manager. he had a presentation to and he has had to modify it. >> it's a great pleasure to give you some gifts from today. at rec and park, [inaudible] move on the fly. [laughter] i hereby give you the very first hellman hallow [inaudible] [applause]

[applause] >> we can take care of that. >> thank you. >> president buell and the recreation and park commission, i am absolutely thrilled. i would like to thank the city and the commission on behalf of my father and family. i am honored to be given the opportunity to address you on the occasion of your decision to adopt the san francisco board of supervisors' unanimous decision to rename speedway meadow by the name of my father, warren hellman. i am awed by the old low of love

and support. i learned so much about him. many stories. these will be like family legends to me now. stories told by the extended san francisco family might father loved an. now, in the meadow fortunately renamed hellman hallow. i offer my own brief contribution by posing the question, what is in a name? in my tradition, the ethics of the fathers offers the following answer. the rabbi said, "there are three crowns.

the crown of a good name is superior to them all." but what is a good name? in my estimation, one that is associated with honesty, integrity, generosity, and ethical conduct a good name is something that causes lessons to flow out upon those who associate with the one who bears it. i feel blessed in my life to have a father who has passed on that good name to me. i realize it is up to me to continue to honor it in my way. i want to tell you a personal story about my father and how he received the information speedway meadow. as you may know, my father is struggling with a medical illness that has brought into the hospital on many occasions in the past few months. as he sat in his hospital room, i read the words of the resolution to my father. when i was done, my father said,

"can you imagine? can you a imagine what isaiah hellman would have said?" my great great grandfather came from a poor village in bavaria, germany in the 1850's to escape the limitations imposed on his livelihood and freedoms there. he came to california and made a name for himself here. he passed on that name to his descendants. my father has honored it with a life filled with responsibility, generosity. the city of san francisco have chosen to confer this name upon one of our cities treasured me

adow -- is a tremendous tribute. thank you. president buell: thank you very much. [applause] before we go to the next item, i'm going to suggest a three- minute break. that will allow all of those who came for this wonderful occasion to exit, if it would like to if they find it entertaining to watch the recreation and park commission, they are

>> the next item on the consent

calendar. . president buell: moved and seconded. >> we are now on item number nine, the betty ann ong chinese recreation center. commissioner lee: what about item eight? >> i'm sorry. item eight. item eight, the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks general obligation bonds third sale.

powerpoint, please. thanks, margaret. i can get started. is that better? no, go ahead. there we go. commissioners, and i am very excited today to be here. hopefully, to receive your authorization to proceed with the third and final sale of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks general obligation bonds. this is a key indicator of the progress of our capital division over the past year in delivering on the promises we made to the public about delivering these " great neighborhood parks, as well as a number of city-wide programs. this is our third sale.

we sought two sales prior to this. a quick reminder, the $185 million, about $150 was for the rec and park department. we have worked together. we have done very successfully and are passed two sales. i apologize for my voice. i lost my voice and i cannot get much louder than this. there were a number of issues. in the prior two years, we have worked very diligently to resolve those and ensure that they do not impact the next batch of products. we have been working diligently with the department of buildings inspection. we opened our first parks project funded by this bond in 2011, which was well-received by

the community. we continue to make progress. mission dolores completed its design process after 26 public meetings. i just want to pause for a moment. people sometimes ask why things take such a long time in the city. this is one reason. i think that investment was well made. many of you might remember that in 2000, mission dolores was supposed to be funded by a prior bond and talks fundamentally broke down about what the renovation should look like. we are very excited to have a consensus plan moving forward. the chinese rec center is now 70% complete. the helen diller playground will be opening in march 2012.

we have now began two rounds of community opportunity programs and continue to move forward in that program's implementation. i think it is a good moment for us to pause and celebrate the progress of this project and just see how all the reforms put in place in 2008 continue to bear good results. again, we have one project complete and many others in construction. we are currently in design and planning on the remainder of the six neighborhood parks in the second half of the bond. i'm going to quickly go through these. this just details of progress we have made on a citywide program side.

the spending has been a little slower on the city wide program side then i would like to see things like the environmental review. also, these projects are environmentally complex. there's a lot of value in these projects. this briefly summarizes the real appropriation that we also discussed about a month and half ago. it was necessary to get to the place that we are today as the third bond sales. the comptroller's office wanted to make sure we made every effort to expand the fund we currently have appropriated. we moved funds around to fund the bid of our second large project in that neighborhood parks program. about $20 million total budget, just like chinese rec.

we opened the bids for that yesterday. we made our target date on that project. the real probation allowed us to fund that contract. it also helped build credibility with the comptroller's office and the mayor's office about our current need for additional funds. this is a summary of our spending. i think this very clearly illustrates the need for a third and final sale. we only have about $89 million appropriated today. between current expenditures, conferences, and contracts, we are at $77 million. we will be coming back to the commission with contract awards in march. that would very quickly tilt us past the $89 million figure. we were initially

intended to do that in spring. the mayor's office has fast track to the issuance of st. bonds, the street bond that passed in november. we are hopping on board to reduce the cost of issuance. we need to take advantage of this window. this just briefly summarizes the breakdown of the funding sources, of how the final sale will be spread across projects. this will also include funds to the open space fund that we have talked about about one month ago to allow us to bid for fulton. this will restore funds to all the projects and allow us to move forward with their continued delivery. the capital planning committee and had asked us to talk a

little bit about challenges and opportunities ahead. i wanted to share that with the commission, as well. again, we are moving forward. we hope that will be approved. we can move quickly into construction thereafter. we are working through the city planning department with the appropriate level of environmental review. one of the features of the consensus plan that was developed includes the removal of the central bathroom buildings and the creation of two smaller buildings, which will greatly enhance ada accessibility, the crowd management of those bathrooms, and also the maintenance of those facilities so that we can better address them. keeping those facilities clean, as well as graffiti free, and overall security. we are working with the

department of public works for the second grouping of neighborhood parks projects. they're going to allocate additional design resources. we're also exploring with construction contractors how we can potentially accelerate those contracts using some of the bid savings we have generated through this program. lastly, we have hired some additional project management assistance staff. that has been helping us speed up the development of the citywide program. this is our current schedule for the neighborhood parks program, showing that most of our projects will be delivered or in construction in the coming year. it is our hope that will position us well to seek another ballot in november 2012 and hopefully obtain another 150

million with some capital funds to invest and fuin the parks sy. with that, i'm happy to take any questions. >> do we have any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment -- we do. so sorry. >> thank you for your work on this, mr. ginsburg and all the commission. ♪ fix all up the city trees have a happy holiday later will have some park and pie and will do some caroling you'll get a sentimental feeling when you hear voices singing let's be jolly

and the good ralph, rec and park fashion way park today ♪ [applause] >> is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. president buell: entertain a motion. all those in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> unanimous. >> now we are on item number nine, betty ann ong rec center. >> good morning, commissioners. i am the project manager with the capital division. the item before you today is discussion and possible action to plant construction for the

new clean and safe neighborhood parks generalbetty ann ong chinn center, which is greater than 10% of the original approved contract amount. just a little bit of background. on may 20, 2010, the commission approved the contract to approve construction for the amount of $10.8 million for the contract. the project is -- is scheduled to be completed in may 2012 for a grand opening thereafter. in early august, we had a milestone celebration that was attended by the mayor and many commissioners here. and the general public --

general accolades for the project. everyone is excited about this project. i actually brought a picture, if you can see it. that is the current state we're in. . contract modification of to 10%. modifications exceeding 10% require recreation and park approval. the contract amount increase is still within the overall project budget. the increase will allow us to meet our project milestone to allow for the successful completion in may 2012. i will be available to answer any questions you may have. >> is there any public comment on this item? president buell: there is one. >> please come forward.

>> ♪ fix the recreation center for friends friends to the end think of betty bring it on with song i know she would want it that way ♪ >> thank you. is there anyone else would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. president buell: commissioners, is there a motion? all those in favor? >> aye. >> aye. president buell: unanimous. thank you. >> item number 10, parks maintenance standards annual report. >> before turning it over to my staff, every year, we are given

an annual report by the control ler that analyzes how well we're doing and taking care of our parks i want to think -- our parks. i want to thank them. it demonstrates a great deal of transparency. we are very pleased -- we continue to be pleased with our results. this is the sixth year. are scores declined 1.4% from the prior year -- it is the second-highest annual scorecard we have ever received. i am particularly gratified that we continue to show steady improvement in restrooms and playgrounds. we worked very hard to improve the cleanliness and maintenance at some of our historic fleet lowest scoring parks in

district 10 and 11. i am quite pleased. we have already gotten our first quarter scores for the current year, which were up at some of our highest scores ever at 91.25%. as i told the controller last year and this year, we issue caution to we have pretty much gotten to the highest scores that we can maintain given the staff that we have. i think some of the variable that you have seen in the last couple of years has to do with the jobs now program. when we had our highest scoring program, we were fortunate enough to have an extra 100 staff through several stimulus funding. last year, we lost that staff for about three-quarters of the year because the program expired. through the mayor's leadership and the human services agency, i am proud to report that we have renewed a local version of that partnership where rec and park

are benefiting again this year through a stimulus type program. with respect to our permanent staff, i think they are working as hard and efficiently as they have ever worked and you should be very proud with that. i'm going to turn it over to my colleagues. >> good morning, president buell and commissioners. i am a senior administrative analyst in the department. i just migrated from the california supreme court. it has been a real pleasure to join this department. i'm here with the city services auditor's office. >> hi. i work with the city services auditor. wheat