thank you phil ginsburg and rec and park. caring about the kids in the community and ready to build and staff a new gym for the young people here. want to recognize marie (inaudible) partner through the boy and girls club. a terrific department leader in the city. we are grateful everyone is grateful for your longivity. i want to recognize my friend john harris from the mayor office of housing community development for everything you have done around the city to build buildings and keep buildings up. kudos to you for a long great career at the city. specifically for the boys and girls club i want to thank my team in sunnydale. (inaudible) or star, patty, dedeand alma. thank maxine wilson, herald love, (inaudible) for all they do to support not just the club in sunnydale, but the club down the street in viz valley and 14 locations across san francisco. the heartfelt thank you to the board of the boys and girls club saying yes to embarking on this exciting project and giving and raising money to make it happen. i want to recogn

phil ginsburg. thanks for being with us. you guys have been throwing amazing parties all around the downtown area of san francisco. tell me what you have seen world cup do in the city. oh it's been so exciting and it's really brought people together. san francisco is the perfect city perfect soccer city. it's an international city. we're all from someplace else. i mean, i'm a baby eagle fan, but everybody has a heritage and everybody wears their colors and soccer really has the power to bring people together and create community. it's been super exciting. you know, we have a lot of great teams here. a lot of great ball teams basketball baseball. but there's something about the world cup in the last world cup that we had here. there was an awesome spirit in the city when it happened, and it returned again, but it feels different. it feels a lot more exciting. what do you think that is? every time we have a world cup here in the bay area, um again. this is a soccer town. i mean, you know, a couple weeks ago thanksgiving weeken

ginsburg has presided over the realization. >> open mansion and because of phil i'm proud you have our racial equity policies that created beautiful parks all over the city i mean all over the city and many, many honors over on the southeast segment watching the improvements and the light of the new and better parks and playgrounds and open spaces but all over the city a true joy to be the left hand animal of mark you can't think of a civic leader who has more debt of love and commitment to our city is a true honor. >> thank you. >> thank you to my fellow commissioners it is a pleasure to serve with all of you. >> okay. >> thank you very much. all right. we are now on presentation and discussion only to update the commission on operational and management issues at the san francisco zoo. (discussion only) i believe tonya petersen joining us remotely. >> thank you. >> and while you do that congratulations to president and vice president. >> thank you. >> hello. >> i too- attended a local law school does that make me a resident. >> yeah. i think you and i are honorary residents. >> all ri

here we go, we have phil ginsburg, the general manager of the san francisco recreation and parks departmentre going to help us out too. are we all ready to do this? all right. we're going to count down from ten as a group. here we go. ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! [cheers and applause] [♪♪] >> say thank you. and now, we have a very special added performance for every class. you may have seen them on "america's got talent" or maybe on their recent jc penney commercial. they're here now to please welcome san francisco's first family of song, the curtis family c-notes. [cheers and applause] >> hi. how are ya'll doing, san francisco? this is the most beautiful tree i have ever seen and it's so good to be out here with all ya'll. give yourself a round of applause. [applause] and i think i hear the mayor. yes. all right. guys, you ready? [cheers and applause] we've got nile on bass. papa on keys. kiki. zahara, phoenix. and i'm momma c. we need the mic por favor sound people. so we've got a little technical difficulties. no worries. what we can do, let's give it up for