. >> good morning, commissions, katie petrucione. before i launch in my presentation, i do want to note that while today's presentation is focused on the general fund, you do have information about the open space fund in budget in your packets, as well as the charter-required general plan referral for the open space budget, which arrived at about 4:00 yesterday afternoon. so i am so pleased to be here today with good budget news for you and for the department. as i mentioned in my january presentation, the city's overall budget picture is remarkably positive, and the recreatioabsolutely the beneficiary of that prosperity. i'm going start with an update on the numbers that we are balancing to. in next two years, the revenue corrections on this slide include some changes to golden gate park concessions, such as the carousel and tennis and gleneagles golf course and coit tower concession, as well as the elimination of the straw berry festival at camp mather. the numbers increase in fiscal 2016-2017 as we are assuming some loss at the pa

i want to thank our best budget director that ever did work in municipal government, katie petrucione. it's a classic relationship between the cfo and the ceo and i want to spend -- and she says no. [laughter ] we end up someplace in the middle that works for all of us. it really does work great and katie has done a really wonderful job of understanding the nuance of the need. there is -- there is a lot of need still out there and katie's slide about the fact that we have a long way to go, should be on your minds. we have 10,000 people a weekend at dolores -- weekend day at dolores park. we didn't have that ten years ago. you can't take care of dolores park the same way today with the same number of staff we did ten years ago. you just can't and that is true for blessedly so for our parks that are being used more and more and welcoming 10,000 new san franciscans to our city, they are all multi-city multi-unit buildings and that means no backyards and that means parks matter. we really need to plan for the increased density in the city and to make sure our new and emerging neighborhood