Also recognizing john avalos, our supervisor for this district. But often a voice at the board in this city about issues of equity, and that is why i think its important that we announced it at a place like balboa park. I live here just literally two minutes away, so, i often see this park completely crowded with so many families, especially with all the great improvements that rec and park has put in, in collaboration with the supervisor, because i know that some of his discretionary funding has often gone in to support efforts here and, of course, across the street with the challenges of the both the bart and the muni station. But it is all about our neighborhoods. And i go back to what supervisor farrell said, and i want to again thank and appreciate supervisor farrell, his staff margo kelly, another great effort. This is what innovation does in the city. It gets everybody to actually work at even higher levels in government in a Publicprivate Partnership with Companies Like google
And i want to take a moment to thank the entire google team that worked on this project. Its been two years, so, its touched a lot of desks and had a lot of approvals and in particular want to thank Veronika Bell who is here from google for stepping p. Up. Google is providing a financial gift of 600,000 to turn this into a reality. This is with the recreation and Park Department. I want to thank Phil Ginsberg, katy, so many people from the rec and park team that really brought this project forward. We selected locations throughout San Francisco on a number of levels. First of all, we wanted to make sure that we continue to bridge our Digital Divide that exists not only throughout our country, but here in San Francisco, to place Free Wifi Networks in under served communities and across different parts of San Francisco. But also to make sure that we provide wifi access in some of the most heavily trafficked parks and plazas in our city so we can have the greatest impact throughout our gr
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 i would love if we had a pork ket beach, otherwise, i would agree, anything interrupting your access to the water i would love to see not there. Slip way two and three and that would be great if it that was open. Anyone else. No. And fantastic, thank you guys very much. A
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 business to be able to provide a helping hand at times. And this i
All right, everyone, want to say thank you all for being here today at balboa park and want to say, first off, thanks to the trust for public land who played a key role in renovating balboa park and to put it to be where it is today. And i want to thank you all for your efforts. You know, one of the best parts about being an elected official is the ability to effect change in San Francisco in a very positive way. And today im very proud to announce that after two years of incredibly hard work on behalf of a lot of people, we are announcing a new project in San Francisco to bring free wifi to 31 different parks, plazas, and open spaces across our city. From areas such as the marina green to Washington Square park to sunset playground, all a moe square, civic center, Bernal Heights to right here in balboa park, this project is going to touch parks and plazas across all of San Francisco in every corner of our city. San francisco has been a leader in our Technology Community and our Techno