green spaces and amenities. thank you mayor lee for your leadership, your support and clear directive of your administration to stand firm and work tirelessly to provide the highest and best use for these public land parcels. your commitment to affordable housing and authentic mixed income communities is laudable and will help ensure that san francisco remains a vibrant city. thank you supervisor kim for asking the tough questions, for delving into the details to make sure the public interest is being served. your creativity, collaborative spirit and leadership boed well for the audience to ensure housing development. thank you for the gallup family, jean, lee and mike newman, you were

willing to embark in a process in late 2010 and 2011 and your equity partners willingness when the economy was still wavering back then and for recognizing the vision and values of san francisco and this transbay redevelopment project. thanks to doug shoemaker and mercy housing for your continued commitment inform -- to affordable housing and economics programs and revitalize neighborhoods and revitalize lives. finally our infrastructure, our commissioners and it is these folks who work everyday to exercise land use development and design approval authority to major projects like this. today would not be possible, would not have happened with all of your hard work and

dedication to building sustain able and thriving communities. really today is emblematic as the mayor indicated as the work of the office of community of -- thank you for making this possible. >> thank you everybody. i hope you can tell we are all excited and looking forward to getting this off the ground and looking forward to seeing everybody in the summer or fall of 2016 for

the party. we are here, any why was and concepts or things that anybody has, we want to make sure that we are available for everybody. thanks and obviously a ground breaking wouldn't be possible and wouldn't make sense. we have a few photo op's and terry is going to grab the mic and we'll be taking a few photos. also there is some food for anyone who wants to grab it and they can take it in the basket and the boxes at the table there. thank you everybody and thank you mayor for coming, i appreciate it. [ applause ] >> >> >> >> good morning, everybody.

thank you for attending the conference on market street. i think it's all part of the the initiation for the new ci o. when i got interviewed by the city administrator and mayor lee, i was told that for tradition of the 12 days of

hercules it was to accomplish and the first one would be the easiest one. i would like to ask you to join me the very inspiring mayor who is going to tell you the first tasks of those 12 is. mayor lee? [ applause ] >> thank you, mark. well, you just met mark, he's our new cio for department of technology. he's already approved himself to be a hard worker. we've tasked him with showing us what he can do in a short period of time. i would like to thank our supervisor wiener and working closely with the p.d., department department of

public works and the ability to present an internet connectivity wireless ability along market street has been very important to me because it is part of what we were trying to do on the whole market street. so, today is of course announcing that the department of technology has been able to complete this with a very special partner ruckus wireless and i know selena is here today and i want to thank her for providing the professional guidance, the hardware as well as the good technical advice to the department of technology along with all the other partners that you see behind me working together to collaborate on this. so as of today, we have wireless technology free

to the public. also not filtered. you can use it anonymously. all along, from here all the way to the ferry building, probably about the length of kaepernick pass to vernon davis as the whole market street and it's all of it's crosses streets and sidewalks will have access to wireless accessibility. why is this important? market street is such an important thoroughfare for the city of san francisco. not only have i focused on its revitalization for it's economic viewpoint, not only are there additional residents living on it and more people shopping along it and

eating and enjoying themselves but now they have this free internet access use to it. also because it's such a diverse city use. it's over a quarter of a million people walk this corridor on an everyday basis. it has a huge diversity of population. it has small businesses, large businesses, as well as financial as well as restaurants all along the way, established and new. we wanted to signal this was part of that revitalization. i know supervisor wiener is very happy with this because he along with supervisor chiu has been asking to do more with communities of ethnic diverse backgrounds. this is a demonstration of what we can do in a major corridor. we have a vision that other corridors in other of our

diverse communities can also benefit similarly as this will be. and again, it's the right way of doing it. it is the kind of public private partnership that we've been seeking with companies like ruckus wireless to help with us, dt will be maintaining it from here on to make sure it is accessible to everybody. like i said earlier, it's one that we will keep market street as something that department of technology on behalf of the city would like to do for it's residents, for it's businesses to allow them to have that access. so, what are other candidates? certainly our school district. we already have about 27 public libraries have all been wired up and as you heard several months ago have a partnership with google to wire up one of

our public parks, city hall, regional parks and we have more to do. we want to update the public housing sites as well to provide access to people who couldn't afford to do this on their own and that's reflective of some of the values that we have. that is important. making accessibility to everybody in the city is important to us as we roll out more and more of what i think is the connectivity for our future. now, having said this, i also want you to know that last year we signaled that our city would join on a national movement and when the fcc gave a mega bit challenge to the rest of the city. i happen to be the head of the task force innovation and technology for mayor's and we signaled our support for that challenge and also

signaled our support for broadband and more internet connectivity for all over the country. we want to do this for every neighborhood as fast as we can because this will help education wise, small business wise and the more free and affordable it is, it will definitely help a lot of our communities with different economic levels to be connected so that they can be part of the 21st century. and then as we get the education, unions involved this will definitely help our job skills particularly for our kids in the future. i want to thank the department of intentional for their leadership on this. i want to thank all the agencies that have worked together to produce this, our police department as well because i know they will work collaboratively with transportation. i know that we want to do more and this is where i continue to join the efforts of supervisor wiener

and supervisor david chiu. mark, you have done a great job starting us out. keep going not only with market street, we have other corridors in the city to make sure that everybody becomes part of the 21st century. this is the innovation capital of the world with a special emphasis on those that need it and are part of the 21st century. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you, mayor lee. now i would like to introduce somebody who has been a friend of technology at this service since i started and who is thinking out of the box to try to help us simplify and accelerate president david chiu. [ applause ] >> thank you, mark. happy holidays! i am so excited about what we are doing today and part because when i first ran

for office in 2008, i told my constituents that the vision of having free munis in san francisco is what i was interested in having and i was having a conversation with former mayor for this and i want to thank our current mayor lee and the city agencies for working with us and supervisor wiener for really moving forward and getting this done. i also want to make a note that our current head of technology is the fourth chief who i have spoken to about getting this done. i don't know how you managed to do it in the first 6 months but congratulations for what you have been able to do. [ applause ] >> i want to mention that this weekend we has hundreds of folks dressed in santa claus outfits running through here in

the castro, i want to thank selena because you were the ones that delivered santa's gift in helping make this vision a reality. in the 20th century, access to roads, electricity and water was how communities and cities succeed. in the 24th century it's access to broadband. we noticed, and we know that we are not leading the way and not even in the top 10 countries in the world when it comes to high speed broadband. as mayor alluded to that we have a challenge as a city and nation capital of the world we need to make sure that we have the most fastest and most accessible broadband wechlt -- we know it's good for our economy, education and infrastructure. we know it's going to help everyone succeed in our city. i have two visions

that are beyond where we are. first has to do with market. i know mayor lee shares this as many of us share this on market street. not only with congestion on our roads, we want to see a huge number of people on market street, spending time in cafes, shopping and enjoys what it is to be a san franciscans and what it will be on the major thoroughfare. i have more ideas, it shouldn't be just market street. every street? san francisco should be like market street. we would like to bring free wifi to all of our communities. if we need to do republican -- renovations

in our streets, we'll put in the infrastructure to make sure we are wiring every corner of our city, every street in our city so every household and residence can succeed and i look forward to working with our mayor and all the departments and the private sector. happy holidays!. thanks for being here. >> thank you, david. now i would like to invite the supervisor of this beautiful district scott wiener. [ applause ] >> thank you, mark. thank you mr. mayor. welcome every one to district 8. this is the upper market which is sometimes the forgotten part of market

street. we see a lot focused east of octavia. i'm thrilled that this initial roll out of free wifi will extend all the way into the tas castro from the ferry building. we have seen a renaissance in san francisco of public space of having new and graed -- great and better public spaces. we are in the plaza which was the very first of the program that began about 4 years ago where we decided to really start creating new plazas and having new public spaces. this plaza has been in incredibly successful in the castro and having free wifi here in this public space and other public spaces and in our parts is an incredible part to make sure that people can use these public spaces and that people can congregate here and get work done here and tried --

read the paper and whatever else they want to do. i'm glad that we are celebrating here in the plaza. next year we are going to be wiring the sidewalks on castro street which is part of the strategy to keep improving these places. thank you very much and congratulations on the work. [ applause ] >> thank you, scott. and now i would like to invite the technology visionary that helped us accomplish this corridor. selena lowe from ruckus. please join me. [ applause ] >> good morning. ruckus has been selected by the city of san francisco as the technology foundation for this milestone

launch of wifi along one of the most beautiful and famous thoroughfare in the world. i want to personally thank mark and the team for the support in collaboration that we enjoy in putting this and designing and implementing this network in record time. the launch of this service as mayor lee said is just the beginning and we are really really excited by the opportunity. at ruckus, we share a vision with the city of san francisco for a reliable wifi u actuality that provides not only free public access but also can serve as an economic stimulus for private and public online services. we believe this project will become a

model for cities everywhere in the world. today, we are turning that vision into a reality. the mobile internet has changed everything in our life. anyone can tell you that wifi has become the preferred way to connect to the internet. we all use wifi daily perhaps hourly, perhaps constantly. wifi access is now viewed as a utility just like power and water. therefore like power and water, it has to be reliable, pervasive and fast. that's where ruckus is coming. ruckus is a solution provider for wifi services and equipment. we have wifi networks deployed in many

public areas including new york, los angeles, shanghai, beijing, hong kong, tokyo, london, paris, etc. now having san francisco select ruckus for this challenging high density wifi environment along market street is really another level of achievement for us. our technology is specialized in dealing with high capacity broad coverage, challenging environment , public environment that includes buildings as well as lots of interference. we have technology to deliver that and confident that we can provide a great service to san francisco.

at hulk -- ruckus we are excited about the opportunity to bring the millions of residents and businesses as well as visitors wifi access as well as new online services to the great city of san francisco. thank you. [ applause ] >> well, before we ask the mayor to officially activate symbolically with his big switch. be careful, mayor. i want to acknowledge the people that made that act possible. one thing i realized in the last six 6 months is that the number of players, the level of collaboration and partnership of complexity with players was the key to make this a reality

before the end of the year. not in any order of importance, i have to thank my boss who has been believing for a second that this would happen. good. now i can say it's good. kelly from the puc, we get the power from the puc. we had a special partnership with mta, ed riskin's people and i want to particularly acknowledge lauren green from mta who has been fantastic and the city attorney and of course the whole team from selena. i can't name them all but your founder and ceo has been absolutely phenomenal. of course we have here our friend and ceo director who has

given us a dedicated one gig line to the internet just to market street so it's fewer and it makes a difference to the performance. of course in the department of technology, i cannot stop and acknowledge our new cto manager and mike mccarthy, joseph john who is in the department of technology safety group with mike denning, bruce, john daring and the technology people, matt, and brian roberts and so many more. it's time to enjoy this great wifi on market street and now we can relax a little bit guys, you've done it. please join me now. mayor, i would like you to

activate the power on wifi market street. >> i know what you are all thinking. so we are going to put this back at candlestick park once the lights go out on monday just as soon as we do this. [ laughter ] 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1. [ applause ] >> it's on now. >> >> >> >>

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