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six years she became a big sister and i learned so much from her about what it means to be genuine about your work to have so much integrity to be completely honest. she is so fiercely smart and i just again hope i live up to all that she was able to do for sunset district. to my campaign team him up i want to thank of course i don't know if they're still here but marge on the lower my fundraiser and her team. she had a baby during my first election. i couldn't even tell. she was just as funny to me around the clock just one of the hardest workers i've ever met. along with her team. of course, maggie and i met my campaign managers. they're both you and michael feinstein kevin hennigan patricia martin megan pratt think you so much. either motor watching on tv. of course, we have in our present the auto mall whose old former district supervisor. they do so much. i have some really

wonderful ladies to look up to who served in this capacity. again i want to semi-things to all the department heads i know you're back at work but thank you very much. and of course all of my friends my childhood friends my girlfriends who were able to make it out here today who support me throughout my life and you really mean so much to you me. sometimes i make fun of me and my gosh you're spending time or hanging out and i think of course. you are what makes me normal and makes me feel normal and i would never give up any of my friendships. of course i want to thank my interns.. all they can and do our work without all of you. their incredible and just a minute i start off as an intern never imagining that i would be here right now in this position. so, watch out you never know. two, of course my parents and my family. my best friend sitting here in the second row here. my mom and dad.

my cousin teresa who i grew up with and my sister put her husband stephen, my partner justin. and i would just say that i've mentioned this before, but it's really difficult our jobs but it's even harder for our partners. to have to tell them every tuesday i'm not sure what time i'm going to come home. i'm not to join you for dinner. so, thank you so much justin for everything you've done. his parents who are also here thank you so much. they cook dinner for me sometimes. i know i'm so busy. they've such had been incredible support. i really want to thank them so much. so, again i want to congratulate all of the newly reelected supervisor. our new supervisor supervisor christiansen. congratulate pres. read and forward to serving in this capacity and making san francisco even better than it is today. thank you very much. >> [applause] >>thank you supervisor and now

i'd like to acknowledge our new colleagues, supervisor julie christiansen representing district 3. >> [applause] >>pres. reed, thank you. my colleagues, thank you for your warm welcome. i'm grateful also to city hall staff and the mayor's staff angela peggy and the: all people taking me through food processor of the last couple of days. for 20 years, i've been standing on that side of this rail with adding my comments to three minutes or less. i am going to try to stick with that first long as i can as a supervisor. it is actually this rail that's most on my mind today. i've been on that side since the mid-90s. asking the people on

this side to support what i wanted to do and to get help to the people of district 3. now i'm in decide. people will be asking my help and i take that that responsibility very seriously. it is also important i think, the other people that have joined us on this side of the rail they are not just here for this extra space for chairs. these are the people that enable all of us to do what we do and probably it's the other people sitting on this side that know what this means to my husband and i to my sister, to my colleagues in adventure in the neighborhood to my dear friends because you can't do this without that kind of support. i am also grateful to the constituents of district 3 web goaded me on in this and of provided such support. i thought it was silly for crane but now i see how this works.

there's the moment [inaudible] has just landed on my shoulders. there's a lot of speculation about who i am. in the world that i lived in for the past 20 years in neighborhood advocacy, political labels don't mean much. people are judged by their goals and about their success in achieving those goals and those are the labels that i've been proud to amass and working for the people of district 3 in a volunteer capacity. i have worked primarily on litigations. i worked on public realm issues and libraries, and parks, on street safety and transportation, things that make it possible for the people in district 3 to live in the cozy crowded way that they do. now that i'm on this side of the rail, my responsibility are much broader. my obligations more numerous. i understand that in our district we have a lot of vulnerable people who fight to stay there. the best

thing about our district is that its density and diversity and in order for it to remain this way, we have to protect the people that live in that neighborhood. and allowing people to remain in their homes and threatened by speculative deductions, allowing friends to be manage in such a way that people can be confident that they can remain in the neighborhood they love, this is very important to the people of my district and i understand that is job one. that is clear to me. i have worked with the most vulnerable, with the families and the seniors who use our parks and libraries and user public spaces and i know that they need some comfort and reassurance in their life. i am on it. i know we need to improve transit in district 3 so that not only can we live there but we can actually come and go. i think goals like this

are actually shared by all of us. i don't think anyone in city hall one cc seniors evicted from their homes or see especially our lower class and even our middle class neighbors to move out of the city. i work with a lot of cities workers in my volunteer capacity and i see them struggle to remain in the city that they serve. so, middle income housing is very important to me. it's true. but i think mayor lee chose me and him very very honored for the faith that he's put in me. i think he chose me not so much for what i think, but for how i think. with mayor lee investigation, consideration, communication, cooperation, are not clichés. they are a way of life. it's the way i try to live my life and the kind of supervisor i will try to be. i also grateful to mayor lee and combine out call colleagues on this board for the air of stability and maturity that they have brought to city hall.

and also to the air of accomplishment because i think when we are polarized, as we've seen in washington, as we've seen on a local level, when the powers that be start [inaudible] the people lose things don't get accomplished. i think the cooperation that this board has shown is a model for all of us and i look forward to being part of the solution and an illuminator of the problems. people have asked me a lot in the last 24 hours about how i feel about issues that are behind us, both that were taken stands that were taken. i have gotten a lot of questions about what i think is going to happen next november. i can assure you that right now i am focused on what is been in between those things, not what

happened in the past, not what is going to happen in several months but on what i can do next week and the week after and the month after that to earn the trust that's been placed in me by the mayor and by the people of my district. district 3 voters are smart. they are engaged. they are vocal. they know their neighborhoods are concerned about them. they know the difference between power plays and the power of ideas. and they know the difference between rhetoric and results. i am for results. people know me. i said goals, i achieve them even went and maybe especially when, they're difficult. so, thank you for your warm welcome and i look forward to working with you in the future. >> [applause] >> thank you supervisor christiansen and welcome to the board of supervisors. now, i'd like to acknowledge our continuing supervisors getting with supervisor avalos from district 11.

>> i don't have to put my name on the roster actually. i will be very brief. i just want to say welcome to the christiansen welcome to the board of survived supervisors and i'm very excited about what you've already done and the energy you bring here as well. i look forward to working with you. to all my colleagues who just recently got reelected, congratulations on your reelection and again i also have had great experience working with all of you and look forward to continuing that effort as well. this year i really want to be focused on how we can work together to deal with our affordability crisis in the city. i think it's a plan needs to be put in

place and we need all our offices to work as much together to deal with this as much as we can. i have seen san francisco change before my eyes over the past three or four years and yes, we do have a lot of young people in san francisco and we've also lost a lot of young people in san francisco as well and i want to see a we can make sure that the widening disparities in wealth that we are seeing can be closed and that we can share what we actually are able to generate as well. with as many people as possible and that we can actually tell people to maintain their wealth as much as we can as well. often, in district 11 in district 10, district 4, in the southern part of san francisco, a lot of the wealth of work and him as middle-class families that are in their homes and i don't think we taken on the issue of how to help people deal with

distressed mortgages even in today's climate right now. of the real estate boom. where there are still people struggling that we need to look at. so, it's also building middle income housing but it's also supporting middle-class people to maintain their housing. as well. he made great work together. a dancing worker rights in the city. the passage of the minimum wage law last year that supervisor kim helped to lead with the mayor into many groups on the city is something that has been unprecedented across the country. people actually overlook san francisco for what we've done. it's that type of work that we need to continue to do to make sure that we are making san francisco an easy place to live. i look forward to working with all of you in this effort in the year to come. thank you. >> [applause] >> thank you supervisor autoload. now i'd like to a college supervisor from district 9, supervisor david campos. >> thank you. thank you mdm. pres. and again congratulations on your election. i also want to thank supervisor tank lighting just stepped out and thank her for her leadership

and the guidance she has provided this board in the last few weeks. it is greatly appreciated. you know, swearing in a pretty exciting and i just want to congratulate all my colleagues from district 2, four, six, 10, all of the families who are here and the love ones. i think that being a member of the board of supervisors is the most amazing job in the world. it's a crazy job in many respects as well, but it's truly an honor to be in these positions so congratulations. i also want to congratulate newly appointed supervisor christiansen. welcome to the board of supervisors. we look forward to working with you. again, mdm. pres., to you, i know that every member of this board is committed to working with you to make sure that we move

forward the agenda of the county of san francisco. san francisco is truly the greatest city in the world. it's a very special place. in all the positives and good things that have been said about san francisco and where we are today, and very true. but it is also because i love the city so much that i think it's important for us to provide some context for where we are right now. yes, we have a great deal of job creation. we have more wealth and week that we have seen in san francisco in who knows how long. but even the san francisco chronicle not necessarily a paragon of forward progressive thinking, pointed out not too long ago that san francisco has inequality that parallels the inequality of central america, of africa. if we weren't independent country and our inequality was tracked by the united nations it would be right up there with wanda in

terms of the level of inequality between the haves and have-nots. in this country. so, that wealth and prosperity that we are talking about is not a wealth and prosperity that is flowing down to most san franciscans. right now the city only has four percent african-american population and in places like chinatown district 3 which is seen a great deal prosperity, in chinatown on employment is higher than it is in other parts -- in the city as a whole. so, we do have an issue and i think that the rosy picture that has been painted is in many respects true but it's only partial picture. so, it is important for us to recognize that unless we change

course in something different be done, that we will find ourselves in a situation where san francisco will not only will no longer have not a lower class, but a middle-class. that's where we are today. i think that part of the challenge is that a great deal of what's happened in san francisco and specifically in this building in my view respectfully has left out the voice of most working middle income low income san franciscans. they may not have the ability to pay a lobbyist to come here and speak for them and their voices are being left out. it is for those san franciscans that the city is becoming less affordable. you know, i was as the hearing the meeting was proceeding i got a text from my husband who gave me the good news that our heater had been fixed. and try living without heat in san francisco in this weather for the last few days. but the fact is that we are lucky that we have a roof over our head. there are so many people that don't have in the city of st.

francis a place to sleep. can you imagine surviving on the streets of san francisco? when we know it's cold in the chamber let alone how it is outside. have a great deal of work to do and i think that we as a board have a responsibility to make sure that when we talk about prosperity that we talk about prosperity that includes all of us. not a prosperity that is a prosperity that is leading the vast majority of people behind. that is the prosperity that we have in san francisco today. i will end with a great deal of gratitude to my staff because i think that they deserve the credit for all the amazing work that we have done. i know that for us this next year will be committed as we have been committed for the last few years to addressing this inequality. to addressing this gap between the haves and

have-nots. and i know that we will continue to push the envelope even when it's not popular to push it. on that note i'm going to address an issue that was raised earlier. that is about a proposal that i just announced and i will be introducing next week. it comes from a very simple idea that everyone should play by the same rules. that even a $13 billion corporation should do what every single small business and every single resident of san francisco does and that is the radically, pay their taxes. the issue of whether companies like [inaudible] should pay their taxes before their business operations are legalized is an issue that came before the board and there was a close vote, 6-5 on that very issue. well, the deciding vote at that

point was the district 3 supervisor. we have a new district 3 supervisor. and this new district 3 supervisor, like the rest of us will have the opportunity to vote. i hope that the vote reflects what i hope is true in san francisco. that no matter how well connected a company is, no matter how many how much put in political contributions are made, that they still have to play by the same rules as everyone. so, i will be, as this new board takes over, introducing legislation next week that will simply require that the implementation of any law is predicated on companies actually paying their taxes. we believe that they are already required to use a good our city treas. issued a statement to that effect. and to the extent

that there's any question about whether someone has pay taxes, we believe that city law allows our elected officials including the city treas., to say whether not taxes have been paid. we don't believe that any law is needed for us to hear directly from him on that point. but to the extent that new law is needed, we are also introducing a change to existing law so that the treasure can be reported to the taxpayers of the city and county county of san francisco with their taxes have been paid, or where they have been out. to that end will also be calling for a hearing so that we can hear directly from our city treas. in public and all of the agencies that are involved to address the very simple issue in san francisco do corporations get to play by special rules, or all of us required to follow along. thank you. >>,

> [applause] >> thank you supervisor compos. now i would like to recognize my colleagues from district 1, supervisor eric march. >> thank you president breed. i'll be a short as i can. i want to first congratulate billy christiansen family and all the committee-based organizations whose work with. i'm looking forward to the approach of goal setting and action and results that you've set. i also want to thank supervisor compos and autos and kim for raising the concerns of the growing inequality and misplacement in the addictions that are going on in our communities. i know supervisor christiansen also address that as well. i think were poised with a new president lyndon breed, as a proto-board leadership from the first african-american woman to lead this board, from a person that came from plaza east and strong

grassroots in the community to become the president of a board , the greatest city that i think ever was or will be, not just because of the giant but because of all of you and what you do in our communities every day but it's an honor to be serving with our new president and in breed as well. i also want to say that to the even number your supervisors, it's great to hear all of the goals that are set out on a day like today. big knowledge meant and love of family members and colleagues and then really the credit given to the hard-working staff that make us look good or bad sometimes but i think it's the work that you do every day that really makes the reels the wheels of this building work in addition to the great department heads and their staff as well. but i want to thank the even year supervisor colleagues for their great comments as well. willie quickly, for my work in this coming year, i think focusing on

the economic justice issues that others have brought up, the implementation of the raising of the minimum wage, the strongest in this country, but also addressing the result workers bill of rights and working conditions of many of our retail workers, young and old workers as well as critical. working on transportation justice issues in transportation, policy is critical for this coming year supervisor and former president tang mentioned passage of the bond is critical but we also need other revenue that we identify with our transportation 2030 committee. some looking forward not to just make each of the cities core is taking care but also the outside land of the richmond district of sunset and the outer areas are really covered and that we have rapid networks not just on dennis and yuri but also in the southeast parts of the city as well. so i think that's critical for transportation justice and transportation systems in general. to the many community-based groups from the richmond district and the leaders that a company as well, i know that will be focusing an agenda as we move forward in the next year and two years.

for richmond district but also as we as a outside land district play a role in making the city even greater for all of our neighborhoods and districts with that congratulations president breed welcome supervisor christiansen and thank you everyone for being here today. thank you. >> [applause] >> thank you supervisor mark. now, for this great supervisor from district 7, supervisor norman yee. >> [applause] >> thank you president breed. i wanted to do page out of the supervisor christiansen's note here which is short and concise. thank you very much and congratulations to being appointed and am looking forward to working working with you and the rest of the colleagues here. this is really exciting for me mainly because,

again, like some of my colleagues here i started out two years ago and didn't know what i was doing. at this point it seems like i've learned quite a bit in three years. i have seen some of the fruit of my efforts and my staff's efforts in regards to what we want to do for our agenda. and it's really gratifying to hear the rest of my colleagues here talking about their goals and so forth. because we have so much common areas to work on that i believe that what ever i saw in two years for the last two years, the next two years i will see very accelerated rate of accomplishments on this board. so i don't want to go on and on. i just want to graduate really today is about the president, the new president thank you very much. president breed. she is stepping up to the podium and leading us to the next two years and thank you supervisor tank for taking over for that short period of time to make sure