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>>[gavel] >> this is a meeting of the recreation part commission with the secretary please call that roll call >> buell, here. anderson, here. harrison, here. mcdonnell, here. and i believe bonilla is on her way. i'm going to make a few announcements and then i'll get started. as you said this is a meeting of the rec and park commission today is october 20 we ask that you would please turn off any sound producing devices that may go off during the meeting. that you take any secondary conversations outside. if you would like to speak today we request you complete a blue card. you do not have to. commissioner buell would be home any minutes for each >> how many people you want to testify on one thing or another just to get an idea >> i think will suffer 3 min. >> okay. so as you heard, each person walked 3 min. on each item to speak today. if you are interested in an item that falls under the jurisdiction of the rec and park commission but is not listed on the agenda you would speak on general public comment that is item 4 and continue again on item 10. when you make public comments please address your comments to the commission.. neither the commission nor staff will respond to questions during the public comment in order to allow equal time for all. the commission may request from staff that they respond afterwards. finally if the fire alarms activate you must evacuate the building in an orderly fashion using any exit. please note elevators will immediately returned to the first floor and are not available for use. if you need assistance in exiting the building the fees make way to your closest area of rescue which is directly across this hall in the men's restroom. inside the restroom is a speaker box. press it and city hall security will answer. let them know you are where you are at and they will assist you. with that we are on item number two the presidents report >> thank you. briefly just a note the november meeting of the rec and park commission will commence at 9 am, not 10 am per scheduling person this purpose. i would like to recognize commissioner mcdonnell >> thank you president buell. just a quick side note and bar. somewhat in the spirit of get out and play. as of man of my word we asked for those who are sports fans were in the middle of our fall classic and you also know if you are a giants fan that we suffered defeat at the hands of the chicago cubs. as a result of that i made a wager with puc commissioner- that depending on who one one of us would where the apparel of the other team. >>[laughing] therefore i must today confess i am wearing both cubs cufflinks as well as a cubs tie in commemoration-thank you commissioner kwon and so again as a man of my word i am paying my debt can however i will conclude by saying if they lose to the dodgers you only big big time because in all things you must sorry for those who care-bla. thank you, sir >> we will just watch that under recreation. thank you very much. >> is there anyone who would like to speak make public comment under the presidents report? great >> this item is closed. orono on the general managers report. >> good morning commissioners did after 108 years commissioner mcdonnell you can what whatever cufflinks you want >> thank you >> a few quick announcements is with great pleasure that i announce eric anderson is a new superintendent at parks and open space to eric selection comes the results of a nationwide search among part professionals from across the country a process that reinforced uncorroborated eric's horticultural expertise, schmidt in parkland and leadership of high-performing native stack admitted no eric, came to our department from years as a curator looking botanical gardens when of our nations benchmark public gardens here in san francisco he served as a 34-22 park supervisor and neighborhood services management and park services manager the superintendent of golden gate park in our superintendent for all a parks and open space could ask bass rachel, shannon and widely demonstrated leadership and management skills all combine for even greater achievement and delivering beautiful parks and open space did with eric's promotion a couple other very quick moves i want to announce. dave-becomes the acting assistant for assistance written for golden gate park which is a move that leverages his very impressive expertise in irrigation systems and water application to his leadership in this position will be instrumental as the golden gate park recycled water project in your edition retrofit continues in partnership with the puc. dave leads park service area for which is the growth in lake merced complex was in golden gate responsibilities. so therefore i'm also pleased to announce robert mohammed become the acting manager of park service area and robert moves from the civic center complex ravers and western addition for a while and more recently in civic center. building on robert's performance in these two complex i look forward to in continuing and expanding his achievement in the parks, in his new area of responsibility. i would ask you all join me in congratulating some new leaders in our department. >> congratulations >> some other quick announcement please join us in so breaking the 20th anniversary of our youth stewardship program this saturday. october 22 11 am-1 pm at the golden gate park community gardens. his 1997 youth stewardship program's work closely with teachers to vote by hands-on outdoor education curriculum centered on habitat restoration did this past year quietly served 60 schools and youth organizations partnered with 87 teachers from 2600 and 70 students on 200 seven field trips in our parks. books on topics like restoration urban agriculture and wetland ecology. this is a very special one to me is our city continues to focus on conversations around equity and access and providing more opportunities for kids to discover and connect with nature that is their own backyard. so i will be there and hope you all be there to. next thursday, october 27 at noon is the grand opening of the newly valley town square. the square is a former parking lot on 24th st. commercial corridor. the proposal to establish a public open space at the site involves more than five years of collaboration between rec and park community residents from newly valley town square supervisor weiner and parks alliance. your 13th supervisor weiner authored legislation to use 2.5 million eligible purchase of the [inaudible] capital project is funded primarily from a land and water conservation fund grant as well as a variety of other sources and some philanthropy from the residence from newly valley town square. the ribbon-cutting is next thursday on san francisco part. a october 28 where you can again done a cubs baseball uniform commissioner mcdonnell from three-9 pm is scared road our annual family-friendly halloween celebration. every year our entire rec and park that transforms into a ghoulish wonderland complete with haunted houses a wise carnival rides parades and live entertainment. it is one of our four seasonal vents we host each year for san francisco families. this may be our biggest event of the year. hope you will all come out there for what will be no doubt be a dry day. after this we can. humorist robert horton hears to all volunteers will dedicate a belief who leave and all work and no pay and that probably goes for this commission as well. on saturday, october 29 11 am-2 pm we want to invite everyone to join us for a very special volunteer appreciation party at the lake merced boathouse as we take the opportunity to thank our cherished volunteers and we pay them in raids and cornbread. each year volunteers could more than 180,000 hours of their time and energy to our parks and programs which is a gifting kind of the equivalent of more than $5 million to our department. volunteers will be fed with a barbecue lunch and live entertainment with beautiful leiper said as a backup. i make everybody to join me out there to thank the men and women and children who work to make our parks better. lastly, this is a serious pulse and steve is part of a team effort to address chronic speeding on jfk drive in golden gate park at the mayor's office in san francisco municipal transportation c agency's partner with our department in proposing nine and this is just a start but in proposing nine same house, same call first stretch of jfk were compelling data shows high number of incidents of speeding that is resulted in some severe and even fatal traffic injuries. this proposal comes after our mayor in august issued an executive directive on bicycle and pedestrian safety which directed city departments to accelerate projects focused on improving san francisco's streets and bicycle network as the city works to achieve its vision zero commitment to and traffic fatalities make san francisco streets and from our perspective article ego streets and parks safer. sf mta had a public hearing on the speed up also in september and they have strong support from a number of community stakeholders including the by coalition, additionally the proposal was presented at the [inaudible] meeting were committee voted to approve the supporting resolution in favor of the speed hump and his solution is expected in the coming weeks or believe our mayor will be out there next week to talk about this. i had to want to invite two quick people to speak. one is tom choir from mta. they're very quickly, tom give a quick perspective that i believe richard rothman is here from prozac what's up about prozac's resolution >> thank you good morning commission. i think those that is also ours the details about this proposal. my name is tom choir sustainable street at sfmta gig in april 22 this commission adopted vision zero which is even historic two and traffic they touted by 24 we lose san franciscans on the streets and we can get to zero. were not the only city doing is good business practice of major cities around the world. as the general manager said, the focus here is on jfk target are the vision zero identifying the streets with the most crashes was fatalities take place and unfortunately jfk drive is one of those trees we call high injury noted 12% streets in san francisco were more than three quarters or serious injuries and fatalities take place. they can jfk drive is april users drives pedestrian cyclist and of course park users the top priority for us. june of this year we remember the tragic death of heather miller cyclist riding on jfk drive on 30th st. and to get her death and other deaths happen this year has spurred the departments and the mayor to accelerate safety treatment in the park and that's why my next week we will have the nine speed humps of jfk drive oh west across overdrive all in the areas where we believe the topic speeding is is worse. of course we look for to in the coming months working with this commission and phil and his staff to find ways to make all the roads and streets safe for park users and reduce speeding and to create an environment where everyone can enjoy the parks safely just like mta is trying to do on all the streets in the city spews thank you, tom. i think we are from prozac richard rothman. >> good morning commissioners. my name is richard rothman and i'm the first vice-chairman of prozac art chairman stefan could not be here. he excused himself. had to teach a class today. i think in your package you have high-resolution that we passed that we support. vision zero but also i represent district 1 in on prozac and district 15 and four are just concerned that with these measures that it doesn't add two more traffic to lincoln and fulton street so we ask them if mta could come back within six months or after reasonable time when they can compare the traffic between what it is now under three streets, jfk, lincoln, and fulton and now and then in six months to see if there's any increase in traffic and we look forward to hearing from them and working with them. and to solve this problem. thank you. >> thank you. >> then very quickly ryan will conclude with our video and the general managers report. >> >>[video] good morning everybody want to think you all for coming down to the saddle and handlebar school courts. is in this beautiful spirit this is gorgeous. i want to thank the good tidings foundation sf rec and park serving you in san francisco and the warriors community foundation it let's have a huge round of applause. >>[applause] two blocks from era walk into battle barbecue with the idea of honoring eight with a course and we did that 16 years ago with mayor brown. was a great day. i asked him to take the first ceremonial shot and i know today he would be honored if his teammates and very dear friend jim barnett if he could take a moment and for him to go to the basket and make the ceremonial first shot on this courts. when i think of the great athletes in san francisco i only think of one. i think of lake thurman. when you're over here your school behind them you should be safe. you should have lots of fun. also you should learn some good lessons that sports builds character. he was literally the quality of what the mba really stands for and in every way as a player, and as a human being. we were blessed to have this giant among us. >>[applause] to our kids with the big saying here at rec and park on three i want you to yell get out and play. one, two, three, get out and play. everybody is here today because everybody must make so much and it is our promise that we make sure that the court shines for you for every. thank you. >>[applause] >> eight thurman golden state warriors past policies and that includes the general managers report. >> thank you very much >> i do have one card for this item. >>[calling public comment cards] there you are. >> good morning. dir. ginsberg and commissioners. my name is --community organizer the san francisco bicycle coalition. the bicycle coalition is a member driven nonprofit with the vision to promote the icicle for everyday transportation. as you mentioned earlier, the tragedy of june 22 two people were killed riding their bicycles still fresh in the minds of many people in san francisco. when mayor ed lee issued that there is that executive directive in august also his commitment to make our streets safe places for everyone he committed to reducing speeds on jfk drive were one of the fatal collisions occurred on 30th ave. we are thrilled to see that in april the commission resolved to adopt the vision zero resolution for the san francisco recreation and park department could bring the department into alignment with the vision zero goals for the city and county of san francisco. the proposal from the sfmta a and rec and park two at nine speed humps and one raise crosswalk on jfk drive between transverse and great highway is in line with the goals of vision zero and is an indispensable short-term measure producing speeds through the park. the bicycle coalition appreciates the city's responsiveness especially in light of the executive director. as in addition to the proposal were encouraging the sfmta usb speed zyrtec before and after implementation to measure the effectiveness of speed humps in common speeds along the corridor. the san francisco bicycle coalition has historically advocated for opening access to parks or people biking and walking and strongly believes parks are for people. that's why we support the speed humps as women are a measure and we're advocating for circulation study to consider long-term solutions by traffic diversion to reduce vehicle through traffic which is another task outlined in the second of directive. this would make the park more welcoming to people all ages and abilities to either walk or bike safely in the part. thank you for your attention today with the board to continue improving to assure golden gate park and the destination location and not a thoroughfare for fast-moving vehicles commuting to treasured urban space. >> thank you. spews anyone else would like to make public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. leon item for the general public comments. up to 15 min. it is there anyone who would like to make general public comment? comment on an item not on calendar today? seeing none, this item is closed. we are on item 5 consent calendar. is there anyone who would like to make the public on the consent calendar? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners we need a motion get >> moved and seconded. all those in favor say, aye >>[chorus of ayes] some of >> were now on items six san francisco zero. zero. >> good morning. president a commissioners general manager ginsberg. equate because i believe there's going to be a drill for the earthquake. we will see. my name is stephen hans vp of san [inaudible] >>group of nearly 300 people to join us at the zoo that eveningending with a great cocktail in the event that eveningraised over 60,000 hours to support the zoo and its mission. october is zoo tober fest. we been having a fun time. the zoo has done some events in the past but this year we repackage the month.a polka band that's been playing every weekend. it's been a lot of fun. it's nice to see with this new type of event i never repositioned event is it's really trying some new attendance, new faces from the zoo. in fact the first two weekends of 2016 in october we saw an increase of 25% over the previous year's october in tenants. we are really happy with that. saturday morning 8 october was a very special bacon is part of fleet week. there was also one of our members warnings which we host every month. the special for our members they get an hour early before the general public. this was one of the largest member warnings we have seen with over 700 people attending. but what may that day even more special was a performance by the navy us pacific fleet band that came out and entertain hundreds and hundreds of people. that day nearly 6000 people came to the zoo so it was a terrific day. everybody knows that the greatest halloween event in the city of san francisco is scary growth. following scarecrow of >> thanks. >> the scarecrow is a fantastic event that's on a friday night will give it another plug because it's such a great event in on saturday and sunday the 29th and 30th we do do at the zoo. it will be scary creepy and crawling literally creepy and quality with a special exhibit of art insect zoo. you come in and watch your favorite order reflects that are insect and bug related. and see all the wonderful bugs creeping around including, yes, the flesh eating beetle. that will give me the chills i can tell you. but we will have a parade every ticket when of our celebrity judges is chief joanne hayes-white as well. italy great opportunity for the whole family. there's trick-or-treating as well as on both days will have the pumpkin stomp and chomp. that's not for us to that's for the animals. it's a lot of fun to watch a hip oh eight a 20 pound pumpkin. november brings us a lot of pivotal events. of course were the most will be a snow day for our cute little [inaudible] is standard for polar bears in nature to live for female polar bear to live up into the mid-20s other age. lulu is 35 years old. she is the oldest polar bear in captivity. in north america. she was rescued by san francisco zoo. she used to get into a lot of trouble in her home of churchill canada. she was found going through too much garbage and went on trying to enter somebody's home. so the zoo saved her nearly 33 years ago. as she would have been euthanized. she is then living out a wonderful life. so as part of a wonderful little present within a bring in 4 tons of snow on november 11 to come on out and see lulu far look in the snow. this month october has been a wonderful month for us to push the message of conservation. we have four lectures three of them are still coming up this friday to sunday and the following static and please come out and you can take part in these lectures series daytime and evening as well. during the summer months zoo camp is one the largest programs of summer camp programs across the city. bringing in thousands of kids every day but now it is time for, yes, winter zoo camp your registration is open so tell your friends, your families. november like i said is a big month and just santa has a length three of his reindeer that will be coming in from the north pole on 19 november. there'll be over in a children's play area and we had a great set up for them good so we would like to us spend the show thanks to santa and mrs. clause for letting us have three reindeer. and there will be at the zoo until january 2, i believe which then of course leads to the last item. i can't believe we talking about december already but zoo lights which is a few huge for us. it will be millions of lights, music, carolers, food, and good activities beginning december 16. through december 30. we will be zoo lights. italy great time. that concludes my presentation. >> is there any public comment on this item on the zoo? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, this was discussion only. >> thank you >> we on item 7. patricia's green art installation. >>good morning commissioners. dana ketchum, director property and permits and reservations. i am here to present a proposal for your consideration to approve a request from the san francisco arts commission to place a temporary arts installation of two outdoorhyb sculptures by, i don't know how to pronounce this so i will spell it out, a bay area-based artist team and patricia graves in hays about from november 8 2016-november 8, 2017. up on the screen i have some information on the exhibition. the first slide shows you we've had our history of art exhibits at the patricia green and it's really drawn people to the park and been a wonderful addition since it reopened. this was a little different because it's going to be into locations. this can be one in the center and then one over on the side or a tree recently came down. we reviewed this with park staff. they're all on board with it. it still a little bit in the exact design stage but show you a prototype. as you can see, it's really beautiful. it will aid up at night. will draw people to the park. we are finalizing the electrical work and it sort of a build in place which is why don't have the specific designs of it. the preliminary arts commission visual arts committee approved it yesterday. you will go to the full arts commission on november 7 and would not be installed without their approval. it is supported by the hayes valley new york association enthusiastically. that's it. >> is there anyone who like to make public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner mcdonnell >> one quick question. it's beautiful is there a i'm presuming there may be to move about the city in terms of temporary installation >> will joel madden would be here but the commission meeting went a little too long. she would be the one to answer that. i think it's all about finding but all ways that you guys asked that question because it is really spectacular. >> thank you. >> is that, commissioner >> seeing no other comes will entertain a motion. moved and seconded. all those in favor say, aye >>[chorus of ayes] so move. >>[gavel] >> we are now on item 8, lake merced west rfp. >> good morning commission. mr. pres. custer general management sandra costello with the recreation and park department and the property management division to i'm here today to present to you the proposal from the lake merced recreation and i want to walk through the rfp process. before i get started into the meat of the presentation i want to give a little background in orientation of the site. update on the recent cleanup process performed by the puc and again walk you through the steps that we undertook the request for proposal process. lake merced west is situated between a shoreline of the south lake of lake merced and john deere drive just east of the intersection with skyline boulevard. it is owned by the public utilities commission. however it's managed by the recreation and park department pursuant to a mou by the two departments at the site was previously released since the 1930s to the pacific rod and gun club watford skeet and trap shooting. the puc took over the management of the property in 2013 and they performed an extensive cleanup. to remove high levels of lead arsenic and poly aromatic hydrocarbons caused by the use from the pacific rod and gun club. the gun club vacated the premises in 2015 and the cleanup was completed earlier this year. today the site is left with native grass hydro-seed next three erosion control which restored wetland areas around along the northern portion of the site. the department working very close collaboration with the puc to develop the language and request for proposals for this opportunity. the commission approved the rv in december of last year and was released in january of this year. there were no objections to the language in the rfp at a commission meeting. the fee the conference meetings with the public community meetings. the opportunity focused on three main areas. reactivating the site, the department and the qc were looking for high-quality opportunities for public recreation to take it vantage of this really special unique lakeside setting. no recreational use is prohibited in the opportunity provided. we ask the proposals with initial term not to exceed 20 years but offered opportunities to propose an extended lease term. we also want to enhance public enjoyment of this 11 acre site and we specified that this site is offered in as is condition that the property will require substantial investment by the respondent. their number of existing buildings. some of them in poor shape and potentially historic resources. about these provisions would vote jointly by the recreation and park and the public utilities commission of course all propose that users must meet a recreational purpose. the puc mandated the propose use must protect the watershed and that future use is prohibited the resulting deposit in the watershed. of course with this opportunity environmental review would be required to the environmental review process historic preservation analysis will be performed as well. the future agreement is subject to review by the california coastal commission. many of the objectives that were developed again in close collaboration with the puc were listed from the lake merced watershed report. this watershed report was developed by a group of lake users, stakeholders, advocacy groups, public agencies and the general public. there were three main focus areas again taking advantage of this really special parcel of property. not contaminating the soil or resulting in restrictions on any future use of the site. obtaining a financially viable tenant to enter into a long-term lease agreement and provide a valuable amenities to the public. we have minimum qualifications that were to be met jointly or directly or through consultants or joint venture partners. there were five years experience fully managing a business nature of this opportunity and demonstrated association with at least two development projects of similar size and scope to the propose project. just as we did with the palace of fine arts we created a letter of interest and the process created an avenue for parties of that did not want to or didn't have the capacity to take over the entire master lease agreement for the 11 acres. they were able to submit a formal letter of intricate we posted that letter on our website and an opportunity to encourage partnerships between entities. we receive the six letters of interested one from city kayak, one from the bay area many horse from the lake merced growing community which consisted of as i pacific rowing, south bend rowing club and the dolphin rowing and boating club. the landscape and architecture design firm the dragon boat association and the ymca. we also recently received a letter of interest from outward bound california. as you can see we did not receive a letter or any formal participation from in the process from the previous 10 in the pacific rod and gun club were from the lake merced outdoor center. the department received one response to this rfp. in june of this year. their sponsors from an entity called the lake merced recreation loc a joint venture between outback adventures and greener excavations and construction their spots was posted on her website minus the confidential proprietary financial information and available for the public to review. i'm going to walk you through before i get into the details of the proposal will walk you through the joint partnership. outback adventures was started in 1999 by j genji who is here today with his team. as an outdoor adventure company specializing in renting outdoor sporting equipment and providing guided tour centrex. their mission is to enable and encourage the public to enjoy the great outdoors. jake began outback adventures after completing the screen environmental studies the five-year tenure and outdoor specialty retail store in the bay area. outback adventures now has two retail stores when in the north bay and one and a you stay however they are both operation still remains focused on getting the public outside and enjoying the water. i'm going to highlight a couple of current and past permits they have held good yosemite national park point rate national seashore for 12 years castle rock state park. they been offering rockclimbing for 17 years. the discrete part for 15 years. and pinnacle national monument for eight years. this entity has vast experience providing regulation to the public and sensitive part settings it all over california. their current on water location consists of stevens creek reservoir in cupertino, del valle regional park in livermore, and galena squeak your china camp good cover variety of services at the sites by merely in water sports. a little bit about greener exhibitions and contribute tom foley is here from the company. he is the owner and operator. he began the company from a lifelong experience in the construction trade and he started the business in 2005 to offer more environmentally conscious excavation and construction company. it makes sense that outback adventures and tom foley have combined. they share the environmental work ethic. paul holies" completed large-scale instruction projects up to $9 million in value that he's worked on large historic ranches the public buildings such as the v8 writer in san francisco. he is also 50% owner and he see builders. there also proposing to partner with a number of other entities such as the yellow bike project. there are really unique organization. their nonprofit do it yourself by project community building organization that invests in nonfunctioning bikes to get them back on the road. this road provides independence for those most in need providing them the transportation they need to get round. yellow bikes current operation located in the tenderloin. also partnering with polytech associates get woman owned company in san francisco since 1986. weber breath of experience on large development projects in san francisco and the bay area and i also will act as consultants to help navigate through the approval process i had. they've also brought on stillwater consulting who is a sustainability consulting company specializing in biofuels green building and business development. their focus is to preserve the environment and the connection to its community. paper said recreation will also bring on historic preservation consultant to add to the professional team. they're proposing a number of uses could all go into little more detail we talk about the phases. of construction. however i do want to highlight kayaking and athletic fields, paddle boarding, variety of rowing opportunities a food and beverage component, birding, fishing, and a farmers market. the proposing to execute and deliver this project in three-phase. the first phase which overly would commence in 2018 were actually completed in 2018, would have a number of buildings could i they to build kayaks and had a board boathouse. install and you dock. public restrooms. which is a very important part of the public prosecutor we heard that loud and clear from our public meetings that this site would need the public restrooms for those traveling around the long track. a new parking and roadway area. landscaping and a gazebo. they also propose to rehab the existing historic buildings. into a bike area and a registration center provide light snacks and ancillary retail, a restaurant fitness room, bathroom and conference space. the proposed activities and phase 1 kayak and paddle board rental lessons in instruction farmers market, picnicking, dining, fitness classes, and the bike shop. in phase 1, is approximately $1.9 million. phase 2 would be a little over half $1 million. they hope to execute the phase 2 in 2019 could the proposing to install deals that at field as part of phase 2. in a gazebo and picnic area. phase 3 which is highlighted in blue, they're proposing to install the community gardens, build a bird observatory a community circle and fishing pier and install bocce ball courts. we had an incredible evaluation panel look at this proposal and evaluate it on the terms and conditions listed in the request for proposals. we representation with expertise in watershed management, the lake percent task force, somebody with youth program experience and express working with the various communities in san francisco. a representative from district 7 supported by the district supervisor, supervisor yee. this is also supervisor yee's appointment to the qc citizens advisory committee. somebody with deep finance experience. in the evaluation criteria which is listed in the rp department emphasize youth and activation. 75% of the available programming are available points were focused on public access protection of the watershed, recreational uses, consideration of noise, parking and traffic mitigation and project feasibility. the rfp is not focused on revenue to the city but does little for an intensity that is the financial capacity to complete their project. the respondent received an-party me and overall score of 85 points. paper said recreation is proposing initial term of 20 years with an option to extend and traditional 20. these points will be negotiated should you authorize us to enter into the next stage. the proposing rent credits for the initial 10 years to offset their investment into the site. an additional terms and conditions as i noted will be negotiated in the proposed lease with dead be presented to the commission. i'm going to walk through a bit of a timeline. we are hoping today recommending that you select this respondent and authorize staff to enter into big initiation. we would immediately begin the ceqa process environmental review. we have committed to the public to go back to them for public meeting to present the lease terms before it is before you at the commission and it recommended to the board of supervisors. we hope to finish phase 3 x 20 20. the department performed extensive public outreach for this opportunity. we were able to leverage some of the stakeholder list that the puc had been generating for years the lake merced watershed task force process. in addition to our district supervisors who presented this information in their newsletters. we also had extensive public meetings. i want to note that mention the lake percent task force on number of times. those meetings although they concluded a number of years ago except the framework for developing the rfp that you supported earlier this year. we held a public meeting to present the terms of the rfp last fall. we'll three conferences as well on-site. there were attended by many including the maker said outdoor center who attended all three meetings. i want to note while the respondent was developing their proposal they did reach out to lake merced outdoor center on three separate times can one e-mail and two phone calls and not receive with little or no response back. the respondent has however been able to advanced partnership discussions with others who attended those previous conferences such as outward bound california and polytech associates. the department also held a public meeting just a month ago to introduce paper said recreation to the public. the meeting was attended by about 70 people. it was very well attended and the vast majority of the attendees offered supportive comments for our respondent. we have received which should be in your file, 27 personalized e-mails and letters of support for the respondent. we have also received 139 e-mails opposing the respondent. 123 of those 139 e-mails were foreign e-mails with the exact same verbiage could which essentially opposed lake merced recreation and wanted to bring back trap and skeet shooting to the site. they criticized the proposal that it didn't have a financially sustainable proposal. i do want to note that the detailed financial information is not yet been disclosed to the public. they asked that we reject the that you reject the rfp and rewrite the rfp so lake merced outdoor center can submit a response. 11 of those 139 e-mails with the form e-mail but at an additional comments. he also received five e-mails that were personal e-mails good i should say they were a little-they were not performing e-mail. they rejected the respondent and supported the lake merced outdoor center and we also received one e-mail from somebody who is concerned in general about wildlife in the area and any activity that would take place. at the operations committee for those of you who were there, we had 17 people testifying in favor of the proposal including the lake would apartment association represents the 1400 people to live directly across the street from the projects i could get a member of the lake merced task force representatives from the rowing community and environmental education group. we also had four people associated with lake merced outdoor center and testified in opposition to the lake merced proposal. last week we received a letter from the leadership within lake merced outdoor center who asked us to amend the rfp to quote in skeet insert skeet shooting into the activities offered at lake michigan as i said earlier in my presentations skeet and trap shooting was not a prohibited activity in the rfp. additionally the department did not receive any objection to the light which in the rfp and the time to make modifications to the document the rfp, was during the commission approval process last year or prior to the submission date which was june. the department received one response to this rfp and it's from lake or said recreation is the only response the for you to consider today. we recommend that you authorize us to go into the next age of the process and negotiate a term followed by a lease agreement with lake merced recreation. that concludes my presentation however i would with your permission like to bring up steve bridget from the public utilities commission and we partnered who's a been a great resource for us as we navigated through the process today. >> thank you. >> good morning commissioner steve ritchie assistant general manager for wider set of views. i will make my comment to commissioner mcdonnell. pz does not go by without hearing about the cubs from commissioner quan and getting pretty old. on the other hand, it's a pleasure to see them one. that aside, thanks for providing me the opportunity to speak. i do have to leave to go to another meeting but i want to acknowledge that we've had a very strong working relationship with the development of the rfp with cassandra and the general manager ginsburg. we have a strong interest in the protection of the underlying land. we had a substantial ratepayer funds to clean up the subject they're so shot in the lake and there may be some question we will have to expend more to clean that up. so we want to make sure that whatever activities went on here that we fully support recreational. it's a great second or so question about that but it needed to be protected for future uses throughout. and lake merced needs to be parked tactic. so we were very concerned to make sure the rp was very clear on that. we follow the process. we participated we do not sit on the selection panel but we want to make sure that the interest of the land and the water would be protected as part of this. we are satisfied that proposal does that in its current form. i'll be happy to answer questions and offer the questions come up our staff person-debbie was the project manager could after i leave if there's other questions he can answer them >> great. thank you very much but i don't see any questions from any commissioners at this time. appreciate you coming. >> thank you very much >> ms. cassandra, you done spewing okay would you like to go to public comment >> please he was all >> i will call up your name. please come on up. >>[calling public comment cards] >> good morning commissioner should good morning general manager ginsburg might enjoy spring may 2 or outward bound california. outward bound california is a nonprofit outdoor education organization based here in san francisco. since 2009 we work with nearly 5000 young people from the greater bay area. most of them live near the san francisco city property and go to school here. outward bound continues to work with young people across the state in our mission is to change lives to challenging [inaudible] if we do that through outdoor activities teaching leadership character and service learning. our commitment to this project is that we see this as a way to increase access to natural spaces here in the city for young people. of course our focus has been young people we understand this project will actually impact the greater community. people all ages from all committees. the city and neighborhoods. we worked with jay and his team over the past number of months to look at the proposal they put together. to see what kind of partnership we could build with them to advance both our mission as a nonprofit organization in advance of the motion of the puc and the rec and park. throughout our conversation we been nothing but impressed by this proposal and the team that's put it forth. they've worked with the community they talk to stakeholders from across the city. they've included nonprofit organizations like ourselves who could not take on a project like this on our own but see it as a way to bring together nonprofit organizations and for-profit organizations in the collaborative spirit. we fully support the project like i said i would urge you to move this forward to the prospect thank you >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good morning commissioner minus aaron myers. i'm a software engineer at a fairly large company based in palo alto in san francisco. i was born here in san francisco but with most my life on the ease coast was recently before this living in york city. york city as i'm sure y'all where they people consider the greatest city in the world could i would have to disagree i moved here because i wanted a fantastic city with fantastic outdoor opportunities. san francisco before that. san francisco 04 that by providing me with terminus fishing opportunities. new york you can catch fish you know what the new year dinner table. new york has sort of double as the cabinet g san francisco provides all that and it's tremendous. until very recently san francisco also provided some the know some past about which is tapping skeet shooting. i met hunter did i been for a long time. that something near and dear to my heart. san francisco the crtc was around provided on beasley and opportunities to practice shooting which is an soa part of hunting and also educational opportunities for obtaining one's hunting license. i'm very sad to see those things go. the reason i found the event so refreshing is versus newark city because it's oh (not only to traditionally considered sort of lets say liberal passions but all questions including trap and skeet shooting. i understand that the pacific gun club is not coming back it i understand that ship has sailed it when i'm asking you to consider strongly in some way to incorporate trap and skeet shooting into the existing plans. either by asking lake merced west to amend their plans to include the trap and skeet shooting on the trap and skeet fields which are on the site and are distort portions of the site. or, to amend the rfp to allow the participation of a group that could i would support tapping skeet shooting did i do we just heard that the rp did not explicitly exclude trap and skeet shooting. that is technically true but also says that allowed no deposits in the lake which is a necessary part of trap and speed should get i'd also like to clarify that the cleanup that was done was largely due to lead arsenic. for many years of the pacific" did not shoot lead shot into the lake. they're still shot which is non-toxic. this photo degradable wives etc. so this is eminently possible in environmentally friendly way. but by excluding all deposits in the lake effectively excluded tapping skeet shooting. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> commissioners, general manager ginsburg, rec and park thank you for your time today. we are here to talk about the lake merced west proposal. he was in you speak into the microphone >> >> yes. my name is sam knows my name this is emily koenig were with s st. ignatius kuhl and >> were unopposed to the current >> we support rec and park in the vetting process for finding an ideal respondent >> if the current proposal is accepted we are committed to continuing to work with the respondent and rec and park >> we've been providing going to the youth of san francisco promos 40 years we commit ourselves to continuing to work with the racks with whatever proposal respondent if they choose this to working with him and then to help grow the area, bring more use more adults more activities to the lake. >> we thank you so much for your time and we also want to invite you all out to lake merced on december 3 for a big learn to row day. anytime you are interested in coming out and watching us practice you can come in a the coaches lunch whenever you want. >> will keep you safe. will give you life jackets. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. i'm going to call a few more names. >>[calling public comment cards] >>-michael emery commissioners. they'll pick up get a note i sent to cassandra last week after her performance before you. i just want to read it. cassandra what you dismissively announce the we do not file a letter of intent you go to report the long before you got to the rfp we met with you dana catch him, to review our concept. commissioner should know that you conceived the rfp with our 20 page concepts in hand. do not reveal this was quite deceitful bus to be truthful and transparent you and your staff were well aware of our plan our partners and our intentions. you also stated were surprised that we did not submit a response. again to be truthful and transparent, you are made aware of multiple occasions the we felt the rp was specifically written to exclude skeet and trap shooting. the clause protection of lake merced and surround watershed land future recreational activities that would result direct deposition of any waste hazardous materials foreign substance on the premises were lake merced are prohibited. as you inform to meet the lake protections came directly from the puc. as you know, our response would have been immediately disqualified as a deposit small amounts of non-toxic steel shot into the lake. thus you cannot honestly expressed surprise that we do not submit a response. have you suggested we file a protest over this clause a discussion or negotiation may have occurred that made the loudest to view beach resolution and therefore the mission of our plan. in looking at the actual issues that affect the overall lake merced water quality steel shot in a small portion of the lake and short is a non-issue. the decline of the water quality and water levels in the lake directly related to the adjacent golf courses in their former water and fertilizer use. the larger of the fish and fishing community is a direct result of the low oxygen levels related to the past practices of the golf course management. the epa and the california department of fish and game allow and require non-toxic steel shot when hunting in or around any state watershed. to prevent to forbid it at lake merced can only be intended to exclude a form of recreation. so i did want to read from your actual rfp some provisions they should be aware of. which i sent to cassandra. the current issue issuance of this rfp is not a promise or agreement that the city will actually enter into any contract. the parts especially reserves the right to waive any technical defect were in from audi, reject any were also middles, suspend any and all aspects of the process indicated in this rp, amend this rp, terminate this rp and issue a new request for interest request some overall respondents to revise submittals, select a tenant by any other means. offer new leasing opportunities in the area at any time in the last one, extended deadlines for accepting submittals-second last-decide not to pursue this offering. thank you >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good morning to my name is robert ritchie, lifetime born and raised in san francisco. i first started shooting at the pacific rod and gun club in the 1950s. even then it was a club of long-standing. i am here today to protest the rfp as presently written. i asked could either be rejected or amended to specifically provide for skeet and trap shooting. earlier this morning one of the speakers commented that sports build character. this is particularly true of the shooting sports. they build the qualities of courtesy, discipline and safety. i am 83 years old. my shooting years are at and and but i am here because i want to see the same benefits for coming generations that i had enjoyed. the previous speaker made the point that steel shot is by its nature non-toxic and i would simply add that the current generation of shotgun wives are biodegradable. there is no legitimate environmental concern about skeet and trap shooting the weight is conducted today. i'm going to conclude my remarks but i will take any questions if you have them. >> are you done spewing >> thank you for hearing me >> thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> hello again. dir. ginsberg and commissioner. my name is leah raskin get community organizer with the san francisco bicycle coalition and on behalf of the organization and are 10,000+ members were here to convey our strong support for a lease agreement with lake merced recreation llc to operate and manage a facility in lake merced west in partnership with the sf yellow bike project. the lake merced recreation proposal would create space for grassroots community-based nonprofit that the bike in the hands of people who will benefit the most. while increasing recreational cycling opportunities for people who bike this popular and scenic route. the sf bike coalition is a long-standing partnership with the sf yellow bike project work community bike build program. they are trusted and astonished on profit organization promoting equitable access to bicycles and repair knowledge. making our city a better place in the process. this partnership has the potential to provide an affordable and hopi transportation choice to hundreds of san franciscans. the tomatoes in the southern and western neighborhoods. we strongly believe this proposal and sf yellow bike project participation in it directly aligned with sf patient by increasing access to an increase our urban joint we thank sfpd for it in guttural and for your attention today. >> thank you. >> so >>[calling public comment cards] >> my name is robert caret. i like to comment on the lake merced west proposal. they were offering picnic tables boating facilities birdwatching all these things are currently already available at lake merced. i think the recreation part to offer diverse recreational opportunities for study types of activities as possible and that should include skeet shooting. skeet shooting site that was the only site within 40 miles was for a popular.. it's recreational opportunity to be offered there and i think the lake merced west proposal ought to be modified so that skeet shooting is brought back to lake merced. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is kim camp resident of the san francisco born and raised. i shared the story with you a couple weeks ago my apologies for the redundancy. i'm a big fan of san francisco rec and park. i learned how to swim and will the beta north page and how do they stop all at mosconi and volleyball at the chinese rec and park under so thank you mr. ginsberg for all the opportunities you've given me. fitness and recreation has become a part of my leg and my personal trainer now. icj's proposal in this rp as being one to offer all the opportunities that i had growing up know them in the sunset i feel like it's the perfect spot. it's a perfect area. it's an area that needs a lot of recreation sports and am here to support his proposal. thank you. >> thank you. he was next speaker. >> >> good afternoon commissioners. mr. pres. and mr. general manager. my name is--i think and i serve as the cfo of the lake merced making the proposal. i have a mba in finance from uc berkeley and my day job i work at my mental scientists for a nonprofit company. i don't j genji and christine for more than 10 years. i really come to appreciate the dedication and hard work and what they do to promote outdoor activities in the bay area. we talked about doing business together and so in this exciting opportunity to develop lake merced came about it seemed like a perfect time for us to work together. i consider myself to be a nature lover and in my research i done a lot of work in improving air quality in our urban areas as visibility in national parks so this opportunity to work with them seems perfect for me. so as part of the lake merced recreation my primary role is to make sure our financial planning is sound and concluding our cost estimates and avenue revenue projection. though very realistic by [inaudible] assumptions in our proposal to make sure we have a viable business model. i can assure you that our overall financial plan is sound and would delivers successfully promised goals. i'm looking forward to working with my team and with staff on this exciting project. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon commissioners and general manager ginsberg. my name is linda chu. i'm a third-generation san franciscans and live in the city and raised a son who goes to us sft schools good i'm here represented california dragon boat association. to express our strong support for lake merced recreation llc's proposal for lake merced west. on the cba's past president and involuntary with the organization for over 16 years. it's been a lot of time in late percent over the years. i currently direct our international dragon festival which are fourthly had to move to oakland this year. i also served on lake merced task force and also helped write the committee opportunity fund grant for renovations to the northlake dot. just a little bit of background about the program we were formed over 20 years ago. have been running dragon boat program set up late percent for about 15 years or so. while our festival had to move out of lake merced the number of other races there including our youth race our college race, regional regatta and we have about 90% of our practices at lake merced in the northlake. this translates-i did the calculations-on average week about 1600 visits to northlake. on the weekly basis. many of these are from the youth. we run a free very large dragon boat billed program we provide free of charge to use. give about 1000 youth who participate in schools like lincoln, lowell, washington, mission, balboa, galileo. many the high schools here. the program is open to all youth but we been particularly successful reaching an interesting group of immigrant youth has never ever participated in team sports before. they do not grope with baseball bats or soccer moms. but they can compete in dragon boating 18 sport very very high level. they go actually all over the country to compete. they travel even internationally to macau and china to compete in what we hear from them frequently as many them as they take 2-3 buses to get to lake merced every sickle week multiple times >> would you hold on go ahead. sorry >> many of them take 2-3 buses to get to lake merced every week. multiple times a week and take them over an hour each way. when we asked them why do you do this and they actually they say we just love mike lake merced. we love being out here we love hewitt were in the middle of nature getting away from the city. so from this perspective that leads us to want to be in strong support of this proposal. we were there opportunity to meet with jamie and his group election the committee minded and collaborative and open to ideas . lake merced is very unique asset as you know we've had troubles keeping our festival here as we grow in san francisco and so southlake is the larger of the two lakes and right now it's axis axis is limited to physical infrastructure and lack of programming. they've done a great job of activating italy things a lot more opportunity from their proposal would dramatically increase access to the lake for all san francisco residence and one. what of activating this underutilized asset. so thank you very much. >> thank you. in >> next speaker, please. >> good morning commissioners and general manager ginsberg. staff. think of it opportunity to speak. my name is j genji and the president of lake merced recreation lc. the past 17 years main i mission to enable and encourage more people to join the outdoors. so that it can gain a better understanding appreciation for the environment. break said about the prospects been able to continue this mission at lake merced and bring a variety of activities to the residence of san francisco. as you may know many people grew up visiting lake merced talk about his former 40 days. the days when there were many active users and commercial concessionaire were people can rent boats, by fishing licenses and get a meal at the boathouse restaurant. yes, compared to write out there were times when lake merced offered more to its visitors but things are changing for the better. that's why we are all here today. we have a plan to reactivate much as the lakes waters but also it's a land based recreational opportunities. the plan is to offer friday of activities that everyone can enjoy it regardless of age ability or skill level. without waiving of sparrow we feel we have something for everyone. activities have been sold to be highly compatible with the environment while maintaining open space and preserving historic resources. our team is made up of dedicated professionals web experience to develop a thriving recreational business. if awarded this rfp we assure you will work extremely hard to make lake said west it premiered recreation destination. we also committed to join with the many dedicated people, many of whom are in this room, will work tirelessly to advocate for the tech and restore the amazing natural and recreational resource that is lake merced. i hope you agree with your staff and the selection panel and approve our proposal for lake merced west. thank you for your time and consideration. >> think. >> i just going to repeat the last names i called. >>[calling public comment cards] did anyone else want to make public comment please to come up as soon as they are done. >> thank you. mr. ginsberg and commission my name is nathan woody executive director and cofounder of san francisco yellow bike project. the last five years we founded a nonprofit to serve the cities least-the city's population with the least ability to access repair facilities and materials for bicycles. i formed this nonprofit in response to the city councils ideal that they would have 20% bicycle transportation cochair by the year 2020 we are definitely far far >> would you hold up 1 min. folks, if your phone is going off these turn them off. it's disrupting to the meeting. thank you. go ahead >> thank you it i found it are nonprofit to provide resources to those who would not otherwise have them. in some cases even a repair to the bicycle can be cost prohibitive to some of our most vulnerable residents. in that time we served thousands of adults affected thousands of repairs distributed without the bicycle coalition some of our other community partners thousands of bike on the streets. the coolest part about what we do is some of her work serving children. just today, i got a one of those for your reminder things on the social media feed tell me what i was doing exactly 4 years ago today was accident on the way with my other cofounder to sunnyside elementary school with two cargo bikes full of kids bikes to facilitate our very first kids bikes swapped at that location. so that was a really nice for minor to me what is so excited about this opportunity to san francisco yellow bike project and specifically the populations we serve to have a safe and related from traffic and other road users with a can be very vulnerable to these machines. this space offers an opportunity to create a separate training facility, separate from cars, separate from traffic separate from the dangers that exist in the real world rose to about our volunteers and our staff to train children and get them up and running in a safe manner at this location. we will also be offering a small essentials only sort of retail bike shop. the south and west side of stephen a particularly underserved in terms of bike shops and not served at all in terms of community bike resources. we would also operate some community bike shops where the public is free to attend with no set cost for their participation. as i mentioned, we will--our biggest goal here is to create as a place for the kids. working with the lake merced recreation llc this is just an incredible opportunity to grow our impact get more bikes on the streets more writers learning to ride safely. it's truly a special moment in our history. this is something that could affect generations of cyclist to come. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon everybody i name is paul foley. on the order of reader activations and constructed been working in conjecture for 25 years development for the last 12 years. eddie green construction economics building management. i worked on almost every type of construction project out there did i been an owner and partner in multiple mixed-use commercial residential developments here in the bay area. we have worked objects all the way from purchase through planning, design and completion. we also ongoing maintenance contracts on certain ranches and developments. have an excellent relationship with a couple of very reputable commercial banks and private investors. we have the capital, the manpower of the women and experience to create the project in front of you today. we look forward to moving to the next stage. thank you for your time. >> thank you group >>good afternoon commissioners and mr. ginsberg. the same thing happened to me on my way to this meeting this morning. as i boarded the muni at west portal i started reminiscing about the last 18 years that i've been involved with lake merced and trying to save the lake. there i flew right by the civic center station. i was so deep in thought which would be no surprise to my family. they've gotten used to it. but i do want to call out a few people here. that is, we are so happy that steve ritchie joined the san francisco puc group took on the shoulders to save the lake. then we had good fortune of having only move in and clean up the site. so it can become a recreational facility for rec and park and cassandra, thank you for all your work, too. it's a real pleasant-activity for me to be able to be here and see us get to this point and commissioners, i will tell you who it is good he can admit it if you want to but one of the commissioners here even went out bravely and joint a coaching session on lake merced and we didn't have to rescue him. he came back and he was checking out his muscles and he seemed like he was ready to go again. >> that was a long time ago. >>[laughing] >> but you have not changed, commissioner. you look great. here's the thing about lake merced a secret, really in san francisco. any of you have children or friends who tried applied to university of california berkeley. 55,000 students they are competing with it everybody that graduates from lowell is qualified to go to calvert they don't get in. that's just the way it is. but if you're a rower from lake merced and a coach has identified you he will say, make your application to cal goodwin that application gets to cal he stands it. those growers get into cal. that's the same for stamford, washington, princeton, harvard. you name it. that's the beauty of lake merced. >>[laughing] keep that in mind. as we move into phase 2 to implement the request for proposal. were the proposal for lake merced the llc. i strongly support it. thank you so much commissioners >> thank you. next >> next speaker, please. is there anyone else would like to speak? >> good afternoon commissioners my name is nick meyers on the guide service coordinator and climbing and paddling ever outback adventure. i worked with jay for some time now and i'm here to browse for the character and work ethic of these two in particular i've seen them work seven days a week more often than not and save countless nights to finish items for customers that they needed the next day or the day after just so they were done. they got from guiding trips to getting a store to having to retail stores and three on water locations. i know if there's one thing i know about them is that they won't give up and what they create will be the best it can be. i also want to mention some of the feedback we've been receiving about this project in the couple hours that we had our staff on site at lake merced speaking to people about the project get we received almost 250 signatures supporting the proposal. was every person we spoke to sign the petition and was very excited to about the new proposed land use. i thought might be helpful to share some of his comments. we noted from these interactions. [inaudible] thinks the lake is on allies to the like to see a committee friendly area to relax and what you mentioned the sf to the gun range was enough noise. enough is a lake merced resident used to outback adventure locations and thinks these proposal would be a perfect fit for the sf community. mary is a nine-year-old resident accrued by the lake merced and walks her dog daily around the lake. she remembers the noise from the rod and gun club and feels it's time for a change. trammell is a teenager and just started fishing six months ago and he was very excited about additional fishing opportunities but he insisted that he sign the petition. nancy is a dog walker but as concerns regarding noise from the shooting but scarcer client stocks and interested in facilities that are dog from the. marissa was riding her bike when we met her and she was very excited to it about a community nonprofit bike service offering. my room is a fisherman that would like to see additional fishing offerings at lake merced and ashley and tina would love to see kayaking on the lake in order to have given form of exercise. several would've loved to be here today but the meeting time did not sit well with a lot of people's work schedule. maybe if they would obey should've come an hour later and might've made it. these are the types of common to hear again and again. rick said the disposal supported by people all ages and interests which are because were to the wide range of offerings. thank you for your time >> thank you >> the next >> thank you for letting me speak my name is neil hunt. i must defend residents. i own a business here and we provide flowers for weddings etc. i am here to speak on the nature of the rfp. it concerned me that one of the things that michael and earlier speaker of voodoo was a poison pill snuck into the request for proposal that is the deposits in the lake. as you know, i'll do without a live it later but one of my issues with this is we are one submission. but there was another submission that was fully formed that was designed by architect who created cavallo point that it was read certified. offered diverse opportunities. it was environmentally sustainable and embedded by a consulting firm to be so. the second it offered rowing, and restaurants and many other activities and that was the proposal that included skeet. unfortunately was not submitted because of the issue with the deposits in the lake. shot, now, is composed of completely non-toxic materials. it is considered adequate for every single watershed owned by either the federal or state wildlife agencies. so that is not actually an issue for the lake but wasn't used to limit the proposal. my concern is that we are removing some activities that have history in san francisco that are unique in favor of a for-profit company from out of town and there are some nonprofits right along those could be included in any use of the lake. these are all fine activities. the paddle boarding and kayaking and whatnot and god knows [inaudible] yoga. but one of the considerations is that many of these activities are payable in better locations nearby were having tried and failed at the lake previously. for example, you can rent kayaks in alameda beach in many different areas. a basic reality of the lake is that it sees the sun about four months out of the year if you put it all together. it tends to be windy and foggy those of us who live on the westside-i live within a corner model of the lake-we kind of like it that way but so my concern is that we have eliminated the possibility of historic activities, eliminated a community based organization that had diverse membership of all economic levels of all ethnicities and were placing it with something that is all very nice, things that are already readily available in the area. i feel like it's another example of kind of traditional san francisco being supplanted by the new shiny san francisco. >> you are at time, sir >> one other consideration >> you are at time. >> thank you >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon commissioners. good afternoon everyone. my name is johnson --i was retired [inaudible] department of public health since 2012. four years ago. after i retired what should i do? i was looking for-i found a wonderful sports in my neighborhood. that is deemed shooting in our club. in the pacific gun and rod club [inaudible] and advisor it also came out the team member from our club. so we would like the san francisco would like to be [inaudible] so why don't keep. this kind of wonderful program for people to practice [inaudible] games. second point, also, i came to san francisco in 1989. [inaudible] we all love and remember the golden gate bridge. then this club the age of this club,, age is much older than the deal golden gate bridge. so i just don't think we have too many historic sites in san francisco city since we are the most famous historic city in the world. so why don't we keep this very old historic site for our public interest. thank you for listening. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else would like to make public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner mcdonnell >> cassandra, if you questions if i may. thank you. i guess let's start with the i guess central question in this issue around the stipulation in the rfp about around deposits. a what were the conditions around i was raised by puc? b, is that alterable or not i guess is the question? >> sure. as i mentioned in the presentation, the terms and conditions were developed jointly between the department and the puc. that specific provision you mentioned commissioner, was mandated by the public utilities commission did they manage the watershed. this a very meek and important water resource so they mandated that no permanent deposits will deposits be left in the lake. that language was inserted in the rfp. at this point, the time to amend anarchy as i mentioned, was in december when this was embedded at the commission that both operations and full commission. we presented the terms and conditions of the rfp to the community in a public meeting. we also had that the rp open for six months and we do not receive any formal bequest to amend any portion of the rfp. >> thank you. secondly, in terms of the scoring sheet, moving forward, thank you for that-in terms of the scoring sheet i noted that in most of the sections the scores were-we discussed this a believe it operations-but if you could replay it i would appreciate it, which is 80-90% and then we got to financial sustainability i'm sorry feasibility and financial terms was 64 and 71% effectively can you remind me what are the issues are looking to address, resolve, mitigate as you potentially moving into negotiation? >> thank you for the question it as you noted the evaluation criteria did focus on youth and not financials and not revenue to the city. this is a first-time project for outback to do a substantial project in san francisco could however, with a partnership with greener excavation, your confidence in the joint venture partnerships ability to deliver a project of this size and nature and based on our backs 19 years of offering recreation in a vast breath of part part sensor part properties the data at national guard swivel, circle and to be able to execute these project and deliver a timely project. the proposals were relatively low in the proposed financial terms. they did propose the first 10 years of a rent credit which was really allowable in the rfp. we know that a substantial investment will be required into the site we want to make sure that we will be able to amortize those details in the lease agreement. so the next stage if you authorize us to enter into negotiations, we will be digging into those financials and coming back to you with a lease agreement for the project. >> thank you. two more questions quickly. one, in the time it wasn't clear to me at what point phase 1, two, or three, at which activities activation actually begins. is it post all three? it wasn't quite clear >> thank you for the question. immediately after phase 1 is completed the activities would be available to the public. >> great. thank you. last question. while not formal, i would presume that are too wet friends from the rowing club are going to be partners because it wasn't clear any actual rfp >> i think they are going to be coexisting on the lake. they are not partnering on this proposal but they are very supportive of the proposal. i think due to their love and enjoyment of the lake and wanted to see what's best for the lake and the grounds that surround the lake. he was great. thank you. >> thank you. i see no other commissioners questions good i want to thank commissioner mcdonnell. those were many of the questions i had and i think the genesis of this requirement about the particles in the lake is central to at least putting this forward and going through extensive neighborhood meetings and community meetings. so, with that, i don't see any other questions. the chairman would entertain a motion. moved and seconded. all those in favor say, aye >>[chorus of ayes] so moved >>[gavel] >> thank you very much. >> we are now on item 9, equity metrics. >> so we are known item 9 equity metrics. we have supervisor avalos here. >> welcome >> me introduce you, john baker think it's a good although we know who you are 20s as an opportunity for john to offer him some thanks and gratitude for the entire proposition b prospect this was really very fundamental to the long-term financial stability of our department and it was a financial please do it but john was also very much of a leader been focusing on us in a conversation that is facing all cities in all part departments rainout on equity and ensuring that we are delivering services and programs to communities that need it most and john, lit a spark which is going to lead us on a has already read lettuce on important andenlightening journey. we are learning more and more about other parks departments across the country are doing and not doing and because of our work in our partnership i think we are gone and up the fan is going to end up emerging leader in this conversation and really want to say thank you to john. he was thank you. >> supervisors be was >> thank you. chairman buell and commissioners, thank you having me speak and i want to thank you for your work on allowing the apartment to go through the process and creating metrics for equity. a decision from capital and operations. is critical as a city that we do such things. we have seen the greatest economic growth that we've ever seen in this city in recent years but that growth hasn't affected all parts of the city eequally and with a look at how we can assure that neighborhoods that are left out can get greater amount of attention and resources from the city. i live in the district that's pretty much like that. the southern part of san francisco on the border with the san mateo county and daly city we don't have the same kind of resources that other neighborhoods have. we have great facilities, but there also maybe not quite as adequate and other facilities are in the city. there are huge needs we have all over san francisco to make sure everything can be as good as it can be but that's not always easy to do. we also are part of san francisco that is been left out a lot of economic activity. we just had a report that the sales tax in our retail establishments on mission street in the excelsior are actually going down that were not achieving the kind of economic activity other places in the city. i haven't personally been linked for that but i don't think it's all about me but it's really about how as a city we often overlook how we can provide the infrastructure that can actually help on the birds to thrive equally and we see where we have development big buildings going up, big transportation systems going in that a lot of the dollars that go around the development stay in that area don't really get dispersed to other parts of san francisco. we've seen that with the nfl. we've seen that with the warriors. we've seen that with american cop and transbay in all these other fiscally [inaudible] up in san francisco. for me it's really important we think about how we can use our economic boom not just to share that money trickles to neighborhoods like the excelsior and all lakeview and visitation valley area with that actually can be deliberate about how we can make sure resources flow to these neighborhoods that have been left out of this economic activity. we also have in district 11 we probably have the greatest best part advocates than anywhere else in the city. the people who spend their whole lives monitoring for our parks much as one part but several of them across the district. we do that because we realize that our parks are our town squares. these are the places were we actually have the greatest amount of city investment that everyone can really enjoy. we have large investments of mta in my district but actually the investments were mta around their maintenance the silly enough to much about things that people use every day. the experience of people use muni even and bart is one of just getting through as quick as they can to industrial areas that's more serving how we maintain our vehicles than giving people a good experience. our parks are different than that in our parks, people go there to exactly enjoy our parks. so enjoying makes a lot of sense that we think about where we don't have a lot of other cultural events or resources in district 11 and parts of of the city like district 11 we don't have a lot of economic activity that we use what resources we have to shore up and provide a better experience for people in san francisco. we have jerry garcia amphitheater is a good example. there have been years we've been working on trying to get greater events and resources to actually have a renovation of the jerry garcia amphitheater and we have little things we've done but we actually have not done a major renovation that really has to happen there. instead, we've actually created our own neighborhood very low income neighborhood events and parks there. all done by volunteers with a little bit of maybe $5000 a year. that's because we have this huge amount of interest of people want to take care of our parks. i want to say this. very quickly. i really appreciate the work of the equity metrics. icd equity metrics are creating the lens by which we make later decisions on. taylor-emerson has been a terminus job on that. i think they are ready to be approved and that there's also a work in progress the next year we will actually learn something from this year and we can approve metrics that will help make decisions in the future. and how we make decisions on capital operations in the future good i'm okay where we are at right now but i want to make sure we have an open mind but how we actually move forward the metrics in the future. that we are not just setting things in stone that can be replicated year after year without any changes. lastly, the one flaw i see, and overall i t 90% iis really good. one flaw i see is one we don't take into consideration or equity metrics. we just look at-i want make sure i want to caution you one of caution we just don't look at the resources and the allocations that recreation and park makes it the own system it we have to look at rec and park makes decisions compared to other departments compared to other resources the neighbors had. compared to the economic activity that other neighbors have so that we are putting our conference of view on what it is to be a neighborhood that is left out of economic activity in a neighborhood that's left out of cultural events and i we make up the difference with the great assets we have in our rec and park system. that to me is a challenge moving forward to that we can think about not just our rec and park allocation but how we are rec and park that's overall in other cities supported in the neighborhoods. i will say this. neighborhoods among i worked really hard to get a little bit of money every budget year for our neighborhoods you get with too much enamored if you don't have the resource to accept them and we build your after year and still we have a lot more resources that we need to do need to put in for our neighborhoods in district 11 to be better supported. thank you. i went over my time. i appreciate your listening. >> thank you very much. commissioner bonilla >> before you leave i want to say this. i am a resident of district 11. i've lived there for 30 years. i can attest to the fact that we have seen very little expansion in terms of services for that district. i think it has been and continues to remain a greatly underserved area and what i would like to say to you is that after you are tour of duty is over that you will continue to shepherd this legislation and help with the implementation, especially in our district. because we need some strong leadership to really turn the situation around in that area. >> abag. if i could give a little pushback. that's meet and talk. i will let you know the litany of things that district 11 of actually contributed and made happen and with the help of my office is been tremendous. i don't think it should be overlooked but also is not enough compared to what we've seen in terms of other neighborhoods. >> thank you >> mr. ginsberg >> i does one make a comment i agree with supervisor avalos >> how about that >>[laughing] >> you want to repeat that for the records be one >>[laughing] >> i really agree with supervisor avalos. because of his leadership and focus on parks or has been a very significant amount of focus and effort and no it is not enough and i think this lens of is going to help us make additional decisions but i think that we've accident could work together in district 11 and as i think michaela is up here in district 11 analysis but whether it's through the various bonds or a lot of the philanthropy that we been able to cultivate district 11 has been a beneficiary. the other point i really want to make is that jerry pope was here from a human rights commission. jeter lead to to the length of the meeting could burn regular dialogue with director davis and the so we who is an expert in this. they are thinking about strategies to look at interagency equity issues as you noted. >> i saw cheryl on the corner audio. he was saying that was really important to her and am excited about that because these ui others looking at equity c was >> this is not unique so even rights commission is going to take a leadership role we are frankly volunteered when cheryl's word, not mine, to be a guinea pig but we are volunteered to be one of the departments that are going to help kind of leave that exercise and at interagency focus the world talk about this the same weight overall potential using data the same way and hopefully achieving joint outcomes. he was that is fabulous. ashley 2013 i visited seattle and king county. their goal department there that's looking at equity as well.i'm hoping we will surpass them. >> thank you, supervisor. >> thank you supervisor >>good afternoon commissioner. taylor emerson from finance administration division of the rec and park department. the last time i was here talking about equity to the capital committee in august and the operations committee in september, we had done an extensive public outreach and other garbage efforts as well as to our sister agencies across the city. the other departments working on this puc, they called social benefit mta, dc why have, human rights commission, and osgood we've also collaborate with the can comptroller excuse me. before i even start on the going to read a statement from the comptroller. staff from the city performance in the comptroller's office reviewed the data and calculations underline the recreation and park department. they validated to the extent possible the data and cultivation provided by our spirit. they provided feedback to clarify data values and sources budget definitions and made recommendations for future metrics. rpd incorporated the feedback and proposed metrics for redeemed appropriate and accurate. so we have reached out far and wide and as a result of all the collaboration we've done over the last few months it's a much better presentation. from the beginning is the same but as we get to the good part there is new material. i want to start again by reading the mandate and the charter the department shall develop a set of equity metrics to be used to associate baseline the existing recreation and park services and resources in low-income neighborhoods disadvantaged communities compared to services and resources available to the city as all. so that was our task and we began it the very day or possibly the day before it passed and the subsequent language of the charter sets forth how the equity metrics are to be integrated and incorporated into lead in future resource allocation decisions. after they approved by the commission, we will integrate them into the district plan update which will be for the five-year period of 5-17 25-21. the strategies, objectives and initiatives included in the strategic plan will be specified what we will complete in the operations plan for the up coming fiscal year 18 and the capital plan and all of that leads to our budget good i'm sorry. i do not have the right graphic up there. at each stage of this landing process which will repeat annually for 29 more years, there is community feedback. the very first step was to define disadvantaged. we were fortunate to live in california with the state of california has been working on the same question for about the last five years. in response to gov. brown's cap and trade program where proceeds from that program are to be allocated 25% to disadvantaged communities they to set out what makes disadvantaged communities and the california environment oh protect an agency developed a tool that is now open data called cal and biro screen it is a fantastic data source quickly being adopted by other public agencies across the state. what it does is it looks at the characteristics of a population that would make it more vulnerable were disadvantaged and these are age, rates of asthma, age is the rate of infants and seniors, will birth weight, low education, linguistic isolation, which is definitely a feature in san francisco, poverty and on employment. their data compares every-the frequency of these characteristics in census tracts, and each census tract to every other census tract across the state of california. so that all census tracts are essentially ranked in terms of their degree of this advantage. we have set the line at 20% so in other words the highest 20% rates of these in census tracts are in the communities of that are referenced in the charter low-income and disadvantaged. we took the data and were able to isolate the census tract data just for san francisco so that to be more true to the spirit of the charter comparing each census tract to all other census tracts in the city. that is what this map shows. the very darkest purple there the to darkest color shades are the top 20% of frequency of these characteristics. that doesn't show very well for the audience but i hope that commissioners can see. and we overlaid that data to a map with our parks. again, census tracts with the highest 20% of population characteristics compared to the city a solar designated as equities owns. these are the places where we are going to count measure, track, and evaluate and compare the recreation and parks services and resources compared to the city as a whole. as you can see in the dark purple there are the parks are there as we know the names of each of those parts and we were able to come up with then a list of the parks that are in the service area of the equity zone. there are now 77 parks here. if we just quickly go back to the map . we gerrymandered last time i was here we gerrymandered just one of the lines to execute golden gate park from an equities object we also in response to public him and took out link. this list is a bit different from the last time you saw it. once we had to find the designation of disadvantaged communities we name them at equities owns and came up with a list of parks there and set about looking at what data we had there was quality data that had integrity that spoke to our purpose, our mission. geographic access, of course recreation for everyone, clean safe and well-maintained parks are investment and these are some of the data sources there at the top. we are to the good parts. members of the audience of this is very difficult to see. there's a few copies on the table there. lots of numbers. so let's go through them a bit to help understand this chart. i want to point out that an asterix indicates where this is either been revised or added in response to feedback from the wide array of people we have interacted with. again about 20% of the population we took the 20% highest of those characteristics in the equities owns and a common theme we heard was people wanted to see the app please the charter requires us to show the equity zone compared to city as a whole but folks wanted to see the area outside of the equity zone. so we did at that little column there as well for additional comparisons. there are about 35% by number of our parks serving this 20% looking down the first, 20% of the population there was also added in response to public comment because originally we had park acreage and there was a criticism that because mclaren falls within the inside in such a large part they thought was distorted your we go there was an excellent point here we put out a number of parks as a separate way to look at this in addition to acreage for the axis metric. about 90% of the park acreage they are serving 20% of the people i'm a 35% by number. all parts are included by the weaker we counted many parks the same as community gardens were not evaluating types of recreational types of assets. all are equal in our mind and all have devoted advocates and users. looking down continuing on safety. safety was of a word over and over about parks. of course, we are not the police department and we have you in some ways are outside of rpv but does speak to in some ways the attractiveness of a part the use of a part in how that would be different for people across the city. as you can see, the rate of sfpd incident and let me just stop right there-this data was from san francisco open data and it was very very difficult to be fine. i give you my commitment that next year when i'm here and were looking at his baseline of numbers and their two next years data, this is going to be refined to be more meaningful but for right now this is what we could get. incidents or anything that leaves a paper trail in the police department. neagle left earned, as in person, were in fact a crime that could have started in a park and moved out were started outside and moved in. it was in 500 feet which is about a block. so much higher rate there. maintenance. this is the park evaluation scores which are the proposition c mandate we are recreation parks staff and staff from the comptroller's office evaluate every park every quarter and its amenities, the quality of the cleanliness, the quality of the landscaping, and what this shows us that in an equity zone 85% of the amenities were features past the evaluation. a little bit higher in the outside the equity zones part of the city and then an average their citywide. maintenance and repair, that reflects the closure rate which is to say the closure rate of our work orders which is the sink is broken where there's graffiti or the irrigation needs to be replaced. these are the internal work orders that come from 311, staff, and other sources. so this reflects how many tma work order requests came in in fy 16 and of this comedy were close. inside spirit i should say performed completed. inside the equity zone 84%, outside 82 the citywide average of 83. capital investment. capital investment is includes we decided to do a three-year average because capital is so lumpy it so-it is hard to say anyone year is because we get voter approval for a bond and then we issue it six months later than the renovated for three years and opens to the public so what you would you count it. we decided to a three-year average their. this includes the last three budgets as well as all the appropriations to date on the 2012 bond. in the annual appropriation ordinance that has this capital investment in it includes funds gathered from developers that it--i'm not sure what it stands for interagency planning something >> is all capital dollars per created weatherby from our bond program or developer fees or grants that we've obtained anything that's run through the annual procreation ordinance. again is-noted we take a three-year average because capital projects take more than one year to do and when the funds are available again as taylor noted, is lumpy. which means that they are not the dollars don't become available on a consistent way. we look at three years rather than one >> there's an asterix on this one and this was actually the numbers are quite different the last time you saw this and it's in response to a finding from the comptroller's office. that we had not counted it correctly or fully. so that is part of the estimation for why that is so much bigger than the last time you saw it. volunteers good there's two kinds of investments actually but also again in response to public comment we separate out the volunteer hours. so another element of responsiveness on our part was that members of the community wanted to see park volunteers which are people that are working on litter abatement or weeds segregated from recreation volunteers which are volunteers soccer coaches or zoom but teachers are all volunteers. now we can really see that recreation volunteer hours to given to people really, that's the standardizing denominator there for 1000 people, in equity zones, versus outside in the city as a whole. that's looking good. park volunteer hours. this is the landscape part of it. comparable there. for a could you we did no one for a good seem to make more sense than because park volunteer hours are inducted into the land. then just the last one there just is another way of seeing these numbers, a percent of the total volunteer hours given in the each of the areas. so 22% in total volunteer hours both [inaudible] are provided inside the equity zone. recreation get hours of recreation of resources. deviously this included the recreation volunteers i just referenced above but we pulled those out so again the summers look quite different than the last time. we showed discharge, hours of recreation and resources now reflect the structured recreation provided by our staff or our partners. for example, the y which does self hope programming at rec centers. so just us and our partners now. then just sometimes these numbers are hard to understands we try to present them in different ways. this is a percentage. so 20% of the people getting about 46% of those recreation resources. scholarships, scholarships are not subject we don't have an outpatient but we want to show this because it could have actually gone in access as well because this is really reflects our commitment to make sure that everyone can get out and play. we want-by looking at these numbers it shows that in fact a marketing our education efforts to oh people understand the scholarships are available for all ages is-we are being successful. this more work to do but 20% of the population has 36% of the scholarships. this is just a plotting of the incident data that was that we used. these metrics supervisor avalos said and we have said so many times, are just a tool. they are a way to now look at everything we do and use this tool to help us more deeply understand and here is one way we could look at it. the average-this is actually should have an asterix for commissioner lucas your joke last time got us thinking about the statistician that died in a lake average death of 3 inches because averages sometimes don't they hide the store. they tend to pollute the story. so if we hear is the average our scores but another way to look at it is the top of the score. instead of averaging would so get the top and the bottom. so the top 20 park scores in fy 16, 40% of them were in the equity zone. remember that 37% of the parks. that seems to be on par. in fy 15, though, it was just fun out to have the lens go back and look at things that before we even conceived of inequity zone. in fy 15, 25% of the top parks best scoring parks were naturally zones get what that shows is that we redid gillman and dimaggio and some other parks that are located in these areas and other scores are higher. so they are moving in the right direction. on the lowest on the bottom end of the scale, the lowest park scores in fy 16 50% of the lowest parks scores were in the equity zone. now they have 37% of the parks. that is definitely a sku. a sku if you look at fy 15 with 70%. two were going in the right direction both the bottom and the top but more work needs to be done. this was really this is so rewarding gratifying to provide this lends to the existing data and think about other ways we can use it in the future. this is a super long list of phenomena going to read it-we took these equity zone parks and then apply them to our current year budget which was >> taylor's dr. rita but i'm going to jump in. this with a rubber meets the road. this is now gives us an ability to say what are we doing with this data. how are we making sure where our commitment to parks in these neighborhoods. this year is unique because our budget friendly was done before the measure passed before we had engage in this tool. to just show you where our priorities are and where your parties are and where kozak's priorities are in the community aborts, this is the work these are current projects that are in our budgets and current programs that we are launching on the next two slides at our in parks in equity zones. without beating everyone that there's a significant amount of capital investment is significant amount of park developments. a significant amount of programming expansion deferred maintenance projects core resurfacing's and a couple public safety initiatives in those parts. over time, our goal is to develop a little bit more of a system for how we prioritize our investments and take our project. it should be a combination of site condition and need and some of this equity focused data. we are just beginning to the journey of exploring how to put that matrix together so that we can be more data-driven and frankly, perfectly transparent in why we are making some of the investments we are making were letting all of you make certain decisions based on how different projects ranked on this data. this is the beginning of a journey but what's worthy here is that these are this commission in this department existing values. these are the projects we are working on. >> this is just a list of some of the informal conversations that we've had about this work. there have been accountable informal conversation just in the hour and civic center pocket i talked with old-time about this. lots of people. so this is-today is highlighted good we are hoping that you will prove these metrics but our work is not done. we are going to continue-the next up as your call is to integrate them into our strategic plan. we will go back to prozac in november with back. we are going to continue to reach out and get feedback and to make this better and better. over the years. there is a yearly cycle will be toward our budget and looking for the next 29 years. i want to note that the underlying data the-the state is issuing version 3.0 coming out of the soon. cities are giving comment on it now and if you can just think two point the2010censusjusthowmuchsanfranc i scohaschangedsincethenandthevers ion3. 0willbebasedonthemid-censustheam ericancommunitysurvey,so2015data andalsoasanu mberofnewpopulationcharacteristi c sfactorsincludingoneforrentburde nwhichwill >> so this is a dynamic analysis and the data is changing as our world changes. all of us are moving into the world of big data for sure. i can assure you the crime stats some of the work on tma is going to be defined and more of a lesson of next time. this is our very first cut. we've never done anything like this or has anyone to our knowledge ever come up with metrics although lots of other departments are working on it and think about it . this is a quantitative expression of equity and it's only going to get more and more informed as the data continues to be refined. >> commissioner would you like to go to public comment >> yes, please >> thank you so much. >> >>[calling public comment cards] >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is dennis-i've served the last five years in district 5 representable on prozac i was on the working group that committed our advice to you as we are advisory. in our resolution in powerpoint and presumably that's in your packet. we were truly pleased and i know this i don't need to say a lot more than that but we were truly pleased by the efforts fanning more equitable distribution of services. but we are deeply concerned that some of the metrics showed little significant difference at least in the initial draft between the disadvantage zones and the advantage zones. we were supportive of the incorporation of the equity strategic and operational planning and window were going to look at that in the next few months. however we want to make sure that we like the hubble telescope is that we metrics lens, which gm ginsburg has told was over and over again through which we look at everything were you look at everything we will make sure it's adjusted before its launch. your supportive but we want sometime for some corrections to the metrics could for example, the metrics show to make this is a key point, the staff still presume for example that 100% of park resources and services consumed in a neck we zone part by equity zone residence. a study of 24 senses trucks around mclaren for example established that 12 of the 24 tracks actually were occupied by nonequity zone folks and that they used the parks by 50 birds 56% of the population using the quarter-mile buffer zone around everything we does established as a presumption as the assumption of how people use parks. that buffer zone is the basis for the analysis that the census tracks actually show more accurate assessment who uses the park. it's incorrect to assume that an equity part is used entirely by 1% equity folks zaidi . >> dennis can i ask you a question. i will hold you to the time. >> i didn't realize was a time >> no, you're not that i don't want this conversation to interrupt a much time you get to make your case. that's all. wouldn't one assume in the case then that would be because we have some sports fields of there and we have visiting teams that are using it from outside the area were people coming in because of programming in the parks? do we know the answer to that when you say there's that percentage that are not from the area? >> exactly commissioner. >> actually the point i was making based on the study of the 24 senses trucks around mclaren and the leg up is not based on a good i will come to that point of visiting teams. that is a point >> already, juries would talk about the same thing. >> i was talking about a study of 24 senses trucks around the south southern section on the map. it included the border which was the buffer zone. the taylor established in the department has established with a 5 min. walking zone. it turns out that when you examine the 24 senses trucks that touch 12 of them are equity and 12 of them are nonequity. they are further away than what was thought. when you look at it and you do the total calculation of the populations 56% of the users of the park came from the nonequity and 4% came from the equity >> got it. thank you. continue. >> so the issue is there the assumption that an equity part is used by 1% by equity residence. it's true if all the senses trucks around the park are equity zones equity tracks, that is to but it turns out what's left out in fact is that all throughout san francisco even near equity parks census tracks very and some of them are nonequity and some of them are equity. so that assumption is a fundamental thing that is mistaken in the 100%. it is out sharing the reality is-and mild on >> keep going >> that was because of my interruption. i do not mean to do that >> that's okay. >> i want to give you your fair shake on this. >> thank you thank you commissioner. the issue is that sharing of the metrics. the reality is and also some areas older san francisco people share but there's another assumption that's fundamentally not recognized in taylor's work and i've no criticism of taylor. i think she's done excellent work, but folks tend generally --and that's the assumption of the quarter-mile buffer, folks tend to generally go to the parks nearest them for most what they do in parks. i pointed out to her earlier i live near golden gate park. i been there to mclaren 15-20 times in my like it am a native san franciscans. i been to dolores park 35 times i've been to lincoln park 40 times i've been to golden gate park 2000+ timesheet sometimes 3-4 times a week at oven across the street from it for 43 years. what you do is you go to the part nearest you. there's another assumption want to get at which i think is important to know. it's connected to this. most people go to the places nearest to them to recreate and as we know from teachers and other people work with folks in disadvantaged areas oftentimes the kids in their having even ever been to the mountains or to a beach or to a farm. so it would be inappropriate then to assume that just because people have two legs though traveled across town and go to the nicer part. or the other way around. so i think those assumptions and what that is that economics determines often how far people go for recreation and i think that should be incorporated into the >> okay i think i give it as much time as i can. see was okay i was going to urge if the point is made you clear the zip is an ongoing prospect that the commission you guys are probably the only oversight entities you need to establish the mechanisms be was guided. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is anna d representing of the district 6. when i first listened to the first presentation on equity metrics i was excited because i district is one of the districts that doesn't is in great need of open spaces. i think this is a wonderful project that you have good however i'm going to go over it. over one issue in that is the scores versus observation. on the presentation we filled out some the scores are really high for some of the equity parks and specifically for -sorry for mcclellan park is about 85% it has a score of 85.3 and the [inaudible] which also was a score of 85.5. the problem that i see with this is that when you go to this part you see there's open garbage cans. you say they are dirty. you see the structures the playground structures are broken. so how do the two parks have such high scores? that doesn't equal what is on the score which is on the actual park. going back to observations come i think it's important that when they score on the park you look at a partisan individual part, not as a [inaudible] for all the parts especially in the tenderloin because we have like many many many hundreds of families that don't speak english. give asian families that speak more than other languages, not english. we have asian speakers we have spanish speakers. for the most part, they don't understand what don't know it is okay to go and save we don't have garbage cans here. that is okay to call for a repair. so they don't get the chance to call and ask for these repairs. therefore i think the observation is very important when scoring the parks. 80. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. commissioners and president buell. general manager ginsburg says by supervisor artie said what was going to stay to start with the will go there but i do want to emphasize was prozac that chairman e equity metrics that were passed in recent charter amendment. again as was said earlier by dennis we are thrilled that the equity metrics are here because it's really important to those of us who live in equity zones now. that we realize this is something that's long overdue that needs to be done. as phil mentioned, it's not anecdotal. real data were looking for. with that said, kozak had a number of recommendations that as taylor has said this is even newer than i think a day or two ago because she has incorporated many prozac's recommendations which are in a packet that you should have that we still are looking for those also to be incorporated >> beaux-arts in the packages so you know >> thank you. so i just want to point out a couple things we've given several data points so far have not been incorporated in a leave that with margaret because those are not in your packet but we have some ideas about things that should be in there and maybe plans we don't wait another year . i think that part of what i'm asking for is an ongoing conversation formally and informally because under prozac schools zero a formal structure we would like to be with to have ongoing meetings in some format or some way to incorporate these changes. just one example is the percentage of teammate was on him. when our recommendations is that you should have a number 14 made backlogs inequity zones and how long they've been in there since the day we were called in when they were finally close out particularly instructional cases because you see a lot more those inequities on. that is one example. another one is measurement of staff levels. the national recreation park association has standards. for example mclaren park should have 10 the of 1.5. so i think those are real valuable measurements inequity zones that we would like to have incorporated that in that document that hope you get a chance to see. with that in mind he passed a motion that also is in your packet urging that you support our recommendations and ask rpd to incorporate them soon rather than later attitude of open ongoing process to work with us to fine-tune results. with that in mind, thank you. >> be thanks. >> next speaker >>good afternoon commissioners. mr. ginsberg. my name is d sullivan. i want to speak about the metrics on maintenance as they exist right now. in my opinion leaders should really be about money spent per capita . that is the most direct and meaningful measures one of the most. why isn't it in here? the two metrics that are in your which are the park scores for maintenance and repair requests logged into the internal tma system as completed our indirect and much less reliable metrics. rpd says this project is not proposed because they don't know how much they spend for maintenance in any given part. can they actually be serious about this that they don't know how many gardeners, janitors and managers are allocated to each part? their tma system does not track time in the joe's associated with the job even if they don't have this information they need to figure it out now. how can they do a good job of managing our parks without it? i would suggest we use an area of maintenance were meaningful equity metrics such as janitorial hours per month for bathrooms and clubhouses per capita local population. trashcan capacity per capita of local population. trashcan pickup volume per month per capita local population. the bathroom open hours per month per capita local population. as we with capital spending maintenance spending should not be based on the natural areas program. in fact the national areas program is specifically exempt from the valuation of cleanliness in its area. the activities of do not benefit park users at large. of particular concern is the reliance on toxic herbicides. we enjoy a special exception from department of environment tools that allows them to use the most toxic herbicides freely in the natural areas for such dubious purposes as quote land scape renovation these projection of remote toxic chemicals and e the zone parks. thank you very much >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is leah peden and i serve as the chairman of the blue-green way for the san francisco park alliance but most importantly i'm a mother and a third-generation from the bayview. i used parks every day and every week and revisit parks throughout the city. we are very pleased at these equity method could equity is often a discussion but rec and park are seeing how these funds are benefiting is part of the city and parks. parks are the last affordable thing in san francisco. it provides for not only children but families good it's very important to move this forward and it should be a living document constantly evolving and getting feedback and as you said, about is one part because they're having baseball could i live directly across from the park. depending on what happens there is basketball and football and soccer and directly impacts who's visiting those parks but getting the title feedback and data really understanding what benefits are going into the park can really help the people of san francisco but most fully to children who use it. only go to the parks is so fascinating to see how the children care so much about learning and understanding in their part. when my sons favorite things is a sticky guy from golden gate park. the children were flowing so energetic to really see and understand the city kid to be out in what they call the wildlife of a part is really important to them. it's really important factor to really make sure that we are understanding but also the making sure the equity metrics are in place. thank you. >> thank you. >> i have one more card. that is >>[calling public comment cards] if anyone else would like to come forward?, left. did you want to speak? >> commissioners, i just want to say that what has been said before is very impactful. there's a few things that have been left up you we not really take in consideration transportation, getting to and from arrow our parks. also the impact as commissioner buell has said about site people coming and using are parses specially professional dog walkers. that needs to also be taken into consideration. thank you for all the hard work and hope that it will work for everybody. >> thank you >> anyone else the weather to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner bonilla >> i want to ask a question. the equity zone on a map that you provided for us,, now will those zones serve as the framework from which all the city departments work with or is it just particular l. are those owns particular rec and park programs and services? >> i will take out one commissioner bonilla because this gets to the work we are doing in the human rights commission and the mayors recent retreats with his department heads which equity was becoming clear about it right now many different up arms as you and i have discussed different ways of looking at this. a lot of cities all talk about equity in agencies within cities, equity. barry fuchs are defining equity. coming up with data to collect so this is a start. we actually think this lens using the population characteristics from the epa is somewhat innovative approach and it is my understanding that other departments may consider adopting the strategy. this is our work in this is for rec and park services that's what proposition b requires us to do. >> so there's a possibility goes way very >> different departments have >> [inaudible] >> so far different departments have look at this in different ways good we think looking at the jarvie of where equity zones are regardless of what it is the we've rec and park are measuring comparing service delivery within these numbers versus the city as a whole is kind of a interesting approach to make sure that the city is delivering services but far be it from us to tell other garments how to do their business. but i think that is what the human rights commission is starting to think about but how we have a citywide conversation in this regard. >> commissioner mcdonnell >> oh begin first with a few brief thank you to your leadership but also all the voices that have gone into baking what we have before us now. the fact frankly were even having a metrics conversation at all >> is exciting >> it's a huge quantum leap. that said, i would just acknowledge at least from my perspective that the data and the metrics that make up the current iteration are part of a wide deep set of data sets that are both informed by the actual data points themselves but also points of view. there are very points of view. around not only the data sets themselves but the importance of them. they rise and fall based upon one's perspective and axis point etc. good all of which is a valuable and important. therefore, almost my perspective impossible to win on the perfect set of data and metrics. that will be wholly satisfying to everyone involved and everyone who cares. so therefore, for me, this particular set is very very useful. i feel like by and large the right metrics to be measured and paid attention to our right. roughly right, frank. hence, the iterative nature of going forward will be important. i think that the opportunity for us to learn frankly from this first baseline and what it tells us what it lifts up for us some things that we presume now to be important you may presume not be as important later in the prosecute other things we did and we might lift up in later iterations. then so the other thing that i think is important if we were trying to develop a set of metrics that will become the static sole determining factor for all the things we think are important capital investment, etc., i would be afraid because it's imperfect again data set but whether b is on the other factors outside of the data that ought to inform our whole were more conference of decision-making. so i don't look to this as the sole static decision-making piece for everything we hold near and dear to us in terms of how we will again make our investments going forward. the last thing i would say, i really want to underscore it. certainly i know everyone in this room agrees with this. but that interdepartmental collaboration whether lands on these or other sets that is a citywide conversation we absolutely need to have and so if there's ways for me individually or this commission to play a role in promoting and supporting and waving the flag around the importance of that i really would want to take advantage of that. >> thank you good commissioner anderson >> i really want to commend the staff and all the volunteer hours from the members of prozac. i want to thank. i just want to affirm is it may,, is that your name along to ride on your coattails a little bit and ask in the future if transportation issues could be considered as appropriate good i can just give you a little anecdote as a mom here in the city with children that were 18 months apart was no way i was going to wrestle two strollers and all the coach one onto two different buses to get to their chosen area part. i would often see moms. i didn't try to wrestle kids in strollers and things that are minivans and all that. there's just not adequate loading and unloading around a bunch of parks in the way our people can take three city buses to a park. so i really urge you to keep counting on that drum and i'll be right there in the bandwidth you get total thank you >> thank you good mr. ginsberg >> a couple of reflections and a concluding remark. one in with respect to transportation, equities a big issue in transportation it i just sat and the directors working group which is a meeting of big-city department larger departments and we talk about policy issues related to growth and equity and muni is doing its work there. for us, when you are talking out commissioner, and i think what may may have been alluding to is ask. let's take a second to celebrate the fact that we have more within a 10 min. walk a higher percentage of san franciscans than any percentage in the country 99% of us live within a 10 min. walk. for us transportation is more of a policy initiative than something we would necessarily kind of measure. what were measuring is how many people can get live with and attend a walk of a part. we are thinking through and have thought through a variety of initiatives to make sure this what mobile recreation is about where we actually bring our rockclimbing wall and bikes and skateboards to different neighborhoods that they don't have two kids don't have to come to where the one rockclimbing wall is in the city. we've talked about in the context of a with respect to summer camps with respect to bringing teens from juvenile probation system. we recognize that to give kids and families the experiences they want the transportation is an issue did we budget for transportation and it continues to be kind of a policy work. with respect to collaboration commissioner mcdonnell that's it sparrow [inaudible] i spend with all these at a retreat and was interagency collaboration on this topic and others in one where you'll hear more about 560 parts working together civic center. the big center commons idea that were trying to work through that. but we work closely whether it's with a puc whether it's his sfpd dc why, dph on healthy san francisco. we have a number of collaborations with departments that kind of fit our vision now with the mayor is trying to do to make sure amounts of collaborating on his citywide vision. that is our work in progress. then last, this is a start. this is we should be proud of the work and by the way, we shall be apologetic about the data. it actually suggests these are our values. yes, we can do better and i'll be the first to admit we need to continue to drill deeper to find different ways to make sure that our parks are responsive to community needs but at this level the data suggests these are your values as a commission. these are our values and our [inaudible] ballasted finally, to tailor number of other people on our staff we have taken this very seriously get we talked about it at our executive staff retreats. we are engaging in a year-long learning process on internal learning process on the topic of bakley working with the human rights commission is a mother outside facilitators and we are now in a position where we are not reacting to the financial crisis of the moment. or the political controversy of the moment where this is we have now a chance to really kind of drill deeper on this topic and that is our plan. >> vinton seeing no other questions on me make a couple comments. one, taylor i think this is terrific work. you'd be very proud of it. i think it's right at the heart of what we should be doing to give us better judgment about our priorities and how we set them. so much appreciated. i agree with everything everybody said. this is a first shot at it. it's awkward to be perfect at this places were people individually or collectively can find shortcomings or where they think it can be improved. i am cognizant of the fact that two things i think would be helpful. because it's an ongoing process we need to have a mechanism where both suggestions that improve the process can be incorporated and the mechanics that we haven't set in place only one way to look at these problems and therefore only uses certain metrics. i think we have to keep asking ourselves are those the right metrics. so how we get to that point i would leave the staff to report back to us. i honestly perhaps naïvely could envision a day when the mayor sets aside an afternoon where all the department sit in the chamber and metrics for all the city services could be talked about in the broadest sense as to how we deliver to the people not the biggest taxpayers but all the taxpayers. how do we satisfy what we can deliver as services to those people? i think is a great place to have this discussion. i think prozac. i think the park alliance. i think both the players that have the most day-to-day knowledge of how you can help this process. so thank you for participating and with that seeing or the questions all entity in a motion moved and seconded. all those in favor say, aye >>[chorus of ayes] so moved >> we are now in item 10 general public comment continued. anyone here let to make general public comment? seeing none, this item is closed. where now in item 11, closed session. anyone would like to make public comment on closed session? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, you need to make a motion and vote whether to go into closed session >> moved and seconded. all those in favor say, aye >>[chorus of ayes] so moved >> so we would ask everyone to >> we need a >> we need a 16:45:23>> we need amotion hearing >> e would be whether you want to report any actions in closed session >> moved and seconded. all those in favor say, aye >>[chorus of ayes] he was the second one is whether to vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussions held in closed session >> motion? moved and seconded. all those in favor say, aye >>[chorus of ayes] >> thank you were now on item 12 new business agenda setting. measures you have anything any items >> can we just i don't know where to put up in the placeholder for the very last comment made around the revisiting-i don't know the right iteration but at some point >> [inaudible] >> yes. >> i think what we can do is just you can have that under new business or under-we can do it under new business agenda setting and we can have a discussion at this point >> yes, that's the point he was fine the right rhythm >> [inaudible] we can't be having no more discussion thank you. item-thank you commissioner item 13 communications there are no communications. we no longer have members of the public. so 14 is adjournment >> moved to adjourn >> moved and seconded. >> thank you. >>[gavel] >>[adjournment] >> >> >> . >> (clapping.) >> in 2013 san francisco legislators newsom agreed to allow the reciprocate of our soft story buildings those building house one and 20 thousand resident a program of that collect requires extensive outreach and this continuation of that process who is here and bill graham the perfect venue so in 2014 we have the first earthquake retrofit a huge success we're repeating this model what we've done it put together venues that are time professionals and contractor are financing institutions a other services that help people comply with the retrofit and as you can see the thousands of members of the public their assessing over one hundred vendors to comply with the ordinance or make improvements on their property i came to get specification information and puck h picking up information if you don't know what twaur doing i take it overwhelming. >> we're pleased a critical mass of people are keying into knowing their relents and understanding what had are the next steps to take and they're figuring out who to talk to not only the contractor by the mustards and the architect and the structural engineers and getting the full picture of what options are necessary and being pro-acti pro-active. >> so i'm very pleased to see the soft story buildings 99.9 percent complies the highest of the program of this scale of the history a citywide effort high blood pressure in every stretch of san francisco to understand real risks associated with earthquake and those are universally agreed on. >> at some point you need to gather information i'll be talking to another engineer to come out and take a look at it and basically get a second opinion i'm for second and third opinions it is inspiring to see all the property owners that want to do the right thing and for proactively figuring out what the solutions to get them that. >> what is amazing to me here we are over two years of first retrofit fair and at the time we are rh2 out to contractors to help us and reaching it out to design professionals that soft story buildings is in any and people understanding how to comply now it is different an industry that springs up as a result of the - their professed and gotten the costs down with lower financing options and these are defined and now the gene progression and have the buildings are buildings and the compliance we understand the 2020 one and 20 thousand san francisco's 15 messenger of our population will live in a retrofit building those people buildings or lives in buildings with 5 or more residential building is soft story and wood frame and built before 1978 that house that one and 20 thousand san franciscans. >> san francisco is being the leader in getting in done and as you may know los angeles passed their retrofit law two months ago at the sort of taken san francisco's lead on the one and tenth anniversary as the residents san francisco this is a road map to the city and going to give us us plan are these to keep folks here on a disaster and steps to build a resident waterfront by 2020. >> this involves more than one and 80 individuals and over 60 nonprofits and other companies this is a huge plan and what are the challenges we realize that people are concerned about climatic change, sea level rise and not only the affiliated hazards but things hike you're our amp infrastructure and consumed by social and other things we see this in society everyday and how we try to mitigate those are ultimately a direct result how resident we are after earthquake other issue out of the strategy of the concept after a major earthquake of keeping 95 percent of population here in san francisco that's the single best thing to help a equitable recovery to keep people here keep people back to work and kids in school and a residents of normal after a disaster. >> alliance energy in our partner undertook comprehensive bid process we interviewed a half-dozen of folks who wanted to have a part of our soft story buildings are ordinance so alliance energy project programming is a clean assess energy a special financing that is done using the taxed authority of local multiples and one of the interesting features the loan is tied to the property not the vital if an individual didn't have good credit but it is another option for people not able to comply to find another avenue the assessment is actually places on the property and the builds for in that come literally a line item on the tax bill that's how you pay off the segment and tax. >> 20 or thirty years is all paid up front there are advantages your property tax well it is important to give people on option and many private banks that provide loans over a are shorter term we wanted to create a longer pay back term. >> i think the next step for property owners after at the create themselves to take the plunge and quit the working downey done and have works of work done right of the right rest of the property owners can understand this process across the city. >> we need to do it. >> it is safety you know that's the bottom line safety. >> earthquake safety a everybody's responsibility that is providing the resources that people need to get done if you want to know more of the resources as a san franciscan please visit the >> good afternoon today is thursday october 13, welcome to pub safety and neighborhood service of san francisco board of supervisors. i'm john avalos, the vice chair and will be joined by the chair jane kim. to my left is david campos. our clerk today is victor young. mr. clerk could you tell announcements. >> silence all celt phones and electronic devices. speaker cards

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