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that, too. and then the closures. we have 30 two square miles in my district. the whole city -- 32 square miles in my district, three base closures did you think that in the country they could average it out differently. hunters point, treasure island, and the presidio. so that gave us an opportunity to think in an innovative way about public-private partnership, in a way that san francisco once again led the way, taught the nation how to do things in a different way. and now that goes on. every initiative we have in the american recovery and reinvestment act was something that works here because we are a model. we know how to get things done. we not only helped ourselves, we helped the country. about this park. this is a very personal. i look at the academy of sciences, and my kid christine
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will tell you, who is here with bella. and paul pelosi, jr., over there. they used them as toddlers and run through the halls of the academy of sciences, the planetarium, the japanese tea garden. all of that. little did we know that 40 years later this would be happening and there would be grass growing on the roof of the academy of science for the thermal management of the planet. science, science, science. we came here to learn that the academy of sciences. we came here to play in the park. we came here to smell the flowers. naomi, she is to put out the word, the rodos are here. that met the road no danger blossomed. anybody that knows this park, they know that is a beautiful location when those flowers come out. now listen to the music. over time, it was wonderful,
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never as wonderful as when warren hellman it left us with his strictly bluegrass and then it hardly strictly bluegrass. thank you, nancy. isn't it wonderful that warren hollow is near by? we can to learn, play, listen to the music, smell the flowers. we came to recreate. to my friends, all of that, to recreate. that is a very important word. and your assignment, your role is such an important one. but think of that word, to recreate. said another way, re-create. it is important to the life of a person and community that people renew themselves and restorer, re-create as they recreates. this is so important to the life of our people in our city and our community. so wonderful that we're near the national aids memorial grove,
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national. [applause] when that was established, anna was there. she held us. some people said, i do not haveh for one ellis, one disease. others would say we should not do it here but in our district. some did not want to have it. the others did not want it for themselves. we went out. we put it on the same bill, the presidio trust bill was leaving the station. i am not sure they all knew they voted for it, but -- [laughter] that is how we got here in the first place with the presidio. again, i have pictures that i brought when my kids were really small -- i mean, really small, nearly 40 years ago. we hired someone to record our family of the time.
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he said, tell me with the most beautiful place is in san francisco. of course, we brought him to golden gate park. so some of the pictures are there from that long time ago with my five children. then we have some from just a matter of months ago when my grandson's were here for the growth -- grove's anniversary. and then a matter of weeks ago when we had our work did the national aids memorial grove. right, jack? jack was there. i wanted you to see the time going by, how long our relationship is here and what this means. imagine, imagine -- imagine, it is hard for me to grasp, that this would be between jfk drive and mlk, jr., drive. i was at john f. kennedy's s inauguration as a student. i heard him say on that freezing cold day, much more freezing
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cold than this, what he asked us to do. ask not what he can do -- you know, the whole thing, that is not what the country can do for you but what you can do for the country. the also said after that, but people do not know, his next sentence was cut to the citizens of the world, ask not what america can do for you but we can do working together for the freedom of mankind. that sentence is something that has been really a began -- beacon in addition to the original part of it. my father was part of the administration. so i am honored in the name of all of you in the people of san francisco to bear witness to his work and martin luther king, jr. i was at the margin in 1960. guess what, i had to leave. i cannot stay for speeches. i had to leave because i was going home to get married. paul and i will be married 49
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years at the beginning of september. there was ample 28, but guests are coming in, and i had to get going. but i did see the march come in, and it was meant as a. and my brother tommy later became mayor of baltimore. he worked with martin luther king, jr., on equal accommodations, whether it was housing or restaurants or whatever it was in the transition time. so this has a lot of history in making this a very emotional day for me. it is a wonderful honor. it is a wonderful honor. it is just unbelievable and staggering, and i am only now beginning to accept it. mark buell, thank you for making this possible, for making such possible in our community over and over again. that that was -- that is why i was so honored that you ed sees the were in the gallery that day as we made history and now we make progress. i want to see why.
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every good thing that happens, you have a hand in. thank you for that. thank you for making this possible for me. [applause] it is about a city. the biggest honorable -- honor of all is to walk onto the floor of the house of berbers and those and speak for the people of san francisco. san francisco. liberty and justice for all is what we care about. nondiscrimination in the rest is our hallmark. where we talk about the environment as god's gift that we must preserve. every issue that you can name. the education of our children, creation of jobs, health care for all americans as a right, not a privilege. health security for our seniors from a clean fresh air for our children to play and thrive. a world with peace in which we can all make our contribution.
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san francisco is such a hotbed of it. when i talk to my colleagues, i say in our city, the beauty is in the mix. we have so many people who are so involved from so many different communities, representing every religion or not. every nationality from around the world. and it is that vitality that is the strength of america. but as i said that day when mark and others, many of you here, were up in that gallery, i am here to represent san francisco in values, i said, and want to express them -- [applause] i want to express them the way our patron saint expressed them. st. francis of assisi.
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the song is our cities and them. make me an instrument of peace. where there is darkness, bring light. where there is hatred, love. forgive is to be forgiven. it is a wonderful and them. it is about san francisco values, and that is -- no honor is greater than representing san francisco on the floor of the house, except maybe having your signed between martin luther king, jr., and jfk. thank you all very much for this wonderful day. [applause] i just want to do a special shout out for mimi because she
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has been with all of us every step of the way. what a great honor that you're with us today. thank you so much. [applause] >> before i ask the woman's jazz ensembles to conclude the program, at the risk of offending ever become i will announce a few more people i see in the audience that deserve a shout out. that would become a representing the golden gate national recreation area, frank, the superintendent. gregg, president of the golden gate national park conservancy. crag, executive director of the presidio trust. nancy has been acknowledged from the board. in the chairman of the presidio trust, co-chair of the golden gate bridge seven of the anniversary which will be this sunday night, philip ginsburg, my boss, who has done so much to restore san francisco parks, and we're going to continue to do that. [applause] with that, thank you all very much for coming. it is a big wonderful family when nancy is involved. with that, i am going to ask
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the women's jazz ensembles to conclude the program. ♪ [singing in foreign language] ♪
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♪ >> ♪ all night i'm dreaming of you all day i dream you all night i'm dreaming of you all day i dream you ♪
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[vocalizing] >> ♪ every time every time every time every time every time oh ♪ [vocalizing]
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[applause]
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>> we will call this meeting to order. this is our second disaster council of 2012. i will turn this over to the mayor to make a few remarks. >> thank you, everyone, for participating on this meeting. as you know, it is obviously not a high priority. we're using every opportunity to practice. we are engaging our businesses,
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making sure that everyone has the supplies. i do strongly feel that what we're doing is going to allow us to recover so well after any major incidents. i just came back from celebrating the final signing and recognition of the america's cup. the reality is 500,000 people, maybe a weekly basis. we have posted 3 different workshop scenarios to handle crowd and responses and getting ready for all of the anticipated populace that will come into the city. while we enjoy of course the big economic contribution to the work force and to business, we also have to be focused on
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everyone's safety. that is partly what makes the event so successful. the more that we do that with all of our partners here, the more the event will be safe, therefore more successful. i am also very interested in every type about reach that we do in our neighborhoods and thank you, supervisor cohen, for joining us. i know that we are trying to be creative and constantly reminding people about to the equipment and products that they should have. there is going to be another effort to make sure that we have a campaign to educate our public to get the right equipment and have it available to them.
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this is being planned and it is called "what are you shopping for?" we take every opportunity to remind everyone. thanks to our fire chief and his wife and to her work that we properly use the month of april. this takes advantage of the commemoration of the 1906 earthquake. those of you that did that, we will thank you for next year. it does what it is supposed to do. it gets everyone's attention. this is a commemoration, also a reminder of what we can do. the more kids that we can get attention to your club of the
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more they will have a culture. this should be the way that we live our lives in the san francisco bay, to be ready and to be a collaborative. to be ready no longer just to help yourself. we will move beyond that. it is about you being prepared and then being prepared to help someone else. that will be thematic for everything. we celebrate this and all of our relationships. this is with our business community or with our groups. thank you for being part of this and keeping a vigilant with the education. the collaboration with the nonprofits, from the red cross, to the interfaith council, and our business leaders.
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i do think that our emergency response department has really felt that they are no longer by themselves and they have a lot partnerships to respond with because everyone has elevated their attention and preparation. >> thank you. >> i have a very brief directors report today. i wanted to let everyone know that the board of supervisors will be approving the 2011 -- appropriations which will bring about $35 million into the bay area. of that, 5.5 million is going to san francisco. we were waiting for the guidelines for 2012.
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the bay area receive a reduction in funding. this coming year, year 2012. even though our relatives for went from 5 in the nation to numberfour. we received a larger cut than chicago. they received a 13% cut. given that our mayor and other local mayors sent a letter to secretary of paul lozano expressing their distress with this -- secretary napalitano expressing their distress with this. we are really hoping that the attention that we have given this is going to help us in 2013 and that we will not be hit again and hopefully our allocations will go back out. i wanted to update you on the
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system, the interoperable communications system. i talked about it before motorola got the funding. 1 of 7 areas in the country to receive this finding to start to build out this system. we have put together a regional joint powers agreement which the chief and myself sit on 4 san francisco. lots of good things happening. congress in february, you have probably heard this come up last new lead -- probably heard about this, passed new legislation. there will be a larger area of legislation. the problem is that it is transferring responsibility from the fcc over to and cia for developing this program.
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-- over to ntia for developing this program. the new board that congress establish will be set up in august and we are not sure yet exactly what will happen. we are continuing to move forward although ntia has cautioned us to slow down a little bit. we were trying to meet every single 1 of the federal deadlines because the original finding was -- funding was rf funding. we have to slow down. we did have a phone conversation with 1 of the undersecretaries in washington and i feel confident that will continue to move forward and we will be 1 of the first to build out our system. san francisco is 1 of 5 counties funded by the state of california to pilot the disaster program.
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this is a first in the nation effort to strengthen government- affiliated volunteer programs and integrate a volunteer resources. disaster core, we are hoping to get volunteers shortly. these volunteers will be able to do things for us that others cannot do because of the background checks and the classifications that they had as being a member of disaster core. on our emergency shelters, we quickly assessed the disability needs in emergency shelters. more than 50 personnel were trained to be on the assessment service teams and staff teams. the trainees came from him and services agency and also department of public health and we think that these teams are going to help us in serving our local community and service
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providers. finally, i hope that you will all go to the academy of sciences to see the new show that is opening may 26th. it is a new exhibit on earthquakes. this is a lot of fun. that concludes my report. i will turn it over to staff that will present on this next item, which is our special event update. >> as we have done, we continue to highlight the special events as an opportunity to coordinate around planning and execute the event. the more times that were in the emergency operations center, the more times we are getting together on a day-by-day basis. with that, i will turn it over to diana to speak a little bit
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about the golden gate bridge. >> i and a special event coordinator. if you have not heard anything about this, there will be 8 series along the waterfront which will culminate in a fireworks show in the evening. this is between 9:00 and 9:30. for this anniversary, they will not be closing the bridge. however, they will be closing this so that they can set off fireworks and to the bridge. for safety reasons, the bridge will be close. this is a very unique opportunity to work with some knee jurisdictions involved. this goes into rose county. we'll have been working very closely in planning this of
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that. this is also the same footprint, that would be the america's cup. this is an excellent opportunity to exercise our emergency plans and spending for the city. >> i will ask -- to talk about the america's cup series. >> and we will look at how we all work together as public safety agencies. the first part of that is developing this plan. there are 7 plants. we really needed to check and see how this is going to work. the mayor mentioned that is where we have these series of exercises. we have all the different agencies and fall, we have almost 50 agencies participating in each 1 of our exercises. we will get an understanding of how this might impact may. the second exercise was 1 where
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we thought about where things went as planned. we look at how the plans would work to get there, where the personnel would be, where they would be located, and how things will flow parent of the third exercise was, what if something bad happens? we took this same scenario that we had for this and we used the second exercise of the plan and we look at what if we had protective demonstrations, what if we had some type of event at the bridge. what if we had mass cataclysmic incident. each time, we had over 100 participants. we decided how we're going to respond while at the same time, maintaining all of these operational levels of service throughout the rest of the service. we have gone through the 3 exercises of the america's cup and now we have the opportunity to test them with the golden
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gate bridge. it has been a great opportunity to meet all of the different agencies and for us to meet 1 another. we will learn how to make this work. >> finally, i will go over fleet week. once again, we are in need deep in planning. this will be here the first week of october. once again, there is a focus on the air show. this remains a great partner. this starts with the senior leadership seminar. we will bring together military and civilian leaders. we will touch on a number of topics. we have a lot of good ideas ranging from the medical search all the way into cyber security issues. as we start to pull these things together