culminated in 200 fifen by becoming the city [inaudible] the board of supervisors in san francisco uninanimously appointed edas the acting mayor and recognizing a opportunity to get a lot of good things done, he ran again for election and won. it is my pleasure to introduce to you a park chaimpian, mayor ed lee. >> thank you very much for that introduction. good afternoon everyone. welcome to to the 3 time world series champion and county of the city of san francisco. i'm not [inaudible] mayors at all. i want to welcome you to san francisco and to celebrate the greater and greener parks and open space conference here. it is a wond rbful time in our city and i love these conferences where international, regional and national intelligence and innovation and people getting things done all over our cities and all over parts of the cuntsry come together and evaluate how we can exchange ideas and innovation and find out the latest and gratis. who is doing what in the public and prives sector and all of this is happening in our city. i want to give a special welcome to our 3 additional mayors, mayor pr