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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 beginningthat. 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.
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we have 1 thousand volunteers if 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.
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so enjoy and thank you. 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
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rally (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
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we're going to go right into the 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 ♪ ♪
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>> ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of the colors and the singing of the national anthem. ♪
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♪ [ applause ]
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>> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome steve hengineg executive director metropolitan transportation commission. >> good afternoon, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the toll bridge program oversight committee and my committee colleagues, and the director of cal transand the executive director of the california transportation commission, it is my great pleasure to welcome you at long last, to the opening ceremonies for the new east band of the san francisco oakland bay bridge. that is an applause line. [ applause ] >> i know that you joined me in
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thanking the oakland institute color guard and the choir, and their wonderful presentation and our ceremonies. [ applause ] >> and i guess that i will not ask you if it is hot enough. and it certainly is, so do please, keep cool and gentleman take off your jackets if you need to and keep the water going and keep an eye on your neighbor. and i'm going to ask you to rise again and that might create more air to hear our invocation from the reverend jay junior, from the oakland baptist church. >> let us pray. oh, lord our god thou who art the architect, engineer and
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creator of the universe, we have gathered on this historic occasion in a spirit of joy and celebration. oh, god we give thanks for the generosity of your divine grace and for the supply of the needed material resources and for the provision of human expertise to accomplish this magnificent project. we lift up thanks for the commitment, cooperation, and hard work by so many people in so many roles and at so many levels of responsibility to bring this beautiful bridge from creative conception to
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concrete completion. we pray your blessings upon this illustrious bridge and for the safety and well-being of all who shall traverse it. blessed oh, god, this triumphant celebration that we share. may this awe inspiring bridge inspire us all to reach our human potential as human bridges that will seek to bridge the gulfs that separate our diverse communities. may we too be bridges that will connect people and bring them together, may we too be bridges that will provide for the common good may this wonderful
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bridge, this open inspire us to continue to envision bold and beautiful fetes in the service of all human kind. amen >> amen. >> thank you, reverend smith. the coats will keep peeling off as we go we will see who the last hold on out is. and i would also like to take this opportunity to welcome you to this building. and the newly renovated urban electric railway bridge yard shop building. and also known as urbies for short. and that is one lowsy, and so we decided to rename it the bridge yard, which is the sign on the side of the building, this is what has prepared the key system train that used to run on the lower deck of the
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bay bridge before the commuter rail service seized? 1958 and for those transit advocate whose would like to blame me for that mistake, i hasten to add the train stop that was built the year before i was born. >> now it is time to wax poetic and we happen to have the person for the job, currently a professor of creative writing at uc river side and was craoe put to his post in 2012 and it is my pleasure to introduce him who has written a poem about our beautiful new bridge. >> thank you, very much. it is a great pleasure to be here you look fabulous and this looks fabulous and i want to thank governor brown, for nominating me and confirming me as your poet laurit, and i
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would like to thank the arts council for doing the same and the university california river side and the department of transportation, and thank you so much. and i also wanted to introduce you to our youth poet of oakland, davis who is 70 years old and right there standing up. he is our new lauriet for oakland. >> thank you so much, my wife is right there, and who is my great inspiration and hadari who works so much for oakland and the arts. the bridge poem bay bridge inauguration poem, san francisco oakland bay bridge, september 2, 2013. for all bridge dreamers, bridge builders and bridge crossers. self-sustaining, and a light
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unto itself. the dark that lifts us and it sings us as we pass bay bridge, i see you now, your new design risen, above star waters, a new galaxy appears. a new trillion may we live in your safety and in your carriage, and in your heart. my all of your hours and all of your lights embrace us once again. and may we crawl across your shoulders as bird, fish, singers and may we be the bridge for a new time of beauty and peace. let us thank the workers and the artists of space and matter, one sound, one tree, one knitted, (inaudible) shawl, for our mothers, a lot she turns and protect and renewed
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waves of children, we are born to the choirs, and we are filled with light, strength, height, gratitude and violet ocean, stillness and we open our arms, our bridge of many bridges. and everything is different now. melodic, silver, harmonious, and everything is open now. spiritual, inhalation of the pacific rim, voyages migrations and the conversations of generations. and i want you to repeat this word after me, i am going to back up. conversations. viva. >> viva, >> the worker applaud now, iron workers, painters, welders, planners, architects engineers, laborers, trades women, drivers, viva. >> lifters, callers, crane
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operators, viva. >> mixers, cable, viva. >> viva. after the earthquake, we shall live, yes. we shall live, we shall round dance in honor and spider buggy is coming up and light poles are holding steady and steady, and set up and north main span cable ready, ready. motion sense soars mr. pump, expansion tank, spider buggies coming up, spider buggies coming up. we shall live in our lumenscent room of lights and cosmos yes. we shall hula dance in unity once again today. yes. and hand to hand, shoulder to shoulder, and wo ven and winged dancer we shall alive, gold and
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silver, and dark sequence with joy. we shall live, crossing into the other, from one to the second. and from the second to the late infinity, today, the chain is cut, and we are released, oakland, san francisco, earth, to all earth, ocean to sky, wind to star nebula once again you and me, we, the people, the people, (inaudible) it is the people, bay bridge, hold on to each other. move now. rise now. for the world to see. thank you so much. [ applause ]
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>> thank you very much for those artful words and it is hard to believe that you are from southern california. you are welcome here any time. the construction of the newly span has been a public, private partnership from the get go and that spirit of partnership is in full force today as well. in particular, i would like to recognize the corporate sponsors of today's event, listed on the big screens. first off, presenting level sponsors bridge floor a joint vendor and ty wane international and bright tell incorporated and ae com and xerox, thanks to these and all of our sponsors and while we are at it let's thank the bay
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bridge alliance and the president winston for making all of this. thank you. >> thank you. >> it is a landmark event marking the end of 24 years to deliver seismic safety to all seven of the toll bridges in the bay area something that we achieved as of today from the north, to the dumb barton in the south. that is an applause line too. >> today, we see the advent of a new architectural and engineering. and the challenge is faced and many challenges faced and challenges met. and the new also serves as a case study for the long, and the permitting and politics that seem to be a part of any
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big public works project and contemporary california and as we end the journey, the high speed rail project is just beginning its own trial by fire. but we can't celebrate the new span without acknowledging the old one. and while some of the obstacles have changed against the original bridge was built in the 30s, the spring of inspiration for such a project endures. and in the words of frank marion written 80 years ago ring true today. he said, the bridges do not build themselves. and before the labor in concrete and steel, there was the labor in the minds of men. and we now building this bridge would be remiss indeed if we did not set forth in the record of sunk and towers raised in the acknowledgment of the service performed at the birth of this project and the
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subsequent developments by the citizens public officers and civic organizations. and for thousands of men and women around the world that contributed to the construction and for all of the people in california, this is a day to celebrate. and today we have a right to embrace, a sense of achievement, and a sense of thanksgiving. none of us will forget that the newly sfan is first and foremost the public safety project and despite the journey length it has been completed before the arrival of our next big earthquake. and thank goodness for that. [ applause ] >> the bridge is looking and just a bonus that all of us who are so fortunate to live here in the bay area, will be able to enjoy. and so today, we will say hello, to the newly span, but
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we also say good bye to the original version. perhaps, a few comparisons between the old and the new are in order and you can follow along on your screens. the original was completed in the great depression and the new bridge as we weathered the great recession. and the cost was a little different between the two and even if yukon vert the original cost of the whole bridge end to end it is about one billion dollars in today's money and the newly span costs a little bit more than that. the duration of construction was also quite a bit different as well. and they did things a lot faster back then in the 1930s, and for one thing they did not have to tangle with someone as form mittable as willie brown. [ laughter ].
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