of san francisco for investing in our public schools. thank you (clapping.) so i know we're running a little bit long let me bring up our next speaker who was made a contribution for the legislation supervisor eric mar >> thank you. i have the honor of proceedings the leader from kohlman advocates but in my short time i'll say when the kohlman advocates others 20 years ago brought this to the board of supervisors this was zero support at the board of supervisors and 10 years ago with tom and a number of us crafted the prop h for our children and schools there was very the also support i think the reason we have a strong children's fund and a peace that

supports art and music is by and large because even if grassroots coalition and coalition building from the kohlman advocates and a diverse coalition of community. (clapping.) as we build on this momentum i want to say a as a parental are parents i'll be proud to stand side by side with the folks but accountability advocates especially the combroots coalition if all over our neighborhoods partiality and youth in the leading lead i'm proud in november while make sure that everybody knows that san francisco is a city for children and families thank you for helping to build this coalition (clapping). >> next, i want to bring up a few more speakers they're playing an important part to

lead us up to victory so you're next speaker will be walker the executive director for the kohlman advocates. >> thank you, supervisor and good afternoon this is an incredible day for the children youth and families here in 0 san francisco. once again san francisco is poised to lead by example by putting the children and our families first. especially with bach it up with the necessary resources. the children and families first initiative will come before voters this november. while it is the reauthorization you heard earlier of the two fund for children and youth it's the strongest possible measure the initiative will provide stable funding for early based education through the education enrichment fund a significant

increase in the children and youth fund. i'm excited to say we're providing now necessary funds for disconnected transitional youth this will sure that both funds will be placed for the next 25 years (clapping) so our young people low lead the effort in 25 years to reauthorize it i'm proud to say that kohlman has lead the coalition for the los last two years with many folks here today thank you for your service. in addition would like to an opportunity especially supervisor yee, supervisor avalos and supervisor kim and also supervisor mar and along with the 11 supervisors to make

sure many this will be passed unanimously. as well as the mayor and the board of education that sometimes gets forgotten we thank you for your leadership. we're proud of the work we've done making a strong statement about a long term commitment. to our next generation of san francisco to make sure that all i say all i say all of our children and youth have an opportunity to call this city home. and lastly remember your child see is not just that woman's child the little boy who's commissioner sako placing in the middle school basketball court is just his father's son each one of the children here 90 in san francisco blonds to each one of us and we have a

responsibility to make sure they have success so i look forward to seeing you this november (clapping.) thank you >> next person by the way, for some of you reporters can i get there's youth that want to be interviewed for the impact can you raise our hands. and, of course, everything else. our next are person i'd like to introduce is monica walters the executive director our charter amendment is for who it serves from zero to 24 today, we have monica wooults u walters there that will talk about the earlier education funding (clapping) and good afternoon, everyone as

a representative the caregiver advisory committee and on behalf of the children's services the largest head start provider in san francisco and om behalf of you'll those dedicated hard working childhood educators and many are out in the audience here today. (clapping.) i would like to offer the sincere thanks to our mayor and supervisors who are serving children in an outstanding effort to bring this racket legislation thanks to supervisor avalos and supervisor kim and supervisor yee for helping to brings to the today of the celebration we're truly making history. we're choosing to you provide greater insurance from for our residents to have access to our

safe nourish care to help the parent to work and pursue criteria goals those are our kids that will be the conceding kids from the san francisco school district but the opportunity for services like this they won't be successful in our school system without this important investment in our education the infants is not prepared and their parents are not supported area our community survived but we know those funds are dedicated to the folks are going to make a huge difference we're including 3 years old in our preschool those o are the huge investments and more and more children receiving the quality they need to be

successful as learners and lifelong learners we're support their parents to pursue their dreams today, we're asking yourselves the questions how are the young children doing today, we, is they're doing well. thank you (clapping) >> thank you monica oh, thank you supervisor campos for joining us i want to acknowledge a few people maria executive director for d.c. w f the department of youth and families and laura the executive director of first 5, (clapping) barbara carlson the executive director of office of early care and education and christopher the unified school district. and laura the chief of staff so

next up is a youth commissioner eric wu (clapping.) thank you on the on behalf of the san francisco youth commission let me express my deepest gratitude the hard work for the mayor's office and the members of the board of supervisors and even though leader in our community has dedicated for the family and children's first initiative today, we garter to refor them our values and commitments to make sure that future the generations will succeed for decades to come. you, you know, from for the past few years the young people have been advocates for the fund in count also meeting and round

table meetings young people were there it wouldn't havebeen possible without the principle that positions make it's for us. (clapping.) this initiative is the best the very best investment the city has made for our daughters and sons and our great, great grandkids not only does it stretch the safety net for social services by bs also i made a speech for this but it builds obtain our committed to provide the early commitment for every child so they're not behind in the first day of school to provide arts and music for every student so they get a

well-rounded education to provide social services and programs for all the youth across our community so today, if euyou feel the same compassion you need to stand up in november and support our children's and family first initiative. so thank you >> good job eric next up last speaker i'd like to introduce the youth outreach worker from washington high school he has a lot of passion here we go (clapping.) hi. i'm ray shawn jones. i go to george washington high school and an outreach worker. basically as a outreach worker i'll offer information and often

teach classes about certain i'm i talking into the mike. certain like teen health issues and wellness and i believe that wellness is like a really good program wellness center i'll really glad it's all around and funded people wouldn't feel like a safe place so it's helpful. wellness plans event and helps out oath kids across the school like district there's one in every school i believe and helps a lot of teachers in some ways. i'm appreciative for it and really glad it exists i'm proud to be a part of it so thank you

(clapping) thank you >> i want to acknowledge candice she's the president of the sea pack advisors and planning council. i want to thank you all for being here it takes us all to get it to the successful level and reporters if you want to speak to some of the youth they have a lot to say and in november we're going to announce a great victory so thank you very much

>> the annual celebration of hardly strictly bluegrass is always a hit now completing itself 12 year of music in the incredible golden gate park. >> this is just the best park to come to. it's safe. it's wonderful and such a fun time of the year. there is every kind of music you can imagine and can wander around and go from one stage to another and just have fun. >> 81 bands and six stages and no admission. this is hardly strictly bluegrass. >> i love music and peace. >> i think it represents what is great about the bay area. >> everyone is here for the music and the experience. this is why i live here. >> the culture out here is

amazing. it's san francisco. >> this is a legacy of the old warren hel ment and receive necessary funding for ten years after his death. >> there is a legacy that started and it's cool and he's done something wonderful for the city and we're all grateful. hopefully we will keep this thing going on for years and years to come. (clapping) >> everybody welcome it's amazing everyone this is the reason for the first time i'm rart in an event it's great to

see see it really work this actually works (clapping) and so we are thrilled to be opening our doors to our neighbors and a and friends after spending the past 9 months building out the new office and welcome to our good friends san francisco mayor ed lee welcome (clapping) first girl supervisor jane kim welcome (clapping) you have been a fantastic partner in making this neighborhood so actually and they'll played a big roll in connecticut even haitian where we built the company i traveled

back and forth all the time i also stayed at the phoenix here. i believe i have the energy of the neighborhood. i like how there is an established creativity scene that almost physically cross paths with this emerging company. this intersection is so yes, ma'am mask of san francisco. in 2011 when we we were looking for more office space we decided to be the first company to join the revitalization and move to 989 market street. we were - and we immediately fell in front of with the community and neighborhood last

year, we've signed our lease for the building to be the tenants on 1019 we have 8 floors in the building and we have rooms for i don't know how many people but we plan to grow beyond the 3 hundred and 60 councilmember krekorian people in the building it's a gem of a building i don't know if you notice the big columns the beautiful things you'll find it's original california the pine from the beginning of the 19 hundred i'm sorry 19 something, you know, laura. and it housed originally housed the eating man company so is a a very popular department store the carpets on the top of the building.

the renovation truly strikes live on mid-market literally because we have 4 hundred new lights on the facade of the building that lights up every everything but not only did vibrancy of the building and the mid-market neighborhoods that wanted to us to expand but build what we call an urban campus as we designed the new company we wanted to make sure we open our doors to the neighbors this serves the company but as an event space for the many neighbors we have in the neighborhood. we're working with local nonprofits to host events and start are start with family

dinners for the children's development center and have the annual halloween party for the services and the animal health fair for the partnerships in this room. tonight's event is an extension of that we organized this as a communicated mix eerie want to thank all the communities and leaders that joined us bearing barry from the foundation and laurie across from the children's center and daniel. and while it's great to see buildings like this one being reborn into an office building but we want to marry that the improvement extends to the street level a group of biz bayshore's are joining together

through a mid market business association we're working alongside companies such as beverage marks and bee work and a few on the to help advance the economy and the community in this neighborhood. and tiffany will accompany and share details later. i want to thank everybody that worked on this project to make this project and so many people to thank. i'm emphasis one person that led our part of the remodeling aims standing right there (clapping) so much of what you see inside of office was made possible by his hard work and direction and he did all that having the ceo

hanging over his shoulders a congratulations. i think the mid-market neighborhood is shaun showing you it works one person helping to drive that change was, of course, mayor ed lee who years ago saw what this neighborhood could become i want to turn it over to mayor ed lee (clapping) >> well, thank you very much good evening, everyone. this looks like a partying countryside here. well, first of all, i want to express my just enthusiasm for tonight there's a lot of things to celebrate my how things change but a week and a half ago

i was in your pride parade and going down market and saw the whole building of speculators and, of course, this 1019 thank you firing wonderful contribution and i was watching how the prideful of participation and thank you upper part of making that parade so wonderful. i have so many others to thank there's tiny groups supervisor kim and i rejoice in the opportunity every time we come together there's more partners and community-based organizations that join up there's more volunteers that have the spirit where i think zendesk has led and upper a by the way, it was not turny it was

zendesk that signed up first for mid-market so thank you (clapping) and we've got people like ralph my brother he's enjoying so some community groups. two years ago nick he will and i and supervisor kim were celebrating the expansion of 1424 up the street and just list two years ear celebrating a fantastic thing between all of that you're going from what i think at the beginning upper doing all the outreach now in a position you're in to the space your creating it's a wonderful, wonderful transformation that's good morning. i will continue to say that mid-market is our intention we want to work closely with you

but you're a major, major resident business and participant in mid-market i congratulate you with working with our worrisome staff and our huge source of nonprofit and art community this building is what i envisioned for market street to really bring back it's grandiose place in the city and county of san francisco and just the fact you've illuminated this building at night i pit some lights there i've been talking about night life along market street you've started to do it before we get the first events out this the the commenting of the arts it's perfect committing us to make sure we emancipation

proclamation line the arts with the space before you people shuffled through all the challenges and now we have a great partnership and i just say those last few years we've seen zendesk philosophical out there whether it's pco things you've announced the way for people to find the services through sf it's incredible to our signaling to chiefs chefs programs that offices experiences right here on the site to our outreach to all the community organizations that are going to be utilizing this space and helping the employees helping out in

everything else i'll really, really enjoyed the way you've celebrated this f it is ed lee like. in that you didn't announce how much over the asking price we're not even cleaning the streets a that's what i do when i celebrate it, it's fantastic (clapping) go out there we're a community we're matching up the philanthropy the sense of being a part of san francisco also revisibilities through your employees so with all this great things going on and the fact you're going to open up your spice you're already signaling you want to lead the efforts and have an even more combrishtd business community in mid-market

we can get other people excited about why you're here and i think the latest annuity by the way, we have to make sure we're doing all the things we're part of our city asphyxiation and supervisor kim and others we have on the ballot what i think a city that wants to make sure our kids get educated properly so we have a children enrichment program we want a city that has transportation and in the private directing transportation fund we're helping like you are those who are folks to be respectfully with a wedging effort there's so many things on the ballot we're putting together in collaboration with the board to make sure our city

is successful as we look at market street with the arts and the small businesses and a lot more people engaged so a lot of things to celebrate tonight and, of course, the latest which say, i really love small business owners by the way, and i know with david scott their story about having in burial heights and selling to the folks in japan they had a dream that perhaps they will have a lifetime tea cafe. i got to listen to my wife and i've gotten also to start with my old folks tea wailing they'll

have their first cafe dream on michael street so it's a wonderful new business welcome (clapping) michael's cafe. i want to support something for creating spaces for small business for people who want to have a better life this is the first few years on market street i am excited for you and know your - we'll do the best to take this example and continue to very vitalities