asian-americans are in the forefront of that and equally true within the university. from time to time i find it hard to believe that people still say gee the academy has to some asian students i say maybe but the asian students they set the standards at our school they're the best students we're proud over 25 percent of our students identify themselves as either asian or asian-american. we like to think that you are school reflects the community i believe it does having been born her and lived here for the last probably 35 years. so it's a pleasure to be here i hope i have not spoken two long. thank you

(clapping) >> thank you. i saw that supervisor mar has arrived. >> i've been at every one of these for 10 years it's wonderful i think one of the key expressive with regards is units all the asian pacific islander groups antonio as a chinese-american i benefit from not only knowing the heritage but the asian pacific islanders and many other. i want to thank dr. from the academy because their promoting creativity and innovation. i know as a former market study teacher many of our educational institutions are cranking out the young leaders because it's the creativity and innovation

and sticking your neck out advances our community. thank you very much to the awards go up for choosing the great honorees but 10 years congratulations and thank you for vans the asian-american community and it promotes the brighter future and innovation for all of us. thank you claudine (clapping) >> thank you, eric. i want to introduce mark representing at market the chairperson of the board of the ap organization heritage board for nonprofits trying to raise money and support all the activities. mark >> thank you, everyone (clapping) pleasure to be here not only do i serve as the recreationalation

agent for at&t as the chairman of the board of the civic american heritage foundation it's a privilege to be the chair but san francisco we don't need the federal government to announce the heritage of asian-americans we do that 3 hundred and 65 days a year and if i could just for one moment shift from my at role i'd like to ask our folks to obtain standing so thank you. i all for your hard work. i hope everyone lee will come out on may 5 it's a pleasure to be the honoring the recipients.

>> we're lucky to have more supports from target we have casey with the human resources manager at the targeted thank you. it's an honor to be here today representing target as a bay area native it's great to be living in san francisco. part of my job farther is city toward is hiring a difference and targeted team to weigh employing employ around 8 hundred team members from your san francisco community. another facetious thing of working for target we give back every year 5 percent of your income that is over $4 million

every single week that goes directly into our community. for our other thing we like to give back to our community in the form of volunteering volunteering so we've given back over 4 hundred hours from january to now. i'm thrilled to make that even more hopefully doubling that. thank you very much for having us here today, we're excite to be part of the foundation and continue our partnership thank you. necklaces we very, very excited we're excited that our outgoing sponsors come back and we also. or want to put a warm welcome we're protest of our support and hoping i'll bank with us this is

chris the recreational manager of northern california (clapping.) what a privilege for that a u.s. bank to join the list of keep in mind companies that have been supporting apa heritage we believe in giving our time and talents and checkbook too important causes i'm proud of raymond kim our district manager serving open the board as vice chair and he talked me into writing the check. i'm a second generation immigrant to to country my grandparents came ear from greece at the turn the century we share 3 common things. the importance of education being one, i remember it was never an option to go to college

just where and number 2 hard work the importance of working hard at whatever you do strife to be you're very best. my like to tell my employees if you think you're going to be successful out hard work you'll be better off going to the 7 eleven and buying a loiter ticket. we understand it takes a village and in this case, it is the world best city of san francisco and coming together 0 work together we're all about that today. so i want to compliment each of you and having the qualities to bring this together and i'll leave i with one of my 235ish9 quotes i condition to celebrate

need of each of us where we are one. thank you (clapping.) so i authenticity before we go to announcing and inviting our co-chairs asia recipients i want to backtrack and talk about the friends many of the san franciscans they really mate not have an idea the amount is for the american heritage month. i hope you'll take the posters bag to our offices and communities as we also are going to have throughout the month of may the s a on cable stations sfgovtv with china channel 2 cpu

many media partners and thank you for helping to put our psa on channel 2 of this is a 30-second p.s.a. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the main thing is asians american heritage is 1/3rd of the apa heritage month please vicinity our website wwwapa.org

and you'll find out mortar very short and simple i think it is effective >> thank you, greg is a great volunteer. chris was talking about the apa i got mentions i was really, really lucky to be in a village in a team of many, many volunteers that come together for the last 6 months and really work on aspects of how we want to celebrate apa heritage month there recent who many names to mention we have a team of 32 i know that many of you are here and thank you alleyway perez that has spent a lot of time with the process. thank you al >> and france and everybody as

city hall. now i'd like to invite our co-chair to come and make announcements (clapping.) welcome and thank you so much for being here today. this is my favorite part every year ars as part of the celebration we honor individual that have an impact and every year i'm just blown away by the nomination that we've received i've learned so much we don't hear about your heros and people achieving groundbreaking innovations that's itself theme there this year. we received a number of really

fantastic nominations and it was really, really hard. so the criteria lansz which based on the theme of innovation are that the individuals chauchl it creative and graug and historical that this groundbreaking achievement has successfully laid a foundation for the next generation of innovator and opened doors of opportunity and lastly the individual has demonstrated a comment to the asian-american community. we've received a number of nominates based on the guidelines and it's stroll challenging because everyone has accomplished so much. >> after care of consideration of the career we've come to a unanimous vote for the 3 name in

the course the first of which the the this individual has pioneered the personal chip set and architecture that continues to be 2 of the foundation technologies in every pc today he's got technologies and it regarded as a silicon valley visionary. for his tireless also efforts he's honored by the business league of san francisco and k go tv and was a metal of honor rethat is awarded to the united states citizens. he's received many addict recognized in the philippines

like the first eninvoluntary of science and technology. >> didn't i say this is amazing how many of you knew this. this is fantastic. well, i'd like to announce an honor rejonathan. over the years jonathan has committed time to serving the community he hearsay been wildly revoked for the impact in achieving the solutions to help safe the lives of aichlts who are affected by transports of stem cells. the donor program registry only had one hundred and 3 that process pecks and finding a donor was impossible it kneeled

him to do the nonprofit organized dedicated to a increasing the availability of bone marrow transports for asian-american. john then initiative approach has led to a steady increase in the be the match registry and today over 8 hundred thousand asian-american donors registered in the united states. i personally know people who have lives been saved through this program. a graduate of san francisco sate his commercial insurance has owned many businesses and a champion for businesses and a council person a a delegate to the white house small business convention. jonathan leon

(clapping.) our third honoree is grand master. he has been revoked nationally and internationally for his preservation of the japan through the art form drumming. as part of his initiative approach say g has the to this case could joe that provides opportunity for men, women, and children from all walks of life to learn about 85 could drumming. c g has been trail blaurgz and k4r5bd with music's people like tony bennet.

among the many honors with his name for the national endowment for the arts for authentic and contributions to his field. grand master say g. (clapping.) >> congratulations guarantee again, our our honorees please attend may 5th to honor them further. thank you. >> this is an oscar too (laughter). >> so i want to thank you all for coming to the press conference and come to our celebration on may at the 530 we'll have a great ceremony with

nuclear cultural performances with reception to follow. thank you and invite all our friends. thank come and experience lafayette park and enjoy the people, picnic and sunshine. this is a lovely place to take an afternoon stroll with your loved one hand in hand. located at got and sacramento street in the middle of pacific heights on top of the city's steep rolling hills, lafayette park offers a great place, peaceful beauty.

comfortably spaced tables and benches, a playground, rest rooms and tips at the end of the park. plenty of flat areas for football, frisbee, and picnic. lafayette is very much a couples park. this wonderful hilltop park is the place you can share with someone you cherish. lafayette park is located along the round at the one end campus and also easy

leaders. >> hi everyone i'm patrick the director of earthquake safety forever for the stoifbl and we have the ryan white fair to teach people about the made sure soft story ordinance and connect them with the services they need you can save thousands of lives and if those buildings are

rooiftd people will be allowed to sleep in their own beds while the city is recovering. >> we're here at the earthquake ryan white center for people to comply with the ryan white or do a ryan white on their property to connect with the resources they need. i came here wondering what to do as a owner of an apartment building moderate to comply with the must rules that went into effect last year >> we don't want to go to 10 different events people said so

we advise people of the event. so we try to be incentive not everyone is going to be able to come 0 so this fans the afternoon and the einstein >> i've decided to be here it's amazing to see all those people's here it's critical to be prepared and to recover from disasters as finishing as possible. >> i've been to a lot of shows and this one was a trufk turnout a. >> since the structure the building represents the super structure the lower part of this particle on the buildings on the corner they shack quite a bit.

>> so for the floors above as shaking that top floor is fog go-go have no more mass and we saw in 1984 more structure destruction where we're ryan white this by adding a steel frame typically you want to brass in both directions and see how strong the building is. >> we've adapted a thirty year implementation program i worry about that was a retrofit requirement this is what we do to mitigate the shom and have's evacuation for the people and our partners. i had questions about what kind of professionals are involved in this i want to start to put

together a team of people to help me get through this. i'm a structural engineer and i'm thrilled at the quality of the contractors and engineers >> we've taken one civic awesome and put all the vendors in one place. >> you have financing and engineers and contractor and they come here and every we're rebuilding are that the office of the city of administer and the depth thought i environment and other partners. >> all those things one little piece of a resilient piece of - >> and i felt more positive about things i thought about how

to pay for this. >> we didn't want to have one financing option it didn't work. >> we found information about financing they are different options for different types property owners. >> we've seen them offering financially and a pool of styles for a complicated way of saying they'll be able to pay back their loans over the next two years. >> we have 3 options and secondly, to get a loan for the ryan white and the third becoming in the past program participants in that.

it is encouraged along coastal easier where we have set time like sand and a high water table to a cause the sand to shake i'm going to get this visitation on the same bridge you'll see the water come to the surface this knocks the foundation over and pushes out the ruptured pipeline >> it is intimidating i'm talking to people as a layman who needs help. >> this is a difficult process for people to navigate we're only focused on outreach so we've got the informational and we've spoken to many different

owner groups and community groups all across the city. >> outreach is critical for the retrofitting program the city has to get out to the community and help people said what they have to do and do it and raise finances so this program is an advocate and resource for the community. >> so why not skip to the theme. foremost and most to come we've been presenting community meetings and going face to face with community owners and helping people understand what to do >> you may be wanting to know about the sf green but this will allow you to have is a loan for the property so if you have the

property the loan will be summoned by the new owner and this is pay back for your property taxes and the low rates this is a fantastic option. >> i'm in favor of the program obviously we're going to have a earthquake this is from an investment stewardship. >> after a few minutes with folks even if you don't agree you understand the concept. >> we've talked about being able to do this now we're going to be forced to do this it's a good thing but to pay for it. >> it's not only protecting their property but every dollar is for mitigation it truly is protecting our investment overall the city. >> it's the right thing to do.

you can look at the soft story building and theirs like the buildings that collapsed in the earthquake and your shufrtdz to see this >> people are getting caught to get this done and if people can find a place in our homes of shelter it will keep people in their homes. >> together we'll work out of getting out of 0 disaster and making the community bringing back to what we love. >> as a level of folks we've talked about we make recommendations to make everyone

mitigated their soft story problems no other jurisdiction has tried to tackle this ordinance and we're set to have our program complete by 20/20. >> the quality of the people are here because of the leadership. >> it's a great conversation statewide how to do this and i can only stress this enough if we didn't have the community of the san franciscans that are concerned people, you know, talking about our financing is options and our engineering requirement if you altercated all our work it's consensus driven to provide options we don't have one path but one relative for people to get there. >> it's been an