CONSERVANCY COMMONS

Given greatly reduced ridership and ongoing budget constraints, the Presidio Trust will be suspending PresidiGo Shuttle service (both Downtown and Presidio Hills routes) on weekends starting on Nov. 1. The Trust plans to reallocate weekend service hours to provide more frequent service on the weekdays. With new Muni 30 service to Crissy Field, expected resumption of Muni 43 service to the Main Post, and an upcoming return of bike share, they hope residents, tenants, and visitors will have a variety of affordable travel options.

The Parks Conservancy has reinstated the $50 match on the Navia Commuter and Parking Transportation Program for active employees.

To take advantage of this benefit for November, you must place your order with Navia no later than Oct. 19. Please see the instructions for placing an order on page 25 of the Employee Benefits Guide.

Kaiser Permanente and Blue Shield members are eligible for a no-cost flu shot this season. Many locations have drive-thru and walk-in flu shot clinics. Additional information and locations can be found below, with Kaiser San Francisco location listed here.

The Parks Conservancy will provide vouchers for non-benefited employees that will allow you to access flu shots at specified locations for free. Human Resources will email vouchers to employees by the end of October.

Claremont EAP provides some tips and resources to help co-parents find ways to bolster their relationship and overcome conflict during this stressful time in this quarter's newsletter.

GGRO's annual publication is now available both as a beautiful full color physical edition as well as a digital version available to view here.

Yakuta Poonawalla, Community Program Manager for San Francisco stewardship programs, penned a touching and timely open letter to volunteers and our dedicated community.

If you haven't seen yet, our intranet, aka Sharepoint, has a new look and more pages to explore like the Policies and Procedures page where you will find links to important documents, guides, tips, and more spanning across our organization. 

You can view recordings of previous All Staff video conferences on Sharepoint. Please use your work email and login to connect.

Our next All Staff Video Conference is Thursday, Oct., 22, 10-11:30 AM via Zoom Webinar. 

To reduce the number of messages sent to all staff, moving forward, we will only send invites to those who opt-in. If you want to receive an Outlook invite to upcoming Community Circles, please fill out the form to opt-in or email dei@parksconservancy.org with any questions. See you at a future Community Circle!

Thursdays in October, 9 AM - noon.
Join us for the One Tam Virtual Summit on Climate. We’ll explore topics like climate change impacts in Marin, the work of One Tam to address them, intersections with public health and equity, the 2020 fire season affecting the Bay Area, and more.

The summit will be be five online sessions, held every Thursday. Staff can get a promo code for free registration by emailing mogallagher@ParksConservancy.org 

Visit to learn more and register.

Oct. 21, 6:30 to 8 PM
The seminar will be about a raptor diet study, conducted by doctoral candidate and GGRO Volunteer Bander Ryan Bourbour. Bourber will present the research findings from his latest publication, “Trace prey DNA collected from migrant Merlins reveals fall migration diet is structured by migrant songbirds.” Please review pre-reading links to documents before the training.

Oct. 15, 10 to 10:45 AM.
Learn how to eat better and improve your health and well-being. See how different foods affect your body and learn about nutrition’s roles in reversing chronic disease.

Resilience: Strengthening Our Reserve Oct. 20, 9 – 10 AM
Resilience is important for overall well-being and effectiveness at work and in life. Learn important tips and practices in this self-reflective session.

Assess Your Stress: Tips for Stress Management Oct. 21, 9 – 10 AM
This seminar highlights the sources of stress and teaches practical solutions for maintaining composure in stressful situations.

Learn how to use tools like SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive. For users of all ranges of experience, this training will help you use our online suite of software to make file sharing, communication, and telecommuting easier!

Have a submission or Park Pic for the Conservancy Commons? Send content and images to commons@parksconservancy.org by Friday at 10am to be included in next week's newsletter.