Good morning.

The meeting will come to order.

Welcome to the October 1st, 2025 meeting of the Budget and Finance Committee.

I'm Supervisor Connie Chan, Chair of the Committee.

I'm joined by Vice Chair Supervisor Matt Dorsey.

Our clerk is Brent Haliba.

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Clerk, do you have any announcement?

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And finally, Madam Chair, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda of October 7th, unless otherwise stated.

Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Clerk.

And before we call item number one, we will need to excuse Supervisor Joe and Guardio.

And I would like to move to excuse the supervisor and a roll call, please.

And on that motion to excuse uh Supervisor and Guardio from today's meeting.

Vice Chair Dorsey.

Dorsey, I.

Chair Chan.

I.

Chan, I.

We have two eyes with member and guardio excused.

The motion passes.

And um, as always, we will have budget and legislative analysts reports uh for items on our agenda.

And what we would do is to have department uh presentation first, followed by the budget and legislative analyst.

Then we will take questions and from this com from this committee, and then we will go to public comment.

And with that, Mr.

Clark, please call item number one.

Item number one is a resolution authorizing the recreation and park department to accept and expend an in-kind grant from the dog patch and northwest Petrero Hill Green Benefit District valued at approximately 580,000 for the design and construction of the 22nd Street Trail Steps, and to authorize the general manager of RPD to enter into modifications to the grant agreement that does not materially increase the obligations nor liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the contract or this resolution.

Madam Chair.

Thank you.

And we have Brecken Park here.

My name is Tamar Barlev, and I'm with the recreation and parks department partnerships division.

And I'm here with our partners, Dog Patch and Northwest Petro Hill GBD and members of the Friends of Patrero Hill Rec Center to present to you item one on today's agenda, a resolution authorizing the recreation and park department to accept an in-kind grant from Dog Patch and Northwest Petrao Hill GBD, valued at approximately 580,000 for the design and construction of the 22nd Street Trail steps.

To provide a little local context, on the left is a view of Petrao Hill bounded by 280, 101, Caesar Chavez, and 16th Streets.

At the top of Petrao Hill, which is squarely in District 10, on the eastern side is a 10-acre Patrero Hill Rec Center, which houses recreation center and gymnasium, athletic courts and fields, a community garden, trails, and incredible vistas.

Down the hill to the east of this uh is the dog patch neighborhood, as well as Show Place Square to the north, along with Soma.

The only way to access the uh Petro Hill Rec Center and the open space surrounding it, from the northeast side of Petrello Hill Rec Center, and Dog Patch is an informal dirt trail located mostly on unaccepted public right of way, considered part of 22nd Street, adjacent to the Patrero Hill Rec Center between Connecticut and Missouri Streets.

This steep, at times 26% slope, dirt and rock informal trail is worn into the hillside, is located immediately north of Petrero Hill Rec Center open space, and is adjacent to the Petrero Hill Annex Public Housing Complex.

For a decade, members of the Petrero Hill and Dog Patch communities have been advocating for a safer way to traverse this area.

In 2017, a neighborhood task force organized by UCSF identified five projects that would cushion the impact of the university's expansion into Dog Patch neighborhood.

A staircase built along the same stretch of 22nd Street was one of those five projects.

As a result, UCSF pledged $500,000, which is granted to the Dog Patch and Northwest Patra Northwest Petrail GBD on behalf of Friends of Petrail Hill Rec Center to design and build these steps.

The design approach for these trail steps is to replicate the box steps, a successful trail step design that RPD implements in other parks and open spaces throughout San Francisco.

The majority of the trail steps installed at Petrail Hill Rec Center will be constructed on DPW unaccepted right-of-way adjacent to RPD property, which DPW code-states RPD is responsible for improving and maintaining.

For this reason, RPD staff has partnered with the community to steer this project forward, and if this resolution is approved by the Board of Supervisors, the recreation and park department's operations and maintenance staff has agreed to maintain these steps once they are constructed.