. >> my name is karen anderson, and i work for the children's program at the san francisco botanical garden at striving arboretum, a name we should never forget. besides the two seasons of classes that we have taken, we have enrichment classes. recently, at our class in the presidio, the educated at the class, which had about 25 doses -- what is going on at the botanical gardens? why have you agreed to have a fee to enter this public garden? and i said that not all of us agreed to this fee and this id check. our educated and said he used to come to the guarded two or three times a week, and now, it is a and b, and it seems like the soul has been sucked out of the place, and he does not go to the botanical garden anymore. i have heard similar stories from my family, friends, and neighbors, and their family and friends who come in from out of town. they do not go. i even know someone who quit because she said the spirit of the garden is lost. and she does not feel about coming here -- good about coming there any more when she sees the toll booths, and when she is asked for her id. we a