Center to build an additional floor that adds funding to increase the capacity and making improvement at v m. D. The Planning Department dream is frankly the caltrans site to create a very large park experience at the caltrans site other opportunities to partner with development for just by way of example the Tension Center project ended up with storefront Tennis Center and there are other opportunities for building in open space and recreational amenity in central soma part of that is using the acquisition funds were at a frank disadvantage if we had our desires well do were competing in the market we were committed to this and made promises to do this not getting the same value in the baseline we know that we turned down another property that is was so small it might have been the most expensive dog park in america it is in the an easy thing to solve and not the leverage we need in other neighborhoods in San Francisco dawn i dont know if you want to comment on other central soma. Is
Make Public Comment well have 3 minutes commissioners. 3 minutes. When you make Public Comment direct our comments to the Commission Neither the staff nor commissioners will respond to questions during Public Comment the commission may ask staff to respond to questions. If an item not on the calendar that falls under the rec and Park Commission you may comment under general Public Comment that is item number 4 and continued again on item number ten with that, we can get started president s report. Just briefly when we adjourn the meeting today sadly we will adjourn in memory of sue she reluctance retired from the department after 36 years a horticulture person at the Botanical Garden and lost bob golf director and paate tree to thater supervisor so margaret when we adjourn well do that in their memory thats all i have thank you. Any Public Comment under the that concluded my report. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Were on item 3 the general manager report thank you, commissioner
This is a referral is it only people who are going to be residing at 55 laguna . How does somebody get connected to your services . Yes. Theres various ways to connect to our service. As many of you know we move into 55 laguna photo housing unit in the fall to the residence there. Will be working with us if they just we also work on a dropin and by appointment base. We get a lot of referrals from agencies across the city that someone looking for more lgbt specific care and they reach out to us. Then, we make an appointment with her clients. But then well specifically also works on a dropin basis. Especially because now were in the castro. The storefront. People drop in all the time needing immediate referrals and were offer them at that moment. Thank you. Any other questions from staff . Any Public Comment on this item . Nathan, no . Thank you very much, both of you. The next item is Public Comment. On anything not on todays agenda. Anyone have something to say . Okay. Correspondence.
You. Thank you. Next speaker good morning, commissioners my name is rob poole San Francisco Housing Action coalition. Were a member nonprofit allocates for the creation of housing fundamental in the city one of the main oufshz so create for housing for the residents that are coming here if youre a student in the city as you can imagine the choices are slim picking we got to incentivize the production and did research day of said the status thirty that universities prior education in the city 9 of them provide Student Housing about eight or nine thousand beds for the students and i think the shortfall of beds is 60 thousand we see that so students are forced to compete for housing in the open market and one of the most expensive citys in the were not this project will solve the Student Housing shortage but one step in the right direction 28 beds for students within walking distances of the campus that is a rate more affordable than in the city aside from that it is also a terrific proje
Present wiener wu, present. Yee not present you have a quorum ladies and gentlemen please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance]the tech thank you madam clerk are there any communications there are none to report today can you please call the first item special order at 2 pm is the appearance by our hon. Mayor edward lee. Urbino questions omitted from the eligible district supervisors the mayor may address the board for up to 5 min. Thank you. Welcome mr. Mayor thank you supervisor breed and good afternoon supervisors. Good afternoon to the audience that here today as well. I want to start off by saying that we had a pretty exciting week in our city and certainly in the bay area. Hosting the 50th super bowl. I believe resident visitors and residents alike so rated the best super bowl ever with Family Friendly events all images of our beautiful city were broadcast to the entire world. In addition to the incredible economic benefits for our city and our region, we kn