learn about the skies and it's significant in addition to what supervisor breed said in expanding the access to families and public school and all folks in the bay area. i want to say that the city should look closely and continue to be supportive of the capital needs of the aquarium thank you >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you. i want to thank the doctor and i and my office took a tour. it was fantastic to see behind the scenes what happens. and the section around coral relieves was outstanding.

and the staff had a commitment to the place. my wife is there she's an educator and she's getting trained open curriculum around climate change. it's been helpful to integrate what she's learned in the museum to the classroom. we'll be working with you closely to approve your budget today >> thank you, dr. much appreciated. we do have a budget analyst report oh, we don't have one you're off the hook. next, we have beth as the director -

>> good morning mr. chairman i'm without my group as we were moving out of the veterans building as we speak. the mission of the microfilm arts department is to operate and maintain the grounds to in accordance with the purposes of the memorial trust and to make sure the max use. we have included a few photos. the major responsibilities and

the overview of the one memorial department is certainly our grounds operations maintenance includes you security services and capital planning and mettle. we have an excellent booking and marketing events services we market and coordinate those services. we provided stage and technical services as well as front house unusual and box office services. we certainly are entrusted to coordinate the memorial trust over the veterans building for approximately 4 hundred meetings and activities every year.

a long time our budget for the next two fiscal years. a few notes on this important one prim change is from the hotel tax to general support forgive o for fiscal fingerprinting. a major significant drive for the changes in our budget is the closure of the veterans buildings basically today for the veterans upgraded and improvements project. we will have a reduction of revenue due to the generate revenue and it hurts the loss of enter departmental recovery from the organizations that have been using that building. we have a net reductions of 6.8

fte in fiscal fourteen that's in the workforce we won't be managing the veterans building. we will start restoring those possessions and we'll need to fully restore those facilities. we have some non-personal services and other departmental services. this slide should come before the last. our activity for this or that and fourteen you can see we're anticipating a to the rental uses of rental perform uses of 9 hundred and 6 in fiscal fourteen and we're anticipating a attendance of 8 hundred and 40

thousand. i note that the hall which none of you even know that building exists it's on the corner of haze and franklin. the symphony is bringing this building up to provide foreseeable activities. we'll be renting that believe for public activities by the symphony and various other organizations that will be bringing more people federal or state to the performing arts center. i need to note that the big drive is the veterans building. everyone has vacated the

veterans building with expectation of the law library. we have to begin construction on july one and continue to have the law library operating until mid-august. i won't review the law library deficiency because we have come before this committee before the veterans building has many deficiency. the building is seismic and safety issues i want to note we have private you dollars in this project. we have a $1.5 million grant to expand our theatre and the san francisco opera is bringing $20 million to this project.

they will billed two new small rental facilities which the memorial will rent to smaller businesses. this is a significant change. it's a small community organization. arts organization have previously felt excluded from the performs due to our capita capacity. i would like to note we have some other major capital projects in progress. certainly we would like to thank the public commission we'll be partnering with them and a new solar system on the roof at the symphony hall. we received plumbing funds and

that is expected to reduce our water consumption by 35 percent. we will be replacing seats in the opera house and replacing lights in the fall. we will replace carpet during the summer. the hall is currently having upgrades and the 2 had the 5 million privately funded program for the memorial will be targeted for early 2014. i want to thank the committee for considering our budget and the mayor's office.

we have no budget analyst report. i'm happy to answer my questions >> colleagues any questions. >> actually, this is a quick one. francisco you describe the area between the two buildings. i know there's been a lot of private fundraising and as i i recall at some monument dedicated to veterans >> yes, sir. it's a memorial it's a thomas church landscape garden and we did go out for a nationwide million program. it even exists in thomas churches memorial well, the future is here. we did a design competition

among our folks. it's hard to explain it's called a passage it will be in the objection gone at the east side of the garden. you'll walk through the objection gone and it will have a water feature so the 0 water b will flow through this walk through. >> colleagues any further questions. again, no analyst report so lucky you. next will be the park and recreation department. >> two additional items to go look up. >> can you call the next items. >> between the city and the

society for the steven beggar auditorium with two 10 years extensions. and item number fourteen the ordinance for the birthdaying fees for the botanical garden with the boat house and repeatedly the admissions >> hold on. there you go >> let me just start by thaipg this committee and great thanks to the mayors and the budget analysts for a reallyactivities.

i think your recreation the best practice progress we went through was our staff to come up with the recommendation in this past year we've offered sports and athletics which is a combination of outdoor recreation. right now today, we're in the middle of summer camps and we're going to have over seven hundred and 70 sessions in four

locations around the city. we'll get into this a little bit more when we get into the questions. one of our proudest accomplishment we'll have over $700,000 in scholarships. a few more numbers. you can see some very, very positive trend. we want to thank both the city's leadership investment in parks but you're very tlaerntd and hardworking staffer for the positive journey over the past 5 years. on park maintenance you can see that since 2005 and 676 when the park inspection program began we improved our score by 80

percent. 85 percent is a healthy percent. on the recreation side 73 you can see the incredible revenues and scholarships provided and frankly people on the wait list. that's a mixed blessing we want to provide opportunity for everyone who wants to sign up with us. some of our programs have such a demand we have a wait list. those stats are actually by the - it's worth noting that 23 percent rated the parks as excellent or good. this is comparable to 57 percent

in 2007. it's a healthy trend. slaefrl on the recreation side 20 re - turning to our budget. half of our employees - the next two slices of the pie are our rec pools and the maintenance of all or facilities is at 12 percent. we allocate 4 percent of our funds for staffing. 3 percent of the budget is for park safety and the two

remaining slices you can see here a long time our

budget this year's budget. we're very relieved that after several years of pretty dramatic budget cuts our budget is increasing over the next two years. however, it's in capital projects thanks to your leadership and support weer beginning to spend dollars and wrapping a 2008 bonds. this includes recreation and structure maintenance in the marine. and you see the closure of candle stick park. this is the 49ers last year that's a significant source of revenue for the department. even with the proposed increases it's worth noting we're short.

since 08 and 09 we have gone through like all other departments some serious belt-tightening. during the same period we've had the reduction of 40 ftes. including to the budget we've lost the funds. also rec and park needs about $40 million more and more to meet the needs. we do, however, returning to the good news are with our growth this year in support of the mayor's office are able to grow our recreation programming. this year's budget

. the rationale to our park system by 25 at the same time over the same 5 year period that the general fund has grown by over 20 percent can you help me understand the rationale for

that. those cuts and obviously rec and park has done a good job of generating their own revenue but there's a cost for that. it causes a lot of political attention and puts the department in an awkward positions so it would be great to understand the rationale for that >> supervisor kate howard. you know, i think every year the balancing the budget is a challenging process and there's a lot of the trade offices particle in budget years when we're fatiguing short faldz. over the last year's we faced very significant budget shortfalls declining revenues from many of our tax sources and

from state and federal sources. you know, i think the mayor's office certainly looks to - looks at the whole cities budget and a tries to balance a number of priorities. i think you will see in the current budget there's encouraging support and the budget is growing. the mayor's office strongly supported the horrify i think the question about you know why does general fund support decline. you know, that's part of the trade-off process that happens here in this chamber and in the mayor's office >> i completely understand. there are many, many priorities that we all share and that it is

a matter of balancing the priority. i completely agree with you. but it's rather - this is a rather extreme skwep. and the way i i know the way our budget process is set up the mayor does have a lot of the cards in terms of the amount of money we're allowed to allocate at the board it's tiny compared to once the mayor presents the budget. so the mayor is in the drives seat when it comes to the

budget. last year, i pushed and we were able to get some patrol offers for the board. by in terms of there's limits. i know we've had this discussion are i know i want to note over time this has become an unusual trend. but park system is one of those core services that deserves support and we're not at the level we should be >> supervisor breed. >> i also echo supervisors wiener's remarks. we're not necessarily increasing our general fund

. >> i don't want us to go backwards but the general fined doesn't continue to decline. in fact, we should look at a way to increase the general support fund to the wreaking and park department >> so returning back to the operating initiatives. a significant one we'll talk about later is this budget thanks for the support of mayor's office this has traps for a long. many years ago it was standard that the department had transportation resources to move

the kids around to the programming and this has gone away. that will allow the kids from lessor privileged neighborhoods to our facilities. turning to the park maintenance side. some of the enhancements that for which we've gotten support under the mayor's office includes additional apprentices. it's worth noting that the apprenticeship program is good. we're adding the coordinator for the program which has been

discusses we'll add one stationary engineer that will help us to maintain our pools because we'll have staffing for 7 day a week coverage. and then some additional materials and supplies for structural maintenance. currently 33 percent of the department funds this area. and this is a big challenge. our materials and supply has the seeds and small tools and parks. they fund all the arts materials and music materials and outdoors recreation materials that our program uses. in the structural maintenance yard it funds sheet metal and other items payroll this year our yard ran out of the funds supplies in may.

we're dealing with the problem we're short soiltd. so those are some of the challenges. we're happy to see an increase no our funding this year. we're proud to report that the department has intent to reduce our workman's comp we're going to save there. and that's because of a very focused effort by staff to return people to work more quickly after an injury and we have a safe work practices and we're very focused on workplace safety and training. we've done a good job keeping our overtime