danny and bob lottie, thank you for helping us tackle some of the public safety challenges and sarah ballard in the public affairs team. sarah also was trying to corral cats, i think is the expression here because so many people wanted the right thing to happen here. if i have omitted anybody, i'm really sorry. ptl itself has brought many people to the table. i'm really looking forward to celebrate with everybody on december 10th. >> thank you, commissioner low? >> i just want to say what a transformation this is. many of you old schoolers remember what this used to be. this used to be near the scary bowl which was really scary and it was an awful place. my last memory was running out of the park out of fear for my life. they didn't want us there and they didn't like the way we played basketball. this is a great transformation, the different agencies, the city, the department, a great combination, the boys and girls club, central wide, the safe passages and it's great to see the energy and commitment transformed to this little patch of greenery in a very dense neighborhood. i want to say thi

. >> i want to thank sarah ballard and dave tolman for putting together such an amazing video and on behalf of the men and women at the recreation and parks we want to wish everybody a happy thanksgiving. >> we are on item six, san francisco zoo. good morning. i'm tonya peterson, director of san francisco zoo. i wanted to show you this picture. that picture was taken over a year ago and it reflects one of the greatest moments i have had in my career as a zoo director. the other great moment was a similar incident a year prior, two 2 years prior when i held and fed cassani, cabibi's older brother. and i was trying to change the diaper and just like my own son, there was a bit of a mishap. these are two of my greatest moments, not only because the zoo participated in saving endangered species, but we were able to save two babies who faced the ultimate rejection, that of their mother. in nature's cruel way, both infants had been rejected by their mother, but amazingly nursed by our staff and then transitioned to their grandmother, the amazing bow hwang. it is an understatement to say th

. >> sarah ballard. i wanted to thank the park alliance for this important study. matt is here and will present you the details of what we have learned about the economic impact in san francisco. before he does that, i want to thank the park alliance and staff as their work on the project and the public land for executing the study and our own staff who had to provide a lot of information, take time out of their everyday job to work with the statistician for putting together this report. it's helps with the local economy and the values that we stuart and the information we provide. as you know, the city invest $90 million in these parks every year and as you see from the report, the economic value is measured at $959 million from the government. a pretty good multiplier. any tech start up would be very pleased with that. to show you the concept of this report and how we plan to disseminate this information is valuable for us throughout the study and the parks alliance. >> thank you, sarah. a little over a year ago, at the urging, the parks alliance started to look

and working with joe and jeff and sarah ballard, we couldn't have asked for a better pa