>> thank you (clapping.) this was not nor the cameras. well, good morning, everyone

>> good morning. thank you tammy for your introduction from your eviction to managing the cafe now on the way to owning your own home that's truly an inspiration and greeting president chiu and supervisor cowen and greeting, of course, to all our board of supervisors as well as department heads and elected officials >> our honored guests and especially to our european folks for being here today (clapping) and all our hardworking men and women for welcoming us to this morning into your job site. i wanted to come here and talk

about the state of the city this shipyard links our past to our promising future. behind me soon hundreds of thousands of home for middle-class families are under construction. like taking i didn't see story the shipyard is our remarkable progress for the city recovering from the great recession. it represents the challenges that san francisco still is a place for working families and teachers our firefighters and our seniors can call home. a year ago i declared the state of how city to be vitality and strong with san francisco moving in the right direction. thought 2013 because of our rent

also prostitute for our people all of the robust recovery continues. last year san francisco was the nations number one large community for job growth adding jobs in every sector. yes, from technology to health care to construction and merchandising. and unemployment today stands up at the 5.2 percent down from 9.5 when i first took office (clapping) my fellow san franciscans that means 42 thousand plus of jobs were created since 2011 and resident are back to work. as a result, the height budget refers our cities credit rating

is the highest in history (clapping) and at the dawn of this new year 2014 our city is virtually and a strong indeed strong financially and economically as never has been 90 in our history. we must recognize there are infarction in this economy we must not reserve our economic growth. our economic recovery has left thousands behind our neighborhood are revitalized and new construction is around us but still folks look to the future and where is the hope for them. too many of our reinstate men

and women squarely in middle their dream of starting a family or ownership a home falls further out of reach. the rising cotton and the financial geese in our madly those are the fundamental chafrngz channels of our time not only for our city but for cities around the world and to sustain our economic recovery and the renewed conversation we must confront these in a san francisco way clear hearted. in the chinese zodiac this the year of the horse they tend toward strengthen and financial success but their among the most compassionate and quick to

protect those who can't fight for themselves. those are the challenges before us because it is that same economic strengthen and renewed conversation in our future it provides us with the resources and the resolve to do. my fellow san franciscans this is the agenda for the priority of the year ahead. and that affordability agenda starts with making sure every one of our receipt from the young or old from the southeast or a new immigrant has a good job and can access the skills and training to get one. there's no wider income gap between those who have a job and

those who do not. there are 24 thousand san franciscans out of work with perhaps twice that under employed and that's why we must never relent in our efforts across technology and bio tech and international trade and tourism and film and video approximate and construction and health care all growing part of our diverse economy growing jobs in every background. i don't know about you but i haven't forgotten double digit unemployment. but incredibly it's become fashionable for some lately to dismiss the board based recovery they speak of it only in terms

of the negative. perhaps the first time in history the creating of good jobs has been criticized. my friends we must not take those better times for granted. building when he me when i tell you there's not a city on the planet that would review refuse to trade places with us. all this comes in spite of our resident by politicians in washington where congress refuses to pass comprehensive a migration reform and i say shame on them (clapping) and that's why modern ever we here in san francisco must and

will continue to invest and work towards training and a invest in people like rodney who's here today. he recently finished our sf training and working as a production assistant looking set right here in 0 san francisco. la la monday please stand. pride (clapping.) thank you we're working forward to seeing your work this sunday. we're investing in people like mark. thank you mark for being here (clapping.) you know who years ago mark was homeless he had some program expense but not enough to land a job so he put the rest of his

money toward training and started his own business sf layers thank you mark and for your commitment to helping others as well. thank you for bringing our son here, too. while the tech sector is growing we'll keep investing like with darryl two young men who work at the shipyard and behind me austrian development corporation is building the framing for new housing with a 65 percent local hire rate i know the supervisor likes that. with most of the men and women coming electro0 through the amended like larry.

gentlemen please stand let's all give them a greyhound for their work (clapping) and folks you, you know, those cranes you see downtown in mission bay and the central market are not just you thousands of construction jobs but impact fees over the next 5 years we'll collect $110 million for better parks and better transit and new affordable housing. we know our young people suffer from unemployment far more than adults pardoning. i'm proud in 2013 our jobs initiative priority more than 6 thousand 8 hundred job opportunity in the public and a private sector. thank you eric.

more than half the youth placed were from underserved neighborhoods like the bayview. we'll continue to invest in the corner stones of our infrastructure. the 5 hotels o hospitals under construction will concrete the cities standing as a cutting-edge center in this new and/or of health care. they can't recall guarantee goodbyes for decades to come and hospitality and entertainment

it's critical we continue to make improvement to our international airport and our moscone convention center. we will continue to support of the improvement of our arts and our cultural destinations like the new mexican amount and the new wing felt sf project and a wonderful new museum for george lucas art collection. in 200168 we'll host super bowl 50 and thank you folks for putting together the winning bid. and in 2017 we'll bring back

america's cup for more focused event on our bay congratulations russel and the oracle u.s. team for that amazing come behind effort. we'll work with the golden gate warriors to bring them back to san francisco. a spectacular investment on our cities future. i know rick is here today and rick we're behind you for another successful playoff season thank you. we'll continue to invest in our neighborhood within our 25 investing corridors throughout

the city places like gary boulevard in commissioner antoine: district and other districts. i'd like to thank our 2010 and 2011 along with the heads for giving back to the city for the giant team last year. thank you giant (clapping) and in 2013 we brought 3 w if any, to our city thanks to supervisor farrell and in 2014 we'll continue to connect our folks to the cloud. and we'll continue to invest in the quiet machine of our small

businesses with our ata assistance program our job squad and on line business portal. we must continue to support our nonprofits they provide vitality in front line services to our resident. and just like many of the clients on low income it's tough to absorb an there in rent so i applaud supervisor kim and supervisor chiu and look forward to working with them for practical solutions. you know, in 2013 president chiu authorized groundbreaking legislation that i was proud to

sign to guarantee san francisco as a friendly workplace. we can be at the national forefront by ray's the minimum wage (clapping) folks, you know, how many of us can get by open this town on $10.46 an hour. there's a ingress consensus among liberals that raising the minimum what this it will keep people off public assistance so this november with supervisor kim leadership and anothers let's make it easier for our resident for playing on the ballot for san franciscans. let's approach this the way we approached housing and

transportation we'll reach out to impact the sectors and workers and expert and other and seek consensus for the minimum wage there for working families (clapping) we've begun the dialog let's get this done in 2014. we must continue to guarantee for all our people that's affordable health care. we support this. in 2013 thanks to the leadership you have nancy pelosi and president obama it came through the country of the affordable health care. icon convenience had he been e

health and business to study the laws it's laws are old to insure no one falls through the cracks not our senior citizens or workers or immigrants. it's all our jobs to make sure every person is evenly revolted to cover a healthy san francisco (clapping) and if we want our families to stay and groeb grow here employers to stay here we must strife for the by the evidence public schools. i know that supervisor yee and the rest of the board share the values. we're no longer incomplete with other cities for the jobs and today, the students will have to

complementing pet with the rest of the children. i choose to send my daughters to the san francisco unified school district and today, i'm thrilled that everyday more and more families are going the same. we're in the midst of a renaissance in our public scalds we have the top performing schools. by partnering with the schools we'll prepare our young people. for example, looking at the credible contribution of our leadership initiative by mark and linda and the sales force.com foundation. along with the support off our

technology companies a lot of great teachers we've helping little schoolers focus on engineering and arts and math and technology we're steamed we know that the jobs of tomorrow will require this. today, i'm pleased to announce this year we'll help the kindergarten so schools like betsy and paul revere and others schools will be part of the initiative. last year, we passed the budget with a record investment in our public schools. this year we're going to surface that. in 2014 i proposed to fund the school district at a level never seen before in san francisco history (clapping) $66 million for our public schools and $27 million more for

universal preschool. yes (clapping) and now along with our own historic investment and with governor jerry brown commitment last week san francisco will be among the highest per student spending in the state and thank you governor anticipate sprint and members of the board of education and special thanks to hi men mendosa wholesale my advisory and she's got passion and thought of leadership on all the addition issues thank you for working for me. when it comes to education and services for young people we're not done this november we'll having ask the voters to renew the fund and a public education

fund but we can't be satisfied that the status quo so all the parents and aspiring parents we hear you we're working with the school board and to you to craft a longer version so we'll have a long-term system starting with the preschool and continuing through college (clapping) college. college that means making city college continue with long overdue reformed and remain 0 open and awe credit card today. i'm one hundred percent

confident we'll continue to have city college enroll because it's too important it will be there. folks i'm upset at the accreditation process but putting all our focus on them is a distraction. city college was on a course of unsubstantial financial and governs decisions and just because we don't like the diagnoses we ignore the unthinkable your urgent need for treatment but because we have a strong leadership in place city college is on the path to full reform. under the leadership of the new chandler nick and with the full support of california chancellor we're making overdue reformed

for the long-term health. city college has earned the right to be taken off the cliff of europe certainty and given the improvements i'll ask the state of california to continue in spite of the recent dips (clapping) i call about the accreditation commission to release the cliff that hangs over city college for the future. you know, a true affordability agenda must also include having a great transportation system one that save and a r50ib8 for everybody. our der59 roads and ingress

population demand we make greater dpand in our infrastructure for the future. we made n some modest improvements and we paved a record 4 blocks in our street conditions and our streets are slowing improving. you like those roads (clapping) and under the leadership of edward reiskin and tom nolan we added buses with the goal of replacing the entire fleet in 5 years. and along with other friends we've launched bay area bike share demonstrating the strong support to expand the other ty