and representing her family is a family member come down and glad to be here on behalf of our board. (clapping.) >> thank you, mr. chair so one the great leaders the policing political leaders the folks behind me make a project happy someone got to do the project like all phases of the project the planning and design and construction is a collaborative system we've got a core team but the rest of the mta family from the dpw to the planning department to numerous other embodying bodies to community supporters particularly to the trades to labor and, of course, our private sights partners this is really a project of this scale is done with the public

and private sector working together we've had great support our overall project management is done by a e coming the design work for the toounl by telecom and the construction of the tunnels being done by other folks and there's numerous folks that have put their blood and sweat and hopefully not too many tears i want to acknowledge matthew fouling letter and a resident engineer and others ben representing yeah. please give them a hand (clapping.) many people that have worked to bring this together in the leadership for someone living and brooethd this project for many, many years we're happy their family is still speaking

to him this project has become a member of his family can't begin to convey the leadership that he brings to the project not only the project director but getting into the details and solving problems and making sure we get to point like today where we can celebrate a significant milestone please welcome john our project director (clapping.) good morning, everyone. this is a wonderful day for san francisco. you all have been invited today because you've played a special part in making this subway a reality thank you for your support. we did it. (clapping.) all right. so you're about to see the cutter heads of two tunnel

boring machines that have completed a very long journey. we have mom chung to our right and big alma to our right actually reversed mom chang is a 25 one ton dynamic machine seven hundred and 50 ton monz machines there are beneath your feet. she launched in july and arrived june 2nd of this month now big alma she's built a tunnel and was lavender in november of last year and arrived on wednesday. those machines have excavated through one hundred and 13 stones of soil and rock and built linear feet of tunnel from

fourth and harrison all the way up to the portal box here today. we have this work has been done primarily because of the dedication and support from our contract barnard they've driven tunnel over half the pace we originally thought one of the riskiest elements was the bar under crossing on market street mom had a two active tunnels. barnard did the work on thaigz of last year they've worked twenty-four hour to make that happen the same thing on friday and saturday and sunday that's the dedication we need to have a successful project barnard has

earned our admiration (clapping) and we also before we visit the tunnel we have a surprise only two people know literally we have a literal toej token for the appreciation i've been blessed reiskin republican mentioned every project received the support of the board this project has been successful because of the leadership of mayor ed lee and the board of supervisors and my bottles edward reiskin and the director of transportation. mr. north korean the chairman of our mta board of directors and it makes my job easy so we have

a token of appreciation a brace token mom chung and big al mass journey thank you (clapping) >> so i want to thank everybody for coming out we're going to allow some of the folks and that media so see this we can only do is a certainty up to the minute amount of people at that time, so thank you all so much for coming out

>> on december 28, 1912, san francisco mayor stared into a sea of 60,000 of constituents that gathered at geary. the berth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco municipal railway. >> good afternoon, everyone. this is not a new version of q and a time if you're wondering but we have a major announcing announcement to make and something that all of us and

particularly the people that are standing behind me want to really thank them for working hard for us and a number of people throughout the city realizing our city is more expensive and work families mr. taylor those who eastern minimum wage have struggled longer hours to try to make end meet and recognizing we'll have a tremendous effort being given to sustain jobs in the city and want to continue doing that but beyond the jobs how much you that make and so you can pay the high rents and all the things that costs sometimes beyond our control are increasing i'm grateful that last year, we made this announcement and he repeated it earlier this year at the state of the city address

that we thought it was the right time to make a boost to the city and counties city's minimum wage to our lottery workings i prengd to work with all the different businesses small and big with workers themselves the representatives with economic experts any public comment? with the members of the board of supervisors, to try to reach a sequence around raising the minimum wage in the city. and this is one of the great issues that we can ail unit around and push forward to the residents of this city with our san francisco values intact and a sure belief that someone who puts in a hard day's work gets a respectable wage we've heard the input from the sectors are our community earners and people that pay the minimum wage we've

heard from nonprofits as well as small businesses and large businesses and today, the current minimum wage of $10.74 there's been a across the board agreement that's not enough. and even though voters passed the minimum wage that we counter experience in 2003, the new the current minimum wage is left unchanged will be to the $11.03 were hour effective january 1st of 2015. the sequence measure that we are proposing to have to the voters and i'll the the first but everyone behind me it going to be very proud to have this discussion with other businesses small and large and nonprofits with residents and voters in san francisco.

we will have before the voters a proposal to increase san francisco minimum wage to the following numbers. in the next few years. beginning on may 1st of 2015. we propose $12.25 per hour and then each of the next year's beginning on july 1st for example, july 1st, 2016, that will be raised to $13 or a hour and july first $201,714 and july first $201,815 an hour and the consumer price otherwise to kick in. thank you to all the members of the board of supervisors who are standing here at the podium all here.

i want to thank dr. laura tyson from uc berkley and there's a lot of stakeholders in this big and small businesses labor unit want to thank all of them for being at the table and workers rights groups invaluable to the process they've been talking to folks in languages to make sure they understood what in the meant and nonprofit groups a very large number of hours committed i want to thank the number of nonprofits that came to the table that make sure that we were taking care of them as well their invaluable to the employment to san franciscans all in an effort to really try to get a consensus approach thank you to the coalition to the fair economy my the san

francisco chamber of commerce. sometimes they maybe speaking times at the opposite ends but they came together with all of us to make sure our interests were united. a lot of hard work to build consensus in the city i'll be the first to say but i've been proud we've done so on a number of occasions whether this was pension reformer are or the housing trust fund or a number of general obligation bonds we'll have in the past we've had a united effort this was well work out it when you get a consensus to raise minimum wage that will be the highest minimum wage in this country. we will remain progressive and i want to specifically thank our supervisors and i know as of

last night supervisor jane kim spent an which they recalled amount of time loans with the representatives of our fair committee but in particular we wanted at the beginning to work with the supervisors and i'm very glad that supervisor kim took up the challenge she put in the hours to work and i want to introduce her not only has helped us do this she's been on the forefront of a lot of issues for the city. supervisor jane kim (clapping) >> thank you. mr. mayor and i can't tell you how happy i am am to be here san francisco is once again setting the

san francisco testing for budget and finance meeting for june 25, 2014 let testing and testing. >> >>