What a glorious day. Welcome to the library. It is my pleasure to be here for todays celebration. I would like to thank our people from the opera house. In particular i would like to give the executive director of the opera house a round of applause here. Where are you . How about that wonderful m. Music. They are led by mohammed bhangra. Lets give them a round of applause. It wasnt too long ago that we had our wonderful Ground Breaking ceremony and at that ceremony we were led in a beautiful invocation by the past or oral yus walker. Hes back to lead us. With that, pastor walk er. To our distinguished leaders and city officials, brothers and sisters. Before i do the invocation i would like to talk real quickly, a young man in the greek culture, he wanted to be wide and was determined to gain wisdom. So socrates, he said i want wisdom. Socrates walked down to the beach, walked to the water and deducted him in the water and said what do you want. He said noble socrates, i want wisdom. W
And pleasure to introduce our mayor, mayor ed lee. [ applause ]. Morning, everybody. Welcome to our bay view. As our poet said, hes about to wear a hat, so i was looking for a hat this morning. And i have a trunk full and i was looking for something that was representative, a world series type of hat because this is a world series event. When you look across our neighborhoods, you know its probably one of the best examples of building a community center. And you know as much as this brick and mortar is beautiful, its got a communicate Center Community center that is useful when the library is not even open. It has the library with double number of computers and importantly how we put it together. It took longer and the reason it took a little longer was because people who lived in this community wanted the input they hadnt had in a long time. They wanted this building representative of them. Its more than a library. It is a community center, it is an example of how you get a contractor