Desk monitor to note that. This is the recreation and Park Commission meeting of august 18, 2022. The San Francisco rec and Park Commission acknowledges we occupant unceded home land of the Ramaytush Ohlone people the original inhabitants. We honor the peoples for enduring commitment to mother either in accordance with their traditions Ramaytush Ohlone never seed, lost nor forgotten the responsibility as caretakers of this place. As stursd of park land we recognize the honor to honor the Ramaytush Ohlone. As guests we affirm their rights at first people and pay our respects to ancestors and elders of the recommend Ram Community yoochl welcome to the recreation and Park Commission this meeting is held in hybrid format in person in city hall room 416 with options to comment remote as well. We ask you turn off Electronic Devices and take second army conversations outside for the mote to proceed. Turn down your televisions and commuters while lynching on the phone. 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Press it and city hall security will a. Let them know your location they will assist you. This meeting is recorded and be able for later viewing on sfgov. Org. We are on item 2 continuation of remote meeting. Im sorry. Do you want to explain what it is or take . I would just move it on. Is there Public Comment on continuation of remote meetings . Okay. None in person is there Public Comment on our public line . I see no hands raised. Public comment is closed. Commissioners . Is there a motion to approve. So moved. Second. All those in favor. Aye. So moved. Okay. We are on item 3 president s report. I will ask, do we have a screen that shows anything today or is this. It was on earlier. Why dont you begin while you begin i will call media service. I have a couple of items i want to cover in the president s report. I will start by saying as my want when we get letters about staff i like to let the public know that people who dot work here are being recognized. This is a letter to Eric Anderson our superintendent of parks. Drr superintendent anderson this is a letter of thanks and appreciation to your parks staff. Not only they care for our beautiful city parks daily, i encounter them daily at noe court. My mall and over crowded neighborhood park. They are almost always friendly and kinds and generous as they go about their work. 35 years ago i moved to San Francisco i was diagnosed with aids in the 80s when there was no treatment and San Francisco was the few places where i could finds a specialist. I knew i was coming here to die. There was not much hope in those days. I did not know anyone i was on my own trying to take care of myself and participating the inevitable it was a scare and he lonely time. Not long i was taking a stroll through Golden Gate Park and stopped in the rose garden i was appreciating the beauty a gardener pruning the bushes walked up and handed me roses that he had just company it was a transformtive moment in my introduction to San Francisco. Tifrt time i knew no matter what i would be all right and there were kinds people in this city withhold look after me i felt loved by my new home. I did not die back then im the few longterm survivors who liveed see their senior years. Im turning 70 next year. Hoe is a kid. I really dont know why i survived when so many others did not. The gardener might have been something to do with it my partners name is in the aids grove. The rose garden i return to and often around my birthday to admire the roses and recall that moment in time it was of my fondest memories in 35 years in San Francisco. Thank the park staff for me both for their dedication and kindness not only the gardeners but the folk who is management the trash bins and sweep the streets and managers behind the scenes they are part of what makes San Francisco this beautiful city of love. With deep appreciation, david lewis. So, congratulations to all of the staff. Yea, yea, why not. Im supposed to control these out bursts of emotion. On that note, zee a wonderful resolution of recognition i will ask commissioner loule and howl to take this one. Before i take this one, there is something i want to say about a year ago, the commissioners and ginsberg, ashley and the staff at rec and park walked my life. And so this past year we were on the 17th hole of a golf course with Larry Griffin a year ago. And we cant explain why sometimes people walk in your life at a certain time in your life. So when that happens and changes you, you have to stop and reflect. And this is what happens to me reasonable. Because i am a part and because of general manager ginsberg, he includes us all in a lot of things, there is sometimes things of you with soft bauer oral building or housing or labor. And mark we are luck tow have you, we love you. But well is a reason for everything. And it is not because i am asian. It is because you cant explain these things that happened to me when i went to rossy approximately where i learned to swim and told by the wonderful director there who is watching the entire rossy pol is watching and life guards are watching now i wanted the tv on. And michelle lee during a video that general manager ginsberg planned with Larry Griffin said hello to me and told mow about this aqua flex class and what it is is zoup bain the water. Since michelle told us that and i, myself witnessed the beautiful transformation of rossy pool and the wonderful park projects, people wuk in your life. And thats what happened. Today we are honoring someone that i met at rossy pool. Her name is Willard Harris. Am it is not willard it is not because you are 1021 2 years old it is because you are special that the rec and Park Commissionments to stop and recognize you. And commissioners, she brought like her whole fan club here. Okay so all these people here we swim. I bear low recognize you you have regular clothes on. You are not in your swim suit and willard has a hat of i like to read this resolution and give a special thanks to our liaison secretary Commission Secretary ashley summers she put a lot of work into this. Commissioner ginsburg, ashley we are blessed have you she has done so much work to put this together and together i asked morning hallucinogens and he myself. Willard harris a proud isoir most senior park users celebrated her 102nd birthday born in chicago, illinois in 1919 raised in jackson, tennessee. Received her nursing degree from the harry medical college. One of the oldest and largest historical black academic healing science centers. Received a bachelors from Tennessee State university and her masters degree from nyu. Where as after achieving incredible academic success at a time when women especially black women were not encouraged to pursue sxejz careers willard moved San Francisco in 1957. When her son was only 6 yearso. Before having her daughter, willard was hired as the of first black night supervisor at mount zion hospital. Promoted to be the director of Nursing Service in 1964. Where as willard had a distinguished career in nursing and one of her most outstanding achievements when she left to work for San Francisco hospital and established clinics in under served communities in San Francisco including potrero hill, Hunters Points and mission neighborhoodses. With the clinics established patients found themselves at San Francisco general had a safe and secure access to patient service. Previously, they would not be able to get home after 10 p. M. Cause taxi drivers nor city bus would service those areaslet in the evening am wilafterward coordinated the after drivers. Okay. She has livid more than 6 decades in haight ash bushy neighborhood where she ray raised her son and daughter attended green lighten elementary, lou and washington high school. Mother of 2 and grand mother of 5. Great grand mother of 4 parks has been in her central experience as live nothing San Francisco. Where as her most Cherished Memories of being in San Francisco parks was when she would have bbqs after church in Golden Gate Park her family and dog would spend the day enjoying each Others Company in their natural surroundings. Many years later her grandson work the carousel collecting tickets so kids and families could enjoy their day at the park. And where as, willard also served a Golden Gate Park dossent leading tours for tourists and visitors and hymning provide a rich and valuable perspective on this treasured San Francisco park. And where as before the pandemic at the age of 98 and 99, you might have found willard at 6 a. M. Walk up and down the steps 34 times around the stadium. And where as for the past 8 years, willard enjoyed the low impact and high energy work out she gets at rossy pool. Where she made lasting relationships with her fellow swimmers including our very own commissioner vanita loule. And willard appointed by the mayor to serve on the disability and aging services commission. Where she provided her unique experience as a senior black woman and health care professional. To improve San Francisco for all. Now, therefore be it resolved the members of the recreation and Park Commission on behalf of the employees and citizens of the city of San Francisco, do hear by gratefully recognize Willard Harris contributions to the people of the city and express great appreciation for her career and dedication to her family and an accomplishments that have significantly elevated the quality of life for all people in San Francisco. Congratulations, Willard Harris [applause] okay. Willard. I wanted to let you know that willard she does not need help in the pool to get in the pool or come out of the pool. Dont touch me. Dont touch me, i can do it. Sfgovtv can you put the photo up on the monitor for us so we can see it . One more. Thank you. Welcome. Welcome. Can you hear me now. We can. I really before i start, i wanted to know where did you get all of that information. What you have done you sparred it for me thats what i was going to say on my piece of paper. So now you will have to hear it again. But i do welcome you and thank you for such an honor. I also. To give special thanks to the audience to my sisters and the work to my daughter to my priest, to all of you. I thank you so much for being here. It is such a pleasure to have you here. I also have to give special shout out to my new best friends. Commissioner vanita loule. [applause] i do thank you for being my friends. You all know and heard, i am 1021 2. Years old. I always stress that half with humility and gratitude. It is thank the lord, one more day. And i do appreciate it. I you said before, i lived in the Haight Ashbury district for over 60 years. I seen many changes here in this city. Some for the best and some not for the best at this time. But hai have decided to do is to repeat what reverend Jesse Jackson said, lets keep. So folks on the line we can hear you so if you can mute amming yourself. Sfgovtv if you can keep an eye out. Thanks. Lets keep hope arc live. I also try very hard to follow a physical and mental education derivatives. As a matter of fact, around 6 or 6 30 in the morning prior to the pandemic you found me Walking Around the stadium up the steps and down the steps. Looking at the beautiful sky, admiring gods work. Looking at the flours that creep up between the cracks, pay no attention to the people running beside me i kept walk. I have been hit in my car. Go back up the hill. Grab my newspaper, cup of coffee and hop back in bed. I forgot to tell thank you in this cup of coffee i had a smidge of brandy. As a matter of fact my doctor asked me, do you drink, i said, yes. How much. I said a smidgeon. He say what is is a smidgeon. I said check with [inaudible]. Again, i do love the Golden Gate Park. And as you said already, it was on sundays that we would go to the park, i would grab a bench that had a grill, the upon children run around on the beautiful grass playing. Me doing the hot dog and hamburger. My husband lying there enjoying life. But never the less, it was a Beautiful Day the dog running. Know wonderful. Back in those days, moneyy was tight this was entertainment and also free. We would laugh and have so much fun. Speak of laughter i just discovered that the laughter is now taught in our colleges. Laughter is good for pain. Laughter is good for stress. And we dont laugh that much. Again, i say how many of you have laughed today . Even yesterday. There is laughter is very important. Let me tell you a little joke. [laughter]. There was a husband and wife 3 oclock in the morning, pouring down rain. And they hear someone say, i need a push. And the husband said, no way im not getting up doing purke. The wife said now you remember, when we needed a push someone helped us with our car. Okay i will do that. He gets up and goes to the front door he dont see the car. You need a push. The yes, i need a push. Where are you. Im on the swing in your backyard. So i said that there come a time in our life we all need a push. We need a push to get up and get going in the morning. We need a push to finish that article. We need a push for our children. We push them to go to school. Push them to go back to school. We need a push. What i dont need a push to go to rossy pool. I have been going to rossy pool for over at least 7 or 8 years. Michelle and her staff are absolutely wonderful. My aerobic teacher, chuck, a wonderful instructor. And we can only thank michelle and that staff. They watch over us from the time we get this that pool to the time we get out. Someone is right there watching to make sure we are safe. Minds you, i cant swim. But one of my instructors, suzanne, said to me years ago issue dont worry about swimming you just get in the water and do what you can do. Dont worry about hasomeone else is doing. You do what you can do. And of course i followed the instruction of mr. Arthritis. I raised one leg up and one down. Sometime its is the knee, sometimes the back but im in the water and enjoying it i dont go further than 4 and a half feet in the pool. Sometimes i wander down further. But i got pool people here. Willard, get back in your lane. You are drifting too far. Im asked so many times, what is secret to my longevity. I dont have a secret. I feel truly that im a cond wit that im a vessel for the good lord to send messages through. I pray daily that i will be filled with the spirit of joy and happiness. That i may be a will cup of strength to some other people. I do practice, however, the old addage do to others you have them do to you. I arc void stress at any cost. I feel imtoo blessed to be stressed. [laughter] i also practice forgiving. I try to forgive others and not only for give myself for things that may be i might have done. And what i have held on to. So i said dont hold on. Let go. Let god. I urge that you laugh a lot. Be kinds to your neighbors and one thing dont forget, upon dont take your pain in advance. Because tomorrow is really not tomorrow. It is today. S