Included arts and crafts and Live Entertainment and a visit from santa. [inaudible] and the Tenderloin Community came together to open the park after a 9. 3 Million Dollar renovation. Online registration is happening now so visit our website and we hope to see you in the park and rec kreegz centers soon. Happy holidays. Thank you commissioners and that concludes the general managers report for 2014. Is there any oh im sorry. No, thank you. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing no one Public Comment is now closed. Were on item four which is general Public Comment. We will take comment up to 15 minutes. If need be we will continue to item 9. At this time members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the public matter jurisdiction within the commission and not on the agenda. For items on the agenda your opportunity to address the commission is when the item is reached in the meeting. I have one card and that is for richard
Individuals that was the number i got during a severe storm that came to the bay area with over 6 inches of rain and the wettest month in the last six years and the board of supervisors gives the commendation for your passionate response and accommodation for toaz in need for safe shelter. Thank you sunny. Do you want to join me with a picture of the team . [applause] going to powerpoint. Now commissioners our monthly video this month in parks. Hold on. Wait. Commissioner bonilla. I just had a quick question. Could you speak into the mic . I am curious how the newly renovated facility did in light of the new design . Not only did it held up extremely well we actually had programming during the storms which was terrific. Great. I am glad to hear that. Okay. Shoot away. All right. I am kimberly and the director of the volunteer program here at the San Francisco recreation and Park Department and we [inaudible] and engage passionate people of San Francisco who want to get out and give. I
Its a gate way for pee to learn about service and the community and a way to register and get involved and join us and thats what were doing. I say many hands make life works and voluntarism is a sign of the Community Coming together and making San Francisco parks world class. We started the month in december of the kick off of the [inaudible] international [inaudible]. On december 4 we celebrated the 85th annual john mclaren Tree Lighting and included arts and crafts and Live Entertainment and a visit from santa. [inaudible] and the Tenderloin Community came together to open the park after a 9. 3 Million Dollar renovation. Online registration is happening now so visit our website and we hope to see you in the park and rec kreegz centers soon. Happy holidays. Thank you commissioners and that concludes the general managers report for 2014. Is there any oh im sorry. No, thank you. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing no one Public Comment is now closed. Were on item four whi
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 admission covering the bulk of our expenses there. 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 positio
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 will work on getting that down and the last dashboard i have is also again as revenues increase we can invest in our animals. Last year we had 1600 animals and this year we have 1744 animals and i just wanted to point out some of the new animals and species that came to the zoo this last year, the wof wean and pandas and lemurs and we have eight species of lemurs at our exhibit and speaking of anima