here tonight. >> so with that, we're at mayor ed lee will be here support shortly i want to thank when i pass the bond i went into the mayor's office i want our support and he immediately said, yes so i want to thank mayor ed lee for emphasis support he'll be here shortly i want to bring up two amazing people the director of public works mohammed nuru and one of any predecessors the great mark len so no come on up mohammed. >> good evening are you all excited as i am. >> yes. >> i'm excited i remember many, many years ago all the discussions that we were having and what we could do for the castro and year and a half ago

we went to many meetings down the street do you remember that all your idea and all that was brought into the plan that made today happen both situations you remember what they used to feel like how do you like them now? all right. we have trees out there and plays and nice lights all a the overhead lights have been changed this is the first of many projects that will be done around the city we started here because this is the area that was the most important i'm very, very very happy and excited to be part of this project there are also many things that are happening within city government under the leadership of our mayor we're going to make sure we get the projects and

we've heard from the supervisor wiener and the planning commission and public works and puc and rec and park we all work together to make sure we can deliver those amenities to you a few people i want to thank very special people that worked on the project our contractor railings who worked all the way to get us to this point and we still have further to go but i want to thank the businesses themselves just being patient with the construction happening and a lot of the impacts that effect all the businesses so you know please a big hand to all did businesses for the patience with us (clapping) for the project team our city engineering is here under foreclosed and john thomas they lead the implementation of the

project we also have john dennis and everybody know john dennis he was here everyday making sure we put our heads together to get this implemented and michelle and ashley i saw ashley just making sure things were happening and dean smith and alex part of the public works team that made this happen and finally i'm excited as well let's get the rest of our citywideer sidewalks and easier to walk around san francisco thank you very much thank you, thank you (clapping) >> hey one more time let's hear it for mohammed nuru the department of public works and the planning department, (clapping.) mayor ed lee who is behind this from day one and, of course, this wouldn't have happened

without supervisor scott wiener thank you scott (clapping.) and let me i'd like to take full credit but all those other folks we're here to say thank you and say on a extra special thank you to those who put out the most and surviving the most this is the merchant of the streets they were lost a lot of business and foot traffic and not easy on the neighbors but thank you merchants for opening your doors every day you know each day you have to start up again and it can be interpreting to see how difficult it is getting the customers in the doors while construction is going on things are looking brighter and let

finish i'm sure you've been to the jewish wedding there's breathing breaking of glasses but in times of joyfully celebration we break the glass to remind ourselves the word is broken and suffering i know that supervisor wiener knows this our job is not complete until we found a way to make sure the castro is affordable for as many people as possible thank you for coming out tonight and supervisor wiener our dedication and tenacity and to the beautiful, beautiful community tonight thank you (clapping). >> thank you senator mark leno and now the mayor has arrived and mr. mayor i told the crowd before, after, the bond passed i came to our office and said i

want to fund the bond and we're deeply appreciative let's hear it for our mayor, mayor ed lee. >> i want to thank you you 0 hours everybody hostiles the world series? >> all right. well i want to just say introduce you to another lee name lee is final lee final lee we got this done and there's a lot of thanks to go around you've heard in mohammed at dpw and now from the puc and the mta and certainly supervisor wiener advocacy is very, very strong and senator mark leno said it right this is an historic street we've got to take care of it and improved it and find the street to be one of the most beautiful streets in san francisco as it

deserves yes (clapping) i just saw keith jones thank you, thank you very much for your historic lifetime leadership lee jones thank you, very much. he's getting the scissors ready (clapping.) you know supervisor wiener and i have been working a lot and i want to make sure you know that 8 point that $3 million that we just spent while we can do things faster we wouldn't be able to do my of it without your help those bonds are available to the city we need to pass those bonds and the honor that we will place to you ever we get those bonds transportation bonds our responsibility is to spend it ate and get it done to go on to the next thing; right? and

yeah. >> our beautiful street and invest in our city and in castro it's about our history you'll have great fun not only tomorrow but every day of every year we get to celebrate you'll find me down here bye my hot cookies and doing my breakfasts detain here this is one of the most wonderful neighborhood investments we could make all over the city we're investing in our neighborhoods making the city stronger and bringing people cogent and conquer the need for more affordable housing and better transportation and stop evictions and slow down the eviction and build for 55 laguna how about that more housing for our residents thank you to the cd and the castro merchants association they're so painter and you'll see my dollars spent

down here i join i all to great city this world-class neighborhood of castro street thank you very much let's all celebrate (clapping.) yeah. >> okay. now we're going to cut gilbert bakers beautiful ribbon i want to welcome a few additional people lee jones, of course, and the city fester naomi keeling and john ram and this is the guy i've talked about nick who helped us to the design process and john dennis our dpw project manager and thank you, welcome to the neighborhood those are part of our community so lee i want to cut the ribbon. >> i want to send love from

gilbert baker he lives in new york i called him and said we need a ribbon she got out her ribbon and sued all weekend long and get it to use it was gilbert's idea to make the robin rainbow the symbol of our movement so he's in new york and as the supervisor do the honors and cut it on the seam (laughter.) >> (clapping)

>> yeah. (clapping) yeah. (clapping) well, i live in n this neighborhood i'm so glad this is over oh, my god what a mess okay folks get off my stage matt are you ready now okay. we're going to have wonderful music please welcome matt (clapping.) >> hello people

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you find that >> i'm one of the owners we do rolls that are like suburbia that is crisp on the outside and this is rolled you up we don't this it has chinese sister-in-law and a little bit of entertain sprouts and we love it here. >> there are 6 grilled cheese grilled to the crisp on the outside outstanding salsa and a lot of things to dip it knocks you out and it's spicecy and delicious i was the first person that came here and we were not prepared for this every year we're

prepared everybody thinks what they're doing and we can cookout of our home and so the festivals were part of the group we shove what we do and we w we tried to capture the spirit of xrifs. >> and there from there to sales and the hard part of the sales is 250 assess our market and creating a market opportunity giving limited risks and sales experience to our guys and >> if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other

enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encoura [chain saw whirring] [growling] listen, you are extremely terrifying-- just the scariest undead thing on tv, and i really mean that. i am worried that you could give my kids nightmares if they see you, so i'm gonna have to block you. [sighs] so, that's it. oh, and tell the zombies they're blocked, too. >> good evening hello castro welcome, welcome to night two of our celebration we had fun metroing last time and go giants (clapping.) i'm supervisor wiener and i have the honor of representing this district at the board of supervisors it is w with great

you honor i present to you our new castro street sidewalks (clapping.) was a few years ago that the government sat down we we said we need to do something for this amazing street that has seen hiv negative needs to be approved and the situations need to be wider and we pulled and got it done this is what we have today (clapping) and i've had the honor of living in the castro for the last 17 years and i've seen people in this producing crowd for 20 and thirty and 40 and 50 years they've seen the ups and downs and the good thing about the castro street this is such a

resilient community that takes a punch through the gay bashing at worse of the aids etch depg and this community has come through stronger every single time (clapping) and so, now we take our next step with this wonderful streetscaping remembering the fire chief but our history we have the ribbon honor clock and the ribbon clock recognizing the lvbt community and the understanding as we move forward we must remember where we've come from as a community i want to take a minute and thank i want to thank the castro community i want to thank the merchants and the residents for being patient through had

process this has not been easy it is never easy to do this kind of work thank you to the residents and mvrnt for percent vefr so let's hear it for our merchant and residents (clapping) so tonight we're going to

>> the 25 years ago today at 5:04 p.m. a powerful 6.9 earthquake read into the record across the bay area the loma prieta earthquake was probable for deaths and $6 billion in dpaj game 3 was about to get underway due to the media coverage that is of the first major earthquake in the u.s. that was broadcast live over

national television traffic on the freeways was vacant and millions were watching ton tv this may have prevented a loss ever life as the major transportation structures you suffered catastrophic failures the bay area bridge collapsed owe the oakland a one mile europe deck of the freeways collapses and nearby factoryw or workers and public works employees climbed on to the brims and pull trapped people out of their cars and it enclosed the embarcadero freeway never to reopen and all arptsdz closed to inspect damage and muni loss services in san francisco marina district

several buildings collapsed natural gas ruptures caused a major fire and the bystanders ran hoses with the firefighters when the water system failed and to engines on the shore the mayor helped per twoor years ago later san francisco and the bay area are rebuilt better than ever do the think i do too (clapping.) i want to acknowledge the people that came together to create today's event to work everyday to make san francisco resilient and first of all, the san francisco emergency of the american red cross and the safe vacation army and the pg&e give them a nice hand (clapping) then there's this beautiful new structure the moratorium for the

today's event for families to learn a science including the science of earthquake let's hear it is important the moratorium (clapping) then the fire department ned program and police department program they'll provide critical assistance to our forpdz let's here it for ned and alert thank you very much (clapping) we have several members of the san francisco city family that have joined us supervisor mar and supervisor wiener kaurm and sheriff rosenberg and naomi kelly and chief chief joanne hayes-white and lynn and mta director really and dpw mohammed nuru let's here it for those

folks (clapping.) i would last like to welcome on the one hand our state and federal zoning administrator cesarean and regional john doe i didn't traveling sincere thank you (clapping) and staff representing senator d and feinstein and mark lien no right away right now we have at about invocation we want to start welcome warming san francisco interfaith director be michael pappus michael (clapping.) let us bow our heads in prayer oh, mighty educator of the united nations u universe i fixed the earth on your foundation we are humid when the forces of nature temporary shift

the ground on which we walk in those moments of vushlthd we're reminded of our limitations and yet having fashioned us in our lickness we see beyond temporary surviving that through our relationships with one another we like the phoenix rising from the ashes arises stronger with greater commitment to seek the greater good rather than that satisfies our perm vaifrz values on this the 25 anniversary of literally we gather to pause and reflect we pause and reflect brown upon our 63 boggs who lost their lives on this traffic day and intranscribe their names in our book of life we pause and

reflect upon those who risked their lives then and now in particular your firefighters and police force in turn we pray you granted them endearment in time to make critical decisions and should have felt them when they encounter danger we reflect been the visionary leadership of those entriftd with the leadership those bridge burldz for the past quarter of a century brought us together and modest difficult decisions and from the rubble to rebuild san francisco the city which today shines as a jewel among city's we pause upon the transformation a transformation that ising 234i9d our collective views to build relationships become

vigilant for preparedness and in the best tradition of the generosity off our for beers to extend philosophy we've sought to be co-creators of you oh, merciful one at least let us not forget but remember october 17th rz not as a day of catastrophe but as a down dawn for the people in ooersz of the relationships and any centuries this we play pray in our own manner and tradition amen. >> very nice thank you director michael pappus next we're going to move things over to our honorable mayor and talk about

our new website sf 72. >> bob thank you very much and thank you also for helping us to commemorate 1906 and now our loma prieta earthquake that's it it's my pleasure to join the fire chief and the department of emergency management and all departments we use this commemoration not only to acknowledge the 63 lives that were lost in the loma prieta earthquake but acknowledge the lives that were saved as a result of the great response we gave to our city and remind ourselves can do we have to do to get prepared bob said we have a communication device forcing for all the resident the 72.org is a way to communicate to make sure our residents are better

prepared because we've learned valuable lessons from 41989 and we will not allow ourselves to suffer more because we know that the earthquake is next to come it is a question of when not if so what have we learned we've learned our brick buildings are vulnerable and we are learning our soft story buildings are still vulnerable we're fixing that with the ordinance now that mandates the soft story buildings as in the marina we're not going to allows to be equivalent i eventually fantastic 60 thousand that residents can be saved we'll mandate the retrofit of those buildings now we're going to turn our attendance attention to our students they're still our students in the city and turn our attention to helping t