They were doing a few years back when we passed that 185 million parks bond, Neighborhood Parks bond and the 10 million invested into Lafayette Park. I used to live at hyde and geary my first four years when i moved to San Francisco, now 36 years ago, and this was my neighborhood park. And ive loved it ever since. The combination of the palms and the pines and everything in between, this is a jewel of a park. And when i saw the fences go up i got a little nervous because, well, it was going to be closed for a while. And i saw on some of the signs that some trees were going to come down which always makes me a little uncomfortable. But now seeing the result, it is magnificent. And, so, i want to thank all the folks who have invested their time and their efforts to make sure that the Tennis Courts got their renovation and the pathways were upgraded, the ada improvements, of course, this extraordinary playground for our kids, the improved lighting which will make it all safer. And im glad
Blanket for you to enjoy. Congratulations. applause thank you. Next time we need a park bond. While you go to the voters, im going to call sean parker. [laughter] thank you, mark. All right. I mentioned there are a variety of city departments here. I want to give a shout ought to battalion chief williams from station 38. Where are you, chief . There she is. applause and i think we have some activities going on over there. I also want to give a big thank you to fire commissioner and Lafayette Park champion don. Where is don . applause hes actually playing on the swings. [laughter] all right. Next up, it does take great leadership from our elected leaders and another true example at the state level for us has been phil king. Also hes on the state assembly. Hes that young dad with two kids and uses our parks and play grounds all the time. He couldnt be here, but i have [speaker not understood] to say a very brief word to present a proclamation. Thank you. Thank you so much, phil. Im here
Family for their role, Mohammed Nuru and folks at department of public works had a role, lindsay hirsch. applause with all due respect to dpw and everybody else who is here, the hardest working staff in government is rec and park. Gk, construction manager, mary hobson, project manager. [cheering and applauding] director of capital planning, don. Our great operations staff, zach taylor, judy auberry who is here, and everyone else who has contributed to this incredible project. So, at rec and park, were encoloneling people to get out and play. Thats our tag line, get ready, 1, 2, 3. Get out and play. We say that because of the importance of keeping our families active and healthy. This is a real serious issue. According to the center for disease control, Childhood Obesity has more than doubled in our children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years. In 2010 more than onethird of our children were overweight or obese. It is important that we get our kids outside. Our children toda
Bertacelli. Supervisor farrell. Phil has been here every step of the way. This started with this started with two organizations that have now merged into a really wonderful one organization. Those two former organizations were brought us two great people to work with. They were Isabelle Wade and karen kid well. I dont know if either one of them is here today. ~ now we have matt owe grade i speaking to you from the merge park trust. Im sorry, San Francisco Parks Alliance. ~ we cant forget that, theyre doing so much. This is our parks citizens parks group. Okay, lizy hirsch, please come up. We want to raise hands with you. applause mary hobson. Jeff miller. [cheering and applauding] okay. And carina bonamo who was this incredible playground in the most beautiful park in San Francisco, weve already heard that online. It is now officially the most beautiful park in San Francisco. [cheering and applauding] with the most amazing playground. And this was a dream that carina had. She moved it
Gk, construction manager, mary hobson, project manager. [cheering and applauding] director of capital planning, don. Our great operations staff, zach taylor, judy auberry who is here, and everyone else who has contributed to this incredible project. So, at rec and park, were encoloneling people to get out and play. Thats our tag line, get ready, 1, 2, 3. Get out and play. We say that because of the importance of keeping our families active and healthy. This is a real serious issue. According to the center for disease control, Childhood Obesity has more than doubled in our children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years. In 2010 more than onethird of our children were overweight or obese. It is important that we get our kids outside. Our children today average over 71 2 hours behind a screen. Listen to that. 71 2 hours behind a screen, less than 30 minutes a day outside. That has to change. And this playground helps get it done. And i wanted to just offer a quick quote from ric