From the division and made sure that we were able to staff the facility and keep it safe and operating. We also had some other staff that i think that are here that worked with our team leaders. Raina and george who are here and provided wonderful support. This is important to have our city leaders call on us in a pinch and to respond as quickly and as effectively as you all did is really terrific and not only do i want to commend you and the Commission Wants to commend you and we have sunny from supervisor kims office to provide a further special recognition. Hi. This is weird. You guys are behind me, but i echo everything that the director said. The supervisor actually had an opportunity to tour the shelter. She lives near by the rec center as you know and she had the opportunity to go in and a maced as the efficiency and the relaxed environment and a different experience since shes has spent a night in another shelter and went through the process. I believe the staff played a Critic
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
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 animals as i announced last month we had a new [inaudible] langer and its a he and staff
Now we on item 6, the San Francisco zoo. Good morning. Holly peterson on behalf of the San Francisco zoo and i want to thank you [inaudible] our group of donors tend to be animal oriented and not building oriented and we thank you for your efforts on that. I am pleased to report that the zoo suffered little damage through the storms. Thanks to pg e actually on that rainy thursday we had power at both the vet hospital and at our cafes so we were able to provide warm lunch for our members and staff so that was great, and it appears the only damage we have is sewage back up at the chimp exhibit and one of the oldest in the zoo and i thank everybody. November attendance just before this graph here is it was over 63,000 visitors budgeted for 48,000 so we had a great november and thus far year to date is 410,000 versus 377,000 so ahead of budget which is good news going into the rainy season when no one comes to the zoo. Because were at the calendar end and those on joint zoo i apologize but
Storm is we are our rec centers function is more than just places for fun and rec kreegz. Theyre Community Centers and in an emergency or disaster we provide shelter and so today i really want to acknowledge and commend everybody who participated in the shelter operation which housed over a hundred people for about 36 hours. [inaudible] oh it was two and a half days. It was two full nights. These folks really went above and beyond with the storm with less than five hours notice these individuals accomplished a herk layerian task of putting this in motion and did it seamlessly and in partnership with the Human Services agency and the red cross and many other partners. So i want to recognize who is here. Tim fageris and his staff and a coordinator. Steve [inaudible] and the entire park service custodial staff. Bob lote and marcos is here. Come on up folks. Our park patrol supervisor who provided around the clock support and jennifer from the division and made sure that we were able to st