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Its so nice to be your. Thank you all for coming. This is such a treat. First of all to be in philadelphia. Franklins hometown to talk about jane who once visited here and didnt love it as much as you love the boston, but also just to be here at a Public Library and celebrate this space and all that it stands for. So thank you to the library. [applause] groovi hope none of you ever hef Jane Franklin. She led a rich investing life, and im going to try to give you a whirlwind tour of it and will be looking at some slides and i even have props. Thats how i teach. So sit back and listen to the sca...

Mayor lee, supervisors, come on up. And while they are doing that, lets get started. What a beautiful, beautiful day, give yourselves a round of applause. [ applause ] fantastic. This is like winning a pennant and how about those San Francisco giants. I actually want to Marco Scutaro wanna be, but its not going to work and today i will settle formality city librarian luis herr ra and i would like to welcome each and every one of you to our ceremony today. This is indeed a milestone because its not only the beginning of construction to a new new library, but its the end of the program, which me...

Battle and you all stood with us and were here today to break ground on this great library, big hand for all of those who put that effort in. [ applause ] this project is the 24th library that our agency has been involved in. We have renovated 16 libraries, and we have built 6 new ones. The 23rd is in the bayview in my neighborhood and that will be ready for groundbreaking in january and for completion and opening in january and now were groundbreaking on this project. As part of this project, you will be getting a twostory library. It will be designed for led silver or greater and sustainable...

As our librarian just said, the very first meeting i took, even before he was swornin, after i was elected was about this library. And i got to tell you, that was only four years of a tenyear struggle. There have been hundreds of meetings coming together. There are High School Students today who were preschool students when we started this conversation. And i have to tell you as we all know, it takes a village to raise our kids, but it has taken many villages to build this library. I want to start first and foremost by thanking three mothers, who helped to lead friends of joe dimaggio, julie c...

Capstone, julie christiansen. Thank you can i get my team up here . I have been fielding all the thanks, but it doesnt really belong to me. It belongs to all of these people. Who else is here from our group . Come on up. Who am i missing . The whole village, come on up. So we have a couple of city folks. Where is greg scott . Gret get up here. Greg, get up here. I want to point out jill, karen. Jill is the deputy chief librarian and karen, these two women are the fairy godmothers of this project. We would not be here without all the people that you heard from, but we would not be here without ...