[meeting adjourned]. >> good afternoon, everyone and thank you for being here. this is a apa heritage month kickoff conferences we know we are all here from mayor london breed in a few short minutes but thank you to her for not only for business and economic recovery but bringing our - thank you, london breed. >> (clapping.) that is about making idea happen we really appreciate this so but today, we are talking about our

apa heritage month this is coming up next wednesday force us to this year is the 20th anniversary of celebration in san francisco um, but that is also the 40 are 45 year of celebration in the united states um, in the 1979 the president signed the proposition for the may for the asian american pacific islanders especially heritage and the month of may was chosen because of the could commemorate the transcommon council railroad and the arrive of the first immigrant in japan so we have been celebrating the weekly by the week every year until the year of 1990 was extend because of the work of a lot of organizations and advocating for them in 1992 the

celebration of apa month in the country was again signed into law to tap in perpetuity this is the third vehicle because it is our 20-year the month of may is very special and we celebrate coming together of our very diversity apa community and take this opportunity to celebrate our uniqueness and our togetherness it has to be both. um, you know, i think the city attorney david chiu always talked about san francisco is the capital of the world we are and we want to embrace it we're part of this city so the theme is moving forward together. celebrating 20 years of connecting and uplifting communities just we have this

has been our mission and 20th year i'm very, very excited butter programs we will share but about all the programs and our amazing honorees this year we have so without further ado, mayor london breed (clapping). >> thank you so much cla detainee and let me tell you what a joy it is to be here with our asian american pacific islanders communities from all over san francisco. organizations that serve the sa anyone's and japanese and chinese and the fellowship pens all the umbrella that make ups the people of the city and county of san francisco. as claudine mentioned i just got back from china i must say align

extraordinary trip and in particular what was amazing about that trip is when we visited juan joe the context with san francisco police commission in particular, the architecture of chinatown made me realize the sites how san francisco has been build by a fabulous of commissioners by the chinese community and the involvement to help to shape san francisco into the city it is today an amazing connection to make at that time and makes me appreciate the asian-american as a whole because of the work that gone into getting us where we are and in fact, we talked about moving forward together that is moving forward in communities. that is moving forward by celebrating and sharing our diversity which is also been a

part of san francisco stream and it is in fact be celebrating a significant history. i mentioned chinatown in particular one of the first in all of chinatown in the u.s. and celebrating a one hundred year anniversary of july 1, 2022, through june 30, 20240 as the golden gate and one hundred years of settling the fillmore the institution is not only getting state support to do important rehabilitation but resources from our office of the community investment will go to help to make that facility an amazing fatality for generations to come i want to alderman king for 50 years and supporting and uplifting children in san

francisco and these are two amazing community milestones should be slntd. and there also two honorees i know mayor willie brown would be here if they could i told him this town is only big enough for one mayor the he's being celebrated he's an extraordinary strength for our support of our apa community as well as rose chang the founder of pageant and support community continues to make sure that all of those areas culture events are amazing and apa heritage month during the month of may is an intelligent for film festivities and so many activities i want to express in any appreciation to our asian leadership in san francisco some of them you'll hear from

including our larger than michael and our sheriff cla i can't and our city attorney david chiu. >> carmen chiu those incredible leaders of san francisco have truly inspiration always to help support and build this community. most recently during history month i had the opportunity to acknowledge and recognize other bridge builder claude detainee and cooperating and doing the work hidden behind the scenes but i know that she used last year's celebration to make that commitment not only to build the bridges within the apa community but be inclusive the relationship with the asian-americans communities especially one that was so special in any community between

the asian-american and the japanese communities that has an incredible number of stories and things that talk about san francisco or redevelopment agency and how those communities came together to support and lift one another up so many stories and this apa heritage month is an intelligent to celebrate and recognize the stories and to really focus on the things that make us stronger and what makes us stronger building those bridges and celebrating san francisco in all it's shapes and size and organizations and all we represent so i'm glad to be here. but i want to recognize the san francisco joys an incredible relationship with a number of the folks as i said was in china and celebrated 45 requesters of relationship

between the relationships between san francisco and shanghai and recognition some of our sister city chairs computing the sister chair from. >> (calling names.) >> thank you for joining us today (clapping.) and finally cla detainee is the leader but a whole wonderful of people that make it happen i want to take the opportunities to recognize the members it put together the calendars and logistics of all the events and the work into making this event a success and i want to take this opportunity to al perez not here but recognize him um, grace and. >> (calling names.) >> thank you for your work (clapping.) and thomas lie and. >> (calling names.) >> and, of course, cla detainee changing to all the

folks who are um, a part of committee and making it happen i know some of those couldn't be here today, we want to appreciate their hard work to to to make this a success and the design work for apa heritage month is done by thomas who has been an amazing inspiration with with that, existed to be here and claude detainee we have a job to do to introduce the next speaker. >> will be back. thank you. (clapping.) thank you, mayor london breed and thank you for announcing this this year amazing honorees and as your friends and families that come next wednesday for the heritage to help to celebrate our honorees. >> (calling names.) >> and former mayor willie

brown before we hear from the our friend i thought to say it is this is the 20th anniversary we have decided to do two special programs one is that we have engaged our friend at sfgovtv to post the 20th anniversary and shows everyone this spirit of this celebration and the spirit of communities and have done the screening next wednesday don't miss it, and, secondly, we are also highlighting 20 events actually every year with a apa kickoff thomas lee we talked about thomas complies with all the ties to the city a whole month of so many events every day of the week and amazing how this city celebrates apa by this year

a special category of headlines i hope you'll visit our website and find out about everyone for all generations and families from i think i will probably miss some of them but tonight we start off kicking off the celebration of san francisco with the movies with the screening and ann was here tonight and changing our own changing and with the bayview director shawn so not to be missed we kickoff the celebration tonight and throughout the month of may the celebrations on may 1st our asians be k run and it is amazing run around the city and see all the sites and the

designations and from k run to competition to the health fair hosted by the chinese thank you for being here and to plenty of family activities with the asian art museum. and we thank you so much. >> and by the 19 anyone community and so many to mention and is mayor talked about welcoming anyone we are teaming up with the vail culture an organization we'll have one night of celebration with celebrating jewish heritage and we have one night with the a b i

culture city an asian and asian-american performance it is amazing. >> amazing presentation something for everyone and, of course, last but not least the san francisco public library almost every thing is happening every week, we appreciate it all the celebration is just note but the theatres of everybody coming we want to be celebrated in every district and every neighborhood and asking everyone to join us and moving forward together. so with the city librarian would you like to talk about the - and city attorney david chiu is here. >> (clapping) at the claude detainee for your

leadership and madam mayor for our leadership to celebrate apa heritage month to serve our entire communities have the rich collection in over 50 languages and a little a new strategic plan to talk about and we really love celebrating the culture, the history and diversity of our and may is full of activists and our major signature event coming up is our one city one book event this year is the chinese ruse is a book by san francisco katherine a great book set in sunset and great to read stories about the local communities and excited to talk about $37 million renovation for the library and commence that last

night this year (clapping.) will be spectacular and open up the rooftop and amazing experience thank you for your support and be able here and i'm going to turn it over to cla detainee oh, sorry chair mother. >> good afternoon i'll keep any remarks brief but talking about the same thing it is wonderful and represented with the apa community. with one we celebrate every year i think that is very special because we have it all here and as we talk about the different events for this month for the celebration for the month we're going to do let's not forth by the little things like the foundation on - i brought any children to a couple of months ago the la in

they're easy when they see the city it is something we should remain we have there and maybe going to be announced but take time to look at the mall things or last year at that time i was wearing jeans it was denim day to recognize the - we have the memorial here in our city as well that is something we should always cherish the small things to rehabilitate only is culture we have and the divided in our commuter shuttles and lastly, i want to say you know what as alone as is sheriff's in the state of california anymore we have apa sheriff's in the 58 counties recently, we have wayne grew up in placer and tim in the community and those are smaller counties still part of fabric of

this and hopefully to see if we don't talk about in the first but thank you for being here. and i look forward to all the celebrations cla detainee and thank you for your leadership. thank you. (clapping.) i would be remiss if i didn't mention three i was very happy to introduce our next speaker sneefdz following him city attorney david chiu (clapping.) i'm happy to follow the good sheriff's. >> happy apa heritage mow i'll ask all of us to acknowledge the one person part of this year after year we give it up to claude detainee changing i've done o known her for 20 years since we were teenagers at at

heart working with an incredible committee 80 and all of you representing the apa community. claude detainee mentioned i like to refer to san francisco as the asian-american capital not just because we have the oldest chinatown in the united states and one of a handful hands down the saigon but as someone who first visited san francisco three three years i feel in love with the city doss by the way, of our apa diversity heritage i want to thank you all for being part of this we have a lot of things to celebrate and lend my congratulations to rose chung is not here but my first asian staffer when i was a supervisor i'm grateful to her as well as our honorary asian mayor willie brown and second mayor london

breed we have come such a long way with the leadership in our city and i know the theme of this month is moving forward i'm hoping will only be within airport has 4 names san francisco international airport but i want to say we are a beacon not just to the rest of world but a beacon for humanities from all over the world from on the asian to come to this city to make it in the city and help to celebrate with that, i want to say thank you. i have the honor of introducing my incredible city administrator

city and county of san francisco carmen chiu come on up carmen. >> i keep on telling david if they makes it joke i have a father so david thank you. please and (laughter). >> why i wanted to appreciate clay detainee and i and all here to celebrate the kickoff of the apa ama i'll carr men chiu the city administrator and have different racks that are set up here by having some comments with the chinatown and the mayor i want to reflect on highway fortunate to be part of the city it is so welcoming with the diversity. we celebrated every month with different culture contributions and the strength we are when i was on the - i

thought i san francisco you should have seen how hard boac working in china but proud of the mayor and, you know, i don't know that anyone would know we were up early in the morning over and over 5:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. and went preparing for every single day and it was consequently so welcome san francisco to promote san francisco and our diversity to celebrate our community and the mayor had to do that every single day meeting after meeting after meeting when someone with waiting to capture her photo. and i saw her represent our city an amazing person and with her the pride of apa community

throughout this process i want to reflect today as we kickoff (clapping.) as we kickoff apa heritage month really recognition how important and special san francisco is not just recognizing on this month about this yearlong commitment in the mayor and saw so up front and up close and so good, i want to thank got mayor and you for settling all that makes san francisco special and for making sure we promote our apa with that, thank you and for serving and thank you, very much. mayor london breed you're contributions for this celebration. >> (clapping) i think thank you. thank you all for your remarks. >> so one long celebration

takes more than a village but with the public library and asian museum and cam festive and since 2018 should been officially with our celebration and it is amazing. um, and then, of course, celebration coming to the meeting the last 5 to 6 months and - i want to okay. this is the partner sports it is amazing by members including kathleen and whole bunch of people we put together over one hundred and 80 organizations with they would have promoted apa month i know that is amazing

and over one hundred and 18 organizations we really appreciate them (clapping.) and promoting public is one of our goals will be our goal we can't assume everyone knows that the month of may is the asian pacific american heritage month month and even in the community so 0 depending on how responses every year to appreciate every single one of you what you do in the month of may and throughout the year and it is amazing and especially this language we have a radio station to try to reach out to even the demographics so this is really going to make it work and, of course, this year we is where our acknowledgement and may - let's be real we could not pull this without the

support of our business partners and sponsors it is amazing every year how we came too, so i want to specifically acknowledge our champions sponsors at the highlight level of support without my particular order i i'd like to acknowledge well affording you know how to hard to support we need income to support us since 2005 wells fargo has been helpful i want recognize. >> (calling names.) >>. thank you very much. (clapping.) and, of course. >> (calling names.) >> i don't know if kathy is here yet. not yet? >> and u.s. bank thank you, not only public sponsor but helped with the 20th anniversary

celebration and thank you for that and this year we have are so happy to welcome now sponsors. and want to welcome you to join us champions and 90 yell and thank you, for joining us and have two any sponsors i want to recognize them san francisco giants and winner and andrew's thank you for being here. and a new porn this year it takes a lot to put it together with the sponsors and really amazing and in i always want to keep us going and what is keeping us going the feeling we're doing in together and

doing something together and this is who we are celebrating this month and the amazing website we put together and to learn more about the communities and find nothing to do and port of organizations. um, did i mace anything i'm sorry if i do and look forward to seeing everyone this wednesday at the. >> (clapping). >> mayor. >> i'd like the honorees to take a picture with you. >> um,

[meeting adjourned]. >> good afternoon, everyone and thank you for being here. this is a apa heritage month kickoff conferences we know we are all here from mayor london breed in a few short minutes but thank you to her for not only for business and economic recovery but bringing our - thank you, london breed. >> (clapping.) that is about making idea happen we really appreciate this so but today, we are talking about our apa heritage month this is coming up