[reading names] >> all right, thank you. [applause] >> those people give money, so please applaud. >> next, i would like to introduce betty yee, the 2014 candidate for controller. john, maybe you could give her some advice. [applause] >> good evening.

as we celebrate the contributions of some very important figures in our history, who have contributed to the development of our country, every state, of this great city, as we honor the achievements of the congressmen, ongoing contributions, and our mayor in san francisco. each of us could not be doing the work we are doing, that we have done, without the doors of opportunity having been opened for each of us. making sure we are developing the leaders of tomorrow as part of the integral programs of leadership development and civic engagement. the internships program is designed to prepare college

students to become our future leaders. by providing them with the opportunities to work with government agencies, they develop their leadership skills, public policy experience, and broaden their civic engagement. they have demonstrated a dedication to the community, and they will continue in their engagement by working professionally with their fellow peers and mentors. warning in workshops to enhance their leadership skills emperor -- learning and workshops to enhance their leadership skills. we thank the local state and federal offices before hosting an intern and we think of the elected officials for their continued leadership and for opening the door for mentoring are new leaders. please join me in congratulating and welcoming the internships class of 2012. will you please join me on stage? [applause]

mayor, will you join us for a photograph, please?

>> thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. one more round of applause. [applause]

if you look around you tonight, you will see poster board. celebrating, acknowledging, the first asian americans. we have the first asian-american actress in hollywood. the first asian-american nba player. the first members of congress. these interns are the future of our community. they are the reason why we are here today. we're also here to celebrate and recognize one of the greatest members of our community. this year it is the first year we are giving the lifetime achievement award. the lifetime achievement award this year is going to secretary norman manetta.

he is a trailblazer. a man who paved the way for many of us. he was the first asian-american mayor of a major city. he was elected to congress 10 times. he was the first person to serve two presidents in a cabinet. first as secretary of commerce to president clinton, secretary of transportation to president bush. it was on 9/11 that secretary mineta showed us what he was made of. he made the call to ground all of the planes. it was secretary mineta who instituted the policy is -- policies at tsa. it was secretary mineta who

prevented the profiling of arab- americans and muslim americans in our country. tonight, we honor secretary mineta and we give them -- him this for a very special reason. i want to thank the san francisco giants for donating this bat. the reason why we are giving this back to secretary mineta is because of what happened to him when he was a young boy. secretary mineta was forced to relocate into the internment camps. as a young boy, he was taken to the train station by military police officers. as a young boy, he was a huge baseball fan and he had his

prized possession with him, his baseball bat. military police saw the young boy with his baseball bat and said you are not taking it with you. that is a weapon. what did they do? they took away his prized possession. later on in his life as a member of congress, a very generous person heard the story and offered him an autographed hank aaron bat. as a member of congress, you are not allowed to accept a gift valued over $200. so the government took away his back again. tonight, we cannot replace the bat that was taken away from that young boy. but we do give them something that we hope will take its place. ladies and gentlemen, i present to you the first ever recipient to of the lifetime achievement

award for services rendered to the asian american community and services rendered to our nation. i give to you secretary mineta. [applause] >> i cannot think of a more appropriate gift tonight than to receive this bat. i want to thank the mayor, and everyone, members of the board of supervisors, for hosting this event tonight. all of us who have had the privilege of serving in public service have gone to that point

because we were standing on the shoulders of those who preceded us. i want everybody here to remember that whenever they do in the future, bring everything you are and bring everything you want to the jobs you are going to be doing. there are tremendous opportunities that are out there. asian-pacific american heritage week is a time for all of us to be able to show the majority community what we are capable of doing. it is also a time when people in the asian pacific american community are learning about each other. many people say that the united

states should be a melting pot. i did not believe in the melting pot theory. when you have a melting pot, you put all the ingredients into the bowl, stir it up, and everybody loses their identity. in the asian pacific american community, there are over 150 languages, religions, cultures, everything you can think of. we do not want to lose that identity of our own history regardless of where our forefathers have come from. i want everybody to be proud to of the language of their forbearers, the religion, the history, the culture, and the arts. again, i do not want us to lose

our identity and the community in this great nation. again, thank you very much to the members of the boards for this wonderful gift bestowed upon me, and let's go ahead to continue to hit the ball park -- hit the ball at the ballpark. thank you very much. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, we will bring up our founder to say a few last words. we would like to ask all of the previous speakers to come up for a photograph. it is the hard work of these

board members -- without their hard work, none of this would happen. thank you to everyone. >> we would also like for the judicial officers in the

audience to come up as well. if you are a sponsor, please come on up.

we will ask the founder to speak a few words. ladies and gentlemen, we will start our cultural program after words. food will be served in the four corners of the program is going on. i present you the founder. >> thank you very much. thank you. i especially want to thank the organizers and the leaders of the event. i want to thank you for coming here to celebrate the heritage month. i especially want to thank the state leaders, some are here, and some are not.

enjoy the rest of the celebration. have a good time, take care. thank you. >> ladies and gentlemen, i would like to give a round of applause to our emceed tonight. tonight.

>> thank you. as you know, it's summertime. baseball season is upon us. and certainly the rivalry between the giants and the dodgers is hot as it's ever been. and certainly we all obviously have watched over the year since the horrible incident that happened to bryan stowe and what happened in the dodgers game in los angeles. and we want to do everything possible that we can to make our city continue to be safe. all the families and the kids and the visitors that come to at&t park know that it's a great safe facility.

and so out of respect for the sports rivalry, we want to make sure that there isn't anyone out there intent on doing harm. and so our officers will be dressed in dodgers gear. in the various colors that you see behind me. and they will be there incognito blending in with the varius fans to make sure that the additional eyes and ears, whether in the stands or around it or around the ballpark, they will be there. and we just want to serve this up as a reminder that we're going to keep our city safe for everybody to enjoy the game. and to make sure this following week when the dodgers are in town for the rivalry that everybody is kept safe. so i want to again thank chief sir and his staff for thinking ahead that this rivalry should be only on the sports field. and not anywhere else to be engaged in. we are intolerant of any level

of violence. we want everybody to enjoy themselves. and so the undercover officers will be out there in these particular uniforms helping the public keep safe. i also have a -- another minor announcement although it will be just as significant. i invite all of you to be there tuesday. obviously we are still in starry eyed with the perfect game that matt cain had given. and so on behalf of the city, and with full support, we will be with the giants, we will be giving matt cain the keys to the city just before the game starts. and i would love all of you to be there and celebrate that momentous occasion. again, another reason why we're taking on this rivalry. but also letting the dodgers know, we have a perfect game this year. what do you got? thank you. [applause] >> thank you, he doesn't even

have his signature giants hat on. but he's ready to go. anyway, when the mayor came up and said hey, obviously we stole this page from the 49ers super bowl run last year. that fell just a game shy when officers -- the new york giants uniforms or jerseys if you will, just to set the tone that we want -- we think that our fans are the best fans in the country. we know they are. so the mayor said hey, what about the dodger series? i didn't know if i could get san francisco police officers to wear dodger blue. but these three courageous officers volunteered. they will be -- there will be many more than three out there. so to all the giants fans, have a great time. be the class fans that you are, treat our rival fans right. and let's just send the dodgers home nothing but disappointed. [applause]

>> good morning. thank you for being here this morning at the san francisco police academy. i want to introduce some of the folks behind me. obviously our mayor, ed leigh. the president of the san francisco police commission. ron conway, caroline, the director of global human engagement for hewlett packard. our chief information technology person here at the san francisco police department, leo solomon, director of project i.t. management. adam, founder of arc touch. zach, product lead, arc touch, and the newest classes of the strans police academy, lateral and spri level. the entry level officers are starting today.

without delay i am going to introduce mayor leigh to explain why you are here. it is a very exciting day for me as chief of police as we step into the next stage of progressive technology for the san francisco police department. mayor ed leigh. a [applause] >> thank you, chief. thank you very much. i am glad to be here this morning and certainly the very first thing i want to do is challenge the chief and thank all of the men and women of the new class, who will also share in the responsibility of taking care of our citizens. i want to thank you for your sacrifice and the work that you will be doing with us. our police department of course is essential to a safe city. when the chief and i first did our interviews when he was coming in to see me, we talked about the technology, and i had

said in my previous role that we were part of the effort to help sue and her efforts to modernize our police department. of course within months sue was coming in to the city administrator's office telling us what the department did not have set up. with commission president mizuko and the chief, as they have come together during this administration, we wanted to take care of that in the most passionate way. a couple of weeks ago we were up here already announcing our city's support and efforts to create multiple classes for the future to make sure that as we see so many other of our officers retire, that we fill those ranks. i think that our new recruits are completely reflective of that effort, and we will see more and more of our recruits in the months to come as they help take care of the future ranks in our city.

today we are announcing a very special endeavor, one that reflects so many of our administration's effort to modernize our police force. as you know, i have been very much focused on our openness in inviting technology to help us solve problems, social problems, communication problems, challenges that each of our departments have. and i'm thrilled because the formation that ron conway led with the creation of sf-city and the promise that not only would it be a voice for technology and innovative companies to tell us what we could do to help the industry succeed in our city, but there was also a promise that we mutually made together, which was how could we help our technology companies help us

become a better city to help us serve our residents, smarter and more efficiently. we identified quite a number of projects in our city. some of them are being baked, if you will. this is one we wanted to put out front and center. six months into this new administration, we are ready to announce today that in partnership with sf-city and one of the key members, arc-touch, and h.p., hewlett packard, we have formed a two-phase project that will address something that we have identified for many years that has hampered our police department's efficient use of time. one of the things that the street officers do on a daly basis is they have to write instant reports and get the

data to do their job. most of that is done by the officers leaving the streets and returning to their stations or to the downtown office to access the ready computers that are there so they can get the data there. we don't have the mobility, if you will, to have the officers access that information while they are in their cars or on the streets. so in a two-phase process what we are doing today is announcing a partnership with h.p., who is donating some 60 of the initial first-class laptops to be used by this particular class to train them, and sf-city is donating $100,000 in that effort with the whole training program. combined they are working with arc-touch to develop application soss that once these officers -- applications

so that once he these officers are trained, arc-touch will be then in phase two developing applications so that various mobile devices in addition to the laptops, and eventually it will be tablets and then mobile applications that might be on their phones, to be able to access crime data, be able to utilize new technology in order to transfer speech and video into written reports that will make the officers very versatile in the field. that is important to stress. one of the problems we have always faced in both limited budget times and even robust times, is whenever you have to have an officer remove him or herself off the street, out of the the presence of the community, in to a station to write reports for several

hours, that presence is missing. in order for the officialses to be had, we have to develop innovatively technology that offers access in a mobile way. that is what this relationship will do for us. it begins with this donation, but the essential part that will take place in these walls is the actual training to utilize the accessed abilities from the h.p. lap tomas into the crime data warehouse and have the applications developed over time. it's a wonderful program. it is one i think that reflects exactly the relationship that ron conway and i discussed months ago when we started this, how we can be a more efficient city, how can we save time, and how can we still have the officers perform the essential service of being essential service of being physically there in the