Evans. Any announcements . Please silence all cells phone and Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards should be submit today the clerk. Items today will appear january 12 meeting unless otherwise stated would like to thank Jessie Larsson squh gym smith for braus braud casting todays meeting. Item 1 is consider apointding 3 members terms ending february 1, 2015 to the parks and recreation Advisory Committee. There are 3 seats and 3 appicates great, we have seberate members of prosack who are here today. Looks like [inaudible] is first is not going to be able to make it. She has written testimony boy robert brooust, if you can please come forward. Good morning, supervisors. I am robert braust and thank you very much for hearing and giving me the opportunity to introduce myself, explain why i was original picked to represent district 8 on prosack. Explain a little of what i managed to get done in the first 2 years and what i hope to get done in the next. I am a Founding Member of dolores park work, the leading Citizen Support Group for dolores park and a past Board Members and [inaudible] currently the mission deloris neighborhoods association, im on the board. And during my first 2 years i think i would like to point out that i was very helpful in organizing the later stages and the early stages of the 5 year Strategic Plan. I was pulled early on and worked with rec and park to encourage emphasis on Land Acquisition where we got language in on developing more open space to address population growth and high emerging neighborhoods, we had that moved to a important position in the plan and encourage maintenance with objectives plan for every park and preventative Maintenance Plan which we felt was very important. And also rently working with the on going work on the chapter amendment which is coming up shortly. Going forward, i hope to work with finding and developing more funds for Land Acquisition. We pretty much have spent our wad and im really excited about the upcoming capital plan, which is scheduled to be part of the new Charter Amendment and a operational plan. Thank you very much for your consideration. Thank you. You first started on prosack the committee, when . It is a little over 2 years. You came in the middle of the term . Yes, i replaced nick who wasnt able to continue serving. I think he is back actually. Yes. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Next up we have richard [inaudible] who is looking for the district 1 seat. Good morning supervisors, my name is richard roth mnl. I grew up in district 1 in the Richmond District and through my teams and move away, lived in the castro and then after i retired from the city service i moved back to the Richmond District in 2010 and was appointed to be on prosack by supervisor mar in 2013, so im asking to be reappointed. District 1 is fortunate that most of our playground receive funding in the 08 and 12 bond measures, so accept for one, most the playgrounds have been modernized. I feel my roll on prosack is to help district 6 and 10 through open space funding to find spaces to put parks in their areas there. I also see my role as a liaison between rec and park staff and eric mars office and the rez sidents of the Richmond District. I alsowe had meetings about the Strategic Plan and im particularly interested inbesides rec and park having a lot of open spaces, they have a number of significant buildings in them with wpa murals and i have been working with the Art Commission in rec and park staff to make sure that these murals are open to the public, so that all could see them. Im asking that you consider my application to be reappointed again. Happy to answer any questions. Very good. Thank you mr. Rothman and thank you for serving on the committee. Well open for Public Comment. Any member like to comment on the seats for prosack . Good morning. This is linda [inaudible] and the chair of the park open Space Advisory Committee and support all 3 of the members. It is a pleasure to work with each of them. They sort of under sold their skills. They are strong works that come to every meeting they can. They worked on several subcommittee squz working groups. We have members now with real park experience and they are true advocates because they in the parks working and doing things with the communities they serve so strongly support them continuing their service on park and open Space Advisory Committee. Thank you very much. How about a song . [singing]. I live among the teachers the night, i want the appointments to turn out right. I, i love among [inaudible] forest of our dreams and i hope it comes out really really keen and that is what i sure would like to see. Good luck with these appointments, good luck with appointments, how they rule ya. How they rule ya, how they rule ya, how they rule ya. Thank you very much. Any other members like the comment . Okay, mr. Gensburg. I dont know if i top the song [inaudible] i wanted to say it has been a pleasure work wg prosack which is made up of a body of people that can cupassionate and committee and we are in a era of Strong Partnership and rauchered, richard and pat have [inaudible] thank you. I thought we were going to sing big yellow taxi. Any other member of the public like to comment . Seeing none, well close Public Comment and colleagues these are before us. Can we have a motion on these items . Good morning supervisor avalos and everyone in the chamler. I would like to make a motion to recommend Richard Rothman for seat number 14. Robert brus for seat squaith patricia del godo for seat 2. Motion seconded and take that without objection. Thank you all for your suvs and congratulations. Look forward to seeing you at full board item 2 sp chapter amendment to require annual baseline appropriation for park rec and open space fund based on spending for park and rec services. [inaudible] modifying the Recreation Park Department [inaudible] 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 FranciscoPark 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 FranciscoParks 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 FranciscoLawn 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