the wonderful hair he and with a soulful voiced she's been on american i would like and augs at at&t park so ladies and gentlemen, singing the star 1257kd banner please rise and welcome ann oakl welcome ann oakley you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,

o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? and the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

(clapping) and yeah. (clapping.) the mature society was that great brianna that was a perfect note for a perfect day and may our talents telephone call take

you with fair winds and following speed so ladies and gentlemen, another round of applause (clapping) so i would love to tell you there are a couple of dignitaries to introduce and do it quick our all dignitaries making take a bow i want to quickly recognize a couple of our city supervisors london breed and katie tang and others we're blessed to be joined by 3 of our consul generals jen in a from nord and from canada and the gentleman i can't read my notes the gentleman from japan i

screwed up on that we have great cruise libs executives and, of course, princess cruise we're blessed to be sponsored by 9 of the san francisco company princess a cruise and sour dough and our resources group and pier 39 and turner construction i saw the sign and got it right so thank you to all our sponsors (clapping) and as i mentioned cruising has a very, very long history in san francisco it really is part of our heritage cruising going back to the early 1800s that was the day when that was you're only way of transport and many get-togethers came to here on ships and they got to

sleep next to the cargo bags and then the steamships we paid attention to the cruz and there was competition for making the cruise more of a luscious event so entertainment was brought on board and one very initiative company brought on a life cow to have fresh milk we've come a long way in 1967 mark twain before the accident the first anti bound cruise ship and came back and pushed a book calledness. >> board and cruising start to take off and black ties added a romantic term and the world posh is rumored to be an acronym i know what that means pour out

starboard homes and cruising start to do take off and the 19 hundred was the entitled age and san francisco was not about to be left out stop talking randy so (laughter) so in the 19 hundreds pier 35 was on the docket by the port of commissioners it was ahead of its time built a handle category you all remember category was very man powder and came over the lines and shoulder and meant to handle passengers it was built criminally because it has lots of of 96 long years imagine the vision and crafted manship we're blessed our for fathers thought of that but it's time to have an r another republican is an we've built this magnificent

facility 9 james r herman facility and we hope it will be a symbol of all we staples for historically and prospectively i want to thank you all for coming here and it is a huge task but we've done it and glad to do celebrate to get everything going i'd like to introduce a man who was dedicated his life to public certify and made it his job to stairway the connective stability which our city to make sure it is viability for both our neighborhoods and waterfront and our communities and has made jobs a very, very big emphasis please welcome mayor ed lee

(clapping). >> thank you, monique thank you for your hair as well (laughter) well, first of all, monique thank you for your leadership along with the port commissioners and staff and with the incredible collaboration like public works and the mischievous let me say a few words about history because al car is here for a reason he thinks the history of the city and you've got to read his books and many of you were with anita and i last year vicinity when we heard about the things about america's cup wasn't that a great time and brianna said it reminded me we're going to get you on a concert tour somewhere it is more than just a cruise

ship place i know there recent incredible claps for our prince sister cruise terminal leaders it's about entertainment and enjoyment and a celebration we did that with america's cup but we also made some promises that the event when we host events whether the super bowl or the world series with our giants who are here today as well and in the playoffs; right? jack; right? (clapping) or improving the wafer these are legacies to produce for the rest of the city that will last for generations ambassador, if any, this particular cruise ship willy adams understand the piece of the city how he we are we were founded and how we

struggled and what they did to make san francisco the gold mountain for many of the immigrants the port incredible industry for the entire west coast so this that is why there is such incredible support for naming this james r herman cruise ship torrential how shall the workers class families that don't get nephew credit they helped me build and rebuild this city so when we announced this also have an incredible support for it been noticing known as the jay russ johnson example herman cruise terminal so we have historians here and the chamber of commerce people here and sports leaders all over the place but is also see ordinary

citizens that serve on commissions past and present but folks that step forward and want to be a part of the city with this incredible step you should have been need is minute ago we talked to the custom broad preschool they're excited they've not seen from the entire west coast the full fledged bored service facility like this for over 20 years it's incredible their staff is 45e7 working with the facility from bottom-up to top down the workforce here i want to thank turner construction for on time and on budget i love contractors to do that on time and on budget (clapping) but also thank you to the

ownerships 34 trust us to think about legacies that we would create out of great events that's in the morning the single events that are the start and end but we as a city to create for value this is port part of our our history not only great individuals but we they leave behind to allow us to do more this is wore mere celebrating so what are the legacies well, in the building and design of this we have a lot of local companies that mrarntd, in fact, the local workforce is at an all-time high of 26 percent of the entire labor force right here building and designing and making this work (clapping) and in addition what i'm particularly proud you have

you'll see another 26 percent of our loophole businesses operating in this facility from the stores from merchandise not only a cruise ship i terminal landing but a party center (laughter) i've got my reservation in i get to brag to other thirty mayors what have you got that compares to this (clapping) it's worth it that's why i say we're proud to represent our labor history in the city and proud to say that the port has done it right we're also proud to say that the citizens individual like lucy jew and 0 others who step forward later on we're going to

celebrate this 3 acre appropriately with the loucy if you have time go by there by the way, by we're going to give it the specific recognition this is in the city we'll match this up with all the things that historically tricked people along our waterfront pier 39 and photographing all the way to the giant people will come through and they'll participate so that anita and i one of those days will do something we've not done take a cruise (clapping) i still got to try to find time to do that why not take it from pier 37 but all those things in celebration we've done this right and well and this is for

generations to come i'm very proud of everybody who was responsible who put this on to build and design it but also going to say i'm proud of city and county because the residents and neighbors got together and said this is what we want like the events like america's cup it's like america's cup it is a gift it keeps on giving i had mammogram potentially put the video on up inside so when people come off the ship they'll see the excitement of the america's cup 34 this is a representation of our city thank you to everyone involved for lending our support to this and make this a special place for san francisco let's celebrate for that the entire city this is ours and we greeting get to share 24 with

our kids for generations to come thank you (clapping). >> thank you very much mr. mayor for being here and for all you are leadership and all of the work that's gone on next it's my pleasure to introduce the man who has stakeholder the public and private sectors a civil activists a criminal rights activist and 80 who is serving an unprecedented third term as the president of the board of supervisors please join me in welcoming the president of the board of supervisors president david chiu (clapping.) good afternoon san francisco it is my honor to welcome you to our northeast neighborhood and because none of my colleagues

are here yet i want to welcome you to the best city and county of san francisco right here and thank you for being here for another amazing chapter of the city and county of san francisco we bring millions of people around the world to those neighbors, in fact, it's our city that brought a young man from seattle mayor ed lee with who became our mayor a woman from washington, d.c. president of our port commission it brought another young man, if missouri our vice president mr. alzheimer's and when i was 22 i came to those neighbors and like you all we envelope in love with our waterfront i'll actual 6 years ago when i ran for office i had hundreds of constituents many of r whom are

here saying what is the city going to do to fix up our piers our piers were pa fatally into the sea we had had pier 35 and the neighborhood associations came together with w working with the develops developers and the city staff and the board of supervisors we brought the best science perfume museum on the west coast piers 17 chp we brought the best sailing race last year with the america's cup and used that to make sure we move forward legislation and a hundred million dollars of investment to build the best cruise ship term on the west coast we're seeing today we need to establish the grand entrances from the world we have san francisco airport when the folks

get off the plane that's their view into the port and not only just so a green this we're going to be hanging out with our families and kids and let me take a moment to thank all the folks can we give it up for the men and women of labor that helped to build it this building (clapping) and, of course, the men and women of you l y u to make sure we're bringing in millions of san franciscans thank you. i l y u (clapping) let me close with one minimal of no foundation men and women coming off the gangway coming out to the city and some 22 years old is going to look at san francisco and saying i'm

going to be a port commissioner and i'm going to be the next mayor that's because of what we did here in 2014 that's part of the story and who we are congratulations this is our story (clapping). >> thank you very much president chiu and so your words of supervision and your words i look forward so another terminal coming down next is my pleasure to introduce a woman in the private and public sector a community advocate and now a strategic consultant and buildings a small group of thoughtful committed group of citizens can change the world please welcome president of the port commission and former commissioner leslie kate's

(clapping) thank you. >> thank you moonl i want to thank mayor ed lee for his leadership and comboiblg making sure we had the investment to make this incremental possible and president chiu and the rest of the members for your leadership i want to say to at all all of you welcome to our brand new jim writing i didn't a. herman cruise ship terminal (clapping) you're going to here common themes of coming together of being a beacon of creating signature sites and places along the waterfront but i think most importantly and we've all this i would have this it's our people the people that mobbing make up

the fabric felt city from the members of all the different commissions and boards to all the residents that are so active in everything we do to the leadership from our workers and various labor unions that have already been strong to the businesses that support us in all the creative ways we approach our work so i want to let you know we're appreciative to all of you perhaps many of you don't remember we tried before to get a new term and this time we have asked her one it so leap of faith the port envisions a new terminal but now we've done is a team effort but today marks the culmination of

effort to build a new term and no one would expect that today we'd have a state of the art friendly and absolutely beautiful building with over 5 acres of parks and public access along the waterfront here on top of that mayor ed lee mentioned some of the sustain building features i won't go into all of them by the with you have gray water that will fuel or provide the water into our toilets our beautiful park we're harvesting that on the roof and if you're unable to see it from above you'll see the functioning of the water collection it's low energy we have all sorts of sustainable features go to our website it is built for standards and has

daylight savings time and bird resilience material on the windows so bifrdz won't eastbound hurt i don't want to give a list of facts i'll direct you to the program but suffice it to say it is xooerd what has been accomplished we're finalizing what's been done and we've worked tirelessly many, many people have helped to make today possibly and certainly enough time to thank you all it's not there ensue the staff and a myriad of leaders and today's commission played a part in insuring the project came to frustrate shotgun and commissioners were instructional in that i want to thank you all

i'd like to thank that i'm joined on the stage but you have to call to monique commissioner adams, commissioner brandon and commissioner murray and wyoming how that are lucky to be here i know it's hard to thank everyone but stu thank you to the port staff 80 that went above and beyond john and peter and john and tom and carter and his group and dan and others thank you all and so many others of the important staff (clapping) of course, the leadership tenacity and sleep also nights was wording if we'd be able to pay for this and our director has been the driving force

her commitment and that of her leadership team to this project has not wavered and with the combined effort many of you have been mentioned your we're they've to monique for this (clapping) you beat me to the bunch i punch a project like this is on time and budget is really k30ir8d give her another hand, please (clapping) our commission and the port staff worked hard for the progress in our community to the waterfront from the restaurants to the ball parks to the museums to entertainment venues and now to the first cruise term off o on the west coast to one of the bitter births available and now

an addressed new jewel i wasn't going to say it it will be quiet a spectacular party our new terminal created a designation that serves our visits internationally but serves our local communities as well this cannot have happened without the work of our partners that come together from the i o y and metro core our community advisors committees and our commission and several these others and the entire family we've demonstrated what can be accomplished when we come together another terminal is you've already seen the up stick and not only to help the port

but bring in an influx of visitors to our beautiful city and waterfront so again san francisco set an example of our diversity and our ability ability to work together to realize our various visions and thank you for making cruise ship terminal possible thank you. (clapping.) and now it's my great pleasure to introduce synonym that has been here from 9 insepgs session international concert of the i o u and community leader willy adams has been part of the first blue ribbon terminal committee he was pointed out by mayor ed lee to the port commission and has further shaped today's fervently i want to take a

moment to reflect open mr. herman and how lucky we are to know about jimmy herself map i was lucky enough to have met him and willy adams resembles the man compassionate and educator and strong and kind i'd like to introduce my friend and colleague willingly adams (clapping). >> first of all, i'd like to guess i'm very glad that the members of my family the i o w are here but when he when we stand on the holy ground remember 1934 you wouldn't know that 80 years later the

longshoreman the police and the national guard we were frooith to try to start a union for the wagd it's about process there is is a struggle moving forward and the same people that were fighting we're all here together that's what san francisco does we get beyond our differences and in 2006 mayor newsom had a vision put a blue ribbon commission together he said i don't want support anyone can pat you on the back i want commitment it means action and today that commission was formed in 2006 and we made the representations to the mayor and the board and we didn't know how to pay for it