roll call . This is the recrd Park Commission meeting februar. Welcome to everyone today. We remind you to please turn off Electronic Devices and take your conversations outside. If you would like to speak today we request you complete a blue card. 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
Supervisors from the district. Yee, district 8, supervisor mandelman which includes the glen park and Diamond Heights area, and also district 9, supervisor ronen, district 10, supervisor walton from the Visitacion Valley and sunnydale area and the largest district 11, supervisor safai, which includes excelsior and Outer Mission areas. I have 34 schools in the district which include balboa high school, leadership, reardon, city college. The population is roughly 139,000. Desk grams are africanamericans 4. 2 percent, asians, 21 percent, latin, 25 percent, other is 12. S 31. 3 percent. On to the next slide. Staffing overview. I have 128 in my personnel of which 120 are sworn, five are p. S. A. , Police Service aids and three civilians. I have five lieutenants, 20 sergeants, 90 officers, four recruits. Currently i have one s. R. O. , a School Resource officer, i have two foot beat officers, one on the Mission Geneva corridor and one on leeland street corridor. I have hopes of increasing on
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
Able to get folks downtown quickly on the t, then the need for parking wouldnt be there. We understand that the lots there are full. Like many San Francisco neighborhoods to get a parking spot in this area you need to drive around. I have that situation. I had a car until three years ago when i said it is a pain in the butt. Finding parking is hard. I was fortunate to be in a situation to get rid of the car. A lot of folks dont have that. We are also looking at a situation that goes what do we want to prioritize . Parking spots are homes for people. At the end of the day it does frankly suck that is a tradeoff we have to figure out because parking does take up space. When trying to figure out these crazy priorities in the city, there is a lot of give and take. We absolutely understand that the desire for more parking at the site, but when looking at everything and looking at the big picture, we would argue building more homes should take priority over those requests. We ask that you do
Mr. President , all members are present. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfg tv, Mia Hernandez and kalina mendoza. Madam clerk, any communications . Yes, mr. President , i have one to report. We received correspondence on february 14th, 2020 from mayor london breed communicating her veto of the ordinance with 2. 7 millions of general reserve conditioned upon an executed agreement at city college. Pursuant to 9. 104, my office received no request to consider this veto and therefore, file 1961 stands. Thank you, madam clerk. First of all, i want to apologize for starting a little late. We had a little press thing with the mayor announcing some issues that youll hear about in the paper. So colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from th