Residents and organizations throughout the city to make San Francisco one of the greatest places to live. The Mayors Office of Neighborhood Services also known as mons focuses on Neighborhood Outreach and engagement. It is an honor to be here with Community Leaders who are dedicated to the same principles and are positively changing our communities. The effect that one person can have in a community is truly inspiring. And its that inspiration that drives each one of us to go out there and be a part of something bigger. I congratulate every award winner here tonight and lets not forget that every person here has the power to make a difference. I want to especially thank daniel and his team for being such instrumental leaders here in city hall on behalf of all communities and neighborhoods in San Francisco. With that said, welcome and enjoy tonights event. applause thank you, christina. So, before we jump into the fire works, as you would say, lets take a few seconds here and just go ov
Group. So, i would strongly advise everyone to start a Neighborhood Watch group. Its great. And thanks to patricia, shes done an outstanding job and im so happy she took over as block captain for me. I appreciate it. Thanks a lot. applause applause our next award is for the best Community Green community project. And id like to just sort of jump forward a little bit and invite darlene zane to come up and give the award. Here she comes. [cheering and applauding] hello, everyone. So, for years the portola and its the portola, foster recognition. And, dan, things started happening. One of the things that gave attention to our neighborhood is when we decided we were going to have a new branch library. Ruth wallace came up with the idea of a garden tour and a lot of us thought, a garden tour . Our neighborhood . Who is going to come . Well, we had every weve done it for six years. Every year weve grown incrementally. After the first two years of raising money for the library theres our new
Lets give you an a plays for coming back. applause and celebrating one of the most important things we have in San Francisco, which is our neighborhoods. Without further ado, id like to start the program off by introducing my colleague, christina palone, the new director for the Mayors Office for neighborhoods. Christina palone. applause good evening, everyone. Im happy to be a part of such a great ebit that celebrates the contributions made by residents and organizations throughout the city to make San Francisco one of the greatest places to live. The Mayors Office of Neighborhood Services also known as mons focuses on Neighborhood Outreach and engagement. It is an honor to be here with Community Leaders who are dedicated to the same principles and are positively changing our communities. The effect that one person can have in a community is truly inspiring. And its that inspiration that drives each one of us to go out there and be a part of something bigger. I congratulate every awar
City employee of the year. applause everybody here, sandra has touched all your lives. Im truly honored. You guys are all wonderful to work with. I love the community. You know that. Im allegation here for you. Thank you so much for this honor. Its all about you guys. Thank you so much. applause id now like to invite the supervisor for district 9, supervisor david campos, to represent the next award. applause good evening, everyone. Welcome to this beautiful building here at city hall, the peoples building. And to help me present the next award, id like to ask an institution and the portal neighborhood, ruth wallace, if you could please come up. [cheering and applauding] it is, it is my honor, our honor to present today what i think is one of the most important ones. Every award here is important. But were recognizing the work of a young person, and i think that any time that we involve young people in this effort you know that not only are you making a difference today, but youre actu
applause our next award is for the best Community Green community project. And id like to just sort of jump forward a little bit and invite darlene zane to come up and give the award. Here she comes. [cheering and applauding] hello, everyone. So, for years the portola and its the portola, foster recognition. And, dan, things started happening. One of the things that gave attention to our neighborhood is when we decided we were going to have a new branch library. Ruth wallace came up with the idea of a garden tour and a lot of us thought, a garden tour . Our neighborhood . Who is going to come . Well, we had every weve done it for six years. Every year weve grown incrementally. After the first two years of raising money for the library theres our new library we then it was such a Great Community builder that we recently decided to keep wanting to volunteering and do it. We established a scholarship at city college for the horticultural department. And we have just gone gangbusters. We g