>> it has been amazing. the people have been so gracious and so supportive of what we're doing. the energy here is fantastic with so many couples getting married. it's just been an absolutely fantastic experience, so wonderful. >> by the power vested in me, i declare you spouses for life. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> to actually be able to get married and be a part of this time in history and time in our history is amazing. >> this is a momentous occasion for us to be able to actually have this opportunity to have equal rights. >> we have been together for 14 years. everyone is so welcoming. it's been all set up and people have guided us from step to step.

it's been easy. there was live music. people are so friendly and excited. so excited for us. >> it's really great. >> yeah. >> and salvador is party a here to known as party a. >> on the out it looks pretty simple. you come in, you made your appointment. you pay. you go here for your license. you got there to get married. you go there if you want to purchase a certified copy. behind the scenes, there was just this monumental just mountain of work, the details into everything that we had to do and we quickly realized that we were not ready to issue the numbers of licenses that people are anticipating that we would need to issue. we definitely did not want people waiting in long lines. this is somebody's wedding. you want to be able to plan and invite your family and friends.

know what time you are able to get your marriage license, know what time you're going to have your ceremony. >> thanks for volunteering. >> we got city volunteers, we got members of the public volunteering. we had our regular volunteers volunteering. we had such an overwhelming response from city employees, from the members of the general public that we had way more volunteers than we could ever have hoped for. we had to come up with a training program. i mean, there are different functions of this whole operation. you were either, you know a check-in person. you were a greeter. you were part of the license issuing unit. you were deputy marriage commissioner, or you were on the recording side. each one of those functions required a different set of skills, a different oath of office if they needed to be

sworn in as a deputy county clerk to issue marriage licenses or as a deputy county recorder if they were going to register the marriage licenses or the deputy marriage commissioner if they were going to be performing ceremonies. >> donna, place the ring on her ring finger. >> the marriage commissioner training was only about a half hour. it was very simple. very well run, very smooth and then we were all sworn in. >> they said we would get our scheduled sunday night and so 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, you know, i got it at 11:00. this person who was orchestrating all of the shifts and the volunteers and who does what, you know, said from her office sunday night at 11:00. they are just really helping each other. it's a wonderful atmosphere in that way. >> have you filled out an application? >> not yet. you want to do that. >> take this right over there. >> all right. >> take it tout counter when you're done. >> very good.

>> congratulations, you guys. >> for those volunteers, what a gift for them as well as us that they would take up their time and contribute that time, but also that they would in return receive so much more back because they're part of the narrative of someone else's love and expression of love in life. >> this isn't anything that we had budgeted for, so it was basically we asked our i.t. director to do the best you can, you know, belling, borrow, steal if you have to and get us what you need to do this. and he knew what the mission was. he knew what our goal was. and, you know, with our i.t. grids and our software vender, they really came together and pulled it together for us. it made it possible for us to be able to serve as many couples as we have been. >> so once you're ready, you and your husband to be or wife need to be need to check in here and check in again, ok.

are you also going to get married today? >> yeah. >> let's process you one by one. do your license in, exit and re-enter again check in at that desk. >> our wedding is at 3:00. >> as long as we get you in today. >> we're getting married at 2:30. >> don't worry about the time line. we're greeting people at the doorway and either directing them to the services they need on this side which is licensing or the services on this side which is actually getting the ceremony performed. >> this is an opportunity to choose to be a part of history. many times history happens to us, but in this case, you can choose to be a part of it. this is a very historic day and so i'm very, very proud to be here. >> i have been volunteering. last monday i performed 12 different marriage smones. the least amount of time that any of the couples that i married have been together is two years.

most of the couples have been together eight, nine, 10, i'd say 70% have been together at least that long if not longer. >> there is a lot of misconception about who gay and lesbian people are. it's important that people see that we love our husbands and wives to be and love our children and have the right to have families just like everyone else. >> it's important that we have experienced our own families, our own friends, and the excitement of the volunteers when we get here has made us feel wonderful and accepted and celebrated. >> there is a lot of city agencies, city departments, divisions that offer up their employees to help us out since overwhelming response, it's unbelievable at how city government works. this is the time that san

francisco city employees have really outshined san francisco's clerk's office didn't need to hear from the mayor to say what's your plan. they offered a plan and said here is our strategy. here is what we can do. we can add all of these computers here and there. we can connect our databases, we can expand our capacity by x. we can open up early and stay late and stay open on the weekends. it's unbelievable. we can coordinate all of the training for our volunteers and them in as deputy marriage commissioners and make sure it's signed and certified. that's an example and a model for others. this is -- what happens is when people prove that things can be done, it just raises the bar for what is possible for everyone else. >> it kind of went cooled plan and this is what we planned for. in some respects, people have kind of commented to me, oh, my

god, you were a part of history and how many couples did we mary? how many families did we start? how many dreams did we make come true? the whole part of being part of history is something that we are here and we are charged with this responsibility to carry out.the board of education >> good morning >> boys and girls you not to do this by yourself. you got a lot of help but i want to introduce you to someone and he's also the mayor of the city of san francisco. so, would you help me welcome mayor ed lee. >>[applause] >> actually, i kind of look

like scott curry, don't i? i will say that anymore then. >> good morning everyone. >> good morning >> i'm really delighted to be here with all of these very important people from your school to your school district, from the district here in district 3, our supervisor with our elected officials, and with our police and fire chiefs. it's really great to be here together with you because we get to practice something that's really important for the city. how many of you have ever been in an earthquake? okay. how many of you get scared? >> i never felt that >> you never saw the? >>[chorus of voices]

>> a lot of us were in a pretty big earthquake a few years ago, 1989, and it's about 26 years ago was a pretty big earthquake across the bay and brought down the date. it broke a piece off of our bay bridge and some buildings with brakes on it kind of fell off and hurt some people. so, i was around here in the city at that time. i made a promise to myself, to my family, >> good morning everyone we are going to practice our earthquake drill right now. [inaudible] called the quake shake up. what would you do is when i say soft cover were going to get under our desks and stay that way quietly until you hear me come back on and we like we do with a fire to.

>> are you guys ready? >> remember how we practiced quietly? we are not talking. >>[chorus of children's voices] >> is it over yet? >> now the shaking has stopped and we are safe. it's time for us to evacuate like we do for a fire drill.

>>[chorus of voices.]

>> good morning, boys and girls. we can do better than that? good morning, boys and girls. there we go. i have to tell you, you did a great job in evacuate. give yourself a round of applause. you did a great job. everybody was in line. everybody is quite listening for instructions, taking care of each other. that's what you want to remember whenever we have a drill because if it ever happens in real life, you'll know what to do. so, we are thrilled to be here with you today to practice today, and i want to just say, thank you to all of our teachers and all of our paraprofessionals and of course to our principal for

helping you be prepared. taking care of each other whenever there is an emergency. so, what i like to do at this point is introduce the mayor of the city and county of san francisco, would like to say a few words to you. with give a big welcome to mayor ed lee. >>[applause] >> thank you. good morning students. thank you. it is my honor to join you on this duck cover hold. we called the great shakeout of california. guess what? you're part of over 56,000 students in san francisco. all doing the same thing. getting ready, make sure you are compared,, following the instructions of your teachers and your school administrators to make sure you are safe, and then we have the entire state of california. this, to people signed up for this drill in all of the state of california? 350,000 people.

that is a wonderful testament that people are not just afraid of earthquakes. they want to be better prepared and ready. if you are better prepared and ready, and we want to make sure that you and your families go to sf 72.org to make sure that you have the entire list give when you go home tonight, ask your parents, do they know about sf 72.org? because that is the place where you learn all the things that you need to do at home as the same were doing at the schools and where i work come up to all be better prepared to make sure we're ready if there is an earthquake that happens. i want all of you , and this is why supervisor christiansen christiansen and i are here today, we want to experience this wonderful school that you are at, but most important we want to be with you because being with you means that we get to practice how to be safe if there's going

to be an earthquake or any other big disaster. that's why we're all here together. with the police and fire chief with our school district and school board, and all the administrators and the other elected officials to do the right thing. so, please go home tonight and you are going to be , i think, asked by events did you learn today. 72 hour.org. 72.org. that's what you remember, okay? everybody say that. 72.org. yes. thank you very much. and thank you for letting me join all of you in this wonderful school that you have. you are clean school. good organized school. we got great teachers and a great principle, and we are going to continue working very closely with all of you. thank you very much.

>>[applause] >> good morning, everybody. i am really excited about being at this school. is one my favorite schools in the whole neighborhood. i know a lot of people who went to school here. some of them almost all grown up now and they'll still like the school a lot. so, why am i here this morning? you know, the mayor is kind of like the principal for the whole city. right? the mayor is one of make sure everyone is close to be and does what they're supposed to do. then, we have fire chief john he's white she's here this morning and police captain, chief sir they help keep us safe. my job is to look after your neighborhood, so if you and your mom and dad live around here, my job is to make sure that you have nice parks and nice libraries, and

that it's safe to cross the street, and that we have traffic lights, and that everything you need to be safe and happy in your district comes your way. so, that's my job. so, it's really great that you guys are learning something today about earthquakes. you know, earthquakes are kind of crazy things. we think of the ground as being really solid, but if we have an earthquake the ground kind of shakes like you're at the amusement park or something. applicability gained all the houses shake the trees shake and the wires shake it so, learning to duck and cover is important so that you know what to do. like, what do you do when you're going to cross the street? what do you do? look both ways. right? when the ground starts shaking and you go, oh my goodness, what is an earthquake, what you do? duck and cover. i thought it was going to be a duck here today but i found out we were going to duck instead. so, make sure that you know what to do when this earthquake is all

speak up on you like a surprise. you won't know so we have to be ready all the time. will we be ready? yes. okay thank you all for letting us come visit. bye. >> good morning, boys and girls. how are you? good. i'm your fire chief joanne hayes white. i'm also a monk it by three boys. i'm really glad to be standing with this man. for boys. he's a police chief. greg certain he'll say a few words in a moment but were kind of like one big team geared i'm delighted. i got participated before at the school sometimes we do read along but were grateful to be in this first grade class to participate in the drill in i know as fire chief, i don't think i would be in this position today it wasn't for the wonderful teachers that i had growing up here in san francisco. how about, boys and girls, you give a big round of applause to and so young and all the teachers and the staff here at the

school. >>[applause] >> i'm also proud to be standing with some members of my department under the direction of capt. kevin party edge and 20. there your local files fire station so thanks for coming out today. >>[applause] >> a couple of things. i guess it merely is sort of the coach of the team. he's in charge of the whole city. he expects us to work together to be ready for anything. not just in the police and fire department. so, we are here today what we did today was practice. we practiced today that there isn't a true emergency so that when there is we that much better prepared. i would also like to ask you to go home and educate your families good the parents, grandparents, siblings, and talk about if you're at school or at that home what your plan is. how are you prepared to ask mary talks about 72 hours.org. if you might have a different name at this point. sf 72. but another thing is everybody, sure at the

school knows the emergency three digit number you got. what is secular everyone can say. >> 911 >> 911. image everyone knows that but not a lot of people would try to get people to get the message another takeover your parents if there's another really important three digit number that you can call if there is something that you have a question about what you want to report something that's not an emergency and does anyone at the school know what the three digit number is? raise your hand if you know what. yes. in the front with a redshirt. >> [inaudible] >> three digits. not 911 get it the nonemergency line would have all kinds of information. does anyone know? the chief is giving some hints. 311. excellent. that's another thing that sf 72 and 311. those are two important messages to bring home tonight. tell your parents and siblings about. they give you much, boys". it's been a pleasure being here and a very

proud to introduce-i call my public safety part i don't like him standing by me because you never know was that happen and that streak chief greg sir. >> >>[applause] >> thanks chief joined. we do, we were right under the desk with a first grade class. was sold as boys and girls around. but in principle young is so lucky to have this student body to do the thing. so, if we really want to get good at something what you have to do? practice. right. so when we were little and growing up in san francisco we practiced so that when something happens, you don't even think about it. you just do it. so just like supervisor christiansen in principle mayor lee said as soon as something happens in an earthquake. you what? drop, cover and hold. exactly. so that's what we want you to do. this is just all about practice.

you just the smartest little boys and go. please be good for your teachers and your principles. today, it's all about practice. so as you grew up in san francisco, but throughout oregon have an earthquake and everybody's can be safe if they just do with their teachers and parents tell them and then you can help your parents by practicing at home. okay? deal? deal. cool. where'd you remember, it's sf 72 for what could happen if it's bad, and it's 311 if we just want to get information or tell us something that's not really bad. right? those are the two things. okay get undone. fire chief took all the other stuff. >>[applause] >> okay. you guys did such a good job of listening. i know this is been really given. i just found out ms. young made a mistake. i thought it was duck

cover and hold and i just got told, it dropped cover and hold. just like the police chief said. so when the earthquake lifted those words again. drop, cover and hold on. can you guys a really loud. thank you star visitors today. >> thank you. >> here is what you get it you know. just like we always do. you are going to look at your teacher and when your teacher.... >>[music]

>> >> >> >> good afternoon and welcome to the city and school district select meeting on october 22nd. i want to recognize members here today. we have commissioner haney and walton. supervisor david campos will be joining us shortly. i want to recognize or clerk today derek evans and our