we're also joined by rosemary cameron, who joins the park alliance as its first board president. she is assistant general manager for public affairs for the east bay park distributor should his return the public sector with management experience and regional and municipal parks and recreation, city management, and legislative affairs. she served as executive director -- director of the original park foundation with a full range of boehner activities, rising more than $20 million from 1993 to 2010. she retired from that, and we were lucky enough that somebody convinced her to come in as board chair. rosemary, welcome, and police say a few words. >> thank you very much. it is might very late -- great pleasure to be here and to be able to meet you all as a group and looking forward to meeting all of you in person i want to say that on behalf of the entire 25-member board of the san francisco parks alliance, i want to let you know that we're truly committed to a full partnership that will really build on what president buell said about the wonderful attributes of the two predecessor