where the parks are getting additional treatment with this very gracious grant from google. and but also, to let you know that google is doing this without any strings. and this is really good and, they agree with us, that things can be done in a public, private partnership with the city, and that a lot of the things that we tried in the past will be complicated and we put off too much, and we asked and now we will do it at the portions where we can get things done and really set the example. and this is one of 32 sites in this city, that are getting free wi-fi with this partnership. and this is not just being the partnership and the google has been around for a long time and they are already have funded our low income youth and that is a tremendous help and you can see a lot of youth these days and some of them that do't even know, and so for free for google and sometimes i

will remind them when they are getting off the muni and how is the google doing and we need to realize that these are relationships that we are building with the community and these are precious relationships and that is why we also have our technology department and our recreation department and already thinking through other things that we could do. we have (inaudible) on market street and they have done a very fast and yet, free wi-fi on market street as well. and this is the third time this week that i have been with supervisor kim where we expressed appreciation, and many of the schools and sf city helping us with the technology companies and the sales force and mr. benny hoff are gracious of their focus with us on the

grades in our city. i think that we are demonstrating more and more the value of bringing not only technology to our citizenry, but also bringing the relationship to the public, private, government can't do everything by itself, we need the partnerships and we will have the gaps and we can rely on groups of companies or a great company like google will demonstrate what we can do to improve the life for everyone else and so this is a great announcement, and i thought that this could get done at one of these days and it will be under the shoulders of the department of technology is here today or the rec and park, and both (inaudible) are always saying, well, where can we get the resources to do all of this great stuff and opening up that relationship more and more getting more comfortable with it, and getting the guidelines down about how we interact with the corporations i think that

is the same that we want to do and i want to thank kelley the city administration here because i think that she above all else, just like i was, we have to care about our infrastructure and just like we delivered the wi-fi for the residents on treasure island and sometimes they feel isolated out there and the 2005 and the residents there. and low income and the veterans have better wi-fi because of what we are doing with the private sector and what we are doing to increase our technology and i have to actually say that it is really, not only a thank you, to google, and to the 32... that they have but we are always asking the next question and that is for all of us, we are excited to ask google what is next, and because that is always going to be a foreign looking thing and who else can we help in this city and, what else can we do to help the senior and to help the family and the people who succeed to help our public housing

residents and to help the veterans in the city and how can we succeed even more ininclusively at being a great city that we are and this is what our supervisors are doing with me and i am glad to be here to announce this great announcement, and also to be excited about what is next, thank you very much. >> thank you, mayor lee and i want to acknowledge, kelley for all of her amazing work leading our city administrator's office and i would like to bring up the person who is leading the department with all of these wi-fi projects will be housed and are housed today and are live and it has been an incredible leader on the partner of sh program, phil ginsberg. >> good morning, everybody and welcome to the tender loin recreation center and i don't think that i have seen so many cameras here which is terrific and this is a place where we take plate seriously and we also take halloween seriously as you can tell. this is such an important

community cause and this is a place where we partner with a number of different tender loin family and children organizations that we provide a lot of our own robust programs and it is a community center and as supervisor farrell noted they need to have the modern day infrastructure that they should have and one of the things that is important about this announcement is that it is here and it is in a part of town that is typically under served and the concept of equity in this project is something that we are particularly proud about and these 32 sites that are going to have additional infrastructure are all over the city and you are here with supervisor kim's partnership and we are under going a increds able park renaissance, and in partnership with the land and we have the park that is going to hope in a short while, and the ymca and we have the new play grounds and mini, park and sergeant park and the

civic center and there is great stuff happening around here and i want to thank supervisor farrell to bringing the show here and show casing this incredible partnership. and most of these days, it is about gratitude and we are thankful for all of the champions and partners and i want to start with the mayor who is the park champion and recreation specialist and supervisor farrell who really you know, lives and breathes parks and kids and families and i, see them at events like this all over town. he really drove this and we are super grateful for his leadership in getting this done and i want to thank google and sf city and we can't do it alone and we really need partners and we are so thankful for google and that sf city stepped up and understood the need and helped us to implement and i obviously want to thank the industry administrator and

the department of technology and my last special thanks is for my own staff and here at this special site, we have glen who is our facility coordinator and susan who does all of the programming and our recreation specialist and lucas and our technology team that is was not a project to implement and so in partnership with the dp and the talks that led our own implementation team to make this happen and we have a great team at rec and park and we are proud to show off what we do and where we do it and so i now have the pleasure of introducing my implementation partner, (inaudible) who is the acting chief, officer for the city and you know it is one thing to have a headline and to give a gift and say that we are going to have wi-fi on 32 parks and play grounds and another thing to get it done. and i really just want to thanks miquel for prioritizing this and stretching the increds able resources that google provided us and that we can stand here today and implement

and yes, i did check my phone and it is working, and so without further adieu, miguel, thank you everybody. >> thank you, good morning, and i want to thank everybody else and acknowledge and thank, mayor lee, and supervisor farrell, and bill, and niome and rebcca and google and sf city for the collective effort. as a civil i can technologyist it is not often that you have such support and enthusiasm for technology projects and so it is exciting and inspiring to stand here with these folks behind me, and making sure that i deliver what it is that our community needs from a technology standpoint. and so i am very, very proud of the collaborativive effort that it took and the hard work that it took, both from our department and the parks and rec department, and frankly other city departments that helped in various aspects of it. and i will tell you that it is

really proud to be able to stand here and to be able to tell you that yes it does work and it performs very well and we delivered it on time and on budget and those are things that don't always come together all at once and so that is a great achievement that came through a lot of hard work and the collaborativive effort and on top of it, we have kind of as a bonus, to the vision of sfwi-fi, we simplify and unified the brand, and the user experience, and that is what this is really all about, and we, extended ourselves to make sure that we tested this from the end user standpoint and we went to the parks and as an end user, measured how usable and functional it really was, because at the end of the day, it is easy for a technologyist to get caught up in the technical aspects if it works or doesn't work and we sometimes forget that people just need to be able to access it and use it, and in on a regular way. and so, i think that we have always been able to shift the

focus to that real critical end user which is the san franciscan who is going to use this to help us close the digital divide and i think that is a real other achievement on top of the technology cal effort that took place which was significant. and i will tell you that i trust that the team and the network so much that just this morning, i activated my brand new iphone using sfwi-fi and so i knew that i would come here and tell you that it worked or it didn't and i can tell that you it did. and my own phone, and so you know that takes a significant connection. and i want to thank everybody and thank google and sf city for the contribution and thanks for the administration and for the support and pushed make sure that we delivered what was promised and with that i want to introduce rebecca who is all things government if google and extremely instrumental in this project and hopefully many things going forward.

>> >> google is proud to provide free wi-fi, where thousands of googlers live and work. and google's mission is to make information accessible and available to everyone, and that is the first step in the process, you are right, this is the first step and i am looking forward as the new manager of public policy of google of talking about the second step and the third step, but let's get used to the first step first. and this means that in 32 different places, you know, the kais of ether net and dial up are over and everyone is on a mobile phone and, everyone is on i a tablet and now in 32 locations around the city, people will be able to access

and they will be able to know all sorts of things and so we are so proud on behalf of google to stand in front of you and see the kids playing outside and hopefully they will continue to be outside and not be on tablets but i am really hopeful about the future and tech and the city and what is to come. >> and the mayor has said that we have been at press conferences highlighting public partnerships throughout the city and whether it is the south of market or mid market or i am here to announce that the district city is the

mayor's favorite district in the city. and so, really i know that i am a broken record around this message, but district six does have the fewest parks and the smallest parks here in san francisco and so it takes a great deal of creativity and also a ton of coordinated team effort to figure out how we can enhance, and build more open space here in our district. and there is a renaissance in our district thanks to the leadership at rec and park and trust for public lands is here and we are going to be opening a new park and renovating a new chief playground here in the tender loin and these are the open space that our residents so desperately depend on to be healthy and to rec create and to build the communities and we do in the tender loin, we do represent the poorist residents of san francisco, but what we often don't realize is that even if you don't have a

computer at home, or if the infrastructure is so hold that you don't have the capacity to bring in the internet or to plug in the multiple electrical appliances in your unit. and most of the residents are able to access the internet through the smart phone, or even through the foot phone and most of the residents do have cellular phone and they use them to access the resident, and i hear it from the hotels and i hear it from the working class families here and the latino and arabac and others, and they have been asking for wi-fi and in fact when we welcome in the tech companies, here just down the street from the tender loin, the residents say that we want them to come and we hope that they will partner with us to bring in the wi-fi so that we can access the internet and as the supervisor mark farrell says that it is a

need now and you can access the employment training programs find out about jobs and clothes and services and on the free wi-fi, wherever they can get it to be able to access, really vital information, and in order to live and to thrive here in san francisco and that is what the program is going to mean in the residents to the tender loin and i am excited and the mayor's office and under the leadership of mark farrell that we are going to bring this to the open space and parts here in the neighborhood and so thank you for the partnership and i know that the residents are going to appreciate and i just got on the wi-fi as well and so i will be able to tweet with the hash tag sfwi-fi and so this is a positive step and for our neighborhood and our city, thank you. >> thank you, supervisor kim and thanks again for coming

here today and i think again as we talk about not only breaching our digital divide and providing access through the city what you see through the visuals are the different play grounds thater lighting up across the city of san francisco and every neighborhood and hash tag, sf wi-fi, please use it and thanks again for being here. >> good evening, everyone. >> good evening. >> my name is emily murase and i am the executive director for the department on the status of women here to welcome you to our event marking the birthday of domestic violence awareness month. we have so many successes to report to you tonight.

first of all before i introduce our speakers i just want to recognize that domestic violence survivors among us they deserve our continued support and applause. >> next i want to recognize the staff of our partner agencies and all of the folks here who work fighting domestic violence every day, many of them are holding our signs and let's show them our appreciation. without further adieu, please help me welcome our may or, lee, who in every year of his administration has invested greater amounts of public funding to combat violence against women and has been a true leader in this area and please welcome mayor lee. [ applause ] >> thank you for you and the commission to do for the city,

and just want to say that anita wanted to be here but she wants to give you her love and appreciation for all of the work that everybody does. this is our 20th, anniversary and celebration of awareness and it is serious business in our city, we have an impressable 44 months without domestic violence homicide in our city. impressive. and we had expressed how wonderful that feeling was just a year ago of course, this past year we have had three homicides domestic homicides in our city. and this means, for us, not a case of failure, a case of more work that we have it do. and we are ready for this work. in fact we are so ready that emily says that we have increase that budget every year and we increased it by 1.6 million dollars and for our

domestic violence programs. >> and it is worth t it is worth every penny of it and i want to thank every member of the board of supervisors who stand up here and work together as part of a city family and the police chief and the district attorney, and our commission on our commission on the status of women and all of our friends in the community, and the community agencies are so important for this to happen and more and more, we are recognizing that immigrant groups and the people who don't speak english as their first language need more direct help in this arena and the education, and the services, and the advocacy and we want to make sure that when we do have extra funds, to put to, and to the programs that we also reach all of the immigrant families and we break every language barrier to make sure that the services and the programs are reaching but the most important

message is violence is not tolerated in this city. all forms of violence. it also means violence is not permitted in any of our sports and their cities as well. and yes, and we will continue to ring solid and true on that, and we continue to want to be the national model that everybody can follow but we will also take care of local business, i very much appreciate a lot of faces that are standing up beside me here. faces that i have seen for many years working on this very, very hard program very hard topic, gut wrenching topics and every story that you read can just wrench your emotions because they are wrong and they should never happen. but i also have hope that i see a lot of young faces, once that hopefully, we will be a part of their education and they will

adopt what we do here today, and they will look forward and they will see, not only 44 months, but they will see 44 years of no domestic violence, how about that for our kids? [ applause ] >> i also want to give a shout out to everybody who worked on this justice and encourage panel that was started some 12 years ago. when we asked them to assemble to go through all of the work that we have not done and what we should do, and the private sector and the public sector with the city agencies and with the non-profits and with advocacy and they came up with 121 recommendations for us. and i am proud to say that today that we have our final evaluation report for those 12 years work that we have been doing to tackle these 121 recommendations and this final report, is a part of the

reflection of the work that we have been doing and i just want to say a big, big thank you to everyone who has been working on that panel and everybody, and all of us who are carrying out those recommendations and all across in our education and institutions and in our public safety departments and divisions, and in our communities, and every aspect must be covered. and that has been a valuable report and an extremely important exercise for our city to do, and in the form and to continue doing even more. and so i joined our board of supervisors and i joined the da and our police department and our fire department and all of the community agencies and let's continue on the trek and let's end the domestic violence, and everybody is wearing the wonderful colors of purple to signify this moment, but let's keep this month, every month, of the year, and no matter of sports we are celebrating, and no matter where we are, and let's speak to each other and say, end

domestic violence for men and violence and girls. and thank you, so much mr. mayor and i want to take a moment to recognize members of the elected family who are here with us today. and supervisor, and supervisor jane kim and we saw that he said here, and with this as well. and so really it takes a village to tackle this problem and you will see many crackers around and it represents some of the 121 recommendations that were completed, in our final and you will hear more about that and next please help me welcome police chief who has shown his commitment to fighting the violence against

women and, we are joined tonight by the first female president of the police commission, loftus, and many others, help me welcome police chief greg suhr. >> thank you and on every marked police vehicle in the san francisco police department there is one bumper sticker and on the back of every single car as you see the police vehicles traveling around and it simply says that there is no excuse for domestic violence. and because, there is not. and much has been made in the national media about how come this happened and that happened and how about just no, there is no excuse, period, for the domestic violence. >> and the san francisco police department is a critical piece of that as we respond to any calls for domestic violence in san francisco and as the mayor pointed out, we did enjoy a period of some 40 plus months where there were no dow mist i

can violence homicides in san francisco. and now, it is having suffered three, even though we are in a record low, homicide, here, almost ten percent and better than ten percent of the homicides that have occurred in san francisco, have been domestic violence related. and we continue to provide the assessment for the training for the police officers and increased the limited accomplish training because we don't want somebody's inbility to communicate in english to be a deter and we want to insure that all survivors that san francisco is a sanctuary city and that there is status in the united states will never be called into question and they need to report, because again, there is no excuse for domestic violence upon anybody. our special victims unit continues to thrive without 16 additional investigators to the special victim's unit just in the calendar year, 2014. and the things for most as we see it work here best in san

francisco and as we continued to have the domestic violence advocates located in the special victim's unit and, the celebrates their 10th anniversary this year, and being, emerged in our 14 and the ten yard audit, and in the backlog and we contracted with the vendors to clear it back ten years by the mid 2015. we initiated an asap protocol, in january of this year and so there will never be a sexual assault kit backlog again. >> so again, i know that there

are other speakers and i don't want to take me more time and i just goted gonzaga the to keep saying it and we kelt that it was important enough to put a sticker on the cars when it is the only one there it speaks volume to have it committed we as a city and a police department and how much we enjoy the partnerships and we are committed to nobody being able to make a excuse for domestic violence, thank you. >> please help me recognize the members of the police commission and the police department. [ applause ] >> next is our district attorney george cascon who has championed effort to intervene and prevent acts of violence against women and he is exciting news to share, please welcome the district attorney. you know, it is exciting to see it here today. and but i like to for a moment, all of us coming together and

they see and that no more violence. come on. >> no more violence, you know, still, one out of every four women in this country, report being the victim of domestic violence some time in their life. and so while we often get together, and especially during this month, to celebrate the accomplishments and to talk about all of the great things that we are doing, and there is still a lot of work, and this year, and 3 homicides and do not indicate that there is a lot of work that still needs to be done. and especially those, who are working in the domestic violence, and i want to thank the supervisors and the mayor

for the monitorry support that we received last year, and to beat all of the resources. and for it to support, and insure, and in order to do the work. and we have the resources and the conviction rate and that are significantly increased. and we have it in front of and getting the victim services to the big victims and to the suppliers very quickly. and most people think that in the district attorney office is a prosecutor, and when it comes to the domestic violence, and it is a great deal of, and and it to make sure that we get the restrainingorders and to make sure that we deal with the

custody issues and and for the survivors, and to be able to move on with their life. and you know, recently, you know, we were just talking to some of the other people that we work with and some of the survivors and we have the women who said, you know, i was so, so afraid, of going to court and she walked in, and she met one of the victims services counselors, and she said that you know, i felt that all of a sudden like i was at home and that makes a difference, not only in being able to begin, the healing process, and but, also being able to hold the aggressors accountable and you know, we tell the people that actually if we do our work well, and we intervene earlier, we have an opportunity and that