>> i just want to say comboo go giants, huh? >> so good morning, everyone. welcome to the san francisco wholesale produce market and the dedication of the first lead goal produce center in california (clapping.) i'm larry president of the market value board of directors on behalf of my colleagues the staff and our partners which are the markets merchant and especially the merchant because they get up at midnight at 2:30 i 2 o'clock in the morning so

it's late day for them thank you for being here (clapping) for more than one hundred and 25 years we've been a vibrant part of the culinary history san francisco's restaurants and hotels and grocery stores large and small rely on the product market for fruits and vegetables some produced by merchant since 1863 when the market moved from the contemporarily we had a place insuring the bay area residents and visitors will have ready access to a custodial new delight today with the opening of this this and the four new warehouses our really to the industry and communities are insured formulas innovate half century i want to thank the

city's daepg and department of workforce development as well as the the san francisco investment funds and behalf for the financial backing to bring this to completion (clapping) ladies and gentlemen, it is now my great pleasure to introduce the 43rd mayor of san francisco mayor ed lee. >> go giants also (clapping) i can't think of a better theme but the success of collaboration so moved sometime ago when i was the city administrator and sophie making well led the effort to educate us about our infrastructure in the city and then when i became mayor a few years ago another supervisor of this district, of course, the

current supervisor supervisor cohen also continued that education and introduced me to a lot of her friends and the producers but i've got to say for a great city like san francisco and personally for me, i used who i growing up i used to work on up in seattle they had farms i picked berry's corner and beans and this was my summer job i had lots of fun, i would ride in the back of a truck and throw grapes hitting cars going the opposite way but former supervisor maxwell and current supervisor supervisor cohen is also is have been wonderful leaders for this district and center of production this is part of a

valuable center for the entire city of san francisco if not the region this is where the greatest most prestige now the 3 mission stars within the county of san francisco i just found out about they're getting their produce from japantown to the mission, to at all the great restaurants here your tech companies cafes for the workers get their fresh produce right from here and our greatest stores r our grocery stores our organic stores are get their storage and distribution right here those jobs and what the facility represents is something that i think in many other cities if i don't pay attention to it as i know this was the purpose of former supervisor max wells and supervisor cohen you

don't participation to our light industry you're going to pay for it very dealer in the future and were paying for it in a nice way we're getting a great benefit out of it after all the phases larry when this is done which might take 20 years we'll take our time to make sure it's done right not only will get even though lead produce center the only one i know of in the entire country that is starting a new trend you're also making sure that all of our restaurants, all of our food descriptions and grocery stores have this we have center for all the farmers to come or whatever ungoldly hours to distribute here and bay if

you're ever hungry at two or 3:00 a.m. come down are here like supervisor cohen is trying to get me here for chicken in the morning but i wanted to say those are great paying jobs, in fact, when necessarily we complete the additional phases over one thousand full paying ongoing full-time jobs will be at the center and we have done what i think the supervisors want to us to do as a city reinvested not only the general fund created out of their own economic center we invest it in this place and then it if we are smart about it i think the supervisors and mayor's office have been smart to get the community fund involved and gotten extra dollars we'll make

things like this happen over time larry said this is now been one hundred and i think one hundred and thirty years in existence that you need to renewal of the centers you need modern refrigeration and more space trucks are getting larger and phase two will be about the roads around here we'll condominium to mar our smoother roads and phases three and four will be about the sheds we have to pay attention to the sheds this works as an entire system what i learned from the very first day i became mayor, i learned it when was industry administer as well don't forget our farms or where the food comes from that's how we know

over and over glen eagle golf course and supervisors you were talking about making sure our schools learn we should have kids come down to this site to learn where the food comes from and how it is gotten here and has to be kept fresh it is part of lighting the streets in san francisco part avenue what we call p dr production distribution and repair is that a that can disappear if we don't pay attention to light industry we're paying attention not only to preserve we're going to build for pdr light industry space and utility the economic strengthen and michael it is another pledge but one we also will be happily to come back to the center and say it started here but more industrial spaces guess what the

most thing people love in san francisco especially, when we win the world series or hosting the america's cup or dad and mom force and open world is what is made in san francisco we can access and purchase because we know that with the talent in san francisco we needed something fresh and real original and originally made and designed very logical to made in san francisco is a huge marketing play that is famous around the world and even the people here in this community the people working at the southeast community center working in the bay area they know that we have a world breakdown can sell it very well and create more and more jobs maybe in san francisco local manufacturers and light industry not only t is faster and popular it is essential for

the cities to pay attention to because more and more our visitors from upper and sarcastically they're tired of buying the famous braungdz i want something it's original and unique this is what making in san francisco is all about we're going to get all our communities because every community in san francisco, california participate in those wonderful jobs this is where used to be what we called our blue-collar jobs it's not light industry jobs making wine and produce and making series rids for the new talent and all those wonderful things the care masks the things we're to sell widespread that given with the the commitments in the city recognizing worker folks how people use their hands

and art and talent and go back to making things those are good paying jobs congratulations larry to the produce market you have a pledge to introduce space and underutilized space maybe empty wlarz and bring nor good paying jobs thank you supervisor malia cohen for her wonderful leadership and hathaway defining witness they're a wonderful company they did the gold standard i want to thank them as well all of the communities down here have it be thanked they have not only talking about the taught united states this bug protected it and preached it now the citywide family has to recognize that thank you, everybody let's keep going and

creating a wonderful city. >> (clapping.) thank you, mayor for your continuing support thank you very much i'd like also at this time to recognize those who have had hands on r0eb89 for bringing this building out of the ground from jackson architecture and the mayor mentioned our general contractor has nothing to do with way and defining witness and half of the thousand contractor workers and recognition our person for the product (clapping) and happy and very thankful to be able to also thank our former president of the board of directors john (clapping) as i mentioned earlier we've

enjoyed the tremor support from the mayor's office and backed by the board of supervisors including former supervisor ms. maxwell here today where youy sophie one of the champions is malia coning and become everything everywhere everyone in the mayors remarks i had this weird violation vision of him throwing grapes out of the back of a truck he was mischievous he's not as polished as the man we see today hello are you guys excited (clapping.) oh, my goodness thank you to all the people that came together to

make this vision a reality there are people that don't also get a shout out i see we have commissioners from the southeast commission from the southeast facility thank you for being here i want to recognize the southeast food asset sequa and the approved garlands i see a couple of people in the back of the crowd this organization (clapping) definitely differs an applause they've gone it is no secretary we live in a desert but the sequa folks are doing they're doing a food audit and having height food sold here this is exactly the kind of leadership and disconnection we need to continue to move in lord knows we have enough liquor stores so

thank you everyone else that deserves a very big thank you larry for the board members but michael has been an incredible friend and ally from day one personally but professionally this man has been a cheerleader twenty-four hour for the overall project of bringing height food options into the southeast parts of san francisco and all of the businesses that are here today and the workers that work with the product market thank you for staying late i want to make sure you guys get a good nights sleep the san francisco wholesale provide market is a trimmers asset not only in the southeast neighborhood but the entire city the entire city this little produce market is producing for

the entire city and the northern california region while many san franciscans don't know about our little secret right here that's a top priority to make sure the expansion is completed and local businesses can grow and continue to be successful in the city right now many businesses in san francisco are feeling the pressure of rising rent and increasing sxheegs for space with other developers just look at the flower market and selma but that's not the approach we took here in our neighborhood both may i and myself we recognize the incredible crawling value of a place like this in san francisco when the produce market said we have 0 grow we made it work and thank you to the mayor's office of housing of department of workforce development that pulls the resources to make sure this

happens it is important that this produce market stay in the pursue community because they've made an incredible investment in san francisco and this is our way of saying we're investing in the produce market i want to thank molly stone for standing in district 68 thank you for deeply our roots in our southeast part of the city i hope we convince you to open up a gorgeous thank you, supervisor maxwell we need a grocery in this side of the town people that call this home are the fabric of our city it's a in his no more that san francisco only focuses on the tech industry clarification and growing pdr has been a priority not only for

myself and affirmation administration and maxwell i was going to call but president lee and mayor ed lee larger ways of the reasons he compounded upon earlier this is angle industry that is protecting and growing fwlu collar workers pdr spaces hire people without education and they employ local san franciscans do we have local san franciscans here today they're all working that's why you didn't hear from them this is going in the right direction we're expensing an affordable crisis is it not g just about housing in order for people to stay and live in the city we need to insure that we have diversity in our neighborhoods and make this is what makes san francisco so unique we need to

look at the affordability crisis from multiple lens to make sure the residents have diversity range of opportunity to grow is essential to the health and vitality of our city i'm proud of this place let me let me hear excitement we have a transforming san francisco thank you so much for being here back to you larry. >> thank you, supervisor (clapping) we're delighted to announce today that the first occupant of this beautiful new facility will be molly stone the bay area treasurer for 25 years and market tenant for a decade the chief operating officer for molly stone.

>> thank you larry (clapping.) supervisor cohen and maxwell ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of our mike stone and the whole stone family welcome to the market we ought grew ore space so we've been looking forward to to molly stone offers the best quality of provide for 25 years we're able to accomplish this in our nine locations because we're close to merchant that bring the freshest produce to san francisco this this state of the art facility we'll demand to produce the quality foods that make the bay area a desirable place to live this market and facility are important pieces of our infrastructure that will be the platform mayor ed lee i hope you'll be available for the ribbon cutting ceremonies for

missouri i didn't stones opening this is number one priority for growth is to so thank you very much go giants (clapping) okay. so mayor supervisor i want you to come over here we have this big red bottom and press down on it which will open up the door here of the - well, it's opening up now. >> go giants (clapping.) there it is (clapping.) follow the left we don't want to go in front of that

>> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner

stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do

some good. i felt like at meridian, it could do some good. we did not even talk about price until the day before the show. of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but that was not the first consideration, so that made me very happy. >> his work is printed porcelain. he transfers images onto and spoils the surface a fragile shes of clay. each one, only one-tenth of an inch thick. >> it took about two years to get it down. i would say i lose 30% of the pieces that i made. something happens to them. they cracked, the break during the process. it is very complex. they fall apart. but it is worth it to me. there are photographs i took 1 hours 99 the former soviet union. these are blown up to a gigantic images. they lose resolution. i do not mind that, because my images are about the images, but they're also about the idea,

which is why there is text all over the entire surface. >> marie in moved into the mansion on powell street just five years ago. its galleries are housed in one of the very rare single family residences around union square. for the 100th anniversary of the mansion, meridian hosted a series of special events, including a world premiere reading by lawrence ferlinghetti. >> the birth of an american corporate fascism, the next to last free states radio, the next-to-last independent newspaper raising hell, the next-to-last independent bookstore with a mind of its own, the next to last leftie looking for obama nirvana. [laughter] the first day of the wall street occupation set forth upon this

continent a new revolutionary nation. [applause] >> in addition to its own programming as -- of artist talks, meridian has been a downtown host for san francisco states well-known port trees center. recent luminaries have included david meltzer, steve dixon, and jack hirsch man. >> you can black as out of the press, blog and arrest us, tear gas, mace, and shoot us, as we know very well, you will, but this time we're not turning back. we know you are finished. desperate, near the end. hysterical in your flabbergastlyness. amen. >> after the readings, the crowd headed to a reception

upstairs by wandering through the other gallery rooms in the historic home. the third floor is not usually reserved for just parties, however. it is the stage for live performances. ♪ under the guidance of musical curators, these three, meridian has maintained a strong commitment to new music, compositions that are innovative, experimental, and sometimes challenging. sound art is an artistic and event that usually receives short shrift from most galleries because san francisco is musicians have responded by showing strong support for the programming. ♪

looking into meridian's future, she says she wants to keep doing the same thing that she has been doing since 1989. to enlighten and disturbed. >> i really believe that all the arts have a serious function and that it helps us find out who we are in a much wider sense than we were before we experienced that work of art. ♪

>> good morning, everyone, welcome to the board of supervisors, budget finance and committee meeting, for october, 29, i am joined by john amylee howcroft, and i want to thanks charles for sfgovt tv for covering this meeting and the clerk of the meeting, miss wo ng. >> silence all cell phones and any electronic devices and completed speaker cards