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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...

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...

Mayor lee, supervisors, come on up. And while they are doing that, lets get started. What a beautiful, beautiful day, give yourselves a round of applause. [ applause ] fantastic. This is like winning a pennant and how about those San Francisco giants. I actually want to Marco Scutaro wanna be, but its not going to work and today i will settle formality city librarian luis herr ra and i would like to welcome each and every one of you to our ceremony today. This is indeed a milestone because its n...

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...

On their way to leading a full and productive life. So, we need to all reach out and dig deeper into our own pockets and find the spare change that we can find this season and turn them into small and big miracles so that people that are in need will have a wonderful thanksgiving and a wonderful christmas. And mayor, thank you for being our passionate leader. And every year gather us around this time to remind people holidays is not just about gift buying, but its about giftgiving. Thank you ver...

Mayor lee, supervisors, come on up. And while they are doing that, lets get started. What a beautiful, beautiful day, give yourselves a round of applause. [ applause ] fantastic. This is like winning a pennant and how about those San Francisco giants. I actually want to Marco Scutaro wanna be, but its not going to work and today i will settle formality city librarian luis herr ra and i would like to welcome each and every one of you to our ceremony today. This is indeed a milestone because its n...

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 start first and foremost by thanking three mothers, who helped to lead friends of joe dimaggio, julie christinsen, lizzy diaz and lizziehurst, thank you for all you have done. [ applause ] and i ...

Lets go prop b, lets go joe d. Are you ready, kids . Lets go probb, lets go joe d. Lets go prop b, lets go joe d. Thank you so much. [ applause ] all right, is there highenergy today . Fantastic. A couple of other colleagues, peers in the city family, tom, who is our Arts Commission executive director. Thank you for joining us. We have a partnership in the Arts Commission that every new building has public art. I dont know if our artist for north beach is here, bill fontana, were excited about h...

Look up. Because that is where the meeting room will be on the second floor with afterhour access for all the poets and all the kids story times and various activities. Its going to be fantastic. We want to continue our theme of partnerships and teamwork by acknowledging the great staff that has put it all together and its going to continue to offer services here in the neighborhood at our current library. And i see robert carlson, robert, would you wave . He is a Great Community advocate here a...