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Recipients. Congratulate to the Lower Haight Neighborhood Association on their 2012 award. applause i just want to say a few quick words. We do a great job in the lower haight. And im sure any other local or merchant association, you guys can do it as well. And if you need any input on anything, from crime in your neighborhood to how to do an art walk or event, just please contact the lower haight or haighters nation and you can get in touch with either thea, dick, myself, or devon, joe, lisa, any one of us. So, please feel free to contact us. Well be more than happy to help you, okay. Thank y...

You just stole another. All right. Tonight is called the portola sweep, right . [cheering and applauding] i know there are several people here tonight who nominated the portola as the come back neighborhood of the award of the year. Neighborhood of the year award. Im sure there were several nominaters. So, im very humble to be able to present my nomination and the reasons why i think we deserve tonights award. Im a relative newcomer to the neighborhood, only 13 years, and there are many more folks who have been there for their whole lifetime. Several years ago as even chrisy talked about, i fi...

Review that this body be created and thats what lead to f. I dont know of a kind of holistic review that has been done since then. One thing to note g both is a critical piece but not the only one. Its the place with citizens provide indepth detail of the bond programs but on top of that we have commissions responsible for bonds, so the Health Commission has regular meetings about the progress on the hospital bonds and others on other bonds and of course the board and the mayors involvement so there are multiple lefls of oversight and we are one of them. I appreciate that. I ask that question ...

Joy to meet people who live right across the street and never knew what wonderful neighbors i had until we started the Neighborhood Watch group. So, i would strongly advise everyone to start a Neighborhood Watch group. Its great. And thanks to patricia, shes done an outstanding job and im so happy she took over as block captain for me. I appreciate it. Thanks a lot. applause applause our next award is for the best Community Green community project. And id like to just sort of jump forward a little bit and invite darlene zane to come up and give the award. Here she comes. [cheering and applaudi...

Certainly provide me support and provide me the motivation to get up and come to work every single day. This is an opportunity to thank and praise the people that call me stop, that email me, find me on facebook, send me a twitter and pick, found me on next door. I tell you, this is your day. Put your hands together. Hang in there, were almost done. But this is the day that we get to celebrate applause im calling it the neners. You know whats interesting . Ive been around city hall long enough to watch the nen awards grow and mature into what it is today. So, i also want to give a special shou...