Battle and you all stood with us and were here today to break ground on this great library, big hand for all of those who put that effort in. [ applause ] this project is the 24th library that our agency has been involved in. We have renovated 16 libraries, and we have built 6 new ones. The 23rd is in the bayview in my neighborhood and that will be ready for groundbreaking in january and for completion and opening in january and now were groundbreaking on this project. As part of this project, you will be getting a twostory library. It will be designed for led silver or greater and sustainable and as opposed to the old library it will be ready for the big one, seismically fit. Something mayor lee has put forth in his leadership as mayor is that it will bring a lot of jobs and this library will be the First Library to undergo the new local hiring law, meaning that 25 of san franciscans will be working on this project. Big hand for mayor lee and the board of supervisors for their leaders
As our librarian just said, the very first meeting i took, even before he was swornin, after i was elected was about this library. And i got to tell you, that was only four years of a tenyear struggle. There have been hundreds of meetings coming together. There are High School Students today who were preschool students when we started this conversation. And i have to tell you as we all know, it takes a village to raise our kids, but it has taken many villages to build this library. I want to start first and foremost by thanking three mothers, who helped to lead 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 fo
Capstone, julie christiansen. Thank you can i get my team up here . I have been fielding all the thanks, but it doesnt really belong to me. It belongs to all of these people. Who else is here from our group . Come on up. Who am i missing . The whole village, come on up. So we have a couple of city folks. Where is greg scott . Gret get up here. Greg, get up here. I want to point out jill, karen. Jill is the deputy chief librarian and karen, these two women are the fairy godmothers of this project. We would not be here without all the people that you heard from, but we would not be here without them. Give thermometer a big round of applause. [ applause ] we have also got on city staff our aquatic director greg scott. [ applause ] and lets see, who else did we get up here . Huh . Mindy. Mindy is on my list. I am the last speaker. They are going to try to limit me to the public hearing three minutes and im going to try to stick to that, probably not. [ [ laughter ] after im finished were g