personally want to express my sorrow to the hunt family, and i also want to say just for a minute, about the san francisco called zspace which is a theater in the mission, for those of you who have lived in san francisco a long time, it is used to be part of project arto on 17 and this harrison. and marsha was a member of the board of the zshape and also, of a wonderful performing troop there called word for word that performs plays which are the reading word for word of short stories. and i have actually been to two word for word performances and the most recent one was in honor of marsha and where her husband, jay, bought out the house and all of her friends came there and saw a wonderful play called infriendship and so, i just want to honor marsha as someone who made a huge difference in our school district and will be remembered

and the last thing that i want to say about her and if you ever saw her, and you can see her on the website she was a very striking, strong, looking person. and i have to say that i she would like to be remembered as really a great broad. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner wynns. >> okay, at this time, we are going to recess, this meeting, and go into closed session, so i would ask the public to clear the room. >> thank you i am reconvening the meeting of september 10,

2013 >> the student expulsion matter, the board by five alicia winterstein and two absent, approved the expulsion of one high school student and public employment by the vote of five, and... >> five ayes and two absent. >> mendoza. >> why would there be two absent and only mendoza. >> apparently there are one or two absent, someone was absent. approved the contract for one supervisor and one program administrator. >> public employment, the board by a vote of it was in fact, 5-2? justin?

>> yes. >> justin? >> yes. >> okay. >> by a vote of five ayes and would absent, approved the contract for one supervisor and one administrator. and existing litigation in the matter of gm verses the san francisco unified school district voted by a vote of 5 ayes and two absent, gives the authority to pay up the to stipulate you lated amount. >> ae verses the school district, five aye and two absent, haney and mendoza, give the authority to pay up to the stipulated amount. gd and the board, and two aye and two absent, haney and mendoza, give the authority to pay up to the stipulated amount and now for the read out of the september, 10, 2013, closed session. public employment, the board by a vote of seven ayes approved the direct and her two directors. and existing litigation in the

matter of zow, 3. and verses the san francisco unified school district, the board by a vote of 7 ayes give the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount. >> and we are now in view of the informational items and no other staff reports this evening and we, did hear item v, adjournment and we heard the memories of marsha hunt and we are going to adjourn, would you like to say something about miss wilson? >> you were looking at me like you wanted to say something. >> oh,, okay. and item v, adjournment and we are adjourning this meeting in memory of marsha hunt, and miss evelyn wilson and we offer our sincere condolences to their family. meeting adjourned.

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and so these tiles, i am going to recommend that every park come and look at this park, because i think that the way that you have acknowledged donor iss really first class. >> it is nice to come and play and we have been driving by for literally a year. >> it is kind of nice. >> all of the people that are here. ♪

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>> ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of the colors and the singing of the national anthem. ♪

♪ [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome steve hengineg executive director metropolitan transportation commission. >> good afternoon, good afternoon, ladies and

gentlemen, on behalf of the toll bridge program oversight committee and my committee colleagues, and the director of cal transand the executive director of the california transportation commission, it is my great pleasure to welcome you at long last, to the opening ceremonies for the new east band of the san francisco oakland bay bridge. that is an applause line. [ applause ] >> i know that you joined me in thanking the oakland institute color guard and the choir, and their wonderful presentation and our ceremonies. [ applause ] >> and i guess that i will not ask you if it is hot enough. and it certainly is, so do

please, keep cool and gentleman take off your jackets if you need to and keep the water going and keep an eye on your neighbor. and i'm going to ask you to rise again and that might create more air to hear our invocation from the reverend jay junior, from the oakland baptist church. >> let us pray. oh, lord our god thou who art the architect, engineer and creator of the universe, we have gathered on this historic occasion in a spirit of joy and celebration. oh, god we give thanks for the generosity of your divine grace and for the supply of the

needed material resources and for the provision of human expertise to accomplish this magnificent project. we lift up thanks for the commitment, cooperation, and hard work by so many people in so many roles and at so many levels of responsibility to bring this beautiful bridge from creative conception to concrete completion. we pray your blessings upon this illustrious bridge and for the safety and well-being of all who shall traverse it. blessed oh, god, this

triumphant celebration that we share. may this awe inspiring bridge inspire us all to reach our human potential as human bridges that will seek to bridge the gulfs that separate our diverse communities. may we too be bridges that will connect people and bring them together, may we too be bridges that will provide for the common good may this wonderful bridge, this open inspire us to continue to envision bold and beautiful fetes in the service of all human kind.

amen >> amen. >> thank you, reverend smith. the coats will keep peeling off as we go we will see who the last hold on out is. and i would also like to take this opportunity to welcome you to this building. and the newly renovated urban electric railway bridge yard shop building. and also known as urbies for short. and that is one lowsy, and so we decided to rename it the bridge yard, which is the sign on the side of the building, this is what has prepared the key system train that used to run on the lower deck of the bay bridge before the commuter rail service seized? 1958 and for those transit advocate whose would like to blame me for that mistake, i hasten to add the train stop that was built the year before i was born. >> now it is time to wax poetic

and we happen to have the person for the job, currently a professor of creative writing at uc river side and was craoe put to his post in 2012 and it is my pleasure to introduce him who has written a poem about our beautiful new bridge. >> thank you, very much. it is a great pleasure to be here you look fabulous and this looks fabulous and i want to thank governor brown, for nominating me and confirming me as your poet laurit, and i would like to thank the arts council for doing the same and the university california river side and the department of transportation, and thank you so much. and i also wanted to introduce you to our youth poet of oakland, davis who is 70 years old and right there standing up.

he is our new lauriet for oakland. >> thank you so much, my wife is right there, and who is my great inspiration and hadari who works so much for oakland and the arts. the bridge poem bay bridge inauguration poem, san francisco oakland bay bridge, september 2, 2013. for all bridge dreamers, bridge builders and bridge crossers. self-sustaining, and a light unto itself. the dark that lifts us and it sings us as we pass bay bridge, i see you now, your new design risen, above star waters, a new galaxy appears. a new trillion may we live in

your safety and in your carriage, and in your heart. my all of your hours and all of your lights embrace us once again. and may we crawl across your shoulders as bird, fish, singers and may we be the bridge for a new time of beauty and peace. let us thank the workers and the artists of space and matter, one sound, one tree, one knitted, (inaudible) shawl, for our mothers, a lot she turns and protect and renewed waves of children, we are born to the choirs, and we are filled with light, strength, height, gratitude and violet ocean, stillness and we open our arms, our bridge of many bridges. and everything is different now.

melodic, silver, harmonious, and everything is open now. spiritual, inhalation of the pacific rim, voyages migrations and the conversations of generations. and i want you to repeat this word after me, i am going to back up. conversations. viva. >> viva, >> the worker applaud now, iron workers, painters, welders, planners, architects engineers, laborers, trades women, drivers, viva. >> lifters, callers, crane operators, viva. >> mixers, cable, viva. >> viva. after the earthquake, we shall live, yes. we shall live, we shall round dance in honor and spider buggy is coming up and light poles

are holding steady and steady, and set up and north main span cable ready, ready. motion sense soars mr. pump, expansion tank, spider buggies coming up, spider buggies coming up. we shall live in our lumenscent room of lights and cosmos yes. we shall hula dance in unity once again today. yes. and hand to hand, shoulder to shoulder, and wo ven and winged dancer we shall alive, gold and silver, and dark sequence with joy. we shall live, crossing into the other, from one to the second. and from the second to the late infinity, today, the chain is cut, and we are released,

oakland, san francisco, earth, to all earth, ocean to sky, wind to star nebula once again you and me, we, the people, the people, (inaudible) it is the people, bay bridge, hold on to each other. move now. rise now. for the world to see. thank you so much. [ applause ] >> thank you very much for those artful words and it is hard to believe that you are from southern california. you are welcome here any time. the construction of the newly span has been a public, private partnership from the get go and

that spirit of partnership is in full force today as well. in particular, i would like to recognize the corporate sponsors of today's event, listed on the big screens. first off, presenting level sponsors bridge floor a joint vendor and ty wane international and bright tell incorporated and ae com and xerox, thanks to these and all of our sponsors and while we are at it let's thank the bay bridge alliance and the president winston for making all of this. thank you. >> thank you. >> it is a landmark event

marking the end of 24 years to deliver seismic safety to all seven of the toll bridges in the bay area something that we achieved as of today from the north, to the dumb barton in the south. that is an applause line too. >> today, we see the advent of a new architectural and engineering. and the challenge is faced and many challenges faced and challenges met. and the new also serves as a case study for the long, and the permitting and politics that seem to be a part of any big public works project and contemporary california and as we end the journey, the high speed rail project is just beginning its own trial by fire. but we can't celebrate the new span without acknowledging the old one. and while some of the obstacles

have changed against the original bridge was built in the 30s, the spring of inspiration for such a project endures. and in the words of frank marion written 80 years ago ring true today. he said, the bridges do not build themselves. and before the labor in concrete and steel, there was the labor in the minds of men. and we now building this bridge would be remiss indeed if we did not set forth in the record of sunk and towers raised in the acknowledgment of the service performed at the birth of this project and the subsequent developments by the citizens public officers and civic organizations. and for thousands of men and women around the world that contributed to the construction and for all of the people in california, this is a day to celebrate. and today we have a right to embrace, a sense of

achievement, and a sense of thanksgiving. none of us will forget that the newly sfan is first and foremost the public safety project and despite the journey length it has been completed before the arrival of our next big earthquake. and thank goodness for that. [ applause ] >> the bridge is looking and just a bonus that all of us who are so fortunate to live here in the bay area, will be able to enjoy. and so today, we will say hello, to the newly span, but we also say good bye to the original version. perhaps, a few comparisons between the old and the new are in order and you can follow along on your screens. the original was completed in

the great depression and the new bridge as we weathered the great recession. and the cost was a little different between the two and even if yukon vert the original cost of the whole bridge end to end it is about one billion dollars in today's money and the newly span costs a little bit more than that. the duration of construction was also quite a bit different as well. and they did things a lot faster back then in the 1930s, and for one thing they did not have to tangle with someone as form mittable as willie brown. [ laughter ].

>> doing it for many decades after that. here's the clincher the old one can't withstand the earthquake. the new one can. so far as alternative

transportation the folks in the 30s were quite farsighted running trains on the old bring but didn't put a sidewalk on that even though the golden gate had one. the sidewalk will go all the way to the island the bike advocates will advocate to get it to san francisco after that (clapping) and finally this is the one i particularly love it's about money. when the original bridge opened folks paid a dollar thirty to cross it that's $22 in today's economy. so tell me how bad they had if in the authorizes o 30s pr that's the old bridge and the

new bridge. we're in oakland and it's fitting and a proper the first elected official is the chief of oakland. jean acquainting is one of my bosses so i'm sure her remarks will be excellent (clapping) >> and so welcome to oakland. (clapping). >> you know when i became mayor, i said oakland is a city of dreams. it's been the city of dreams since the trans conditional railroad ended and thousand of cabinets would arrive every week. it's become the city of dreams base it's the place that immigrants can afford to live and one-hundred plus languages are spoken