and the downtown extension and to move that project forward. and from the positive control and caltrain and other niche toughs that we are working on to -- and other initiatives to set the stage for high-speed rail and now by 2029 is what the business plan is what their authority has just released an estimate for the schedule. to make sure the caltrain business plan is addressing our needs and reflect the priorities of san francisco and the whole three county board district in terms of the high-speed rail and getting the financial side of the house ready for that work. and the central subway and provide support to m.t.a. and geneva bus ride transit.

and a lot more information about how to manage outreach and communications. it is disruptive and we want to lessen and minimize the impact on the adjacent communities and provide as much support and peer review as you would like. and finally on the transparency and timely reporting and looking forward to the recommendations from the assessment and the agency operating assessments that will be done at the request of the chair. and provide support to the disadvantaged and local business enterprises to be sure they are participating as much as possible in the agency's work. with that, i am happy to answer questions. >> an any questions for the executive director? seeing none -- commissioner cohen. >> thank you very much. i wanted to recognize your leadership. it is tremendous to watch you

grow in the last couple of year. i just wanted to compliment you. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> thank you for that thorough presentation. are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there any introduction of new items? is there any public comment on that? is there any general public comment? seeing none, we are adjourned.

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it is a created federal law of this country that every year we get to celebrate our culture and our heritage in the month of may because of a law that was adopted by the congress of the united states and siphgnedt that time by president jimmy carter that designate the month of may for our celebration. so we are actually happy that we are here for the 40th in san francisco. i remember about a year back, in -- in a sister city trip that i had the pleasure of taking with our former mayor, ed lee, we were talking at that time -- i think the trip was in march. we were in the ho chi minh sister city. we were talking about oh, the 40th anniversary was coming up, and mayor lee said, how can we make it a greater celebration? we should get all the major agencies in the city involved. we could make it very big. i said great idea. it was very unfortunate that

mayor lee would not be with us here this year, however, i think following his vision, we are very happy for the 40th anniversary. we now have four additional -- in addition to the asian heritage foundation, we have four additional partners in the city. the representatives are here today, the asian pacific fund. audrey yamamoto, the san francisco public library with the 27 branchs, and director michaels is here. and my favorite cam fest, stephen gaung anasazi. this is the year that they have moved from march to may, and we are so excited for the two weeks the fest is going on, they are really gung ho for our

apa heritage fest this year, so we are very happy that you made the move. so we are very happy to be here, and with the information you can take when you leave here. i think cam fest have the book here. the san francisco library have a lovely publication also that will be in all the 27 branchs, and the asian art museum, and they are also one of our celebration partners. for the 40th anniversary, we are very excited. for the first time, we are able to put banners around the civic center plaza, so you will see our apa banner proudly displayed including one in front of the asian art museum. so with these five organizations together, i think we are having the best celebration that we ever had, and we want to thank the mayor's office of neighborhood services because with ashley cheng and her team, and jason here, we are able for the first time to compile a whole month

of calendar of events that happen in the city for the whole month, so their copies of the master calendar there, so please take a copy, and they're also available on our website. we are very honored to have mayor mark farrell with us today. mayor farrell, since becoming mayor, have been all over the place, and he has joined us for the lunan new year's celebration parade. last week, he was at the cherry blossom parade, and he was really an example of embracing the diversity in this city, and so with that, i give you mayor farrell. [applause] >> thank you, claudine. it is -- it's an honor to be here. good morning, everyone. you know, san francisco is, of course, very proud and pleased to be part of this 40th celebration of our apa heritage month here in san francisco. you know, it does make -- mark a very special year in this anniversary. as claudine mentioned, the

federal legislation that really enabled this legislation, obviously something that we honor here inside of city hall. i was to give special recognition to our assess or ermen chu and supervisor katey tang who have been respected and amazing officials here in city hall for a long time. this is particularly an honor of being here, but particularly in following in our foot steps, our late mayor ed lee. it's moments like this where you really take a pause to -- to both remember him but also know that he continues to look down on us. you know, our san francisco culture is -- it's -- we are one-third of our asian culture here in san francisco. you think about our chinese, our korean communities, our japanese community, or pill pon owe, our vietnam he's, and the

other pacific islanders, really, a huge part of who we are in san francisco and really part of our dna and why i think it's so parn that we take the time, because we ol-will, but we honor this moment in time and honor this moment here in san francisco. so i do want to say a lot of thank yous to the people that are putting this on. the asian american heritage foundation. how about a big round of applause for them. i know they're coordinating this here and many events. i do want to say to the public library, michael thank you for putting together this brochure, thank you for putting this together. really, thank you to them. i also want to recognize all of our sister city committees who are here. i've seen a number of them, those i saw a second ago,

manila, osaka, our sister city community is awesome here in san francisco. we are very lucky to have them, and certainly our apa ones in particular are quite frankly huge parts of our program here in our city. you know, this year, we're fortunate that we have a number of partners and four official ones. i want to thank the asian art museum for their partnership. i don't know if jay is here, but regardless, thank you inform jto jay and the entire team. thank you to the asian pacific fund. thank you celebrating asian american film and food fest here in san francisco as well as again, michael, the public library, for all that you do. thank you. we are in really good hands for having you here, so thank you, michael lambert. can i have a round of applause for our library here. [applause] >> the hon. mark farrell: we all love it. i want to mention our

department of neighborhood services. thank you, ashley, and your team for putting on the master calendar and for doing what you do for the city of san francisco. and really happy to announce that today was going to be the presentation, the awarding of the san francisco annual award from the mayor's office of neighborhood services, the edwin mah lee public service award today, which is incredible, not only for the announcement of it, but i will say, not to preview it, but also for the winner of it. i just think it's an amazing way to honor the legacy of mayor lee here in san francisco or just another way we can do that here in our city, and i also want to congratulate the four organizations that are being honored for all their service and hard work on behalf of our entire city. so look forward to seeing everyone at the awards event, at the herbst theater next week, and i just want to say thank you everyone for being here today to come together as a city. i just think this is such an important part of not only what we do in san francisco, but this is who we are.

we celebrate our diversity, we honor it, we recognize it, and we honor the heros that really make it work here in san francisco. so thank you all for being here. congratulations, again, thank you to all of the participants and the partners here, and really, again, in advance, really, really excited and think it's such a special tribute that we have the first ed lee public service award today and to the winner to be, congratulations in advance. so thank you, everybody, and with that, ashley, i have a certificate of honor for you. so i'm seeing claudine -- ashley, you can come up to. claudine, come on up. [inaudibl [inaudible] >> the hon. mark farrell: yeah, any foundation members, come on up.

[applause] >> thank you, thank you, mayor farrell. i'm wondering if everybody that has a press packet is actually over there, so if you don't have one, pick one up because we have good information in here. the next item on agenda is board of supervisors greetings, but i know that the members of the board might want to congratulate the winner of the first annual edwin mah lee public service award, so i feel that maybe we'll just do it now. so at the end of the last year, when the committee met to think about our next program, we really felt that the best way to honor the legacy of our

mayorly w mayor lee was to remember the examples that he had kped pers identified, being humble in the people without seeking recognition, but being very effective. so we setup this edwin mah lee public service award, which is up for public nomination. we received really quite a few wonderful nominations. a lot of people in this city have been doing so many m magnifice magnificent things that represent san francisco. so after all this, we get to score on the voting cut, and this year, after we counted all the votes, there was no question that one person's vote had really risen up above all the others, and we are very, very excited to announce that our assessor, carmen chu, is

that person. [applause] >> so i know carmen will be giving her acceptance speech next wednesday, but you're welcome to say a couple of words if you -- [applause] >> i think that was claudine's code speak for say something very short. i will just simply say that i am incredibly honored, and i'm very humble to receive the first ever edwin m. lee award. to me, there was no greater public servant, someone who dedicated his entire life to public service, in ways that were public, i think behind the scenes where many of us didn't even know he was working on things. so you know, i just simply want to say for many of us in public service, katey, myself, our commissioners, the men and women who work for the city and county of san francisco, we do this because we love the city, and we do that because we care

about san francisco. so i couldn't be more honored to receive this award and recognition, and i do that on behalf of all of the public servants who work alongside me. thank you. [applause] >> so back to greetings from the board of supervisors, supervisor katy tang. >> supervisor tang: well, good morning, everyone. it's so nice to see everyone here, and of course it's a start by saying let's all give claudine cheng a round of applause. [applause] >> supervisor tang: and of course everyone she works with, the different volunteers, from the different city departments, the different companies that partner with us. i know that this year, she was really focused on trying to make this a really special 40th celebration. heard her at the beginning to trying to make the cam fest at the same time, working with the department to make sure that everybody knows in san francisco what's going on in the month of may, and to see it

all being pulled together, i know a lot of hard work went into it. i want to thank all of the volunteers for all the work that you've done. i want to say growing up in san francisco in the sunset district, i really took it fore granted. growing up in a heavily asian district where there were a lot of immigrant families, grew up in a very diverse city. i don't think i realized until our current president who was in place got elected how fortunate i was in san francisco. when there's a lot of politics going on in terms of our communities and diversity, these kinds of celebrations are important. lastly, i want to thank carmen chu for being a wonderful mentor of mine. bringing me up in public office. she set a great example of both publicly and privately, most importantly, so i think she's incredibly deserving of the new

edwin m. lee ard with -- awar congratulations, carmen, and thank you all. >> are there any other members of the board here? i think i understand that a couple may be on their way. so moving forward, before we announce our -- our community milestone honorees, i just wanted to say that this celebration would not have happened without the support of a wide range of organizations. i'm -- we are so proud that this year of the sponsoring organizations with us. we actually have 21 businesses and 22 nonprofits. it's amazing the support that we have from the community, and we really appreciate. this is our sponsorship board here. we wanted to thank first and foremost, alaska airlines. they're this year our heritage champion sponsor.

we want to thank kikkoman, uber, wells fargo, and these are a list of businesses year after year after year that come in because they feel that the asian american community is really important, and as i said all the nonprofit organizations, there's nothing more important to us than having the support from the grassroots, and it means a lot to us when the nonprofits are supporting us as equal number as the businesses. it's really, really wonderful. so thank you so much, and all of our sponsors are listed on our website, so go visit. now comes the time -- so every year, we -- of honoring organizations at least 25 years and up and has been around 25 years and have been promoting and involved in the education, promotion and preservation of asian american culture and heritage. this year we have four such organizations that have been brought to our attention and

after reviewing their mission and how much impact that they have been having in the city, we are very, very happy to be honoring these four organizations. so i would like to at this time ask the members of our awards committee to join me, marian, dennis and jeanette. each one of them will be introducing one organization. [applause] >> hi, everyone. good morning, and i am -- my name is dennis yee, and i am the cochair of the awards committee. and i'll be introducing the chinese historical society of america that is celebrating their 55th milestone -- anniversary milestone. this is the oldest organization in the country dedicated to the promotion and preservation of historical and -- history and contributions of chinese in america through expositions, publication and educational and public programs. one of the major exhibitions

was remembering 1882 because it was significant in its impact in leading the apologies by congress for the chinese exclusion act, and i am here to introduce the board president of chinese historical society of america. [applause] >> thank you, dennis. the chinese historical society of america was founded 55 years ago for the spisk purpose of promoting, honor -- specific purpose of promoting, honoring and sharing the his of san francisco's chinatown and its chinese american community. which is why now it's particularly graduate identifying to be recognized with this honor on this 40th anniversary of the asian pacific heritage month celebrations and by san francisco's asian pacific american heritage foundation. i particularly want to thank the foundation and claudine as

president in particular for thinking of us. i also want to take a moment to thank mayor farrell, who came to our gala four weeks ago and spoke and honored us with his presence. also, supervisor katy tang gave us the opportunity to do our last exhibit just this past fall of chinese americans in sunset. any way, i just wanted to say that the -- this kind of recognition will give us the inspiration, encouragement to move on into our next 55 years, where we hope to expand the presence of chinese history outside of san francisco and share what we have here with the region, with the state, and the rest of the country. any way, thank you very much. [applause] >> bring this back down to my level here. good morning. my name is marry nicely, and i'm a cochair of the awards committee, and i am pleased to

recognize the milestone honoree, the nihomachi street fair, on their 45th anniversary. so formerly founded to provide mentorship and leadership to japanese youth and honor japanese culture, it has grown into an event celebrating the entire apa community. so i am pleased to announce and have join me, please welcome executive director grace horakiti who has been leading the street fair for almost 20 years. >> thank you, mary, for the great introduction. we are so pleased to receive this milestone recognition by the asian pa tisk american heritage foundation. street fair, you know, as mary said, started out as a four

booth operation. now there's over 100 participants participating. our mission has always been to encourage young people and provide them with leadership skills so that one day they can go out and being kpach wills in approximate our society. i am an example. i started out as a kid. they told me to volunteer selling t-shirts, and now executive director, so we look forward to hitting that 50 years, which is not too far away, and also, a huge congratulations to the asian pacific american heritage month. you know, for 40 years, that's a huge milestone in itself. so thank you very much, and hope to see you all august 4th and 5th. thank you. [applause] >> hello, and good morning. my name is jeanette addy, and i

am here to provide the award committee. the featured the pill peen owe culture, various type of -- filipino dances, food, and exhibits, so i'm here to introduce to you the president of a.p.e., al perez. >> thank you, jeannie. good morning, everyone. my name is al perez, and i'm so proud to be here to represent the pistahan parade and festival. i'm here joined by genevieve, who is the festival director, and john who is the parade director. the pistahan is definitely a labor of love, and i cannot do it alone, so i really thank

them for their support. for 25 years, the annual pistahan parade and festival has showcased the best in art, dance, and food in yerba buena gardens in the heart of san francisco. this year, the pistahan parade kicks off the event on may 11th. it marchs along from civic center to yerba buena gardens. the two day celebration of food, culture and cuisine will be held on may 11 and 12. the festival will feature the popular balut eating contest, artists and merchandise from local antre e pinoys.

the pistahan was founded by the filipino arts exposition -- the pistahan parade and festival continues to be held at the yerba buena gardens since its inception 25 years ago out of the communities activism to honor, preserve and celebrate the enduring legacy of the filipino community's struggles, t triumphs and community in the heart of san francisco. again, thank you for this honor, and i invite you all to join us for the pistahan conference, may 11th and 12.

>> thank you, commissioner perez. so the last and fourth organization that we are going to honor actually is not one of our typical asian american organizations. the san francisco similymphony youth orchestra has been around 55 years. we think about them, and the fact is we look and always think and talking about opportunities for young asian pacific americans, and the youth orchestra has given so much opportunity for young asian american musicians to be part of that is really immense, contributions from the symphony, so that's why we feel it's really right for us to honor the san francisco symphony orchestra. with us today is the director of education and diversity with the symphony. >> good morning.

thank you. we are so honored to be included among the organizations recognized by the apa. we believe music is a wonderful way to bring together or diverse communities. the san francisco symphony is celebrating the 5th anniversary of its internationally acclaimed youth orchestra this year which commits itself to providing preprofessional orchestraal training to the most talented young musicians across the greater bay area. founded in 1981, it brings students to davies symphony haul each week for hours of rehearsals, mentors and coaching from our own san francisco symphony musicians and even the occasional opportunity to work with distinguished guest artists like yo-yo ma, and all of this is provided tuition free so that there is no economic barrier to any young musician who is committed to working

hard and dedicating him or herself to the r igors of working and playing in an orchestra. many of them have gone onto careers in national symphonies, and even those who have not chosen to pursue a career have benefited greatly from the high demands necessary to play an instrument. the youth orchestra also serves our community by providing free open rehearsals to our seniors, many free tickets to our students and affordable ticket prices to the general public, so if you would like to see your faith in the future restored, i would invite you to all to hear one of the great gems of our city and come to the final concert of the season, may 7th at davies hall. we hope to see all of you

there. thank you so much. proximate cause. [applause] >> we actually have the opportunity to hear some of the youth orchestra at our celebration next wednesday. so again, thank you to the four organizations and thank you for your good work. at this time, we are ready to unveil our 40th anniversary commemorative heritage poster. this year, we are very happy that it's been signed by our cochair, thomas lee, who is our resident designer, our own designer. and i'd like to invite annabell to join us, and thomas.

[applause] >> thank you. i will be remiss if any introduce thomas lee and al perez. thank you for your hard work, al and thomas. so in closing, i would like to invite thomas and angela pang, head of our public relations and media relations to come up and talk about our event next wednesday, which i'm very happy to let you know, actually, our rsvp is over capacity right now. >> that's amazing. >> thomas. >> so we have over 1,000 people

rsvp' rsvp'ed to our event. angela, would you like to tell us a little about our entertainment? skbl yeah. we're going to have an amazing lineup for you. we have straight jacket. they're going to be performing. we also have members of our san francisco youth orchestra in attendance. they'll be performing, as well. we'll have an amazing cultural progression highlighting the diversion of the asian community. >> we would like to thank rose chung for leading that celebration and inviting the community to join us on stage. but after our awards ceremony, we'll be having a little party inside city hall at the rotunda, and we'll be entertained by maddie b., who will be singing for us, and having raffle drawings

throughout the event. so be sure to purchase a raffle ticket. >> also, who loves food? we'll have amazing asian food event, so we invite you to come after our awards presentation, may 5th, we're looking forward to seeing you. >> we'd like to thank all of our food sponsors who make our complementary event possible, and pulling this together, we'd like to thank our media sponsor, kayla events. thank you so much. we look forward to seeing you on may 2nd, but don't forget to pick up a full events list, with all the events happening in may celebrating asian heritage month. >> we have full events, along with information about our awards winners. so thank you all.

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