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Recreation and Park Department to accept grants for Tenderloin playground and multiple play sites
Summary
The Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee forwarded two resolutions authorizing Recreation and Park to accept grants totaling about $6.1 million to renovate a Tenderloin playground and support up to eight children's play sites.
The Budget and Finance Committee on April 16 voted to forward two resolutions to the full Board of Supervisors recommending acceptance of grants to the Recreation and Park Department to fund children's play-space improvements.
The first resolution would authorize acceptance of $1,125,000 in cash and in-kind grants from Wuyi Children's Services and related funders to design and construct a new play space at the Tenderloin Recreation Center, near Wuyi’s Golden Gate learning site. The second resolution would authorize acceptance of up to $5,000,000 from KaBOOM! to support improvements at up to eight children's play-space sites across the city.
Deputy Director of Partnerships Abigail Maher told the committee Wuyi is San Francisco's largest Head Start and early Head Start provider and that the Tenderloin playground project would use natural materials and include an outdoor classroom for early learning. She said the $1,125,000 package includes a $1,000,000 CalFire Urban and Community Forestry green schoolyards childcare grant and a $125,000 grant to Wuyi from Head Start California.
The committee recorded no public speakers on the items and voted, by roll call, to forward both resolutions to the full board with a positive recommendation. Members Joel Engadio, Cheyenne Chan and Vice Chair Matt Dorsey voted Aye.
If approved by the full board, the grants will be accepted and the Recreation and Park general manager would be authorized to execute and, where appropriate, amend the grant agreements so long as amendments do not materially increase city obligations.
The projects are described in the staff presentation as focused on natural-material play features and outdoor learning spaces; the Tenderloin playground specifically is intended to serve children from a nearby Wuyi program that lacks an on-site outdoor area.
The measures will next be considered by the full Board of Supervisors on the date listed on the board agenda unless otherwise noted.
