Parks and Recreation Commission - Regular Meeting

We're all here. Good evening, everyone. We can call tonight's meeting to order. Roll call, please.

Commissioner Locke.

Present.

Commissioner DiNardi.

Present.

Commissioner Olson. Here. Commissioner Chan. Present. Vice Chair Uy. Present. And Chair Camacho.

Present. If we could all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Okay. Agenda review?

We would love to move item number five, our sponsored renewals, to our first item.

Okay. Sounds good. Let's do that. Before that, are there any public comments? No? Okay. Well, we have Ms. Gomez here, so we can.

Good evening, commissioners. We would like to present the South San Francisco United Youth Soccer for co-sponsorship renewal. Patty will come up and address any questions that you may have for her. The only item of note is that their board fell below the 51% requirement, but they are addressing that and it should be resolved by the end of the month. We'll only have one additional co-sponsor group to review. Unfortunately, we had to do some additional review of their data and hope to present them next month. But Patty, if you'd like to come forward and present, thank you.

Hello. I, new faces?

Yes.

Okay. Good evening. My name is Patty Gomez and I'm the president of the South San Francisco United Youth Soccer League. And this is the secretary, Brian Mansell. We provide... four seasons of youth soccer kind of year-round for ages four to up to whenever they stop playing. Right now it's 14-, 15-year-olds, and it's co-ed. Recently, I've been able to separate the girls, which I'm always an advocate for having girls teams. But we have 22 teams right now. Currently, we just started today. So that's why I'm a little late and rushing. But if you have any questions, let me know. Did you say you have 22 female teams? No, 22 teams all together. Under the league for the fall season, there are four girl teams in the younger age group, which is there are five to six-year-olds. Thank you.

Any other questions or comments?

I just want to say thank you for the work that you're doing in our community. I love that you still keep the fees low in light of how expensive youth soccer and sports are getting for kids. Rec teams, you can see them approaching 500, 1,000 a season. You know, competitive teams, you know, they're approaching $5,000, $6,000, $7,000 a year. And for you guys to be able to do this at $180 per season is, you know, amazing. And, you know, South City has this huge community that really loves soccer. And I see it, you know, when we have open play, when we see, you know, the turnout for your season. I think it's amazing that you're really doing that. And I really love how you also have the partnership with a competitive club here. And I just want to thank you guys for all the work. It's so hard to do what you do every day. And honestly, I'm so impressed that you continue to do it despite the parents. So, thank you.

We'll see you in a few weeks with the parents.

Do you have parent volunteers? Yes, there are parent volunteers. Okay, good. I'd like to help manage.

Not as many as I would like, but always. I'd just like to echo what Commissioner Uy said. We're a soccer family, and it's a lot just for parents to come and dedicate the time, but for you all to go the extra step of organizing everything and creating this opportunity for 800 of our youth is just an incredible opportunity. It helps build those life skills and those, you know, really like core memories for childhood. So thank you so much. I don't have any further questions.

I'm through the chair. So I did want to thank you very much for this program that you have built for our community of South San Francisco. It's very commendable that we are able to have children from four years old up till about 18 or so, once they start playing soccer in college. It's very commendable, your work and all your volunteer time. And also the volunteer families also, right? We are very thankful of their commitment with their children, bringing them to practice and having the equipment they need for their safety and their enjoyment. I had a question. Is the club ball also under the South San Francisco Unified School, I mean, United Youth Soccer, the club, soccer?

No, they're two separate organizations. So the recreational league that I run is separate. It's kind of like a grassroots to his program, which is competitive. And the kids that are more advanced, then they get to the opportunity to play competitive in trouble.

And do you know the percentage of South San Francisco participants in that program? The club?

Do you have those numbers? SMC? For the kids that are on the field, I heard it was 61%. 64%. We'll present next month. Yeah, we have that.

Again, thank you so much for the wonderful program that you offer South San Francisco. It's very commendable. Thank you.

Through the chair, just one more question. What else can we do to help you in South City with your programs?

have a list of things no um you know fields are always an issue and um I previously did not have deadlines for the registration or a cut off but I now do because I'm afraid of taking additional uh players or kids because of the size of the field he uses one side of the field for, you know, that there's a bigger group or older groups where they need more space versus I have a whole field myself, but I also have the 22 teams in, you know, a smaller area to practice, but more fields obviously would be great. I do know that Westboro has been turfed, so I don't know if we have access to that. So that would be great.

for practice yeah unfortunately i don't believe that's included in the joint partnership agreement that i'm aware of so far i i think it is no no um no i do not believe there so that field is owned by the school district i believe our ball field might be in that but i don't believe the soccer field is in the joint agreement i will note a few of us did go to the ribbon cutting a couple weeks ago for that field and We did put a bug in their ear that conversation will likely be coming from staff in the near future. Since I have a mic on and opportunity to speak, I will note I was in a director's meeting with folks from all throughout the county today. And I think one thing that sets us apart and is allowing us to have really great co-sponsored groups that charge affordable fees is we don't really charge fees to those groups. We have the one-time-a-year application fee. And aside from tournaments where we have to bring in additional staff, we don't charge for lights, for field use, for use of concession buildings, energy, water, any utilities, generally speaking. And most cities do. I was surprised to hear today that some cities charge for each portal that is accessible. They charge, you know, $35 to $80 an hour for lights for parks. And we don't do any of that. So I just want to credit sort of the system that's in place in South City that is helping support keep all these fees affordable. Absolutely.

Yeah. Thank you for bringing that up. Very much appreciate it. Yeah. And once the pool is done, um, we'll be able to have grass there again. Um, and hopefully you can use that. Um, but I don't think unfortunately that Westboro is, um, it's not part of the agreement currently. Um, it is something you, if you felt compelled to, at some point you can make a public comment at the joint partnership, um, meetings i don't remember when those are but it's school district property and um it's possible they might want to rent it for funding um to help you know with their bottom line so you have the list of the fields that we do have access to yeah greg would have that yeah we have a joint use agreement we can share yeah so it would be possible to potentially rent it

um oh possibly yeah that's something you could reach out to the school district would we reach out to them directly or would parks reach out to them on our behalf generally with fee based fields i believe the individual groups do for example right now the aquatics club is using south city high's poll pretty much five days a week for, because they've sort of split their group in half. I think in the past when folks have used the high school fields, they've worked directly with the school district, but let me double check with Mike and we'll get in touch.

Good work together on that one. Thank you so much. Seeing no other comments, is there a motion to approve the co-sponsorship?

I make a motion to approve the co-sponsorship. Second.

Okay. Should we do a roll call vote? Commissioner Locke.

Aye.

Commissioner Dinardi. Aye. Commissioner Olson. Yes. Commissioner Cham. Yes. Vice Chair Uy. Aye. Chair Camacho.

Yes.

So the motion passes. Congratulations. Thank you so much. We really appreciate your support. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

And thank you.

Okay, we can go back to item one under presentations. Oh, thank you, Carrie, for doing such a great job with these renewal applications. I know it's a lot of effort on your part, working with all the groups. Okay, so Ursi Santos, welcome. We're looking forward to the cultural arts program update.

Thank you, commissioners. Let me introduce myself. My name is Ursi Santos, and I am They go back to the beginning here. And I am cultural arts specialist for the city of South San Francisco. There we go. That's the beginning. And I am here to give you an overview today of the South San Francisco Cultural Arts Program. So I will start with a little bit of information about the program. The Cultural Arts Program promotes, encourages community interest in arts, culture, and creative expression. It encompasses three components, the Public Art Program, the Art Gallery Program, and Youth in Arts. The nine-member Cultural Arts Commission, established in 1994, oversee this work and act as an arts advisory body to the City Council. In 2023, the city's first public art master plan was published. It provides a clear set of goals, policies and objectives that will provide guidance for the development, improvement and enhancement of the city's public art inventory and cultural arts programs. To the public art program the goal of this program is that it provides for the installation of temporary and permanent art accessible to viewing at public and private locations this collection includes murals sculpture interior artwork and historical icons. Over the past 30 years, the city has acquired an artwork collection that includes over 55 permanently cited and temporary artworks. Community feedback and engagement are key processes in the public art project development, and detailed information may be viewed on the public art map, which shows information on each individual piece. The second component, the art gallery program's vision is to present exhibitions that reflect a wide spectrum of art styles and media crossing all areas of art and interest groups. Four annual art gallery shows showcase the creativity of local and Bay Area artists. Three are directed toward adult participation and one towards youth artistry. The art gallery program, visual art exhibitions run up to one month that include a two-day opening weekend. Artist participation averages 40 artists from throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and includes our local artists. Brief performing art presentations have been incorporated and approximately 100 guests attend the two-day opening. A virtual exhibit of award-winning art is available for people to view if they're not able to attend. And our third component, the Youth in Arts, cultivates and showcases the talent of the next generation of artists. The annual youth art show presented in partnership with the South San Francisco Unified School District averages 475 student artworks reflecting elementary through high school. The second component is the Jack Drago Youth Art Internship, a scholarship program originally for South San Francisco Unified School District high school seniors conceived by the Cultural Arts Commission and named to honor Jack Drago, former South San Francisco mayor and founder of the Arts Commission. This program transitioned in 2025 to the Jack Drago Youth Art Internship. It provides financial support to a young creative, enables the candidate to engage in meaningful project-based work, and allows them to develop real-world skills in arts administration, public engagement, and creative programming. And there you see two of our candidates on the side in 2025 and in 2026. And finally, inspiring an artistic vision for the future, the SHAPE 2040 General Plan highlights the fact that artistic resources contribute to the identity and quality of life in the city. Listed there is just a short list of short and long-term goals that the cultural art programs envisions for reaching this goal, highlighting some of the more current ones completion of current and upcoming public art projects, spotlighting the public art collection and our art programs on all media, exploring the potential for an arts and cultural district, and all promoting South San Francisco as a vibrant artistic hub and local arts destination throughout the Bay Area and here locally. So finally, back to this slide, where I thank you all for your support of cultural arts programs. I know some of you have attended some of our shows or grand openings, and we appreciate your ongoing support. And at this junction, if you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.

Through the chair. One of the things that I would like to see, I understand that the city is very much promoting representation through art, especially in the Westboro area. South City is 43% Asian-American, and it's about 22% Filipino-American. It would be nice if there would be some installations of public art that would honor that community. I think it would be great because we are already doing that, for example, in our new park for the Latino-Hispanic community. I also do think that South San Francisco has a long history with the Italian community. And I think it would be great if we also had, you know, further representation, you know. Like, I think a lot of the thing is, you know, a lot of our communities and a lot of our areas, we had murals in more of our parks or more public spaces or other, like, installations from artists from those communities. I think it would be really great just to have that kind of representation so people really know South City is made up of so many different groups that work together to make this place, you know, a great place to live.

Absolutely, yes, and I'm sure in our goals that's something that we would like to continue doing in terms of our public art pieces, the comes up over time little by little, but I can tell you that in terms of our art gallery shows, we do endeavor to highlight our different cultures. We had a Lunar New Year art show about two years ago. We're hoping to incorporate for the Filipino community with our upcoming 2027 shows. So it's always on our mind, absolutely.

But I'm more interested in permanent installations as opposed to transient one. I think it's like a more impactful thing when you have that versus a one-time show.

Yeah, absolutely. And I think there's some thought to incorporating some kind of... Uli Haller- recognition of that in the linden park, though it would be subtle it would not quite as you know over so something to work to do to work for absolutely Thank you, Commissioner Lee any other comments or questions.

Thank you. The programs have been amazing. It brings community together and it also just shows for our creative sides to just step it up. Don't hold back. So thank you so much for what's been offered through the cultural arts program. AAA.

Thank you. And may I also invite you all that our last, our final art show is coming up October 2nd and 3rd. We're already at 20 pieces of art with many more probably coming because the deadline's coming up. So I hope you're able to make it. It's titled Blooming into Being.

Great. Any other comments or questions, Brandy?

couple questions um one is um for public arts is it only um is there only opportunities for permanent public art installations with new projects like new capital projects or is there a ongoing list or kind of a list of wishes of places that either through community feedback or members of the public have you know um requested like hey it would be nice to have a mural under this underpass here um or on this you know blank wall is that is there do we have a list of that and is that reassessed on a we in past years we have kept a list right now we've got some current projects that are upcoming i've got my colleague here aaron that deals actually a little bit more with the public art projects currently

So I think she wants to probably address some of these questions.

Good evening. Thank you. Erin O'Brien, Business Program Manager. Yeah, so Ursi did answer that pretty well. The commission itself, the Cultural Arts Commission, who does oversee the public art, they have an annual work plan that they do every year. And in there, they outline goals and areas that may be of interest. But truly, at this moment in time, most of our capital projects are guided by funding. And right now, that funding comes with our ordinance where we get 1% of the cost of construction for our capital project. And that's where the funding is truly coming from. to enable us to do those. So that's why you're seeing most of our new public art pieces are in conjunction with the construction of our capital project that's taking place currently.

Because I'm just curious, because like, you know, we have like, for example, like a CIP budget, like a long range plan for the city. And that's usually like kind of if we are master wish list of every capital improvement we want to do in the city. And then on an annual basis, you take some from that list and see based on as funding allows, do we have that kind of similar list of like... here's all our wishes and if we had funding today, this is the next one on the list or there's at least an inventory to choose from of the next installation.

So it's maybe not as honed down specific as like this exact location, but there are, you know, murals have been on our list and we've actually, you know, we've been able, fortunate to partner with Skyline Community College in the past and gotten, three murals from them so there's different areas and when that comes about we do bring it back to the commission and we provide examples we work with our parks department oftentimes it's maybe areas that are graffiti or an area that has lack of art and that neighborhood in particular and we'll try to bring that to the public arts subcommittee and then goes to the full commission for discussion and decision of where that's going to go and then further Maybe I'll just leave it at that for now.

Yeah, because I'm just, I just, as a suggestion, I think having that kind of list would be, you know, you know, it may be helpful, like when there's communities of interest or neighborhoods that, hey, we think like, you know, in our neighborhood, there's this kind of blank canvas that's you know ideal for our art installation we haven't identified what it is but there's a spot there having that kind of inventory then maybe a non-profit can you know fundraise for or the neighborhood like feels really strongly about it and they can also get funding for it so having that kind of list is I think gives neighborhoods and communities a little bit more of a pathway like, hey, it's added to the list and it's kind of on hold because we don't have funding for it. But if we do have funding, then we can start identifying the piece of artwork and that kind of gives people, so it's not always waiting for the next new park or the next, I know we have a lot of new capital improvement lately and recently, but it's usually not normal for a city to have so many new capital improvements and opportunities for permanent art installation.

thanks thank you brandon really insightful comment for pathways to sort of neighborhood involvement in public art okay any other questions or comments um i just thank you so much for putting um the time to put together such a comprehensive presentation it was super informative especially for some of our newer commissioners here um i love the art shows the most um especially like a soft spot for the youth art show I think it's wonderful and how we partner with, you know, Parks and Rec Child Care. It's such a wonderful thing to get kids excited and coming out to see their, I mean, it's on three floors now, three floors of an art show. It feels really big. And they're just so excited about it. And I've also just really loved the themes. The last few years, they've just been really welcoming and thoughtful themed art shows. I just really appreciate the time that you're putting into that. And Commissioner Ray is not here, but I would, you know, be remiss if I wouldn't mention like the art in our parks. It just adds a sense of whimsy to our parks that, you know, it can be missing, you know, if you don't have a cool sculpture, like the popsicles or just something fun and different. And the interactive, like mosaics event that you did most recently, I know she really enjoyed that. And it's a really great way to get the community involved, like really hands-on um and then they can come and get excited when it's installed in the park so um the more events we can do like that the better as we keep developing um art in our parks but thank you so much okay Laura Armonino, Concert in the Park Recap. You don't have the survey results yet. We have some.

I've got some metrics to share with everybody. So Laura Armonino, your Recreation Program Manager, doing a Concert in the Park Recap as well as our upcoming events. So as you know, this past weekend was our largest event of the year, Concert in the Park. were fortunate to have great weather and incredible attendees i must say for the most part having a crowd that size pretty much everybody was well behaved and things ran you know pretty much smoothly from the family fun zone to the vendor tents to the food truck area to the gathering area everything um the park was packed and it was happening um early metrics and things will be updated for the surveys and stuff. But last count, we looked at, we're having roughly 13,500 visitors that day with the peak at 10,000 when Kool and the Gang hit the stage. Of those, 47.5% were South City residents. So we had a lot of people coming in from other cities. The biggest ones would be San Bruno and Daly City, and then the rest of the Bay Area, some out of state ones as well. Our survey results are still coming in and the survey is still out for the next two weeks, but currently we are at 86%. People were very satisfied or highly satisfied for the overall event. Of course, folks want more, you know. More vendors, more food trucks, more kids activities, more parking, and especially more beer. So we did double, the attendance was double from last year. The food trucks was double from last year. But as always, there's room for improvement. So staff will be debriefing tomorrow. We've also reached out to PD, fire, and our HIROC security for their feedback on how we could do better for next year or what went well that we want to keep. We're also looking at our concert survey as well as our vendor survey to kind of see, again, what worked, what didn't work, and again, always room for improvement. Every year, we, I think, like to think we get better at what we do. I don't know, this one's going to be a hard one to outdo, thanks to, you know, that Genentech did a quite sizable donation that made a lot of this possible, so we'll see what next year brings. It'll be just as wonderful, even if it is on a either same or smaller scale so um upcoming events we have uh in october halloween extravaganza on saturday october 17th and we will be doing our floating pumpkin patch probably the last it will be the last one at our current pool before we move to the new pool as well as our regular pumpkin patch trunk or treat um pet costume contest you can let jamie know i'll let you know and our games on the patio as well and then november we have our holiday boutique on november 7th where we have a whole floor of handcrafted items from local vendors at that event november 21st is our thanksgiving fun run this is the 53rd year of that over at oyster point Santa comes to town Saturday, December 5th over at City Hall. And then IPP wreath making on Saturday, December 12th at the Furnikey's Recreation Building. And then we end out the year with our Nutcracker performance. If you haven't seen it, you should. It's an incredible show that our Civic Ballet does on December 19th and 20th. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them.

Through the chair. Sure. Concert in the park was amazing. I loved how many people were there. In fact, some of my friends that day who were from out of state, one guy was from what's called Chicago, and then some of my friends who were outside of the area from San Diego, they said, oh, we're at Concert in the Park. Are you going to be there? Yeah. And I was quite surprised because they're big fans of Kool and the Gang. So I got to hang out with them just briefly there. And people just seemed to be having so much fun there. I thought everything was done wonderfully. I think the food trucks, you guys knocked it out of the park. I've been harping on this for years. And I'm the first person to complain when there's not enough food. know i think some years we'd only have like four food trucks or you know someone would drop out but this time it was just amazing there's so much variety i had dim sum it was great you know i had some brazilian food it was great you know i was just just really really enjoyed and i saw so many people um having fun there and enjoying it um i think security did a really great job i did see um you know security working with the police when there was one incident One person had to be asked to leave because they're being disruptive, but they handled it in a very, very, in a great, the police handled it very well. They escorted the person out without disruption. I don't think most people noticed it at all. And I thought that was great. My only, I think the only thing I was a little bit concerned about was I did see kids with their, what's called bicycles on the turf field. That drives me crazy. that really, really makes me angry. And I did try to get the police to do something about it, but they're kind of telling me to chill out. But it is one of those things, if we have more signs or something, just to make it clear that people shouldn't be bringing in certain things onto the turf field, even though it's used for something else this time. I mean, I just wouldn't want it to cause irreparable damage or just damage that would really affect the teams that play there later on.

it was amazing great job everyone like staff was just you guys totally knocked it out of the park so thank you thank you through the chair sure so i pretty much have attended a lot of concerts in the park and i must say this was extremely all of them over the years are impressive but the amount of people that were there and everyone was just in a very positive mode. And it's something that was created, of course, by all staff, all park maintenance, the crews, everyone coming together as community. And we thank you because we know this is, it takes, wide a bit of help, but the outcome was amazing. Everything seemed to run smoothly, very nice. I didn't notice anything. The food trucks were just amazing. It was, it was funny. I ran into a lot of people from high school and I was like, we haven't seen each other in many, many years. And so it just brought so many people, multi-generations together and you felt it and you saw it. And the music was amazing. The sound system was probably the best I've heard in all the years that, you know, it was amazing. So again, we thank Genentech for contributing to be able to pull this and you all did, you hit it out of the park. So thank you.

Yes, I'd like to echo Commissioner Gennardi as well as Commissioner Uy. I had a fantastic time with my family and friends. I feel like, yeah, for the size of the event, I couldn't believe how... positive and in control everything was and i think that is just such a statement um to staff and all the work you all put into um i was super impressed and i think i was really also i loved how you used both parts of the park like the grass part as well as the turf i think for that many people especially you guys probably knew it was going to be a large turnout so you guys knew to kind of take advantage of the full park and i really want to commend you on that because i think that also let everybody have a lot of space and breathe and kind of left enough room for, you know, to keep the good times rolling, so to speak. So yes, thank you so much. It was a fantastic event. And yeah, I just, I think it was fantastic. So thank you.

Chair, man. Great job planning. outstanding job executing. It couldn't have been any better. A couple of comments. The security firm that you guys hired, I was there from, I think, roughly around 11.30 to 2, and I saw the gentleman on the right-hand side, quietly and patiently and in a very, very smooth manner approach four individuals with umbrellas and got them to agree to put them down in a very, very polite manner. So that was outstanding. There was no arguments. And it was a very, very pleasant moment for me to see. I didn't get to see or hear Kool and the gang, but I thought Mercy did an outstanding job. There must have been at least 60 people, middle-aged, dancing up there through every one of their songs. So that was great to see. Your canopy role, you know, the... I think one politician overdid it, but they were out of the way, so that was nice. In terms of food trucks, a home run. I couldn't have asked for many more, and I already knew that Robert would not have a complaint. Now, some of the complaints you may have was that there were several that were a real big hit with the attendees, and they had long lines. Others that were sort of very, very quiet. And it could have been associated with the quality of food that they were putting out. The one thing was that food trucks around the bend, more toward the, I guess what you call the popsicle, I'm not sure that people sort of understood there were additional food trucks around the corner, although I believe that the bakery and the Filipino truck did outstanding well. Let's see what else. You know, well, If there's an opportunity to do something better, the backdrop on the stage, rather than our logo, maybe if we have the money, if Genentech will give money again, it might be good to have a camera that's focused on stage so people in the back could actually see the singers. But other than that, I mean, You know, it's A+++. And don't be mindful about some of those complaints. You're always going to get some negative comments, okay? Including, oh, you know, why they had to wait for the bathrooms to open up. But, you know, those are things that will always come out. But outstanding job planning, outstanding job executing. The community couldn't have asked for more, okay? And if you keep this up, park and rec commissioners, we need to expand Orange Park.

We have been trying for a long time.

You have to try harder. Thank you.

Thank you. Sure. That's it.

I also wanted to mention I really appreciated how you posted the shuttle routes online. I shared that with so many people. I knew a few friends who I personally showed them how to download the app and how to navigate that. But definitely, I think coordinating the shuttles with an event that large was definitely like A plus to you on that, because I think that really helps, especially with the parking and the accessibility of it all. So thank you for not only coordinating that, but also posting it online and making it shareable.

And we should have shuttle metrics for you at the next meeting when we kind of do a deeper dive in to let you know what routes and what stops were the most popular. Last year, BART was the popular, had the most ridership. So we'll see what this year looks like. And then I'd like to thank our parks crew and our building maintenance crew. They've done so much behind the scene work in getting this event prepared. And a lot of times they don't get the accolades that are so much needed because we couldn't do what we do without their support and getting our parks ready, our building ready. And then the day of event, cleaning bathrooms, taking away garbage, pick sticking. I mean, they're out there doing, you know, not so fun jobs, but they need to be done in order to make an event great. So a huge thank you to them for all of their support in helping. make recreation look good, but we can't do it without our teammates.

Yeah, one of the positives I was going to mention, I mean, I don't need to repeat what everyone said, but the trash cans were not overflowing, and that is, that was shocking to me, because I've been to, you know, how many events at this point, and for a crowd of that size, like, the trash can was just emptied. I'm like, how did

Wow. So on top of it, it's like Disneyland.

It's very rare to have that level of maintenance during an event. So I was just super, super impressed. I feel like you make our job as commissioners super easy because we never really have to Point out like negatives. And as Commissioner Locke was saying, you know, you're never going to make everyone so happy. I mean, yes, the lines are long for some food trucks because they were great choices.

And barbecue is always going to be look really good when I'm at a concert.

And so that one's going to be really long. And so I just think you did a stellar, stellar job. I just could not not be more happy and thrilled with the turnout. We missed you on stage. I know you were there. But did you have any comments?

No, I'm just echoing. I would just echo all the commissioners' comments about it. I think it was a fantastic event. I went last year as well, and this is definitely... I thought it was more than double because, you know, last year there was some breathing room in the back, but this year there really isn't. And, yeah, and I think having long lines is, you know, a metric of success. Yes, exactly. When you have long lines at the restroom and, you know, I was trying to buy lemonade and it took forever, so I went to another stand, but... Which is good. It attracts more and better quality vendors in the future because they know that if they come to an event in South San Francisco, they're definitely making good business that day. So, you know, these are all good success metrics. So, you know, congratulations to the team and everyone and thank you for your hard work.

Thank you. And thank you for going over the upcoming events. Some of these items, like you'll be invited to attend, and Angela probably will send it out with invitations. So you'll get tickets and things so you can attend and experience and provide feedback.

Through the chair? Yes. Sorry. The movie at Terra Bay Gymnasium. Great idea. Oh, yeah. FERPO, was it her idea? I don't know, but a collaboration with everyone brainstorming on it and then following through and having it in Terra Bay. It was, the gymnasium was great. I liked how the chairs were set up because it allowed what I noticed possibly, you know, a mother, a grandmother that was wheeled in her wheelchair Obviously, she had some big time surgery to her legs because she had them propped up. But having the chairs set out like that, it allowed someone, you know, that's healing to be able to participate in watching this show, right, with their grandchildren, their family. There was like about 10 of them that came together. And then the bleacher seats, you know, the availability was amazing. And also the setup down on the floor for those that, you know, wanted to be a little closer. It was, I just think that maybe in the future, if it's decided that... you'll be able to have it in the gymnasium, the second one, that more of it gets put out because once it takes hold that you're going to have one of the movies in the gymnasium, it's going to every year pick up for sure. And I didn't get there early enough, but there was some activities that were offered for the families I heard about that people really enjoyed. So again, I saw multi-generations that evening to come together and watch a great movie with their families and friends and And even friends after work, I noticed that generation there. So that was Melanie and Jamie Ray. And that was really nice. So again, that was a wonderful success. But just let's get the word out there so next year can double or triple it. Thank you.

I'd like the basketball hoops at every event. Yeah, so Jamie and I can compete. Okay, so we'll get back to the agenda. I think that's all for item two, and we can move on to calendar of events.

I think we pretty much covered them.

Yeah.

Under Laura's item, but briefly, I can add just a little more. This coming weekend, we have our coastal cleanup led by Josh and Parks, the Saturday event of Haskins Way, as it always is. And then we have the FESTA event, sort of the IACC's event, but we help sponsor, provide facilities and staff to support the event at Orange Park. I'm looking up to next month. Maybe art show which mentioned during the cultural art spotlight. And then the centennial way Park North outreach event which will be same place. It was last time centennial way at Bart roads right there near South City Bart Laura mentioned the Halloween extravaganza ever holiday. Boutique and Makers' Fair, and then the Fun Run sort of wraps up the month of November, but of course we have a couple more in December, which we'll talk about next month, round out the year.

Thank you. Administrative updates, I assume everyone read theirs. Were there any questions or comments on the administrative updates that staff provided?

Chair, may I?

Sure, go ahead, Bill.

Hi. So, Laura and Greg, in the, I guess, Laura, in your report for the Concert in the Park, it mentions Genentech was donation of $250,000. Then in the administrative update, it mentions the donation was $200,000. So...

yeah so the full donation was 250 000 of which 50 000 could be used towards the july 4 event and so that is essentially what happened um so 200 went towards the concert 50 000 went towards july 4. thank you that's a lot of money sure

Just one quick question. On the open gym schedule, I play badminton, so it used to be the badminton open gym was also on Wednesday evenings. I noticed it hasn't been on a weekday or an evening for a while. I just wanted to kind of, I was just curious, is it because it's closed off for an event or?

I want to say that's generally during summer. Oh, it's only during the summer when we have summer camp and the gym is really impacted with sports camp being there five days a week, so.

got it. Okay, so no one has questions or comments on the administrative updates, when will you know about the veterans flame results or.

Please have meeting this number 22nd so next Tuesday goes before the full Commission.

And they'll decide that.

We had a subcommittee meeting last night and wants to speak to. And then we had a veteran stakeholder meeting where we met with those who had served in war members of the VFW, etc. Maybe two weeks ago and got their feedback. Any updates from last night.

aaron's like do you want me um no greg pretty much covered it so our as the process goes our subcommittee um reviews all the material and information and then they make a recommendation that goes before the full commission um so on tuesday a week from tonight we'll be here and if you're interested in coming you're always invited um to the culture arts commission meeting so that one's at 6 30 here

Nice. Thank you so much. My only comment on the administrative update was I wanted to thank Maze Therapeutics for coming out and volunteering and Josh and his team, of course. The park looked really, really great. And it's always nice to do that refresh before you're going to have um thousands trampling through it i'm just kidding um but you know there are people who aren't local to here and it's their first view of south san francisco and it looked incredible so a big thank you to the whole team of volunteers that came out over 400 plants that's a lot um you know we've done a lot of volunteering most of us here and it's a lot of work so thank you very much for doing that

at night i just want to give a shout out to mike and thomas who once again delivered on junior giants with over 500 kids so every year it just keeps growing and growing so that's an amazing group

That's a really wonderful program. Both my kids did it and it was such a positive experience with so many parent volunteers too. Like every coach is a volunteer. And it's really hard to get, I mean, they're mostly working parents that come out after a long day of work. It's such dedication for the kids. So yes, thank you for bringing that up, Greg. Friends of Parks and Rec, is there any update tonight?

They sold out of beer and wine.

That's a complaint, Laura.

I know. Their gross sales was a little over $6,400, but they still have to deduct their invoices for beer and wine and ice. And so we'll have what their net was at the next meeting for you as well.

I mean, it's so hard to predict when the crowd is not for sure. And so thank you to all those volunteers. who came out and worked on that too. That was really great to see. Okay, we already had number five. Number six, cancellation of the November or December commission meeting. Greg?

Yeah, so as we do each year, we put this item on the agenda so the commission can discuss and take action if they would like to on canceling the meeting in November or December. The dates are November 17th or December 15th. At the moment, I'm not aware of any items that will be urgently necessary to come before the commission, but should there be any, we could always schedule a special meeting as well. So I will leave it open to commissioner discussion.

Sounds great. Is there anyone who has a preference for November or December travel plans and such?

I'm through the chair. I thought I saw somewhere that it even said November and December.

Usually just one.

No, I thought I saw it somewhere that it said the choice of having both also. I would say you go first since you have children in school.

Either one, I actually don't have plans. Bill, do you have a preference? Are you traveling anywhere? either?

I'm one-eyed bandit these days, so I'm not traveling much.

Okay. Why don't we, I'll just, is there a motion to cancel the December meeting?

Okay.

Great. Is there a roll call vote?

Commissioner Locke?

Aye.

Commissioner Donardi? Aye. Aye. Commissioner Olson? Yes. Commissioner Cham? Yes. Vice Chair Uy? Aye. Chair Camacho?

Yes. Okay, so December meeting canceled. And is there a motion to approve the minutes from the August 18th meeting?

Motion to approve the minutes from the August 18th. Oh, wait. No.

Thank you for trying.

I second.

will you make the motion ruth i make motion great i'll second thank you melanie uh i think we have enough people yes wait she wasn't here you weren't here that meeting oh my gosh i wasn't here either so we'll have to wait until commissioner ray is back so we have four right yeah okay yeah

Well, we do have a quorum, but yeah, I suppose so we can wait, yeah.

One, two, because only three of us can vote on it.

And folks can vote on it, but yeah, it's probably that's the wait.

It's just wait, it's not urgent, right? Okay. All right, any, hold on, I lost my agenda. Where are we, staff comments? Commissioner comments? Where are we? Items from the commission. Sorry. Okay. Items from the commission. Ruth, you already talked about Tara Bay. Did you have any other comments? I was going to...

Oh, yeah. I just kind of wanted to echo what Commissioner Gennardi said regarding the Terra Bay movie night. I thought that was a fantastic event. I got there at the beginning, and I loved the games. I loved the pong or, you know, with the little basketballs. I thought that was very... That was hard. It was... Yeah, but that's what kind of... That's what made it like extra fun and funny. And I was just playing it. I was actually playing it with Leslie and it got kind of competitive. So like talk about multi-generational, like just jumping in there and having a blast. Like I got to know her. so much better through that and then uh following that going into the different space and having the little basketball like those were nice little touches that you know even if the the movie wasn't about basketball like would have still been fun to do with anybody from the community and it looked like the kids were having fun going from room to room and And the overall movie, I thought it was a great choice. The sound system was done really well. I liked that the bleachers were open, and I also appreciated that there was a mat on the ground that people could still get that. like in the park feel. Uh, so I saw kids running around and rolling around on it during the movie and it was just a great time. And I really appreciate your work and, um, putting that together. And yeah, I hope to continue to do that at the terror Bay, uh, You know, I'm an advocate for the outdoors, but for that purpose and for this, especially this time of year, like, yeah, we should be using Terra Bay more so. So that was awesome. Thank you.

Thank you.

I just want to piggyback on that. I was only there for a very short period of time visiting a friend in that neighborhood and it was really windy that evening. So it just goes to show how inclusive the event is when it's indoors and it had both, you know, the mats for, you know, kind of lying there kind of similar to the grass. and chairs as well so it's very accessible so i really appreciate that and i just want to say this is my first official parks and rec commission meeting i came from the parking place and traffic safety commission so i'm very excited to join parks and rec of all the fun events over here thank you

we're the best commission so welcome um just to echo what has already been said for movie night i really i especially appreciated um the accessibility part there were people with a wheelchair was there there were people with strollers which you normally can't get at martin because they can't lift it over that gate um and

i laughed when i saw the wind that night i'm like well here we are so i thought it was great um were there any other comments commissioner law thank you chair hey my friend josh um cypress and pine park i believe last year was mentioned that one of the equipment was broken and it would be replaced and I believe it hasn't been replaced.

Is that a question or a statement? Yeah, you're correct. We are currently in design or starting design process to revamp that entire park. So we will not be replacing any features until that process concludes.

So thank you. Stay there. The green space at Hillside and Linden.

What's the intent? Correct me if I'm wrong, Greg. I believe that site will be sold for development.

Habitat for Humanity site. Next to the car wash? Yes. So if it's going to be sold...

Because I got a little upset at the sight of your maintenance worker driving their truck onto the site to trim the trees and bushes. If the site's going to be so, why are we bothering even maintaining it?

We do very little there. If they were trimming trees and bushes, it's only to keep it out of the neighbor's property. But as you know, the irrigation, there is no irrigation there. And we basically do the minimal possible to keep it semi-safe. Well, safe, but like semi-maintained. Okay.

But thank you for that information. So we've listed for sale. Are we in contract?

That I don't know. I assume so if we have a developer selected, we must be, but that's outside of my sphere. Okay, thank you.

Then questions for Director Mediotti here. At the concert, there was a survey done on the Bay Trail Is that the results going to be presented back to this commission?

I don't know. It more has to do with sea level rise and the bike and ped connectivity. I can ask their project manager if that's within their scope. I'm not aware of it being in their scope to present before. Okay.

um because some of the questions actually related to things like access features that would more commonly be under the jurisdiction of the commission um

A lot of that area is not city property, however. So it's sort of a vision plan that spans multiple property owners. The city controls maybe an eighth of the Bay Trail and the rest. Yes.

I made it very clear. Yeah. to the person that the private owners need to be good corporate citizens and enable the citizens west of 101 to utilize that trail. Okay, Lyndon Park, the work's going great. walk by there at least once a week. And they're shoveling things all over the place. There's two signs that are announcing the project. And I don't know. I'm not a proponent of spending too much money. But it would be nice if we had a mock-up of what the new park's going to look like, put on those announcement boards.

We can share that with the project team.

And then lastly, in our last commission meeting, we had the great announcement that the city had purchased that wonderful home in Sunshine Gardens. So is there a process to start planning at this stage?

It is a bit premature. I think it's a good time to start planning conversation again with the school district about long-term plans um for using that as an access to their property um i assume that will come up at the next liaison meeting between the school district and the city um I believe I shared at the last meeting. For the moment, it will be market rate housing. Working, again, economic and community development is leading that sort of effort in the short term. So we're working with their property manager on some minor upgrades to make the house safe and rentable. And until that time comes, Josh will be out there maintaining the weeds and making sure it's, you know, looks nice in the neighborhood and not an eyesore. But yeah, I think at some point soon we will have to have that discussion with the school district.

Okay. Thank you. Thank you, chair.

I guess through the chair, my only comments are, you know, I spent a significant amount of time this summer in Manila and When you compare the parks that we have here, the parks here are amazing. They have a similar thing to a bay trail there, but it's trash-laden. It's covered in trash. When you go to the different parks, you know, they're not well-kept. There are no services for... There's no fields, really, that are sports fields for kids. There's no... you know there's not a swimming pool that's open for kids um and you're you know in the middle of this huge city that's like 30 million people and when you walk around um some of the green areas you realize they're actually not even real parks because they're just part of malls right um and i think what we do here uh in south san francisco is amazing because you know we have built so much green space we have so much space that really is made to help our community members, the kids here, the adults, the elderly people really, like, have a space for them to have recreation, to grow, to be educated, to play sports, to be healthy. You know, I think what we do here is, you know, amazing. I think what the staff is doing here is great because I can see how wrong it can go. in another place that probably even has way more resources, but because they're not used properly, what you'll see is, you know, just, you know, like parks that are just poorly maintained and they really do not cater to the community. I'm really happy that what we're doing here is we're using the funds that we've been given to really try to help and make things great for our community here. So thank you guys.

Thank you. My only item was to welcome Brandon, so welcome. We're happy you're here, and we're a commission of seven again. Are there any items from staff?

Just a couple for me, and then I'll look around. First, not on the calendar of events, was on September 23rd, Josh has recruited a group of volunteers from SFO to paint Sign Hill back to white. So that'll be done.

Sorry, not SFO. It's from a Harrison Street, Harrison Group asset management company. SFO was initially interested, but they couldn't make the 23rd. So it's a company east of 101. So they are a local company.

Okay. Sorry. again it is ecstatic about it apparently and they have asked it to stay white yeah from everything i've seen online just leave it alone yeah that's the thing um again thank the commission um and our team here for a wonderful concert event um honestly i couldn't think of a Better event and way to go. So we shared earlier sort of a staff-wide email, but not in that was like our giving of the game ball for the event to Laura, who really managed us also.

That sparkling microphone?

Yeah. I like it. Need a trophy to pass on year to year. A note, Thomas Boitano had his baby. It seems like every meeting we have a new baby to announce. So just share that since we're so happy for him and his wife. We are in sort of the midst of planning for the new aquatic center. We are likely going with the sort of three-phase event model where we're going to have a last splash, a soft opening, and then the larger grand opening. So we'll share more details about that as we sort of finesse them. I think we have shared some preliminarily.

More about the last splash.

Yeah, the last splash of the doggies. Okay. We shared a little bit about that. Yep. Still a thing. Yeah. We're going to paint Sein Hill entirely blue, like water blue that day, too.

Wait, what?

No.

I think he's joking.

Just kidding. And then another thing just happening behind the scenes but really consumes a lot of time, particularly for Erin and her team, is our new ERP, so our Enterprise Resource Program. So that manages all our HR and finance functions, our scheduling of staff, and also our permitting software that we use for all. I don't know if you all know, we do like hundreds of plan reviews a year, particularly Josh, to look at landscapes in the city, trees, tree removals, etc. And that's also part of it. So it's this huge, huge multi-year long process that's sort of coming to a head and will be implemented in the next two months. One actually just went live as of Friday, our permitting software. So Huge lift on its own, probably could have been the biggest project for all of us for any other year, but we have so many others going on. So just wanna highlight that. Angela or anyone else? Joshua said something.

I was gonna say, next month we hope to have Mariana Roman who retired today after over 30 years of services in our adult daycare program. So today was her last day, and we hope that she can come to next meeting so that we can acknowledge her here as a service for the city.

And I would just like to invite you all to, if you're available, on Thursday from 9 to 12, we'll be doing another small volunteer event at Orange Park, cleaning up around the bocce courts for FESTA, similar to what we did with IPP the Thursday before concert, so. And if we paint Seinfeld blue, I will be tendering my resignation.

Right.

Thank you, everyone. Okay. Nothing else? This meeting is adjourned. Thank you.