we're going to have a beautiful particularly renovated joe deimagine plagued that will broung in we're investing 5 and a half million dollars your project management i want to give her a shout out and as great and as iconic joe deplagiarizing imagine playground when we're done with this this is going to be the spot in the entire city this is how cities are supposed be here excited to partner with all of you thank you very much (clapping.) nicely done phil i know in the audience trying to hide is our former deputy librarian jill come on occupy july how about a round of applause >> thank you karen for your support and john from the city attorney's office so thank you for your wonderful work in this project (clapping.) hey jill i'll happy the mayor mentioned the wonderful leadership from our commission through thick and thin for the library project so it's my pleasure to introduce teresa. >> thank you lewis and good afternoon it's a great day for a branch opening you look excited to get in or on behalf of my fellow commissioners, thank you for coming although my fellow commissioners are j

after appeals and lawsuits it will remind people will be still folks who are fighting to build the joe deimagine lagged and still trying to build soccer fields the village of san francisco we came together and our citizens and disabled awe our parent and kids we represent the diversity of the world in north beach and we got it done thank you for that (clapping) but let me close with the second reason why this is person we'll all thinking about our mothers this weekend and my mother brought me to the local library i wouldn't eastbound here time in and out and for the mothers and grandmothers thank you. part of why this is personal 6 months ago i put a ring on my finger and mining want to raise our kids my i want to come into the library and have my 5-year-old item david thank you for this library. i still have some things to learn. emergency room end by saying if we could all join in the following saying we love >> (repeated.) . the north beach library >> (repeated.) >> thank you daddy. he's young enough to be my son. thank you very much. our next supervisor i think has a record for attending mor

very very hard (clapping) to make that happen and next is the design for joe deimagine park we're goingo connect them you can come here and enjoy the library and go run around and swim until it's one nice place in our neighborhood. a few people to thank the project manager thank you. (clapping.) dennis oats has been on several projects where's dennis? here's here everyday making sure the work is done. c l w builders has been the beneficiary of 6 of the libraries we built by more important more than 35 percent of the workforce and workings workers are san francisco residents thank you. (clapping.) marshall from the stacey aeblts on the project from the beginning thank you marshall and, of course, lizzie will continue that the shaping to allow the community benefits thank you. (clapping.) >> thank you so much all right. so i have a story to talk about my neck partner she and i do a visit to the oregon elementary school so they are a have a name i'm mr. library and he's mr. parks so it's great in promoting this so welcome phil ginsburg. >> he's mr. brooks and i'm mr. parks. what is joy to

(clapping) that sits think joe deimagine plagued that's up next. the library has anizing towards the future and keeping families thriving in the city today is about our past and have preserving our past and focusing on our culture heritage a special time for us because today is coit tower and next year down the road the palaces of fine arts and the "x" pay any attention when san francisco

we didn't just build a library i think as friends of the library are showing as frinsz of the joe deimaginelike that we respond to form the agencies like friends and bring people together to finish what we can't do the friends are going to need our help the furnishings and the trimming so, please help when you can. the friends of deimagine playground and phil will love it quite a nice blessing enriching each other when the kids are playing or lockup things and go out and play again in a safe community. the biggest thanks to are the people like you who never, ever gave up. you know when lewis was saying the moss mother of all projects sometimes, we encounter those entities and times when things get delayed but the people who rise up all the time and save us from being distraught and time and time again the residents of chinatown and naturally has risen up and given us the extra push to defend against lawsuits and claims all for the future generations of our san francisco residents so i want to say on behalf of everyone in the city to the community of north beach thank you, very much for your

being down the hill of the ribbon cutting for the north beach library (clapping) that sits think joe deimagine plagued that's up next. the library has anizing towards the future and keeping families thriving in the city today is about our past and have preserving our past and focusing on our culture heritage a special time for us because today is coit tower and next year down the road the palaces of fine arts and the "x" pay any attention when san francisco welcomed 20 million visitors after the great earthquake they came through the newly opened panama canal and it was the moment when this city of the back from the earthquake this moment has a context we're proud to welcome you here. the funding for this project came from sooifgz e savings nearly $1.7 million from savings from our bond measures i'm very very proud of that (clapping) with that funding we were building to obviously restore the murals and murals have been restored here over time and the reason it didn't take quite frankly because lilly your building was perfect but not waterproof. so we replaced the roof and repainted the lobby

it's been alluded i want you to go to the corner and have a look at the new plans for the new joe deimaginelayground (clapping) all you have to do is pay for it. so lizzie i met on the pioneer project at the coit tower she's a talented scraper architect she works now for mohammed if you've seen a park in the city that you thought was fabulous julius and sunny side if you've gone to a similarly park chaps are lizzie was behind that interest congratulation (clapping) the thing about lizzie i've appreciated over the last two decades she knows how to spec the stones and pleasant but ear heart she raised two kids in the neighborhood she knows how to convert that empathy and energy to places. i remember lizzie working on a plan saying i know the mothers are going to go up on the boardwalk and standing with her on open day and see people use the park exactly as she would and having the mothers think their discovering something new well, we're lucky to have lizzie do more. on that note paid political announcements i have to mention we have 92 percent of the money we need to build our playground and