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You know whats interesting . Ive been around city hall long enough to watch the nen awards grow and mature into what it is today. So, i also want to give a special shout out to daniel homesy who is the originator of this. Thank you, daniel. applause also i want to acknowledge his right hand christina palone, the new director, mon, Mayors Office Neighborhood Services over there in that corner. applause and for those of you that dont know, i represent district 10, thats the southeast neighborhoods...

Applause our next award is for the best Community Green community project. And id like to just sort of jump forward a little bit and invite darlene zane to come up and give the award. Here she comes. [cheering and applauding] hello, everyone. So, for years the portola and its the portola, foster recognition. And, dan, things started happening. One of the things that gave attention to our neighborhood is when we decided we were going to have a new branch library. Ruth wallace came up with the ide...

Thank you to all of our neighbors because we have lived in that neighborhood for 37 years and its just been such a joy to meet people who live right across the street and never knew what wonderful neighbors i had until we started the Neighborhood Watch group. So, i would strongly advise everyone to start a Neighborhood Watch group. Its great. And thanks to patricia, shes done an outstanding job and im so happy she took over as block captain for me. I appreciate it. Thanks a lot. applause applaus...

But tonight is a night that we have abopportunity to up lift and support and say thank you to all the people that certainly provide me support and provide me the motivation to get up and come to work every single day. This is an opportunity to thank and praise the people that call me stop, that email me, find me on facebook, send me a twitter and pick, found me on next door. I tell you, this is your day. Put your hands together. Hang in there, were almost done. But this is the day that we get to...

Experiencing technical difficulty; please stand by here is the other linda to accept the award on behalf of the group. applause thank you. My name is linda light haiser and i work with help mclaren park. Aliotopier here to accept the award on behalf of the founders of the organization, the real movers and shakers who couldnt be here tonight, chuck and [speaker not understood]. [cheering and applauding] their family is in peru, which is where [speaker not understood] hailses from. Theyre so disap...

Thank you. applause jack . Ah, come on. I dont think jack wants to say anything, but i think that jack just basically said that actions speak louder than words. So, thank you. applause jack, are your parents or your family here . Yep . So, if we could ask jacks family to please stand up and be recognized. Because this is a family effort. [cheering and applauding] thank you very much. Thank you. You can see the user bringing back the bow tie. Without further ado, id like to introduce Supervisor J...

Our next award is for the best Community Green community project. And id like to just sort of jump forward a little bit and invite darlene zane to come up and give the award. Here she comes. [cheering and applauding] hello, everyone. So, for years the portola and its the portola, foster recognition. And, dan, things started happening. One of the things that gave attention to our neighborhood is when we decided we were going to have a new branch library. Ruth wallace came up with the idea of a ga...

Homesy who is the originator of this. Thank you, daniel. applause also i want to acknowledge his right hand christina palone, the new director, mon, Mayors Office Neighborhood Services over there in that corner. applause and for those of you that dont know, i represent district 10, thats the southeast neighborhoods. Thats bayview, thats potrero hill, visitacion valley, its a little hollywood, its dogpatch. It used to be the portola, half of it. My heart is still with you, but im glad like the sp...

Specifically Mohammed Nuru because hes been incredible. His toehold, everyone. Francis and john avalos office, without her nobody would know what we were doing because she helps us with all of our fliers and everything that we need to do. John has been tireless. He comes to my house on fridays at 5 30 for meetings. Hes a great, great supervisor and a champion for our district. And were excited about this year. Were going to put in a park. Were going to do safety initiatives. Were looking for gra...

Should take this moment in time and thank in person for their contributions to the city. And i think we have this years winner epitomizes the kind of person that we should take the time to acknowledge and to go further into that id like to actually take a moment and invite now our supervisor district 8 malia cohen who would like to share her opening thoughts on this award. applause can i just tell you how good it feels to be up here, to look out to see all the people that make everything possibl...