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The most Ribbon Cutting and most Ribbon Cuttings, we keep everybody off limits and then we cut the ribbon and then stuff happens. You cant stop them. You can only hope to contain them in there so were going to let everybody continue to play. So, its been said that, that success has many, many, many parents and there are many parents, many people who have contributed to this outstanding, outstanding effort. We are so, so proud of this project and so thrilled to be able to give a new face to Lafayette Park. This park has tremendous history, from a City Attorney who claimed ownership of 12 acres ...

Our great operations staff, zach taylor, judy auberry who is here, and everyone else who has contributed to this incredible project. 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 impor...

Because when i raised that issue before, there was and there were other members of the board who said, yeah that would be good to know. Commissioner murase . I would be interested in the kind of data that she has asked for but i want to remind my colleagues that there was a Committee Meeting last year, twr inaudible presented a lot of very detailed data comparing teach for america teachers performance with nonteach for america teacher performance and the results were similar and you could not say that the teach for america was a Silver Bullet and what was pointed out to us by solomen was that ...

Applause so, id like im going to get back up and introduce some other speakers and we have some gifts were going to present in a little bit. But im going to start im going to kick the program off by bringing up our state senator. Everybody here knows mark leno. But what you may not know is how committed and how tireless mark is to fighting for kids and families and parks and open spaces. Its not always on the front page of the paper. Hes often doing it behind the scenes in ways that not everybody knows. Mark is a true advocate for families. He is a true advocate for parks. A true advocate for ...

The most Ribbon Cutting and most Ribbon Cuttings, we keep everybody off limits and then we cut the ribbon and then stuff happens. You cant stop them. You can only hope to contain them in there so were going to let everybody continue to play. So, its been said that, that success has many, many, many parents and there are many parents, many people who have contributed to this outstanding, outstanding effort. We are so, so proud of this project and so thrilled to be able to give a new face to Lafayette Park. This park has tremendous history, from a City Attorney who claimed ownership of 12 acres ...