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 market street for everyone not only for some

folks but realizing their spirit and their capability to become the entire community north and market street and congratulations to our your success (clapping) come on up here i know what we ought to do is, of course, announce her coming up to this stage i'm not going to reveal her age >> can you hold on for a second. >> oh, you have - and oh, my

god. >> happy birthday to you. happy birthday to you. happy birthday dear candice (laughter) happy birthday to you. (clapping.) birthday girl >> thank you. thank you, thank you for having this on any birthday. i had a sign up party by this has completely maid for this. the mayor talked about our vision for mid-market i'm sure you're aware of which of you were part of the conversation when we talked about revitalization of market street we had the highest vacancy rate and the highest unemployment it

was not an easy confidence to have we understood there were businesses that left the tenderloin and have called it their home. when we saw the jobs we talked about the tech companies we wanted to attract and not have keypads going to be completely oblivious to the neighborhood and where the vision of the community benefits agreement came down and have companies participate to actually give back we knew in giving back would be monitor how many dollars you give back to the community it doesn't build on the relationship we're lucky that zendesk was the first company to move into mid-market

and the city metrics office the first company that came waltz cob and was translate to actually spend time in our neighborhood building relationships you see it in the room we have residents and nonprofits that serve the community for years and years and small businesses and property owners that are here as well. i can't tell you how amazing but difficult it's not easy to do. i knew i was in trouble when i was calling to invite resident to come and mark with me last weekend i got a couple phone calls i got long pauses and it was embarrassing. (laughter) and especially it dawned on my me oh, no corporations are their

it's a officials said you can (inaudible) and i'm glad it's passed because i knew they were going to give me a run for my money claufr. it's authentic when i was in tenderloin school i didn't ask how tenderloin was doing people divorced and it's about our kids i st. anthony's to be serving our clients over and over and over and over again, it's great to do a volunteer center but to send people multiple times a week is hard work and it's not enough to come once a year if you're trying to help to cash out the first or second or third grade it takes dedication i'm so

grateful for everything you've been doing a so i wish you tremendous success you'll a be the roll model ems san francisco is different it's great to have roll models that are doing it different. i want to recognize all the many nonprofits folks it's great to have hear about the ambiance of the local neighborhoods and, of course, we've got free spaces authorizing this part of market street the partnerships we build is about building a sustainable birth on tenderloin and i welcome zendesk f in being a part of the community.

congratulations on our move i'm excited to see the kids organizations when i started out in chinatown actually residents in the room we've often seen they have shared kitchens or no kitchens and it's hard to do things like doing our homework or having family dinners the families can come and gather and cook together we take that for granted but it's how it was provided it's price also so thank you (clapping) >> i'm eric i'm with the west capital partners i wanted to thank everyone for coming here today, i can't under state how

excited we are to be in the building and thrilled to have mayor ed lee announced the real concept we'll be opening shortly in 2012, we barbed on a vision to return this to its glory and it's truly the presence along market street. we shared a vision at this point with supervisor kim and many other and the call shares on market it's the heart of san francisco. it will be that way and the condition of the building when we went over the new building 90 percent of brick was covered with black dirt and then is significant amount of time

exposing the building go and hosting the tenants to be as strong as we could be. we were truly closely working with supervisor kim and the consultants trying to get the exterior side where it is as well as in front everybody to it's original nature we had a contractor who was the only person going to be doing a matching pattern so we're committed to create an insurance building so because of the statute and and a half at least we entered the building and be wanted to figure out what where it was and miguel touched on this month interesting we

reinstalled the 4 hundred pikes you have to come back and see it we've partnered with ed davis to bring this on the other side of the building to dmrie different images trying to express the nature of mid-market. i don't think it's possible to understate how proud i am of the job we've done and i thank missing gels team for creating the opens for the transformation of the building >> i know there w is one person in the room if you're back there raise your hand (clapping) trying to make sure he delivered

it the way it is and be able to deliver the product you have today so thank you (clapping.) between you and the fabulous party we're about to hold as mentioned earlier the official unveiling of the mid-market we're a group of small and large and midsize biz businesses to create a vibrant corridor we're starting small and our focus is to help activate the ground floor retail spaces that run the length of market street and hyper hyper phobic we're we want to help the nonprofits and community organizations that are critical to so many in the neighborhood. the bulk of our existing

membership is on the bay area we have come together with your you'll neighbors but if you're looking for other to join we have a well marked table for anyone that wants more information or other members. i also wanted to note we have we are celebrating the glorious

grand opening of the chinese rec center. ♪ 1951, 60 years ago, our first kids began to play in the chinese wrecks center -- rec center. >> i was 10 years old at the time. i spent just about my whole life here. >> i came here to learn dancing. by we came -- >> we had a good time. made a lot of friends here. crisises part of the 2008 clean neighborhood park fund, and this is so important to our families. for many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard. this is where many people come to congregate, and we are so happy to be able to deliver this project on time and under

budget. >> a reason we all agreed to name this memorex center is because it is part of the history of i hear -- to name this rec center, is because it is part of the history of san francisco. >> they took off from logan airport, and the call of duty was to alert american airlines that her plane was hijacked, and she stayed on the phone prior to the crash into the no. 9 world trade center. >> i would like to claim today the center and the naming of it. [applause] >> kmer i actually challenged me to a little bit of a ping pong -- the mayor actually challenge

me to a little bit of a ping- pong, so i accept your challenge. ♪ >> it is an amazing spot. it is a state of the art center. >> is beautiful. quarkrights i would like to come here and join them >> i think we've all recognized it is an absolutely exhaustible goal everyone of the 34 death was predictable and we're committed to come together as a

city family to make sure that pattern doesn't continue into the future we need the entire city family and community all of san francisco to come together to achieve that important vile important goal and make investments and the leader to bring this community together as well as identifying the dollars that are going to enable the investment we need in order to make our streets satisfactory is mayor ed lee please welcome him. >> (clapping) >> thank you for your leadership at sfmta it's teacher that we are having to face an unprecedented number of accidents fatality and serious injures about one hundred a year

has been the average we want to curtail that and seriously do something about that we've joined together the supervisors along with our office and the sfmta police department and others to suggest that we can end it we have to that r that goal of vision zero in 200240 to make sure we're serious today is another effort here anothers e.r. by a street has been a tragic we hoped not to have happened but also in you ride along the sunset boulevard you can feel that some individuals that are not going to pay attention will view and use this as a freeway it's not a freeway a major pedestrian and traffic thoroughfare that must be right handed for all the modes of transportation and consider

people kwhor walking and riding as well as the speedometer so today, we're here on the establishment of a traffic signal but we know that no traffic signal in and of itself nor stop sign will ever create the level of safety we all want to have happy. so it is to be complimented by other things we do including the reduction of speed here on the sunset boulevard that's been at 35 mile-per-hour historically and is now we are reducing it to thirty mile-per-hour and at the same time, we have two additional streets where is it will be merry rag and marion by the end of next year. those combined with the reduction of speed here but with a constant education from not only our supervisors and sfmta

our walk sf first and police department but also the entire city has to pay attention to this whether it's a street if district 6, in selma or downtown in the tenderloin or in the sunset we're committed to get this done and make sure that everyone that used our street particularly those who are walking their dogs and families are feeling safe in the street we have to educate everyone who goes and utilizes the author fair and sunset boulevard to cyclone not only because there are multiple schools ever other block but people using it more and more and as we invite people to live in san francisco to increase our population we must take care of streets like this this is not the only street or

boulevard we have plans that include a major transportation bond to november i'll ask you all to peengs to that bond because it requires 2/3rd's vote it will not raise our takes but consistent with the general obligation bonds we've passed with the leadership of all our supervisors we've passed bonds for libraries and parks for other institutions including the latest one this past june where we increased our general obligation bonds to cover earthquake preparedness and emergency responses with all our sfrootz infrastructures this is the first time transportation infrastructure bond that has taken into consideration this in city since 1966 its important it's important investment in the crippled programs that improve

mini and 3 hundred of the $500 million is visited towards safety programs focused on our streets whether it's concession or improvements in the way that mini or streets that are able to be designed and handled or the operations of maintaining the speed that leaders have to have in order to get their 2 hundred and 80 thousand commuters we've experienced a saving of an hour with the mini in the programs but an important part i want to emphasize i know that supervisor tang is focused on this along with many of the frifrz is is that vision zero must be accomplished and a part of the 5 hundred you million dollars bond we're not stopping at the traffic signal or the two others we'll have in place we want to expensive approach that was

worked on very seriously by groups like walk sf and the bicycle coalition along with the police departments and having the input in a $500.01 day that again will not raise our property takes it will be implemented and that's in a responsible way it carries forward real visions that were reflected in the 2030 task force we put together that we worked very hard to make sure we had the funds we will not use the fund as a reason why we can't get things done safer in the city and moor our streets and road are safe thank you to the county transportation authority and sfmta for being part of this along with the community advocacy groups that i encourage

more and more to be vocational who else is going to do help educate the public if we don't have the community-based and working closely with our sfmta and mta commission working closely with our police department in every accident making sure we study this carefully and make sure we teacher of the aspects and making sure everyone is safe in the city this nominate is more than a traffic signal but an expression we want to be competitive in our approach for a higher level even if safety vision zero for the city interest thank you for joining us and being here soon, we'll take the switch i signing the bond for the $500 million of obligation bonds we want to have before the voters in november of this year

thank you very much (clapping) >> thank you mr. mayor and our leadership in supporting the bond and vision zero and the water work of making our streets safer. one of the things the mire said is sunset boulevard colloquy wasn't we're doing here is not the end but emblematic of what we need to do people treat it like a freeway it's not a freeway but one of the 6 percent of city streets responsible for 60 percent of the fatality in our city. what we're doing here is a step it's adding up to more than $3 million investment we made along sunset boulevard to make it safe as the mayor said we've been working with the police department and the department of public health to really understand where and judge our collisions happening in order to

address the other 6 percent responsible for the 60 percent of fatality collisions and bring the improvements out to the city sewe need the investments in order to do so we're lucky to have as representative of the people felt sunset district as a member of the county of the transportation authority and a member of the board of supervisors someone that understands the importance of making the investments focused on transportation and pedestrian safety and works on the board and the blue print for the district and emerged for the board of supervisors to get this 5 hundred general obligation measure into the ballot so, please join me in welcoming

district 4 supervisor tang >> thank you a special recognition to the mta and to tilly changing and accident police department and walk sf and, of course, all the community members and resident who have been so patient serving as an advocate and working to make sure our city vice president hears us loud and clear we need those along sunset boulevard so all our intersection have signals and so in the past evidently years we've worked to slowly being able to install the traffic signals by the end of the 2015 we'll have the safer in place

and several years ago when i was work as a protective stiff aid i worked the volunteers as we plant and installed those mediums you see along yorba we've tried other things approaches and couldn't have done that with the police department command over there thank you for stepping up the enforcement and i also want to give a special recognition to people who worked on installing those i see them in the back thank you for all your response time for the injuries and the fatalities that was mentioned and i want to reiterate it is important in november successfully pass our general obligation bonds that's an important infrastructure bond to make sure that all our residents

can safely carols the streets whether our walking or biking or driving i want to i'm going to turn it over to and thank you all for your patience i look forward to seeing this new signal in action and people being safe along the boulevard. >> thank you supervisor tang and to reinforce the bond legislation it was passed by all 11 members of the board of supervisors i want to credit the mayor and supervisor tang in pulling together the community to support this legislation that is critically important to move forward the efforts we're going to make-do involve a lot of the city families i want to acknowledge the public works who

helped to deliver those o and the signal shop and the sign shop who configure and manage the traffic signals in the city i bay area light work the contractor and a lot of folks coming together to make sure their delivered on time and on budget. another part of the city first name family that's part of the family is the police department and as much as we do to dry to 69 design out bad behavior so to have that enforcement to making the streets safer we rely entirely on our partners at the police department you'll hear from the chief they've stepped up their efforts to make sure we're sending a clear signal for people who are driving or walking in san francisco you've got to follow the laws so everyone is safe please join me

in welcoming our chief greg suhr >> would we could design out bad behavior (laughter) it's a pleasure to be here i want to thank the mayor and supervisor tang and the other 10 members of the board for their commitment to devotional to having zero traffic fatalities in san francisco. this is literally what is happening when a plan comes together there's 3 pieces to vision zero enforcement that is the responsibility of the police department and i want to give a shout out to the captain for their officers of the san francisco police department have issued 15 hundred sized since the pedestrian fatalities h that occurred back in february and the las