irish lad come over the hills to your darling you choose the road love and i will make the balancvows and i will be your true love forever red is the rose that beyond the garden grows there is a lily of the valley here is the water that boasts from the spring but my love is [inaudible]

♪ ♪ down by killarney the moon and the stars they were shining the moon shone

she was sure she would be my love forever red is the rose that beyond the garden grows there is delayed of our valley there is the water that flows from but my love is better than any ♪ [applause] >> over in the corner, and john's father. we are so thrilled that this long overdue that we hang your picture on our wall. you have supported our 1906

survivor dinners and luncheons over the years. i do not know what i always see you at 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning, but you are always there for us. 1983, there was a fire at jon's grille. your guys came in. in those days, i think it was guys. they got the bar out, they got chief bill murray's picture off the wall. but mayor christopher's picture off the wall. we have been rebuilding ever since. but we are a little short on beautiful ladies. we are happy to have you on the wall. [applause]

do you have something that you would like to -- >> lee and john, thank you for inviting me here. for all of you, fire commissioners, city family. i guess when joanne came, everyone said, first female. she has shown that she has joined the great chiefs of our city. it did not take long at all for her leadership to come out, for her personality, a french ship, but also for that wonderful leadership. our great city sometimes, a lot of people focus on who is in room 200, but there are very special moments for many periods of the city where the city is defined by its great chiefs.

today we celebrate one of those already. who is this movie star? that is a great thing. i want to thank john's grill for putting up, under their 40- year tradition, someone that we believe very much in our city, who has really led a great leadership and our fire department and has been a great leader on many fronts, helping us so much on anything -- everything from the toy drives to community participation, to everything that reflects a modern fire department and all the men and women that served the department. really give them the pride for working for the great city. chief, congratulations for making it on the wall. lee, john, to have this tradition, welcome our great chief. [applause] >> since you are the last one

that has been hung on the wall previously, you two work so closely together, could you say something? >> i am no where near as good looking as joanne. kind of down the line there. joanne and i have been friends forever. i played football with city college with her brother dan who was the coach. talk about a great person to be able to follow. she has been so supportive. i have learned so much in my short time on how to be a good chief. she is modest, gracious, everything that you would want to have. i just hope someday people will think of me the way that i think of her. [applause] we have a surprise hear from senator mark leno, who i believe has not made an endorsement yet. would you like to make an announcement?

>> speaking of better looking -- >> it is my pleasure to join mr. mayer and our chief on this auspicious occasion. i think all the kind and generous words have been said. if you look on this wall, joanne, you can see the threshold to get on this wall is rather high. with some exceptions, we have got police chiefs, fire chiefs, mayors. i have been discriminated against because i am gay, jewish, but never for being estate center. i asked, how and why going to get on the wall? -- when am i going to get on the wall? he said soon. it is my pleasure to join in with the celebration and take a moment to recognize your unique accomplishments.

chief hayes-white is the only chief to have served in all 42 different stations. i think that says something for your hands-on leadership style, that you have not only earned your stripes, made your way up the ladder in the department, but also have brought to us a motherly touch that is uncommon. congratulations to you on this wonderful distinction. i would also like to thank john and john crow for supporting this tradition, which i aspired to at some point. >> thank you. [applause] >> you will be well-hung.

you are jewish? all of you who would like to, we hope that you stay and eat and sleep and -- share wonderful stories. thank you, everybody. >> thank you to lead to help steer values -- continue to buy a the city history. certainly, to mr. john and gus constant, owners of john's grill for four years. it is an honor to be here. to have my picture up there. . a lot of water under p.m. very under the bridge.

the firefighter was behing me, and taking good of us. i feel good about it. thank you. i think the world of chief s uhr. thank you to my co-workers.

is all about teamwork. thank you very much. i consider you part of my team. thank you so much. it is a wonderful surprise. a wonderful tribute. thank you for those songs. my younger brother dan is here. my younger sister is here. and my mom, who is 86 years old. 86 is just a number. i am sorry.

of all the things i've participated in, this is the most exciting moments. is part of the history, and my mom has dined here many times and has seen the pictures on the wall. thank you, mom. thank you very much. again i appreciate this. thank you. thank you to mayor lee and to john. for anyone here who does not know me and is here for our regular lunch, i am sorry for the interruption. [laughter]

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>> thank you all for joining our wonderful san francisco symphony. and of course, what with the mayor do without issuing the official proclamation? on behalf of our great city, i would love to present in honor of not only the 100 years, but the grammys, oscars, the wonderful quality of work that the symphony has been involved in, to honor them on this day, to resign from our protocol officer the official proclamation presented to michael. declaring this to be san francisco symphony in day in san francisco. [applause] free parking is what he asked for. of all things. and of course, with this opportunity that we could not pass up, where would a 100-share birthday bash the without the official birthday song? i'm going to ask liang-liang to

get on the piano. and i'm going to have ask all of you to sing in your loudest voice. he would like to have his friends in china hear this. let's go with have a birthday, everybody. [applause]

>> ok, thank you. thank you, everybody, for being here. local 261, thank you, laborers, for being here. mr. harrington, thank you. john martin, our airport, thank you. d.e.m., of course, ann, thank you very much for being here and our human rights commission director, thank you very much, terese afor being here. it's a large city family. >> dennis, thank you. thank you very much, dennis, for being here. commissioner normandy,

supervisor carmen chu, thank you. good morning, everyone. larry, good to see you, great to be out there with the new labor center. wonderful. friends, family, emily, judy, good to see you. everybody, thank you for coming. entertainment commission, of course. thank you for being here. and commissioners, human rights commission, as well. we have 11 commissioners representing eight different commissions to swear in today. and i want to, again, thank each and every one of you for both new appointments and reappointments to our wonderful commissions. this is a very, very proud day for me because we're welcoming back people who have done great jobs in our city and running our airports and our arts commissions, our civil service, our commission on the status of women, our environmental

commission, our entertainment commission, our human rights commission and of course our rent board, something that i grew up with here at city with our rent board. i want to thank everyone here for coming for this wonderful occasion to ask again for a recommitment and a new commitment of our commissioners to serve our city. you don't get a lot of pay, as i understand, from doing this. i get a little pay but i depend upon your guidance and your policy calls for doing such a great job for our departments and also guiding the city and creating jobs and also getting work done with our department heads and that's why so many of them are here, as well. they are working hard to keep, during these very challenging economic times, a balance of what it is to move the city forward, but also just the opportunity to keep our city together. that's a wonderful thing. and i know the rent board, for

example, that whole tension between our landlord and tenants and making sure it's a well balanced thing. and our environment, to make sure we're not only doing the new things, but working with all of our agencies to get the best in energy efficiency and in our look at reducing our co-2 emissions right down to our civil service commission and as you know, we lost a very long-term civil servant in donald casper. we welcome in our new commissioner, as well. on our human rights commission, we have a lot of work to do. and i know that in keeping our city together, we have to also continue to fight obstacles of discrimination but also welcome in in a proper way small businesses and challenges to all of the obstacles being created that are new to us. i want to welcome in our entertainment commissioners because they have that very,

very fine balance that has to do with creating new opportunities of entertainment and dealing with our young community as well as our music entertainment community and balancing public safety. i'm excited with our arts commission. as you know, i've been a great supporter of the arts, all forms of arts, and seeing how it's helping us activate mid market street as well as our new central subways and all the opportunities we have. i want to thank you for stepping up. eleanor, our airports commission. airport is, of course, through john's leadership, one of the driving engines of our economy. we're going to work on high-speed rail, which would be part of the plan for our airports because if we don't help reduce traffic between l.a. and san francisco, we'll not have the opportunities to get increases in our international tour thamp we want to have and the plane capacities, the land

capacity. we have big challenges while we reinvent everyone one of our airport terminals and make them a beautiful place to land and be a part of. all of you, thank you very much for stepping up and being part of the city. if i may, to welcome in our fire chief, as well, thank you very much, chief white, for being here, to have you all stand and we are prepared to take the oath of office. if you can repeat your names -- [laughter] you may stand if you wish. repeat after you and the office that you will up on. occupy. i -- your name -- do solemnly swear that i will support and

defend the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that i will bear true faith and aleggience to the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california. that i take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i'm about to enter during such time as i hold the

office of -- for the city and county of san francisco. congratulations, everybody. welcome in our new and reappointed commissioners. thank you. [applause]

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>> thank you all for joining our wonderful san francisco symphony. and of course, what with the mayor do without issuing the official proclamation? on behalf of our great city, i would love to present in honor of not only the 100 years, but the grammys, oscars, the wonderful quality of work that the symphony has been involved in, to honor them on this day, to resign from our protocol officer the official proclamation presented to michael. declaring this to be san francisco symphony in day in san francisco. [applause] free parking is what he asked for. of all things. and of course, with this

opportunity that we could not pass up, where would a 100-share birthday bash the without the official birthday song? i'm going to ask liang-liang to get on the piano. and i'm going to have ask all of you to sing in your loudest voice. he would like to have his friends in china hear this. let's go with have a birthday, everybody.

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