things in language data can really drive and help us. this is what i think super public is and i want to just say, ken, thank you to organizations like the innovate fund and our innovation civic innovation leaders, i did sector comedies like at&t stepping up with berkeley folks and others to really say we can do this even better. but we've got to think regionally now. we can just think is that independent circuit either to make sure talking with sam ricardo and their interest in san jose. -mayor schaaf people in oakland and san mateo because our challenges are no longer just within our region with its housing, dissertation, with there's even a simple idea of procuring. we've got to do it smarter and better in this consistently foundation. it's exciting to be in a room full of innovators to do this. thank you very much. >>[applause] >> thank you mayor lea. our

next speaker is the event supervisor mark farrell. his work to communities which the digital divide. please, welcome supervisor farrell >> >>[applause] >> thanks everyone could post about is a tall our gsa partners, the winners always like this in san francisco. you come out for entire week. so please come out more often. i'm truly excited to be here today. from my perspective, super public is the future. it is what we need to be doing across all every single city in the united states. when we think about san francisco as much as we have a booming economy we have issues as cities have all the time. whether it is mayor lea mentioned, the housing crisis, we have transportation issues, but they're not singled out for steve and cities across the united states are facing these issues. with the homelessness were bridging the digital divide these are issues we need to work in san francisco that matter to our residents. doing it alone in

the government is something that is not going to be part of the future could need to partner with a private sector. need to partner with academia specialist visit here in san francisco today the innovation capital of the world and thank you to all our private sector partners will contribute to make this happen today. partnering with you partnering with academic, this is the future. we need to do it together because i will tell you, we cannot do it alone and several also city hall. we certainly cannot do it set up chambers of the board of supervisors we need to do it together as partners. binders and with the federal government or state government together we can do it. we also need our private sector. we need academia to be able to do it together. so i'm incredibly excited to be part of this. take you to all the people who contributed to it. congratulations to all the founding members. i know this is a long time in the making. the most excited about, is not just today but the future. this about our children and making

sure as we think about problems as my son jack sits over there, honest will, this generation when we tackle problems not just san francisco problems the regional problems and were not tackling them the city government were tapping together with private sector with academia and that the wording of the best solution yet so congratulations to everyone and thank you i just can't wait for the future here together. thank you. >>[applause] >> thank you, market our next speaker is naomi kelly with the city administrator of the city of san francisco. i am agree with sympathetic partner in the gen. services administration did we know how hard your job is. we get to do it for the federal government to the other one a come over and talk shop were always here for you. ladies and gentlemen, naomi kelly. >>[applause] >> good morning. i was thinking about all the numbers

of how much office space you manage and how much procurement you have and its enormous. i was very proud of our numbers we manage the city of san francisco about 4,000,000 ft.2 of office space and $1 billion in procurement and we manage 25 year-tenure 25 million capital plan. and compared to those numbers that's small. compared to the gsa. but, it's really great to be here today because of the chair partnership that will have with each other in sharing best practices, learning new innovative procurement policies, it policies. it will be very helpful in that it's helping us share relevant data, figuring out what the data we have with the city but good data the government has put together super public is that we can share with each other so we can be much more innovative. there's things were doing here in san francisco just in the city administrator in our local gsa office, looking at how we

manage our fleet. how we are using telematics or black box which will behold so helpful to us to figure out when a card word vehicle needs to go into maintenance versus guessing,. rb rightsizing the fleet we see there's a lot of analyte underutilized vehicles but we can reduce the number berkeley. his rc fleet sitting in idling speed we can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by a relevant amount of data were getting from that. i also upgrade during the next week and am in the process creating a digital service team. we are actively recruiting for digital service officer. this is all about the public experience. how can we in government better serve our residents, art tourists, visitors is a neat services from the government, a website how can we approve our website so they can get the information they need from a resin with the

residential parking permit, whether it's a productivity, but it's a marriage certificate there's much we can do to provide services online so folks do not have to come down to city hall or wait in line to get services they need. so, were very excited about our digital service team working with a private industry, working with customer service looking at a processes how to better streamline them as we don't want to automate a broken process and of course working with our it department to make sure that our systems are running smoothly and to make sure all our data is secure because we do-we do want to make sure that everything we do is secure and that were not violating any private information that gets out there. i'm so looking forward to this partnership and thank you very much. >>[applause] >> thank you naomi. now, last but not least, the executive director of the city innovate foundation and very much the leader for super public, we are very lucky to have cameron and

of leading the charge for us that it's been fabulous working with him so far. you are a welcome breath of knowledge on all the things foundational things we need to make this a reality. i hope gsa has been a good partner to good is and gentlemen, kim and city >>[applause] >> i think a lot of you have been on this journey for the last two years and it's been tough but i want to keep it short because of that people that sing to me for the last 5 min. that the mayor needs to live soon. what i do undo is actually think mayor ed lea. the sender gsa administrator district supervisor mark we met a few times but farrell and naomi kelly city of mr. and people behind the scenes like andrew the month, the republic of under atf, krista and jacob mayor's office of senate innovation to grace upon is at uc berkeley susan and also been great from day one. gifford in the city innovate foundation team.) james to make sure we

talked about regional issues she's achieved resiliency officer in oakland she is working the on the past 18 months over this and not least the private sector. don't forget them because they do help pay our bills can i do i think microsoft socialize and evangelize the passage be described. the of our friends from deloitte who are good partners and now at&t and one of the things that i think a lot of people talk about the project that we've been looking at one of the other areas than looking at with san francisco, open and others not to forget their smart cities but were looking at inclusive cities. we should try this with communities so we part up with civic makers in a couple of model you're looking at a cut program rolling this out engaging the community and doing it the right way. again thank you all for coming out here. yes, we hope that that show will change and his major was pointed out, there will be a lot of international cities that come in and us cities to learn about the bit about what we're doing here. thank you. >>[applause]

>> okay. so, now we get to get to the good work of actually running super public which were more excited about any event. gsa loves doing things but i'm going to invite all our guests right now and we will cut this with him. i think this is as are behind me the very large service. in the very careful handing these out. >>[laughing] have to bring the semi-carry on tonight. can be tough to get through the airport. >>[laughing] >> three, two, one cut it. >>[applause] >>

>> i tried to think about this room as the dream room, where we dream and bring some of those dreams to life. i feel very blessed that i have been able to spend the last 31 years of my life doing it my way, thinking about things better interesting to me, and then pursuing them. there are a lot of different artists that come here to work, mostly doing aerial work. kindred spirits, so to speak. there is a circus company that i have been fortunate enough to work with the last couple of years. i use elements of dance and choreography and combine that

with theater techniques. a lot of the work is content- based, has a strong narrative. the dancers have more of a theatrical feel. i think we are best known for our specific work. in the last 15 years, spending a lot of time focusing on issues that affect us and are related to the african-american experience, here in the united states. i had heard of marcus shelby and had been in join his work but never had the opportunity to meet him. we were brought together by the equal justice society specifically for this project. we were charged with beginning work. marquez and i spent a lot of time addressing our own

position on the death penalty, our experiences with people who had been incarcerated, family members, friends of friends. pulling our information. beyond that, we did our own research. to create a picture that resonated with humanity. it is the shape of a house. in this context, it is also small and acts like a cell. i thought that was an interesting play on how these people make these adjustments, half to create home. what is home for these people? the home is their cell. people talk a lot about noise --

very noisy in prisons. that is interesting to me. looking at the communication level, the rise of frustration of being caged, wondering, where does redemption fit into the equation here? [singing] i think both of us really believe the death penalty is wrong, and is flawed for many reasons. the list is as long as my arm -- about several others. we feel this is important for both of us, personally, to

participate in the debate of this issue in a way that we can help people frame it for a conversation.

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>> good evening. it is 547 p.m. thursday july 28 and welcome to special meeting of human right commission of "hero" awards. just a few notes before we begin. staff let people know that everyone

needs to be seated and if you don't have a seat please go down the hall to room 263 where we have overflow capacity and believe video. and also just another reminder, staff let people know that there will be two minutes for each individual awardee and each group who gets an award as well as other individuals in the audience from the public who want to make public comment. two minutes will be provided at the end of the presentations. we have a lot of poopal people in the chamber and lelthy awardee agenda and want to make sure all the awarees can receive their awards. we want to organize things that way to be fair to everyone. welcome. mr. secretary, would you please

read the roll? >> commissioner chair susan christian, here. vice chair, sheryl even davis, here. commissioner michael pappas, here. commissioner richard pio roda, here. commissioner abigail porth, here. commissioner michael sweet, here. you have a quorum >> thank you mr. secretary. >> i'm susan christian and chair the human rights commissionism welcome tonight. um, these have been extraordinarily trying times going on for a couple years and seems day by day to increase. there is a lot of pain in all our communities and we are here tonight to acknowledge and to celebrate the role of advocacy

for justice. -in moving along the fight for justice and the fight for equality. the many different people in the room tonight and among the awardees we have a number of different areas of focus and perspective. we want everyone to feel our faith and our respect tonight and we want you to know that we all understand the role community advocacy plays in change and the fight for justice and that is what we are here to honor tonight. thank you for being here tonight. thank you in advance to the awardees and members of the public who have come out. i first want to acknowledge the members of our equity advisory committee. as many may know, the "hero" awards are given by

the human rights commission each year, but it is through our one of our citizen advisory committee, the equity advisory committee that the theme for the year is chosen and the individuals-nomination for awards and once those nominations are received, individuals and organizations have chosen to receive the awards. this is a lot of work aside from the work that they do throughout the year on the projects met to advance equity in our community, so i want to acknowledge them by name. deana austin. vanessa banks. [inaudible] stefy her nan dez.

[inaudible] green. angela jenkins. [inaudible] please join me in thanking them for their work on this. [applause] vice chair davis do you want to words of welcome? >> well, i know there are a lot of people out there that definitely want to have a opportunity to speak so don't want to take up a lot of time but want to echo what chair christian said. we applaud and appreciate the commitment i dedication to advance community needs from a community

perspective so thauchck for being here and doing what you do in support of community. >> thank you. so, now we'll move to item number 3 on the agenda, presentation of san francisco human right submission 2016 "hero" awards. the first cat or is hrc "hero" awards for students. the first award goes to emir boccara. [applause] emir boccara is a rising 10th grader at john o'connell high school and summer inturn with community safety initiative, a project of collective impact. [applause]

[cheers and applause] the way we are doing this, the awardees come up, they get their thanks, they get their picture and if they have the staying power and their schedule allows, we will be able to hear from them a little later. thank you, emir. [applause] chinwendu mbata. let's give it up for chinwendu mbata. [applause] chinwendu mbata is a rising 11th grader at raoul wallenburg high school and summer intern with community safety initiative.

thank you. [applause] next we have student leaders in the ethnic studies student organization at san francisco state university. [applause] this is a student group that advocates for human rights at san francisco state and larger community through many support programs-[applause]. advocateed for human rights at san francisco state and larger community for low income and communities of color, the lgbtqi movement, undocumented student and families and formally incarcerated as well as as

defense and advancement of ethnic studies. thank you for your work. [applause] next we have rooftop social justice committee. [applause] a student-led organization at rooftop middle 62 alwith commitment with social justice campaigns that aim to serve and impact the diverse needs of their school community.

[applause] thank you so much for your advocacy on behalf of the community. next we move to hrc "hero" award for individuals. our first award goes to yulanda williams. [applause] yulanda is a sergeant in the san francisco police department and president of officers for justice and founder of the not on my watch initiative. thank you so much for your work. [applause]. next is cristina mitra and natalia vigil. founders and

co-creators of still here, a 4-year running show at the national queer arts festival. thank you. [applause] our next awardee is juanita more! everyone in san francisco knows juanita is a accomplished drag performer, fashion muse, fund raiser and gour maund. next is karen shain, the reentry policy planner in the reentry division of the san francisco adult probation department. thank you, karen. [applause]