Learning and inspiration be filed with great vibes of repeated. repeated. . Turbulent repeated. imagination. repeated. . Expanding horizons repeated. for those who hunger and this matter may the spirit of peace. repeated. joy. repeated. and wonder bless this new north Beach Library clapping so so much reverend functioning and what a glories day welcome ladies and gentlemen, im louis us the city librarian clapping. ive had the honor and privilege of doing Ribbon Cuttings for the 24 libraries it never gets old its fantastic is were here to celebrate the grand opening of a new icon in the north beach neighborhood it represents the end of the largest Capital Improvement program in the history of the city 24 libraries every library is seismic safe we have ada access and staiks libraries for every neighborhood in our city clapping isnt that fantastic really a testament to all of you were here to celebrate the last one and best one of the lot clapping absolutely. How appropriate is it this is
And i could go there are so symmany city starves calling names there so many people that contributed to this project im hoping to go into detail about the rec and park but i hope they know how much we appreciate their efforts. In our neighborhood we have neighborhood organizations that come together not for power but for service we have neighborhood organizations that serve not only their constituents but everyone in the neighborhood even people they dont know we have neighborhood organizations that serve the people in the neighborhood not only today but years from now. People we may never meet the people after us this project required the cooperation getting the land and making this happen the friends of joe demay this and the friends of the Community Center and the russian hill and the p t o or every Single School in the area theyve called people to meetings and written letters and lobbied for supervisor chiu and lobbied the mayor those people and organizations have used the clot and
clapping. i think we have more companies anywhere in the United States its at the amazing statement were not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the orchestra. The most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think hes a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think were not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. I thought it would be interesting because they have e he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons all those things are Great Stories for on opera. I was leaving behind a little bit which those collaborative dancers i was really trying to focus on opera. A friend of mine said well, what would you really
Drama free mayor ed lee i like to refer to him he gets the job done and were fortunate to have him and others. Im very, very going to be brief were not going to leave in a madman episode. That happens 50 years ago and its time for this country it recognize that 40 percent of the breadwinners in this country are women and when 40 percent of the breadwinners in this country have women it is time for us to change the policies that are preventing us from working well together as families and workers clapping but i want to tell you one thing thats deeply disturbing to me my hope the secretary and his staff will recognize whats happening here in the San Francisco bay area can happen in other areas where theres success and economics are red hot im speaking especially about the declining middleclass in the bay area its at a crisis its dropped by 10 percent in the last 4 years in San Francisco. It is now 33 percent of San Francisco is the middleclass the rich have gotten richer and the poor poo
Very lot we could easily be separated by owner or age and income or interests or affiliations but we choose the common causes we ze we have time and time again worked as a community to make good things happen. For me, the bright spot of the effort thats been involved has been the people ive gotten to know. Dear lizzie has been the coordinator Steering Community 345rg9 to terry to amy miles and june here today who was mark to help collect signatures to take over the area and we have others we have our artists john who did our logos and nick who took our affirmatives and Tony Williams that did our website and abby the artist that cooperated the children to do the piece i think she was there at ever hearing. My favorite hearing was the one who brought frankie who was 6 foot two and brings the shirt he were to the first hearing that is this miniature outfit her son was in diapers hes at the ucla now so liz diaz and tina that come to help looking back it was a structural. In our neighborhoo