On behalf of any boss ac white that concludes my report for the general manager. clapping. commissioner mcdonnell. Thank you very much thank you for the report just a couple of things i want to highlight first camp mather just jim and the team the entire staff continue to do a phenomenal job the first year the course amazing, amazing amazing experience im looking forward to hearing how the young people going up this weekends get to enjoy it just a great job secondly, outlands phenomenal thank you to the aspirin both the music experience the food and food and beverages experience i had occasion to go for the jazz festival up until quite honestly, its goggles better and better i feel a need not to go to new orleans is it so not true im going to new orleans but Atlantic Beach but it is really a fantastic experience to thank you for brairng that to our city lastly the general manager i wanted to highlight another example of Great Partnership between supervisor farrell the mayor and the City Park Alliance thats the shared school yard project weve to 23 school yard and extending the amount of office space spabl to the families and as a kind plug another fundraiser next month in supports of that project so just a lot of great work happening thank you general manager. Thank you, commissioner. Is there any Public Comment under the general manager report. Richard. Good morning, mr. Mark buell chair. Phil ginsburg ivory heard about the pd cant do any good at the marries pingpong tournament i had to take offense we want to clarify the issue they had different groupings the advanced seniors and players the advanced players play out of the brill i didnt they bully everybody out of sunset and win everything in the advanced level phil was straight as the other players not as much notice there are from china rec center nun from chinese playground as to what the facility should take down their they get their butt whipped get the record straight sunset bullies i got quite a few of the players 23, 50, 2250 upper level and 25 hundred in the ovenlgz so if we get better communication between the other facilities and get people to participate hearing d will have no choice but to go up. No where to go but up laughter . I couldnt help remark about the concerts there would have been elton john, i remembered in the wartime the pinball wizard is that the same thing i wanted to make sure i had it right. Is there monthly that is the general manager report so no other Public Comment . Okay. Were on item 4 which is general Public Comment up to 15 minutes continued to item 12 this time, members of the public may address the commission items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. And go ahead our welcome commissioners. Good morning general manager. My name is leno im the president of the United Mission sorry for my voice and 15 years ago we created the Golden Gate Park the garden of humanitarians as a fresh and one plays in the United States im here for the people for people that risked their lives prosecuted by terrorists and others in this place this area we organized for student and many visitors uses beverages and tables but last time the beverages is broken now our organization can pay and install new beverages in this place but it is an emergency situation if some beverages crash the carpenter from Golden Gate Park never fixes and takes the beverages it is easier my proposal is install new beverages and we pay for everything we never ask some budget from city or grant from supply beautiful but we have a service to pay for this. Thank you very much thank you, very much. Richard. Sorry i meant the other richard. I have something to ask of the Commission Im trying to help facilitate a request from dr. Michael lee he is given the commissions a copy of his request theres something theyve gotten completed and i talked with michael about this we were talking about percy the kind of person that goes up there and simply telephone rp d and the lights will be fixed they were too high we had them brought down lower this is a followup that percy passed away on 4th of july that was a conversation with Michael California we do about the lights currently some of the problems that are occurring michael told me the staff people are not that interested in extra hours theyre not going to be there the extra hour but the facility often doesnt have me staff so if you had that extra hour i myself will enforce having that done as michael said other people that have another timelines and time schedules to continue to work out basketball and tennis along with not many kids come out at night that has been going on for a little while now if i can help dr. Lee maybe some of you like to know more about his background he works very active at the chinese rec center and trying to get him to betty honking Recreation Center hes very good extraordinary informed of whats going on in the community actively a rec and park kind of person endorses activities in chinatown they dont have enough tennis tournament the fellow was richard king theyve gone out to San FranciscoState University so not much of the organized activities required im asking that i personally will recommend this the center hour it is not going to cost staff time and all the department has to do is exclude a memo to the electrician to work the timer an additional hour thank you. Richard. Good morning, commissioners and general manager my name is Richard Rothman i live in district 1 across the street from Cabrillo Playground you know the outlands was great i got to hear elton john from mire living room and i live close enough it was great but theres a problem parking, traffic we have a richard blog and theres about 60 posts on that not one has to do with about the sound but over 55 of them had issues with parking and even without any events out there, there is hard finding parking out there we need to come up with a plan rec and park, outlands, mta so that cars does not park in the Richmond District during those events i have an idea some of the people on the blog had ideas im going to bring up or them up now the city of monterey with the at t golf tourmentd if they can keep people out of the streets the other thing supervisor wieners legislation about the hours of closing the park and ive read it twice and it didnt say playgrounds in there i talked to scotts office he says it does i dont believe that Golden Gate Park and Cabrillo Playground should be in the same requirement or same hours friends of Cabrillo Playground will dr. The two meetings i dont see why those hours have to come before the commission to get changed you can right now the hour or so 10 oclock i went around the 4 playground two said 2 clock and midnight and the playground is closed when the sun goes down your inviting trouble the commission needs to look at or staff they want the friends of cabrillo theyve donated pingpong tables wanting to sign an agreement if any thoughts stuff they donated gets damaged they have to pay for theyve raised the money i dont know how much i wasnt active but they dont have the money you know to replace it and plus you know if the playgrounds open at night when their inviting trouble so thats why those two policies need to be looked at and changed thank you. Thank you. Watts. Quite soon you and our associates will on the beach synthetic turnip in Golden Gate Park all of you in the Business Partners worked hard to make this happen and spent a lot of money to present it to san franciscans. Soon youll throw another parties cut the ribbon and the feelgdz e fields declared save for years mr. Ginsburg has proclaimed perhaps in our speeches to the kids and paternities successful facts not in dispute over 25 percent of the chemical make up of the i think field is known to cause cancer as determined by the state of california and you might mentioned the growing number of cancer cases being record for the children so the entire story you might praise your predecessors who are vigilant about protecting childrens height for instance, when they band leads you might mention in 2013, the rp d received a memo and all the synthetic fields in San Francisco this states lead was detected in the dust stirred up by the synthetic fields and the u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention leads cases reproductive problems in men and women you might mention this commission knows of a safer alternated is slithering more expensive but you choose to energy your Business Associates to save money you might mention that despite what you know this commission maids the decisions to dismiss those as insignificant you might remind the countryside despite the efforts those facts and their consequences will not imagine low disappear seeing none, this item is closed were on item 5 which is the consent calendar is there any Public Comment on this consent calendar and seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners well need a motion. Motion to there is a motion and a second. All in favor, say i. I. Item six the San Francisco z zoo. Hello, hello good morning tonya director of the San Francisco zoo i think we have a power point presentation so if i point to the screen here im on the screen okay. We have finished our fiscal year im proud to announce were 10 percent over projections that being the year prior the numbers were 8 percent over projections weve started the fiscal year july had a hiccup with a report of a missing snake im happy to report the snake was never missing and august attendance is back on track with over hundred and 557 visitors thats the fiscal year shortly under the projections of 3 hundred plus visitors the zoo camp is done with kids back in school this week its a shock but a record of over 16 hundred campers hats off to the Transportation Department and the newly refurbished this is a historical dw pa building after the Great Depression i hope it is the main state of the art and we expand the reptile and brought in two new solution the parrots are instructed e. R. Rescued and former pets and those can be changed so the animals have to go throughout the building to look for their food like in the wild adjacent to the rain forest it was important to talk about water there recent a water main that is a interact active aid for folks to learn about water this is the conversation in the south american rain forest and fun for the visitors i want to give you an upgrade on the lion house thats a picture of the our 13yearold lion necessary ill happy to announce shes with cub and the father what about our male she came to us from another zee zoo shes lost two cubs at the prior zoo were guardian u guard and closing the interior of the lion house to get used to the new nest and she can fortunately movable comfortable so cross our fingers for lion cubs well watch her closely this may look like skunks those are blaek they have long hair on their bodies those are african monkeys threatened and theyre known as sloppy eaters that is good are for the african jungle they spread their food were happy to have them on exhibit you may have read were trying our efforts at crowd forcing this is an vegetation for the pets you may have one more your dogs it is a bowl that encourages play wouldnt it be fun to custom build one more the run these we have 3 we asked for money to build the cups for our rhinos their species at great risk with the poaching for horns im happy to say we can close the crowd is ours site and have the food letters for our rhinos thank you for the donors the curator primates returned there i can. 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Org and our prove was to observed the rescued animal and it was quite amazing to see those return to the wild after being rehabbed threat inborn no is palm trees i saw a lot of palm trees but saw wild ones nun of us are professional foifrts that over and over ran hanging out in the jungles were back with that knowledge we hope to make our future prim mate better i have 3 schematics on the efforts to expand the which i am hes this is the western side of our building and phase two to link the two areas and expand both the which i am does he habitat well do that through the trail systems that allows the chimps to go to the able lastly this is an interior shot of pachyderm building giving for space and habitats space for the chimps we know we were bringing those and thank you to my personal friends for underwriting this effort and expansion at the prime mate Discovery Center and lastly not to forget bic daddy is growing 3 times his body weight hell be the feature of our labor day festivals and lots of rides and fun activities free for members this labor day that concludes my report. Any Public Comment on this item. Richard come on up. Good morning. It was wonderful to hear her speaking about the new approach to the chimpanzee implicit if theyre trying to use the trail approach what about other animals the only reason i wanted to speak about the which i am does he theyre the type of animals theyre the prime mates but its taken a lot of work and the executive staff tried to get the drawings for what is going on at the zoo i michelle have to look at it and see exactly what is going on again my first look at it i looked at the landmark provision of the former o chimps and the three houses the one house on top that interconnects how will they combine that preservation the other part when i do a joint sharing be sure that chimneys in the wild have problematic they have the hiv two aids thats not thats something you have to be cognizant about youve got that interest a lot of animals eating and some africaners have gotten the aids and the hiv from the chimps so the chimps i would recommend you keep an extra caution eye on them and if there are to be any new additional thats the big gadsby daddy i thank you very much and great work. Anyone else that wants to make Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Id like to ask we call item 8 out of order we have commissioner avalos here he has a busy schedule maybe start with that. Item 8 the renovations and improvement project. Good afternoon girgsz nicole with the Capital Distribution with the rec and park im pleased to talk about the more born project i will give you a brief history of that very old and slack last year building from then to now the building was built and turn of the last servant by the reed brothers it is a city landmark designated in 1985 the building was occupied from 44 to 89 it was damaged if the loma prieta muni decided to demolish the building and people came together to ask for demolish and came to willie brown in 2004 the rec and Park Department decided to take the building over from muni realizing a real needs for the programming in district 11 also in 2004 the department partnered with muni and it will not fall down in an earthquake between 2007 and 2013 the city provided the friends with funds inform capitals Campaign Work and provided the ladder they did successfully and a lot of this funding came if commissioner avalos office so thank you commissioner dooley and the Friends Group is a terrific champion with the funding also actually at this time weve received pro bono from the design the conceptual design for the building as well as Legal Services from gibson dunn and a variety of pro bono partners that was included in the 2009 balboa station creating a human being around the station brings economic and Community Activities to that area where there is not a central gather point lets see so Going Forward the master plan for the building is to add a level to create cafe space and retail space are litter and Design Studios to roommate a power hours a 35 feet ceiling with Natural Light and where we will cool industrial features giving a great vibe the secretary of interior will be applied with a Gold Building a leaf platinum last year the Commission Approved an lda with a future lease and mou with the mta that allows for our short time and long term access to the building during construction Going Forward and you approved the Schematic Design based on Design Development documentation it is recently completed the costs estimate is 29 million that is proven to be a heavy left for the friends in the city and we decided at this point well, it had a wall at this point we were having trouble getting transaction with funders that couldnt see how to get to the end goal with a 29 million price tag the Mayors Office asked us to participate in a study with a wallace grew up from the netherlands to figure out how to use it with an Economic Activity with the building on the other two buildings the old mint and subway station we adding with a twophase approach with the