>> hello, i'm the president of the commission on the status of women, and i'm here to thank the friends of the status for women. without their efforts, we would not be able to give you cookies or coffee, which we want to get too quickly. and we are fortunate to have them. i think the only of the department that has friends to accompany them is maybe the friends of the library, so i think we need to give a big round of applause for the friends on the status of women. [applause] i would also like to thank the mayor. he may not recall, but three years ago, we used to have this event in a crowded little room upstairs, hot, and i contacted the been city administrator, and he's procured this room for us. so thank you, mr. mayer -- mr. mayor. i would also like to recognize some great, powerful women with

us today who are the city family. first of all, i see supervisors got wiener present. the director of the board of appeals. the ex-director of the children, youth, and their families. the fire chief. j. morrison, and there is a history behind her name. i could not even begin to make it worthwhile. the president on the commission of aging. the acting city administrator. mickey callahan, director of the department of human resources. and the director of the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs. without further ado, i'm going to turn this over to commissioner su. >> thank you. it is such an honor to be in the

company of such accomplished women. as you know, in a society, if we take care of our most vulnerable, if we work towards a policy for everyone, that is when our entire communities really succeed and drive. i'm so pleased to present the first one to annie chung. we have our certificates hear it from assemblyman tom ammiano. for all of our honorees, we also have a back from the friends of the commission on the status of women, so you can all continue the heavy lifting that you do. i would also like to invite my fellow commissioners of here with me. if you want to come back up again. a former president of the commission. and right next to me assisting

me is a member of the friends of the commission, and i cannot reiterate enough that we cannot do all the work without the friends, so any, thank you. -- annie, thank you. i'm going to just read off this order. this is the order that i have the certificates. supervisor mar's nominee. thank you for all of your work. [applause] and we have a crystal brown, a supervisor farrell's honoree. thank you. and geri crowley. at every meeting, i see her.

i do not know whether -- where she finds the energy. i hope i can grow up to be just like you. [applause] and kimberly ellis, a fellow member of the california bar, and honoree barmalia cohe -- on area of -- an honoree of malia cohen. next. carlina hanson, honoree of supervisor mirkarimi. next, we have eileen hanson. i would see her on every street corner. she is amazing. thank you. next, we have anella manuel, supervisor kim's nominee.

are you still here? might have been distracted by all of the relatives. next, we have dobrynin, supervisor -- deborah niemen, supervisor wiener's nominee. >> [inaudible] and a woman near and dear to my heart because my grandmother was an immigrant from china, although i'm fourth generation on my grandfather side. an honorary from district 7. [applause] congratulations.

and supervisor chi's -- supervisor chu's honoree. congratulations. she just announced that there are civil service discounts. does that extend to state employees as well? great. finally, we have the jacqu line zapata chavez, supervisor avalos' nominee. >> [inaudible] i hope you all join and carried that bag proudly. thank you very much. [applause] now, we have our president of

the friends of the commission on the status of women. >> thank you, commissioner. i want to thank the mayor and board of supervisors for all the work and dedication on behalf of women and girls in san francisco. i also would like to give a special thanks to the city administrator's office for continued support of this event. that is the reason why we are all here. this reception at this event would not happen without the help of our board members. and i do want to acknowledge our board members again. and we have a special guest, the consul general of the canadian consulate. she was just newly appointed. so we welcome you to city hall and to this event, and, of

course, our sponsors. we do have refreshments for all of you. we want to thank chevron for the gas cards. congresswoman nancy pelosi, a democratic leader in the u.s. house of representatives. the filipina women's network. marion chap phil taylor from the friends of the san francisco public library. one of our board members who is our even a share. thank you for putting all of this together. annie chung. she still donated to the reception so all of us could get fed. and srt productions for the photography. they are out there making sure we have a record of the day's events. cindy anderson. are your hair -- are you here? the women's action network also

donated to us. and, of course, max's cafe. our cookies were donated by max's cafe. and the staff of the department and the status of women, their dedication and support. they support the friends, so we support all their initiatives of their projects. without them, all this would not happen, so i would like to recognize them. again, thank you to the friends of the board members. oh, and, we do have flowers for the chair of this event, so we have flowers for you. i will tell you, you know how events are.

this would not have happened without her. at the last minute, she was sending out memos and reminders. thank you very much. finally, thanks to all of you for being here and helping us honor these wonderful women of the city. oh, and kimberly is out there. and we will see you again next year as we honor more women who really contribute to the city's growth and come up here for a photo opportunity. thank you again. please stay for some refreshments. and who rate to all women -- hooray to all women.

because we have a great waste water system here in san francisco, we do about 80 million gallons of waste water here in san francisco, which means we basically fill up 120 olympic sized swimming pools each and every day here in the city. we protect public health and safety and environment because we are discharging into the bay and into the ocean. this is essentially the first treatment here at our waste water treatment facility. what we do is slow down the water so that things either settle to the bottom or float to the top. you see we have a nice selection of things floating around there, things from bubble gum wrappers, toilet paper, whatever you dump down the toilet, whatever gets into our storm drains, that's what gets into our waste water treatment and we have to clean. >> see these chains here, this

keeps scum from building up. >> on this end in the liquid end basically we're just trying to produce a good water product that doesn't negatively impact the receiving water so that we have recreation and no bad impact on fish and aquatic life. solids is what's happening. . >> by sludge, what exactly do you mean? is that the actual technical term? . >> it's a technical term and it's used in a lot of different ways, but this is organic sewage sludge. basically what it is is, oh, maybe things that come out of your garbage disposal, things that are fecal in nature. it's sludge left in the water after the primary treatment,

then we blend those two over and send them over to digestion. this building is built to replace tanks here that were so odoriferous they would curl your hair. we built this as an interim process. >> is there a coagulant introduced somewhere in the middle of this? . >> this coagulant brings solids together and lets the water run through. that gives us more time in the digestion process, more time to reduce the amount of solids. these are the biggest ones in the world, like we always like to do in san francisco. they are 4 meter, there's none like it in the world. >> really? wow. >> three meters, usually. we got the biggest, if not the best. so here we are. look at that baby hum. river of sludge. >> one of the things is we use

bacteria that's common in our own guts to create this reduction. it's like an extra digestion. one of the things we have to do to facilitate that is heat that sludge up and keep it at the temperature our body likes, 98.6 degrees. >> so what we have here is the heat exchanger for digester no. 6. these clog up with debris and we're coming in to -- next wet weather season so we always come through here, clean them out, make sure that we get maximum heat exchange during the colder wet weather. sludge season. >> rubber glove. >> right here. >> rubber glove, excellent. all right, guys. >> thank you. >> good luck. >> this is the full on hazmat.

. >> residual liquid. we're taking it time to let it drain. we don't want to get sludge on it necessarily. take your time. stand on the side of it. . >> should we let it release for a while? . >> let it release. >> is that the technical term? . >> this is the most important bolt on the whole thing. this is the locking bolt. it locks this thing right in place. so now. >> take your hammer and what we want to do, we get rag build up right in here. the hot water recirculates right in here, the sludge recirculates in here. the sludge sometimes has rags in it. all we want to do is go around

the clean the rags. let me show you how. take the slide hammer, go all the way through the back, go around. >> got you. >> during the real rainy season, how does that change the way dealing with this job? is it a lot more stuff in there? . >> what we do, charles, we do this quarterly. every four months we go around and clean all the heat exchangers so we don't have a large build up. . >> go around? . >> yeah. (sound of hammering). >> what i'm trying to do,

charles, is always pull it out on the low stroke. >> right. so you are not, like, flying out. now talk about clean up. . >> then where does this stuff get deposited? . >> we're going to dump it in a debris box and it will go back to the plant. >> if you think back, the romans came up with a system of plumbing that allowed us it use water to transport waste away from the hub of civilization, which enabled cities to grow. . >> you have a large bowl, a drive motor and another motor with a planetary gearbox with differential pressure inside there. the large mass up there spinning separating the ol