Woohoo and as the father of a daughter who has broken not one, but two arms on monkey bars, im extremely fired up about that. applause but this park is more than just the playground. For those of you who are here with your kids and youre here for the playground opening, make sure you take a stroll up the hill. The view corridor that has been created as a result of this incredible park design, lindsay, and this incredible work, mary, its stunning. You can see all the way today you can see all the way into marin. You can see the entire bay. The Tennis Courts, the area, the amphitheater where the mime troop historically performed, the offleash dog area, the benches on our hillside. We have created together a park that is truly extraordinary. It is a piece of art. And we are just also proud that weve been able to do this together. So, give yourselves a big, big round of applause. applause so, id like im going to get back up and introduce some other speakers and we have some gifts were goin
His work to make sure weve actually got the funds to pull this off, jose cisneros. applause ~ but its the passion of all of us. And i also want to give a big shout out to the entire city family for their role, Mohammed Nuru and folks at department of public works had a role, lindsay hirsch. applause with all due respect to dpw and everybody else who is here, the hardest working staff in government is rec and park. Gk, construction manager, mary hobson, project manager. [cheering and applauding] director of capital planning, don. Our great operations staff, zach taylor, judy auberry who is here, and everyone else who has contributed to this incredible project. So, at rec and park, were encoloneling people to get out and play. Thats our tag line, get ready, 1, 2, 3. Get out and play. We say that because of the importance of keeping our families active and healthy. This is a real serious issue. According to the center for disease control, Childhood Obesity has more than doubled in our chi
They were doing a few years back when we passed that 185 million parks bond, Neighborhood Parks bond and the 10 million invested into Lafayette Park. I used to live at hyde and geary my first four years when i moved to San Francisco, now 36 years ago, and this was my neighborhood park. And ive loved it ever since. The combination of the palms and the pines and everything in between, this is a jewel of a park. And when i saw the fences go up i got a little nervous because, well, it was going to be closed for a while. And i saw on some of the signs that some trees were going to come down which always makes me a little uncomfortable. But now seeing the result, it is magnificent. And, so, i want to thank all the folks who have invested their time and their efforts to make sure that the Tennis Courts got their renovation and the pathways were upgraded, the ada improvements, of course, this extraordinary playground for our kids, the improved lighting which will make it all safer. And im glad
Blanket for you to enjoy. Congratulations. applause thank you. Next time we need a park bond. While you go to the voters, im going to call sean parker. [laughter] thank you, mark. All right. I mentioned there are a variety of city departments here. I want to give a shout ought to battalion chief williams from station 38. Where are you, chief . There she is. applause and i think we have some activities going on over there. I also want to give a big thank you to fire commissioner and Lafayette Park champion don. Where is don . applause hes actually playing on the swings. [laughter] all right. Next up, it does take great leadership from our elected leaders and another true example at the state level for us has been phil king. Also hes on the state assembly. Hes that young dad with two kids and uses our parks and play grounds all the time. He couldnt be here, but i have [speaker not understood] to say a very brief word to present a proclamation. Thank you. Thank you so much, phil. Im here
Family for their role, Mohammed Nuru and folks at department of public works had a role, lindsay hirsch. applause with all due respect to dpw and everybody else who is here, the hardest working staff in government is rec and park. Gk, construction manager, mary hobson, project manager. [cheering and applauding] director of capital planning, don. Our great operations staff, zach taylor, judy auberry who is here, and everyone else who has contributed to this incredible project. So, at rec and park, were encoloneling people to get out and play. Thats our tag line, get ready, 1, 2, 3. Get out and play. We say that because of the importance of keeping our families active and healthy. This is a real serious issue. According to the center for disease control, Childhood Obesity has more than doubled in our children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years. In 2010 more than onethird of our children were overweight or obese. It is important that we get our kids outside. Our children toda