>> thank you, mark. thank you,. >> pg&e have served with the communities for over 100 years and proud to continue the sponsorship. the communities have in turn played a major role in determining how the companies delivers services to our customers. pg&e recognized the importance of in-language services a century ago when it opened its first payment offices in san francisco's china town in 1905. we have given hundreds of scholarship to deserving students across our service territory totaling over $1 million. in addition, to supporting the community, through various grants and volunteerism, pg&e is a strong supporter of asian owned business and

organizations spending $290 million last year and 2 billion dollars with diverse supplies in 2012, in short we are proud to be part of this community and happy to celebrate apa heritage month, thank you. >> thank you. >> we have ron from craft foods, ron are you here? >> katherine, high. >> thank you, i am here on behalf of ron who is not feeling well this morning and so on behalf of craft foods group, it is our pleasure to be here celebrating the apa heritage month. craft foods and its tens of thousands of employees nationwide are excited about this event in san francisco.

because asian pacific americans have made a large contribution in this country in this state and of course in this city. and at all levels of government, business, and society, the product of all of the work of our immigrant father and mothers are evidenced by the people, standing in this room, the various elected officials. the company representatives who have strived and made their way up in their respective positions and all around us in our daily lives. >> this month is to celebrate all of those particular achievements and more importantly from craft's perspective and all of the programs that it does with the community and the employees is the opportunity to be able to show our future generations of asian pacific americans, the impact that they too can make as they are in school, in the arts, in government, and you are at craft foods, so, so pleased and so, so privileged

to be able to celebrate this very special occasion and we look forward to being a part of this month. thank you, claudine. >> thank you. this is my pleasure to be here this afternoon. to share with you tho celebrating diversity and cultural celebrations is a key value, at wells fargo. and we celebrated not just in this month but every month. and it is the true, people that contribute that are the contributers or the finalists that are going to be honored in the area of arts that we want to acknowledge every day of the year. they go every noticed and thes just a wonderful opportunity to renew the support of the foundation and celebrate the achievements that sometimes go unnoticed and so i hope that we are all here together as a family, to really celebrate what they have to offer. and we can support them in any

way that we can going forward. thank you. [ applause ] >> so this product, the program i want to make sure that it is important that fat they are as we know him, he is the grandfather always has the last word. the founder of the organization and we know him as the god fathers and we are happy for his support today. >> thank you. >> i am not that old yet. >> you are so beautiful. thank you. >> your personal leadership and sacrifices, so many years to help us celebrate tom and the api's heritage along with the other diversities, on behalf of mcdonalds and the corporation and the franchises. i also wanted to introduce the colleague at jack where are you? and oh, yeah, the two beautiful

ladies in the back here, give them a good hand. along with me, lee as you can see, can see on boepgt sides of the asian, right? i come to san francisco, in my first job was engineer, and was that company what is i forgot it. i was anger an, engineer, and to talk about ours and the knowledge and everybody get hungry every day. that is why food is a big part of asian culture and big arts as well. as engineer, i really don't understand much of that and my wife is willing to teach me how to dress. and how to cut the hairs. and i am really proud to be part of the asian heritage and

the history and the pride in building san francisco and the california, and the workforce. not only the building of this beautiful city, but the beautiful space and the country as well. and what my family owned four mcdonalds here in san francisco along with a few others in northern california. and but, so when you guys are hungry you know where to go. i think that our 19 locations here, right, jackie? >> so, we are here to serve everybody and we do our part here and we are very happy to be a big part of this celebration, thank you very much for the mcdonalds and so if you have any problem, don't call me, call jackie. thank you. [ applause ]

>> thank you. >> so, i i hope that we will have sandwiches waiting for you at the end of this press conference and i just wanted to take the opportunity to thank the many food and beverage. and without them we will not have the great reception that we are going to have. we have been here for 8 years. with us. and mayor lee for six years. and those are for two years or the newest addition this year, and so i hope that you have a great lunch and before that it is the most important business is to turn this over to our co-chair, who will make the announcement for the apa heritage awards this year, mary? >> okay, did i do this right? >> okay. >> okay, so thank you, all for

being here today, and i am really very excited to be able to announce the finalist for this year's performing arts award. and many of them did not know who their competition was, as we were going to say, and so this is going to be a surprise for them as carmen said earlier i was one of those people who stopped playing violin in the second grade and really can't sing or do anything so the power forming arts for me i am just awestruck and so privileged to be able to meet the people of this caliber and we have so many fantastic nominations this year. in the area of inspirational leadership and community impact and lifetime achievement. so, my first category for nominations and if you will stand when i say your name, please do so. inspirational leadership.

we have brenda wong aoki. >> we have malu peeples. [ applause ] >> and our nominee could not be here today so representing her is her daughter. >> hopefully i hope that your mother was doing well. her mother is in korea right now. >> so the next category is in the area of community impact and these finalists organizations and we have this diverse amazing community that we live in with so many organizations that do so much to try and bridge the gap and support our young apa and not so young apa performing artist who can't seem to sometimes break through into the main stream. but also not break through our own cultural groups. in our own, we are such a

diverse community as claudine had said, i can't think to name how many ethnicity and cultures and countries are in the apa community. so these particular organizations have done a fantastic job of trying to bridge these cultural gaps and support the artist. so those organizations are asian american theater company, are they here? >> is someone from asian? hi. >> that is pearl, and i end up in her junk mail a lot and so we have to fix our e-mail for that. >> we have asian improv, arts. [ applause ] >> we have the asian league foundation heritage street fair. and i don't know if ted is still here and as the mayor said a fantastic organization that has been bridging these cultural divides and bringing the apa heritage and the apa

celebration to all of us. and san francisco, pristine. >> one of the things that we foubd during the no, ma'am that ising selection process is how much we as a committee learned about the organizations in our own communities that we did not know about, and this has been a wonderful learning experience for all of us and i hope that this is a and we will bring more attention to these fantastic artists that were out there and so our last category is for the lifetime achievement and this is for the individual whose have about, for at least 25 years had some impact in our apa community, and have used this amazing performance ability themselves to share their culture and also give back to their communities as well. and so i am really honored to be able to do it now.

and we have robert tamakabailey. [ applause ] >> we have the team of john gang and francis wong. [ applause ] >> and once again, i am really thrilled to be able to announce, a double nominee malo ravera people. [ applause ] >> congratulations to all of you for being nominated and for being selected as finalists and looking forward to see who our judges have selected on may 6th at the jazz center, thank you. >> thank you, mary, and all of your work. >> thank you. >> so, i want to take a moment to say and the committees that are here but those who have done the committees and this is all about the people that come,

and i want to thank carmen from the community and irene, (inaudible) and all of your friends and the whole city. and san francisco communities somewhere along here. thank you so much. hi. so, about next month, may 6th, the program is before 5:30, and 5:00, and (inaudible) the registration for ten days and over capacity. and that is great entertainment and i can't wait to see who the winners are, and they are just saying thank you again for your work and so please to arrive early at the center for the ceremony on next month and then after that, we will all be back here for our reception and again, thank you for the company, i understand that

there are shuttles for those that feel that they do not want to walk and so that is great. and i want to thank you all for coming and thank you for the mayor's office without everybody and talked to and make things happen, and from just (inaudible) the mayor's office of labor and services. and so i want to thank them. so, at this point, i think that we are adjourned and please join us and enjoy your lunch.

>> mayor ed lee and supervisor farrell and the mayor's budget director kate howard. this is part of san francisco's inclusive budget and to ask questions about san francisco's budget. it's a very best of big budget and we're assuming that you have lots of questions that you want to ask the mayor and you will have a chance to do that today. before we start the conversation, i want to remind everybody that you can participate by either emailing your budget questions or concerns to mayor ed win