Good morning. It is thursday, february 15th. This is the regular meeting of the San Francisco recreation and Parks Commission will the secretary call the roll. roll call commissioner buell and mcdonnell have excused absences. Please turnoff your devices. Also, if you would like to have a secondary conversation we request that goes outside. If you would like to speak on an item we request but do not require a blue card. Unless otherwise announced by the president each person will have two minutes for Public Comment on each item. If there is an item of interest not on the agenda under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, you may speak on general Public Comment, item 4. That is continued on item 9. When you make Public Comment, please address your comments to the commission in order to allow equal time for all. Neither the commission nor staff will respond to questions during Public Comment. The commission may ask questions of staff after Public Comment is closed. Last, and
Of our colleagues on the commission. Commissioner covington i will second. Vice president nakajo thank you commissioner. President cleaveland commissioner hardeman, you wanted to add something . Commissioner hardeman were being watched by the Mayors Office and board of supervisors and were sitting here telling everybody that yes, we know were not supposed to ask for a new title, now what we want is one and a half positions. I think we have handled this very poorly. I think our discussion makes us look like were more interested in getting our opinion about getting a grant writer than actually getting a grant writer. I was convinced by statements from staff that were going to have a grant writer and the staff has rewriten it to give us that. We say we want a grant writer because we want a grant writer which i find confusing and im sure the Mayors Office and board of supervisors who are the final vote on this probably thinks this is confusing for them to absorb what were saying too. Im go
I want to thank jennifer low and charles for covering this meeting. Do we have any announcements . Please silence all cell phones. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 24th board of supervisors agenda. Item number one resolution authorizing the recreation and Park Department accept grant in the amount of approximately 27 million from the state of California Department of housing and Community Development to fund housing related park projects. Thank you very much. Good morning committee members. My name is tony. Im the grant manager for the recreation park capital and improvement division. The item before you is legislation to authorize recreation and park to retroactively accept and extend a grand in the amount of approximately 2. 6 million from the California Department of housing and Community Development department. The legislation also authorizes general manager of the recreation and Park Department to reallocate grant funds as needed to maximize city recovery for thi
Us ef faction of ucsf paid impact as much as 29 per hour but the contract paid his employees only 18 an hour. In 2013, the pay was cut to 10. 74 per hour. That is barely above our minimum wage of 10 our minimum wage of 10. 55 that the degree. Workers responded by working with the uc servers were. Union afscme local 3299 to begin organizing for better treatment. They doubled the hourly pay and benefits such as health and pension, guaranteed wage increases, and paid time off. In march of 2015 ucsf did not renew its contract with impact group resulting in many of these workers losing their jobs. Then the university then began working with another contractor. The dispute between ucsf and local 3299 has prompted an unfair labor practice complaint filed by the general counsel of the Public Employee relations board. In response to that complaint, ucsf claimed it cannot hire the impact workers because they do not speak english sufficiently, even though they had already works for you see for ma
Good morning everybody welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance question meeting for wednesday february, 10, 2016. I want to thank jennifer low and charles for covering this meeting. Do we have any announcements . Please silence all cell phones. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 24th board of supervisors agenda. Item number one resolution authorizing the recreation and Park Department accept grant in the amount of approximately 27 million from the state of California Department of housing and Community Development to fund housing related park projects. Thank you very much. Good morning committee members. My name is tony. Im the grant manager for the recreation park capital and improvement division. The item before you is legislation to authorize recreation and park to retroactively accept and extend a grand in the amount of approximately 2. 6 million from the California Department of housing and Community Development department. The legislat