To my left will be norman yee but hes not here yet. Our clerk is derek evans. I would like to thank staff at sfgtv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk do you have any announcements today. Yes thank you mr. Chair. Please silence all electronic dwiegs. Eating and drinking is not a permitted. Any copies and documents should be submitted to the clerk and items will be on the april 18, 2017 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you mr. Clerk. Please call item number 1. Item number 1 is a hearing considering 14 members to the park, recreation and open space Advisory Committee. There are 14 seats and 14 applicants. Thank you. Unless there are any initial comments from the committee lets hear from supervisor ronins aid and to serve elisa lairdmetke and reanna tong and both district 9 see thes. Thank you supervisor. I have someone here to speak on behalf of elisa and i will speak on behalf of much rihanna. Thank you. Thank you so much supervisors want. I want to speak on behalf of elisa who works in oakland and wasnt able to make todays meeting but excited about the opportunity to serve the city on the prosac committee. Shes a 17 year resident of San Francisco and her family and herself has been long engaged in the citys Parks Departments. Currently living in the portola shes a stanch advocate for greening and one of the founding members of the port tola urban Greening Committee which is a diverse stakeholder meeting that meets monthly to discuss ways that we can build upon green assets in the neighborhood and open spaces and has been a great connector between mc clairein park and other assets in the district 9 and its residents and as such shes really excited to be able to serve the city on a broader scale and is particularly committed to accessibility. She works as a let specific term of her career is a director at the Disability Resource Center at merit university so shes really well versed in how to bring disabled citizens of San Francisco into these public spaces and so thats something shes really excited about, not only for physically disabled but also those that might not have the economic or other ability to use our public spaces as much as we would hope so i really hope that you guys approve her nomination. Shes really excited to serve. Thank you. Thank you supervisors so on behalf of the supervisor ronin ms. Tong receives the highest recommendation and a native born to chinese immigrants from hong kong and a member of the School System and use are of the parks and part of the Portola Neighborhood Association and bring focus to low income and working class communities of color particularly immigrant communities who are often left out of the decision process so she is passion to making the area a place for people from multiple generations and different backgrounds can enjoy public open spaces, and facilities. She is also passionate about improving Pedestrian Safety and bicycle access and street design and will bring that focus and expertise to prosac. Shes a great candidate for seat number two and she will be honored to serve. Thank you. Colleagues any questions . Seeing none we will go to seeing no questions from the committee lets hear from the Third Applicant natalie dillon. Is natalie here . Yes, please come forward. This is for seat number 4. Hello. Im natalie dillon. I represent district 4. So thank you for having us here today. I think this chamber is almost as beautiful many of our parks in the city but a little bit of background on me. I was born and raise 234d San Francisco in the heart of the Mission District where i grew up in the parks. It was at Mission Playground and their partnership with arthur ashs nonprofit and where i discovered by love for tennis and grew up playing on the courts and it was a place where race, religion and gender was a place that didnt matter but who was able to get the ball across the court and the sense of community that parks brings to cities is something very important to me. So tennis and mesa college where i walked on to the stanford tennis team exceeding my childhood dreams. I majored in urban studies taking a focus in urban taking a focus in communities ifed design and capped off my under graduate with a thesis on spatial relationship between graffiti and crime taking a close look in San Francisco where just literature hasnt been dedicated to take without take without take without take taking a quantitative look and i will be excited to be on the committee and contribute. Great. Thank you colleagues. Any questions for natalie . Seeing none we will go to the next item. Thank you ms. Dillon. Thank you. Lets hear from our Fourth Applicant mr. Nicholas belloni. Thats for seat number 5. Close enough. Did i say that right . You. You are close. Hello supervisor. I am Nicholas Belloni as we just got through. I am going for i think its my last appointment now even though it didnt have a date on it when the seat five get out but i think this is my last appointment for prosac. I have been a member for god now a while, and a lot of things i have done. I helped work on the Acquisition Policy and in that time since i the Acquisition Policy subcommittee working group, whatever we called it back then we were able to buy parks in different areas of San Francisco that needed it badly. I am looking forward to what i was able to accomplish and getting parks to the city and i grew up in the Richmond District and born and raised 43 years yes, i am 43, in the Richmond District and i have had parks around me all my life, Golden Gate Park was my background. I had the luck of play soccer on the polo fields and took my parents that sat through the games in the fog and rain and take them to see paul mccartney, one of their favorites on the fields. You know those are the things that make parks special. We get to commute, we get to be there, and congregate and sees lots and lots of great cultural stuff, be there with our families, see kids grow up and play and have a great time and thats what it makes it special for me to be on the park board so i hope you guys reappoint me. Thank you. Have a great day. Thank you. Any questions . Seeing none we will proceed to the next applicant, our fifth applicant and the chair of prosac currently and Steffen Franz. Will you please come forward. Greetings supervisors. Thank you for having us today. My name is Steffen Franz and current one of the representatives for prosac in our district and currently the chair and have been for the last year. I was originally presented by supervisor alito pier and appointed twice by supervisor farrell and served as the chair and vice chair and sat on a view subcommittees and as well as working group. I own a Music Distribution and Parking Company that represents 7700 artists and labels. 700 artists and labels and the president of the friends of Lafayette Park board which i have been on for eight years including during that time the extensive renovation of the park. I also am the production manager for saturdays in the mark mc clooren which i have done for the past five years and about 28 shows in district 10. I very much am a dog advocate as well, and as such my love of parks stems from the amount of time i spend in our open space. I am a passionate about parks and open space and would like to continue my service on prosac for another term. Thank you. Colleagues any questions . Seeing none lets hear from the sixth applicant mr. Mark scheuer. Thank you. Please come forward. Hi. I am definitely what you would call a park freak. I have been in a San Francisco park literally almost every day of my life and in sunset district and park side square and when i discovered basketball i graduated to sunset gym. As an adult i have been involved with friends of those park for 17 years and was the president for ten years. I am i really believe that parks make a big difference in the quality of life for everybody and the thing i love about San Francisco parks that you can go for free and there are so many things to do in parks and recreation centers. While i was on prosac for four, five years i served on the failing Playgrounds Committee and i also helped shaped Strategic Plan. I would like to continue on prosac to ensure that san franciscans have a free place to go every day of their life. Thank you. Thank you. Colleagues any questions . Seeing none lets go to the seventh applicant, mr. Robert brust for seat number 8. Thank you supervisors. If you could pull the mic up. There you go. Yes, sir. So i am a resident of district 8 since 2008. I am founder of did lores park works, one of the several friends organizations for dolores park since 2009 and currently the chair. I am also a member of the San Francisco parks alliance, proud husband and a proud pug dog owner. I am coming up on about three and a half years. I am reappointed to prosac hopefully, and i am very proud of the work i have done, our committee has done over the past three and a half years and i would like to just highlight three. We helped with the writings and promotion of prop b which i am sure you know of. One of our primarily responsibilities on prosac is acquisitions as people have already touched on and our work on the Strategic Plan, rec and Park DepartmentStrategic Plan. So in prop b i think youre bottom with but let me go over it quickly. I think the most important part of the legislation it recognized the department and our city parks need for a predictable level of funding so they could properly staff and plan as we went forward. Also one of the key things and this is something i think new for the department and not the city overall rec and park is required to have an equity component and their Strategic Plan as they go forward, and we were very, very happy to see that was included in the legislation and now as were working with the Parks Department theyre doing an excellent job. It was really easy for us to require them to do this, but the real job i think is now up to the department and us to watch as they implement this legislation. Acquisitions im going just it to touch on two. Both were a little hard because we were spending a lot of money. Francisco park which used to be the fracisco Water Reservoir i believe it is going to be one of the grand jewels of the city, and what is going to be very interesting about this its now its going to be community funded. The neighbors have gotten together. They have pledged 25 million for constructing the park into a reservoir, the reservoir into a park and 150,000 every year thereafter. They have also agreed to a cooperative relationship with the Parks Department where the Parks Department will agree and the Franciscan Park conservatory who is set up to manage the money will also agree agree on a funding and a maintenance plan. The other which i think is the 11th street natoma plot which i think you saw yesterday at the full board and hopefully agreed to purchase. Another large sum of money, almost 10 million, which we feel because of its location in a high need area and a growing urban core it is really worth the expenditure of money and finally the Strategic Plan which p ro sac is required to review and approve. We were able with this plan to oversee the equity components, things that we really care about like the maintenance of the trees and the park rangers which have been severely underfunded for many years, so we thank you for this opportunity. Thank you. Colleagues any questions . Seeing none we can hear from the eighth applicant mr. Anthony cuadro. For seat number 10. Please proceed. Thank you supervisor. Good morning afternoon supervisors. Supervisor yee. My name is anthony cuadro. I have been on the task on the prosac committee for six years and appointed by supervisor elsbernd and reappointed by supervisor yee and i grew up in San Francisco and district 7 in forest hill and pretty much played in the parks my entire life and grew up by jp murphy playground and in the summer and played in Little League baseball by park and rec and basketball at Sunset Rec Center all throughout my child and have been an advocate for parks ever since. I have enjoyed my five place years on the committee and going for the final appointment before i term out. To highlight i have worked on the failing playgrounds task force with my colleague mark. We worked with several groups from within the city, from the boys and girls club, to other stakeholders to design that program and really use bond fonds to funds to refurbish play structures not up to suitability for children and were very proud of the work with that. We used equity metrics that were used for the first time that we designed with within that group and applied to other projects and i am looking forward to continuing our work on that so thank you. Thank you. Any questions . Seeing none thank you. Well go on to the next applicant, our ninth applicant, ms. Maya rodgers for seat number 12. Thank you ms. Rogers. Please come forward. Hi everybody. Thank you for having me. My name is maya rodgers. Im a native of bay view Hunters Point in district 10, cofounder of parks 92104 and social worker at heart. Being a member of prosac and now second vice chair has been rewarding in many scbais positioned me to translate the often misunderstood governmental language for the people of district 10. I appreciate the opportunity. I am excited to continue this work if appointed. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions colleagues . Seeing none we will hear from our tenth applicant, ms. Wendy aragon for seat number 13. Please proceed. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is wendy aragon and i am applying for seat 13 for district 1. I am really happy to be nominated by supervisor sandra lee fewer as well as an Environmental Justice organization that advocates for immigrant families and low income families. I grew up low income and grew up in apartments and townhouses and no open spaces and we had green pristine lawns that were not child friendly and every day we would walk a mile to our local park and without that we havent have a place to be and be active and go to the y and play soft ball and essential for us growing up and i want all to have access to parks like that. To me equity is a huge issue. I am the chair for the Public UtilitiesCommission CitizensAdvisory Committee where i have been working with the Southeast CommunityFacilities Commission and partners to ensure we build a new center for the Southeast Community that will have open space and be Family Friendly. I have been committed to Environmental Justice. I went to San Francisco state where i was an urban studies major and focused on open space and land use. So i am really excited to be part of this committee and i hope i can make a big difference and hope to work with my colleagues in neighborhoods where they have concerns about their parks. Thank you. Thank you. Colleagues any questions . Seeing none we will proceed to hear from our 11th applicant mr. Richard rothman for seat 14. Please proceed. Good afternoon supervisor. My name is Richard Rothman and i am asking to be reappointed to represent district 1 on prosac i am a Richmond District resident and grew up in the District Across the street from Cabrillo Playground and half a block from Golden Gate Park and i moved back into my childhood house about ten years ago. I feel my role on prosac is to act as a liaison between the supervisors office, rec and park and the residents. I want to help improve the dog parks and maybe have more dog parks to the Richmond District area, and i am also concerned about people getting access to the park, and i think rec and park and mta should set up a safe routes to park program. Its not only being safe in the park but its also walking safely to the park, and i currently serve as first fives chair helping set the agenda and i think our highlights of our input in prop b in working on the metrics to ensure that all areas of the city are equally treated, and input into the Strategic Plan. I really enjoy working because i feel that the rec and park staff while always not agreeing with us at least listens to our suggestions and