improvement district on our selection panel, as well as another community member, who is involved in the central subway citizens advisory committee and representatives from the mta and from our arts commission, as well as arts professionals. and we received hundreds of applications, and the panel reviewed those applications and narrowed the finalists down to three finalists, and those artists submitted the proposals. we put them on display for public comment and we also sent them to the union square business improvement district and they could provide comment back to us before we had our second selection panel meeting. through that process the panel selected local artists jennifer starkweather and amanda, the artist team and together they have produced this design, that features unfortunately the image is quite blown out. there is very fine line work that references maps and topographic imagery. can you see the line work? so it s very fine line work and it does show up ove
capital development program to build a new nursery at the site, which will be a shared-use nursery and will help us, again, keep that world-class living museum thriving for generations to come. that is approximately a $12 million capital campaign that the botanical garden society is completing and if all goes well with that, they are hoping to or we are hoping to begin construction on nursery in january of 2014. and the commission did approve those plans and the board of supervisors has approved the plans and gifts and we re waiting to finish up the capital campaign and break ground out there early next year. since 2002, the botanical garden society has been leasing certain spaces at the county fair building from the department under a lease agreement. they have also for the last three fiscal years, administered the non-resident botanical garden for the department and they have done so under a grant agreement that the department signed with them in 2009. current lease and man
million capital campaign that the botanical garden society is completing and if all goes well with that, they are hoping to or we are hoping to begin construction on nursery in january of 2014. and the commission did approve those plans and the board of supervisors has approved the plans and gifts and we re waiting to finish up the capital campaign and break ground out there early next year. since 2002, the botanical garden society has been leasing certain spaces at the county fair building from the department under a lease agreement. they have also for the last three fiscal years, administered the non-resident botanical garden for the department and they have done so under a grant agreement that the department signed with them in 2009. current lease and management agreement that is before you would bring all of these functions under one agreement between the city and our trusted partner. the initial lease term would be ten years. there would be two potential ten-year extensi
with that, they are hoping to or we are hoping to begin construction on nursery in january of 2014. and the commission did approve those plans and the board of supervisors has approved the plans and gifts and we re waiting to finish up the capital campaign and break ground out there early next year. since 2002, the botanical garden society has been leasing certain spaces at the county fair building from the department under a lease agreement. they have also for the last three fiscal years, administered the non-resident botanical garden for the department and they have done so under a grant agreement that the department signed with them in 2009. current lease and management agreement that is before you would bring all of these functions under one agreement between the city and our trusted partner. the initial lease term would be ten years. there would be two potential ten-year extensions. the use the permitted uses would be numerous, but they would include those elements tha
this was discussion only. so we re on item 11, golden gate park san francisco botanical garden lease and management agreement good morning commissioners, nick kinsey speak into the mic. sorry you are too tall for the mic. every time, nick kinsey, director of property management for the rec and park department and happy to bring before the commission today a new lease and management agreement with one of our longest and cherished partners the botanical garden society and since 1955 the botanical garden society has provided crucial support to the department as we have managed and operated a really living museum. the botanical gardens support for the garden has included building and operating the hellonen crocker library and funding the botanical garden master plan that was completed as a submaster plan to the golden gate park master plan and providing important educational programss for youth and outreach to visitors. also importantly paying for an 11th gardener each