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The city. Even more important, this project, this fight about the north beach Branch Library, about joe dimaggio, fundamentally was about whether we were going to be moving forward as a city. Whether we were going to focus just on the past or also on the future of our city. Whether we were going to focus on what recreation was like 25 or 50 years ago or what needs to happen today and in the future in San Francisco . And we won that battle and we sent a clear message that that city has a strong future for everyone and were going to make it happen. Thank you and congratulations. [applause] thank you, scott. Appreciate it. I did mention that the library is thriving . Did i mention that last year we had 7. 2 million visitor to our libraries . Its exciting to know that and its the only larguishan library that did not suffer any reductions or cutbacks during the economic downturn. Y ....
Mayor lee, supervisors, come on up. And while they are doing that, lets get started. What a beautiful, beautiful day, give yourselves a round of applause. [ applause ] fantastic. This is like winning a pennant and how about those San Francisco giants. I actually want to Marco Scutaro wanna be, but its not going to work and today i will settle formality city librarian luis herr ra and i would like to welcome each and every one of you to our ceremony today. This is indeed a milestone because its not only the beginning of construction to a new new library, but its the end of the program, which means its a long time coming. { }[ applause ], what it means that this is the last project and i want to especially thank. North Beach Community for your patience, for your persistence and your perseverance to have the stateoftheart li ....
Battle and you all stood with us and were here today to break ground on this great library, big hand for all of those who put that effort in. [ applause ] this project is the 24th library that our agency has been involved in. We have renovated 16 libraries, and we have built 6 new ones. The 23rd is in the bayview in my neighborhood and that will be ready for groundbreaking in january and for completion and opening in january and now were groundbreaking on this project. As part of this project, you will be getting a twostory library. It will be designed for led silver or greater and sustainable and as opposed to the old library it will be ready for the big one, seismically fit. Something mayor lee has put forth in his leadership as mayor is that it will bring a lot of jobs and this library will be the First Library to undergo the new local hiring law, meaning that 25 of san franciscans will be working on this project. Big hand for m ....