rescue for our people (inaudible) establishment of virtues enforcement of humanity. (inaudible) courage (inaudible) destiny (inaudible) thank you.

>> is there any additional general public comment? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. this is an information item. item number eleven. >> adjournment. >> we are adjourned. thank you.

>> i have 2 job titles. i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. this building is multifaceted to say the very least it's a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn't have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of 1913. in december 1915, the building was complete. it opened it's doors in january

1916. >> it's a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. the building is built as a palace. not for a king or queen. it's built for all people. this building is beautiful art. those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, san francisco had an enormous french population. therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. >> jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that san francisco had to regain it's place in the world. he decided to have the tallest dome built in the united states.

it's now stands 307 feet 6 inches from the ground 40 feet taller than the united states capital. >> you could spend days going around the building and finding something new. the embellishment, the carvings, it represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that san francisco is famous for. >> the wood you see in the board of supervisor's chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. interesting thing about the oak is there isn't anymore in the entire world. the floors in china was cleard

and never replanted. if you look up at the seceiling you would believe that's hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. there are no records about how many people worked on this building. the workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. and what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today. >> good morning. welcome to

city hall. you know on october 8 during fleet week there was an event that happened on our waterfront. a boat capsized. some 30 people ended up falling into the water including children and adults and it could have been-it set the stage for a huge tragedy during a time at which so many people are our city were coming together to celebrate fleet week. when that event happened fortunately, people who have been trained in people who were good san franciscans or just people who are goodwill came together and responded. there were obviously called the were made immediately. were voters who saw what happened. some

screamed at the top of their lungs that they needed help. some of the nearby voters saw what happened and saw some people without life-saving jackets werewere apparatus is through what they had into the water. others who saw kids in the water jumped in rather than watched to save them. the fire department showed up immediately assessed what has happened the san francisco police department particularly, the marine unit which i've had the pleasure of working with on the waterfront jumped in and paramedics came to the site. a couple of individuals were rescued from the water but could not breathe and so cpr was given immediately on the shores and paramedics

immediately rushed those that perhaps were not indicating weight consciousness into our zuckerberg san francisco general hospital trauma center. there, life was saved when you look at this potential huge tragedy you wonder how as a city we kind of were lucky but it's not luck. i will tell you it's not luck. it is people who every day are sensing that something could happen and they were ready and this is what we have as a city often times talked about being a resilient city, a city that's ready and prepared that were so many people, not just the professionals, not just police and fire and public health and paramedics were actually trained to do this, but ordinary citizens who may have been there also had a sense.

they were going to save lives and do with they could do. i, today, wanted to say thank you to each and every one that we could identify that is not working. i know fire chief feels the same way i do. our police chief feels the same way we do. our health director does as well as our department of emergency management. we are holier today to take a moment. i know in everybody's busy lives and i know you all want to get right back to work doing more of this because this is what you came to san francisco to do but let us take a moment to say thank you to recognize that in these moments of extreme need i am so gratified to be part of a city that says we are going to put aside whatever it is, whatever challenge we have, died in to that operation and save lives.

save kids. save families. i watched as this unfolded and i was aghast at how many people were in the water with film footage is that are repeated over and over again. but i think the film footage i want to see and continue to see is the operations of people who respond in a very very good way. no one lost their lives that day. that is hugely important when you have an event of this magnitude. lives were saved, not only in the water, on the shore, on the way to the hospital, but in the hospital as well. doctors, nurses, paramedics, firefighters, police officers, volunteers, and other boaters. today i just want to say on behalf of the city and county of san francisco it is my honor to join all of you in

personally thank you for really you are sure it was him. i know it's kind of maybe two dramatic to use that word but we do have a city of heroes, a city were prepared to be heroes because they want that label but because your objective is to save people's lives and to make sure that we all get to enjoy much as we week, but to enjoy this city and the opportunities it provides. i, for one, and certainly everybody in my staff and all the people that serve it officially want to say, thank you and if i the opportunity i would like to at least take-make for personal pins as my staff and i and the chief and others helped me pin every single one of you.. i hope that you received this with the requisite appreciation that i do as the mayor of this

great city, but also that i've been around now for 30 years working in the workforce. so i am a brother to all of you. because i know i've worked alongside people who are really really dedicated to this city. but i say personally, thank you to each and every one of you for the work that you do the demonstration you showed the patients, and the honor of preserving life in our city and i know that as these kids grow up and of course come i think they will remember it for the rest of their lives because they get to but they'll be very thankful for the kinds of things that we do for each other. with that, if i may have in him can prepare this and i can get help from our chief as well? [inaudible] by the way

these are hearts of san francisco. >>[ceremonial recognition] >>if you did not hear that i

feel too mentioned was a boat out there that mr. schulz -stoltz owned called happy days and i just think that's probably best example of what occurred that date with everybody working as they did. so each of them will get pinned today with a certificate of honor and again on behalf of the city, thank you very much achieves, thank you for helping me do this and honoring the men and women and also the volunteers in her hospital as well. thank you. he was thank

you mayor day. very proud to be a good high-tech oh your comments. every one of you stepped up that day and mayer lee thank you this did not event occurring 11 days ago for your office which is a very big book very busy office to recognize all these members such a rapid period of time speaks volumes and is free much appreciated by myself and achieve as well as all our members. so i will begin asking each one my members to come on up to receive the mayor certificate of honor garden with capt. john would go. >> >>[cermonial honoring]

>> firefighter joe silva. >> >>[cermonial honoring] >> i'm going to have a commander that they chief odo assist with that painting of the members. firefighter william boyle. >> >>[cermonial honoring] >> firefighter john tupa. >> >>[cermonial honoring]

>> paramedic andrew kristofferson. >> >>[cermonial honoring] >> paramedic michelle seidel >> >>[cermonial honoring] >> paramedic rebecca law >> >>[cermonial honoring]

>> firefighter mike horta. >> >>[cermonial honoring] >> firefighter matt adams. matt is not here. okay. and capt. clyde christoph. >> >>[cermonial honoring] >> from the event are dormant thank you to mayor lee and thank you to the members behind me and all the members the work so diligently that they would all the partners. >>[applause] >> just real fast, this is a

first responder worst nightmare to look and see this many potential victims but all the folks stating the honey stepped up to the plate went immediately into action. that's what we trained for things just like this. our marine units have the obligation of obviously handing handling things in the water is why you see them out all the time to deal with issues just like this and i promised them i would also give a huge shout out to the kos guard who actually got 20 people out to safety. they wanted to make sure that they ignored the us coast guard for their efforts and for what they've done. this is a huge collaboration between as the mayor said earlier private citizens in the folks that put on a uniform to do this thing as a matter of course. again i want to really liberate that these are heroes and these were a relic actions performed that day because this is definitely worst-case scenario. with that of the first presentation that will be to officer nick betancourt cured

i'm sorry nick is not here. sgt. keith matthews. >> >>[cermonial honoring] >> next up, officer mike bushnell. >> >>[cermonial honoring]

>> ofc. braden todaro. >> >>[cermonial honoring] >> officer matt mckay. >> >>[cermonial honoring]

>> is kaplan and i know it's all about the teamwork and i was reminded by chief bodo south san francisco fire department happen to be in the area because it was clear week so we were blessed in so many ways for good samaritans and our partners in neighboring jurisdictions in south b van fire was responsible for rescuing eight of those 30 in the water that day. so we would like to give them a shout out and acknowledgments as well. thank you very much >> the last thing i'll say this is a coincidence of the future and the future is collaboration between everybody. law enforcement, fire, ems everyone and

citizens. we've all come together in this city has been one out of unity and it was demonstrated appropriately in this incident with the civilian helping fire, police, pulpy groundwater and save their lives. as the mayor said before there's a lot people that are low back on this 20-30 years on the road and understand as are looking back because of the relic effort with the folks sitting behind me and again was round of applause for all them. thank you. >> >>[applause] >> this concludes our program. thank you so much for coming. >> >> >>