Nicole schneider but the april presentation that was clear especially two slides that were right from the top even before you talked about educational engineering and enforcement that is really important with what you said and be explicit or more didnt you know it is really important to speak that. I agree were utilizations to seeing the slides it is good to keep pitting it in there each time so i appreciate that feedback. Actually, i was going to ask as well about a point that Nicole Schneider brought up the 26 miles versus supervisor kim to a minimum of streets. I want to. Clarify that point. Absolutely and again, this is an example of the snapshot were going to 26 miles understanding i think tom mentioned before certain roads have a resolve it didnt need 26 miles of concrete but 26 miles of treatment so, etc. It depends on the need for that treatment so i want to be clear up front it is a treatment that gets us to the corridors i appreciate the pressure from the advocate group obvio
7,000 kids jobs as a result. We got 4. 3 unemployment. I want the benefits of that economic strength to reach everybody in the city everyone including the bay view. This is what we get to do with additional revenues build more housing, gets more kids, more people employed, allow them to experience the wonder of earning their way forward. And then we can work in collaboration with getting even better leadership and thats what im talking about when i mention the name shaman walker. Ycd has been there for us. In fact did you know ycd just a few years ago was struggling until they found mr. Walton to come lead that effort. They were struggling to find what their role was and we started the relationship to say we mean it, we want our youth to be employed, we want them to be trained in those employment. It was for us in city hall a realty that were planning for this very day when seeing all this construction going on in the community that we wanted this community to feel that and be involved
We broke ground in december of last year. We broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. Its really great to see the silence that we experienced then and weve experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. 321, okay. [ applause ] the park was kind of bleak. It was scary and over grown. We started to help maclaren park when we found there wasnt any money in the bond for this park maclaren. We spent time for funding. It was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. A lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didnt have any grass. It was that bad. We worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. We worked hard collecting everything. We had about 400 group members. Every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. There is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now its safer by utilizing it. Maclaren park being the largest second park one of t
Them to be trained in those employment. It was for us in city hall a realty that were planning for this very day when seeing all this construction going on in the community that we wanted this community to feel that and be involved in it. We started investing in ycd, they started responding with good leadership and today were proud to say that ycd has been named one of the non profit the best non profit 2014 of the non profit times for this year. Isnt that an accomplishment right here . [applause] ranked nationally its number went. On an overall on a list of non profits, ranked number four in the small non profit category. They grew in the past few years from a staff of nine to 25 members. Theyre still there. Getting all these jobs, a great Strong Partner with our summer jobs, now year round jobs for our youth and they are right in the center of our employment services, particularly when putting skills out there and training people to get new jobs new economy, advanced manufacturing, t
Hooked up, connected up, being part of the city and this has always been about one of the major reasons why i took up the challenge to become the mayor of this city and i will continue doing that for all our communities because this is what not only makes me feel good this is the right thing to do, carry out promises that have been made over many, many years and be assuring that those things are done. So i want, again, thank all the agencies. Im excited for this project to happen. We break open this ground. I am in great anticipation. Im not sure i can wait until 2016 for these homes to open. Meanwhile, well probably be opening up Construction Projects to advance and accelerate. Tomorrow youll hear more about howard doing it across the city to build more Affordable Housing. This is the theme. My administration is the affordability agenda. Im going to be talking about it until everybody is sick and tired because you were sick and tired of me talking about jobs, job, jobs. Well, guess wh