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. This will help you know for sure you will be able to play. You can make a reservation and play after work. It will increase access phenomenally. For people who play tennis and cant afford the private clubs and need to work for a living that is a reason to support the project. I hope you agree. Kay, lois, david, trish. I am kay christianson. I support the project in the park. I think it is an incredible gift to the city. As it stands now some of the courts are barely playable. They have big cracks. Some have net posts that rusted out. There are no nets. I have played from for over 40 years. I would love to see the park Tennis Center restored to the former glory. Thank you. I am highway lois. I started in the 1980s. I would like to say i was nominated and elected the San Francisco captain of the year in 2014 for the u. S. Ta norcal because i have been captain out there numerous times, and i have wonderful teammates and memories from playing at the park. The park is in need of great repair and i look forward to seeing it not only restored to the former glory but a new glory with lighted courts, with reservation systems, with on going maintenance, and continued aspects of the San Francisco community. I appreciate all of your support, and i will continue to support the project. Thank yothank you very much. We have henry, kevin and larry, please. Good morning, commissioners and general manager. I am trish robins for 10 years the all volunteer Tennis Coalition envisioned this moment being so close to the renovation of the Tennis Center. It was not wellknown 10 years ago. We met with groups and individuals, and gradually we drained their trust and deep partnerships with the San Francisco recreation and Parks Commission with the goal of making tolden gate partly cloudy golden gate partly cloudy Tennis Center we are doing it four our kid was the opportunity to build an educational piece to the Tennis Center with the expansion of the tennis and Learning Center for underserved middle school kids which will be headquartered there. We want a safe and accessible public tennis facility to serve everyone 5 or 95. Did i mention we are all volunteers . Thank you for your support. I am david glass sil. I have been playing tennis at Golden Gate Park. I started about 70 years ago and played on the lowell team. We couldnt play at night out there. It came 5 00, we were finished because it was getting dark, and there was no light. I think one of the main things is making the Tennis Center where everybody can play. They can play up to 8 00 or 9 00 at night or 10 00. I dont know exactly what time it will close, but i think it is very important for the young people who are growing up in the city to have a place to go where there is plenty of courts and they can really enjoy it anytime of the day. All of the people who work can be there at night. They can have leagues at night like the tennis Club Downtown has. Even the Golden Gateway they have lights and their clubs at night. I would urge you to put this through and give us a chance to have the great Tennis Center. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello commissioners. I am kevin fry. I am a uspta tennis teaching professional and have been for about 10 years, and i would just say it is nice to have a public facility that will have diverse interests and competing interests all sort of meld into one. That is pretty awesome. I also think that Learning Center program to have kids there and have a safe place for them to play and be able to play late at night is going to be awesome with lit courts. I thank you for the opportunity to be able to do that at the park. Thank you. Next speaker. After henry is larry i donna, jim and john. I am here for diversity since i have suggestions to improve the proposals. I am henry broadcast. I am among 50 seniors who play in the mornings at Golden Gate Park. We agree lights are a wonderful thing, and we like the commitment to access for children and nonwealthy adults who dont belong to a private club. However, there are elements of the plan that i think the commission should consider more closely. First of all, the oversight and the development of the plan has been done in a insulated fashion. It started out with two groups. It has not expanded to include all of the tennis playing public. The Needs Assessment has not been done. We also think that the decision right from the begin to turn over the park to a for profit tennis vendor is dangerous because that vendor will be tasked with keeping up the courts and paying his staff. As we go ahead to try to serve all of community that we want to, the rates will go up and with the plan the number of courts will go down. The tennis playing public will have less access at higher cost. This is exactly the opposite of what the benefactors wanted. When we look around at other places like sunnyvale and Mountain ViewMountain View courts are rented out to patrons and they go for 12 to 24 an hour and lessons 100 per hour. This is needed to pay a staff for the extended hours we are talking about. I want to caution the commission to curthat the wonderful access that night supply does not take away from the daytime usage because they may be different people using them at different times. Larry, donna, jim, john. Mr. Reader, and charles. You can come up please if i called your name. In any order. If you can come up, please. Good morning. Thank you for your time. I am here on behalf of support of the parks. The 10 Tennis Coalition and the parks and ministration to improve the tennis facility at Golden Gate Park. I am a tennis player. I tennis player. I play everywhere i can. I play in the private and public parks around here. I think this is an amazing project, it is remarkable. It is with all levels of the community. It is a well overdue improvement for the city and for the community. I think the minimal additional amount of money the city needs to come up with to fund this project shouldnt go unnoticed especially given 22000 hours of usage by all members of the community this project is going to provide. I think the city and commission should be proud to have a community that is this committed to having aim provement in the parks for tennis and sports and community in general. I appreciate your time and thank you for your approving this project and Going Forward. Next speaker, please. Good morning. Jim sutton, member of the Tennis Coalition. I have been playing on the public courts in San Francisco for 35 years, the plaza, marina, used to play at Golden Gate Park. To be frank, they are too close together years ago i stopped playing at Golden Gate Park. My wife and i are excited to be involved. My son was on the High School Team and won the city doubles championship at Golden Gate Park last year. I will tell you as the parent and observer nowhere to it is, nowhere for water, the clubhouse is outdated. Bathrooms are unare down. This is a wonderful process. A call out to phil and his staff and everyone who worked so hard. The Tennis Courts and volunteers also the parks alliance. It is a wonderful partner. We have had a lot of public meetings. There are a lot of different people. We were surprised ho how many different interests are interested in the parks. It is interesting to see how many more groups will be able to play at the new renovated courts. Seniors in the morning and lessons in the middle of the day. So many more High School Teams with time to play in the afternoon. There will be the great rec and park camps. I hope that you support all aspects of this project. Thank you. Next speaker. Good morning. I was born in San Francisco, raised in Golden Gate Park. My family is behind me. I want to say it is wonderful to see progress. I have been involved in after School Programs for over 30 years, and i will probably go from tennis to pickle ball and maybe pingpong. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good morning. Thank you for having me. I moved here 40 years ago from france. I enjoy spending time in the beautiful parks and raising my two daughters on the soccer, field and Tennis Courts. I learned to play at lafayette park. I am in full support of this renovation project. It is badly needed. I have been in many nonprofits. More recently the city youth. People are passionate about caring for others and making sure everyone has access to the activity they need. I serve as board president of the city youth and see what happened to kids if they do not have a solid support system at home. The tennis and Learning Center can provide underserved people with that. It is an introduction to a sport with building blocks. I look forward to spending time at in center. I can watch, weight for my wife and grab a cup of coffee. Thank you for your time. Next speaker. Hello. I am one of the organizers of the senior tennis that plays three days each week at Golden Gate Park. This plan looks great. Everybody says wow, all these new courts, a lounge, a lot of tennis. Unfortunately, for us it has very, very severe unintended consequences. Our senior group will be destroyed by this plan unless you can please make some changes. First of all, most people dont know we are losing four courts. We cant lose courts. We dont have enough to begin with. Secondly, the seniors play in the morning. We play doubles for an hour andahalf. Under this plan, reservations are for an hour. Most importantly, the seniors are offered a lower rate. If you are a for profit operator you are not going to put the lowpaying seniors in there. You will try to get the courts out on lessons, you are going to encourage tennis camps, do all of that stuff. I just know our group is not going to have enough space. We played doubles for an hour andahalf. You cant play doubles for an hour. After you rally there is time for one set. That needs changed. My request is please consider a special break for seniors. We need an hour andahalf in the morning for our group. Nothing wrong with reserving the courts for seniors, and also it is possible in our pinto revise the our opinion that it takes up a lot of room. I would encourage the changes. The group of us would love to work with the recreation and Parks Commission. We didnt have the opportunity before. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker. Good morning. I am charles higgins. I grew up playing Golden Gate Park. I played on the High School Team and later was the executive director of youth tennis advantage working with kid from the mission and we used Golden Gate Park twice a year for big gatherings, a very important place for young people to get out of the neighborhoods and experience the Golden Gate Park in a meaningful way. The redesign of the courts and clubhouse is going to be impactful for these young people to experience a world class facility and a sport they can play the rest of their lives. Currently, the High School Teams play there and fill up the courts when they play the matches and the all city matches in the late fall and late spring. It is here again a spectacular facility for accommodating young people. I very much encourage you to support the project. Thank you. Next speaker. After this gentleman i have called all the names for this item. For item five not item eight. Please hold up. If there is anyone else who would like to speak on item five, could you please come forward and you may speak. Go ahead. I am larry dodge here on behalf of the coalition. I helped to design part of this project, and i think the concerns particularly the seniors have are part of a balancing act the operator will take into account, and it will be addressed in probably two different ways. One is through the agreement we come to what the requirements are that that operator will include. Then it is almost a daytoday, week by week quarter by quarter balancing act by operator to have all of the users who want to use it come out with the best conclusions they can. That is the advantage of having a operator with experience in tennis. It is called experience. It is . In the ness in the necessary in th in the tennis c. I wanted to make those points. Thank you. Next speaker. I want to say a couple things here. I have been doing this for a long time all my time i have been doing this, okay . I want to see that the ladies here today and by goods all of the time. Now they dont have that time any more to get that other line to do this any more because i want you to keep doing the things you have up here. Do all of the things you were ever to do it. I want to see you do that. It is not about hitting out and getting a draw. It is like we say things sometimes. I will tell you some times you have to know what is going on. It is for that. This guy is for that. The way you guys have done this all of the timeout here. This is how it should be as you have been doing all your time. Do not get what you need. You dont need that stuff any more. You dont need to look at that what do you call it . What do you call it . Anyway. Thank you for your time and thank you for your time. I will see you again. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am willis salisbury the cochair of the Tennis Coalition of San Francisco. I would like to speak where we concluded that an operator is the best way to make sure we are going to achieve the vision we have which is that this beautiful facility will be stunning and operate understand an ex larrie in a way to be the bedrock. We did the homework and saw most municipalities concluded the experience of someone who has run the facility will make a great difference in making sure it is maintained. It serves people in a balanced way. We are going to have continuing interests but new interests once this place is thriving with the kind of program we envision to make it the heartbeat of tennis in San Francisco. I want to speak to the question of accessibility. Accessibility. There is no constraint how long a court can be booked this. Is something the operator may consider in terms of balances. It is a question of 30 minute increments. No constraight. A different way of booking than today. The good news about the center like golden gate partly cloudy is that there is a natural withthem. Kids rhythm. Working people are going to play and senior this is the morning. There will be new programs they should attract new and different players. We want a operator to bring this to full life wherever body loves to play and they feel they will be treated fairly. We do intend to have an ongoing advisory process and feedback with the operator so the operator only succeeds when there is a Double Bottom line. A bottom line for that operation but where the public is satisfied and proud of this facility. Next speaker. [please stand by] 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 education area and we have space to host films and videos that are in line with the mission. During this month we a