parks and facilities are as accessible as possible. we are pleased we have some money in the budget to finally close the gap at becker. -- at bodecker. there have been renovations at balboa park and we're very excited about all the opportunities. we are also very excited to finally address longstanding problem that larsen park where there has not been any adequate playground for many years. we have some funding to continue our work with irrigation. this is important for water savings and it is a staff of efficiency measure. our irrigation systems, many of which are 70 years old or older. two-thirds of our system is operated on manual irrigation. when they break, it costs money and time. frankly, we want to move from manual watering to automated irrigation so we no longer have to have our precious few gardeners holding a host they attach manually from quick coupler to quick coupler. we're happy about that and we have some need to do court resurfacing. you asked for information on two specific issues one is job creation. we are particularly proud about this. we talked a lot about our apprenticeship program. we hire kids during the summe