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social services and being reminded about decreases appointment. people apply and we have the gentleman from new jersey. we've got david and heather and robin and we're here to help people apply for the wireless he phone. it's not a smallest phone it lets you pick up the phone and call and send and receive text messages. all we want to do is make people feel more connected. i just wanted to say we're going to work with all of you to explain what the necessary paperwork is to show they're eligible if they're on some form of public assistance or medicaid something like that their likely
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going to be eligible for assurance wireless it's simple. and we're thrilled to be here today (clapping) >> again, when we talk about the leadership of our community and it's exciting to think that people are busy but still come today. and one of the people is david campos from district 9. >> thank you. i'll be brief. good morning, everyone this is a pretty good-looking crowd. mr. mayor thank you for being here. we're lucky as a city we've got people he heading the departments you have the staff and the public and different commentary partners. in is an event in many relevance
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is about what san francisco is about as a city. we're the city of st. francis and the tradition of st. francis we take care of our own. there's a lot of great prosperity but there are people who are struggling. we as a city are only as strung as the person who has the least. and by that measure this is an important event. and you the people what take time to be here and help other people. and not only the other services but connect with them on a human level. those phone calls are not used to be treated with respect and the fact you're doing that can be life changing p i'm proud to be part of this event. i want to thank you you're
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making san francisco the city of hope for so many people. so thank you >> thank you supervisor campos. you know, i've been taught your blessed whether argue blessing. today, we're blessed when we see people giving up their day so thank you to you guys. let's give ourselves a round of applause for coming out today. i have have list of people i want to thank but one of the first, we have the ceo and forgive me if i'm saying your name wrong. thank you so much for participating today they'll helped us expand our mental and dental team so people can get the best services as they move
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into permanent housing so thank you. i want to thank alex. he's been obviously from the beginning that. one of the founders. anytime i need something i say we need a little bit of extra money for socks. all the things you do thank you sf city for snanlt helping. one of the things it sf city is it doing for us is anything who joins us on facebook or tweeter weight receive one dollar for each new follower for people who like us on facebook. we have 1 thousand volunteers if
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he each of you like us on facebook that's $1,000 we can ice toward dentures. i beg you i have 68 followers nobody knows any. some of you have thousands of followers so tweet today. you might ask why it's important. well each day people come in and say i need a pair of socks. small business last week got her wheelchair stolen. she walked in the doors and said that and we put it outthink tweeter and a couple of hours latter someone pulled it out of the garage.
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i promise you, we, use your resources. we have a lot of people to thank. who's here from the advanced english academy. we want to thank. there's some people (clapping) yeah. again thank you blue shield for being here from the beginning and other companies and project 20 and sf travel association u.s. bank and walgreen's. so that's a lot of people. thank you. we want to thank sarah today. they said we want to you got their lunch. so thank you. we have an extra special lunch today. so enjoy and thank you.
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i also want to show. today, we're doing something special we've got our 50 event t-shirts. this is kit i don't know how many of you have met her she's replaced randell and says he misses us but this is our new volunteer coordinator >> so the artists explained to me and said that pen begins huddle together when it's cold so pen begins are a good mascot. and on the back we have all the people we've serviced at the event so pick one up after the rally
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(clapping) >> we also want to thank joe at dp h and the behavioral director and the imminent. we couldn't do what we do. it takes health you providers and they provided decreases that give their day to be here. a couple of weeks ago you can make those connections. so we're excited to say thank you to that. we want to thank the people who voted for the t-shirts. one of the things we're going to be doing this christmas is holiday cards. we'll have a few volunteers who want to use their art for something. we're going to have cards that are directed the imagines will
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be from the clients so if you want to buy holiday cards buy them in october from us. most of everybody we want to thank those folks for divorcing the coffee. and the dog pet sitters. and last but not least the health commission. we really want to make sure that everybody who comes here today feels appreciated. so if i don't get a change to come up to everyone please know that i care. each one of us counts. so, now that you're here you're part of us. welcome. and have a wonderful day (clapping) we have a new project that's just newly started and then we're going to go right into the
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volunteer training. so hand up connect is a new project and i'm going to let rose blooming explain this. it's a new technology used to connected with clients. so as we continue to be innovative we're participating with other. go ahead rose >> thanks. so you won't be surprised to here like all of you i'm here to help our community. but i'm here to a launch my start up so here's the launch. yeah. (clapping) >> hand up is a new hand up program it lets you sdmoot directly to folks using a text message and it can only be used
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for food and clothing through project connect (clapping) so we're going to be signing up about 70 people today and you can invite their profiles it's hand up dot us our website. i'd like to thank mr. dusty and the mayor's office of innovation and the mayor thank you. i want to thank our start up inincubator and, of course, project homeless connection our partners and people who are putting together this incredible event so give an applause for them too. thanks guys check us out on
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line. who wants the shirts >> thank you all go ahead and stay seated for the volunteer training. i'll be here so stop by and say hi, and invest us on facebook ♪ ♪ it a city of a giant heart. it's a city of the world champions. yes. we have a great mayor. good champions causes for all of us. ladies and
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gentlemen, mayor ed lee. >> [applause] >> thank you very much. janice, everybody welcome to the streets of san francisco. i was talking to somebody organizers walking over and i said we have not had a street festival here for a long time but it is great to celebrate 50 years of memorial church here in our wonderful city. 50 years of demonstrating our love for community. janice, thank you for all these wonderful years. i know all of you are here to celebrate. it is a great feeling, the weather is obviously welcoming as well. you know when you look at what
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started 50 years ago, when maybe rev. williams came here and said, gosh, the congregation is a little challenging, maybe at that time some 50 people were getting served a meal. today, 800,000 meals a year are served right here in memorial. that's how much of care and love has gone over these years. three separate housing developments, right here in the 12 take care of families. we've got the health clinic that started here. every day. you got a women's clinic that janice and cecil i started out taking care of people. items of violence, domestic violence. you've got not only health care you've got family, youth and children, tutoring going on within the walls of glide memorial is
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going on here. and, that's not enough, you got rooftop gardens trying to help create healthy food here. it is so reflective of all we wanted to do. and because they have led this effort so many of you have met the calling. so it is appropriate that as we celebrate these 50 years, we signal to the rest of this great city the appropriateness of why we want to call this place, not only the home of clyde memorial church,. this is appropriately rev. cecil williams way here in san francisco. if i may, >> [applause] >> this will be the place where
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everybody knows rev. cecil williams way of san francisco right here and that rev., you get your own copy of your streets. >> yes, taking it to the streets. >> [applause] >> [music] >> so it is my complete honor
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to be able to welcome so many wonderful people and so many people that support our school and all of these excess where having and i guess i want to introduce mayor lee. mayor lee, please stand up and wave to our community. [applause] >> so, as everyone was gathering in our main office we have come up with, we were brainstorming what we wanted to know from the mayor and from the superintendent. our students here we read the book of but not buddy this summer. have either of you read that book? well it looks like oregon have to mail the superintendent and the mayor are book. we definitely want
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them to know what were talking about, right? very good. so then let's substrate. let's remember what our three rules that we always lived by? >> be responsible. be safe. be respectful. awesome. i want to make sure that were all showing our democrat on the south side right now and we are going to be welcome back to school by our mayor. please give them a round of applause. [applause] >> thank you. good morning everyone. well you should know i only live less than 3 min. away from here. just up the hill. so i get to watch all of you. but, i am very happy to join our local supervisor of this district by john avalos this here this morning. it's a pleasure i was very much care about our education. i want to
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thank teresa ship for welcoming me here to your first day of school. i'm of course here with your superintendent. mr. carranza, thank you. we caught a couple of school board members and school officials and teachers representative here as well. mr. mendoza on our school board emily goshawk as well. and we have of course a number of school districts rep. as well as parents. all the parents are here today. [applause] >> well, first of all welcome. welcome some of you back to school. welcome some of you who have just started here at james jim and school. we love our students. you are happy, yes? well, i hope you are because we
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got a lot of great things this year. i think we believe we have a new classroom in fact. i have been working hard over the summer with hydra and a company called salesforce and they are here today, salesforce does a lot of great engineering in san francisco and they do something called the cloud. how many people know what the cloud is? anybody know what the club is? you will learn. you'll learn a little bit. some of the teachers know that for sure they can explain to you. but, this company is headquartered in san francisco and they are helping me help all the middle schools in san francisco get modernized. that is, to get technology, get wi-fi service, get computer tablets to the teachers, to of course, our principal. to help with the modernization of this school so that you, as students, and also as parents, can actually get a
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lot more science done, a lot more math done. a lot more engineering done. and become even more skilled because some of you, in fact, i see somebody here that's going to be the mayor of san francisco get somebody in this crowd is going to be the next mayor. how do you like that? do you want my job? [applause] >> well you can have a lot of fun. i think when science and the math and all the other skill sets that the school district wants this school and so many of the other middle schools to have more of, you're going to be the beneficiaries of it. i know you're going to be motivated. i want to thank you for not only getting up early, brushing your teeth, getting a good healthy breakfast, and running down here to make sure you meet your new teacher this year. this is going to be great. again, i am just 3 min. away. but we're also going to be working very closely. this won't be the
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first and only time you see me. there'll be other times you see walking around the campus because i do care about all of you as our middle school students. you're going to be the best minds. your point of great jobs when just a few years from now you're all going to be and up in college or some good jobs. and, if you need some help with a resume, ask me or ask supervisor apples. we'll be glad to write you support for resume for the best job. you could be the head of a company. you can even be the start of a great sports team. or, you could be a scientist or a doctor or a lawyer but anything you want to be. you definitely have it begins right here. so congratulations good morning welcome back to school and have a great grade year. thank you, teachers. and administrators. [applause] >> thank you. thank you mayor
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lee. what an exciting day. wow. admin. we are so proud. we also have another really special guest. who remembers what is our superintendent's name? >> superintendent carranza. please welcome him back up so we can welcome us to school. >> [applause] >> good morning. wait a minute. you've been resting all summer. rights were to do this i want you to blow the roof off of this auditorium. when i say good morning i want you in your loudest most excited voice to say good morning back. are you ready? take a deep breath. sit up straight. here we go. good morning >> good morning >> that's what i'm talking about. it's great to be back in school. it's great to welcome all of you here. i want to especially welcome the parents and our teachers and our
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paraprofessionals in our demonstrators would've been here for, believe it or not, over a week preparing for this very day. to get ready for the first day of school something of great experience. now if i understand correctly your sixth-graders, correct? >> yes >> no? this is what i want you to do. by the way, i was very impressed that you actually knew my name. so thank you very very much. this what i want you to do. i want you to think about when he went to kindergarten. do you remember that? then after kindergarten you went to first grade. do you remember that? did you have fun in first grade? did you have fun in kindergarten? yes. did you have fun in second grade? yes. this is just another transition. so since grade may be scary but it's not that scary because you can have fun and since grade. you know how i know why you have fun in
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six great because of excellent teachers at denman. they are going to help make learning fun for you. they are going to encourage you and support you and you know why i know that you're going to have fun weekly here because the secret is that denman is a fantastic middle school. you know high note the secret is out because denman has a waiting list now of kids that want to come to denman middle school. did you know that? did you know that? >> [applause] >> so there are other children i want to come to denman they just could becomes there's not enough room. you got into denman. you should be very proud of the fact that you got into denman and that other people want to come to denman. you know it's going to happen? next year when people want start applying for middle school they're going to see the great year that you've had and didn't want to come to middle school as well and they say i saw merely walking the halls because he's my neighbor. he
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lives down the street. it is a wow, the bear comes in the busy supervisor below supporting you to say the supervisor is here. you know why we're all here? more than anything we are here because we want to thank you for the great job that you've done and the great job you're going to do and we are so proud of denman middle school. you're doing a great job. so as six graders, i want you to have fun this year. can you do that? that's not very convincing. can you do that? >> yes >> i said can you do that? >> yes >> are you going to do that? i want you to have a great start to the year before i give up the microphone, i want to thank your principal, and your assistant principal for the great job they're doing. how about a big round of applause for them? >> [applause] >> yes. they're going to work to support your teachers and your teachers are working to support you. it's one big community. parents support everyone that here. i also want
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to recognize some folks that are in the audience because they wanted to come and be part of this visitation as well. you party met our mayor, you've already met our commissioners. you've already met our supervisor mr. avalos, but i want to introduce you to our deputy superintendent for policy and operations, leon lee (sp?). our general counsel who is sean davis. our assistant superintendent for middle school, jeannie bond. our special assistant to the chief of staff who is overseeing this wonderful middle school project from the district side budget kiara. then the best for last, the president of our united educators of san francisco, mr. dennis kelly. and our executive vice president for united educators ms. susan solomon. we're all here together to tell you how proud we are of you a you have a great grade school year and i'm going to ask
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