Room window, i think wow, thats the largest Solar Project and our office was there. Whenever i think of how i first learned how to ride a bicycle, i remember how my parents supported our businesses. They bought our first bicycle. Right now i spend so much time with the businesses our district. At the same time, im so glad that place that i went to an as child are still there. So as we talk about job creation and economics situation of the city, i hope to continue to work with local merchants. I think of how we are so lucky to be able to work with the beach. When we talk about access to our district and public transportation, i think about my experience writing unigrowing up. There was no 311. Unihas made improvements. More needs to be done to help residents who have the largest commute to the city. One of the parents called our office distressed about the school system. I was lucky to be able to walk to and from school with my friends. Im so proud to be a product of the Public Educatio
Supervisor farrell for their wonderful leadership continued here. Now the supervisor of district 11, john avalos. applause thank you, mr. Mayor. Thank you for being here. Thank you for your help on the budget as well. Your office did the lions share of the work putting the budget together. I want to thank supervisor farrell for his work on the budget. Well be talking about that later today. But also really putting his relationships in order here to serve all of San Francisco and serve, of course, this park as part of that effort. This park is actually very exciting to me. I have a great deal of pride about how the neighbors came together to really advocate for this park to make great changes here. The playground thats behind me is a big part of that effort. It came in different phases. Ball street park, skate park envisioned by the neighbors as well. Wifi is icing on the cake. So, we know that our city dollars cant always stretch the way we want them to, and we look to our partners in
Residents of San Francisco. Again, on a personal level, im incredibly proud to have led this project over the last two years. Its very gratifying that when you see an idea from the initial conversation to the project itself to now bring it to reality, to a city and park where i used to play ball in high school, to announce a project, this is something ive been incredibly proud to work on and something we started years ago and finally bringing to reality today. I again want to thank everybody who has been involved. This has been a complete team effort. And certainly want to thank mayor lee for his support during this process. Mayor lee has been an incredible friend to our Technology Community as doing incredible things for our great city. And, mayor lee, i want to thank you and introduce our great mayor, mayor ed lee. applause thank you, mark. Welcome, everybody, to balboa park. And i know we have a couple of hosts and i want to meet and recognize of course our recreation and park depar
Investor heritage and i appreciate that that heritage is being kept and that but i would also encourage you to get rid of that wharf that might be gone and i dont think that you need it and will help as well with the budget. And i would encourage you to simplify that perk i have a couple of comments as well. It is just stunning and there has got to be one of the only shipyards that you have turned into a park i dont know. Obviously this will be an example for the nation as well as honestly probably anywhere in the world. And one thing that i already have the port folks here is that i would love to make my pitch and i made it to ram before and it is not just in seattle, they have a pocket park and a beach. And you get away from the traffic and you hear the water on the beach and it is fantastic and so i love seeing the water meeting this park. But i would love to promote it in more spots along the wharf downtown and stuff so you can drop in and where that new park is down at brannen and
Margo kelly. Margo spent the last two years quarterbacking this project. She spent so many hours of her life dedicate today bringing this to the residents of San Francisco and we shall all be incredibly thankful. The benefits of free wifi in San Francisco are many. Not only will it further open up our parks and our city to innovation, to education, and includetionthv i. For all San Francisco residents, but its also as i mentioned before a significant step towards bridging our Digital Divide in our city. It provides local groups and Community Residents access to the internet they might not have had before, as well for our rec and Park Department as phil knows all too well many rec centers still use dial up service. When we think about registering our children for camps and play grounds, what we need to do in our daily lives, but also our government on a daily basis to use technology, this will be an incredible boone to our rec and Park Department and something we should all be very exci