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Should take this moment in time and thank in person for their contributions to the city. And i think we have this years winner epitomizes the kind of person that we should take the time to acknowledge and to go further into that id like to actually take a moment and invite now our supervisor district 8 malia cohen who would like to share her opening thoughts on this award. applause can i just tell you how good it feels to be up here, to look out to see all the people that make everything possible, that really makes San Francisco wonderful . And i just have got to give a special shout out. You ...

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...

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...

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, but im glad like the speaker said, it is whole. And that is whats important, is that that neigh...

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 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 ...