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Committee forwards ordinance accepting Mission Bay Kids Park after management questions and amendment on opening date
Summary
The committee accepted an amendment to set the park ordinance’s operative date to July 1 to enable opening, heard questions about long-term management and funding (CFD, OCII, contract manager MJM), and forwarded the ordinance as a committee report to the full Board by unanimous consent.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee voted, by unanimous consent, to forward to the full Board an ordinance accepting Mission Bay Kids Park into city jurisdiction and authorizing Department of Public Works acceptance on behalf of OCII and Mission Bay Parks. The committee accepted an amendment to set the ordinance’s operative date to July 1 to enable the park opening.
April Vanarasione Ng, representing Supervisor Kim’s office, told the committee the acceptance is a key step to open the new Mission Bay neighborhood park for families and children. Supervisor Erin Peskin moved an amendment to add a section making the acceptance operative on July 1 to address long delays in opening; Peskin said the amendment would help get the park open for residents who have waited.
Department of Public Works (DPW) representative Barbara Moy said the park will be maintained and managed by Mission Bay Parks under arrangements with the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (OCII) and that a management firm (referred to in the transcript as MJM) will be under contract to OCII to manage the parks. DPW explained a Community Facilities District (CFD) funds maintenance and operations for Mission Bay parks. Several supervisors raised concerns that the Recreation and Park Department (Rec and Park) had not been fully briefed and that the long-term transfer of management merits further policy discussion once OCII divests Mission Bay properties.
Corinne Woods, chair of the Mission Bay Citizens Advisory Committee, described the multi-agency sign-off process (she said 17 agencies must sign off), noted OCII controls CFD funds and must divest Mission Bay parks per the State Department of Finance, and suggested forming a nonprofit management structure similar to Yerba Buena Gardens with community stakeholder involvement.
The committee accepted the operative-date amendment without objection and forwarded the item as a committee report to the full Board; the transcript indicates the recommendation was recorded as amended and advanced by unanimous consent, with no roll-call tally included.
