that the first person to arrive this morning, for the ground breaking was one of our trustees, brooks walker. and books arrival reminded me that 20 years ago, almost exactly, this was in another ground breaking on exactly this site. and we are here 20 years later and we are expanding upon that remarkable step that the museum took in 1995. we moved here to third street from the vaness location and from the city hall location. and we were immediately pioneers in this neighborhood. obviously the south of market neighborhood was not what it is today. and very quickly pioneers became anchors. and that is quickly became a gathering place for anyone interested in the visual arts and who was a residents of san francisco or lived in the bay area or came here. over the course of 18 years since 1995, it has grown, i can only say exponentially in term of our programs, family visits everything has doubled and tripled in size. and our exhibitions reflect the diversity and range of this community and regularly travel around the world literally. so today, here we are in 2013, and we are on the cusp of anoth

so i would like to begin with brooks walker and we are going to make our way down to like hollywood down the red carpet, brooks was the ground breaking, 20 years ago and brooks was our chair at that time and led the effort to us tthe third street. >> bob fisher who is ouboard president and the partner in this project and dennis wo ng and the trustee of the oversight committee. and january kim, the district six supervisor who has been such a great supporter and partner in this project and then i also would like to introduce special members that we like to serve into the enhanced education programs. the class of third graders from carmichael school here in the neighborhood. >> as a member of the board since 2003 and the board president for the last three years, i am incredibly excited to be able to kick off this ground breaking. on a personal note, kie not be more pleased that our families, art collection has found a home at sfmoma. and i would now like to introduce... thank you. >> i would now like to introduce a partner who has been with us every step of the way in leading this transform

brook asks what does your guest think about governor scott walker?help us get rid of him. >> well, we tried. >> bill: he's up again when? >> next year. he's up next year. also when you look at every key economic indicator wisconsin is headed in the wrong direction and it is because he has brought the very policies that the national republicans advocate to the state of wisconsin but also because he's running for governor. governors take the attention off the people of their state and use them as a steppingstone to run for president. not only do the economic indicators take a dip but their popularity does, too. it happened to bobby jindal in louisiana and scott walker now. so i feel cautiously optimistic about our chances there. >> bill: well, we tried to get russ feingold to run last time. maybe you can persuade him to run. >> i think he's got a new job. i'm confident we'll have a strong candidate who is going to make clear the walker agenda has not worked and is hostile to middle-class families and women. the mandatory ultrasound bill not only did he