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secretary boomer: the directors went into closed session, and i never drove in the discussion to vote to disclose or not to disclose the closed session. chairman nolan: motion to disclose? not to disclose. secretary boomer: and as you noted, at today's meeting will be adjourned in honor of hannah. chairman nolan: ok. thank you.
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every single day for all you do in this city by the daçbay ççsan francisco çhome of the golden gate san francisco here is you're wondering one çall these places only make me love you tell me you are the heart of all of the golden west the golden west san francisco welcome me homeç again i am coming♪
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support is hospital. we are very lucky to have them support the hospital and to have had them supported all these years. the honorable willie brown, mayor. çthe honorable frankç jor" mayor. gina mosconi. [applause] district attorney george gascon. city attorney dennis r. vera -- herrerra. [applause] fireç chief and joanne hayes white. police chief gregg sur. [applause] supervisor scott wiener and
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malia cohen are here today. [applause] and our very own paul pelosi. i want to invite everybody here to come on a tour of the hospital and the new hospital. i am sure mayor ed lee would total about the new hospital. it is a remarkable project, really remarkable, veryç exciting. i do not even want to say this, ahead of time and ahead of budget. webcpor and all of their people deserve a huge vote of thanks. it is going to be a beautiful hospital. designed specifically to meet
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community needs. it is seismically safe, technologically advanced, and green. it is being done right, from the start, and we are proud to have here mayor ed lee to tell us about it. he has been involved with it for years and years. [applause] ç>> thank you, judy. çhello out there. welcome to the heroes and hearts awards ceremony luncheon. i am so happy to be with all of you here at the at&t park the giants. of course, you are all here. you know about our wonderful hospital. i just want to add how appreciative i am to the
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organizers that came together today with all of us to increase our capacity. not just by the number of people here. by the way,ç you are twice as g as last year. did you know that? that is wonderful. that just goes to say the hearts in san francisco had the capacity to grow every year. i want to thank you for that, and thank you for the contribution that make our general hospital so special. i begin by saying they did to the organizers for the event today, and most importantly, thank you to the doctors, nurse practitioners, administrators, janitors, a security guard people, everybody at that hospital. sue kern you are doing a fantastic job. thank you for giving us the world class hospital we need in our city.
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i know that you saw some of the earlier videos as more examples of how our hospital had reflected the bellies of our city. okyou saw ryan white and how he recovered from that hit and run accident. and then you saw at the very end, this past halloween, where he proudly wore the san francisco giants uniform for halloween. congratulations to ryan for recovering. thank you again to hospital staff. you know, i have been there. some of the most wonderful and hardest days i have had as mayor of the city. i want to let you know, for the firefighters out there, certainly the two i had the chance to be with in their last days, i want to thank you again for the wonderful hospital team we have and how we celebrated their lives by giving them the
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best we had. their families know that. on behalf of the city, again, another great example. we have really positive days to look forward to. in 2015,ç women get the most ld gold acute hospital opened up in oakland. we are on our way to that. we're working with contractors and vendors that are spending some $54 million to build the hospital, local dollar is going to local businesses to participate in the $877 million project. on time, in budget. yes, very important to do. we are going to be increasing the capacity of hospital beds. we will almost triple the size of the trauma emergency center.
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why? because we love the people here, the residents. we have theç capacity to grow. we have great corporate partners, and all of them that are here today, and there are many more that are not, but they are part of the building of the hospital. i want to say to you, i look forward, with extreme in patients, to opening up those doors in 2015, the brand-new hospital. to get back to the theme of hearts and a final invitation that you have after today and after we sing these songs, i invite all of you next tuesday to join our protocol officer charlotte schultze, me, mayor willie brown, frank jordan, and everyone else, to welcome tony bennett, and to sing along in our favorite song, 50 years old,
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where were you want to leave your heart, you can come to the rotunda at 12:00 noon and sing in whatever tone you wish. you will not be penalized. according to the mayoral decree that i will pass that morning. however you want to sing the song, as long as you come to the rotunda and do so within the confine its of that great place, where tony bennett will celebrate with us 50 wonderful years of you are always leaving your heart here, increasing its capacity. thank you very much. i invite you to be there next tuesday. thank you. [applause]
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>> he has a way about him that brings people in and seeks to involve the people of san francisco. that is what we need. the polarization and san francisco does not benefit the people we are about to help. they need compassion, support, and they need us to work together to build a system o and employment and drug treatment and family building and all of
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those services that will enable us not to pay so much money on the back end. what you are doing is spectacular. i am humbled to be with you. i am excited the mayor has me this opportunity to work with great people to do this work. believe me, the best is yet to comment. thank you so much. [applause] >> this is only his third day on the job. thank you for coming out. it is exciting to live in a cityç really believe in changig chrysostom of care with homelessness. -- changing the system of care with homelessness. we admire and respect and are so excited to have them here. it makes our day when we start the day with them. thank you, mayor lee.
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[applause] >> good morning, everyone. she wanted to introduce people who are above her. we are never above her, we are with her. [applause] anytime we can have a thousand volunteers and over 300 providers to help us withç helping others who need our help, that is what san francisco is about. yesterday, were you there at city hall? how many people were there at city hall to celebrate 50 years of tony bennett? you saw it on the news. you've heard about him being there. we gave them the proclamation, the key to the city. what i was thinking about all day long was how wonderful our
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city is. the fact that tony bennett has sung about our city, and i just kept thinking, why do we do this? why did you come out so much? you'll love this city as much as i do. çpeople of all levels, whether you are working for a great institution or you are working with a different company or you were just a volunteer and someone who cares about somebody else, you do what you can. when we can organize and city government to provide that to opportunity, and whether it is a haircut, how can we provide training, how can we get you some eyeglasses, how can we set
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you up on e-mail -- q different parts of life we live normally may not be available to everybody, but you are here to make that available. when i think about the otani bennett is singing to, i think about you. -- when i think about who tony bennett is singing to, i think about you. it is a city of people to know how to do things for other people. that is what makes me so proud to be the mayor of this city. i am willing to sacrifice everything there is to do what is good for the city. i do not care about the politics so much as i care that we can bring more people together under this big tent we call the city of san francisco. triple the effort to help so many other people change their lives, and if we can have a moment and their lives to
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suggest there is a way out, venues in which we care for them, it isç represented in the way you do things today. çthe way you talk to people. the way you communicate.ç i love these efforts come at these efforts for we can demonstrate all the humanity we have. people watch us and they think about san francisco and they think that is the place -- you can get lonely in manhattan. when you come to san francisco, it is not law only. bottom of my heart. thank you for coming out and sharing with us your skill sets as we go and do what we're supposed to do to solve the chronic and long-term needs. we enjoy these moments where so
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many of you as sure your resources, your time, your character and personality. congratulations, thank you to çthe 43rd homeless can act. thank you for being here. -- connect. thank you for being here. >> we have never given the mayor a t-shirt. i think to date is the day. [applause] they are one of us, right? [applause] i want to close today by thanking -- you see if the people up here, but there are hundreds of people getting things set up. have a wonderful day. we also have a very new committee that will be here today. çthey will be walking around to make sure that you, the
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>> the question when i started 11 years ago when i started doing resolution work is can anything be presented on a really low resolution device where it is potentially a digital image? can anything be presented that way? or will it feel cold and electronic? >> the imagery will change. there will be four different sets. it is a two dimensional image. it is stretched out into three dimensions. the device is part of the experience. you cannot experience the image
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without the device as being part of what you are seeing. whereas with the tv you end up ignoring it. i make gallery work more self and budget and public art work where i have to drop this of indulgence and think about how people will respond. and one of the things i was interested in the work and also a little fearful of, it is not until you get to the first and second floor were the work is recognizable as an image. it is an exploration and perception is what it is. what are you seeing when you look at this image? one of the things that happens with really low resolution images like this one is you never get the details, so it is
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