Can turn off any sound devices. We are going as briefly as possible today. We have a 10 00 joint meaning meeting with the Planning Commission at 11 00 a. M. We have plenty of time. Yes. So we are going to make one switch in the calendar at the beginning of the meeting. We are going to put the general managers report at the end. We may have to move another thing depends on how far along we are. We are going to move to Public Comment to 2 minutes a piece. In order to allow for all neither staff nor the commission will respond to Public Comment until Public Comment is done and at that point the commission may ask staff to respond afterwards. With that, commissioner buehler. Do you have a president s report. We have an. Item 5 is the consent calendar. Any Public Comment on the consent calendar. Seeing none. Public comment is closed. We need a motion. All in favor say, aye. Aye. So moved. Item 6, San Francisco zoo. Good morning, commissioners. General managers report. Yesterday was an interesting day at the zoo. It was a nice day to see the rain first of all. We had about 400 disabled veterans come to the zoo. I know you are all wondering how is it going. Of course this is the young cub that was born august 30th. So that just puts it under a 3 weeks. Our 13yearold liones and cub continue to do well. Its starting to take real steps and walk and not just scoot around. We still dont know the sex. They are opening up and he, she is is vocal in wanting something from mom. Staff continues to monitor them remotely in the cameras as well placed outside of adjacent room. Its still building up the trust with keepers when they are in the rooms neeshl. She stays with the kubs anytime protecting the newborn. We continue to secure its Comfort Level with them during this delicate early days. We are very excited. A knuble next slide. Grandparents day. She was born in 1971. Shes a black rhino. She has 14 children. 15 grandchildren, 6 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild. It was a fabulous day. Fun was had by all. That leads right into a world rhino day. It was really an important day because it highlighted the illegal trade of wild life products. You are all familiar with ab 96 that the state Senate Passed which is going to limit the trade of ivory. A lot of information is not out there about this animal and the crisis this animal is facing with the legal trade. The horn is harvested for all kinds of reasons. This animal is in big trouble as the elephant. Its important to highlight how important this species is to the world. The San Francisco zoo is really important because we have two of the five species on this planet. We have the very large asian rhino which is absolutely a gorgeous animal if you havent seen it in a while and of course the black rhino. Again, we have representative, contribution representative including wild aid making presentations to highlight the illegal trade of ivory. Next, we are so fortunate. Let me start off by saying august 27th, a collaboration of efforts by the sequoia King National the two sierra yellow frogs out of the canyon and basin and safely deliver them to the san diego zoo. This salvage operation was deemed the highest priority by the u. S. Fish and Wild Life Services by the action. The native species of frogs were under going a severe disease event. They went in there and rescued these guys that were heavy infected with fungus and we treated them with the protocols and they are recovering. No adult frogs remain of the salvage population and the second population was likely not going to have any surviving adults at the end of the summer. It was the only way to secure the offspring of this population. The 190 tad poles and frogs were delivered to the zoo. We were honored by the ab Conservation Fund to support the Mountain Lake turtle project and we also received a National ScienceFoundation Plant in Santa Barbara in a biome study. We received two conservation grants. The yellow frog project is one of the keystone projects that help safe that population of animals in the sierra. Im delighted to say we were approached by Yosemite National park to partner with them on the mountain yellow legged frog and the pacific pond turtle project to help populate their animals. They are working hard to slowdown the river and to create the areas for these animals to thrive. If you are tracking this, we are working with kings canyon, sequoia National Park and Yosemite National parks on conservation actions. Those are the three seeds care conservation. Its really a very important moment for the San Francisco zoo and for the citizens of the bay area. Its really important working with these partners. Neural turtle fest. We worked with the presidio trust, the San Francisco gardens and sonoma state and we released them into Mountain Lake. One of the grants we receive are going to work on the population at Mountain Lake. Here is the partnership establishing some neighboring cities at Mountain Lake. Next slide. This is coelacanth. This is one of the large new sculptures in the plaza. There are about 100 sculptures in this plaza. This animal chosen well never have it as a living representative at the zoo. Its about 140 millionyearold fish. They found it off madagascar. What makes it an interesting animal is that its that big, 6 feet weighing 200 pounds. Evolutionary biologist believe its close to becoming a land animal. Has primitive bones to be able to walk on the bottom of the ocean. Again, the coelacanth. Scientist come together to creatine expiration. Its a really interesting exhibit. You should come on up. We have another slide. This is a local artist who has been inspired by the learning plaza and you can see a bunch of other images or statutes or sculptures in the garden. Come oun out. Thank you very much. That ends my report. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Good morning. Its great to see the zoo is actually getting something done and the parks. Whats nice about it is the they got it in madagascar. On the other part. I guess im going to have to refer to the other time. I want to try to look at the zoo, the water issue and what they are going to be doing and the recycled water from the sewers. I wanted to even bring up that i had spoken on this itch and im not that in favor on the zoo ground. We were hoping that they can move it to where they had planned before. The two high school length and washington. They can just flow rates 16degree with piping. It has to have great elevation. All right. Thank you. Is there anyone else who would like to make Public Comment on this item . Being none. Public comment is closed. We have been told that one of the presenters for item 7 is not here yet. So we will be moving to item 8. The open space Fund Undesignated contingency reserve Golden Gate Park west and sense replacement and land improvement project. Thank you. Good morning, commissioners. Dan cowell. The item i have before you today i went to the committee a few weeks back and obviously because we are look to open space for reserve funds. I will give a brief presentation. I will read the discussion item. What we are looking for today is discussion of possible action to approve use of open space contingency reserve funds for the Golden Gate Park west and landscape improvement project. In a nutshell what we are looking to do is at the far west of the Golden Gate Park on the highway there is an only wood link chain fence and fall into disrepair and in addition to that sand blown from the beach has caused a lot of land blown and damage to the equipment and disease over time. Because this is face of the park and the master plan thiefs identifies this as an improvement need, they want to move forward with the project and do so the chain link fence with a little bit lower in height and doing some additional plant to give a little bit more to the edge of the park. So with that, we are trying to move this project forward aggressively and trying to complete this work with the completion of the projects so we can open that end of the park up as one complete project. Thats our task at hand and hopefully you can open these funds for that effort. Thank you. Cmon up, richard. Public speaker this project i was looking at. The first thing that came to my mind is rainfall. The problem with the drainage. When i first walked out there and started to go to the meeting. What happened is there is different patch areas the slopes dont leave too big a puddle. It works on with the trail way so you dont get the water to try to get around. We look at the consideration to get to this lotion in San Francisco. It is a very touchy area. Its required that the plants that are put in there are native plants. Thats only one part. Another part is when they put in these chains. I always thought if we put a nice decoration there and if you have a nice aquatic park and character that we are a sea bearing city and countywide and possibly put in such type of an ornamentation to the chains. These chains i dont know what they are going to do with them but classically they are not the black color but navy whites. I dont know if they have the extra letter or not. Is there anyone else who would like to make Public Comment on no. 8. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Move it forward. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . Are we ready to go back to item 7. Okay. Garage renovation conceptual plan approval and commissioner low needs to reduce recuse himself. I need to recuse myself. Move and second to recuse commissioner low. Before we get started he meets the to be physically out of the room. Good morning. Im here to discuss the renovation of the portsmouth garage. Its approved by the San Francisco administrative code chapter 31. Its located in chinatown above the garage by the plaza Parking Corporation. The corporation is designing a large area of the garage that includes health and safety upgrades with improvements. Most of the improvements are occurring within the garage there are handful of items that require modifications to the park. I want to orientate us to the project. Its on the south on the west to kearney street on the east. Well be talking about the levels and kearney street to the bottom of the east side off the vehicular entrance to the garage and you have the mezzanine parking on the top level. The main entry parking level along kearney street and two basements below. I also want to introduce beth morris from beth morris architecture. She is going to be speak bg the design of the projects and members from the Renovation Committee from the Parking Corporation good morning. My name is beth morris with bma, the architect on this project. The design team focused on various categories of work. Areas of water intrusion, security and emergency preparedness, interior improvement and systems upgrades and building repairs and general refurbishment. Its the areas to address the problems. There is little or no protection from rain water that enters into the building. The east wall of the mezzanine level is enclosed by open slates. The plan drawing shows we will be replacing them. This shows the existing planets and louvers. There are open mechanical shafts. We propose to cover these openings. The memo mechanicals to one side. At these areas of construction well replant areas disturbed and at some areas we have new planting as recommended by recreation and parks to prevent erosion. At the upper park plaza level there are three elevators to serve ada access from the garage. This does not protect the elevator doors and water gets into the shaft and sometimes with trapped people inside. Thats not a good idea. This would not extend beyond the existing roof line. Another project goal to responsible in the event of an emergency. At the interior we will add card readers and security cameras and have an emergency power camera at the garage and replant to enclosed the open stairwell and at the interior we would like to open up an exit stair that is currently enclosed. We will propose to provide security gates at the kearney street main entry. There are three emergency exits. They are subject to inappropriate graffiti and unsafe. We are proposing to enclosed these stair wells and minimize intrusion to the stairwell. Gates will allow exiting from the inside. The metal lattice material shown here maximizes daylight and visibility into the stairwell is durable and not as surface subject to vandalism. Inside the garage all three exit stairs are enclosed by solid walls. Without visibility they are subject to the same visibility to the stair wall. We propose to the garage at the main level. The same lattice material at the en closure to the stairwell. Therefore reducing maintenance and improving security. The main kearney entry is fully open and there is no way to close off the garage. In the event of an emergency, from the couple days a year the garage is closed, port smith need to be able to secure the facility. In this project we plan to add roll out shuters at the lanes and gates at the pedestrian path. This slide shows the gate closed and the more typical open position. Weve included interior improvements to a few areas to support staff functions and increase parking. We located Administrative Offices in staff break room. We planned to convert an existing office area into a Conference Room and info and open bay for increased parking. On this slide, the yellow areas are showing increased parking. And the purple shows the new staff break area. Relocated from the main level. On the main level it shows you an area of increased parking where the staff area has been moved and the Program Areas for the staff. Throughout the enter interior well make improvement for safety. Ada upgrades and fire alarm. And well replace damage and deteriorated items including concrete structure, fire exit stairs, exterior stucco wall and Plumbing Drains upgrades to mechanical structures. This will replace the existing fixtures at the exterior of the garage. The project will meet requirements of title 24 and San Franciscos Green Building ordinance. Carol will discuss the project schedule and milestones. Thanks. I want to show you a current update. We have received a categorical exception and from the Arts Commission design review. Our next for the rest of this fall is to complete a Detailed Design and the plan is to go to out to bid at the end of the year. Before doing that later this fall well be returning to you to present the financing package for the project. Then we are hoping construction will begin in 2016 and expect it to last a little over a year to be completed in the summer of 2017. I want to make sure everyone understand to contain the operational instruction and stageing the work so improvements can be done with the less impact as possible. We are back sharing the different stair cases that will be getting the enclosure roof. One 1 case will be used at a time and only limits to that one area for construction security. If you have any questions on the schedule and project, please let us know. Thank you. We have Public Comment. Sam, cmon up. Good morning. Members of the parks and recreation commission. My name is sam quan and board member of the parks and recreation commission. On behalf of the garage im here to urge your support to take this first major improvement since the 60s. Back then we had a central freeway connecting the city with chinatown and neighborhoods with sunset and richmond did not exist. Chinatown had three movie theatres and lots of nightlife and plenty of parking. But things have changed and in order for the garage to continue to meet the needs of the community and operate officially and be Energy Efficient its time to renovate the garage and replace the items that have worked tirelessly over 50 years. Our engineer consultants has completed the renovation design and we are working hard to a arrange for financing moving forward. Throughout the process we appreciate the hard work and cooperation we had with the preservation and Commission Staff and looking forward to geting the project moving. Let us not forget that you still want to continue a good revenue stream so that you can maintain and improve the park for everybody to enjoy. Renovated garage and community, a new city college campus. A new Chinese Hospital and completion of the central freeway. We look forward to seeing chinatown to become a magnet at it was over 50 years ago. Hopefully well have more visitors and the merchants will finally get their economic stimulus they have been waiting for. Thank you very much. Thank you. Is there anyone else who would like to maam Public Comment on this. Richard . Public speaker the China Restaurant was closed and the infrastructure was laid out when i was a kid. That building is quite heavy concrete and