(clapping). >> so nice today. you know, everyone should have the day off today and yeah. >> know i'm joint tenant kidnapping especially the union square ambassadors know not today. um, hi, everyone i'm san francisco mayor london breed and joined today by our union square ambassadors our downtown ambassadors and our union square alliance ceo melissa rodriguez and yerba buena executive director and so many people have a lot to do in the downtown area i want to express my appreciation to all of you for being here but more importantly all of you for building in and never giving up on san francisco

(clapping.) and for all you have folks shopping on line please stop. >> but in all seriousness we're here and began cars one of our most sergeant off designation for people visiting san francisco we know before the pandemic what we saw happened in downtown many of the visitors and people who he welcomed if all over the world and conventions san francisco was a place that for tourism and vegetables and even businesses we never had to work for and now we do work from home has challenged our city like never before the challenges around crimes and other things having put a lot of information that isn't entirely adequate as you can see today, this city is beautiful this city sister vibrant and exciting and we are

back folks. we're not coming back we are back (clapping.) so why is it important to be here today? fall to talk about the momentum but also as you might have heard i just introduced any budget last week. and we have some really exciting investment in we plan to make in the downtown area to make that visibly more exciting and a lot for fun and support and enhance a lot of existing programs that are here as well. now here's the thing i want to give a facts what is happening in san francisco. and we know that people have been talking about public health and like in the major city challenges did you know that crime is down in 2023 and continuing to be one of the

lowest crime rates we've seen in 10 years not including the pandemic and break-ins for cars continuing to decline significantly because of the resources and support that we gotten from our district attorney's office from our police department and all the incredible work that ma many of our city agencies to combat those issues and starting to see and feel a difference. is that perfect 90? no, but doubling down and working hard with the support of our downtown and union square ambassadors we are really changing the experience that people have when and come downtown but, you know, downtown can't be a place for retail it can't be a 9 to 5 has to be one

of the to newest neighborhoods people live and work and play so we know a lot of great events how how many of you went to are going to first thursday that thursday? >> (clapping) how many of you love it when he close down the streets and bring people together in downtown? >> (clapping.) my budget investments includes more active and night life downtown and more opportunity to turn areas of the downtown into entertainment zones can you imagine buying a small beverage and hang 0 in the sunny plaza and century and enjoy yourselves and say hi and meet people we're creating an environment people want to be in places where this is activation and excitement and we'll be making more investment

in actuating and bringing the culture and exciting experiences here to downtown san francisco. the other program we had that was extremely sketch is our have an opportunity to vibrant program do you change that is? of our better late than never gave free space for the a lot of small businesses that started in their garages in san francisco during the pandemic. and a doughnut spot a coffee and closing locations and vacant to vibrant free startup spaces for the entrepreneurs and 7 of them signed long term wlaez for downtown we're going to be doing more of that along that powell street and making more and more investments how much how many of you love tour neighborhoods in san francisco? >> we want to bring that

neighborhood feel to downtown those favorite businesses can actually be in downtown san francisco that is our goal and that's what i'm excited to do we want the vest more activation for downtown. the city has to be a partner little partnerships to make that work for small businesses and retail, to make sure that we are investing in public safety and to make sure we're turning s400 to into a neighborhood i can, live and in effect my budget invests $15 million in 0 o to that exist and that fun and enjoy that we so specially need in our city i'm grateful we have extraordinary partners to help us continue to do do work and build we get the resources, and work as a partner but the people who are on the on the ground in union square do the work every single day to make that best and the last thing i want to mention

before i bring up mri rise roger's how many of you look at plaza not the most attractive design in an urban environment that is underutilized i introduced a bond before the divorces voters in november you providing $50 million to make is an attractive designation for people (clapping.) to enjoy make sure you vote 2307b that body in november so many xiecht and activation and fun and so many joy that's what we're going to do to make downtown san francisco the place we know and love (sirens)

and i want us to remember one thing? not unfamiliar territory to us weaving been in challenging places before in fact, due went this building the info center a couple of stores that weren't even on at one point and this city had the violation to tear down those stores with a center and mission bay was recall tracks and any it is where the categorical state warriors with housing and it is whole that new neighborhood with bike trail and parks and open space so we are not going to be deferred by what we know we're capable of that is exactly why we're making investments working out to transform downtown into the neighborhood that we can joy for the people who work here,

the people who visit here and the people who live here thank you all thank you for being here today. >> and with that, i'd like to introduce our partner whose working hard rat union square and doing an amazing job more and more businesses signing leases and oh my god, in the union square area and 60 businesses for the last two years in union square thanks to the leadership or mri rise rodriguez. >> all right. >> (clapping) how is everyone feeling. >> i can't hear you loitered. okay. >> now i'm happy to be here and mri rise with the union square alliance i'm a san franciscan make should noise san franciscans. >> i want to hear you (clapping.) i live in the beautiful city i

work if if beautify city and pend my life in this city hoping to understand and know have well in order for our entire cities and community to thrive we need a downtown that is thriving too many with that without a thriving dentist we can't support the infrastructure that is needed to support all of our community, our schools and roads and infrastructure, our city services so important and right now you're downtown needs all of us. what we're seeing behind us is all of us a village we brought the heart of our city to be strong again that is union square. and yerba buena. we want this area to feel what is the potential we're 12 hotel rooms

in union square another 10 in house u thousand in the yerba buena area for people to experience lives greatest moments and as is bayview residents we put our best foot forward and show people that san francisco is a beautiful city we all know love and cherish by the bay this is our culture when you're walking up powell student we have work to do thanks to our mayor and police chief and our city administrator and thank you mta thank you, sf traveler and mike who is here our ambassadors whoer here comes everyday in the trefrjz and down here when san franciscans won't come downtown we want you back come back and continue to enjoy lives moments

the holidays or moerdz and this great opportunity that mayor present makes us without excuses we can access it and park and enjoy shows and music and beauty and activation and so pleased and so excited for this opportunity for our future 0 support in bond. imagine housing above plaza and imagine music here and imagine an area filled with tourism we love this city by the bay i love it city and thank you for being here. and for your help making f this happen and we need clean streets thank you, mayor so, yes all of that is happening thanks to the support of our leadership. [off mic.]

>> thank you. >> yes, we need all of three and going to bring our city back with that, i'd like to welcome up the director of the yerba buena cdb scott. >> (clapping) (laughter). >> hi, everyone i'm scott the executive director for the yerba buena community benefit district and south of market and thank you, mayor london breed and dennis and oewd for their support on creating this comprehensive program like this and will energize downtown. >> thank you mri rise and the entire team with the union square alliance for partnering us with us to do this existing program and yerba buena we are a community of museums and combraerlz galleries and restaurants and garden centers and it is pretty amazing neighborhood we have 12 thousand

resident across the street in the neighborhood to call yerba buena their home very diverse and amazing neighborhood. um, we also have a lot of momentum as mri rise mentioned mortality here and in yerba buena an amazing health fair snowflake with 20 thousand people across the street actuating the street and we have 25 new restaurants and bars opened in the last two years we have seeing change that is happening. our organization in yerba buena district we are about creating safe and welcoming and beautify neighborhoods and we do that on a daily basis with ambassadors see our ambassadors yerba buena ambassadors the union square ambassadors and the welcoming ambassadors. (clapping.) they sdwefr for hands we can clap but keep on clapping for them they're on the streets

everyday taking care of the important things thank you for your hard work and commitment and programs lake what we're talking about today enhances the street level experiences and bifurcation and safety programs and community programs really comprehensive anticipate new businesses will be attracted and strengthen sour existing arts and culture and museums that is really important we have 12 museums. >> and we are very excited about that as i mentioned thank you all and now i get the exciting pleasure to introduce our partners from the filipino community whew sorry about that desie and he's been an amazing executive director and runs an amazing cultures business please

come up. >> thank you for the warm introduction thank you. i'm representing the filipino community today and for us this is not just a press conference foreclosure guess revitalization of the downtown but a press conference step up to the plate and helping san francisco recover from the pandemic so the investment mayor london breed is talking about not a hail mary but concentrated investments been investing in the philadelphia pen community with the market in the san francisco mix and the first community to showcase what is the possibility of the community coming together and taking over the streets and make arts and commerce together and that market with the economic development not just for filipinos but chinatown and so forth and during the pandemic, you know, we stepped

up to the plat and given a by platform called it it the garden and 0igd 350 volunteers over 6 months to have 15 beautiful color to bring the community together and during the pandemic give a retail space with sfmta for over a decade and turned it into is fabric artist maker space creating exhibitions and artwork phenomenal not only to bring people back mayor london breed will be giving the filipino community we want the world to think about the filipinos on the same day that chinatown came to san francisco and that option of culture attractiveness and designation not a hail mary they're are one

half a million philippines many of you may be married to a filipino or a dj that is filipino we have to turn part of the downtown spot next contribution for san francisco and one of the things that often bugs me in the work i had is do all the economic development and bring out vendors like 50 different businesses on the streets and yet an by wall is half by i'm hoping to open up the mall to transform the mall and make three a filipino transition for all of san francisco so at the mayor london breed and thank you to all my partners three building for the filipino community like the

yerba buena and all the agencies like oewd and mpdu the whole albeit so, thank you. >> thank you, so much desie and you mentioned the room in the mall and our haven't do vibrant program is hopefully will help us get to a place where some that have the ground zero that want a brick-and-mortar business that the city will be that angle that partner yes property owners to have reduced rates and - but we can do this together. and it will be a partnership because the representation of the filipino community is strong if neighborhood and it should be stronger within our retail establishments and hopeful with the investment we'll start to realize i also wanted to

mention, of course, we want you to take public transportation and bike to downtown, but we know some of you won't get out of our vehicles that's okay. part of my budget includes the possibility of some free parking i don't know what is is about free parking that gets people excited but during lunar increasing with parking with available and little square people went crazy we love about that parking lot was packed and more people visited chinatown to we broke down and provided additional resources in the budget because there is something for everyone and has to be something for the additional public comment may be provided later in the agenda. like i said what work here and, live and time to come here to play. so with that, i want to thank you for being here. and we are looking forward to seeing transformation in our downtown. and again, this week first thursday down on second street

between market and mission (clapping.) we'll have a disco dj and those restaurants down there are amazing you don't have to wait night thursday but more activity and more excitement for the dentist let's show san francisco and feel the magic thank you all. >> [music] so, can you tell us what it was like for you during your first encounter with the san francisco fire department?

>> yep. it was super cool! i got to learn about the dry standing pipe correction. it is actually called, dry sand piper just stand pipe. tomato. you know. yea. >> so, what is coming up next for what is that for? >> oh , firefighter backsterinvited mow to a fire station to see the cool stuff firefighters use to put out fires. you have seen the had doors open like a space ship from out of nowhere. i close my eye its is like i'm there right now! wow! whoa. watch out, man.

what is that for? >> what is this? these are fire engines they might look alike they are both red. white top and red lights on top. this is a new 2021 fire engine and this is an older 2014 fire engine. if you can't tell, this one is shorter and narrower than our older fire engines. they have cool things like recessed lights. roll up doors. 360 degree cam ares and more that is important as the city is moving toward slower and safer streets adding parklets and bulb outs and bike lanes we need to decrease our footprint to keep us and the community safer on emergency scenes. >> what's back there? >> when is not guilty fire engine. great question. i want to see, sure. >> let's go back and look at the equipment and the fire pump on

the fire engine. >> this is a fire pump. it is cool all the colors and all that. this fire pump and this engine holds 500 gallons of water that is a lot. >> a lot of water. >> it is push out 1500 gallons a minute of water. we can lose our 500 gammons quickly. why we use hoses like this to connect to a fire hydrant and that gives us unlimited amount of water to help put a fire out temperature is important we have enough fire engine in san francisco to put fires out. so we can reduce the injuries and minimize loss of life and minimize property damage. [music]

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our family is the (inaudible) is unique and one of the few places you that is happening in the world and and few items we add on the menu food from the old school handmade from other places. this was fined by a german person that's why the chinese hang out. you see chinese around chinatown because in the first block of chinatown will say chinatown on that and thththththththththththththit.

>> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their shop & dine in the 49 within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services in the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so we're will you shop & dine in the 49 chinatown has to be one the best unique shopping areas in san francisco that is color fulfill and safe each vegetation and seafood and find everything in chinatown the walk shop in chinatown

welcome to jason dessert i'm the fifth generation of candy in san francisco still that serves 2000 district in the chinatown in the past it was the tradition and my family was the royal chef in the pot pals that's why we learned this stuff and moved from here to have dragon candy i want people to know that is art we will explain a walk and they can't walk in and out it is different techniques from stir frying to smoking to steaming and they do show of. >> beer a royalty for the age berry up to now not people know that especially the toughest they think this is - i really

appreciate they love this art. >> from the cantonese to the hypomania and we have hot pots we have all of the cuisines of china in our chinatown you don't have to go far. >> small business is important to our neighborhood because if we really make a lot of people lives better more people get a job here not just a big firm. >> you don't have to go anywhere else we have pocketed of great neighborhoods haul have all have their own uniqueness. >> san francisco has to all

start with the pledge of allegiance. if you are able to please rise for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands. one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. please stay in the union. you know, we say in the union. yeah someday. someday. have a art. talk like it. not tonight. may i begin with roll? president elias, please. sergeant. commissioner clay. commissioner walker. present. commissioner benedicto. present. commissioner yanez is excused. commissioner yee here. vice president carter obersten present