Courts. Since seven months ago we are over 10,000 now reservations through the free system which allies the anxiety of people about the closure, reduction in number of courts and the comments are i have never been to that park and that city. That is wonderful. There are so many places we can play. The map shows you the green for the original courts we had. It was pretty empty in the eases part of the city. It is where we had three and four courts. We spread it out. Now we have three online reservations throughout the city. We may expand more. People are excreted about this. There had a few things we are working out. Should it be an our rath an hour rather than an hour and a half. I want to acknowledge jackie who is the lead on this project. She is home with a bad virus. The Community Support has been tremendous. The two people ruiobjected to the rfb having gone through the free Online System now support it. We reached out and they were no longer objecting to the selection of an operato
Any opposed . Motion carries. We are now on item 6, the San Francisco zoo. Hello, good morning. Tanya peterson, director of the San Francisco zoo. I am happy to i an announce that the january kids for free program was successful and over 12,000 children came to the zoo for free during the month of january. Tsz it is february. Love is in the air, so twoforone admission for the senior citizens. As we discussed earlier, i do not qualify. If you are 65 or older, two for free in february. Speaking of sweethearts t new male and female, the male on the left and female snow leopard on the right, we brought them in and were match maker of sort. The first meeting went well and now they are into speed dating. We are hoping speed dating. Hoping to get a cub soon here. Speaking of cubs, our bears turn one. We will have celebrations over the president s weekend. And as you may recall, we had online bidding auction for their naming rights. The names will be revealed this weekend. And time in our educ
I am paula murphy. I lived in San Francisco for the past 25 years. For the past 10 i have been playing tennis in San Francisco mostly on public courts. Jumping off what peg said i want to focus my comments on what a huge benefit having lights at golden Gates Tennis Center will be. Imagine you work for a living, which i think most of us do, that you cant afford to be a member of the private club, and you play doubles. Mosmost of us of a certain age y doubles. You know, what are your options for playing tennis other than weekends . You get into your cars or on your bike or whatever, Public Transportation and go across the city and all four of you meet there and you just cross your fingers and hope that nobody is playing. Often times there is someone playing, there is people waiting. Then you decide, okay, are we going to wait two hours and stand here or try to go somewhere else . Then you all get in cars or on your bike and go somewhere else and hope the same situation doesnt await you.
Is a critical and beneficial piece of the project. The tlc is the Youth Development program for health and wellness and Emotional Development for under served youth. Currently it served elementary children in three rec centers. They are opening a fourth site and hopes for a fifth. When the Tennis Center reopens it will serve middle School Children that graduated from the elementary sites that show an affinity for continuing tennis instruction. There is a dedicated classroom space and rec room to be used for overflow for the tlc. The rec room can be used to accommodate alternate activities. It will normally house two pingpong tables during the day with a storage closet so they can be tucked away. Here is the garden area south of the building a place to eat lunch and outdoor teaching space, place for events and place to watch tennis. A small theater with movable tables and benches. A public art wall forms the south of building and faces the garden. We are working to select the artists an
This one. It is one of several projects we partnered on with hays valley, balboa park and hill tom and the relake ship goes back farther with the partnership projects. Buchanan mall is another one we are working on with gpl. We were in district 6 yesterday and we were joined by three amazing kids who spent a lot of time at bodecker and are involved in the boys and girls club. The city invested more than 30 million in the Park Improvement this is the last several years including not just civic center, south park and we have upcoming work at the Sergeant Mccoy playground and the mini park. They were opened in honor of may your lee. I was mayor lee. I was with them when we showed him the design. He was so excited but he said when he looked at it, he said this looks amazing. What if there were some lights. That embarked a very ambitious lighting element to these playgrounds which you saw part of last night. The big piece of it went on about 10 minutes after we cut the ribbon. That is show