Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Rules Committee 111215 20151115 :

charter amendment. >> item 1 is hearing to consider one member term ending jan 6, 2020 >> student the small business commission. first up is- item 2 is hearing to consider appointing member term ended february 1, 2017 to the advisory committee. >> very good. calling up steffan franz. welcome. >> good morning. thank you. good morning, supervisors >> if you want totalk about your interest in the committee and spend a couple minutes and your experience in the parks. >> absolutely. thank you it is a pleasure to serve on [inaudible] now 5 years. i sat at the vice chair 2 year now t. is a wonderful experience because it is truly hand on. i love my park and i feel like this committee allows me to represent other stakeholder kwrz be a part of makeic our parks better. it is a joy i have seen so much progress over the years and would like to continue my role. >> thank you, what is your park? >> my park is lafayette park. you know i spend plenty of time inmic lairen. >> lafayette was amazing to see what opened up in terms of the formation of water. what do you see the progress as been over the past few years >> i feel [inaudible] represents the entire city. we represent the supervisors district and also represent stakeholders and as a stakeholder and friend of lafayette park there are items i see just items with recreation park and department and maintenance, areas where i feel i can be a liaison between rec and park and the stakeholder and to be that is my role. >> no other questions. thank you for being here today and the service on the committee and we'll go to public comment. any member the public who would like to comment please come forward. >> good morning. my name is dens [inaudible] i serve on frosc representing district and ask you to reappoint steffan franz. he has been a serious and dedicated advocate for the park system and his own park. one thing he pushed and several other members pushed and made it a issue is the issue of the connection between the capital development and pass to operations where there has been a fall down or let out. also on the issue of long time defered maintenance we pushed and push and pushed and now see today that issues come up around the charter amendment and steffan is a voice that pushed that well. anyway, i ask you reappoint him. >> thank you very much. next speaker >> good morning supervisors. i am may from acsels yrb. steffan doesn't represent me or my district i worked with him in mclairen park. he is a pleasant person to work with and very efficient and kind. i hope you will consider his years of service and continue to have him there, he is a great leader. >> i expected he lived in certain part of san francisco. >> i'm linda [inaudible] and serve as chair of park and rec open space advise rea committee and support the reappointment of steffan fraunz as a mib of the committee and first vice chair. i will not always be chair and my hope is steffan will consider remaining on board and perhaps running for chair and continuing the work we started to keep the impetus going. many of the comments today have been dealt with directly with members such as steffan particularly the new park squz how when they open up many issues arise around maintenance and the question about who handles them and whether there are funds sufficient to keep the park running. >> thank you any other member of the public who would like to comment? seeing none we'll close public comment. a motion- >> so moved >> there is a second [inaudible] we take that without objection. we are also still on item 1, so if miriam is ready. >> hello. honorable committee members, thank you for having me. i'll try not to reiterate what is before you and that is my credentials and the different city sponsored initiatives i have been involved ichb. i want to give a sense of my intention. i try to operate from honestly and intrigue. there is so much going on in the city that is all connected so look forward learning more about other taskforce squz committees and finding opportunity for progress. i believe in direct democracy and setting up practical channels between community, policy makers and those that have a disproportioninate influence on the e market. i have a interest in economic theory. i am constantly thinking about the future. i know how to engage in formal network squz appreciate debate and negotiation. i have a rare historical perspective not only in the [inaudible] sector but also the political history of how the city has engaged with the business community as a whole. at this point i have experience in legislative processes and a literacy at the city level but most of my knowledge about how things work is coming from my day to day interactions with elders, youth, other business owners, workers, vendors, customers. for example, paratransit driver park in fronts of our store and my families business is on 11th and howard in the south of market district. one of my buddies became the shop studered and told me about the subcontracting battles. i amave aibl to give advise because i have experience with con tractionual stuff and regulatory affairs trying to make my families own business city-through the process of being city vendor and certified city vendor. another example, we have catering delivery so it is my dad and i going to different company squz all sorts of different businesses. we went to lagoona hospital. the [inaudible] telling us ghost stories. i grew up bearing witness to the folsom street fair as well. the kids taught me and learned personal narratives of help access and racial justice and people power and historical moment that led to political precedence. i had cops come in the store and recognize me from protests the week before. i have [inaudible] calling me freaking out when they get letters to business about change in recycling law or trying to understand why my generation is so obsessed with animals and how a customer made him turn off the lights and create sanctuary when a humming bird glue flew in the door. those are examples of day to day experience squz move around the sit aetd and talk to people and businesses and relate things going on at a city level and communicate them to folks that otherwise may not have access or understanding. as a third generation of a business i have been exposed to both ends of the business model. dad really loves the fax machine but uber can use smart analytics to deliver our food. it makes things exciting but it isn't without struggle. this is the experience of many the small businesses who operate from the box, brick and mortar, durable product side of business. i'm participating in a tech divide training for small businesses and i look forward to the continued efforts both coalitional and through the city for that will help people and businesses get access and remain cue competitive and explore change because to get my families business pasted sustenance and towards creativity is a haun rbl cause i'll work for. with that said, if you have questions about the more substantative committees and advisory boards i have been a part of up until anow you can ask me. >> thank you i had the opportunity to talk with you and impress would sth work you have done behind the scenes especially working with the small corner shop business. >> good morning. colleagues i will support mrs. [inaudible] i met them at a small mixer reception several years ago and left a favorable impression. we meet many people and think miriam has the ability to stand out and has a curiosity to do the right thing and support business. small businesses are feeling the pressure of the decision that we are making, increasing minimum wage is one example. you mentioned about pets in stores and food establishments. it is a interesting mix of issues so i'm happy to see you before us today and have my unwavering support. >> thank you. >> thank you. you have my support as well but before that we'll have public comment. public comment is open on item 1. i have 3 cards. if you can come up in the order you are called. david [inaudible] henry [inaudible] and debbie long. you can come up in any order actually. >> honorable supervisors. my name is david [inaudible] miriams father. my parents started ted's market in 1967. they were both born and raised in san francisco. when my father and mother opened teds market got a lot of opposition from neighbors and relatives and said he would never last there. in those days it was called skid row. ted and penny opened up for 30 years after day. holidays-i began working at teds market at age 12. in 1997 my father passed away and third generation was called upon and that was miriam. miriam came to work with me 5 a.m. and coffee for the customers and stand on a bagel and-she has been a really helpful in our business. she is tearing me away from the fax machine z says dad, no one uses those anymore. she helps in many ways to bring my business up to speed for the new generation. my mother on her buthday june 16, 2013 received a certificate of honor on her 90th birthday in recognition for her contribution of south of market. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. [inaudible] supervisor jane kims office. we are supporting mrs. [inaudible] i met her a couple months ago and really impress jd more impressed knowing her the couple months i have. it leaves everybody else is able to state their support better than i am, so-- >> okay, thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning supervisors. my name is [inaudible] committee member in south of market. i had the pleasure to work with miriam for ever a year and half with south of market business association. she sits on the energy efficient committee and advisory board for healthy retail sf and she has a passion and dedication to really serve the small businesses in the area. she is smart, energyetic and will be a asset to the small business commission so hope you support her and she is a great candidate. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. michael [inaudible] i am officer with the south of market business association. i have my card here. i have got toon know miriam over the last couple years where she served on the board of directors for sam bah. i can appreciate her vision and commitment to the small business community and believe she will be a asset to the the small business commission and want to voice my support in her faurfb. favor. >> great, thank you very much. >> good morning supervisor, henry [inaudible] south of market business association and i have been-it is a hundreder to work with miriam. she is on the board of directors she is very keen, dedicated, honest and reasonable and involved in small business. she will bring diversity to the small business commission which i feel we don't have. her age and background. she is a marvelous person [inaudible] i mean it from my heart so i hope she gets the position. thank you. >> very good thank you very much. any other member who would like to comment? seeing none we'll close public comment. supervisor tang >> thank you very much to everyone who came out. i really love seeing a young person with a lut of experience will join the small business commission so great that i think i have seen you before actually and glad that you came back and decided to apply again based on your previous experiences. i'm so happy to recommend her to the small business commission. >> thank you very much. i have a motion and support as well. i think a young person who has done a incredible amount of work in her small business since 1997. you must have been very very young at the time . your father says you run a soap box. you are networking with a lot of small businesses here as well and like your level of diversity to the small business commission as well so whole heartedly support. if we can take my-second. we heard from sfr visor cohen so take that without objection. congratulation. [applause] >> item 3, please. >> charter amendment first chapt to amend the chart of of city of san francisco [inaudible] based on city spending for park and recreation purpsh for fy 2015, 16. [inaudible] election to be held june 7, 2016. >> okay, very good. supervisor farrell. >> thank you chair avalos and colleagues for hearing this item today and all my colleagues who worked with me on this. our park squzopepen space drive high equality of life we join as san franciscan, from golding gate park to chrisy field and mcclaren and deloris park. they are the great equalizer. our parks cut across every age boundary and demo graphic boundary we can think of. from every persons perspecktdive their ability to access use and enjoy which ever city park they prefer is a huge deal. asour city grows the use of the parkerize at a all time high. the recreation and park department work to address the [inaudible] over the years funding for the reck and park department hasn't kept pace with needs and issues that need to be addressed. the reason [inaudible] park alliance has shown reck and park department has lagged. in 2000 the reck and park department received 2.1 percent the general fund in and in the past year 1.3 oof the general fund. analysis from the controllers office show reck and park department is [inaudible] emergency driven with maintenance. 97 percent of the calls are done on a emergeacy basis. in september we embarked on a process with neighborhood group close to 30 neighborhood meetings in different jurisdirkzs to make sure be -see how they use the neighborhood park squz what they wanted to see done if they can do it better. meeting after meeting we herd concerns about maintenance and safety and the potential to acquire new space as our city continues to grow. we took the community feedback that we heard in meeting after meeting to form the charter amendment and i want to the thank you a number of partners in particular the park appliance there from the beginning. i see many people here from kelly and matt and phil and everyone i'm blocked from seeing at that this point but i want to thank you for your support. they have been every step of the way making sure what we craft is based on community input and improve the park experience for all san francisco residence. i want to thank supervisor wiener, tang, mar, yee, christensen and cohen and breed. even if we are not cosponsor, i thank all my colleagues. since introducing it is clear parks matter to everybody in the city and every supervisor and don't think you find any supervisor on the board that isn't a #5d voicate for there park system and have a interest for getting it right. this voter initiative is a charter amendment that guarantees 350 million dollars in new fundsing for the reck and park department to address the structural short fall and inshrure safe and clean parks not only today but the children moving forwards. it establishes a baseline funding that increases year aryear. it provides for guide squns accountability measures as well. the measure mandates the department periodically update the strategic plan and [inaudible] review and approve the departments operational plans which allow for appropriate feedback and input not just here at the board of supervisors. to insure these new dollars are spent wisely and efficiently the measure mandates a auditor perform a audit to make sure the goals are met in the plan. since introducing it we worked with neighborhood groups and community advocates, want to thank prosc a number of other parks leaders so we vanumber of amendments that are reflected here and reflective of conversations. i want to thank supervisor avalos who is a huge park advocate. i want to thank you for his input, it is very meaningful. a number of the amendments i want to highlight them here, the first amendment clarifyathize baseline funding trigger can only be suspended in the fis clt year the budget deficit is projected. second, the amendment clarifys protects baseline appropriations against cost of mew suvss from other city departments. third u clar dpieing reck and park keeps any general fund or additional revenue to enhance the park any year the sur pluses may occurment fo mandate reck and park adopt a fuls spend any fund in the reserve and report to the mayor [inaudible] we clarify the acquisition fund dpls are only used for site acquisition and not development of new parks or design or construction of new parks. six, that came in particular from prosc, we mandate prosc afforded the opportunity to review and comments on the truteejic planch before adopted by the commission. we allow the change of the reporting deadlines if necessary for the plan and mandate the board and mayor must adopt a resolution approving deadline changes if necessary. we mandate the department maintain environmental guide lines for park squz open space. many are technical in nature and a number are substantive in nature. i know supervisor tang has amendments that she will introduce and again very much appreciate her involve ment and care for this. i want to highlight additional changes that we will incloud as well that are not reflected in the core amendments here regarding equity and how ecquity is respreckted out of san francisco. page 1 line 1, we include a sentence under subsection a, establishment of the fund state the department embraces geographic and social economic equity as a guiding principle and expend the funds across open space to provide park and recreational access to all of san francisco diverse communities. page 8 line 12, we have copies of this for the city attorney, the operational plan shall include a equity analysis of park department program jz resources. [inaudible] for low income neighborhoods and disadvantage communities with programs available to the city as a whole. i want to thank supervisor avalos on these items and make sure they are reflected here. i will say in conclusion, i'm a firm believer clean and safe park enhance the quality of life for san francisco residence and provide countless benefits as well. they are a source of pride for the city of san francisco and a source of quality of life for everybody that lives here. our world class parks and open space deserve sustainable funding source to make the badly needed improvement and upgrades from everything from fixing the swings to added custodeial service squz programming options in the park. this [inaudible] fix everything we may want to see fixed but it goes a long way and stabilizes the department not only today but for future generations. i want to insure as the city continues to grow these future generations don't have to worry about whether we will be add more open space or replace the monkey bars at the neighborhood park. this measure guarantees improvement and upgrades to many parks across san francisco and for years to come. since we introduced the amendments today and supervisors tang amendments which i support this will need to be continued since it is a charter amendment but want to thank everyone who came out today and the next hearing. this mexer is based on community support and input so i want to thank you for your involvement. from my perspective it means everybody care deeply about our park squz have their own opinion squz hope we will be able to development this as a 61 census measure. >> thank you so much and appreciate your work on the charter amendment and the communication we had helping it move forward. i thank you for recognizing i have been a park champion and i can't help being a park chaimpian because there are so many in district 11 that are park champions. be it mclairen park or [inaudible] all these parks are in great need of care and there are a lot of residence that bring the parks to my attention. there are also people that work in the parks and thatd is something important to me as well. the people working in the parks and doing the mairns and operation have the experience and resources they need to do their job jz over the years that i have been on the board i fought hard to make sure we have option operational dollars. when i was budget chair in 2009 and 10 put forward about 3.2 million dollars into he parks. the parks were a place we pumed dollars to make sure the city provide the dpraiter services and pulled too many dollars that year and it was important taput dollars back so that is what i felt we needed to do to preserve the work reck and park does and preserve the jobs the people doing that work. i think the is important we have a lens about workers. i do appreciate the language that is added arounds equity. all too often we see that equity is defined in narrow ways looking at things that are equivalent that isn't the same as equity. equity is resources going to where it is needed most and make 24 biggest difference. equal amount to every part of a city doesn't get us to the level of parody so equity is important that we insure neighborhoods that don't get the same attention others are getting get the resources to help them come forward. that is neighborhoods in every district in san francisco are under that demand and need so it isn't necessarily gobbling up resources for certain parts of san francisco, it is all of san francisco has equity needs we need to address and socioeconomic equity is a level of equity that is important for me to move forward on. i haven't offered amendments mostly just conversations with supervisor fairbl and reck and park advocate and department and to me this charter amendment is something that i want to support and i do support it but i want to put my name on it when i feel like we had a really strong and thorough approach to seeing how we can make it the best amendment it can be. in concept i support creating a baseline and support added more funds to reck reakez and park and want to make sure as we do that we make the structure and organizational approach of the department as strong as it can be to meet the residence needs across san francisco. we have supervisor tang who has comments and can go the the presentation >> thank you so much sfr visor farrell and everyone else that worked on the amendment. i think a lot is said about the need for making sure we protect our assets especially during the bad economic times. i appreciate we are trying to create stability and as our population grows our parks become even more and more important. happy to cosponsor this and today i do have one minor amendment but trying to highlight some of the things i would likeory city department and general public to tame into consideration as we look that department and defered maintenance plan they are developing. my amendment is on pages 6-7 there is a section referring to reporting that must be done in conjunction with the capital plan. page 7 line 1 after it talks about going the commission for approval, i would like that language saying the capital expenditure plan includes the deferred maintenance plan that takes into consideration the following. financial condition. needs that unaddressed result in additional cost and hazards in the future. c, priterization of utilizes assets. city wide input. geographic equity and social economic equity. the capital plan should also address water and [inaudible] those are some of the policy and other factors that i would like the department to make sure is very explicit as they present the defer maintenance plan and do other reporting such as under the capital plan. i think it goes to the concerns that or issues supervisor avalos brought up, but leaves room for when there are changing needs in the future not trying to tie the hands of the department because we all know the maintenance for some of our facilities are assets can change over time. i have submitted copies to the committee members as well as the clerk and city attorney. >> great, thank you very much. do we want to do these amendments now or public comment first or presentation first? >> public comment is appropriate. i think we have a presentation. if i can say one thing real quick recollect i want to take a moment to thank margo kelly and [inaudible] as well as [inaudible] from my office. [inaudible] to all most every one of the community meetings with the park alliance and also want to thank rachel norton and todd [inaudible] it takes a lot of rft and evening and that is that way since the summer so thank you for your support. as well to the reck and park department, phil and katie. the whole department is involved so want to thank you for this and their negotiation of this topic over the past few months. very good. we have a presentation from the department. none other than general manager phil gensburg. welcome. >> my old man glasses. good afternoon. i have a presentation here. i will use this mic. let me start before we get into this by thanking all you for caring so much about our parks and park system and the people who use them. this is a happy and exciting moment for parks and for our communities who so desterate desperately need them. thank you to supervisor farrell and mayor and everyone who cosponsored the measure. each of and have been kraung advocates for the parks in your district and the concept of protecting and preserving what really is one of the urban park systems in america. thank you to each of you and all the park advoicates. give you a overview about the park system since we are talking about pretty substantive potential inivistments and over site and planning changes. i'll troy to do that relatively quickly. i want to start by looking at the park system. and why it matters. there is a lot of dialogue about the nationally. cities are becoming more dense and people are moving back to cities. the importance that parks play in the urban fabric can't be understated. here in san francisco the planning department estimates san francisco is going to add 280 thousand residence and 97 thousand housing units in the next 25 years. since 2004 [inaudible] 10 or more units meaning no more backyards. research by some of the park policy think tanks [inaudible] park users are 3 times as likely to use renovated park in the recent experience concerns that. recreation improves mental health and contribute tooz violence prevention. parks decrease depression anxiety and [inaudible] i want to highlight the violence prevention programs you supported that we operate such as ps program in the summer. [inaudible] which is a great partnership with the juvenile probation department and dcys. [inaudible] parks encourage healthy outcomes. enhance access to places for physical activity cdc determined lead to 25 percent increase of [inaudible] nearly 1/3 of all san franciscan are considered over weight. parks improve our environment. our park system and 131,000 trees absorb nearly 750,000 cubic feet of storm water and purify 130 tons of air pollutants [inaudible] free and affordable [inaudible] equity is a important conversation in the city and nationally so i think it is worth noting the direct use benefit for park users, parks that create in the system is determined by [inaudible] equivalent to more than a 200,000,000,000 dollar a year public benefit. [inaudible] which is important. they are a economic driver. property text revenue attribute today the proximity to a park have add td 25,000,000 to the general fund is [inaudible] 47,000,000. um, it is often difficult to see the forest through the trees, butd i have opportunities to speak to my counter parts and we get a lot of feedback from national park advocacy oergzs. we are known nationally as having one orphthe best urban park system in america. there is no stat about which we should all be prouder than thafact that 98 percent of all san francisco residence live within a 10 minutes walk of a city park. there is nothing that speaks more to equity than that point. a little about our the brenth of the park system which is a reason we have some of the operational challenges. we are lucky, nearly 15 percent the city land is open space. we support over 4 thousand acres of park land, 220 neighborhood parks and growing. you see playground and basketball courts [inaudible] we oprait27 full service [inaudible] this is a little of oo old stat. up to about 7 thousand recreation programs a year and insure everyone has a chance to get out to play we offer overa million a year in scholartions. in fact, since the creation of the recreation model in 2010-11, recreation increased by 17 percent and the size of the wait list increased by nearly 60 percent. 76 percent of the programs are now at full registration. nation wide the best practice standard is [inaudible] nearly 95 percent othf summer camps are at full capacity. we have ever 700 classes in early childhood inrchment throughout the system. we have more and more work to do but through the partnership with controller office we keep data on our park maintenance scores. the trend has been positive. this is a staff and so proud of the working men and women from local 261, custodeians, structural maintenance staff from the building trades that have done more with less for several years. the part i'm most proud about is the gap between the highest parks and lowest scoring parks have narrowed. there is absolutely positively more work to do in this regard. perhaps the thing everybody notices about the system is the capital program and capital investment and we are blessed by the support of the cities elected leadership and san francisco voters in 3 significant park bonds since 2000 and this doesn't include other procs we have gotten through grants. each of the dots are all of our facilities that received capital investment from our bond programs since 2000 and you see the geographic and socemnocic equity in this program. a little about our budget and where it stands. our 2015-16 budget is about 178,000,000 the capical budget which flex waits up and down and how much support we get in a year. this year the budgeset 3 1.1,000,000 and includes [inaudible] significant and relates to a amazing opportunity in the measure which we'll get to in a second. we have 3 primary sources of revenue in our budget. our general fund support, our open space fund which is currently at 2 and a cents of every hundred dollars of property tax revenue and money that we earn lout the system. each are important drivers in delivering the programs and services we offer. supervisor farrell noted our jen frl fund subsidy since 2000 has not kept with pace with the city general fund grouth. the budget increased from 1.4 billion to 3.9 billion [inaudible] our agency share the general fund increased during that same period of time. with more and more people using the parkt and us acquiring more land a little about the challenges we face to set the context for the measure you are considering. we are challenged in keeping the parks clean, safe and greenish. brown may be the new green but dead isn't the new alive as we like to say. it is a cheerful balance. >> you should coin that. you already did. >> 3600 vandalism incidence every year in the system. there is really good investment in our park rageer unit and will enable to do more in the future but they are taxed in keeping our parks safe and helping to keep eyes on the parks and protect them from vandalism. the park maintenance scores have done well but sort of hit the wall. meaning you won't see them continue to improve with the resources that we have. significantly one of the biggest challenges is our staff spend 25 percent a day picking up trash. we struggle from a lack of staffing and are a 24/7, and 2/3 of the park acres a irrigatedism people talk about their broken swings or broken pipe which hopefully we getting to more quickly. the staff is juggling 15 thousand work orders a year. [inaudible] road way infrastructure and we are fortunate to [inaudible] between mclairen and golden gate park that has a twnt million dollar infrastructure deficit. fran cisco reservoir [inaudible] 17th and folsom will be developed and maintained. future open space, as we think long term redevelopment and ocii created wonderful open space opportunities but how are those parks going to be maintained in the future? on the reck reasian side, 19 percent the house holds have a child under the age of 18 and planning department projects the population of children will increase by 44 percent between now and 2040. i talked about recreation but you can see in our recreation is heavily subsidized and only rover recover about a 3rd of the cost of the fees we charge and no one is denied on the basis to pay. the scholarship has grown from [inaudible] our centers and swimming pools are funding for a 5 day week operationism we have a long wait list. materials and supplies per facilities-the national reck park standards says every fusimties needs about 100 thousand in materials and supplies and average 20s thousand. as more people come and use the parks we see a significant increase in people using the facilities for prifens purpose whether it birthday parties or community meetings. our ball field in parm of the city field foundation program we have nearly doubled the number of supports teams in the city from 220 to 450 in the last 4 years. this is a big focus in the future and open space sw preserving open space. we didn't inherent from the ancestor. we need to doa better job to maintain the urban forestism we 131 thousand trees [inaudible] on average our trees are between 70 and 100 years old. we have massive gaps in the park canopy. there is a study done that recommend said spending 78 thousand a year just on tree maintenance and replanting a thousand tree as year. our drought is well discussed and we have met our obligation and reduce the water use by over 30 percent in our system but to do that over a long term period of time requires change in park design and ecology and irrigation infrashuckture and maintenance. lastly, this is sig competent to the average park user and those focused on the planning and administrative capacity, keeping place with customer expectations. we need to do a better job of investing in the customer focus technology and the long term planning and strategic planning which is why we are pleased to see the focus on strategic planning included in the report. so, this is where we can get to the moment of the day which is the significant of the measure before us. in our view it does 3 fungdmental things, provide the park system with stability, provides it with careful planned incremental growth and givers us a opportunity to invest. the baseline aspect of this measure really will protect us from feature economic down turnsism we are just coming out of the economic downturn from 2008 and 9 and there will be another one and parks are so significant and give us a better shot at protecting it. second, 3 million in general fund support allows for incremental growth for operationing and planning qu lastly, the 15 million in general fund capital per year for 15 years is for us which will be significant in giving us the opportunity to make the defered maintenance that is discussed significantly. >> thank you very much. supervisor cohen >> thank you. good job. our team and maintaining our park squz open space and how did you describe [inaudible] camp mather is our one family something- >> it is our >> one family camp, that is awesome. if anyone has been to camp mather you know it is a awesome run facilsty. i want to say thank you for bringing this to us. i know i was sloi to get on board and want the folks at home the reason i was slow to get on board i was getting more comfort with the idea of setting aside that ties to future contributions that historically may be uncomfortable but we are in a great and robust time and should allocate money and put our priorities in line with our words. i also want to acknowledge the equity language i believe you will incorporate in support of-working with supervisor avalos. i think that is important to me representing a lot the open space and parks on the southeastern part the city that historically have had failing remarks but let me tell you, we are on the up trnd and i think i saw a park advocates out there. there she is, hello. with that said, supervisor tang i also support your amendments. itsomes fair and open and clean. thank you. >> thank you very much. let's save comments for after public comment and hear from the public and i'll have comment at that time as well and i have a number of cards and if you can come up and generally in the order that your names are called and if you haven't submit ted it isn't necessary but let's get to the cards first. first off, sorry if i get your names incorrectly. looks like ace [inaudible] amanda lang. kennedy [inaudible] jacklen [inaudible] phil arnold. familiar face. we have one announcement of our board of ed commissioners rachel norton is here so i'll stop there and call after this batch of people. you are not wearing a hat though. please come forward. >> amanda. i'm presidents [inaudible] we have been there for 40 years in a quite corner. one the most affordable preschools in the city and every day we work with [inaudible] to maintain our dilapidated and joyful but supporting by tooth picks playground. [inaudible] gratin. 3 my window and see night time activity of all kind of things that shouldn't be going on in a childrens playground so clean and safe priority is des prit for us. it wouldn't take much to put gates up. we fight for funding every year and miss out on the small money that would keep us running and safe. wree supportive of this. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. my name is phil arnold. i speak to aioas the former assistance general manager of recreation and park and board member of san francisco park alliance. i want to underscore how important this measure is for the health of the recreation and park programs in san francisco. devoteers have been generous to support bond issues and open space program contributed to providing a measure of support for recreation and park programs, but unfortunately the general fund side of the recreation and park support hasn't kept pace with the growth of the city. as a result, we have some fabulous new facilities and along side we have failing play grounds and urban forest program that is collapsing aroun us and huge back log of maintenance needs. the measure will address those problems and we hope [inaudible] continue to be supportive of major capital improvements so urge your support for this program. it is vital to the health of san francisco and all the parks and recreation programs we love. thank you. >> thank you very much. good to see you here. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is katie [inaudible] and i started working at the gratin playground about 2 years ago as a member of the friends of gratin playfwround and had a lot of fun learning how the process works in the city and have gotten informed and interested. i think it is wonderful and so nessy for the city to have more money for the parks. it is good to keep the city in great shape so everybody can [inaudible] families are leaving because it is too challenging to be here and there are these great initiatives like the failing playground task force that happened and the park alliance but up other forum like a design forum and state of play and the city and people have had impact in where the money will go and that is a great thing so hope for that to to continue and the money that gets spent will focus on the maintenance and the how you get everything to go up together. all the parks and playground. thank you for considering this. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors and thank you supervisor farrell for the motion. my name is jackie boss and i'm with the friends of jodumageio play ground in north beach which is opening tomorrow after a [inaudible] million dollar innovation. i'm a mother of 3 children under 6 and live in a small place in north beach with no backyard so rely on the playgrounds. while the playground is under ren ovation my children have learned to ride bikes on the side of the road. this is the only green space in north beach we have with the facility like that. it is well used by the seniors who use the club house. there is a lot of low income people who use the playground because chine a town is there and north beach has a lot of low income housing, so it is -afternoons in the playground are so busy. everyone loves the playground. my school go to school in potrero hill so i see a playground that well used also in the mornings. there are a lot of homeless people who live along side around the new north beach library and grinch street and we see the mess they make. i'm glad they have facilities but [inaudible] the bathrooms and leave -at jackson playground the mothers see syringes under the play equipment and condoms. my kindergarten twins [inaudible] telling them this is a condom and they are 5. this is a syringe don't touch it. we have a working group that picks up the syringes and condom [inaudible] we want to make sure we have adequate custodeial services. >> thank you, that is your time. appreciate your comments. i will call a few names before the next speaker. linda [inaudible] gene [inaudible] >> good afternoon. rachel norton director of policy and communication of park alliance and director [inaudible] i want to thank you all for discussion you are having today. i think first and formost the amendments proposed are very good amendments, we are very supportive and think they will boost the equity of the amendment and also the accountability so thank you. we have been working with supervisor farrell for all most a year on this and we have heard literally from hundreds of park advocates and have more than a hundred park groups that we engage with regularly on the issues that are seeing with the parks and improvements they want to make and what we hear is the department is working very hard to address maintenance and operational issues in the parks but there isn't the funding available. when we look at the reck and park budget over the past 15 years, we have seen that there has not been stability for them. they have not been able toplan consistently for a certain amount of money year to year. there are very bad years budget wise and this amendment takes that into account so there is flexibility for the city should we go through a recession and need to free up frunds. the realty is the department needs a stable source of funding they haven't had and more funding. this will proceed provide those thing jz are supportive and thank you supervisor farrell and cosponsors and supervisor [inaudible] >> thank you very much. >> good morning. i would like to thank m-my name is linda [inaudible] chair of park and reck open space advisory committee. i very much want to thank you supervisor farrell to taking the lead to introduce the legislation, it is extremely important and the start of what we hope will be some improvement in the 1,000,000,000 dollars of differed maintenance that is on the books. as members hof prosc 22, appointed by you the supervisors we hear from the community and work with reck and park department and they are true professionals who work with very very little and need that funding to do a better job in maintenance. so, i do appreciate the fact that this has come before you for amendments. unfortunately it doesn't go far enough and do think more funding is need ed to address the overall problem and i understand that may not be possible, but we are here to propose that. it has been 15 years since the charter has opened so i agree since it will be in effect for a minimum of 10 years we should do the best in the worder to get the strongest laj nguage we need. we have 3 areas, accountability exwuty and extend the open space fund. keep the charter laj wchblg in there. it will support the later audits and annual reviews. equity is addressed. you may look at prop j and the language in the open space funds. it speaks well to that. protect and extend the open space fund because it is due to expire in 17 years. if we extend it to 30 years we can create revenue bonds in reck and park and be able to- >> that's your time. i think your last point was taken. thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning supervisors again. my name is dens [inaudible] again. i'm a district 5 representative. in support of greater funding for-i want to share my concerns about the propose td amendment. i can only support this measure if it specifies priority spending principles. what is the main purpose for the funding increase? to address maintenance? this allows them to go after defered maintenance but that isn't in there. which areas are prioritized? are expenditures [inaudible] distribution. the second draft deletes important language directing expenditures. it is justified [inaudible] i want to share with you the spinge language in the aopen space fund adopted november 1974. the recreation and open space element shall continue to identify neighborhoods which are in special need of recreation and open space facilities skn desinginate neighborhoods as high needs neighborhoods. that is in the original open space funds. monies should be use for acquisition and development of lands [inaudible] that is it in. until this morning there was no language in the second draft that spoke to paraied and equity and appreciate those amendments. it lacked language that spoke to the high needs neighborhoods and i am pleased with that amendment. i urge retaining language in the open space fund which provides direction, speaks of maintenance improvements and enables accountability deleted the language precludes accountability. dleted all directive language [inaudible] tax dollars without direction and continue the same lop sided priorities that led to decades of neglect. [inaudible] >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. i did request budget analyst to look at open space fund and how it is used and the processes in the decision making and thing that is important to look at as well and i'll test that off. it was last year i called on that study and it is important we make sure what we say we will do we do and do it effectively. thank you. next speaker >> thank you for considering this amendment. gene [inaudible] from potrero hill where i lived 40 years. i have seen a lot of chaipgs and expect >> student see many more to come. by 20032 the neighborhood parks [inaudible] have fallen to disrepair and encouraged criminal behavior and served as a place for dumping. search for reck and park funded was met with there is no money and today 2015 after 3 grants and add back from the supervisor we have a neighborhood park that provides social opportunity for neighbors to engage in [inaudible] walk their dogs, lighting and open landscape plan [inaudible] neighborhood parks improver the quaument of life. we are a shawl success kory but there are men a more neighborhood parks that need attention and community involvement from reck and park. lack of stable depend funding led are lack of park maintenance. reck and park found a way to increase a charge for public pr use of park. this ballot measure will lead to a sustainable source of revenue which will help with long term planning and redlus the need to continue to find way tooz charge the public for services that were once free. san francisco population expected to increase by 20 percent by 2040, much of the increased density is expect today fall in the eastern neighborhood. neighborhood parks are important for quality of life and a predictable source of income will help i engage the neighborhoods in park plaining will help keep san francisco as a desirable place to live and i support the proposal. >> thank you very much. next speaker please and before the next speaker a few more cards. steffan fraunz [inaudible] i'll name one more. [inaudible] >> thank you for hearing supporters of our park system. appreciative of the work by the park alliance. supervisor farrell and others. i am jessica clausen and here to support this charter amendment to stabilize the funding. my family probably enjoys our parks about fifen or 6 times a week between taking the pup to the dog park, playing tennis a couple times a week, bike riding, my son flies his air plane around and baseball. we are at the local park and [inaudible] sauch great resource. but we have this aplaizing resource but the fundsing for maintenance is falling short. i will focus here because i haven't heardben else on the ballfields. we are a little league family. between-we have a good local professional team here and so what is happened is in 2010 and springf o2011 we saw a explosion of sign up for all the leagues whether it is little league or [inaudible] there are a thousand kids playing ball in the city and it is exciting to see. there are fields throughout the city in all the districts and neighborhoods, but our field maintenance has not kept up. our fields rin really bad shape. very bad shape and the local city team my husband coaches are playing in [inaudible] they have beautiful fields and ours are falling short. here to say for the next [inaudible] for the next jennyfinch who will come from san francisco i hope you endorse this proposal. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> supervoiz visors thank you for having and hosting the hearing. i think it is a very important subject. i am steffan fraunz and district 2 from [inaudible] advisory committee. you have seen before today. as a number of years i have seen the need for park system close and glow over time. i have seen the budget year after year leave funding for the parks just short to keep up with the needs of the growing neighborhoods and parks. just like supervisor farrells remark, the funding for the parks haven't kept pace with the funding directed to other city departments. months before the initiative was introduced supervisor farrell came to seek to place a measure on the ballot to seek funding for the parks. i was over joyed when he made that presentation. i believe this is the key to the furcher of happiness. we see building more and more skyscrapers, this is the first time we had a supervisor come and say we need to put money back to the recreation and park department. so, for me this was very important. i believe the supervisor did important community work necessary by going to community meetings across the city to hear from residence. he sought our input and as you heard my fellow members i believe they have done great work with the supervisor and with this legislation, so i support this and don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water and believe this is a important piece of legislation and urge you guys to support it. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning. nancy [inaudible] former member of park recreation open space advisory committee. this initiative still fail tooz resolve the mainss and fund issues. it eliminates the safe gaurd in the original language that insures the open space fund is youzed wisely and accomplishes what voters intend. even where supervisor farrells changes the measure is still not ready for approval. it must prevent any poaching on the acquisition fund allocation. it must prioritize and mandate the new money for maintenance is specified in the chapter. the new 3 million dollars is too small to make a dent in all the defered maintenance. the people wanted to secure new money for this issue and the measure does give the general fund baseline that is needed with annual increase of 3 million a year but compare that to the golf fund subsidy oof the general fund of 6 million dollars a year. do you agree all 220 parks should share in only 3 million dollar annual increase while 5 golf courses have access to twice that amount? there are many other mistakes in the legislation that need to be corrected. they include, that the language that protects the excess open space fund carried forward to another year is reinstated and the municipal code responsible for establishing prosc which is the park code not the administration code. also more wide representation from the neighborhood said not haven't seen the resolution and need to be weighed in. sorry, the parks alliance ignoreed a tremendous number of neighborhood groups and want that corrected so want to go on record, we are on the right track-- >> great. or not so great. thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. [inaudible] lead organizeer for prop c campaign in 2000. i support this measure and appreciate supervisor farrell putting together this effort to improve the stability for our parks. what i think is important is the baseline for funding. a budget represents values as community and haven't had the val hew in the past that safe gaurded the parks and recreation programsism avenue ujbet when curts need to be made parkerize the first and this will provide it stability and statement of the value as a city and think are important cht i have twro reservations. this isn't enough money. if we have a opportunity to go to the public for a vote let's get what we need . i know the supervisors tried and there are 4 of you and it takes 2 more to put a measure on that ask for a nickel for parks. in the context the original open space fund was 10 cents for every00 for parks. i don't know what happened between our measure prop c and sth original but it was 10 cents so a nickel for parks is easy to sell and should go for it. if we don't we will continue with problematic maintenance and basically that is the [inaudible] we have bonds to support ren ovations but don't get maintenance and tree pruning so we need more money. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you supervisors [inaudible] robest community input and supportive of this legislation. it will implement changes when taken together will be game changing. first, no more cuts. the budget analysis so a history of cuts for every economic down turn we had that are not fully restored. those cuts are replaced with soled support. it provides a gradual and study increase in funding that will not force any cuts to any other departments. the department will get to keep what they earn. it would also require smarter planning requirements that mandate funding for that plning. this will be the key vehicle where resident input will help priorities for how reck and park spend the tax dollars. it provides for stricter accountability. the controls offer will audit the planning to insure it meets the requirements in the charter and there will be consequences for the first time if they don't. we understand the philosophical relectance some may have in locking in a funding requirement but the trend we have seen how we fund the reck and park department makes it clear. not only is setting a baseline waurnded, it is the ornl way we can stabilize the department so it better care frz the billions of dollars worth of public assets . to do anything else is [inaudible] on behalf of the parks alliance and want to thank supervisor farrell and all the cosponsored included supervisor cohen, tang, breed, mar, wiener and yee and christensen for supporting this legislation. >> thank you very much, next speaker please >> good afternoon. kelly nice and board chair for san francisco park alliance. i will not repeat the great benefits many brought up before. i would like to reiterate the community process this went through led by supervoizer farrell. hundreds of citizens and parks alliance has done surveys that show support for this. supervisor farrell for the leadership on this. i would like to thank the park alliance staff for noithd and weekends. phil [inaudible] for the amazing parks we have. izbell [inaudible] i would like to thank you for your support of this. >> [inaudible] board member with sun set park side education and action committee. speak is a 5 #0e 1 c 3 organization which has been a active voice in neighborhood issues for the past 45 years. speak is a charter member of coalition for san francisco neighborhoods where it is a voice in land use and planning issues. neither the speak board nor coalition for san francisco neighborhood has had a presentation on this issue. i would like to echo mrs. [inaudible] comments to that effect. this charter amendment is still apparently have numerous flaws. it also seems to be part of a unfortunate trnd in city government to fasttric issues which require careful deliberation. the original revision removed provision for open space fund. it allowed for acquisition of real property use frd other purposes. it seems this is kraesed, the amendments came by quickly. it creates a baseline of money from the general fund but doesn't restrict the new funds #23r use to main thane the parks. it lacks specifics. there are significant nob nub in community outletreach and look forward to supervisor farrell coming to do a presentation. >> thank you very much. before the next speaker read a few more cards. john weir. june [inaudible] ron proctor. anstasia [inaudible] dee [inaudible] kathleen helen. >> good afternoon. vince [inaudible] labor international union of north america. we represent 5 thousand men i women. about a thousand are public employees and 300 employed as reck and park. it is a honor for me to address you guys. i want to associate my comment with mr. arnold and ogradey. what excites us is the stuff you worked with uss. supervisor tang and farrell working with the city gardeners each year and recognizes for the hard work they do for the parks. supervisor cohen, heavy lifting in the preprintsship. you were the chief supervisor and you supervisor avalos with the work you have done with community workforce. i got to shout the general manager. he is doing incredible work. this is a lot of work. i think what excites me blt working with your office is there career path way, the local community work force and future the work force which you addressed earlier. i'm wearing purple in sal darety, [inaudible] we are field workers and maintenance work rbers and these are careers i believe blauj to san franciscan and the future of san francisco and as we go down the path taking care of our parks we need to address those career path ways, that train ing and education and love for [inaudible] i think phil supports and know you support it supervisor avalos. we are 10 out of 10 and it is about the career pathway and job opportunities and maintenance. we also staff the golf courses because we are initiating a training curriculum endorsed by the pga at glen eagle and look forward meeting with you soon, anything we can do to help let us know. thank you very muffin. much. >> john weir. i'm a current board member of parks alliance. i was a board member of parks trust for many years before that. i want to talk as a volunteer gardener and father. every week for the past 4 years i gallen tear in golden gate park and they are a fabulous group and do so much with so little and this is way over due and thrilled and honored to be a san franciscan soog you do this. the parks are wonderful but have so much need and our team struggles across the city to try to make ends meet. thank you for doing this. it isn't nearly a enough but it is a great start. >> thank you next speaker please. >> my name is june [inaudible] represent the friends of washington square. it is probably one of the oledsest parks in the city and smallest and heavily used. it is packed all the time. because it is so small the maintenance is easy to differ. other bigger and more important parks take presidents. we have gotten the new restroom and the tiny play fp ground is new for ren ovation next year so we are on the are dar and smoret the idea of increased funding for parks and stable source of income. that could make all the difference in the world and in my neighborhood particularly because parkerize important. we have too many people and too little green space. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> good afternoon supervisor, ron proctor. the forest alliance doesn't oppose funding but the problem is there isn't a guarantee it is used for tree maintenance. we don't want to happen is for the reck and park department to get considerable tax monies and not use it for differed maintenance. the amendment is sold to the public as a way to reduce the departments differed [inaudible] create community gardens, support the volunteer programs, and then support [inaudible] there is nothing in the amendment to insure the monies will be used for tree maintenance. until tree maintenance and not tree removal is spelled out, we think this amendment should not move forward kw revised as stated before coming before the board. we ask for spending prioritization of the new baseline money to take care of tree maintenance as well as the maintenance of the physical facilitiesism urban forestry is spelted out in the money but urge to restricktd the funds to tree maintenance to pruning under the supervision of [inaudible] and not justification to remove healthy non native trees. today i heard from mr. gingburg he called placing trees. why are trees important? especially that we have these forest in the city. the sky line is enhanced by the urban forest and provide a wonderful place to relax. where go tothe forest so often. because the wisdom of [inaudible] exist within the eco systemsism monterey pines [inaudible] we need to recognize the value of our trees and need to maintain them. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is [inaudible] i was asked to read this statement on behalf of san francisco forest alliance, however, the statement basically is the same as what [inaudible] falling off my head. a representative of the district 5. it is open space fund which you need to use for open space [inaudible] legislation should be retained. i heard about the amendments, thank you for the amendment, but [inaudible] representative of dist rict and former representative of [inaudible] said like basically the same sentiment. open space fund should be restricted [inaudible] i would like to use the rest the time which i didn't spend reading the statement talking about how to decide use in our parks which a lot of people have no idea it is happening. it is herbicides and by 2 thousand san francisco was supposed to be pesticide free according to ordinance of 1996 [inaudible] and by now it is use what you want and [inaudible] i live not 10 minutes but less than half minute from the entrance of [inaudible] all the time. [inaudible] there is also end ocrim disorders. they give you birth defects and not [inaudible] thank you very much. >> thank you. we'll take a look at that. before the next speaker i will call a few more cards. kate [inaudible] janet gamble. vanessa banks, eric brooks. lynn now house. those are all the cards i have. >> good afternoon. my name is dee [inaudible] i'm a speaking on behalf of san francisco forest alliance about the topic of inadequate public oversight of the use of money. this amendment lacks sufficient public oversight of the purpshs for which the money and open space fund is spent. we ask 5 specific things would like added. rpd require to make available to the public on a readily found place on the website the annual budget and purpose for the fund on each of the 5 programs of the open space fund after scoom program, urban foresty, community garden [inaudible] we ask for public hearings not to presentations about reck and park budget and the choices on which it will respond these funds. the hearings should engage the public by a sear as of meetings around the city not just 2 presentations in the language of the amendment. in order for have reck and park to have public input. we ask the strategic plan be published on the website. we ask that the reck and park mission review the strategic plan anerally and biannually and review the apperational plan annually with full disclosure on the website and finally, we ask the controller review sth plan annually not every 4 years, otherwise for these changes review them annually so the review takes place before the horse has gotten out of the barn. thank you very much. would you add this to minutes, please? >> thank you, next speaker. >> my name is cathlen helen and here on behalf ofsuch forest alliance and myself. i would like this entered into the record. my statement is this, i like the sfr visors to use best practices. our library system has a set aside fund from praurptd tax and baseline funding from the general fund but the library in the charter must specify where the unspent set aside fund will be spent. we ask that the controller publish the amount of money unspent and carried over annually for reck and park department and reck and park department should publish their spending priorities. thank you. >> thank you >> hello, my name is kate eshal balk and here to say thank you for the wonderful park programs and areas we have throughout the city. we take advantage of that with our 5 year old daughter every day and moved here 2 years ago and it is plaiss to get outside and get fresh air and a place where we need other people and it is our family. woo we go to this playground and see people we know on a daily basis and it is special place. i'm here on behalf of gratin playground. we love that playground very much and know the city is working hard to do everything it can and we appreciate all the help that has come that playgrounds way for sure. working with all thestaff at reck and park to try and maintain a playground made uss aware of the short fall in the budget and how it effects us on a daily basis because of safety issues. what we talk about for this measure and increasing funding for the park not just gratin playground but across the board so you can go beyond maintenance and work on the strategic plan and the wonderful things the department is talking about doing we are in support of that. the one stat folks mentioned about the 28 percent increase of population i will contribute to that as well so want to say thank you for continuing to think about this into the future because the parks for the city i believe are a vital part of our future and it is a wonderful city we live in so thank you very much and hope you continue. >> thank you to the 2 of you. >> my name is janet [inaudible] jaunk for being here today and thank you supervisor farrell for your commitment to the park. i have been away from san francisco for other 30 years and i have moved back with my family and been here about 4 yirebs and have a couple dog squz truverse the city parks and my neighborhood park is plaza park. i'm amazed at the detear-airation of the parks and i decide to get involved with our very active friends of thplaza group and worked thoferb last 2 wreers to address the repair needs of our park. we are talking infrastructure and stairs, [inaudible] pathways, landscape, trees, trash cans, benches and i really support this measure. i don't think it goes quite far enough yet but think it is a puzative step forward. if i learned something over the last 2 years it is working on this park is that parks are important to our community and culture and the character of the city as well. thank you. >> good afternoon superveezers. eric burke, san francisco green party local grass root organization. first i want to say that this-a shout out to sfr visor farrell and the cosponsors. this is crucial. what you are trying to do is crucial because what we should do is fully fund all parks out of the general fund with no private funds needed because private funds can deckitate what happens with public space squz that is not acceptable, so this needs to be much bigger, needs to go farther and fund the parks out of the general fund. hourfck, hourfck, there are concerns that need to be addressed. this is clearly a situation where it is crucial we get this right and get it done rather than get done quickly we want tomake sure clear priorities are set for the use of funds particularly maintenance the parks and trees. clear oversight with meaningful inclusion of the public and a lot of the groups have not been contacted about this. there is guaranteed baseline there is nothing added about restricting the new money to maintain parks rchlt i want to expand and sorry to get into negatives but we have a situation where reck and park is out of step and divided from 10s of thousands and sometimes hundreds of thousands of people in the city. we wanted no golf course at [inaudible] would have compromised for 9 holes, wreck and park demanded a 18 year old golf course. we wanted no artificial tougher for soccer. we don't want mass amounts of 3s cut and herbicides sprayed [inaudible] >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. i want to thank supervisor farrell and his cosponsors for-i am lynn [inaudible] former reck and park commissioner and former president of lafayette park and presidents of [inaudible] getting back to my thanks to supervisor farrell and cosponsor i want to tell supervisor cohen i share your reservation about set aside but this amendment is very necessary. i worked with many of the people in the room to draft and support the 2000 amendment and todays amendment is ovdue to keep up with san francisco growth and improve a ccountability and insure funded for needed maintenance. i want to thank you. a lot of the comment that are made about tweaking this are valid, but this is overdo and necessary. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> hi. how you doing? i'm vanessa and with friends of young [inaudible] in district 10. after learning a lot is happening with the parks over the years. i'm a strong believeer of history repeats itself. i grew up in young blood culmin park and it turned me around so believe the efforts with the supervisors and everybody here and the city is doing and believe there will be good things coming and thank you for everything you are doing to bring back the parks whether it is maintenance, after school program, [inaudible] i'm employed with san francisco park and reck so anything you'll can do to help across the board is very very appreciative. in closing i want to say young blood have done a tremendous turn around thank you to supervisor cohen. it gets more people in the park and taking better care of it, everybody is and want to say thank you again and do what we need to dofor the city because we are trend setters and can't leave the park out because it saves lives. >> next speaker and anyone else who would like to speak come forward. give the clerk your card when you come forward. >> thank you. good afternoon. my name is lynn a shaifer and want to to make sure district 10 had the last word. mia roger and i have the 2 representatives service in district 10. i am speaking totry to [inaudible] she made earlier because she ran out of time so not sure what will am come out here. i wanted to begin of course by thanking supervisor farrell and his staff and the parks alliance for all of the work that has gone into proposing this. it is very badly needed. i think the supervisor knows i was a little skeptical at first. i'm convinced but would like to join the chorus of people who said it is a good start, but we do need more. my main concern is acquisitions. i'm wondering where extra money will come from for acquisitions in the city that has been in the open space fund and it will continue to be, but without assurance that eventually the open space fund will be extended and hopefully that the cents for hundred dollars that goes into the open space fund for acquisition is also increased. we will have a big problem and there are no districts who know this better than district 10 and 11 and 6. that is the other people i'm speaking for. the two representatives from district 6 who can't be here. they can't afford to by rrb land for parks in district 6 because the cost of land is so high and not enough money in the acquisition fund and the problem will get worse. i wish i had more time but don't. >> thank you very much. any other members who would plike to comment? seeing none we'll close public comment and want to thank you all for sharing your commentary on the charter amendment. the passion that san franciscans have our parks is quite evidence in the room and outside the room as well so thank you for that. i'll leave first remarks for supervisor farrell who is the author of the amendment >> i want to thank you for coming out today and my colleague frz hearing this item. i would be remiss if i didn't mention a large part of my motivation is the fact i grew up in our san francisco reck and park it can apartment. it was then [inaudible] i spent every waking hour over the summer there and became a reck and park director there and so it is a personal thing and seeing my children raised in the city, my wife and i take them to many parks throughout the city and it is a integral part of our lives so it is a personal issue. it struck me as [inaudible] opening up [inaudible] the school yard and young blood coleman next door, the opportunities it affords young children in san francisco to get to know the entire city as well. i remember going young blood coleman playing baseball as a kid and that experience as we think about the future of san francisco, the next generation, our children, that experience was vital to growing up in the city. i can't wait to have that experience with my children and think it is a integral part of the story we don't talk about enough and how it prepares the future generations to be steward over the city. thank you for coming out and colleagues for entertains the motion jz everyone here is here today because we are a park advoeicate. i know san francisco as a whole will be very supportive of the measure and look forward to continued discussion. >> we have our amendments we want to accept and i'll supportive. i want to say that i am supportive of this charter amendment and want to put my name on it. to me it is a irk with in progress. we where making a painting and would like it to be a masterpiece and sometimes we do paint and take a step back and see where else we need perspective or paint in place to improve it and want to do that. i know we will reschedule the rules committee meeting to hear the charter amendment i believe december 11. i do think that i want to look at future amendments as well. the input from the community around the question about specificity. i don't say we need tonecessarily but think it is important to address and maybe have conversation with reck and park and architect of the measure to see what type of specificity we put in for our expenditures. i think the equity line is great. do we need to add language around oversight or public input to show there is a back stop. i don't want to be too bureaucratic but those are important measure that lead to accountability mpt how do we make sure the community processes in place oversee what the expenditures can be happen? we did have a lot of measures plains with open space fund that were not always achieved for the open space. we have prosc but strategic plans and look at learn term reck and park hasn't fulfilled those the way they need to and how do we make sure that happens? i think it is important that we talk brt workforce and skill development and if there is anything we may need to address for pathways to the workforce i think it is important to look at. i also over the yeerbs had a lot of concerns about public access and privateization. there are ways we want to minimize how much we are trying to generate funds to private evonets that may limit public access and whether that is addressed is a concern i have and full disclosure. what i heard by a couple people was looking at extending the open space fund for number och years that allows us to have predictability around doing bonding to allow us to do expand our funds futher. those are thoughts i have and what i'll look at between now and december 10 to help make this a consensus masterpiece. we have amendments, we want to make our motions to accept? >> thank you. i had stated my amendments previously and think after hearing public comment individuals who spoke i was troy toog get at the concerns around explicitly stating focus on differed maintenance but also recognize that some of the needs can change so i try to couch in a way that lists outd factors and policy considerations in the chapter amendment. so, i don't know if colleagues you need me to repeat it or just maybe make a motion to adopt the amendment that i proposed earlier. >> along with supervisor farrells amendments. >> i second that motion. >> we'll take those amendments without objection. so, this item-the amendments will be heard again in rules committee and the next committee will be december 10. >> we need to take action on the legislation as well. >> we'll take action to continue it to the december 10 meeting. motion to that effect by >> so moved. >> we take the motion without objection. mr. clerk do we have other items before us? >> no more items, mr. chair. >> okay, we are adjourned. you. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in landing a contract with the sfoifk is pretty champ but now with the opened contracting center visitors can get opportunity at the new state of the arc facility and attend workshops and receive one-on-one technical assistance and learner what you need to become a primary contractor or what information to be a subcontractor 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