Its a real pleasure to be with everyone tonight. Mr. Mayor, counsel general, of course the president of the board of supervisors, david chiu and my colleagues and our distinguished quest and half of which is our heart and soul of San Francisco angelo aleato and to kickoff the year of Italian Culture and mr. Mayor you mentioned the different varieties but we shouldnt leave out the sciences as well so a lot to celebrate. When i was first introduced to our relatively new counsel general by angela he said hes one of us and angela said im not so quite sure counsel general but i shared with him when i took my seat on the board of supervisors i got a call from jay leno. True story. He called me to congratulate me on my Public Office and glad to know that other lenos were fairing well and asked if we had family in common and he laughed when i said i was part of his russian jewish part of the family so i left it with that. This is particularly appropriate to do this in San Francisco and San Fra
[applause] wow. Thank you very much angela. Let me say please, please sit down. All right. Thats for my has ratty. No, thats mine. Angela we really miss you here. You have been such a force and i enjoy working we will get that done. I assure you. Thats a wonderful addition. Not just north beach and another attraction for visitors from around the world as part of the International Community and i honor that so thank you. Thank you for working with me on ending homelessness as well and thank you even for being your civil rights attorney and you are still representing people in need and i appreciate that. I know angela represents again the kind of contributions the Italian Community has made to our great city and continues to make and i am here to tonight to wish you a great year of Italian Culture but to kick start it. It was really just a few months ago that the ambassador ofity italy came through and talk about this wonderful thing they were to do to celebrate year of Italian Culture b
[applause] wow. Thank you very much angela. Let me say please, please sit down. All right. Thats for my has ratty. No, thats mine. Angela we really miss you here. You have been such a force and i enjoy working we will get that done. I assure you. Thats a wonderful addition. Not just north beach and another attraction for visitors from around the world as part of the International Community and i honor that so thank you. Thank you for working with me on ending homelessness as well and thank you even for being your civil rights attorney and you are still representing people in need and i appreciate that. I know angela represents again the kind of contributions the Italian Community has made to our great city and continues to make and i am here to tonight to wish you a great year of Italian Culture but to kick start it. It was really just a few months ago that the ambassador ofity italy came through and talk about this wonderful thing they were to do to celebrate year of Italian Culture b
No, thats mine. Angela we really miss you here. You have been such a force and i enjoy working we will get that done. I assure you. Thats a wonderful addition. Not just north beach and another attraction for visitors from around the world as part of the International Community and i honor that so thank you. Thank you for working with me on ending homelessness as well and thank you even for being your civil rights attorney and you are still representing people in need and i appreciate that. I know angela represents again the kind of contributions the Italian Community has made to our great city and continues to make and i am here to tonight to wish you a great year of Italian Culture but to kick start it. It was really just a few months ago that the ambassador ofity italy came through and talk about this wonderful thing they were to do to celebrate year of Italian Culture but transfer that to our country of the United States so i know theyre going to start those events in washington dc
Thank you. Thank you for working with me on ending homelessness as well and thank you even for being your civil rights attorney and you are still representing people in need and i appreciate that. I know angela represents again the kind of contributions the Italian Community has made to our great city and continues to make and i am here to tonight to wish you a great year of Italian Culture but to kick start it. It was really just a few months ago that the ambassador ofity italy came through and talk about this wonderful thing they were to do to celebrate year of Italian Culture but transfer that to our country of the United States so i know theyre going to start those events in washington dc with their celebrations but let Us San Francisco celebrate mayor aleato and our wonderful history here and allow us to do a preliminary launch and so thats what were attempting to do tonight and celebrate with you this launch of Italian Culture. Its very meaningful for us to did that year. We have