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>> good morning. i've got my giants cap on because i'm celebrating today. if i was going to be running today, i would probably have this cap on as well. good morning, people. we are here today to kick off what is the 100th anniversary of our data breakers. 100 years ago, bought in 1912 ran the first cross country race in san francisco -- bob.

he won the race in 44 minutes and 10 seconds, i think it was. 100 years later, we are still celebrating that run. the neat thing about it is we have not only kept the new history of this, but we understand that bob's grandson, bob burnett from houston, texas, in celebration of his grandfather's run 100 years ago, will also be running in this year's beta breakers race for the first time. wherever you are, we will see you at 7:00 on sunday, and hopefully, you have a fantastic race because it will be one that i think will be a very celebrating race with our new sponsors and all of the volunteers we have. today, i want to present to you a host of people that will be speaking about not only this race but the excitement we have in hosting this wonderful base to continue making it part of the tradition of san francisco -- the fun part of san

francisco. what i also want to let you know is that while we have some new rules to share, we are also instilling a number of exciting things that we want to make sure the people who registered and the 100,000 spectators, the 55,000 registrants already experienced just a wonderful event in the city. at the start at 7:00 in the morning. that is what i call golfers time. but it will start a little earlier, but it will also end up at the speedway medal in the golden gate park. that will be the new and where the party any handouts will be had in the same tradition, so it will not end in the beach. it will end at speedway medals in golden gate park. this year, we are emphasizing it will be fun. it will be in true -- in the tradition that the beta breakers always has been, and

that is that you can wear any wacky uniform that you want. unfortunately, my wife got rid of my spider-man out a long time ago, so i will not be able to do that, but i will be watching all the fun that all the people have. and, of course, we will have our people in the blue costumes this year, watching out for everybody else and their safety and making sure it is also the safest run we have as well. i wanted to take this opportunity to present to the executives of the beta breakers race this year a proclamation declaring it to be bitter breakers weekend in san francisco. come on up. angela is our new general manager this year. to kick it off, i wanted to make sure she got the proclamation that declares this -- there are a lot of whereases here, and you

will not be able to read as you are running in the race and it. angela is here today along with executives. she will be speaking in a minute. we also have our public safety department, our police department. they will be talking about new rules. i also want to make sure that you hear from representatives -- members of our alamo square neighborhood association, and, of course, our red cross is here as well. i think to take off with the rules chief. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. i have to bring it down a little bit and be the rule back, and then we will pick it up a little bit again with happy talk after that. i love the bay to breakers. we have policed the beta breakers for a long time, but to make sure it is here in another 100 years, we have to be safe

and considered of everyone along the route. this year, alcohol and flows have been banned. they pose a significant safety hazard and negatively impact the neighborhoods. they contribute largely to that, and we have to be considered to everybody along the route. to keep everybody comfortable, i know when people are running, it is a long ways, but it is only about a quarter of the link the marathon is. if you have to go, you have to go. please it one of the 1200-plus for the parties that will be along the route instead of going in somebody's garden. zero tolerance for public drunkenness or the public consumption of alcohol. we will be exercising with as much discretion as we can strict enforcement on anybody that is influencing anybody else's good time or their neighborhood. the news's behavior has got to go away in favor of good, clean fun.

so have a blast. beta breakers. [applause] ed lee -- mayor lee: beachy is pretty cool about it. he is not at all heavyhanded. come on up, angela. >> thank you. i just want to thank everyone here today for working with us over the last year to put together what we believe is going to be one of the best, the most fun, and memorable occasion for this race. in honor of this 100th running, we would like to give to mayor ed lee the bid #100 in commemoration. [applause] mayor lee: rostov mirkarimi -- ross mirkarimi has been

steadfast in his participation on this. robert is here to say a few words on this. >> thank you very much. supervisors at the coastal commission today and was not able to make it, but he asked me to pass on a few words. first of all, thank you very much to the city and race organizers for doing a fantastic job and getting people ready for this race. also, it is a wonderful thing that we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of this race. racers will spend most of their time in district 5, and ross is excited about a happy and fun and safe sunday for everybody involved, including athletes, families, children, and all the attendees. just wanted to pass that on. mayor lee: i understand ross is not here because he is practicing his speech so he can make that speech during a race, right? ben ellison, come on up.

>> thanks so much for having us. i represent alamo square neighborhood association. we got to get to this year and formed a big group of nine neighborhood associations, and i want to read those to you because i want you to know of the community involvement that was there. the panel labour association, alamo square neighborhood association, hayes valley neighborhood association, lower haight neighborhood association, coal valley improvement association, and a sunset park neighbors. we got together after the race last year, and we formed a big group, and that is when we sort of made a lot of changes for the race. we got together -- you know, the mayor's department, supervisor mirkarimi, the police

department, the beta breakers organizer, and all the neighborhood groups, so we got together and formed some new rules and all that came out with all the help of the organizers, and we want to thank these guys so much for all your help that you did for us. as the neighborhoods, you know, we were a little bit mad with what was going on the previous years. we just wanted to set a little bit more rules. we want to thank the police officers also came in. captain o'leary, captain max, and our new chief here. anyway, we just want everybody to come out and have a great time with the race. we are there. we're going to have ambassadors running around meeting and greeting everybody, so thank you so much, and had a good time. mayor lee: thank you.

i know that you have at heart while we have a great event, we also have neighborhoods it is running through, so we want to make sure that this race protect everybody and is sustainable for all the neighborhoods in san francisco that it goes through. i want to thank everyone for being here. it is about fun. we have over 155,000 people -- spectators and writers -- in the race. we expect that this race will continue. this is the first of a five-year commitment from zazzle, and that is a great name for the people sponsoring this race. the red cross will be out there helping our police and army, and our department of public works will be out there cleaning up everything. hopefully they do not have to work too hard. let's have a great bay to breakers race. [applause] thank you, everybody.

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particular location, the program? >> this location is very significant. this was the very first and only location granted by the board of supervisors for the street artist when the program began in 1972. how does a person become a street artist? there are two major tenants. you must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. a street artist, the license, then submitting the work to a committee of artists. this committee actually watches them make the work in front of them so that we can verify that it is all their own work. >> what happened during the holiday to make this an exciting location? >> this would be a magic time of year. you would probably see this

place is jammed with street artists. as the no, there is a lottery held at 6 in the morning. that is how sought after the spaces are. you might get as many as 150 street artists to show up for 50 spaces. >> what other areas can a licensed street artist go to? >> they can go to the fisherman's wharf area. they can go in and around union square. we have space is now up in the castro, in fact. >> how many are there? >> we have about 420. >> are they here all year round? >> out of the 420, i know 150 to sell all year round. i mean like five-seven days a week. >> are they making their living of of this? >> this is their sole source of income for many.

>> how long have you been with this program. how much has it changed? >> i have been with the program since it began 37 and a half years ago but i have seen changes in the trend. fashion comes and goes. >> i think that you can still find plenty of titis perhaps. >> this is because the 60's is retro for a lot of people. i have seen that come back, yes. >> people still think of this city as the birth of that movement. great, thank you for talking about the background of the program. i'm excited to go shopping. >> i would like you to meet two street artists. this is linda and jeremy.

>> night said to me to print them -- nice to meet you. >> can you talk to me about a variety of products that use cell? >> we have these lovely constructed platters. we make these wonderful powder bowls. they can have a lot of color. >> york also using your license. -- you are also using your license. >> this means that i can register with the city. this makes sure that our family participated in making all of these. >> this comes by licensed artists. the person selling it is the

person that made it. there is nothing better than the people that made it. >> i would like you to meet michael johnson. he has been in the program for over 8 years. >> nice to me you. what inspired your photography? >> i am inspired everything that i see. the greatest thing about being a photographer is being able to show other people what i see. i have mostly worked in cuba and work that i shot here in san francisco. >> what is it about being a street artist that you particularly like? >> i liked it to the first day that i did it. i like talking to mentum people. talking about art or anything that comes to our minds.

there is more visibility than i would see in any store front. this would cost us relatively very little. >> i am so happy to meet you. i wish you all of the best. >> you are the wonderful artist that makes these color coding. >> nice to me to. >> i have been a street artist since 1976. >> how did you decide to be a street artist? >> i was working on union square. on lunch hours, i would be there visiting the artist. it was interesting, exciting, and i have a creative streak in me. it ranges from t-shirts, jackets, hats. what is the day of the life of a

street artist? >> they have their 2536 in the morning. by the end of the day, the last people to pack the vehicle probably get on their own at 7:30 at night. >> nice to me to condemn the -- nice to meet you. >> it was a pleasure to share this with you. i hope that the bay area will descend upon the plaza and go through these arts and crafts and by some holiday gifts. >> that would be amazing. thank you so much for the hard work that you do.