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turnover back to larissa. >> moderator: i want to point out that if you look at that wall there are great charts that illustrate what kate was speaking about. if you have an iphone or smart phone take a picture. excuse me? it's also on the city's website, sf.org. we will now move on to community presentations, starting with district 8, first we will welcome matthew o'grady of the parks alliance. >> i'm sorry i want to say one quick thing, leo, please stand up. he is our timekeeper today. he will show you cards to show that we are moving along. >> good morning. i'm executive director ...

he is our timekeeper today. he will show you cards to show that we are moving along. >> good morning. i'm executive director of the san francisco parks alliance . we are the independent partner to all of you, all of the city departments in all of us residents in san francisco for everything having to do with arcs, recreation and open space in san francisco. mr. mayor, yet seen a number of statistics, supervisors you have seen them, department heads, but many of you have not been many of the research statistics produced in the last year or so about just how much we love our parks. two...

>> i'm sorry i want to say one quick thing, leo, please stand up. he is our timekeeper today. he will show you cards to show that we are moving along. >> good morning. i'm executive director of the san francisco parks alliance . we are the independent partner to all of you, all of the city departments in all of us residents in san francisco for everything having to do with arcs, recreation and open space in san francisco. mr. mayor, yet seen a number of statistics, supervisors you have seen them, department heads, but many of you have not been many of the research statistics produced...

dollars and a one restore the department but we need to stop cutting this department and to start gradually -- like we did with the police department, we let it atrophy, and then started police academy again last year; we need to replenish our gardening staff and park patrol officers. >> moderator: i actually want to encourage us -- it is my job to make sure that we get comments so that we have more of an opportunity to hear from you guys, and commit to that first. and then we'll come back first and have the supervisors and the various representative speak to all the comments. next w...

commission with you. we get really important information from 311, our call center, i thought i would share that for both districts eight and nine the kinds of calls are very similar. about 32 percent of all calls into 311 are related to street and sidewalk cleaning issues; about 19 percent are related to graffiti. those numbers are consistent for both of the two districts, it would be great to hear those are issues important to you. we are also interested to hear about things that 311 we not be able to capture.with that i would turnover back to larissa. >> moderator: i want to point...