i want to share a little 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 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 qu
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 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
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 thirds of us visit a park at least weekly; 90 percent of us believe that our parks are essential to the quality-of-life in san francisco; we use them so much and we love them to death. since 2005, into the city s general fund has grown by 20 percent we have cut the funding to those parts by more than 26 percent, moving in the wrong direction and has been for years. as supervisor wiener pointed out
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 in the last year or so about just how much we love our parks. two thirds of us visit a park at least weekly; 90 percent of us believe that our parks are essential to the quality-of-life in san francisco; we use them so much and we love them to death. since 2005, into the city s general fund has grown by 20 percent we have cut the funding to those parts by more than 26 percent, moving in the wrong d
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 we have bill hirsch and andrews, hiv prevention network. there is a media camera. if speakers can stand in this area so they can capture images of you while you are speaking. good morning. thank you for coming out on a saturday morning. my name is bill hirsch, the director of the aids legal referral panel; we are going to share with you briefly some of what we presented to the board s budget commi