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>> good afternoon everyone welcome to the board of supervisors meeting. i will be chairing this meeting and two others supervisors. i would like to thank the meeting the clerk of committee as well. mr. clerk could do we have any announcements? mr. clerk any announcements? >> please silence any electronic devices.

we're going to take item a little bit out of order and fire department item number one be called at the end of the meeting so call item 2 >> budget for fiscal year inching and 2014 and 2015. >> welcome. >> good afternoon supervisors. claim chair i asks you to be xoois. you, you know, we're to farther the well-being by maintaining beautiful parks and enriching recreational activities. a quick look at the budget. our operating budget was

one-hundred and $28 million. the capita budget varies syllable from year to year from grants from general obligation bonds. we're in the midst the bringing to the board of supervisors a bond issuance for the 2012 bond and there are other large companies involved in that that number will grow. at its major parts our general subsidy savings and freeze from our recreational program and fees from permits, special events, facility rentals.

and you can see a bigger and bigger church of our fund is in the earned revenue category. we have 2 hundred and 20 parked. this includes our urban foresters and staff. the next two largest slices of the pie with are the rec centers and swimming pools which is about 25 percent. then 12 from our maintenance yard. we have finance and accounting, purchasing, property management and it services. the remaining slices represent

our zoo and volunteer services. nearly two-thirds supports staffs and other things like light, sewer, city attorney, komgs. we spend about 5 percent of our budget on supplies and equipment. 4 percent on garbage pickup, software licensing. 3 percent respectfully on operating our zoo management agreement to help us manage the zoo. turning to our two year budget outlook. you see some changes to our general revenue they include a

$260,000 reduction to the reimbursement that the city gets and this accounts receipts over the last couple of years. the changes in the zoo a the society will soon be repaying money so that line item in our budget will go away. and in addition to the staff that's working at the zoo it there was a historic agreement that the zoology would be replaced on that side. in truth and busht we take a look at what our budget is and from time to time we do make corrections to make sure their

accurate. there are some significant revenue changes to the golf fund. first and significantly we're going to leave the park open we'll have a significant impact on golf revenue during the time because the golfers are going to be forced to use temporary green. we like all our golf course to have the revenue not only in san francisco but has bill of lading a little bit sort of than in years past. we have to cover our non-increases which include water, sewer and other things so

the budget is $3.4 million. that gross to 6.6 million in large part due to a revenue lost from the 49 earrings leaving the park >> could you fresh everyone's memory can i give us a sense of magnitude where it was a number of years ago and now today. >> yes since 08 and 089 we have consistently met our budget. and there's been a net position loss over that time of 43 full-time equipment's. so we've had our challenges. assembly we lost about 25

percent of our general budget. >> got it. >> and that's frankly why the conversations that are happening at the level and a lot of cities across the country we're not closing our parks we're creating strategies to grow them. this years budget will - i want to start but we have some budget and principles that we apply to our budget with recreation and parks open >> aligns we have broubt these principles to the commission for public discussion. they guide our choices.

to make sure our programs are sustained in our community. we presented our budget proposal at the recreation and park committee. we do try to keep our community and advocates up to date on our solutions. so turning to our solutions continued revenue global. we believe we can concur no more cuts without feeling the pinch of our program delivery. we've been budgeting very skefrl

and our parking garages we have 4 garages have redenounced quite strongly. we're planning on revenue growth for our special event and permits to break that 3 hundred and 50 thousands of dollars. those are not increased fees it is rather increased demand in efficiency and awe signing and accommodating the increased demand. about 3 hundred and 50 thousand in revenue growth for permits. we have demonstrated that our parks are excited and saturdays permit event.

we recently renegotiated our plans and that's going to give you us more revenue this year. we're counting on stadium revenue. this is not going to be around much long-range but because of the success of the 49ers we grew in revenue and we're spreading the revenue over two years to help us deal with 2015 as well. and our property management staff has been doing a terrific job for vend the use for candle

stick or for races out of the parking lot or concerts we're going to have justin timberlake this summer. we're doing our best to augment the loss of the 49ers. lastly, the concessions and attractivene attract shuns. we have second way tours owe food vendor off the grid have bit by bit have helped us solve our budget problems and we're expecting growth of 3 hundred thousand. on the expenditure side our

savings come from two small sources as i mentioned the agreement with the zoo department. the non profit takes up the staff and we'll save from folks leaving. we have a very robust wellness program when folks get hurt open the job we are giving them softer jobs. we're going to have $350,000 savings in our workman's comp area. >> so real quick getting back

to the revenues. i know we had a debate here the board of supervisors the non san francisco resident charges. can you tell us how much that brings in a year >> the gross numbers is well over 5 hundred thousand. obviously we have expenses but this helps to subsidies the cost of 3 of our gardeners there. the fact it, it's free to san franciscans the upkeep of a garden in san francisco we unique. we have 11 workers that we have

assigned and we have about three to four gardeners in the parks. there's a lot of staff that is assigned to the botanical garden. when we were in our worse times it was a controversial decision agreed to a non-resident fee for people investing san francisco and it was similarly our japanese garden. the botanical garden is free speech for san franciscan resident. it was a community comprises we're proud to have it but if we

lose that fee it will impact our budget the numbers are up and they're working on their sustainable nursey. thanks >> just some follow-up questions. i know your finishing up but since supervisor farrell brought it up i want some clarity around the expense of managing the garden overall vs. the revenue it's taking in or maybe that could be brought up at the budget meeting >> the revenue piece doesn't really begin to address the total expenses for the garden

alts and the botanical garden vista hundreds of - invests hundreds of thousands of dollars. we can bring that back some more information about the garden budget but it's not inexpensive to maintain >> does that necessarily mean you would lose 3 gardeners in terms of the revenues. >> i think we would have a trade-off a $350,000 hole in our budget that's about again with over head three or four gardens

elsewhere in our system. >> it is the fee that the - >> i think the gross revenue is about 5, 550 that covers the cost of staff that maintain the gate. there is some question about the button tangible society would still want people at the gate regardless of admission i don't know if they can afford it but they provided a variety of other services >> again for budget purposes it would be helpful to know the actual overall expenses of managing the botanical gardens and the revenue sources and those sorts of thing to have a

bigger picture. and have those 11 gardeners how many are african-american? >> i can't answer that off the top of my head. >> we can find that out later? supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good afternoon. so i supported the non-residency of both tangible garden because we have policymakers in city hall have not been good to the recreational department over the last 10 years and have hallowed out our support and i've managed a lot of public space in san francisco and we have not given you the resources you need.

i commend you in how we generate more park revenue in a reasonable way and make sure we can maintain those critical resources. so how many gardeners does the department have right now vs. we had 15, 20 years ago? i believe we had about a one hundred and 20. so let's we can get the exact number it's about 1 hundred and 50. the garden staff is essentially about half the number it was. we rely on the very robust