from different backgrounds with different skill sets and different needs and motivations together they can create something better than apart. moreover, this place has an important message through the notion of world's fairs. world's fairs are the greatest example of power and place whether it's 1939. these are moments in our history and innovation loves a deadline. i will tell you. when these world fairs were coming together there were very intense moments when dreams came to reality to be able to show case to the world. don't get me wrong. there is a very important part of the virtual world and i have been part of it for a long

time with the dubious contention with the very first cellular data to be able to send a text message from a moving vehicle. i'm not sure if that's entirely positive, but, at the time it seemed like it was pretty cool and we thought we can do great things. and spent some time working with the federal government and at the time i saw so many of my colleagues and friends involved with text and to come up way to change the world to find funding and there wasn't a good path and there wasn't a way to find help to link them through the federal government and the private sector. the impetus was if we brought entrepreneurs as investors and the

general public come and demystify the general process to make it happen. that's why we are here and working to bring it together. that's why we have the tenure in this space and creative to come altogether and the energy is palpable. the partners that you are beginning to move in to occupy the space are the essence of innovation in its best form and people that are here to promote social impact in so many ways. i think very importantly and then i will get off your stage is we have partners like maker and maker media that have a very different view of who will innovate for the future. many of the world's fairs by necessity hat had a top down view by large organizations of what this

would look like. by celebrating the centennial, by celebrating what this has become is a place where many people are going to be able to come up with the future and many different versus of the future and many different paths to innovation and that's what we are here to do and excited to do and lastly, it's an incredible responsibility that i'm incredibly grateful for to be the curator of this space. audrey talks to me, she's the angel when i'm here very late at night. the gravitate of this space is something i

have never seen. people just knock on the door and want to come in. i'm excited that for many years, the general public will have access to this place, the different languages of innovation and hopefully take that with them, take it back to where they can be inspired themselves. thank you very much and glad to be here. [ applause ] >> thank you so much, dan, for helping us dream about what is within these beautiful walls and right in this space leading over to the fireplace will be about a 10,000 square foot exhibition that the california historical society headed by jessica how will be produced and we'll have a jewel box on our gallery on mission

street and all of our partners love this and dan in welcoming you in kicking off this event on february 20th. i'm deeply grateful for all of you who have been here and all of you with blessings for prosperity. please go to our website. ppa 100.org which is a lot better to say than the panama canal exposition. we invite you to the board around you as you imagine what will be here. before we ceremoniously open these doors, you will remember as you come to the exploratorium as my husband and my sons come here that you came to a very different orientation to this

space. as dan mentioned you will enter through these doors starting february 20th. we'll peak to see if it's still raining, but before that, i will ask mr. mayor lee and laura to come up here. laura has spent 25 years understanding the world fair, she started when she was ten and it's been a lifelong process. she would like to make a presentation and afterwards we will all exit and i give you a truly amazing scholar and phenomenal woman deeply dedicated and passionate advocate and this book that was brought into world is one of the

shining stars to this centennial. >> thank you so much, cynthia. mayor lee, may i beg your presence on back of the historical society and myself i would like to present you with a copy of my book. mayor edwin m. lee: thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you, i hope you enjoy it. thank you. >> all right. mayor lee, you have to come up one more time. this is an official badge. c'mon up. thank you for the honor of making me the liaison for the centennial. i'm thrilled. i would like to present you with this original badge from the 1915 exposition, the opening day. can i

pin it on you? mayor edwin m. lee: sure. >> this is what would have been worn on this day to enter the gate. you are now official. thank you for everything you are doing. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you all so much. this officially ends, oops. madam would like to address you. >> i just wanted to say when the mayor gave us the instructions, i think they were instructions with go do this. we got together with the office with phil and with all the organizations that really had an interest and there we said what we were going to do and everybody was interested and you took the reigns you volunteered. just remember that everyday, you volunteered and you put this together. all of this takes leadership

obviously it starts with the mayor and for your leadership for getting everybody together has been wonderful. the other thing when the mayor came he said he was going to try to control his enthusiasm for this event. >> how did it go? >> the chief from the protocol office you have now permission for the uncontrollable for this enter. donna, we want to call her a diva and she does have uncontrollable enthusiasm. and where is chief? >> lastly, mayor, this book,

"a jewel city" i bet we can get this at a good price. and this is the gift to people who come to see the jewel city. >> one last thing i just wanted to thank those for bringing this incredible model t today. it's exactly what you would have seen coming off the ford assembly line at the exhibition. >> thank you and welcome. let's go open those doors. >> >> >> so many many thanks go

out to many of our sponsors. she shared our streetscape. big cheer for manuela. thank you. people are out and enjoying it. i see kids enjoying it. it's wonderful. thanks to all the volunteers and especially our mayor ed lee and thanks to all, i really appreciate all of your sponsor ship to make this happen. in addition to this pop up pedestrian plaza we are calling it, we are also featuring every night at 5:00 a fabulous light show at the macy's store. it's on a loop

every night for the next month. it's designed by the google doodle folks. the ones that bring you the google doodle. jack frost is taking you through a tour of san francisco. so please enjoy it tonight or come back and enjoy it every night here after. and we also have off the grid here as you can see. they will be here throughout the month. so come and enjoy bites. for a full list, go to our website. it's now my distinct pleasure to introduce our mayor ed lee with the city and county of san francisco. about a month ago we went to your office to ask you to bring relief to the merchants who

have dealt with so much construction. we are grateful. mayor edwin m. lee: thank you for all of your great work at the bid as well. happy holidays! before it rains, i want to make sure you know this, i told you the world series will end the drought. so it's happening. congratulations, everyone. welcome to our pedestrian pop up place right here at union square. i want to begin by saying thank you to the union square merchants, the bid for working so closely with us but a very special thanks to manuela king whose vision and idea here really sparked this and you spent countless volunteer hours just visualizing how this could happen. i'm going to say just a special thank you because it's people like you in this business

that really care about what happens down here, what happens with our shops and will is -- also the experience that people should have as they shop here during the holidays. we have one of the most important transportation projects in the city's history and certainly in this modern history and this is our subway. i know all of you here have had a high level of tolerance when you have seen these gigantic cranes and hammers and that high degree of tolerance has been because they support the ultimate aim of the central subway project. it is our city's future, but also, in spite of that high tolerance as well, there has been some economic impact to

greater degree on many of the small businesses but all businesses around union square. so, instead of just saying sorry, sorry, sorry, i think the central subway team and bid and all of our partners that karen just named by seven by seven and grants for the arts as well as others came together and said, why don't we meet up with this challenge. why don't we do something about it. so of course a moratorium, do you hear any pounding? no. this should be sleighs and kids and coins, you know. that's the sound that we want to hear during these holidays is people having fun, listening to each other, greet each other, give each other warm holiday welcomes right here in union square. the moratorium is in effect for the next month. it is a

pause. it's been buttoned up. this is a time where we should be celebrating each other and uniting during these holidays with our families and our friends. part of this was to do that to announce the pause and the moratorium on this, the other was to create to kind of use this creative space that manuela had so dearly spent so much time visiting and i spent some time here last week and i was jumping up and down and we spent some serious dollars in our local stores. but we wanted to enjoy it ourselves before we announced it to get a feel for this. it's incredible with the lighting here and the open space. i think all of the stores recognized there was some ilo

-- love to be paid back with the construction. hopefully this is the part of it. the other part is that to really in vigor this entire city of ours with the enthusiastic initiative that we launched last week, shop and dine in the 49. that's why i got started early because i wanted to start to spend some money for my family and eating here. we are doing this because of the construction impact and another thing is to honor the stores and local businesses in san francisco. this is where you should spend that money, this is where that money will come back at you in return with a lot of jobs and local residents with having those jobs and people being happy to make some

extra bucks to afford this big ve expensive city. i'm going to be building a lot more and a lot of the affordability agenda is reflected in this transportation project. transportation is affordable in this city. it allows people in an affordable way to get around this entire city. so does more housing, so does parks and open space and so does working together with all of our small businesses and local businesses to ensure they have the economic foundation to pay the higher salaries that we are asking them and now legally requiring them to do within the next 3 years. with all of that i wanted to say with a great great deep thanks to all of the partners at the bid, the central subway team, the sf mta, our police department that is here to continue to have a

high level of safety for everyone. to my friends at dpw who i asked to pick up the extra trash cans here because people were having a lot of fun and didn't know where to put the the trash. we know where to put the trash. dpw, ed, muhammad. these holidays and what we are creating here is very significant for san francisco. people are coming from all over the world over the holidays as well as from chinatown, north beach, from taravel and sunset to have good reasons to be here. have a safe successful warm holidays. remember, rain is good. it's about prosperity to everyone, it's about world series too and to say again, whenever you come to this place, i just wanted you to know that

the people who created this space had in mind to bring lots more people together and thank and support all of our local businesses here in union square. we meet challenges, not with sad stories. in san francisco, just as they did 100 years ago when they did the panama pacific world fair exposition. we celebrate by meeting these challenges by innovation. is this park innovation? you got to say yes, it is. this spirit which i think will dominate all of our holidays. thank you. have a great holiday. thank you, everybody, for working together. [ applause ] >> as i have often said, two eds are better than one. here is the other ed working very hard. today we were together at the new improved san francisco mta's traffic

management center where we are trying to decongest our city and we are doing better and better with it as we get more data flowing through the city. ed reiskin and the head of the central subway project. [ applause ] >> thank you, mr. mayor. happy holidays! as the mayor said, first of all we are so delighted to be able to be a part of this. for anyone standing here just a few weeks ago, that stockton street could look this way is so unimaginable. central subway is such an incredible project for our city, for union square, a tremendous benefit it will bring but mainly the whole city, but we get there is disruption that doing a project of this magnitude is going to create with this city with

such vibrancy. what the union square president said, we understand the pain is worth the gain, but we get nonetheless that there is pain. we are very grateful for the partnership that we have with the union square bid and karen and her board and her staff. they do a great job in advocating for the needs of union square, making sure we are doing what we need to do to make the project as least disruptive as we can and about assured that she is quick to hold us to account anytime we are not. we'll continue to do that but this opportunity that the holiday moratorium presented with us to transform stockton street, not just back to how it was, but i would argue better than it was during this holiday period to really attract and invite people to come down here toen jo i --

enjoy the holidays with their family and friends and spend money and be very happy to be a part of. we will continue to support the businesses of san francisco. they are a lot of what brings the character of san francisco to our great city . in the transportation we want to do everything we can do and more with the mayor's direction to make sure people can get around with ease and safely. this year we are bringing the mission garages and put our transit only lanes around market and third so you can get to and from union square more easily and we have flywheel with all of our taxis and generally working

for those who want to shop and dine. i do 100 percent of of my shopping and dining here in san francisco. the last thing i will say is we want this holiday season to be a safe one. last year in december, we had a lot of people lose their lives just trying to get around the city of san francisco. the city has embraced a concept vision zero to achieve zero fatalities in the city. as we are out and about enjoying our great city and shopping and dining with the great businesses in san francisco, i encourage everyone to be safe. everybody, take your time and put your electronic devices down and particularly when you are behind the wheel so we can all enjoy

this great season. i would like to acknowledge john and his team who worked really hard with karen and her team. every time he would show me the rendering of this, he was giddy with excited as a school kid as exciting as those pile drivers that the mayor talked about which is an opportunity for us to transform such as important part of our city with great space. it's really a wonderful opportunity. we are grateful for it. i want to encourage everyone to keep coming out and keep spending your money and have a great holiday season. thank you. [ applause ] >> so, thank you again and so much and to your team, really for believing in us and buttoning up our streets in the last couple of weeks and presenting the wintering walk and and

mayor lee, thank you again for being here this evening for your kind words and for your support for this project. we really appreciate that. to all of our sponsors, thank you for your support and thank you for coming and with that we invite you to enjoy the rest of the season. we have food trucks. please enjoy the different options and please enjoy the lights here and if you join us at the hotel, that will begin in a short time. have a great holiday season. >> >>

>> good afternoon and welcome to a special meeting of thursday, december 4th, of the board of supervisors. neighborhood services and safety committee, my name is david campos and i am the chair and we are joined by committee vice chair, supervisor eric mar and we want to thank the clerk of the committee, derek evans as well as the following members of sfgtv staff, who are covering this meeting, jennifer low and jessy larson, with that, mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> thank you, mr. chair, make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic device and completed speaker cards to be included in the file should be submitted by the clerk, items acted upon today will