thank you. [applause] i m very honored and feel very privileged to have the library be at the center of the selection for san francisco s poet laureate. this is my second experience under mayor nredom, newsom. i want to thank you for a couple of reasons. first and foremost to bring the announcement to the richmond. it is an opportunity to preview this beautiful library opening tomorrow, a grand reopening of the richmond library. the first in the city, from 1914 cricket from 1914. this is no. 10. we are on a roll. secondarily, it is a port important because the poet laureate has a tradition people, and this library what better place to celebrate the announcement are new:gloria? with me, gavin newsom, who will do the honors. it was an extraordinary commitment the public made when it passed not one bond, but two bombs. what a contrast is to be in san francisco in spite of this huge budget challenge where we are actually expanding our hours of the last 12 months, of exp