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All right, good evening, everybody, who wants to see a tree lit . Happy holidays, welcome to fabulous mcclarin lodge here in golden gate park. My name is Phil Ginsberg and i am the general manager of your San Francisco recreation and Park Department and i want to welcome you all to the 83rd annual Tree Lighting. Happy holidays for you all. The trust for public land as mr. Mayor knows recently named your park the number one park system in the entire United States of america. [ applause ] we were also just named as a finalist to host this Cool International parks conference in 2015 in which we are going to be welcoming cities from all over the country to le ....
If i may, i just wanted to Say Something as well. You know, there are many streets of our great, great city and everybody i think is now enjoying so many of the neighborhoods that are rising up. But there have been neighborhoods like desoma and the excelsior, critical names of streets that we named after filipinos who really served our city and country in a fabulous way. I want to make sure that people remember that. Because its part of our history. So let me say some of them that many of you in the room know, but a lot of our people dont know that. You ever see the names . listing names if you were really smart and if you are as smart as hydra wants everybody to be in San Francisco, because of her board of education work, you should know victoria manalo dreys park. That was named after vicky dreyes, a filipino olympian from Sa ....
Changed muni, depending on whose glasses youre using. Proposition a, you know, we just want to make sure that you, the Board Members, particularly the new Board Members when they do come in, really step up to the plate, and have the agency conduct business for the residents of this city like theyre supposed to be. No ones paying attention to prop a, transit first. No one. So when we take that into context, this system should be really yeah. Mr. Elsbernd brung up prop g but did it affect anything . I dont know. We have to look at those numbers today because in two weeks theyre talking about Cutting Service to your constituents in the outer neighborhoods. Yet take care of the visitors thats coming to shop in union square but what about the individuals in the outer neighborhoods. Service is going to be affected deeply with t ....
Said mozel tough and i am glad to be here and i am proud to be an Italian American and its been an important part of my identity. I believe i have the soul in my heart. [applause]. So there you are. And i remember my grandfather saying when he came over on the boat he was told the streets of america were paved with gold and found out there were no streets and he had to do the paving, and i think the strongest part of our culture is the family. We may have our dysfunctions but our families never dessert us and my family didnt know much with the lgbt issue so when i came out of the closet i thought they would be so upset i would lose them. Wouldnt happen. Once my son had a sign that said i love my gay son that never calls and that is it and i want to welcome the counsel general and his partner and actually we share a vice, and its called napoli. I think i can say it right. . [speaking foreign language]. We dont want you to do that ....