Do not call me mr. President. What i do want to acknowledge that we have the honorable mark farrell in our Commission Room and i know he has a very packed schedule and has many important things to do today including budget hearings. I want to acknowledge the bis busty schedule and have him speak on a item before it is called. Supervisor. Thank you commissioner low and i can call you acting president. Commissioners thanksgivings for having me. I have to run we are actually in 5 minutes starting the budget deliberations for the fiscal year including the rec and Park Department this year so have to get back to that. I want to speak on the item with fran cisco park [inaudible] this is an agreement two years in the make and i want to thank the staff. [inaudible] in particular who has been instrumental making this happen so want to thank everyone. They are going to give a generous gilf to our city to construct the park we talked about a few years ago and appreciate all your support for that. Bh the time came to vote on those matters we all know the need for open space and this will be a incredible highlight for our entire city when it is built. Im incredibly excited and this shamilestone in the process. The next step is out reach to the community about the final design the park. They will start now with this in place and once approved 25 Million Capital Campaign to finish the fundraising off. No small task but have aheard start and excited where it will go and be back to the commission when that is finished with concept divine. Im just here to say thank you for hearing this today. Please know my office will continue to be involved as they have been. [inaudible] kelly i should think her are ininvolved in the entire process and your staff as well have done an amazing job so want to say thank you and hope you support it. Thank you. Thanks everyone. Thank you. Before we go to item 2 i want to remine everyone to turn off sound producing devices. We request you fill out a blue card for Public Comment. If you like to speak on a item today you have 3 minutes Public Comment for each item. If there is a item of interest not on the ajnda but falls under the commissions jurisdiction you may speak under general Public Comment and that is item 2 and then well continue on item 8. Last, please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment on items in order to allow equal time for all. Neither the commission nor staff will responds to questions during Public Comment. The commission may ask questions of staff afterPublic Comment is closed. With that in mind, we are going to item 2, the president s report. Just like to [inaudible] Vice President s report. I want to acknowledge our colleagues commissioner mcdonnell on just a great feat. He finished the aids ride and it is a remarkable story. Commissioner mcdonnell would you like to Say Something . It was a incredible experience. San riders and 500 miles from francisco to los angeles [inaudible] the community of folks supportive of each other. Probably the most poignant moment is appreciating the fact we are far from the stigma associated with hiv at the onset, there is still a community of folks living in isolation and inside this bubble they receive the support that sustains them so i was proud to completed it and look forward doing it again. Thank you and thanks for your effort and support sharing that community especially in light of our current times we are going through. That is a remarkable feat and a Great Community erfbt. Effort. I see the general manager arrived. Are you done with your report . Any Public Comment on this item . Being none, Public Comment is closed. Now we can go to item 3, the general managers report. Walking right into it. How are you commissioners . Good morning. It sown to me commissioner mcdonnell you were talking about you ride. Yes, sir. I was going to start by congratulating you on your ride and how proud of you we are and as i think you were talking about as i walked in it could not have been a more poignant time which makes your participation all the more important and special so congrats. I got to follow you on facebook quite a bit and you look good in those shorts. Ill stop there, but we are very proud of you at the recreation and Park Department. [laughter] one thing to celebrate which is completion of commissioner mcdonnells ride last week San Francisco voters scored a huge victory for parks and we can talk about it again because we are no longer on the ballot. We are approvered by about 60 percent of the vote. Prop b amend city charter to extend a open space fund until 2046 and gives a baseline that increases by about 3 million a year each year for the next 30 years. This is very very very significant. It protects the parks from future recession driven cuts which is something the commission grappleed with over the last 6 or 7 years and guarantees of 15 million a year to address differed maintenance and that for us is what makes this special. This is not a huge amount of money that our budget increasing every year and have to absorb or own expenses, it is stability and prioritization of something that matters most to San Francisco park user which is taking care of our assets and parks and the things in them. The measure also calls upon to develop Equity Metrix. I think you should feel very proud of the amount of planning this organization has done in recent years with the completion of the Strategic Plan. I think the additional steps will make that planning more robust and very significantly make sure that we are making Investment Decisions that are based on data and based on the premise that it is so important to invest in the parks and communities that need them the most and think the Equity Metrix will help us get there. We have a number of people to thank. It is game night, so im wearing gold here. Like the Golden State Warriors who captivated the world with teamwork prop b has strength in numbers and required the effort of a lot of folks wurbic towards a common goal and want to start with you. You provided us with incredible leadership and guidance and support and you have helped bring our very Diverse Communities along to help understand how our organization works. It is relevant to their qualityto san franciscans quality of lives and this would not have happened without your guidance and leadership and i want to really articulate a very sincere thank you on behalf of the department and park users everywhere. I want to thank the bayer mayor because at the end of the day without his support it isnt on the ballot. He cares about infrastructure and quality of life and basic things that improve lives. The board of supervisors, mark farrell was tenacious making sure this happened but this was supported by a super majority of colleagues on the board so want to thank them for their support. The San FranciscoPark Alliance was probably a watershed moment for the non profit partner. They stepped up ichb a thoughtful and graijs and caring and determined way and effective way. They demonstrated leadership, advocacy, policy, policy guidance, they devoteed resources and most of all they were a trusting collaborative partner and we are very grateful to them. I want to thank the many employee organizations that supported the measure included spirfckly local 261, which demonstrated remarkable leadership on this and fought to make it happen. Overalllet me continue, members San Francisco unified School Board Commissioner men doza was a champion. [inaudible] we had Community Based organizations that fault for Sustainable Resources in all the neighborhoods. San francisco voters. Wouldnt have happened without folks who showed up and voted. San franciscans care about their parks and invest in the parks. If you look at the 2008 and 2012 prop bond and proposition b and beach la ndsed up on the ballot, we have done well when it is time to go to the ballot. Lastly and i think more importantly the men and women who work in our department. They bust they their humps every day and have high expectation with the bearest of resources and you should be very proud of the sweat the men and wem omen put in every day so we are very thrilled. I mentioned the warriors so let me continue along that front. They attempt to clinch their second nba teatal tonight but want to just thank my team and a few of our partners for our effort to host a free public viewing party. [inaudible] commissioner mcdonnell was on his bike not paying attention to his duties between san louis bisbo [inaudible] i guess we are now. So, within about 3 days we were able to put something together and that really speaks to the resilience of our team and i want to particularly thank lisa branstan and nathan [inaudible] from the Partnership Division who literally dropped everything and said lets do this, this is the right thing to do. I want to thank bob [inaudible] and recreation staff, they were out there as they always are and brought basket ball hoops and arts and crafts and Face Painting for kids. [inaudible] Property Management division to make sure we have lots of events out there. This is a very busy week for us at the civicsenter and dana was able to work with some the folks that he already made commitments to use the space and carve out just a little room for this event. Alex [inaudible] public and policy affairs team quhoo did logos and graphics and marketed the event and marcus and park rageer tooz keep it safe. We had help from the San Francisco police department. [inaudible] i want to thank Planet Entertainment who stepped up to help fund the endeavor. These things dont just happen like that and the Park Alliance do want their support so we were able to turn this around very very quickly. We had about 1500 people out there and it was a happy incredibly diverse joyous evening. It was great when the city hall lights went on in blue and gold when the sun went down. It was rec and park and [inaudible] the city at the best. Thank you for the spur to get us going. Eric, you probably spoke about the poignancy of your ride culminating with the horrible events in orlandofelt i want to touch upon that and celebrate this month is pride month and it is more important than every to stand with our Lgbt Community and celebrate event for inclusiveness, ownenness, freedom and community and there are a number of events going on including women on women dodge ball this friday. June 17 ature reeka valley rec. Photo exhibit celebrating pride. We have the transmarch at dolores park june 24. The [inaudible] at dolores park. [inaudible] the pride celebration june 25 and 26 and you should know the flags are up but half mast and will light up the conservatory of flowers in rainbow colors throughout the month we are excited about and think coit tower will be lite in one or more rainbow colors dependent how effective we can program our piece of equipment. July is partial National Parks and recreation month so what better times to celebrate parks . The full house of park loving people you are all excited july is parks and rec month. The national rec Park Association brings awareness and celebrate all the of the great work the urban parks do. In the coming weeks we will present out a calendar of july events celebrating from Community Garden days to free play day in the park and coming up this july, San Francisco is the International Home and host of the baseball for all which we are excited about and more to come on that. Summer is in full swing and as a reminder this summer we are here today operating 92 different summer camps all across the city. More than 15,000 registration. I think we have close to 10,000 kids this summer including 1200 children who are in the learn to swim programs, over nearly 5,000 summer scholarships totally 3 3 quarter a million dollar. More than 1100 families registered for camp nather the summer and by the way, in haun orthf fact that it is the National Park services centennial celebrationi am about to Say Something controversial, the first head of the National Park service was stephen nather so this is a reminder that it is still subject to debate and encourage people to debate, we go to camp mather not camp maither. I know it is controversial. And then next wednesday on the eve of park squz recreation month, in partnership with this commission and local 261 we will host the 8th annual william [inaudible] at the club house. Each year we recognize the top gardeners in the department and thank them for their work over the past years and continued commitment to providing clean, safe and beautiful parks to the public. Now, ryan we will show this month in parks which features the opening at [inaudible] sf cheer at deloris. At the [inaudible] park is a example of collaboration we have to have in order to be real effective in the park. [cheers]. Where i grew up i did not have a park with a [inaudible] in San Francisco 19 percent of everybody who lives here has a park within 10 minutes. [inaudible] anywhere arounds the world. We have to focus on the collaboration piece of it. Hunters poinfamily and [inaudible] and his crew and numerous Community Based organizations have hosted [inaudible] [cheers] that concludes the general managers report and go [inaudible] anyone who would like to make Public Comment under the general managers report . Being none, Public Comment is closed. We are in item 4, which is general Public Comment up to 15 minute. Anyone who would like to make comments under general Public Comment . Being none, this item is closed. We are on item 5, the consent calendar and richard come up. You wanted to speak on this. Good morning. Richard fong, i hope i dont sound too horse. [inaudible] im having a issue [inaudible] with the water issue, so what im looking at is how to approach it. On the wild life approach there are a lot of violations going over on the ocean beach area, [inaudible] Mountain Lake so they have different type of [inaudible] turtles and everything else. All these type of issues, i dont [inaudible] it should have been. So i think there is no one to speak for animals so i try to come and speak on their behalf. Of course, on animals behalfs but roit now that is a issue that is critical but dont think they pay much mind to it, they went right past it and [inaudible] i was at the west side park. The Planning Department [inaudible] but there is a issue that came up when i heard commissioner Michael Antonini and he had something good to say talking about trying to have the gravitational approach. He responds to it with gravitation and has 2 ball fields, lincoln high school, Washington High School and Higher Elevation such as football use for reservoir jz can have gravitational [inaudible] down. That is a lot of theall that stuff going around ocean beach. [inaudible] my issue i brought up before this commission is [inaudible] alternative routing to such projects that i understand anything cant be done to the project itself because of ceqa. I spoke with the [inaudible] which i strongly recommend if it is able to 15 million gallons per day and requires 25 million gallons so i spoke to such issue. If you use that you can use lake merced to south lake and [inaudible] drain down gravitation ally. Thank you for listening to me. Times up, bye. Thank you. Anyone else who would like to make Public Comment under the consent calendar . Being none c comment is closed. Commissioners . Second . All in favor . Opposed . So moved. We are on item 6, the San Francisco zoo. Good morning. I dont know how to use that, so there is a powerpoint. This being my first hearing you do have a powerpoint . There is a powerpoint. They will turn it on. Great. Thank you. Thats what you will see. Somewhere on the screen there is a powerpoint that needs to be clicked. I got to findthere we go. There we go. Excuse me for that. Stephen hanes, Vice President of San Francisco zoo. Happy to be here. Im not in the wrong place mr. Gins burg. It is the summer months so we are drawing to close wonder fm program the zoo mobile. This was a record year with over 12,000 students and 442 classrooms so that was thrilling. Also we just graduated a new class of doseens. Dwevl graduated a week and a half ago so are thrilled to bring them to the zoo to help with the volunteer efforts and all the guests that will come through the door. This is the bige time for zoo coming into the had summer months.