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Experiencing technical difficulty; please stand by here is the other linda to accept the award on behalf of the group. applause thank you. My name is linda light haiser and i work with help mclaren park. Aliotopier here to accept the award on behalf of the founders of the organization, the real movers and shakers who couldnt be here tonight, chuck and [speaker not understood]. [cheering and applauding] their family is in peru, which is where [speaker not understood] hailses from. Theyre so disappointed they couldnt be here tonight. But the back story on this is chuck grew up in the portola. An...

City employee of the year. applause everybody here, sandra has touched all your lives. Im truly honored. You guys are all wonderful to work with. I love the community. You know that. Im allegation here for you. Thank you so much for this honor. Its all about you guys. Thank you so much. applause id now like to invite the supervisor for district 9, supervisor david campos, to represent the next award. applause good evening, everyone. Welcome to this beautiful building here at city hall, the peoples building. And to help me present the next award, id like to ask an institution and the portal nei...

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 applauding] hello, everyone. So, for years the portola and its the portola, foster recognition. And, dan, things started happening. One of the things that gave attention to our neighborhood is when we decided we were going to have a new branch library. Ruth wallace came up with the idea of a garden tour and a lot of us thought, a garden tour . Our neighborhood . Who is going to come ...

Enough to watch the nen awards grow and mature into what it is today. So, i also want to give a special shout out to daniel homesy who is the originator of this. Thank you, daniel. applause also i want to acknowledge his right hand christina palone, the new director, mon, Mayors Office Neighborhood Services over there in that corner. applause and for those of you that dont know, i represent district 10, thats the southeast neighborhoods. Thats bayview, thats potrero hill, visitacion valley, its a little hollywood, its dogpatch. It used to be the portola, half of it. My heart is still with you,...

I am really, really proud of this Neighborhood Watch group. We had some really hard times back in 2008. We had a few homicides in the excelsior district, one that is very well known, the bologna homicides. These tragedies are horrible if nothing else but to help communities organize. Nay street neighbors really did that. They looked out for one another. They reached out. They created relationships where perhaps they didnt exist before. They looked at their neighborhood and thought, how can we make this neighborhood safer . And theyve done Amazing Things. Theyve done greening, they planted last...