million dollars and the hearst family want to send a book to commissioner president buell. he had to be flexible >> it was a wonderful event and privilege to be part of it. >> thank you general manager for being there. >> so i'll get to the business of the zoo first, the attendance as the zoo reaches it's end of the focus year i'm pleased to report we're on targeting to meet our attention goals to date seven hundred and 58 thousand plus visitors and over bucket by 70 thousand visitors or nearly 10 percent that's good news because health care and maintenance is going up. on the labor side we've participated in the mediation our next day is wednesday that may 21. okay. so i'll show a fun new picture of our red panda he has a name it's kinesizinc named after the first to scale market street everest he was named by the zoo feast auctioneer mr. license plate man wanted to raise awareness of the himalayas he's adorable and active i want to thank united airlines and the red ferry fleet. next we've got a monk can he the greyhounds of the primate family the fastest monkey in the wor

.) >> let's see can everybody hear i'm mark buell the wanting of the recreation and park commission (u all here today and want to welcome some distinguished guests i'm to read names if you could hold our applause and let them know you appreciate them. our da george (laughter) >> now you know who started clapping the general manager he's in charge of everything excuse me. george and our purifying and gloria and tom harrison and all my fellow commissioners on rec and park chief suhr our councilmember ferraro and cindy wu and appearance park president and jim the sincere vp and reverend chang now give them a big hand (clapping.) i have two art commissioners roberta and abby i apologize give them a welcome. (clapping.) >> art at this stage of the program i need lilly to help we a.k.a. donna. so i thought rather than giving you my interpretation i'll tell you what wikipedia has to say about her. lilly hitchcock fire bell was considered eccentric and smoking cigars and wearing trousers before it was acceptable and an avid gambler and she dressed up as a male to do so. as a young woman she t

commissioner president buell you can join me for the rejection two russel come on up we've talked about the importance of volunteer he's a distinguished member of our volunteer core and railing was the recipient of a general with regard with regard for compact of getting his fellow citizens get down unquote unquote he's an seminar and he shared his love of dancing as one of the popper dance instructors where 3 hundred people come and they spend time in our parks program so rawls in celebration is a distinguished award on behalf of the rec and park department i want to say thank you for your efforts and offer you a certificate of appreciation and hope to learn some moves i really need some help (clapping). you can say a few words this is your moment please. one thing i'd like to recognize is that the jefferson award for public service is a national with regard in 3 locations in the schools in the workplace and in the community. and our case k pi x is the media partner. i was nominated by one of our line dance danceers and i believe i was selected for doing more than just leading the line

within the area for kids we need to have the community needs met so drawing on commissioner president buells comments the process has been corrupt and there's been comments and surveys they've rooepdz offer to share the stakeholder comments that repelled from the meetings 3 and 4 i presented something i've not received the letters related to the meetings i respectfully say that i have ten seconds rest i want to concede them to laura >> laura and 10 another person. >> i'm laura norman i lived 20 two blocks from the bowie carts for years. i've been involved with trying to make improvements 90 to the parks for 10 years. it's a tiny park not servicing the needs of the neighbors well, i'll is that in the 14 years living nearby i've never been to read a book there any son spent many years there and he couldn't play on the grass. the dogs are a huge problem the brother of the kid that spoke earlier said my brother was bitten he went to the hospital i have a photo. i ask when you evaluate there's 3 elementary schools nearby and no one have a single blade of grass we have one park but the little ones

second question is in if he can of 2011 the "new yorker" published a hugely influential article on cob buell bank you mentioned kabul bank several times. that article was read at top levels of the u.s. government and treasury department and has shaped u.s. perspectives on the afghan financial system since 200 2011. so can you comment on the last three years and if you recall the article, has the afghan financial system made any positive steps forward since 2011 and are those positive steps sufficient to give you some credence to the idea that the financial progress that you said was necessary could be continued? and the third question you mentioned and the issue of revenue and the fact that revenues have stagnated and slightly declined and you pointed to leakage. can you -- i love these economic terms. can you define leakage for us, please, and maybe be a little more definitive on that? thank you. >> thank you. you're undoing the imf euphemisms. i'lldom that. on economic growth. i haven't seen any breakdown of to what extent the growth has been due to the large amount of spending both from d