my name is steve rockwell a senior administrative analyst in operations and i have the privilege of coordinating the department's park evaluation program. i believe you will be really pleased with this year's controller's report. we have had some up-and-downs in some of the park scores, but largely, we have been able to remedy some of the lowest-scoring historically low-scoring parks and areas in the city. and at the same time, maintain the bulk of our parks well above that threshold mark that has been set for high maintenance. >> i'm going to introduce sarah swanbeck from the controller's office. >> good morning commissioners >> good morning. >> i thought i would just give you kind of a quick overview of some of the high-level finding from our report and i will turn it back over to steve to give you more details and talk a little bit about what department is doing and is planning to do to respond to some of our recommendations. >> so overall scores this year were incredibly consistent over last year. they did go up from 88.3% on average last year to 88.4% this year. so that is pretty consistent