commissioner lowe? here. commissioner mcdonnell? here. just to remind everyone, we request that you turn off any electronic sound producing devices that could go off during the meeting, so cell phones, if you could please turn those off or on silent. we request that you take any conversations outside. if you would like to speak on an item today, please create a blue card. unless otherwise nounszed by the president, each person will have three minutes for public comment on each item. if there is an item of interest to you that is not on the agenda and is under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, you may speak under general public comment. that is item 4. it will be heard for 15 minutes and then continued again at item 12. please address your comments to the commission during public comment on items in order to allow equal time for all. neither commission nor staff will respond. the commission may ask questions after public comment is closed. if the fire alarms a
it will be for us, i think it will help us the more they know. if they know swings are 82 on the list, it will manage their expectations around scream being the swing. sure. if you hear screaming about swings, let me know, because those are easy to fix. will do. be careful what you ask for. any public comment? first of all, i want to give my condolence to ed lee, because i know ed lee personally for a number of years, 25, 30 years. i knew ed lee before he got into politics. let me give you a short story. i knew ed lee, the one of the first times i meet him, history. me and another brother kicking tailbones in this city, the summer came, he said, ace, come to the office, take this paper. you need a job, go down there to 25 ns, we going to get you a job. you think you like politics, go down there, they give you a job. conedy said, look at 25, i go down there, althoulo and behold is there, the jokester ed lee. the first time back in the paper. that s how i got my start
here. just to remind everyone, we request that you turn off any electronic sound producing devices that could go off during the meeting, so cell phones, if you could please turn those off or on silent. we request that you take any conversations outside. if you would like to speak on an item today, please create a blue card. unless otherwise nounszed by the president, each person will have three minutes for public comment on each item. if there is an item of interest to you that is not on the agenda and is under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, you may speak under general public comment. that is item 4. it will be heard for 15 minutes and then continued again at item 12. please address your comments to the commission during public comment on items in order to allow equal time for all. neither commission nor staff will respond. the commission may ask questions after public comment is closed. if the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate using any exit. please
at this point, the little door handles that had squirrels and things on them, ed thought it would be so great fort kids to open the doors when they saw the squirrels and other animals. we kept those in the budget and he personally screwed the door handles in himself. so here we are years later, he s the mayor and i m the zoo director and he s standing in front of the door handles and he was tickled pink that the door handles was now there, he was mayor and i was zoo director and we were finally somebody. we thank him for that. and a chuckle, that s one of the bald eagles, one of the successful conservation programs and we were explaining to him we had to separate the parents from the offspring to protect the health of the eggs and we used technology to do so. he said i wish i d has he that technology with had that technology with the two teenagers in my house. with peace and love. speaking of programs, there is a product of 300,000 children have gone through the doors now s
because of the weather has been warm here, but they will be with us until january 1. they re near our friend-family playground, a great place to bring children, grandchildren, et cetera. if you saw in the chronicle today, both the oakland zie and san francisco zoo have zoo lights. these are free for members. if you buy online, $2 discount. otherwise, $10 for adults, free for seniors and kids under 3. we ll have santa here and when he goes, we ll have zoo lights in the area of the giraffe barn as well. a great way to celebrate the lights. the weather has been fantastic and i think this is the best lights show we ve had so far, knock on wood, may help there isn t a monsoon. but anyway, speaking of holid s holidays, commissioner harrison gave me a great idea, you can give gift memberships to family and friends. we have adopt an animal program where you can buy a certificate, and they will be adopting and taking care of an animal for a year and that s a great way to connect the y