tough to endorse against someone that you are sitting with. they were there from the very beginning and i'm so proud to have supported sandy fewer and hillary ronin in their campaigns, they have been such extraordinary supervisors. if they would be willing to come up and sort of keep me company as i get sworn in. and then the other person i would like to invite to stand with me is the former supervisor for district 8. [applause] devin has been a prince over the last year. he has been so helpful with so much good advice. it has been sometimes rough road, this campaign, but he has been wonderful and calling me

almost on a daily basis since the election with more helpful advice. thank you. i wanted to have city attorney herrera swear me in today because he is a an an exemplary public servant. i spent my life working with and for local governments and the last three years was the deputy city attorney in oakland. i have so much admiration for the work that the folks in our city attorney's office do. whether it is defending tenants against the worse of the worse landlords doing terrible things to standing up to trump, to ensuring that we enforce sensible regulations of new

industries to all the other things that dennis herrera and his fine office do. last but not least in anyway, oh, by the way, saving city college. [applause] so, i wanted to have dennis swear me in today. he knows how to do this a lot better than i do. i'll just put this up here. >> just make sure everybody can hear. >> all right. >> everybody here? all right. here we go. raise your right hand and repeat after me. >> all right. >> i, rafael mandelman. >> i rafael mandelman. >> do sol emily swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. and the constitution of the state of the california. >> against all enemies foreign and domestic. and i will be bear true faith

and allegiance. to the constitution of the united states. >> to the constitution of the united states. >> and the constitution of the state of the california. >> and the constitution of the state of the cost. >> i take this obligation freely. >> without any reservation or purpose of ovation. >> and that i will well and healthful' discharge. >> the duties which i am about to enter. >> during such time. >> and during such time. >> as i hold the office. >> of member of board of supervisors. >> and san francisco transportation authority. of the city and county of san francisco. >> of the city and county of san francisco. >> congratulations. [applause]

thank you. >> thank you. >> all right. a few brief remarks. they will be brief, i promise. very brief. one thing i want to make sure i do is acknowledge some of the extraordinary public service talents we have in this room. my incredibly able staff to be as given me a list. i want to start by acknowledging gina masconi who is here with us. thank you so much for being here. [applause] for your wonderful children and for all that you represent for san francisco. thank you for doing me the honor of being here for this and thank you tom horn for bringing your

good friend here this afternoon with us. we also have with us assembly member phil tang. [applause] assembly member david chu. [applause] >> supervisor fewer, who you just saw. [applause] supervisor peskin. [applause] supervisor jane kim. [applause] i left out katy tang and i left out katy tang. [laughter] [applause] and catherine stephanie. hillary ronin we just saw. and i do want to thank president

cohen for opening her office for us for refreshments afterwards. for allowing us to use this room. i want to thank our sheriff, vickey hennessey. [applause] and a day like today is a major challenge, i know for all, for the sheriff and the deputy sheriff and i want to thank you for all that you've done with us today. our treasure jose. [applause] >> our district attorney george gascone. [applause] our public defender jeff adache. [applause] we have -- our bar director, of course. [applause] we have our chancellor from city

college mark roacha. [applause] and our board president -- >> right here! [laughter] >> brigitte, not to be unacknowledged. [applause] our vice president alex randolf. [applause] past president sia sellby. john rizzo. carmen chu, i didn't acknowledge carmen chu. thank you for being here. do we have school board in the house? matt haney is here, thank you for being here. [applause] our former mayor art agnus. [applause] i think they like you, art.

and i think that is it. have i gotten the former city college christie timwolfbridge. our first gay city college trustee tim, who paved the way and our constitute trustee simmons is here as well. there are some folks who worked on this campaign without whom i would not be here. they are led by my campaign manager, kyle she'lly who is going tsmealie.mckenzie ewuing d director. brendon shucard who did great work for us. and our fantastic interns i hope many of you will be coming into

city hall with us. i know some of you are. scott carlson, john tell, jackie, jock steinberger. amelia -- i can't say her last name. and then i also want to acknowledge mark leno's campaign manager who will be coming in as another legislative aid in our office, aaron mundy. [applause] and last but not least wrapping up his business as a small business owner, bar owner, tom te mprano could not be here but starts next week, he will be my third legislative aid. [applause] i am not even going to try to acknowledge ever single neighborhood, leader, c.b.d.

head, labor leader, so many folks, the leaders of alice and milk and there are so many fantastic folks in this room, i'm going to stop there. but thank you all for being here to share this special, special day with me. i also have another cheat sheet i have to check. we are so lucky to have an amazing city clerk, angela calvillo. [applause] and her staff, not only the sheriff, deputy sheriff but a clerk office. a day like this is a lot of work and you have been so accommodating to us so thank you all for that. so i wouldn't be here without a couple of folks who are sitting out here. i just gott got emotion a two pe

who took me in when i was a kid and i did not have a place to live. that is bernie and elinor burke. [applause] >> they're pretty great. i'm very lucky to have you in my life. to have you two in my life. but i do get easily re. i would like to acknowledge and talk a little bit about two women who are not here today, but who have influenced my life in profound ways. my mother was a very important character in this campaign. i talked a lot about her. she died actually during the

course of the campaign. my mother struggled with mental illness for most of her life. the reason i did not have a place to live as a teenager was her struggles with mental illness. many of you know this, you read the heath nights story or live in strict 8 and had her show up at your doorstep, she spent time in a homeless shelter. when i was older, i was able to intervene in her life and get her into a slightly better place. a much better place. the experience of having that person in my life and seeing the reality of the mental health challenges to folks struggle with has left me with a real certainty that there are people in this world who cannot take care of themselves and it is our job to take care of them. [applause]

housing is necessary but it is not sufficient. and so one of the first things i did after being elected as supervisor was to go up to sacramento, along with our mayor elect to testify and say we're 1045 which is a bill that will expand conserveto rships. it is a tool. it's controversial and complicated. my colleagues have different feelings about it and i look forward to engaging in conversations with them overtime. i do believe if we chose to implement this tool locally it will call our bluff. it's not enough, of course, to say we're going to do conservetorships. do you make the resources available to ensure you provide care for the people who need it? we know and the folk folks who e

concerned remember that when we institutionalize on a mass basis people who were different or unwell that is not a history we should be proud of. i think the san francisco in 2018 can do better. i think we can do better than we did in the 50s and we can do better than we're doing now. [applause] that is a strong commitment of mine. the other person who i think got short shipped in this campaign was my grandmother. my grandmother, esther, is the strongest person who i have ever known. she was a holocaust survivor. when the war broke out she was young. she had a child three months before the war broke out. that child was my dad. somehow my grandmother kept herself and my dad alive through

those six years of hell. at the end, her parents were dead, her husband, my grandfather was head and most of her brothers and sisters were dead. she lost her home, her farm, everything. she had lost basically her whole life except this one little kid who she loved very much, my dad. after six years in displaced persons camps in europe, they came to the united states and my grandmother had that typical american immigrant story where she worked and scraped and saved and built a new life for herself and her family and ultimately for me. i learned many things from my grandmother. i learned about and this corny but the promise of this country and what it's meant here in the united states and around the world to so many people. i also learned she loved this country. she was also very aware of its

challenges. she con understand as a county as wealthy as this country and a country she loved so much could have so many poor people. this was at a time when the gap between rich and poor in the united states was narrowing as opposed to now when it's expanding. those values have been passed on to me from my grandmother and they're very important to me. the most important lesson that i think was the experience of my grandmother's generation shows us is that the fabric of civilized life of decency and civility and human beings treating each other well is surprisingly tenuous. it requires people working really hard ever single day all of us to keep this thing together. now we know that there is a world around san francisco and around california that is getting stranger and stranger and more and more chaotic and hostile and difficult.

and i believe, we heard a lot from the mayor elect this morning about the need for san franciscans to come together to get beyond historic difference and to try and make a future based on the vast majority of the values we share and we do not share with some of the stuff going on out there. i really believe in that. and i take from my grandmother's life and her experience a real commitment to working every single day to try and take the values that we share and make them real and make sure city actually a shining example of what we want this whole country, this whole world to be. i think we can do it and i'm excited to do that work. and i'm looking forward to joining the folks up here in doing it. i have worked, as i said earlier, with a lot of elected officials in my lifetime over the last 20 years, folks around the bay area at city council and lots of places. this body is well above average.

[laughter] [applause] >> this is a very impressive set of folks. they don't get treated necessarily always so well. as people and their commitment and their intelligence and their passion, i've seen elected official who's don't share those great talents, so my pledge to all of you is to be someone who you can trust, who is reliable. and who is a good partner for you and the work we want to represent our diverse constituencies and the city we love. to our new mayor, i want to extend my great congratulations and enthusiasm for her mayoralty. how extraordinary this city is going to be led by an african american woman who grew up in the projects. [applause] >> it was everyone out there this morning could feel a pride in this city and a pride in what

we're going to represent in this era that unfortunately will be known as the trump era. but i am so excited. i know we are excited to work together to solve homelessness and build more affordable housing and give san francisco the 21st septembe century transm we deserve. to the voters of district 8, i want to give them my extraordinary thanks for being willing to take a second look. [applause] >> and taking me at my word when i said i wanted to try to get beyond the petty differences that seem to have divided our city politics for too long. my pledge to them is to everything i can to make good on that promise from the campaign and keep true to that.

that's what i'm going to do. thank you all so much for coming and being part of this and i know there are people who i forgot to acknowledge and i shouldn't and i apologize. i hope you will join us over in president cohen's office for some beverages and some fine foods. thank you, everybody. [applause]

>> in 201,755.7 million passengers traveled through san francisco international airport. we have on average 150,000 people traveling through the airport every day. flying can be stressful so we have introduced therapy dogs to make flying more enjoyable. the wag brigade is a partnership between the airport and the san francisco therapy animal assistant program to bring therapy animals into the airport, into the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. i amgen fer casarian and i work here at san francisco international airport.

the idea for therapy dogs got started the day after 9/11. an employee brought his therapy dog to work after 9/11 and he was able to see how his dog was able to relieve passenger's jitter. when we first launched the program back in 2013, our main goal was to destress our passengers however what we quickly found is that our animals were helping us find a way to connect with our pang. passengers. we find there are a lot of people traveling through the airport who are missing their pets and who are on their road a lot and can't have pets and we have come in contact with a lot of people recently who have lost pet. >> i love the wag brigade. >> one of my favorite parts is

walking into the terminals and seeing everybody look up from their device, today everybody is interacting on their cell phone or laptop and we can walk into the terminal with a dog or a pig and people start to interact with each other again and it's on a different level. more of an emotional level. >> i just got off an 11.5 hour flight and nice to have this distraction in the middle of it. >> we look for wag brigade handlers who are comfortable in stressful situations. >> i like coming to airport it's a lot of fun and the people you talk to are generally people who are missing their dogs. >> they are required to compete a certification process. and they are also required to

complete a k9 good citizen test and we look for animals who have experienced working with other orgorganizations such as hospits and pediatric units and we want to be sure that the animals we are bringing into the airport are good with children and also good with some of our senior travelers. i think toby really likes meeting kids. that is his favorite thing. he likes to have them pet him and come up to him and he really loves the kids. >> our wag brigade animals can be spotted wearing custom vets and they have custom patches. >> there is never a day that repeats itself and there is never and encounter that repeats itself. we get to do maximum good in a small stretch of time and i have

met amazing people who have been thrilled to have the interaction. >> the dogs are here seven days a week, we have 20 dogs and they each come for a two hour shift. >> there is a lot of stress when people have traveling so to from these animals around to ease the stress and help people relax a little bit. i think it's great. >> one of our dogs has special need and that is tristine. he wears a wheel around. >> he has special shoes and a harness and we get it together in the parking lot and then we get on the air train. he loves it. little kids love him because he is a little lower to the ground so easy to reach and he has this

big furry head they get to pet and he loves that. >> he doesn't seem to mind at all. probably one of the happiest dogs in the world. >> many people are nervous when they travel but seeing the dogs is just a wonderful relief. >> what i absolutely love most about it is the look on people's faces, so whenever they are stressed and flying is stressful these days you get these wonderful smile. >> i am the mom of lilo the pig and she is san francisco's first therapy pig. >> lilo joined the wag brigade as our firs first pig. >> wag brigade invited us to join the program here and we

have done it about a year-and-a-half ago. our visits last 1.5 to 2 hours and it does take a little bit longer to get out of the terminal because we still get a lot of attention and a lot of people that want to interact with lilo. >> i feel honored to be part of the wag brigade. it's very special to meet so many people and make so many feel happy and people that work here. it's been a great experience for me and a great experience for to totoby. >> it's been an extremely successful program, so the next time you are here, stop by and say hi.

>> when i open up the paper every day, i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about what planet i want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. >> it was really easy to sign up for the program. i just went online to cleanpowersf.org, i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. now when i want to pay my bill, i go to pg&e and i don't see any difference in paying now. if you're a family on the budget, if you sign up for the regular green program, it's not

going to change your bill at all. you can sign up online or call. you'll have the peace of mind knowing you're doing your part in your household to help the environment. >> many questions are raised by this, who are they -- i think we should just have a general discussion in july on what's happening at the palace of fine arts. so, i would like that calendared for july. second matter was an article on june 1st. it was a public announcement of the 2019 bond, $545 million, and there were several projects that were listed as part of that bond. i think there should have been a discussion before that public announcement, so i would like staff to also give us a status

report of how did these numbers come about, what's the status of these projects, particularly trying to avoid some of the mistakes we did with the 2012 bond, where costs were escalating, perhaps we did not have enough money. we went through entitlement battles, let's have a discussion about this $545 million bond, is it one shot for ten years, is it two bonds over ten years, let's have more of a discussion about this now that this is public. i would like to have that also on the july commission hearing. >> any other commissioners? ok. any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. item 12, new business agenda setting. commissioners. public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. item 13, communications, discussion only.

commissioners? any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. item 14, adjournment. >> entertain a motion. all in favor? aye, so adjourned. >> thank you, commissioners.

>> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features.

>> the playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties >> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields

than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp >> and we are sending a strong message that san francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay. >> this park is open. ♪.

>> neighborhood in san francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them we're in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the san francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar embarcadero financial district fisherman's wharf exhibit no. north beach telegraph hill and part of union square. >> all of san francisco districts are remarkable i'm

honored and delighted to represent really whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach fisherman's wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of the most wealthier and inning e impoverished people in san francisco obgyn siding it is ethically exists a bunch of tight-knit neighborhoods people know he each other by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, i'm one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north

beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the united states been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day we opened. >> it is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbuck's exists and it created a really welcoming pot. it is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and

sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the jefferson starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it there's a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you and you'd get