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libraries. i m very excited that we finished 27. no. 28 sin my district. it s time to get to north beach. i want to thank everybody in this community because every image is one of you here wanted to make sure that this library is fit for the 21st century. congratulations. thank you supervisor chew. just so you know your library is under construction. it s also my pleasure to welcome supervisor and he s got libraries in his district as well. supervisor scott. thank you. congratulations to the community on this wonderful building, this wonderful library in community. i was here for the ground breaking ats and it s so wonderful to see the project complete. some people ask me why do you go to the library. i try share vicariously through other communities the joy of getting a new library. we might be divided into neighborhoods and directs and lecture supervisor by districts, but we are one city. if you are in castro or north beach or rich mond, we ve to work together and i m s
ChinaNorth-beachCaliforniaUnited-statesBay-viewBay-view-schoolSan-franciscoChineseMike-palmerFreddie-carterMalia-cohenAbraham-lincoln has the library with double number of computers and importantly how we put it together. it took longer and the reason it took a little longer was because people who lived in this community wanted the input they hadn t had in a long time. they wanted this building representative of them. it s more than a library. it is a community center, it is an example of how you get a contractor like freddie carter, [ applause ] to become romantic after 50 years of struggle. how he and working with public works and the architects and the library and the commission were able to get some 68 percent local businesses involved, 25 percent from bay view alone. is this what we mean by invest in our neighborhoods? absolutely. so, when you look at this library, think of the people that put it together. think of the hours, think of the many hours that the kids and families will spend here safely learning, increasing their knowledge, improving themselves. think of the friends of the library that wil
San-franciscoCaliforniaUnited-statesFreddie-carterEdgar-lopezHelena-chen and pleasure to introduce our mayor, mayor ed lee. [ applause ] . morning, everybody. welcome to our bay view. as our poet said, he s about to wear a hat, so i was looking for a hat this morning. and i have a trunk full and i was looking for something that was representative, a world series type of hat because this is a world series event. when you look across our neighborhoods, you know it s probably one of the best examples of building a community center. and you know as much as this brick and mortar is beautiful, it s got a communicate center community center that is useful when the library is not even open. it has the library with double number of computers and importantly how we put it together. it took longer and the reason it took a little longer was because people who lived in this community wanted the input they hadn t had in a long time. they wanted this building representative of them. it s more than a library. it is a community center, it is an example of how yo
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