and we also would take you out to dolores park, and the beautiful new helen dillard playground open a year ago between public and private partnership between the city and us, through the bond funding, and private philanthropy, one of the most beautiful playground in the country and yet we are having trouble there with vandalism and damage caused in part because we don't have park patrol officers out there monitoring our parks; same thing is the case all across the city. in a study that was done recently by spur, they identified about a 30 million dollar gap, between the level of funding that we are currently putting in and what a park system of that size and scope and complexity really needs, 30 million dollar gap. growing because we have been cutting the budget to parks instead of growing it. this leads me to a twofold question to you mr. mayor, and to you supervisors. in the budgeting process, how can we begin to turn that around and address the budget shortfall? the second half of the question is, beyond the budget, what is the long-term fix to close the 30 million dollar gap? does