> president buell: all in favor?moved. >> now on item 6, the san francisco zoo. discussion only portion. >> good morning commission, general manager, nice to see you. tanya peterson, director of the san francisco zoo and first let us express our sympathy and thoughts with the gorilla foundation. we just learned that coco, she was born in san francisco, she just passed. spent most of her life at the gorilla foundation, and dr. patterson is devastated with the loss. summer at the zoo, i'll turn to our power point here. wells fargo wildlife theater, wellness and conservation programs, and two teen programs, nature trail and they talk about the animals this they have to take care of over the summer, as well as our talk on the wild. also teen interns go around the zoo with carts and educate the public. great way for teens to learn about animals and public speaking. today is the longest day of the year, so we celebrate the longest animal, the giraffe, of course. and it's world giraffe day. actually, i was just saying zoo,

>> president buell: thank you, commissioner. all good comments. no other comments, we would entertain a motion. >> so move. >> moved and seconded. >> are we moving there is no significance? >> correct. >> president buell: that's correct. moved and seconded. all those in favor? thank you very much. >> now on item 9, the open space fund contingency reserve for deferred maintenance. >> good morning, commissioners. item before you is our f.y.17-18 deferred maintenance funding and what it is is discussion and possible actions to approve two things. one, allocation of $1,155,000 from the open space fund contingency reserve, from the deferred maintenance reserve subfund, to fund infrastructure deferred maintenance projects, and 400,000 from the contingency reserve, this time undesignated reserve subfund to fund wildlife proof waste receptacles and stabilize a build on marina green. as background, in 2010, the commission acted to divide the open space fund contingency reserve into three subfunds. the subfunds are comprised, 50% of the fund balance of the

[applause] >> president buell: recrea craigsation and park commission meeting. please call roll. [roll call taken] >> president buell: with that, let us proceed. >> a couple of announcements. just

market street will be closed between buell and eighth street.you can expect streets close to near the plaza after the big celebration. tomorrow morning at 10:30 am we will have live streaming coverage of the massive parade in celebration on kpix.com. >>> today in d'ugliesoo ontitle.mpe for a the lovable dogs strutted the stuff at the fair today. for the 30th annual world's ugliest dog competition. dogs across the country arrived to claim the trophy. this year's winner was the english bulldog named shasha. she is now getting a lot of love on social media. so lovable -- is so ugly she is cute. >>> we have warm weather for the bay area and things are changing even tonight. the low clouds are working their way up to the monterey bay area and as a result, with the marine layer on things are going to be finally cooling down. that's about 10 or 15 degrees in the east bay. we do have the red flag warnings posted for much of the bay area. at the moment we have clear skies as we look out toward thb point of sintra cam. we thought it bore repeating 105. na

enough, he said to me -- his name was willie buell, said, my father, my father-in-law was a pilot in fought on thehat eastern front. rapport.is immediate within five minutes, we were engaged in combat. striking andso interesting, as this young was killed, he got up and he said, gentlemen, i want to a symphony of fire. he quoted general patton that day. and every one of us, including me -- i was a civilian but armed an m-16 because i wanted to survive that day. we fired down the block and we suppressed those people. cameal years later, we back and i was given the honor marines, the fifth which he led at that time, to normandy. and we toured the normandy battlefields with the men that i in fallujah with. and we went to pointe du hoc, of this the subject book, "dog company," which i'm about.o talk the book that i talked about earlier was called we were one, battle of fallujah. when we were at pointe du hoc, beaches,wind swept from that peninsula, it was a magical moment. i was with people that i fought with in fallujah. and we went back in time to world war ii. let me take you back in t

board member dan kinsley of sks investments, and board associate mark buell, the president of the rec and park commission of san francisco. all of these board members have enthusiastically cheered this project along. they could see its incredible civic benefits for a city they care deeply about. all of these civic leaders, as well as leaders in historic preservation and tourism and travel and public education youth development have supported the project along the way. we have the support of s.f. travel, the support of the california historical society, and the support of many san francisco school groups and community organizations who visit alcatraz on a regular basis. in fact, this year with the park service and the conservancy, we offered free alcatraz visits to 8,000 school children community groups and families in san francisco. and each year the conservancy partners with about 135 community organizations, 60 san francisco schools, the libraries and the public health department, to make our national park accessible to the san francisco community. together with the port of san fran