Transcripts For SFGTV Recreation And Park Commission 20240713

Each person will have three minutes for Public Comment on each item. Please address your comment goes to the commission during Public Comment. For equal time Neither Commission nor staff will respond, commission may ask questions of staff after Public Comment is closed. If you have an item not on the agenda under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission you may speak under general Public Comment in item 4. Please note if the fire alarms activate you must evacuate the building. If you need assistance make the way to the closest area across the hall in the mens rest room. There is a speaker box. Press it and the city hall security will answer. They will assist you. We are on item 2. President s report. I will be brief. I like to read emails that talk about the parks. This is to the general manager. I wanted to say thank you. I love my Neighborhood Parks. The San Francisco park and Rec Department does a fantastic job. I love how there is a park nearby no matter what neighborhood. You have worked hard to make that happen. I know maintenance challenges are daunting you do an amazing job of keeping up. Every employee is helpful and professional if i am getting exercise or enjoying the lovely trees and flowers, your department makes my life richer. Thank you for the hard work and dedication. Love mom. No, it is from jennifer look. Thank you, jennifer. With that. That concludes my report. Mom, i told you not to sign that. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Public comment is closed. Item 3. General managers report. I have a little bit of a meaty report today. We have special recognition at the conclusion. I will remind you 2020 marks a very important milestone in our department history, the 150th anniversary of Golden Gate Park. The celebration will include events and attractions a freecell operation on april celebration on april 4th which is 150 years to the day the California Legislature authorized the park. They will bring together thousands to experience the park and all it has to offer, make or events and attractions are planned include the 150foot observation wheel, 150 Improvement Projects, 150 programmed activities on april 4. Planting 150 trees and involvement over 150 community partners. Our april 4th day includes a family and kids carnival, large picnic with live entertainment. As we will discuss later tremendous renovation of the vehiclecles temple of music and the programming which will take place all summer with Community Arts organizations coming to Golden Gate Park. Our celebration will include Free Shuttle Service for our communities who dont live as close to the park as others with the idea of making sure everyone feels connected to Golden Gate Park, no matter what neighborhood you are from and that you have the opportunity to celebrate. This week we also confirmed that portions of the iconic memorial quilt will be on display that entire weekend from april 3 through 5. The display of the quilt will be largest ever in San Francisco. It will consist of 1920 panels, approximately the same size and shape as the first major quilt display that took place in washington, d. C. In 1987. Golden gate park 150th quilt display will be on Bowling Green drives in the aids memorial grove. There are panels added to the 50,000 panels in recent years. Reflecting the story of h. I. V. And aids, particularly in communities of color. It is an important part of the park as we bring thousands together to celebrate. It is fitting to have this experience to see the quilted and learn about the lives part of each and every panel. We are grateful to the aids quilt foundation and aids memorial for support in bringing the quilt to Golden Gate Park. In celebration of 150th anniversary the Historical Society is holding an essay contest one perfect day in Golden Gate Park. First place receives 2,500. Publication of the essay in the Historical Society journal. Interested writers visit sf history. Org for more information. On did east coast this weekend it was like zero degrees. It is time to start thinking about spring and the opening of our baseball season. Sfybl opening day ceremonies for the 2020 season take place saturday, february 29 at 11 00 a. M. Players will participate in a parade of teams, speed pitch, battings cages, team pictures and kids will learn to steal signals by tapping on an electronic buzzer. No, they are not doing that. March 2 please join us for the Opening Event for the mini park monday march 2nd at 3 30 p. M. This 1. 7 million project includes replacing childrens play area and landscaping and seating and was funded by the 2012 parks bond and office of mayor ed lee. The park has a profound impact on the tenderloin impact where kids rely on city parks as backyards. March 2nd there will be kids activities and participation for the trust for public land, the tenderloin improvement partnership, and rec and parks Randall Museum is hosting the San Francisco middle science fair this year. Each year city students test and document experiences in the biological and environmental and physical sciences. It is an impressive look in the future minds of tomorrows stem professionals. It will be on display tuesday through saturday february 25 through march 6. The main come at the pigs takes competition takes place on march 6th. The application period for the green agers program i open throh april 10th. They are eligible for the program which offers paid experiences while they learn about park stewardship, lead projects in Neighborhood Parks and gain teamwork and personal training skills. Applications online or by calling our volunteer office 415 8316319. I talked about spring baseball. It is not too early to talk about summer day came registration which begins march 21st at 10 00 a. M. You can register online or at 14 sites throughout the city. You can register in any language. This summer we offer 90 camps, lacrosse, archery, performing arts and pine lake and silver tree. Go to sfrec park. Org. From camp to cooks and lifeguards your next job could be with rec and park up in the sethesieras. We are looking to full day camp and cooks and program coordinators. Anyone interested, any youth interested in working for us go to the website sfrec park. Org jobs. The first of two separate acknowledgments today. I want to thank a few special guests who are with us, whose agencies are helping to get city kids out into nature this summer. Welcome theresa, the interim director of first five San Francisco, lisa lee, Senior Program officer at first five. Olive via who is the coordinat coordinator. Ngrid. As you recall commissioners with your support mayor london breed and your department announced new initiatives with expanded access to camp mather including a special week at camp for low income. It typically costs 1,700 each were including cabin, activities and meals. That was already subsidized by half for approximately 33 or 34 families each summer. This year they have expanded by 300 making subsidies 50 to 100 of camp cost available to low income families. They receive priority for camping spaces ensuring more equitable reservations. We are grateful to first five which is splitting the cost of the meals for the special week. First five is providing transportation to camp. 338 individuals and 77 families are going to camp this year because of these measures. Thithis is an out grove to parkd rec. As founds member the department worked hard to provide access to nature for low income families. There is improved focus, creativity and sense of wellbeing and lower levels of depression and frustration. Nature means Better Mental Health, more Better Mental Health but not good english. Since 2016, first five San Francisco have partnered and today we want to extend or thanks to each organization and these individuals for helping get families who would not have the opportunity for camp this year. If you could join me for the presentation of the certificate. If you want to say a few words, we would love it. [applause] thank you for that very nice honor. Also, i want to thank you very much for your partnership over these past several years. Just to reiterate the special thanks to our staff, lisa lee who has been working tirelessly on this effort to help make it happen. Together with the parks and Rec Department as director mentioned we have a shared understanding of the power of nature to teach, heal, inspire, excite, but we also know that these experiences unfortunately are only available not everybody has the same level of access to these experiences. This is what we have been trying to change together. We are committed to addressing this and to creating additional programs and very specifically we are dedicated to changing the level of access for families this summer. We have quite literally been working to break down barriers, fiscal, financial red tape in order to make this happen for our families. We are really, as you heard the numbers, we are happy for this summer camp mather will reflect diversity of San Francisco families. We hope this is just the beginning of an effort apinitiative to continue to grow and expand and sustain and we look forward to a great week at camp this summer. Thank you very much. Good morning. I am the director for the San Francisco office of early care and education. I cannot say enough gratitude for your director who has opened up not only his i would say more than just heart and the parks. It has been his wallet, too. We have an amazing partnership with rec and park. And the citys. I think this partnership has to be leveraged with first drive and the office and done by amazing staff that care deeply about children and families in the city. Being from San Francisco and growing up in San Francisco, i can tell you how wonderful it was having to travel from the mission to Golden Gate Park every weekend and what a beautiful escape that was, and having the opportunity to be able to take children up to camp mather is going to be an opportunity that most children would have not received. We are focused on children in the Southeast Community and in the mission and areas that we know are far away from these type of lifechanging type of activities. We look forward to it. I cant also not say thank you not only to you but to maria, who works for rec and park, who is one of the most enthusiastic staff persons that you have. Not only does she care deeply. She physically cares. She has helped a lot of different Child Care Centers across the city in knowledg buip the natural experiences. This is not a onetime thing to camp mather. It really is about ongoing experiences and for that the office of early care and education set aside 1 million for this year to support the further greening of playgrounds and Child Care Centers across the city and connecting children and families to the daily experiences sometimes most of us take for granted. Thank you for your time. This has been amazing, and hopefully we get to see you more often because i hope that this relationship continues to develop and grow. Thank you very much. One comment. I just want to say i have known ingrid for many years. I think this project is in great hands. I am inspired by your comments. I hope you will continue to be part of this effort. Thank you. Thank you. One final and special bit of recognition today that i am going to try to get through without chucking up a little bit. I have known john ram worked for the city 12 years as planning director. I have known him all 12 years. From about day one, john. When i first met john, i was in the Mayors Office and didnt have the sense of appreciation or understanding of the job you were walking into then as i do now 12 years later, particularly in this role. The city is going to miss you terribly. Your sense of grace and elegance and compassion and brilliance as you have tried to navigate the delicate balance between growth and equity in the city has been remarkable. We would not be our Parks Department. Stacy bradley will explain in detail. Our Parks Department, john, would not be where it is today, our parks system would not be where it is today without your leadership and the partnership of your entire team at the Planning Department. There is nothing we touch, nothing we do that we dont need your help with and your guidance. Yes, we are smirking, sometimes those are challenges processes you helped us navigate. To give as i special tour, i am going to ask our planning director, stacy bradley, to come up and say a few words. I want to say i really appreciate all of the openness that john provided to me and mentorship and being a role model. As planner i started at planner 3 before becoming the director of planning. John was always approachable and helped in navigating the intricacy of San Francisco planning which i thought coming from new york city it would be easier here but that is not true. John has been an incredible partner for us and has helped us deliver and develop many new and improved open spaces. My tenure is shorter. My highlights are more rent, starting with 17 and folsom the partnership to turn a parking lot into a park there and at the town square. The town square had many challenges with planning where we needed to change the zoning very quickly, and john and his team were excellent in helping us navigate. There was the e. I. R. Certification and approval after 10 years of work where we were victorious on appeal to the board of the e. I. R. He helped us balance recreation and history at the basin. He is driving for more parks in soma. She is working with to transfer an unused popos in somas to a fee funding lighting and other improvements. His drive for a new vision at civic center has helped us catalyze the renovations from the helen diller foundation. The playgrounds and making sure the by right kiosk was built. That was difficult. He is a big advocate for maintenance to ensure there is equal access. To close countless applications and other applications that the flexibility they have shown to work with us to deliver so many products. Let me adhere that you talk about the three tough ones we had to take on about a decade ago. The soccer fields, the conversion of the eight ash bury into the Community Garden and the lake. None of those three difficult things would have happened without john and his staff. As we go forward to celebrate 150th birthday. We jumped on at 149 and threequarters a lot of work to make the celebration possible. I hope, john, that as i think about your tenure, i want to talk about two things that should be part of your legacy. One is the park system which not only do 100 of us live within a 10 minute walk, it is one of the best park systems in the United States of america. As we talked about yesterday, john leads the directors working group. That is an informal meeting of Department Heads and senior staff where we sit down and discuss complicated inter departmental issues. It has become for those of us who are blessed to participate in this meeting such an important part of our growth as managers and leaders. It allows us to learn from colleagues and really discuss how we solve complicated problems together. I dont know that just anybody could have been successful with creating the directors working group, and i think john has, as i am sure you have all experienced when you interacted with him, has just a great listener and a graceful approach and cares so deeply about our city. His legacy is significant not only for parks but the city generally. I am proud and honored to call you a friend. We will stay in touch. I will miss your day to die psalm andie daytoday calm ag presence. We have a present not one park sign but two. One is we would like you to always think of us. So we have for you a john ram original sign from your fends at from your friends at rec and park. Your compassion has been about the importance of space of civic center. Through your passion and interest and will and your hearding of cats, you have created a plan for what the future of the San Francisco most important public commons should be. We have tried to notch your passion by sparking change in one of those spaces, but may your legacy at some point be the fully renovated civic Center Public realm. We want you to have this to think about that always. applause . Thank you so much. This is unexpected and very lovely. Thank you so much. After hearing that email i must have gone to work for the wrong department. I never get emails like that. We get hundreds of them. I just want to express my appreciation. It has been a great partnership. When i started this job, i was still living in seattle. I accepted the offer, and more than one person who i did not know wrote me emails saying what the hell are you thinking taking this job . I couldnt figure out why until i got here a few months later. It is an extraordinarily challenging position and one that is a great honor. When i think about the work we do with rec and Parks Department and other agencies. I put our work ahead of any city in the country. Other cities look to us. We live in one of the worlds great cities. We often have the homelessness and housing, but always helpful to step back and realize what an extraordinary place this is, to remind ourselves we live in one of the worlds great cities. Thank you for the partnership and friendship. In my 12 years here the parks have never looked better. Icon gratlation you and o congratulations to you. It is an important part what makes the city so great. Thank you all for this great honor. I really appreciate it. [applause] we will take one quick preview of Golden Gate Park 150 and that will conclude the general managers report. I am the godfather of skating in Golden Gate Park. My greatest memory was 40 years ago where i met my wife almost exactly where we are. Happy anniversary. I have lived next to Golden Gate Park for many, many years. My favorite memory is going birding with my oldest daughter and finding for the first time a red breasted sapsucker. Congratulations on your 150th anniversary. Happy anniversary. This is one of our favorite places. May it live well for the next 150 years. We are celebrating 150 years of Golden Gate Park. We have a laundry list of things to think about doing to highlight this significant milestone. We are all coming together for the city to honor Golden Gate Park to show how much we love and care for it and we want to invest in it for the next 150 years. There are over 150 partners. Our last thanks to all volunteers and staff. They are the real story behind Golden Gate Park. [cheers] and that concludes the general managers report. Thank you very much. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We are on item 4. General Public Comment. This will be continued to item 10. At this time members of the public lake ma public may ade commission on items not on the agenda. With respect to the agenda items you can address us when the item is reached on the agenda. Tiffany. Hello. I am tiffany lowenberg. I am the new executive director for the Randall Museum friends. I wanted to come to say hello and introduce myself. This is my First Commission meeting. If you guys have any questions at all for the museum friends, i am available to answer those. I want to say how grateful we are to have such a close relationship with rec and park through the museum and i am looking forward to getting to know you guys. Thank you. Thank you. We look forward to working with you. Is there any other Public Comment for general Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We are on item 15. Consent calendar. Is there any item to remove from the concept calendar. Yes item 5g i would like to remove. The Golden Gate Park anniversary band shell activation. If that is a motion is there a second . Second. All in favor. Aye. So moved. On the rest of item 5 motion to approve concept calendar . So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. So moved. We are on item 5g Golden Gate Park 150th anniversary band shell activation. Good morning, commissioners. Thank you for the opportunity to present this really exciting piece of Golden Gate Park 150 and to report to you on the approval processes. I will walk you very quickly through these slides, but this is the agenda language discussion and possible action as part of the Golden Gate Park 150th celebration to authorize permit to the Parks Alliance on behalf of illuminate the arts to install temporary performance and stage enhancements for two years and accept an in kind grant of new stage risers valued at approximately 95,000 to replace the existing risers. Approval by the commission is the approval action as defined by sf administrative code chapter 31. As you know from previous approvals, the plan is to install these modifications at the vehiclecles temple of muse Spreckles Temple of music which you can see the lower left side. This will be installed at the west end of the music concourse in the site that is known as the Golden Gate Park music band shell. It includes a grant of renovated risers and speaker system and lighting. The improvements are important because they will enhance this site as performance space. They will make it more accessible to small groups. The lightings on the building will highlight it as a Historic Resource the wording is an inspiration to all groups that break the silent place in the park to date. I will go quickly through the details. This is the installation of these risers will replace risers installed in 1994. They have been used by the Golden Gate Park band. We did reach out to the Golden Gate Park band. They are supportive. We had a speaker at Historic Preservation commission yesterday who was a retired San Francisco ballet orchestra member and played in the band and is excited to see these renovations. The lighting element you will see that the lighting will highlight the site. It is a dramatic improvement from the lighting there now. We believe it will activate the space and inspire better usage of the space rather than what is really something of a dark hole. It will be a lit item in the park, and we expect it to be more appreciated than used. Third is the wording hope will never be silenced which will be attached to the top of the band shell. The message of hope will never be silent is a quote from harvey milk. We believe it emphasizes the equity in San Francisco and issues the performance on the stage. We are really excited, and we think it will create this for performers who are performing on the stage. In case you have seen other iterations of the project, the image on the before of the slide shows the previous iteration which was circulated. It is vastly different from what we propose now. Then we have been doing a lot of outreach and engagement with the 150 Community Groups who we expect to participate on april 4th and others. They have seen these images and are excited for these improvements to the band shell. What i want to talk about is the approval process and where we are right now. On december 18 the project was granted an exception by the Planning Department. On february 6 we presented this project to the Operations Committee of this commission, and we were asked. It was placed on consent calendar unless there were changes in the subsequent approval processes. We wanted to inform you what happened and where we are today. Yesterday we took the project to the historical Preservation Commission and just the wording on the band shell to the visual Arts Commission. The Historic Preservation commission enthusiastically improved all the elements of the project except for lettering on the band shell hope will never be silenced quote. Subsequent to that meeting the visual Arts Committee of the Arts Commission approved the lettering. Now we are here at the commission and wanted to bring you uptodate on where we are. We are prepared to move forward with the project as approved by the Historic Preservation commission but wanted to inform you where we are and get direction from this commission. That concludes my presentation. I am available for questions. Stacy bradley who is with the approval process is here and ben davis is here if you have questions. Thank you. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner lowe. Lisa, was the certificate of appropriateness not issued by Historic Preservation yesterday . It was issued for every element of the project except the lettering, the quote hope will never be silent lettering. I see the City Attorney in the audience. Will you advise if we can proceed to approve this matter . Good morning, deputy City Attorney. The planning code says the permit can be issued if the coa is required and hasnt yet been obtained. The commission can approve this action to authorize the department to issue a permit. What would happen in this case the commission could approve including the wording then if they wanted to issue the permit they would need to go back to Historic Commission to get approval. We can include the risers, the lighting and entire project including the wording with recommendations for staff to go back to the commission to get the cfa for the wording . Correct. Is that a motion . It is about to be. Permission to go ashore. I think the wording especially the message of equity and inclusiveness should be the theme that is embraced by all in San Francisco, especially given this was a quote by harvey milk and the National Aids memorial is in Golden Gate Park. The general manager just mentioned there is going to be a fantastic quilt display in this Robin Williams meadow. It is important to include this wording. I would move to approve and issue this permit subject to staff working with Historic Preservation to include the watering proposed on the band shell. Second. All those in favor. Aye. So moved. Thank you very much. Before item 6 i was remiss to not include Public Comment for the consent calendar. I have a blue card. I would like to go back to Public Comment. Please do. Susan, Public Comment for item 5. I am with the california native plant society. Thank you for putting the strategic plant online. Please select 100 native plans to help meet the objective to conserve and strengthen natural resourcers and increase biodiversity. Native plants support hundreds more species of butterflies and birds than nonnative plants. Is there any other Public Comment on item 5 . Please come forward. Okay. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Now we are on item 6. San francisco zoo. Good morning. Tanya peterson, director of the San Francisco s zoo logical society. We had thousands show up for Lunar New Year and many visited the mouse house. They are all named after cheeses. Come and bring your little ones. We returned something called lieu at the zoo. We changed it to something lighter to valentines strolls. We had guides take you through the zoo to point outtic mating habits in a child friendly way. It is popular and we are happy to return. Another thing we are returning as part of your willness programming bring your stuffed bear and our vets will be on hand to examine. This is near the grisly bears that are one of our most delightful exhibits. It is a great way to teach about animal care. I just cant bear it. It is attempting. I will move on to the koala bear. We have been honored to host several australian ambassadors but particularly we received the 2yearold male. We opened the naming to the public and we have come up with a joint name here chosen by the zoo staff and Australian Council general. I will introduce yo you cobar wl my. It is a grove of trees thought to be ex ticket and the public is shielding them from wildfires. We were able toation 15,000 for to raise 15,000 to the collection of the money to the bush fire effort. We continue to house and take in australian animals. I point out other ones. Emu to the right. We have taken in the kuku bears. We are coordinating with the zoos to help in relief efforts. We think a billion animals at risk because of the wildfires. Turning to pending offers with our creddition submissions this year the society is working hard to finish the four projects. We have got the great ape passage. This is home to seven champ pan zees. We took on the old building which housed elephants now contains a day room for the chimpanzees. There is an overhead passageway as well as outside yard and garden. We are refurbishing the old grottos. This is refurbishment of space to provide greater flexibility for animals and zoo pictures. This is maggie, one of the oldest in capacities. She is in the in door shop can get with visitors. She loves children. We have integrated seven chimpanzees,ing of them are rescue county. Two orang are almost extinct. Na should be finished this summer. Another project is our equine therapy. These are old black rhino barns. We thought they werent big enough for the rhinos so we move them and standing to refurbish these barns for pour horses. Clean. These are old barns now housing horses we rescued from the slaughterhouses. Now we have three and we are training them to be therapy horses to carry the disabled, himself to carry emotionally and physically. Our first clients are coming from the back of the zoo to take advantage. We just finished the outside areas. They converted the areas that usedtor soft ground for the horses and wheelchairs. You can see the client can get access to the horse via the ramp. We make this formal during spring break. We are the first to have an equine therapy program. Thank you everybody. Lastly, well, no, two more. I had to show joe montana. There he is with our lion cubs. When he was quarterback, he helped open a new exhibit that is adjacent to the lion house for lion cubs and eventually tiger cubs and now snow leopard cubs. Now we have too many cubs and cats. We are going to expand that habitat. I can show you how that is. Is joe montana was on the very, very far right side. We are going to expand that snow leopard exhibit to left there. It will be adjacent to the hippo antiger ananti and the tiger. We thank you for this effort. We are trying to open this late summer as well. Now it is jimmy g the quarterback for the 49ers we hope he will open this when it is ready lastly, the big idea is refurbishing the prime mate discovery center. There is mayor feinstein in about 1985 with the board chair of the zoo logical society. We were proud of it at the time. The elements are not kind. It is starting to come down. Now that area is a big hole at the zoo. I can show you the picture. Now we are going to turn it into more of a park open space for the limas. This will be madagascar. This is no way to save those animals. We thank the family and other donors for the 7 million effort we hope to finish when accreditation is final. The Society Needs to update the strategic plan. We invite the community to give us input on that effort as we finalize our strategic plan. With that i finish my report. Any Public Comment on item 6 . Good morning. That was great. I took a look at the champ pan zees, considering we worked on it at the commission to change what i recollect as the island from a long time ago. We changed to l imars. We have a center for the family of chimpanzees. That is thank you will. Tanya peterson is doing successful in opening new exhibits. Thank you very much, donna. Is there any other Public Comment . Public comment is closed. Commissioner anderson. Tanya, i want to tell you i am excited about the initiatives you shared. We are uc grads, the college of the law. I am proud of your service. I want to let the Community Know how important horses and hippo therapy. We are on the horses, equine therapy. I thought it was called hipho therapy. My mother has ms really bad. She hasnt gauged in horse therapy and finds it their pugh at this time. It not only helped her feel better in the weeks after, it lifted her spirits. I commend you for that. There are so many ways to support this. I am sorry about your mother. Other animals provide healing. We have seen it in the childrens zoo. The kids can interact with the goats and that provides healing. There is something about the horses in particular. A lot of the horses are as a result of our fires, families couldnt afford the horses. They send them to slaughterhouses out of state. We worked with the rescue to get the horses before they reached other states and they are gentle giants. The american quarter horse. We are humbled to be part of this process. Thank you for saving their lives. Commissioner bonilla. We have unused stables at Golden Gate Park. Maybe we could extend the program. I will leave that for the general manager. Maybe you could find the money. Thank you, tanya. Thank you. We are now on item 7. Hunters view phase 3 project. Good morning. Chris with the capital and planning division, rec and park. I am joined with cindy from the Mayors Office of housing. This is the phase 3 project shadow. It is the future park at 900. A review of the shadow cast supports 1. 2 to strengthen parks and facilities. For shared reference i want to go over planning code section 295 governing shadows it was aimed to protect from shadows cast by New Buildings with height greater than 40 feet. They jointly adopted with the Planning Commission a 19 1989 mo as guidance for determinations of significant shadows in parks. Parks greater than two acres whose current annual shadings is less or equal to 20 , the 1989 established the parameter. We will go over those in more detail. At this time i would like to introduce cindy from the Mayors Office of housing to provide opening remarks on this project. Thank you. Good morning. I am with the Mayors Office of housing. The Mayors Office of housing has been working on the overall hunters view project since 2010 and possibly even earlier. The point is to rebuild our distressed Public Housing while increasing ownership and improve the quality of life for existing residents in surrounding communities. That is the hope sf promise. There are four properties that make up hope sf. That is hunters view, Alice Griffith and sunnydale. The project before you today is for hunters view phase 3. Once built it will have two units, two developments of Affordable Housing on two Properties Block 14 and 17. It will be 100 affordable and have 20 units for public families. The developer will build out phase 3 which includes building some blots for market rate housing, bayview park 0. 7acres and the improvements to that area because the bottom picture kind of shows that it is vacant right now. It is flatland. They have build not flatland. They have to rebuild the infrastructure with streets and curbs for the new area. The reason for the height increase or what is creating the shadow is height increase we are requesting on the affordable property. The reason we are requests is before we began working with the developer to look at financial feasibility of 100 affordable development, we started analysis in 2010. This project has to build 53 Public Housing replacement units, most of which are three bedroom and larger. I will say there is 30 four bedrooms in the property. If we were to build at the 40 feet height, that project was not feasible. In 2010 that was about 700,000 a unit total Development Cost at that time. Costs have gone up today. To make that feasible we added Additional Units so the original project we looked at was 53 units. Today the project is now 118 units. We have added several units to make the project feasible. There is financing and state financing, tax credits and a state program we are applying for, the developer is. That concludes my section. Good morning. I am with the Planning Department staff. I am going to briefly describe the entitlement structure for hope sf. Hope sf was approved under a planned Unit Development like a conditional use authorization but for large scale projects that enable us to provide modifications for the commitment of goody sign. This was a particularly large plan Unit Development at 22acres, longterm complete rebuilding of street system, new open space. We did it differently in this particular instance. We provided development with a longer term performance period. Usually it is three years. This was 10 years. Instead every choiring all designs of the requiring of all designs. This is a blueprint for the build out of hunters view from which subsequent designs come in and staff is reviewing or could be firming it is consistent with the d for d. We are looking to make modifications to that original approval, but the big driver is the 10 year performance period even though longer than typical has lapsed. We are asking our commission to reup the entitlement for another 10 years. We are looking at modifications for design for developmental allowing height on blocks 14 and 17 from 40 feet which does not require a shadow analysis to buildings proposed 55 and 58 feet. That does require a shadow analysis and that does create shadows on the two parkings before you. Plans is looking to recommend to our Commission Approval of the conditional use andy pend dent on what recommendations you make to our commission if you make recommendations of no shadow impact we would recommend the same as well. This concludes my portion of the presentation and i would be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you, matt and cindy. This is located less than a quarter mile west of the shoreline on a down sloping hillside within day view hunters point. Two five story multifamily residential buildings separated by. 7acre Public Open Space between them. This slide shows the phase three in addition to phase one and two to the left grayed out. Its relationship to the geography downhill. The properties shadowed are downhill to the east. These are renderings from different vantage points. As you can see the rooflines step downhill to respect the topography of the hillside. Here the is the maximum shadow at july at 7 15 p. M. This occurs in two columns across the mid section of the park and the upper portion. Covering areas including parking and driveway areas, picnic areas, portions of the central lawn as well as childrens play areas. Please note the Basketball Court is not shadowed. That is at the bottom. Here is the maximum shadow in relation to the approved concept plan on the right. Shadowing could cover landscaping and boathouse at the north. Parking and driveway and central lawn and pathway portions and small portion of the picnic area and just the northwest tip corner of the Basketball Court, rectangular area towards the bottom. Here is the maximum shadow for the 900 in the future park on june 21 at 7 36 p. M. As you can see on the conveyor in the left shade. Shadowing touches the northwest corner of the park which would cover the pathway. This is an animation of the maximum numof maximum. Patat 7 1e park. I will run it again. Here is the same for the 900innis park. The maximum shadow is 7 36 p. M. On june 21st. This slide summarizes the shad go do analysis. It is shadowed 2. 14 . It would increase by. 4 for a total of 2. 54 . The future is shadowed 9. 61 . The project would increase load by. 0002 . As you can see, the project shadow increase is well below the 1989 memo parameters. Here is a qualitative summary of the project on each quart. Shoreline park shading from mid february to late october in Late Afternoon to early evening with a duration of 32 minutes. 900innis early june to midjuly as well as late august to midapril. Generally in the Early Morning prior to 10 00 a. M. With an average duration when present of nine minutes. Just to summarize, the project shadow increase upon each park is below the 1989 them to thresholds. The time of day of shadow is after 7 15 p. M. Lastly, it is important to note this is the final phase of the hope sf project, supported by the Mayors Office of housing seeking to revitalize the neighborhood. If you have any further questions, please let me know. Is there any Public Comment on this item . I am catherine with the jon Stewart Company, i am director of development there. I can say go jackets. I was asked to speak briefly on the Community Outreach and engagement for hunters view but more specifically for the phase 3 project with the shadow impact. This has been going on for many years. Jon Stewart Company is leading an extensive outreach and Community Engagement process since 2005 when we took on the project. We met with residents, tenants association, Neighborhoods Association and bayview pac for years. More specifically with respect to this project and phase 3 and i should mention i have been involved with hunters view for seven years and leading resident meetings during that time. Most specifically with block to 14 and 17, the project before you today with the shadow impact. I led five resident meetings focused on the design for phase three. It is focused on the park design mentioned in the presentation. 7 new acre park between blocks 14 and 17. That is a privately developed and will be maintained by the master association. Not a rev park park. We have been discussing design and what the impact will be in the neighborhood. There is no real comment about the shadow impact. It is negligible to residents. I presented at the Board Meeting on february 1st. Board members did not seem to mind about the shadow impact. They were concerned about the Upcoming Development in phase 3, they are excited on the hillside which is currently vacant with the old foundations from old Public Housing, they are excited that will be developed this year with the market rate project that is coming in phase one and two of hunters view. They had questions related to Community Safety and trash but not shadow. I presented at the cac meeting last week and spoke about the reentitlements and the impact for block 14 and 17. They were not concerned about the shadow. I bring that up. My time is up. You have 30 seconds. That is it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you, commissioners. We had approved this at the Capital Committee finding that the shadows cast by the project were within the quantitative thresholdses of the memo. It is within the 20 of reference in the memo. Qualitative analysis, only activity that is lightly impacted is the proposed Basketball Court. The overriding consideration was this is 100 affordable. I think the good of the shadow caster is in favor of this project and would move for approval. Second. Moved and seconded. Those in favor. Aye. So moved. Thank you. Budget fq20f w2 1 and fy21fy22. Good morning. I am derek chew the director of finance for the Parks Department. I am here to present to you the fiscal year 202122 budget. The staff has worked to enhance the parks programs answe and se. It incorporates efforts to improve the experience and enhance the capital and maintenance projects leverage revenues anal locates vacant positions and funds and strong focus on clean and safe streets and we include parks in that and the mayors priority on maintaining and improving healthy and vibrant neighborhoods. Our Budget Planning and development is guided by four central points. Strategic plan, operational and capital plans and focus on equity lands and metrics. The proposed fiscal year 2021 budget totals 220. 9 million, which is 1. 3 million or 6 higher than the current year budget. Our budgeted ft positions 995 which is an increase from the current year level of 963. I will point out that although the year to year growth in the budget is 1. 3 million, when you take out the capital and other funds, those are the line item that change from year to year. In some years we may get 30 million and other years 10 million, depending on the scheduling of the allocation. If you take out that line item, the departments budget goes from 191 million to 201 million, which is closer to 5 increase. There was significant growth. The majority of that growth was in salary and Fringe Benefits for staff. Some as sorted nonsalary items. In this years proposal we are including an initiative to the mayor to increase the Park Ranger Division as well as to continue funding for the parks dot program. This chart shows you our proposed spending in our main proposed accounts, salaries and fringe making up a good 59 of spending. Work orders to city departments 12 . Capital funding 27. 9 million, 13 . You can see m and s city Grant Programs anna and the nonpersonl services. Revenues relatively stable from year to year. Open space fund grew from 65. 6 million to 70 million. General fund support from 82 million to 86 million. Earned income grew slightly up to 54 million from 52. 4 million. You can see on the second to last line on this table the one item i was talking about. Other revenues including bond funds and gifts and grants dropped about so Million Dollars from 19. 3 million to 19. 9 million. If you take that one line item out you will see the budget did grow by about 10 million. As brought up in previous meetings, we were very focused on meeting the mayors goals as well as our departments and commissions goals. We did look to ensure investment in clean and safe parks, park rangers. We propose adding 17 park rang ranger, three head rangers, two fixed posts added to part one crime areas to help bring down those offenses. We are also looking at adding one ranger per shift to each of the 11 supervisor districts. We will add a bicycle unit as well. In the area of park stops. In addition to the 10 park stops we currently are operating. We propose to the mayor to add additional five park stops. Proposed to be at market haywards, youngblood, extend deloris to two fulltime slots and the panhandle and washington square. Environmental services we propose adding a gardiner, Environmental Services laborer and supervisor. We will add additional funding forgetting the park and Service Areas as Natural Resources to add additional supplies to their budgets. We are really excited about the work in our Equity Program and services as noted in todays earlier presentation to our partners, oece, we will continue to explore creatively the opportunities we can create to ensure that we get our programs and services to the lowest income, most disadvantaged populations in the city. In that mind i note that we are increasing partnerships from 33 to 133 in the coming summer session. We are offering 100 camper ship subsidies. Before it was 50 . We ensure the lottery is a priority for low income families. The other main priority for the department is in our Capital Projects deferred maintenance projects. We will maintain a 15 million commitment of general Fund Allocation to maintain repair renovate park and recassets. 1. 5 million for the middle lake project. 300,000 for the new park Botanical Garden nursery. 400,000 for irrigation systems. Additional 50,000 for Community Garden maintenance projects. 1. 5 million for emerging department mental initiatives in the second budget year. 2. 9 million to the lincoln gateway project. All of this could not have been done without teamwork and collaboration. I want to thank tiffany wong, our budget manager. Her staff are still working on the budget. I thank mash rethe finance manager and tone neour Capital Finance manager. The rec and park team is doing pretty awesome right now. That concludes my presentation. I am sorry. We are recommend your approval of the budget and to submit to the Mayors Office. I have one blue card. Susan. One other project i missed. We are renovating the dock as one of our priorities. California native plant society. Thanthank you for including nate plants in your strategic plan. Planting 100 native plants aligns with your objectives to conserve and strengthen resour resources on city parkland. Propagating, purchasing, planting and maintaining native plants is the same as it costs for an equivalent drop tolerant not native plant. It is budget neutral, this request. While providing hundreds of times more biodiversity than nonnative plants. Landscape diversity is not biodiversity. Planting anything that lives is what is contributing to the plummeting bird population. The only thing that supports the bird web are 100 native plants. Please plant 100 native plants in rec and parks. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner lowe. All the revenue numbers are up except for one category, garages. Port smith square. Any comment on ideas of improving the garage revenues or if we have to rethink parking and driving in light of uber and lyft and how people get to our parks . Our garage revenues are down, have been down over the past year. It is something we noted. We are working with all operators. They are working on various marketing plans to bring in both transient parkers and over night parkers. We are working with the m. T. A. Who oversee the garages citywide to come up with newer ideas on how we can use the space, for cars or for private parking of cars or fleet parkings or other uses of that space, given the shortage of rental space in the city as a whole. There could be other options where we could use to rent that space and increase or maintain a certain level of revenue income. That is a concern going forward. We will continue to work with the board at port smith as well as m. T. A. Going forward to see how we can stabilize the growing losses in that area. Seeing no other questions. Chair would entertain a motion. Moved and seconded. Those in favor. Aye. So moved. Item 9. Sea level rise assessment and hazard Climate Resilience plan. Good morning, commissioners. I am bryan, planner with rec and Parks Department. The item before you is informational item regarding Sea Level Rise assessment and the hazard and Climate Resilience plans. This addresses strategy number four, inspires stewardship, strengthen the city climate resiliency. I am joined by Melissa Higbee from the office of resilience and Capital Planning as well as lisa from the plans department along with other staff from those departments. They will present in a moment on the two plans. The two efforts are comprehensive efforts by the city to address Sea Level Rise as well as other climate hazards. Rec and park staff had been involved throughout the multiyear efforts to address both Sea Level Rise and other hazards. As you are familiar, rec and park has several coastal parks, including marina green and the harbour and india basin, among others. As well as we have several assets that are affected or could aid in the warming climate we have, including respite at our Recreation Centers or shade in the parks. As well as mitigation efforts which the reports will go over. Now, i will hand it over to Melissa Higbee to present the hazard Climate Resilience plan. Thank you, bryan. Good morning, commissioners and general manager. I am martha hig be the office of resilience and Capital Planning. I am the project manager for this effort. What this is is assessment of San Franciscos vulnerability to hazards including Climate Change and how it influences our hazards. We have had unprecedented heat events and air quality events. They are getting worse in the future due to Climate Change as well as flooding and drought. This plan includes Actionable Strategies to mitigate risks and build resilience. We have three main reasons we are doing this plan. One is from fema. To qualify for predisaster and post Disaster Mitigation funding we need a Hazard Mitigation plan and update it every five years. That plan does that to make sure we can maintain funding which could be significant after a disaster. We have state requirements. Sb379 requires the city inkorpar rate it to the general plan and include Climate Change and look at the strategies. We have the 2020 Climate Strategy update with a assessment of adaptation strategies to serve that role as well. Three main reasons why we are doing this plan. As bryan mentioned. Be it is a multiyear effort. We started two years ago working on the assessment phase. Our assessment looks at hazards, assets in the city and how those over lap to create vulnerabilities and the consequences of those. We looked at existing actions in the cities and capabilities of building on those. We had a strategy Development Phase where we looked at the goals and developed strategies with departments and with stakeholders. We worked on improving those through evaluation criteria. We had a drafting phase where the draft was posted for Public Comment. Now we have submitted the draft. It will then go tofina. To fema. Then it will be approved by the board of supervisors and mayor. During thawe had five workshopsr 70 organizations attending, also a Public Survey with over 500 responses. I will talk about findings in that as well. These are the goals of the plan. To reduce risk of damage and disruption from hazards. This is a standard goal from the has guard mitigation plan. We looked at expanding our goals. We have worked in collaboration with the public and private. Addressing inequalities that often happen from hazard events. Increasing Public Awareness with increasing empowerment and engagement. This is a multi hazard plan. 13 different Natural Hazards grouped into different categories. The plan including assessment of the hazards. This is an example of the stormwater flood risk. We included mapping, the location where it can happen, severity we can expect in the future. As i mentioned. We looked at the assets that contribute to the quality of life here. We mapped these including vulnerable population and parks and open space. We look at how these overlap with hazards. We developed profiles for these assets. Highlighting the vulnerabilities, fiscal or functional and the consequences. We did Stakeholder Engagement to better understands peoples priorities, get feedback on strategies. Some of the fights were people are looking some of the themes are they want them coordinated. One size fits all strategies are not going to work in San Francisco. They need to be targeted to different populations. We heard a lot of concern about earthquakes and unhealthy air quality based on the last two falls and events then. Also looking at we heard support for investing in increasing resilience of city assets. We heard about neighbors helping each other. It is important to no each other in a city where there continues to be displacement. It is a key concern. People are looking for specific Emergency Preparedness based on their location and the people that they serve. The plan including over 90 strategies. We have sliced and diced in different ways. They fall into three buckets. Infrastructure, resilient buildings and communities. We looked at the different roles the city plays to implement the strategies as owner of public asset or doing research and planning and guidance. The city plays different roles. We are creating a dashboard on the website where the strategies will be there. I want to give you a little flavor of what these strategies look like. A sample from the buildings domain of strategies. This one is about assessing and retrofitting our municipal buildings. Detailing the process we go through to identify the most vulnerable buildings and how we prioritize those improvements. This is weather and climate addressing flooding. This is led by the Planning Department in coordination with the port and m. T. A. I am looking at that district and future floodrists and projects implemented to reduce those risks. Community strategy. This one is a study to look at the overlap between vulnerable populations and buildings. We know some of the most vulnerable buildings such as sros or Affordable Housing also has the most vulnerable alterations to provide targeted as assistance in believe retrofitting or other services. With that i want to turn it over to bryan to highlight the strategy that we are the im menter on and partner on. Thank you, melissa. As listed in the slide before this i am going to go through those the park and recis coleading. Mitigates harbor docks to be coled with the port. Address king tides and tsunami risks. Adopt to saltwater intrusions. Using marches and plant diverse see. Assess storm water catchment areas within rec and park. We are working on that with pay number of sites. Explore structures and shading in the parks with the climates change. Looking at the plant palette. Many of the plants were planted 150 years ago. We are entering different Climate Change. To look at what works for today but also tomorrow. Also using our rec centers and facilities and pools as places of respite for heat days and air police days when the for rest fires happen. On ocean beach a large project, multipronged with the p. U. C. And rec and park and partnership with the National Park service as well as looking at, as melissa mentioned earlier, seismic hazards. Looking into other things like solelar where we could develop solar power in our sites. With that, that finishes the hazard and climate review. Now, i hand it over to alisha to cover the Planning Department Sea Level Rise vulnerability assessment. Thanks, bryan. Good morning. I am Planning Department staff. I am here to talk about the citys Sea Level Rise vulnerability and consequences assessment. I am joined by adam, assistant director of the citywide planning division. By way of background it is the policy function. In that role our work cross cuts multiple topics. We are thinking how the topics interact in immediate and long term. It is all under pinned by our general plan. Our work keeps current the citys general plan which guides our policy decisions. I am going to talk today about the contents of the Sea Level Rise consequences assessment. This was a multi Agency Effort to see the impacts on the people, economy and environment. I will discuss the project background. The report method and information on rec and park facilities as well as next steps athe Sea Level Rise rise work is Climate Resiliences. That involves how we mitigate and adapt the city to not just sigh the low rise but climate hazards in general. Where are these two synergies . Trying to coordinate to address together. On the adaptation side we are thinking about a wide range of klein at hazards. In 2015 mayor ed lee convened departments created the Sea Level Rise coordinating committee. This brought together planners who own intake structure orings. That can be monthly basis. This group worked to create the Sea Level Rise action plan. It called on the departments to Work Together to understand the impacts and development strategies. Its vision was to make San Francisco. We will enhance public and private asset and and quality of life. The plan also set out a road map to address the vulnerability to see the low rise. First was to understand and review the science of Sea Level Rise and what to expect for the city. Next couple step was have to do with Sea Level Rise. It is near the final state. I will talk about the coming steps which we bundled into a climate framework melis take mentioned. First step to understand the Science Behind so level rise. This is from a report 2012 from the National Resource council. It has Sea Level Rise outcome showing the near, mid, longterm to the end of the century. In looking at the Sea Level Rise and we add another three feet on top of that. That represents a storm surge and king tide. Those now create a wider range of potential outcomes. These numbers havent been incorporated into they have been incorporated into the city guidance for Capital Projects. We did not change the numbers in the assessment. We are pretty far along in the report. It doesnt change the area of the city. The facilities we were looking at were already captured. In terms of the method, we started with what areas would be exposed to Sea Level Rise. Based on those i just showed you and i showed you a map covering that in the following slide. Next would be looking at the publicly owned assets within the scope. Shing how vulnerable they are. In this case how sensitive they are. The assets such as electrical may be chilely sensitive to flooding. Parking garages are less so because floodwaters can recede and be back into use for regular programming. There is a knowledge t build. You can move buses. Other types of fixed infrastructure have less add catch adaptable. We asked what does it mean for the economy, environment for people and what types of governance would be necessary to deal with those consequences . This maps show the 108inch number through the end of the century. Looking what would happen if there was no adaptation action for the city. That is if we do knows. We know that is not the case. We are already approving plans and building projects to do strategies for Sea Level Rise. This is a bit of extreme map that shows with no city action what the area of the city would be inundated by Sea Level Rise. It is a significant amount of the city, about 6 of the city land area or four square miles. We applied this to different infrastructure types and systems. We are talking about building assets, water, sewer, pg e, public safety, fire stations all kind of transportation facilities. Parking, open space and recreation. The port has the open spaces. We also looked at not just infrastructure but how they interact at the neighborhood level. The cases where multiple pieces of intake structure would be understooded or Sea Level Rise by tropical storm. What is that on the neighborhood level. What would our neighborhood be affected over type and the different be scenarios. Now, i will talk about the key findings. This table just shows a summary of the numbers by 37,000 affected, 170,000 jobs and 75acres of parks could be affected. It is significant where there is a lot of populations within the Southeast Side of the city. These are details asset mapping. You can see the map of the bayview creek area with no action. The different dots and colors represent the infrastructure categories. For each dot it is the information of what the asset is, how it could be affected and how vulnerable it is. This map shows the creek with the concentration of citywide serving utilities, open spacing, punishment facilities and transportation assets. This map shows marino in where the shoreline is over the top. The low lines are vulnerable on the bay side. There is breakwater areas near golden gate and st. Francis yacht clubs and the green area that could also be flooded. Now, i will talk about the key findings related to recreation and park open spaces. This chapter detailed information on focusing on parks, playgrounds, marinas, recreation fields and trails. Here are a few maps showing the information we collected for those facilities. These maps show city parks, playgrounds and recreation areas managed through the rec and Parks Department, office of Community Investment and infrastructures. We also have a map of trails affected on the right. For earring asset there is detailed information on the vulnerability and the asset person manently inundated. A few highlights from the open space chapter with Sea Level Rise and coastal storm surge, many parks including india, embarcadero and open spaces provide recreation activities in already underserved communities would become unavailable to residents and visitors. The marinas has green and the yacht hash borcould be backed or become inaccessible due to floodings. Some would not have room to be relocated so it could be lost altogether. The shoreline open spaces such as ocean beach, fort main son, prom monad to current flooding and future Sea Level Rise impacts. These spaces provide unique shush as swinging and wild be life viewing. The shrinking open spaces will limit the recreation opportunities for the city. What is next . As we continue to increase understanding of how Sea Level Rise would affect the city, we are moving forward with adaptation planning andy signing projects for the most pressing need areas. Waterfront projects today build in adaptation strategies by ramping up the shoreline and elevating streets and infrastructure. We are also planning the district orthopedic neighborhood scale. The ocean beach longterm Improvement Project is underway. We were an regarded a grant to study near and longterm adaptation strategies and we are working with the port partners on both Embarcadero Seawall Program to strengthen the sea wall and near term flood risk. Working with the corps of engineers to develop pay flood tuesday de for the port shoreline. Finally we are working with all agencies involved in Sea Level Rise planning at a citywide level. We are working with looking at crime at resilience building codes and Capital Planning for infrastructure and addressing threats to coastal flooding as well as strategies for areas not covered by the port. That concludes my presentation. I and members of the team are available for questions. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any Public Comment on this item . Good morning. Now that the people are here. I will speak about what wasnt covered. What is going to be happening allaround our shoreline, the ocean, and all of the new construction going on. It is the salt content that is going to change sea life of our biological animals, crabs, shiners, but the sa the salinity content is shifting. This content throughout the area varies. It is nonthe same. All of the increase in population coming, water goes into the estuary, only 1 4 goes out. That is what happens to water in the estuary. We have flooding of people coming in. When they come in there is more water use and treatment and it goes out. Every time that increase happens or the water change happens or has what would have been in the presentation the salinity would change. I recommend studying the content proximal to the new projects moving in the estuary area. Thank you. Thank you for considering the plant palette as part of the hazard climate resilient strategy. Our local native plants when established have already adapted to extreme variations in climate. Years of drought, atmospheric rivers and sea level incursion. Please include planting native plants in their plant communities as part of your plant palate for the San Francisco Climate Resilience plan. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. That was information only. I think we appreciate the presentation. Do you have anything to add . No. I would say it has been a pleasure and honor to be part of this effort, which is both a citywide effort and global phenomena. I know we have much work ahead of us as a city and people. Thank you for your presentation. We are on item 10. General Public Comment. Anyone else would like to make Public Comment today . Come on up, richard. Hello again. I am going to try to talk about Golden Gate Park o on the west. I try to bring this up. It is not going along too good. To give the position to people new to the commission. That park project with treatment of ground water was changed all the way over by the zoo. That has happened. They use creek water in the purple pipes. Now they are going to change that purple pipes to using sewer water, treated sewer water. I dont think the public cares for that. What i am looking at is what is happening at the chain of the lakes. The middle lake is not clay. It is part of the spring, part of the aquifer drain off going to the ocean. With that type of stuff, i think there should be a little more interest in the middle lake project that is going to be clayed over. What then happens to the training of the aquifer with its own natural drainage to go to the beach. Sea level rise is going to be problematic. What is proposed by the sfrpd plans is to clay bed the entire middle lake. In doing that it might change or cause problems with the biological life, biological life would be pond turtles and the red lake frogs, which are endangered species. Of my thinking can we ever get a more thorough look at what already is in the master plan . We treat the ground water. The other water flooding out possibly that could be drained back, pumped back up. I dont know what that is going to do. We have ground water and no explanation as to what is going to happen to the existing ground water. There is one final point. I think that we can possibly look at saving the nation. It that a big answer and a lot of people are looking at. When i went to p. U. C. , they use estuary water, not oceanside water which has a lot more brine. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, it is closed. Item 11. Public comment . Seeing none, new business is closed. Item 12 new business setting. Any Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment closed. Item 13 communications. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment closed. Item 14. Adjournment. So moved. Second. Those in favor. Aye. So moved. Thank you very much. Once i got the hang of it a little bit, you know, like the first time, i never left the court. I just fell in love with it and any opportunity i had to get out there, you know, they didnt have to ask twice. You can always find me on the court. [ ] we have been able to participate in 12 athletics wheelchairs. They provide what is an expensive tool to facilitate basketball specifically. 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I was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. I didnt like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. I was very difficult to be around. But the friends that i have are very close. I click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. In experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. I remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldnt cope. I grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal developmental psychology from all sides. I recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybodys in a position to have a family thats as supportive, but theres also a community thats incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. It was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what . Im just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. I have a twoyearold. The person who im now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasnt sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so theres no way you can be pregnant. I found out i was pregnant at 6. 5 months. My whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. I think ive finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. I think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. When i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. We have a place where children can be children, but its very confusing. I always out myself as an adult with autism. I think its helpful when you know where can your child go. How im choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. How do speech therapy. How do you explain that to the rest of their class . I want that to be a normal experience. I was working on a certificate and kind of getting think Early Childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in San Francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i dont really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight persons perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and im like absolutely. So im now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. I love growing up here. I love what San Francisco represents. The idea of leaving has never occurred to me. But its a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. What ive done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that were still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a Resource Center, and this Resource Center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. I would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. So many things that i would love to do that are all about changing peoples minds about certain chunts, like the Transgender Community or the autistic community. I would like my daughter to know theres no wrong way to go through life. Everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary. Hard you have worked to win a state championship. It is an absolutely incredible accomplishment. Dont correct my grammar because i went to galileo high school, and you went to lowell. You did it focused as a team, and it matters. You are going to look back on this time in your life, and you are going to think wow, this was the best time of my life. It may not seem that way right now, but a few years from now, youre going to look back, and youre going to really remember your teammates, youre going to remember the excitement when you played, and yes, the challenges, because we know it takes a lot of hard work, both physically and mentally to get to a place where you can win a state championship, and i wanted you all to know how proud we are in San Francisco that these incredible women that are sitting before me today achieved this incredible milestone. So i wanted to take the opportunity to honor you here at city hall because im really proud of each of you for what you were able to do. I want to ask your coach, coach sung, to come up, and say a few words. Is the coach here today . There you go. Come on up, coach. [applause] the hon. London breed wait a minute. You look like youre a student at Lowell High School. You know, not too long ago, i was at lincoln. The hon. London breed lincoln . Too nice. And not too long ago, you guys beat lincoln. Not when i was playing. Come on up, coach, and congratulations to everybody. [applause] good evening. My name is kelly sung, and i am the varsity coach at Lowell High School. First, id like to thank mayor london breed and her staff for inviting us here tonight. Its so amazing to be recognized for all our hard work. Growing up and attending lincoln high school, the aaa teams never made it far in the post season. In the beginning of this season, our goal was to win our section title and to get past the second round of norcal. We were able to accomplish that and so much more, but i will let marie go kind of speak to that. What i wanted to touch on is how proud i am of these girls. Before practice or tournaments, you could find them studying for their tests or getting ahead of homework. It is hard to balance academics and sports at such a prestigious school. Our team held the highest accumulative grade point average of any team at Lowell High School. Telling teams that they are your Favorite Team is sort of bad practice, but in my nine years of coaching, i have to admit this is one of my Favorite Teams to coach. Not only because of the success they had, but because of their love for volleyball and each other. I hope you all remember how much of an impact you have made on not only Lowell High School but in womens sports. You are the first team at lowell and the first team in aaa to win state titles. Continue to lastly, i want to thank the parents for your support this season. Having to leave work early or wake up at 5 00 a. M. For tournaments is not easy, but just know that we would not have accomplished this without your unwavering support, so thank you so much. And next, were going to have our team captain, mari mariko tanaka. Good evening, everyone. My name is mariko tanaka, and i am a senior at Lowell High School. This past Volleyball Season was one of the most amazing experiences ive ever had, and i am so thankful to be a part of this team and so proud to be able to accomplish something even beyond my imagination. At the beginning of this season, winning state was something i never thought my team would get an opportunity to achieve. Our main goal was to win aaa section championships and advance past the second round of c. I. A. Norcal playoffs. The team stayed focused on reaching this goal, and with the hard work came reward to go undefeated in league play and win our city championship. After this, keeping focus was extremely hard, but with the encouragement of our coaches, kelly and j. J. , we won the first and second and then third round against burlingame in an extremely close match, knocking off the number one seed on their home turf to win the championship is indescribable. We are under dogs again in the c. I. F. Playoffs, but we were able to bring back the first state championship in volleyball in San Francisco history. [applause] individually, everyone on this team is very different, but we managed to find a way to gel together in the most perfect way possible. On behalf of this team, i would like to thank mayor london breed for having us and would also like to thank all friends and family for all the support you showed for us this season. Thank you. [applause] the hon. London breed thank you. All right. Thank you. That was great. Whos the next speaker here . Oh, the principal, yes. And again, let me just say, i notice that theres some members of the press here. I hope you get the word out about the incredible students at our school that are achieving great things because we need to continue to shine a light on all the work that they do to accomplish such a great thing here in San Francisco. So with that, come on up. [applause] i would also like to thank london mayor breed mayor london breed. I know that she was a galileo lion, but now that she is the mayor of this great city, someday she has to be a mission bear or a washington great eagle, but today, i would like to have her as a lowell cardinal. [applause] this was an incredibly exciting season. Every week, we would advance a little bit. I would come back to the office, and they would say, they won again, they won again. And i was there at that burlingame game. That was a very exciting game. There were moments when the opposing team looked like they were set up to get some wonderful spike, and no, didnt happen. So what i could really see was our young women here had the most incredible focus, and they were looking at each other like this; you get it. And thats what won the Championship Team work. I couldnt be prouder of these young women who brought home a championship and on top of that maintained the highest g. P. A. , continued to do so well in their academics. We will say goodbye to the ones who graduate this here, but we have a great young team coming up, and i would love to come back here next year. Thank you so much for bringing lowell to city hall, and thank you to our mayor for having us. [applause] and now, i believe the mayor will give the certificates. The hon. London breed we have jennie lam, who is a teacher and an elected member of the school board. What she does, she makes sure, along with the school board, that you have the tools you need. So with that, ill turn it over to you. Thank you. First, were going to acknowledge our players and then the coaches. So first, id like to acknowledge kaly bucmongla, katey yee, heather wu, carly lu, kelsey mah, pearl vermilia, gabrie gabriela kwak, alexandra chow, eliana ellie brown, alina qi, aleti edmonds, mariko tanaka, kylonni wong, assistant coach joshua jong. Last, but not least, head coach kelly sung. Can we get a Group Picture with the mayor at the podium, and then last with players and coaches. [applause] the hon. London breed well, its that simple. That concludes our program, and again, i want to just thank all of you and congratulations to this incredible team. Thank you to the parents and the family members who are here today. We appreciate your support, and well, i would say continue to get good grades, but you guys go to lowell so i dont have to say that. Continue to just remember that you all as champions are leaders. People look up to you because of what youve been able to accomplish, and so continue to hold your heads up high, do all the great things that you are meant to do, and who knows what may end up happening in the future. You could end up mayor. So thanks for coming today, and congratulations. [applause]