come today. >> hold on for two seconds. just want to make sure that everybody is here. come on in. colleagues, today i would like to take this opportunity to recognize a school, a new preschool that is thriving. in february of 2008, when a group of parents, frustrated with the lack of quality preschools in san francisco, open the school to provide a multi lingual, multicultural environment where people can freely develop their gifts and interests. 45 children from diverse cultural backgrounds attended the school and enjoy the program with an innovative mandarin immersion approach. by creating a loving

environment, encouraging exploration, fostering curiosity, and fostering the language proficiency and cultural awareness, they are preparing students for success in the globalize world. please join me in thanking the school for providing the city of san francisco with nurturing the infinite capacity of young children. thank you all for coming today. >> thank you, supervisor. we have been in the area for a number of years. in the last three years, i cannot tell you how wonderful the community has been to us. from a pizza parlor owners, to the store that we go to for christmas tree decorations, to all of the neighborhoods. after three years, we have been a thriving community. i have passed along an overview of our school. some of us have graduated and

have come back to show our delight in this. this is a little baby that says, i love mommy. we do represent a very diverse community. to extend our thank you, our children have created booklets for every single supervisor here. without further ado, i would like to thank you for having us come. where are the booklets? they are all original artwork from our kids. there should be of levin. we hope you enjoy it. [applause]

>> thank you. i also have another accommodation. hi. colleagues, i would like you to join me in honoring her for her lifetime of service to san francisco. she was my appointee to the mental health board for the last five years. i cannot believe it has been that long. she worked tirelessly to connected community with the city to better help families that used in dental services. before she joined the board, she worked as a youth counselor for six years and was a valued member of the use of thing --

youth housing authority. she showed her devotion to people she was working with and exhibited excellent leadership skills. i would like to commend her to her service to the community and the people of san francisco. thank you very much for being here. [applause] >> i would like to say thank-you to the supervisor alioto-pier. and also to sophie maxwell. i am a little nervous. i want to thank my family for being with me. and the executive director of the mental health board. [applause] i want to thank all of you. i continue to serve. people ask, why are they doing

this? >> they are being kind to people. when should we stop being kind? never. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, supervisor alioto- pier. this is followed by a supervisor chu. >> can i ask dave to come up? if you could come up with him.

today, it is my honor to recognize dave, who has dedicated the last 38 years of his life to the san francisco parks and recreation department. he started out at the jackson playground where he coached thousands of kids that baseball, basketball, and football. he began running services for the facilities and began running the first inclusion program. for the last 21 years, he has poured his heart and soul into his job as the camp director for the day camp. that equates to 21 years for creating new games and crafts for kids every week.

learning and teaching every single camp song and skit imaginable. if you line up all of the smorews you cooked they would probably go to the moon. this is a place for urban kids can go to explore nature to their car -- their heart's content. folks get together and celebrate. the things that they hear is how wonderful dave has been and how instrumental he has been to the success of the camp. this is his last week at pine lake camp. i want to thank you for all of your years of service and your dedication to the children of san francisco. thank you very much. [applause] >> i would like to thank the board of supervisors.

a special law -- especially supervisor carmen chu for recognizing this over the last 38 years by honoring me today. my whole career has been centered around one principle. to provide quality recreational opportunities for the children of san francisco. this friday it will mark the end of my 38-year career with the san francisco parks and recreation department. this is not my decision to leave, but the decision of recreation and parks, who no longer require my assistance. i am touched by the family and friends who have touched my life. especially supervisor carmen chu, blackstone, and the people behind me. i have been blessed to have a co-worker like carol at my side. her ability to help children with disabilities is

unsurpassed. if i have not been the camp manager, i have a profound admiration for both of them and the board of ethics. thank you. [applause] >> i retired last year from parks and recreation. this has been very hard with us

to lose his position after this many years. he has done a good job. he has an impeccable record. he will be missed. 21 years as a camp manager. he has done wonders. he has children from the 1970's that stop by the house to see how daisy is doing. children with disabilities act still come to see how dave is. i am truly happy to see how truly recognized he has been. it is a long time coming. i know there is life after rec and park. he said that i would never have met cammy or carmen. for all of the wonderful people. thursday night, we do have our final luaw for the summer.

dave bayh is a -- buys a pig out of his own pocket. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. i would like to take this opportunity to honor him and providing a space and treasured experience that all san francisco you should probably have an opportunity to participate in. he has had the opportunity to get to know the campers individually. he has volunteered junior counselors. from paid junior counselors to adult camp counselors. within the estimate he has built continuity, trust, solid

values, job training for our youth for the last 21 years. this is for 38 years with the san francisco parks and recreation department. it is with deep sadness that i and other san francisco families have the values of san francisco public employees at the end of this month. his leadership and commitment will be missed and it is a replaceable. thank you very much for this honor. thank you. [applause] >> as a parent who has had the opportunity to have two of his children to go through pili -- pine lake the kamp, i have to

say, thank you for doing this. this is a great opportunity to thank dave for what he has done. i cannot imagine what we have done without it. you need your medical professionals and you need everybody. you need a good, solid, recreation program. that is what we had in the summer with dave in pine lake. >> thank you very much for the presentations. are there any others for the day? >> today's meeting will be adjourned in the meeting of the following individual on behalf

of the full board of supervisors. president chiu: i know we are about to recessed for our first break since christmas. i would like to thank all of you for the tremendous work that you have been doing. i know it has been a very busy time. . at this time, i would like to adjourn until september 7.

>> thank you, everybody. happy anniversary. first and foremost, i want to acknowledge susan's outstanding leadership, her stewardship. it is interesting, every couple of weeks we get together, all of

the city department heads. every week, we get together in smaller groups, but as a group, 60, 70 of us get together, and it does not matter what the topic is. susan will chime in and make sure she raises her hand and say, "wait a second. did you consider the rights of mobility issues, the rights of those that are impaired? did you consider your responsibilities, your obligations, moral, ethical, legal as well to include this, to include that?" i just want to give a big round of applause to susan for her stewardship and leadership. i want to acknowledge the number of department heads here that have been doing great work and trying to lead the way and lead by example in terms of fulfilling our mandate to fulfil

our promises that we made some 20 years ago. it is extraordinary how far we have come, but it is equally extraordinary how far we need to go, and i want to underscore that we understand that. we understand that we are not there yet. we understand there's still discrimination in the workplace. we still recognize there is still accessibility issues on our own streets and sidewalks. there's even accessibility issues in our own board of supervisors chambers, which still have not been made completely accessible. we recognize our rights. we also recognize our responsibilities, so i want to just began by making that point. i also want to make a few points about ed roberts because it is absolutely right to remember that in 190062, he was out here -- in 1962, he was out here in

the bay area leading the way, and so much of the progress that has been made, not only around the state, but this nation, and around the world, can go back to the work he initiated and the leadership he displayed in the 1960's. do not forget -- it was extraordinary. the headlines of the day -- these were the headlines of the day when he was accepted to uc berkeley. the headlines read, "a cripple is accepted into berkeley." that was acceptable nomenclature. that was acceptable headline writing by the editors of local newspapers. that is how people were referred to. but it is because of his commitment, his constancy, his faith, his devotion to the cause of true equality that others started to come out and others started to join and others started to organize, leading to 1977, and many of you may have been there, in un plaza, and how

appropriate. remember, the birthplace of the united nations, and the full promise of the united nations -- it all began here in san francisco, and there, many of you were. 100-plus-wrong with the largest demonstration this nation had ever seen at the time of people saying enough is enough, and we are going to demonstrate our right to demand that our rights are extended, and people paid attention. in so many ways, that was the cataclysmic moment in time that really will people of so that some 13 years later, we woke up the nation when 3000 people strong came out in washington, d.c. democrats, republicans, independents, and we got the americans with disabilities act

signed by then-president bush at the white house lawn 20 years ago today. so it is remarkable, those origins. is remarkable progress. it is remarkable the work that all of you have done. if you have ever watched, and maybe you do not want to, or maybe you had to -- i never good with notes. i have my own learning disability called dyslexia, so i cannot be very well, but i thought it was important to make susan's point, and then doing something that i never do, and that as i wrote some things down because i wanted to get some things right because i wanted to underscore what susan said about the last six-plus years. when i first became supervisor, some of you may know, i've posted -- hosted a little reception across the street, and i wanted to celebrate the fact that i had the privilege of a lifetime to represent the people of san francisco, and i was told i could not do it because i was at the green room across the street, and apparently, it was

not accessible, which is rather remarkable to me. because as a small business person, this same city hall major, appropriately, that when i open my small business, that it was accessible, only to find out when i came here that the same people that were telling, appropriately, small businessmen and women like myself what to do, they were not doing it themselves. i remember coming together and cobbling up a few bucks, and i said that it was ridiculous because the city came in and said it would take years. it's an historic structure, all kinds of issues. i said that's the same thing i hear business people say all the time, but we make them do the right thing. so if you cannot do it, city hall, i will do it myself. so i wrote a check, and we put that temporary ramp, which has been made a permanent ramp, that is still there today, and made

that chamber accessible. that is not to impress you but to impress upon you that i recognize that when we got here as a supervisor, we had a lot more to do that i could ever imagine. we worked to get more van taxis. we worked to focus on making sure the decision was made real. we worked to make sure there were more buses, signals, and the like, but when i became mayor, i had a little more leverage. here is just some of the things we have done just to highlight the point. we started with boating because there's no more principled thing there. in 2004, we made some progress, but just north of half of our polling places were accessible with accessible boating equipment. today, i'm proud to say, we are not 100%, but 95% of all the polling places now are accessible with voting machines

that people can use in private, which is good. [applause] we then stop at the war memorial building because in 2004, we had this great transition plan you all worked on. it looked good in writing, but we have not implemented that plan. there was only a negligible amount of progress. today, six years later, 80% of that plan is now complete. all city offices that provide services are now made accessible. all museums are now accessible. 9% of our community health clinics are now accessible. 14 brand new branch libraries accessible. nine more that are in progress will be made accessible appeared most modern accessibility of any new library system i know of in this country. i remember when willie brown went out there -- i will never forget. we had a big celebration.

we had our first playground that was made accessible, and that was big national news. now, we have over 80 playgrounds that are fully accessible. 28 clubhouses, 19 rec centers. that is real progress compared to where we were just a few years ago. still not good. we talked about olmstead, and susan was right to bring it up. it is appropriate. ihss and home support services at what is going on in the governor's budget. i do not want to get too partisan or political, but it is pretty unconscionable that it is even on the table, these kind of cuts, but then again, not surprising with all the other cuts that are on the table. but you do not have to worry about those ihss cuts locally. they were not even part of the discussion, and now with the budget for all our shortfalls and challenges, we did not even begin to enter into that process to make sure we are providing the quality of care that people

deserve with quality wages and quality benefits, so i just want to thank everyone for all their great work and stewardship and allowing people to live in places, live in dignity, which are the principles that bring us all here together, and it was the principle that brought us together to create that community living fund a few years ago. not everybody needs to be in an institution. as proud as we are of laguna honda, not everybody needs to be ad -- at laguna honda. we need to provide alternatives to skilled nursing services, but we had no funding and no framework. now, five years in a row, $3 million a year, we have been putting into this community living fund to allow people to transition back into the community or to stay in the community to live in dignity and live in place. i want to thank all of you for that community living fund.

it is a national model today. [applause] people forget emergency planning. susan never did. i remember we updated all our emergency operations plans. we have not met in eight years, and the emergency operations plan have not been updated in eight years, but there she was saying is great to update it, but make sure it is accessible. at the time, only three of them were accessible. that is a challenge. today, we have more than 75 accessible emergency disaster shelters, and 37 of them can be adapted and made acceptable. that is real progress. we had only one audible alert system. today, we now have an audible and visual alert system to alert sf. if you have not signed up for the text messaging and the benefits of alert sf, please, if nothing else today, up.

call 3114 information. again, national model. real progress has been made. this is good. it is all of their in real time. i want to thank everyone. two final things -- public right of way. i know we have had to be sued over and over again -- amen. sometimes you are happy to be sued because it gets you focused, realigns your values, so i'm acting like we were real leaders. you were the leaders holding our feet to the fire, but here's the good news -- 5100 new curb ramps in the last 100 years have been done, and we have all but doubled them. over 12,000 curve rams. i have to tell you -- seems like we're really fast tracking because i do not know if there is a corner in the city where we do not have some construction on a new curve ramp. i hope real progress is here,

and bevan dufty is here, and i know how committed he is. if we could acknowledge him and thank him for making us honest in all this. final three points because i know you are sick of me and we have a lot of speakers, but it is important to talk about because you are important to talk about. in addition to curb ramps, we only have one intersection that was accessible with those pedestrian signals. now, we can confidently say that we lead the nation with 116 intersections and growing every single day. please give yourselves a round of applause for that. it is always good to lead the way. we have more work to do, but we are making progress. transportation. i know it is stil