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tv   Mayor London N. Breeds State of the City Address 2024  SFGTV  March 21, 2024 5:00pm-6:01pm PDT

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>> good morning everybody! [applause] good morning. [applause] and welcome. [applause] there's my grandma. well come. welcome to san francisco james r herman cruz terminal at pier 27. the first stop for all most 300
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thousand people who come here every year from around the world to our beautiful city. i want to tell you about another jewel of the san francisco port that just celebrated 125 years. the san francisco ferry building. [applause] in the 19th century, commuters and visitors traveled by train or ferry or both. a ferry terminal on the waterfront downtown was a practical necessity. it was the sfo of its day. grand central station. but as we so often do, san francisco built a practical space a world class beauty, with a 245 foot clock tower along arched arcade, and a interior worthy of a renaissance cathedral. at the foot of market street, a
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beautiful bridge from water to land, the ferry building announced to every commuter, every traveller, this is san francisco. you have arrived. until that is, [applause] until that is, in the late 1930's when two new bridges the bay and golden gate and rise of the automobile made the ferry building seem outdated and unwanted. soon the grand interior converted to drab cuneals cubicles and in a act of urban planning catastrophes only the 1950 could respond, a double-decker slicing it from the city it served. for decades, this great landmark was isolated. nearly forgotten, a crumbling shell of its former glory. no one went there. no one bet on its future.
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its time had passed, but then the freeway came down and the city created a new walkable grand embarcadero with the giants on one end and the restored ferry building at the center with patience, smart planning, investment and time. san francisco turned a discarded transit hub back into a global icon. a famous city most famous landmark as herb cane called it. today the ferry building hosts shops restaurant, artists and torests and locals and just a few month ago during apec hosted leaders from around the world. this one building at the heart of downtown says a lot about our downtown and about our city. first, beautiful places, world class desirable places are never forgotten for long.
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second, our local government with the right vision and right investment and right support can spark monumental turn-arounds. third, and most important, never ever bet against san francisco. [applause] we never stay down for long. we have faced incredible challenges in the fast 5 years, two unparalleled health crisis. one in the form of covid, the other in the form of fentanyl and national reckoning on policing and sublic safety and some people inside and out of san francisco feel these challenges have overwhelmed us. i don't begrudge people frustrations. i don't dispute these have been a tough 5 years, but rather then destroying our city, the storms revealed our strengths,
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our spirit and service to each other. i believe past is a precursor to our rise. this is a year of the dragon and we will soar again. [applause] we all know the story. shortly after i took office, we began to hear thisquiting reports of the new and deadly virus. soon enough, covid-19 would up end the world. san francisco declared a emergency february 2020 and then with our partners around the bay, issued the first shut-down or order in the country. my administration then marshaled department of emergency management, public health and staff throughout city government to mobilize and turn our convention center into a global command-covid command center. we cut through the bureaucratic red tape to set up testing
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sites, community hubs and vaccination sites around the city. city workers fanned out to tend to our most vulnerable residents and as nursing homes across the country saw ballooning death rates, we protected our seniors at laguna honda and elsewhere. [applause] we were one of the first cities in the country to reach an 80 percent vaccination rate and as deaths climeed across the u.s. and the world, san francisco saw the lowest death rate of any large city in the country. [applause] people want to say our civic government is dysfunctional. we can't collaborate, we can't get hard things done. tell that to the thousands of san franciscans alive today because of what we did. [applause] our city faced a storm unlike
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anything we have seen in a hundred years. is anybody here a hundred years old? you didn't see it either. [laughter] through hard work, collaboration, ingenuity and simple decency of people we orchestrated the most successful response in the country and as covid wane and vaccinations froze we entered the second phase of my tenure, recovery. the pandemic lead to a massive shift how our economy functions all most overnight. work from home, exposed to weakness in economies and big cities, especially tech forward san francisco, we were too dependent on fields that can work from home. our downtown had never been designed as a neighborhood with many homes and round the clock residents. downtown was office and office was hit hard.
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simultaneously the pandemic constrained our efforts to house the homeless. then the murder of george floyd and ensuing national reckoning devastated police recruitment and staffing here in san francisco and around the country. even as they brought to light the systemic racism that many of us have known for far too long, the department of justice has called the police staffing shortage a national crisis. these are national challenges, exacerbated by local conditions. what did we do? we didn't throw up our hands we got to work, on public safety. we divertsed non emergency, 911 calls to free up officers while providing better overall responses for those struggling on our streets. i appointed a former hate crime prosecutor as our new district attorney and brooke jenkins began prosecuting crime.
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[applause] we used bate cars and plain clothe officers to disrupt auto break ins . we coordinated every public safety agency you can name. local, state and federal. shareal miyamoto conducted deputies to conduct warrant sweeps. i appealed to governor newsom and he sent the california highway parole. delivered the u.s. attorney and drug enforcement agency to interrupt the sale and trafficking of fentanyl. [applause] and all of these efforts have paid off. we doubled the number of drug arrests in 2023.
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retail theft and car breakens plummeted. the arrest was 25 points higher then the national average. our crime rate is the lowest it's been in 10 years. [applause] not including 2020 when we had to shut the city down. yes, these figures are accurate. they coincide with the arrival of the chp national guard, u.s. attorney office, da jenkins increased in prosecutions. i do recognize that some people don't feel the lower crime rate yet, and if you are someone you know is a victim of a crime, all the stats mean nothing. i understand that and i hear your concerns and that's exactly why we are not letting up. we will roll out 400 automated
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license plate readers at a hundred intersections across the city this month. [applause] thanks to the voters approving proposition e on tuesday. [applause] we will be installing new public safety cameras in high crime areas, deploying drones and changing police department rules so our sworn officers are out in the field and not behind a desk. [applause] and yes, we are adding more police officers thanks to our effort san francisco is now the best paid major city in the region for starting police officers. retention is improving. officers are transferring here. we have the most police academy applicant in more then 5 years and the next academy class will
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be the largest since before the pandemic with 50 cadets. [applause] with all that, we will add 200 more officers in the next year and get to full police staffing in three years. [applause] at the same time, we are not sacrificing our reform work. the san francisco police department is on track to reach the 272 department of justice reforms by april of this year. [applause] thank you to those who lead these efforts including our police chief, bill scott. [applause] of course, we can't talk about public safety without talking about the other health crisis.
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this is a national tragedy, fentanyl is impacting our city both large and small, urban and rule. it is awful and heart-breaking and while i'm stepping up enforcementf oour laws because that is what our residents deserve and what pour city means, i remain absolutely committed to saving lives. our approach-- [applause] our approach is about accountability, resources and new pathways. this means arresting and prosecuting dealers, and when necessary arresting users who are a danger to themselves. it means expanding existing treatment options and creating new ones like abstinence based treatment solution. [applause]
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yes, offering service is critical, but frankly we must compel some people into treatment. we will have a additional tool thanks to the voters who helped pass proposition f tuesday. [applause] and i directed the human service agency to create a action plan for prop f implementation. if we can provide cash assistance to more then 5 thousand people can screen recipients for substance use disorder and get them into treatment. [applause] and we have the services they need. including 15 free clinics across san francisco that can administer bupomor 15 day one. we are delivering the goal adding 400 new treatment beds and if governor newsom prop 1 passes we have a real opportunity to add hundreds more. we are not waiting, we are doing the work with supervisor mandelman so when the state
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opens the pipeline for new beds, san francisco is ready and first in line. [applause] that brings me to homelessness, which also remains a key focus of our recovery. now, since ifen polk been mayor, we helped over 15 thousand individuals exit homelessness. we are the only county in the bay area to see unsheltered homelessness go down in the last point in time count. we did it by increasing shelter capacity by 66 percent and increasing housing for formally homeless people by over 50 percent. my office of invasion funded by bloomburg philanthropy is appointed new accountability tools to track data, outcomes and hold non profits we fund accountable. [applause] our encampment teams are
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bringing people indoors and bringing down the tents, despite attempts by the court and by some advocates to obstruct or efforts with city attorney david chui we fought hard and helped more then 1500 people into shelter from encampment just over the past 6 months. [applause] the number of tents on our streets are down by 37 percent this past 6 months. at the lowest levels it has been since 2018. the other day a gentleman asked me, how can we help so many homeless people and still have thousands more? well, we know people fall into homelessness for many reasons and we have programs preventing homelessness for san franciscans every single day. but we also know we keep housing people and people do keep coming here. the advocates and some elected
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officials want you to believe san francisco isn't a destination. they want you to believe people don't come here for drugs or other reasons. we all know that's not true. of those arrested for public drug use in the tenderloin and south of market over the last year, over half were not san francisco residents. half. i had enough of it and clearly the voters had enough too. we are not letting up. [applause] we are continuing to add new housing, new shelter. we are setting a new goal of a thousand people a year for homeward bound program. the program that provides unhoused people a ticket back to their home cities. [applause] and we have a new tool for those struggling with mental illness and addiction. for decades, state laws have prevented us compelling people
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into treatment, even if their families are begging us to do so. the people truly suffering you see walking in and out of traffic or screaming at nothing in particular, the people who so desperately need help. i fought to change the state conservatorship laws for years and we finally succeeded. [applause] now we are implementing the changes faster then any county in the state. so far this year yee increased the number of people submitted for conservatorship by 170 percent compared to last year. that is how we make change. that is how we save lives. and of course, there is the pandemic related issues felt most acutely in san francisco. our downtown recovery. i have always believed we need to start with a question and if not, how do we make downtown
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what it was, but rather, what do we want our downtown of the future to be? in 2022, 2023 we worked with trade groups, business owners, builders, neighbors and city departments to create the road map to downtown san francisco future. a comprehensive plan for a dynamic resilient downtown with resident night life and businesses. a neighborhood that keeps going around the clock, downtown 24/7. [laughter] the first year focused on stabilization, filling our empty store fronts, creating attraction and night life activity and delivering tax incentives. we recruit new businesses and continue to see new leases signed lead by ai which alone is projected to add 12 million square feet of office space by 2030.
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and it won't be ai alone. this is one of the most beautiful urban environments in the world with a unrivaled pool of talent and builders and dreamers and largest collection of deployable capital in the country, but downtown cant just be about jobs, it can't just be the 9 to 5 financial district. we also need more people to live and study there. so, our new initiative, 30 by 30, 30 thousand more residents and students downtown by 2030. [applause] to do that, we first need to create more housing downtown. we already passed the few local laws to reduce fees to office conversion. our first office conversion is happening now. 32 new homes at the warfield building that would not be
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happening if we hadn't stepped in, and more are coming. [applause] now, we are working on state laws to change state laws with senator scott wiener to spur production and speed up housing production downtown. that is housing, but 30 by 30 is also about bringing students down down, and a lot of them. we are working with thought leaders, business folks and educational institutions to make downtown a hub, a center of excellence. we invited the university of california and historically black call jss and universities to join us and some are coming as early as this summer! [applause] we are working with other universities and existing anchors, uc law, usf and san francisco state university.
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imagine, student professors researchers and employees working from dorm room to classroom to start up from the ferry building to city hall. cross pollinating ideas, cross pollinating companies. we will lead in ai, climate tech, bio tech and things we haven't imagined yet are. housing students, invasion, that is our future. tearing out the bike lanes on market street going backwards will not move us forward and it won't magically revive downtown. [applause] but 30 thousand more people living and going to school down there will. downtown has always been the economic engine that funds the services we care about, and it is post pandemic difficulties are the driving reason for the deficit we now face. we no laupger have the luxury
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to penalize. we need to incentivize. so let me make two things clear, number one, the board of supervisors and i will close this deficit and we will not weaken our public safety to do so. [applause] number two, i have a clear vision for downtown future and my administration will make it happen. [applause] our vision is a vibrant mixed use neighborhood with transit, bar s, restaurants, venues, where people live, work, study, and play. we are through the valley of covid. we endered the slings and arrows of recovery, and now we rise to our next chapter on housing. we are changing our reputation. as a city of no to a city of
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yes. yes. [applause] yes to reducing fees, yes to eliminating barriers and yes to any idea that overcomes obinstruction and builds the new homes we so desperately need. there is one housing no i will commit to, any piece of anti-housing legislation that comes across my desk i will veto. [applause] every single one. we have a state mandate, so let's build our projects like the power station where we broke ground last year and treasure island just this week we relaunched a new phase of housing. let's work with our land use chair, supervisor melgar to keep advancing pro-housing laws through the board.
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and let's- [applause] and let's bring 30 thousand residents and students to the downtown. if we do that, more people and more neighborhoods will be able to afford to live here. more housing means more opportunity. and san francisco will remain the city of yes for our children and their children and it's not just a vision, our work is actually delivering change. crime is at record lows. san francisco is a ai capital of the world. the birthplace of the next economic boom. the la times reports in 2022, san francisco companies raised 5 times as much funding as the companies in florida and texas combined. [applause] that is what they do to us.
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our small business reforms like first year free championing by supervisor ronan are filling empty storefronts across the city. [applause] we are a national leader in early child care and education. doubling the number of kids getting care and subsidies in 2018. [applause] and paying our educators a real wage that recognizes them for the work that they do. [applause] we just hosted leaders from around the world for apec, the biggest global stage for san francisco since the signing of the united nation charter in 1945. [applause] our parks are the best in the world and we massively expanded outdoor public areas from jfk
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drive to india basin coming to the southern waterfront. [applause] muni is leading the bay area transit recovery, who would have thought, willie brown? carrying more riders then all of the other regional transit operators combined. we are on pace to hit our goal of zero green house gas emission by 2040. we are launching a wnba franchise hosting [applause] hosting the nba all star game, the super ball and fifa world cup! [applause] and i envision a san francisco of walkable, safe, thriving neighborhoods with great schools that teach algebra and a strong economy. [applause]
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where people get the help they need and where everyone is welcomed. i want to thank the voters for supporting this vision on tuesday. by backing these various propositions and the strong rejection of proposition b. [applause] thank you supervisors engardio and matt dorsey on algebra and police staffing and conulateulations on scott wiener, matt haeny and [indiscernible] as well as all the new comers come bravely step forward to run for county committee. [applause] and let me say something to those in the press claiming tuesday election means san francisco is not a progressive city anymore.
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building homes and adding treatment beds is progressive. [applause] wanting good public education and effective police force valuing the saturday safety of seniors from chinatown to bayview, immigrant and working families in the tenderloin, is progressive. [applause] we are a progressive diverse city living together celebrating each other. lgbtq, aapi, black, latino, palestinian and jewish. [applause] that is not changed and that will not change. so, i don't know about you but i'm tired of the negativity. i'm tired of the people who talk about san francisco as if our troubles are inevitable and our success a flukement our
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successes are not a fluke, and they are not fleeing. they are the products of years of hard work, collaboration, investment, creativity, perseverance. they are the output of thousands of people in government and out who believe in service, not cynicism. [applause] i want to say something to those inside san francisco and out, who traffic in negativity. to sell ads to advance right wing causes to tear others down or to simply stroke fear for their political convenience. i want to say this on behalf of the real people who you have been disparaging, on behalf of the nurses, the gardeners, janitors, counselors, commissioners, engineers, emergency workers, teachers, the transit operators who
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dedicate themselves to this city. [applause] on behalf-on behalf of our firefighters, 911 dispatchers, the sheriff deputies and police officer who do life-saving work under difficult circumstances. on behalf of the small business owners thrks bartendser, the artists. on behalf of the women. on behalf- [applause] on behalf of the women here who let women everywhere know that we trust them to make their own decisions and offer them a safe haven when they do so. [applause] on behalf of the housing
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advocate said who started a movement here that has taken root all over the country. [applause] on behalf of the transgender activists and their families chosen or otherwise who made san francisco and outpost of hope. [applause] on behalf of the city i called home my entire life, which i'm proud to serve every single day, i offer these words from our 26 president of the united states, teddy roosevelt. you exceez me for updateing the pronouns. [laughter] it is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong woman
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stumbles, or where the doer of deeds, could have done them better, the credit belongs to the woman who is actually in the arena. [applause] who strives valantly. who sends herself in a worthy cause. to those outside the arena watching from the side-lines, who offer only criticism, i have a message for you. san francisco is not wearing the shackles of your negativity any longer. [applause] i'll say it again, san
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francisco is not wearing the shackles of your negativity any longer! [applause] to the public servants who have been here during the city's most difficult time, doing the work all along, thank you. thank you for your service. we will continue to move our city forward to be the city of yes. no longer will we allow others to define us, because we know who we are. we are a city on the rise. we are a dragon taking flight. now, let's soar san francisco! let's soar! thank you. [applause]franciscans.
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>> (bell tolling). >> wow. >> (clapping) welcome, everyone. here we are high on a hill. little morning fog, no rain are we lurking or not we're san franciscans. we're here to celebrate a beautiful
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man in our beautiful cable car cars what better day to do it in valentine's day can you bring our hearts all right. >> my name is rick i'm the president of the market street railway an independent advocate for the history cable car and streetcars we support muni and getting the value is from those priceless civic assets we do that with no government government funding at all we depend on on documentation if people like who love light cable cars i want to recognize a whole lot of the folks with the chinatown merchant betty and carmen chiu the city
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administrator i hope i'm not - i'm sure i'm missing other folks with one phrase and one song hasn't made our cable cars world families how special our city is special especially for diversity and, you know, nothing shows that better than the long-standing presence of very early days of san francisco of our chinese-american community the california street cable car line served chinatown since 1878 and last year, we celebrity the one hundred and fifty medical marijuana two blocks it north on clay street and the camp street line built 5 years after that and by a private company led by
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stanford mark hopkins and charles crocker and to serve the mansions and later on those mansions of fellow james claire floods still standing there as is pacific union across the street and graze by the great granddaughters karen and christen put your hands upcoming come on that's old san francisco and private companies built 16 cable car lines and electronic streetcars took over those and shaped san francisco we know today built our neighborhood it and energized businesses to prosper and receipt to grow and more than 70 years now the city cable car lines have been owned by the poach of san francisco
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themselves through our city and county government so only fitting we start by hearing from the chief administrator officer of the city and county of san francisco and i can attest number one, cable car fan the honorable mayor london breed, mayor london breed (clapping). >> so much rick. >> thank you to the market street rally railway for all yourself done to maintain the integrity and history of the cable cars in the city and county of san francisco. as rick state we've been celebrating the cars one hundred and fifty get anniversary reminding us that san francisco was the first place to have cable cars but more importantly that we are the only city no where that is operating manual cable cars so thank you, state of florida and our city employees that are
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working hard to maintain and run those cable cars for visits from all over. today, is an extraordinary day we are celebrating a try legend and he's right here. tony bennett was an extraordinary icon in 1961 we fir performed i left my heart in san francisco in the van everyone room people fell in love in 1969 san francisco paid it our official so we know with hi come to san francisco you, you always leave our heart here and been an extraordinary ambassador but he isn't just an extraordinary artist but a flicht it supports san francisco in our time of need with the former mayor dianne feinstein
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trying to save our embarrasseds from 1980 tony bennett helped us to it appeal to the people to make sure that we protect and save and preserve the cable cars for people like us to enjoy today and in 1984 stood with mayor feinstein to commemorate to raise the resources and doing the work to get our cable cars back on track so great we're all here today but his generosity didn't stop he was a great patient and when the hearts of san francisco came to be in san francisco in 2004 painted a heart so san francisco general hospital has used the hearts as a way to raise money for the foundation to help people who are in need of healthcare and
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support and pained one of those heart and in effect if you want to see that same heart it is right in the lobby of the fairmd hotel for all to enjoy. (clapping.) we all fell in love are him and his music so many so three mayor ed lee when he was alive declared tony bennett we recognize to commemorate his extraordinary work in the city and county of san francisco he was a try desirable leader of fulfill pistil and so of us love and admired we can only think about san francisco without thinking about tony bennett and vaedz and celebrate this dedication my honor to be here
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to recognize the contribution and officially declare our cable cars the one we came in on dedicated to him and his legacy halfway through the st. mary's of 1873 commemorating tony bennett as is year of the cable cars went into effect in san francisco one hundred and 50 years ago. (clapping.) and with that, i want to say thank you to all the people joining us today, people who love the city and people who are seeing the city transform and all the people who are family members and friends of tony bennett we appreciate the fact you're here to celebrate this milestone on valentine's day and here to talk about mr. bennett
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and his amazing contributions and what he meant to san francisco and the rest of word is his wife susan. (clapping.) and. >> thank you, everyone. tony was oh, my goodness he meant so much too, so many that people everyone producing laid and claim to tony to the people of queens neighborhood where we grew up in new york the local boys made it big and rocked to star donate and italy he's the great singer who never forgot his italian families and in washington, d.c. the artist of central park with the museum and
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the simile is beloved by people all over the world his brilliant smile and charm may have captured hearts on a san francisco one city that sold him and san francisco you have tony's heart. (clapping.) and for today's historic dedication of a cable car in the prior celebrations recognition he bestowed on my husband please know this i also have any heart and profound gratitude (clapping.) i know tony would be thrilled by the cable car so, please allow me to thank mayor london breed and the fall back city of san francisco and all the good friends have been a part rather of prooifrg tony's legacy and in
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particular everyone at fairmont hotel wherewith he first sank the song i'm overjoyed to be here with you on valentine's day in the very city tony and i first met and where hits signature song got the start when i left my heart in san francisco became a citizen and every growing audience was san francisco anthem but tony's he never tired of singing the song and audience neither tired and thanks to the fascinating statute in the lobby and now this special cable car and fans into all over the world will forever have a blast to visit and feel close to tony nothing would have thrilled my husband
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more. thank you very much. (clapping.) please a round of applause for susan we are blessed show came out here and um, and, you know, some people know of cable cars is just for tourists people in the audience know that is not true we rise as often as we can and the people in the neighborhoods along the cable car routes from the financial district and chinatown to, you know, to the russian hill all count on is cable car not only to provide them transcription by provide them a touch of the soul this is. san francisco is. and their ride was shoulder to shoulder if guests and keeping
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the cable cars looking great is the responsibility of san francisco mpu commission transportation agency sorry i should know by few and it is um, overseen not only muni the transit agency by the bikes and parking and taxis all sorts of other stuff by the next speaker cities director of transportation jeff tumble listen. >> thank you, rick and thank you for all you do to support us at muni and thank you to the fairmont hotel for hosting this wonderful event and to it member of the board for your strong leadership in those challenging times you cable cars 5 three has been 2r0678d with the contribute
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of tony bennett for all the garage barns it took this moment and transformed this art into a. >> contributed i'd like to personally thank our a entire cable car crew but the staff who hard work has made that a royalty and meriting and and click on watch sfgov 2. members of the public please take this opportunity along with everyone who supports you can we give a roifrmd for the incredible country (clapping.) and i'd like to thank the leadership of our as we have julie hospital the general manager of muni runnings things and my job to say yes and the
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director of board of directors thank you for coming today (clapping.) tony bennett's i left my heart on a san francisco immoshthd the cities charm but captured the hearts of people worldwide the lyrics with the essence of san francisco with cable cars climb halfway to the stars making that a city contribute and dictate a cable car to tony bennett and finally, i 7, 8, 9 to thank all of you all not only for showing up here today but opening your heart to make that possible for us to continue operating embarrasses garages bus ever your heartfelt leave of this rolling working work of art we continue it operate cable cars in san francisco and i also want
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to thank you. your open heart and love of this extraordinary city that allows all of us to rise to the occasion of the transition between a bus e economic because out of you are collective love of san francisco that that every single san franciscan has made this transition that we have reinvented when san francisco south-southwest love in our heart as well as a deep appreciation and love for our cities glorious history thank you all of you and welcome back (clapping.) thank you, jeff. >> um, i may be given a person moment my groundwater gaepz came to it town in german from a
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small dell tissue on market street my dad said you're not going into this business i went to college and got out my first job was a one hundred dollar job in a station and their studios were here in the fairmont hotel when i stepped foot in the fairmont i saw the venetian room and a marquee and all of a sudden i wasn't a college kid but going to the fairmont will will that without further ado, let me introduce the general manager for the fairmont hotel mark. >> (clapping) thank you, rick. >> well, good morning and welcome to mason street better
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known as tony bennett way we're thrilled to be host and i would said to thank everyone for participating and more importantly mr. bennett will look down from above. um, as san francisco mr. bennett has the place a permanent place in our heart and mentioned up to now, first performed the legendary son in the venetian room started a long journey endured in the convenientlytion room and proud and honored this moment in history links us to the mr. bennett in the amazing city we call home couldn't be prouder to go in the cable cars waving as it passes by the hotel and proud
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honored to continue the legacy so join necessary many welcoming rose for a tribute to mr. bennett. >> (clapping) and. >> (music).
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>> (music for i left my heart in san francisco). >> instrumental.
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>> your golden sun. >> will shine for me. >> thank you rose let's give another round of applause what an amazing rendition
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(clapping.) so lastly, you should have a full glass if you don't raise your empty glass i hope you can join me on that day of has the right to raise a glass to the legendary memory and man in celebration of cable cars cheers to all of you (clapping.) here we go. >> everybody ready. okay. 1, 2, 3, 4 (cheering) (clapping.) oh, this is
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