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after doing business in four to five 4 years in chinatown and politics for the last 35 years i want to make a fair statement based on this is mayor ed lee has helped the chinese community more than the last 3 former mayors so happy china new year thank you very much (clapping) okay. so what we're going to do next something that everyone likes doing shopping so mayor has agreed a to lead and down stockton to shake hands with the merchant so. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and thank you very much
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(clapping.) the airport it where i know to mind visions of traffic romance and excitement and gourmet can you limousine we're at san francisco inspirational airport to discover the award-winning concession that conspiracies us around the world. sfo serves are more 40 million travelers a year and a lot of the them are hungry there's many restaurant and nearly all are restaurant and cafe that's right even the airport is a diane designation. so tell me a little bit the food program at sfo and what makes this so special >> well, we have a we have food
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and beverage program at sfo we trivia important the sustainable organic produce and our objective to be a nonterminal and bring in the best food of san francisco for our passengers. >> i like this it's is (inaudible) i thank my parents for bringing me here. >> this the definitely better than the la airport one thousand times better than. >> i have a double knees burger with bacon. >> i realize i'm on a diet but i'm hoping this will be good. >> it total is san francisco experience because there's so many people and nationalities in this town to come to the airport
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especially everyone what have what they wanted. >> are repioneering or is this a model. >> we're definitely pioneers and in airport commemoration at least nationally if not intvrl we have many folks asking our our process and how we select our great operators. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the food option in san francisco airport are phenomenal that's if it a lot of the airports >> yeah. >> you don't have the choice. >> some airports are all about
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food this is not many and this particular airport are amazing especially at the tirnl indicating and corey is my favorite i come one or two hours before my flight this is the life. >> we definitely try to use as many local grirnts as we can we use the goat cheese and we also use local vendors we use greenly produce they summarize the local soured products and the last one had 97 percent open that. >> wow. >> have you taken up anything unique or odd here. >> i've picked up a few things
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in napa valley i love checking chocolates there's a lot of types of chocolate and caramel corn. >> now this is a given right there. >> i'm curious about the customer externals and how people are richmond to this collection of cities you've put together not only of san francisco food in san francisco but food across the bay area. >> this type of market with the local savors the high-end products is great. >> i know people can't believe they're in an airport i really joy people picking up things for their friends and family and wait i don't have to be shopping now we want people take the opportunity at our location.
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>> how long has this been operating in san francisco and the late 18 hours it is one of the best places to get it coffee. >> we have intrrnl consumers that know of this original outlet here and come here for the coffee. >> so let's talk sandwiches. >> uh-huh. >> can you tell me how you came about naming our sandwiches from the katrero hills or 27 years i thought okay neighborhood and how do you keep it fresh you can
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answer that mia anyway you want. >> our broadened is we're going not irving preserves or packaged goods we take the time to incubate our jogger art if scratch people appreciate our work here. >> so you feel like out of captured the airport atmosphere. >> this is its own the city the airline crews and the bag handlers and the frequent travels travelers and we've established relationships it feels good. >> when i get lunch or come to eat the food i feel like i'm not city.
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i was kind of under the assumption you want to be done with our gifts you are down one time not true >> we have a lot of regulars we didn't think we'd find that here at the airport. >> people come in at least one a week for that the food and service and the atmosphere. >> the food is great in san francisco it's a coffee and i took an e calorie home every couple of weeks. >> i'm impressed i might come here on my own without a trip, you know we have kids we could get a babysitter and have diner at the airport. >> this is a little bit of things for everybody there's plenty of restaurant to grab
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something and go otherwise in you want to sit you can enjoy the experience of local food. >> tell me about the future food. >> we're hoping to bring newer concepts out in san francisco and what our passengers want. >> i look forward to see what your cooking up (laughter) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> today we've shown you the only restaurant in san francisco from the comfortableing old stand but you don't have to be hungry sfo has changed what it is like to eat another an
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airport check out our oblige at tumbler dating.com >> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were
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a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features. >> the playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that
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the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties >> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp >> and we are sending a strong message that san francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay. >> this park is open.
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♪ you all here to do what they do everyday they should be resting but a huge thanks to all of you without further ado we a map that needs no introduction the father of the chief mayor ed lee. (clapping.) >> thank you. good morning everyone. >> morning. >> well, i'm glad to help mohammed and all the wonderful department heads and volunteers
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and labor organizations as well as community organizations to really start the year to not only clean up but we do more than clean up; right? we biff our neighborhoods. (clapping.) >> i want to say thank you to all the young kids that are out with us today, we're going to be working with us we want to make sure our city it cleaned up for them yeah. (clapping) i also wanted to make sure that psyche i didn't right here is part of the effort we've got students performs with us he's wear the right colors because his colors also mean world series teamwork. >> (clapping.) so i want to say thank you we're n a world-class city a world series champion city and
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hopefully very soon our nba champion city and the superb 50 next year the arraign we're a world-class city everybody cares cares about our city supervisor kim's is is great champion not only for the beautification of every alleyway as mohammed said one hundred and 50 thousand volunteer hours since 2000 we have some thirty thousand plant that have been 34r5e7bd throughout even though city as a result of clean city 3 million square feet of graft abatement and i know that because i got one million of them and i got it on the same signal box i know a million square feet that's a
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square block i want to say thank you to the community groups you're helping not only to help clean the city and getting volunteers young people as well as people that point careers and good jobs to work with you dpw and all the associate agency rec and park and all those departments are part of our youth hiring organization we use the most basically teams of respectfully the city to recruit our youths and you'll see many of them grew up into career jobs in all our department i want to shout out to the police department who is here all the time (clapping) and i want everybody to know as you pan out we're all working together a strong collaboration
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among the agencies but the most more collaboration is with our community and the people that live here no matter where your from (clapping) we keep that in everything so i want to say thank you to everybody keep collaborating and working together and make that city a world-class city thank you very much (clapping.) how about another big hand for our mayor (clapping.) okay you know about the giant sweep you heard a little bit about the golden sweep the golden warriors coming here the next person i'm going to introduce and asked her to make a commitment 3 of all the clean
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up event had are required that the supervisor of that district show up and provide leadership and tells you the projects they want to get done and together all of us the city departments and volunteers we have the commitment to detective get it done please well, the president of the board of supervisors london breed (clapping.) good morning, everybody. i'll be brief i want you to spend more time working than listening to us when i was growing up in the city my exploratorium would clean up the in front of the place we the next day would be trash and she'd clean it up i said momma why do you keep cleaning up she would maybe they if at the see
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me they won't do it we're celebrating 15 years of consistent clean up our streets (clapping) this town was not this big 15 years ago (clapping) so when you're out there cleaning up and taking care of which our amazing city just remember people are watching and people may want to join us next year i'm committed allocates the president of the board of supervisors to make sure we continue to come out and support in event we continue to make sure that dpw as the resources it needs to not only keep our city clean up but to keep it beautiful so thank you all so much for coming i look forward to seeing you out there taking care of our amazing city and have fun out there (clapping). >> all right. i promise you all this is short one more person you need to hear from the
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person in favor of the city and the public works works with very closely to address the concerns in the district we are in district 6 and the supervisor of district 6 supervisor jane kim please welcome her she's going to say a few words (clapping) this is the 15 year anniversary from district to district we're going to acknowledge a few of the folks that are with us in san francisco so if you're not one of the four today your on the list and next week we'll be in chptd and from chinatown in the sunset and all over san francisco if you're not iron of the recipients of the award today, we'll 2r50i to keep this short supervisor jane kim. >> thank you mohammed. >> i also is the department head the department of public
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works is the real mayor of san francisco (laughter) which means our mayor was mayor before and how amazing is this is we have a mayor that didn't just come to clean up as a photo op but spend his time cleaning up the alleys and streets of san francisco mayor ed lee (clapping) we did give a shout out to the san francisco police department i have to recognize cantonese captain cherniss who is here (clapping) you all know him he heads the tenderloin police station and their police officers also personally clean the streets in san francisco so thank you for doing that (clapping) 0 over 20 years ago actually in 1994 a group of young people in chinatown that noticed their alleyways were not clean so they
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started doing research and knows there's a difference between streets and alleys and what's the responsibility of the city yet no one was taking care of the alleys they personally went out and cleaned the alleyways and published them in local newspapers to shame the adults the property owners and the restaurant owners and the merchant and city in taking care of the alleyways in the same way we are 10 years ago this program hired me this is the second annual community set up in san francisco while the work has expanded dpw has worked with them and you'll the neighborhood clean our streets and alleyway program south of market for example i want to thank you all for your work many of us get to go homes and schools and after-school programs there are
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actually people paid to clean whether it's a hall of school but that if mean we trash our schools and hallways or homes even though people are paid to clean up it is your home and this is our city our home it's our responsibility to keep this beautiful so in the new year actually many residents of the city particularly those from asian and asian-american cultural have a tradition we do a clean sweep and beautification of our homes to kind of the start we're doing f this this year why 2015 so thank you for coming out today to beautify your home i get - you can clap our if are 0 yourselves i get to
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present as 234rd 4 awards to relocation four people that did this in our neighborhood in chinatown i got to know south of market the youth organization doing the work working with our alleyways and streets this is the united players so players (clapping.) the south of market of market they're using young people to clean the parks and alleyways through the south of market every that week not just once a year (clapping). >> we would like to ask the - oh we'll do it after second you will notice that we have some newportable public
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toilets in the tenderloin so i want to bring our private partners up that made that happen that's the clean city coalition please come up here (clapping) you'll see their men and women cleaning the streets on every day but they also get to monitor our public restrooms come on up here you'll see them everyday and monitoring our rooms that are assessable to everyone (clapping) would you think that steam cleaning requests by over 1/3rd saving 6 thousand plus gallons of water every month thank you (clapping.) >> next the next group we want to bring up someone that actually worked with our young
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people noting that live in streets that provides employment they're here volunteering on a regular basis the larkin street program (clapping) all right. >> thank you okay. thank you and they're moving to they're new home on golden state we're excited about that and finally a partner in all our district and neighborhood we call upon them probably everyday we have ecology we have mark that is going to share a few words (clapping) in support of our community event. >> i think we have a new
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department here (laughter) good morning, everyone on behalf of the ecology employees i'm honored to receive this recognize i'm sure you're aware of the ecology was not the original founder we're so proud of that sponsorship but proud to have a work side by side with the volunteers and of the departments to keep this city clean we or so blessed with beautiful buildings and open spaces but frankly litter and gash and graffiti it is becoming something that is an goobl to be able to enjoy the beauty so thank you so much for your work and all who visit here and live here enjoy the beautiful surrounding thank you. >> all right. are we ready to go to work.
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>> yeah. >> are we lead to go to work so, please work safely if you see something you don't shouldn't be touching don't touch it if you have doubt ask someone with a vest on the team and today, we have over 20 teams out there working ask a supervisor the supervisor is there to help take care of you and make sure you have a safe experience and as we also do for 15 years strong after the clean up we come back and break bread that gives us time to share stories and meet new friends so, please enjoy our day work safely. >> thank you very much everyone thank you, thank you
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