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Staff. Luis in so many meetings had the opportunity to change the course or do Something Different and he stuck there all the way. He continued to encourage us. This is what i want. We need to get it and all the battles that we went through, luis was there and made good, sound decisions along with the Library Commission and that is why were here today with that great project. Big hand for luis and his leadership and the library. [ applause ] and of course, the project will be a library and a par...

Celebrate and pay tribute to all of the wonderful folks that are making it happen. So without further ado, person that not only has prior director of public works, city administrator and now wonderful mayor for our city; who has been terrifically supportive of our city, mayor ed lee. [ applause ] how is everybody doing . [ applause ] [ applause ] well let me begin by saying luis, congratulations but you know, when you are as successful as you are have been with the Library Commission its like wi...

Friends of joe dimaggio, julie christinsen, lizzy diaz and lizziehurst, thank you for all you have done. [ applause ] and i also want to take a moment and thank all of the parents who are here of all the different schools that we have. Yes, franklin middle school, garflied, st. Peter and paul, what am i missing . Sherman, Telegraph Hill. Thank you all for what you are doing. I also want to thank those who have been advocating for our seniors and disabled, our parks advocates, our library advocat...

To spec. Dennis oats, please let everybody know and if you have questions about this library, that is the man to talk to, dennis oats. [ applause ] lastly, i wanted to especially thank luis and his staff. Luis in so many meetings had the opportunity to change the course or do Something Different and he stuck there all the way. He continued to encourage us. This is what i want. We need to get it and all the battles that we went through, luis was there and made good, sound decisions along with the...

The city. Even more important, this project, this fight about the north beach Branch Library, about joe dimaggio, fundamentally was about whether we were going to be moving forward as a city. Whether we were going to focus just on the past or also on the future of our city. Whether we were going to focus on what recreation was like 25 or 50 years ago or what needs to happen today and in the future in San Francisco . And we won that battle and we sent a clear message that that city has a strong f...

Battle and you all stood with us and were here today to break ground on this great library, big hand for all of those who put that effort in. [ applause ] this project is the 24th library that our agency has been involved in. We have renovated 16 libraries, and we have built 6 new ones. The 23rd is in the bayview in my neighborhood and that will be ready for groundbreaking in january and for completion and opening in january and now were groundbreaking on this project. As part of this project, y...

As our librarian just said, the very first meeting i took, even before he was swornin, after i was elected was about this library. And i got to tell you, that was only four years of a tenyear struggle. There have been hundreds of meetings coming together. There are High School Students today who were preschool students when we started this conversation. And i have to tell you as we all know, it takes a village to raise our kids, but it has taken many villages to build this library. I want to sta...

Capstone, julie christiansen. Thank you can i get my team up here . I have been fielding all the thanks, but it doesnt really belong to me. It belongs to all of these people. Who else is here from our group . Come on up. Who am i missing . The whole village, come on up. So we have a couple of city folks. Where is greg scott . Gret get up here. Greg, get up here. I want to point out jill, karen. Jill is the deputy chief librarian and karen, these two women are the fairy godmothers of this project...

Group that better defines partnerships for the city and support and the Publicprivate Partnership than the friends of the San Francisco Public Library and have provided the funding for all of our furniture, the fixtures and all of the equipment. It truly owns our library in that regard. Its my pleasure to introduce of the executive director of the friends of the San Francisco libraries scott. [ applause ]. Thank you. Its a pleasure to be here. As luis said we had this fantastic Publicprivate Par...