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Good morning, everyone. Good morning, everyone. My name is bob clark, and im the Deputy Director here at the franklin d. Roosevelt president ial library and museum, and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 11th annual roosevelt reading festival. You know, when fdr established the first president ial library here at his home in hyde park, he envisioned it becoming the premier Research Center for the study of the roosevelt era. And were consistently one of the busiest Research Rooms in the entire president ial library system. And one of the reasons why we love this base so much is we get to s...

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 some trees were going to come down which always makes me a little uncomfortable. But now seeing the...

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 it looks like exciting to be here and almost like it is already belong that we are just kind of unrav...

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 you. Next time we need a park bond. While you go to the voters, im going to call sean parker. [laugh...

Together. And under the 2012 bond, theres more to come, but youve heard enough speeches so lets shut up and get out and play. [cheering and applauding] thank you, commissioners. All right. Just a couple more speakers then were going to cut that ribbon. But theyre playing anyway so it doesnt were good. All right. So, this is a team effort, right. Its the community, its government, its park avenue katz, its everyone. But our Capital Bond Program is a success because of our partnership with the department of public works, plain and simple. We have a really, really super partnership. We Work Toget...