and mayor we understand you like bicycling. and also know you're a golfer so we will put in the report for golfing. mayor lee when he became mayor and the protocol and i went in to talk to the mayor about his goals and our sister cities we the consulates were a part of the city we we are very proud of them their represent the computescy of this great city. the mayor said he wants to support ourcy city and respect

them and pay a great deal of attention. and the mayor has come through of what he's done. may i present mayor ed lee >> i know charlotte is incredibly overjoyed with this wherever we have to greet and visit our cities and others mayors we immediately within minutes can appreciate the change and there's so much going on with this city. the commissioner looked at two relaxed during the invest. and barring also known as

comments us. i want to thank you for your visit here. although he's been here before this is his first official visit. his commencemee emt our staff c together and challenge great information about technology. health care, transportation are changing industrial areas like we've done in mission bay. literally we're looking at how we have progressed and at the same time paying great respect to our roles as environmental leaders in the world. i know san francisco and barring

also known as are joining many other international cities as we deal with global warming across the world. barring also known as are a robust city they have high-speed rail coming into their city. we're looking at the this we're linked to an infrastructure. i want to thank the council general and being here and have such great service i want to thank the deputy chief and the fire folks and i want to say

they have some great deputy mayors. of course, i'm wanting my deputy mayor. you can hear the enthusiasm as they approach san francisco. you know, we are all been looking at europe as a whole continent. and i believe that the investments this barring also known as are doing now are so cutting-edge. they know that 21st century - we can't rest on that being the only thing we do.

similar to san francisco we're a beautiful city but we have got to deal and create a public relationship. i know they're working with any silicon valley and san francisco-based companies to evolve this city. i know that the colleague is a medical doctor. you you know what we're doing in mission bay people's approach sometimes and oftentimes reflect their professional out along on things. i want to acknowledge that his push the ability to blend and create biotechnology campuss involve smart city approaches to

know. we're going to sit down our staffs and talk about all those topics on zero waste. i'm so glad we have this opportunity that while the sister city agreement we've worked hard on needs to be extended and renewed and we do this on the mayors trip to san francisco so we can have the quality time for our communities to work together and make sure the city's represent the leadership they need. so with that if i may bring to the podium the mayor from barring also known as (clapping) >> mr. mayor lee as a wholly

want to thank you for your hospitality. it's true i'm a physician. i work many years to build a national health system. barring also known as we have our cultural i'm proud to be here in san francisco. i have to say i feel at home here because san francisco share the same cultural innovation.

we have cities with a great quality of life and lifestyles. i'm very proud to foster this new chapter in our friendship with this agreement. we march a step forward with our calculation efforts. it will help with the cultural development, technologies and transport mobility. we are creating an establishment between san francisco and barring also known as that's very important to us (clapping) >> i have to say this is the

most appropriate time to increase argue relationships. we have a position of the south mediterranean. we have a city with many assets and we have innovation we have an emphasis on people's well-being and quality of life. i'm promoting the technology, electric and medication. we are many of you know the venue of the world congress and we're chosen as the world capital 2018. this is the promotion of the use

of the international basis in our commitment. we're doing this with the sobriety. we're working together with the city's to plan the city of the future based on our experience and the challenge of knowledge and technology. this is the expo and where the congress helped barring also known as in 2011. i'm delighted to visit you to participate in the congress next november. i'm sure there are many things we can learn from each other. and while as many other things we can create together. mayor lee you can be sure that

b.a. also known as is looking forward to cooperate in those areas. i want to give you two things we we have very, very important football. the barring also known as football. (clapping) >> oh, my god. >> that's the best player. >> and i know one also important thing. we have in this moment the most important in the world. this book to you. >> oh, my gosh thank you.

thank you very much (clapping) >> give you something to do. thank you >> thank you we would like to present a print of a wood cut that reminds you thought - of the beautiful city. (clappin (clapping). >> thank you, mayor. they're talking golf here.

did that invitation protocol has to go first, i'm taking the council general with me. as he said earlier we're that proud that barring also known as is our new it one. and the sister cities are only as strong as the lisp so the mayor has set the tone. and there's one colleague who was helped a lot. >> barring also known as excellent (speaking another languag

language). historical mayors distinguished guests. 6 years ago this was a vision when we started the new york city. the memorandum was equivalent signed and we're here looking forward to a good relationship. i'm pleased to announce that we've been able to accomplish projects. in the area of projects in 2011 the best chef in the world was given a proclamation before more than 12 hundred guests.

i'm hoping - the opera co- production has been performing here in san francisco this summer at the opera house. the san francisco students visited the area and they were received at the city hall. and they met would folks in the san francisco area. we have this as a yearly event. we have been forcing entreprene entrepreneurship between the two cities on a yearly basis. they learn from barring also known as how to integrate biking.

we have shared our best practices and have been learning more about barring also known as to have a taxi system and booking system. we both have exchanges on the mobile to see what integration works best and today, the mayor will be signing a memorandum. san francisco and barring also known as we support economical development in cultural tougher than that life sciences. they will share information about the open data and transportation by sharing experience in the districts with

coordinates. they'll share information electric vehicles, electric programs and both will share information an develop different programs. they'll actively support the airports innovations between the san francisco and other international airports. i would like to offer my sincere thanks to the board members (calling names) without they're hard work and dedication none t of this would be possible.

and thanks to those folks (calling names) and his team for their continued support. our team looks forward to constantly gaenl for many years to come. thank you (clapping) >> well, that committee has been busy so, please join us for the mayor signing the m l u.

>>. (clappin (clapping). >> now will you please join our mayors and delegation we invite you to join us for the reception and we'll all look forward to going to barring also known as with the mayor in the fire >> thank you very much, we are in a construction site. and the work is under way, we want to make sure that we not only celebrate, but celebrate safely, but i am here to welcome you all in the morning, and thank you so much for coming my name is ed riskin and i am the director of

transportation and i could not be happier to see all of you here today to celebrate what is pretty a tremendous milestone in the advancement of phase two of muni light rail project, otherwise known as the central subway, it is really just such a tremendous effort, and a cap stone of many, many years, and for some of you decades worth of work, to get to this point. certainly something worthy of celebrating. we have got a lot of people who in one way or another, themselves or through their organizations are a part of how we got to this point i just want to acknowledge some of them. besides the people, some of whom you will hear from that are up on stage including on you mayor, members of the board, the supervisors members of the sfmta board of directors, we also are pleased to be joined by our lead federal funder, of the u.s.

department of transportation administration, and leslie roger and give him a hand of the regional administrator. and he is the one that started delivering that big check to us. back in october. i don't know that he is here and another important partner and we are sit ng his right-of-way underneath the structure, cal trans, region four director bj sartepi. we also have one of the central things that the subway does is bring connection to the transit including the upcoming high speed rail. so we have ben from the high speed rail authority, let's give him a hand, thank you for being here. we have a number of the our communities supporters as well, karin floods from the union square bid, very strong partner and they have been putting up with us as we have been working through her neighborhood,

carlin diamond from the market street association. cathy, and andrew from the (inaudible) cvd and jim lazares that i was just talking to and he is already working on the next phase and we have the china town and many of our china ton including in the front row miss rows pack and mr. gordon chin. and we have a number of members of our community advisory group for the central subway. people who have volunteered their time as everyone else just mentioned has year after year to suffer this project through to make sure that we are doing it well and doing it right. and finally, there is a lot of leadership and support from the communities, from the federal partners and from the government and from city hall that makes all of this happen, but at the end of the day, everybody has to drive this project forward and so i want to acknowledge the subway

director, john sungi, since 2006 john has been working day and night living and breathing this project to make sure that it happens, i think that he has a central subway tattoo on his arm. i think that the tunnel manage machine down stairs has spent more time with tom than his family has. he has been bringing expertise and commitment to improving the transit in san francisco to bear in this project day in and day out for the last seven years now. so i know that this is a big day for him and i want to thank him and his excellent team and the sfmta staff and dpa staff and the contractors and all of whom have been working hard to get us here today. and then i also want to acknowledge some of the political leadership, that is really been a part of bringing this project forward. the significant federal commitment to this project between the first and second

phase is nearly half of the funding has come from the federal government recognizing the regional and national significance of this project and so of course our senators and their offices have been behind us all of the way and then a particular our leader the leader of the house of representatives nancy pelosi, has been one of the strongest supporters for this project and we are delighted to have the new chief of staff joining us if we could, give a round of applause for all of the officials fed and state that have been behind us. and we also have mike here and we are putting a lot of people to work with this project and it is not just a transit benefit that we get in 2019, when we turn on the switch and open the revenue service, but this immediate economic benefit that this project is bringing now to get people to work. and while the economy is a

little stronger now than when we started work a year or so again it was not so much and we were getting people off the benches and in their booths working on the ground. and an important benefit of this project for the economy of san francisco today and not just tomorrow. and ultimately this is about public transportation and it is about investing in the future of public transportation in the city and we are a transit first city and we need to better move the people who are trying to get around san francisco today, as well as those who will be coming to san francisco tomorrow. so this is really about building for the future, strengthening the transit system that we have today and i think that i am going to stop now because i have talked too long and bring up the people that you want to hear from starting with the leader in san francisco, a man who not only understands transportation and jobs, and i think that you have heard of him talk about jobs

but understands the importance of infrastructure and investing in the economy and san francisco has pleased to follow him as public works director and i think that having been a public works director he really gets this stuff and as the mayor he has a bigger view of this and has done a great job in leading it in infrastructure and please join in welcoming mayor ed lee. [ applause ] >> thank you, ed and thank you to you and your staff again, to your board of directors, tom, and the rest of the commissioners, thank you for your leadership. i also want to thank the board of supervisors for working so closely with us and a couple of them up here, i think that this is a really good reason to celebrate supervisors, that we have this great project, also i want to say a big thanks to our

former mayers and i had the individual of being here at this time. but, i think back, and i know rose knows what i am talking about, two and a half decades, you know, willie brown, lieutenant nusom, and the mayors before us working in concert, with our federal partners or working very closely with our neighborhood leaders. we are able to get and enjoy this day. i am looking forward to eating the cake. not just because i like cake but also because it represents a struggle for our communities for quite some years to say that we are going to be here and that we are going to be part of the future of this city and that is what this t-line extension really means, and central subway is a great transportation project but it

is also a reflection, that they are also here to stay and prosper with staoet and yes we will have that conversation about the future beyond that, but the future right here, is about making sure that we connect up the north and south. the modern san francisco will have a transportation system that will reflect that and this is why it is so meaningful, is because i do know in a few years that we will be saying why did it take this long to get here. this is such a great idea to connect up and i know this is at the heart of the feelings of the people who live in china town and whether it is in the projects and the small businesses along stockton street all the way down fourth street right to here and we are going to marvel at why we would not have done this faster and quicker. because we are going to grow with this system and i think in a very short time you are going to see the value of this system moving people as quickly as it

does now when you see the subway of market street working a lot of people, and it is going to be the same thing and there is a lot of growth that is happening in the south east corridor and they want to connect up with the north east corridor. and so, this is our future, this is what we have been talking about and it it is right here before us and it starts and i also want to give a big thanks, fong, you and rose, and gordon and so many other people have been such strong leaders of this effort along with the federal partners and the regional partners and to have the nails of the boring tunnel machines that are reflected here, (inaudible) chung, thank you for being here and you are a decent ant here and i believe that it is the grand niece, and then, of course, big alma which will be the boring tunnel machine that shows up next month, and it

will be under construction and be complimenting the two machines that will be part of this sef fort and i am excited to hear the reving up of the tunnel bore machines and i understand that we can't do that today because of safety reasons and ones that notice starts happening once the digging starts and the tunneling starts then i think that we will have that great reflection of two and a half if not three decades of effort that has been here to make sure that we modernize our city and make sure that our communities are connected up. and i also want to give a big thanks to the collaboration of agencies that will be working for the next two and a half to three years. whether it is our police department, our parking patrol officers, on the streets, a public works making sure that the streets are safe for everybody. and connecting up a little bit of understanding about the destruction that we will have and some of the areas of the city, but knowing that it is our future that we are all doing this for. and working with