music and seating and games. Its become a fun, Fabulous Community space. Moving on. The alis mose area they won the merit award with their work for us reforesting alimos square. The teudio envisioned a Tree Planting implemented over time. The goal was to gain a resilient ego system that will last for generations. Since 2016, more than 27 o trees will be planted at the square include locally native and drought tolerant species. Thank you to the studio for the partnership and thanks to the Neighborhood Association for their excellent stewardship. A quick shout out to the interactive performance. Were now back in Golden Gate Park. Adventures happening now in our beloved Golden Gate Park. This is put on by replayers and marked the companys 13th collaboration with the Rec Department and companys third residency in Golden Gate Park. They are brilliant femaleowned and operated. They theater classic interpretation in nature. Can. You follow the characters to different scenes in nature. If you havent seen this, commissioners, go and see it. In this particular performance, i saw it last year and it was so good i made sure they came back. Alices adventure in wonder land, its extraordinairey. It gives you a one mile tour through the park including a scene in a space that i had never been to. Its fantastic. Last year more than 2,000 people got to experience the performance. Check it out f check out the website for more information. Sf live in association with illuminate presents this starstudded event right outside on fulton plaza which as you know weve been doing a ton of work at u. N. Plaza and fulton to integrate the work to make city halls front hard and this critical piece for livable and joyous and happy and healthy. This is one of the biggest events we put out there. Bill ortiz is renowned for his work with santanaa and other artists. Right outside, today today at 4 00 and beginning at 4 00 and going on to 7 00 at fulton plaza. This is one of many events hosted by sf live. Weve got free shows in the area. All kinds of good stuff. Go out and see it today. Its special and can completely free and that concludes the general managers report. Thank you. Well now move to Public Comment on the general manages report. This is just Public Comment on item 3. Is there anyone in room 416 to comment on the report . Seeing none, do we have any hand raised on our wb eye . No hands raised there so Public Comment is closed. We are now on item 4, general Public Comment. This will be 15 minutes and go to item 10. You may introduce the items that do not appear on the agenda today. You will have to address the commission for the agenda items when its reached in the meeting. I know we have members of the tennis and pickle Ball Community here today. We welcome you. Just to remind you of the parameters of Public Comment. Were here at item number 4, you are comment, make statements on your specific sport whether it be tennis or pickle ball or anything else. If youre here to address fees, well then take those comments at item number 5, the consent calendar. I hope everybody is okay with that. All right. Proceed. I have four cards for item 4. And so im going to call all of your names. I have mary, brandon, kiss and peter. Good morning can you move the mic down to your mouth. Good morning, commissioners. My name is mary devries. Put the mic closer to your mouth. Slide over a bit behind it. We want to hear everything you have to say. This is my first time. Mary devries, im a pickle ball and tennis player. Were here to talk to you about planning. Were a small Team Delivering tu this morning because we need to get deeper information to you which were unable to doll. We initiated tap with the first meeting in april. While the planning process started, we want to talk to you about how to improve it. I want to convey key points and positions about pick the ball. Pickle ball is exploding. There are 36. 5 million pickle ball players. S that a 23. 5 growth rate over the last three years. The annual growth forecast is 77 . There are 23. 8 tennis players with a growth of 23 only adding 1 in the last year. Tennis growth has plateaued. 2, San Francisco ranks 33 out of 93 ci