wi do this just you. stewart and katie was a paraeducator and jolene, so a lot are now admi administratorse and teacher. it's hard for me what happened last year in mayor lee and we had the paraeducator housing last june and we were talking hydra and -- and me. i saiis great, but are we going to do a paraeducator of the year, and he said carolyn, yes, we are this year. i know you have been pushing for it and then he proceeded to tell me i was a bilingual para and i

went oh, wow, i neverw we talked about paris for ten minutes and how he had been and how important they are. this is very special and so glad it's mary avalade that's getting it. congratulations to everyone and thank you. >> thank you carolyn. i did want to highlight the housing thatol was eluding to because of the partnership with the school district and educators we are binground on 100 affordable units for our educators in the next couple years and we have just selected a developer through the mayor's process and we are really excited to do that for our educator. [applause] so our last speaker is a

representative of our united administrators, so these are the s th makee our principals are well supported and getting what it is they need in order to be amazing principal, so join me in compels jolene washiton. >> good afternoon everyone. caro line w spoked to be here this afternoon but was able to come so at our last meeting she asked who was interested in speaking and so i did not raise my hand. [laughter] i said who is going to be receiving awards. she said lina, i said i love lina, and then she said sam, and i said i love sam ahen she said emmanuel and we have the same principals an and then he .

eli horn. and with that i had to be here. i just want to say that again my james jolin washin am here on behalf o united administrators of san francisco and thank you for allowing us to speak at this important event. it gives us the opportunity to brag about our amazing, hardworking administrators like sam, lina, emmanuel, and eli. they are courageous leaders and put student's needs and interests first. we are proud to honor them today and recognize them for everything they do every day every month every year to

benefit their students, families, staff, and school community. on a personal note, i remember the experience of receiving the honor of principal of the year from mayor lee in 2011 and this honor allows you school community and your families to see that the enduring long days the sleepless nights, the ongoing dedication to teachers, families and students in your school communities is not done in vain, so lina, sam, emmanuel and eli, enjoy this recognize and celebrate with the ones you love. congratulations. [applause] >> thank you so much jolin. before we bring up all of our award winners, let me tell you about how this is going to work. we are going to call out the award recipient's name and i

will have maker yo ferrell, supervisorthewsnd supervisor fwend we will take a picture and then have leadership take a picture of all the recipients with all of our sor. is how it will work. i want to give a shout-out and recognize our blue ribbon panel because these are the folks that made the difficulec. you are part of the blue ribbon panel, if you would please stand up so we can recognize you. camille, owen hit. hoyt, and simone who iorki u upstairs and we had cara tweed and annie sang

from pinterest, so we also had a community that read with us. thank you for being part of t blue ribbon panel. without further adieu our first award recipient is kitty lock, a teacher atm stockton elementary school. she j31 years ago as a paraeducator and has been at comma dore stockton for the last 31 year. in addition to all of the goodies they are getting, they are getting certificates from mayor ferrell, u.s. representative nancy pelosi, state senator wiener -- and

there is lots of goodies or there. our next award recipient is jack lively. third grade teachet staring k elementary school. thank you jack. he g uppeaking mandarin an canton knees in china. he wanted to be a high school teacher but when he got to job to teach he fell in love with the school, the staff and the kids, so he decided to stay. thank you jack. [applause] because we have so many elementary schools we honor two elementary scheache and

our second is jennifer partika, 5th grade teacher at argone elementary school. she is dedicated to growing the number of females in science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematic. she recently led the argon robotics take too a victory at the lego robotics competition. excellent. your middle grades tcher theear is erin wise, 6th grade teacher atiddton middle school. aaron is spending his 11th year where he teaches sixth

grade math and science. he runs parent groups, sits on committee, and most importantly he is the dj for middle school dance. [applause] thank you aaron. our high school teacher of the year is christian castillo, a 10th and 11th grade teacher albalboa high school. she hasorked within the school district for 11 years now in different capacities.se pathway and a special shout-out to my fellow phippa.

right, give it up for our teachers of the year. [applause] our next award is this very special mayor lee's award for our paraeducator of the year and it goes to mary lavalane. since 1970, 1970, i was five, mary has worked in early childhood developme at several different organization. in 1986ary m joined the sfusd as student advisor at fairmont elementary school and been at san francisco communi for the last 18 year. thank you mary. [cheers and applause]

our nward recipients are our principal. please join me in welcoming our principal for early education because that is education by the mry. eli horn. [applause] [cheering] and ally's fan club. i have known eli for about 20 year. before eli became an early education administrator he served as director for th thevis valley beacon where he worked to provide partnerships for the school. he joins the school dtrict in 2011 early education

administrator. ally, thank you. [cheers and]pp ountar sch principal of the year is one of mayor ferrell's favorites because they have a blooming, wonderful bromance because they did some amazing, amazing work through the shared schoolyards partnership and that take as lot of work to open a school to the city. principal of the year for elementary, emmanuel stewart, george washington carveer. he has worked in public education for 27 year.

he now leads the school where he taught for 14 years and committed t the bay view hunter's community and he does that with excitement, passion and dedication. super happy for him. >> go stewie! >> our middle school principal of the year is a dynamic leader, lina va vanherran and her daugh. oh, not anymore. lina is in her 8th y of leading middle school unified and her 5th year aspirins pal.

she has worked passionately alongside passionate teaches and leaders to turn around everett middle school from one of the lowest performs to thriving place that now has a wait list of students wanting to go to everett middle school. [applause] congratulations. last but not least samuel bass our high school principal of the year. [applause] he is with burton high school. he received the axa middle school of the ye award in 2016. he is driven to provide as many

opportunities and postieli to traditionally under served students in san francisco as possible. we will have to give you guys a little basket next time to put all your goodies. congratulations sam. give it up for our principal of the year awards recipient. [cheers and applause] congratulations to our teachers, our paraeducator and our principal. all of this is not possible without the incredible staff that put this together. a big shout-out to rebecca mcdowell. we have snacks in the back and we would love for you to stay and continue and mingle and mayor ferrell thank you for your support and leadership and ensuring that our teachers, principals and paraedge kay kays

continue to get recognized in san francisco. congratulations!

>> good afternoon, everyone. how you feeling? this is a really special day for us. it's our opportunity to acknowledge many of the amazing young people that we have here in san francisco, and weave h been doing this now for eight years, and it was something that mayor lee started. [applause] >> and he appropriately calls it the "i am the future sclarshaward" bsee always thought a lot about our students and thought that they

were our future and wanted to get you all off to a great start to make sure you get where you're headed. and our incredible mayor, mayor farrell has been helping to lead this work alongside us to ensure that yogeto where you're headed. so we're really happy to have you here and your families. families are such a critical piece in making sure our young people get to where they need to go, and it's through our families that ma our young people have had the courage and th the encouragement to go onto college and university. so we're glad you're here, as well. my name is hydro-mendoza. i'm the president of the board of education here in san francisco, and so i'm really delighted to beemceeing.

for me personally, this is ingth because o bote des of the street that i work on, really special, because you are all sfusd graduates or are in college and graduated from so this is our eighth year, and in particular, we just want to thank all of our partners who have been involved with us. we draw fro schol orships you've already received and through organizations that you work closely with, and so we want to thank our schol orship partners, many of who are here with us, the black college track, filipino graduates of san francisco, first track, teachers of san francisco, masonic foundation of san francisco, mission economic developmenagenc mission promise neighborhood, mission graduates, san francisco achievers, san francisco alliance and black school

educators, san francisco foster youth fund, san francisco university state project rebound, the association of chinese teachers, and a26 valencia. these organizations reflect the love san francisco hraso youth, so we want to thank you for being a part of that. i also want to acknowledge gina frommer who is our sponsor from the san francisco education fund. she has always supported the work that we do with our young people and with principles, teachers and paraeducators, and last, i want to thank pg&e for their generous support. andrea, you did this donation on behalf of mayor lee, and so it's really important for us to do this in partnership with you, so thank you, and thank pg&e for all you do for our city. these partnerships, as i said,.

we expect you to be the next doctors and lawyers, the next mayors, the next supervisors, and people that will lead our city going forward, so we're proud of you. you represent the future of san francisco, and congratulations to you all. thanks for coming out. [applause] >> thank you so much, mr. mayor. so many organizations that we referred you to us we work with closely, and many are funded by our department of children, youth andfamily, and i just

wanted to acknowledge maria fu, who's the director of the c.y.f. and lives, breathes, and ettas everythi eats everything that has to do with young people. we have a supervisor in our districts that does so much with public schools. katey tang graduated from public schools. she invests in every single one of our schools in her district, so i'd like to have katey tang please join us for a little welcome. [applause] >> supervisor tang: thank you very much, hydra, and welcome, everyone, and congratulations. as hydra mention, i did grow up going to our public schools here in san francisco and proud graduate of sfusd, and so i definitely know how much it means to be able to support these schools in any way i can. like many of you, i grew up

with an immigrant family and was the first in my immediate family to attend college and graduate from college and then go onto receive a graduate degree, as well. when i first went to le really worried so much about how it is that we're going to pay for college. my parents had to work overtime so much that i barely saw my dad on the weekends, he was just working and working and working. then i had brother that was right behind me, and we were supposed to overlap in college for three years, so i definitely freaked out how we were going to pay for college. so i pushed myself to graduate in three years so we -- i could afford to help pay for college. some of my favorite experiences were the extracurricular stuff that weoto do and earn some money at it, but i'm excited for all of you and the journey you have ahead, and of course all the support that you have from your parents and family

and friends. just enjoy it. it's a wonderful time to do self-exploration and learn how to live on your own. so thankful for thisonor today, and thank you to mayor farrell for continuing this tradition. so congratulations. >> thank you, supervisor tang. not often do you get to be in the room with the president of yo clege, and we are lucky to have a great relationship with san francisco state university and our president of san francisco state is here to welcome -- i know that there are six of you, maybe. how many of you are going to san francisco state. [applause] >> yeah. so if you'd please join us in welcoming your new students. >> so the six of you, raise your hands again. all right. we're going to have a photo. okay. again, i want to reiterate the

comments the mayor and the supervisor, etcetera, andhank all of your sponsors and all of the families that are here. i'm really excited for you. there there's a special responsibility that comes not only with your scholarship but going to college, and at san francisco state we talk about the responsibility of being an educated person and that your education not only is a great gateway for you, but it's a great gateway for your families going forward. we are actually conducting some research i wanted to share with you. 40% of our students are first in their family to go to college, what we call first-gen. we have about 50 -- about half of our students. about 40% of our students are pell students, etcetera. and what's interesting is once you go to college and graduate, it's very likely that another

person in your family, including your mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, will go to college. and the ripple, the wave that we're tracking now is really quite significant. i actually had the honor at commencement, not this year, a year ago, to hand a diploma to a grandma -- great grandma who was 84 years old who had put children, grandchildren, great grandchildren through college and who then finally said it's my turn, and she came to san francisco state, got a degree inpoetry, and it was absolutely the high point of commencement. and her whole thing was getting the first grandchild to go to school. and when i told her about, you know, our commitment to the responsibility of being an educated person, it means being

active, being involved. as mayor says, we want you to be a god citizen, we want you to vote. we just want you to be productive in waystou want to be, and that's when the world opens up to you. so congratulations. i'm really pleased that a bunch of you are coming to san francisco state. i'm on the 5th floor of the admin building. you are welcome. there are free food up there sometimes, but it's really terrific. we think of ourselves as managing talent. so one last bit of advice to hear from a university president, and that is in many ways, you not only look like me, and i look like you, when i was in high school -- i'm from east oakland. i was one of the few chinese kids on the baseball team at that time, and a counselor said to me, don't go to college and

waste your parents' money, okay? and the only reason i got to college was a, i could play baball, and two, i actually wrote a paper that was published when i was a junior in high school. and i couldn't understand why the counselor said to me not to waste my parents' money. so you get the opportunity for revenge like me because when i got my -- when i got my ph.d. i sent a copy to the counselor. [applause] >> and -- and then, i felt guilt, right? and so when i became a president, i was going to send him the announcement for that, but unfortunately, he passed away, and i did -- i thought, i better not buck the odds, right, that kind of thing. but it's just you have to persist, you know? the world is complicated, it's challenging, but the is

opportunity and the support, the scholarships, etcetera, is golden. it's like being drafted one, whether it's baseball or any sport. but it's an investment in your talents, and i believe that advantage of that.ill take and i look forward to having you, wherever you are, whether you're at state or anyollege or university because you're going to make a difference, and that's what we expect out of you. congratulations. [applause] >> so i hope the grandchildren paid for their grandmother's education. yeah, that would be good. and katey, could you please talk to my son about finishing in three years? that would be awesome. all right. are you ready? we are going to announce our award recipients, and if i can have the mayor and supervisor tang join us, we're going to have each one of you come up and get your certificate, and this is your opportunity,

family, to take pictures. our first award recipient is claudia lu from lowell high school, going to chapman university. [applause] >> great. congratulations. erica carilla, mission high school, going to c.s.u. sacramento. [applause] >> great. gemma moncana from john o'connell high school, going to san francisco state. [applause]

>> yeah, then you can brag. great. very good. congrats. emony katz, leadership state, humboldt university. [applause] >> jennie qwan ku, from mission high school school, heading to cal state university. go bears! [applause] >> jose domingues espina, from

lincoln high school, going to san francisco state university. [applause] >> stay there. the next one is a san francisco state student, as well. cassandra lowell montez from john lowell high school, going to san francisco state. [applause] >> all right. stay there, less, because i'm going to skip katja, and i'm going to have keenan larue come up, from mission high school, heading to san francisco state. >> all right. our next recipient is katja

suarez, from mission high school, heading to u.c. berkeley. [applause] >> great. keyona reynolds from george washington high school, heading to the university of washington in seattle. [applause] >> kyle chan from lowell high school, going to the university of california davis. [applause] >> congrats.

laura gian from lowell high school, heading to the unersityf california san diego. [applause] >> okay. leisha from galileo high school, heading to san jose state university. [applause] >> nadra mohamed from mission high school heading to holy names university. [applause] >> cinna chambers fro raul wallenberg high school, heading

to u.c. berkeley. oh, you changed your mind? sorry, you're riht. you're going ain. e major. >> double major, yeah. pamela campos adrizan from john o'connell high school, u.c. san diego. [applause] >> randy casares from mission high school, san francisco state university. [applause] >> just go stop by his office any time. risen aljas from mission high school, heading to dil

university. [applause] >> robert verey from john o'connell high school, going to c.s.u. east bay. [applause] >> xiang huang from san francisco international high school, heading to u.c. berkeley. [applause] >> and last, but not least,

ling may liang from mission high school, san francisco state university. [applause] >> let's give our 2018" i am the future award" recipients a great round of applause. [applause] >> so each one of our award recipients will be receiving $1,000 that go towards their tuition, and we did not think about whether or not you were documented, we just wanted to make sure that you got the funds that go directly to your tuition, so we're going to make sure that that gets taken care of. so that is the first step, is getting all your money together so that you can head off and come back and work in our city

and make us more and more proud than we already are. events like these could not be put together or programs like these couldn't be run without the incredible support of two wonderful staff members, so marisa and erica, thank you for all that you do in reaching out to our young people and getting all of the scholarships to us. so we want to congratulate you, we want to thank you. and again, to the families, congratulations. we look forward to hearing some amazing stories about what your graduates are doing going forward, and we want to just thank you again for joining us here with mayor farrell. congratulations.

so i want to thank everyone for being here today at the civic center bart station. we are all here today because we care. we care about our commuters in san francisco, we care about the residents that visit and work in our city. we care about the people on -- the residents who live in our city. we care about civic pride here in san francisco. civic center and the bart station is at the heart of san francisco. it is the door way to our city

government and city hall, it is -- that's better. it is the doorway to the plaza, to market street and mid market, the growing part ofur dowown corridor. this is the heart of san francisco. it has become unfortunately a gl timpse i homeless and behavioral health issues that we have here in san francisco. it is not safe. it is not acceptable anymore. so today i'm proud that we are announcing a partnership between our san francisco police department and part that is going to increase staffing here at civic center bart station. san francisco police department, we are going to be increasing foot patrols by over 300 hours per week. bart is also going to be increasing their staffing levels

as well. we need to make a difference for the commuters that use bart. we need to make a difference for san francisco residents and we need to make a difference for visitors who come to our beloved city of san francisco. let's also make sure to know that this is not a police matter alone. i'm proud to be joined by barbara garcia who runs our department of public health. lsois a public health issue and an issue that we are going to be dealing with through our healthy streets operation center. bart is now going to be a participant in this . we are going to coordinate with our homeless department, with our department of public health, with our department of public works. this will be a coordinated effort to make sure that civic center bart station once again is an area at civic center station that we can be proud of. at the end of the day this is building upon a lot of initiatives that we have focused on over the last six months

around homelessness, around behavior health on our streets, around the cleanliness of our streets. this applies t eve area o san francisco as well including our bart stations and our city. civic center bart station has been the example of what has gone wrong and now our city government in partnership with bart is stepping up and making sure that we have a plan into the future that will once again make our civic center bart station an example and a symbol of pride for the ridents of san francisco as they commute through here. so i want to thank everyone for being here today. i'm going to turn it over to our police chief, bill scott. >> we are increasing and chief scott can -- actually, why don't i let chief scott talk about it. >> good morning, everyone. first of all let me tha mayor farrell for his leadership.

the last month he introduced the idea that we had to collaborate better to get things done in this bart, in this platform to make it safer and make it cleaner and to make it the pride of our great city. at that time he brought all the parties together and asked us to draft a plan that would address the issues and concerns that have been repeatedly voiced by members of our community. althoughhe platforms between our community platform and the bart platforms are shared underground in this corridor we do, between chief rojas and our folks, we knew that we had to work better and more collaboratively to get these problems solved. both riders in both systems go back and forth to school, work and visit the many great tourist attractions in our city and the idea that each system or each department is responsible for separate law enforcement duties in this platform cannot be a barrier for us working together.

the only concern that we have is that people when they come here and take public transportation that they feel safe, that they have a clean environment and that they are able to go to and from where they need to go to without worry and without concern. i agree with mayor farrell wh e wholeheartedly t onlay that will occur is all these people standing here working together. this partnership we believe will do just that. the san francisco police department, as the mayor said, we have a healthy street operation center, better known as hsoc. we use that initiative to collaborate efforts between our various city departments to address the very issues that we have in this bart station. with that we will be increasing our footly presence almost five

fold by nearly adding approximately 500 patrol hoursa week to this effort. we believe that will make a tremendous impact and enable us to do what we need to do to keep this platform safe, clean and for our residents and our people that use this transportation hub to enjoy it. i'd like to thank keith carlos rojas from the bart pd who has really been a partner in this and we believe jointly that we will really make a difference in terms of realizing mayor farrell's vision to make this the safest transportation hub in this region by working together our officers will be able to respond to immediate concerns and more appropriately proactively work to identify on going behavior that we get calls about all the time that contribute to threats to public

sat additionally, we will work in partnership with all of the city agencies and organizations under the healthy street operation center initiative that i mentioned to be able to get the individuals who need help to that help. so with that i'd like to turn this over to chief rojas and thank you this morning for being here. >> good morning. chief carlos rojas with the bart police department. i'll keep my comments brief. we are very excited with this new partnership with the san francisco police department. while historically we worked well with the san francisco police department i think this has really refocused our commitment to the civic center station that is truly the gateway to san francisco for many people. as both mayor farrell and chief scott stated this is one team and it doesn't matter if it's a san francisco patch or a bart patch we are in it together and we want to make sure that our

riders feel safe in our stations as well as throughout the city and county of san francisco. we do cover a very large area and there isn't a better partner than the city and county of san francisco so we are very excited about this. i would be remissed if i didn't also recognize our board of directors for their leadership and then allowing me to do the difficult job. director joe is with us today if you want to say a few words. >> thank you very much. member of the bart board of directors. i think it's clear that anyone who rides bart or anyone who rides muni comes off at civic center station the problems that we are seeing aboveground with homelessness with drug addiction are really coming down into our stations. bart is not a social service agency, bart is not a public health agency and the only way we can get to grips with these problems is indeed collaboration with the city of san fraco andh thether cities and counties that we serve. that's

why this is such an exciting moment because not only are we starting to collaborate much more deeply with the san cioli department a the bart police department because ultimately our riders are not particularly concerned whose badge it is, they just want to know that they are going to be safe. we are independent -- integrating much more deeply into problems and i think that's something that's going to be critical to making sure that our riders and muni riders have the safe and clean experience that they deserve. so i'm going to hand it over to barbara garcia at the department of public health. thank you. >> good afternoon. barbara garcia, director of health. i want to thank mayor farrell for all his support in the last many months of expanding services for us. many of those services will help individuals who people are concerned with who are seeing

open drug use and mental health issues. i also want to thank the san francisco department of -- the san francisco police department and the bart police. we've been working for many months with both of these agencies to identify individuals who they have been concerned with for many years at times. we have those individuals in our hands in terms of their names and we are identifying them and trying to get to them and trying to provide support. so we really are doing an individualized approach to this and we are also looking at the issue of ensuring that today we have our homeless out reach team from our homeless department as well as our street medicine team and they will work together to make sure that we are working with individuals as they come across them in bart, leaving bart or in the surrounding areas. i'm very proud of the work and collaboration that we've done and i can tell you that we have worked and have helped individuals that both of these entities have identified ts

and it's complex work. many of these individuals have long term mental health issues. they deserve the kind of support they need. we are going to refocus on this and really provide as much support as we can to individuals. this is the end of this press conference we argoing to be taking estios, not from the podium but from the side. i want to thank all of you for coming today and being interested in t isthank you m

>> my biggest take away is that you can always find a way. most people who go into public policies really want to make a difference and have a positive impact on the world, and that's what i love most about my job. i feel like every day at the sfpuc all of the policies that we're involved in have major impacts on people's lives both here in the city and across the state and the nation. in 2017, california senate bill 649 was released. it would have capped the fees that cities such as ourselves would be able to charge telecom companies for the right to use or poll for their cell equipments, and it also would have taken away city's abilities to negotiate what the equipment looks like, where they could be placed, and potentially we could even be in a position where we would not be able to stop them putting equipment especially on our light poles. my name is emily lamb and i am

director of policy affairs for the sfpuc. i really am involved with a team of people and building a strong coalition of a team of folks. we are working very closely to get this bill defeated and ultimately vetoed by governor brown. >> emily is one of those people who is a bright star with regards to her passion, her commitment, her tenacity and she's just a great, fun person. she's all of the things that you would want in an employee and an ambassador for our organization. >> my biggest take away is you can always find a way, especially when something is important and worth fighting for, if you put your heads together with people, and you collaborate, that usually you can find some solution to get to your goal. in this case, it was a bill

that most people considered politically difficult to complete, and we didn't have a chance of doing it, but with a lot of strattizing with a lot of different partners, we got it done. my name is emily lamb, and i am the director of policy and government affairs, and i've been with sfpuc for 2.5 years.