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or not creating some new condition. >> substantive amendments i think we had a joint meeting where we had the opportunity to discuss some of these issues but now that the board has acted and it's back in our court i think the amendments that were recommended by staff are not substantive in nature and would not engender any more concern or changes coming back from the board of supervisors.
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it's nice to see the commission take that path if we, when it comes down to the vote. commissioner lee? >> commissioner y. lee: we have heard many testimonies from all sides and i don't think any new information would change. commissioner ryan, to your point, the board of supervisors has not seen either of these provisions.
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if we were to pass these today they would take them up anew for the first time. >> is there a motion? second? second from commissioner renne. >> charlie marsdella with friends of ethics. the matter for the board and the joint commissions meeting with the board on the 3rd amendments had to be submitted three days before that meeting.
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all governmental parties. we passed prop-o in 2000 by an overwhelming margin. it was something like 78% of the vote. i could be wrong. but in any event on that exact number but the point i'm making is this. this bill is no son of prop-j. this bill is the weakest bill that a collective group could ever come out with, sounds like a bill written by a committee and it is.
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the ballot initiative was written by the oaks foundation and went on the ballot for up or down vote and it passed overwhelmingly because it was, in fact, robust. it was repeated by this body with the pledge that would be incorporated in the conflict of interest ordinances later enacted as prop -- i knew it but i can't remember it, i have to think fast. prop-j. my point to you now is that this, in my view is an egregious area of the law. this was codified by the
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f.p.p.c. in 1978, behested payments, as a wrinkle. and it has grown immeasurably in san francisco to include millions of dollars worth of big money going to special events like the america's cup. we're not speaking about the little groups. and aaron peskin suggested with an exemption so these non-profits are not included. so i will have to speak very fast. i would recommend to this body you enact this and raise this issue back at the board.
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>> good afternoon, supervisors, debbie from the san francisco human services network. i think we are at a key point here and i'm here today to urge you to adopt the ordinance as amended by the board of supervisors and with the amendments by your staff and move it back to the board. i guess i have to disagree with mr. marsdella, it's a 40-page comprehensive piece of ethics reform. and as non-profits we have worked around amendments that were very, very specific to our sector in a few places. but our concerns have been very targeted and i really think that we have tried to participate in this process in a very thoughtful and principled way.
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and i want to thank the commissioners for addressing some of our concerns. we have not agreed frequently. it's been a very turbulent process and i regret it had to come to that. this is not a kumbaya moment now, there are still things we have concerns with that we oppose but we believe amendments made in the sections we are concerned about have actually made it better, have made it more practical with how fundraising works in real life, how the city's public-private partnerships work in real life. we really believe those things have made this ordinance more workable, more practical and better and we believe as a package that this is good, strong important public policy that we need to move back to the board and get in place so
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the things that address elections, for example, could be implemented. certainly by november, if not for june. most of all today i just want to say thank you for hearing us. we can still thank you for listening and considering them. and i have seen many of you struggle deeply with which direction to go and we very much appreciate that. and where you have agreed with us, again, we thank you for hearing that. we hope you will move this forward today as amended and i'm sure we will be back here on other issues and continue to work together in that thoughtful and principled manner. thank you.
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>> thank you, i think it was commissioner renne who said these things could be strengthened. part of what we had been so strong about is don't over reach at a time when you might end up with unintended consequences and collateral damage gives us a chance to see how it works and if we need to tighten the screws we can, the thing we need to point out that seems to be the opportunity the ethics commission and board are working more hand in hand the ordinance will go into effect much more quickly. that was one of the amendments that took place two weeks ago is your original proposed
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measure wouldn't have taken effect until january 2019, would have missed the june and november election cycles. we have an opportunity at least for those thing that's don't require a lot of staff work to set up new systems to go into effect immediately once the mayor signs this ordinance. so you have a chance to move it out, get it back to the board, they are ready to adopt this ordinance, get it back to the mayor and back to practice and hopefully the ones who require systems improvements could be put into practice more quickly waiting six or eight months from now. we all want to see this work and hopefully the compromises that come out of this process if that's the right word for them will still be for progress and we thank you for your time and anything we could do to help you in future work, we are here for the long haul, this is not something we are walking away from, we have the same inherent goals and interest in open and clean government that you do, we are active participants in this process.
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thanks. >> chairperson d. chiu: thank you. >> good afternoon, i'm jan masoka, state wide alliance more than 10,000 non-profit members, commissioner chiu your earlier comment about this being a long journey certainly was the most under stated thing i've heard in a long time. i respect the fact everybody here has worked to hammer out a compromise it seems nobody is really thrilled with, but nonetheless perhaps the best compromise that could come out. what we at a state level are concern world is issue of vitality of the non-profits and how this kind of regulation could inadvertently hurt that economy. for example, my corner store was robbed recently near where i live in san francisco. i'm against armed robberies of corner stores, we could probably stop them by requiring
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every person entering a corner store would have to submit identification and be frisked and that would simply put all the corner stores right out of business. i'm afraid in the well-meaning efforts to do something about corporate contributions and individual behest contributions will put our non-profits out of business. any time we put volunteers and possible donors in jeopardy, we in effect say you have to submit i.d. and be frisked before you can enter this corner store. thank you. >> chairperson d. chiu: thank you. >> good afternoon madam chair and commissioners thank you for allowing us all to give comment and welcome commissioner ryan, nice to see you here. my name is toren lewis, with nationwide association of non-profits with our oakland
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office where i'm a northern california counsel. without belaboring the points that my colleagues in the local non-profit community have made i want to similarly really thank and applaud the staff and commission for your efforts over this long dialogue and it really has been a sincere iterative process and i think every version of this legislation, however complex it is, has always reflected the concerns and input of the community, so we certainly appreciate that. along those lines i would also like to join my colleagues and respectfully requesting that the legislation be moved forward so that this iterative
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process can be continued within input from the board of supervisors. we think it's been an extremely constructive process, also an innovative one doing things like the joint hearing. so again, we would really like to applaud the process, we think it should continue to move forward and we appreciate all your hard work on this and think it's really a lot of improvements toward including non-profit voices and reflecting concerns in the legislation, thank you. >> chairperson d. chiu: thank you.
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>> making contributions to candidates of their choice. section 1.161 campaign ads currently interpreted by the san francisco ethics commission staff, the requirement for a state committee which does not file its reports with the ethics commission to include as a disclaimer on its ad the committee's financial disclosures are available at the commission's website results in a false and misleading statement to the public, section 1.161a2 should be revised to apply solely to committee who's file reports with the commission. section 3.203 and 3.207 create new conflict of interest provisions which are not needed since state law and regulations mandate recusal when financial
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interests conflict with an official's private interest. advice letters and regulations issued oefrp the years provide much needed clarity in interpreting the conflict of interest laws. regarding behesta payments. the disclosure is automatic once the financial threshold is met. proposed legislation poses unnecessary complications regarding when it would apply. filing of a report by the official should be sufficient, it's overly burdensome to require donors and recipients to also file reports and one could only conclude the legislation's intent is to discourage such donations. i recommend that you not adopt
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amendment number 1 prohibiting behesta payments. the authority to recover 25% of an award will simply encourage frivolous lawsuits. thank you. >> chairperson d. chiu: thank you. >> there's no other public comment. so i believe we have four motions before us. madam executive director, would you call the motion and we will do a vote by roll call as we did in the joint meeting of the board of supervisors. >> thank you. the first motion was by commissioner renne, seconded by commissioner lee to adopt the ordinance as amended by the board of supervisors april 3rd with the recommendations contained in the safe presentation today. commissioner chiu? >> aye. >> commissioner kopp.
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>> no. >> commissioner lee? >> aye. >> commissioner renne. >> aye. >> commissioner ryan. >> aye. >> motion carries on a 4-1 vote with commissioner kopp in the dissent. the second motion is a an amendment offered by commissioner kopp and seconded by commissioner chiu to clarify language on page 7 of the ordinance lines 8-9 regarding the use of the term elected officer. commissioner chiu. >> aye. >> commissioner kopp. >> aye, >> commissioner lee. >> aye. >> commissioner renne. >> aye. >> commissioner ryan. >> aye.
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>> the next is to amend ordinance to insert the behested payments banned back in the body of the ordinance as described circulated today. commissioner chiu? >> no. >> commissioner kopp? >> aye. >> commissioner lee. >> no. >> commissioner renne? >> no. >> commissioner ryan. >> no. >> the motion fails on a 4-1 vote. with four members in the dissent. next is motion by commissioner kopp to amend section 1.170 regarding the right of private action by a resident to allow for 25% recovery of penalties by that resident. that was seconded by commissioner renne. commissioner chiu. >> no. >> commissioner kopp? >> aye.
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>> commissioner lee. >> no. >> commissioner renne. >> no. >> commissioner ryan. >> no. >> the motion fails on a 4-1 vote. >> we have one final motion to adopt the ordinance as amended. and forward to the board of supervisors. >> i thought that first motion was adopted 4-1? >> it was, but there was also a subsequent amendment to change some language that commissioner kopp had raised. a tech dal clean up also subsequently adopted so this would now adopt the entirety of the ordinance as amended by those two. >> i will make a motion that we adopt the ordinance as amended
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by -- >> commissioner lee. >> i would like it to be recognized. >> commissioner kopp? >> thank you, i will vote no on this regressive ordinance. mr. marsdella who has more experience and time and effort than anybody on this podium on this subject described the present state of a proposed law which is regressive. it's regressive from what voters passed in 2000. i erroneously referred to that as pop significance j. -- proposition j, it was proposition o. for those who have gotten their
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way, namely non-profit organizations, they want us to vote for it. they will probably sell stake in the voters handbook to further deceive voters in the city and county of san francisco. they argue these changes which stay secure on a wholesale basis have made this better. what a joke. this proposed legislation is palliative. all the substantive requests of the non-profits primarily, have been adopted as part of it. there won't be any revisiting of the law for another decade or so. 2000 was followed by the 2003
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obliteration. it will be 2028 before future ethics commission or the voters of n san francisco, or the board of supervisors demands law for pay to play. it's cliche but as good of a description as the english language affords us. and of course it's been changed by the board of supervisors. that's to be expected. they have to run for reelection or election. they have to get votes. the ethics commission members don't have to get votes. and that is why the law
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uniquely, the law establishing the ethics commission permits the ethics commission to submit directly to voters' proposed changes in the law. not as a palliative but to stop the inequitous passage of pay to play. i won't be fooled in thinking whatever the letter of the proposition is in november, that this will solve the problem. i may go beyond that. those are the reasons in summary form that i will vote no. >> commissioner lee?
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>> commissioner y. lee: thank you, madam chair. i think i've said this several times but as someone who has benefited directly from non-profit, i started my career with a wonderful non-profit, my mom benefited from non-profit service providers everyday for the last few years of her life. i don't question commissioner kopp's view, his view of pay-to-play among certain players. just like there are bad apples in the corporate world, i don't pretend that 100% of the non-profits are angels, but at the same time i must speak up to really defend the thousands
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of service providers who work with difficult circumstances with a very passionate belief they are doing a common good for the city and for the residents of this city and i think that for them they have a voice they represent a community who do have a voice in the community's policy, legislative process and if that is being perceived as pay to play then i salute them for standing up on behalf the community and i think there may be ways, the dedicated community service providers and
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they are leaders in our community, i think that's a disservice. >> commissioner renne? >> >> commissioner p. renne: i think all of us would like legislation that would legislate money out of politics. there is no simple legislation that can deal with the problems that exist. so they created prop-o but it
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became a nullity, partly because the courts said it was a violation of the constitution. i would commend the staff and i commend all the people who met, who were seriously concerned about trying to deal with the question of money in politics and how can we eliminate its influence as much as possible and stay within the law. and i don't disagree with commissioner kopp that this bill isn't as strong as i would have liked it to be, but it's a step in the right direction, it sends a message and i see no reason why the commission can't
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continue to be vigilant and propose additional regulations or rules that will hopefully at least moderate the influence that these enormous sums of money that float around in elections but it's a complex problem, not something they can say, well it's too weak and we shouldn't have done it. we sent a message and we are continuing to work on it and i think we are moving in the right direction. >> chairperson d. chiu: commissioner renne, i would like to associate myself with your remarks and i agree and i think there's always room for improvement and i think it's always on wards and upwards. so i think we have on the floor a motion seconded to approve
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the ordinance as we just amended it and to send it to the board of supervisors, so madam executive director, would you please call the roll. >> commissioner chiu? >> chairperson d. chiu: aye. >> commissioner kopp? >> no. >> commissioner lee. >> aye. >> commissioner renne? >> aye. >> commissioner ryan. >> aye. >> the motion to approve the ordinance is amended and return it to the board of supervisors is approved on a 4/5 vote with one dissent, commissioner kopp in the dissent. >> chairperson d. chiu: thank you. so next item is agenda item 5, additional opportunity for public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda pursuant to article 7, section 2.
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>> want to wish you a pleasant good morning as we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1906 great san francisco earthquake and fire. before we get going, with all the great dignitaries and all the stories about the earthquake and it's only fitting to have the salutation from the imperial hine emperor norton, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] thank you, all very much. it is splendid to see you all here bright and early as we are every year. i have a special announcement to
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make today, as many of you know, we've been working on an effort through the san francisco history association and the last couple of years to raise the money place a plaque to the building on the right and as an official memorial for 1906 earthquake and fire and thank you to a $5,000 grant from the alliance we have met our goals. [applause] so hopefully next year we'll see that plaque right there on this day. thank you all to the donors and everybody who made it happen. >> the emperor, ladies and gentlemen! give it up. >> as we always do before we bring our dignitaries, i am a native for generation san francisco. it's great to be here. and once again, you hearty, crazy folks have come together at this ungodly hour to remember those who survived being tossed from their beds 112 years ago
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this morning at 5:11, or 5:12 or 5:13. 112 years ago, powerful seismic waves roared across the prosperous city of san francisco. experts statement the earthquake was around 7.9 on the modern magnitude scale. bit end of the first day the city by the bay would suffer 26 after shocks and succumb to a ranging inferno show no mercy to its citizens for 74 hours. the following is say brief timeline of the events. the residents of san francisco faced during the harrow days. i'd like to give you a moment by moment description of what happened to our city and its citizens on this morning 112 years ago. later, i will introduce you to our fellow san franciscans who work every day to make sure we will all be surviveddors of the next big one. wednesday, april 18th, 1906. 5:12 in the morning.
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a great shock is felt through out the san francisco bay area. some 20 to 25 seconds later, san francisco residents are awakened by a tremor of 45 to 60 seconds long. measuring 7.9 on the modern magnitude scale. the first causalities from the quake occur when the south of market district collapse. hundreds are killed and liquefied grounds swallows their homes. more victims are added to the death toll as collapsed structure catch fire and prevent rescue attempts. the man we would need most to fight the fires, the chief dennis sullivan is wounded during the earthquake fatally and die four days later when a tire of the california hotel collapses on to his fire station home. due to severe earthquake damage, telephone and telegraph communication within the city is impossible. a few messages are haven't around the world but before that line too failed. 6:00 a.m. san francisco mayor eugene schmidt is unaware of the
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severity of the quake until city officials a arrive at his door. he leaves the safety of his home and heads downtown to see for himself the enormous scale of the disaster. 6:30 a.m., all available tips are ordered to report to the mayor at the hall of justice some 1700 soldiers come to the aid of both residents and firefighters. 8:14a.m. a major after shock strikes and causes many of the damaged buildings still standing to collapse. throughout the day, the city suffers 26 after shocks, each one slowing the over stretched rescue efforts. fires rage and spread throughout the city. they're not stopped until 74 hours later. many of san francisco's buildings collapse. firefighters begin dynamiting buildings to create fire breaks. 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon the hospital set up outside city hall is abandoned due to the impending fire break. the sick and injured are forced to evacuate to camps throughout the city and in parks on the edge of town. 3:00 p.m. the mire supports the
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committee com pricing the prominent cities and businessmen. hearing looting in the streets the mayor orders a shoot to kill proclamation begins any looters. 8:00 p.m. in the evening, hopes of saving downtown are dashed as a blaze break out and shifting winds push the fire towards the heart of the city. 9:00 p.m., firefighters make a stand at union square on powell street but the fire reaches the battle line and continues up knob hill. thursday april 19th, 2:00 a.m., california governor a arrives at oakland to assess the damage. san francisco's three main newspapers the call, the chronicle and the e examine prit a special joint edition. 6:00 a.m., responding to a wireless telegraph message that u.s.s. chicago arrives in san francisco bay to help in the relief efforts. the great fire reaches van he is avenue. facing the decision to blow a city to pieces or watch it
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person the mayor agrees to let the army create a massive fire break in the hopes that it can stop the raging inferno. the decision means abandoning city walks, many of them filled mansions to the fire. the rich spectators who have spent the day watching the fire from knob hill realize their homes won't be saved and will soon burn. friday, april 20th, 5:00 a.m. the fire break holds and the progression of the inferno is halted. the mayor claims victory in the battle. 18 sea men from the u.s.s. chicago rescue, 20,000 refugees and unprecedented evacuation by sea. saturday, april 21st, 1906, 7:1e been extinguished and the mayor declares the fire over. sunday, april 22nd, cable cars run again on market street. april 18th, 2018 to the present time today, no one knows when the next great quake will come but san francisco is doomed to
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relive the horrific events of 1906 because the san an dress he is fault never rests. it may strike tomorrow or not for a hundred year but it might strike as the city sleeps tonight. let's have a good time from here on in right now. [applause] >> thank you, very much. i'd like to welcome people before i start bringing them out. we're going to bring out the mayor mark ferrell and joanne haze white, bill scott and we even have a presentation featuring wife of former mayor ed lee. we want to thank people as well. john from john's grill. a fab ulis place up on ellis street. they supported this commemoration. the fire, police and sheriff's departments for their support. guardians of the city charged with the preservation of the city jimmy lee and company my good friend my buddy dave eberle who is like the guy that sweeps
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up behind the elements at the zoo he makes everything seam less. we have ron ross and the san francisco history association. lilly hitchcock played by donna huggins. lilly turns 175 this year and she looks damn good. all right. the san francisco examiner calls a p.r. from making this happen for over 25 years. give him a nice hand. [applause] and now as we approach our time of 5:11 or 5:12 we pass the mic to our great city folks. our six-month mayor is say great guy, welcome to the podium mayor mark farrell, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. so first of all i want to con great late everybody on waking up this early and getting here. as i understand from lee, this is the longing running flash mob in san francisco history.
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99 years that people have been coming here to celebrate this event at 5:00 in the morning on this amazing day. you know, a few things, first of all, we're here to remember the 1906 earthquake and we have gotten the full timeline of the 1906 earthquake this morning. really, i want to make sure we remember those thousands of lives that were lost here in the city of san francisco. many generations later we still have families living in our city that lost loved ones. we want to remember everything that happened as a city, the destruction and years later the rebuild. and second of all, we want to remind ourselves this morning and today that the next big one in san francisco it is not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. that we need to be prepared as a city. as mayor of this city, as residents of this city, we need to be prepared for the next big one to hit here in san francisco. so it is so incumbent upon us, i want to thank our safety department. can we get a separate round of
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applause for our fire, police, sheriff's that are here today. [applause] these are the men and women that keep us safe every single day in san francisco and put their lives on the line for us. and our 9-1-1 dispatchers. everybody that keeps us safe in our emergency system, today is say day to thank them and remind ourselves as residents to reengage with our 9-1-1 services with our emergency services to make sure as families and individuals we are prepared for the next one here in san francisco. and lastly, i would like to take a moment our late mayor ed lee, a friend to so many of us this morning but also it was a stalwart at this event. he did not miss a single one during his time as mayor. i just want to make sure we take a moment, first of all, to thank mayor lee's wife, anita lee for being here. [applause]
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and we take a brief moment to remember mayor lee and his legacy and especially for his dedication here at this event. thank you everybody. have a great morning. it's a pleasure to be here. >> thank you, mayor. mayor mark farrell doing a great job. i hope your singing voices are in shape because before we ring the bell we're going to sing a little san francisco and i will need some help. it's a tough key. ok. coming up next say personal friend and a great administrator and great, great gift to the city, she's terrific. would you please welcome our fire chief joanne haze white. ladies and gentlemen! [applause] good morning, everyone, all right. welcome once again as we do three things, we commemorate today, we celebrate today and we
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take the time to educate today and and it gives me great pride and make it a very special event and several generations and the family is here and several murphies that have agreed and all the men and women safety and for the and we want to commemorate what happened today on this morning. there was seismic activity and there was fires that swept our city from the maps and it was because from our resilient community then and now that we are the vibrant city that we are san francisco.
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there are four people that i'd like to just reflect upon that we've lost. one, who i became friends with, he died in january of 16 at the age of 110. he was one of our last survivors. i meet with his niece yesterday at the john's grill lunch in they had. bill del monte was a great san francisco an and i want to acknowledge him. he lost michael, he had great love for this city and captured many photographs of our city and particular public safety departments. i know we have an under sheriff here. sheriff hennessey couldn't be here today. i'd like you to keep her thoughts and prayers. she lost her husband jim, a 34 year veteran of the san francisco police department over the weekend. i want to thank mayor farrell, it was an honor and privilege to work for mayor ed lee.
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today is bittersweet in that this is the first water fountain that he has not participated in. not only was he tremendous leader, a great advocate for public safety and a true team player. he became really a mentor to me and also a friend and it was an honor for me at 4:30 to pick up his wife, who has joined us here today. my thoughts and prayers are continuing to be with the lee family. thank you for coming out. i'd like to pay a huge tribute to mayor edwin lee. thank you. [applause] joanne, making it happen this morning. all right. we have a few more folks to bring up before we do our singing and we hang the wreath here. our newest edition of law enforcement in the city, i got to meet about this time last year when he first arrived in town, our police chief bill scott, everybody! [applause]
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>> good morning, everybody. so, i too would like to thank all of our public safety partners but i also would like to thank the other members of the city family that always is shoulder to shoulder with us and that -- they're right behind me. we have a great team in this city. so let's give them a round of applause as well. [applause] >> when you talk about resilience, when you talk about being ready for the big one, i know you guys see us first, police and fire, we're in uniform and we get the first call but we can't do what we do without the team of people that i just mentioned and many others that make this city great. we got some great people until this city and we are resilient. so let's take this moment, not only to remember all of the people that we lost in 1906, but also remember what it takes to survive when we have the big one
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or a catastrophic incident. be ready. sf72. 72 hours, be ready to take care of yourself for 72 hours. stock up on your water, your food and i can't approach that enough because in times when the big one hits, it might be a while before we can get to you. we always have to be ready and let's be resilient so thank you for being here and again, be ready and stock up. thank you. [applause] that's why i'm here, all right. chief scott, let's hear it one more time for him! [applause] >> well it's not my pleasure to bring up who we used to call the mayor. he is a real big city mayor and great force in this town. he almost purchased a designer vest for his comments about changing the lotta's fountain. he reconsidered after learning
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lotta's smoked cigars. here he is. he can fog anybody and do anything he wants up here, welcome our former mayor willie louis brown, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] >> i only have a couple of minutes before all the bells start ringing and the horns start going off. commemorating the time in which the quake actually hit san francisco. it was some time ago when the first, serving as mayor, that you suggested somehow this fountain should really work. we worked on it and put out a lot of money but we had one great leader doing the job of making sure this fountain ultimately worked. and that was ed lee. he is been referenced by several people. when they've come to say words but there's no way for this city to thank ed lee, except every
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time we pause, just at the time the bell starts to ring, we must remember the water is flowing because of ed lee. the mayor of san francisco. it's interesting that that would be the case because at the time, in 1906, the chinese, who were harmed just as the quake hit, were not permitted to use the quake. in the conversation with ed lee about the restoration of the quake, we had that in mind and so on this morning and on this day, i am just delighted that we are pausing to say thank you to a chinese brother who helped put the water back in here for all of us in this to yo true spiritn francisco. please, thank you ed lee. [applause] over the years i've had a great
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relationship with ed lee. he worked with me, he worked for me, he worked in every capacity he was ever called upon by this city and by you and he did an excellent job. it was because he had an incredible help mate and she's here this morning, you know, i don't know, i think she works as an uber driver part-time. so i'm just going to ask her to step up here. this is anita lee. [applause] ed's widow and next to him is the mayor of san francisco, and we are about to put a wreath. >> are you ready. >> i'll grab it.
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>> ladies and gentlemen, we dedicate this death in honor of 43rd mayor of san francisco and to all those who perished during the great earthquake and fire in 1906. and it is possible to get anybody else on this stage. is that possible? [laughter] how about a hand for all the guys and gals you see up here. our two mayors, our fire chief, police chief, our new mayor, give lee another hand. he is doing a great job. is and we have she we do it no. perfect. our timing is perfect. this is how many people can get
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into a phone booth. wow, this is like an accident waiting to happen. it's called a fire chief in here to make sure we have too many people on the stage. bring one of your inspectors over. it's about 5:11, 5:10, what do you say right now we ask for a minute of silence to remember those who perished and those who survived the san francisco earthquake. let's start the minute right now.
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say we all start san francisco. let's do it together. >> all right. >> 1, 2, 3 -- ♪ it only takes good timing ♪ ♪ this great big world to make a place ♪ ♪ you love ♪ my home upon the hill ♪ i find i love you still ♪ i've been away but now i'm back ♪ ♪ to tell you ♪ san francisco ♪ open your golden gates ♪ you'll let no stranger wait ♪ outside your door ♪ san francisco ♪ here is your one ♪ staying a wonder no more ♪ other places only make me love you ♪ ♪ tell me you are a heart of all
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the golden west ♪ ♪ san francisco ♪ welcome you home again ♪ i'm coming home to go wandering ♪ ♪ no more >> give yourselves a big hands, san francisco, we survived another day! and now it's time to invite everyone to go to 20th and church street for the golden hydrant painting. let's go. thank you, everybody! >> make sure you follow me up to the hydrant and i want t to congratulate you for knowing all the words.
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