undertaken. >> all right. well good morning and welcome future for thank you very much for being here i'm sure vince one of 5

public works compared angle officer with the labors local 261 and i'm a special assistant to oscar de la torre wire here celebrating i did signing of a historic agreement it is a project labor agreement that covers the sewer system improvement program so thank you. >> (clapping.) >> we'll have a few speakers but a quick program for more than a hundred years the city of san francisco as protected the public health but operating a combined sewer system it collects and cleans sewage sewage and street run off before returning to the bay and ocean over high strourld the southeast supplant that is the heart of city's system this planted and others parts are ending the years of their useful lives this

is a multi billion dollars citywide investment building a seismically resident system one of the later projects undertaken by a city agency that agreement within the sf puc and labor unions will help us make sure those projects are delivered on time and on budget project deliver agreements with not uncommon for large projects what exists us the unique nature of that agreement and that about allow to focus economic benefits on community and workers that need it most and will help us cultivate and train the future workforce in the city and county and insures that - >> yes. >> (clapping.) >> - my bad; right? it insures the contractors pate prevailing wage and finally it

insures a steady supply of skilled union workers for the projects jobs are training and prevailing wages and benefits that's why we're excited to be here today, this is a historic event is possible through the agencies partnering with the building and construction counsel i shout out to the secretary treasurer >> (clapping.) >> also to larry who is in conference couldn't be here for his leadership and commitment to all the folks and harlan kelly our general manager i consider to the brilliant. >> (clapping.) >> and the great staff of the sfpuc. >> (clapping.) >> finally to the labors transitioned are the carpenters and plumps and the sheet metal

workers and the engineers and the teamsters and the labors and get my drift of men and women of the building and construction trades thank you all for being here >> (clapping.) >> it is my great pleasure to introduce our first speaker a man that is dedicated his entire career to benefit the workers families 4e78 e helping us with the community workforce and show the pathway to create opportunities we're not just jobs but access with health care and retirement security he's our 43rd mayor please welcome mayor ed lee. >> (clapping.) >> vince thank you very much i'm striving to be your brilliant mayor (laughter) vince thank you for your

leadership and labors my own, of course, working with the buildings and trades can't have a greater partnering let me say it welcome to alex southeast community facility center in our bayview. >> (clapping.) >> how are things going all right. all right. you're still in shape keeping healthy i'm happy to be here on every occasion to be in the community we're talking about good paying jobs and families and careers working with the labor unions but i want to say alex name i think he'd be happy to be here if you knew him about workforce training and part of puc family and part of everybody's family and came from the bayview community making the connections with we've been asked for many decades we see those plant in

our community can we be a part of a better environment and get the good jobs for dwaerngz promised and yet really hard to fulfill we're here to do that before i talk about this particular p l a and sign the documents we have i want to say this week we're on a roles last night and for the last 48 hours we have been helping another group of workforce men and women that's our be janitors. >> (clapping.) >> as of last night they averted a strike because they were serious about it because they have to be serious because the wages and benefits as all labor unions are because they're on is lower end of wage aribnb careers they need to do

everything to help their names our staff assist and reached a tentative agreement we have to go and do the ratification everybody abroad we're happy to see the managers of the buildings and the labor unions and the membership avert a strike and that's in a way why we're here today because awhile we've diverted a strike and something for the janitors the ultimate reason we're here is about labor peace it mroo project is what i think our brilliant department head harlan kelly said this is the expression of a pipeline a pipeline that the labor unions know about when they form unions this was the feeder into all the great jobs we have

and people working really hard to make those labor union pipelines for directly beneficial i have educators people in education with the city college or public education you have people unrunning for officer in the school board i hope you'll have people on the school board trying to tell our kids here's his or her how to be successful and build careers work in the education system and make those connections with our nonprofits community-based organizations they're doing a lot of training getting ready for the jobs the pipeline that our workforce confirmations development workforce hopes to work with our labor organizations and enforcement people are making sure that everyone knows those are our pipelines pipelines is more than

pipes it is the extra and how to get both that infrastructure if you know me i think the trades know me as the infrastructure man, i'm all g about infrastructure selling it to residents through bonds we've been successful with the general hospital or the water system we're able to do or the emergency water system we're in the middle of completing we want to make sure this water system infrastructure works for everyone not just the system and not just the handling of the water and the cleans water by the wastewater as well and mr. kelly reminded me take a drink and said thank you for drinking the watering no, no it's clean water but clean enough for all of us to be respect of we want the water that everybody is drinking in the city whether the living in our public housing or

living in the highest unaffordable unit in the city they have to have clean water and the warriors eastern will have water and itself lucky museum every infrastructure in our city will be touched with this infrastructure we're building a $7 billion investment $7 billion >> (clapping.) >> of rate payers and residents and communities particularly the bayview will all be proud because what we are talking about today is a project labor agreement that isn't just about our unions it is with our unions creating the apprenticeship program and now because of special leadership that people have over the years working with us on local hiring the

preapprenticeship community-based organizations getting people ready for jobs who were not ready if you took them off their jobs now wouldn't succeed a apprenticeship and the union hiring hall and the agreements we reach this is the pipeline that we're talking about that will reach our residents or rate payers for all the jobs and what makes our city successful with our bond and ratepayer programs what the infrastructure programs we're not just talking about bridges and revise but water systems that the rest of the country are talking about we are doing it and doing it the right way thank you to everyone in the entire spectrum of this building of pipeline from our trade union leaders to their activation working with the brvrtsdz, to

our workforce ready folks to the people that are in the community-based organizations saying we have hope for you if you learn those skills while your young those skills will help you get into good fatiguing jobs that are whether carpenters or all the disciplines, transitioned all the other disciplines that help us focus on the infrastructure of our city so on a role no labor and peace pa p is what it takes and several billions of of construction with the airport and the revising our terminal and the port working on the piers and get public-private partnerships that will again respect our labor pipelines to make sure we are fitting in the local residents we are and already not even the major

contracts that coming up apprentice hours on the water system 77 percent san francisco residents how about that. >> (clapping.) >> and just didn't happen by itself it takes dedication of everybody in this yard working together collaboratively together making sure we're not working in silos but making sure we talk and think about not only the labor peace both who it is we're trying to get jobs for and be a part of this labor movement i'm very proud of the city very special time to the be the mayor of the san francisco sure challenges and housing affordability and homelessness need for more affordable housing are all there to tackle we can never make any significant really improvements in all those

areas without labor working with us, without our collaboration with community this is all works together really well, we're building a pipeline and the other thing i want to say is this this program particularly are harry lanes leadership is a direct contribution to reducing violence in our communities direct contribution >> (clapping.) >> wet have our kids really touched and involved themselves in the hopefully jobs in the skill setsdz in the preapprenticeship programs and getting them out of the isolated things we know contribute to less than peaceful resolution of people's problems i know i see off-street parking here thank you you've been a big champion as a former supervisor of this district and know full

well, we have the conversations how to make sure those pipelines are created but all the community activists that have been here for years we're fulfilling old promises not creating new ones that water system when we were doing it and the creation of pipeline is a promise we've always said to be there we're now making it work for the right folks thanks to everybody that is here and dedicating their time in doing this and making sure we're doing the right thing and keep the collaboration going it will be to everybody's benefit that our unions have a lot good talent resources that will feed into their pipeline that will feed into the major, major projects in the city and i'll keep on doing any work building more affordable housing and getting people off the streets, keeping the city

economically strong to have good partners in private sectors and a public sector to keep the jobs going congratulations vince for your leadership. >> thank you everybody for being here >> (clapping.) >> thank you, mayor ed lee for helping you guess in the career pathway and shout out to the northern california carpenters for being here >> (clapping.) >> >> thanking you for helping me understand the finer points and commissioner shamann walton thank you for all your hard work. >> and it is a special treat after school maxwell thank you for being here and all you do appreciate it. >> our next speaker a mentor

of anything like that helping me understand more about the ropes and expand any scope understand how it is we can add value not only to 9 community workforce but to san franciscans in general i'm proud to stand with them i'm proud to have an opportunity to learn from him he sees the good orchestra that the water system improvement and obviously clean power and now with the general manager launching this great sewer system improvement program harlan kelly >> (clapping.) >> thank you vince the amazing vince courtney thank you very much (laughter) got to give each other's names i know that's how that works first of all, i want to thank the mayor for those of you who don't

know the mayor and i go back when he was the director of public works and we knew we had to make sure that the community participant in the building of that when i came to the puc those were the traits i carried forward and coming to the puc i came to run or construct the waters system improvement program a $4.6 billion program i know that has an engineer 70 percent of the cost is new construction i knew i had to make sure that we had harmony out in the fold and make sure we have quality contractor and employ people in the community so we reached out to the building trade and the unions and got the deal of $4.6 billion and the system program is a model of how successful programs

could be rolled out and what is really amazing about the mroo is that in times hiring local people they stepped up we had a lot of specialized projects and how to get the community people to participate we went to the union they came up with a training program with people in the community to participate in the training and worked with the contractor to put them on projects that's the model in the community i want to applaud the union for coming abroad >> (clapping.) >> and not only that they're working to help small businesses get on board and role them of course, like them to be union but it is a great opportunity also want to thank my staff where is tommy?

tommy the one that has the $7 billion i'm sure he got chance lying around and so tommy has the money and karen is spending it and where is ma suicidal making sure our union community and contractors are 2, 3, 4 alignment and todd where's todd there's todd he's a big part of getting this together so here's a great opportunity and great to see folks who i've been working with i remember off-street parking we went to florida and i played - i got

the mike shamann he wants to know when the program is rolling out i like being a member of the community i can't get any hair cut or play basketball when are you going to do this i'm proud today, we're signing the project labor agreement i know this is how we embrace the community and have them participate in building this awesome facility we plan to build thank you, everybody for coming today and look forward to signing the contract >> (clapping.) >> can i get robert harrison and megan please come up to the front. >> (clapping.) >> so i'll tell you i've learned

a lot from a lot of the people in this room right now but learned pro bono more from the workers we represent i know that john you know what it's all about and charley and anthony the union labors guys know you in fact on the work and forgot to focus on the people we do a good job in focusing on the needs of folks all over the place proud of the work we've done and harlan ann and the mayor to make sure we connect folks to those career pathway and connection them to sold careers again in the just jobs but solid careers in the industry and would san francisco for tomorrow mayor ed lee deserves credit for being the workforce hero and not forget what the workforce can teach us

so, please robert. >> (clapping.) >> first of all, how is everybody do thank the mayor first and foremost for the programs what am i speaking about oh. >> first of all, i have i'm a resident of san francisco i have been for 35 years and i have been trying to find a way to get ahead you know with the jobs i was landing i'm saying not enough inform support my family and not enough to do anything i've been hearing about w c, d, and city build i took it

upon myself to get into the program you know and to see in any could you know obtain some work i went through y c, d, and did a 12 week program at the w cd and the service i objected at w cd was enough to get into the construction field and further i want to you know thank 4ru67 and western water for giving me the opportunity to show any skills pretty much and i'm approval of the draft minutes right now you know what i'm saying my whole thing was like going through the program so, so other guys like in any

community could you know one day they're saying like they never get the opportunity to get a job or to get a better job so as people start seeing me going introduce the class they saw how serious that changed a lot of things like hanging out and hanging with the you know guys i used to hang with and have to say w cd gave me the steps you know what i'm saying the real you know what i'm saying the strength to know that i could you know go through these with the certifies with the certifies i objected and saying that to say i have been like a kind of like a role model like a lot of

people that see me and like knowing how i used to be and used to do and like go through city build and w cd also and saying that to say man, i'm drifting. >> okay but my overall thing is that the program is working you know i mean because of myself you know i don't know about a lot of people i got a lot of people that friends that went through the program not just me and seeing what i went through i gave them and pushed them through the same thing i went through like for instance, i got a nephew that also went through city build and got you know a

couple of nieces they've seen any check saying (laughter) >> (clapping.) >> they seen one of my checks and saying wow. (laughter) like how did you get all of that on one check you know so i was explaining through them in the course i went through as far as like city build i mean w cd that was my whole thing to say to walk them through steps they can you know what i'm saying get what i have and basically got two niece it is trying to follow any lead and nephew that is working also you know and what else do i say (laughter)

>> (clapping.) >> so i know that ramon and shall shamann knows this is what success looks like thank you very much brother. >> (clapping.) >> hello my name is megan i'm super excited i live in bayview on top of the hill and can't tell you hoechlts the sewer has backward on any street and; right? so i'm here because i'm an african engineer and got to be an operating engineer - thank you. >> (clapping.) >> and is i got through through city build and this was a great experience and my friend didn't make it past orientation helped me get in it is crazy she's not in i am but happy to be in and

happy to be here and anyone that wants to join should give the operators - what else let's see well that's it i guess thank you all for coming i had more - >> (clapping.) >> short and sweet. >> thank you sister for being here. >> (clapping.) >> so i saw martin brand earlier hi marty for joining us martin understand really, really well, how difficult sometimes to represent multiple interests we do it all the time in marketing martin showed me an awful lot of of ropes what is a skilled trade the collective bargaining trade our next speaker is one of the high-level

skilled new yorkers a lot like kevin hugh's with the ibw is level of sophistication and strategic thinking you know there are a lot of competing interests and have to your your sighed of the table to barbara garcia like the bargaining with our own folks you have to ratify and bargaining with the other side of the table one of the things organized labor in san francisco was very, very lucky to have that extremely well is my brother and the secretary treasurer of the san francisco building council mike. >> (clapping.) >> there just about the right height oath of the - the folks in labor i will actually reiterate

one guy behind closed doors ma sew and he had manning that is hiding back there the two behind the scenes guys as much as vince says i maybe a skilled bargainer nonetheless that's not possible without a willing participant on the other side that are willing to arithmetic the difficult details of an agreement such as we came to early on for the water system program and to the estimation to the sewer system program i want to tell you that sewer systems get a bad wrap but behind us there no great city and there are none of the long time high-rises thank you, mayor ed lee we're happy to billed and without what is behind us none of the charming and comfortable

neighborhoods that who's residents defend them vigorously and without what is behind us that ferry time of ideas the cost of bring people together does not and can't occur it is an essential item in san francisco the sewer system it is recommended behind us we'll upgrade and when i was young this plant had been established and it was a new thing and doing what it could but not what it should and it was a dirtier thing and the ocean was dirtier and when the system we're about to put in place it will be better the ocean and the bay we'll have cleaner water and better finish for the folks to catch and better water to bath

and swim and we will have a wonderful environment for the cyber bay area and country >> (clapping.) >> but the theme for this event has been the entry for a apprenticeship when i broke in i was as iron worker they came from this part of town as the first job were here on this plant those were tough jobs and stuck with them and at the time all guys they're retired which means they had good careers and these careers began here that's what we intended to do with the mroo extension we're proud of a great job with the puc and with the community-based organizations around the bay area and with city build a after

school maxwell helped done a great job from bringing people from privileged areas including here those folks are launched on these keys and include other projects and other far beyond the city and far beyond the region and be proud to talk about those later and proud to talk about how they worked on the sewer system of san francisco it's a great job and great career and an essential piece that makes san francisco the great city it is thank you. >> (clapping.) >> back down a couple of inches. >> (laughter). >> so, please join me in giving a a round of applause mayor ed lee and harlan kelly and the

community workers and at this time, i'd like to invite the mayor and harlan kelly up to the table to execute this special agreeme >> well, good afternoon everyone welcome to our city hall i want to say thank you to members of our board of

supervisors that are here today and thank you supervisor farrell, supervisor yee supervisor tang supervisor cowen thank you very much for being here to our department heads and the controller to our commissioners to many others who are serving the city gridlock here to do something that everyone looks forward to every single year and first of all, in the context just a few years ago we were all struggling with double digit unemployment a half a billion dollars to try to kind of gap the to finance that gap in the budget and talking about layoff off a lot of people i'm glad we all worked together to make the city stronger i'm happy to say it is my opinion but particularly finance people that having worked hard on the way we

do our budgets and the way we conduct ourselves at city hall financing we're in the strongest finest position in the history of the city. >> (clapping.) >> yeah, that's worth clapping for. >> (clapping.) >> and so today, we're going to move on that progress we've made by signing in a $9.6.23 year budget that is a budget that's been recently approved by the board of supervisors let me say a resist of that i've been talking with a lot of people and going to neighborhood meetings asking the neighborhood leader and nonprofits as well as residents and activists to give us their opinion i've heard it all let me say this is not a surprise the issue of homelessness the issues of police relationships and police

reform and the quality of life in the diverse neighborhoods are all at the first and foremost of what people think are important for the city we have reflected that in this budget homelessness definitely is on my mind and on the minds of a lot of san franciscans is he and that's why this creates a department open homelessness in support of housing whose mission to make homelessness perhaps once in a lifetime for anyone with the increase and coordination and new investments and clear and singular focus we'll end homelessness for thousand of people in the near future and as she walks up thank you to the president of the board of supervisors lovnd breed and scott wiener and as we're creating this new department it

includes a significant increase in funding for homelessness for services for homeless residents and focus on homelessness families this is possible because of a consensus process to move on there in our sales tax come this november on the november ballot i want to particularlycy thank you not only to all the supervisors but in particular to supervisor farrell and supervisor wiener for your leadership in she saiding the sales tax on the november ballot with our service to the homeless and so create a 20 fee transportation in effect the budget also reflects investments in violence perspectives and police officers reform it includes the combheven reform pajts and $20 million investment in the violence prevention

programs 2 includes first and foremost as and i i said new training for the police department and new commit pike like the body worn cameras and funds an increase in oversight transparency, affordability to is he can rebuild did trust between the communities and the police officers that serve them this budget also includes a very good focus on the quality of life in the neighborhoods as you know i created the new neighborhood based fix it i having been a former dpw director all things are not just with dpw you look at things on the street and puc and private entrepreneurs sfmta rec and park and others involved we wanted to make sure we had a team that

represented all of that including the pointing so people that exhibit the behavior that leads to the quality of life in the neighborhoods streets that we're not just relying on the police officers we're actually having a health care working to assist and clean up teams teams that have nut equipment to assist them and a clovengs and loan to different agencies not passenger seat the finger when we were trying to get things done and building on successful programs like the pit stop pilot programs and i know that supervisors are interested in getting the pit stops up and running in the neighborhoods and vital to our public parks and public libraries and they more than libraries and parks they serve as good conversation hubs

for the neighborhoods this budget includes over $29 million in capita investment and playground and extend library hours across the city this budget also allows us to start investing in the initial engineering of our seawall it also funds critical first responder equipment and replacement of our public safety radios i know this is what the communities wanted as we spoke to a lot of members of the community and got input from a lot of the departments this is what they said and we reflected in our bucketthorax i'm committed to why we have a strong budget i'm compromised to great financial policies in place lie two year budgeting.

>> 5 years sftv our reserves and making sure that we deciding strategizing of the things we put before the voters on the ballot like we've done with our bond program and other things to make sure that things are going to be affordable to the long term we have worked together this particular year to close a general fund shortfall without cutting services and i want to say thank you to supervisor mark farrell for chairing this effort for your leadership in approving the budget and supervisor wiener and supervisor tang for serving offender the and thank you to the rest of the board and the leadership of london breed and making sure that everyone was paying attention to each other that we wanted to make sure the entire board was thanked they acted well most of them acted responsibly to make sure this

budget was well-balanced and i want to thank ben rosenfeld for goufs appropriate guidance and making sure when people are out the bound to keep our budget tight this budget balanced budget highlights our san francisco values our priorities we want to keep the city safe and reliant and compassionate and successful with that, i'd like to introduce our budget chair supervisor mark farrell. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, mayor ed lee you know, i also love those events we're lining up u up for senior prom i wanted to thank everyone for being here the 4 each year an honor to with work any colleagues but more importantly produce a budget that truly represents the values and priorities of.

>> san franciscans in terms of board of supervisors i think we had a few definition distinct priorities through deliberations together first of all, a lot of work onramp railways the homelessness is on the minds of many san franciscans but i think that public safety it continues to be on the top of minds strong leaders that are part of effort a large focus on the lgbt we need to continue to support affordable housing continues to be a big deal in our city and significant resources towards that as well as improvement the quality of life the mayor mentioned this process is not working without a committee it really tooijz first and foremost supervisor tang and supervisor norman yee we serve on the and supervisor wiener and

supervisor jane kim that came in during the budget process it takes really make sure this is a comprehensive process with every single supervisor supervisor president london breed and is supervisor malia cowen that played unconstitutional roles thank you for your efforts all the time i also want to call out a number of people that really make the budget process first of all, mayor ed lee thank you, sir thank you for your leadership in the progress and working together collaboratively and our staff to many others i want to call out melissa white house of acting budget director this year. >> (clapping.) >> you wouldn't know this is her first year in the mayor's office by go done an amazing job and congratulations i also want

to thank ben rosenfeld their invaluable partners to all of us. >> (clapping.) >> and i don't know we know how important it is to have ben at the heads of the office for to barbara and everyone thank you to our bye team and. >> (clapping.) >> last but not least to all of the staffs here at the board of supervisors that work hard from any office margo and others buhe staff and every single supervisor that is a collaborative effort and working together with the ceo's so thank you all very proud of budget once again it reflects a lot of the priorities in the city it was an honor to lead as your chair and look forward to get to the signing thank you, everyone >> (clapping.) >> and our board president

london breed come on up. >> board president. >> thank you, everyone for being here as supervisor farrell and mayor ed lee have expressed this $9.6 billion budget is a clear reflection of what our values are here in the city and county of san francisco record dollar amount for homeless support services and housing hopefully hundreds of formerly homeless individuals record dollars investment until our public transit and infrastructure and what most people won't point out we've also included money for public safety in our public housing development in this city we have to make sure that all residents feel that they have a say in city hall, they have a peace of the

budget they're a prioritized in a way to make sure the quality of life for every citizen of san francisco is enjoyed when we invest in public housing and invest no more affordable housing when we invest in preserving our existing affordable housing stock we make the quality of life better for every san franciscan we have work to do this didn't happen clearly without individuals along with supervisor farrell i agree that we couldn't do this work without ben rosenfeld and without the budgetlytics harvey rose and their team, without melissa white house who stepped in for kate on maternity leave and the team worked to bring this process together along with some incredibly dedicated supervisors who are on the

budget committee working day in and out and supervisor farrell as the leader and supervisor norman yee and supervisor katie tang, conserving and supervisor jane kim link along with their team of legislative teams ultimately we all care about making sure that we're making the right investment so as someone who is very you know, i know the value of one dollar this is $9.6 billion so every single city department make sure when you're out there spending that money you're thinking about the people lives we need to impact with this money we're not wasting money we're saving money if possible and making the right investments and right decisions every dollar is going to make a difference in the city and county of san

francisco for this coming budget year i look forward to seeing the fruits of our labor out will will there with new muni bossing buses and housing and new opportunities every single will make that happen thank you everyone for your participation in this process. >> (clapping.) >> all right. now time to get to work and sign the budget .

>> (clapping.) >> go to work don't waste time don't waste money

>> here we are at the embarcadero. we are standing at one of locations for the street artists. can you tell me about this particular location, the program? >> this location is very significant. this was the very first and only location granted by the board of supervisors for the street artist when the program began in 1972. how does a person become a street artist? there are two major tenants. you must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. a street artist, the license, then submitting the work to a committee of artists. this committee actually watches

them make the work in front of them so that we can verify that it is all their own work. >> what happened during the holiday to make this an exciting location? >> this would be a magic time of year. you would probably see this place is jammed with street artists. as the no, there is a lottery held at 6 in the morning. that is how sought after the spaces are. you might get as many as 150 street artists to show up for 50 spaces. >> what other areas can a licensed street artist go to? >> they can go to the fisherman's wharf area. they can go in and around union square. we have space is now up in the castro, in fact. >> how many are there? >> we have about 420. >> are they here all year round? >> out of the 420, i know 150 to

sell all year round. i mean like five-seven days a week. >> are they making their living of of this? >> this is their sole source of income for many. >> how long have you been with this program. how much has it changed? >> i have been with the program since it began 37 and a half years ago but i have seen changes in the trend. fashion comes and goes. >> i think that you can still find plenty of titis perhaps. >> this is because the 60's is retro for a lot of people. i have seen that come back, yes. >> people still think of this city as the birth of that movement.

great, thank you for talking about the background of the program. i'm excited to go shopping. >> i would like you to meet two street artists. this is linda and jeremy. >> night said to me to print them -- nice to meet you. >> can you talk to me about a variety of products that use cell? >> we have these lovely constructed platters. we make these wonderful powder bowls. they can have a lot of color. >> york also using your license. -- you are also using your license. >> this means that i can

register with the city. this makes sure that our family participated in making all of these. >> this comes by licensed artists. the person selling it is the person that made it. there is nothing better than the people that made it. >> i would like you to meet michael johnson. he has been in the program for over 8 years. >> nice to me you. what inspired your photography? >> i am inspired everything that i see. the greatest thing about being a photographer is being able to show other people what i see. i have mostly worked in cuba and work that i shot here in san francisco. >> what is it about being a

street artist that you particularly like? >> i liked it to the first day that i did it. i like talking to mentum people. talking about art or anything that comes to our minds. there is more visibility than i would see in any store front. this would cost us relatively very little. >> i am so happy to meet you. i wish you all of the best. >> you are the wonderful artist that makes these color coding. >> nice to me to. >> i have been a street artist since 1976. >> how did you decide to be a street artist? >> i was working on union square. on lunch hours, i would be there

visiting the artist. it was interesting, exciting, and i have a creative streak in me. it ranges from t-shirts, jackets, hats. what is the day of the life of a street artist? >> they have their 2536 in the morning. by the end of the day, the last people to pack the vehicle probably get on their own at 7:30 at night. >> nice to me to condemn the -- nice to meet you. >> it was a pleasure to share this with you. i hope that the bay area will descend upon the plaza and go through these arts and crafts and by some holiday gifts.

>> that would be amazing. thank you so much for the hard work that you do. >>[gavel] >>