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Friends of joe dimaggio, julie christinsen, lizzy diaz and lizziehurst, thank you for all you have done. [ applause ] and i also want to take a moment and thank all of the parents who are here of all the different schools that we have. Yes, franklin middle school, garflied, st. Peter and paul, what am i missing . Sherman, Telegraph Hill. Thank you all for what you are doing. I also want to thank those who have been advocating for our seniors and disabled, our parks advocates, our library advocates and of course our city staff. We have a lot of acronyms, dpw, ruark, our mayor, planning, thank a...

To spec. Dennis oats, please let everybody know and if you have questions about this library, that is the man to talk to, dennis oats. [ applause ] lastly, i wanted to especially thank luis and his staff. Luis in so many meetings had the opportunity to change the course or do Something Different and he stuck there all the way. He continued to encourage us. This is what i want. We need to get it and all the battles that we went through, luis was there and made good, sound decisions along with the Library Commission and that is why were here today with that great project. Big hand for luis and h...

The city. Even more important, this project, this fight about the north beach Branch Library, about joe dimaggio, fundamentally was about whether we were going to be moving forward as a city. Whether we were going to focus just on the past or also on the future of our city. Whether we were going to focus on what recreation was like 25 or 50 years ago or what needs to happen today and in the future in San Francisco . And we won that battle and we sent a clear message that that city has a strong future for everyone and were going to make it happen. Thank you and congratulations. [applause] thank...

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...