it tells surveyed from every part of our nation in every port of call what we know that harvey milk was a great american that belongs in that great civil rights leader for our country we're grateful we're thrilled and proud for the milk family for the foundation and certainly for our city thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, mayor ed lee ladies and gentlemen, ambassador nancy. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, very much. lieutenant commander and friends let's give a grateful thanks to secretary magnifying us and nancy pelosi and mayor ed lee and the spokesman to stuart milk

and everybody that has been involved in that thank you >> (clapping.) >> and i'm arrived and honored to be here my son eric, daughter and i watched the movie milk to recreation our memory the signature movement of the harvey's leadership and the encroachment he lead and one of the most moving scenes in the ended when thirty thousand people gathered with literally the candles to honor the life of this leader of lgbtq movement it reminds me our first lady eleanor roosevelt it is better to utility one candle than occurs the darkness harvey starred a movement it changed a

nation his legacy lives on in the great work by the harvey milk foundation and his nephew stuart milk and ann and others that accepted stuart accepted at the same time apparently metal of freedom he on harvey's on behalf of in 2009 the same year i humbly received the work building ed anyone kohlman i made a promise to my sister suzy in 1998 the year harvey died i'll i rad breast cancer not only in the u.s. but gloefshl while pave a way for a cure meeting stuart that day was a natural phenomena that changed any life gave me another cause to pursue achieving equal rights to the lgbtq community in our

nation and across the world and an honor stuart to serve in an advisory roll in the incredible harvey milk foundation that is supported all corners of the globe doing so with grace and advocacy and i do so not as a former u.s. ambassador but as a proud american as a proud mother of my son eric who is here today with us and is himself a wonderful openly gay philanthropist and lgbtq recognize that firmly believes in inclusion not exclusion >> (clapping.) >> eric and i have been privileged to be or be part of enormous events in u.s. and

abrade if the u.s. amcy in budapest we stand with harvey's dream of quality for all the foundation is taken harvey's name and story across the globe working successfully on the ground with strufrlg and emerging lgbtq communities on fixed continent and now the usns harvey milk will join lgbtq centers named after harvey from italy and barack news you're the first of the newest 4r6b9 center named after harvey luther with an result of in the ground work and the usns harvey milk will send a message of hope along with streets and parks named for

harvey's encourage and his they couldn't and vision from salt lake city to cambridge and san diego lead by professionals that worked and partnered with groundbreaking events with the u.s. state department the european union and key stakeholders and now today prourld with the u.s. navy as we join together and join secretary magnifying us we say thank you when last year a host of all 6 currently serving openly lgbtq united states ambassadors for a televised conversation that was watched live around the world hope will never be silent anywhere across the globe and certainly harvey milk will telegraph that hope to

the world where much work remains a tool it raise awareness about the communities collective strushlg a a global strufrl i know from my diplomatic work today, we'll have u.s. navy as an educational partner in spreading harvey's hope every time usns harvey milk enters a port one of the message was visibility and 38 years said you must come out to our parents i know that is it so hard and will hurt them think about how they'll hurt you in coming out to our relatives and friends if indeed they're your friends and come out to your neighbors to your fellow workers to the people that work where you eat and shop and once again sfroi

the myths and distortions today is a great day few things are as visible as a huge navy ship with harvey's name >> (clapping.) >> imagination imagine this ship pulling something a port somewhere in the world where people are minimized and prosecuted well, what a statement the united states of america is proud to put the name of an out and proud gay man on one of the ships it's my honor to have the ceremony by the secretary. >> and all the brave men and women will be spraepd the belief in quality for all there's much

more work to be done to insure this community is inbowed with doutdz with the same right and my own son that works tireless for the cause helps me building that sometime we'll bring about change in the real world for justice for all thank you >> (clapping.) >> thank you ambassador ladies and gentlemen, one final time san francisco gay man's chorus ♪ ♪ ♪ >> there - when we all will be together ever

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>> 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 but to the 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