big round of applause for daniel homsey and his hard work bringing this together getting all the staff and volunteers the mayor's office of neighborhood services and other departmenting that are here we are very thankful. daniel has been talking about this for what seems a millennium. you imagine being the mayor's office of neighborhood services how demanding that job is. the calls you get for service. we got the liaisons to the districts and how overwhelmed some of them are. we added budget cuts. the office had 2 or 3 people representing each district now you have one person representing 2 or 3 districts because of budget cuts. the expectations are rising in terms of what you xch out of that department. and so in an effort to meet those expectations daniel's looking at best practices and different ways of doing things. trying to find an entrepreneurial approach to face the challenges that exist in our diverse neighborhoods. he came with with this idea of a summit and picked up on the best practices that we engaged in by creating a model for 109 cities through project homeless connect

this is daniel homsey, today at the summit we will have a break out session on revitalizing your local with the lower 27th neighborhood association. what is the role in the community? for 8 yearsjrf revitalize the neighborhood on quality of life issues. we came in to the park, trying tomic it a safer and cleaner space. >> this park, what was this park like 5 years ago. what was it's impact on the neighborhood? >> 5 years ago the park was very different. there was a lot of homeless encampments in front of the park. it made it difficult for people to come into the park. there was a lot of drug dealing. it was a daeshg yarp. one of the other bipartisaning differences with the park now in the past trees in the parks, which everyone loved but it created a lot of dark spots and spaces for illegal activity to occur. >> i imagine to take a mod everyone approach looking at make itting a safer place -- >> absolutely. by make itting safer people want to use it more. >> what are the things that set this park apart from all the parks in the city. what are the popular things the park has that people

this is daniel homsey. >> we are out talking to people about the neighborhood empowerment network summit. the summit will have several break out sessions. we are meeting with the san an