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 so i do want to several say thank you from the community representatives to the artists the mural restorations to rec and park commission staff and the art commission and the wonderful artists who've gathered to honor with lilly hitchcock coit that started to pay contributed to the sacrifices and the city a what it's all about i want to say thank you. again we have another opportunity in june to further that contribute by restoring our water. system with our firefighters and police department we continue to do

that with prop a but today is about this wonderful tower i was reminded how everything came together whether the money or artists or the planning with the activists with the blending of a great small business that would operate here and balance that out and try to make sure that people have an experience with the restoration of the elevators i know it was a relatively easy conversation with the board of supervisors particularly with leader supervisor chiu because i only reminded them of a place to it can our significant others to get hitched my once this became the iconic symbol it was very sees easy to convince everyone you know what i'm talking about

coit tower is special because probable one of the most beautiful sightings every convention visitor want to say find out what's happening and with the event we don't want to distributor the sensitive neighborhood people have made significant environmentalists and honor the balance with a great vendor but also the restoration it is so important. those are historic lieshgdz in the city they mean something to generations of people we have the privilege of reintroducing them to kids and generations of our own when you look at the murals you'll understand what it is that history is delicate and important a remembered of the great depression but the

diversity of the west coast and san francisco we need to deliver those stories again and again so it's my privilege to hip of help kickoff the restoration and, of course, celebrating this with a free ride through i love going up the stairs it's a free elevator ride today, it's a rare opportunity eyes e otherwise it's going to cost you 7 bucks you think today is a wonderful celebration there's so many to celebrate for this landmark and continue to be a landmark and when you're coming from the east side of bay north side or on the water or from our roads along the city you'll be looking at this great coit tower we need to remind people ate a vast community effort that comes into

play that's lead by the honoring of coit and the families history but you taller than and honor everyone else a that's made this city a great city now that norman has blessed this places let's cut the ribbon and welcome everyone to this wonderful restoration thank you for being here today (clapping.) we'll be cutting the ribbon gown down in front and lunch on the other side >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. >> yeah.

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>> commissioner singer. >> commissioner melara. >> commissioner chow. >> commissioner [inaudible]. >> is second a team on the agenda is the approval of the minutes on [inaudible]. >> so moved. >> is there a second, please? >> second. >> all those -- is there any corrections? all in favor, say i. e posed. the minutes have been passed. we'll go on to the next item, please. >> item three for the director's report. >> good afternoon. mayor lee presented his proposed balanced budget for 2015 and 16 this week.