Supervisor mandelman welcome back. Thank you for filling for the commissioners and want to for sfgovtv for staffing the meeting madam clerk before announcements were joined by how board clerk and i understand you have some information. Good morning, chair he wanted i appreciate the privilege of floor on the remote system as youre aware the board that amended their rules to end the use of Public Comment testimony for the Board Meeting due to the unanimous individuals that use it for discrimination and the board left one option for ada for accommodations for individuals interested in making that request call the phone number 1 415 6550001 meeting id 2663 634 1600 to raise your hand, press 3 but regards to todays agenda this was originally published last thursday and had the opportunity for remote Public Comment so in consultation with our folks we would like to continue to provide an opportunity for the public despite the rule changes which were scheduling the agenda about b will not contain that same language thank you, want to make sure there was no confusion on behalf of the public may they call in the language is posted on the agenda and the telephone i trust youre okay with folks if they discrimination reacts will be released from the line and now you additional information. Public comment on item item these inperson will be allowed to speak first and then remote those inperson line up to speak to the right and dial star three to get on is line and please be sure to turn down devices and many you may send our written comments postal stiffer to city hall room 244. If you submit Public Comment in writing will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the file and three 1 madam clerk item one. Mr. Chair im going to do motion to excuse supervisor stefani from todays meeting. Call the roll. Supervisor stefani from attending todays meeting commissioner chan absent and supervisor mandelman, aye. Converted two is and call 1. Regular agenda 231032 [hearing un plaza activation project and heart of the city Farmers Market] sponsor preston. And requesting the Servicing Center to report. Members of the public who wish to provide comments now. Phone number 1 415 6550001 meeting id 2663 634 1600 to raise your hand, press 3 the property will indicate youre unmuted and then begin. Thank you, maam clerk i call this hearing to get responses on outstanding questions and request more information about the pilot un plaza activation project and the recognition for the heart of the city Farmers Market the board of supervisors recently passed the resolution unanimously expressing the boards concern about the recognition of the Farmers Market and urging the rec and park to share the information with the public on the activation and asking the department to commit to it mitigation measures make sure the Farmers Market and have Greater Transparency that resolution was heard at this Committee Last month and i hoped that would have been the forum where the public and the board can learn about the plans for the pilot heart of the city Farmers Market and how the city was helping Farmers Market and the vendors be successful to the center. Unfortunately, despite multiple requests from my department to send a representative to the last meeting rec and park did not appear and questions are unanswered and officially the public learned from rec and park about the plans and give their feedback was a narrow and Public Comment but everyone was guessing at the mans in many respects. So i requested that rec and park reply Service Center center be present today. Ill say my conversations rec and park i thought that was for me be here in clarity who is leading at activation project. And what the plans are so im hopeful we, get information from the farmers and vendors and Farmers Market and my constituents in the tenderloin and beyond people across the city rely on the mart they have information that that they need charter on the timeline and for the Farmers Market and really my hope that we shift to a new chapter and talk about this im really stunned by a disappointed by the lack of transparency and Community Engagement on to significant shift and to the change in the faifrmdz i hope we hit he reset and have a more collaborative approach i dont i dont want to get ahead of myself welcome commissioner chan has joined us and also that we have representatives from rec and park and from dvd here i want to invite up and give the floor 10 minutes to i dont know if it is matt speaking or both looks like both welcome. Thank you, supervisor. For the rec and Park Department you mentioned supervisor preston and here with the colleague we have a brief presentation we hope to follow. Good to go . All right. And so we are, you know. We do limit presentations to 10 minutes i know there will be questions. Well do our best. Thank you. So the Service Center is a vision for public spaces and clearing throat excuse me and incongruus the plan in the emergency by the San FranciscoPlanning Department to improve the area with the neighborhood Golden State Warriors spaces for work in San Francisco the un plaza is a key planning and circulation and activation. The plan is a product of a two Year Community outreach process focused conversations with more than 90 Neighborhood Organization with individuals and three though individuals with workshops and boards and brief disruptions and focus groups and online surveys. The plan presented Common Elements and ideas that rec and park is testing as a solution for the Public Safety supporting positive Public Health and inviting spaces with folks and supporting. Augmenting the Farmers Market and active recreation for the spaces. clearing throat the plan noted a need for temporary activation to experience with the urban spaces to make that more fun and attract people. As and know that public spaces belong to everyone. As we saw that morning in the San Francisco standard last year sf fire responded to 5 hundred and 45 calls with over dose around un plaza with the 11 hundred block of Market Street and the intersections boarding un plaza and three hundred and 7 calls in the first seven months of the year the chief Examiners Office three three people are died of overdose within a three block radius since 2020. Im going to jump in for the publics benefit all those statistics for months immediately following the closure of Tenderloin Center i understand that was not rec and park jurisdiction but just focusing on statistics i think that is relevance. Thank you. As i think the whole city family is way conditions in un plaza have is an endeavor deteriorating and including multiplegenerational departments to the sheriffs rec and park, um, puc and our highway and the patrol are that concludes my report. The efforts as part of this citywide rec and park was asked to assist with the stewardship that became clear needed 7 days a week with positive makes sure that people having enjoyment our first step to ask the Farmers Market to be be able to operate 7 days a week and not able to increase for more than the 2 one of the things that began the conversations about moving them to provide the activation in un plaza on a daily bases with the 4 day carnival brought thousands of children to utilize the plazas so here it is the design of the un plaza un plaza activation project influenced by the plan we spoke about earlier it provides an element for the public and tries to critique vibrant and Healthy Activity for the spaces and celebrating San Francisco history and the surroundings spaces and as you can see in the slides were contemplating exercise and chess tables and pingpong tables and other tables that is for pingpong a popular sport internationally and he federation and multiplegenerational elements throughout the area we work closely with a variety of skate boarding groups. This work is informed by the outreach with the Civic Center Public Realm plan and in addition um, between ourselves and the cd v we have the compliments and the art museum and puc delux a skate group the federal government and fitness the fairmdz Farmers Market and the midmarket and the and sfpd and state of california and Trinity Plaza and others. We also heard from the community openhouse on august 1, 40 demonstrate how the plans can be served through the un plaza operation and for example, the many of the elements that we just discussed they are people that can utilities them and as a view back to the public realm plan shows the urban spaces and un plaza and other plaza the upcoming activation creates opportunity for the plazas to provide coordinator option for visitors and residents youll hear more about that for folsom plaza welcomed the faifrmz to the folsom plaza that provides opportunity for vendors and residents to have access like i said eileen will discuss how they provide long term and short term support for the market and un plaza when you walk by contradiction is well underway and to open those new elements midnovember clearing throat and excited to welcome people back. I know one of the questions that i had was around our budget as you can see on the slide the project is costing almost a little bit over 2 million the funds for this project from our general Fund Capital Budget the buckets that are spelled out in the slide approved by cdc in our budget and include like seating and facilities and Facility Maintenance and funding those are um, standards elements of our Capital Budget, they are flexible pots we prioritize based on inputs from the city and clear direction from multiple city agencies un plaza was a priority. Back on that last slide. If you could clarify many weeks old im curious is there any update to that around the particular around the half a Million Dollars of philanthropic funding. I dont believe there has been sued could be that has not been allocated. Thank you. We are nearing plex and anticipate welcoming the community for the elements as i said in midnovember and over the next two years planning on tracking how those changes are working. What people like and dont like. Our key ways of doing that through passer data provides visitor counts and time and origin a sense of local and regional and beyond the city how long folks are saying applies with the city and the park is an effort throughout the system to measure how how much activity is happening 33 at the location inperson process where staff volunteers identify the activities and dont interact with the patrons but track how the National Standards in the renovations. Sorry do you have a question and yeah. Sorry. We will be tracking sfpd drug efforts around the process and working with your honor, Program Partners and looking at how well attended the different programs whether fitness or check classes pingpong tournaments, etc. Um, and finally some of the best feedback we got in the it is casual conversations with staff on the ground at un plaza the ambassadors and park rangers and have our recreation staff providing programs on site and take that information in and thus far positive feedback and excitement about the changes in the future plan and the activation and installation gives us an opportunity to gage and the balancing of the community. We see people love technical ball and pingpong ball tables are moveable and replace it with check tables weve be monitoring and checking in the first couple of years thats the way it is for us i hope i didnt take up, too of times. Before we hear from i did have a few questions for you one i want to clarify i prefer the context of our presentation around the public region plan that was undertaken a few years ago and in some ways i think a more thorough planning process and i would have expected Something Like that more activation and sounds like and this kind of one criticism not more public input the first we heard that that planning process i think 4 or 5 years ago is being cited as the public process and input for this particular activation. I wanted to get clarity on the public realm plan that grant planning process. There was not to my understanding any recommendation of moving the Farmers Market. Not in any of the plans i want to check that and it didnt get that grandular. No proposal for a proposal to activate. multiple voices. but not the idea of a skate park; right . This is my understanding that is the element that makes it possible for the Farmers Market to remain on that plaza . That key element that is the center of the plan was not a recommendation. From the public realm; right . Again didnt get that grandular around activation that is a fair statement. Thank you and then the one of the big issues that has been where been shifting information a chance to address that the duration of that anyone who got any information including myself was assured a shortterm maximum activation and that things if work as the pilot didnt work out with the Farmers Market a few weeks before the Farmers Market was moved at a meeting that our office demanded they called it including the Farmers Market with the general manager ginsburg two year pilot which alarmed everyone. As you give our presentation i dont see any timeline. So is this still being from rec and park perspective is this something you characterize as a pilot . And if so, what is the timeline for that pilot . Like what point is a pilot done assessed or continue or revert back to a Farmers Market. Thank you for that our expectation that we will have two years to implement it and like i said make tweaks based on feedback usage all of data were collecting and at that point would evaluate is this those activations converting un plaza didnt have permitting installations to a recession area is that working . Do we like that . Thats our expectation we will probably doing tweaking in the interim but the two years are expected timeline to make a complete decision you i want to i wont belabor but the threat to the Farmers Market tried something and leave the Farmers Market essentially tell the Farmers Market you have to move from the place youve been in for 40 years the forced recognition for a pilot if it didnt work out for the Farmers Market we can get into some of the concerns and issues that were grappling with didnt workout no Farmers Market like when did it it shift from a very short pilot lets try it out to a two year pilot when did that happen . Not that im aware of a shift. This was from rec and park this was also a two year pilot. Thats my finding. Why were not Community Meeting held prior to the openhouse on the august 14th openhouse was the plan was presented. Uhhuh. Why was there no community that meeting on house in any months prior to that when it was being voted, filled and so forth and a compliance i discussed in any presentation we were relying on the information of the public Region Program and in the plazas multiple years ago we renovate those playgrounds and brought in the cafe for the center plaza from genesis of the public realm plan yeah of the public realm plan sorry. And so as a result of feedback from that and continuing on the stakeholders conversation we worked on this and came up with that plan. With the other elements that are important to recognize here is across the city it including this body that posted a meeting in un plaza there is a recognize this is a public pace and not safe for all san franciscans and emergency around doing something new through so some of the traditional steps we take in a Capital Plaza were accelerated to address those issues i mentioned. Was there of a plan to consider development that included the city Farmers Market with the un plaza and developing the various other Properties Around that was the one successful activated use on the un plaza was created exactly the kind of safety that whether bring thousand to the un plaza . Was there any alternative plans or was the plan unintelligible . I would love to have ilene look at that but the cb d yes, in the presentation to expand the Farmers Market to 7 days a week and understandably not able to do that and stay open for 4 days a week for the able to do that request two days of activation t