and steve o sullivan and danny wong and thomas wong the nernling crew that put this together on the engineering crew that put this together. joe is here and wally wong, and alex marie who i saw limping, i hope that wasn t from the community meeting. these are the folks that worked with the contractor, mcgwire and hester to get this work done. i want to thank them for that. last but most the woman who manages the great streets program that has taken the mayor s vision and the board s policy directive for great streets and actually put it into practice so that we see these projects here, mr.ings all of these prodge manages all of the projects, chris opreck. let s give her a hand. if there s anyone i missed, accept my apologies know my gratitude is there. with that we will cut the ribbon. all right. we ll do, five, four, three. no. no. no. that was really bad. everybody. ready? five, four, three, two, one, [cheering] thank you, everyone. president vietor: good afte
sure to acknowledge them. one that i haven t yet mentioned, though it has been referenced, has to do with public art. public works is is you know, typically a profession of civil engineers and hard tough stuff, pipes and asphalt and concrete. we realize that in order to to really make the these projects attractive and inviting, that public art can really be an important element to do that, to compliment the great work our architects do. i want to ask joe maddon from the arts commission to come up and say a few words about the beautiful public art that you may have noticed. thank you. thank you very much. good morning. good afternoon. it is a pleasure to be here. congratulations to the residents of of visitation valley on your beautiful new streetscape. i want to say that it has been a measure to collaborate with our colleagues from d.p.w. and p.u.c. on the project. and i also want to say the rope you have public art is that 40 years ago, san francisco was was on
before we cut the ribbon, i do want to just take a moment to acknowledge just a few a few of the many of department of public works employees who worked hard on this projects, in in some cases for years. if you indulge me to go quickly. nick mentioned dennis, along with martha ketterer and nick and steve o sullivan and danny wong and thomas wong the nernling crew that put this together on the engineering crew that put this together. joe is here and wally wong, and alex marie who i saw limping, i hope that wasn t from the community meeting. these are the folks that worked with the contractor, mcgwire and hester to get this work done. i want to thank them for that. last but most the woman who manages the great streets program that has taken the mayor s vision and the board s policy directive for great streets and actually put it into practice so that we see these projects here, mr.ings all of these prodge manages all of the projects, chris opreck. let s give her a han
part of the fabric of san francisco, visitation valley, a part of the city that we have not forgotten. it is a part of the city that we must not neglect for years to come. thank you [applause] thank you, mr. mayor prp both for the leadership, that is that s why we re all able to have these events over and over again to trumpet the good work we do in san francisco. particularly to reinforce a record amount of money going into street resurfacing this year in san francisco, augmented by additional funds for streetscape improvements, sidewalk repairs, and two points on that. one is that not only are we getting our infrastructure repaired and improved and enhanced but we re also creating jobs in the process. so, at a time when many people need them most, we re we re putting people to work as well. we not only get better streets and rights of way as a benefit. we get people working, a point not to lose in this infrastructure nevment. one other point that it is not just
those nine great streets projects. leland and sam bruno were among the last two. we re celebrating this this today, but we re also celebrating those that we completed in the past number of months and last few years. why does this matter? you ll hear in a second why this matters. creates a sense of place. a streetscape with the neighborhood and it com in a completely different way. it encourages and enlivens a pedstrone flow and pedestrian flow and sense of community. it slows people down. i have been here 300 times, if you think i m exaggerating, i have not. i spent too much time. there s never too much time, but a lot of time at the sunny dale housing projects. the first few years i was mayor, i was down here for the wrong reasons, that was because of the struggles and frustration we had to deal with the issue of crime and violence and coming down back and forth, almost on a weekly basis to visit the families that were victimized by the crime and violence. we started t