focus on the low income communities to build the resil ans and to expand for 72 hours and to become partner whens it comes time to open shelter and feed people and i want to remind you that the power of it is really the volunteers and we have 3,000 volunteers who are training in the bay area, but in the case of a disaster can help us to open the shelters and provide the medical and emergency nurse and mental health service and connect them to the family as cross the country and that we stand as a partner to actually be the army in the response and lastly, we have been much more successful and we are looking to improve on this to respond to a daily incidents and san francisco, county alone, we responded to 80 incidents, over the past nine months. and we have served 1100 individuals, and 255 families, and mostly in single and

multiunit fires where we come in and go with the fire department, with our partner and we worked with the family to get them housed and get them income and get them replacement and replacement for the clothes and restabilize and we look forward to building the partnerships and thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. >> thank you, i guess that we can say that you are new for two more months, the first year. the honeymoon period. and welcome to our disaster council. this comes to the point in the program where we are not at a roundtable, but it is the roundtable discussion, so is there or are there any updates, comments, and i know that michael, you have had something and michael? >> greetings everyone, on wednesday, of this coming week we are going to be working with our partners and the san francisco inner faith are going to work with the partners from the emergency management and the american cross bay area

chapter and the agencies responding to disaster and human services agency to recover the 5th bi annial workshop for congregations and unlike the other four, which have concentrated on catastrophic these are going to be looking at the role of the faith community in responding to every day disasters in particular fires. and we would welcome you and there is, a circular in your package if you would like to register and you are welcome to come it is a half day and free, we are going to be working with the bay share, sharing economy at the direct's discussion. >> any other comments or announcements? >> yes? brian? >> and this will be very quick, my name is brian and i am the

executive director of sf card if you can't attend the conference we will be having a twitter feed, so, if you are big on social media, and hash tag it is sfic dpw 2014. and so, you know, follow along and a 10:20 is when our neighborhood table top discussion and that is where a lot of the action is going to take place. >> cool. >> any other announcements? is there any public comment? >> thank you, all for coming. and this meeting is adjourned.

(clapping.) >> let's see can everybody hear i'm mark buell the wanting of the recreation and park commission (clapping.) thank you. i want to welcome you all here today and want to welcome some distinguished guests i'm to read names if you could hold our applause and let them know you appreciate them. our da george (laughter) >> now you know who started clapping the general manager he's in charge of everything excuse me. george and our purifying and gloria and tom

harrison and all my fellow commissioners on rec and park chief suhr our councilmember ferraro and cindy wu and appearance park president and jim the sincere vp and reverend chang now give them a big hand (clapping.) i have two art commissioners roberta and abby i apologize give them a welcome. (clapping.) >> art at this stage of the program i need lilly to help we a.k.a. donna.

so i thought rather than giving you my interpretation i'll tell you what wikipedia has to say about her. lilly hitchcock fire bell was considered eccentric and smoking cigars and wearing trousers before it was acceptable and an avid gambler and she dressed up as a male to do so. as a young woman she traveled to europe and married howard the caller for the san francisco stock exchange he passed away in 11885 he saw the fire department

respond to telegraph hill and helped them get up the hill this was in the days when everything was outsourced to private enterprise but she get them up first and treated asia mascot of the firefighters and after her return in the 63 made an honoree of the engine company and rode along where the firefighters or which were in parade she tend to prove this relationship with firefighting throughout her life. she died in 1929 and left 1/3rd of the estate to 76 to be used for the purpose of adding to the beauty of the city the city adduced r use to see to build the tower on itself hill and it

is the statute of 3 firefighters down in washington square so let's here it for this beautiful lady (clapping.) thank you >> thank you do you want to say a few words. >> all of that is true and even if you're not a firefighter your pretty cute but really thank you, thank you so much for this beautiful restoration of my gift to the city it's incredible and enjoy it and take care of it. >> thank you lilly (clapping.) i would be remiss if i didn't mention a special guest he's a firefighter in san francisco but more importantly he's the grandson of victor who managed the development of the murals on the coit tower so welcome pete

thank you pete (clapping) all right. moving right long we have a distinguished guest arriving sometime soon so rather than buy time i may introduce the next speaker on the program that's i want you to recall it was the board of supervisors who decided to appropriate this money that lilly left to do the right thing in san francisco and that altercation keeps going with the president of our board of supervisors david chiu (clapping.) good morning, everyone. the sun is shining on telegraph hill i want to thank you for being part of this wonderful, wonderful event and let me start by saying i think for every person here we all have our

personal contentions with telegraph hill my coit tower 22 years ago i visited san francisco and climbed up the stairs and looked at the bay and moved to the city a few years ago 18 years ago every sunday i ran up here to the top of coit tower this is a special place and we all know for decades coit tower has banana amazing similarly place starting in 1893381 years ago you look great but thank you lilly for your friendship >> thank you to our grandfather in 1933 i'm sorry during the

great depression painted 27 murals that depict our strugglers of working families and labor here in san francisco that really is a very much part of what our city is about and who we stand for. over the decades we've had so many members of our community the friends of pioneer park struggled to put together the resources and visit in where we are and more recently thank you to the telegraph hill folks yes give it up for them (clapping) are so many of you who handled the baton to protect the symbol of san francisco thank you all for your effort i know the mayor

is coming but the mayor responded to the request of all i have us on telegraph hill and working with our rec and park and our arts commission thank you to close to $2 million of restoration work that combined to a structure and institution that will for decades bring tens of thousands of san franciscans to the city s to call coit tower one of our favorite landmarks in the world thank you very much for being here have a wonderful day (clapping.) so as we wait for our special guests the next speaker i have to tell you if last year for the park bond issue that was on the ballot that 72 percent of the

people in san francisco said they like the job it the rec and park department is doing and passed the bond by a large number and i believe that's due entirely to the staff of rec and park and the job they do and under the leadership of their general manager phil immensely beggar (clapping.) wow. what a beautiful day, huh? what a similarly beautiful day and after danny sank the natural anthem to mr. president, please if anything the shout out it will show up on my performance elevations i was overcome by the celebration and beauty of the day this is a special mom that we should all

be proud of. it is a great and proud moment for coit tower a great and proud moment for the rec and park department and arts commission a great and proud moment for the friends of pioneer park and the telegraph towers it's a great moment for the city and county of san francisco it really is. it is so important that we preserve our culture hermg in this city and a thailand time in this neighborhood alone on saturday we had the pleasure of being down the hill of the ribbon cutting for the north beach library (clapping) that sits think joe deimagine plagued that's up next. the library has anizing towards

the future and keeping families thriving in the city today is about our past and have preserving our past and focusing on our culture heritage a special time for us because today is coit tower and next year down the road the palaces of fine arts and the "x" pay any attention when san francisco welcomed 20 million visitors after the great earthquake they came through the newly opened panama canal and it was the moment when this city of the back from the earthquake this moment has a context we're proud to welcome you here. the funding for this project came from sooifgz e savings nearly $1.7 million from savings

from our bond measures i'm very very proud of that (clapping) with that funding we were building to obviously restore the murals and murals have been restored here over time and the reason it didn't take quite frankly because lilly your building was perfect but not waterproof. so we replaced the roof and repainted the lobby ceiling to bring it up to date and i can't wait for you to see that the murals pop and it didn't look like the coit tower you've ever seen it's truly particularly we've renovated bathrooms and thanks to our proud partnership our new vendor we've improved

the visitor experience it's really, really beautiful (clapping) you will see not only the murals but the museum quality gift shop this contribute to 19 thirty comes from the gift shop this is the first purchase of our new gift shop its stylish and the benefit of our partnership with terry and our new vendors one percent of the precedes will be put to workshop the murals and others things this is a thought of and well-designed partnership one intended to last to thank you's it is about gratitude from our mayor to supervisor chiu to

identify the funding for coit tower they gave us the authority to spend it. without their support we wouldn't be here today. i also want to recognize my department staff and some of the partners in this project first of all, our property management team working with our coit tower vendor this project received unanimous support from the board of supervisors and it's the hard and scompleks structure our capital planning team don and mac and others ceo tran and his team a very, very special shout out to our partners the san francisco arts commission tom you'll hear from him and worked closely with the architecture

group to restore this project and tom there are plenty of stories of departments not working well together and city agencies knocking heads but the partnership we have is a model for 21st century government to return it to its glory our hard working staff exacting taylor with his staff that worked hard to spruce up the grounds and mississippi low and tim and all our 2 61 apprentices. i really want to thank the planning commission cindy wu and the entire staff for their expertise and last but not least we want to thank the neighbors john for the advocacy for the

building (clapping) but is special shout out to the finances of pioneers park julie christian son thank you for your tireless advocacy to make this place worth and we're just thrilled i can't wait for you to see it and cheers to san francisco. cheers (clapping.) we're getting close this side of the aisle the bride side it hot the grammar side cooler but the honoree the president charles with us today and thank him for his continuing to nurture the arts coming to san francisco

(clapping) and speaking of being challenges the art commission has the responsibility for lots of public art in san francisco i want you to welcome the arts commissioner tom (clapping.) well, good afternoon it's a hot one so i will try to be brief so we can get into the shade welcome this is an incredible day in san francisco i wanted to start with everybody who has champed the coit tower and the murals it's an incredible day when you go inside look at the conservatism team what they've done it's absolutely stunning so i'm going to share a little bit about people we have to

recognize today on behalf of the arts commission i want to thank ann rosenthal and james and jeremy a who has spent the last several months examining the murals and before we applaud them they are the same group that worked on the murals in 1989 we're lucky to have the team that did the painstakingly reorganization and i appreciate the coverage in the media so have the world-class conservation folks working on this restoration let's give ann and the team a hand (clapping) i still mentioned as part of the recreation discovered a that

frame in the ceiling you'll notice that for the first time this is the change in art and it's a great example of that also the suitcase in addition, the murals has full kwefrm it makes the beauty of this murals that tell the history of our city and the roll the artists play and telling the stores of our human shared experience. with that, i want to give a shout out to ar g conservation services they've been an incredible partner around the city this team includes many folks they've all begun above and beyond so thank you so much (clapping)

next, i just want to echo what bill said that's an incredible partnership and incredible player to work with rec and park we have a tall order in the city koirtd is an amazing assets and the rec and park share with us this is a great example of what we do the music and the mothers building and zoo there are amazing you culture assets and to the team in caring for the partnerships and the board of supervisors and mayor to comment capital dollars is absolutely critical so thank you bill and to the board and mayor for this incredible asset to our city (clapping) and because we can't do it alone

i want to thank who generously awarded $10 million for the historic recreation as well as the signage it is new and will help the history behind the with work work are that i want to say bank of america awarded previous entrapments to the historic treasurers around the world. those treasures included the wing vindicate and maenl and determining river and west minister abby this gift helps elevate the treasures to the elevation they deserve particularly today, i want to thank michelle from the bank of america team thank you for

helping to raise this private side of the partnership and bringing attention to the assets. speaking of finance i want to thank heather smith a scholar affiliated with the living deal project for divorcing time for the signage for the first time each mural is accompanied by the window into the past to bring to life heather's word this is the combanlt to bring it to a museum caliber and we are grateful to heather for his work (clapping) so speaking the people who made this possible we have to honor the decendents of the coit tower folks two of whom are depishthd in the mural. ruth over here

(clapping) some of you my may know ruth is depriktd picketed in the library mural >> thank you for being here to celebrate woody allen with us and the son added god at the scene is here and the daughter of otis alongside of hercy in the elevator lobby thank you for you for being here you can read about her in the chronicle and bruce from the puppeteer from seattle thank you for coming down (clapping) over the years i've had the bring to join the arts commission and get to know the incredible works when i was a committing candidate for the job you'll notice the arts commission weakens from a deep

sleep it's an honor to work within an incredible team thank you to the arts commission first our citizen register alison who's been up her daily where's alison thank you including the arts team members jen crane and marcus definite yes, sir. and our director of the art program susan and kate patterson and all the members of the team at the arts commission our developer who worked with bank of america and a tricky the number of our staff thank you for your hard work everyday and two commissioners rebecca and our vice president thank you for your work everyday and i wanted

to take a moment to thank another mural i thought i forgot sorry give me one second. i wanted to note somebody we've lost who couldn't be here unfortunately, we lost ruth's sister an author on the coit tower but in here how were you we celebrate the incredible restoration (clapping) so with that, thank you very much for coming and trying to keep cool and we landmark to welcoming you inside. thank you very much (clapping.) before i introduce the next speaker i want to remind you that the firmer are hosting us in in front of the building i want everybody to go around the

corner after we cut the ribbon it's interesting the murals you'll see the washgs families of san francisco the men and women who built the fabulous city so it's fitting we saved our best for the last a man who was trying to put more jobs in the marketplace and trying to build the sustainable committee our fabulous mayor, mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you mark for your wonderful work and the rec and park department good afternoon it's great to be here at coit tower i've learned carefully while i'm late an $8 billion contract we've got to spend time to balance it out