they really feel like it they'll come to a community meeting because they know we're here, so congratulations. >> thank you. i feel compelled after we gave out that award at the beginning of the ceremony. we hear about a sacred heart recipient who tackled someone. then we heard from a police captain who said it was a little hard to catch people. sorry, captain. i could tell. anyway, thank you very much, everybody. at this point we'll move towards adjournment. again, thank you very much for having us here tonight and i would like to see a bigger crowd next time but thank you, everybody. you should come see us every wednesday nuth. >> do we have a motion for ajoufment? >> a motion to adjourn. >> we have a motion to adjourn?

>> thank you. >> welcome. i am the senior vice president of human resources and corporate real-estate, and i am really delighted to welcome the honorable edwin lee, mayor of san francisco. we have a number of employees

who work here. everybody, welcome. we are delighted that you have come to see our office space, and we also have some good news to announce. with that, i would like to give callback the microphone to share some of that good news. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. thanks so much for being here. i, too, would like to extend my gratitude to the honorable edwin lee. thanks so much for coming. hopefully, you got a small chance to look around. the gallery was really built for to the we will purposes. one was to showcase the work of the customers, which is the best way [inaudible]

secondly, to show off new technology and how you can use it to sell technology challenges. if you look around, you can see interesting things. i just had the experience of bringing my nephews. we eventually printed things out. that was very exciting. one thing that was particularly exciting was the announcement of our presence in san francisco. it has been a great location for us. we have continually expanded over the last half-dozen years. we love to meet here in the city. this has turned out to be a

fantastic place to host and guests. it has been a fantastic place to attract employees, to tap into the creativity and imagination of the city and all the support it provides. we are thrilled to be here, and we will continue to expand our presence here. this morning, we are announcing that we are building another 36,000 square feet of space. this one is in the adjacent our and will be connecting the two buildings. just like they are connected on the ground floor, this will be connecting the high rise of the building. this will continue our expansion of our presence in san francisco, which has just been incredible. there is nothing like to bring a guest to san francisco and not only being able to show off what the guest does, but to show off the city itself. the combination of using it as a

showcase for us as well as a place to expand our employee base is very exciting for us. now, i would like to introduce the honorable edwin lee. [applause] mayor lee: good morning. welcome to the city of innovation, san francisco. we continue to be really strong. i want you to feel comfortable, all of you here. it sounds like every six months we will be coming back to make another announcement. i was here in march when we talk about the first major expansion, and, of course, i got to have the personal tour from carl and his wonderful staff to see all the different products and all the work has not only trading, but is the part of the way so many other companies are doing

business, and we had a chance to talk this morning about all the different hospitals, the medical field, and the seismic retrofit requirements. all of the contractors and major engineering firms are using the very product you see here to be able to model their buildings. clearly, without that modern technology, you cannot see how some of these things can be sequenced with the great savings that are inherent in using 3-d dimensional looks at the way everything from hdc to architectural drawings actually fit in with all the different skill sets. being your former dpw director [inaudible] [laughter] i told carl in the last four months since we were last year,

i brought about three different visitors to san francisco right down here to take a look, and each of them came back. "what a wonderful place. i want to go back to the museum and see this great technology." every six months, there is an exception. want to talk about the great comments. despite what you're hearing about the whole national economy, we are very solid in the city, and i am so happy because as the mayor of the city, we want to keep that innovation, keep the technology companies welcome in the city. eventually, we are going to sit down for some long hours and say, "how about those headquarters?" 36,000 additional square feet being announced today. that represents an additional 200 employees on top of the 500

employees that are currently here. autodesk has about 7000 employees worldwide, but there are making some very good plans here. there's a reason this is the city of innovation. many of the fantastic employees located here with carl's leadership come here because they want to interact with the best engineering firms, the best architectural firms, with the entities of building our new villages, if you will, whether it is salesforce or general hospital or chinese hospital, as we go through those negotiations and get that done. these are fantastic buildings, fantastic institutions. it is all going on. they are all using the very modern products, so i am happy to see this. it is all about jobs and

employment for us in the city as well. you have seen the other companies attracted to not only what autodesk is doing here, but also choosing to come here. of course, our work with twitter is very helpful. we are still on the move. we are still very excited about what autodesk is doing and still supporting every effort we can to not only keep employees here but offer opportunities to expand because the product and the innovation has to be working together. the companies come here -- it is not because -- there is a little higher rent that you have to pay, but look at what you get.

that is why salesforce has about eight floors here of great work they have. they will eventually -- they already are designing their whole campus in mission bay and using a lot of products here and their clients and customers using a lot of products to do that. i am excited to announce this and suggest to you that it is important, and my number goal is to create jobs and make sure that jobs-creating companies are here, they stay here. look out -- in six months, they will be right back here. we will make another announcement. hopefully another great contribution. maybe look at the first order -- the first quarter and hope that is as successful as the second quarter. thank you very much. [applause] questions?

>> [inaudible] >> 150. >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> [inaudible] >> autodesk is a company that started in the bay area, reached to the d.c. area. started at the same time as companies like microsoft and adobe, so it is a 30-year-old company. it was originally headquartered in sausalito. about 15 years ago, we moved

headquarters, and we have always had a small presence in san francisco. there has always been a fringe element to the company. we had a more urban setting that attracted different kinds of talents. a few years ago, we really increased it up to about 500. we were going to increase a couple hundred more. the interesting thing is that so much of our business is outside of the united states. about 75% of our business is outside of the united states. what we look for is really the place where we can get the best talent.

that is generally where we look at ourselves. our big motivations, particularly for research, development, or marketing is where we can find the best people, and we found that in san francisco. >> [inaudible] >> pretty much across the board, but the two main functions we have is software development and luxury. those are the two main developments we have here. we talked about the culture of innovation and young, smart people. this is a great place to live, a great place to work. active public transportation. this morning, you could see the waves of people ride at the ferry tunnel, so it is really a great infrastructure. very different from my old new

jersey. >> by the way, the last 13 candy awards for best visual effects used this product. >> the last 16 -- not only the last 16, but every year, there are five nominees. we have had qualified nominees for 16 years. you can actually see one of the awards that we have one. there's nothing that we or our employees have not won >> can you do anything to offer any incentives or tax incentives? >> we have our real estate department helping with whatever support they need. of course our department of

building inspections to do all the inspections to make sure everything is done in an excellent fashion. we are continuing to offer the technology companies an expedited approach that they don't get caught up in the bureaucracies and we have been doing very well. i know carl would be the first to call up and he hasn't been calling up. >> we have kind of pushed the limits. next week we are installing machinery in order to showcase the capabilities of the manufacturing technology. we have had to work with the city to get those things approved. even as we change the exhibits, as of yesterday there was one of the things that was in here we

brought in a concept car from daimler in there now. and just the idea of we have had to remove the windows and had a crane and working with the city on things like that and it is a big deal and if we didn't get the cooperation it would be much more difficult to do but we have had great cooperation from the city. >> [inaudible]. >> we talked to the mayor about moving the zones. >> my view is that creation of really high paying jobs all around san francisco would be a good idea. and while i understand why it

started it one part of the city, i think creative jobs should been couraged all over the city -- should be encouraged all over the city. carl is many, among many others who are engaging with us to approach how to change the taxes. we are going to be spearheading that and talking about more options to deal with taxes. that will be probably connected very well to a discussion about headquarters and things of that nature. >> exactly. we have a number of new companies that want to engage us in that discussion and make sure we don't lose revenues but don't

continue job punishing legislation. so we are careful not to do that. and both twitter and others are great signs for our city to have moved to indicate that we are business friendly in that respect. i know your schedule is tight and we are planning to give you a quick tour of the work space. all of you are welcome to join. we will be walking to utter -- out that way and we hope everybody can join us. thanks very much.

>> welcome to city hall. it is my pleasure today to join board president david chiu. our chief of police is here today. hydra mendoza, the president of our board of education. the director of public works. my wife anita -- she is the most important. who else do we have? the director of our treasure island authority is here. also member of our housing authority. thank you very much for being here. our city librarian -- thank you for being here as well. the president of the san francisco giants is here. all right.

and they won today. [applause] sorry if i forgot to mention anybody. i know supervisor avalos will join us later. and sandy. thank you for being with us today. sharon has been here for many years. thank you for being here as well. to all of you who our guests -- family, friends, brothers and sisters of our youth commission -- thank you very much for joining us. i have been very thrilled to be your mayor for the last eight months, and one of the things that i have delighted in in terms of meeting all the different -- come on up, john. supervisor avalos, good to see you. [applause] one of the things i have been delighted in in all the

different town hall budget meetings and the community-based organization meetings we have had is to listen to what our views were saying about our city -- listen to what our youth were saying about our city. it either make me happy or sad. it is your opinions that measure the polls and the direction of what we're doing as a city. ultimately, and i know all the other departments will agree with me -- you are going to take over this city. you are going to take it over. you are going to take my job. you are going to take their jobs. you are going to do better than we did. the reason is because we know that we can only do so much, and we have limited time in the offices that we have. but for right now, for you, where you are at, you can give us the best advice about where we should go as a city.

you can give us the advice about better legislation, about better programs, about being more sensitive to families in this city, and to our youth, to the future leaders that this city will have pirie whether you are a police officer or police chief, firefighter, or you may become a doctor or nurse or a teacher or you may become a librarian for the batter for the next giants team, or you may become a social service worker, or you may become a major -- mayor, in all of these efforts, we need your input. we need your advice. it is with great pleasure that we have this opportunity to point you to our youth commission. as a whole body, we need to listen to our youth, so we know which is the right and wrong directions for us to go to and

what your needs are. whether it is education, whether it is in sports and social programs for socializing, whether it is ideas about how to make your life safer, whether your communities are safer, or whether it is just how to make the city a happier place, we need that input. so i want to thank all of your family and friends here today because they will need your support. every commissioner that served in public capacity always sacrifices personal time, and your sacrifice will be well worth it, i assure you. because i will listen and supervisors will listen as you go through your deliberations. all we ask is that you create an opportunity for us to listen to you carefully and make sure we consider your ideas to help make the city better. so before we do the official swearing in, i know that board president chiu would like to

share a few words and also supervisor avalos as well. [applause] supervisor chiu: thank you. i want to add my congratulations to the folks that he has that. there are a couple of folks i would also like to of knowledge. first of all, mario from the youth commission. [applause] who has done an incredible job in helping to mentor our future leaders. i also want to recognize someone who recently joined the staff. [applause] thank you for the work you are doing. and there is one other group of folks that we have to take a moment to acknowledge, and that is your mothers and fathers. can we give it to the parents in the house? [applause] and, of course, all the other surrogate parents that i know

are here along with your biological parents. as many of you know, the commission was born 15 years ago. that means it is a 15-year-old teenager. i have to tell you, when i was 15 years old, i could not find city hall on a map. congratulations for being, as mayor lee said, our next generation of leaders. [applause] without the work that you do, mayor lee, john avalos, hydra mendoza -- we would not have ideas about how to improve public safety, how to improve our schools, or i do not think any of us would have thought about the importance of providing free muni you have shown tremendous leadership. you represent the diversity of

san francisco. you represent our neighborhoods and every corner of our city. you inspire us. when you are able to come together, it signals to us, the adults of city hall, that we also have to come together. we have to work together. she is excited as well. [laughter] i want to tell you to keep on fighting and in part in the wisdom -- imparting wisdom you can see through your eyes as we're deliberating here. i look forward sunday to working on the campaigns of some of you here -- someday to working on the campaigns of some of you here. i look forward to working with you as you head up our city departments, non-profits, companies, and this great city of san francisco. thank you and congratulations. [applause]

>> you have touched on many aspects of your work as commissioners. you have acknowledged your family's supporting you as well. i want to say thank you for your service. thank you for taking on this leadership role. it is not just looking at your future. it is about looking at what your present is like. that is a huge commitment you are making to your peers and generation. that is knowledge can bring to us to help us make decisions at city hall. i think it is a great idea whose time has come. the work the youth commission did last year working with community organizations and youth from around the city was exceptional and worthy of action on our part to make sure it gets

done. i wanted to say thank you for that. i want to acknowledge other folks who have gone on to public office from the recent youth commission. jesse is on the city council berkeley. exceptional things are going on that you will have access to in terms of government service. it is not just working as elected officials. nonprofit workers, julie has had an exceptional career serving in people. we have nicole in the back to used to be a staffer at the youth commission who is now doing a lot of great political work. you may know her. i want to say thank you for taking on this leadership role. i look forward to working with you over the next year. i work very closely with the youth commission. i am very excited about the things we can do together, crafting legislation, approving budgets, insuring the young people continue to have a voice that will be acted upon by

government. thank you so much. [applause] >> are you ready? if i may say this, first of all when they say free muni, let's make sure we know where the money is coming from. we have to be responsible. i want to say congratulations. now you are going to take up the responsibility you have not taken up before. it is no longer about you. it is about us and our city. i want to make sure that you know that as you deliberate and recommend to me and the board of supervisors, the police chief, hydra, know that it is no longer a recommendation for the city.