ADMS 1000 Lecture 21: ADMS 1000 Tutorial 21 Notes
3 May 2018
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ADMS 1000 Tutorial 21 Notes – Background
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• It is February 2015, and Emma Breslin has just been hired by the board of directors to
take over as executive director of the zoo.
• She is reviewing the many concerns raised by the task force and wondering how she
ight restore eploees’ ad the puli’s ofidee i the zoo.
• She will be meeting with the board in two weeks to present her recommendations for
moving forward.
• The board has asked her to act quickly because city residents will vote on the next tax
levy in just three months.
• A o ote ould sustatiall redue the zoo’s reeues for the et seeral ears.
• Exhibit 1 outlines the revenues and expenses of the zoo for fiscal year 2014.
• The City Zoological Gardens got its start in 1905, when Samantha Fraser donated a
hedgehog to the it’s Parks Board.
• Building on that first donation, the zoo has grown to be one of the most comprehensive
zoological institutions in the country.
• The zoo’s Afria “aaah rereates the look of Afria’s plains and jungles.
• The Savannah houses the worldfamous Hippoquarium, the first natural hippo habitat to
be created in a zoo.
• The zoo includes exhibits for Siberian tigers, Asian sloth bears, and the endangered
African wild dogs.
• The zoo has also renovated the Aviary and the Primate Forest.
• More recent improvements include a new parking lot and gift shop.
• The zoo is a top tourist attraction for the city, and the number of annual visitors to the
zoo has nearly tripled from 1982 (364 000 visitors) to 2013 (more than 1 million visitors).
• In the past five years, the zoo has twice been ranked as one of the top 10 zoos in North
America for children and families.
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