Transcripts For SFGTV Recreation And Park Commission 51916 2

Working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrate and dynamic city on sfroert of the art and social change weve been on the edge after all were at the meeting of land and sea worldclass style it is the burn of blew jeans where the rock holds court over the harbor the citys Information Technology xoflz work on the rulers project for free wifi and developing projects and insuring patient state of at San Francisco General Hospital our it professionals make guilty or innocent available and support the house Senate Regional wearout system your our employees joy excessive salaries but working for the city and county of San Francisco give us employees the unities to contribute their ideas and energy and commitment to shape the citys future but for considering a career with the city and county of san francisc commissioner buell, here. Low, here. Levitan, here. Mcdonnell, here. Just a quick reminder to turn off sound producing devices that could go off during the meeting. If you will have a secondary conversation please take that outside. If you like to speak on a item today, please complete a blue card and unless otherwise announced by the president , each person will have 3 minutes on each item for Public Comment. If there is a item of interest to you that is not on agenda you may speak under general Public Comment is that item is number 4 and then continue to item 10. We usually allow 15 minutes on item 4 and go to item 10. Last, please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment on items. In order to allow equal time the commission nor staff will respond to any questions during Public Comment. The commission may ask questions of staff after Public Comment is closed. With that, we are on item 2, the president s report. Thank you. Briefly, one, i want to welcome steve hanes who is the former director of the sterngrove. He is now the Vice President for strategic growth and marketing at the zoo and happy to have you. Welcome. Secondly. As some know, at a recent rec and Park Commission meeting there was a lot of testimony around the challenges that the Department Faces with the vast increase in growth in soccer in San Francisco and the limited number of fields despite many improvements to many fields. The commission asked the staff to prepare a status report on where we are and where we are going to try to meet those challenges. That staff report has now been completed and will shortly be on our website and there is one copy here if we have Interested Party and thank the general manager and staff, dana ketchm for preparing that, it is a important issue. With that, that concludes my report. Any Public Comment under the president s report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 3, general managers report. Good morning, commissioners. Few announcements and then we have a special presentation by San Francisco state interns completing their internship with us and graduating shortly so it is a joy to have them and will introduce them in a second. I want to start off the meeting by sharing a bit of news we can be proud helping to create. This year San Francisco has gin garnered a playful city u. S. Designation from coo boom which is non profit dedicated to giving all kids opportunities balance and active play so they can thrive. The report citing our cities hundreds of play groupds and play areas, 180 are run by rec and park and commitment to installing playground models to encourage play cuboom honored San Francisco for the past 10 years since inception en1996 with shared connection with nature and insure all children can get out and play in their parksism speaking of play and play grounds, happy to announce the reopening of gilmore playground fry day june 3 from 3 to 6 p. M. Parks impruchbment include a 2 in 1 playground, new pathways, renovated club house restroom jz green field out door Fitness Equipment for adults funded by a grant from green field. Will include sports, games and climbing wall and invite everyone to join us. Good news but one of our more cherished and historic park buildings, the 137 year old conservety of flowers. In june will begin a project at the west wing to repair the detearierating muttonsmuttons . What these things are are vertical strips of wood between the conservatory pains of glass which preserve the integrity of the building. There is lose and detearated glazing pudy that wood thingys that will be removed and a silicone cap with a sealen will be installed overit. The project is anticipated to last 6 months with minimal disruption to Public Access to the building and very proud of staff and the Parks Alliance and all those that work at conserve ervety to commitment for preserveation. Pancakes in the park. Mu cleric park pancakes in the park funds raising may 21 from 9 to noon at lewis sutter club house in mu claren park. We will serve pancakes, eggs, sausage, fruit, refreshment for the low low low price of 10 for adults and 5 for children. Help improve the park playground, picnic areas and information kiosks and if you had a desire to cook or serve breakfast ill be in the kitchen flipping pancakes and helping volunteers who do an amazing job hosting this every year. First recognition this month is for the amazing and dont know if she knows he is gelting it, linda deveero who plays many roles in the community including the help mclaren park effort. Linda is a district 11 resident and ourone of our volunteer extraord nars and member of the [inaudible] mclaren park collaborative and friends of jerry garcia amp theater and for the past 6 years she served on the cities park, recreation and open space advise rea committee called prosac for the past 3 years as the chair. Is steffan here . Steffan is our new chair and welcome him, but i did want to take a moment to thank linda for her leadership z Community Engagement and commitment to the neighborhood and parks. To her leadership on prosac, she helped work with department to guide through the Strategic Planning process. Linda is a advocate for park funding which we hope will come to fruition sometime soon. Linda has been a wise council. She is a fierce protector of our parks, but through lindas leadership on prosac after a long time the department and prosac established the relationship that helps make the parks flive. There is not an avent linda doesnt come to to get her hands dirty and help and support us. Whether it is holiday Tree Lighting or extravaganza. She is very inspirational for those that work in our jobs to be able to partner with people as committed and active and engaged so it is my great honor and invite you up to say a few words linda, to present you with a certificate which elten has right there and to celebrate your amazing accomplishments. [applause] thank you very much for the kind words. It is a privilege to lead the really dedicated members of pr sac and the group we have now is extraordinary and hope you have seen many of the work we have done and you realize i think it is very much on track especially since my predecessor less started the charge and run it like a business meeting. It is not about personalties it is about get thg job done. It is prev lij work wg you. Still on prosac for 2 more years. Im choked up but thank you very much for the opportunity and beautiful beautiful plaque, i appreciate it. Thank you very much. [applause] alright. Is string of being impressed. Im going to tell the inturns a joke. The inturns found out they were doing this 48 hours ago and linda spoke without any knowledge what so ever. Today we have 12 graduating student from San Francisco State University from park and rec torism. You got to meet them very briefly right when they were beginning their internship. This is the 7th year the program which has seen 50 student par pis pate half went on to work for our department. We talk in our Strategic Plan focus on Work Force Development and this is Work Force Development and Career Pathways at work in this program. Each year im amazed at the injewnuity and passion coming from the stdent in the program. There are they are certainly the recreation supervisor, analyst manager and general managers of tomorrow. I want to thank you eric [inaudible] and all the San Francisco state professors for their partnership in the program. It isnt easy to make sure this is a meaningful and educational program. I want to thank jennifer gee and bob pulosity. I dont know if they are here today. There is jennifer. Jennifer is moving on to a even bigger role in our department perhaps nothing is as poignant as the work with the San Francisco state inturns. She is the glue of the Internship Program and does a absolutely amazing job. Each of the 12 interns was responsible for developing and completing a project that sought to improve upon a Department Function or solved a problem facing department operations. I asked them to share with you today. Come on up you guys. I have given them 30 seconds because as commissioner buell likes to remind me, brevity is good. They will tell you about their projects and what they accomplished this spring and well start with sulean surono from Community Service and worked on a efficiency staff project. Hi there. My name is [inaudible] im work wg the Community Services division with [inaudible] implement a schedule system. The purpose of this system and schedule and organize staff hours. I researched several programs and looked at prices and features and [inaudible] i Research Several programs and looked at rices and feature tooz best fit. Inclusion service weez have on call Staff Members so this keeps check of the hours and Staff Members accountable and keep track of time off as well. After research i trained several supervisors and coordinators to use the program so it eliminates confusion and the program we chose was called when to work and some of the features is stuff like group emails, schedule reminders and time off requests and staff can put their availability on it and build reports from there. Thank you. Thank you for your service. Next is jada johnson who worked in volunteer Service Group and worked on the sign language cafe. I did my internship that focus on asl cafe. What is a free program for anybody who wants to learn sign language or socialize. Power point, please. What i did on this slide, i keep track of how many people there are. There are 185 people that went to the program from jan 2015 to april 2015. As you can see, the highest number is 45 and lowest number is 1. So, but the most of them came to had program only one time. Im hoping that we have a lot of people at the program. Thank you. Next up, jason swan son who worked with health and Safety Division on site Emergency Action plans. Good morning. Can i get the powerpoint up, please . What we had with the site Emergency Action plans, we have written or oral plans but we need written planwise the staff. We had a hand written system before so i was able to help develop utilizing the intranet to make it a on line system only accessible to staff and more efficient and saving time on adman staff and field staff on their end. Thank you for your service. Next up is [inaudible] who worked with volunteer unit and created a volunteer recognition program. Happy thursday. So, my project was to develop a formal and informal activity that shows the gratitude of all the volunteers of rec and Park Department. And appreciation blog post on the website and formal being a annual event. On the slide here, you can see that on our volunteer work party you get 35 volunteers who would complete up to 100 hours and that is nob nab with 3 hours[inaudible] i just want tomy project was to appreciate the hard work of the volunteers and providing their time. Thank you very much. Next up is andrew wong who works on Community Recreation council at [inaudible] recation center. Andrew wong. Under supervize supervision of [inaudible] my projects revolveed around the crc which is Community Recreation counsel to connect staff with Community Leaders and members that want to make a difference in the parks and with the help of sean [inaudible] able to create a on line application for the public to join crc throughout the city. The other project was create a crc hands hand book which is a guide to building and increaseive protectivity of crcs throughout the city. Thank you. Thank you very much. Kevin cefler who worked with golf and Turf Division on creating a Autobon Society certification at hardsing park golf course. Good morning, kevin cesler. My project was autobon cooperation Sanctuary Program for golf which is an Award Winning program that assist golf courses and enhancing the wold life habitats. It [inaudible] harmful impacts to the golf course operations. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next ill bring up abigail and daniel at the same time because they tag teamedthey were toorkt all most the entire internship and had the difficult and Challenging Program work wg our staff enhancing some of the policy and procedures related to illegal camp abatements. Good morning, commissioners. My part the project with the city wide camp Abatement Program developed manual for this program. What is in the manual it talks about backgrunds, goals, training and safe work practices. It is going to beit is resource for this program that has all this description. I created a outside resource guide. If illegal campers ask for assistance the team will have these resources at hand with hours of operation, location and telephone numbers. I worked on research and development which included looking at other city policies and parks regarding this issue as well as implementing a gis reporting and mapal system using existing technology. The golden gate investigation jury of 2013 recommendation as the mayor desire to learn more about these encampments. Thank you very much. Next up is erica [inaudible] worked on the special events website. My name is erica moda and worked [inaudible] can you advance the slide. I skipped poor megan who will go next. There we go. So, i updated the special events website and basically i added more content to make sure the information presented was clear and added more visuals to make it more appeals to the public and also to organizers. On the slide right here you will seei know it is blurry but two main pages i focused on creating [inaudible] where a organizer can find the capacity and also the non profit and the commercial rates for event sites and once they click on it it will take them to a destination page where you can see is the civic center page and has a list of detailed and in depth information. Thank you. Megan [inaudible] who worked on urban trails project. Powerpoint, ploze. I worked with urban trails program and my project was to create a Marketing Strategy for creeks to peaks trail. Both of these will be found on the urban trails landing page and yeah, go take a hike. Thank you very much. You telling me to take a hike . Next up, caren clark, who did this really incredible assessment of dolores park visitor useage. Good morning, karen clark and my primary internship projuct is pran, implement and analyze a stud y at mission deloris park. We decided to use a existing observation based model and adapt to the park and supplement with photography. We collected 59 data samples between 8 a. M. And 6 p. M. 7 day as week which showed there was between 50 and 5400 park members. Here are the averages for the week days and weekends. The week days are in the forground in the blue and weekends in the red. Moving forward, i am working with the next inturn who will capture the first summer data in june and july. Is there a chart big enough for that . Thank you very much. Last but not least, justena lay who did the wonderful archivel project at silver tree camp. I worked on the silver Tree Preservation project. My project was to redesign the original photo poster boards. On the left is a example. I made hand painted signs that will go around the glen canyon park. Everyone i talked to during the internship seems like they went to silver tree as a kid or worked there so learned a lot about the culture and tradition. Ill work in the art room this summer which im excited to do. Thank you very much. Thank you inturns. We will join you for a picture and your contribution will become a legacy in this department pat that continue to help and serve the park users. [applause] ready . 1, 2, 3. One more. 1, 2, 3. Great, thank you. [applause] very quickly rien as we concludesanch general managers report and thank you for your patients. We have a short