but we were even more surprised and impressed by how much direct revenue we bring to the city and businesses know that the binder that was

given to us it's really worth a look to study the impacts. >> now let's turn to the timely project of the cities budget. as i members of the jury, we're not a department. our partnership is to pay the funds of the continuance of the aquarium. the fish is real in case you wonder and they - the remarkable fact is we're going to earn 40 percent of our events that's actually amazing. and we know that the academy can't earner enough through

ticket sales. my main messages here today is not to ask you to give us more money do get me wrong if you seriously would like to give us more money we can help you out in the process. so don't hold back. instead we're here to say thank you for what you do that. we really appreciate our city funding and our 38 thousand living creatures also appreciate it. today's academy couldn't live very long without our support it's as simple as that. it's why we appreciate the support so much. it's true that the mayor's budget provides only 66 percent

of the direct finances. and that funding from the city for that rather important mission is dlind 17 percent. we prestige in the next year's without diminishing our commitment to education. we're doing that by taping the academies level that is higher than sustainable. at the same time by mounting one of the most aggressive fundraising programs. we've which one to raise more money every year. because that's actually, the right thing to do. one thing i do ask you to do and this is one easy it's even fun.

i ask you to do the very best you can for our fish and for your kids and this institution. i really worry the promise i made about the finances of the institution is not one i can make next year or the year after that. we have to work very, very hard. i also ask you and this is the one that's serious to visit the academy soon. we'll make it easy. we want to show you our infrastructure the facilities that keep the place operating. go behind the scenes i think you'll be expressed. we need to keep you and your teams to understand that the

resources you invest are well use. we also want you to advise us how to serve the families in our districts and those that visit san francisco as well. we want to

. on behalf of of the rest of us thank you very much. i'll be happy to answer questions >> i saw the picture of concluding - claude there. this is a fun morning and our budget committee it's such a positive messages. thank you for all that you do. this is the backbone of our city

and thank you for being before us today. supervisor breed and a thank you. i >> this makes my job worth it to support some amazing organizations like the museum and the academy of sciences. this city is an amazing place. i had one of those tours of the academy of science and it was pretty incredible. i used to go there as a kid and saw the technology but to make it the incredible place is fascinating. i want to thank edge for citing

today. i want to thank everyone for the assets to our city. i encourage all of the organizations to try and do a little bit more to make sure that there are no barriers to our kids and the city being able to participate and visit those incredible assets. i don't know who paid for us to visit those entities as a child i know we repeatedly took trips to the old and young academy and the memories of just the conversations and what we learned about sharks and fish and about art. i wasn't paying much attention back then but it somehow had an impact. i think we should do everything we can to have children not have

a barrier to those institutions. i was going to add i don't think i've told the staff i remember the old plan telethon of the pink floyd on this side of the moon but you've come a long way and the aquarium is amazing. but one of the things that those folks have showed me is the staff is incredible at the academy and going for the family events that's a pretty wonderful place besides the thousands and thousands of creatures there. i don't know if anyone enjoys

their job as much as you do dr. but the excitement about learning in what you do. i want to say that the middle school program that helps middle school especially girls they 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, returningo