thank you very much for your leadership. likewise mr. bailey, no need to come back next week. up next the academy of sciences. >> good morning, i'm greg farg ton. i'm not allowed to start. we have such a nice first slide for you. >> last year was a penguin, i think. >> this year we don't have a penguin. okay. anyway, i'm still greg and nothing has changed and for the last eight years 8 years i have had the pleasure of heading the indicated academy of sciences. this is my last year

i will speak before you. i will be retiring. as you know the academy is a gem in the cultural education and economic life in san francisco. it's an aquarium museum, visual wizards, team of explorers, integrate or of communities, major employer and economic engine. it actually is unique and that is real. we have yet to find another place like out anywhere in the world. this year more than 1.4 million kids and adults from around the globe visited us in golden gate park. as a center of education and fascination we welcomed 15,000 students and teachers. we are a critical extension of their classroom particularly in time when science and education is so

challenged. the department of san francisco public library is connecting the city's youth in a digital age and won applause from president barack obama. as the tourist magazine -- magnet, we employee in our city. this concludes the academy directly donates $120 million every year in addition to the mission counties in the bay area. we own nearly 75 percent of the cost on our own through ticket sales and fundraising. tickets sales is not enough. we began a fundraising campaign that has

already raised over $70 million to supplement what we can earn. we have a ways to go. we are about a third there. i'm very happy to pass that challenge to my successor. when i spoke to you last year i said our budget wasn't quite balanced yes, sir and we'll have an extra draw. that was the right one to do for the short-term to preserve our people and programs and feed our fish. we can't keep doing that over the long run. we can't draw from the endowment from the rate. our response is to be frugal and extremely well managed and do another fundraising campaign that i just referred to. now, i know you are wondering how you can help us thrive. i am

pleased to offer you an answer to that question. it's quite simple. over the coming years, please continue to work to fully fund this steinhart aquarium. it's one of the oldest and very best aquariums. it underwent five 5-year accreditation. it got the best marks you can get anywhere. they tried to find something wrong and they failed miserably. >> i'm glad you have a different commission than city college. >> actually, so an am i. we have an excellent accrediting commission and an excellent aquarium. >> can you take a step back

on your slide. you did mention 16 percent of your operating funds coming from the endowment. is that a major endowment? >> the endowment is 161,$161, million. to draw a sustainable 5.5 percent. we are drawing some of that. the exact figure was 8 percent. >> okay. about 3 percent above what you are usually able to accrue through interest? okay. thank you. >> one of the biggest challenges in the academy is when it's unique and nothing else like it, planning how the budget is going to work is i mpossible. we are coming to the year where we are coming to an equilibrium. >> i have seen the latest. i

have been to two tours and have seen procession made -- progress made in the new capital project and it extends the work you do in drawing and species. it's great stuff. >> it just opened up in the aquarium and we are displaying fish from our recent philippines expedition which is remarkable. since you got me on this topic, do come and see the skulls exhibit. byos. bring your own skull. but it's spectacular and i think you will enjoy it. don't miss it. you will recall the aquarium actually is and has been an active partnership between the city and originally the steinhart brothers who dedicated the funds to san francisco to have an aquarium second to none in the world. we don't have the biggest in the world, but i think we definitely have an aquarium

second to none in the world. it's vital to steinhart is survival. please help us feed our talented fish. we can handle the rest. finally on behalf of my success or john fully, our new board chair who lives here in the city, on batch of san francisco families and kids and exhibition and excellence, our fish, claude and even my colleagues, the most talented group of staff that i have worked with. please continue to be our partners in every way you can. visit us and bring your staff. work with us to coordinate opportunities for your constituents to join the academy. nothing makes us happier than walking 32 you the academy and hear the word "wow" no matter what age you are. you don't have to be

three 3 feet to say "wow". this is a truly and historic entrance transformation of one of san francisco's great treasures. this penguin has done a great thin for you. on behalf of all my colleagues, mayor's office and all of san francisco for your continued support. >> thank you dr. farg ton and for all of your service. an amazing job. cleez, if -- colleagues, if there are no questions, let's go to mr. rows -- rose for the report. >> this is not one that we did report on. >> thank you. best wishes for your retirement. we are going to call up next our parks

parks and recreation department because of the commission happening on the side. we are going to call him up first . madam clerk can you call item 4 -- 14 with this presentation. mr. clerk, sorry. city clerk: item 14: [park code - annual increase of west harbor berthing license fees] sponsor: mayor ordinance amending the park code to require the controller to increase the berthing license fees for the west harbor of the san francisco marina small craft harbor each year by 3 the annual increase in the consumer price index, whichever is higher, until september 1, 2043; and making environmental findings. fiscal impactt1234 >> thank you. thank you

supervisors for allowing us to present. we are excited that we've started to come out of the worst of the budget. we are very grateful for the mayor's suggest in the budget process. we have a very very a vast system. we are blessed with an incredible park system in san francisco. it's big in scope and diversity and activity. ranging from 200 to now 21 neighborhood parks and 179 playgrounds and 72 golf courses, marina, our swimming pools. it's an incredible system and every three corner neighborhoods of san francisco in the statute that i am most proud about is that 96 percent

of city of san franciscans live within 10 minutes of a park. we also operate 24 full recreation centers in our nine swimming pools and offer 600 recreation programs in arts and cultural community services and athletic services. over 500 sessions of 83 different day camps are going on right now. pretty amazing. accessibility is one of our most important principles. this year we will have offered $1.1 million in scholarships. up from $80,000 five 5 years ago. $1.1 million in programs to communities in san francisco. on the park maintenance side, thanks to the supported of the controllers office and this board over the last few years even in difficult budget times we've been able to maintain

our park maintenance functions and in partnership with the controller we actually keep very careful data on the work that we do and i think you can see here that we've made significant progress in the last 6 or 7 years with respect to park maintenance. we operated parks on a quarterly basis and the numbers speak for themselves. also on the recreation side, where over the last 4-5 years we've gone from being the recreation provider to our last resort to the recreation provider and that's something we are very proud about. you can see even in the last resources thanks to in partnership with the recreation staff and sciu, we reinvented how we deliver recreation and able to provide more programs, more opportunities, more hours of

programming frankly with less staff. turning to our budget, the department dwoets half devotes half of our operating budget to staff for maintenance and staff. the next two is the delivery of recreation programming in our rec's centers and swimming pools and structural maintenance yards. we allocate just 7 percent of our budget for administration which includes financing and accounting, human resources, project managing and over a thousand about 850 fp's and summer and temporary employees over 1,000 people and a budget of $140 million. we are a big organization. three percent 3 percent of the budget supports park safety which is a topic where i think we need to take

a look at to invest more and keep our parks safe and land use park conflicts as we get more density in the city and more people visiting our parks. the two remaining parts of the pie are the volunteer services. looking at our budget a different way, nearly two-thirds of the budget supports staff. the next largest slice of the pie for services from other departments. this is a big part of our work including light, heat, power, water, sewer, telephone, vehicle repairs, among other things. we spend five percent of the budget on materials and supplies. we need to invest more. four percent in our services such as garbage pick up and three percent in our clubhouse, 5 percent on debt services and maintenance and citywide overhead. we are

really pleased and very grateful that our operating budget is increasing over the next few years including recreation and park structural maintenance. you see a slight decrease in capital budget in 2014-2015. a one time payment for mta for union square garage we received a lump sum last year. for golden gate park, this is more of an accounting issue. the moving of the staff to recreation. we put them in a different category. turning to some of our strategic budget priorities. we developed these through lots of community conversations with park advocates, neighbors, a variety of different parks groups and other stakeholders. these are the four areas where they seem to be the most

consensus to reinvest. first being park assessment we've -- safety. we've been to this board in the past couple of years to talk about the additional tools to combat vandalism, bad behavior in our parks that resulted in some legislation where we joined every other major urban parks to have park hours now which is something we never had before. and again as the city gets more dense and more people come to visit our parks, having park patrol and park rangers on-site really helps us make sure that everybody gets to enjoy their parks as they want to enjoy them. on any park any day, you see a variety of different uses in our parks. we need a little bit more support to make sure that we have sort of a presence on-site to ensure that everyone wan -- can use

the parks. environment and sustainability the park safety and hazardous trees and the vast majority of our trees in our park system were all planted around the same time. the larger parks in our system were created over 140 years ago. the trees planted around that time have a life span of approximately 140 years. it's time to start paying closer attention to managing our urban forest. we love our trees and we have a tree replacement ratio of 2 .1. anybody who tells you we should not be managing our urban forest or not be

occasionally removing a sick or failing tree or remove a tree in fact for biodiversity in the program, any urban and park system has the responsibility to manage it's canopy. it's something we need to pay closer attention to. active living. this is a very passionate issue for us making sure that all san franciscans are engaging in healthy and robust. many people are obese. many people spend seven 1/2 hours a day on a computer styrene screenn screen or tv or iphone. we have the

responsibility to make sure our kids are getting outside and getting the physical activity they need. lastly, can ustomer service. we like to say we have 880,000 bosses because so many people in san francisco really rely on and use and need our parks. we have a responsibility to make sure that we are doing all we can, not just to be efficient, but also to make sure to interfacing with our park system for the average park user is as easy as it can be. one of our biggest challenges is actually filling the vacancies that we have. we are short staffed. we have been short staffed for many years and we can ill afford to not have the human resources to fill this capacity. you see a little bit of hr support in this column in terms of how we balance the budget and you see another big investment in technology. we need to kind

of keep track with a variety of system of up grades for program registration and for interfacing with our parks in a variety of ways. i think these slides actually just get into a little bit more detail about our investments under park safety. in this particular budget, we have asked for two additional patrol officers and removal of hazardous trees and an additional elect electric an and our own ability to respond to a major disaster is up to snub. you see our specifics here in environmental

sustainability. we have over 130,000 trees in our can me. -- canopy. we have 10 arborist. we should be maintaining our trees once every 5 years. we are not going to get there in this budget, but it's something we need to think more about. we are proposing to do four arborist and to help us move forward with respect to managed tree care and we have funding for hazardous tree removal which is different from maintenance in a different category. we have funding for increased signage, this is about resolving park user conflicts and some increases in m and s. materials and supplies. which

we currently golden gate park has $124 of materials supply per acre. the rest has $167 per acre which is still less than required. i think i laid out in fashion our investments. it's primarily for hr and it. we have a little bit of money here for planning for purposes for the pan pacific exposition. it will be the centennial exposition. before there were airplanes san francisco welcomed many to the shores to celebrate the international ex-position and completion of

panama canal. we are partnering with other agencies. we have some great activities planned at the palace to celebrate the year. that's much a summary of where we are investing our resources. >> thank you, mr. ginsberg and for all your work. if we have no questions, mr. rose, we can go to your report. >> mr. chairman and members of the committee, are you considering item 14? >> that is part of the budget so that will continue along with the rest of the budget. >> so should i comment? >> yes. >> let me just say that we recommend you approve the ordinance on item 14. our recommended reductions fortd budget total 788, 914. our

recommended reduction 107, $968, in 15-16. we are still working with the department and we'll report back to you next week on our final recommendations. >> thank you. mr. ginsberg we understand we are still working on the budget. we'll see you back next wednesday. colleagues, no other comments or questions? thank you very much. up next we have the war memorial. mr. clerk? it's part of our budget. could you call items 12 and 13, please. city clerk: sf sf 12 item

126789 ordinance appropriating an additional $14, 496, 0112 for the veterans building seismic upgrade and improvement project of the department of war memorial for fy 2014-2015. item 13: [issuance of tax exempt and taxable lease revenue commercial paper notes - war memorial project - not to exceed $14,500,000] 13. 140641 sponsor: mayor resolution authorizing the execution and delivery, from time to time, of tax-exempt and/or taxable commercial paper notes in a aggregate principal amount not to exceed $14,500,000 to provide interim financing for the costs of seismic upgrade of and improvements to war memorial project and authorizing other related actions.1234 >> thank you. thanks for holding off for parks and recreation. >> thank you. i'm beth murray for the war memorial performing arts center. i would like to thank the mayor's budget office and the controller and the budget analyst for their help in putting together our budget this year. on the first slide

that has shown some activity milestone for the year. this is a significant time in the war memorial's history. on october 10th we are going to dedicate the war veterans memorial in the courtyard. that construction began monday. not that we needed another construction project, but it is under way. we will dedicate that memorial on october 10th. that has been a true partnership throughout the city with the arts commission, dpw and sf puc. it is a privately funded project. on december 12th we are exciting that we'll be opening the rehearsal hall which is also a public assembly facility. the san francisco sympathy put $1 million into that facility to get it #3er789d -- permitted for public assembly for

rehearsals and performances. the next one is april 30, 2014 , of the seismic upgrade and improvements project. we will actually fully 100 percent complete that job on july 1st, of 2015. in july 2015, the war memorial will relocate back and as well as the sf arts commission. on september 1, 2015, the opera will complete their $18 million improvement project to the veterans building fourth floor which will include two new venues on the fourth floor. these are going to be small venues that we will make available to small arts groups and we do plan to do that in partnership with the arts commission again now that they will be in our

building. also, on september 1st, the herbs theatre and green room activities will commence following construction. with the veterans building closure which occurred on july 1st of 2013, we did have a reduced budget for both 13-14 and 14-15. we will restore eliminated positions in 15-16, as well as resume some cost for the veterans building we are not having in the two 2 years especially utilities. you can see the usesfer funds for the next year and of course a big change in our budget will be the budget debt services as part of our expenditures. i have also

included on this page a summary where we did diminish staffing levels for 13-14 and 14-15 and we will restore those levels for 15-16. on the next page a highlight update on performance. you can see our performance levels for 13-14 and 14-15 are reduced due to the closure of the veterans building. we will in 15-16 have a record number of events taking place and that's not including a full year of the veterans building 4th floor. as far as the items no. 12 and 13, this is legislation that will allow a budget increase of $14, million.

there are three areas of the shortfall. one is the construction budget is adjusted upwards by $6.5 million. this is due to unforeseen conditions, higher than expected bids on trade packages and limited number of bids. the construction contingency will be adjusted up by $7.9 million. this will bring the contingency to 17 percent which is just short of the average percentage used for historic renovations. i would note that the current exposure with 46 percent of the construction completed is $7.5 million. there is also an associated construction management general contract or contingency fee