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Oakland, california to discuss a range of issues including health care and the daca program. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. You would think i know how to turn on a mike. Ok, can we start by giving around, a warm round of applause to elizabeth. Where are you, where are you. There you are. [applause] i am so proud of you. That is so wonderful. And supervisor, i cannot thank you enough to read you have been such a leader for oakland and in auckland. Thank you for everything you did. Always. ...

Held a town hall meeting in oakland, california to discuss a range of issues including health care and daca program. Sen. Harris i am so proud of you. Started at thousand oaks, so look where you will end up. It was so wonderful. You have been a longstanding friend and such an issue in oakland. Thank you for everything you do. Keith comes to d. C. , pounding the pavement, always fighting for oakland. Thank you. Haynes. Dear reverend we have been friends for a long time. Our friendship is based on...

The pathways were upgraded, the ada improvements, of course, this extraordinary playground for our kids, the improved lighting which will make it all safer. And im glad, phil, that you mentioned the fact of this epidemic of Childhood Obesity and type 2 diabetes. You know, one in eight of us today will experience type 2 diabetes, but a generation from now that means kids here today, if we dont change course, 1 in 3, there are predictions in every californian will have diabetes by 20 50 which will...

Million parks bond, Neighborhood Parks bond and the 10 million invested into Lafayette Park. I used to live at hyde and geary my first four years when i moved to San Francisco, now 36 years ago, and this was my neighborhood park. And ive loved it ever since. The combination of the palms and the pines and everything in between, this is a jewel of a park. And when i saw the fences go up i got a little nervous because, well, it was going to be closed for a while. And i saw on some of the signs that...

Already and this is yet another great draw and we have the great investers and they are all rebuilding on the ends of these blocks and mind us, and not only building, but they are also utilizing the programs that we have to ininvolve the local neighborhoods and be great neighbors to be involved neighbor and to be engaged with us. This is going to be a lot of stories about this establishment and while we say that it is temporary, gosh, there is nothing, temporary looking about this and actually i...

Supervisors who lead the charge every day to make San Francisco a better place. Ive got proclamations for all the folks i just mentioned. Thanks again for being here and celebrate this Beautiful Day here at Lafayette Park. applause so, mark, we have a little parting gift for you to commemorate this great day. And to encourage you to get out here and take this and play with us. We have a Lafayette Playground sign and a rec and park picnic blanket for you to enjoy. Congratulations. applause thank ...

July 13th is our first day but were not allowed to actually maintain it yet at that point. Yeah, we are. I already talked to oh, we are. [laughter] this is how we work, very collaborative. [laughter] so, okay. I want to thank some of these people are here, and some of them are not. If you are here, try to make your way up towards the front here because we all want to hug each other, okay. Kim barnes, our founder of friends of Lafayette Park. We wouldnt be here today without kim barnes. applause ...

So, at rec and park, were encoloneling people to get out and play. Thats our tag line, get ready, 1, 2, 3. Get out and play. We say that because of the importance of keeping our families active and healthy. This is a real serious issue. According to the center for disease control, Childhood Obesity has more than doubled in our children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years. In 2010 more than onethird of our children were overweight or obese. It is important that we get our kids outside...

Shout out to the entire city family for their role, Mohammed Nuru and folks at department of public works had a role, lindsay hirsch. applause with all due respect to dpw and everybody else who is here, the hardest working staff in government is rec and park. Gk, construction manager, mary hobson, project manager. [cheering and applauding] director of capital planning, don. Our great operations staff, zach taylor, judy auberry who is here, and everyone else who has contributed to this incredible...

Picnic blankets. Carina, youve been our playground champion, Lafayette Park playground sign. Thank you. applause why dont you guys say a few words right now. Okay. The only thing that i want to do is to thank all of you who have been hundreds, it took literally hundreds of people to do this. And i have a couple of names to we want to make sure we mention these names. But im leaving out hundreds of people and i know it. So, and theres plenty more chances. Were going to continue our cleaning and g...