Operations. Our expenses for this year are estimated at 6. 7 million just for animal operations itself. Building and grounds again we are a 99acre park as well and buildings grounds are over 4. 3 million in expenses. Where our revenues come from . Thanks again on the next chart thanks to the city 4 million comes from the city and the roases slice there but we really need to get the revenues from the blue piece of pie there which is admissions and the dark purple which is retail and parking. Those are people coming through the zoo actually through the gate both paying for retail and parking and admission covering the bulk of our expenses there. Again i just a quick dashboard here on the last three years, head count, and while attendance goes up we can employ more people and need to employ more people so for the last three years its gone from 214 to 243 persons. Also with that we can promote more folks. We went from five promotions to 12, and we were able to last year to fill 128 positio
Lush landscape and three open spaces including a wide Central Plaza and then the dog park on the right hand side. The streetscape was coordinated as overall plan from 22nd to 18th and reviewed as part of the project. You see the expansion of the plaza. Calms traffic midblock. Next slide is the dog park about 9,000 square feet. New lighting, seating, landscaping. I think a great complement to the existing useds at esprit park and briefly just looking at the experience from the park roughly in the middle of the park on a november afternoon you see the overpass, that stand of trees and before the project. When the project is add you see a little in fill by the overpass and that area there next slide, thank you joe and again before the project and with the project essentially the view is of that project is just below the overpass modest impact as experienced from the park. Thank you very much and i am here for questions and i will turn it over to joe. Thank you commissioners. I am joe with
Block stretch here so another major benefit is the dog park. This is going to be built on public space and unimproved dead end street by the overpass and were going to pay to build it and maintain it in perpetuity and it will be open to the public and i want to clarify its not a standard thing for new developments to. Do we feel its above and beyond but we feel its an absolutely ideal thing for us to be doing. We saw an opportunity to create something in the space and listened to the community and the concern for more dog facilities so were happy to commit to make this happen. We have been major supporters of other neighborhood improvements. This is wood yard park. On the bottom is a renting and a photo of the finished project. This is an open space on a parcel on 22nd street and owned by sfmta and adopted by Community Members who lead the effort over 18 months to create the play area. We are thrilled to be part of it. We supported it and helped to make it a reality and if you have bee
Again i just a quick dashboard here on the last three years, head count, and while attendance goes up we can employ more people and need to employ more people so for the last three years its gone from 214 to 243 persons. Also with that we can promote more folks. We went from five promotions to 12, and we were able to last year to fill 128 positions because you see how were holding there throughout the recession and lastly you know that our zoo keepers are members of the Teamsters Union and thanks to the work of the hr team the Union Grievances have stayed relatively the same, one a year. We will work on getting that down and the last dashboard i have is also again as revenues increase we can invest in our animals. Last year we had 1600 animals and this year we have 1744 animals and i just wanted to point out some of the new animals and species that came to the zoo this last year, the wof wean and pandas and lemurs and we have eight species of lemurs at our exhibit and speaking of anima
Attendance goes up we can employ more people and need to employ more people so for the last three years its gone from 214 to 243 persons. Also with that we can promote more folks. We went from five promotions to 12, and we were able to last year to fill 128 positions because you see how were holding there throughout the recession and lastly you know that our zoo keepers are members of the Teamsters Union and thanks to the work of the hr team the Union Grievances have stayed relatively the same, one a year. We will work on getting that down and the last dashboard i have is also again as revenues increase we can invest in our animals. Last year we had 1600 animals and this year we have 1744 animals and i just wanted to point out some of the new animals and species that came to the zoo this last year the wof wean and pandas and lemurs and we have eight species of lemurs at our exhibit and speaking of animals as i announced last month we had a new [inaudible] langer and its a he and staff