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statewide seeing as a tremendous leader supervisor scott wiener (clapping). >> thank you. thank you although the voters are annoy my - i want to thank my former boss city attorney dennis herrera. i remember back almost a decade ago from the very first moment he was there for our community along with our lieutenant governer and dennis thank you for your leadership >> i've had the honor of coming into this building and for those of you coming here there's a lot
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of marriages that are constantly happening here. and for the last few years everyone is happy they're getting married but it's a constant reminded there's no gay people getting married but today those married are going to get a little bit more diverse so thank you (clapping) and on a little bit more personal note a gay man in the 1980s when thing weren't great it was a time of fear when we had a president who won't say the words aids or hiv.
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this community is so damn resilient we fought and move forward and we did it again here we have more challenges to come but we're going to beat every single challenge. so congratulations everyone (clapping) >> there are so. other leaders and elected leaders but many of them are in the crowd and standing behind me if you see them spot them and go up to them and tell me thank you. so very quickly i want to acknowledge assembly member bill
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and i just as a personal note you know your living in the right city with a fire chief and the police chief show up (clapping) our city administrator who is going to have a very big job ahead in the coming weeks. joanne kelly and commissioners andrea and tom nolan and michael (clapping) and i want to close that i under scoring the point. we're going to celebrate today
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like you can't believe. and we're going to have a hell of a time. and it's going to be one amazing fing pride weekend (clapping) and we deserve it. we've worked hard for that. all of you made it possible so every tough conversation you had with your family and i'm not coming home unless you let me bring my boyfriend but remember every one of us came from somewhere where there's no protections even in the face of those ruling. so there's many of our lgbt
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thank you john and thank you to you and the airport commission and all the staff here at the airport for loopholes working hard to make sure this engine of opportunity is for everybody. i'm joined by representative from congresswoman thank you for being here and, of course, richard our commissioners is here as well and than mr. mac who is part of the labor council. i think we'll have quilts from the board of supervisors from both couldn't. you know something we despair a little bit over jobs. they get to continue bragging they have is an unemployment rate lower than ourselves but that's because the airport is
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booming. and everybody's is investing in this year. looking behind me it's always been about peculiar i know this airport is a huge generate of work a huge amount of folks come there here and it's a big asset. not too many months ago we opened up terminal two and i & i've often said it feels like a first class lobby. johnny ask when i do the red eyes a lot of your goat to have those jogging art stations open after 10 but that will mean more jobs.
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and i will say that this $4.1.10 year capital plan is yet again another strong strong demonstration of our airports thinking ahead. it's an airport that's on water so it continually has to update itself and deal with seawall rise sea level rise. it has to build new facilities. the airport runways have to be invested in and the buildings themselves whether we get a new control tower oreo do the old terminal it looks like all terminals feel the same way.
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john did a fabulous job in making sure our labor forces throughout the area feel directly involved. it's a humanely economical engine you'll say that billion dollars and the new buildings but the $14. billion will have a large number of the construction jobs and the engineering designing jobs as well as the concession vendors that reflect the diversity of our airport. i like coming to the airport when i'm traveling more and more those days and others for the america's cup and the data
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breakers and all the different summer events many, many thousands of people will come through the airport. it's modern and save and has the highest level of technology and safety for everyone. we keep that for most in our minds as we approach the modernization. i'm detailed to mountains this i had a 10 year infrastructure plan for the city and once we get those plans out then the conversation starts to get to the place where the airport is one of the biggest investments.
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our airport dpements with every visitor who comes here they feel welcome and you see that reflected in the signage. a 10 year capital plan means we have articulated for our immediate year we have the investments and the other cities around the bay area we're invest in this very great asset. same thing we do with our water system and our great art institutions. we plan ahead and involve everybody and get them to buy into our assets and the whole region. i want to thank the commission and the staff, of course, and
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their corpse partners as well. i want to thank you all the other city agencies that come together whether it's police and fire we see working here very much alive in the evolution of safety on the water or runways. everybody has to work together on these and i know once you review the details you'll see how investment friendly and the future of the airport come alive as the great innovation capita of the united states. thank you, very much john for your work (clapping) >> thank you, mayor lee. as the mayor i said we're going to take the t e levels in the airport to create that
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experience in terminal 1, 2, and 3 and making an international terminal had opened. when this opened in 2011 it became a stated for airports worldwide that has conveniences unique amenity like the yogurt room. it has $14.50 per passenger. we want to continue to make those improvements for the convenience of travelers. boarding area e we're here right now and this will opulence a
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year from now. and it will handle united airlines. we're going to improve the center checkpoint in terminal 3 and expand the front gate as well. shortly after the competition of this building we're going to do terminal b. terminal one will be valve improved and fanned and the t two experience will be carried throughout the whole airport. we look for the lobby area to be
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improved. we're very pleased as well to be moving forward on a four-star hotel 4 hundred rooms the air train system has been designed to stop right in front of the a bordering area the same area where the hilton used to be. and this project will be completed in three to four years. i want to thank the staff for putting this together so quickly. and it insures a high-level of performance and thank you to the
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staff who helps to us make this large investment. and thank you as well to our labor partners bill knapp we have an outstanding relationship to insure that labor is continued on the big projects. we have an excellent partner with our strong supporter and here chief of staff is here >> good morning. i'm brian i'm the district chief for our congresswoman. we offered mr. bart's the
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opportunity to reschedule this but our congress woman says thank you, mayor lee we have to recognize this is the congress woman's great pleasure to represent those areas. and thank you to the airport director john martin she considers him brilliant. she wanted phone calls to know this new decade will see the airport for having seen for travelers. there will be a nice hotel and it will make san francisco airport itself is great designation. it will create jobs and this has a massive ripple effect on the area. we know we think the airport is
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always under construction that's because the economy is changing. this will be your decade in the sun congratulations. (clapping) >> thank you brian, of course, the - i'm sorry the airport is owned by the city and county of 70 but we're a strong partnership. we're happy supervisor pine is here to say a few words. supervisor >> good morning. it is a pleasure to be here in the county to talk about the renovation of this incredible airport. on behalf of the county board of supervisors we couldn't be more satisfied with this airport.
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it's a key xhieconomical engine. as the airport expands tens of thousands of our citizens work here and we're thrilled to see the airport modernize. also i need to speak on behalf of the regional. i think we're all aware with the global competition the bay area has to compete with other airports. i don't see many airports like san francisco international. we're one of the few airports in the nation that are keeping pace
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with our competitors. i thank the city for your forsythe in making sure we can compete internationally. and finally one request we should say welcome to san mateo county >> thank you. thank you commissioner for being here today, we have an amazing airport director staff. to you appreciate your support. we're going to go out and take a look at the rendering out front. so thank you. again for being here
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>> ladies and gentlemen, let's give a warm welcome to district 10 supervisor and acting mayor malia cohen. cheers cheers >> mayor's education advisor and school board member hydra mendoza, san francisco unified school district superintendent richard carenza. united educators of san francisco president dennis kelly. and the mayor's 23rd team teacher of the award winners who are joining us tonight. and now please welcome superintendent carenza. >> thank you, anel. you are such a leader in our community. and thank you to the san francisco giants and to all of you for your support of our fabulous teachers. cheers cheers >> although our mayor, mayor
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lee could not be here tonight to celebrate and honor our very special awardees, i'd like to thank him for being such a great partner and advocate for our teachers and students. i also want to thank all of our amazing sponsors and supporters and the 300 plus teachers in the stands for joining us tonight to honor the mayor's teacher of the year award winners. [cheers] >> it is my distinct pleasure to honor and acknowledge the dedication of our superb public school teachers in san francisco. the five teachers honored tonight were nominated by parents, students, peers and community members who understand the value of an excellent teacher. these teachers standing here have exceeded all standards. they have dedicated themselves to creating a classroom environment that fosters learning, diversity, and character development. they have one of the most important jobs in america. and this award is a symbol of
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our immense gratitude for all of their tireless work. they represent the best in san francisco. in collaboration with the san francisco education funds bank thank a teacher campaign, it is my privilege and honor to present this year's teacher of award winners to all of you, the best baseball fans in america. (applause) >> so, i'd like to ask the acting mayor, supervisor malia cohen, to help me in congratulating our teachers of the year from the presidio early education school, andrew young. [cheers] >> for marshal elementary school, andreas tobar. (applause) >> from el dorado elementary
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school, jennifer mullis. (applause) >> from roosevelt middle school, mr. joe austin. (applause) >> and from woodside learning center, constance walker. (applause) >> congratulations to our teachers of the year. and at this time i'd like to turn the mic over to the president of the united educators of san francisco, president dennis kelly. (applause) >> thank you. these five teachers standing on the field with us today are incredible. they are dedicated. they are hard working. they are innovative. they are exactly what we need in every classroom. i am privileged and proud to be here and to honor them tonight.
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to the teachers who are with us in the crowd, all 300 of you, to all of our hard working san francisco unified school district teachers and paraprofessionals, we thank you for your dedication to san francisco and to our young people. on behalf of the united educators of san francisco, all of the teachers, all of the paraprofessionals in san francisco, thank you to the giants, and to all of you for your support of the students and our schools. go giants! (applause) >> thank you all so much. ladies and gentlemen, a round of applause as we celebrate our teachers tonight. thank you. congratulations again. ♪ ♪
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>> this is for thousands of people, in fact, i think that this particular site can serve up to 6,000 people and we will have to practice this in other sites in the city as well. >> this is one of the more vulnerable parts of the city. >> it is, and that is exactly why we are here and in the tenderloin, we want to engage ourselves in those communities that are so vulnerable. we have a lot of low income and people who are or just don't have the resources to recover so quickly. and so when we set up these sites, and we work with the non-profits that are used to the clientele here, we are going to get that much better and i think that we are going to end up probably saving... and actually contributing to the recovery of the city that much faster. >> you mentioned that you walked the streets of san francisco after 89 and walked the streets, what lessons can be learned by having an event like this today? >> one of the lessons that i
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learned in new orleans is that they lost faith in their local government and so many people didn't get the practice. they knew that there was going to be sliding. and they knew that earth quakes were going to happen just like we know that it is going to happen here. they knew that the devastation was around the corner, we let people know that we want you to stay here, we have things here to take care of you. so that you are not wandering, in isolation, looking for help and so all of the agencies are here to not only help, but practice what we can do with the additional people constituents that are going to be in need of help and demonstrate that and practice it, that many more people, like the people here in the town are going to say we are going to be taken care of and we are going to be here and we actually can contribute right now to the idea that they will be organized efforts to respond to the big devastation, agencies
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