not only about the money but leading with the heart and the personal commitment that cases everything 80 everybody to truly say i want to give and be a part of that that is what the effective board do you get the chief on it he didn't go to a lot of boards 234i8s they're truly there he has to be on the ground doing good work i'll glad with we have allocate members the community i've encouraged them to be the members of the board of directors because it heeds leads not when you become successful but where your matter is first and when you lead like that your successful this is my way of saying to doris and the kids of

the family your gone good really good for the city we feel it and appreciate that the way we horn honor it is that kids when you and your friends gain friendships and the relationships we want to have with the willie maze in the mission area and all the other clubhouses that when you're ready we're going to do our job and create those jobs for you in the city you're going to have the best jobs you'll have the character building and you'll have the friends of mine and relationships then you're getting the skill stewart's sets one of the lovely things about this place. >> have to design thinking studio what is that going to do more for our kids to welcome them in and when you're ready we're going to be ready we're going to welcome you going into the best jobs the world can have

right here in san francisco that's my job to make sure that i get thousands of jobs for you that's the reward we get because london and i know that is better to be in here than in a car being a victim of something that happens you can't control that's why we've got to get the word out here is better than most places you'll feel the love of the city like don and doris and the entire family with that background and that commitment i want to present rob to you and to the board of directors on behalf of the city that this is an appropriate time to declare this to be don fisher clubhouse day in san francisco. (clapping.)

>> okay. thelation thing originating a granted shot so the staff is helping me someone is moving the podium i think carl maybe james and tom you can help tom?

maria sue is the director for the department of the youth we've been leader and maria urge in the photo everyone in the front right now is in the photo and i believe derrick is in it and correct me if i am wrong thank you. >> are we doing a count down. >> 3 2 1. >> clap your hands. >>

>> i am jim lazarus with the chamber of commerce co-chairing the outreach effort as we transition to gross receipts. thank you for being here. this has been a huge effort for many years. in fact from the business community interest goes back decades with our ongoing concern that you don't tax job creation. you tax economic success and although the city is limited -- cities and counties are lipted in california on the income side gross receipts is as close as we can get to a tax structure that allows us to tax

economic activity and growth rather than jobs and certainly in this economy now when we made other steps to move job creation forward even with the payroll tax in place this is going to be a great transition as businesses look at their tax liabilities under the payroll tax transition the remaining four, and five years to a full gross receipts tax. supervisor christensen here today and members of the mayor's staff and the tax collector's office and the controller's office that really made this possible during years of work, research and many, many months two years ago of negotiations that lead to the successful ballot measure so it's our pleasure representing part of the business community to be here and now the manufacturing community. >> so kate sous executive director and co-chair. i think

creating this program was a great pleasure and a accomplishment when we worked on this together with kindred spirits and finance and tourism and hotel sectors and really brought all of the folks together around the same table including labor intensive businesses and manufacturers and i am proud about that and businesses that are labor intensive and manufacturers and those businesses this is a celebration and affirmation that san francisco is open for small business and manufacturing, and i couldn't be more excited about the kind of base this builds for us as a city to continue to have these kinds of businesses start, stay and grow in san francisco so without further adieu i would like to introduce our hero of the day mayor ed lee.

[applause] >> i have been called many names before but not hero. thank you. i was just walking in i was persuading jose to come over on this side because this group is about the people who generate the revenue and that group is about the people that spend the revenue. i am so glad to be here with all of the names announced and supervisors as well with the small business commission, our sf made movement and of course our chamber. today is all about great news. this is the first we've actually completed a full year of our new gross receipts business tax as opposed to what both jim and kate described already and the job punishing payroll tax from before and it's a milestone. i

said three years ago when we were putting proposition e i think of the alphabet, to convince everybody this was going to be better and scott you know for small businesses you create a million dollar exemption. that is pretty good and supportive and i know mary and everybody else here knows that we have been and wanting to make sure that we reflected our support for all of our small businesses while we change a tax structure that really inintized job creation. i am still passionate as three years ago about getting good jobs out there and as we see the innovation going on in our city combined with i think the investor confidence that we have in the business community we're seeing a huge surge in job creation. we can then make sure on the promises to our youth that they're really going to

have a good time if they stay with us and continue their education and by the way businesses is investing in education as well at the same time, and so is our great successful business leaders that you've heard this past week and too and philanthropy is also on the great rise and this is all part of that great story that a business friendly, investor friendly city can be a city that exemplifies its prosperity and equalizes everybody's live r life here and whether it's education and housing and the greatest jobs to produce. i want to give a personal thanks that this year's success first of all has in large part has to do with early meetings that we had with our treasurer, jose cisneross and combined with great financial minds in the

city and ben rosenfield and ted eagon and ted is here and he had the very difficult task joining with a whole team going around the entire city as i recall ted because i asked you to report back to us what was the business community saying big and small and he would have this group meeting and this meeting and this group would have so many cautious things about changing the business tax and the chamber weighed in and so many other groups that we were concerned about. industries that are all important to us and we had to weave together a collaborative reform that invited everybody to the table, and said not only set -- said it but demonstrated we didn't want to lose any major industry in the city. the other thing we were informed of and came through in all of the meetings as a result of this was that they told the treasurer and told us you got to make it

easy. you got to make it workable for everyone. if you have a complicated tax system even if you claim it will be helpful that's not going to be that helpful to everybody, and this is where i want to just really single out that this past year jose and his entire staff are to be congratulated because if you go on that website as i have done and we were here personally and walking me through, and by the way i am one of the few folks that still does my own taxes, and you know why i do my own taxes? because i'm not an asset rich individual like you all here so that's why it's easy to do my taxes. it's a one pageer and i had to do that with the website and it's just as easy and we're getting kudos for it and easy to navigate and it

was so easy and called out for one of the examples of innovation by our governor jerry brown and said this is the stuff you have to do in our cities to be successful. have that innovation and technology support from the group with us. have their commitment to be easy for all of the taxpayers, and then the benefits of this transition will be that much more felt so i want to give a hearty thanks to jose and his crew. i know he is dedicated in many ways to make our city succeed and on the cusp of education and certainly educating our immigrants and all of our under privileged that they can our financial education that he wants to help them be even more successful, so he's much more than our treasurer tax collector. he's been showing a great heart they think goes along with all of our city

employees. they always have a chance to demonstrate for more than what the job calls for and that's why we have such a great city and i want to say thank you to you and your staff. thank you to what you have done to make it easy for everybody and your commitment being engaged with our community, not just the business community, but i will tell you without this strong relationship that we are developing with our business community you won't get creative jobs. you won't get good conversations about investing in education, investing in our hospitals, investing in our communities, strong neighborhoods. all of that wouldn't happen unless there was a strong belief in our collaborative spirit in the city so i am very happy to just sarks announcing this on valentines weekend and everybody make sure you grab a cookie and chew your way to a good heart and we announce this has been a very good successful launch of

ongoing relationship we want to continue having with our business community so that we can create the kinds of local jobs that katie and scott and everybody wants to have in this city continue making a great city. thank you for being here today. [applause] >> i will introduce the treasurer tax collector jose cisneros. >> thank you mr. mayor. thank you so much for your kind words and your dedication and your partnership on launching this important new tax. as you mentioned mayor prop e was passed over two years ago, and i am here to report to you and to the entire city of san francisco that we are now at the point we can say we have successfully deliver the gross tax receipts system on time and on budget. [applause] so believe me a lot of people deserve credit for that success

and i will be honest it's not an easy road. our previous tax system was not just built to accommodate this kind of a measure and therefore we executed an agreement for a new tax system which configured almost all of our taxes including the new gross receipts tax. i would really like to recognize our great vendors on the project who are us today and let's acknowledge them for their great work. thank you so much. [applause] and last year in march we implemented one of the first important steps, the quarterly installments for the new business tax, which replaced a system we had for many years of mailing out prepayment quarterly bills and a huge change communicated to 95,000 business taxpayers and they complied and in april of last year we rolled out a change to the annual business registration fees for all registered business in the city. this was a large change

for all taxpayers and important for the city to bring in money during the year we're for implementation purposes. the collections of the business registration's fees were designed to increase from $8 million to $38 million and our businesses complied and we hit that target nearly exactly. so before taxpayers even file for the gross receipts tax now at the end of the year the new tax approved by voters brought in over $30 million to the city coffers. during the process we had many of the concerns that the mayor talked about that we needed to know what was in the new law and we worked with the mayor's office of economic development and others to implement the most aggressive outreach strategy around a tax

measure. this measure took an eacial of people to accomplish from the tax team in the city attorney's office and thank you to them. our experts at 311 and thank you nancy. the city administrator's office for hiring support and the controller's office and the mayor's office team and of course i am surrounded by the business community that never relented with their involvement making sure that the measure got passed and now engaged making sure it's implemented fairly and correctly in a way that people understand. i want to thank jim and kate and all of the tax advisory members for your guidance and help getting the word out. folks like jan at the apartment association brought many more requirements and obligations to the members of her community and we're grateful for the partnership to make the transition as smooth as possible but i don't want to in any way

forget the folks that took care of the lion's share of this and the staff from the tax controller's office and stand and be recognized. [applause] they have done the lion's share of this work and implementing this measure and i wouldn't be a good tax collector that the deadline is coming up and due and all returns must be filed and taxes paid by march 2 of this year. it's usually by the end of february mr. mayor, but that falls on a weekend so this year it's march 2, and i want to make sure that nobody misses that or at least file for an extension because we want to see anybody in compliance and with that i want to thank you for your time and introduce why neata from the city administrator's office. [applause] >> hello. i am the program

manager of the community challenge grant program and i am really here to encourage and ask that businesses check that box at the bottom of their tax forms designating 3% to the community challenge grant program. the program is also known and on the forms it's known as the neighborhood beautification and graffiti clean up fund. we provide grant toss organizations and nonprofits and residents and businesses to implement various greening and beautification projects in their neighborhood. many parks, community gardens, gathering spaces, and sidewalk and landscaping and public art just to name a few so with the 3% we can fund these projects throughout the city and i am sure a lot of you have already seen many of them around and you will know what this money we can continue to do so. thank you. [applause]

>> tell people how to file. >> well, then this actually concludes it. thank you so much for coming out this afternoon and remember to file by march 2. thanks. [applause] 3, 2, 1 (clapping). >> (clapping) good afternoon, everybody let's rise let's have a revolution. (clapping.) i'm here with many of our sisters that are going to

welcome you to to and welcome to is revolution today not yesterday not tomorrow today. >> (clapping). >> in february we rise in country hundreds of countries around the world to show wasn't one boil women and girls looks like we want to shine a light we want to shine a light on the impunity and i think justice that survivors and offenders often face we're here today to start the revolution here in san francisco we rise. >> (clapping). >> we rise through dance to express our joy and communicated and celebrate the fact we've not been dpaetsdz by the violence

only made stronger. >> (clapping). >> we rise to show we're determined to create a new kind of consciousness one where violence obey resisted until it is unthinkable. >> (clapping). >> i'm so honored to be here i want to welcome everyone my name is the white house of the domestic violence consortium welcome to the revolution we want to start with our first speaker being from the first nation community i want to start with the first people that were in san francisco i want to start with the first nation community i want to welcome our first spectator mr. flores from the pit river nation.

>> my name is fy lemon flores i'm with the indians education program title vii welcome to san francisco welcome to the revolution >> (speaking foreign language.) >> welcome to the revolution >> (speaking foreign language.) >> all my relation thank you. (clapping.) >> >> (speaking foreign language.)

>> (cheering) i'm with came on house. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (cheering). >> i'm emily from the san francisco dependent on the status of women.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> (cheering). >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (cheering). >> (speaking foreign language.) >> filipino and san francisco. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> >> (speaking foreign language.) >> freedom free.

>> i'm from san francisco. >> hi. >> my name is merriam. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> my name is north america did care with the foundation welcome to the san francisco revolution push on. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> that was just a small and beautiful sampling of over one hundred and 20 languages spoken in san francisco so thank you any sisters i really appreciate it (clapping) and when we talk about

revolution we have to talk about leadership revolution is moving leadership forward you have to have leadership and political will we'll talk about leadership today, i have to say i want to welcome my supervisor a great leaders on this issue of commonwealth and housing and on so many issues the new board of supervisors president supervisor london breed. >> thank you. >> hi, everybody it is so great to see so many smiling faces here today i know that this is a time to celebrate and time to be happy by the way we're standing strong against violence against women and girls. (clapping.) >> sadly there are too many

people who are not smiling twrom people that are victims in the hiding in the studios and seeing how large this event continues to grow gives me the reassurance that in the future there will be more women here standing strong and more women coming out and saying i need help and support help me to change my life for thought better (clapping.) we it is our responsibility to let victims of crimes know that they have a support system they have policies that will change that will make their lives better we have to continue to push and sigh no more no more victims no more violence if our community and no more violence against young girls and women very have to have a