(clapping). >> i'm john avalos i'm in the board of supervisors representing third district third generation of mexicans. that's where my grand parents came from any said the names of those places. it's an honor and proij privilege to represent my community on the board of supervisors sow and to hear the stage with supervisor david coming past and also in the room is richard to share the stage

with her husband is here and many, many more in the community. this is not something i've ever dreamed of doing in san francisco that i'd like be able to represent this community >> (speaking spanish.) >> my parents did not graduate from colleges they graduated from high school. my parents sacrificed their education to make sure that i could go on to finish high school and to go on to college and those great sacrifices i recognize. we have seen so many great

leaders that have come up of the sfaisz sacrifices that parents have made. i want to call out some of the leaders (calling names) great organizations that have made incredible accomplishments lately we passed the due process for all ordinance board of supervisors that's because of the leaders of this community. today, we're honoring future leaders people who are macro great accomplishments in their education i want to call them up one-on-one on the stage. first (calling names) (clapping) he's a 12th grader he is was an stent day participate at marshall and it's now a part of

the college came back program. he volunteered when it left marshall as a fifth grader he's currently a senior and continues to support marshall as a college bound ambassador. congratulations (clapping) okay. next i would call up an eight grader she demonstrates a willingness to help this is very rare to see she's a social leader. congratulations (clapping) next up i'd like to a call up the next person a 12th grader.

he entered last summer at the media recently that was honored by president obama as a youth jobs and champion canal. he helped the media relevance team for his own generation as well as creating mark ups. he's interested in taking his technical experience into the field of health by becoming an eye doctor. congratulations (clapping) i must the next person.

he's an eight grader middle school. he's not only a high chief student but gives back to the community p.i. by divorcing and provides tutoring including many language students and is a positive spirit as she continuously presents idea to make it a better place for everyone. thank you (clapping) >> and our last but not least is a young lady. (clapping) is a tenth grader of the boys and girls club i used to work there back in 1995 and

she wasn't there. in her 8 years of attending the clubhouse she's completed over 6 hundred and 32 hours of community service (clapping) working on projects if a that immigrant workers she's traveled to go africa thank you so much for your contributions (clapping) >> yeah. >> so once again, we want to thank all our letters throughout their lives and people hope they continue to be the leader for california and the rest of the

nation. >> (clapping) >> (speaking spanish.) >> so we would like to thank supervisor avalos and all the participants. please feel free to take a seat. we're going to go ahead and conclude the reception is following but wild to emphasize we appreciate here in the city and county of san francisco all the latinos that are out there working day in and out. i want to honor the folks who have clean up the places that

workday in and out to sustain the city silently at times but we have roots here in this state. we fray many, many generations and keep building strong community and encourage our young people to get their potential and to definitely definitely pass the word we must not ends our lives with violence with education and prospering in our economies in this state >> check her out yeah. >> (speaking spanish.) >> (clapping) and talking about a woman who helped save brave have a stacey.

and talking about latinos there was a >> (speaking spanish.) >> all my people there was a study it came out that showed to latinos not only live in the excelsior we live in the south of market and pacific heats and every district in san francisco and thank you, dr. local. but we've got a lot of work to do. we talked about those accomplishments the latinos are making with you right now supervisor campos says we're 200 in which i say. people are getting evicted come and march with us so we can

protect the culture that's exemplified here for years not only in the mission but the african culture and chinese town culture and all the cultures in san francisco which are at risk right now. we have a crisis and we've got to stand up. i want to end by saying next thursday at the everett middle school we're going to be presenting a violence control program to end violence and also to share with you that on 24th street we have a cultural prevention committee that is preserving 84th >> (speaking spanish.) >>

(clapping). >> your performance will be in the replaces (calling names) we would like to thank everyone for joining us once again and we would like to end with. >> (speaking spanish.) >> >> all right. guys i'm going

to go ahead and get started. welcome to the opening celebration of newest location at the gary and sonic (clapping) >> i'm mesht i'm the senior group director of target stores in the bay area. i'm happy to be here. at take the we take pride in knowing our guests and our store leader is a perfect example she's a analyst san franciscan laej please join me in a welcome of '86 many >> thank you meredith. good evening, everyone. i'm so excited to be here today and would like to kickoff the

celebration for thanking each of you. i want to recognize mayor ed lee and supervisor ed farrell and supervisor mar of district one and also our executive vp eric mcdowned and we have our beloved mascot thank you so much for being here. (barking) today is a very excited day for target in san francisco. i grew up in san francisco and everyone since i was a little girl but i didn't know i would be running one one day. as some of you know city target a relatively new development to

commencement the consequence and friendly shopping experience to this neighborhood. this city take the will offer local manufactures to meet the needs off our guests. we are very excited to provide a place for people to work for those who live nearby and ride muni. we intend to continue our reputation of being a good neighbor in the local community. navigate in 2012 target attributed over 1 and a half million dollars to organizations in the san francisco community (clapping) thank you just last friday, a one hundred and 50 target team members from all over the bay air come out to volunteer their time in the excelsior district

to make over their library. target attributed a total of $200,000 completing redesigning the new space and provided 2 thousand books to the staff and students and provided new first one and including many ipads every sibling got to take home a backpack. targeted is a huge supporter of arts and cultural institutions we invite bay areas he phone numbers phoning to come to neighbor day. we support the local charters and target has contributions. so target is very, very buildings strongly in being able to provide and give back at that time, community we call home.

in speaking of community i want to invite mayor ed lee he's been a huge supporter and it's my pleasure to introduce ed lee (clapping) >> well, thank you 46 i didn't and a congratulations for being a home ground girl by being able to manage a store in our great city. congratulations to the whole team. i'm going to ask the supervisors we have london and eric mary and scott wiener my district looking for the target store. there it is.

i wanted them beside me so we can be distinguished from the dog. i'm happy to be here. not only has target been such a great partner and i know we were together about a year ago to date where we opened the downtown store to the great delight of a lot of people. we had a great formula target had already worked with the mission call and the west side group and the work and development and produced a clear number of jobs and hired san francisco residents and today they've done it yet again. it's been demonstrated, you know, tiffany went through the legacies with the fluoroscopic goals the library and the constant attention to our youth

which target target is finding comfortable to be doing and they're there fouror summer jobs. this store will have over 4 hundred jobs maybe up to 4 hundred and 50 and 80 percent of their hires to date are san francisco residents and that's a whiff accomplishment. i know our supervisors enjoy hearing our residents getting hired at the stores because that's really what is effecting our positive economic recovery so to death figures in big time from this larger economic system we have and i'm glad to see year after year with the backpack

give away. the delivery of the ipads and your mailers. you don't have to be a tech company this is the philanthropy and the spirit of innovate by being a great store and partnering up with the rest of the city. this has been an under utilized space and a match the visibilitycy along the corridor and with the employment we're seeing with the local resident is incredible. i have to say to the store management i picked a local girl because she's demonstrated her ability to recognize community and i like to see our residents top the leadership roles.

by the way, i understand that she does a chinese new years eve with her dad so we'll be able to do martial arts (laughter) >> i'm so glad to be here with the celebration of the second-story of target opening up but with the hiring that's sensitive to what we all inside to see. it's my pleasure to give a proclamation i know the board will join me to saying in the the west target day in san francisco (clapping) >> (barking). >> go bullseye.

>> thank you very much. >> thank you so much. thank you so much mayor it's such a pleasure to have you here tonight we want to thank you for your vision and leadership. next (clapping) next i'd like to introduce the executive vp of the area eric mcdonald has helped his knowledge and understanding of the bay area has helped strengthen our relationship in the community. ladies and gentlemen, eric mcdonald >> good evening, everyone i say welcome because you're in my neighborhood. so native san franciscan it's

the neighborhood i grew up in but also, because in this building in this space is where i spend my afternoons my mother worked in the receiving department and i had to come after school. so i want to say that's tlooiflg u thrilling to be here. more importantly it's important to see target growing in this city. the community is intrinsic to the value of the organization and it shows up from to that to bottom. we love the team members who show up in community giving of their time and talents in our schools. at hill street it was chavez before that. in and through unit campaigns

they've give. we've celebrated 90 years and target was a major part of this partnership vested $100,000 in our beacons initiative so on behalf of unit way our community at large we're thrived target is here and we look forward to them growing as they invest more and more of themselves so thank you very much (clapping) >> thank you so much eric we're getting an awesome crowd. i want to introduce supervisor farrell.

so supervisor farrell i'd like to invite you up (clapping) >> thanks so much it's hard to believe we're here today. we've been working on this project i want to thank all who made this happen it takes from the teams. i want to thank targeted not only for all the giving but coming into this location and also another person who is heading up the project. they've been hiring a lot of local people especially from the western edition so it took a village and i want to thank everyone involved. my mother didn't work here but i came when it was a sears and recognize.

this is about creating jobs as mayor lee mentioned it's also about rehe storing a shopping center people didn't want to come. thooim i'm thrived to be here. i'm going to remember most is my son jack and i were the first customers hearing here at target (clapping) and that was the first item officially purchased in target tonight (clapping) >> thank you so much supervisor and thank you for helping us find an amazing home here per we love the shopping center and thank you for the sale we appreciate it. now guys before i invite you all out to shop i want to invite tiffany and her team back up here so we can cut the ribbon

and ingratiate our store. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

yeah. (clapping) go bullseye. (barking)out.

>> hi, i'm japanese with the san francisco public utilities combination sometime people call me sewer girl our systems has served the area for 1 hundred and 50 years we're planning you understand public health and our environment don't think that so come in down and see howdone.

>> it's a pleasure to have a you here at the martin luther king academy is school for this important celebration.

i service in the district. before i serve say a few words i want to thank and acknowledge some important individuals that are with us morning. if i miss someone which i will i wanted to thank you all a general thank you for being here today. i think today, we be mark in our calendars as a seminal chafrng point in public education in san francisco moving forward. before i go any further i want to recognize our members our elected commissioner commissioner joel winning who's with us this morning (clapping) >> i'd like to recognize commissioner matt haney who is with us thank you. and playing a dual rule the mayors