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comments and announcements. to do we have any? no? okay then this meeting is adjourned.
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(clapping) >> hello. (clapping.) good afternoon san francisco. >> (yelling n what a beautiful day a day for a celebration we've finished 12 years in inform we toward is two folks and now opting 6 hundred with our commitment and have the pleasure of this beautiful building because of you the employees in the for you part of the spirit is the technology is a start up and this event helps to catch this this is part of the culture we want to have
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going into the future. (clapping.) we're in san francisco because it's as toxic place our business technician is a daily war for top talent and even though people want to be in a beautiful city coming out have to integration i've lived in second amendment and new york and miami and los angeles san francisco is the place to be. >> yeah. (clapping). >> so his our great honor and pleasure we have the honorable mayor, mayor ed lee here to see a is a few words about the city of san francisco as well and jerry congratulations and thank you very much how sufficient riverbed team?
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well, your wearing great colors because there's only two team that concludes my report i know is the world-class giants champions and the riverbed team. yeah. >> yeah. >> well, i want to say emigrations again, it was almost a year jerry that we kicked off the construction of the building now to be here open opening day for riverbed on of the united states street this wonderful sign we're a city that's strong how about 4.4 percent in unemployment we've been a part of the nation capital of the world san francisco i want to thank you because right here there's going to be over 4 nine hundred jobs at the site thank you for a being a great community partner as well not
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only are you celebrating the success of our company you've joined me in making sure our youth of the future begin this summer with 7 thousand 7 thousand paid jobs thank you riverbed for obeying being a partner. and as part of this wonderful announcement i want to say thank you, again four showing you your great community and passion for this city by making sure our workforce is part of my workforce in helping people in this city succeed by nominating to our san francisco food bank that's a wonderful contribution $68,000. 69 that is >> 6 hundred 80 cans of food and cash my i got the numbers all right. that's a great way
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to celebrate our food bank needs it you're showing your graciousness in doing this thank you, thank you on behalf of the city and if i may take the honor, you know, the mayor gets to proclaim days when i know it's special to the city and on behalf of the city that recognizes community passion and growth we would like to proclaim today riverbed day in san francisco. >> (clapping) >> i proud to say thank you to supervisor jane kim who's here that will be recognizing this always with you i'll be proud to we are wear the orange shirt and orange hat the next time i go to the giants. >> i didn't think he was going
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to wear orange anyway, i get to introduce supervisor kim who's the supervisor in our district thank you, ms. kim (clapping) >> thank you. well i'll keep it short i was here a couple of weeks ago but thank you to raise your hand to join south of market community it's high honor to represent this district where we are this is all part of the amazing growth it's happening here we're creating jobs and building how's this is where san francisco is dynamic dynamic and exist that is a beautiful edition i don't know if you remember the building that was here before fwhu is a amazing attraction f to fultd and south of market it's not about just creating jobs but kickoff
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engagement so thank you for your volunteering and being a part of a larger community we have diversity we have low income residents and high income residents we want to build one san francisco and go giants. thank you >> (clapping) thank you supervisor kim fantastic and now before we cut the ribbon we have one chairperson of the san francisco blue bank we've been involved that the food bank for almost 10 years now and our employees volunteer there and in fact, i was a boy scout master for 12 years i would take my boy scouts to the food bank and we thought it was woody allen a great thing to do since what we have new officers on 640 faculty we/have
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6 hundred and 40 cans of food there's a marketing brand and another check one in a long series of many checks that we've presented to the food bank so - >> gary why don't you get not middle (clapping) now know that looks like the accomplisher sweepstakes but it's really, you know. >> well, thank you jerry and mayor it's a pleasure on behalf of everyone i want to thank jerry and riverbed let me hit you with some facts this year,
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the sf food bank will distribute 46 million pounds of food it's fresh produce some that's the eventual of one hundred and 5 thousand meals each day. it's a one hundred and 47 thousand people get food from the food bank every week (clapping) 11 thousand school children everyday get a healthy snack every school day thanks to the food bank and more importantly thank you to the folks like you and riverbed. there's one last thing to mention i heard the volunteer word a second ago. the food bank is blasz blessed to have 25 thousand volunteers every year and its people like
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jerry and many of you i've seen you at our facilities thank you very much that's incredibly important to our mission (clapping.) so one last shout out to the riverbed team we're glad our calling san francisco your home (clapping) and thank you tim for that opportunity >> all right. the big moment we have an orange ribbon. i wonder why we picked that color who has the official scissors? okay cutting through our
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competition. 1, 2, 3 wow. yeah.you. >> good afternoon, everyone i'm brad i'm a soccer dad here in san francisco who's going to win. that's right we have great soccer at 3 o'clock the usc usc
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u usa is going to play these kids need a place to play those a ballot measure coming up we h we need to have a soccer fields at the single most important place today from hemminger gonzales who got their start they might not be in brazil we're grad to have 7 members of the board of supervisors and the mayor to support this ballot measure. without further ado, let me introduce two important soccer moms. (clapping.) >> good afternoon. i'm amber wilson a san franciscan native i
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grew up playing on this fields i got married in the city and my wedding photos were at a beach let and now we have two children a 7 and 3 years old it's greatest great to see them out on the fields i hope to see my children play on a safe fields we don't worry aboutism hurting themselves and have the support of their families and joy those communities as well. so thank you very much for having me here (clapping.) >> hi i'm from ccii i didn't pray a place of business play on the kids i find myself as a parent following my children. i want to talk about a soccer
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field it looks like a pier of grass or turn over but actually, it's some more powerful and beautiful and true to what being a family it is itself it the narrative spot where people write their stories and hold your kids where they cry i celebrate their victories and when a child goes down and you look at the awe of the dads and moms every authorized or friday bringing they're kindness for our children where the children learn how we where they can be and find compassion. it's not a green flat space at all it's bigger and powerful for families not only for families but all people in san francisco we need more spaces that fill
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with imagination and kindness and losses to the not only the kids that play but a poultry place for kids to learn lessons i'm a thousand percent sure we need more fields and support the supervisors i mayor to create the spaces for everyone and everyone's imagination and look at a green plays and s see what is happening. thank you. (clapping.) >> thank you kirsten it was beautiful ambassador i'd like to start introducing some of our important supporters supervisor farrell. >> thanks brad. >> all right. kids who loves playing soccer and thinks the u.s. is going to win. i'm supervisor farrell the supervisor representing district
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2 i'm proud to be here with the mayor and the board of supervisors and the rec and park department i'm proud to be here as a supervisor but i'm proud to be here as a father 3 small children here in san francisco i'm excited to be here with brad and amber and kirsten thank you for your for coupling i had the opportunity to coach my sons soccer and this initiative couldn't be more important if we're to continue to attract families to our great cities and counterfeit the lives of our playing 2350e89dz is a no brainier a that's why i'm so supportive of this initiative at the board of supervisors we join with the mayor being champions of creating new playgrounds in san francisco and making sure that the existing praugdz are available for all year round
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this gives us our children experience and fight obesity and builds community in san francisco. you know, every weekend with my children we go out and their placing support we go out to all sport fields we have to go to treasure island are different part of town but we need to do better as a city this initiative is key and i hope you join me and get our kids out there playing thank you very much. (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor farrell before i introduce the next sponsor supervisor supporting this initiative i want to acknowledge and thank supervisor yee and supervisor tang and supervisor mar who are up here as well (clapping) we can't say enough of thanks to
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this one spooert who's been here to improve playing fields is is supervisor wiener that's out ahead of that from the very beginning (clapping.) thank you. i'm scott wiener and the honor of representing sdribltd 8 we have if you're been at the mission bay pools or soccer fields we're doing great work for opportunity for kids and daylights deputies for everyone to get experience to play and have a healthier city we can't afford to backslide to make sure we have enough playing fields we have a sporj o shortage of baseball fields we need to do the work to make sure that everyone who wants to play
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sports and to engage if recreation isably to do so it's about kids and young kids and older kids and about adults and seniors and people in college everyone in this city having access to good recreation. we know that even though san francisco was recently rated as one of the top 5 biggest it cities in the u.s. we have an above average rate of tyrone type two diabetes we have to be focused to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to have visible recreation so let's win. thank you (clapping) >> we are also thankful to have the support from the leader of the board of supervisors. i hope you'll support him here's
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president chiu >> good afternoon kids is is the usa going to win and are we going to win in november. >> yeah. >> all right. let me tell you a couple of thing what we're doing today, this notice not just about your future as world-class three of those we know you're learning teamwork and cooperation and leaders someone who played soccer balanced what i was a kid in you don't play soccer well, you can grow up to be a supervisor or the mayor or a world-class soccer player i want to thank all the parents and coaches and taefbz you know how important is it is to move forward those young people in front of us
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represent the diversity of san francisco and the world. that he are in the and i city with the density it neighborhoods west of mississippi with the least amount of open space and fields it's important to move forward. identification proud when our san francisco board of supervisors move forward forward our playing fields in the beach of o lay we need to move forward so kids i have 3 words repeat. let kids play >> let kids play. >> let kids play. thank you very much. (clapping.) >> thank you, supervisor. i'd like to acknowledge hydra mendez from the board of education and maria prosecute the children's department of
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family and the rec and park department and other directors that will take us to the future. (clapping.) is a man that needs no introduction we're here because of him we're excited to have him the mayor that will fight mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you, thank you. well, i wanted to join our board of supervisors the parent but the most important thing our kids any public comment? let the kids play. yeah. (clapping.) well, i want to thank city fields for working in partnership base this is a unique partnership you look across the city country how many of our cities are reinvesting in claurgsdz and doing it in a
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smart way you, you know, for every fields we work with to reinvestment in there's a possibly of saving one million gallons one million 5 hundred goggles of water is saved when we do those paris parks and this past year 2 thousand 4 hundred additional kids got to play in our parks how about that? 76 additional hours (clapping) those kinds of things are important we're only a city of 49 square miles and we can't build you enough parks for all the kids we've got to reintensity and reenergy them i want to thank the board of supervisors i want to thank our rec and park director and the leadership of our education leaders and thanks all the people in the private sector
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susan thank you for leading the efforts with about city fields and the public (clapping) that i private partnership is important as we make sure we do our best to preserve what's best but allowing thousands of more kids could use them how about more hours of soccer kids >> yeah. >> so from garfield to correcter amazon to sunset to the mission all parks are welcoming kids we've got to do a better job let's keep visiting in our infrastructure make that a private-public deal go kids let's all do this. >> let kids play. let us play. let us play. let us play.
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let us play. let us play. thanks kids. two brief outlines before i turn it over to the big screen on the safekeeping plaza. first ma'am, grady member of the parks hallway lines thank you for your support and last but not least is you guys the kids because while we're up here working hard it's our excitement and your commitment to the neighborhoods in playing supporters that matters thanks guys >> thank you all for coming
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