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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...

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...

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 maj...

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 wi...

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 revenue...