tv Mayors Press Availability SFGTV August 29, 2016 10:15am-12:01pm PDT
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this is a referral is it only people who are going to be residing at 55 laguna? how does somebody get connected to your services? >> yes. there's various ways to connect to our service. as many of you know we move into 55 laguna photo housing unit in the fall to the residence there. will be working with us if they just we also work on a drop-in and by appointment base. we get a lot of referrals from agencies across the city that someone looking for more lgbt specific care and they reach out to us. then, we make an appointment with her clients. but then well specifically also works on a drop-in basis. especially because now were in the castro. the storefront. people drop in all the time needing immediate referrals and were offer them at that moment. >> thank you. >> any other questions from staff? any public comment on
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this item? nathan, no? thank you very much, both of you. the next item is public comment. on anything not on today's agenda. anyone have something to say? okay. correspondence. >> there is no correspondence. speed and any councilmember comments or announcements? shortest meeting we've ever had. we are adjourned. thank you. >>[gavel] >>[adjournment] >> >> >>y day of tony bennett day
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in san francisco, and >> thank you for joining us [inaudible] inspired by mr. bennet'ts duet said album. please enjoy and have a great day. >> good morning everyone. i'm elaine forms interim port director. welcome to pier 80. thank you for coming out today. we have much to celebrate. we are here to celebrate a 15 year terminal management agreement that will bring maritime actaveties back to the port as originally intended. the pier was built in the 1960 as a cargo shipping container port. by the mid-1990's we lost market share to oakland and made a decision to stop cargo shipping and move to [inaudible] initially it was strong but [inaudible] couldn't recover from the 1990's recession and many here remember those jobs that were here and saw the economic decline and the impact that it made to families. it was heart
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breaking. i see there are many international long shoreman weir house union members here. bob mu cell rath. officers from local 10, 10, 34, 91 and 75. i see don marks from the master mason pilots. this is really a day to celebrate labor. [applause] thank you. it has known this is for industrial maritime. the city understands these type of opportunities keep our workforce and city diverse and it is something we need to be intentional bout and fight for. we need to fight for the workers and working families. the port commission is here today. i see president adams, the vise president brandon, lesley katz. the port commission has been fight toog
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bring back shipping to this pier and fighting hard. i also see members of the southern waterfront advisory committee. i see kevin gibbons, shirly more, cechben law snl, memberotches the commerce advisory committee, ellen johnck [inaudible] veronica sanchez. these groups have been fighting to bring back maritime to this facility and today everyone we can celebrate. the city commissioned a study and found due to our location and rail issues auto import export was the perfect match for this terminal. this industry had been on steady growth spirt since 2009 and the port staff went on a search and hooked the right partner in john pasha . we founds a business
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partner that operated at other ports, san diego [inaudible] and had very very good success. but also found the right corporate flus aef. a partner who is a family business and cares about local community and cares about investing in employis. our partner agreed to offer 50 percent of employment opportunities here to the bayview community and district 10, and that is a huge success. [applause] i want to acknowledge the family, george w pasha opened his first automotive facility in 1960. here in san francisco at fort mason. while he is not here to see the return today, his children are as is his life partner janet pasha his wife is here today along with his children, george the forth, maureen,
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michael, jane, mary jane and john. welcome home to san francisco, we are so pleased to have you. [applause] the pasha group will build a import and export business that will include preferation of these automotive automobiles. the vehicles will be trucked from pier 80 to northern california dealerships. the row off row on vessel facility will grow over 3 to 5 years. at full capacity mr. pasha expects 96 vessel [inaudible] and that translated to about 150,000 vehicles. 50 long shorman [inaudible] and up to 150 additional employees detailing those automobiles so a real economic
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opportunity returning to pier 80. thank you so much for being here to celebrate this partnership. i know there are pleny fathers and mothers and too many to name but i want to give a special shout out to mow neek moyer, our outgoing director. [applause]. monique played a vital role insures this agrooment comes together. i like to thank peter daily and his team and roana sandler who drarfted the agreement and renee martin who put this incredible event together so thank you port team. [applause]. with that, i would now like to the introduce a person who has provided exceptional and steady leadership to theports and creates jobs and economic opportunities to all san franciscans and who absolutely believes enour world
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class water front from north to south, mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you, elaine. good morning everybody! port of san francisco pier 80! this is where things are happening? you know, before-first thing i got to do is thank you the iow drill team. what a great performance! thank you! as soon as i saw these big hooks i ought to say it first because they can pull me off those hooks real fast. what a tradition. iow and i learned a lot and learning more all the time, i engage with president willie adams and the commission. what a proud member he is and leader of the
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union. a lot of history with our city and that is partly why we are here and i know mayor willie brown and former supervisor sofy maxwell we always talk about the promises of the city. i always love saying, we ain't making new promises, just keeping the old ones and this is what our port commission and education leaders here today and community based organizations, this is the what the port of san francisco is revitalizing these places. not too long ago we were designing americas cup boats right here in this shed and we used that investment to really make sure this building was in tip top shape and want to say thank you to monique for her leadership on that. it was the port staff and the commission and her leadership that brought that investment to the city and we wanted to make sure
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we continued this invesment. we are making investments across the water front. look at the new cruise ship terminal at pier 27 and that is a another example. you see all the open spaces. we working constant with rec and park and see the blue green way we are still completing all the way down here. again, a promise for many generations. you see a constant invesment and i know that director forbes and i, the commission are already talking about how we can make the long term investments to make sure that sea wall is protected because thereat what we got to do for the entire city of san francisco. we are here today to make this announcement and want to begin by saying thank you to had pasha family. to their returning to san francisco to many generations ago but also returning in
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such a glorious way where a promise that was made to the residents of bayview and district 10 can be actually kept with this 15 year contract, hopefully many years from now. a lot of community folks and agencies service the bayview are here today to see the promise begin and the jobs that are here with a opportunity to work with our office of economic and workforce development. i know michael car is proud with city build, a program sofy helped start and to now see it in its really concrete fruition touch lives like [inaudible] here as a trainee of city build along with the 10s and scores of others who will get these great jobs. these are jobs for our present and future, they have been working class jobs and ones we always
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said we will bring back to san francisco in manufacturing and all the other ways that we are doing. it is not just tech jobs and hotel jobs and hospital jobs, these are good paying local jobs of our unions on ships like this. ships that you see every day crossing the panama canal bringing goods both ways and this site will be import and export. we hope that in the very near future, the folks that are working down here will be exported tesla motors out in the hundreds. out to the rest of the world and bringing a lot more income for our residents with our engineering and design work. all the electric vehicles. maybe a lot of driverless vehicles will be export from here. this is what we get to do in the great city of san francisco when we collaborate and work together and fulfill old promises as we use
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new technology to do so. i want to say thank you to this investment by the pasha family and generations that are here. thank you for helping us revitalize the port. thank you for work wg city build. over 50 percent of the jobs that we will create, over 50 percent will be targets for residents of bayview. that a hew mungs promise that has been something that we have always wanted to do. they are getting the training for that to happens a well, training through the jobs programs that are right here. we want to say we don't want to train people to train people, we want them to get the real jobs that are the promise of this city. i'm happy to be here to enjoy the moment and make sure we do all the right things to acakeen our communities and while we do that i will
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continue building more affordable housing down here as well to increase that. the workforce we promised can own their own homes or be residents orphthis very neighborhood ft i will say this to mayor brown and others and the stof sofy, hold on to your property because the investments we are making in this neighborhood will be so attractive everyone will want to move here now. it is little cooler today it is always 5 to 6 degrees warmer than other parts of the city. i will say again, thank you to all the parts and thank you to the port of san francisco and all the people that work there. this is proud moment for all of you. i know that for the commission as well. when we work together for the infrastruck investments we will do the right thing and see the people that benefit are the people we promised for many generations to be here. i look forward to the
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canon burst and walking not the plank, gene ann, but these are vital ships and want to see more of these in addition to cruise ship liners lining up the water front and do all the great things in the great city. thank you very much for being here. congratulations. >> thank you, mr. mayor. i now would like to introduce a person who has been on the team here since 1951 and has been a champion for labor and working families. he served 30 years in the state assembly and became our 41 mayor of san francisco, the first african american mayor and he is known as a celebrity beyaunds city boundaries. it is part of the leadership that
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really understood you need intentional zoning, planning and business twement to make industry strive along with supervisor [inaudible] so please help me introduce mayor willie brown. >> i'm sure you are wondering why willie brown? i actually represent all of the previous mayors who had a challenge of trying to do something that ed lee now gets the sole credit for. [laughter]. just think how much diane and agnos and jordan and nusem all resent that, ed? you sit up here and laid out the whole program and i am
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just delighted i received a call to come and participate because when service as mayor. mayor lee, you recall we started the business of breaking the cargo once they [inaudible] all the business of oakland and the recession came as indicated by mrs. forbes and the whole thing changed. and you and your administration did wonders. i stand as a member of the long shoremans union. [applause]. now, i know many of you-you look too dam small to be a member the longshoremans union. i was inducted on the hairy bridges, bill chester, lee gallblat and [inaudible] curtis, pursy and a whole
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collection of long shore people who are operating at that time. they selected me in the middle 60's when all other members of organized labor looking some other way and they embraced and started the 30 year career that you talked about and it was because of my ongoing work and relationship with the people who worked on the port of san francisco and how they conducted themselves and how much they meant to every church in the city of san francisco, every african american church. every neighborhood in the city and county of san francisco. literally the basis of the income for organized labor working on the port and being a part of the weir house operation meant so much to the
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economy of this city. hopefully, hopefully, district 10 with this incredible achievement that this port commission under this mayors leadership is producing, we can begin to see the city and county of san francisco no longer going down on the african american population, but going up again to where it was at one time. you are right, mr. mayor, it takes a culmination of jobs and all the other things that go with it to make that possible. this represents the very first set. your office of workforce development , all aspects of the organizations that will be a part of, it will be 50 percent, but if we work it right, well, somebody looking closely it could be 75
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percent which is a way we really ought to do it because if we are to achieve what needs to be achieved on behalf of the people in this city and the economy of the city to keep this city diverse, clearly this family that obviously been successful in san diego and the state of washington, it could now be successful in the state of san francisco as i call this place. i can just see it and all i'll do is watch very very closely because when they off load a lamborghini, it will be one of the items they will accidently miss. congratulations! >> now i like to introduce
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another man of the how, john pasha. it is john pasha who is senior vice president of the pasha group and has all the enthuse amp and drive andnition vision to understand why they successfully built auto roll on and hauf plans in other jurisdictions and why mr. pasha will make a successful venchier here. with that, help me in welcoming john pasha. [applause]. >> thank you director forbes and how on earth will i follow willie brown? it is a absolute honor to be here representing pasha automotive services as we ainaugurate the new pier 80 today. pleased to share the moment with the city. particularly
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mayor ed lee and his office. supervisor malia cohen and our partners at theport. we worked so hard so many months to put this together and pleased especially to share it with your pasha family. our employees here in california, hawaii and globally and my immediate family including my brother george, president and ceo, sister maureen who put many years of experience in automotive opraigdss running the facility here at pier 80. also thrilled to share the moment, my murthder janet, brother mike, sister mary jane and all their families. a special thank you to my wife aaron and kids for their emens support as we go the business just a little bit more. [applause] today is a bit of a home coming. in the
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early 40's my grand father george the second started a flying a sunchs station at bay and van ness across the street from fort mason. he then expanded the business to provide storage for privately own vehicles of ww 2 personnel. in 960 my fatherer opened the first independent port processing facility on the west coast at fort mason and built a body shop on fishermans wharfed to provide a show room ready product for auto dealers. today pasha automotive provides prosand distribution service as the port of san francisco, san diego, grays harbor, baltimore and man tee florida. as a
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company and as individuals, we are committed to insureing that maritime uses are supported and our countries valuable waterfront assets receive the investment they need to service commercial purposes. this means supporting economic development, job creation, commerce and trade. our economy is dependent on healthy coastal and ocean resources especially when you consider that 14 percent of u.s. counties ajais tonight the coast produce 45 percent of the nations gdp. 90 percent the nations consumed products have once traveled by water to this great country. at pasha we are also committed to good paying jobs, which is why we are so pleased to partner with city build and residents of district 10 to bring employment and training opportunities to the
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area. [applause] and we are commit today providing customers with the services they need to build and grow their operations and customer base which is why we are investing in this key piece of port property. with the reopening of pier 80, pasha automotive customers have additional options for their railroad cargo with a consistent demand for auto in the u.s., we see growing opportunity here in northern california . by 2020 won in 4 cars driven will come from mexico and san francisco a hub to serve the import market. we also see great potential in the alternative energy vehicles which are ink baited and designed here and a intgle part of the world automotive future. today you may sit oen folder chairs in a open d somewhat
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dilapidated parking loss i ask you to look at the future. when operating at full capacity pier 80 wilg handed up to 96 ships and 1 [inaudible] autoabilities annually. [applause]. we are hopeful they employ at least 50 longshoreman per shape and up to 150 jobs for processors many will be fill by the nearby resident. in the near term we invest in property repairs and expansion including state of the art facilities for preparing ooblt ooblts for market, adding accessories and updating software and making repairs for automotive manufacturers from the u.s. and abroad. i don't need to remind the san francisco audience that having a terminal in san francisco for auto processing and imports
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will reduce the environmental footprint of car being unloaded in southern california that are currently trucked north. [applause]. while thathereare far too many people to thank individually, i want you to know it did take a village and many hours of negotiateating and hard work. to bring this pier back to life. i will be remisif i did not acknowledge port director elaine forbes, deputy director maritime director peter daily whos vision leadership and tenacity made them ideal partners as well as monique moyer and jim maloney who started us on the wonderful adventure 2 years ago. pasha is back in san francisco and it is a back to the future moment. as
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i look out and see the [inaudible] we launched in 205 to serve the hawaii main land route ready to perclaim peer 80 will open another chapter for our customers employees company and this great city. my only regret is our father and legendary chairman george iii isn't here to mark the milestone but know he is very proud and watching over us today. thank you very much. [applause] >> now i would like to introduce the port commission president who has since
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2003 is secretary treasurer of iowu. he is a artdestx film maker and has hands on commitment to seeing maritime thriv in san francisco and has brought a breath of fresh air into our portfolio. with that, president willie adams. [applause] >> the honorable mayor lee and fellow san francisco port commissioner, kim brandon vice president. commissioner lesley katz and all aseemed guests welcome. everyone that put this event together, thank you. it has been said, life is not measured by the number of breaths that we take, but by the moments that take our breaths way. today all august 22, 2016 is one of those days. the port commission is presently leading with a vision that only vose that dare drive the
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world forward. the commissioners for pier 80-96 will be a maritime eco industrial center that is great for jobs, great for the bayview, great for district 10, great for the industry and great for the environment. the port-[applause]- the port commission is crystal clear that we are to use our port land for maritime industrial, commercial and the southern waterfront. this is our public trust mandate and the port commission will use these lands to better our working families and to give skilled workers a path to prosperity and these lands belong to the community for jobs are the foundation of citizenship. as commissioners, we have supported our staff to forge an agreement with pasha automotive
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that will turn around this cargo facility and make the 60 acres of space warehouse [inaudible] a shipping hub for automobile import and export and more diverse type of cargoes. pretty window windy up here. it is with great pride and want to acknowledge the esteemed leadership of the nrbt national long shore and union led by international president robertmic elrath, rea, [inaudible] frank pauns day leon and camera williams and local 10 president ed [inaudible] and dave gonzalez [inaudible] i want to say a special thank you because if
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pasha and iow were unable to hammer out that agreement none would be here today and it took giving on both parts, the unions part and pashas part and gotten there. 3 people in particular i want to thank, melvin mu cay was the president of local 10 and got it down to the one yard line. sean [inaudible] president of local [inaudible] ed ferrous president of local 10 and dave gonzalez of local 34 took it over. we were not on the one yard line and passed, we got it over. [applause] even though there were nay sayers and that is okay because a kite flies against the win and there were people saying nothing will happent a
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pier 80, lets [inaudible] would you think you are pat the onedf something you are at the beginning of something else. yet, a year and a half ago the long shore and weir house union and pasha and port of san francisco sat down and started discussion on transforming pier 80 and a concept of bringing cars and and other commodities. yes, there were different opinions, lack of trust. yet at the end the parties understood they were tied together in a garimate of destiny and it was clear to all the parties that ideas dont make things happens, it can be an achilles heal. they took action and lift a torch [inaudible] pier 80 transformed from the past cameo role to a leading role on the san francisco waterfront. group moved forward with surgical
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perscission understanding the fierce urgency och now and i'm proud to say today that pier 80 has gone from gray skies to blue and this agreement signals that the port of san francisco is open for maritime business. mayor lee, i want to thank you for your leadership, passion and for helping to support our working families and being mayor i know it isn't a easy job. the chips are always downism i want to make sure along with my commission the entire southern waterfront follows pier 80. in closing i want to say to the community, the job opportunities are a start with lots of work to be done over time. if you want to leave your mark in life, now here is your chanls chanced. i learned to elevate the mental is be poor no more. one does not have to have a title to have honor. in the wurbds of mohammed a
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alee [inaudible] >> thank you very much president adamsism now i would like to introduce to you all one of the highest ranking non elected officials in san francisco, city administrator nayomey kelly. mrs. kelly over sees btd 25 departments including public works, contact administration, purchasing, real estate and many others and the woman behind the scenes making it all happen all the time. she has been committed to the port every step of the way and achievering the best for port land so please, mrs. naomi kelly.
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>> good morning! i am pleased to be here with pasha automotive and be at the great new location here at pier 80 in san francisco in the southeast sector of the city. as our economy grows, it is so important we make san francisco work for every community and for our local businesses. the port of san francisco has been a great leader in creating jobs and creating opportunities for our local business entrepreneurs. in this last half year, 76 of all contracts that support have been awarded to lbe firms and also more than 50 percent of payments on all contract dollars went to local firms. these numbers don't happen by accident and want to thank kimberley brandon and willie adams, director elaine forbes, former director monique moyier because under that leadership we make sure we have local businesses working here. as
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i know this project is a maritime use, i will work with the port to make sure we have local businesses working on general service contracts or if there are subcontracting goals we will make sure that happens. the pasha agreement we are celebrating represents meaningful local commitment. pasha automotive will team with bayview residents to insure at least 508 percent are hired from the bayview and district 10. this is so critical to making our economy grow. i see many partners sheer whether it is young community developers or others. as city administrator i'm tasked with the punchs of city fleet and maintenance the fleet and very impress said by pasha automotive here at pier 80. the unique design the facility isn't only loading and unloading cars but operating as a mini autoplant in san francisco. on site employees will fix
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flaws in customize vehicles. it is a slunt to create skilled jobs for residents of this community working win the automotive industry. as the city rebuilts the central facility in san francisco, this is a great opportunity to partner in the growing of the profession. thank you mayor lee, mayor brown, pasha automotive, port of san francisco and our san francisco local community. thank you. [applause] >> as many of you know, patientish entered an agreement with city build, which is a very important program that the mayor oversees to break free any type of barriers to employment and get members of the community job ready. it is michael car who is the director of
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the workforce development group and he will oversee the agreement with pasha to see the local hire numbers come to fruition. i would like now to introduce a young man, alex montarot who enrolled in city build in 2015 and i would like you to hear a little from him about what the program meant to his life. alex. [applause]. >> hi everyone. my name is alex montono. i'm a city build student, cycle 24. today we started week 11. i can tell you that it is not very easy you know, going to school every day, running a couple miles, sitting in class and writing down everything the teacher says. i have to say it is a challenge. it is also great to be a part of this event and learn
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what is geing on here. i'm actually a 3 year graduate from delancey street and thankfully that is i i learned to be responsible enough to take on school at city build, juggle two jobs and all the other responsibilities you need to be successful in life. as a student at city build, i can tell you that city build will give you everything you need to be successful in the construction industry. i don't know if you ever seen someone use a hammer for their first time, but it is kind of funny. what i like about city build is it doesn't matter if you have a criminal background, it doesn't matter if you come from a poor family where nobody went to college or if you dont know anybody in the union. city build will help you get a career, not a job, but a career. so, if there are any
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of you out there that are looking to get inside of a union, city build is the way to go. i can tell you that. [applause] i want to say thank you to city build and the staff and to be honest with you, i don't look at the staff at city build as just staff, i look at them as people who care and want to see you succeed. it may be hard on you sometimes but they want to see you make it. thank you to the aufs of economic and workforce development and special thank you to mayor ed lee and city and county of san francisco and thank you so much for giving people like us this opportunity. [applause] >> that was very beautiful, alex and you hit the nail on the head.
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we are trying to build careers here, not just a job, bullet but a year. our final speaker today before father michael ryan does a blessing to give the facility a blessing in good luck and good wishes, i like to introduce to you supervisor sofy maxwell. supervisor mexual was elected in 2000 and reelected in 2002 and 6 and she worked tire lassly on issues just like this one today. she worked on environmental justice, clean energy and equitable distribution of resources and i know she worked very hard on the early iterations of the city build program along with mayor lee. we are very happy to have her. she is also a electrician by training and understands the importance of having a good skill and job. supervisor max well. >> well, good morning! isn't this
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amazing? i know all of you have been watching the olympics and you have seen some amazing things happenism you have seen teams that have come together. here we have. this is a gold moment! i give you the gold moment here! this is the golden moment. you heard the team, you have seen the teams, and heard from the teams. so, i don't know need to go into all of that. what i do need to say is we are already successful. when i look at city build, when i look at all of the people that are there and all these yellow hats and these people that the city has really given some confidence in that we invested in our workforce, pasha, this is a good thing you are doing. this is a smart move. these people already live mere. they don't have to worry about the high housing prices. they live here. they can walk and bike and nay can take the t like i will
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do going back home. so, i think it is a smart move and it is smart move for our city to invest in this neighborhood and invest in our city. and let's talk about the port of san francisco. what a vision. thank you so much for that. thank you so much because without a vision what can you do? thank you very much to kim who told me i have to do this, i appreciate that. we are on our way, this is a wonderful event but it has to go on and have to keep going and have to realize there will be challenges but we can over come everything. thank you and we got the goals, it is a win, win, situation. thank you. >> i also wanted to acknowledge
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supervisor cohen. supervisor cohen couldn't be here today but provided a proclamation for us just announcing how wonderful it is that our ships aribeing and economic opportunity will flow and that pier 80 will employ district 10 residents and be filled by workers of various skill levels and will enhance the economic opportunity of this place. supervisor cohen is with us in spirit and i just want to thank you everyone for coming out and celebrating with us, all the dignitaries. i want to thank port commissioners who saw the agreement as it evolved and kept saying where is there jobs program, elaine. i want to thank oewd and mayor lee when i same and said where is the jobs program they all came together to figure how this would work and of course
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to mr. pasha for saying, heck yeah, we can do that. thank you all and like to bring up father michael ryan who will do a blessing which is in pasha's honor then we will hear a canon, the fire boat is here, also the chief is here, chief hayes white is here from the fire department so thank you chiefment . we will then have lunch and celebrate. thank you again. >> thank you elaine. i want to you know i came fromciateal for this and trying to overlook the earlier comment about [inaudible] probably enough to be said. before the prayer or blessing, which is brief and promise you
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would you join me in a quite moment to remember george pasha the third, my sisters husband and brother in law, the greatest guy in the world who i know he left us two years ago on saturday and from his place with god, i know he is with his dad and mother smiling as well today and let's just take one brief moment to remember. [moment of silence] i think he provided the sun. gracious god, we thank you for this day for this home coming. pasha has come back to where it all started. pasha has come home. we ask your blessing on this new beginning and all the people who made it happen as well as on all who will make it happens in the days, months and yours aheadism we ask your blessing for all the comings
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and goings that lie ahead here at pier 80. for the ships that sail in and out of the golden gaetd and cars and cargo and crews and long shore workers and each and every member of the pasha team. we ask your blessing for this great city of san francisco. citizens and elected officials alike that it will continue to be a place of economic opportunity for all especially for those who live in the margins and struggle to sur vive. lastly, we pray thinew chapter in the long history of pasha will be successful and exciting as all the other chaptersment . in your name we pray, amen.
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>> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take
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any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly
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cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground
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fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy
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challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco.
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>> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity.
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>> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here
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was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake.
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>> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for you. >> what do you think about working at an airport and i love it is busy all the time. >> we want it to be an those away was this is a venture if i didn't love it i'll be an accountant. >> we want the experience that is a non-airport experience the negative stigma we're trying to erase that. >> everything is in a bad food to excite them about the food
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and they have time to learn about us. >> people are imitated by traveling and the last thing to do is come to a place fill of chaos. >> telling me how the extent of napa a farms came about. >> it was a vision of the airport director he had a suspicion of a really cool gourmet speciality market locally friendly products this market local flavors this is the best. >> can we get a little tour. >> absolutely (laughter) ♪ ♪ >> so first on our tour. >> we have the clock we like to call it. >> this is coordinating it is made in san francisco.
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>> what about the customer presence. >> we like to get the permanent farther i love the cappuccino and you have to go to multiple places for the cupcakes the cup a cakes from kari's people want to live here they're longing phone call for one thing in one spot in you know anything about san francisco the cheese the most popular cheesy think a lot of the people from the west coast say so this the real san francisco sour dough and they're curious. >> you find people respond to the idea of organic and absolutely. >> this is autumn. >> thank you, thank you and there's a lot of personal touch. >> i see san francisco. >> it's very hands on. >> what's the most popular
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items. >> this is quite surprising our fresh jotting this is the chronicle special a bowl of warm oats and coconut that's mites farther. >> and speaking of drinks tell me again the cocktail scenes is that one, the things your known for . >> the cocktails are fantastic. >> really. >> fresh ingredients we don't have a mixture it to order this is our marcus bloody mayor. >> farmer's market bloody mary the bloody marys in the airport
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are great shikz it up. and then we're going to garnish it with olives. and some lime and a fresh stalk of selly. right on. >> we like well, this is a rea francisco day, isn't it? >> it is. >> so the grays cathedral played the chimes. the cable cars played, i think it was, i left my heart in san francisco. cable cars half way through the stars. and a typical san francisco day. the fog may chill the air, but we don't care. [applause]. because san franciscan's and all the people that come here as our tourist ,
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they love san francisco and love to celebrate and today we celebrate, tony bennett day! [applause] now, willie, it has been said that in this stage setting, that there is statue of tony bennett. now, you have been away, said you went to the hall of fame, but you and the audience haven't been around, so is that statue in there you? or is it- >> i hope it isn't trump. [applause] >> so, what we came to hear is that the real tony bennett is here and beautiful beautiful wonderful local girl from the
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area here, susan, wonderful wonderful lady. tony has two sons here, danny and day and grand children here and a host of people, but you know, they are itailian so that means a lot, right? and nancy pelosi and paul [inaudible] if we open this later on and find that you know, that it is not tony bennett, there are-i see people over here that are donors and they will want their money back and then some, so--and you know, tony has never said no to us for anything and think someone later will talk about how hew never said no but it occurred to us and thought about celebrating tony to ask him if we can do a statue. he never turned us down and said yes. he has a sculptor in new york but we like local local so
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bruce wolf who is the artist, he has sculted my secretary, george schultz and doing clint eastwood and gaven nusem and lady thatcher and arnold paulmer and turned you down. bruce and grand children and he played basketball. so, willie, you know, san francisco they always say we are a city that knows how and you and i talked about this when we did celebrate tony's 50 anniversary singing that song in the venetian room so we celebrated that and thousands of people came out and said you know what, we need to do something to celebrate tony, so
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a city that knows how, how did we do this? >> well, charlotte, practically everybody that you see in front of you, on the side and all the other places provided the help and resources that allowed us to do what i hope is behind that curtain in the fashion in which it should and can be done only in san francisco. i must tell you, that the city thanks each and every one of you for your generosity. mr. mayor, there is not a public dollar in that statue, or at least i dont think there is. >> no >> i didn't do the book keeping, charlotte did. and it was
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frankly fun, because in the solicitation process, it was done in such an easy manner for charlotte and many of the other people who participated. there was not one turn down. not one turn down. and it started when diane forced dick plumb, to come through. >> and he did >> and he did. came through handsomely. there are so many other dick plumbs. i must tell you that this was driven by the female group that did most of the soliciting for this statue and we in the city are indeed grateful. i don't know any other place in the country where this kind of a city effort could be made on behalf of someone who's branded the city all over the world, all you need to hear is just his voice, the loveliness of
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paris and in any language everybody understands that you instantly are saying, tony bennett in san francisco. a complete brand and tony, we are indeed grateful. [applause] >> and the people that i called, one of the first people was of course the mayor to get permission and he said yes. but, i didn't get a donation from him. but, there is still a opportunity. so, the mayor is here, anita his wonderful wife is here so thank you mayor for bringing out the sun even though we love the fog. mr. mayor please join us. mayor edwin lee. [applause] >> charlotte and mayor brown,
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thank you very much. isn't this a great day for the great city of san francisco! oh, wow! you know, when i became mayor my first meeting with our chief of protocol, charlotte was to tell about all the work we are about to do. a lot of good hard work sfr residents of the city. things i had already been assigned to get done by senator feinstein and willie brown and gaven nusem. one of the things that we talked about the first meeting was, the fact that as we meet these challenges that we are so familiar about, we got to have some fun in the city. we got tobe able to do it with the zest that i think the city is known for. and while i want to solve many of the challenges that we have and we are making great progress, we also need to
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celebrate what is right and what is great about san francisco. what an honor it is to be here with a 19 time grammy award winner who sold over 50 million recordings internationally and he is a artist exextraordinary. he is today, 90 years young. [applause] and what i keep saying over and over again to everyone, he is the ambassador for san francisco. [applause] his song has been that very representation of our city and what it is all about and today i can't think of any better way to celebrate tony bennett as we
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unveil hopefully, this wonderful statue mr. wolf designed. you know, this was 50 years ago the song was first sang right here at the fairmont and it's history we are all celebrating today along with the great tony bennett who continues as charlotte said , keeps giving to our city. a little trivia for you, do you know in the first audience, mayor george christopher was there in the audience the future mayor, mayor joe alota was in the audience when he first sang the song in 1966. joe alota was so charmed by that song, when he became mayor, he had the song adopted as one of the two official anthems for
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san francisco. tony bennett, you helped us share the magic of san francisco around the world. song reminds how and why we love our great city and calls us home when we travel a bit too far. it also calls when we maybe traveled a bit too long from san francisco. when you come back to san francisco, our hearts are lifted. you have helped us celebrate milestones in our history. you reopened us after earthquakes. you brought us back one of the greatest symbols our city, our cable cars. when ever we celebrate and i got to hear this song more often, because that tells us the giants have won. [applause]. we celebrate you here today for your part of our
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city's history and now we immortalize you in bronze so you will be here forever welcoming every person to our great city. of course now i get to do something senator and former mayor brown have always done in their life time but now i get to do it to officially declare today august 19, 2016, tony bennett day in san francisco! [applause] you know, in 2012 we had the great opportunity honoring townie with the key to the city, our highest haun urbut this time around working with all you here, i want to say a personal thank you for every one of you who supported the idea and donated to fairmont as well. each and every one of you. in
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creating this bronze statue, we know you couldn't put it back in your suitcase and take it home, tony, so we want to make sure that you'll be very happy to leave it here along with your heart to show everybody the love that you have shown the city. tony bennett, congratulations and happy great birthday from san francisco! [applause] and i know yet another great mayor of this city and certainly our senator, one that continues to leave her heart in the city and certainly make sure i do what i to make sure the city continues to be the great place it is, that is our own senator, senator diane feinstein. [applause] >> thank you very much mayor
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lee. [inaudible] my pal charlotte schultz, the one and only willie brown. the leader of the giants who has done so much to bring glory to san francisco. [applause] distinshuished speaker who is very unusual in that this is a woman in a very difficult and divided time. has been able to really constructively put together those programs which have been become law in our nation and that is nancy pelosi. [applause] obviously, i welcome the distinshuished person about whom this sculpture will be dedicated. i want to take you back to 1873. a man by the name of holiday, was standing below a hill when he
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watched a street car driven by 4 horses fall backwards off the hill. excuse me, 5 horses. they were all killed and he decided to look for something to replace those horse driven street cars. and of course, this was the system. well, it wasn't on and on and on , and it began to deteriorate and there was refurbishing. in 1947 led by a woman named by [inaudible] who some remember with great fondness placed a referendum on the ballot to block then mayor roger lapins plans to eliminate the cable cars. the cable cars were saved by a vote of 75 to 25 percent by the
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voters. [applause] [bells]. and we had a nob nab in my day. do you remember carl payne? carl payne used to sing any song on that bell and for 10 or 12 years, he was the number one winner of every cable car contest. back to the different world, in 1978 proposition 13 passed and the city lost one half of its revenues. thanks to the then speaker the legislature who in the front row today, he was able to bring back some of those lost revenues in something called assembly 6, was it willie? 6. san francisco recovered somewhat, but not entirely. in the early 80's, we were able to secure from
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the bush administration, this was a day of bipartisanship, a 49 million dollar grant to rehabilitation the cable cars. what was missing was the $10 million city match and we didn't have the money and so i one day put a call and said, we are going to raise $10 million from the private sector. candtly i didn't know where it would come from. it was early 80's and a lot of residing trauma in the city and in my office walked ken dur, then the chairman of chevron and he said madam mayor, i would like chevron to be the first contributor and we contribute a million dollars. i did the only logical thing when i had him in the room to say ken, would you now chair a committee to raise the additional $9 million? and he did it.
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and we 20 thousand contributions that were small and another 4 big ones of a million dollars each from various corporations and companiesism japanese companies essentially gave $2 million to this effort. so, it was one of the real instances of corporate participation in the city's wellbeing. so, we were able to get the cable care grants and the cable cars were restored. 39 were restored. the big problem was the cable. most people don't know but this cable has hemp inside of it. it has to be such that the grip can grab the cable and hang on to the cable, so there is a particular consistency. it is expensive. it came from france. but we got that and we got it done. so today, we look
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out at that cable car and it isn't quite half way to the stars, but it is certainly is very very special. ladies and gentlemen, i want to thank everybody that helped with this skepture for our beloved tony bennett. charlotte and i remember him down at market street when the cable cars went back into operation after the rehabilitation and he has been there every sense and he really has put the cable car on the international list of historic sites to see. so, thank you tony for being here. thank you for helping us and thank you all my pals who have down so much to make this possible. thank you. and now, i like to introduce the regional vice president and general manager the fairmont hotel, new to the
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city, boston irish from boston paul tormy. paul, would you come up, please? [applause] >> i didn't know the senator would say i'm new to the city but i'm new. nice to meet you. i'm paul tormy the regional vise president and general manager the hotel which makes be beyaunds words proud to stand here and be the latest in keeper for this place is amazing. a career highlight for myself and family thank you, it is wonderful to be here rchlt on behalf of all the people here today who contributed to make this a special event i appreciate it t and want to thank the team the fairmont san francisco along with charlotte and her folks that made this happen. they worked to make sure you have a wonderful event today but thank you to the team. we are thrilled to
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welcome mr. bennett and his wife susan. toneo tony you are a regular guest. when mr. bennett checks in it isn't the normal make a hole to the star. he says hello and knows peoples names and pure gentlemen and hope you will forever thing of this as a home away from home. you are a vital chapter in the history the hotel. not just my team at the fairmont san francisco but all the fairmonts around the world who know this event is happening today, thank you for your support. 1945 the fairmont serviceed as the unifiication of the unit nations charter. the flags to my right represent the nations that were here in attendance to sign that wonderful document. we since that time welcomes countless dignitaries, queens, kings rock stars and really great singers from new york and all
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those respected figures. mr. bennett above all of them served as the number one ambusder do the hotel and san francisco. you made it a can't miss destination in the united states and world and thank you for that because it helps our occupancy tremendously. we also-sorry. everyone knows mr. bennett sang his first public rendition of left my heart in san francisco here in venetian room in san francisco of 1961 and since 50 years ago he is responsible if making sure people come to see the building. with the statue we know we will get more customers coming to see it and get their pictures in front of de. we also is a tony bennett suite in the hotel. it is beautiful and adorned with mr. bennetts wonderful paintings. he is quite a artist. we have his paintings
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in the hotel and thank you for making the beautiful building more marvelous. the suite is occupied today but it will be available in the future if you choose to look out for it. mr. bennett on behalf of myself and family and colleagues 550 some odd, happy birthday. welcome back to san francisco. with that, i like to introduce mr. larry baer, president and ceo of the world champion san francisco giants. >> thank you paul. welcome to town, paul. i happen to be a 4th generation san franciscan, so we have book ends a little. in fact, i can think of no more appropriate place than the fairmont hotel, my parents were married here in 1954 in the fairmont hotel and
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to me it is really the iconic facility and hotel in san francisco so thank you for providing all your support and predecessors and company because this will be a very very special location. um, do we have any giants fans here? [applause]. i'm here to say if you are a giants fan you are a tony bennett fan. i think many know but i like to take a second to relay the deep connection between tony bennett and the san francisco giants. there was a time and speaker pelosi and senator feinstein and mayor lee remember this time in 1992, where the giants all most moved to florida. all most moved. a wonderful group of civic leaders got together, mayor brown was very much a part of this as well for us, and group of civic leaders got together and saved
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the team. 1993 rolls around, opening day in 1993, who was there to sing on opening day when the giants were saved tony bennett at candle stick park. and i have to admit to something, though we had wonderful participants like tim [inaudible] and matt cane and buster posey, thrfs something in common that occurred in 2010, 2012, and 2014 during the post season. do you know what that was? tony bennett sang at the ball park before a post season game and good things happened in 2010, 2014 and 2012 of course. more importantly what happens after every giants win during
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the regular season for the last 25 years? tony-that is correct. i left my heart in san francisco. tony, you're san francisco royalty. we look forward to tonight at the ball park where we will have a small group of 41,000 people singing happy birthday to you. we have a special surprise that is going to be a new feature after every win that when you come to the game tonight you'll be able to see and be presented in conjunctions with tony's birthday. we go by your beautiful heart at union scare that you actually designed and sculpted that benefit san francisco general and hearts campaign. we are inspired by all you do as a person and for the city and for the special communities around the country. thank you for everything. as far as we are concerned you are number one san francisco giants
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forever. thank you. [applause] now i like to call on our great friend and great leader, speaker nancy pelosi. [applause] >> thank you very much larry baer for your great leadership of the san francisco giants! go giants! what a honor it is to be here to speak on a occasion of such specialness for our city of san francisco because it spells out so clearly what a sense of community we all have. senator feinstein spoke about the cable cars, the mayor-mayor brown about how we all pull together around issues. our dear mayor lee spoke about again working together san francisco remains
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an effective place, but we want to keep san francisco fun. the giants do a great job for us there and it is great honor to be here at the fairmont where so many unifying things happened and know the [inaudible] family is very proud of that as well. we welcome you and pam as well. what a time it is. charlotte schultz is probably the best person in the world i think. i just love her so much. thank you charlotte for working your magic and working your magic on tony. now, let me talk about tony a little bit. first of all, when tony was singing here in 1961 and just shortly there after is when paul pelosi and i started dating on the east coast and my family in baument more every time they heard tony sing i left my heart in san francisco, so sudective
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was the song and his voice they celt saying i think we will move to san francisco. paul pelosi had that as part of his courtship tony, and that is why he was happy to doinate to the statue here today. we are here to dedicate a statue to a great american entertainer, performer. but let me tell you more about tony bennett and i have taken pride from a young girl and all the way to advance stage of life in the fact he is italian american. we take pride in that. in san francisco tony, we are a italian american city. we are divided into italian american and those that want to be italian american. in world war 2 did you know tony bennett fought in the battle of the bullage and he was part of the effort to free the concentration camp following the war. protecting
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america. protecting america. a true american patriot. that was then and now he continues to protect america with his voice against violence following the trag aedss we have seen by gun violence, he is a leader in protecting the american people. a true patriot and true humanitarian. did you know he matched in selma with martin luther king in 1965? 1965. and has been declared by the martin luther king library as one of their great awardees. did you know that the un designated tony bennett a world-a citizen of the world for his efforts for humanitarian.
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and his efforts blossomed further with susan and i think that his passion for i left my heart in san francisco increased when he met and married susan. [inaudible] assuming the italian name and her parents are here. what they do together exploring the arts for children, for children to gain confidence, to learn through the arts. establishing the frank sinatra school of arts in queens and visited and seen great work there. not only that, all over the country opening that door to creativity and the arts. an artist himself in addition to singing. did you know at least 3 paintings are on display at the smith toneian institution and written 4 books? this is a man of greatness, of excellence, of creativity. and then of
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course, patriot, humanitarian, one the greatest singers. frank sinatra said he has the best voice. i don't know what you think of frank [inaudible] you have been at the top of charts in ever decades since the 50, 60, 70, 80, 90. 7 decades at the fop of the charts. sung for 11 president so far. pretty soon he will sing for a woman president. [applause] you name it, any grammy kennedy center he received them all for being the great musical icon of the worlds and so tony, you bring luster to san francisco by accepting this honor. we feel very proprietary about you and susan and thank
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you for allowing us again and again to honor you and it means a lot to us that you associate, i left my heart in san francisco with the san francisco giants. go giants! and for all he has done, all he has accomplished, he has assured us of one thing again and again, the best is yet to come! [applause] [music playing]
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forget this day. thank you very very much. [applause] >> what do you think? look at it. tony, we know you celebrated your birthday in new york, that other town. you know, they lit the empireb state building red white and blue and colored of the italian flagm we know your favorite color is blue. we are lighting city hall and coit tower blue. we would like to have a wonderful party here for you for your birthday, so shall we sing happy birthday? >> happy birthday to you. happy birthday to you. happy
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birthday, dear mr. bennett, happy birthday to you. >> and i think-susan and dana and day, and the niece and nephews, please join us for the birthday cake which is a replica of your heart, not your heart but your painted heart in union square. should we come over here? susan, come on up. ny and day, and the
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niece and nephews, please join us for the birthday cake which is a replica of your heart, not your heart but your painted heart in union square. should we come over here? susan, come on up. we cut the piece of cake. should we all sing happy birthday again? okay. >> happy birthday to you. happy birthday to you. happy birthday mr. bennett, happy birthday to you. [applause] >> so, happy birthday tony and the mayor saying this is tony bennett day and also have the key to the
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city so you can park where you want to and have drinks where you want to but don't call me, call him. the day is only beginning because the giants wonderful party this evening where we will win, win, win. and tomorrow evening at the venetian room tony has a wonderful generosity will do a show that benefits the tony benefit fund forpede atric care of zuckerburg hospital. [applause] and tony and susan's as we refer to by nancy, schools for the arts, mr. mayor, they are going to come here, right? yes. they are in los angeles and new york and for some reason there is a bureaucracy or something here. could you get anita on this? okay. so, happy birthday and everybody eat cake. thank you
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