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7,000 kids jobs as a result. We got 4. 3 unemployment. I want the benefits of that economic strength to reach everybody in the city everyone including the bay view. This is what we get to do with additional revenues build more housing, gets more kids, more people employed, allow them to experience the wonder of earning their way forward. And then we can work in collaboration with getting even better leadership and thats what im talking about when i mention the name shaman walker. Ycd has been there for us. In fact did you know ycd just a few years ago was struggling until they found mr. Walton...

We broke ground in december of last year. We broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. Its really great to see the silence that we experienced then and weve experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. 321, okay. [ applause ] the park was kind of bleak. It was scary and over grown. We started to help maclaren park when we found there wasnt any money in the bond for this park maclaren. We spent time for funding. It was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. A lot of it was just the mural, the ...

Them to be trained in those employment. It was for us in city hall a realty that were planning for this very day when seeing all this construction going on in the community that we wanted this community to feel that and be involved in it. We started investing in ycd, they started responding with good leadership and today were proud to say that ycd has been named one of the non profit the best non profit 2014 of the non profit times for this year. Isnt that an accomplishment right here . [applause] ranked nationally its number went. On an overall on a list of non profits, ranked number four in ...

Hooked up, connected up, being part of the city and this has always been about one of the major reasons why i took up the challenge to become the mayor of this city and i will continue doing that for all our communities because this is what not only makes me feel good this is the right thing to do, carry out promises that have been made over many, many years and be assuring that those things are done. So i want, again, thank all the agencies. Im excited for this project to happen. We break open this ground. I am in great anticipation. Im not sure i can wait until 2016 for these homes to open. ...

Proposal to build a hotel on it that has failed and the port has offered the seawall lot 3221 as an Affordable Housing site as part of the overall need of the city but because it is a use that makes good sense within the existing neighborhood. Did you want me to Say Something different . Is that what you had in mind . Yes thank you. You can phrase it more eloquently than i might. I doubt that. But i do want the public to know this is something the port cares deeply about and the port wants to be an active participant in the city in terms of creating more Affordable Housing in the city as the n...