matt o'grady. >> good morning, commissioners. executive director of the park's alliance. with all due respect to phil and katie and the fine would have done in presenting the budget to you, especially with a creative approach they have taken to minimize the pain and service reductions that would be associated, san francisco parks alliances opposed to making any cuts to the general fund allocation to the rec and parks department in the first place. here is why. you all know that over the last six years, allocation to the rec and parks department from the city general fund has been cut by 26%. it now makes up less than 2% of the total general fund for the city. over the same six years, that has grown by 22%. the result of that has -- we are digging ourselves into a whole. the analysis recently published in the report identified the recreation and parks department is now running a product offering deficit of about $35 million a year in order to sustain the care that we need an. new data we have to present to you is, in a recently completed a report with the parks alliance, w