Print i didnt put my hand print in another of the concrete. But i look at this crowd and look at the tshirts of the agencies printed on the back were very proud of this library youre on important part of the San Francisco and we bless it and reflect it by the energy this library medians and after hearing the list many of things make sure this library has modernization even though it is the final one not the final investments the education for you kids and the Community Centers that libraries become more than youre old and my old libraries Community Centers are excepted for people to come together to Exchange Ideas and provide hope to learn and constantly learn and the button of this is the deimagine playground yes clapping i want to thank the supervisors again supervisor david chiu and a scott wiener theyve been here with smaert on all of our Branch Openings weve celebrated in the bay area or out in the excelsior time and time again weve celebrated this with literally every Community A
Talked about the public spaces being magic and all the other sense of the public is that a being engaged so her vision and that of her team is making a difference. But it also is is a play thats staishg more technology. We used to have 6 public terminals for access to technology and youll have 22 wifi and the First Library connected to the cities fiberoptics network so board band and transmit anything you want that are as the afternoon unfolds hell hear more and more but well start by thanking the community all of you for your patience and per southerners of making this a reality i didnt want to settlement for a modified expansion you knew from generations to come you would get an iconic building give yourselves a applause you wanted to vision for a civic plaza and the plagued thats going to be realized thats a civic plaza so thank you. Again. The community was a key partner it goes without saying the city family comes together to deliver on a promise ill happy to a work with an unanim
Community if we do the right thing so were lucky to have emergency respond money with our Police Department and Fire Department and retired those debts but today is about looking at those kids having fun and being safe isnt it a transformation of an old parking lot isnt ii, visualize this we used our innovation and imagination and what else we didnt just build a library i think as friends of the library are showing as frinsz of the joe deimagine is showing when we do things like that we respond to form the agencies like friends and bring people together to finish what we cant do the friends are going to need our help the furnishings and the trimming so, please help when you can. The friends of deimagine playground and phil will love it quite a nice blessing enriching each other when the kids are playing or lockup things and go out and play again in a safe community. The biggest thanks to are the people like you who never, ever gave up. You know when lewis was saying the moss mother of
clapping third its a story of partnership and this is the partnership between our various public agencies and the Arts Commission and sarah from our Arts Commission they have to fight. Its a story of the department of public works and all the city agencies working together but partnership between government and our nonprofit partners like the friends of the Public Library and the friends of joe deimagine plagued we need partners so thank you partners. And lastly its a story of parks. Were going to have a beautiful particularly renovated joe deimagine plagued that will broung in were investing 5 and a half Million Dollars your project management i want to give her a shout out and as great and as iconic joe deplagiarizing imagine playground when were done with this this is going to be the spot in the entire city this is how cities are supposed be here excited to partner with all of you thank you very much clapping. nicely done phil i know in the audience trying to hide is our former depu
Individual has been remarkably or remarkably low supportive he said ill support the lib so i really, really appreciate lets give a big hand to board president david chiu. North beach this is your day. I cant believe were lessor. 14 years after we passed this bond measure the last of 24 libraries and hundreds of meeting and thousands even if residents coming together we have a north Beach Library. This is personal for me because lewis said i made a caption promise in 2008, this library would be done and thank you for helping me keep the promise. The first meeting i had after 2 weeks of november 2008 i had a meeting in 90 my predecessors office with julie whether i we looked at the new designs and said chiu go get it done i told them i think we can move this forward in 6 months 6 years later after appeals and lawsuits it will remind people will be still folks who are fighting to build the joe deimagine lagged and still trying to build soccer fields the village of San Francisco we came to