Celebrate and pay tribute to all of the wonderful folks that are making it happen. So without further ado, person that not only has prior director of public works, city administrator and now wonderful mayor for our city; who has been terrifically supportive of our city, mayor ed lee. [ applause ] how is everybody doing . [ applause ] [ applause ] well let me begin by saying luis, congratulations but you know, when you are as successful as you are have been with the Library Commission its like winning the first world series. Were not just satisfied with one project, even though there are 24 of these that have been completed with this one, and the proper use of our Library Bonds program from beginning from the year 2000 with the Great Partnership of dpw and so forth. There are more Great Partnerships to be guilt because guess what were doing with the bonds that publicly improves, were honoring these kids future. This is a place where there is going to be invent, sharing, yes, exploring,
Friends of joe dimaggio, julie christinsen, lizzy diaz and lizziehurst, thank you for all you have done. [ applause ] and i also want to take a moment and thank all of the parents who are here of all the different schools that we have. Yes, franklin middle school, garflied, st. Peter and paul, what am i missing . Sherman, Telegraph Hill. Thank you all for what you are doing. I also want to thank those who have been advocating for our seniors and disabled, our parks advocates, our library advocates and of course our city staff. We have a lot of acronyms, dpw, ruark, our mayor, planning, thank all for what you have done. [ applause ]. Let me just close by saying that our work is not done. And if you remember we had opponents who fought this library. Who delayed our being here by years, by millions of dollars and by lawsuits. Is some of them may be running to be supervisor of district 3. And some of them are opposing proposition b. Boo. Boo. They are fighting our kids. They are fighting o