Transcripts For SFGTV Recreation And Park Commission 21617 20170301

Comment today . Testing 123 good morning all. Is on how many people in the audience intend to testify today . Given the number then we will give everybody 2 min. That will get us out of here by late tonight. [laughing] goahead width so you heard that 2 min. On Public Comments. If you would like to make general Public Comment that means is on just general comment im not on an item thats on the agenda. That is on item 4 and that its continued on item 10. When you do make Public Comment we ask that you address your comments to the commission and in order to allow equal time for all neither the commissioners were staff will respond to questions to the public during Public Comment but they may ask staff to respond once Public Comment is closed. Last, if the fire alarms activate you must evacuate the building in an orderly fashion. Using any exit. Please, note that the elevators will immediately return to the first floor and are not available for use. If you do need assistance out of the building please, make your way to the closest area of refuge which is directly across the hall in the mens restroom. Inside the restroom theres a little speaker box. Press it city hall security will answer. 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 Leadership Program 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 requested allocation for you, commissioners, from the open space Fund Contingency reserve the undesignated reserve, is the following. Ropes challenge course design and relocation installation is 200,000. Contact premium essay that 20 is 40,000. The two prefabricated twoperson cabins at 21,500 each is 43,000 and the premium for that is another 20 at 8600 for the total request coming up at 291,600. There is adequate fund balance in the open space Fund Contingency reserve. To fund this request that you can see attachment b for the current account status of all three sub funds of the contingency reserve. With that the staff recommendation is to approval of an allocation of 291,600 from the undesignated reserves to fund the design and relocation of the ropes challenge course at camp and to acquire and install two prefabricated cabins for extended staff housing at camp matter. In support we have friends of camp major and theres no known opposition. Thank you. Is there anyone would like to make Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . This item was heard in a committee with the recognition to approve. Is there a motion . So moved. Second. All those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes. ] opposed, say nay. So moved thank you we are now on ida made recreation and Parks Department budget for fiscal year 201718 and 201819. Good morning commissioners become kitty patricia tony. Im here this morning to ask for your approval for the departments budget submission for fiscal year 1718 and 1819. As of today we are looking to solve a budget deficit of 1. 5 million in fiscal year 1718 and 2. 6 million in fiscal year 1819. Those deficits are driven primarily by some revenue shortfalls in the current year that we have to account for in the budget. Primarily from our parking garages. And primarily frankly from Union Square Garage which is seeing a significant reduction in revenue which mta proposes is related to the central subway project as well as probably some ongoing loss in revenue just related to the increase in ridesharing services. I do want to say when i was here in operations at the end of januaryno beginning of february i said that stockton garage was eating similar reductions and at the time they were seen is 75 reduction in transient revenue. That was wrong. It was more like a 7 reduction in transient revenue. So i want to correct that for the record. So, the budget we submit to the Mayors Office on tuesday, february 21 has to erase these deficits. This slide is a summary of the solutions we are using to address the deficits and to make some fairly modest investments in the budget over the next two fiscal years. So as i noted the base budget shortfall for 1718 was 1. 5 million. We have totaled new revenue of 3. 1 million which once we solve the deficit will allow us to make an investment of 1. 6 million and then it both fiscal years we are funding a general fund capital and deferred maintenance budget of 15 million. In fiscal year 1819 we had a 2. 6 million base budget shortfall. We have identified new revenue into the 4. 6 million which allows us to make about 2 million worth of investment. This is in one overview of changes to revenue year over year. It shows the current fiscal year budget. It shows the base budget for fiscal year 1718 which is the amount we budgeted for 1718 at this time last year. As well as the proposal now for fiscal year 1718 and 1819. You can see here and i will talk about this in a minutethat there is a pretty significant reduction to parking garages and pay parking 1. 3 million next year. Less than year after. Then some increases to program and permits revenue as well as in your two significant increase to the open space fund could the open space fund numbers are parliamentary. To get the controllers also give us final numbers at the end of april beginning of may and thats what we were actually in the budgeting. So, the revenue the next couple of slides talk about the incremental new revenue that we are proposing to budget could go the gate park concessions, this includes some additional revenue at the japanese tea garden, both the concession and the gates. So lake additional revenue from facility rental permits. From Athletic Field permits. From little bit of revenue from special event permits good 200,000 in additional revenue from the outside lands concerts in each of the next two years. Some additional revenue for citywide concessions. In fiscal year 1819 the citywide concession number goes up by 150,000 and that is because we are hoping and expecting to install an ice rink in Civic Center Plaza for the holiday season. That wont happen next year but the year after. Then some additional revenue from a Recreation Programs in this includes revenue from camp matter, fromarts studio in a little growth in our program revenue. I do want to note that in all of these cases the additional revenue is just from growth and usage. It is not related to any kind of a fee increase. The Recreation Program revenue, i also want to note is net of any scholarships that we give out. So at this point we are awarding well over 1 million in scholarships on an annual basis. But even with that, we still will see some growth in our program revenue. Little bit of additional revenue from camp neither. We are going to draw upon a reserve for the Union Square Garage when you may recall mta knew that construction of the central subway project would have an impact on Union Square Garage revenue, and so, part of the project they actually received funding from the federal Transportation Administration to pay rec and park 79 dollars to be held in reserve to be allocated over time as we need it in order to offset the loss in parking related to the project. So we are assuming we will draw 200 and additional 250,000 in each of the next two years from that reserve. We have budgeted 200,000 in funding from philanthropies for scholarships. So while we are giving it away 1 million a Year Partnership staff is raising money on an annual basis to help offset those scholarships. I put in a plug for crab fest which is happening next thursday which is part of that fundraising. We have some fund balance in the gulf fund which will help us to offset expenses in the golf fund over the next couple of years. Then the single largest source of revenue to solve our deficit and help us make some investments in the next two years is growth in the open space fund. Just a reminder that our planning documents our Strategic Plan, our Operational Plan, in our equity lens are providing a roadmap for the investment that we are proposing to make in the budget. A few highlights from our Operational Plan that the Commission Approved in january. We are proposing to implement 58 new initiatives in the next two fiscal years. Those initiatives include implementing a communitybased part control staffing model. Prioritizing deferred maintenance renewals in parks inequity zones. We are proposing to pilot a Spanish Language permit assistance function at mission playground. As well as we are proposing to expand Youth Programs that emphasize movement and wellness. We are going to develop a list of operational and Capital Needs that we can use to work with our Philanthropic Partners to direct resources to places that are at the highest need for the departments. We are going to increase volunteer support in parks and our equity zones. Excuse me and were denied a second class of green acres. We are also developing an internally focused equitybased learning initiative and we are identifying technology to help us enhance Service Delivery. So the next several slides outline where we are making investments in our budget to be items that are highlighted in purple here are items that we believe we demonstrate our commitment to our equity lenders. So we are going to hire a new maintenance planner to facilitate preventative maintenance training. We are going to add a cement mason to the budget to tackle deferred maintenance. Two labors for park cleanup and a little bit of additional funding for materials and supplies in Golden Gate Park. Under the strategy [inaudible] we also are putting 50 million in capital and deferred maintenance over the next two fiscal years. So we have a general Facilities Maintenance budget of 1 million. We finally have funded camp made her maintenance at about the place it should be. We will be replacing Synthetic Turf fields and actually that item should be highlighted in purple because the five fields that we are proposing to do are all inequity zones in the next couple of years. Funding for grass field rehabilitation we are continuing to fund urban forestry as well as court resurfacing and then the budget for next fiscal year also includes funding to help us address playground that will be worked on through the play Sf Initiative including buchanan st. , mall perks playground and hide any part of the 700,000 for those three projects is in addition to other coupons funds that are available. Under our strategy to inspire play, we are adding three recreation specialists to really be the core of our afterschool program, tlc program which is the tennis learning center. We have rolled this program out at hamilton and betty [inaudible] we are adding recreation specialist to coordinate citywide wellness and programs. Were also adding some funding to create ongoing support for baseball for all, which is our summertime girls baseball program. Under arch chatterjee to inspire investment, we are adding some funding to support Civic Center Plaza and we are also proposing to fund the development of mobile application for the department. Inspiring stewardship. The initiatives here include adding a Community Development assistant to support housing while verbal populations, adding an intern to support our expansion of the green acres and stewardship program. Implementing an Ambassador Program at dolores and, parks. As well as some funding for outreach to equity zone communities. Then finally under our strategy to inspire team we are proposing to add a couple of additional apprentice gardeners in the budget could this will take us up to a total of 31 apprentices. Then we are also proposing to add a new it project manager and a support staff for it division. Just to close, we did sort of our regular budget outreach. I had a couple of Community Budget meetings. We have been out to talk to staff at an all staff meeting as well as the staff found that lunch. I didnt here in front of the commission several times and then i was at prozac to talk about the budget at the beginning of february. We will be submitting our budget as i said to the Mayors Office. This coming tuesday, february 21 and then the mayor will work on the budget for the next three months or so and then submit his budget to the board of supervisors on june 1. That concludes my presentation and i am always happy to answer questions. Thank you very much. Is there anyone who wants to make Public Comment on the budget item . If urinate or homer were here if you like to make Public Comment. Public comment is closed. Commissioners this was committee with approved recommendation for pool. The chair would entertaincommissioner mcdonnell this in the spirit of trying to appreciate how the department of the staff is thinking about applying the equity lens of this case is been rising budget allocations. So it all sort of made sense to me except for a couple of them. Was turned to appreciate how those were included in the category so one is under the strategy of inspiring plays the cement mason and the labors, again love the most. Yes. , why are they included queen this is really for us on deferred maintenance in parks that are in equity zones. While both of these functions add to our overall capacity to address maintenance issues we really do have a longterm goal of focusing those resources most in the places where they are most needed. Great. Thank you the only other one was the gardeners . Because we are really focused on a Workforce Pipeline into our apprentice program, where we are trying to get out into underserved communities to encourage people to apply for those positions. As well as to applied local 261 the laborers union, has a preapprentice program that also is very much focused on drawing people from the southeastern part of the city. So the Service Delivery isnt necessarily equity focused but the folks who are entering the program are really focusing on equity excellent i really appreciate the focus on this one outline the cries thank you commissioner bonilla yes, katie im ecstatic about thewith the deferred maintenance budget could i think its very proactive. Smart. And necessary. So i want to give my special thanks to you for putting that in. Thank you commissioner ive one question, katie. The ambassador for dolores park, is that to help alleviate some of the problems associate with a large crowds on the weekend . It but that essentially false in the Sarah Doughty with so i will let you tell c with the program is yes. There are as you know anywhere between five and 7000 people in dolores park on a sunny weekend. Which creates a significant maintenance burden on our staff. That staff is assigned to a psa and uses resources across all those parks. So if there is a ton of work picking up after people in dolores park it necessarily means theres less time to be at rawls or garfield. So the idea is this is actually the third year of the Love Dolores Campaign where we would have encouraged park goers to clean up after themselves and to understand that this is a public space that they need to care about and stuart. The campaign has been incredibly successful. Weve added a three stream receptacle so that everything there is not going to landfill. 67 of the material thats generate at dolores park is now either composted recycled. Pvc was all going to landfill. So its an extension of that program. Which is an investment in the park and kenneth hopes to make sure that we you are not over utilizing so to speak staff, there is terms of picking up garbage thank you commissioner anderson just as a followup to that where it says incrementing programs and fun to origin of both 50,000 items house that money going to speed spent . To a variety of sports and katie correct me if im wrong much of it is budgeted either in temp salaries or Contractual Services. We have in the past utilized our partnership with the Student Conservation Association which are americorps interns. Where they pay half the salary and we pay half the salary of these interns and they do outreach and education. We are developing that plan now to see if it makes sense to expand that could we have also looked at expanding our partnership with the Hunters Point family who has staffed some of the pit stops and also stopping the living Innovation Zone in un plaza. So those are in development at this time but the money is partially in our temporary budget and partially in what we call Contractual Services so we can effectuate it in an efficient manner thank you. Seeing no other questions before we call for the vote i do want to it knowledge the fact that katie has worked for us for 13 years and somehow the port of San Francisco seems to be a more appealing place for her to move to get she will be moving on as cfo there and i think on behalf of this commission we want to express a genuine and deep gratitude for everything you do. [applause] are we voting on that . No. But your vote will reflect your patient with that identity in a motion so moved. The second all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes. ] opposed, say nay. So moved thank you, katie. Its been a pleasure thank you peered okay we are now on item 9, the appeal to allow summer of love 50th Anniversary Event in Golden Gate Park. Before we get started, i just want to announce the process. So the appellant will make a 7 min. Presentation and we asked the commissioners that they dont ask any questions until the end of the presentation so they are allowed there. In minutes. Once they are done staff will make a 7 min. Presentation again we ask for no questions during the presentation but wait until staff has completed. The appellant will then have another 3 min. To rebut and again afterwards you may ask questions and then staff will have another 3 min. And you may ask questions. Once all of this is done we will be opening it up to Public Comment and as a reminder, each person will have 2 min. On Public Comment. I will call off the blue cards first. Once that is done, anyone who was not having would not come up was in on a blue card i will ask for you to come on up and you can make Public Comment. Once that is done, the commission they start their deliberations. On a make a couple of preliminary comments and then ask for the appeal. Before we begin the appeal hearing our provide some context to whats going on today because theres been a lot of publicity in the press about permit denial. The city of San Franciscos actively celebrating the 50th anniversary of the summer of love under the umbrella of the California Historical society and sf travel. Over 50 events are currently planned throughout the city and even more are still in the works. These events include a special eighth straight summer solstice celebration art exhibits, photo exhibits, poetry readings, magic bus doors, volunteer events and lots and lots of music. This appeal is not about the city or the departments support for the 50th anniversary of the summer of love. Its about one permit. Additionally this appeal is not generated by a dispute over money could permit fees are set by code and the promoter and the departments are in agreement about the fees for this event and whether the question is whether the promoter submitted inadequate plan to ensure safety park protection and minimal neighborhood disruption. Lastly, i know we as commissioners are big supporters of events in the parks in particular free events. Their great use to the parks bringing people together in community arent integral part of the social fabric of our city. From comedy day to the womens march to gay pride and bluegrass the Department Works to support events by ensuring they are safe for the attendees and the parks are protected and the surrounding areas are not unduly impacted. I would conclude by saying that i was there 50 years ago and my stepdaughter is named summer and she does turn 50 this year. So we are cognizant of the significance of the summer of love and we are enthusiastic supporters of the summer of love and with that over again just ask everybody be respectful of other speakers and we will try and get through this as expeditiously as possible. Thank you. Thank you commissioner buell. Commissioners, my name is ken lyon an attorney i represent boots and related companies trying to get this permits. First off i have submitted i need you to speak into the microphone first of all theres a better map here which i left for you all to can see the work weve done. Thus about 150 extra letters. Which i just got today. Not make copies but ill put those into the record. Those are letters of support. Let me talk a little bit about how this came about and in a way its a conflict between generation. I think. Boots houston has been producing events in the city for 40 years. Speak into the microphone i will boots has been promoting events in the city without a problem for 40 years. The north beach there, the summer of love 40th anniversary, the chet holmes memorial. Hes got a long long history of personal dealings with the permitting department and hes never run into anything like this. Now, a lot has happened in the last 40 years. The city is not the same as it was 50 years ago. The permitting department has a lot of requirements, a lot of people to deal with. A lot of protections for the public that they have to deal with. We understand that. When i came in on this about six weeks ago i looked at the correspondence between boots and the department and it looked like these groups were talking past each other. I said, lets ask for a meeting let sit down and talk about it. See if we can work it out. We went all the parties were there. We practically single by yacht. It was a great meeting. We settled all the disputes could boots and i left there on cloud nine thinking okay working to get the permit everybody is in agreement. I agreed at that meeting to lay out in detail everything they wanted us to do and we have done virtually everything theyve asked us to do. Then two weeks later we got a letter saying, we think you lied about this production manager who said you were going to hire. Well look, bootsif you one answer that ill give you an answer to that but what is really going on is we have tried very hard to be accommodating. We are asking the department to sit down with us. We will sit down every week if thats what they wanted we will do whatever they asked but to accuse bush of being a liar or dishonest or having no experience is just not reality. Hes got a 40 year history the weight of history is against the characterization i would ask for you to consider the north beach there the other than cs put on without incident. Let me talk a lot about the grounds. Unfortunately this is become a very detailed ring fitted case. The department has said he made misrepresentations a material fact. That means he is lying. To do that, theyve got to prove he is lying and i dont think theres any proof he lied to i think he is trying his best theyre talking past each other. Let me give you an example. The rock med they say we talked to rock med. Theyre not coming they dont even know who boots is. They did not drop it or if they did they talk to the wrong person but that is here today in support did they submitted a letter saying there could be at the event. All they want is insurance to cover their doctors and they are happy to do it. So the if boots says something the city seems the Department Rather seems to go out of its way to try and prove him wrong. Thats not the spirit of cooperation that the summer of love was about. We are asking for the city to cooperate. We are asking to be able to sit down and talk and answer any questions they have. Whatever they want. We are happy to meet with them. To me talk again about a few other problems. There was a big deal about boots advertising the date of the concert on his website. I would like the commission to look at the midi notes. This committee notes. This a document dated february 16 to the rec and park omission from bill ginsburg and dana ketchum and on pagelet me get this righton page 5, november 30, 2016boots is asking to publicize the date. They respond, you still need to do the following. Develop a plan for protection of the polo field. Resolve please needs. We saw security needs. Complete Community Outreach after he spoke to mtm eight. Developing a neighborhood cleanup plan. He has done virtually all those things and those things were all discussed in it 22 on january 13 thats what makes it so frustrated two weeks later they say, sorry, your application is not can be acceptable and we had reached an agreement. You got an email between dana ketchum and night which i second his what we talked about. Here are all the things we are willing to do. Any thing else we are missing let me know. She made comments about that those he knows but it was a general agreement. So i must say when i got the rejection i was stunned. I felt like ive fallen down the rabbit hole. I do not aware that was coming from or why it was so severe that i think it is an event that not just the city deserves but the world deserves. This is an event the summer of love in San Francisco change the world. It changed for the better. Everybody agrees to that. They get it through music in part. Music is an important part of San Franciscos history. It deserves a chance to be respected again here get with whoever playback and who still alive, will come back we hope and play again. I am sorry that theres been some personality differences between us and the park committeeParks Department, rather but i want to work it up to boots wants to work it out. All these people you see her in this crowd in the overflow room and outside demonstrating, they want to work it out. They want to show to happen. Only give a littlea personal aside good when i was im from a small town in ohio. When i was four years old, 50 years ago your time is up i want to hear the end of it. What happened. Thanks okay my family parents were not hippies by a longshot. We showed up we walked around and im five years old and i thought i was in the carnival puke it was the most wondrous thing ive ever seen. People of all shapes sizes colors everybody hanging out enjoying free music enjoying each other. It literally blew my mind and 20 years later i came back to the city to be aware because i fell in love at five years old. The thank you this city deserves a celebration we give you a little extra time. The thank you. Staff if you could come forward, please. Good morning commissioner dana ketchum dir. Of property and permits and reservation also would meet diane rays manager permits. We were first contacted about this event in early 2016. We were excited about the opportunity to have a concert celebrating the summer of love. Diane is from the Music Industry and attended the prior concert before she even worked here. It was really with Great Sadness that over the past nine months we concluded we needed to deny the permits. But let me go through the history. First, the application stated to be in attendance of 40,000 people. We knew that mr. Euston had done an event in the parks in almost a decade ago. That the permitting rules had changed significantly. We wanted to alert mr. Euston so that he could prepare adequately. What are the basic permitting requirements . I put them up on the board. Public safety part protection neighborhood impact. One of the questions i came up is why do they change . Summa you were not here in 2009 but in december of 2009 we came in the permits division at the request of the commission to do a presentation on how we were going to improve special events. We were also required to make a presentation to a committee of the board. That was after the prior two years really had a series of events that are raised a lot of concerns. They were summer level with stock and power to the people. One of the major issues we have had with committees in the past is that they would get a permit and then not follow through with the requirements. We do not check on it beheaded a permits it to these things and they never happened. Examples. No road closures signs the notice to neighbors. Vendors setting up without controls driving everywhere. InAdequate Security. Lack of protection for our trees and our turf. Permits committed at that meeting to go through the steps we were going to do to make sure our procedures were enhanced we worked very hard to do that. At the same time the department of Emergency Management and sfpd have also changed enhanced their policies. So with that background, why did it change . Let me go through our communications with mr. Houston. Our first medications from day one explain that things had changed. We pointed to our website. We exchange there in your patent numbers emails outlining. Staff had serious concerns that mr. Houston had budgeted for the cost needed to comply with enhanced permit requirements. This is not about fees for rec and park but its the cost of having to provide Adequate Security and infrastructure. We asked to see a budget to show he was planning appropriately. Theres a lot of emails back and forth. Finally in october 2016 we got a budget. It indicated that he was relying on volunteers to provide many services. Including stage set up, security, medical service. No contracts in place. The issue on rock. At that time was he said rock band was going to volunteer. In his papers do we saw rockets president at a meeting another meeting, and i want to clarify he cannot say we didnt ask him if he [inaudible] the estimate he heard from boots were about this event and he is not and he said he was not going to volunteer. Throughout november staff considered to express concern about missing elements and a lot of things came together. We were thinking maybe we can make this work it we want this to work. Finally in december at a meeting of summer of love organizers, the applicant got up and disparaged the new requirements for hands Public Safety and security indicating that he knew what to do. He had done lots of events we should just grant him his permit. Based on the misrepresentation, the lack of concrete progress, the Department Staff was prepared to deny in december. But we really dont want to give him one more chance. We did. So in january we came back with a him and his attorney. At this meeting, it was still very clear that mr. Houston was very confused about a number of things. After nine months he still do not know what emergency medical plan was picked its on our website. He also believed that one small Security Committee could provide 90 security guards could we have a lot of worries. His attorney took excellent notes came up with a to do list and the most important thing on that list was defined an Event Organizer with the more recent events and had experience of doing large events in our parks. He said he would do so. On january 19 you represented to us that this particular Event Coordinator would consults. In the meantime Event Coordinator had told us that she was not available. She would be out of the country inch would not consult. Staff immediately contacted his attorney to express concern about the new misrepresentation. Rather than address this or look for another adviser, he publicly announced the events. Even though it had not been permitted in the were many unresolved issues remaining. With a publicity came more issues. The public announcement says attendance would be 80175,000 people. Every application to any city agency said 3040,000. He said local musicians only. It was going to be a smaller events. We do not build a plan for event that size. The polo fields cannot accommodate a larger crowd without significantly different plans than we have. Other things. Despite nine months of going back and forth we got a letter from rock magic it says is available to open it has not been contracted. We got a letter from a Security Committee last week which has no address among the license number, and no one has heard of it. There is no detailed plan for turf protection. He said he met the conditions on mta. Well the first time he contacted mta was january 27 after he had announced the event and insane he really didnt know what he was doing, could they provide him with a plan i just got that email. So on february 7 we had to deny the permit could it was a tough decision. We really wonder to try and make this work it we worked on this for nine months. But in the interest of Public Safety and part protection, we have no confidence that the applicant would deliver the items needed. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Wein. Width just a couple of points. You know, i know boots went to the historical california im sorry i know boots went to the Historical Society and complaint that he was being given a rough time and he did in public and he heard some feels good i am sorry about that. This is a thing he has been working on as hard as he can with his got a large staff. As i said, we met in january that a month ago. I thought this whole thing was done could i thought it was a done deal. We have some work to do. We did it its all attached to my appeal good if the commission has any questions about whats left to be done what i think is left to be done, there is plenty good in terms of misrepresentations on the website, boots is a promoter. This event cannot happen without a date and the reason is, bands, personalities, weber is when it come to this be contacted or volunteer action because theyre doing a free concert letters can volunteer to go to that show needs that date. We cant do it without a date. The people who we have been in contact with that have no agreement with include some big names like eric clapton or the dalai lama. As i said, the of only had preliminary discussions. If they decide to show up and this event become something more than it seems the which at the moment, is about 40,03040,000 more or less, we are guessing, it still depends on who shows up. We have said is part of our agreement at the meeting we had to look at somebody big is coming, we will will be the first ones we call. Whatever is you want us to do, double the security, add more vendors, whatever it is you want us to do we will do it. They said, okay great. That has not changed. While boots set up to one 75,000 people, thats probably a little Wishful Thinking is probably a little promotion and puffing could i think its more likely the event will be around what we have guest, 3040,000 and thats how many came to the 40th anniversary is probably been some deaths since then so i expect the crowd is an elderly crowd by the most part its not like its a bunch of young people. I dont mean to disparage anyone unjust target be careful what you say there. [laughing] im just trying to be practical here and say our guests the best guess. Its anyones guess depending on who we get but without a date without an ability to promote the date we cantwe just cant we can go forward. Were stuck, too. We are in a position where we can people to come to they want to know the date could they want to know the event is being promoted. Let me see. Is there anything else . If it is true were 78 months b was time is up. Thank you any questions . We will wait until we hear comments. Great. Hello commission is that women talk about publicizing the event you we get concerned about publicizing the event because people i play tactics and count on it. And we wanted him to just get the work done and present an Operational Plan that was complete before we could announce the date. We kept not getting anything we could count on. Even when he publicized it we reach out to them and asked them to at least add a leg which is a this event has not been permitted yet. Instead of doing that, he said he wouldbut instead of doing that he put language on that says permits will be issued two weeks prior to events. It doesnt tell the public the truth. You know, are concerned if we lower the standards for this one, if the lower the standards for everybody. Under the First Amendment it to treat everyone the same. So if we are going to change standards we cant just do it for one entity. Unfortunately, we are still missing fundamental pieces needed to make an event happened. After the size of the event we agreed to use the polo fields on condition they will be very little infrastructure placed on the turf. We have a youth event three weeks later. Theres one and thats only side they can use. In order to accommodate toilet for a larger event theres. Youve got craft booths toilets on the upper level could is no way to make it fit. So we were conditioned on the application that we got. 40,000 when he talked about a large crowd we were still talking in the 3040,000 size range not over 100,000 people. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Shall go to Public Comment please as are minor to everyone you of 2 min. Each. I will call off names. You may came up in any work. Capt. Yup could diamond dave. [calling Public Comment cards] good morning commissioners. Im capt. Paul yup Commanding Officer of Richmond Police station. I come here with a very singular focus and ill freely admit that im look after Public Safety. Thats the safety of the attendees of the event workers at the event, the overall impact of the event. Im going to give you my opinion of today. My station permit officers have an intimate edition with mr. Houston and or his representatives since october of last year regarding his proposed event the summer of love. In Golden Gate Park at the feedback from my staff is that mr. Hughes and provide us with mostly inconsistent and vague information regarding his plans to Public Safety and the overall logistics for the events. Therefore im not confident that we been given Accurate Information on his planning arrangements and expectations. Also i serious concerns for Public Safety including the wellbeing of any potential attendees and the adverse impact of the neighborhood. Most of the communication is done with my permit officer reportedly has this guy doing concert today so we can be here today but i do have his notes from their communications are more than willing to take questions. Thank you very much. If you stay we may have questions for you. Absolutely. Thank you. Diamond dave, come on up. 50 years down the line. I attended that summer. [inaudible] on that street the summer of love and some call it hate. Every 10 years ive been involved. Another 10 years is coming up. Intact half a century that you mention all these events coming. Its kind of new to me the i dont know please been incorporating were calling people were there [inaudible] we need to build the coalition does what the brotherhood [inaudible] need to open up a coalition of the summer of love. Im down with that. Get me a [inaudible] hotmail. Com. Lets get together is about doing more together than any of us can do on her own. Is that right clean . I live in one of those undergroundit had been underground off the raider i would say collectives art collectives. And after the horrible fire 37 dead at the ghost ship we were expected [inaudible] but the board of supervisors passed a resolution. Resolution is not there to pick them. You are there to help them become legal. I think the same situation holds. Lets get together. Todays the first day of the rest of our lives. Lets get together make that happen. Love is the answer. He will get you nowhere level get you every. Thanks a lot. Lets get together. No one man can do it. Thats where we are 50 years ago we used earlier now next speaker, please. The morning commission. Mona lisa wallace. I tend my first summer of love organizing meeting three years ago. I can tell you that the list of events that you mention the differences is the privatization issue. The committee based volunteer effort and i respect park and recreation debarment, tournament dana and i am working hard to protect the public fields. This is a city event. This is got to be from the top down. This is going to cost the city something. Its 20 and innovation people and something to be concerned about like diamond dave says, together. I have here a petition that was gathered just a few days over 1500 signatures and its very wonderful comments that are of time to read for you here but i will submit this to you to read. Theres a beautiful comments not believe we as a city can Work Together and make this beautiful event happened this is not just a typical event. It scored to take a topdown instruction to do this because the permit department is just doing their job. Its going to have to be from you that says hey, do district we might get inundated by a lot of hippies. This might happen but its good to be awesome whatever its going to be viewed so thank you very much thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is and . Mike has done is alan cohen editor of the work oh back in the 60s and he was part of the organization to have our first human being could now ive been working with the California Historical society and we were the number onethe Council Light. This is us council of like we were the first one in the polo fields back there 50 years ago. We are being watched all over the world could are we going to get to have this event . Guessers all the other events going on, but we were really the number one in regard to the music and theits very important that we be able to have our event. Its 50 years. Were all in our 60s and are 70s. We want to do this again. Just one more time. Thank you. [applause] before the next speaker, please, if youre spoken i do need you to take your seat again. Im going to nameim a call off some more names. You can come on up. [calling Public Comment cards] next speaker good morning my name is rich sam from. I work for rec and park as a 99 six and the reason im saying that i cleaned up the parks was Homeless People living in this crowd is very environmentally conscious and i would not be so bold to say that well see everybody here theyll be at the event is the same way. These are people who are Animal Rights activist, environmental activists, human rights activists. The itinerary of the band is a great distinction here. Its not an Alcohol Consumption crowd. All the people that are verythere is no violence can i mean woodstock did not even have one fight that we have 300,000 people there. The crowd size is very encouraging to me that if there was 150,000, the my presents a more concerned for security at 3040,000 we had no issues at all the last i was there at the 40th. I really think its one of the most and important things in San Francisco in 1967 and it was unification of peace and antiwar minded people which we very much need today and i can almost guarantee these people to not fight or drink and make problems and cleanup i assure you, to have any problem in the 40th with that . So i would really hope you guys give us the opportunity. Thank you very much thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning commission. Im probably in the minority tonight. I actually have to talk about you guys denying the permits. I normally stand up here and all of you hardly stand up here and fight for entertainment in the Golden Gate Park. Im more than happy to stand here and do that any time. Unfortunately this, i cannot. I looked at all the supporting documents. That have talked to david. Ive talked toive heard nothing about dealings with the neighborhood other than a quick check in with part. I dont know how safe it will be for the neighbors i get were complaints about events in the park coming in and doing things than most people because i helped work to make the events and the park and the neighbors all coexist. Today, i feel bad i have to do this but until today i do not hear about an mta plan. Which is something very important for the neighbors because it gets the people out of the district quickly and reliably. I do not hear anything about neighborhood cleanup until today. Those are things that by far are huge for the neighbors. To permit the permit has done a great job over the years of taking a lot of crap from the neighbors about we have too many events that we have this, we have that. Dana is put up with that. Today she did a good job by saying, no we dont need to have this event. So thank you could you give us your name for the record . Miquelon eight thank you next speaker, please. Hello. Commission my name is Elliot Durham number presented my company easy productions. Muscle Richmond District neighbor did i like to say im not speaking against the summer of love event but i do want to address my relationship with rec and park good i work with the rec and park permitting the permanent staff since 2004 is an event producer. I company specializes in largescale events for example hardly strictly bluegrass nike womens marathon just to name a few. That happened in the part. Sometimes i focuses primarily permits some very familiar with the programming process and how it is changed over the years. Some of the changes that ive seen is that implementing online permitting to speed up the technology to speed up our permitting process but if it goes on overall event safety, which is driven in part by the Events Industry having a focus on temporary building structures. This is changed a huge amount the past 510 years. Which has dana and diane and the rest of the Parks Department has been actively researching and participating in it and some of my negotiations with by then; to been around how to produce a safe event structure wise. So i appreciated that. Also security planning, we looked overall Event Security and adjusted as we needed over the years and the changing global climate. And the impact of the neighborhood, is a resident ive noticed a market change from the level of engagement. It has been for the better. So in closing i just would like to say the changes are challenging but ive seen the past 15 years it really good outcome from the changes that they have recommended and i found them to be fair and reasonable to deal with as long as we all have participated in the requirements peer thank you thank you next speaker, please. Good morning my name is debbie summer. Im a San Francisco resident homeowner and taxpayer. For over 35 years i worked as a librarian and have also worked at user goal events, festivals and other fundraising events. I work at events as large as Peter Gabriels festival the monterey jazz festival and the earth dance. And festivals as follows the jewish music festival. Ive been involved with the council of light for the last two big events in Golden Gate Park and ugly they both went smoothly and without any problems. I am the person on behalf of the council of light that contacted sf muni. My first email to muni was on january 20 is a librarian very familiar with researching. I try to navigate to muni website for months trying to find the appropriate contact to get in touch with the muni. It was only when i serendipitously ran into candace hsu and my Community Benefit District Meeting that i have a valid contact that i could immediately write you on january 20. I would like to say that the events that we are proposingthe event we are proposing to offer just as the other ones, are beautiful, free concerts and multi generational, multicultural, godiva and honored and delighted to be involved with all of those. I do hope that you will consider allowing us to move forward and plan another beautiful you didnt the community can enjoy and engage with. In these times, we need more peace, love and understanding. When communities come together our joy heightens in her sadness legs good i hope this can be a Beautiful Day that could be actualized for everybody to enjoy. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning commissioners but my name is a new as garcia. I represent probably just a very Large Community of the music folks around the area. Ive attended during many festivals. I been on organizing committees participated previously in festivals and concerts in the park. I want to start very briefly reminding everyone that San Francisco mayor was out the tenant governor mayor gavin newsom had issued a proclamation declaring sunday, september 2 summer of love 40th anniversary date in San Francisco. In recognition of the birthplace of the 60s revolution that ignited a spiritual awakening that swept the world could i think were all in agreement that everyone like to have a celebration of some sort of this concert of the nature of a festival for the people, by the people and the uniqueness of this particular per postal and event idea because its not about tour is impure about breaking people into museums to listen to a tape of jimi hendrix were some photo vacancy of jerry garcia. We have folks who participated here you are of that generation who are of that movement helped create the idea of a spiritual awareness and a growing and a unity for people. 10 years from now in the 60th think a lot of these folks will not be up it were honoring the musicians who were here people who are members of those bands. I think this is kind of a real embracement of something that would make a difference to a lot of people around the world and the community. If there are things that still need to be finetuned and ironed out of the security or safety or neighborhood is communication, at least at the very least please, would you consider moving the date back and still granting the permit could thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. And once he is done im going to [calling Public Comment cards] hello. My name is sam bad but i like a think the commission for the opportunity to speak. I to address a couple issued. First Public Safety i understand the Police Departments concern. I worked running the overnight Security Group that hardly bluegrass for six years. Some pretty familiar with the needs that they have and their concerns. But it we can probably all agree theres bigger Public Safety concerns at a Football Game pro or high school or college. Theyre probably more drunkenness, drink driving and fights. I used to go to giants games just to watch the fights in the bleachers. So i think while its a legitimate concern i dont think the Police Department has anything to worry about with this event. As far as other events planned the polo fields afterwards in the conditions of the field, but remind the commission that this is a polo field and was designed for quarts of horses to run on so people could play polo and have it if you get beat up a little bit as part of its purpose. Other than that i would also like to say that as far as the lowering of standards for other events i like to remind everyone that the polite boots and bill graham and chet helms a set the standards for events like this. When the citywhen the San Francisco School District was running out of money in 1975 and they were going to consider axing arts and phys ed, the musicians and local community are the people that came up with together a Fundraising Concert at the stadium called stack jim. [inaudible] and i think its only appropriate that we be given this permit and perhaps putting the date back a little to give us an opportunity to the men are well organized is a good idea but i urge the commission to grant a permit whether it is for the june 4 date or a later date. Thank you very much. Thank you next speaker, please. When i call your name you can line up on either side. Dont worry about goahead hello. My name is trina robbins. Im a veteran of the 60s. Like so many of us here. I was at the last interpersonally and it was a magnificent nothing terrible happened. Now we are the ones that are left and what harm are we going tothis is already been said did the worst thing that might happen is a bunch of Senior Citizens who get stoned on pot and cant find a way out of the park right . Did we need this concert. [laughing] what is the worldthe world is watching this. What are they going to say . Are they going to say that the San Francisco Park Commission would not allow a 50th anniversary summer of love concerts in our parks . All i can say is, whyi mean we know we can all work this out together. And we have to. We have to work it out together. How could there not be a summer of love concerts . Thank you thank you next speaker, please. Hello. Thank you for commissioners. My name is brian mcewen, residents here and ive sent the last 25 years as well involved in the Music Industry my subject is to work at biscuits and loser of a nightclub my family promptly shows for 20 years in sacramento. I been involved here as well with some of the planning thats been going on here and i think a lot of the times, as already been mentioned, promotion is exactly that. Its about what you want to see happen and i think as well is difficult to analyze a big crowd and the size of the crowd thats going to happen so i think thats a small measure to consider. Okay we will have 40,000, but it could go up much higher. Because there is expectation and as well i think responsible to say that because there are other contingencies freshly involved with this particular type of an event. So i also think with regards to security those things change all the time. So i think you definitely need to have a Strong Security plan and i think if there is a security plan in place as well as one in case things to get a lot better i think a party discussed there are other things that can happen in order to build to cover some flexibility so the thing that kind of takes a little bit harsher for me is boots has done a lot of great things in the city and polo great shows good im not heard anything positive from the other group over here in park and recreation of anything that happened in the past. I think you are supposed to have some common interest. We are supposed to discuss things that work well and maybe things in improving and ive not heard any of that at all. So wheres that spirit of cooperation for the summer of love . Ask you to think about this as well. Wheres the spirit of compromise here . How can we move this forward . How can we Work Together to ashley put on something thats great not just for i can for the next generation . Thank you next speaker, please. Im going to do a few more names. [calling Public Comment cards] thank you good morning my name is chris holmes with an executive producer for the breakers race here in San Francisco. They give are having me here. Im here today to speak on my spirits working with the city and the rec and park over the last few years. I would like to note im not here to speak in regards to stir houston oilers character or Business Practices because personally i dont know either of those. Mike my company took over operations of the race four years ago our first year we faced a steep learning curve doing largescale events here in the city. And there were a number of challenges that we faced in at first year. Im happy to say that in hindsight i can concede the people that i worked with at the city agency including rec and park did have a Public Safety and Community Interest at heart. I am happy to say now four years later our relationships have improved dramatically from executing the event from race day communication, permitting, Operational Planning, and things of that nature. At this point i really look forward to building on the progress we have made over the last few years and hope that we can continue to make beta breakers and event that the entire community can really be proud of. Thank you so much thank you next speaker, please. Hello. Good morning my name is randall larson. I been a volunteer with the haight street as berry street fair for 39 years. I want you to know that the volunteers will be there for this event. You know, we dont get paid but we love music and we love life. We will be there for this event from the moment it opens on to win the last piece of garbage is picked up. The volunteers will be there. Thank you very much and please, approve this project. Thank you next speaker, please. Good morning my name is sicily hanson. Ive owned a store on haight street in the Haight Asbury district probably for 11 years. I volunteer for several city events including the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge and the hundred Year Anniversary of the legion of honor for the worlds fair. I have been working this committee because i proudly say i came here and 66 as a fashion model for the battle of the bands at that palace and was fortunate enough to meet the big djs at ky a who said, i think you would like this group down in the eight as berry one to come and check it out. Will being from [inaudible] event driven to me that women had no rights. Minorities and people of different sexual orientations were secondclass. You should smoke you should go to vietnam and yet we went to this community and i realized Kindred Spirits live here. I went home finish high school as quick as i could attended human beings with hidden by my art teacher in the closet so i could tell all about him and moved here as quick as i can. It my father was mayor of levels alters and freak out. I did not give him a phone call for a month. He came up and saw me and realized that i was safe here. When i would go to those bands in the park i felt safe. When i went to the 40th anniversary i felt safe because im amongst Kindred Spirits. San francisco, i have a store. Its 5000 ft. 2 get people coming from all over the world. They still want to ask me, where did jerry garcia live . What was janis joplin like we did you like going to the monterey process . Im involved with a young putting on their exhibit. Yes, we 50 other situations happen for the summer of love but didnt we surround ourselves and didnt we promote the 50th super bowl . If we do not have this festival this is like having the super bowl without the gain. [applause] thank you next speaker, please. Commissioners my name is jim anderson. I was born and raised to get i started in the park shows when i was 17 years old. Ive attended every show. Most of the shows in San Francisco foruntil recently. 20 years or so cute i just want to say that we have done this over and over again. We will cover all the bases that need to be covered obviously things have changed in all these years but we are willing to offer my zen change everything is due to some the people boots was taken aback a little bit there asking for another promoter to come and work with boots. The problem arises there all the other promoters in this business for money. All they care about is how much they can make so another promoter to be brought in is going to want to get paid an amazing amount of money for their service. I wish would think this over and grabbed the permits to us that we will do whatever whatever is required im a member of the Council Light and have been for 50 years. Thank you very much. The thank you width next speaker, please. Thank you next speaker, please. My name is my name is rest wasnt San Francisco is known as the city of harmony and peace and love compassion sanctuary. There is so much hardship and unpleasantness in the world today and San Francisco has an opportunity to celebrate the summer of love could something that has existed for 50 years. Something that was born here and spread throughout the world. There are celebrations taking place this summer and this year in vancouver, in florida, and new york, in san diego, in london in japan in australia, new zealand. There are celebrations of something that started right here in our backyard. He would be a travestytruly, a travesty of San Francisco would not allow the celebration that started here with us the people of my generation that has grown. It would just be so sad and i am for you, please, reconsider and allow a permit to take place so we can also break together and it takes working together and we all want to Work Together and find a solution so we can also break with one another. Thank you thank you next speaker, please. Next speaker, please. Good morning my name is joseim one of those positioned as the place for free. I did monterey jazz festival i did the very first test. Festival with [inaudible] i did the [inaudible] festival was a very good friend of mine. My manager as a matter of fact. I did the 40th anniversary of the summer of love. Not one of those events that i see any violence. We are all about love and happiness and music. Like you said we play for free. Its hard to play for free. But not when youve got a bunch of people that love you and that are there to have fun. So im in support for boots to have this festival for all of San Francisco micah said it started here so let us continue on so we can rock out in her old age. Thank you very much. Thank you next speaker, please. I will call a few more names. [calling Public Comment cards] my name is john had. Talking to the microphone if you would . Mining john had in San Francisco resident. This would be a glorious event. What a wonderful people in their elements. Please, its historical event happened you will get young people but you also draw very many people of a certain age who are former [inaudible] locks and stood lots of souvenirs. Think about it. The people [inaudible] that cost a small fortune a large fortune because bohemian city. It seems to me [inaudible] and i feel a more inclusive approach. He will be a will to watch a for free. Enjoy history occurring if only for [inaudible] among the volunteers putting this event together [inaudible] i work with boots for three decades now and his [inaudible] efficient and kind. Everyone is also happy after its finished. And it finishes on, on budget and fun. I can predict to you we will have no problems with the park especially for an event like this. [inaudible] just imagine all the tourist, to enjoy this fair city. Many will fall in love with and return. I hope you see the potential benefits of the park. It will be [inaudible] one chance. Thank you thank you next speaker, please. Good morning minus dr. David smith went on the founder of the Haight Asbury free clinics and cofounder of rock medicine. Im happy to be your with a noted Community Leader sunshine powers was organizing a series of events is been multiple misrepresentations relative to rock medicine in these hearings. Ps very frequent which i founded in june of 1967 and was in part inspired by the summer of love was created over 2 million client visits could without charge and save the city millions of dollars. Rock medicine which i cofounded with dr. George gay, has provided Major Medical services two huge events including the pride event , hardly strictly bluegrass the organizers of which already spoken today, and we have a longstanding and very will work out relationship with the city. That particular context, im speaking on behalf of the current director of rock medicine court in golden, who indicated that when he was contacted he said as long as there was a contract with Liability Insurance that the thousands of volunteers of the Haight Asbury free clinic are willing to participate but its a very reasonable request. What volunteer physician would risk their entire medical career in this Litigious Society without Liability Insurance . But theres no permitting process which again the organizers that are previously spoken know very well, though quite well so rock medicine and hate as very free clinic is willing to cooperate. Again i was there 50 years ago. I dont have much time left but im not going to be or 50 years from now. I would like for this to happen. Thank you next speaker, please. Hello. My name is sunshine powers. I am a native san franciscans my parents still live four blocks away from the polo fields. I own two artisan shops on haight street when i was a little girl it was all artisan shops whom we are to afford. I am a historian of haight. I am also a Vice President of the board of taking it to the streets a nonprofit Homeless Youth organization located in the haight is gone 143 homeless kids off of the street in the last two years. I am the next generation. I am helping to raise the next generation. It is our duty as san franciscans to celebrate the summer of love. What happened here 50 years ago shaped who we are as a society and made the country better and more full of love. Peace and love used to be a hippie thing. It is now a human thing. Not only are weshould we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the summer of love but we should set the precedent for the next 50 years. So that we can show True Community organization and to efforts to come together and to celebrate what happens here and what we are doing to improve the next 50 years. Teamwork makes the dream work. There is a way we can all Work Together and make this actually happened. And i think that we should. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is steveim a professional photographer and i did attend behind the scenes at the 40th summer of love. I can tell you how professional i thought it was. So well handled , the crowd had asked ordinarily good time and was wellmanaged and i dont see any problems arising whatsoever from my experience behind the scene and watching how boots and his group handled the event. I have seen, also, as i live right next to the park on 33rd ave. , how flexible the parks and rec is when it comes to large commercial operations. In terms of sound, noise, and crowd control. I appeal to the park and Recreation Department to give to boots the kind of flexibility that he had and that they gave to the large commercial operations. They have the ability to see into boots, his needs and to make recommendations, and they should work closely with him giving him that extra attention that he probably doesnt need because it is not a professional operation and doesnt have all the money that large operations have. But the importance of the summer of love so much to the city and to the image of San Francisco is so important that i would like to see the city though a lot of it out of its way to help boots along and make this work. Whether it happens in june or september is irrelevant. Just that it happens. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. John dumont. Thank you my 2 min. Apart. The city should be paint booths houston to produce the celebration in osaka make it work. The world knows and trusts him. The letter embarrasses us all. With its alternative fax mendacious ad hominem and it sounds like something coming out of todays white house. This is the kind of event park and recreation and sanitation district should annually budget for. This freethe world looks in fact to San Francisco summer of love free 50th as [inaudible] not a Profit Center but for inadequate planning. This is not [inaudible] its not outside lands. Massive revenues this is people singing in the peoples project is not a subaru commercial. This is the real thing a cultural is a goal celebration of the power of love. Former mayor brown reminded the world that 50 years ago we produce huge concerts in the park. Without [inaudible] collusion damage or neighborhood impact. Without permits. Coming from the greatest generation we were the us generation which waged peace against the wrong ravages of the war machine the permit is for enjoyment and meaning to the world. Presented by us we san franciscans is especially love peace qualities virtuality cooperation dance arts music and culture was another San Francisco gift to the world. Like ecology like liberation would be digital era today; creatively largely a San Francisco gift to the world. Please, expedite the june 4 permits. Thank you thank you he was undermined everyone if ive not called to her name i need you to take a seat. Please so we can do this in orderly fashion and if i have not called your name, these, take a seat we will not proceed until you do so. [inaudible off mic] i know there are plenty of seats. Come on in and take a seat. Thats all i need you to do. We will be calling her name but come on in and take a seat. So we have [calling Public Comment cards] okay. Hello. My name is ryan smith. I worked with bluegrass and one of the Production Managers have been there since 2001. Im actually here today going to read a letter from my boss Sherry Sternberg was a technical director and producer hardly strictly. Again he been there since the beginning and shes out of town today but you want to make sure she was able to voice a little support for park and recreation. This is from sherry. There have the opportunity to work with San Francisco rec and park debarment since holly strictly bluegrass began 2000 a lot of things have changed over the years. What started as a few conversations between myself and sandy we evolved into an online permit process courtly gettogether with park officials meetings with all city agencies as well as Community Outreach to ensure the flow of communication stays current. This process can seem frustrated with the guidelines of their wealth over time to enhance the event for spectators Event Organizers and the park. The park personnel [inaudible] every sector of the city and many people feel any event is contrary to the tranquil setting can some people think of too many regulations at the park is for the public to use at their whim. The staff has to balance these needs a burial concern for Public Safety maintaining the property for years to come. The entire staff at hardly strictly enjoyed returning to Golden Gate Park for this event. We are grateful for the assistance of the rec and park organizing committee and the gardeners who worked to preserve the grounds all year long. Sincerely Sherry Sternberg thanks thank you next speaker, please. Hello. My name is douglas martin. I worked for maritime hall with boots. Ive done the concert chet holmes concert at the park i was there at the last 40th anniversary and i been in contact with a lot of people that were security for the maritime hall for boots for concerts in the park and everybody is quick to be there so please, dont worry. Please, let the permit go. Thank you thank you come on up. Either side the morning commissioners. Good morning commissioners. I wouldve to speak as a Community Organizer of events on the other side of the issue. As you know every time i have to pitch John Mclaren Park and the jerry garcia amphitheater. Those of you who may not know, in 2003 some neighbors got together to start is now known as jerry david the jerrys birthday and after that we thought so may things would happen in the park and also in the amphitheater however at the time the different staff and was 2003, was no effort at all to put any event in jerry garcia amphitheater so in 2000 by week and that together we convinced the city to name the indicator after jerry garcia with the spirit in mind of what all the speakers and said about the summer of love to offer free concerts Family Friendly events and to keep the spirit of local events for local people. But we never got there. Because after the event in 2005 we got a complete rundown it was just a know. It was no reason why we were just told, no. We dont to events there and people that try to do events was summarily told you not to have an event there. Wasnt until 2010 when the new staff came in with dana and diane and the rest of her staff that we approached again to start saturday in the park mclaren which is now in its fifth year, they actually sat down and worked with us about the logistics, the safety, who we had to talk to and it was because of them that we now have many people interested putting on concerts and we are able to do our free concerts and i really would like you to consider that injured a liberation. That they are doing work to have a fun event with safety and the park safety in our condition kept in mind and fun for everybody that so thank you thank you next speaker, please. Good afternoon commission for park and recreation this is a proclamation that gavin newsom signed. You and am also known as the holy hamsters unless work is on the board of prop 64 in proposition 215. Another various things for rights for people and i cannot stress enough that this event is for the rights of the people. It is in our society we are lacking love and we need to bring the vibration of love back into the city of San Francisco. The whole world is watching you guys right now. Because of the fact that you are preventing the 50th anniversary of the summer of love could think about that for a moment and the embarrassment that can come upon you if you dont allow the permits. We are extremely responsible people. We know what were doing. Lets has been doing this for a very long time. I honor boots would i honor everyone thats on the court of the summer of love muscle part of the summer of love volunteering my life to this. I have spoken to a lot of people that we believe we need to have this happen. Please, allow San Francisco to be the city of love once more by having this event. We can get this together. There are people watching around the world that will be here. They will come to the screen of the people from around the nation that will be here, too and we will be able to handle this trip all we need to note is abc def g and what we need to do and i want to say bring back the summer of love now. Thank you thank you we have [calling Public Comment cards] okay. Then once we are done with those if theres anyone else would like to speak you just can have you come on up in an orderly come up and speak. Go ahead thank you so much. Chairperson buell commissioners, staff and all those here gathered today, my name is andrea heartache in either the sink honor of serving as the executive director of the California Historical society. Not here today is next on park security or organizing faster you rocking concert in the historic and heavily used and loved part good im here in my capacity as your nonprofit partner dedicated to making history relevant in our contemporary lives in order to inform him or just a vibrant future. I am also here working with sf travel and 50 other cultural civic social service and Health Advocacy groups. Many in this room. As we have been working for the past year on a broad commemorative and celebrated celebratory effort on the 50th anniversary of the summer of love on www. Summer of love. We have created a wonderful engaging and farreaching set of expeditions from stores, singalong, volunteer Service Projects from la to Monterey Sacramento in bringing in people from all around the world. Of course the epicenter is here. Having worked along with San Francisco rec and Park Department your commission, of course on the beautiful 100 project, and many of our partners here today im convinced that we can work collectively to sell it right the summer of love beautiful music safely and freely in the park. We can find a path forward that honors the spirit of opening up our beautiful city. Im happy to do anything i can do to help. Thank you thank you next speaker, please. Come on up. Spielman is jim dion. Thank you for allowing us to speak today. My family goes back San Francisco 120 years. My great grandfather was george mother was a Circuit Court judge. My grandfather of the Hills Business College in San Francisco. Went to the fire and earthquake in 1906 and i still have the Public Comment clock it was in his classroom hanging. The reason im here today is ive worked with boots houston for over 20 years of the maritime home away from it was medical subject we were emts for 18 years and wouldve professional guide. He cares about those people. Thats the main focus of this could ive helped out with the security for the last 2025 years in San Francisco. We with several different shows from beta breakers to blackandwhite ball at every event done in the park including the 35th anniversary crossed the street we were doing security for that. This group of people that come to this events are the easiest people to govern. They practically take care of themselves. If something goes on they fix it right away. The staff that we have working with us are professional people that have learned how to avoid these problems before they happen. Thats a real key asset am sorry that the Police Department doesnt figure we have a plan and i apologize for that. I have talked with [inaudible] briefing he said he did not have any concerns could only on not forget i asked him i gave him my phone number at the does please do let me know but we have a structured group of people that are probably 80100 folks and professionals. Theyre doing this for free because we come from our heart. The credibility for mr. Houston is what im here for is an ethical manner and the slander that has been imposed upon him is unconscionable. I abhor you, these, allow us to have this party in the park and continued if i was here the first and still got my poster. Thank you thank you next speaker, please. Good morning commissioners. My rub my name is robert e lees, native san franciscans educated in San Francisco a global graduate. I codirected an Organization Called sound action urges help produce hundreds in San Francisco including dozens in Golden Gate Park. I worked with mr. Houston at maritime ball over the years and i can attest that this group knows what they are doing. I also worked at the 20th and 30th anniversary of the summer of love among budget for the 20th was 25,000. For the 30s it was a little under a quarter million could the largest line item addition was the addition of the Police Department has security. I recall speaking about this with commissioner harris at the time. Some things dont change but the event always goes on. It is a seminal event. It doesnt herald a movement or revolution but it heralds a residence is in our renaissance that is permeated the entire plan. Please, allow it to continue. Thank you thank you next speaker, please. Good afternoon commissioners are thinking 5 seconds it will be afternoon. Brooke turner private citizen here today. First let me say i want to acknowledge the great work that the park and recreation you as a commission doing leadership of the department. Sarah and others who do such a great job for others and i cannot say enough good about it. I also want to acknowledge that look at these people behind here today. If youre not a more San Francisco group than what we see here . I mean, these folks are san franciscans to their core. What they really want is to enjoy a very historical event. Hopefully that will happen in San Francisco. Its important to me and my family. My wife maggie and i were married in the year of the 30th anniversary and we celebrated that summer and hope that we can take our children to this concert this year, to but here is the deal. We need a miracle. We need for you to consider the idea of may be there some other way for us to accomplish this goal. It there some opportunity for us to put office the works from today or find an opportunity that we can make it happen. There we can see what this is really valuable for San Francisco. I understand the frustration the park and Recreation Department has had of the event. Its understandable but what we dont want to do is shut it down because some of those issues. We are san franciscans. We love San Francisco and we want very much for this event to take place. So thank you very much for your time and please, put your thinking caps on and lets get this done. Thank you thank you next speaker, please. Hello. On bobby bills thank you for your patience and letting us all talk. I was the first [inaudible] in the haight has. We helped found the free clinic in the street theater and a lot of the of us implemented [inaudible] for low and middle income for [inaudible]. Gods government religions organizations come and go but man needs are internal. You can change that. Yes, we have done this through 50 years and im going to be dead pretty soon so i hope you guys we can all come together on the same place and do this could i was on Police Community relations in the haight also and it was a whole bunch of fun times. I wish you all couldve been there. The vietnam veteran also and 1114 [inaudible] dupont management drug counselor and nutrition counselor i spent two years on the board of a 12 in santa cruz trying to get [inaudible] in the system. So harmony with nature peace on earth. Ive confidence and faith this is going to happen. Peace out. Thank you so i called up all of the names and i know you are standing here before you start, if theres anyone else who do not fill out a blue card but does want to speak, if you could just get up and line up over here, please. [inaudible off mic] i called your names if you want to come over here and stand in line but if anyone did not fill out into card if you could come over here and stand in line. [inaudible off mic] your name has been called. Then we will just keep going. Okay go ahead great. My name is david chris here in the city. A couple things. As we go into donald trump just finished another press conference and gave enough fear to the world to shutter the economy. On the other hand, the summer of love did a great deal to enhance the economy not only that he but the entire world. Gave hope to the world and gave hope to hold generations to expand into new economies and away from the fear economy. I have alsoi took theater management when i was in college i was lucky enough to work with boots just about 25 years ago. When chet helms had heart problems. My first words with him, he agreed to work with me andbut he said, ive already got 12 bands did what am i to do with 12 bands creed dont try to talk you into doing adding any more bands. A couple of weeks where i call up he said, i got 24 bands did what am i going to do with 24 bands . A couple of weeks later my 36 bands. What am i going to do with 36 bands . By the time the benefit for chet holmes was over, he asked profound acts, i was assigned to secretly get George Harrison and eric clapton to not tell anybody that they were coming. So he is right when he says, 30 and 40,000 might show up but eight acts, wanted to play for chet holmes. Boots is on what is alike 72 were 76 motown problems . This guy knows music. Hes a micromanager hes gruff but he knows what hes doing. This is an enhancement to San Francisco and we dont need more dismay from the current president thank you next speaker, please. Robert lamon. I like to thank you for letting us talk here today councilmembers a. K. A. The psychotic pineapple i am an artist. First of all i want to say unknown booths for over probably 3040 years. I was here in 1967. When i had hair. I was butt naked on acid. I promise you i wont do that this time. [laughing] thank you boots is the most honest man ive ever met in my life. Whose houston can call Rolling Stones could boost houston can call the beatles, ringo starr booths houston re tell me not to let her clapton come to our city . Are you kidding . Eric clapton wants to play here. All my god. I also want to say that booths houston has the businesses here for over 40 years. He is major said the city millions of dollars in revenue. Can we honor that folks . What kind of man is booths houston . Is never lied. His never cheated. Hes the most honest individual ive ever met and i been sober for 22 years. I try to emulate try to be a standup man like he is also want to a little song to good all we are saying is give peace a chance. All we are saying is give peace a chance. So from the bottom of our hearts, i am begging youi am begging youi will do anything. He ran unbelievable billion people shows. We are going to smoke but not like you ive might were going to smoke pot and our hazard eric clapton. Eric clapton. Really . Newly . All i want to say is thank you again and peace love it started here. Thank you. Im sure those two officers enjoy the presentation very much. [laughing] good afternoon on bill brinkman coming here as a citizen. My back room have some influence represent over billiondollar can you speak up, please click i bay area aqmd fortune 100s of based in serious and intimate. Involve determined network in assets. You have had 50 years as a Business Cycle in preparation for this. Since 1967 entering pretty near a building if not more of incurred tourist money. He asked very, summer of love, the park, when most highly desired tourist destinations along the Golden Gate Bridge, etc. And so if theres an idea reader strength built up to budgetary concerns, as far as police sanitary cleanup etc. Im hoping its in your jurisdiction to offer contingency to the amount of effort thats gone into this. Also in line with the previous mayor gavin newsom declared a particular holiday even if the data had to be changed this flexibility on both sides, dont let this pass you up. You have lost the lucas museum. The 49ers. Dont lose this as well. This is not something san jose needs to celebrate. This is something nice to be celebrated here in San Francisco. God bless you. Thank you next speaker, please. Hello. Commissioners. My name is brent turner is my first time in front of this Commission Although often times i come in front of the elections commission. We have been working with the white house Dod Department of Homeland Security regarding cuttingedge technology for election systems. My child of San Francisco. True college prep and urban school and graduated law school here did i for twitter booths houston as a volunteer that ive had the honor of being in the room with these people. Obviously a much younger than most of them but [laughing] the fact is there the most heartfelt people in our community as is evidenced by the people that come out today. I really hope that you move this concert forward. It is a pr bonanza for the city and if you knew these people like i do, and booths houston in particular, you would know these people speak from the heart. They do exactly what is supposed to be done and i think the best evidence is the last concert they did with the 40th anniversary in the park. They were little to no incidents and everybody celebrates love. Thank you. Thank you next speaker, please. I also want to again announce if theres anyone in the overflow room or anyone here who did not submit a blue card that would like to make Public Comment come on up and we will have up over here. Goahead hello. My name is Camille Grady and i were longtime performer, artist in San Francisco and ivan [inaudible] lots of these concerts. I know booths houston is an incredible producer and one must remember that all of these things are here goes in there only. One thing i know this contention as to how people are doing with the each other and i think all these poems with the security can be worked out. I think this meeting kind of established with the problems are and i think if people get organized quickly this can be done. The whole world is celebrating this. San francisco for San Francisco assembly also, not to have a 50th celebration concert is like no Football Game at the super bowl. There was a good one. I ask you to realize that this is a huge thing for San Francisco to bring a little joy to the world period. I think it crosses lots of generational things and National Things could i think we would be terribly remiss if we did not take this chance. Thank you thank you next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is kurt crowbar can guess andhi everybodyits my family back there. I represent an organization not only to ever represent the Councils Like but i also represent an Organization Called [inaudible] have to this crowd here are members and we are the Largest Group of artists and musicians in the country. During the 60s i not only lived in the hate as. I ran three shops from 19661978. During that period of time i took advantage of all the free music that was given to us in Golden Gate Park and spectacular stuff. We all know many of these people were there. I even saw jimi hendrix for free and panhandle park twice before anybody even knew who he was. So commissioner what was your name again . You were talking abouthow old were you five years old. You are very confident i will be 75 this you. Okay. Congratulations. Thank you you made it that far im 70 myself. You are just a kid yes. One thing i really enjoyed was 10 years ago i ran across people our age in the park and they were in the hate as. 50 years ago. They brought their children, their grandchildren and great grandchildren to give them the same experience that they experienced 50 years ago. That was really a blessing to see that and thats what happens i will tell you come i dont care what is being planned in San Francisco for this year and i dont care who plans to do it, there is nobody on this planet that can pull it off as booths houston can. Hes been doing it for many many years. Thank you for a much thank you next speaker, please. Mr. Buell and the other members of the council, my name is jci am here speaking this afternoon on behalf of alan cohen and chet holmes. Two lions of our movement the past on their spirit to us. One of the things that has been mentioned number one, i was at the 20th anniversary of the summer of love. The 30th i helped with Bill Mccarthy and then the 40th, worked with booths houston. We also did chat fest attribute to chet holmes and we also did west fest which was the 40th anniversary of woodstock. All those events were permitted. He was no injuries, no arrests, and the park was not damaged in any way. Ive noticed that in the 40th and 30th and 40th anniversaries we really do not have much support from the city not like the 50th and i see that San Francisco travel has trademarked the name 50th anniversary of the summer of love written a thought that would be wonderful for us to do our concert and i just hope that we can work with them with your approval of course in making this thing happen. I been to outside lands. I attended bluegrass also wonderful events but they are not what our event is good we promote peace love and diverse city in network with booths houston for 25 years. He is a guy that will make it happen. I know that theres been some mystery vacation from both sides. I hope we can get a reset and have this thing happen. When i can get 40,000 people in the park. If we are lucky every band that we have hasnt had a hit in 40 years. Thank you if you want to sell greatest thing, its called rebuilt the city. You are at time. Next speaker, please. Hello. Commissioners. My name is dan godfrey. Im a longtime resident of the bay area. Want to thank you for your consideration and your anticipated cooperation. This all started in 1967. 50 years ago. Were real proud of what weve accomplished in all Different Levels of social injustice the most civil liberties. It is time to pass the torch. Thats what we want to do maybe some of the younger people dont remember what happened here in the 60s. But we would like to keep that spirit alive. The world is watching us. It would truly be a crime if we were not allowed to celebrate this anniversary. Please, please, work with us. Nobody will get hurt. I promise to do it will be fun. Backstage passes for everybody. [laughing] thank you, i think. This is our last speaker. So is there anyone else who wants to make people look. If you do, please either coming from the overflow room were pure in this room line up against the wall. Go ahead, sir the afternoon commissioners. In 1938 good afternoon commissioners could when Albert Hoffman discovered lsd i was born in piano austria under the not cease. Thanks to the greatness of america im not a lampshade on hitlers desk. Im a living musician here in San Francisco. In 1966 my wife and i opened the third hippie boutique called in gear on haight street. In 67 ron the psychedelic shop and i found it hit, they hate us. Independent proprietors. The professor Stanley Mcdaniels i found the counsel for the summer of love to provide free concerts at all Saints Church every saturday night to get the runways and teenagers off of haight street. I was part of the psychedelic rangers that produced the first human being and now i am before you asking you were final approval for this major event and San Francisco will have it. Thank you. Thank you. Width so if we have anyone who is not spoken, if youve spoken you cannot speak again. I need you to take a seat. I dont think either of you has spoken. Come on up. If youre spoken i need you to take a seat. [inaudible off mic] im sorry, sir you need to take a seat. Go ahead my name is john barstow baker, professor at San Francisco state university. Ive known booths houston for about 46 years. And have worked with the chet holmes could ive worked for bill graham. I have done concerts at the polo fields where i was head of recording for more than 450,000 people. When bill graham passed away. I can tell you very safely because ive been working with booths on all of the shows in the last 20 years hes done in the city, that everybody that is on the counsel is worked on stage with myself and with many other folks to think we are not professionals all of us have been on the biggest stage is the largest parts of money that anybody has ever paid anybody. That is not why we do this. This is because weve really want to do the organizational thing for San Francisco, for the city, and for the public in their own parks where weve always done it. Its important to realize that if the city had not had all the free concerts in the panhandle in Golden Gate Park in the polo fields in the 666768 time period pretty much the San Francisco music scene wouldve never happened and im very glad that it did fit is changed my life and changed the city of San Francisco and may the history of what the summer of love really should be and hopefully we can work this out. Thank you thank you next speaker, please. Hello. My name is delphia barstow the. Boots is one the most honest and hardworking producer promoters ive ever known. Adverts with him for 42 years sporadically. Starting with doing pro bono pr for boots north beach photographic art fairs in washington sq. , park. Also worked backstage in the intent number two at the 40th anniversary and i can attest to that everything is very well organized. Happy crowds, no problems, and i just must feed with you to allow this out to a sticky event to occur. Thank you thank you one last time, is there anyone here would like to make Public Comment that has not already spoken . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners commissioner low are some questions for staff if they could get to come to the podium. A lot of my questions are not focused on the purpose of the event, the character of the promoter is my focus is on your letter of february 7, 2017 which denies the permit application. The grounds for the permit denial of permit application is a misrepresentation of material fact. If you could walk us through the rationale and determining that there was a misrepresentation of material fact you would help us make a decision on this case. So the first question is, theres a lot of discussion between the crowd 30,00040,000 die thinking of letter it says between also representation of a crowd of 125,000 to 175,000 gives some context why that would be material misrepresentation . Well, when we develop a plan we have to count how much security, how many portable toilets, does it fit in the venue. When of the tricky things here is we chose the polo fields after much back and forth. A little background. We also talked about how men hollow. Boots to not want to use common hollow because it was more expensive yet to put up a lot of fencing to protect key people out of the trees. Switch shows the polo fields but it was with the understanding but very little in the infrastructure down on the grass. In three weeks we need this field you feed him. So though be the stage i and nothing else. When you start looking at events with 175,000 thisfor toilets. We are out of space. Its whether how much police is present, what were counting on and does the venue even fit extremely important issues. Can you also comment on Public Transportation . I think in mr. Wines letter, he talks about discussions with unique on february 7 we are presented with any type of increased in the services or other transportationi think his brief also talks about discussions with the bicycle coalition. Yes. I mean on january 27 that received the email todaymr. Houstons first contacted mta. This was after nine months of requests. His email said he really doesnt know where to start but could they give them a plan from something else. That was after he announced the event. And Public Transportation is incredibly important not checked with the bicycle coalition. To see if that had happened. But with mta this back and forth but theres no plan. Nothing has been developed. Again, incredibly important because of the impact in the community who usually pays for those increase services to mta create the Event Organizers pay for those. The next bullet point is on the medical service provider. We just heard from im sorry rock med accepting need to clarify, we received a text from gordon who runs from rock med that no one was here to present here to speak on his behalf. Okay. Einar stan hes a founder. I understand he is a founder truck this case there is a he said she said. The only [inaudible] officially is something saying there was available to work. Theyve not been contacted and lets go back to the material statement. The statement was the statement back in october that had contacted rock med and they were going to volunteer. When it comes to the date of an event we need to be sure that the person is quick to deliver what they promise. Its incredibly important. Once 100,000 people show up, it could be anything. So these misrepresentations for us became increasingly big deal and concerned that when we got there we would have things in place that would make sure this was safe. Per instance we do not go into this rely on volunteers to assemble tents and to assemble stages and backdrops. Not professionals. If a windlass came over the blue over, people could be seriously hurt. I know nothing has happened those are serious issues that need to be addressed. The same with having Adequate Security. Well, am about to ask about the security but what about the next bullet point out on Emergency Medical Services plan. So the department of emergency medicine requires you to submit a plan describing where you can have a ambulance and how many showing you contracted for them. Who is your medical service provider. Its actually all online. The plan had not been submitted. Was finally what was represented to you . That have been submitted. Is an incomplete plan that has been summit at this point. As the name of the event but does not show any those details and even that cannot go into the later part of january. Okay. Talk about Public Safety we heard capt. Yet talked about his concern for Public Safety but theres all this discussion of eight officers, 12 officers, 22 officers. What is the right Police Staffing for the event . He was it depends on the attendance assuming 125,000. We have not discussed that number is that number did not come up until recently. The last conversation that we sat down and we talked about 3040,000 people. It was 30,000 it would be wanted it it looked a little bit bigger we would increase the number. I think i can i can remember how many officers we had at that point maybe 28 mr. Wind be first to 22. Is that the correct number were 30,000 attendees . I dont think 22 but somewhere in the 20s. Okay. What is the arrangement with the Police Departmentim assuming the noncommercial for free. Their contracted to be paid that sky only kept asking for a budget early on he was paid by the promoter . Paid by the promoters he was with the applicant of association to you prior to february 7 on contacting the police . They had been in contact with the police. So what was the misrepresentation, then regarding the Police Staffing . Well, was a lot of backandforth over what the police had [inaudible] early on in the october the police said only these very people you can see theres an email back and forth between him and the permit officer saying we never said these things. That was the misrepresentation. Theres also a concern about a private security being provided theres a reference to mr. Wines letter to a age as him Event Management which appears to have provided agreed to provide some sort of security services. Theres also a discussion of level i security, level ii security,. Was that also made it to you prior to february 7 . That letter just come in his packet for the first time. We had never heard of the company. This last week we try to verify it but theres no address listed. Theres no license number. We checked with equal in the east bay and here to see that anybody was familiar with that is a Security Company and i cannot find anybody. Then theres also a discussion about Homeland Security. To comment on that . You know we have to worry about Homeland Security. Events of this nature are soft targets. No matter what you try and do. It was just a backandforth where we raise these issues with him and he said he talked to the police and the police said its not an issue. Dont worry in the Police Responded back saying we never said that to him. Again it was just a miscommunication. What about part protection . Destroying the park after the event . This is one thing were actually very worried about. We told him from day one that the area that we are letting him insult in the polo fields has to decking under it so the turf will not be destroyed. And plywood insert places to protect the irrigation lines could be vast for detailed plan of how that would be laid out and done we did nothave not received that what was his representation prior to february 7 . He said he was getting plywood. When we look to the numbers, whos going to lay the plywood is it going to be installed, what is the timeline, we do not have the details that we needed to feel super comfortable the day came that everything would not just get set up on the grass. Which of course again we have only been doing usingwe cut back on polo field for event. We needed for youth soccer to me the kids in San Francisco what about restoration following the event . Well, we talked out ground restoration fee. He agreed to that it would depend on the level of the infrastructure and how well he took care of it we can instantly bring it back. It takes weeks if damage is done. Its if not most really dont have flexibility without canceling youth events so if the permit is denied an appeal is denied, excuse me if the permit has been denied and the appeal is denied, does that prevent the permit applicant to resubmit a permit . No. Okay. I have questions for mr. Wind but i see commissioner anderson also is probably has questions so i wheeled to commissioner anderson thanks. Well i think thats basically the road. Can you start again maybe we constitute a group of people and start a permit process and now we want this to occur in the summer and commissioner can i get you to speak into the microphone . Im just wondering if theres any way to retain the june 4 date either at the polo fields were elsewhere and if that is impossible, if we started tomorrow with a be constituted group and a new permit in process, are there any other opportunities that might they originally asked for september that are full fall calendar is full. We need the polo fields for youth soccer in the fall. Kids are back in school. So we spent a lot of time identifying this date as the one that worked. When we get into july we run into [inaudible] the San Francisco marathon. Then we have outside lands. So its very very tight. If we found a location made it home in hollow we could find a different date not in september but we could try and work in find something a little waiter in the summer possibly could we could try. Yes. It sounds like the number of participants is somewhat of a moving target and you want to make sure that in the event of a complete surprise of population showing up that you would be able to bring in portal parties and things like that well, 70,000 people dissenting on the old and the park was not something we really feel the park can accommodate. Yes. Okay well im kind of curious as to how we figure out how many people might show up. I know that we know with the attendance was for the 40th. Well, what we talked about its really a big challenge with free events. We are so fortunate that we have the hardly strictly bluegrass, that are free events, three days and really been developed. Over the years. And so when we have free events we talked about ways to limit it. Making sure that performers are not going to draw a huge crowd not publicizing it nationwide and just bring as many people we spend over a year trying to work with the power of peace event to try to keep that event in the park and talk about different methods to try to limit attendance including the free tickets so that you couldnt show up if you didnt have one so we know how many people were going to be there. But that took over a year and a half of trying to plan that. In the end, they chose not to keep going. Its not an easy situation. But if it was small but publicized it was a group in this room, sure. Yes. Would i be able to address the public . Why we do this. When we get commissioner lows question and when theres a motion you can speak to it in any manner you wish. Commissioner low i was wondering if the attorney mr. Wind could come up to the podium . I would just first say if you could get eric clapton here that would be pretty awesome. [laughing] tears in heaven have special meaning to me. We are trying leila i was here that a squat. Okay. The question in this case is hazarding an abuse of discretion by the Department Staff in denying the permit and finding there was a misrepresentation material fact. You have heard dana ketchum outline several grounds for denying the permit. Where have you explained to us how theres been an abuse of discretion by our Department Staff . Sure. I noticed that instead of saying boots lied or made and misrepresentations that was a miscommunication. I would say youre always not miscommunications when youre far enough 19 email semester oh of communication where youre on the phone when you are not sitting down at a meeting taking those committing to something. Thats what happened on january 13. We sat down for the first time and said, look, whatever problems you have that sort them out. At this table and we did. We did. Even the Police Officer there [inaudible] he was pleased with the whole meeting went. Hes the one who given the number 22. Everything we talked about at that meeting was put in an email i sent them going to do this summer i want communication to be open between our spirit going to put it in an in a pirate anything is wrong make your comments, tell me i am wrong. But we want this process to work. That was her attitude going into the meeting thats how the meeting ended and we all shook hands event was on as far as i could tell when i walked out of that meeting on january 13. Two weeks later we got a letter saying he was denied. As i said i felt like we gone down the rabbit hole. I do not will she was talking about about those talk with the Police Officer today. I think we had six at the last meeting were 12 and Police Officer saying i can tell until the 22 so it [inaudible] the whole thing is just chatter. There is nothing that replaces a sitdown meeting in a communication that happens across the table. Thats what we did on january 13 it was very a fact that we were on the same page while we got tonight at the last second i dont know. I can say, if you want for example this rock med think he talked about rock band name michael. Michael perry works and Michael Rick Perry said dont worry about it will be. Lets put that in his budget we made representations. Fine. Dr. Davidson at the guy who founded the Company Standing here spoke here today. He said, fine. They will do it. Then you get somebody is always a texan guy who runs the place while were in his namesake david smith is speaking for rocket the guy is writing back it they are out to get us. I dont know why this is happening. David smith is here. He said we will be there. If thats not enough for anybody with some we can offer you anything more. Weve got a letter from rock med they said they will be there but you got to believe this has to be a trusting relationship between these two parties could you cannot have a concert with the city and promoter are at each others throats. It doesnt make sense. Its not workable. What i want to do is keep what happened at the generally 13th meeting a lot. I want to be able to sit down with these folks and say, look, what is he wants to do. We will do it. Heres the schedule. But this in the eye and say this what you want to do and we will do it. These other companies they have staff their people. They can spend hours doing this stuff. We are all volunteered. We are trying our best good we want to try our best and were willing to be as open and agreeable as possible but you cant just keep taking shots at us like if it doesnt help help anybody. In terms of the Emergency Medical Services plan whatever was partially done has been fully done. Its attached to my brief. I think if they want more will give them more. In terms of the Homeland Security i dont even know what that is about. You read what she said which is that boots and the officer standing on a hill talking looking at the map chuck provided implicit, yes, theres a hill there and the officers said yes, who said thats a nice sideline you know would be a good piece lease for the police to send the officer writes that we never said anything about that. Who cares. Doesnt matter. The officer said he was 22 of us to bathe 22 people we will have 22 people there. That is fine. We dont care. We will do what they want. We said that to him on january 13. For them to come back and take shots set about stuff in october and november i can understand why. In terms of c park production whenever they want the map that i gave you its a big map. I blew it up. Its one of my exhibits so the other side has a good we sat down at the table. Everybody looked at on january 13. Everybody pointed to things and said this is now working to handle things. That always done. Why theyre complaining now weve got portable water listed somewhere words not to be we will change the map. These are Little Things that parties working together in good faith can resolve. Thats what we want to do. Thank you sir, did you want to weigh in . Just in response to commissioner andersons question. I do want data to give us context around how long of a lead time you need to plan these events and understand the department issued about 55,000 permits a year. About 1000 of those are special event permits and dana commissioner andersons question, could you speak to average lead time it takes to create an event like this so that we have an understanding of what were up against . Well, it generally takes about nine months at least to plan an event of this magnitude this many people. There is just a lot of pieces to be put in place. I think one of our challenges here was that these things were not coming together. Other than verbal commitments. And so thats why we didnt favor announcing the date but it does take a lot of planning. Commissioner bonilla the longer i sit here listening to all these wonderful speakers the more passionate that i become about this venue truly. But i think as commissioners we would be remiss if we approved the plan that is presented. So my concern is how can wei mean with a short amount of time talk about now and june, how do we put a process in place that would reduce the type of planning scheduling coordination of all the city departmentshow do we do that . It seems almost an impossibility well, thats why january talked about in the meeting on the list of todos was to find an independent more recently experienced Event Organizer to step in. And that was a fundamental on his attorneys list because weve been working for nine months and hadnt been moving forward. Things that were our website we pointed to very beginning. People talk about they could not figure out who to contact at mta get the contact is on the website. The permit of emergency medical requirements all on her website. So we felt that if because we were close to dying in december and we reallywe also wanted this event to happen. So we gave that one more chance and then when we got the misrepresentation but the Event Organizer and then we got the public announcement and saw the crowd anticipated we really were kind of had no choice but to make us really hard decision. Could it be coproduced so that we dont lose the feel, the art we have in trying. Earlier this week we gave mr. Wine a list of i think about 1518 different producers who if he could get one of them to help the new had the experience to pull a triumphalist again i dont know whats happened with that. But these are pieces that are just their part of doing an event. I know people want to volunteer and show up and have a great time and i want them to have a great time we need the other pieces in place. If, you know if they can reconstitute if they can find that person and come back to us they could submit another application. Okay. It doesnt stop it from the project being proposed i mean so the project is not dead in the water . There is still some life here . Yes. Were trying to of other events that will celebrate this. This is important. We understand. Yes. Because i would summer of love means a lot to this city. I came herei moved here during that era and for a while i was part of that culture. So i would really love to see this happen in some way. It may not be in the form that was presented but if it could happen i would believe be happy. Thank you. Commissioner anderson ive questions for mr. Wine. Mr. Wing we know theoretically a new permit process could go under way. Is there an opportunity to collaborate with someone . Im not to cast aspersions on mr. Boots organizational abilities were to deny the enthusiasm of the council of light but it sounds like some detail work is needed. Would you be able to put together a team and would you be able to afford it if you had to take on an organizer that wanted to get paid a Little Something . Well, what i can say is boots has a staff of 20 having 30 people. Who are around fulltime. We if the city wants to meet every day we will meet everyday. If they want to meet once a week only once a week. If they chose to jump through a hoop we will jump through a hoop. The problem hasnt been that we are willing to the problem the people are talking past each other. It doesnt make sense to start again. Does make sense to go work in a resubmit all paperwork and what is the difference . The paperwork is there. The people are there. The person he wants to produce this event is here. All we are asking for an open line of communication with a can say, heres what you have to do here is the day you have to do. Heres what you have to do it in heres the date you have to do. Is that what weve got and thats on a website. You go to it. You knowi mean it may be a process thats laid out through practical experience thats brandnew to us but if we dont know we can do it. Youve got to explain it to us and if ms. Catch most of them sit down with us and actually look across the table and say, this is what we need from you by the state and itll get done. I dont think its possible to start over. I mean whatever starting over news. Well, i guess i was thinking maybe we could save this event by hitting the reset button but you wouldnt be reinventing the wheel. You know what th rec and park needs and i do believe both sides are working in good faith but i think theres some trust issues. As will think this generational issues here. Things have changed in ways we dont really like but unfortunately, because the security needs, because we have activist neighbors who want to protect their home, because we have Homeland Security issues, that i neveri mean every now and then ill go to one of these wonderful events of the city at all be enjoying myself and now think i got someone could grow proobama and here. Its like its sad we have to go there it is but these are really important things. Want to our this event. I think amazing. I feel that sometimes when i was born because i was a little girl. The vietnam war and my dad ran the change record sorts of little rock are considered a was hanging out with hippies having a good old time at age 5. In watching the vietnam news and wishing i could be a protester. So i get this and i want this to happen with this group of people the way that they wanted to happened but guys, youve got to follow the new rules unfortunately. I would urge you to find a partner and i was thinking about theres all these medical marijuana dispensaries good people out there trying to run legitimate businesses and move the city and be good corporate citizens like the apothecary in places like that. Why dont you get some help and start over . I dont this to be the summer of love interruptus. Lets see if we can make this work within rec and park wools and regulations. Commissioner low i would just echo commissioner andersons remarks and i think this is a terrific event. The lineup so far sounds great but the question before us is hasnt been an abuse of discretion by our Department Staff. On denying the permit finding that there was a misrepresentation of material fact. And ive not heard anything that would cause us to overrule our Department Staff determination could so i would move to affirm the apartment staffs decision and deny the permit and reject the appeal. But again, pointing out that this doesnt end the process. Theyre still an opportunity to resubmit it permit application. We have a motion. Is there a second . Second. All those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes. ] opposed, say nay. Hearing none, is unanimous [gavel] thank you all i knew they go for being a good audience. I know youre not happy under the regulation has to be a written decision. I can work with you we can draft one would you drafted, thank you. Park [pause] the commission is going to take a fiveminute break by the room clears. In session. We are on item 10 which is general of the common good is or anyone here who didnt speak on the item for that like to speak now . Seeing none, this item is closed and we are now on item 11 which is closed session and is there any Public Comment on this matter . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We need a motion of a second and a vote on whether to hold closed session to confer with Legal Counsel so moved. Second. All those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes. ] opposed, say nay. So i need you to hold on just a moment so i can do everything i need to. I will entertain a motion to whether not disclose we have to whether to report on emotions we need a motion on that and whether to disclose or not. Two separate motions. Motion not to report second. All those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes. ] opposed, say nay. Then a motion and second on vote whether to disclose any or all discussions will not to disclose second. All those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes. ] opposed, say nay. So most we are on item 12 new business Agenda Setting commissioners anything queen Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. 13, communications could any Public Comment leap seeing none, Public Comment is closed. 14 is adjournment. So moved. Second. Thank you commissioners. 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