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Transcripts For SFGTV Recreation 20240702

We acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights commissioner wintroub, here good morning and welcome to the rec and Park Commission meeting of october 18, 2023. This meeting is held in hybrid format in person in city hall, room 416 with option to join and provide Public Comment both inperson and remotely. We ask you please turn off Electronic Device jz take second ary conversation outside in order for the meet toog proceed as efficiently as possible. We ask listeners to turn down your television while on the phone. We ask for patience if we experience issues. Public comment will be available for each item unless announced by the president rbs each person has two minutes on eachite. For each item the commission will take Public Comment first from those in person, and then remotely. If you like to speak on any item today, we request but not do not require you to complete a blue card. Folks are putting the blue cards over here on the side here on the desk. For those who would like to join remotely, you may view live on sfgovtv or the webinar at the top of the agenda. You may provide Public Comment remotely by calling 4156550001 using the access code, 26629576620 with webinar password 1019. When you hear the item you like to can comment on called, dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. You will be in the system. The system will notify when in line and waiter during which time the [indiscernible] everyone must account for time delays. Please address comment tuesday the commission during Public Comment. In order to allow equal time for all, the commission nor staff will respond to questions. The commission may ask questions of staff after Public Comment is closed. If there is a item of interest not on the agenda, but still upder the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission you make speak under general punlic comment and that is on item 4 and then continued to item 10. You may submit comment by emailing recpark. Commission sfgov. Org. May be sent to San Francisco recreation and Park Commission, 501 stanyan street, San Francisco california 94117. The following short announcements for those in person today. If the fire alarm activate you must evacuate the building in a orderly fashion. Elevators will return to the first floor and not available for use. Make closest area across the hall. In the restroom is a ecspoor box. Press and security willer sw. Let them know your location. This Commission Meeting is recorded and are available for later views on sfgovtv. Org. Before we move to item 2, i say one last time in case anyone new joined. Speaker cards on the table. Once you fill it out, if you can put on the desk next to me here. I know many are here to comment on item 8. During Public Comment there is a timer on the desk in front of you and chime 30 seconds. That means you have 30 seconds left it doesnt mean your time is up, but when it chimes after the two minutes your time is up. Thats all i have. Item 2, president report. Thank you. Before we get to that, do we have a overflow room and if so, where is it . We do not have a overflow room today . Are we allowing people to stand . Yes, are there empty seats. Raise your hand if you have a empty next to you. Monica has a empty seat. If people can go ahead and grab all the empty seats and chairs. I will contact Building Management and see if we can get a few more chairs. We will do our best to accommodate everybody, but i ask that you please not block the entrance. That would be against fire code. I like to differ item 2 to after item 7. Does anyone have objection . I like to hold my report till after item 7. After the grant for speckles. Okay. If thats okay, you can go ahead and start when you are ready. General managers reports. Thank you commissioner and this is my first meeting with our two new commissioners and with you as chair madam chair and with you as vice chair or Vice President so i want to say welcome andthere we are. The world is obviously quite a serious place these days so ill try to keep the general manager report both happy and because of the items on the agenda relatively brief. Halloween, that is happy. Spooky season is upon us and we got many hair raising halloween events in the parks. This friday, sun down cinema presents Halloween Movie night. Join the San Francisco Park Alliance at the jerry garcia amphitheater at 5 p. M. Show case ghost busters and feature a costume contest. This saturday two more free halloween bashes. The Randal Family halloween starts at 10 a. M. Featuring crafts, games and many more Family Friendly activity. 4 p. M. Nightmare on elk street. Enjoy Haunted House for ages 13 and up and food for sale and games and fun activities. On friday october 27 is scare grove at stern grove. Enjoy a grims fairy tail exexperience. Including carnival rides, hay rides. Arts and crafts, climbing wall. San Francisco Public Library mobile. There are two shifts 330 to 630 and 630 to 930 for more information how to volunteer email recparkvolunteer sfgov. Org or call 4158316884 and there will be bike parking provided by the San Francisco bike coalition. Monday october 30, we have a Halloween Movie night jose cor nodo playground. Swing by the Mission District park for movie at 7 p. M. Brink your blanket and help yourself to complementary popcorn and refreshment. The movie is a surprise. We had our annual urban ag day earlier this month at al many farm. I had the joy attending more then 150 third graders from sfusd schools participated where they learned about sustainable farmer and environmental stewardship. Hands on activities including butter making, [indiscernible] gardening and petting zoo. This is a very unique opportunity for city kids for San Francisco city kids to learn about where their food comes from and ways food and goods can be produced sustainably. We want to give a special thanks to schools, star king, malcolm x, bret heart, visitation valley and cleveland elementary school. Thanks to partners on the event including the San Francisco environment and San Francisco children and nature. Then, this past sunday, fall fest kicked off at indian basin shoreline park. Feechards free kayaking, pumpkin patch, vendors. Two special concerts one organized in partnershipi see him. [indiscernible] bayview on the streets. Whats our tag line . Sounds of the streets. Helps us by programming music at the music band shell and probably zilian other places now and then we also had hip hop for change celebrating the 50 anniversary of hip hop. The hip hop celebration consisted of workshops rkss fashion, break dances air brush art and more. A chance for the Bayview Community to celebration the season of the park and launch of new community invasion lab. Mayor breed joined us. Participated in the event walking around, saying hi to people and helping unveil the new lab. The lab is expansion of the park tech hub which is offered free wifi access lap top and tablet lending and Technical Support in variety of Community Service to residents since 2021 and key project under our Equitable Development plan. Explore talents, spark create ivlty and cultivate skills. Offer a range of service including free rental borrowing of sports and activity equipment, space for Community Organization to host programming,ic workshops, networking and more as well as continues our free wifi and lap toplanding program. The lab is incredible learning opportunity to help insure when indian basin Waterfront Park is fully open in 2026, there will be programming from day one that is beneficial to the community. Just couple more. Rec sent, construction has begun. Several of us were out to cut a ribbon on the playground. The actual construction project is underway. The rec center will be part of the Sunnydale Community Hub which consist of the rec center and a Community Center with 35 thousand square feet of basically campus of buildings and outdoor spaces. Provides safe and accessible space for sports, recreation, cultural events, health and wellness resources, Educational Programs and activities n. Cludes landscape play area, courtyard and space for cooking classes. At the rec center staffed and operated by our department provides additional 11. 500 square feet of indoor space including basketball court, bleachers, multipurpose room, restroom [indiscernible] sunnydale neighborhood is home to highest concentrations of young people in San Francisco and highest concentration of low income san franciscans. Provide resources they need to flourish including spaces for sports, programming for children and facility for learning. With the playground renovation having recently completed the major transformation is on the horizon for entire South Eastern Community and excited to be a part of it. Rec and park new play pass is here. It launch this month. Allows easier access to drop in programming and equipment at rec facilities in one card. Registration is open and pass users will be entered to a raffle to win gift cards. Event tickets and more. If you havent taken programs with us, all you need to do go to sfrecpark. Org register and set up an account. You can sign up for the play pass online under passes and memberships or any rec center you can do it as well. Registering for play pass enhances Recreational Experience and makes it easier to sign up and participates in our programs. Registration is all most here for boys and girls in grades k8 hoping to join the junior warrior basketball league. It is hard to believe basketball season commissioner louie is again upon us. Commissioner louie is one of the biggest warrior fans. Registration is november 1. Priority registration for scholarship families on october 30. This Exciting Program provides youth with opportunities to learn fundamentals of the game in Team Environment emphasizing sportsmanship collaboration and hard work. Play begins january 9, 2024 through march 2, 2024. For the 24 season we anticipate having 188 teams with more then 2250 Young Athletes participating. This is a all time high for this program and rec and park continues to expand the number of league teams to meet the demands of this wildly popular league. Success of the league depends on the generosity of hundreds of volunteers each season from coaches to referees to score keepers. They are all needed to help the league run smoothly so interesting go to sfrecpark. Org to sign up. Finally, i talked about music at the fall fest, but this has been a unprecedented time for music in our parks and i want to talk about that before i wrap up. San francisco summer comes to a end, some of the most beloved summer music series recentlynded and i wanted to highlight a few that just wrapped up. Earlier this month due south finished the summer long run with shealy sheila e and the e train [indiscernible] provides a chance for southeast san franciscans to enjoy live music with art ist in their back yard. Union square in bloom Concert Series completed the summer run last weekt. Including a free concert features [indiscernible] red hot skillet liquors, pumpkin patch, wine and spirit and art work. Fleet week went off without a hitch and we had several free live concerts in the park as part of the Concert Series. Also had our annual High School Battle of the bands, which was held at the Golden Gate Park band shell. Concord took over the victory and prize money. Even though you are not from San Francisco, concord high, we wish you congratulations. [indiscernible] came and went earlier this month. Popular free Concert Series saw 6 stages spread over hellman hollow, [indiscernible] dozens of performers. Thank tuesday the thousands of blue grass bands who came to enjoy three days of live music. We also look forward to next year. We also had a big rock fest jerry garcia amphitheater last week finishing kiss and a cdc imitation bands. Commissioner muzola this is in your wheel house. Finally as mention said earlier, the new concert and workshop at indian basin happening saturdays sounds of the streets this weekday saturday october 21, noon to 4 p. M. Catch San Francisco current [indiscernible] local poets. I want to thank indian basin waterfront project partners, illuminate and bayview opera house helping us put on this new series and called him out once but call him out again because i see him here, stefen [indiscernible] friends of Lafayette Playground has done so much for our city and helping us to program free music all over the city and again, ill end where i started, at a time of lot of seriousness in the world, the joy this Program Creates is remarkable so thank you very much from the bottom of our hearts stefen. That concludes the general manager report. Now ill move to Public Comment on the general manager report. This is again just Public Comment on item 3. Does anyone have Public Comment on the general manager report . Seeing none in the room, any hands raised on the webex . No hands raised. Public comment is closed. We are on item 4, general Public Comment. This will be up to 15 minutes. Members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and do not appear on the agenda. With respect to items you have the opportunity to address the commission when the item is reached in the meeting. I do have one blue card for general Public Comment from randy. If you like to speak, randy. Thank you board. My name is randy campbell. Past couple months the city of has been building a Skateboard Park. Part of the city Farmer Market was for 42 years. I noticed since i moved to this city, most of the Skateboard Parks, have been vandalized, tagged, homeless camping across the street from them. Prime example, 13th and mission. Dont know if you have been over there, but why is building a Skateboard Park where something there for 42 years helping out the community and people in that neighborhood . Thank you. Thank you mr. Campbell. Anyone else who would like to comment under general Public Comment today . Okay, seeing none, any hands raised on webex . One hand raised. If you unmute the first caller. Good morning. My name is jill spocks and i live on enis avenue since 1992. I am a longtime advocate to the parks of india basin and i fully support park activation. The noise from the amplified music mr. Ginsberg spoke about sunday was out of control for the neighborhood. For 5 hours [indiscernible] beautiful sunday, the amplified music reached over 120 decibels and over hundred decibels inside my house with the doors and windows shut. On a practical level you can have a conversation on the street, you couldnt watch the 49ers game on television inside our house. We were living in a disco all day. It was probably louder in the neighborhood then in the park itself. I have gone to lots of events in the park. It is because of the geography of india basin, the water how it amplifies music like in the portola festival. You might have heard about that program too. The way the water amplifies noise and the buildings nearby meant the music was bouncing off the buildings, especially percussion. Thaw had drum circles. I request some research be done about noise before we have future amplified music in our neighborhood park. I appreciate the activation desire, but we really need to look into the noise and how it impacts the People Living nearby. Thank you very much. Thank you mrs. Jill. Seeing no further Public

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