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The renovation of balboa park, the oldest in the city of San Francisco, and now it is the newest part in the city of San Francisco. Through our partnership, and because of Public Investment from the two thousand eight fund, we are celebrating a renewal and an awakening of this park. We have it safer, happier, more joyous. 3, 2, 1, [laughter] [applause] it is a great resource for families, to have fun in the city, recreation. This is an amazing park. We have not revitalized it without public and private investment. The critical piece of the process of this renovation was that it was all about the community. We reached out to everyone in this community. We love this park dearly and they all had thoughts and ideas and they wanted to bring their own creativity and their personality to bear on the design. What you see is wha ....
Merchants and support the merchants in selling their merchandise. We were able we were very successful. We got a lot of great feedback from the pilot. So this year again, we are doing the second year of the pilot. All the agencies and the community and the merchants, we got together, and talked about how we can do better. And without further delay, i will ask the mayor to come and say a few words, who is a big supporter of this project. Mayor lee. Thank you mohammed. [ applause ] i am very happy to be here. Is this okay . All right. All right. [ laughter ] all right. First of all, happy new year to everyone. This is what im looking forward to every year and i know the merchants and residents and all the Small Businesses are excited. A year ago board of supervisors president david chiu and i and members of the community discussed how we can continue the Economic Vitality ....
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Inspections. Well be meeting over the next three weeks the bulk of the money will not be coming in until may. Ive talked to the person who is in charge of that monies. I think one the great benefits is funding a cast certification for businesses. So ill be, you know, keeping you updated on this. And then last meeting i noted there was a meeting in chinatown doing presentation on getting cast certification, doing assess boycotting improvements. The union was our core sponsor and one of the things say they do education to their business clients. We had 13 applications for getting assistance to go forward and getting a first walk through and getting an assessment for access abilility. Well all pleased with this. Im sure more about come through. And then Small Business saturday november 30th of 2013 were going to be starting this earlier with the American Express and is chamber ....