Down. Little things like we were a traveling team for the south bay. I was able to use my bosss van and we would like to thank everyone for helping us so much in the competition. Thank you. [ applause ]. All right. Now we take a quick look at this month in parks and as much as we love our young athletes, back to school. [video] one of the things we do is teach kids to swim. The aquatics programs are the most popular programs in San Francisco and the entire bay area. We have the traditional programs like tennis and basketball and kayaking program. Kids are able to go out on yachts and learn all the etiquette involved with it. That program is very popular as well. This month in parks, the San Francisco alliance is a terrific event that goes towards helping fund our scholarship program. This time San Francisco was able to open up the athletic fields. This began in partnership with the city field foundation. Our gracious partners that opened up many fields throughout San Francisco. Communi
Official Ground Breaking of our new tropic building. Its going to take close to a year to build. Hopefully it will be opening next summer, but many of those an mams animals that were hard to spell and pronounce are going into this tropical building. That ends my report and thank you for all you do. Thank you very much. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Being none, Public Comment is closed. We are on item 8. Palace of fine arts request for concept proposals. Good morning commissioners, mr. President , mr. General manager. Im cassandra cost elo from the property management. Im proud to bring you the draft of the proposal of fine arts. So just a bit of background. The palace is a longterm tenant. The longest is the theatre. I was here two 2 months ago to present the terms and conditions for Lease Agreement for the innovation hangar. Both leases will expire in march of 2016. Innovation hangar is in the space to hell help us celebrate the event. So looking forward for a longterm te
The friends of camp mather in collaboration of the party. Most of my script is gone. What a n i am here to do today is to invite the commissioners and general manager ginsberg to be our guest this saturday. If you are thinking of coming, please do. Its going to be a lovely party and will raise more awareness about fire safety and the heroic efforts that people put into saving the camp. I also want to thank the commission and the department so much for your aid in putting this event on. This is never easy and there is a lot of work to put on this gala. Its going to be more than tshirts and there is a lot of details and we thank the commission for the generous offer to let the commissioners cabin to be available for one 1 week and other things the staff at the park have made available to us to be able to do this for the camp. Most of all we are here to celebrate 90 wonderful amazing years of camp and on wards to the 90s. Thank you so much. Is there any other Public Comment . Seeing none,
Coming up. Red panda day. A national celebration. We wanted to bring the red panda to peoples attention and highlight this beautiful creature. If you havent seen the red panda, you are missing something. This is the talk of the palm oil and disappearance of forest in asia. We are celebrating world rhino day. They are going down as fast as elephants. We have five of the species at the San Francisco zoo. Its all for the same reason, for illegal trad of their horn. We want to bring the part of the rhino and can ouple it with theel vanity. Elephant. To stop the killing. To highlight that day we have a great lecture coming to San Francisco zoo. We have obrien and inspector ann marie Law Enforcement at the federal and state level and they will come and tell you how this stop the trade of illegal animal products. They tell incredible stories. So if youve never heard how they do it, please come out to the San Francisco zoo this sunday at 1 00 and hear these amazing people and hear what they do
Event. So looking forward for a longterm tenant for the space, we are proposing a two phase bidding process. First is a question for concept proposal to provide a little bit of a lower barrier entry way. Oftentimes we hear from prospective bidders that they are anxious to participate because they are in a higher level. Its to get the commission to consider and get the public to weigh on and this gives us a broad view of high level concepts. This is an invite only process and well have a Selection Panel to recommend the highest scoring proposals from the request for concept proposals. They will be invited to participate in the longterm rfp. It will ask for a higher level detail plan and Financial Information and details about the proposed operation and management plan. As i presented before we have a really fantastic team of folks helping with this process. Jan brooks from the foundation has been such an incredible partner and responsible for the 21 million renovation of the rotundum co