we kid are not have 10 thousand people every std in deloris park a decade ago. that wasn't how the park fs used, but it is how it is used today. as you touched upon supervisor farrell, vandalism and bad behavior in the park which continues to be a big challenge for us. if i don't-if a picture can paint a thousand words. i get graffiti reports airfb day. broken benches, stolen irrigation, copper irrigation. dumb stuch like what you see in a beautiful meadow. it is the most demoralizing thing for the staff. it is one thing for us to be a little short t is another for them to spend 2, 3, 4 hours of their 8 hour day clening up someones mess and that is whatue teenly happens in our system >> supervisor wiener >> thank you. i want to thank you and the department for doing a lot operationalty. the department is understaffed and feel i give the same remarks every year in this committee and i hope at some point we can structurally fix the chronic underfunding of the department. there are not enough gardeners or park parole. i think your capital staffing is inadequate as w

deloris park is the isone big square, it is the bulk of the park is very open, it is not a difficult park at night. the vandalism is happening at night. during the day it is challenging. policing the park at night isn't challenging. with not that many resources you can make a difference at night because the park close said at 10 and people are not supposed to be there and yet we continue to see pretty horrible vandalism in the park. not just mining stuff. yes, graffiti, but much more severe vandalismism we continue to see middle of the night major parties in the play ground area and we saw the play ground all the broken glass which took that play gound of compligz for some time and thank you for sem exfor donated the sand that went back fl to it but thereat is all preventable so what is being done and what can we do to make sure deloris park is say. golden gate park is more challenging because of the it is so huge and the terrain and it is a different world. i know that the vandalism in golden gate park is also pretty horrifying. what happened in the [inaudible] and also i know that

deloris park is literally tagged every night. we is see a lot of wire threft which is discorjing in the new facility and the irrigation system. when we-2/3 of the irrigation is manual and 1 slaes 32 is automated. automated irrigation systems are creating more sufficient staffing because the staff isn't hauling hose from one coupler to the next in the day so they can do other things. it is also important environmental because we should water at night with less evapuationeration. you water for less time at night and the only way to do that is [inaudible] that one is particularly damaging. we had some-the horrible stuff is the stuff in the botanical garden and [inaudible] and rocks thrown through windows, trees cut down and memorials dephased, we had trucks set on fire. it is a constant challenge to keep up and there is a vandalism report every mornic in our agency. what can we do about it? i personally believe we need to keep more eyes on these resources at night. the board and mayor took a big step in codifying official park hours