Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay Rules Committee 12617 20170127

Clerk. Items will appear on the february 7, 2017 board of supervisor uzgenda unless stated. Item 1 is considering appointing member thofz board of supervisor tooz two year terms to association of bay area government executive board. Great. Supervisor yee would you like to make a statement on this first item . It is your appointment. I think i need to be recused. You do but if you want to make a statement. I will make a motion to excuse supervisor norman yee. Can i get a second . Yes. Motion is approved. Just wait a minute for supervisor yee. Would anyone like to make Public Comment on the first item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. So, i think what well do is just seeing no names on the roster and so colleagues can we make a motion to approve the appointment of supervisor yee to the association of bay area government . Absolutely. Alright, great. Seeing that is motioned and approved, the item is approved. Is that right . Thank you. Congratulations, supervisor yee. [laughter] mr. Clerk call the second item, hearing to answer appointing member thofz board of supervisors for 4 year term tooz bay area air Quality Management board of directors. Any members of the public wish to otestify. Anyone from the sfr visors office or a statement . Colleagues i will make a motion to approve the item. Seconded. Okay. So approved. Passes mr. Clerk and supervisor hill row roanen is aopponent today the bay area Quality Management district. Excuse me. Is this a point of clarification, when they make the appointments do we announce the names 1st rather than after we vote . It seems we should announce the names first. Yes, supervisor is there is in the board packet two memoes from the Clerks Office with poll of all the supervisors where the supervisors were acknowledged. We should read it into record. Wealer well do that. Through the chair, mr. Gibbener. Deputy City Attorney john gibbener, just for clarification, when the Committee Votes on these items the vote will forward the items to full board of supervisors for another vote two tuesdays from new so you will do this dance again where different supervisors have to leave the room and be recused but these will be the recommendation thofz rules commitee the full board will vote on. Great. I guess with the next ones when we introduce the item well say the name. Can you do that when you read the item . Yes, mr. Chair. Thank. Mr. Clerk would call the third item. Item 3 is hearing to answer appointing members the board of supervisor frz 4 year terms to the local Agency Formation commission. We have supervise r hillary roanen would like to be recommend frd the seat. Mr. Chair, we also have staff from the local Agency Formation commission here , jason freed for any questions. Seeing there is someone here from lafco mr. Freed would you like to make a comment . Any questions from my colleague snz any members the public that wish to testify on the item . Seeing none make a motion to forward the names to the full board with positive recommendation. Second. Great. So moved. That item is approved. Alright. Mr. Clerk would you call the 4 item, and hearing to answer aopponenting member ofz the board of supervisors for two year terms for Golden Gate Bridge highway and transportation district bourd of directors. We have heard back from several supervisor jz thatd is supervisor breed, peskin and yee and shehi. Make a motion to make a motion to move thosei reuse you. Make a motion to rekoos supervisor yee. So moved. Any Public Comment on this item . Yes, okay soplease approachspeakers have two minutes state your first and last name and speak into the micro phone. Anyone with a prepared statement is encouraged to leave a copy with the clerk to include a official file so please begin. H as a current appointee of the Golden Gate Bridge district and like to welcome the supervisors appointed. We only have 3 and need 4 and look forward to your appointment. Would you state your name . Burt hill. Thank you. Ill see you in a few weeks or a few days. Thank you. Wonderful, thank you. Anyone else like to testify before pub luck comment is closed . Seeing none, we will close Public Comment. Wait for supervisor yee to return. I dont think we need to. Make a motion to approve. Second. Thank you. Seeing it is unanimous, so approved. Thanks, come on in. Congratulations, you are getting appointed all over today. More work, great. Thank you, mr. Clerk please call the item number 5. Item 5 ishering to answer appointing one member for 4 year term to metropolitan transportation commission. We heard from supervisor kims office she expressed interest in the appointment. Is there any departments or anyone in the public want to testify . Anyone like to make Public Comment on the item . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. I entertain a motion cht motion to pass this recommendation with positive recommendation to full board. Second. Great. So that is approved. Mr. Clerk item number 6. Item number 6 is hearing to consider aponting one member of board of supervisors for two year term to Reentry Council. We have heard from supervisorvice chair fewers office she would be interested in this appointment. Make a motion to excuse supervisor sandy fewer. I like to make a motion to excuse supervisor fewer. Great. Before you like to make a comment . Thank you very much. The Reentry Council is a council that can have great impact on the lives of our most marginalized residents, those incarcerated. As a former board of education members, i was shocked upon visits Charter School and the county facility in san buno, the mens facility and learn 60 percent of the inmates attended San Francisco public schools. This is a issue im deeply concerned about and very interested in. There is something terrible wrong when our educational system fails this amount of people and so many of them. I think that as a city we must work across departments and eeben with the School District to provide young people the opportunity and to end the school to prison pipeline. The Reentry Council can work to insure those who are already incarcerated are provided are economic and skill building opportunities upon their exist from prison or jail. I would be honored to serve on the committee and would be honored to have your support. Thank you. Thank you, vise chair. I like to make a comment as she is walking out. I think supervisor fewer would be a great great aopponentment for this council. There is a lot of good Council Members in there. Thank you, supervisor yee. Can we take this motion without objectionexcuse me, anyone from the public like to comment on the item . Seeing none, Public Comments closed. Any department or staff like to say anything about this item . Seeing none make a motion to pass this item out with positive recommendation to full board. Great. So mr. Clerk the motion passes. Congratulations supervisor fewer. Thank you. Quee bow you bring a lot of experience and perspective to this important body so we appreciate you putting your name forward. Thank you, supervisor. Mr. Clerk call item number 7. Item 7 is hearing to consider appointing one member of two year term to park recreation and open space Advisory Committee. There is one seat and one applicant, seat 19, which must be nominated by the district 5 supervisor. Great. And see someone from supervisor breeds office. Can you state your name for the record. Good morning sorryi know that the author of this is supervisor cohen and see her staff here. This is item number 7, not 8. You would probably do a better job then me. Good morning supervisor and chair. It is great to see you and congratulations supervisor fewer. Supervisor breeds appointee cat men del joenz is unable to attend so will read statement. Im unable to attend because im at the california Climate Change symposium in sacramento which i attend as a public grants manager at the trust for public land. At the trust for public land i seek public grants for creating parks and preserving open space throughout the bayair eye and across california. I live in coal valley in district 5 with my husband, two young daurfts and a dog. Our family spends time on suit row forest and playground in coal valley and Golden Gate Park. I have ba frum duke and jdu c hasteings. I apologize she cant be her but on behalf of supervisor breed i ask for your support. Thank you, mr. Johnson. Any members of the public that would like to comment . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, can we take this motion without objection . Yes. Great. Seeing so mr. Clerk this motion is passed. Please call the next item, item aithd. Item 8 is ord nrns amended the administrateb code to set structure function terms and administrative support for Dignity Fund Oversight Advisory Committee as required by the charter section 16. 12811 adopted as part of proposition at the november 8, 2016. I appreciate supervisor cohen for offering this item and see a member of her staff. Good morning. I am you you chan legislative aid to malia cohen. As you know during the november 2016 election voters approve prop i which was a Charter Amendment offered by cohen yee and mar which created the dignity fund to Fund Programs for seniors and people can disability said. The ballot member created a 11 member oversight body commit tee a moniter and participate in the administration thf fund. Aopinioning authorities and timing it also authorized the board to draft a follow up implement ordinance to outline details regarding membership, structure and terms and this st. The ordinance before you today. We consulted closely with the Dignity Fund Coalition and department of aging and Adult Servicess to develop the details in the ordinance and have one amendment we like you toanswer. I bleechb you have the language before you. If you dont i have copies here. It simp ly clarify that who sit on the Advisory Committee are current and act rfb member so they would automatically lose their seat if they are not. The appointing bodies are aging and adults services, the [inaudible] Long Term Care council. Happy to answer additional question squz have melissa mu gee the Program Manager for the dignity Fund Available for questions today. Thank you for supporting the amendment and item overall. Great. Thank you mrs. Chan. Any members of Department Staff who would like to speak oen behalf of the item . Supervisor yee . I want to make a comment before we get into Public Comments. Thank you, sir. First of all, this is really an Important Fund for us to implement moving forward. This is something that im glad supervisor cohen was involved with this and thatd i had a opportunity to work on it with supervisor mar at the time. As youmaybe not, the both of you are new so i have been working on these issues with seniors and popeal with disabilities for 4 years and made it a priority in particular in my district, which had very few services for them. I had also authored a study to be done of existing Senior Services that is already completed and was waiting for a opportunity to work with the dignity fund folk tooz have a hearing on that so that everything would be lined and timed correctly. I already made a request for hearing from this, so looking forward working with people that are involved with the dignity fund and seeing how this could be helpful for the way we implement the programs. Thank you supervisor yee. I just say that as somebody who libs in the city and work with aging population and know supervisor fewer has as well i like to thank supervisor cohens office for putting this forward and staff ready to implement a important part of providing dignity and services to a aging population here in San Francisco. Any other comments from the public . Or Department Staff . If not will call member thofz public who wish to testify. Hold on one second. Speakers have two minutes, please clearly state your first and last name and speak into the micro phone. If you have a written statement please submit to the clerk. Thank you. My name is wade woods a member orphthe Dignity Fund Coalition and im just here to ask for your support so we can make sure that we have a good Advisory Board and Oversight Committee to make sure the funding is distributed among the various aging populations in the city. Thank you. I urge you to support this. Thank you, mr. Woods. Any other members the public that wish to testify . Good afternoon supervisors. Ann [inaudible] with meals and wheels San Francisco and member of Dignity Fund Coalition and work so hard to see this pass with supervisor yee and staff and sfr visor cohen and staff. We are in support of this of course excite frd the oversight and Advisory Committee. It will insure accountability and transparency with the community and will really push us all forward so we recommend certainly that you support this. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Any other members of the mublic wish to testify on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor yee. Like to make a amendment as outlined by supervisor cohens aid, yoyo. To make a motion to make a amendment. The Oversight Advisory Committee member amust be a active and current member on the body from which they are appointed and representing. That is the language i got. Was there anything else . The City Attorney john gibbener drafted more formal language which i have if you like it but it is essentially says the same thing you just read on the record. Are you submitted that . Adjust for the language but that is the intonet. Thank you. Submitted. Is there a second oen that motion . Yes, second. So the motion is approved. Excuse me, the motion to approve the amendment is approved. Go ahead and make a motion to move the item forward with positive recommendation with the amendments. Okay. So the amendment is approved, now we make a motion to send it item with positive recommendation to full board. Second. Both motions pass and will send the item to full board. Mr. Clerk can you call item number 9. Item 9 is resolution confirming the nomination of Sergeant Dorian j carr United States air force retires as county Veterans Services officer. Wonderful. Are there any members ofany Department Staff that would like to speak on this item . Yes. Good morning supervisors mpt serenemic spaden the department of aging Adult Services and the county Veterans Service office sits withinory department and this is really exciting for us because the county veteran Service Office position has not sat within our department for a long time and think it makes a lot of sense to have the officer oversee the office, work within the office and we really look to join car to help us expand our services to veterans. Help coordinate with veteran Serve Services and it is really a big priority area for us. The county veteran Services Office serves older adults and adults with disabilities and what they do is work to make sure people withveterans can access their benefits because it is really hard for them to accessthem on their own through the Veterans Administration so thank you in advance ce for your support of sergeant car r. Supervisor yee. Sergeant carr here . He is here. Would you like to say anything . Would you hike to knh up and say a few words . Sure. You sound like a wonderful person good afternoon. My name is dorian carr. I appreciate my office and supporting me fl the nomination for county veteran Service Office. This is Long Time Coming for me. I have been in the business doing county veteran Services Work for like 9 years. I moved over from Contra Costa County looking for this opportunity to become a county veteran Service Officer and so really looking forward to taking what i learned and how it is mentored in Contra Costa County and bringing it to the city so i appreciate any type of support. Thank you, mr. Carr. Supervisor yee. Thank you Sergeant Carr and thank you for your service. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any other members of the department or staff that would like to comment on the item . Seeing none. Any members of the public that wish to testify . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Colleagues can we take this motion without objection . Yes. Thank you. Mr. Clerk this motion passes. Mr. Chair just for clarification that is motion to send to full board motion to send to full board with positive recommendation. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Clerk can you please callnothats it. Okay. Seeing no other items before us today, can i have a motion to adjourn . We are adjourned. Thank you. [meeting adjourned]the meeting the recreation and parks commission. Commissioner buell, here, commissioner low, commissioner anderson, here, commissioner harrison, commissioner mcdonnell, commissioner bonilla will be about 10 minutes late this morning. Just as a reminder if you could please turn off any sound devices that could go off during the meeting. And take any secondary conversations outside so that the meeting proceeds efficiently as possible. If you would like to speak on any items today, please fill out a blue card. It is not required, but it is helpful. Unless announced by the president , each person will have 3 minutes for Public Comment. Ch if there is an item that you are interested in that is not on the agenda you can speak during general Public Comment. In order to allow equal time for all, neither the commission nor staff will respond to any questions during Public Comment. The commission may ask questions of staff after Public Comment is closed. Last, if the fire alarm is to activate, you must exit using any exit. The elevators will not be available for use. If you need assistance, please go directly across the hall from us in the mens restroom. There is a security box and press it and security will answer and let them know where you are and they will assist you. We are on item 2, the president s report. Item 11 and recreation and Parks Department budget. It is a discussion only item. Not an action item. Commissioner . Thank you, i will be brief. Its clear to me as we enter the new year and tomorrows weekend celebrations in washington, i think the recreation and Parks Department is going to be challenged. There is some indication that the city can lose as much as a billion dollars in funds because of our city status. We have serious concerns about the future of the endangered species act and the work were doing to protect endangered species. There may be a result of the causes and that will affect us in everything we do. While i am of the opinion of the majority and the americans dont agree with this, nor did they vote that way, the system we have did put in place this administration and did seem determine to make some of these changes. I guess my message to everybody is while we are a sanctuary city, make the parks a sanctuary and that may bring about the sad cuts. With that, that concludes my report. Is there anyone who would like to make a Public Comment under the president s report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Now to item 3, general managers report. To your remarks, i will only say amen. Im going to start this year with a sad melancholy note unfortunately. I want to take a second to honor two members of our parks and recreation family who we lost. Lou who passed away monday night due to a heart attack. She has been a gardener since 2001. She started her recreation and parks position with urban forestry and then the nursery. I saw her a few months ago. She had a passion for plants and an avid member and volunteer for many plant societies, the york society, and several others. She inspired many people on the plant knowledge and she became very invaluable. She will be remembered by all. I had the honor of participating in the staff driven event and there may have been 150 staff people there. It was a really lovely and special event and a reminder of the fact that we are a professional family. It was heartwarming during a sad occasion like that to remember her in her honor. Also jason mccardey who was an instructor who worked in the Enrichment Program in the fall in 2014 and various sites in the city. She had a masters and was a very passionate artist and very active in the community. Sadly he was one of the victims of last years oakland warehouse fire, the ghost fire. Especially with ms. Greenberg who is here who worked with jason at saint marys, he would bring his own equipment to teach to children. He created pingpong tournaments and always ready to dive in with conversations with these young middle schoolers. He talked a lot about his time at recreation and parks. He said she was the one for her because the way jason interacted with her little brother because of his experience with adhd. He learned to deal with all kinds of kids at his job. Before i move on to other news, i would respectfully ask for a motion to adjourn todays meeting in memory of their lives. Indeed. Some other news, this weekend we held several days to honor Martin Luther king jr. We did a day of service of humanity for habitat and turning soil for preparation and at ocean beach as part of the National Golden Recreation Area we did a clean up project. It was great to see so many people coming out to celebrate the honor and the spirit not just for Martin Luther king jr. But what that day means to so many of us. Verma compost. Come learn with us this saturday. I assume weather permitting. Between 13 00 p. M. At the golden Park Community garden. Stewardship education program. The event includes games, food and much activities for students. It is a free event. We will also be hosting a series of city job fest in the next several weeks. We will be out with several other city agencies hiring at the recs center on january 21st, Hamilton Recreation Center february 8th, and mission from february 7th. Along with the u. S. Post office, the Human Services agency through its jobs now program which is a great way to get people in the workforce to get them in some experience, sheriffs departments and Fire Department and many other organizations. There will be resources and applications. The job site hours 10 00 a. M. To 4 00 p. M. On january 28th, at the eco center at Harrington Park we will be hosting our green agers event and a celebration of the 5th anniversary. As you know, green agers is our Youth Leadership program to kids going to school in the southeastern neighborhood to get active in learning and its through open parks and open spaces and work with staff and use parks and open spaces for projects. Next saturdays event includes a keynote address by myra rodgers. And you will hear an update in a little bit. Its to discuss the budget for fiscal year 1819. Well be talking about the budget instructions and how to interact with proposition b. And february 2nd, from hamilton center, and the jolie recs center. And well discuss how it applies to our budget priorities. Our streetscape opening was for saturday, but was changed to february 4th. P some of you were at the Ground Breaking last year as part of the San Francisco Public Transportation authority, sf mta, this project is really a first in San Francisco. It converts two lanes of vehicle traffic at maclaren park into a permanent bike pathway and for pedestrians. And following the ribbon cutting, the staff will host a workshop with residents to discuss additional future improvements in maclaren park. Lastly, the california parks and Recreation Society will have its program with creating a Community Award excellence this coming march. Every summer as you know for several years, be more than 50 teams join us at the camp for our outdoor experience with several city departments and other agencies to allow children to get out of the city and experience nature. Cprs is awarded excellence in the Outstanding Achievement in the design and communication and Community Improvement programming. And this is a community and improvement and programming award. I would like to thank the entire recreation staff for their continued improvement. Lastly for this month in part, we showed the skateboard piece of this which is how we ended in 2016 and show a little bit more of a wellrounded look at this amazing park opening from december. This is this is an awesome day. So, this is a very special place. That concludes the general managers report. Commissioner low . I also wanted to thank staff particularly Lorraine Dan Ford and jackie for putting such a nice event together for Martin Luther king jr. It was a great gathering of staff and volunteers and the community. Really inspiring speeches and it was just very inspirational to go to such a nice event. I want to thank them for creating such an event and bringing the community together. Is there any Public Comment under the general managers report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Now we are open to Public Comment. The public is welcome to make any comments. Public comment. I have one. Public speaker good morning, my name is hashimoto. Im from japantown. In april we are celebrating our Cherry Blossom festival. So what you are seeing here now is the entry to the japan center west mall. This is the most popular building in the mall. There is a lot of traffic at the mall. You see the broken tiles at the entrance of the mall. There are more pictures here, the conditions of the tile. Another one here, and the japantown community expressed our concern to the District Supervisor and the staff from recreation and Parks Department. Following that, the day after they placed all of these cones up there. Its like the Obstacle Course going in and out of that mall and i see people stumble over them. Thankfully no one has tripped and fallen yet. I wanted to bring this to your commission. I want to thank commissioner bonilla and harrison for going to the facility and want to get the assessment. I have am the owner of the garage and i understand the assessment is being reviewed at this time. I want to bring this to your attention. Our Cherry Blossom festival is coming up and its in april and will be visited by over 200,000 people. This is a great concern for all of us. Thank you. Is there any other Public Comment under general Public Comment . Being none, this item is closed. We are now on item 5, the consent calendar. Is there anyone who like to make Public Comment under the consent calendar . Being none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners, we need a motion. So moved. Second. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . So moved. We are now on item 6. The election of officers. Commissioner buell, would you like me to . I would appreciate if you would handle the affairs of this item. Okay. Commissioners, let me just quickly tell you the process. I am going to ask for a motion and a second to open the nominations for president. Then you will vote on it and we will actually have the nomination. So moved. Okay. Let me finish the process. I will close the nomination and you will actually vote and well do the same thing for vicepresident. We have a motion and second for opening the nomination. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . Great, the nominations are now open for president. I see commissioner low, you have your mike on or your request to speak. Thank you. Following the current president s opening remarks, im with hi. And i would like to see his tenure continue for at least another year. Its been great to have the leadership of mr. Buell as president. Hes head of the parks and open space and facilities for all san franciscans. It is my honor to second that nomination. Okay. With that, the nominations are now closed. We are now voting on the nomination of commissioner mark buell for the office of president. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . Congratulations, president buell. [ applause ]. We are now going to the election of vicepresident. I need a motion and second. So moved. Second. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . Thank you, the nominations are now open for vicepresident commissioner harrison, i see your . It would be my honor to nominate commissioner low for vicepresident. Do we have a second . Nominations are now closed. The position for nominating commissioner low as vicepresident. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . Congratulations. [ applause ] hold on. I messed up. Before, i have to retract everything. Give me one second. I need to know if there is any Public Comment on this . Being none. Lets take the vote again for president and vicepresident. I dont want you to get in unofficially. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . For commissioner buell . Okay. Commissioner low, vicepresident. Aye. Now its official. My apologies. Many the last time im going to hand it over to you margaret. Thank you very much. Let me briefly say that i consider it a true honor and privilege to serve as president. I will genuinely tell you that this commission has some of the best members of any commission in the city. I think the department is running well with its good position and management and staff. I thank each and everyone of you and i look forward to working with commissioner low as vicepresident. Thank you. I also want to echo those remarks, i think the commission and the department is a Great Partnership and we really see our mission to make sure that all parks and open space are available for all san franciscans even during this difficult time. I continue to look forward to work with staff and commissioners to continue to keep parks and recreation and open spaces available. Now item 7. San francisco zoo good morning, congratulations, vicepresident buell and low. I want to echo what you said about the department. It really is an honor to work with such a dedicated team. Thank you. P its been a good year so far with the San Francisco. Everything is running great and it was an incredibly strong month with 35 in just 1 month over projections. We were very happy to see that. So after a very successful december and january with rain, but now we are into happy zoo year to surround yourselves with animals. But with the Holiday Weekend Martin Luther king jr. It was a very successful weekend. We had a nice break from the wet weather with nearly 15,000 people over the weekend. That was an 8 increase in projected for the entire weekend. Again, im happy to see these trends with attendance being up. We now move into the luna ar new year. The year of the rooster. January 28th and 29, well have folk dance performances and kids can find fun facts about the animals and chinese calendar and you can go to the family farm to see the roosters. If you were born in the year of the rooster, you get complimentary admission. We continue with our stock program. Which is stand and take our pledge. We continue to have a strong voice in this. Just recently we were thrilled to hear about the ban that china has now that will go into effect by the end of 2017 which will close down the largest ivory market. Several thousand of people have already taken the pledge. You can do it at the park or online. Ch i spoke about our polar bear uulu. She turned 36 years old. If you turn 36 this year, you can come out and have a frozen cake. Its very exciting. Zoo lights in december it was a success. We did 25 fewer days this year to try to tighten up the event. But we greatly enhanced and increased the revenues and the attendance this year in an even shorter period. The revenue with an increase of 36 . We didnt get rained out. The zoo has so many wonderful and dedicated volunteers. One of them is maryann hail. You probably have seen most of the photography we show you is by maryann. She is there everyday taking photographs. And she was recognized by this magazine. This is an incredible photo of the new infant. I want to say congratulations to maryann and recognize the incredible work she does. We have a few new faces. This is or bird. Come out to see him if you have not. Hes incredible and still growing. The colors on his face are absolutely incredible. And to the far right we have the male condor. The other new face is freckles. We are going to be talking about him and hopefully you will see in the social media and the news as well. This is a very rare penguin who has joined the colony. He looks like a dalmatian. He is spotted. Hes perfectly healthy but he has a hes notal albino, but he has an augmentation of the skin. He is white with a black poke a dot. In february we have our valentines promotion of will you be mine. They are sending love to all that come visit him. Hes about 55 years old we believe and going strong. We also on the 15th opened up registration for the summer camps for spring and summer. We attract thousands of kids during the camps. Those will open up online. If you have any kids or know of kids, just have them come on out. Its a great program. To end with a lighter note as i did last month as well. A little fun fact since its the year of the rooster. Did you know there are more chickens on the planet that any other birds. There were more than 19 billion chickens worldwide. Thats good news for the roosters. Exactly and for the cows. And we do have a rooster out in the childrens zoo. Cmon out and visit us. That concludes my report, thank you. Ch is there any Public Comment on this item . Being none, Public Comment is closed. We are now on item 8. Community Opportunity Fund for renovation and burial removal project in increase to contract amount. Good morning, commissioners. Im the project manager in the recreation capital division. The item before you today is a discussion and possible action to amend the construction contract with minerva construction for the community Opportunity Fund courts renovation and the burial project to increase the contract amount from 388,000 to an amount not to exceed 695,324. An increase which is greater than 10 over the already approved contract amount. The project is fully funded. This project honors the Strategic Plan in the following ways. Strategy one by strengthening the quality of the parks and facility. Strategy four inspires stewardship by constructing the natural resources. To provide you some background. The courts project has executed in two phases. The first was to renovate the existing park restroom through the bond program. The second phase is a burial removal project which is to provide an accessible path of travel from the park playground to the newly renovated restroom. Construction for the second phase of the project began in june of 2014. It includes a new lawn and new irrigation and two tables. In the fall of 2015, funds became available through the operations general fund. Our plan is to use these funds to fully renovate the basketball courts during the construction project to minimize disruption and park closure time. The existing tennis and basketball courts are decades old and in need of repair. The scope of renovation includes the replacement of the existing paving and restriping the courts. New basketball post, back boards and nets, and new fencing surrounding the court. Staff justifies this request as the court resurfacing is long over due in the park and completing this work now will minimize site impact and park closure time. Collectively the scope of both the approved and pending change orders will greatly enhance the experience for park users at the courts. In closing, we anticipate the opening of the park in late february to early march this year. I have attached recent site photos to the staff report. I will be happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you. Commissioner low . We received an email about how criticizing the handling of our change orders and not having this run through our change orders through dpw. And not processing them timely, can you respond to that in connection to this request to change order. Canned can you respond to that . Yes. I spoke with the capital group, the project manager, at the email you are referring to is the joe dimaggio project. Yes, it says that dp did not follow all the protocols. Our practice is to ensure that all change orders have approval from dpw and there is a memo attached to it. That is our process. This before you today has an approval already. Explain to us whats the process for change orders . Just in these terms, the contractor submits the request. We review it if it merited or not and make sure its not work that we have already paid for. We review it with the entire team, including the design team, dpw and recreation and parks and make sure the cost is reasonable and we in turn provide a response to the contract to say its approved aforesaid amount. After the contractor agrees to the amount we are proposing, there is a memo attached to it that the contractor also approves and that is attached to the change order itself. The change orders should go all the way up. I should add an additional note to that, in addition to the process, which by the way, there is a drive oftentimes. If a change order is not dealt with an in a timely fashion, oftentimes there is an extended negotiation going on to get to the bottom of signing the responsibility between the different parties. Its not always the contractor 100 . Its very rarely the city 100 and the contractor. The financial responsibility decision does take a while. It is settled through the process that is outlined and that is the beginning of a chain of approvals that culminates in both like my approval and also muhammad nearos. There is a memo created into an Electronic System and that approval chain goes through the department of public works chain of command channel and im included in that chain of command as well and then to muhammad and the department authorizing that change order. There is quite a bit of review. And then to lopez, the city architect and all the bureau at dpw to ensure there is a lot of vetting. All of that bureaucracy often does many times contribute to delays and processing of change orders in the time and fashion that we aspire to. This change order has gone through all of that . Thats correct. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner anderson . Im sorry, a couple of things. What is the location of these douglas street between 24th. It looks like these change orders came about because of the contracts for the painting of the courts . Its not additional money that was anticipated. It was money found to be used for this project, is that correct . Thats right. A change order is not necessarily a dirty word notwithstanding the audit. There are change orders for a variety of Different Reasons and i think don noted that its usually, there is a very complicated relationship between the folks doing construction and whoever it was public works and somebody else from the design team that came up with the initial design of the project to us. Often a change order or a contract modification and you will continue to see these is because our strategy is to leverage the amount of improvement for a project. Sometimes we take a Capital Project and add capital dollars to do surfacing like here when we can. Modifications are change orders. Sometimes they are good and sometimes they are because of something unexpected that is found when you dig during a project or because of some confusion in the inter play between the design and construction. Lots of issues for that and we welcome the audit process to ensure we are holding our partners accountable and the public is holding us accountable. We have a Good Relationship with the Controllers Office and they spot some projects and when something happens like with joe dimaggio makes it a constant improvement and better next time. My interest for leveraging that to get a basketball court. Thank you. Seeing no other, we entertain a motion. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . Thank you. We are on item 9. Golden gate park murphy wind mill approval of architectural and Engineering Design contract. Good morning, the item i have for you is for approval of an Architectural Design contract in the amount of 326,373 for the murphy wind mill project. You know that the wind mill project has been a work in progress for many many years. I have had my feet wet in that project for a dozen years now. This particular project that i bring before you is basically an improvement to the existing project that was completed in 2011. The wind mill is operational at this moment and every saturday as part of the routine maintenance program. The wind mill is operated by our stationery engineer and our structural maintenance yard. The previous director of that division pointed out some safety concerns that he thought were warranted. We worked with jeff in our health and Safety Division and our engineering team, the structural maintenance yard and hired a consultant to come out to evaluate the facility to make sure its safer. They identified a whole list of possible improvements to make it a safer environment. We took that information and sent it out for an rfp to help us implement those improvement elements. The firm that we would like to have approved on this project. Weve taken this rfp process to the Civil Service commission and they approved us moving forward with this outside contract. And the department of public works has also approved this. As part of this design team, we are also bringing as part of the team is lucas who is the wind mill expert that helped us renovating the wind mill and hes going to be in an advisory role on this project for these improvement elements. Im happy to go into more history on the wind mill and some of the improvements we have done in the past, but i want to cut it short there and ask for your approval for this particular contract agreement. Thanks, dan. Commissioner anderson . Good morning, i was wondering if you can just tell me, a little bit about the murphy wind mill. Why is it there and why is it called murphy . Where to start on that one. Murphy wind mill was given to the city as a gift in 1902. Daniel murphy donated, roughly about 10,000 to the department. The goal was to basically water Golden Gate Park with daly city. People thought he was crazy at the time with having an aquifer water mill near the ocean. It was built in 1905 and stopped during the earthquake and completed in 1907 and operated as a functional wind mill for about a dozen years and then electricity came in and the wind mill stopped function for moving water in the park. It has operated from that time forward and deteriorated over the years. In 1998, a Friends Group came together and interested in revitalizing the wind mill. From that point forward we came up with a multibase project to get it underway. Thank you. A little note because of the idea of pumping water was to the rest of the half of the park. Its actually a well and still in existence today. They pumped water to a lake at the park and the wind mill pumped water to the lake. Its really a significant part of our park stream has been in the 1950s and the two largest one time working wind mills in north america. In the world. And the park was gravity set with irrigation. Great. My kids played near one of those when they were little. Glad to know that. Dan, you get an a in history. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I will entertain a motion . I would like to get this spinning again and move to have this approved. Im rolling up behind you. Is that more than hot air . Its too much hot air. Is there a second . Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . So moved. We are now on item 10. Recreation and Park Department Operations Plan for fiscal year 2018 good morning commissioners, taylor from the planning and finance division. We are here to discuss and possibly approve or first ever proposed Operational Plan. Before we get into the details, i want to set the stage to remind everyone how this fits into the larger planning cycle now required by the passage of proposition b. We started back in october with the Equity Metrix which was then integrated into the Strategic Plan with a 5year look ahead and then came the capital plan in december which is a 2year look ahead, and followed now by the Operational Plan also a 2year look ahead, and then the final point, the budget. The Operational Plan serves as a link between the longterm purpose of the Strategic Plan and the shortterm focus of the annual budget process. As a final note on this slide, we will be repeating the cycle annually for 29 more years. The duration of the proposition b. Its help to remind us what the charter tells us to do. Im going to read just the blue highlighted. The department shall approve the plan within the Strategic Plan the Department Plans to undertake or accomplish during the next buggery period. Budgetary period. In other words in the next 5 years what are you going to do during the next 5year period. Its helpful to remember the structure of the Strategic Plan. So we have this 5year Strategic Plan. It has five strategies. Beneath those are 15 object ives and the initiatives of the actions of the projects of the real concrete task that when accomplished will help achieve the goals of the objective and potentially improve our performance metrix and move towards our strategies. Every year there will be an annual results report with the data on how we did in both the Operations Plan, the capital plan, the Strategic Plan metrix as well as the Equity Analysis which is underneath and infused in all of this. And this cycle, this connecting iterative spiderweb of a planning cycle will repeat. The plan itself, i have copies. Im sorry, i forgot. It really is a big list of things to do with concrete milestones, which division is going to be leading that action and what the target either the achievements, the steps are over the next 2 years. Kind of hard to show. So i actually built a presentation just with highlights. So we are going to take a couple highlights for each strategy that are in the Operational Plan, but im happy to take any questions that are discussed and other details. I wanted to say the way this was done to develop the Operational Plan, the staff reviewed, prioritized in sequence really working together looking at what in the Strategic Plan and thinking about staff resources, financial resources, policy priorities with already currently active and each division decided what it could undertake or accomplish during the reporting period here which is fy 18, the next fiscal year and the year after that fy 19. Each year well have a 2year look ahead. Starting with inspiring public space. We are going to be implementing a park a ranger staffing model, a Community Based park a ranger staffing model. We are also going to prioritize deferred maintenance and renewels and discretionary Capital Resources for the equity zones. To inspire a place, we are going to start a Spanish Language permit assistance program. Instead of going online for a permit on the park, we are going to have Spanish Speaking staff located at Mission Playground clubhouse. We are going to expand programs that connect children to nature. And inspire investment. We are going to talk more about this when katie talks budget. Under this larger goal to inspire investment and philanthropy, we are going to engage in projects to understand the equity zone. This is taking our Equity Analysis to the street and validating it and verifying it with more firsthand experience and people telling us more about their parks. We have an on going goal of developing operational and Capital Needs that prioritizes equity also to better provide a tool of our partnerships division, better match philanthropist with department needs. To inspire stewardship to collaborate more environmental leaders in the equity zone and continue support in equity zones also. Finally to inspire a team we are going to take our equity focus analysis and metrix out to staff and increase awareness and understanding of equity along with implicit bias. We have already done this this year and its been a good team enhancing team collaboration. With that, im happy to take questions. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Please come forward. Public speaker commissioners, i am robert bros on the commission from district 8. We got to preview this last week, and it was pretty much the same presentation and the consensus was that the Parks Department had done a great job. I pretty much was the lone dissenting voice. I thought the department could have done a bit more. This is an important opportunity to really nail it down to the little details. I dont think the details were there. In this presentation, tailor has, i feel she already picked what is the basic plan which is table 1, and when i just went through it last week and going through it again at random picking one item off each page, some of it seemed to be taken verbatim along the Strategic Plan, but there could have been goals on who is exactly going to be responsible instead of just the department thing. This is an annual effort. Im just hoping in the future you can take advantage of this opportunity to maybe bring in a consultant that was suggested. I thought there was a line item in prop b for doing that . I guess not. Prop b asks for a lot and gives very little. I have reviewed it many times and the work done with the Equity Metrix and the Strategic Plan is all great. I understand the spiderweb. It will grow, but i think this particular version seems a little bit rushed. For 6 months, its not bad. Once again, thank you, commissioners. Thank you for taking the time to go through it. Is there anyone else who would like to make Public Comment on this item . Okay, are being none Public Comment is closed. Commissioner low . Taylor this is a 2fiscal year look forward, correct . Correct. Okay. I just wanted to get that clarified. The agenda language talks about fiscal year 18 and agenda wording in the staff report says fiscal year 17, 18, to fiscal year 1819. That should be fiscal year 1718 and fiscal year 1819. Correct . Correct. We are now on a biannual plan so thats why its connected to the 2 years. Its an Operational Plan for fiscal year 1718, and fiscal year 1819. I dont know why my numerical mind isnt working today. I would like to have this matter moved forward for approval. I will second that. Before we vote, i want to make a comment that one, i think the focus on equity is from prop b is really something that i find very encouraging and starts to filter into operational language and budget language. I think thats terrific. As i read this, i think there is another advantage to it and it could speak to the Public Comment that was made. That next year, when we look at this, the template is pretty much not going to change that much. Its really being operational and being out there. So, i hope we get the benefit of looking back and looking forward. Then i think we are going to get into the weeds more and get into the detail that this has the opportunity to present itself with. And, i see mr. Ginsberg, did you want to Say Something before we vote . Yes, if you dont mind. Just to put a bow on this, for many years from this department, we were very reactive responding to the budget crisis of the day and the challenge of the day. And, i think one of the benefits of proposition b and one of the benefits of the good work and the tough decisions we made early on was to give us the space to do more planning. In the last months between the equity update and the Operational Plan update, that when we come up with you with items that there are an objective to the Strategic Plan. There has been a lot of planning. I want to thank robert for his, for caring about this and for his interest and engagement and for the support. I think our objective is to make this more robust and better, but i do want to pause and really celebrate and thank my staff for embracing this process as much as we have and in particular, this did require a lot of work, but taylor has really been our shepherd. I really want to thank her. This is a 6month planning cycle with a lot of Community Feedback and a lot of community engagement. So, while it will continue to evolve and get better over time, i do think it is worth celebrating how far weve come in such a short period of time. Here, here. We have a motion and second. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . The item is approved. Now we are on item 11. Recreation and parks budget for fiscal year 20172018 and 20182019. Good morning commissioners, we have already begun or budget process for fiscal year 1718 and 1819. Im here for that official process. I will start with the budget instructions, talk about the positive impacts of proposition b on our budget and then give you a high level overview of expenditures and revenue and the coming budget decision. The 2year outlook for the citys general fund is once again mixed. The Mayors Office is predicting that general Fund Revenues will remain strong with growth of about 144 million next year and 184 million the year after that. But the mayor is also anticipating that growth in expenditures will continue to exceed growth in revenue. Over the next 5 years, the mayors Budget Office estimates that revenue is going to increase by 11 , while expenditures are going to increase by 29 . So, this presents the Mayors Office with an on going challenge as they contemplate balancing the general fund budget. All told, the Budget Office anticipates a 119 million general Fund Shortfall next year, an accumulated deficit of 283 million after that. Because of that, the Mayors Office is asking the department to reduce their budget. The mayors budget instruction also asked departments to maintain budgeted employee levels at current year levels. They are looking for no growth in budgeted staff in all departments. The great news for recreation and parks is the passage of proposition b and the creation of a general fund baseline exempts the department from making this cut to our general fund. In addition, the new charter language gives the department more control and flexibility in our budget process allows us to budget at least 15 million in general fund annually to fund capital and deferred maintenance whereas in prior years we would have really been at the mercy of the Mayors Office and the Capital Planning committee around our general fund capital commission. We have the ability to make a policy decision that we are going to set those dollars aside. Additionally, the department is allowed to use growth in our general fund revenue to cover cost and to make budget enhancements. However, with the benefits of the baseline come great responsibilities. We must now absorb all Cost Increases and revenue changes within our baseline amount. The budget assumes approximately a 3 cola adjustment to salaries in both fiscal years. Healthcare is assumed to increase by 7 in each of the next 2 years. Retirement is assumed to increase by 2. 5 next year and 2 tenths of a percent after that and looking to increase a 2 to our work orders. The Mayors Office is currently in collective bargaining with the majority of the citys labor union and the cola maya adjust a little bit. We shall see. So what does all that mean for the budget in the next 2 fiscal years . So, as of today, the general fund support thats budgeted for recreation and parks in the citys Budget System is about 72 million in year one and 60 million in year two. The baseline general fund support available to us next year is almost 71 million and over 73 million in year two. That leaves us with just from the getgo, deficit in year one and surplus in year two. But in year two, we need to take into account the fact that we do want a budget of 15 million in capital. We need to account for the fact that we are going to budget equipment at at least 1 million. And we have inflation in our contractual services. Our work orders increases and we have some reserves to offset those increases leaving us with a projected deficit about 45,000, and these numbers are a little stale at this point. I had a conversation with mta yesterday and looks like Union Parking garage is going to come in less and it has an impact on our budget and we are looking to a reduction to our budgeted revenue of union square of at least a Million Dollars and even up to 1. 6 million. That is something we are going to have to absorb in these two fiscal years. 2 fiscal years. Just that garage . Yes. Saint marys is down a little bit. The size is only about 800,000 where the current one for union square is a Million Dollars. The reduction in saint marys is a little less painful. Is there a prevailing thought about this . There is a factor. One is the subway project. That is having a greater impact on certainly transient parking than anticipated. The traffic is terrible downtown. They told me that year over year they have seen a 600,000 reduction in revenue from transient parking. There is also some thought that the amount of ride shares, the increase in the use of ride sharing has an impact on the bottom line. That is much more difficult to quantify, but anecdotally that feels true. Interesting. Thank you. One of the things we ought to think about doing is casting some of those hypotheses with respect to saint marys to particularly let the ride sharing piece and the Union Square Subway central project, its just a mess down there. I wont drive down there. But, the ride sharing which we talked about, it will be interesting to see. There are several garages in the area, saint marys is operated by us, but there is another one by the corridor. That is an excellent question. We might want to convert parking for ride sharing. The budget in the current fiscal year is 208. 8 million. Operating budget of 154 million, the Capital Budget 54. 4 million. The Capital Budget is pretty high this year. That almost includes almost 20 million from funding from developer fees for market octavia, eastern neighborhoods. Our Capital Budget seems to be a little lumpier than other years. This year its pretty high because of its action fee revenues. We have 955 budgeted and funded full time equivalent employees in our budget in the current year. The departments budget is supported by 3 primary buckets of revenue. The first is earned revenue at the current year about 28 . 31 of our funded through open space and 41 through our general fund and subsidy savings. As you can see the most notable fund is the open space fund continues to grow. That is going to be true in the next fiscal years as well. The Comptrollers Office is working on the 6month report for the general fund and open space right now so i will have a little more clarity on what the outcome looks like in the next couple of weeks. Our general fund subsidy, the growth here in subsidy in 1516 and 1617 in proposition b. And this allows us to keep the Revenue Growth in the revenue savings fund. As you all know, the department has generated revenue from its property and resources to support our operations for many many years. We generate revenue from parking garages, from program fees, from permits, rentals of our facilities as well as from our Nongeneral Fund sources, the golf fund, the marina fund. The single largest change on this table is really the fact that in the current fiscal year of the stadium, all revenue from the stadium has gone away. Which actually you can see really in graph form right here where that drop of about 5 million between 1415 means we are no longer generating funds from candlestick. What happened at candlestick when the 9ers left, we negotiated a little bit of a bridge so we didnt lose all of our revenue at once and now we are done. In fact the Mayors Office back filled most of that loss of candlestick revenue with the general fund. You can see that on the table as well where you can see the candlestick revenue departed, our general fund increased. That included additional general fund that filled in for the fact that stadium revenue went away. Roo you cant see it. And the big increase in neighborhood and development fund, what accounts for that . The Neighborhood Development funds are managed and allocated through a committee process. So the major departments that are the beneficiaries of the Neighborhood Development plans through recreation and parks, mta, dpw, have representatives that meet with the Planning Department on a monthly basis looking at revenue that is coming in and revenue projected to come in, and then most of the plan allocates a percentage collected for surface improvement, park and open space. So recreation and parks gets an allocation based on the allocations that are set out in the neighborhood plan. To back up a little bit, these are impact fees from developers and depending on the type of project and depending on whether its in the neighborhood plan or a different type of project, there are keys that gets distributed through this process. There was a transbay terminal for the fee i would assume that would show up in this anomaly. Those funds are not for operations, they are for capital. Yeah. We are not relying on them for program stuff. No, we are not. In fact, the Development Fees have been tremendously helpful helping us to make better more complete projects. So, for example, martha Margaret Hayward Program Project which is a bond project is getting a significant amount from the market octavia plan and will help us do a more comprehensive project to do there than if we only relied on the bond funds. It was the Downtown Park funds which is essentially impact fees that we used to redo the clubhouse. Got it. So really they are just part of these projects. You know, so those funds stay with that project. So, yeah, so when a developer is doing a project in a certain area, they must pay the city fees and then the fees get allocated to Capital Improvement to help make that. In many ways, the projects are to help offset the increases in density that these neighborhoods are experiencing as a result of all of this development. Got it. Thank you. So just a reminder about how we use our resources. The department spends about half of its operating budget on maintaining our parks and open space. This includes funding to pay for gardeners and custodians, urban forestry, integrated task management. We spend about a third of our budget on recreation programming and that includes all of our programming in our recs centers, in our swimming pools. Approximately 11 of our budget on our structural maintenance staff. 7 of our budget on administration and these are all the folks who work for me, it, payroll, contracts, finances, the general manager, prop management, etc. 5 of the budget supports park safety and the two remaining places of the pie support the marina yacht harbor and the zoo as well as planning and volunteer services. Is park safety separate from the salary from the park rangers . No, park safety is park rangers. Of course the largest single place of this pie is salaries and benefits. Nearly twothirds of the departments budget is towards staff. About 14 of our operating budget Funds Services that we buy from other departments, sewer water, heat and power, vehicle repairs, City Attorney services, workers compensation, services. A budget allocated to materials and supplies and equipment. And 8 from services from garbage pick up and management. A percent of the budget is allocated for the zoo and 4 for the marina loan and the open space Revenue Bonds and 1 on citywide overhead which is the Controllers Office and the mayors operating budget. As discussed earlier, one of the great strengths in my opinion of this great er charter language is looking ahead. As you know, as the charter asks the commission has now approved a Strategic Plan, capital plan and as of today, an Operational Plan. The charter intends for each of these documents as well as our Equity Metrix to guide the development of our budget over the coming fiscal period to the next 2 fiscal years. As taylor just discussed the Strategic Plan outlines our work over a 5year horizon. The Operational Plan takes initiatives and objectives from the Strategic Plan and talks about what we are going to accomplish over the next 2 fiscal years. So, as we build our budget for fiscal year 1718 and 1819. We are going to be using the Operational Plan that you have just approved as our guide for budget. So its early days yet. We have five whole weeks to figure this out, but i expect that we will be using growth in revenue to address our deficits. Right now, im hoping to have some additional revenue from leases and concessions. A little bit of revenue from programs and then i think the primary resource that we are going to be looking at is the open space fund and growth and open space over the next couple of years. I mentioned in the gm report we are doing two Community Budget meetings. We are going to have an all staff meeting next week where i will be talking about the budget. We are going to staff for brown bag lunches to talking about the budget. Im be coming back and talking to the Commission Two more times. Im be at prosac in february and a park advocate meeting. As always the budget is due to the Mayors Office on february 21st. We have a lot of work to do between now and then and i will certainly be back before you for some additional input. I am happy to answer questions. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner harrison . Yes, i would like to go back to the full time equivalent. Sure. We have 955 budgeted now and earlier on it was mentioned to discuss retirements. We are allowed to back fill positions, we are not just allowed 956. That was my point. At some point well get back to normal. Absolutely. Commissioner anderson . I apologize for asking so many questions. I just want to figure this out. At the first page where you have the city general fund outlook. Im having a hard time reconciling that piece of paper versus the recreation and parks budget. So, the citys, it has to be a race. The basic budget or they have to cut general fund expenditures. Okay, and you made the point because of these, we dont have to do the 3 . Precisely. Thats the good news. Got it. Thank you, commissioner bonilla . Will the department be required to provide data to the Mayors Office on its funding and spending allocations consistent with the equity matrix and or district by district spending as some departments are being required to do . I dont believe the charter, the charter definitely does not speak to district by district. So, commissioner, the way that this department has kind of worked through the equity, so dont forget its hard to have an apples to apples comparison. We went through identifying each own and collect data at how we are doing in equity zones versus citywide. I think thats sort of the approach that we are taking and when we come in and talk about court resurfacing, we are trying to touch on equity parks. We have lots of good data right now and we are able to make some pretty good comparisons. I think we are having a tougher time in making apples to apples comparison because we have different sizes of parks in different locations. I think the equity framework that weve developed allows us to look at a variety of different metrix some of which, well, you saul saw them. There is other data to look at to see how we are doing in equity needs areas. The reason i asked is because the department on aging is required to do that, and i just thought, that it would be and for the department on aging is extremely difficult. I thought if that was going to be the requirement of recreation and parks, i would imagine it would be extremely challenging. I was hoping that that would not be the case. Seeing no other questions, we dont need to act on this. The chair will thank katie for the fine presentation. We are now on item 12, general Public Comment continued from item 4. Is there anyone who did not speak on item 4 that would like to speak on general Public Comment . Seeing none, the item is closed. Item 13, new business, agenda setting, any general Public Comment. Excuse me commissioner . Im sorry, commissioner mcdonnell. I dont know whether this is agendaized but i would like an update on the open space and the whole body of the playground. I would just love it. Thank you. Okay. Item 14, communications, Public Comment . Seeing none. Commissioners, this item is closed. Item 15, commissioner buell, you have three. The chair would entertain a motion to adjourn in lewis lieu and jen mccarty and ms. Star. Aye. Thank you, commissioners. [ meeting is adjourned ] at 62 together we can support your children. Its been my dream to start is a Valley School since i was a little girl. Im having a lot of fun with it clapping the biggest thing we really want the kids to have fun. A lot of times parents say that Valley Schools have a lot of problems but we want them to follow directions but we want them to have a wonderful time and be an affordable time so the kids will go to school here. We hold the classes to no longer 12 and theres 23 teachers. I go around and i watch each class and theres certain children i watched from babies and its exciting to see them after today. The children learn how to follow directions and it ends up helping them in their regular schooling. They get selfconfidents and today, we had a residual and a lot of time go on stage and i hope they get the bug and want to dance for the rest of their Ethics Commission for january 23rd, and i will call the roll. Vicechair keane. Here. Commissioner hayon. Here. Commissioner chiu. Here. Commissioner kopp. Here. All present and accounted for. I will ask item agenda item no. 2, Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. Is there anyone who wishes to make Public Comment . Seeing none, well turn to item no. 3, which is discussion and possible action on draft minutes for the commissions december 19th, 2016 special meeting. Any of the commissioners have any comments or corrections . I ve