One is difficult with even animals. Why would an animal be in solitary there. I thought perhaps we could have another crane or others to accompany such animals. And the fish that were put in there, the koi fish, theyre doing good, keeping the bottom clean, but theyre prolific breeders, so i dont know which animals are attracted to getting the small fish, but thats part of that wildlife to it. Thats the food chain. Sometimes if you see the crane there, it doesnt even look like its alive, so i thought maybe you had another one there. Hopefully, i can get that from the zoo, where they find another matching crane. But i also heard from the director of operations it doesnt want them breeding, so you got to have the same gender. President buell thank you. Secretary anyone else who would like to make Public Comment under the zoo item . Being none, this item is closed. This was discussion only. Were on item 8, the joseph l. Alioto piazza, approval of a temporary art installation. Good morning, commissioners, im here to ask your approval of a request by the Arts Commission to place a temporary arts installation of 40 sculptures by zak ove, called invisible men, at civic center from july 2018 to october 2018. If we could turn on the overhead, please . Thank you. There will be 40 identical sculptures that are reminiscent of figures. Theyre entitled invisible men. Each is 6. 5 feet high and weighs about 300 pounds. The pictures you see is of installation in other location. For stability, they will each be sit on a base filled with concrete and to hold them down. Structural engineer has confirmed wind resistance, we spent a lot of time with the risk managers, that somebody couldnt tip them over. And the weight will be subject to a Structural Analysis that is consistent with the weight for civic center. They will be placed down the decomposed granite area of the plaza. The Arts Commission gave us a little explanation of the art, because not my expertise and i want to share it with everybody. Its fascinating. They were displayed at Somerset House in london, which is similar to our civic center and were designed to reference a play performed there in 1605 entitled the mask of blackness, which featured white actors in black face which was reflective of society shift toward preference for lighter skin in the 17th century. The artist alludes to the acclaimed novel, the invisible man, a pioneering consideration of racism and marginalized communities in america, told through the eyes of its black protagonist. The handsup could be construed as channelling the symbolism of the black lives Matter Movement currently. At the time when slavery monuments across the country are being removed, this is a time of placing peaceful sculptures of black men, it is insertion rather than deletion. With the departments support this installation. Secretary any Public Comment on the item . Did you want to speak . Ok, please come up. Good morning, commissioners, happy new year, im jill from the Arts Commission, its a pleasure to be before you today. I wanted to thank the recreation and Park Department commission for enabling the Arts Commission to produce and present these projects. We have the ideas, we fund the artists, but you wont property and i think its been a very positive and fruitful relationship over the years. Dana is terrific to work with, denny weighed in on the project, id like to thank them. I think together we make a great team. And i hope that you will support this project. It was enthusiastically approved by the Arts Commission on january 8th. And acting mayor breed has seen it and is supportive of the project as well. Im happy to answer any questions you may have before your vote. President buell thank you. I dont see any questions. Commissioner bonilla. Secretary were going to close Public Comment first. Any other comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner bonilla i was wondering, will you have youve just given we just heard a description of the meaning of these soldiers. Will there be something there, some signage or something for the public is that gives perspective, a little bit of background or history where how they originated and what the meaning might be because honestly, i wouldnt have ever in a lifetime thought about that is what that is what the meaning is. So i just wondered if thats going to be made possible . Yes, commissioner bonilla, you raise a good point. I agree with you that the public needs this information. And were also going to work with our colleagues from the city Team Involved in the Civic Center Commons initiative to discuss possible programs that might occur, dance performance, poetry reading, talks by the artists, so that it wont just be a visual exhibition. There will be hopefully other programming components. Commissioner bonilla thank you. President buell i dont see any other comments from the commission. Thank you very much. Youre welcome, my pleasure. Moved and seconded, all those in favor . So moved, thank you. Secretary were now on item 9, the Acquisition Policy review. Good morning, commissioners, jordan harrison, Capital Planning division. The item before you is review of the departments Acquisition Policy, we are providing this review sorry. Were providing this review as a recommendation from the 2017 civil grand jury report that suggested that the Commission Consider our Acquisition Policy before january 2018. The agenda for this overview is a policy overview, a summary of the nomination process, plan and recent acquisitions as well as a summary of our funding. The Acquisition Policy was adopted in 2006 and updated in 2011 with a lot of assistance from the provides general guidelines on how to go through the process and find the best sites for acquisition. The main policy goals are to select Properties Located in the areas of high need or open space deficiencies. Leverage funding from other sources for the purchase, development or maintenance of the site. And include properties that provide a variety of recreational opportunities. Informed by the park code, which provides guidelines for acquisition that focus on high needs again. The acquisition of properties where there is growth, which reits to the high needs russ the high needs. The two Work Together and the park code guidelines are integrated within the policy and discussed during the nomination processes. Ill go into more detail about the high needs areas defined by the open space element of the open plan. This map illustrates the high needs area and ill walk through the components that led to the creation of the map. The deeper the green, the greater the need and the areas of focus for acquisition. So there is density, general density, household income. Use and senior density. As well as the deficiency maps which show walkability for specific park types. All of these are within 2014 and are somewhat static. So this is one piece of what forms the acquisition thought process, but we also keep it flexible and integrate policy changes as they come. For example, the equity zones, which youre all familiar with from previous presentations. So thats kind of the overview of the geographic thought process behind the Acquisition Policy. Ill quickly go through the process. This process was worked out with prozac in 2011 and can be initiated by staff or a member of the public. They provide a site intake form which is available on the website to staff. Staff conducts analysis among the different proposals. We provide that analysis and ask for their concurrence or agreement with our recommendation and that puts the site on the roster of potential acquisitions. From there, it depends on numerous factors of which the department does not have complete control what is pursued, but that is how we create a consistent sort of apples to apples discussion of different sites. Please stand by. So, finally ill just go over some quick quickly planned and recent acquisitions. The top part of these tables are acquisitions we know we will be pursuing within the next five years. I will briefly mention them. The parks are dependent upon the timing of the development of that site. The protrero is depending on the timing. And it is going to be purchased in this year in spring of 2018, were going to close the deal. It has been approved and the funding has been appropriated. We are waiting for the seller to close the deal. The second half is recent acquisitions, which i wont go into until you have questions. This map illustrates where they are and these are also in your packet. Finally, ill just go over the funding process for acquisitions. The department uses 5 subsidy from the open space fund. This funding can only be used for the acquisition cost. It cant be used for construction or maintenance. We leveraged funds from impact fees in the Development Areas of the city, grants, transfers from other agencies as well as gifts from donors. The balance is around 4 million and the estimated annual addition on property revenues are around 3 million. And i also illustrate the funding obligations we have in the future, which we are monitoring. This illustrates how we are keeping track of money in and out over the known acquisitions in the future. Thats a quick summary of our Acquisition Policy. We presented this to prozac on the ninth and they felt we were on the right track. Several members who were there when the most recent policy was created in 2011 and they encoveraged the department to use encouraged the department to use both policies. President buell thank you very much. Secretary i have Public Comment on this. Jane wild, please. Public thank you commissioners. Jane wild, prozac district six. I will add that this jordans presentation was made last week and we all congratulated her on the most succinct and understandable presentation of the policy we had ever had. I just want to admire her work on that. I live on mission between seventh and eighth in the heart of midmarket in the tenderloin, which on the maps i dont know if we can bring the map back. But it is sort of the heart, the densest equity zone in the city. We are blessed with amazing parks and our staff does an amazing job, i think, of maintaining them. But they are in a ring around the city. And the acquisitions are an inner ring and we are still left with this huge hole in the most needy part of the city. The acquisition chart shows that about 55 of the acquisition fundses were used on equity zones since the year 2007. But that means 45 were not used in equity zones, creating a further deficit in the places that need it most. The grand jury report states a property should not be given priority based on funding, but need. We in midmarket have been begging for the acquisition of a small parcel that would serve our neighborhood and the desperately needing green space area. Rec and park prepared a report. Department of real estate negotiated the purchase but it was allowed to lapse in favor of other acquisitions. So, we are here to implore you to direct staff to reopen negotiations for these parcels still ability, 1133, 1139 mission street. Rec and park already has the work done. Weve just been told theres no money. We need to find the money. This is the neediest area in the city. Yes, it will be expensive. Its the most expensive per square foot, but it is central city. It is expensive there. These parcels are the only opportunity we have for any green at all in the center of this area. Paved plazas are not what we need. We dont need another u. N. Plaza. We need green. I just implore you to work with park and rec. They have done the work. We need to find the money and we need to respect our equity plan and adhere to the process that we have. So, i thank you and thank you, jordan, again for that great report. President buell thank you. Secretary is there anything else who would like to make Public Comment under the Acquisition Policy review . Being none, Public Comment is closed. President buell commissioner low. Vice president low jordan, we spent a lot of time on defining equity zones and i just want to make sure the terminology that were using, the Acquisition Policy relating to high need neighborhoods is consistent with our findings on equity zones and investing our funds into equity zones. Theres a lot of overlap in the factors that created the high need map and equity zone. They are slightly different. The equity zone include metrics not included in the high needs area. But density and income are crew drivers of both. Theyre not exactly the same. Vice president low and should our Acquisition Policy be har no newsed with harmonyized . I think the Health Indicators are important in understanding where we are going to prioritize acquisition opportunities. Thats something we should go back and work on. I would be curious to see if theres any difference in how we are identifying and prioritizing acquisition areas based on the two different formulas. There might not be. But i think commissioner, i agree with you. I think we should think about harmonizing them. Vice president low and just more granular question about coordinating our Acquisition Policy with interdepartmental cooperation. Particularly we saw the opportunity with the puc site, the department of real estate leads us in the acquisition of properties that come available, including appraisal prices, doing the due diligence, investigations. How does our should our Acquisition Policy address that interdepartmental collaboration . I think that is a possibility. I think it sort of plays out from my observation of the last three years slightly differently each time one of these opportunities arises. It is hard to anticipate exactly how to guide that through a policy thats trying to be global and kind of high level. But i think that is another area that we should probably explore in expanding the Acquisition Policy. Vice president low particularly with the department of real estate. I think a lot of this is opportunistic. Some sites come to us as the opportunity arises and sometimes we will have to deviate from the Acquisition Policy. But i think its worth addressing some sort of collaboration between the different departments within the city family as well as developing a process on acquisition thats led by the department of real estate so that we have the adequate information on valuation, environmental contamination, things of that nature. I think the partnership with real estate actually works pretty well. I think real estate probably should have john be here for this conversation. But i think once we identify acquisition opportunities come through a variety of different channels. We have our own criteria through which we are trying to prioritize it. The question is, how consistent are they with the criteria weve identified. Once an opportunity has been presented or weve retained or asked real estate to try to go out and identify opportunities within a certain area, thats how real estate gets involved and thats how we work with them on price and valuation and we actually work pretty in lock step with them and they make recommendations to us. That was one of the challenges with the other parcels that were that jane referred to. It is a funding issue and were not getting into a debate. Because weve had this conversation. But the cost per square foot given what we thought the use and utility of those parcels were steered us towards prioritizing the other sites. And we did that in partnership with real estate. Vice president low i guess just the related question there is encouraging more collaboration with other departments that might have opportunities for parks and open space. Schlage lock was a great opportunity. The transbay districts plan provides for parks but doesnt say whose parks they are. This is a bigger policy discussion about working with interdepartmentally within the city family on if there is an opportunity, whats our role and how could we play more of an active role in the development and management of the open space opportunity. Thank you for raising that. I think we will have an opportunity to hear from a couple of months from the office of infrastructure on the shipyard open space. That is a related important issue. Overall, the communication and partnership with our sister agencies is pretty good. There are some very important emerging questions about this organizations role in some of the open space thats being developed, particularly through reDevelopment Areas that i think warrants our collective attention and engagement. But overall, the other thing im thinking about is our work with the office of Economic Development on some of the caltrans parcels underneath the freeways. And jordan and stacy in our Planning Division are involved in all those conversations and i think much more so than five, six, seven years ago. Weve very much been at the table. We were at the table and it would be interesting to talk about because i think there are some good open space opportunities that are surfacing as a result of that as well. All good points. President buell thank you. Commissioner anderson. Commissioner anderson i just wanted to comment i was recently at the Shore View Park property and its an amazing piece of property, looking sort of southeast over the bay. And theres a planning meeting this coming saturday, on the 20th, from 1 002 30 if people want to get involved in k concepti conceptionializing tha