a graduate she'll be attending where is angela she'll be tending ucla yeah. (clapping). >> good morning, everyone. thank you, everybody for being here and celebrating the class of 2014 our success. to begin i'm originally in los angeles i was born over there when i was about 2 my mother and i moved to the bay area and would go in the s r o in the hotels in the tenderloin we 3w0u7bd around and then a couple of years leader we get evicted from our home due to financial strunlz. thankfully the san francisco

housing authority gave us a place and our first apartment and home in katrero hill. having a stable home meant one last thing to worry about. i loved walking to school i want went to staggering it was close i walked to school a and had friends in my community and enjoyed living there. i was in school like every other student elementary the only difference was at home, i held many responsibilities. i helped my mom what with cooking and cleaning and getting any siblings ready for school and picking up them up sometimes. once i hit high school i saw the

world different i went to school for associate justice it meant they taught me concepts like opposition and librarytion those are things other schools that won't have taught me i started questioning religion to the way that people served food at the parts women are unusual first in high school i looked at college it wasn't a topic to discuss when you younger because we never really it was just nothing we really talked about we just want went to school i don't know what the a through g you requirement i did not know why they were important. throughout any high school experience there were many

people dropping out my switching schools and people dying because the violation in the neighborhood. although those things are going on around me i didn't give up i didn't have much academic support because that my mom didn't know how to help me. but thankful will i i learned how to reach out i took every opportunity given to me and now 12 years later - >> (clapping) >> i'd be able to overcome obstacles and challenges and become a role model for my 3

siblings i'm also one less statistic and in the fall i mean, i'll be tending ucla (clapping.) thank you. >> wow. well, that was really what it is all about but you're the star. because you did that. you did it thank you very much thank you very much. we have i believe the presentation of the certificates by superintendant guadalupe gerrero >> just him (clapping)

okay. >> good morning, everyone as depth superintendant i'm filed with pride anytime we get to recognize our students and today, we get to recognize and celebrate our graduates congratulations on meeting this millstone on behalf of our superintendant our befgs and sandy draw fewer and commissioner mendosa mcdonald will help me to hand out certificates you've shown not only hard work and dedication i've heard a couple of examples but shown incredible persistence and many counterparts are calling grit you've living and relied on it you'll needing need to continue to rely on it as. >> pursue our next steps i too

want to thank families and friends who have supported you yourself our students are going to rely open you, you're not stopping here marcus is correct your future is bright do not give up that sense of hope and obama open tim frye we have as prirsz for you so we're so absolutely proud to recognize you here today (clapping) i'd like to start by calling up angela martinez (clapping)

marcus (clapping) marcus i wanted to get the last name correct. esmeralda rodriguez (clapping) delay roses

(clapping) next please come up (clapping) june may chin

(clapping) and our last graduate james please come up (clapping.) congratulations >> all right. congratulations

to our graduates. (clapping.) see everybody is happy everyone's happy the parents and the chief he didn't have to worry about you everyone is happy i tell young people when you are willing to do right people are willing to help you and your oversewed this right here we have a representative i believe from dianne feinstein's office to present a letter to you (clapping). >> hello. thank you for inviting us the senator expresses her sympathy for not

coming. dear graduates it's with great privilege i i did not think mayor ed lee as well as our families and friends today it honors our academic achievements and community members the opportunity to celebrate those accomplishments you've distinguished you yourself with the goals achieved. at the united states senator representing the people of california congratulations for best wishes and success in the years to medical cannabis. congratulations again and thank you for having us i have this for ms. smith. congratulations thank you (clapping) >> scott is scott adams here from coming cast you didn't come

for me my bill is paid. >> thank you so much. wow. what on amazing event i was going to read some prepared remarks but i've been inspired and moved by your stories and accomplishments and really on behavior of coming cast we congratulate you, you you know the previous speakers talked about in you've stepped over a major hurdle in life and need to take time to reflect how important that is you've had our struggler and use what you've learned here the blue print for the future phases and remember what it feels like to accomplish and to challenge those. you know, our company the mayor said it takes a village and our

companies has been incredibly honored to be part of this village and the community of san francisco and just as many of the speakers said we have to do our part we'll continue to do that on behalf of you and your families and the residents of this city to invest in community groups around education and diversity and economic development so there coming cast or cable in the classroom partners implementing our interject essential the most expensive and home affordable computer and training. the technology and skills training is so important and no where in san francisco i know here the center the technical world it's that important so again on behalf of coming cast

congratulations and thank our family we're honored to be in your presence and rooting for you and looking forward to you being out in the workforce congratulations (clapping.) okay. we've just about reached the conclusion we have when it is over we have a resource fair back there and maybe more importantly we have refreshments over there. but she's not going to like me doing that don't say nothing to put those things on there's a lot of people behind the scenes that are is engine christen and the mayor's office of neighborhood services christen she probably wants to acknowledge all the other people

see i told you. thank you, dr. marshall and congratulations to the graduates yes wanted to say thank you to the extraordinarily partners all the city dwp's departments and community associations or organizations and dpw and h s a europe and oewd office of economic workforce development the former department i came from david and randy thank you, thank you. it's just been oh, dpw and depth of environment it's been a great experience to put on this event this is any second year to cooperate that thank you for the community support to show the graduates how much we care about their success again, thank you enjoy all the retirement thank

you supervisor cowen and supervisor chiu and a dr. marshall huge shout out to both of you for the great work and hydra mendez and thank you, thank you everyone for all the great support. have a great event (clapping) >> okay. it's over you can run and jump in line. thank

>> so what brought you out here for the bike ride today? >> i grew up in san francisco but i have been living in new york. i wanted to see what san francisco is doing with infrastructure. >> cities are where people are living these days. the bay area is doing a lot with construction and the way to change the world starts here. >> we are about to take a bike ride. we have 30 cyclist. i'm really excited to hit the road and see what the city has in store.

>> i definitely recommend it to people. it's a fun afternoon and you learn so many things. >> this is so much fun. i go to parts of the city that i don't come to. this will make the city a more susta well, everyon

me everyone. happy pride month the june. yes. i want to congratulate alleyway our chrdz for our pride week it's wonderful we have radio to be proud of we celebrated with a fantastic furthermore stamp for harvey milk wasn't that wonderful in city hall (clapping.) now 10 years since the wonderful things that started in our wonderful city hall we have over

19 states in the district of columbia seeing that marriage equality is for them we have more work to do but i'm proud of all you have you making sure we express our love for each other in the way we wanted. i want to thank the supervisors for your wonderful lisp all did elected officials our da is here as well and want to again congratulate our pride directors for putting on another i expect hundreds of thousands of people how about a million people if i may as mayors do present you with a proclamation declaring june to be lgbt pride month (clapping.) all right.

>> thank you, very much. mayor ed lee and all of city hall for having us here today, we're 4r50shgd our our pride weekend we'll be proud and get you a mile people everyone has a really good time time for a celebration. >> all right. (clapping.) and with that, please up to the balcony we have refreshment for everybody let's celebrate. all right. thank

(clapping.) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i think we have more companies anywhere in the united states it's at the amazing statement we're not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were >> one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the orchestra. the most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think he's a camera come important he become

ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think we're not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. i thought it would be interesting because they have e he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons all those things are great stories for on opera. i was leaving behind a little bit which those collaborative dancers i was really trying to focus on opera. a friend of mine said well, what

would you really want to do i said opera what is it not opera parallel. why isn't it are that i have the support now we can do that. i realized that was something that wasn't being done in san francisco no other organization was doing this as opposed to contemporary we are very blessed in san francisco to have organizations well, i thought that was going to be our speciality >> you create a conceptual idea for setting the opera and you spear ahead and work with the other sdierndz to create an overview vision that's the final product felt opera.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i was very inspired to work with him because the way he looked at the key is the way i looked at sports looking at the daily. >> so much our mandate is to try to enter disis particular work there's great dancers and theatre actresses and choirs we've worked with and great video artists is a great place to collect and collaborate. i had a model they have a professionally music yes, ma'am assemble and as a student i benefited from being around this professional on and on soccer ball and as a conductor i'd be able to work with them and it's

helped my growth i had a dream of having a professional residential on and on soccer ball to be an imperial >> it operates as a laboratory we germ a national the ideas technically and work with activity artists and designers and video all over the on any given project to further the way we tell stories to improve our ability to tell stories on stage. that's part of the opera lab >> i was to investigate that aspect of renaissance and new work so that's why this piece it is important it was a renaissance composer. >> there were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the

quality and it's different it has a story telling quality every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and that's part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. >> so one of the great things of the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. >> that's what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know, really great you have to have

both some people don't like it and some people do we're concerned about that. >> it's about thirty something out there that's risky. you know, disliked by someone torn apart and that's the whole point of what we're drying to do >> you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

>> good evening and welcome to the wednesday, june 11, 2014, meeting of san francisco board of appeals the preceding officer is the board vice president or sell and she's joined by supervisor frank functioning. to my left is deputy city attorney ryan he'll provide the board with legal advice and at the controls is legal assistant and i'm cynthia goldstein absent is the board president