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Life dedicate today bringing this to the residents of San Francisco and we shall all be incredibly thankful. The benefits of free wifi in San Francisco are many. Not only will it further open up our parks and our city to innovation, to education, and includetionthv i. For all San Francisco residents, but its also as i mentioned before a significant step towards bridging our Digital Divide in our city. It provides local groups and Community Residents access to the internet they might not have had...

Touched a lot of desks and had a lot of approvals and in particular want to thank Veronika Bell who is here from google for stepping p. Up. Google is providing a financial gift of 600,000 to turn this into a reality. This is with the recreation and Park Department. I want to thank Phil Ginsberg, katy, so many people from the rec and park team that really brought this project forward. We selected locations throughout San Francisco on a number of levels. First of all, we wanted to make sure that w...

Street with the challenges of the both the bart and the muni station. But it is all about our neighborhoods. And i go back to what supervisor farrell said, and i want to again thank and appreciate supervisor farrell, his staff margo kelly, another great effort. This is what innovation does in the city. It gets everybody to actually work at even higher levels in government in a Publicprivate Partnership with Companies Like google and all the rest of the wonderful members of sf city to do what we ...

Thats what motivated all three of them, thats what and i think if she does decide to run and she is elected president , shell get up every day, as president obama gets up every day, as president clinton got up every day, and go into the oval office and think what could i do to help the middle class and to help working people . And and, of course, youve known Hillary Clinton for a long time. If you were going to choose three adjectives that would describe her presidency, what would they be . [lau...

You know, the right message that we all wanted to send. To me, it is all about messaging. And i know businesses need help from government as well. Ive been in those discussions where a lot of them said, hey, youre taxing us to death. We did a big payroll tax revision as a result of that. There is just simply i think a relationship where theres no quid pro quo, we do it for good policy reasons that we articulate and are clear about. And thats the way we should be running government. Thats also th...

And i like what mark said. Not only are there no strings attached. Really the benefits are targeted at our residents and our visitors, but that the only thing were going to see is wireless connected to our fiber. Were learning that. Were learning that our fine and some of the backbones that weve always had to depend on can be improved on. I have to admit, the new director will also tell you we are behind. I call our selfthe Innovation Capital of the world, but were behind in many ways and we nee...

Innovation, to education, and includetionthv i. For all San Francisco residents, but its also as i mentioned before a significant step towards bridging our Digital Divide in our city. It provides local groups and Community Residents access to the internet they might not have had before, as well for our rec and Park Department as phil knows all too well many rec centers still use dial up service. When we think about registering our children for camps and play grounds, what we need to do in our da...

More than we think we can. In order to bring benefits, bring equity, bridge not only the Digital Divide, but perhaps bring the whole innovative spirit to every community in San Francisco. This is what i think this wifi effort of our 31 parks is saying. And the nice thing about it is that when you study what were going to do here and accomplish with the 31 parks, and that we along with our Technology Partners, our communications partners, our department leaders, new ones as well as old ones, are ...

And thats the way we should be running government. Thats also the way we should have that clean relationship with businesses. Mayor, [speaker not understood]. Yeah, i mean thats why we hired mark tuitu for [speaker not understood]. My competitive spirit with mayor bloomberg in new york, rahm emanuel in chicago, were always exchanging information about you got this, you got that. Our staffs and our Department Heads do the same. , and so, were always saying, they did this. How come we cant do that...

Strings attached. The money will come through sf city which will manage the installation of the wifi network from beginning to end, and our department of technology will accept that gift on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco. And ultimately rec and park will be the host of the wifi network on their properties. And at the end of the day, its going to be all San Francisco residents who benefit from this. After going through all the necessary steps in city hall, the timing right now is ...