That placed out there, i thought it would be more in trails, roadways when i brought in the ada accessible to the south lake and the ada accessible to the north lake. Where now theyre doing work on the landing dock. Supportive lines that dont get in the way of boats. So equities, i dont know what the total cost would be, but if there is a total cost for seniors and people who are of such age that the park is going to try to give up equity and noted that you have seniors you dont have, maybe you have kane of wheelchair. So cane or wheelchair. If we have more accessible places, i thought we should get the funding where its needed, a different source. So like where you have a different parks, like its about 25th avenue and the Golden Gate Bridge side of the park, over there you have a lot of russians and all the different other places, chinatown and the mission, there are equity places. If you use the access to a facility as total amount of funding, it wouldnt be very much to develop programs, so i just looking out for a few of us seniors and hope we can rectify that through mr. Phillip ginzberg. Is there anybody else who would like to make Public Comment on the Operational Plan . Yes, whenever i get a chance to speak anywhere at city hall, im going to take the opportunity and try to tell you all, because i done seen it all. I seen operations, stick to the script, ace. Im going to be here when there is Public Comment and ive been informed, i say the right things, maybe at the wrong time, and it takes all the energy out of you going against the grain. You may Say Something that is real good, but i mess up the whole script. Ive been doing that for years. And its hard because i got passion. You know, im 62, im just like all the rest of you, i look a little younger, but i seen it and been through it. I had to go through it to get to it. People of color, i got to go through more than most of you all. Im no preacher, no teacher, but i know god wouldnt lead me, id be gone. I aint got no money, no home. All i got is morale, i got a moral obligation. My family is across the bay. My daughters, theyre probably feeling good, they have kids and they have kids. But papa still here in the city by the bay, trying to get these people to hear what i got to say. When i learn to do that, i got people queen bee, route 200, we know where we grew up, thats history. Although i dont agree, im going to stand by her side until the time comes when i might have to split, because im not going to do that because shes a girl i know her. There is another woman coming with a better name than her and willie brown. I was her bodyguard. Personal bodyguard when she ran. I told her the election was being sabotaged. She had to go to the green party. I didnt know him. I know alley oto, what they did for the family and the blacks. Go back to what im talking about now. Yes, sir. Im going to be talking about all the parks in my community. When i grew up, there was us. Now you got people running around looking good in the parks, shooting all that, because you talking about big money youre spending in the park. But we is black, were still in the dark. See, i dont cuss that much, sometimes it comes out as rhymes, im not trying to be no jesse jackson. God dont like unclean but i dont cuss, never did. But i can rhyme and tell you what im talking about. Read between the lines. I could be rhyming and cussing at you at the same time, and you wouldnt know it. Read between the lines. When i get up here, where we at with Justin Herman, i want the truth. Nobody pay me but god. I get my just reward when i gone. Rest in peace, lee, because im still talking about the fillmore street. Clerk anyone else who would like to make Public Comment . Being none, Public Comment is closed. President buell seeing no further questions, chair would entertain a motion. Moved and seconded. All those in favor . So moved. Thank you very much. Clerk item 11, Controllers Office report on Park Maintenance standards for 201617. Im going to set up the power point, just a moment, please. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners lydia zaverukha, manager for operations in the department. Im here to introduce to you the Park Maintenance standards report which you have seen for 12 years. Im proud to be associated with the whole Park Maintenance standards for the last 12 careers from intepgs to what 12 years, from inception to what youre looking at now. We have a new format, interesting report, presented with the kind of detail you have not seen before. This is the 12th year as i mentioned. This is actually the third year of the new data. If you recall, about three years ago, we revised the standards, thats what was referred to with the shifting in the scores. This is the first full year of the data from the new mobile app, that is built on a sales force platform. I love to say that, even though i dont know anything about sales force. What were benefitting from is data at a detailed level weve never had before. When you look at the report, i need to thank the Controllers Office, they did the hard work, but you have detail and information sliced and diced in way we have not looked at before, with charts and information. What we havent had before is the kind of data where we can look at statistically significant changes. A lot of times weve had changes, but not the benefit to analyze to that level. The other thing about the report, is that it does not take a deep dive backwards again, because its three years of new data. We went back just the three years. So i will take you forward. Basically, these are the three major content areas of the report, so park scores are the whole property. Overall, what are the scores for the park property . The next is features. Looking at cpa, trees, the different features within the park property and then within each of the levels are the elements. We look at details within, lets say, a tree well, does it have weeds. What is the cleanliness rating in the restroom . Thats how its organized. Well take questions at the end. Ill give you the overall introduction that was briefly discussed today, what has been the trend . Were proud, up to 88 this year. Not quite 89, but almost there. Always round up lydia. I like that, too. What was established at the inception of the program was 85 was the good maintenance threshold and weve been hovering above that for the last three years. What is significant about the three year data points, 86, 88. This is three years of the much more stringent standards. We tried very, very hard to help a human being and guide them to precise information we were looking for. When we started, it was a bit more free form and now youre getting information in a deep and detailed way. Im going to turn it over to the controller office, to alison, emily and joe is here somewhere. These individuals, again, ive talked about it before, im very proud to work with the controllers you woffice. The level of the detail is amazing and ill let the people who did the hard work give you the information. Thank you. Thank you so much to lydia, for all your support and that intro. As mentioned, we saw the citywide average score increase over the last two years, over the comparable years using the revised standards. You can see that we looked beyond that mean, because we had a distribution of parks scores where each park score can be seen as a dot and the figure shown, like a his tree gram. And we saw not only was the distribution moving to the right, but the distribution was changing. Because we only have three years of data, were going to continue to watch this, but its interesting trend that goes beyond just increasing standards, but what this could mean for how all parks are clustered around the city wide average mean. We saw obviously, this citywide increase is driven by park improvements. 61 of parks had increased score over the past year, so fiscal year 15 to 17. Which is exciting large portion of the parks. Most of those dramatic increases were often tied to renovations funded by the 2012 clean and safe Neighborhood Parks bond. So some else of those renovated with the funds, dolman playground, joe dimaggio, those were the most dramatic. We saw increases were subtle. Volunteers from habitat for humanity, making big increases as well. I like to note those as well as the renovations made. In addition to these increases there are also some parks, lesser so, but some parks that decreased dramatically in score. The most dramatic decreases are listed on the slide and these are individual changes in the park or the area around the park. We go into a really deeper dive in the report about the parks that were decreasing over the years. I wont go over that right now, but one of the features that decreased consistently across the parks were the on mental beds, so thats interesting commonality among the parks. We have that deeper information in the report and have already received a request from our staff about those details for these parks in order to inform operational decisions. Its a tie between the decisions were making and the data we have. Beyond the changes, we can look at this most recent Year Snapshot to see right now, where are the highest scoring and lowest scoring parks. That map is in front of you. In that report, we have that feature. This is the highest, 10 highest scoring and 10 lowest. The highest, Fulton Playground and ca borriello playground were renovated with under from the 2008 fund. You can see that 60 of the bottom parks are in the southern half of the city. You can almost draw a line across the map and thats in contrast to the top 10 scoring parks which are almost all in the northern part of the city. Looking at the park scores aggregated to the supervisor district level, we see trends to the top and bottom parks, being a southern and northern distinction. We have districts number 1 with the highest average park score of 92 . Followed by the districts 2 and 3, so northern crest of the city. And the bottom 2, district 11 with 83 and district 10 with 85 . Just a note in that range. If youre living in district 1, your average park may be 92. 10 Percentage Points is the average park you would experience in district 11. So quite a big percentage point distinction there and i think that introduces a question about equity among parks which many people have mentioned today. We were able to look at specifically those parks labelled as parks serving equity zones. As rpd established following the june 2016 Charter Amendment from opposition b establishing the zones and the park serving equity zones, we were able for the first time to look at the Park Maintenance scores in order to this will be the first year of benchmark of what is the distinction of park scores among these parks. On this slide, this is the park distribution of scores for the equity zone parks and the nonequity zones. Youll see the nonequity zone parks have average score of 89 which is above the average 88. And the equity zone parks have 2 percentage parks lower, 87, which i below the citywide average. This is an important difference to consider as rpd manages the distribution of resources to pursue equity. And its a good benchmark. We havent had this data before, so we can look forward to studying this in future years and watching the gap to ensure were moving in the right direction. Heres alice with more details. Thank you, emily, lydia, joe, and everyone who works on this fantastic program. I want to take a moment and give a shoutout to those who participate, even phil does park evaluation. Thank you to everyone in the crowd. When we go deeper from overarching park score, we look atrophiture scores. Those are contained area of a park with commonality. Youre seeing list of the features that we evaluate. You can see common one, lawns, Children Play areas, dog lay areas are tightly laid out in the map. And then there are overarching features such as buildings and amenities, which are looked at in the end. So this is a map here sorry not a map a chart of the changes in feature scores over time and you can see that the last bar is trees. Overall in the past three years, the trees have been the highest rated feature, which is in contrast to childrens play area. That third category which has consistently been among the lowest. And so because theyre among the lowest for the past three years, were going to do a little spotlight in the presentation on Children Play areas. As i mentioned, theyre the lowest scoring feature this fiscal year, 15 and 16, however, all of the top six all of the top six cpas have been renovated recently, so a great result from the bonds in the past. Commonality between some of the lowest scoring is rubber surfacing. Four ever the lowest scoring cpas, every evaluation they failed on rubber surfacing. Its something to take into account. We hope the staff look at rubber surfacing when looking at renovations or resource allocation. This is a list of planned cpa renovations due to the failing Playgrounds Initiative youve heard spoken about earlier. Those highlighted in orange are on the top sorry, our bottom 10 list of the cpa. In fact, most of those you see on the list are below the city average, so were happy to see a lot of tie between the plans of Capital Improvement and cpas that dont score about high. You heard about west portal earlier and it actually got 65 on that distribution. Just missed the cutoff of being in the bottom 10 . Its exciting to see movement on renovations moving forward. Were just excited to see, as phil mentioned, were in the era of data, citywide and rpd. So we hope this information on scores at a feature level and park level can be used in operational decisions moving forward. We can go even deeper than features. Lydia mentioned within the features there are elements. She mentioned cleanliness. Thats one. We also evaluate graffiti, signage, structures, seating, a whole variety of elements of a feature that can be evaluated. So again, due to time, well just look at two. Were going to look at graffiti and cleanliness, those are generally hot topics in the public. You can see, weve done a spatial cluster analysis to determine what areas of the city are experiencing high rates of graffiti and low rates of graffiti n. The southern part of thesy, there are cluster. Something pointed out operation ply, internally, staff knows that Mission Delores park receives high rates of graffiti. Talking about how can we apply policies to combat graffiti in areas such as this hot spot in the southerning area of the city . How can we take the data and make it operational . We often see high levels of graffiti in skate parks. Youll see the same distribution list and you can identify the lowest scoring on graffiti are in fact skate parks. Due to time, ill touch on cleanliness. Its one of the widest spreads of distribution. There is a big range from 33 up to 100 . We wanted to highlight some of the troubles that for example, our lowest scoring park, embarcadero plaza, deals with not just high volume tourists and then also workers during lunch time, high homeless population. Using the data to look forward how to improve cleanliness, focussing on those three areas would be a good choice. Great, so i know you want more information. So youre in luck. There is an annual report, which was recently released, that has all the data, map for each feature. Highest and lowest. We have a case study of the lowest scoring park. A lot of rich information there. And quarterly we updated website which is the sf parks score wiebely account and that will show up to date information at the park and feature level. A lot of information out there. We are open for questions. If you have any. President buell lets do commission questions first. Commissioner low. Commissioner low i think what this data, it does give us feedback as to a sense of where we can guide and invest our resources. Certainly the northern part of the city, with the exceptings of port smith square, embarcadero plaza, the turk hyde mini park, the Southeast Quadrant is really the opportunity for us to really invest our resources. It bears out from what weve sensed and this data really supports that. It does show, though, that year over year there was a 1 increase from 20152016. But 2016 to 2017, there was 2 jump and i was wonni wondering you had comments of why we had the 2 jump as opposed to the annual 1 . Ill trying to tackle that. There is a couple of factors in my mind. First of all, these are measurements that are taken in points in time. And there are mix of Data Collected about park futures, deferred maintenance that doesnt move very much. And things like cleanliness that moves a lot. And can vary on the day that the evaluation occurs, which is why we do it four times. But still. So youre going to see movement there. I was interested to see the drop in restroom scores from 15 to 16 and im trying to think what that may be, although it was a drop of pun point. I think prop b is working. I think the planning were doing, the focus on equity and while we still have work to do, if you go back to taylors presentation, youll see that 5 of Capital Investment for every one dollar is invested in the equity zone parks. Were making those investments. We see Alice Chalmers on the list, we just completed tennis court and Basketball Court renovations and its on the playground list. So were using all of the data to make investments and we have a year or so under our belt. Resurfacing, attacking some of the deferred maintenance issues that were capable of attacking. And thats helping. The other thing we did was we made a staffing decision at some of the parks in the southern part of the city where we created extra gardener complex, which covers parks in the southeast. We made staffing decisions as well. We dont have the resources to pull everything from one part of the city to put it to the other. We measure carefully acreage, the challenges associated with different property. When they make the staffing allocation decisions, we did have the ability to create this extra complex, so we were able to give some of our more challenging parks, our staff in some of our more challenging park areas, fewer parks to manage which has happened. And with more investment, well continue to do that. Now with the new Software Data from the Controllers Office, how do those two interplay in future planning . Again, commissioner mcdonnell asked how are you going to make decisions on what projects you tackle. So prop b, weve committed to put aside youre going to hear in in january and february 15 million a year were reserving for deferred maintenance. That comes before you, its for things likes court resurfacing, field, irrigation, boilers, different sorts of things. Were being much more careful we will look at the condition of those features based on data from the Controllers Office and this Capital Asset data. I would say that as an aside, the challenge for the Park Maintenance structure, Park Maintenance core structure, it is a mix of cleanliness and deferred maintenance features. What the life cycle system does, is really just Capital Asset classes and their condition. Then were able to make comparisons between parks in underserved neighborhoods and citywide. Were already doing this, but were formalizing a process to look at all three data sources to make prioritization decisions about investment. I think thats how we do it. Bond planning will include actually if you remember the Playground Task force, it was a mix of the criteria that you looked at, was a mix of controller Park Maintenance data on the playground, then the presence of pressure treated lumber. So that criteria, and you looked at high youth density, lowincome neighborhoods. So in a sense that was a little bit of a precursor for using all of the three systems for making prioritization decisions. So somehow its brought together there is a little bit of overlap quite frankly, but maybe a little more maybe a smidgen more subjectivity to be honest, in the park evaluation process, because there are moments in time. The capital process has a lot of sophisticated background how long is this access supposed to last from engineering perspective . And then you have where is it located . And then that gets to the heart of the equity issues were facing. President buell commissioner mcdonnell. Commissioner mcdonnell i always look forward to this perform, its telling in terms of opportunity for celebration, the aggregate growth is fantastic, and continued concern. In particular, the park scores in terms of the optics of this map are telling. In that, it certainly more data is better. But i guess a concern i have, particularly when you go to the equity zones and comparison of equity and nonequity on the range that is true painfully true in the equity zones versus the non, that at the risk of being at the risk of being controversial, do we need more data to tell us where to focus . I would argue we dont. Because at some point, we know what we know and we know enough to know where we need to be focusing our resources. I get the political context. I get the challenges, general manager pointed out in terms of you cant pick things up and move them physically or otherwise to other places. But it would seem to me that the conversation, whether its the geobond conversation, Capital Asset conversation, should start with, heres where we focus. And there are other things well do by necessity, safety, et cetera, but heres where were going to start. I would hope as we again go through this process, that will be the leading mantra, because it seems we have in the past at least, backed into, as opposed starting, were going to focus in these areas, these ways and other things well do, theyll be by exception. The one question i have is its a small question, you ended if you want more data, its online. It wasnt clear if that was rpd online, or controllers online . Controller online. Anywhere. Let me offer a smidgen of context on that. I know were out of time. The more data, the more were unlayering the onion. Five years ago, the bottom half of the city was red. Red, like 6070 red. And 85 and above is considered under this model to be a wellmaintained park. And we have now were getting there. We still have work to do. And you tie that with the equity metrics, where were able to monitor the level of investment were making in the underserved has neighborhoods, whether its bay view, exsellsier, and the other neighborhoods that have scored lower. Were going to continue to reap that. Your points are extremely well taken, but i think youre actually starting to see the fruit of that strategy long before there was this data. President buell commissioner harrison. Commissioner harrison ornamental beds, was it the absence or they were not kept well . A park is never punished for a feature that the park doesnt contain. Its only what is at the park that is not maintained. You talk about ornamental bed, what is that . Its a piece of landscape that has planting. Its not necessarily a box, but it could be. If you look in a different neighborhood playground, center beds might be considered around port smith for example, the beds that align sort of the kearney and stockton around the perimeter of that park. We have a mix of landscapes. We have lawn, we have so the ornamental bed. Lawn is different, but where were actually planting plants and arranging beds, we consider those ornamental beds. Using port smith as example, that is a problem. That area. Considering that, and then getting to the equity like the commissioner mentioned, i notice in the Previous Report you had trained are they new gardeners or current staffs trained . They were trained bay friendly practices, which is heightened level of ecology and sustainable ecology. Am i saying that correct . Were they current staffing . Yes. Its just part of the ongoing training and workforce development. There is a standard called bay friendly practices which focuses on sustainable planting pallets and how to use our existing soil conditions, our existing water challenges, to maximize the ecology of what we plant and take care of. Excellent. Also, in that, what are the Staffing Levels like compared to the north side of San Francisco and the equity zones . Are the Staffing Levels equal to that . Commissioner, thank you for the question. The staff is pretty equitably districted. There was distributed. There was several issues pointed to. So many of the lower scoring parks are a result of deferred maintenance that has not been accomplished. That drags down the scores. But to your question, our complexes are pretty much equally staffed. What we have done and phil mentioned it before, is that reorganizing the work down in the bay view, mclaren, crocker, thats where we created the additional complex. And we looked at our supervisory structure and moved two high performing supervisors, reassigned them down there to further motivate and organize the staff. And so and all of those decisions were based from last years report. That drove this. I would ask one more staffing change, which is relevant to you, commissioner, we have created a southern complex of apprentices. Were locating apprentices at crocker and in Golden Gate Park and moving them around, but we do use our apprentice workforce in the parks that are lower scoring in an effort to bolster staffing as well. You did mention by reducing the number of areas an individual might have to take care is also an improvement and i congratulate you on all of this, but id like to see, i think, it would be important to have more staffing, gardening around and i would hope those with these apprentices would be promoted to full gardener at some point. Thank you. I have one quick question. I found just as one example, the graffiti distribution map to be interesting and wondered do you share the information and try to correlate it with other departments that have tangential issues around the things youre discovering here . There is actually a Graffiti Task force that is citywide and we definitely participated in it all the time. We have a lot of conversation between the painter shop and sfpd in context of the Graffiti Task force, so we try to get more information and get together. I guess where i was headed and this is not the time or place to go deep in this, but there has got to be good information here that can be correlated to Income Distribution and employment levels and all these things and then you look at the issues were facing, because it seems while it might not be our charge to stop graffiti, it might be interesting to learn about the incentives to create it. With that, i dont see any other commission comments, maybe Public Comment . Clerk any Public Comment on this item . Being none, that is closed. Item 12, general Public Comment. At this time, members of the public who are not able to address the commission on item 4 may address the commission on items that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the rec and Park Commission and that do not appear on the agenda. Welcome city and everybody watching me on tv access, because i created this channel. The history will be told. Im here to tell and ask this com commission because of the recent article in examiner and im going to get on the editor of the examiner tt, because its fake news, opportunity news. It was some kind of conspiracy, because how in the hell i hope thats not a bad word, i done said it how is the hell the examiner supposed to be established paper here in the city is going to let an article get out like that right after the headlining of the legend of ed lee. It was perfectly placed so people reading about ed lee, they turn the next page, oh, renaming it after Justin Herman to ed lee. Not as long as im alive it wont be. And whoever did that is not about the community, its about a conspiracy. I wouldnt be surprised if silly willy did it. Silly willy is just a name i use in my book. See, im a writer, therefore i can use character names. I wont use the real name, but you know who im talking about, because thats going come out in the series called places, places all part of my cases. Over 20 years people say, he aint even seen a picture i took. If i took another picture, i got enough to fill this whole wall of things going down. You know what is going down . The black population is going down in this town. By the city, by the bay. Hey, im saying this because im happy, but i should be cussing the hell out the city and the community what theyve been doing, but theyd have city hall sheriffs coming out. Sometimes i rhyme, it come out naturally, because my name is ace, i have authority in the community, im the goto person for the black news, im coming back to city hall, you all, back by popular demand, not because im black, but back by popular demand. Conversations about racism and all that. Before the late ed lee, they were getting ready to line that up, when ed lee got into office in 2011, i got a picture. I had the black media. Everybody came but the sun reporter, i wonder why. When i come out here, im talking about black, white, all the main pressures in sight. I have to name names and i put a spin on it and name them the name i think. So lets go back, you read the article. Im telling you that you all need to tell whoever joined me to tell the examiner tt i need a full page add to rebuttal that. They didnt say anything about black community. Second of all, they didnt have no right along with the conspiracy. President buell thank you. Youre welcome. Clerk anybody else who would like to make general comment . Seeing none, this item is closed. Commissioners, item 13, commissioner matters. As a reminder this is to allow commissioners to raise issues that belief the commission should address at future meetings, but there will be no discussion at this time. President buell i see none. Clerk any Public Comment . Public comment is closed. Item 14. New business ascend setting. President buell i see none. Clerk Public Comment. I would like this sit down with mr. Ginz berg to talk about the minnie park in fillmore. I read you donated 300,000 to revitalize, but you dont have to answer, well a talk offscreen. I want to know, i want a full report on every park. What is going on, dollar signs. Need that by the end of year so i can do the report. My name is ace, im on the case. I got a report on all the department heads. She got the same name, because she knows me. And when she was a little girl, she came here, raised in the project. I was born and raised in the projects. So ace is saying, my family we outside the projects. My mother came here from the south. Worked in the shipyards. We had to struggle from the fillmore. I couldnt find a dam job. Im a contractor. Back in 1986. All the agents had all the jobs, contractors. They cant speak english, so i had to go down to the hutch and they started the redevelopment. I got no dont stop me. President buell well, youre wandering off the this is Public Comment, if i want to say, youre not supposed to stop me. Im going to leave anyway, because im getting upset. I want a reprise from your director on what is going on in every park and i want the mini park i want to know where that money is going to. Supposed to be going toward i dont know what building up to tear it down, you and i both know thats going to be housing in the future. You know it. Its going to be housing in the cultural center. My name is ace, dammit, you aint heard so much until i head back to city hall. I aint going to be here forever. No one can replace ace on the case. See as community, a, s service, and i hooked up with the prize. This is going to be something from my family once im gone. From my great granddaughters they might want to pick it up. President buell thank you. Clerk communications . Public comment . Seeing none this item is closed. We didnt have the opportunity to hear, as we have fort last few years, our elf. What is going on . Last month. Elf came last month. I was not here . I missed her. You sing for us. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas let your hearts be light from now on our troubles will be out of sight have yourself a merry Little Christmas make the yuletide gay from now on our troubles will be miles away here we are as in olden days happy golden days of your faithful friends who are dear to us gather near to us once more through the years we all will be together if the fate allows hang a shining star on upon the highest bough so have yourself a merry Little Christmas now [applause] clerk with that, item 16, adjournment. Id like to move for adjournment and thank you commissioner mcdonnell for the beautiful song. Merry christmas, everybody. In memory of the nicest guy i know, ed lee. Second . All those in favor. Thank you, all, and happy holidays. [ ] we broke ground in december of last year. We broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. Its really great to see the silence that we experienced then and weve experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. 321, okay. [ applause ] the park was kind of bleak. It was scary and over grown. We started to help maclaren park when we found there wasnt any money in the bond for this park maclaren. We spent time for funding. It was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. A lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didnt have any grass. It was that bad. We worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. We worked hard collecting everything. We had about 400 group members. Every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. There is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now its safer by utilizing it. Maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. Whats exciting about this activation in particular is that its the first of many. Its also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. But also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. We are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this citys open space. When we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. I always point as this sight as a model for other communities. I hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. There are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. We hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. Its a really hidden jewel. A lot of people dont know its here. My name is Angela Wilson and im an owner of the market i worked at a butcher for about 10 years and became a butcher you i was a restaurant cook started in sxos and went to uc; isnt that so and opened a cafe we have produce from small farms without small butcher shops hard for small farms to survive we have a been a butcher shop since 1901 in the heights floor and the case are about from 1955 and it is only been a butcher shot not a lot of businesses if San Francisco that have only been one thing. Im all for vegetarians if you eat meat eat meat for quality and if we care of were in a losing battle we need to support butcher shops eat less we sell the chickens with the head and feet open somebody has to make money when you pay 25 for a chicken i guarantee if you go to save way half of the chicken goes in the enlarge but we started Affordable Housing depends on it occurred to us this is a male field people said good job even for a girl the interesting thing it is a womens field in most of world just here in United States it is that pay a mans job im an encountered woman and raise a son and teach i am who respect woman i consider all womens who work here to be impoverished and strong in San Francisco labor is high our cost of good ideas we seal the best good ideas the profit margin that low but everything that is a laboring and thats a challenge in the town so many people chasing money and not i can guarantee everybody this is their passion. Im the ive been cooking mile whole life this is a really, really strong presence of women heading up kitchens in the bay area it is really why i moved out here i think that we are really strong in the destroy and really off the pages kind of thing i feel like women befrp helps us to get back up im definitely the only female here i fell in love i love setting up and love knowing were any food comes from i do the lamb and thats how i got here today Something Special to have a female here a male dominated field so i think that it is very special to have women and especially like it is going at it you know im a tiny girl but makes me feel good for sure. The sad thing the building is sold im renegotiating my lease the neighborhood wants us to be here with that said, this is a very difficult business it is a constant struggle to maintain freshness and deal with what we have to everyday it is a very high labor of business but something im proud of if you want to get a job at Affordable Housing done nasal you need a good attitude and the jobs on the bottom you take care of all the produce and the fish and computer Ferry Terminal and work your way up employing people with a passion for this and empowering them to learn good morning everyone. This is a great occasion and i first want to say im not doug shumaker. You may wonder where he is, hes doing father duty and thats something we encouraged him to do and something important he had to take care of with his son that he will talk to you about if hes here before its over. Im jane grass, im ceo of mercy housing nationally. But i was in the role that doug is in and im delighted to be here and see the development come to fruition. Its been a few years. Some of us remember 1989 and