so, again, the session is open at this point to a-d-a coordinators, but it's something that we're hoping to institute on an annual basis and hopefully make them open to the public. thank you. >> thank you. all right. we're moving on to agenda item number 9, co-chair elections. i will now call for nominations. councilmembers may nominate themselves or another member. councilmember wong. >> yes, i'd like to nominate derek to be a co-chair or candidate. >> thank you. does anyone second the nomination? >> i second it. >> great. are there other nominations?

oh, councilmember zarda, do you accept the nomination? >> yes, i accept the nomination. thank you, yes. >> okay. do we have any other nominations? all right, then. if we don't have a ton of competition, but we'll still do our secret ballot.

>> okay. the results of the election, we have four votes for derek and one absentee. >> okay, congratulations, derek. >> thank you very much. (applause) >> i didn't give you an opportunity to speak before the vote. would you like to say a few words now? >> yes, i would. first i'd like to thank my fellow councilmembers for your support. it has been an honor since first starting serving on this council this past fall. i wanted to thank the mayor's office staff for their support. i really want to address you in the crowd, everyone here today, everyone on the bridge line,

everybody watching on tv whether this be live or on a repeat. everybody who is watching this on an online stream or watching this as an archive, i want to let everybody know that i'm going to be working very hard with our co-chair and our council to make sure that this council's ability, its power, its capacity comes from our community. our community is our strength. i'm a huge proponent of not just handing out an informational flyer, but sitting down and having a discussion with people in our community. this body has such potential and it's shown it time and time again in the past from the current members and past members. i just want to take this moment to say idell wilson did a great job in her time with leadership from what i witnessed myself and talking with her privately,

seeing her in subcommittees. i saw a person who has very passionate and very caring about this community and it is an honor to continue on in her stead. so, i look -- i look forward to working with you, chip, as well as the rest of our councilmembers, but most importantly with our community. there are several opportunities for participating and becoming involved within our council, whether it be serving as a councilmember, whether it be visiting or participating on our various subcommittees either for disaster preparedness or physical access, or most importantly coming to us with your own subcommittee ideas. pitch us your ideas. come up to us. talk with us. contact the mayor's office on disability -- going to read their number aloud.

415-554-. , my apologies. ~. 67 89. i want it make this heard and heard loud. my past with advocacy, it happened in high school and college, being a youth with chronic medical conditions and adhd, i witnessed firsthand that disconnection in your community and what that means when you don't feel like you can actively participate or that your voice is not being heard. and i just want to issue a challenge to everybody here, everybody listening and everybody online to take a moment and just think, if you don't think you can participate, challenge yourself and call us because everybody here on this council, everybody here on this council has said the same thing. i don't know if i can do this, and here they are. so, i am issuing that challenge to everybody here, everybody online, everybody listening. come forward, talk with us, let's see what you can do.

>> thank you, derek. okay, we are back to public comment, item number 10. i have no cards filled out. so, any further public comment today? my name is larry juicy edmonds. i ran for mayor in '99 and i was homeless here and i got eight votes [speaker not understood]. i know that god has given everybody a special talent and it's up to us to bring that star ship out. and i feel incredible being here today thinking third friday, the mayor's disability council meeting. learned that from idell wilson. i know that this is probably where i really need to be. oftentimes i'm many things, but i found out this is really who i am and a lot of times in the

good and the bad that i know that i do have a disability. i know that i do have greatness. and i know that i can serve. i know that i love people. i'm a humanitarian. and i think that that is to uplift my life is to actually pass on information and resource to people. and although you don't always get it back in return, sometimes i try to learn to be bad, but i'm not a bad person. i can only pass on goodness. and this is really what it's about. and just in case you are a [speaker not understood] kj paul.com karaoke. i did presidential karaoke and i did rock with you, michael jackson, and [speaker not understood], i have 300 songs that tells you about how i deal

with disabilities with my failures and my successes when i can go to a place and let my voice out. i'll be this sunday in the golden gate park with [speaker not understood] celebrating easter and 420, and earthquake. like i told you, my first earthquake was in san diego. and then october 17, '89, i was hurt in san diego when they had the earthquake here. so, when i got to go hear willie brown present on his mother's birthday the bridge and i met willie brown in '94 and '95 when he was running for mayor, i felt kind of great. i always connected myself to greatness in earth. it's a good or bad time, but you have to put yourself and see what were you doing and how you passed along. i think we all need to learn to make sure that our days are just as good as the bad that come, take a lemon and making

it to lemon ade. so, go online, kj paul.com, juicy, jucye with the e, and you'll hear my music, songs from 11-6-12 presidential candidate, presidential karaoke. [speaker not understood]. >> okay, we move on to our next item which is correspondence. >> we have two correspondence items. one is a letter from co-chair chip supanich from the oakland disability commission. the second piece of correspondence is a notice of board vacancy from conard house, inc., a private california nonprofit corporation gives notice that two director positions on its nine-member volunteer board of

directors are vacant. >> thank you, heather. agenda item number 12 is councilmember comments and announcements. are there any councilmember comments or announcements? there is, councilmember zarda, co-chair zarda. >> i just wanted to thank the commissioners and the representatives from the s.f. youth commission that came here today during our earlier public comment to bring up their draft resolution for including disability history curriculum into the san francisco unified school district. i believe that that's characteristic that i want to see more of within this council and their commission and in reaching across and kind of seeing where our partnerships

lie and how we can overlap and help each other out. so, i just wanted to thank them for coming. >> thank you, co-chair zarda. any other announcements? all right, then, this meeting is adjourned. [adjourned] day. >> thank you for being here today to welcome air lingus to san francisco international airport i'm john martin the airport director i want to send a welcome to lingus to christofi

mueller (clapping) joined by a number of digital tars including the mayor of san francisco mayor ed lee. mr. mayor (clapping) for san francisco and the city of cork the sister city has a relationship we're happy to welcome the deputy mayor laurie king stone raise your hand. and the cork chamber of commerce ceo conner healy. thank you (clapping) also present from the san francisco sister city committee the chairman during mat. thank you (clapping) and the business committee chair

jim. (clapping.) and a warm welcome to the consul general of ireland phillip grant (clapping) and we have a large irish community in san francisco a lot of those folks joined us we want to welcome san francisco former gentleman representing dianne feinstein (clapping) we're pleased to have ireland's award winning service ireland and san francisco share special connections including strong hi, tech industry and a general with the bus community and 20u6r78 industry. on either side great connections of service where passengers fly

connecting to bubonic listen and san francisco one hundred connecting flights to benefit from. we really aim to provide world-class set of standards for the industry it exceeds customer expectations and we're reviving one-hundred $2 million in upgrading our facilities including this bar-and-grill terminal to add amenity and additional services and building a new 4 hundred room 5 star hotel connected by your train system we're committed to have the services for the airline partners to air lingus and all the passengers using the airport we're to going to make this the

easiest airport connection airport. it's now great pleasure to introduce the mayor of san francisco mayor ed lee (clapping) >> thank you john. congratulations to, you know, last year, we had 16.9 million investors come electro there 0 the airport that's express or implied so i want to congratulate john. more and more i'm coming out for events this is another wonderful occasions welcome the ceo from air lingus they spent 10 hours in the air on this flight the first and he hopefully, we'll

endanger this in the future and because the relationship with e.r. land i want to see that san francisco and ireland are benefiting from our economy because of the relationship. certainly culturely and with the presence of our business community and sister city that's a strong reflection. over a year ago i had an opportunity to go on my first visit to cork a year and a another thing. we had a great time representing san francisco and being the the chairperson the master person of the parade for the stds in coverage we're talking about where we got the responsibility name of the lee river in coverage this was one of my first invests and i also met a

group of kids there when i was brought to the black castle center where they teach off-street parking projects on science my technology. i made a mental note i had a great time watching the kids and being kathy how they draw in a 3-d way and seeing the excitement. i made a mental note if we're lucky enough i ended my trip meeting with the chamber of commerce and conner reflected open that we were he will hopefully a decision to regig this direct flight and i really want to be gracious and grateful to the a airline for making this appropriate decision i want to welcome not only the crew and ceo but on this integral flight

thanks to the generosities of those we sponsored 5 of the kids for could do joe's to be in the trip they're here today, i give them some cookies with my face on them (laughter) i figured john self-we gave cookies out to the arriving passengers from the international flights we'll jump over the sky tracks someday; right? we were just laughing and celebrating we were named the third most important airport in the world they consider our airport to be friendly if we did nor cookies co- do joe's.

they're to spend 5 days here we have a lot of technologies copy companies in the be sure but we look at bubonic listen and they're considered the nation capital of the world and from bubonic listen not only from europe but from east africa and here in san francisco we consider ourselves the nation capital we have a lot of technology companies her and the kids will be visit game developments and companies their bebe at the academy of science and the "x" platform. i hope you enjoy users here but again congratulate air lingus again for this inaudible flight

and know we'll be supporting our convoys e criticize efforts on this action let me thank you for the opportunity to present mr. mueller with your plaque and please, mr. mueller please come on up as we palatium this day to be air lingus in san francisco (clapping) >> thank you, mr. mayor. a representative from the state

assembly bill couldn't be here but a member of the staff is here to air lingus. i want to ask assembly member to step forward and ask christofi mueller to step forward again as well >> thank you, everyone and good afternoon. i'm norway restrict i'm here on behalf of the assembly member 39 i phil i'm here to present this plaque to air lingus. we want to thank air lingus and mr. moourt for visiting us today and on behalf of the assemblyman phil congratulations on this occasion

(clapping.) san francisco o has a strong partnership r with attracting international service. i want to ask you to join in in welcoming sandra (clapping.) thank you, john it's my pleasure to add my thanks to air lingus we're thrilled about the tourism time between our two countries. the tour is the number one tour industry is the growth is strong it's extremely important to making sure that flight is both ways coming in san francisco and

going to ireland. dublin is a gateway and we look forward to working with the central europe. over 50 of irish coming into san francisco come from dublin i was with may team and to promote this flight we look forward to working with i for a strong relationship pr congratulations and welcome again (clapping.) thank you, john i'd like to welcome the ceo christofi mueller >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, may i ask the crew please to join me on stage we have the gun is all over the place but please join me

(clapping) so mayor ed lee and keep in mind guests thank you for the warm welcome i'm overwhelming i have not seen people to pick up their came forward to take beautiful pictures this was what difficult time for ireland but this is a contribute to what's been called in the previous speaks the technology sector in the bay area and dunn listen where month american companies have chosen to base their european headquarter and we hope to contribute to this relationship. but for you who don't know us

lingus we're very, very old but still very modern at this time 78 years old and very modern we serve almost 90 percent of our tickets on the internet and have the most equipment we fly and recognized as being in ward regard to direction policies. it's not just technology it is going both way the island enjoyed the visitor numbers in the united states and that is attributable your landscape and very attractive hotel prices we want to continue we increased our capacity 15 percent this

year hopefully 20 percent is usually unusual but you tourism inbound is important and the vice chairman of the island and jim is here with us to make that point again but also out bound tourism in upper california is the most attractive tourism designation in the united states and we see that today. i check the 5 o'clock we carry only 95 from the island and the rest is in paris and all over europe that's basically the next step not only to connect idling island to california and europe but the whole world. we have an irish community in

san francisco we believe approximately 4 hundred and 50 thousand people and building it or not lingus makes half of its revenue we call them relatives and family. we have 70 million people worldwide but it's a huge market and that's basically our mission we want to complete the mission every year and this flight to san francisco contributes. we have one hundred and 50 years old we thought of something of our flying equipment it is in 3 o'clock we e 3:30 we took over the north atlantic and the designation is ireland the sf our more importantly all the the

aircraft's is called for our crew after 12 hours of work still big miles. >> thank you very much (clapping.) i'd like to ask the crew to remain up front while we had a toast and ask the mayor to come up. a big toast to the air lingus in san francisco welcome san francisco. cheers (clapping.)

this means good height and good look. thank you [gavel]