Bi directional lines for the bicycles and thanks for being here and congratulations to everybody. It has been a great part of this collaboration. This Great Team Work and go giants and now go warriors. [applause] thank you mayor lee for your leadership for this development. I want to introduce also Monique Moyer director of the port. Who she began became director of the port she noticed how much energy and funds were being focused on the northern waterfront and requested whether or not we could do more in the southern waterfront and i think these projects are an example of how we responded to that challenge, so Monique Moyer executive director. [applause] good morning and thank you. It is wonderful to see so many of our friends and supporters and hard workers here today. How many of you are here at herons head for the first time . A show of hands. Not many. That is terrific news. Well welcome back. This is one of the greatest places in the city i am fond of saying. Its visionary. You h
Partnership has lead to ongoing partnerships specifically to the eco center and like the mayor said we are working together in 2012 to get will additional park bonds and with they would like to introduce Phil Ginsburg director. [applause] good morning everybody. So i havent been able to let it go either. So yesterday our city celebrated a huge victory in the world of sports; right. And today were celebrating another victory and for the waterfront, for nature and you can feel it. Yesterday after the noise and the craziness breathe; right. Like today you can feel it. Its slower. Its calmer and if you look out there you absorb the place, and we are in one of the most special and beautiful parts of the city and to celebrate an incredible project. San franciscos waterfront is more than just simply the border of our city. In its edge lies San Francisco best recognizal opportunities, our most engaging parks and enormous potential to have one of the vibrant waterfronts of the world and in part
Waterfront area. Its a great investment and of course it will lead me to say with the responsible, and this year is our proposition b which extends another great investment of 195 million to many other areas including the south east sector of open space that we got to take care of, and modernize. This is what rec and park does very well with dpw with all of the capital leadership in the city that i got to work on with the city administrator. We need to take care of the infrastructure in many ways and we are loving our parks and why we want this great investment to continue and this is another small yet important addition. We will have 35 million more of that with the connection with the port and the next bond so it serves as a great example how we use the park bonds to of benefit of all of our users and residents and especially because we want our southeast sector to continue evolving in a positive way for everybody. It has been a trial for many of the residents here for many years bec
The different agencies working together with environmental advocates to make sure we strike that right balance we can have the spaces used for the different use and it is enjoyment of the environment at the same time for the residents. Thank you for being here with this announcement. We get four things out of this. A dog run, herons head park with the landscape and wonderful access to it. We have the literacy for justice modernization here and of course we have the bi directional lines for the bicycles and thanks for being here and congratulations to everybody. It has been a great part of this collaboration. This Great Team Work and go giants and now go warriors. [applause] thank you mayor lee for your leadership for this development. I want to introduce also Monique Moyer director of the port. Who she began became director of the port she noticed how much energy and funds were being focused on the northern waterfront and requested whether or not we could do more in the southern waterf
Again. [applause] thank you monique. Thank you for those acknowledgments of the port and staff involved in this project but we want to ask a couple of key partners to speak on these project and their participation and particularly the parks and recreation department, the key partner with the port. As monique mentioned in 2008 they lead a campaign to get 185 million of park bonds, a portion was made available to the port and used for the blue green way projects. That partnership has lead to ongoing partnerships specifically to the eco center and like the mayor said we are working together in 2012 to get will additional park bonds and with they would like to introduce Phil Ginsburg director. [applause] good morning everybody. So i havent been able to let it go either. So yesterday our city celebrated a huge victory in the world of sports; right. And today were celebrating another victory and for the waterfront, for nature and you can feel it. Yesterday after the noise and the craziness b