mayor smith has promoted an agenda for the rebirth of the township of irvington. he was elected the 20 of my year may of 2002. his entire council candidates known as fema irvington was also elected feeling the mandate for his leadership. mayor, if you would like to share that concept with the rest [applause] [laughter] >> never mind. he was elected to an unprecedented third term in office. stevens might embark on the journey and his participation in the male mentor program that was launched in newark new jersey this year. the initiative is the capacity to build men from the faith based community engaged in mentoring young boys. mentor recruit, reclaim and restore is certainly something i am personally support about as well. let's hear for mayor smith about his -- about this and his other work in this city of irvington to address the work and opportunity for the populations. >> thank you, mayor nutter. as i mosul been between the stephanie caucus of my years -- [laughter] and i want to thank you for a couple months ago your great technology summit in philadelphia i

my brother from i springton -- irvington, has done the right thing by going to get some food. [laughter] and he gets to hear me speak more than he wants to, so i'd like to invite people -- leadership! >> it's leadership, thank you very much. [laughter] i want to invite people to do that. a little bit of housekeeping. mayor littlefield is here, would you introduce yourself for the c-span audience, wake them up at home? >> yeah, mayor booker. it's good to see you again. we were pleased to have you in our city a few weeks ago. the unfortunate effect keep coming up to me saying all of our problems would be solved if we just had a mayor like cory booker. [laughter] i joined the party somewhat late, but i've been here long enough to be inspired by the mayor of hart forth. as a city planner, we have watched hartford for decades as hartford has wrestled with its industrial heritage. the city of chattanooga is an old industrial city in the south which is something of an anomaly. but one thing that we have been doing that i think is a little bit creative, we've been used a lot of brownf

my brother from irvington, my sister city, he went and got some food. >> leadership. >> that's leadershipthank you very much. [laughter] >> i want to invite people to do that. a little bit of housekeeping, mayor wittlefield is here. >> yeah, mayor booker, good to see you again. we were pleased to have you in the city a few weeks ago. the unfortunate affect is all of our problems would be solved if we had a mayor like cory booker. [laughter] >> but i'm sitting here. i joined the party somewhat late. but i've been here long enough to be inspired by the mayor of hartford, we as a city planner has watched hartford for decades as hartford has wrestled with it's industrial heritage, city of chattanooga is an old industrial city in the south. which is something of an anomaly. we have been using a lot of brownfield money to train people and employee young people in environmental management. we have been finding them jobs. we have been successful at finding jobs for people who were previously unemployed once they had the training and skills necessary to work with the environmental problems that th