Now, we could all go to websters dictionary or google to find out what the definition of concentration camps is. But if you read it, it is definite that the definition clearly captures the experience of more than 100,000 japanese during world war ii. And as shameful as this period was in our history, it can be there can be no question that this was an american an american concentration camp. So in placing a plaque in the wording, i want to end by saying this words matter and the truth matters. Thank you. President buell thank you. Clerk i know we have a couple of other folks for Public Comment. Please come forward. Good afternoon, commissioners, president buell, members of the commission, general manager phil ginsburg. Thank you for taking this issue up in your agenda. Im a longtime advocate for [feedback] as you know, San Francisco is one of three left in america. And im here to urge you to support the recommendation from your Operations Committee that met recently, which your committee did approve the signage for the issei Memorial Park plaque. So i would like for you to support the whole exact wording as it is. And im here to support the letter that was committed to you by submitted to you by paul osaki, the director. I am a Third Generation japaneseamerican and i was born in one of those american concentration camps. Specifically thue lake. So i urge you to support the exact wording, because words do matter. Thank you. President buell thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners, im executive director of the japanese cultural center. This is another opportunity for you to do a good thing. I first wanted to thank you and express my deepest appreciation for your unanimous approval of the issei garden project. In that proposal was the Historic Context of what now has become the language on this plaque. The garden itself is beautiful. You know, but you tie a story to it and a history, and it becomes a treasure for the community, for the neighborhood, and for the city of San Francisco. You know, i need to say this because there has been so much stuff being said about our history, but and i know you know this, but for the record, the opposition is no expert on japaneseamerican history. Taken a few things found on the internet and tried to weaponize it to use our history against us. I can assure you that the information contained on the plaque is 100 factual. October 3rd Operations Committee meeting made a statement that the issei were never gardeners. They were only farmers and damn good farmers. Thats the kind of thing that President Trump would tweet. You know, it is really condescending, because we were farmers, but the issei were also scholars and students and businessmen and doctors. And they were gardeners. You know, i just always assume that japaneseamerican gardens were synonymous with gardening. But i guess i was wrong, but for the record, japaneseamericans created the San Francisco flower mart on 6th and brandon at the turn of the century. They also started the california flowers Grow Association in 1906 and it started with 42 charter members. And then a couple of decades later by the 1930s, there were over 80 independent japanese nurseries, just here in the bay area. They also started the Southern California flower mart which is now the nations largest flower market of its kind. They started the california flower and Shippers Association which now attributes 80 of the domestic flower industry in the nation. [bell ringing] we have a deep history as gardeners and nurseries and i just wanted to clear that fact up. President buell thank you very much. Ill make this brief. My name is david darling. Ive lived on cottage row for 16 years. I first wanted to commend you all and your people for doing such an amazing job. Ive watched the park transform over that time. And its truly amazing. But also ive come to recognize that japan town is such a unique and valuable asset, cultural asset to the city of San Francisco and to me and my family. And this garden is so important in kind of preserving that asset. And the story that it tells and the story that the text of the plaque tells is frankly, kind of lost on a lot of people. And i think any opportunity we have to put that story forward, we should take that opportunity. Particularly the wording, i feel really strongly, that the word the phrase concentration camp means Different Things to different people. To my wife and her family, it means exactly what is referenced in this text. Thank you. President buell thank you. Clerk any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Sorry, richard. Good afternoon, again. Id to put in my two bits. Im proactive with this plaque being placed. Ive spoken about it during committee. It would be a wonderful place for people to reflect and try to get in touch with the ancestry. Practicing piety, respectful zone, past, present and future, and other issues related to a memorial place that is kind of like the old fisher place you can go to, and try to relax. And to meditate and to calm the inner calm of it. Which ever religious you are. So the place itself is not religion, its more a commemorative location. And i, myself, when i think about it, a lot of my old friends, i used to go barhopping a few places. Theyve already passed away. They would have been issei second generation. And then there would be the first generation. The issei. And they arent any longer around too much. I learned esprit. I wanted to keep in mind that in the spirit of such location, it should be something that the soul can reach of each and every one who would be of such time. When you search your own soul, you should find peace of mind. Thank you. President buell thank you. Clerk any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner mcdonnell thank you so much. In the noted words of the philosopher ice cube [laughter] commissioner mcdonnell he said you singing . No, he said today was a good day. And for me today was a good day. Where again were pausing to put an important stake and pin in the ground that recognizes the significant contributions of our brothers and sisters in japantown. I grew up attending Mount Trinity baptist church. If you know anything about the black church, sunday is all day. So, i had breakfast in japantown, lunch in japantown, dinner in japantown. Wednesday nights in japantown. Thursday night choir rehearsal. I almost lived in japantown. It was a wonderful place to learn and grow and so, again, to the tireless advocates who fought long and hard to bring us to this moment, thank you. Its unfortunate there were headwinds that didnt quite understand or value, but you persevered, so again, i commend you. Thank you so much for bringing us to this place. Commissioner anderson id like to ditto what commissioner mcdonnell said and also acknowledge, i agree with you how important it is to honor history correctly. To be sure that we dont sugar coat things, especially something so serious as what happened with the internment campsconcentration camps. I think we all share a mission here, that it does no harm to speak the truth. It does great harm to sugarcoat or cover the truth. I want to thank the advocates, the people that came up with the thoughtful wording. I probably could think of ways to make it stronger. I think you still exercise a great deal of discretion here and respect. And i just want to thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for that. President buell thank you. Commissioner bonilla yes. Members of my extended family were placed in concentration camps. The story that will be depicted on this plaque is a story is a very important story, its a very important lesson of what we should not ever do. Its a story that should never be forgotten. And this is this has tremendous significance to me and im so grateful to people like sandy and paul that brought this to light. And that we have the opportunity to vote on this today. Thank you so much. President buell thank you. Seeing no other comment, the chair would entertain a motion. So moved. Second. President buell moved and seconded. All those in favor . So moved. Thank you very much. [applause] were on item 8, mclaren playground and Group Picnic Area renovation. Good afternoon, im a project manager. Im here to amend the contract with cazadoro construction for the renovation project. To increase the change order amount allowed under the contract from 141,972 to an amount not to exceed 1. 269 million, which is greater than 10 over the original approved contract amount. First up, commissioners, this is not a request for additional funds. The two projects ill be speaking about here today are both fully funded. The mclaren playground renovation is a tier one project and is under construction and has budget of 3. 6 million. This project has come before the commission for Concept Design approval. The low bidder on the project was actually 6 under our construction estimate, which doesnt happen very often. And we benefitted from having eight bidders. Because of this, were in the fortunate position of being able to increase the project scope and response to community desires. Specifically, wed like to incorporate a swing area into the playground. This request did come up at the end of the Community Outreach phase. But at the time, we were very cautious with the project budget, because we had been experiencing a volatile bid market and didnt want to set ourselves up for future problems. At this point, we feel confident we can deliver the project within budget and would like to go ahead and include the swings. The community is very excited about this. Everyone feels like theyll add a lot of play value to the site. The second part of the change order is increasing the size of the footing designs for the original play structure. The original play structure is custom equipment, so the way the process works, the manufacturer doesnt fully design the equipment until theyre under contract. So we did not have this information at the time of bidding, but we did hold back funds as we foresaw this cost coming. And at this point, the structure has been fully designed, reviewed by the geotechnical engineers and approved in the building department. Moving on to change order 3, this change order folds the restroom project into the current construction contract. I brought this item to commission for Concept Design approval in june. And it was unanimously approved by the commissioners at full commission. This project came out of the mclaren vision plan process and is fully funded. During the plan, the community told us they wanted a restroom at the picnic area and that the playground deserved a restroom. And as the commissioners know, the vision plan and the quick start project from mclaren totaled 10 million in funding from mclaren park. Mclaren park is still a 300 an acre park with a lot of needs. This 10 million were fully funding eight Capital Projects and augmenting funding for an additional four. The goal of having the work done in the change order is to deliver completed site for the community with a new playground, picnic area and restroom. As you can see oh. Presentation. Sorry. As you can see on the screen, a portion of the site directly overlaps between the restroom project and the playground. And its at a critical point which is at the entrance. This is our ada entrance. If we were executing the contract in this manner, it would be challenging to potentially have two prime contractors sharing a site and we also didnt want to delay the project any longer. Additionally we think the approach can save the project money by using a contractor that is already mobilized on site. It will allow us to better balance, cut and fill soil on the site. Finally, we have a confirmed price from a contractor and dont have to go through the uncertainty of bidding the project separately. On the price, i would like this add that approximately 20 of the costs for the restroom work is actually the restroom itself. And 80 of the cost is the utility work and the site work. And i have a graphic to show is that. So maybe a little hard to see, but there is a pink dot that shows the restroom location at the picnic area. Then a yellow line demonstrating the trenching where we need to bring in the electoral from the pumphouse electrical and then there is a orange line showing where were connecting to Domestic Water outside of the park in the public rightofway. In total, were trenching 1700 linear feet to get Domestic Water to the bathroom. Its 300acre park. This park is owned by the recreation department, not public works, so there are not you utilities in the streets as you would expect with most public works streets. The prefabricated manufacturer was chosen because theyve worked with San Francisco. Theyre providing all of the bus driver convenient stations located throughout the city and some of the staff has visited those and found them to be sturdy and well constructed. The company is located in the United States and the bathrooms are built in the United States. Even after issuing these change orders, both projects will still have reserves and contin generals and i asked that the final piece of approval funding is on the new contract amount. It will require utility work, we would like this have additional contingencies available in case of unforeseen conditions. Regarding the project schedule, were planning to be complete in 2020 with a new joint project. Were looking forward to reopening the site for the community this spring when its most popular. So in conclusion, staff recommends the approval of this item. Thank you. President buell thank you. I have three blue cards. Good afternoon, commissioners and general manager and thank you for the shoutout about the concert. It will be at noon on saturday. But around the corner from the amphitheatre is where this wonderful site is located. This project has been on the wish list of all the mclaren park advocates for all the years that ive been involved with this. And were so excited its getting close, so we would really like to urge the commission to adopt it completely today so the project can go ahead as fast as possible and we can get back to using this wonderful picnic area. Part of it contains what i like to call the ghost playground. This was a playground that couldnt be rated in our annual playground ratings, because it didnt exist for many years. It had been torn down and was left as an empty area. So we had to reconstruct from old pictures what the playground had been. And how much it had meant to people to have a playground in that area. It did contain swings in the old days. And swings are still one of the most popular things you will find at many playgrounds throughout the city. So were delighted that could be incorporated with the savings. The restroom is vitally important. Having a Group Picnic Area where you have perhaps 50 to 100 people coming, weve been contending with just a horrible portapotty situation for over 20 years. It wasnt any way to create a new Capital Improvement not to include this as the package and the fact that they could find a bathroom program that would work within the money that was available to me was just wonderful. And im so delighted with capital for coming up with the plan. Thank you. President buell thank you. Matthew, im just speaking here today as someone who likes mclaren park. A theme in this meeting that happens, mclaren is one of the underinvested parks in the city, not the worse, but im glad to have the project go ahead. And provide the super important i menty for the amenity for the park in this part of the city. Thank you. President buell thank you. Hi, good afternoon. Im genie crawford. I live by the park. I walk there every morning early to get my exercise for about three miles. And i want to speak about how badly we need this restroom. I have a visual. If i put it here, will this show up . Because i walk by the portapotty every day in my walk, we have all been so upset with how this portapotty has not been maintained well and often has no latch and so i started taking pictures every week. And we tried to get it see if we could get it cleaned more. Heres more pictures. But, we desperately need the restroom that alexis ward has in the package. It will be so wonderful to have that there for the group. Group picnic area. Thats the point i wanted to really emphasize. Thank you. President buell thank you very much. Hello. I work the San Francisco parks alliance. Were really excited to be partnering with rec and park on the mclaren playground renovation and all of the letsplaysf playground. I support the addition of the swings and bathroom. Every kid loves swings and everyone deserves a proper restroom. And especially given the Community Support for the project. Were excited to see this move forward. Thank you. President buell thank you. Any other Public Comment . Richard still here . Seeing none president buell you cant see him, but hes not here. Public comment is closed. Commissioner anderson i just had a couple of questions. Im looking at well, its page 305 of our packet. It says mclaren playground funding at the top. And under the section that says Group Picnic Area restroom project, its 1. 7 million i guess to construct the there is 820,000 to construct the physical structure of the restroom, is that what it is . Correct, thats the construction contract amount. Commissioner anderson and then soft costs . What are soft costs . Soft costs include my time on the project, permitting, construction management, the architectural and engineering fees. There are all the utilities drawings. That kind of thing. Commissioner anderson have those fully been expended yet . Not all of them. We do have still a soft cost reserve that we are hopefully we wont need to expend that. Commissioner anderson i thought it might be interesting to let people know its really expensive to build anything in the city. And right now, the price tag for this bathroom is 1. 7 million. Im flabbergasted by that. And not because i dont believe in the great value that we get. I know we get great value, but you know, there is no reporters here, but man, if i were a reporter id be asking a question about why is a bathroom 1. 7 million and thats the reality we deal with in rec and park and any other department. Im amenable to moving forward on the project so it doesnt get to be more. Commissioner harrison yeah, the project is great. And i would normally support it, but because of the prefabricated restroom, i will be unable to support this. For a lot of reasons. But anyway, just want to put that out there. Commissioner mcdonnell quickly, another math question. Im in full support. I look forward to moving forward with the project. The opening paragraph and its repeated elsewhere says, to increase the change order, the change order amount allowed from 141 to 1. 2 million, the change order amount isnt 141 to 1. 2 million, the change order is 141 to 244, Something Like that, so the language is inaccurate. Right. But this is typically how we word the contract increases, but youre right, its not a we want to issue a change order in that amount, not to have that amount outstanding for future changes. We want to execute the swings and the playground setting and the bathroom. I understand. Commissioner bonilla i, too, am flabbergasted by the cost. But i will support it because i do not want the community subjected to the alternative, which would be what weve seen today. I just cant fathom having a park and continuing to operate it with these portapotties. That would be just unlivable. So we have to i agree with commissioner anderson, that we have to find ways to avoid these costs. Especially since any time that its a project a project is brought forward to build more construct more bathrooms, looking at the foreseeable future, i dont see how we would ever i mean how we would be able to continue to create these opportunities for new Restroom Facilities at these costs at least. President buell thank you. Commissioner mcdonnell im not flabbergasted by the cost. Because i keep it in context. Right . That context is if we looked at any of our construction projects, just three, four, five years ago, these costs would not be the same. Not just for bathrooms, but for all other elements of a construction project. So is it a big number . Yes. Do i wish it were smaller . Yes. Were getting ready to go, as we all know for the voters for another bond measure. And an unfortunate reality, no matter how large were able to get that bond to become, it will be woefully insufficient because of the enormity of costs doing these projects and doing them well. I mean im not flabbergasted. Its the cost of doing business. And its unfortunate, but it is what it is. Thank you. President buell general manager ginsburg. General mgr. Ginsburg a couple of interesting facts. Actually, this is not close to the most expensive restroom. We know. General mgr. Ginsburg that was in district 4, where we did one from the ground up. What is interesting about the project worth note, is where a lot of the costs, is all the trenching, the facility itself is actually not expensive. It is all of the trenching and undergrounding that needs to happen to correct the restroom it our plumbing and electrical lines outside the park. President buell thank you very much. The chair would entertain a motion. Move for approval. President buell moved and seconded. We may want to call the roll on this one. Buell aye aye. Mcdonnell. 41, the ayes have it, thank you very much. Were on item 9, recreation and Park DepartmentEquity Analysis and metrics fiscal year 19. Power point. Good afternoon, commissioners. Taylor emerson. Manager of Strategic Planning under the finance administration here for the fourth year in a row to present the Equity Analysis and the set of metrics with fy19 data. I think all of you have heard it before, but i find it important to return to the charter why were here, what the direction is from proposition b, which became part of the charter in june 2016. I really like this one. Im going to read the first paragraph. The department embraces socioeconomic and geographic equity as a guiding principle. And commits to expending funds across its open space and Recreational Program to provide park and recreational access to all of San Franciscos diverse neighborhoods and communities. It sets forth then that we should develop a set of metrics and method for comparing lowincome neighborhoods and the resources they have compared to the city as a whole. And then directs us to include the Equity Analysis in the Strategic Plan, the Capital Expenditure plan and the operational plan. All of which are coming to you in sequence. As you may recall, the method weve adopted starts with data in the screen, which is a tool developed by cal epa as part of our states capandtrade program that had to define disadvantaged. The data is open source. And its currently used by many jurisdictions across the state to inform resource allocation decisions. The state has collected data on lots of population characteristics, by census, including data that their own methodology does not use. And provided it all for everyone to use. Two of the characteristics that weve adopted that the state does not use in defining disadvantage in San Francisco with regard to park and recreation access, are age. Since youth and seniors are some of our biggest customers. And weve added a factor for nonwhite residents in recognition of the longterm and systemic disadvantage suffered by nonwhite people. This data on these 10 characteristics are equally rated. And in our methodology they the rate or the frequency of these characteristics is accumulated and additive. And we extract all of the census tracked information in San Francisco only, with i allow which allows a comparison of disadvantaged communities compared to the city as a whole. When we do that, this is how the map of San Francisco looks. The threshold is set at the highest 20 . Meaning the highest frequency of the combined disadvantaged characteristics. And in total, these are designated as equity zones. With this myalgic encephalomyelitis snoosh dsh with this imaginary line, were able to compare the services there compared to the city as a whole. Thats our methodology. It hasnt changed. Although it has evolved. And this is a set of metrics. Its impossible to read on the screen. So i did president buell we have it on our screen. Does anybody want a okay, you have it. And this set of metrics is a tool for measuring ourselves, for measuring how weve allocated our resources in the past year. In the past, ive read every number, but i think that were getting used to seeing this. I did want to start with just park access, with the growing population, our acquisitions, just about you know try to keep up. And those numbers are probably stagnate for a good long time. But with every other metric, every other metric has moved to the good. Each one has improved in the four years that weve been doing this. Which is partly the effect of measuring, because when you measure, you communicate what is important. And this is important to us. And staff and our with the leadership of our general manager and extensive training and effort by many individuals across the department, we have truly, sincerely made this kind of thinking part of what we do. Its part of our daytoday. I want to look at volunteer resources, which has crept up just a little bit each year, because they have intentionally, with attention and focus, you know, each of them has a list of the equity zone parks at their desk. Ive been there out by the new office by the windmill. And when there is discretion about where to send a volunteer group, they choose someplace from the list. And it shows. It started off at 22 and has now moved to 28 . So just a little bit, but every little bit helps. My prior presentations have ended here mostly. But this year i want to go a little farther even though im the last item on a long day i know youve had, because sometimes there is perception this is all we do. That the measuring is all we do. And that is not at all the case. So i want to just take you through a little more about the work across the department that were doing to move toward more equity. In your packets, i attached what a call an inventory. I can tell you already, its not complete. Its an idea of some of the other programs were doing. Im going to highlight some of them here. Were increasingly using a paradigm of internal and external equity. Internal is the way we are with each other, the hiring, the recruiting. We moved to de identification where not only the name and the address is removed, but where they went to school, to try to reduce opportunities for the implicit biases to play into a decision. We have dramatically expanded access to professional development, learning opportunities, through our new r. P. D. Portal, which is a learning portal that highlights all of the opportunities for learning not only more about your classification, or your live work, but others. In order to. Because when one person when each of us is stronger, the organization is stronger and we encourage learning more and more in our culture. We go so far beyond the charter mandate in lots of ways. And externally, it would be hard to even list it. Going back to our mission statement, which doesnt use the word equity but does say, you know, we do all of this for the wellbeing of everyone in our Diverse Community and those values are held deeply by our staff. Another hard chart to read, but im harkening the concept here. Our h. R. Department has developed h. R. Dash boards, which are which this particular one shows racial demographics of our labor market in purple, with the racial demographics of our staff shown in green. We have this is the departmentwide graphic. But we can also do this by division. And so you know, if there is an opening in capital, you know, we can show folks, heres what you have right now and this is where you may youll want to consider increasing your diversity. We also have this for age, gender, and geographic distribution. So this new tool really allows us to quickly and easily see where we are with regard to the market. Weve done lots of other great things internally. Dice which is our own internal staff. Its pay time, but people who volunteer to participate and they produced eight equity workshops last year. Which were attended by more than 200 unique staff members. And it was a great success. We were going to start up the next one in fy20 in november. Were going to start inviting the commission, by the way [laughter]. Yes. Oh, h. R. In response to some of the things, part of the equity learning for me has been listening. One of the ways weve increased listening with staff is to we have an annual Employee Survey about training and tools and one of the requests was to learn more basics about Civil Service. Training open to entrylevel custodians about how to take a Civil Service test. They offered it once. 40 people showed up. There was a wait list and they offered it again. This is about equity of opportunity within our staff. And im really proud of what theyve done. We began to use the equity tool kit to evaluate budget decisions, which its a practice, way of thinking about, all right, there is a proposal, who will this benefit . Who will be hurt by the proposal . Are there mitigations for that form of hurt . And its a complex tool and we just started to united statse ir and we look forward to embracing it in the coming budget. These are just a few examples. Externally, i love this photo of the new basketball courts. And resurfacing basketball courts across equity zones has been a priority over the last few years. And not always bringing paint and regular lines. Weve also changed our scholarship outreach this basketball court, the mural was actually designed by western edition muralist. Another example, yeah. I just love it. I put this as my screen safer on my computer. Were changing were adding focus to our scholarship outreach. I know youve heard us say before, we prioritized deferred maintenance. All the t. M. A. In the work order system, all equity zone parks are coded, so that the supervisors and managers who are assigned in the queues for the workload that day can give priority to equity zone parks. And i want to stop right there and say, part of equity work for me, i was raised in a budget world, where were taught to think if we take money away from one thing, we give it to somebody else and there is a winner and a loser. What i learned is that is not necessarily true. I think the evidence for that is that our overall park scores have continued to go up. And weve brought the bottom up. So these things can be true at the same time, that we are prioritizing equity, but not sacrificing serving everyone. We have a Strategic Plan commitment to improve and activate one mini park within an equity zone each year. By the yard, their own skills and inventiveness have done this. I hope you drive by blue phelps and see the simple, yet profound transformation. I dont know if im breaking the big news, but we got 2 million in the budget this year to develop a program called rec spark which will bring free, dynamic and culturally recreation to youth in public housing. Were going to bring recreation to them with the hopes of kind of getting them to come to maybe a dropin program at the nearest rec center and then participate in structured recreation with a scholarship. One more. I dont usually include pictures of our general manager in the presentation, but that is so cute. And this is an awesome program. I appreciate the time that he gives to coaching it, and to fundraising. Bayview united soccer team, which is an example of a personal effort to bring more equity to our world. And this is the kind of thing that were trying to encourage across the department. President buell is he really cute . [laughter] smiling anyway. Finally, i know youve heard about the india basin project. And the Equitable Development plan that is part and parcel of this very important project. And i think the heart of it is thinking about how to make this significant investment and improvement for the benefit of current residents and future residents. Thats some of the things were doing. But there is lots of work across the city. I attached in your packet, the legislation authorizing a new office of Racial Equity. Which will be housed within the human rights commission. Which will take citywide leadership on these complex issues. And we look forward to getting their examples of a Racial Equity action plan and then submitting our own by december 21, 2020, which well bring to you before that. Im going to close with this. Which is another example of an individual in the recreation staff who was running summer camps and who found this graphic and laminated signs and put them up at all the singlestall bathrooms in rec Centers Across the system. And you know, to try to bring a little bit more equity to, you know, for most people, is not a big deal, the bathroom, but for some kids it can be a really charged environment. This was a moment of trying to make those kids feel more welcome in our facility. Thank you so much. President buell good presentation, thank you. Commissioner harrison thank you for your work. This is great. If we could go back to the equity metrics for the fiscal year, that schedule, and go down to kids in nature. At the end, for citywide, that 3100, is that 3100 kids under 18 signed up for the various programs . Yes. Commissioner harrison does that mean there is that many kids or they signed up for two Different Things . More than one program . Actually, good question. You caught me there. That is not unique registrations, thats just all registrations. So it could be somebody took kayaking, thought it was awesome and decided do the fishing trip, too. Commissioner harrison there is not 3100 kids in San Francisco under 18. Oh, there are, but not in our programs. Under 18, significantly more. Really . Id like this know there are 57,000 kids in the San Francisco unified school district. Thank you. Ive had this argument with my son. Still too few. If the number is direct, you i think 84,000 to School Aged Kids living in the city, but its still less than 10 . Still have a lot of work to do to get the rest of them in. Commissioner mcdonnell i always appreciate when you come. Thank you. Commissioner mcdonnell i just want to say thank you for leading the work. I particularly appreciate your transparency around your own evolution in this space. And certainly appreciate the departments commitment to this kind of focus and rigor and prioritization of this, thank you. Thank you, commissioner. Im a humble student. Thank you. President buell this information only . This is an action item. Sorry. There are no members of the public. Commissioner bonilla when we first established these metrics, many years ago, about how many years ago was that . About four years ago. Commissioner bonilla four years ago. I really i was doubtful. I had some doubt as to looking at the resources we had in the city, and how diverse the population is and looking at all the Due Diligence that would be required to really uphold the standards that we were setting. I really was doubtful as to how far we would come to really addressing some of the issues in terms of how accessibility to all our venues and so on by all the diverse communities. I just want to say, i think weve in such a short time, i think weve just gone weve made Quantum Leaps as far as im concerned in the work that has been done. And i think what this stems from is that since we established the metrics. Every action item weve taken on new projects, the venues, anything to do with work being done at the department level, it seems to me that you have always framed our discussion around this whole notion of metrics. And i think that is i think its been critical that youve done this at every turn. I mean, everything weve done. And i think i think that speaks to your to the departments commitment to really i mean, when we establish these metrics, to really work within that framework and to do all the hard work, you know, that needed to get done. And i think you the department has to be absolutely commended for doing this Due Diligence. And the reason this is this has made such an impression on me is because im involved in other departments, the work that i do, such as the department on aging, and i have seen how they have dealt with establishing their metrics and following them. And i really i dont want to be critical, but i really have to say that they have i mean, they are so far behind in terms of realizing any of the goals that were established for some of these departments. So i think were all to be commended for giving all of this work done and im so appreciative. Thank you. President buell thank you. General mgr. Ginsburg i wanted to thank taylor. This has truly as she has said, its become embedded in the organization and a lot of that is because of the values that this commission expressions day in and day out. But operationalizing this, measuring it, tracking it, you know, doing the reminders, and, commissioner, it seems like youre talking about not just our equity metrics, but our Strategic Planning and equity is embedded in the Strategic Planning. For every initiative we mark or highlight the initiative so that the entire organization knows and the public knows the specific ways the things that we are doing that are focused on equity. But there is a saying in parks that is very apt. The saying is, if you dont count, you dont count. And so thats why the measurement piece of this is actually thats not the thing. The thing is the work. But the measurement is important and taylor really is our quarterback and chief Administrative Officer and whatever title the best title for her, shes our heart, head and soul on this endeavor and im grateful for her work on this. President buell thank you. Seeing no Public Comment, chair would entertain a motion to approve the equity metrics. Moved and seconded. All those in favor . So moved. Thank you very much. Item 10, general Public Comment. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 11, commission matters. Commissions dont matter. Clerk any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 12, new business, agenda setting. Can we give richard a category of his own . Okay. Were on item 13, communications any Public Comment, seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 14, adjournment. Moved and seconded. So moved. Thank you very much. [ ] i just wanted to say a few words. One is to the parents and to all of the kids. Thank you for supporting this program and for trusting us to create a Soccer Program in the bayview. Soccer is the worlds game, and everybody plays, but in the United States, this is a sport that struggles with access for certain communities. I coached basketball in a coached football for years, it is the same thing. It is about motivating kids and keeping them together, and giving them new opportunities. When the kids came out, they had no idea really what the game was. Only one or two of them had played soccer before. We gave the kids very simple lessons every day and made sure that they had fun while they were doing it, and you really could see them evolve into a team over the course of the season. I think this is a great opportunity to be part of the community and be part of programs like this. I get to run around with my other teammates and pass the ball. This is new to me. Ive always played basketball or football. I am adjusting to be a soccer mom. The bayview is like my favorite team. Even though we lose it is still fine. Right on. I have lots of favorite memories, but i think one of them is just watching the kids enjoy themselves. My favorite memory was just having fun and playing. Bayview united will be in soccer camp all summer long. They are going to be at civic centre for two different weeklong sessions with america scores, then they will will have their own soccer camp later in the summer right here, and then they will be back on the pitch next fall. Now we know a little bit more about soccer, we are learning more, and the kids are really enjoying the program. We want to be united in the bayview. That w