and i also want to give a big shout out to the entire city family for their role, mohammed nuru and folks at department of public works had a role, lindsay hirsch. (applause) >> with all due respect to dpw and everybody else who is here, the hardest working staff in government is rec and park. gk, construction manager, mary hobson, project manager. [cheering and applauding] >> director of capital planning, don. our great operations staff, zach taylor, judy auberry who is here, and everyone else who has contributed to this incredible project. so, at rec and park, we're encoloneling people to get out and play. that's our tag line, get ready, 1, 2, 3. >> get out and play. >> we say that because of the importance of keeping our families active and healthy. this is a real serious issue. according to the center for disease control, childhood obesity has more than doubled in our children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years. in 2010 more than one-third of our children were overweight or obese. it is important that we get our kids outside. our children today average over 7-1/2 hours be

certainly, if we set back the project and allow an attempt to save the trees interestingly enough mohammed nuru if you take the trees out he only thought you had room to put one new tree babbling back but those are smaller trees so i've been to the site i can see the trees will grow anywhere and stipz will grow anymore i'm supportive of project i think it's well-thought-out and it aweville's it's itself in a difficult space to build into its is an open space i don't evaluate open spaces it's a different thing mid block t is shared this is someone else's property that is adjacent to our property it's a different kind of situation one that would be impossible for one to use for recreational purposes due to the depth of the space they're doing as good as possible, however if there's a way to set back something in keblgs to allow for an attempt to save at least one or both of the trees that might be a better situation i won't want to continue what you said. >> commissioner moore. >> while there have been attempts to minimize the consent of the height and massing i'm still uncomfortable the result a

certainly, if we set back the project and allow an attempt to save the trees interestingly enough mohammed nuru if you take the trees out he only thought you had room to put one new tree babbling back but those are smaller trees so i've been to the site i can see the trees will grow anywhere and stipz

i had the privilege of joining our mayor, our director of public works, mohammed nuru and his team and the chinatown community at portsmouth and we welcomed supervisor christensen at that event. volunteers spent their saturday mornings cleaning up graffiti, picking up trash, landscaping and beautifying our parks. the community clean team program is in its 15th year and we're proud to be a key city partner in making our city more beautiful. the event was so enthusiastic, that chinatown civic leader, she herself could issue citations for littering and bad behavior in our parks. >> that should intimidate any potential bad behavior. [laughter ]. >> other chinese new year events including the adult basketball team at the rec center this friday and saturday. our tiny tot chinese new year celebration on february 25th. our chinese new year junior high basketball jamboree on february 28th and our annual lunar celebration on february 28th. we're also this month celebrating black history month. and we will be hosting a celebration a free celebration at hamilton recreation center on february 28th.

clean, mohammed nuru, mr. park. he's mr. clean, that's our road show, who is so, so, so committed to making this city park sparkle. i want to bring him up so he can say thank you and let him say a few words. talk a little about our joint giants sweet program. once this event is over we're going to work together to keep this place sparkling. so, mr. clean, come on up. (applause) >> thank you, mr. parks. what a beautiful day. (applause) >> so, i'm very happy on the partnership that we have with the recreation and parks department, from the department of public works, all these bond projects. thanks to the voters, thanks to the community. we've been all working together and this is the result, what you see is a beautiful park. from dpw, lizy hirsch, our project manager making sure all the details, all the visions of the community had when the park was being built, the benches, all the nice stone work, all the plants, that they all came together to make this beautiful space. a big hand for lizy, please, and her leadership. (appl