commissioner levitan. commissioner low. commissioner mcdonnell and commissioner president buell >> and then for vice president is there a motion for vice president? >> yes. i'd like to move to commissioner low be voted for vice president. >> is there a second. >> second. >> commissioner bonilla. sxhavg. commissioner levitan. commissioner low. commissioner mcdonnell and commissioner president buell. okay congratulations again >> thank you very much. i apologize. we are now on item 7 the san francisco zoo. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is a wayne reading i'm the cfo of the san francisco zero. i'll make the presentation for the zoo today. i'm extremely happy we had a record attention with over 75 thousand visitor and we also had included in that number ten thousand for the zoo lights program that we started last year. and experienced a lot of rain and somewhat limited attendance. it was a great event for the family and friends of the zoo. our attendance for the most was 71 percent over budget with 79 thousand visito

want to thank the members of the operations of this committee commissioner bonilla and commissioner levitanthank you, mr. grim for being cooperative and an entrepreneur. the community made a good case where we were trying to fit it we can do a better job so i appreciate the community in the way they approached this to try to meet a resolution on this issue we discovered in moving the location would be like moving mount rushmore and having said that, we've been down the road before and preparing to go down it again. with that, commissioner levitan >> i'd like to echo our comments commissioner president buell but a special shout out to the community julie and others the lines of communication have been good and i thank you such for your willingness to work for our community and terry we xraufd the lease of the rfp in june 2012 and for him to stay patient is a comment on his value. we look forward to keeping the lines of communication open this is a good holistic process and will be a very productive future >> commissioner bonilla. >> yes. i just want to thank you all who are involved in this

commissioner levitan. commissioner low. buell and congratulations >> that's correct very much (clapping.) we're now going to proceed with vice president is there anyone who wants to open the nomination for vice president. >> so moved. all in favor, say i. opposed? okay. the nominations are open for vice president anyone wish to make a nomination >> i would like to nominate commissioner low for the seat of vice president. >> great. >> okay. any other nominations. move to close income taxes >> and a second. commissioner bonilla. commissioner harrison. commissioner levitan. xhoe commissioner mcdonnell and commissioner president buell. congratulations commissioner low (clapping) so before we - well, no go ahead make our comments >> i want to thank my fellow commissioners and say what a pleasure is to work with you and i want to congratulate commissioner low on staying as vice president of the commission. thank you >> i lived like to echo those remarks and it's a pleasure to be working with this commission and tell commissioner

and commissioner levitan is due to arrive momentary. with that, i want to make a few little announcement if you have that i electronic device thank you, your honor turn them off their disrupt during the meeting and any conversations please take them outside if you want to comment we do request you fill out a blue card underlines the president announce otherwise each person will have 3 minutes to comment on each item. as a last reminder please address accident commission you should know that they don't respond to questions during any public comment? no order to allow equal time for all. at the end of the comment if he e they may request staff to respond or not. with that on item 2 which is the president report >> just two quick observations in the interest of one off our supervisors commissioner mcdonnell i want to expedite comboet through as many items as quickly the zoo committee has all of the evidence on occasion from meeting at the zee and at city hall we'll meet anothers city hall for the next meeting. that concludes my comments >>

and i'm pleased to answer questions >> commissioner levitan. >> citing i didn't this looks great. i had a quick question on the projected revenues on the parking in 2015-2016 down from 2014-2015 why is it it's - >> the biggest change as you recall four or five years ago we entered into an agreement with the public utilities for the long-term lease of the garbage and we split that pavement over 5 years we're coming to the i said of that payment so our revenue is going to drop in 2015-2016 and it will be in the base budget and there's some additional cost in our parking garages are increasing so. >> right. >> so that as well. >> i was wondering about the construction around union square we did some loss of the parking spaces. >> the project in union square the actual construction that will impact the garage i'm told is starting this december to that calendar copes mostly out as you know the commission approved a one-time pavement from mta and we're drawing on that revenue to offset the loss of the parking spaces. that helps use it offsets >> thank you. >> commissioner bonilla. >> i

commissioner levitan. and commissioner mcdonnell. so we are now on - well, let me read a coupling couple of announcements. welcome today is a special meeting of the recreation & park commission for thursday, january 23, 2014. we ask you turn off any sound producing devices they can go off during the meeting and be disrupt. you will each have how many minutes >> can i see a raise of hands how many people plan to testify? so 3 minutes >> so he each person will have 3 minutes an any public comment? and we ask you address our comments to the commission. they will not answer any questions during any public comment? but they will ask staff to respond. and we are on tempo 2 the president report >> thank you. inasmuch as this room is going to be occupied later this afternoon i'm going to make my comments very, very belief and would encourage people 87 if they don't have a full 3 minutes of '87 they do the same but not

and commissioner levitan is due to arrive momentary. with that, i want to make a few little announcement if you have that i electronic device thank you, your honor turn them off their disrupt during the meeting and any conversations please take them outside if you want to comment we do request you fill out a blue card underlines the president announce otherwise each person will have 3 minutes to comment on each