Bloomberg businessweek, jim ellis. Jim, you guys do a solutions issue. Tell us about this issue. You have a lot of stories that tackle tough problems. What is the thinking that goes into this kind of issue . Jim often, we look back at things that have happened in the past couple weeks or sometimes throw things ahead to think about financial issues. But we wanted to take a step back now and say, there are a lot of things that people who are interested in business and management worry about, what are the big problems of life and how do you tackle those . Julia take us to india now, trying to do magical things with waste. Jim its interesting because india, you normally think of as a place that has a true waste problem and it does. , less than a quarter of waste in india is actually even processed. Most of it is dumped and often, it is in places where it can foul water, where people can get eat eaten by the livestock they used they use or eat. So its a really big problem. So theres a city
Receive kudos in person. There will be a celebration for him out at harding i think next week. And we will pass along information for that if any of you are available to attend. That is the conclusion of my recognition. We have this month in parks, we have a special video that may or may not have seen. It is our annual report. 2017. In retrospect. [ ] its been another amazing year for us at the San Francisco rec and park with 220 parks, 4,000 acres of open space, we have one of the most special parks in the entire country, but what makes our park system so special are all of you. The people who use the parks every day. Who participate in your recreation programs, who volunteer, who advocate, and who work in our parks. Our accomplishments are your accomplishments. And without all of you our park system would not be as lively and vibrant. Enjoy this look back at the past year in our parks. We have a great park system. A lot of folks. Safe clean and fun. We promote our parks historic and
We planned for parks of the future. We make our parks safer and cleaner. We celebrated our history and culture. We promoted active living for the diverse and growing population. We help folks play ball. We let kids be kids regardless of whether they can afford to and connected them with the natural world. We let seniors be seniors and we made sure everyone can get out and play. In the last two years, weve hosted more than 172,000 events . Our parks, little ones, big ones, fast ones, slow ones, strange ones, earthy ones. We inspire letsplaysf a campaign to build new playgrounds. We created a new light art installation on the conservatory iconic facade. We worked with the Golden State Warriors foundation to resurface the basketball court. We renovated the soccer pitch. We partnered with the San Francisco conservancy to design a new park. We renovated and reopened south park and lincoln park. We helped to ensure that all san franciscans can get out and play. We didnt just inspire capital,
Trent williams. I will be as supportive of everyone as i possibly can, and i am sure you will continue to move in the right directions and be successful. And thank you chief for your commitment to the members of the San Francisco Police Department. Thank you, lieutenant will coms for your service to the officers for justice and for the wonderful job that youve done as your long tenure as their president. Further Public Comment . I was listening to public radio, and there was a show about tear gas and within it, they discussed tazers, and i dont know if youre all aware of this. I never heard it told at any meeting that i came to, and i would just went to almost all of them, that the information from body worn cameras and the tazers, the data goes directly to axon, tazers international. So why is a Public Service group, the police, sending data to a private corporation on the people of this city . If we we already have the body worn, and im still wait fighting against the tazers. I want
Any opposed . Motion carries. We are now on item 6, the San Francisco zoo. Hello, good morning. Tanya peterson, director of the San Francisco zoo. I am happy to i an announce that the january kids for free program was successful and over 12,000 children came to the zoo for free during the month of january. Tsz it is february. Love is in the air, so twoforone admission for the senior citizens. As we discussed earlier, i do not qualify. If you are 65 or older, two for free in february. Speaking of sweethearts t new male and female, the male on the left and female snow leopard on the right, we brought them in and were match maker of sort. The first meeting went well and now they are into speed dating. We are hoping speed dating. Hoping to get a cub soon here. Speaking of cubs, our bears turn one. We will have celebrations over the president s weekend. And as you may recall, we had online bidding auction for their naming rights. The names will be revealed this weekend. And time in our educ