important effort for our neighborhood happen. thank you. [ applause ] >> so, i work for the city for over 13 years. and one of my first jobs was to maintain the hall of justice and so i can't tell you how happy i am today to be standing here. i just can't tell you, because of all of the needs of that facility. and in those days, the designs were a little different because we have a jail on top, and then we have chief sur's office underneath there and the court office and all of the main nens needs for all of the activities that happened on top, required huge maintenance hours and huge amounts of staff time to come and repair. and so i am very, very happy to be here. but i am going to ask the chief to come and talk about his vision of what he would like to

see happen here. and to move out of the haul of justice and since he is a resident there and he has all of those experience and might want to share some of them with you. chief come and say a few words. >> thank you all for being here, to say, i mean, when we do press events but we say a lot but this is big. but it is not often that you get to stand in front of something and say that is big. this is so, tremendous, i mean that cannot tell you how we are as a police department. >> the hall of justice was built in 1960, the reference of the earthquake and if that earthquake happened today. we would be out of luck, at least at the hall of justice, it would probably come down and we don't know what the loss of life would be, but that is all that we have. and when an earthquake happens because around here we know that it is not a question of this, because it could sustain

itself for 96 hours and we have 72 hours.org and take care of yourself and just do what we need to do and this allows us a whole additional day to get to where we need to go. there are more people to thank than i can count, obviously the men and women in uniform are beholden to all of the people behind me wearing arng vests and helmets thank you so much for the work that you do. [ applause ] e >> hok and mark for the design, and dpw and all of another agencies that are making it happen. certainly, mayor newsom and mayor lee for shepherding this through the board of supervors, on and on and on and on. and certainly, finally but probably the most important get it right in 2010, and for the earthquake safety emergency response bond, and again, supervisor chiu referenced the

system that was a 20-year continuous pour and that is just how smart san francisco is and this is just another intans where the city got to right and the police department and the fire department and the public safety is going to benefit and this will house the new southern station and it is hard to believe that you could build one more thing down here but i think that supervisor kim would be welcome to have it. >> so any way, thanks again, and i can't tell you how excited we are to be here. and if it can't open in november that would be a great birthday present for me. >> [ applause ] all right. consideration, buwe do wa to to follow our schedule and make sure that things are done right chief, sir, but we will do our best. yes. >> as part of the bond, we also heard the other projects and one of the key projects is all of the renovations of many of the fire houses and the fire

need of upgrade and bathroom facilities and just upgrading them and bringing them up to the standard and that was al the voters in 2010, at and as part of the project, we heard about hok and mark and the design i think was very challenging and bringing the two police stations, the fire house and the one thing that has not been talked about which is the community facilities which is the old fire house which was preserved and blended in with the architecture of the area and it will be a facility for the community groups and people to be able to use and that i think is a very, very important facility. we sometimes built great facility and do great things and we forget to make enough spaces for us to go and enjoy and talk about the future of what we can do. >> and so i am happy that the fire station is included in

this building. thank you for being here. >> as we reflect and commemorate our city's resil ans on this very day 107 years ago, we are here to talk about continued strength in public safety and in our community. let me first acknowledge the men and women that are here with us today from engine and truck eight and battalion, three, thank you for being here. [ applause ] . >> they work off of the granite street station and so they will be the neighboring station to our new station here. and we are also joined by our ambulance unit, medic 77, thank you for being here. and i am very proud of the men and women, all of you standing behind me but i want to acknowledge the command staff as well as the commission representative steven, and commissioner since 1996, so thank you for being here. [ applause ] >> we are very excited about this project behind us and we will have a brand new fire

station in the mission bay neighborhood and it is very much needed as evidenced by what supervisor kim told you a growth of 25,000 residents in ten years. and we have seen tremendous growth both commercially and residentially and it is fitting that we will be able to proside a neighborhood fire house for this growing neighborhood and so we are grateful for that and i should also point out that it is the first of its kind where we get along very well in this town as police and fire departments, but this is the first time that we will be sharing space together and i am looking forward to that and i have plenty of nicknames for chief and i think that i will hold off on that right now but we are delighted to be sharing space with them. share space is bigger than ours and it is very excited and it is brand new it is the first of as a ind in san francisco. native san franciscoan. s what he alluded to is that i am proud and delighted to have preserved and restore, the old station 30 and the top floor, we will house our fire vestation unit, which is

also a joint fire and police endeavor, so we are really excited about that. lots of people to thank, course, many people have already been thanked and acknowledged, first and foremost, mayor lee, for always be a champion of public safety. and he, it is a number one priority for him as it should be. like the chief said that the community, 80 percent and president chiu had a lot to do with that. in 2010, when the economy was very, very difficult everyone was skeptical about putting a 420 million bond on the ballot but we heard from the community that this is important public safety is a priority. and with nearly 80 percent of our community saying yes, we need to improve public safety by building the police department, a facility that they need and can work out of and it being very sustain able. in addition, we have so much deferred main nens to the 43 fire stations and the bond will

have touched, at the end of the bond, 22 facility and obviously more to go but it has done a huge amount to bridge the cap gap, and so we are grateful to the department of public works, we work with charles and gabriella and it is all about partnership. mayor lee under his direction and then mayor newsom have asked us and demanded of us that we do not operate in silence but work collaboratively to end up having projects like this. the last thing that i want to acknowledge is the people also in the orange vest that the chief did, you are our unsung hero and those of us in uniform we get a lot of credit but thank you to every one of you that are putting your hands on this project. and we look for wartd to the fall of 2014, when we will be able to move into these facilities. thank you. >> all right, are we ready for that alabama

for that beam to go up? >> i am going to ask frank murphy, who is the lead contractor on the project to come and say a few words and get that beam going up there. >> i can get you built, november 14th, if i could get a complimentary get out of jail free card. >> i will make it clear, we are still going to have time for the people who did not sign the beam to be able to sign it and we will ask you to step back, and we have been out here for 16 months and i want to control a couple of stats and we have had zero complaints from the neighbors and we have minimal first aid injuries on this job site and a site this big, things can happen very quickly out here and it is too, too, the dedication of the labor force out here, and the communication between the higher ups and the people down

in the field that make this happen. i could tell you are coming from the field and i am the field person that i sit in a lot of meetings with the city of san francisco and designers and it is talk to build the building, it would be a lot taller and a lot quicker. so it is tough for me to sit in the meetings but they are dedicated meetings by these people and they are important meetings. they set the tone for what is going to be built out here but at the end of the day, it is the people standing behind me, that are building this building in the orange and green vests that make the difference out here and that is going to build the building for san francisco and make all of us proud and i could not be happier to build the building for the police department and fire department of san francisco and i know that these guys are excited about it and this is a high profile building and we put a lot of time and dedication into it and i want to once again, thanks the field guys out here and we talk about it all of the time. we try to communicate that to each other and sometimes we know that during the course of

a job you feel under appreciated and i think that a few people out here said it and i want you to know that the senior person on the side appreciates you and i want you to know that the city of san francisco truly appreciates you, because in many of those meetings this is brought up that can it could not be done without you. >> thank you to the construction people building the building. we appreciate it. [ applause ] >> so, if everybody who did not sign, who would like to sign the beam, kind of come up and meander, it is a bad word and could you sign up and back out of the way so we could raise the beam, thank you.

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>> this park is part of our water front. it is set to make it part of our great city and we are celebrating, the 150th anniversary of our port of san francisco. [ cheers ] so all of you who are here tonight, those of you who live and work in the city, have a great connection to our port. so it is a wonderful history, and come on down and spend your entire time at the port you will have a lovely time from our exporatorium to the giants, to the park and to go out and celebrate. so thank you, for the port commission, and the wonderful staff and the director. the port of san francisco,

congratulations to the city of san francisco. thank you. [ applause ] >> good morning, everyone. i'm tailor stafford, president and ceo of pier 39 and on behalf of our grateful water front family, it is my privilege to extend a sincere thank you to the port of san francisco for all that you have done, and continue to do to build the best water front in north america. pause plause [ applause ] >> from at&t, home from the world champion san francisco giants to the building, to the

new exporatorium, and new cruise ship terminal to pier 39 and all of the restaurant and businesss in between, we are all proud to wish you, the port of san francisco a happy, 150th anniversary. today, project such as the new warriors arena establish the port as a world class destination, due for large part to the vision of mayor ed lee and monique moyer and as well as the dedication of the port commissioners and staff. it is now my pleasure to introduce honorable ed lee, mayor of san francisco. [ applause ] >> good morning, everybody. happy birthday. i just want to make sure that you know that if you combine

the ages of myself, or president chiu, and monique moyer we might get to 150 years, maybe. but i'm down here to have fun, today, get out of city hall, go to bubba gumps and make sure that i spend it with other people who love to have fun like our port commission and hers directors and the staff and the rec and parks here and i know that the fire chiefs had to lessen her fun time and go to a three alarm fire and thank you to her for being vigilant for the city. and we would rec and park they have discovered yet another great partner to find water front open space that we can all enjoy, both in terms of getting our public to understand our bond program better, but also to create new spaces. so thank you, phil for being here as well. our port commissioners extend not to present but to past for

commissioners and he knows that and i saw mike and others, because it takes generations of people to create things along the water front. it is incredibly expensive to restore a lot of our piers and monique is the first person to know that intimately and historically but we do have persons and entities that want to continue this fabulous water front experience and to make investments, where there is jefferson street, brandon wharf and pier, 30, 32 and the exporatorium this wonderful opportunity. i want to thank, past and present port commissioners, and i see them here now. that they have earned the title of being the greatest stewarts of our water front and so thank

you for your ongoing effort to do this. [ applause ] >> and the work incredibly well with the other agencies. i know that because this is pier 39 and one of the most iconic travel destinations, i understand that is why, john martin was here, because while he flies airplanes he is part of an incredible transportation center and we all know that and we all share in that wonderful experience with being clearly, the best nation for so many, millions of people, every day. and as we do this, we reinvent and reinvest and find other reasons for people to enjoy themselves here. and those projects like the exporatorium and like the bay lights and renewed effort to create more water-base theds transportation to compliment the bridges that we build. we will create more bridges on the international level for our

city. so, all of that in the context of a great anniversary, 150 years, there is going to be throughout this year, more stories to be told about what this 150 years means to our city, because, there is a lot of generations of people who came to this city, many, many years, built communities, built their small business and their livelihood and hopes and helped us to establish the fisherman's wharf and help us to establish all of the maritime that they have created life times of reasons of why people want to continue visiting our city and we need to acknowledge all of that history. and all of it has not been easy, there have been difficult things and we have had fights over what is proper, and what is not proper, but we have always had in our sites in all of these different struggles, the success of our city, the golden gate bridge and the hope

that it brings to many generations of immigrants that is what our city is built on and the honor that we have with all of our labor partners who also jimmy herman and the cruise ship terminal that they are honoring and built it through years of generations of struggle but also great celebrations that we have. and so this is wonderful year, and 150 years of history. let's learn it all and continue to appreciating, but let's look forward to the next 150 years, because we are building the infrastructure to do that. we are laying the foundation to do that. we are creating partnerships among the agencies, but also public, private partnership to create it, because i will tell you that someone who is going to invest, $250,000 to $200 million on the piers it is an incredible to the faith that they have in the city and it is

about investing confidence and why we exist in such a great wonderful city and so thank you monique and the port commission and to all of your wonderful partners and staff for working so hard with the entities like pier 39 and others who will continue to invest in the confidence here and along the water front and thank you to the labor and all of your partners thank you to all of the other agents for being here, happy 150th anniversary, to our great city. >> thank you, we wish to continue your success. also, here with us today is the president of the board of supervisors, and the supervisor from our very own district three, david chiu. [ applause ] >> thank you, tailor. mr. mayor, if it is okay, could you and i just declare it a city holiday today so we don't have to go back to work and hang out here on pier 39?

>> i want to thank all of you who are the incredible diversity of the community that is the port. the community that our water front peers and our wharfs. this is the story of our city. our port has really defined our past as i think that we all know, the first 49ers came right here to this spot to build this city, during world war ii, our military ships were recommissioned, right here from our port. we know that our friends from labor as the mayor said, built our city, starting here with this water fort and this is the story of our city and we also know that the water front in the port defines who we are and it is amazing in 2013, if you just walk along the water front in my district, you will start at the fisherman's wharf street scape improvements and to the

cruise ship terminal that we just cut the ribbon for and you walk down to the terminals and the ports where america's cup will entertain a million, international visitors within a few months. walk down a couple more blocks to piers 15, 17, where we are going to see a half a million kids come to go all the way down to what we know that will be the next site of the warrior's arena and down to the ballpark and the water phone and the port is our city's present and it is our city story. but we also know that this is a story that is going to continue and one of the things that we love in pier 39. if you come here any day you will see the boys and girls playing with their parents who will come back a few years later as teenagers and young adults. and young men and women, flirting on the peers, dating each other, who will come back a few years later for their honeymoon, who will come back a few years later with their kids. and so, the cycle of the story

of our city continues and that i know that in 50 years when we are celebrating the 200th birthday of this blai, when monique's grand daughter and ed lee's great grandson, are helping to run this city, they will look back on to the city leaders today, who are represented by all of you. and say, you know, in 2013, our city forefathers or city foremothers thought it appropriate to invest in our port and make sure that we are building a 21st century port to last, happy birthday. thank you. >> i think that we all look forward to that moyer lee, administration. and finally, our good friend and dynamic leader, the executive director of the port of san francisco, monique moyer. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> okay, so raise your hands,

how many of you would like to be me today? i am so humble and honored, what a great fortune to land my term right on the 150th year because the one thing that i will tell you about being 150 years old if you realize that your time is really short and insignificant, and if i were to dare to count how many port directors there have been before and how many there will be after it will become more of a second time, but, i get to be here with all of you and so many of you who have been here at this water front for decades, all of you from fisherman's wharf thank you for coming today, because of you it is our water front that has evolved ahead of everywhere else in the world this is a perfect place to celebrate. because here we have a little bit of something of everything, in fisherman's wharf. it has been part of the port since its inception that is how we ate, and how we did commerce and how we paid for the fish we ate with gold but nonetheless

we subsifted on fish and the agriculture that was born around the bay and san francisco to feed the miners who were farmers and to create a new economy for san francisco and haven't we brilliantly and completely made new economies and so many knew that we have to name the latest new economy of the economy of invention and creativity and isn't that what we were doing in the gold rush and so it was stunning to be here with all of you who have made this possible. in 1900, the community worked with us to move up here in this area of a water front, and more of a lagoon area where we could congregate better and save the area where fisherman's wharf had been for the commerce that was needed to sustain our city. as the most of the logistics changed and as the needs changed as a community it was fisherman's wharf that helped us to envision what could be the future. in almost 50 years ago, the

discussions began, how to enlifen our water front and how to keep it a working water front as we have here with all of us, as visitors, as those folks who are enjoying the great suit that they have to offer and the wonderful open space and also the working ferries that are helping to transport us around the bay and are here for us in times of emergency and celebration and so that is bha we stand for in san francisco, and this is a terrific place for us to celebrate, and i could not be more honored to be here with all of you, to celebrate those generations that went before us. and as mayor lee, and president chiu said so eloquently, those generations that will come after us, it is a tremendous honor, and i thank you for being here to share in that honor and please happy birthday, to all of you, and to the board of san francisco. [ applause ] thank you, monique. >> and now the moment that we have all been waiting for.

the birthday cake. >> i would like the speakers to gather on the cake and lead us all to sing happy birthday to the board of san francisco. ♪ [ applause ]

>> thank you all for coming, i would like to really briefly introduce bonnie angle with the breast cancer fund, she is going to do a presentation for you on prevention, ways to preventolin ks of chemicals in breast cancer and i'll let her talk about the rest, bonnie, thank you for coming. >> alright. thank you all so much for being here t