thank you caughto everybody. i want to introduce juan fuentes now who will talk about the things that you do not see. >> i am a resident here. my wife and kids have been here, over 25 years. i am an artist. one of the things that the model block has done, we talked about how it has put us closer together as a family. it has empowered us, as a community, to rebuild our block. i have been bargaining with ann -- our houses are side-by-side, so i have been doing a vegetable garden in her garden. i started out with 1 barrel that mardina gave me, from the puc,

they gave me a 55-gallon drum. i now have over a dozen drums, 250-gallon drums. i collect over 1,000 gallons of water that i harvest from the rain. this summer, i watered my whole garden with the water from the rain harvest. that is another thing that has happened. i have also watered ann's garden with that same water. another thing -- karen is not here. she is in that nice, gray house. she has been an advocate, working with the environmental things in this community. she was one of the people responsible for pg&e getting us some solar panels, the phillips

solar panels. we have solar panels, mardina, ann has solar power. it has cut our energy costs down. the other thing we are trying to emphasize in our blood, in our community, to the young people, to respect the block and to keep it clean, and to learn how to recycle. we have green, blue, and black bins. we need to figure where everything goes because it is part of saving our environment. thank you for coming out. [applause] >> thank you. as juan indicated, this newcomb greeting project shows how community involvement and empowerment go hand-in-hand. there are a large number of redevelop the staff who are

here. perhaps it show your hand if you were involved in this. the project manager, along with many others. as well as the staff of other departments, thank you very much. we appreciate it. [applause] with that, let us get to the ribbon-cutting.

>> ready? 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [applause] >> thank you all for coming. please stick around for some sweets. >> let me start out by saying, from the get go, last night, i was talking personally with pg&e.

we continued the discussion this morning. before coming here, i had a chance to speak to the ceo. we agreed, all the engineers, from his division, with the city's public utilities commission, rec and park, as well as the california public utilities commission, are all coming together to review the outages that occurred last night. there were two outages. the first one appeared. we are going to get the confirmation this afternoon. it appears from this morning's conversation, it resulted from a down the wire -- downed wire that was providing power to the stadium. the secondary power outage occurred as a result of bringing the power back up and using secondary circuits. that is still under investigation, as to what caused

the second outage. obviously, the city was embarrassed. we apologize to the 49ers for this happening. the primary thing that we did, though, that we did well, we declared public safety the most important thing. and i need to thank all of that and that were at candlestick last night. they were very good at keeping themselves calm. police and fire at candlestick was excellent. we got information out to everyone in the stands through the various radiofrequency is made available to the security, including officers, rec and park staff. in a matter of seconds, those that did not understand what was going on, who may have initially thought it was a surprise is that that was going to occur,

they were informed to remain calm. no evacuations were called, but we immediately went into planning mode, in case that was necessary. everything was safe, and that was the number one concern. having said that, obviously, we all experienced a national embarrassment for this happening. we were on the phones last evening, during and after the game, and this morning, to make sure that this does not happen again. we expect another playoff game in january. the failed splice line has already been repaired by pg&e, but we will be going through protocols with them, with the public utilities commission, and our staff, to make sure we cover every base to make sure this does not happen again for the

foreseeable future, for all of the playoff games that may occur. we want to make sure that all the 49ers play are successful, as the result indicated, but also successful for the fans, so there is no interruption. we are doing a full investigation, having all of the engineers compare notes, and the offices of the puc and our public utilities commission. we are getting some cooperative oversight from everyone, california puc as well. there is cooperation and every point. we are not blaming anybody for this accident that occurred, but we are all going to make sure that this does not occur again. we are all on the same page. i lead that effort, talking to the ceo of pg&e this morning. >> [inaudible] >> we are going to go through that.

there were some bomb threats that were well-handled yesterday by the police department, but there was no indication, right anything other than an accident. we will continue to compare notes with everybody to determine whether or not there were any external events that would have caused this. so far, we do not have any information that suggests this would have been tempered by anyone. that is with the concurrence of our police and fire chief as well. >> [inaudible] >> again, this was an electrical service to the stadium that failed. our offer is separate, to build a brand new stadium, along with santa clara, with new linkages to power, and new lights.

these lights take some time, when the power goes out, to re- fuse. the newer lights, which we would have in our stadium, it is given the opportunity, would be instant. it is a separate issue. >> [inaudible] :xb 4ro>> you will have to talk. york about that. we have a strong plan b to build a stadium for them. if you look and other new stadiums across the nation, especially in major league baseball, even new stadiums having challenges as well. they are separate issues. >> [inaudible] a city-own a switch that failed. do you know anything about that? >> i spoke to city officials. they confirm that the original

of which was a failure of their line, what they call a splice failure. that was evidenced by the recorded arching. we thought it was a transformer explosion. it was not. it was up main feeding circuit line that pg&e owns that somehow failed. they confirmed for us this morning that the original outage was due to that splice failure. how the outage occurred is under investigation. pg&e, our own puc, sfpuc, along with others, are going to confirm that as well, by our own engineers working coope>> [inau] >> i have faith in everyone doing the best job they can. i have faith, going forward,

that we are going to work in a deliberate fashion to make sure that this does not happen. our city has systems that have been here for a long time. i was sad and embarrassed to have this happen on the night of our only monday night football game. everything was on the line. i am very glad we won. i am going to support the 49ers by doing the best job i can as mayor to make sure going forward everything is respected, additional particles are in place -- protocols are in place to guarantee this will not happen again. i think we have everyone on the same page ensuring this does not happen again. it should not happen. we do not want it to happen. yes, i was.

the 49ers will talk about thiat this afternoon, about plans to increase cell phone use of the park. i was concerned for the fans. public safety is our number one concern. the police department, fire department, recreation and parks, alongside the 49ers security, they all acted well. everyone was safe. then the communications with pg&e engineers were occurring all night long into the early hours. we started this morning to make sure everyone was working together.

my apologies to the nfl and 49ers. i know they joked about it and took in good spirits and were prepared to go forward. that is what professional athletes do. that is what the business of football is. we will make sure this does not happen again. i assure you we will be on top of this to make sure it does not happen. i am sorry. >> [inaudible] >> this has to do with cell phones. some fans the return to communicate inside and al felt challenges. i had challenges of my own when i was at the stadium trying to get out. that is what i meant about communications that could be increased. i know the 49ers are working on that with us. they will make some announcements on that. that will be this afternoon.

>> [inaudible] >> i keep this hat with me in the car. i am a big 49ers ban. i want to make sure the 49ers have a successful season, are into the playoffs. they're well on their way to the super bowl. i will make sure they have every game successful as much as i can. thank you very much.

>> this is one of the museum's longest art interest groups. it was founded by art lovers who wanted the museum to reflect new directions in contemporary art. it has been focused on artists in this region with an eye toward emerging artists.

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understand the different shifts within the award program and how that is nearing what else is going on in the bay area. -- how that is mirror beiing wht else is going on in the bay area. ♪ there are artists from different generations sometimes approaching the same theme or subject matter in different ways. they're artists looking at the history of landscape and later artists that are unsettling the history and looking at the history of conquests of nature. ♪ artists speak of what it means to have their work scene. often you are in the studio and do not have a sense of who is really seeing your work.

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