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Let them know where youre at and they will assist you. And with that we are now ready to start the meeting. So im going to very quickly roll call buell here loo low here anderson here bonilla here harriston here mcdonnell here we are now on item to which is the president s report. Given the number of people plan to talk i will be very brief and simply congratulate the staff on a traffic groundbreaking for the new civic center the ground at the helen Denver Dillard family is funding good i think the mayor was very excited about it as well and has some very nice things to say about the department and what is going on. So i add my congratulations and with that i conclude my report. Is there anyone who may wants to make Public Comment under the president s report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We on item to the general managers report. Thank you president buell. For that and thank you commissioner low for being there. As the president noted, we celebrated the groundbreaking of two playgrounds at Civic Center Plaza. There were 10 million film philanthropic gifts from the Honduran Foundation of which we are very grateful for. A couple other announcements. On march 3 and fourth sundown consider powering down your devices and kickstarting the weekend with i hiked a ride or a jog through your favorite part. National day of unplugging encourages people to step with him from their devices for 24 period and reconnect with nature and love once. We are proud to be a sponsor for about the fifth year in a row of this event. We also like a camp registration starting on march 18. That is for summer registration for our programs. It starts at 10 am on the 18th online and at 13 sites around the city. This summer your kids will have a choice of more than 80 different camps including traditional camps like highlight and sober traits as well as exciting new games like rock climbing urban pickers camp at alamein he farms and rural sports can. Thats just a small sampling of what we have to offer good each summer we were close to 1 million in scholarships for classes cam and learn to swim programs that serve more than 10,000 participants. So. To entry is never ability to pay. The San Francisco deltas and the new professional soccer team playing here in San Francisco have their opening game on march 25 at our very own keys are stadium. Which we are excited to get their season off and look forward to seeing you all at keys are. Lastly our Green Acres Program is now accepting applications for the 20172018 program season. This is a partnership with a port of San Francisco and Youth LeadershipProgram Offering teens a chance to play an Important Role in their community. They perform purification market parks throughout the city participate in the leadership workshops and choose products based on their entry. So if you know any teenagers interested in giving back to the community, please, spread the word about the application. Thank you. He was is that your report point that is thank you it there anyone that wants to make Public Comment on the general managers report . Seeing none, this item is now closed. We are on item for which is general Public Comments. We will allow up to 15 min. And this item will be continued to item 10. At this time members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public and are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and the to not appear on the agenda. With respect to agenda items, you will have the opportunity to address the commission when the item is reached in a meeting. Is there anyone who would like to make general Public Comment . Seeing none, this item is closed. We are on item 5 which is the consent calendar. Richard fung is richard here or is in the overflow room . [inaudible off mic] no. Item 2 has been close. Im in the overflow and it takes moments to get on when you go ahead and comment on item 2 yes. I been concerned about the Concourse Authority privatizing Golden Gate Park. Its causing a lot of problems and i would like to see the Concourse Authority contract seized. Its been a bad deal for this city and is a bad policy for parks in general. The idea that you can have massive events which damage properties and then the public cant use them for later events and then the public who try to put together their own events, cant use their own parks. So the Concourse Authority has abused the system for over a decade now and it needs to be stopped. Im david grace here in the city thank you. [applause] let me margaret, what make you with this. We will have a public hearing later and we really discourage people from demonstrating, clapping, cheering or making comments from the audience. It just slows down the whole process and everybody is here to try and make some constructive progress on the matters thank you for doing that. Okay. Richard, come on up. You have 2 min. Good morning mr. Buell commissioners. I have an issue on b on trying to to the dog play area on Cape Hatteras and [inaudible] they have eighti try to speak about issues before the Capital Committee and what is happening is when they are we doing all the animal square theyre going to have a problem. Theres a fight the dropi was think about [inaudible] and i was also wanted to try to bring in the part about having Artificial Grass. I been told that theyre going to just use natural gas you water twice a day that can make it salty, slippery, and when people like mark buell step on it i like anyone bigger than me is going to be pushed down. [inaudible] okay the problem im also trying to push is chronic toxicity. Weve all that ammonium, the year and the everything else. Theyve already included the [inaudible] drainage system but have a problem where theyre going to use it. So what im trying to have the Department Look at and hopefully take into consideration is Artificial Grass which i usually dont say anything positive about. Have an extra drainage underneath their and little rocky top loose small little pebbles and drained the rain off. Thats about all i came over to talk about. Hope we will give it consideration. Thank you very much thank you. Is there any mouse would like to make general Public Comment . That comment on item under jurisdiction of the commission but not on the agenda . Seeing none, general Public Comment is closed. We are onor was that the consent . That was general Public Comment. Sorry. Item 5 is the consent calendar. Anyone like to make Public Comment on the consent calendar . Okay seeing none, item 5 is closed. Commissioners, we need a motion so moved. Second. All those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes. ] opposed, say nay. So moved okay. We are now on items six which is the San Francisco zoo. And as a reminder this is a discussion only item. Good morning Tonya Peterson executive director and president of the San Francisco zoo. First let me give you your due date attendance. As of january 31 2017 we have had over 500,000 visitors. That is because over a budget of 497,000 visitors by 9000 visitors so a good year so far. With that if i could turn to our powerpoint. Its the month of love at the zoo. We have twoforone specials for Senior Citizens. We dont card our Senior Citizens and is not limited to San Francisco residence. This is something we offered last year and was enjoyed by many seniors. Also this month we are celebrating all good things american. We will have special presentations at our north American Animals including our rescued grizzly bears and her disabled alter ego. We take pride in our north american wildlife could it will be open rain or shine but first 100 visitors each day will receive punches to keep them dry at the zoo. This year we are proud to participate in the International Polar bear they get this a global event to bring awareness about Warming Arctic and its impact on polar bears. As a reminder San Francisco zoo is home to one of the oldest bears in captivity could she was rescued from church oh cancer she was considered a bad there because theyre going into town to feed. As you know, the ice is melting and a lot of the polar bears in Northern Canada are starting. This worker during the monthduring the weekend of february 2526. That night that enable the twilight tour and keep busy while and until 7 30 pm. Our valentine gift to you is the birth of a baby lighter. You can see that little guy there. He is orange and his mom is black and white. This is a francois languor and endangered monkey. Theres very few left in the wild due to fragmented population in their native china and vietnam. Come see this little baby before he turns from orange to black. We, too, have an open our registration for spring and summer zoo camp. As a reminder, over 2000 youth participate in our camp last summer and over 400 families with toddlers and a little earldom. We open registration yesterday and already 600 families have registered get a great way to teach our next generation about conservation. Lastly, you will see some construction at her Primate Discovery Center with the expansion of our chimp exhibit. This expansion helps improve the habitat of our three area check gems also allows us to bring into chimpanzees from local research facilities. With that i and my report thank you. Is there anyone would like to make Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners, this was discussion only. Thank you. So we are on item 7 the open space Fund Contingency reservecamp major. Good morning commissioners dedicatory director of operations. He item before you is discussion possible action to approve the allocation of 291,000 dollars from the open space Fund Contingency reserve the undesignated reserve, to fund relocation of the ropes challenge course at camp major and to acquire and install two prefabricated cabins for it staff housing at the camp. This item does align with our Strategic Plan strategy want to inspire public space specifically objective 1. 2 which is to strengthen the quality of assisting parks and facilities. Commissioners you may recall in 2014 the department requested in the Commission Approved allocation of 20,000 from the open space Fund Contingency reserve get this on the commissioners reserved to Fund Facility improvements to camp matter. What are the key implements that was funded in that 2014 allocation with the design and installation of a ropes challenge course. Working with a nationally renowned challenge course designer project adventure, we designed an exciting ropes course that it has been installed in the stand up tall trees near birch lake. It is proven to be one of our most popular camp features. Every week in the camp season there are far more campers that want to participate in the ropes challenge Course Experience than we have capacity to provide. Which means we really have waiting lists for the ropes course every week of camp. Two years ago partially as a natural outcome of the devastating fire the conifer trees at camp matter as well as all the Sierra Nevada came under attack by the pine bark beetle. Its tiny but voracious insect that bores into conifer trees and quickly kills them. The beetle infestation has decimated over 66 Million Trees all along the Sierra Nevada and theres no measure to, at this or slow the vector other than below freezing temperatures in the winter to guilty egg masses that were deposited in the trees layer. Our existing ropes course installed by project adventure in the camp of trees is now a casualty of this beetle infestation. The trees used for the course apparatus and the trees surrounding the course of all been infested and died over the last two years. Consequently the tree condition makes the current ropes course unsafe for continued use. The department has consult with project adventure again on relocating the ropes course and we have jointly decide upon a ropes im sorry the course designed to be installed on 50 foot poles instead of trees could the project adventure has provided us with in an attractive and challenging design for such a course and weve identified a site at the camp back and offer the same wilderness feel that our current tree installed course offers participants. For those of you familiar with the camp is off to thethat would be the eastern side. Easter birch lake , east of the shanks out in the what we call practice camp where the courses take campers for their horse ride and breakfast on the way up toon the way up to hog ranch. Also its near the road that goes up to where the water plan is. So its a fairly open area and we feel this is a good location for its. The projected cost for this project is 240,000. It includes a cost premium to construct a course using the puc job order Contractor Authority. The estimated cost is a result of the following factors. The course designer will require acquisition of tall poles and installation by footing and guy wires which was not in the original course design which utilize trees. The course elements in the design are somewhat more complex challenging and interesting that original course design bus more expensive. Salvaging elements from our current tree course design for reuse in the new poll course design is only minimally possible. As with the previous rope course construction we are proposing to use job order contracting authorities of the puc at moccasin which is already in place for the pucs ongoing work at hetch hetchy. The projected cost from project adventure is a worstcase scenario. They have not completed their design drawings yet and are still completing project cost estimating. It is very likely that the entire project cost will be less than the projected 240,000. And if so any balance would be returned to the undesignated reserve. The department is making this effort allocation request now so that funds are identified in the available for project adventure to proceed with their work to have a new ropes course installed and ready for the 2017 camp season. Additionally, and linked operationally to the ropes course, our camp staff component has increased over the last few years and weve offered were recreational options to our weekly campers. A ropes course that is early part of that staffing increase as our increased number of lifeguards custodians, and other summer employees were to deliver a great summer camp experience for our San Francisco families. The staffing increase has overstressed our ability to house staff for the summer good rather than convert existing cabins for staff use, which would in turn reduce number of families who could be up at camp matter each week the department has identified a prefabricated cabin built in california that can augment our existing staff housing. The cabin design which you can see in your packet at attachment a is a log cabin cap design appropriate to the overall camp look and feel. If approved the department would acquire two of these twoperson cabins and install them in the vicinity of the two existing staff dorms at camp which are nicknamed the shanks. Each cabin is 21,500 assembled and delivered in our own Maintenance Group within finish the installation electrical hookup and footing into crushed rock based at the site once delivered. This acquisition would also be completed using the pugh sees job order Contractor Authority which again incurs a premium. So in summary of the