earnest ames, laurie letterman. [ reading speakers' names ] if you could please come up. >> good morning, my my name is ernest ing and i am here to voice my support for the lease management for the botanical garden society here. i have been a volunteer at golden gate park for 25 years and started as a volunteer for an organization, which is now called san francisco park alliance. i have been a dosant at the japanese tea garden and i'm currently a dosant at the botanical garden and the conservatory of flowers. i am on the board there. i think it doesn't take very long for anybody who does any work in the park or in the park to know that the park is a success, because of the non-profits and the caudry of volunteers that they have here. one of the outstanding examples would be the botanical garden society, working in partnership with the botanical garden here. not only that we have the library, and the bookstore, but we have a very extensive dosant program, which i am involved in. and we'll come to a table and listen to some aspect of the park. this is very important work and not only is th