some of them are budgeted at six months. the budget analysts have actually reduced that line in the budget to take into account the fact that they will only be with us for six months. supervisor kim: completely switching gears to professional service contracts, have you done a study to evaluate your contracting with the zoological society and harding park? those are our two biggest personal contracts the zoological society is a nonprofit that works with us and helped us maintain this issue. we do pay them for those services. there is actually a committee called those who committee that is a combined committee of zoological board members and recreation and park members. there is a lot of oversight with respect to how the zoo is managed. and sure the executive director, if she were here, she would tell you they need more, not less. but we are getting it done and is to is showing some strength and visitors are coming back. they have had good numbers this year and we re pleas
supervisor kim: completely switching gears to professional service contracts, have you done a study to evaluate your contracting with the zoological society and harding park? those are our two biggest personal contracts the zoological society is a nonprofit that works with us and helped us maintain this issue. we do pay them for those services. there is actually a committee called those who committee that is a combined committee of zoological board members and recreation and park members. there is a lot of oversight with respect to how the zoo is managed. and sure the executive director, if she were here, she would tell you they need more, not less. but we are getting it done and is to is showing some strength and visitors are coming back. they have had good numbers this year and we re pleased with that relationship. that agreement came to this board of supervisors and we went from a private clubhouse manager to a nonprofit. we reimburse them for expenses of late, but the
assets. there are people who play golf and there are people who don t, but we do subsidize golf. we subsidize all our recreation. there is an inherent tension in keeping our golf courses affordable and accessible for public golfers. our rates are really pretty low. for some segments of our populations, are costs continue to increase. but to continue we have the city workers working on our golf courses, there are competing tensions and value jasmines, but when you engage in the conversation, we subsidize golf much less than almost any other form of recreation we provide. we are in the subsidized recreational business. supervisor avalos: our golf program also provides support for the open space, so we are not achieving this level of support. in an ideal world, we would generate enough revenue from gulf where it could support our open space fund. i tend to be a little more optimistic about this. golf as a sport in terms of popularity tends to ebb and flow with the economy a li
it will cost millions for a golf course that is not even accessible by muni. city resources will be focused back on parks located in the city. i really support this legislation. i think it will make my community better. it will make the parks in san francisco better-funded. here are many signatures from people all over the peninsula and other parts of the world also in support of that. thank you for the time. [tone!] supervisor avalos: next speaker, please. i am a resident of san francisco all my life. i am here to express support for the ordinance. last year from january to june and was the director of the youth program. every year, we get budget cuts because there is no money to fund the program for high-risk youths in our communities. in 2005, we were at $400,000. they cut $100,000 the next year. they cut it each year to make it easier. at the end of the day, you are not giving this money reinstated. every year they cut you to the bone and marrow until there is only a co
western golf association. i would like to read into the record for you some excerpts and statements, letters were sent to the congressman, the mayor, the board of supervisors, and the san mateo supervisors. we said that we were the host club for the western state inaugural championship held at sharp park in 1954. sharp park is a part of san francisco tradition in providing great, classical architecture in public places. our members and all of those who play golf at sharp park know that is an alistair mckinsey heritage. the tradition of the african american golf community continues at sharp park. it has for over 20 years hosted a home for an annual senior swingers tournament. [tone!] the organizer is in the audience today. the bay area golf club think you should take this ordinance under advisement before you make a vote on it. we respectfully ask you to look at the possibilities of keeping people of color from utilizing all the facilities in the city. thank you. supervisor av