April 25th honoring the Hearst Family a long time supporter in the city and a last year we had an auction and that concludes my presentation is there anyone who wants to make any Public Comment on this item. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed commissioners that was discussion only were on item 7 the recreation and Parks Department budget for fiscal years 20142015 and 20152016. Good morning, commissioners katie. Good morning im here this morning for the commissions approval for fiscal years 20142015 before i get into the meat of my presentation which is focused on the general fund i do want to note that your commission packets included information about the open space fund this year in order to meet our charter requirements under prop c. And if you have any questions about that information if you have any questions, ill be happy to answer them. So im going to start this morning with a revised to your outlook youll notice this slide as changed since january and primarily the changes i
I will speak before you. I will be retiring. As you know the academy is a gem in the Cultural Education and Economic Life in San Francisco. Its an aquarium museum, visual wizards, team of explorers, integrate or of communities, major employer and economic engine. It actually is unique and that is real. We have yet to find another place like out anywhere in the world. This year more than 1. 4 million kids and adults from around the globe visited us in Golden Gate Park. As a center of education and fascination we welcomed 15,000 students and teachers. We are a critical extension of their classroom particularly in time when science and education is so challenged. The department of San Francisco Public Library is connecting the citys youth in a digital age and won applause from president barack obama. As the tourist magazine magnet, we employee in our city. This concludes the academy directly donates 120 million every year in addition to the mission counties in the bay area. We own nearly
Respect to park maintenance. We operated parks on a quarterly basis and the numbers speak for themselves. Also on the recreation side, where over the last 45 years weve gone from being the recreation provider to our last resort to the recreation provider and thats something we are very proud about. You can see even in the last resources thanks to in partnership with the recreation staff and sciu, we reinvented how we deliver recreation and able to provide more programs, more opportunities, more hours of programming frankly with less staff. Turning to our budget, the department dwoets half devotes half of our operating budget to staff for maintenance and staff. The next two is the delivery of recreation programming in our recs centers and swimming pools and structural maintenance yards. We allocate just 7 percent of our budget for administration which includes financing and accounting, Human Resources, project managing and over a thousand about 850 fps and summer and temporary employees
Controller we actually keep very careful data on the work that we do and i think you can see here that weve made significant progress in the last 6 or 7 years with respect to park maintenance. We operated parks on a quarterly basis and the numbers speak for themselves. Also on the recreation side, where over the last 45 years weve gone from being the recreation provider to our last resort to the recreation provider and thats something we are very proud about. You can see even in the last resources thanks to in partnership with the recreation staff and sciu, we reinvented how we deliver recreation and able to provide more programs, more opportunities, more hours of programming frankly with less staff. Turning to our budget, the department dwoets half devotes half of our operating budget to staff for maintenance and staff. The next two is the delivery of recreation programming in our recs centers and swimming pools and structural maintenance yards. We allocate just 7 percent of our budge
Our Park Maintenance functions and in partnership with the controller we actually keep very careful data on the work that we do and i think you can see here that weve made significant progress in the last 6 or 7 years with respect to Park Maintenance. We operated parks on a quarterly basis and the numbers speak for themselves. Also on the recreation side, where over the last 45 years weve gone from being the recreation provider to our last resort to the recreation provider and thats something we are very proud about. You can see even in the last resources thanks to in partnership with the recreation staff and sciu, we reinvented how we deliver recreation and able to provide more programs, more opportunities, more hours of programming frankly with less staff. Turning to our budget, the department dwoets half devotes half of our operating budget to staff for maintenance and staff. The next two is the delivery of recreation programming in our recs centers and swimming pools and structural