Involved with the item open gary boulevard since 1986 and back then i was appointed to the gary Transit Task Force to look at the feasibility of the gary light rail system and this sort of thing but it was put in the sales tax passage. The gary light rail project is the only project that was grandfathered. And the gary Rapid Transit project is supposed to be rail ready. Also you have to remember that its a central sub by the way, theres a stop at the union square and theres a spur at union square for the gary light rail system and youre going to have to go before the voters to authorize and extend that. So you have to take the all that take into consideration. And also the way the gary Task Force Final report came out we would have a service from gary and market to gary and laguna and go out the center strip to fillmore to masonic and straight out to the beach. Read the final report of the gary task force and it was published in 1990 and all the other work published regarding a light r
Headed for the frisco bay i have nothing to live for and look like nothings gonna come my way so im just gonna sit on the dock of the bay watching the tide roll away oohee sitting on the dock of the bay wasting time ahah look like nothings gonna change everything still remains the same i cant do what people tell me to do so i guess ill remain the same sitting here and this loneliness wont leave me alone 2000 miles i roamed just to make this dock my home im just gonna sit on the dock of the bay watching the tide roll away oohee sitting on the dock of the bay wasting time. Ah whistle along with me, yall. [whistling] yeah [whistling] thank you. applause [cheering and applauding] other than that, how about a San Francisco welcome . [cheering and applauding] now, a few words about otis redding and that absolutely gorgeous song. Can you think of a better song for this great wharf . As you probably know, otis redding was in San Francisco to perform at the fillmore in the summer of 1967 and he
Its a pleasure to be here. Id just like to say thanks to the city of San Francisco and the mayor and all of you great people for keeping the legacy of otis redding alive. And a quick thing about the song. My mother said my father was in california and done some shows in los angeles. And he came home and he told her he wanted to be a new otis redding, not the begging and pleading, he wanted to do something totally different. He came home and started putting bits and pieces of a song together. It goes like this. You can sing along if you want to. It goes like this. In the morning sun ill be sitting till the evening comes watching the ships roll in and then watch them roll away again yeah just gonna sit on the dock of the bay watching the tide roll away oohee sitting on the dock of the bay wasting time. Ime i left my home in georgia headed for the frisco bay i have nothing to live for and look like nothings gonna come my way so im just gonna sit on the dock of the bay watching the tide ro
They were using an elected officials in premature to add legitimatecy in the appeal to the public. You mean if they used it for example in printed material . Yeah. Or the media campaign. Yeah. Lets say that we are doing a mailer to say right to the board of supervisor and tell them not to cut them for the fire cuts keep them all open. Maybe the Firefighters Union will do Something Like that. And they would say, you know, supervisors you are actually spear heading a movement to help us in gaining the funding that we need. Please write or call the board right away. And that reporting would be captured whether or not the supervisors names were attached to it or not. And you know, it is kind of that would not be it is not associated with like a ballot measure or Something Like that, so there is actually no political reporting attached to this. I see. Does that answer your question . I think that it does. Basically, the same thing is endorsed. And i was thinking more fire house number 9 and
He left his wife zelma and his wonderful children, four of whom are still with us. And this is otis redding iii also known as a genius. applause and he came all the way from los angeles to help us christen this wharf with that tremendous song. So, please, join me in welcoming otis redding, jr. applause thank you so much. Id like to say thanks. This is a really beautiful thing. And our family, my mother sends her love, my sister carla and dexter, my sister deedee. We all send our love here. We really appreciate this opportunity to, to keep fulfilling and continuing the legacy of otis redding. We have the Otis Redding Foundation and our mission is simple. Its progress through education and enlightenment through music. And it was founded in 2007 and were doing very well. And you can always go to otis redding. Com to learn more about our foundation and thank you very, very much. This is a beautiful thing. Thank you very much. applause thank you, mr. Redding. Truly, it is such an inspiratio