Complex sentence: The numerous financial demands on the city taking precedence, and no leadership for zoological society when it was needed, led to the zoo's loss of accreditation by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association in the late 1990s due to condition of facilities.
Split into simpler sentences: The numerous financial demands on the city taking precedence and no leadership for zoological society when it was needed. These monumental problems led to the zoo to loss accreditation by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) in the late 1990s due to condition of facilities.