health officials and make an agreement that is right inform san francisco. i know this is the first of two announcements that we look forward to. this compass invaluable in the center of where a lot of activity are will have at least a 3 hundred and 2 bed and we look forward to having a similar announcements on the st. luke's campus to create a service hospital there as well. i can't tell you you how excited we are and we'll reminder each other that the process has to be credited with the leadership that the board of supervisors had. i want to thank my colleagues there board president chiu and mark farrell and david campos urging their personal time as well as their time on the

broadway board to lead the effort along with our office and ken rich who's working and lou interrad continues to make sure the communications are open. your colleagues will labor unavailable in all reporters. as we're excited about getting the site going i want to make sure we signal as any other project that the workers safety also begins right now with the demolition and we want this site to be safe because it will be occupied by nurses and decreases working together while we build this we want every life to be safe. i want to signal to the community and i know good friends like randy are here because we saw the connection

with had this very close commit community. we've gotten the first check under sutter that represents a healthy investment. housing, transportation, pedestrian safety, and, of course, the thousands of medical lives and a medi-cal and hospital patient lives that will be improved because of the commitments that sutter and cpmc have made par you'll pause and maybe ask how did he do it all? we'll also remembered as complicated as it was every persevered whether it was sideboard lou our community leaders argue housing advocates our people next door and in the tenderloin or the people who are

health experts. they all worked closely together with the sutter leadership to form an agreement an agreement as complicated as that was as a high commitment that unsaturate had to make it was a great investment it was sensitive and strong. we have ever promise here this reflects all the values our city has put together and the process as complicated as it was it persevered. on behalf of everyone that's worked hard to get here. i want to thank again mark and warren and cpmc's leadership but everyone who sees the benefits into the future.

in years to come you'll see a very good campus of mill professions serving us and take care of so many challenges. remember this was a combination of a lot of good efforts by everybody. i'm so lucky to be the mayor here. thanks so much to everyone (clapping.) >> i'll introduce myself i'm michael with the trades council. we're happy this day has arrived. we have worked on this project forever. it would have about good a

couple of years ago. what it means now is a real opportunity to bring san francisco into our trades and give them an reduction in those trades in a complicated project. hospital projects are more demanding. the mechanic and electricity systems because hi critical. the structural systems that have to be hopeful sound have to withstand more in a hospital and the inspection is higher. we in the trades are exactly the folks to do this work. we have the volume on display everyday. we train our folks with a my competition. we're grateful to the city family mayor ed lee and

supervisor farrell are supervisor campos and chu and cpmc in delivering us this project to build. i want to embarrass the guy in the crane this is vincent heel do a good job. i want to have a round of plays for the workers who do this work (clapping.). thanks a lot >> good morning my name is michael. i'm the current chief of staff of the medical staff at cpmc. to mr. mayor and all invited guests. this is indeed a most men

tuesday occasion. no one can deny the planning process has been ashus and they can't deny the outcome will be well worth the weight. i've been with the staff for nearly 40 years. from the initial years from stanford hospital to pacific medical center to the combining of children's hospital pmc davis i didn't see and st. luke's we've kept to observe mission of providing the highest medical care in a compassion at manner to all citizens of this city. soon, we'll have not of providing such care inside a

world-class institution that mergers the modern technology in putting the patient first. at the same time we'll meet the legislature mandatory to meet the service sound hospitals that will be ready to serve the bay area xhusht should such a disaster happen. thank you for the opportunity to say thanks to a st. luke's in their rebuild project. they clearly understood the project for o who have dreamed of the hospital facilities they and their i patients deserve. as a chief of the staff and most probably in the future today is a wonderful day for me, my fell

staff members and most importantly all the patients who will be cared for in your new and beautiful care centers. thank you (clapping.) good morning mayor ed lee dr. browner and mr. co- hill and distinguished guests. i'm marilyn logan i'm the nurse manager of the medical unit at the st. luke's campus. it's truly an honor to be here and i'm very k350i69d we're moving forward with our project to build 20/20 hospitals in 0 san francisco. for the past 5 years i've worked at the pacific campus and at the

st. luke's campus. our nurses are proud of the care we provide for appear patients think about how much more we'll be able to chaff with the new facilities with the new technology. our state and federal staff is looking forward to the completion of this project because those hospitals will create a great environment for us. it will create a level of pride in the work we do. most importantly for our patients the new hospitals will bring a more pleasant healing environment and an improved experience of care. for our patients family we'll have a great assurance that their loved ones are receiving the best care possible for for

our community the new hospital represents community pride. in my current position at st. luke's it will be uplifting for the community. st. luke's has long been held the center of healing with the long history of deep roots. dr. i want to let you know we're proud to be that center of healing for the community and proud to be a member of the st. luke's. lastly to all involved in the cpmc project on behalf of all the nurses i wanted to extend our senility thanks for making this possible. thank you and have a wonderful day (clapping.) good morning. i'm

warren brown the ceo of cpmc pr i honestly say there were many times i never thought i'd see this. and as i was driving here i was reminder of a little boy who banked his head against a wall and he said it feels good when i stop. let me begin to thank the board of trustees who stuck with us through a lot of times when i would get up and explain why it was that things were just taking so long so bob we owe you a special gratitude

(clapping.) i see many supporters who showed up at the hearings and committee meetings and testified about why we needed those hospitals. i want to thank you ail again. and want to thank grant dave i didn't see who's our vice president at cpmc when the times would get tough and i would go to the fellows office and he'd encourage me. it's a great feeling to be here today (clapping) and i want to say and we intentionally had everyone he sitting in those chairs because the one thing that was never at issue was no one got up and said this is a buff building that

needs to be preserved. i remember moving here and driving by this building so we won't miss you hotel or video only or whatever was around. we look forward and some of you said it will be pretty eras a construction site as what was was right now. i thank you to everyone to my friend mike co- hill and the 2 amigos david chiu and campos and farrell and, of course, the staff for emancipation proclamation e helping us get to this day. you've ail visited back in 5 years to cut the ribbon. that's why we're here. thank you all for coming. thank you all for supporting -

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phil i'm the general manager of your rec and park department welcome to the rec park tree lighting ceremony at the calory lodge in san francisco. you can do better than that are we fired up or what? (clapping) >> it's cold it's winter it's the holidays it's awesome so we have a great evening we'll got snow how many kids took the tob canning. i know we're all here to see the tree get lighting lit this is not going to be a long ceremony. i want to start with our mayor ed lee whose he's cross the world tonight but we're here

happy to have our acting mayor supervisor yee. we also have our city treasure jose is a next year's. district 4 supervisor eddy sunset pete's here. you're from the sunset you won't. we've got supervisor tang here. we also have our city administrator naomi kelly is in charge of everything. (clapping.) >> and we have the guy in charge of the water that keypads audio trees healthy and embrace green harvey listen kelly the executive director of the puc

here. (clapping.) and we're so very lucky to have 6 individual here tonight who oversee all your 2 hundred and 20 parks and all you tell one hundred and 69 playground and swimming policy our rec and park department president marble and his vice president allen low and also commissioners. tom and commissioner megan levenson was here and commissioner ifshg eric new

mexico dodged. we have ken weber from 20 a business and i don't know where he is but from the san francisco park alliance pat o'grady is here (clapping) so 84 years trowel one of the most special event this department has done for nearly a century and it's been a great year for replying replying our realms e recession programs are not as popular and last week, we have the president of the united states at the rec center n here. we call him uncle john mccleaner he was the first person to start

the tradition of lighting the trees that end here in front of mcclaren lodge. this this is san francisco's of the city and county of san francisco it's a monterey cypress tonight we're going to light over 1 hundred and 50 lights so t a big shout out to your entire department who tptd uncle john's tradition and especially our superintendant bob and his manages and a special shout out to our entire recreation staff who planned this fire department we've got tree to thaters who hang the light and our

electrician let's give a big shout out to the hardest working city employees anywhere (clapping.) so we're going thrilled most of all that you're here that our community is here we get to share that especially with our kids. cities are about special moment and i hope tonight is a night you also remember. we're thrilled to have you. we at one point ask our asking mayor norman yee to come up. >> thanks phil happy holidays hanukkah and merry christmas.

this is a tradition that started 84 enforcing and i'm so glad to be here enjoying the festivities with you. i'm hoping for the next 84 years we'll continue this tradition. i want to keep it short i know the kids are waiting for the lights there yeah. i was going to say happy new years eve. next up to say a few quick words the lights are coming is president mark. very quick words acting mayor you won't and all honored guests i want to say one thing and that's our rec and park department staff worked hard to provide services to the folks in

san francisco and tonight it shows it has older folks like me and kids and folks in the city they're in the san francisco park having a wonderful time and happy holiday to you i hope you have a great time you all right so we had tracy before she won the citywide contest. we have a lot of other fun i want to give a shout out to the theatre company and the high school drum core and to the school of the arts choir, to the cleft driveways who are here and our golden gate park band. all right. so we like to say if

it takes a family we cannot all do it just because of the rec and park department s it's a team. i want to bring up two members of our team that help with all the programs returning first up randy from kaiser and randy you and i have joked we share a mother to & to help folks thrive in san francisco roond come on up >> the right thank you very much. i i know we're all waiting for the lltdz to coltolo. we have 2 hundred and some neighborhood parks.

it's not be president about just eating food it's about family and friends so thank you to the rec and park department and thank you for your 0 pardoning and happy and heath holiday season to everyone thank you >> thank you r5r7d we have another mother to we like to get out and play. there maybe no san francisco organization that shows the joy of play better than zinka. i want to bring up ken weber from zane can. i have a fun job i get to work in a company that makes games like farmville. we're proponent of play on our

computer and on our smart phone by the we like to engage in real play. we're proud partners of rec and park we've built mraurgd and we're a young company and we feel we're just getting started. we are thrilled to are a be a part of this and on behalf of our employees happy holidays to everyone. thank you. (clapping.) >> thank you keb all right. are you rode to light a tree. the tree only goes on if you're really, really loud. are you ready to light the tree. already i'm going to ask the people behind me to stand up but