think of the hours, think of the many hours that the kids and families will spend here safely learning, increasing their knowledge, improving themselves. think of the friends of the library that will continue to raise funds to keep the computers running, keep furniture and modern and keep the rooms active with the little study halls and the gardens. it s a community effort that what makes this library. now we are asking louis what s next. that to me so important. with the supervisors here, david chew, the presence here, thanks to malia, we are investing some $800,000 more along the corridor to make the whole neighborhood involved. if it takes longer, we ll do it because the quality will be about. that s what a world series library looks like. so i want to thank you for all joining us today like mayor s get to do. i got a proclamation. i want to present this to our new librarian, beverly. thank you. to honor your leadership here and to declare this day to be bay view branch li
would like to introduce alejandro thank you. you cannot imagine how happy i am here today. i remember whether the opera opened and what a day with the community and with the bay view opera house and the bay view library here, anchoring this community with our young people with hope, with poetry and literacy, that this will be the new creative center of san francisco where poets, artist and musicians are welcomed and can find to spirit to change the perception of the neighborhood as the reverend said . i want to offer a program, the initiative to create murals with poems of your people all over this neighborhood and that will be one of the projects i hope to launch in the coming months. now full permit me i will do a poem in on of the bay view library. today i m going to wear a hat. wave hello to the world or maybe a mysterious fad era brim down low. i would investigate the missing brown buffalo. or perhaps a greek fisher man s cap in honor of the sirens and mermaids ro
the missing brown buffalo. or perhaps a greek fisher man s cap in honor of the sirens and mermaids rocking me or a big mexican so sombrero would do, or i could make a crazy cat hat with balloons and then i stroll down third street or a brown berate and shout power to the people and other slogans i forget. i could try a cloud with a blue ribbon wrapped around it like a song or none of that. today, in honor of the new brand new bay view library, today, i m going to wear the sky as my hat and then i will pass it on to you so you can wear it too thank you alejandro. power to the people. he wants to make the city of poets. this is indeed an honor and pleasure to introduce our mayor, mayor ed lee. [ applause ] . morning, everybody. welcome to our bay view. as our poet said, he s about to wear a hat, so i was looking for a hat this morning. and i have a trunk full and i was looking for something that was representative, a world series type of hat because this is a world series eve
type of hat because this is a world series event. when you look across our neighborhoods, you know it s probably one of the best examples of building a community center. and you know as much as this brick and mortar is beautiful, it s got a communicate center community center that is useful when the library is not even open. it has the library with double number of computers and importantly how we put it together. it took longer and the reason it took a little longer was because people who lived in this community wanted the input they hadn t had in a long time. they wanted this building representative of them. it s more than a library. it is a community center, it is an example of how you get a contractor like freddie carter, [ applause ] to become romantic after 50 years of struggle. how he and working with public works and the architects and the library and the commission were able to get some 68 percent local businesses involved, 25 percent from bay view alone. is this wh
remember teaching at the bay view school and how challenged the parents were to provide an education for these kids and now neglected this area was and we have turned this around because of our spirituality and work ethics and pride. so god love us all. this is a beautiful beautiful building and anytime you want any help, anytime night or day, please feel free to call supervisor malia. no, you can call me. thanks. thank you, tom. so we are getting excited about coming inside, aren t we? we are almost there. once you are inside take a look at the beautiful art inside. the san francisco art commissions local artist and we are so proud that the local artist is from the bay view. his name is ron sanders. his artwork is truly inspiring. they are what they call photo grams. there is two of them, one is spirit of nature dancing together and the other one is symbiotic relationship. one of them is inside the beautiful courtyard and the other one is inside the library. enjoy that.