who told you we were going to be here? it was supposed to a secret. i got a call thursday from mayor breed saying "i want to come down." and it literally brought a tear to my eye. before i introduce his honor, willy brown, who i want to tell you a quick story. there was a rumor he was going

to run for mayor and i ran into him in north beach and i just put my hand out and i said would you make your first campaign promise and he said "yeah, whatever it is. what do you want?" i said, "i'd like to see water running through lotus fountain." he said, "you got it." and it wasn't an easy project. if they put water in it it was going to actually blow up. so i'd like to bring a long-time lotus flower supporter. earthquake celebration. and celebrated those brave souls who rebuilt the city from the ashes. so it's my honor to introduce his honor.

and wish him an 87th birthday. >> i am, of course, delighted to again be here with all of you for the occasion of memorializing and remembering how difficult it must have been in 1906 for lots of people in san francisco who at the time the clock struck, the city began to fall apart and before it was over within a few hours, the city had fallen apart. but, as usual, if you read yesterday, you know in the chronicle that, in fact, the city came rolling back. and it always coming rolling back and when lee housekeeper approached me in the middle

'90s asking about this fountain there was a time period where absolutely i said, "i don't understand why that fountain isn't already working." i had no idea that fountain hadn't worked in hundreds of years and no one bothered to do anything about it. fortunately, there was a fellow named ed lee. he stepped up. i gave him directions on what i needed to have done and ultimately, it did get done. it got done because many of you were participating in one way or another providing the inspiration. and, since the time that this fountain began to emit water again, every mayor thereafter has made it his or her responsibility to see that that fountain continues to spray water, that you continue to come here on april 18th, early morning for the express if you

were of making sure that san francisco continues to remember what we are all about. and, believe me, it was a very special breed of people who in 1906 actually started the process of the resurrection of san francisco. so it shouldn't surprise you that some many, many years later, more than 100 years later, the word "breed" is still the foundation of our city. the new mayor is "breed." i don't know if that's her real name. i have no idea, but i do know that it represents everything this city is all about for so many years and i am just delighted, believe me and i was

told by lee housekeeper that again we would be celebrating. i actually thought i might be here alone. i remember one time i came here and they said "you've got to speak." and it was like one minute before the phone would ring and low and behold i said not enough time. on this occasion. ladies and gentlemen, the mayor of san francisco and the lady who keeps the fountain going, mayor london breed. >> thank you, mayor willy brown. we appreciate you being here early this morning. and let me just start by saying i appreciate the city so much and everything you all have done to keep us safe when we had to shut this city down a year ago. today, we commemorate the 1906 earthquake and we also recognize our first responders. we have our fire chief janine

nick olson today as well as our police chief bill scott and the person who has been leading during this pandemic, the emergency operation center thank you all so much. dr. colfax didn't get up this early in the morning. when i think about san francisco in the 1906 earthquake and how far we've come, just think about it. 250,000 people were homeless because of the earthquake and the fire. when i think about san francisco and our resilience, that's what we've been talking about this entire pandemic. we've come so far and we have made magic happen out of tragedy. the 1989 earthquake. many of us were around during that earthquake. maybe not the 1986, the

embarcadero was shadowed by a freeway and now it's open and bright and available for all to enjoy and to see. the same with this pandemic with san franciscans. we go through earthquakes. we go through pandemics. we go through things. when the time comes and we need to rise up like the phoenix we are, we stand strong, proud, and together and that's what the people of san francisco did in 1906 when we rebuilt this city and that's why we come here today to show appreciation to the guardians of the city, to show respect for the people who risk their lives to remember the 250,000 people who were homeless and the thousands of people who lost their lives.

at this time, we commemorate the 1906 earthquake and we recognize how amazing and strong we are as a city and so i'm given the signal from martha cohen that we are almost at a minute. are we there, martha? all right. and our sheriff paul miamoto is here. thank you so much, sheriff, for joining us. and, at this time, in recognition for those first responders, for the people we lost during the 1906 earthquake, for the people we lost during this pandemic. let's take a moment of silence.

thank you all so much for joining us in prayer. we're glad you've seen us survive 150 years. thank you again to the fire department and our chief and the police department and the department of public health, our sheriff's department, our first responders, the people who will continue to be the

guardians of san francisco, we are coming out of this pandemic and we are coming out stronger than ever. thank you so much. ♪ san francisco open your gate here is your wondering one saying no more ♪♪ ♪ san francisco welcome

everybody wants to be at chase center, don't they. well, good morning still, everybody. i started real early so i don't even know what time it is. hi, i'm san francisco mayor london breed. really excited to be here with you all today here at thrive

plaza, here at chase center, the home of the golden state warriors who for the first time tomorrow will be playing with an audience of fans. what that says is we are well on our way to recovering in the city. we are well on our way to re-opening and gradually taking those steps. most importantly, as great as we have done here in san francisco, 64% of san franciscans have received at least their first vaccine dose and about 85% of those over the age of 65, we're seeing our reproductive rates decline. we are feeling good. we are feeling excited and happy and anxious to get back to our lives; but at the end of the day, you all know we're still in the midst of a

pandemic. so as comfortable as we may be with our progress, let's make sure we continue to wear our mask and follow our health directive so that we can finally get to a place where we can watch a game without our mask on. and, the reason why we are here is not just because the warriors are playing tomorrow with fans for the first time in almost a year, just think about it. last year, at this time, the city was closed. and, now, look at where we are. last year this time, we had a different president who pulled us out of the paris agreement to meet our climate goals, but san francisco didn't let that stop us. fortunately now under president

biden who made a great announcement today for the country on earth day, we in san francisco are not only well on our way to exceed the goal that he set for the nation. we are well on our way to exceed the goals we set right here in san francisco. in fact, we are 41% less in carbon emissions in san francisco since one thousand nine hundred ninety. this is six years ahead of the goal that we set initially. and it's the reason why we are so successful and the goals we set around climate change has a lot to do with partners like the warriors. this chase center is not just beautiful and fun and exciting to watch a game in. this is one of our very important environmental sustainable buildings in san

francisco. this is the future. and some of the things that we did here in san francisco in addition to implementing clean power sf, you all remember years ago that big push to get that program started. you all remember the conversations around making sure that in new buildings we ban natural gas. you all know that we in san francisco have a climate action plan, a plan that's not just a plan that discusses what we're going to do, it's a plan that actually puts into action the work that needs to be done to address climate change. this climate action plan is being revised as we speak thanks to the leadership of debbie rafael and the staff of department and environment. and what i am most appreciative is they not only are focusing on equity as it relates to

geographic equity here in san francisco. they are making sure that young people have a voice in this action plan which is why mayor from george washington high school is joining us here today. so, folks, san francisco should be proud. we're leading in the vaccination effort. higher numbers than the state and the entire country. we're leading in addressing issues around climate change with our carbon emissions and other challenges that we face and we're going to continue to lead. and it's time to start upping the ante and setting new goals. at the end of the day, san francisco has been a leader. we know that we can't just operate in our own bubble and make changes to support and uplift the environment without

making sure that we are demonstrating how it can be done for others to follow. this entire planet and the future of our planet and the generations to come, there's so much at stake here. i don't want the next generation of young people to look back and say, "what did they do? why didn't they act sooner?" you see this windy clean air we're breathing, it has everything to do with everything that we have been doing in san francisco. today, clean power sf our city's clean power program is going to beat our target of being one hundred% renewable by five years. all clean power sf customers will receive 100% renewable energy by 2025. and, let me tell you why that

is so significant. when we first, debbie, you remember and, michael, you remember this too, when we first launched clean power sf, there was just a little more money that people had to pay for 80% renewable energy and the super green 100%. now, by two thousand twenty-five, everyone gets, every one of our customers gets super green, but they don't pay anything extra. now, how significant is that? that is going to change the game for clean power in this city moving towards our future to a more seasonable, environmentally friendly city that sets an example for other places to follow. we're going to be introducing legislation that will update our climate targets to san

francisco so that san francisco can be carbon neutral. instead of by 2050, when i'm probably going to be real old and the rest of us will too. by 2045. is part of the paris agreement. and so, i know that these numbers and these environmental things don't seem like they're really cool, but they are really cool because the clean air that we drink, i mean, clean air that we breathe, the clean water that we drink, some of the best water that you could ever taste anywhere. you can drink it right out of the faucet without a filter. being able to see the green trees grow, everything has an

impact. and that's why having partners like chase center working with us to make sure that they are not only creating the incredible environment they do to make games exciting even though i know the players can do that all on their own, but this facility doesn't hurt. they have been partners as i said earlier in creating one of the newest green buildings in san francisco and i'm pleased to welcome to the podium kim stone, the chase center's general manager. >> thank you. welcome everybody. and, thank you, mayor breed. it is so important that we all work together to combat climate change and, at chase center, we value setting the example for others in san francisco.

thank you to debbie rafael, the department of environment for working with us to become a green certified business. these aren't -- these are high targets, but they are achievable targets so other private businesses that are listening in, i want to encourage you to join us here. be part of the family about being green certified business. michael carlin as well. his group at sfpuc for all the hard work ensuring facilities like chase center can be powered by clean energy. and, as mayor breed said, today, the stars are aligning for us because we get to celebrate this great achievement for chase center and tomorrow we get to welcome fans back to the building. we hope chase center can serve as an example to any size business that if we can do it, you can do it. let's go green together and inspire the private sector to do so. so how did we do this? what are we doing?

so as chase center, we focus on sustainability from the beginning of this construction project. we are a lead goal certified building design and construction that was during our three year construction process and then for ongoing maintenance and operations. we know being in california, the conserving water is critical for all of us in our futures. so we're designed to recover gray water from our laboratories and our showers. from the roof, we collect rain water and even just condensation and we are able to reuse that. and, through those collective efforts, we have reduced our water consumption by 84%. thank you. you can imagine it takes a lot of energy to run 1 million square feet and what we do for games and concerts. so this is another area we place high priority. our state of the art hvac

system allows us to take advantage of this great climate that we have here to keep the building cool without having to add extra energy to do so. we also integrated a highly efficient lighting system with customizable local controls that ensure that when you walk out of a room and it's unused for a certain period of time, the lights automatically go off. in a million square feet that is an important component to our energy saving efforts. so these features and a lot others that i won't go into the details on, but we can certainly provide them if you would like them, these have resulted in us saving 35% of our energy usage. lastly, i want to highlight our waste management program. trash is a beautiful thing and so we focus on this and so we have dramatically reduced our construction waste during construction and diverted 78% of our waste out of landfills.

very proud of that. and, then, on an ongoing basis, we sort our waste daily and we sort it after every game. the importance of this is that it ensures that we are reducing waste. san francisco has an amazing infrastructure for compostables, recyclables. it just takes that little extra effort and it has a big impact. and, materials aren't the only thing we're sorting. we are also since our opening in 2019, gosh, i can't believe it will be 409 days since we've had fans in the building. 2019 just seems like such a long time ago. but when the fans come at the end of the game, any of our unused food and raw ingredientsings, we give that to the food runners program and they reuse it and repurpose it. so we aren't throwing extra food into our compost. while we're excited to open our doors to fans tomorrow, i want

everyone to rest assured that we operate in a sustainable and environmentally friendly manner here. one last reminder for all your fans remember your game ticket is a muni ticket as well so you can reduce your footprint that way as well. thank you all and i want to say with leaders like mayor breed, san francisco will -- has and continued to be a global leader in the environment and we continue to be partners in if that environment. go doves. mayor breed. >> thank you so much, kim. and, thank you, for all that the warriors are doing to really protect our planet and that's what this is all about. one of the things that i'd like to, you know, tell debbie every time i see her because she's like, you know, i would call her "madam green." she's always looking for ways to save and

support the environment and i'm always so proud about how much trash i don't have anymore. and, in fact, i share a trash bin with two other people and every time they pick up the trash, it may be one or two small bags in the trash and everything is recyclable. your plastic bags. you put them all in a bag and wrap them. it's easy. once you start doing it just becomes habit. from the coffee filters. you just throw those in the compost. i have more compost and more recycles than anything. i'm proud in doing it, but also it's second nature and anyone can do it and i would just say that when your kids tell you to do it, make sure you listen to your kids. children are like don't put that in the trash. i'm like okay.

good, they're starting early. children working in our community young people to understand. in high school, i can tell

>> hi everyone. i've really seen the students value the importance of taking action towards climate issues and how we address climate issues is is clearly one of the biggest issues of my generation and we can't avoid this problem any longer. that's why at george washington high school, i'm really proud of our work of improving my school's waste management issues. we've taken small, but mighty steps bringing awareness to our community about recycling, composting and finding other ways to improve students' environmental habits and behaviors. additionally, i want to mention the students from academy high school for joining my school's environmental club for climate action month. our club's work has brought in

many students to want to participate in more action based projects to see the change that's needed. it's really exciting to see so many youth from across the city to join one another to amplify their voices. when the mayor kicked off a series of workshops and events, so many of us youth jumped in on the opportunity to provide more ideas. the process and courage so many youth to conduct their own plans within their own communities. another good thing, i want to commemorate the notable youth organization as they've been at the forefront of the movement this past year. and, during this pandemic, there's so many obstacles. they've had so many virtual workshops each month and keeps the momentum going. they've encouraged so many youth from all over the bay

area to keep educating and fighting for climate justice. not only in the city of san francisco, but in our country. while i'm inspired by all of this, the work of youth is not enough. thank you to the san francisco leadership, our mayor and businesses like the chase center who can actually see real change together and meet our city's new environmental goals. today, let's celebrate how far we've come this earth day and look forward to see the process ahead of us. i'm graduating really soon and heading off to college, so i'm really excited to take this transformative work with me. continue to inspire one another. and i look forward to seeing how san francisco continues to pave the way. thank you so much and i hope everyone has a good earth day. >> thank you, mary. wow, that was impressive. not just her leadership at washington high school, but you

notice that she talked about collaborating with other high schools who have joined the efforts of washington high school. and as a graduate of gallaleo high school. and, most importantly, that the environment is more important than our high school rivals from back in the day. right. but, thank you so much, mary, for your words and your leadership and good luck with college. we really appreciate that you're going to probably continue this work and it will be an important part of your legacy and you will represent san francisco well. today, we also have joining us and i mentioned debbie rafael and the department of environment as well as acting public utilities director michael carlin both are here to answer any questions if you have them about our new

announcements. >> reporter: [ indiscernible ] >> yes. debbie, you want to talk about that. i'm sure she's itching to talk about that. but the fact is it shouldn't be something that interferes with anyone's life. we are trying to naturally incorporate these changes to make it easy for people just like what i talked about as it relates to composting and recycling. but i'll let debbie say a few words about it as well. >> yeah. that is absolutely right. our goal is very simple for carbon neutrality. we need to be an all-electric city who's operating on 100% renewable electricity. what you heard the mayor say today is we will reach that

renewable mark by 2025 and we are continuing under the mayor's leadership to transfer off of fossil fuels and become all electric. her bold decision to ban natural gas and new construction is just the first step. so san franciscans will just see that the way they operate is sustainable because we make it easy, we make it the law, and we make sure that everyone is in it together. students, businesses, government we're all in this together. >> all right. any questions? thank you all so much for joining us. go doves!

so good morning everybody. welcome to george christopher playground. a playground that was dedicated by the way 50 years ago in 1971

by mayor's alioto and christopher. so we're so delighted to have our very special guest, the 2021 mayor of san francisco going to say a few words in a little bit. my name is phil ginsburg and, yes, this is an actual and not a virtual opening. i haven't -- i haven't seen -- we vnt done one of these and i haven't seen this many people in one place so i'm kind of nervous and shy and not used to it so forgive me. one thing the pandemic has taught us is how essential and open spaces and parks have been to our physical and mental health and well being. let's be honest, this project took a number of years in the making. wasn't fully funded. we had design changes and

wonderful advocacy of support and then there was that pandemic that got in the way for about a year. so to be here today is really wonderful. today, we have our mayor, we have supervisor mandelman. we have commissioner mcdonald and some community champions to help us celebrate. so i will be brief. this is a $5.3 million effort. the scope of the work includes a lot of the stuff you can see. but i'm going to highlight two things. one are the original playground elements that you see out to your left, to my right which really happened because of community advocacy and a really important desire and as we

know, and thank you mayor and supervisor mandelman for all your support in helping us preserve these other elements. and then, the other thing i want to highlight very quickly is the nature exploration area to my left and your right and it kind of rambles and meanders through this beautiful space and i'm so impressed with the work of our design, you know, the design team and i'm going to acknowledge people in a second. but it's an acknowledgement of just how important nature is for our kids and to have an opportunity for all of our wonderful kids both behind me at the knowy valley nursery school and here at the eureka valley care facility to have them be able to touch plants, explore nature, to get dirty, and hop and skip on these lovely wood stumps is really a treat. all right. none of these projects happen in a vacuum and happened without people.

so i want to acknowledge our mayor and supervisor mandelman for your support and for championing this project. i also want to thank and acknowledge former district supervisors scott weaner. i want to acknowledge our dedicated rec and park commissioners and vice chair eric mcdonald who's here along with commissioner hallisee who's joining us today. nick maloney. along with robert bruss. we have sarah cass highman. they have been outstanding partners in realizing our let's play initiative. and, of course, all of you, all the community members deserve the real thanks and accolades. i want to acknowledge a few

people. breonna mcnulty. kathryn king, eureka valley arts and the property manager of donna real estate. a shout out to our construction team mike clancy and barry duarty from treaty construction. and it goes without saying that rec and park and i really want to thank and acknowledge b.p.w. specifically jasmine call and, of course, d.p.w.'s allory. and without further adieu and you're going to hear from a lot of other speakers and i'll be here to acknowledge my staff at the end. a big warm welcome for our mayor who has steered us through this pandemic and keeping kids in mind all along

the way, mayor breed. >> thank you, phil. first of all, i know we're in a playground and there's no way if i were a kid that i could sit here and listen to a bunch of grown-ups talk when i want to play. so i'm going to say to all the kids here today, go ahead and play. enjoy the playground. we can work around you. they've been waiting for a long time to be out here not just in this playground, but playgrounds all over the city. so we've got to let these kids have a good time. feel free to play. we'll work around you. we are in a playground, we're celebrating and we're so grateful to be here. it's been a rough year for so many of us. this pandemic has tested our city and our country and the entire world like never before, but i want to say how proud i am of san francisco and what we've done and what you all have helped us to accomplish and that is even though we're

one of the densest cities in the countries, we had one of the lowest infection rates and one of the lowest death rates in the country and we should be very proud for all of you and what we all did together to make this happen. yay. that's what i'm talking about. when i was a kid, it was margaret hayward playground and the western addition. i lived in that playground. i played every day. i slid down the slide. when the swing broke, we were creative in putting things together in order to keep the swing in tact. and when i think about all the incredible work that's been done over the years with friends of this playground with the different organizations and the parks and all these great advocates and people who raised private dollars in order to make sure we generate enough

money to invest in making these playgrounds the kind of place that kids can enjoy and remember their childhood in such a fascinating way. it makes me feel so good. i just want to say to the rec and park team and phil ginsburg, the work you have done all through the years, you all should be proud and we're so grateful to have a rec and park team that spends so much time on taking care of the trees and the grass and sand is not at every playground, but the fact is we want to make sure that these playgrounds are in tiptop shape for our children. and i also want to say to the friends of the george christopher playground as well. thank you for your support, your advocacy and your work and you'll hear from so many people today that had a lot to do with why this playground is here. over $5 million. 120 jobs created during a

global pandemic and also a lot of patience from the diamond heights community as we dealt with the construction, i know supervisor mandelman probably heard it a lot from many of you. but here we are, thank you to the kids. thank you to the families. thank you to this incredible community. because of you, we are able to bring this playground back to life especially as we began to re-open our city and come back stronger than ever. our parks and playgrounds are going to continue to play a critical role in that. and, with that, i'd like to really take this opportunity, ms. eddie, i have a certificate if you would come up, to honor you in the community. on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. i've been vaccinated. the president said i could take my mask off for something like this. thank you so much for your work and effort and for caring so

much about kids in san francisco and making sure they have this wonderful playground. >> thank you so much. this is wonderful. thank you. >> with that. i wanted to introduce your supervisor rafael mandelman. >> thank you mayor. everywhere we go, there are thousands of people who are alive in san francisco and we kept our hospitals open and our emergency rooms able to serve people and this could have gone very differently. so thank you, madam mayor, for your tremendous leadership. this is an exciting day for district 8. it is a long time coming. i do, you know, i want to acknowledge an elected official who is here and a diamond heights neighbor, jenny lam from the school board. getting the kids back in

school. so this was a long project. this was 10 years in the making and it happened because, i mean, lots of great folks made it happen. phil ginsburg, and the parks alliance and everyone, but it really happened because the community up here demanded that it happen and betsy eddie just got an acknowledgement. she deserves a thousand acknowledgements. i generally say with respect to things having to do with diamond heights, if i just ask betsy what to do, i'll be in pretty good shape. betsy has been bossing us around the last 10 years. the play structures are here because of the advocacy of betsy eddie and brenda mcnulty. betsy thought we needed some lights over by the tennis courts and said, supervisor,

make it happen. so we did that. we had some fights about bathrooms where she was telling us all what to do and we are so much better for it and then brenna with the friends of christopher park, thank you so much for all of your work on this and to my predecessors, you know, senator weaner and supervisor shehe. but the folks at rec and park brought it home to us and thank you to all the other people who i'm not thanking and i should. and i do want to thank eric mundy legislative aid and. with that, i'm so excited for this. this is great. thanks everyone who got us

here. >> a little rough former supervisor jeff shehe and i overlooked our i know that you're a neighbor with two kids so you use this space and this is near and dear to your heart. next up representing our rec and park commission that also keeps an eye on community advocacy and making sure this project meets our community needs is vice chair eric mcdonald. >> good afternoon everyone. here we go again. it's excitingtor here with you to open this amazing space. one of the roles that the commission plays in this process is that we listen to and review the conceptual design plans and one of the important elements of that is

ensuring that we hear your voices, hear your interest, appreciate what's important to you and hopefully create a design that plays back what you actually told us. so we hope that today as we give you your park back that it represents what you've held as vision and we also, as we said before want to acknowledge has been a long time coming. 2012 bond. 2015 beginning of conceptual designs. 2017, we finally said, yes, we think this is the right design. then we got started and then we had to stop. under the commission, we say thank you for entrusting us as that's already been done. we could not have done this without continued leadership from our mayor breed. continued stewardship from supervisor mandelman. and, today, we are pleased to give you back your park. thank you so much. >> thank you, commissioner.

as the mayor and supervisor mandelman and commissioner mcdonald noted, this is your park, it's a community driven design. community driven advocacy and so it's time to hear from two of your community leaders. i'm honored and pleased to bring up brianna mcnulty and betsy eddie. >> how exciting to get to speak out my mask. that's wonderful. good afternoon everyone or good morning. but this is definitely an exciting day for diamond heights. it's an exciting day for the surrounding community and all the children that are going to love this beautiful new playground and i am so grateful to all the many people that work so hard to get us to this

great day today. i'm grateful to rec and park for adding george christopher playground to the 2012 park bond. what happened was, we noticed that this park and also glenn park, glenn canyon park was not on the original park bond list. so michael rice, the former president of the glenn park association and i backed by our diamond heights community association advocated for -- to have us included in the 2012 park bond and we're so grateful for that. as you can see today. and so i'm grateful for all the program managers at rec and park that worked with the neighborhoods on the park design. those program managers, they

listened to community input and they developed their design based on that input. matt jasmine started off the plan followed by irene and lead the park and she did an important thing. she led the park through the negotiations with the historic preservation commission. and then more funding into the park. then jackie ho helped us resolve some issues our neighborhood folks had. and then we really thank as well lauren chavez who expertly managed the construction for the last one and a half years and we also appreciate the work of lamont bishop because even though he wasn't as visible to the neighborhood and to us, we knew he was behind the scenes managing everything and making

sure that the construction went well. and then i'm grateful to alice stroud. she was the first coordinator of friends of christopher park. she worked -- she was a parent with the knowy valley nursery school that's right behind us. so the parents and teachers there along with the diamond heights association, we put the friends group together so that there would be a coordinated way to work with rec and park for the community input we thought that was so important. and we thank alice straud. she has a vision for this emergency, i mean, for this imagination garden over there. and, i think as phil said, this is the first in any of our parks. and i'm grateful to ed shaffner for taking on the role of facilitation of friends of christopher park until brenna

mcnulty stepped up. brenna had a huge impact on the development of this park working on the final design plans and it was just wonderful. one of the things she did was save the three historic play structures that are over there and that was convincing supervisor mandelman to appropriate the money for that. and then, not only did brenna create a lot of events that brought people in to the park, she coordinated two amazing where in the world is christopher park festivals. and the last festival in 2018 brought 1,400 people to this whole area. and i'm so grateful to phil ginsburg and rec and park because rec and park added much more funding beyond the

$2.8 million that was in the park bond. some examples are the new fencing around the ball diamond. the pave, the resurfaced path from duncan street. path in the community garden and then down to the park and also which is going to happen soon are the new lights for the tennis courts and resurfacing the tennis courts. so it was just wonderful to have all these additional things that the neighborhood had been advocating for. i'm just immensely grateful to the rec and park staff and everyone here who works so hard to make this happen today. it's a great day. thank you, very much. >> hello, i'm brenna mcnulty and i'm delighted to be here.

this is so exciting and so much has been said and it's hot so i'm going to trim down my acknowledgements. but i want to emphasize that this really is a beautiful example of community driven design and that our district eight offices and supervisors through the years and their staff and the rec and park project management staff consistently showed up met with us, looked for funding to fund things out of scope. listen to our crazy ideas. thank you for getting these funky old sculptures inspected for safety. thank you to treaty construction for executing them and finding a place to store them during the construction phase and thank you for really, what like i said is a community driven design. we really felt heard. we really felt like people were advocating along with us. maintaining swings, they heard us and came through and we're

just so grateful for this whole project team. it's a beautiful playground and exceptionally beautiful playground in an exceptionally beautiful spot. i think for the future for our group, we're going to keep striving to become a more exclusive group. we hope we can bring back the festival and show case more of our artists and neighbors and our businesses here and continue our mission of identifying and supporting the park needs. thank you. >> before you go, i forgot your certificate for friends of christopher park. so thank you so much for your work. all right. let's cut this ribbon. >> yes. for all the kids that have been waiting so patiently, now is the time for the reward. come on up and let me just do a quick shout out to my team and now to the people who are

taking care of this these are the men and women of this space we will steward along with you. so let's cut a ribbon.

>> the meeting with come to order. this is the may 12, 2021, budget and finance committee meeting. i'm haney, chair of the budget and finance committee joined by gordon mar and i believe supervisor safai. the clerk is ms. linda wong. i would like to thank sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes, mr. chair. due to the covid-19 health