team, especially the office of the deputy directors and also the whole staff. and i really appreciate as our chair avalos has mentioned, the work in regional bodies, and the visibility there. and especially joint work, and better relationships with the mta. and lots more of a collective approach to our city wide transportation issues. and i think that those were the main points that i wanted to just give appreciation for, and acknowledgment of all of the great work that is being done. >> great, thank you. >> so, just want to make sure that we are going to call a roll call vote on each of the items 3 and 4 but i want to make sure that the colleagues that we agree not to disclose the content of the closed session. >> okay. >> very good. so when it comes to item number four, recommend annual compensation, and what we had decided was that you know

coming in as step five and some of the you know allowances that were provided as well we wanted to see more time leading the agency before going to the next step and so we were going to continue at this step, but it is something that we felt that the work certainly warrants you know, getting there with time. and continue on the same trajectory that we are on now and so i would like to bring it up again next year, the step next step increase and to me, that makes sense that we, you know, given the trajectory that you have been on that makes a lot of sense after two years of service within the agency. and i think that will kind of a consensus on the commission as well. so, what i would like to see with the motion to approve item number 3. and i guess, what will the motion be on item four? >> okay. >> and so item four will be to

maintain the current step. and item three will be to approve the over all rating of, you know, exceptionally good, and we have in the record as well. our just, well, we will expressed was to you, was our real satisfaction with your work as a executive director. >> so, i will make the motion to move. or those two motions. >> i will second. >> and we will take that roll call vote. >> item 3 and 4, commissioner avalos? >> aye. >> cohen? >> aye. >> mar. >> aye. >> the items pass. >> i think that we didn't have a comment on those. >> so, let's rescind the vote. >> the motion is rescinded. >> great, and we will open up these two items up for the

public comment. >> so thank you so much, for your thoughtful feedback for your consideration and your support of me and the staff this past year it has been a privilege and an honor to serve the city in this way. i have really grown a lot in my first year and i continue to strive to improve personally in my leadership of the agency as well as far as the over all agency's effort but we are on a very strong path. i think that your guidance and your support over the past year have been critical to our agency and to our staff from the leadership on the policy aspects of the transportation plan and the investment proposals from the t2030 plan all the way to the staff proposal and it has just been a pleasure working with you and your staff and we want to thank you very much again for your support. >> thank you. >> okay. so we will take that roll call vote. >> okay. >> on item three and four. >> public comment. >> okay. >> items 3 and 4, commissioner

avalos? >> aye. >> cohen? >> aye. >> pa mar? >> aye. >> the items pass. >> thank you. >> and again, thank you for your great work this past year. our next item please? >> item 5, introduction of new items this is an information item. >> where we did talk about reviewing the steps for next year and, so i think that we can possibly put forward as a personnel committee item. >> okay. >> and so now this item is opened up for public comment. any member of the public that would like to comment, seeing no member come forward, we will close public comment. >> item 6, public comment. >> the next item is public comment. any member of the public? seeing none, come forward, we will close public comment. >> and go to our next item. >> item 7, adjournment. >> we are adjourned. thank yo

down. >> welcome i ask you all to stand as we march on the colors and remain standing while movie driving leads us in singing the national anthem march on the colors

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oh, say can 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? 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?

please be seated today is dedication marks the culmination of nearly 5 years of effort and 82 years of waiting with completion of that memorial we have kept the promise to out-of-towner our innovations mill veterans made to some many, many years ago i thank charles kendrick is smiling down on us today charles was a world war i veteran a hero that led the efforts to build this memorial complex with the developers building and this

memorial court there was never enough money to build a veteran's memorial charles had a son charles junior he was a ace a marine ace in world war ii on gaffe a channel shot bun 5 japanese airplanes but he himself was shot down charles junior had two sisters barbara 1915 (k) community first option direct calendar and katherine mcnaturally both of whom are with us mrs. calendaring and miss mcneill we welcome you today (clapping.) this memorial is entitled a

package of delivers surveyors is here today susan i'd like to recognize a few people first mayor ed lee we welcome you here so much (clapping) former secretary state george schultz welcome, sir (clapping) and united states seminary dianne feinstein (clapping) members of the board of supervisors here if they're here will you stand please yeah. david members of the war memorial board of trustees welcome to you. (clapping.)

city administrator naomi kelly welcome. (clapping.) other elected officials department of public works director mohammed nuru welcome, sir san francisco arts director tom decan go necessary tom (clapping) and the san francisco public utilities deputy general manager michael and because in the fleet week i could i'll recognize everyone i do have the commander the third fleet he's here (clapping) admiral ray from the coast guard he's here

(clapping) and lieutenant general miles commander is here (clapping) and jorp general colorado nays he's here (clapping) and former mayor willie brown we're going to recognize him he's here (clapping) i tell you i'd like to thank more than 2 hundred donors it the san francisco memorial that made this project possible the san francisco veterans memorial was funded entirely by private dpoomgsz and i'd like to recognize the leaders for this effort steven beck natural fund, the big one made this charlotte and

george schultz and susan i didn't bechtel and her husband robert a day (clapping) charles and ann johnson foundation (clapping) the san francisco public utilities commission (clapping) and deedee wellscy (clapping) i am pleased and honored to welcome one of the co-chairs of our veterans steering committee and the honory chair of fleet week the honorable george p schultz (clapping.) first of all, mike read off a lot of people to get recognized

but, you know who the driving force is michael so let's hear it for mike (clapping.) i'll tell you something in you put a marine general in charge things move this is a great moment and we're talking about something called a memorial but for me i think the important point is to recognize what veterans bring to us that is special let me start with a story right after world war ii i learned that if you went on the facilitate at m y u this guy's gets up named bev us and said i'm honored to be a member of the faculty so what the colleagues think of me by the way, a couple of the old-timers a couple were sitting by itself

radio and the announcement came but he was a professor and one says to the other i'm not surprised from the first grade he was a smart kid that's right by this time bev us (plane flying boy bye) by this time bev us knows everything but he doesn't realize nothing so i make that point to say this wasn't one kind of knowledge it's what i have in our head but what you learn from our experience in our gut if you realize for the most part things that move you and cause you to do something emanate from the gut i ask you to think about

your veterans what they bring back to us they are people who have been put under roof stress they've learned how to handle stress stress they've often been deployed in rather strange places so they learn out to take in the realty and learn something about it they've learned something about accountability and life account biceps and having a sense of accountability is really important they've learned teamwork they've learned to support each other to take care of each other i take care of of you take care of me that's the bond they've learned something about leadership they've seen good leaders maybe they've been a leader undoubtedly in many instances but i've learned some about

fellowship and personal responsibility they're in the gut and the veterans come back and bring that to us in a way that people who never had those experiences just don't have so the message i want to give a dedication of this memorial it's a memorial but let's remember memorialize the importance of our veterans what we bring to the party as a result of experiences they've had they make anginaic contributions to thank you veterans (clapping) the sound of freedom i love that

our next speaker is the mayor of the city and county of san francisco mayor edwin lee (clapping.) general let me add my thanks to the work of senator feinstein and former secretary george schultz and former mayor my good friend willie brown to i'll of you to say a happy occasion we match the dedication with fleet week we don't know how inspiring it is for the city we also made a promise over 82 years ago to get the dedication define i was reminded to remind i that charlotte shurts was not around 80 years ago to make that

promise (laughter) but thanks to her and george and the incredible veterans committee raising all the funds a special thanks to steve and everyone on that list that you see today, this came to fruition over a year ago i mohammed in the eye and naomi he said we've got to make sure all the agencies honor our veterans by getting this memorial done not only did they go to work as a team with the arts and rec and park and the public works and the veteran war memorial committee and trustees they went to work almost as if they were called to go into the beach so thank you to all the city agrees for working so well together to

honor our veterans this is another example as former interstate secretary george schultz said of our x first-degree our thanks to our military we can't thank them enough with this memorial we also recontacted our efforts in the city i say a as the mayor have learned many things from the mayors that that preceded me so i tell you that today, we are on our way to end chronic homelessness for veterans and we'll do that in shorted periods of time (clapping) we just opened as ass you heard some one hundred and thirty additional units our kearny

street and by next year a brave announcement i'll hold that back which it's time i want to be known always the mayor that gets things done i want to say thank you senator feinstein and george and willie for also making sure that we pay attention to the important things and this is that important occasion and so it is that we celebrate fleet week wheeling we'll see and hear the blue angels and node to all the officers that are here for fooeshg we'll have a great time in commissioning the latest ship on our shores and we'll continue to the celebrated our giants with the teamwork they have all in the spirit that we're a great city we do george take care of each other whether we're in uniform or

lucky enough to be outside of a uniform this city will take care of each other thank you very much (clappin (clapping) >> next speaker is a member of our steering committee for this project former mayor willie brown junior. >> (clapping). >> general mike secretary shurts, mayor senator dianne feinstein anticipate the current mayor of our grey great city mayor ed lee and all assembled

here in letting me assure you this day has been long in coming mayors that preceded diane had the responsibility mayors that preceded almost everyone else we can think of over the los last 82 years but mayor ed lee was indeed blessed he had george and charlotte and wishes to speak and an incredible of collection of people that have already been named who really wanted to see this to happen and the fact that the recognition that should have been long sense for san francisco been consistent that the signing the united nations documents so many years ago here on behalf of the veterans (plane

flying over) president is a friend of mine i asked exactly the time i thought he had forgotten when he did it for you veterans are indeed important we have to acknowledge it and in san francisco has been on the threshold of completing accident acknowledgment for a long time ends result is about what you're about to see but before this occasion there's been time and time again, when soil from the places where the veterans have gossiping they're lives and souls and energy to protect our right to exist that soil has been a part of what was here and when the great design by arthur

before a of those incredible series of buildings the ultimate one was to be the arrest warrant memorial with an appropriate acknowledgment of a veteran's contribution our participating in exactly that today and i must say i'm delighted mr. mayor that i was called upon by many of your department heads that i was called upon by the war memorial opera house board called b upon by general mike to be a part of the effort to complete the circle to produce what our about to see we can celebrate and we celebrate with all of the fan fair that goes with being a san franciscan because now a veterans this is a special

place. (clapping.) >> now is my honor and pleasure to introduce united states senator feinstein who certainly has close ties with san francisco and as honorary co-chair for fleet week senator (clapping.) thank you, thank you very much mike and to my friend of mine secretary shuttering and my pal charlotte and mayor ed lee and everyone who is here i just wanted to thank everyone wearing a whitecap here for their service i've been in the senate for 22 years i've seen there is a price for freedom and you see it up close and personal

and you see it in the faces of our military people who are willing to stand at all to be trained, to take orders and become the most powerful fighting force on architecture san francisco has always been a navy town and i think the fleet week which i was part of bringing back in 1981 have shown that i think to our men and women who are assembled here today who serve in the united states navy and the united states marine corp what i'll find is a welcoming city i hope you enjoy the weekends it's k30i8d important you do if you end up in the who's gallows don't call eyeing otherwise if there's dismissing anything we can do to help we're there i said this morning one of the

great surprises and pleasant one was to see the great talent we have in our command force back in washington people like the head of the marine corp general amos no finer brighter poerp person than he those are tough times we're changing it's no longer what i do kci kci vs. kgb but actors who kill at will and do some of the most terrible things anyone can think of and will if they can i believe attack us so to all of you who stay strong to protect this nation it's not yet a day when we, say we can

relax i want to know we appreciate that if i can briefing say a fungus of the history of the project as willie said it took a real show of force to complete this memorial the process started 782 years ago it was finished in 4982 but the meantime was never built there was a lot of talk over the years 3 separate committees were formed and disband but in 2010 a group made up of secretary sxhuflz and wilks stepped up they formed the veterans memorial committee that is had a raised more 2 and a half million dollars in private donations and the result