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SFGTV BOS Rules Committee 121015 December 22, 2015

June 7, 2017. Okay, supervisor farrell. Thank you supervisor avalos and supervisor cohen and everyone who is here. I will keep my comment brief. We brought this item before committee and will continue today until the next rules committee, but want to reiterate the purpose behind this. I think everyone shares this here, the parks inside the sit a are some the greatest assets qu provide a high quality of life and as the city grows in terms of population and otherwise and we feel it every day, the parks are used with greater intensity more than ever before. Over the last few years inside of city hall the parks budget has note grown and if we want to maintain had parks and new open space we ptd to develop in San Francisco, we need to make sure spending for the park saz priority and that is what this amendment does. Before i introduce this we had a huge neighborhood process across the city. I want to thank the Parks Alliance for a great partner throughout the process. Neighborhood groups in every district and well continue to make sure the spending reflected here will go through the mayors budget process is a reflection of the priorities in the neighborhood of San Francisco. Ininitiative itself would allocate over the course of 15 years over 350,000,000. [inaudible] and also puts additional measures in place in terms of accountability and making sure rec and park comes forward with Strategic Operational and capical plans subject to a process process as well. Last Community Meetings i want to thank supervisor avalos for his work on this so far, putting amendments around the equity issue. I want your support and other issues around the capital plan last time around. From my perspective, my goal here is to make this as much of a broadly accepted supported measure as possible. Again i want to thank my colleagues that vocosponsored including supervisor cohen, but want to make sure we continue to Work Together and know well continue this item and look forward work wg everyone to make sure this is a broad consensus measure. I want to thank everyone for being here. I know phil [inaudible] to answer questions and know there are people here from Public Comments a elw. Thank you for your leadership on this chapter amendment supervisor farrell. I am supportive more than just in concept. The rec and Park Department has seen a backslined in funding ofern the years and think it is pornts we have that propped up and expand to recover what we lost in terms of funding from the general fund and also to give security for rec and park so there is not as much scrambleing to fill in gaps with outside funding. That is important is we can have a robust Fund Raising Program for the parks. My other issue on fund raising that i hope the amendment can address is often wellier neighborhoods have the greater ability to fund raise for park squz that leaves other parks falling behind. I know rec and park is committed to being as strong as it can be to support parks across the city and the fund raising effort helps move parks to have greater aminities that others. If we look at the controllers report on parks we see some indicators show the parks on the north side hof city have better scores than the southern part. I think the Charter Amendment should create the mechanism to address that and think we are close but not quite there yet. I want to spend the time between this meetjug the next to put meats on the bones to have strong accountability ish measures to assess, where the parks are at and put in modifications to how we deal Capital Expenditures kwr maintenance expenditures. That is something we are all commit today on the board and want to make sure all our neighborhoods are doing as well as they can and well work to provide consensus of amendments that help get to that place. With that, im not sure if the department has any short presentation . We can go right to Public Comment. I have a never of cards and if you can come in the order your name is called, that would be great. Please come forward, you can line up by the windowthe side the room where the windows rrchlt leon welden. Henry [inaudible] sorry if i dont get your name right. [inaudible] matt, ogradey. [inaudible] good morning, matt, ogradey, ceo of San Francisco Park Alliance and i would like it kick off Public Comment chblt the park asilencee deeply involved in the chapter amendment and that is before you this morning through the research we conducted through analysis, through other forms of support through community engagement. I want to acknowledge and thank supervisor farrell for your steadfast leadership in crafting this Charter Amendment, bring tg forward and stewarding it through this process. The parks liness strongly supports this Charter Amendment and the amendments that have been added to this proposed legislation for 4 fundamental reasons, the first is now utsds cuts. The analysis we conducted have shown how in lean years the deapartments budget has been eviscerate jd not up in the good years, this would stop that pattern. The second is it puts into place stidy gradual increase in funding that are sufficiently gradual qu not require cuts to other departments. Third is the robust planning requirements that align the funding. It will build on th e strategic plan. The stricter accountability that goes with that planning will enforce that planning and also provide for greater accountability and engagement by the community. So, we strongly support this Charter Amendment and look forward to it being placed before voters. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good morning kelly nice the board chair for San Francisco Parks Alliance. Approximately 2 years ago the Park Alliance [inaudible] because our parks are central to our quality of life. The measure before you is a important step to increase the funding in a fiscally responsible way. In the past our fund frg the park system is a victim of general fund ebbs and flows. We had as much as 2. 1 percent and [inaudible] this seeks to stabilize that. This measure allows rec and park more certainty athround budget and address the long term needs. The city deserves quality parks [inaudible] i would like to ask everyone in the room who supports this measure to stand up. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker please. Good morning supervisors. My name is dens maus cofeian. I am ovthe equichange but i suck mitted 5 chainss and one question. The most important change is the language proposed on page 2, line 22. Portions of the set aside monies shad be expended for the following function propty action 20 p, pufillsy [inaudible] the Charter Amendment failed to prioritize maintenance thrks most significant need of the department, these numbererize derived from the initial 1975 open space fund and reinforced the purpose the open space fund. When supervisor farrell first proposed the amendment he emphasized the need to fund the maintenance. When he represented it on november 4, it was no longer about maintenance but about the budget and language in the charter was deleted. November 9 we learned the original attention for the chapter amendment when we met with farrell staff and Rachel Martin from the Parks Alliance [inaudible] was to raise enough money to take the department off the general fund and convert to a Enterprise Agency. That decision to convert rpd to a Enterprise Agency must be a upfront public discussion. As a Enterprise Agency the parks are dependent on philanthropy [inaudible] supplementing funding for maintenance and increased acquisition must be the priorities. As it is draft it does chbt serve the people of San Francisco. Please consider the changes. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello, good afternoon supervisors. My name is christine [inaudible] and i have been a member of the San Francisco [inaudible] since 2011 and we are park partnerwise the with the San Francisco alliance. We know the parks need a stable sourcef revenue so every resident have access to clean, safe and beautiful parks in the city. The San Francisco Lawn Bowling Club wishes the supervieers to note the city of all ages rely on the parks system especially when the average age is 72. We play on the ground every week when we play [inaudible] maintained by the recreation and park system in Golden Gate Park. Our 100 members unanimously support this Charter Amendment and hope the 15 year funding proposed in the initiative is approved because those 72 year old members will be 87 and probably still bowl. If necessary i can do name dropping to let you know johnmic lairen was the founder of the San Francisco bowling club in 1901 and with foresight to building bowling greens he would be proud to know the club is still going strong because of the sustained fund thg park receives. You are all welcome to come out and roll with us. We would love to see you, or as we say it, lawn bowlers do it on the green. I had so much fun this year i became the 2015, lawn bowl of the year. Thank you very much and congratulations. Next speaker please my name is leon welder, im a home owner in dissricate 1 and member the San Francisco parksliance and consider myself a pow er user of park squz rec because i have 2 boys. I am here to speak in support the Charter Amendment and stabilize funding for rpd. We have to solve the ongoing maintenance problemsism everyone loves the [inaudible] new parks and playgrounds are great and excite toog work on. There is nothing sadder or more deplating for a community than arriving at a playground with broken swings [inaudible] we know it is important to think where people will live and how they get around, but we also need to give clean, safe place to play. Thank you. Thank you very much. Before the next speaker ill read a few more cards. Martha aaronfeld. Bill hancock. [inaudible] ron proctor. Dee [inaudible] good morning supervisors. My name is linda derearo and [inaudible] and at our previous meeting and the one preceding that we passed a resolution to request this chapter extends the open space fund to 30 years and i would like to bring that back again for your consideration because again the open space fund is pretty much spoken for and if we extend it now, rec and park can potentially pass Revenue Bonds to acquire space now particularly in district 6 before land is all gone and prices are even higher than they are today. Also, i would like to request that because you have equity language and you mentioned the Park Maintenance standards. I would like to see on page 7, 1118 and 8, 1523 reference made this report will be used to plan the work plan frz the following years because this is really a important document and i would like to read into the record because i have looked at this for 7 years, two historically low performing district scored 82 percent, district 10 compare today the highest [inaudible] this tells me we need a measure in place to change the scores and create priorities so we dont look at this for the next 7 years. Thank you. Good morning supervisors. Lintda light hizeer. I serve as district 11 representative on the Parks Alliance park policy council. Im able to bring to the policy Council Information based around the district where i live. That is a really interesting role to play so im very grateful to supervisor farrell for coming up with this funding mechanism because one of the things the entire city talks about is defered maintenance issues. As a resident of district 11 many of the issues raised previously the equity issue is very important to me too and im happy to know these things are being discussed and priorities can be set in place that underfunded districts and those in the area where the city is growing so quickly and have High Maintenance needs that havent been met for many many years will have a way to be itmized. We also as a working Class Community dont have the access to fulantopy and other things that help the funding needs in the district so we hope in future discussions that will be considered. Thank you. Markety aaron feld and co chair thofe Tennis Coalition och San Francisco. We speak for all Tennis Courts and tennis players in San Francisco and we are highly in support of this because we are also overseeing a potentially 20 million project to renovate the Golden Gate Park tennis sent squr how wonder when we talk to donors the city is supporting and will give this gift and be supported for the future. Thank you. My name isgeny wile and i represent d 6 on prosic. I just want to let you know we very much support this Charter Amendment and appreciate the way supervisor dpairl and the Park Alliance reached out to prosic. It is a very collaborative effort. As you know, d 6 and particularly midmarket is the most open green space part the city. That is where i live and there ask vuch wale no green space. Rec and park is working with department of real estate to aquer parcels and turn them into parks, but as you know, there are few and far between and very very expensive. So, i would urge you to consider extending this chapter amendment which we totally support, but extends from 15 years to 30 years because it will take time and a lot of money to acquire open space for us in midmarket. I so much appreciate including the equity clause because as is repeated over and over, the parks in the areas, the one park we have, [inaudible] is practically unusable because it is taken over by the homeless instead of the young families. Thank you so much for your work to date, this could be tweaked but it is a great step in the right direction. Thank you very much. Cath lane hal inan. Good morning supervisors, my name is bill hancock and a district 5 representative on the policy committee of the San Francisco Parks Alliance and im here as a Property Owner in coal valley and Small Businessman and the father of a daughter who now thankfully in college grew up in San Francisco, attended public and private schools here and made good use the parks in the city as a player on soccer teams. Speaking to the equity issues, i am a resident of the center the city, coal valley, because of our involvement in soccer we found us using parks across the sit a. This benefits aench wn across the city particularly those that have children involved in organized supports we use the parks throughout the city so i support the measure and understand the equity issue and think equity throughout the city benefits everybody. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, next speaker. Good morning supervisor. Ron proctor and a member of the San Francisco Forest Alliance. The refandum must have specific language which respected what r prks d can do with this money. It must clarify what the money will be used for including tree maintenance thmpt balance of flexibility and accountability the San Francisco Forest Alliance [inaudible] inSan Francisco forest alifens doesnt oppose the idea of more funding but lacks specific language. Until the spinges pr spelled out we dont thin the amendment should be brought furlth. The text we are asking is page 8 lane 18 and reads the Operations Plan must include specific fund frg the defer maintenance of all park trees that could be considered haserdize if the maintenance is defered beyond the 7 to twechbl year cycle. Supervisor farrells [inaudible] Park Maintenance but no where is there language to restrict [inaudible] it is free cash to rpd without charter mandate to match the much needed maintenance of trees. The urban forest yurnt is funded through operations and not capital. Tree maintenance belongs to urban forestry. [inaudible] that covers many such things as roofs recollect leaky faucets and playgrounds and by no means will it cover trees [inaudible] is a capital expense and we oppose that. Thank you. Good morning. My name is dee [inaudible] and interim president for San Francisco Forest Alliance and live in district 5. We would like to suggest the following text on page 10, line 2022 and it has to do with environmental and Design Guidelines. This is a change back to the original language which was changed in the current version. Rpd Design Guidelines for facilities, park and open space and renovation shall be adopted by the rpd commission. The re

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