wishes and congratulations the community has shifted a lot of when i was growing up in the 60s and 50's a good portion of chicano-american chinese-american lived in north beach a nob hill community. >> as part the immigrant family is some of the recreation centers are making people have the ability to get together and meet 0 other people if communities in the 60s a 70s and 80s and 90s saw a move to the richmond the sunset district and more recently out to the excelsior the avenue community as well as the ensuring u bayview so chinese family living all over the city and when he grape it

was in this area. >> we're united. >> and growing up in the area that was a big part of the my leave you know playing basketball and mycy took band lessons and grew up. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> allergies welcome to the community fair it kicks off three weeks of celebrations for the year and let's keep everybody safe and celebrate the

biggest parade outside of china on february 11th go best wishes and congratulations and 3, 2, 1 happy enough is enough. >> i grew up volley ball education and in media professional contrary as an educator he work with all skids whether or not caucasian hispanic and i african-american cumber a lot of arrest binge kids my philosophy to work with all kids but being here and griping in the chinese community being a chinese-american is important going to american school during the day but went to chinese school that is community is important working with all the kids and having them exposed to

all culture it is important to me. >> it is a mask evening. >> i'd like to thank you a you all to celebrate an installation of the days here in the asian art museum. >> one time has become so many things in the past two centuries because of the different did i licks the immigration officer didn't understand it became no standard chinese marine or cantonese sproupgs it became so many different sounds this is convenient for the immigration officer this okay your family name so this tells the generations of immigrants where they come from

and also many stories behind it too. >> and what a better way to celebrate the enough is enough nuru with the light nothing is more important at an the hope the energy we. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> relative to the current administration it is, it is touching very worrisome for our immigrant frames you know and some of the stability in the country and i know how this new president is doing you know immigration as well as immigrants (fireworks)

later than you think new year the largest holiday no asia and china those of us when my grandparents came over in the 19 hundreds and celebrated in the united states chinese nuru is traditional with a lot of meani meaning. >> good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessor-recorder i want to wish everything a happy new year thank you for joining us i want to say. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm proud to be a native san

franciscan i grew up in the chinatown, north beach community port commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in under serving come back and give >> good afternoon, everybody. how are you doing? are you having a good dream for us? great. great. and did you have fun last night? all right.

how many people are here have been to dream force before, raise your hands? all right. fantastic. well, welcome back to san francisco. we have a really great treat for you. we have our mayor, london breed. please give her a huge, dream force welcome. [applaus [applause] >> well, welcome to dream force, mayor. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, mark. >> very excited that you're here, and i'm very excited that you're the mayor. >> the hon. london breed: thank you. >> you know, i've been waiting to have this conversation with you, and i've got so many questions, and so little time. so, you know, one of the things that i love about you is that you're a native san franciscan, you grew up in this city, you are part of the city, you're a native draw native daughter, and now, you're the mayor, truly representing

the city that you love so much. when you look at being the mayor right now, at such an important time in the history of san francisco, where we have so many opportunities but also so many challenges, what is the most important thing to you that when you think about what you do every day, where you spend your time right now, what are you truly focused on? what is the most important thing to you? >> the hon. london breed: the most important thing to me is to take care of san francisco. i wake up every day, thinking about how are we going to make even more progress, how are we going to help people who sadly are part of our most vulnerable communities. i come from that community. i grew up in san francisco in public housing and lived there with my grandmother for over 20 years of my life, and it was a very challenging environment. hopelessness, violence, drugs,

despair, and we have people in all parts of san francisco unfortunately still living in very similar conditions. and in fact, you know, people who don't have roofs over their heads now. so what i care about most is changing that, changing the lives of people that are counting on us to make good decisions. >> now you're a leader of a huge organization, our city. you have a huge budget at your disposal, every resource is available to you, every key stakeholder in the city reports to you, except our public schools. they report to our school board. when you look at running that huge organization and getting them headed in the direction of this vision that you just articulated, what are you doing every try to really make this manifest into reality? >> the hon. london breed: so there's definitely a lot of meetings that take place, a lot of conversations with different

department heads, and just to express to them that we are public servants. our jobs are to take care of san francisco, so when i meet and talk with the police chief, i basically, you know, have these really in-depth conversations with him about, you know, law enforcement, the relationship with law enforcement and the community and how people, they do feel safe when they see police officers out on our streets, but there's another community that may not trust the police, and it's our duty to change that by building relationships with various communities and being consistent and being out there and being visible and having conversations with the public when, you know, basically, there isn't anything bad going on. so that's just the police department. but there's the department of public works. they're responsible for cleaning up the streets, and we're spending millions of dollars to keep the streets of san francisco clean, and so making sure that people are out there,

not only cleaning up the streets, but again, having conversations with san franciscans that are just out on the streets, talking to people that are even changing their behavior. in fact i'm walking the streets, i run into people sometimes and people are throwing things on the ground, and i say hey, pick that up. and they turnaround and say oh, i'm sorry, madam mayor, and we will have a whole conversation on that. i think people will think twice when it comes to littering. we have to be responsible for taking care of this city, and that means not throwing our garbage on the ground or flicking our cigarettes out on the sidewalks because that creates what people complain about the most is -- you know, it hurts my heart when people

say san francisco is a dirty city. you know, i take that personally, and i go out there and do what i can, like i said, to hold people accountable, but more importantly, making sure that i'm out there myself, doing the work, as well. >> well, i see already, being the accountability mayor. i call you and you're sitting on the curb waiting for the police or the sanitation department to show up. last night, i saw it in reality where we had this amazing concert, you know, in the shadow of your city hall, and it was the cleanest i'd ever seen the city in quite a few years. and i was like wow, what is happening. and i kind of connected it back, and is london breed becoming the accountability mayor because i had just called you, and you're like mark, i can't really talk to you right now because i'm waiting for our employees to show because i need them to fix this right now. and until they do, i'm not going

anywhere. >> the hon. london breed: yeah. >> if that -- is that really happening? >> the hon. london breed: that's really happening. and in fact, it happened when i went to the gym this morning. there's an area where people -- sadly, they're homeless and they're sleeping there. immediately, there's a whole group text that goes out to a number of people. i'm like there's trash, there's a number of people. we need day shelters. where are the opportunities for folks, and why are you not bringing me the solutions because people should not have to sleep on the streets in san francisco when we're investing over $300 million annually trying to solve this issue. there needs to be some accountability for how we're spending that money, where our resources are going. as mayor, our plan is to look at all of what we're doing now, and if something is not working, it effectively needs to change. >> you inspire me, and what i've

been telling people is mayor breed cannot do this alone. each and every citizen in this city is going to have to pick up this trash. you built this great app, or what the city did, sf311.org. if i see a picture off a bunch of gaur gabadge, but i take a picture -- garbage, i take a picture, and it's cleaned up. to see that action happening, everyone is starting to realize that this is all on our hands. >> the hon. london breed: yeah, and you have a powerful voice on twitter. even a tweet you send out gets a lot of likes, getting a lot of re-tweeting. you tag 311, and you tag me. like, i want people to see what we're doing, but i also want

others to help us. i want other people to do exactly what you're doing, what i'm doing to get people -- like, for example, the mattresses or the garbage or somebody who is sadly sleeping on our streets. there are a number of challenges -- and let me be clear. it's not just as easy as picking someone up and taking them into a shelter because we unfortunately have so many people who struggle with mental illness, who struggle with drug addiction, and it's a lot more districted to try and provide support for those individuals and there are some things that we're working on, which i'm really excited about, that you think are going to make a big difference. >> one of the projects that both you and i are both involved, there's a french artist, j.r., who's in town right now, going to speak at the moma at 7:00 tonight. he was here as you know, because

you're part of this. every day, he had a semi, and he was in a different part of the city for a month. i think he took thousands of photos and videos of every possible san franciscan. and as you know, we have quite a few different types of san franciscans, and we have an incredible set of characters in our city and that's what makes us great. and you know, as we were talking, a couple of amazing thingsz things happened. one is he saw a portrait of tolerance. he said i saw somebody naked walking down the street. he said what's that? >> i said that's pretty normal. i said this is where summer of love came from, so she was from

paris. she didn't actually believe it, and she went back to where she was staying. she took off all of her clothes, she went to whole foods, she bought a pack of gum. and she went back to her apartment, called j.r., and told him. nobody even asked me a question or looked at me. what is going on in san francisco? why do we tolerate everybody's freedom and kind of -- why do we accept everybody? why is that here? why does that make us so special? >> the hon. london breed: well, you and i are both native san franciscans, and you know the answer to that question just as well as i do. it's just -- i think it's the kind of city that we are, but there's a difference between someone choosing to go to the store naked and someone who unfortunately is mentally ill and is basically taking off all their clothes and out of their mind and just, you know,

struggling, clearly struggling. but i know senator scott wiener is in the audience, and he put together some restrictions on that naked ban a couple of years ago before i was on the board of supervisors with restaurants and a couple of other things, but hey, san francisco, we are what we are. and i love the fact that we are, you know, such a tolerant and accepting city of people. but i also think we shouldn't tolerate what we see on our streets, the challenges that we see on our streets. it's not okay to just let things be the way they are. i refuse to accept that because it's not just about being a mayor yorks is mayor, it's about being better and getting our city to a better place.

>> j.r. was telling me this story, he was doing this mural, and he meets this mother and daughter, ten-year-old daughter and single mother, but they're living in our forest. they're living in golden gate park, and the child doesn't have any shoes. i don't know if they allowed him to take a photo or not because obviously it's an issue of respect. you are just a huge part of where we raised $37 million to get every homeless child and mother and family off our street in two years. i think tamika from ham ill sil families has about half of them off the streets. it's about getting them back into normalcy and having a good life. what are we going to do about this homeless families? it's about people who are intentionally homeless, or

homeless by circumstance. their grandfather died, maybe they're on the street, mentally ill, people who are addicted to drugs. homelessness is such a complex issue and it's a catchall for so many different types of people. how can we solve such a huge issue? because we're becoming a city that's becoming known for its homele homelessness. >> the hon. london breed: california is known for its homelessness, and i think we have to take a regional approach to building housing and building housing faster, but making sure it's not a one size fits all. even when you have affordable housing, the process is so complicated, and we have to make things easier for people to get housing. so that's why i'm really proud of the city and our one system where it's a place where we bring people in and we insert the information into a system that acts as the central

location for how we help people get into our shelter system, navigation center, and eventually permanently housed, so there's a real process, there's real tracking, accountability, so that we can get people permanently housed. ultimately, we're going to have to build more housing, invest in things to keep people housed. like what i just did in our recent budget, write to civil counsel for people that are facing avics. we can purchase buildings that low-income people are living in to prevent them from being sold. we've been doing amazing work, looking at all different layers of housing opportunities that exist, purchasing under utilized land, like we did on the

mcdonald's site on haight and stannion. not just doing it in isolation with san francisco alone. we need help from our state partners. i would say our federal government, but i'm not even going to try that one. ultimately, we're lucky here in the state of california. we have incredible leaders like david chiu, assembly member, and scott wiener who have been leading the charge on new legislation for middle-income housing legislation, for our conserveatorship, things that we need locally to assist us with the different complicates layers of people that are sadly dealing with homelessness in san francisco and in the state of california as a whole. so i think that part of what people are always saying, well, what can i do besides just

giving money? and part of it is, you know, really being consistent and investing in the programs that we know serve a purpose, like hamilton family services, like larkin street youth. what we did with larkin street on this property for transitional aged youth, that's kids age 18-24. there is a property on haight street that just needed some work done, we needed to put an investment in, and there needed to be a long-term subsidy so that they could hire employees to actually work and facilitate and support the young people in this housing. i mean, it can be expensive, but it's also less expensive than spending the money, you know, with the people who we sadly are trying to help when they're homeless. this is a less expensive way to help deal with the challenges. >> well, we know we have 1200 homeless families in san francisco. we know we have this 37 million

d i don't know dlrz targeted towards them. are -- million -- $37 million targeted toward them. you have navigation centers and a lot of other vision centers and ideas. what's your big vision or what do you see working on a strategic level or do you just think tactics or will dictates strategy over time, which is something that is an alternative approach? breed brood i think the coordinated entry system -- >> the hon. london breed: i think the coordinated entry system is a way to measure success. we have an estimated 7500 people that are homeless.

this coordinated entry system, we've already exceeded our goal by logging in over 2,000 people that we are now tracking and work on and in some cases have housed some of those particular individuals. i think we have got to show the public, you know, what we're actually doing and what we're doing it for and how it's leading to results with a system of this nature, but more importantly, we need to look at the need and plan for the need and identify places in which we can meet the need. we actually just opened mentally, which is 50 units of housing for formerly homeless individuals who weren't necessarily easy to even get housed because of some chals that they face, and we had -- challenges that they face, and we had the opportunity to purchase another building, to lease another building. we're identifying spaces throughout san francisco, and

we're looking at how many we have in this coordinated entry system, how many housing we need, and supportive attached to that housing, and long-term strategy, and how much is it going to cost us? and do we need to look at what we're spending now, and what services do we need to keep and eliminate so that we can reach the goal of getting people housed. so that's a process, and my ultimate goal is to make sure that we are developing solutions, that we're housing -- we're focusing on families, seniors, we're getting more access to mental health stablization beds which people don't necessarily talk about, people who struggle with mental illness, who need to be in a facility, a mental hospital, but our jails are being used as a place for those people who are not housed. so there's a combination of

things that i want us to do. but i want us to really make smarter investments and i want to be able to show exactly the truth about what we're doing, where the money is spent and how effective we've been. the other thing we don't want to talk about is so many people do come here to san francisco who are struggling. many of the people that i've met on the streets that are homeless, they don't come from san francisco. the data says that 70% of the people were homeless in san francisco came to san francisco before they became homeless. i only met one person in that category -- >> you're 100% right, because when we did this project, looking at all these profit, they're out of town.

that was dead wrong. as far as the people that i have met, talked to personally, actually been on the street, you know, and we have it documented. and i think that, you know, these people, in some cases, they came to san francisco, and one person told me, you know, san francisco's the four seasons of homelessness. this is the best place to be, san francisco. we take care of our homeless better than any city in this country. we have the best services, best quality, the most compassion. we're the most tolerant. we're willing to have them and listen and engage, and so we're attracting them because we have a huge heart in our city. it's a huge level of responsibility and now it's turned into a huge challenge where we're going to have to be able to execute. so what can we do to help you? look, every citizen in san

francisco is behind you. we all want to do the things that you're interested in. we want to be accountable, just like you do. we want to be focused on homelessness just like you are, and get the homelessness crisis under control. we want to have a cleaner san francisco, we want to have great public schools, make sure our teachers have affordable places to live. what can we do to help you right now? what do you want from each and every one of us in this city? >> the hon. london breed: so one of the things that i know that you're doing, you are contributing on a regular basis to our public school and to so many incredible causes in san francisco. the thing that is most important to me, of course, is to fix the problems that exist in san francisco, but ultimately, what i care about doing is making sure that the next generation of san franciscans don't end up tomorrow's homeless people in san francisco. i want to make sure that we open

the doors of opportunity that did not exist when i was growing up in san francisco. as i said, i lived in public housing, and what we saw, you know, the drug dealing, and everything else, that was normal. we didn't know what was going on downtown other than there was some buildings down there, and every once in a while, we could go to macy's and get a pair of shoes. i want to make sure we have paid intern opportunities for students here in san francisco, and i want every company doing business with san francisco to pay for them. i want every company to offer 100 slots where the employees of all of these companies are really taking a role in being a mentor to support young people. like, these are not your kids but they are our kids, and we -- if we don't take responsibility for other people's kids, then we're going to continue to have

problems time and time again. so we have to make everybody's kid our business by opening up our doors in these companies and making sure that there are paid internship opportunities, that we are mentoring the next generation of engineers, software engineers and tech folks and mark benioffs and everything else, we have to take responsibility. so that's what i'm looking for is i'm looking for people to open the doors of opportunity for young people and to start being mentors to young people. and i'm going to make sure as mayor that we have paid internship opportunities for all high school students in this city. >> mayor breed, thank you for being at dream force. thanks for opening up your city to all of our trailblazer. we are grateful for being here, and i hope we all leave the city a little better when we depart

tomorrow. thank you very much. >> just spend money at our hotels and restaurants. thank you. >> my name is amanda [inaudible] over see the girls sports program. when i came to san francisco and studied recreation and parks and towerism and after i graduated

i moved to candlestick park and grain r gain adlot of experience work with the san francisco 49 and [inaudible] be agfemale in a vore sports dynamic facility. i coached volo ball on the side and as candle stick closed down the city had me move in92 too [inaudible] >> immediate interaction and response when you work with kids. i think that is what drives other people to do this. what drew me to come to [inaudible] to begin with for me to stay. i use today work in advertising as a media buyer and it wasn't fulfilling enough and i found a opportunity to be a writing coach. the moment [inaudible] you to take advantage of how you change and

inspire a child by the words you say and actions you do. >> you have a 30 different programs for girls through rec and park and fast ball, soft ball and volley ball. i started the first volley ball league and very proud what i have done with that. being a leader for girls is passion and showing to be confident and being ambiggish and strong person. [inaudible] for about 5 years. programs offered thraw thirty-three rec and park and oversee thg prms about a year. other than the programs we offer we offer summer camp squz do [inaudible] during the summer and that is something i wherei have been able to shine in my role. >> couple years we started the civic center socking league and what an amazing opportunity it was and is it for kid in the

neighborhood who come together every friday in the civic center plaza on green grass to run and play. you otonly see soccer and poetry but also see books t. is a really promoting literacy to our kid and giving them to tools to make it work at home. real fortunate to see the [inaudible] grow. >> girls get pressureed with society and i know that is obvious, but we see it every day, magazines, commercials the idea what a woman should look like but i like to be a strong female role for it goals that play sports because a lot of times they don't see someone strong in a female role with something connected with sports and athleticism and i love i can bring that to the table. >> soccer, poetry, community service. we now have field of dreams. we are [inaudible] all over the bay area and excited

to be share our mission with other schools across the bay to really build the confidence and character of kids when they go out to play and close their eyes and think, why was [inaudible] we want to make sure-i want to make sure they remember me and remember the other folks who [inaudible] >> get out there and do it. who cares about what anybody else says. there will be poopal people that come up and want to wreck your ideas. that happen today eme when i went to candle stick part and wanted to [inaudible] people told me no left and right. whether you go out for something you are passionate about our something you want to grow in and feel people will say no. go out and get it done. i can be the strong leader female and i love

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br >> well, good morning. i am thrilled and excited to welcome you to day one of dream force and kick us off with some exciting events. as many of you know, giving back is at the heart of what we do here at salesforce, and nowhere is it more evident than at dream force. and we couldn't be more excited to get this dream force

community involved in giving back to important causes. so now, i'd like to turn it over to salesforce co-c.e.o. >> well, thank you, he been keb thank you so much for being here. as a fourth generation san franciscan and someone who grew up in this city and who loves this city so dearly, the reason why today like today is -- why a day like today is so important to me is we can take the power of salesforce, the power of all our customers, our community, and all of our trailblazers who are here and give it back to the city in a meaningful way. this dream force is dedicated back to san francisco, and this morning, it started by giving $15 million in donation to our san francisco and oakland public

schools. [applause] >> that was exciting to me because now we've given over $50 million to the san francisco and oakland public schools, and we're more than halfway on our way to our goal of giving $100 million to our public schools. the reason why that is so important is because if you want to participate in all of this amazing energy and activities and part -- this incredible economy that is emerging, you need a strong education. you have to have the background, you have to be able to know what it means to be able to work with this amazing technology. but you're only going to be able to do that if you have strong public schools, and that is why we're recommitting again back to our local public schools and why i'm so excited that vincent

kuyler here representing the san francisco and oakland public school district. [applause] and i'm also very excited because for me, we're making further and further gains against our number one issue in our city, homelessness. we have a phenomenal new mayor, who we're about to hear from, london breed. we all know that homelessness is our number one issue in our city, and we're giving millions more to our homelessness. we've already raised more than $37 million for our homeless families. now we're continuing the fight into homeless individuals, and we know that we need to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to directly address the homeless individuals' problems. it's our number one issue in our city. we're working on making san francisco a stronger city, a stronger city with strong public schools. a strong city by working with

our homelessness, a strong he city by cleaning up our city, and we're doing all this together. san francisco is the number one employer in san francisco, so salesforce combined with san francisco can do more together, and that's what we're here. and let's not forget, there is no strong san francisco without a strong oakland. the metaphor of the bay bridge, that we are connected, that we are all connected, and we are deeply connected to oakland. we will never forget oakland, which is why we're giving this money to the oakland schools, and why our programs extend to oakland, as well, and why i'm so excited that mayor schaaf is here, our phenomenal mayor of oakland. so you look behind me, you look at vince, kayla, you look at mayor breed, mayor schaaf. together we're focused on a stronger bay area. this is why i'm excited today.

i'm excited the dream force is happening. i'm honored to be here, and now i'm going to turn it over to mayor breed. mayor. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, mark, and thank you to the salesforce team. i am london breed, and i am honored to be mayor of such an incredible city. welcome to the city and county of san francisco. mark and i both grew up in san francisco, native san franciscans. we know the experiences of the city over the years and how much it's changed. we have a growing economy where we have a 2.4% unemployment rate, but yet, we still see the challenges that exist on our streets. i went to public schools, but so many of my friends who i grew up with, sadly, ended up behind bars, sadly, dropped out of high school, and sadly, lost their life to gun violence. we are going to change what is normal in san francisco because

we are going to invest in our kids on the front end. we are going to make sure that the doors of opportunity in the technology field are available to them. that's what this contribution is about, leaving no child behind. many of you know that making sure that our kids get a good education and the companies that are part of san francisco contribute to pain internship opportunities and -- paid internship opportunities and invest in our kids. mark bennio has helped up to the plate time and time again before i was even mayor saying we're going to create opportunities, invest in our kids, and make sure the doors of opportunity are open for them. so i am really proud to be here today because we are going to change what is normal in san francisco for the future. it starts with the contributions of salesforce, and i challenge other companies here in san francisco to continue to support our school districts both in san francisco and in oakland. thank you also for supporting the challenges that kids face

with homelessness. larkin street youth and hamilton have been at the forefront to helping to address this crisis, and we are going to address and end family homelessness by working together. the marin food bank, our playgrounds and open space, all these investments contribute to a vibrant san francisco. today, it's a new day in san francisco, a new investment, but more importantly, new opportunities of hope for the future. i just want to thank you all so much for being here, and i want to thank my partner across the bridge in oakland, mayor libby schaaf, who is coming to the mic now to talk about the amazing work that she's doing in oakland. mayor schaaf. >> what a good day.

it is so exciting to be here on the first day of dream force, and i love the trail blazing theme because we are here with a trail blazing c.e.o. trail blazing to recognize that companies cannot sit on the moral sidelines any longer, that companies have a responsibility and a need to take positions. trail blazing because mark recognizes that this is an interdependent region, that san francisco does not exist in a bubble, and i am so excited about my fellow native girl mayor, can i just say that? i'm sorry. that regionalism is the new trail blazing order of the day. we have got to work together to solve the problems that we

share. homelessness is not a problem that is unique to oakland. housing affordability is not going to be solved in an isolated bubble in san francisco. these are issues that require regional collaboration, and that includes our private sector leaders, as well. trail blazing. now, i've got to say, i am so grateful that oakland was invited into this fold three years ago, and this third year of investment in the oakland public schools is truly paying off. i also stand before you as an oakland native, an oakland public school graduate, and i'm even an oakland public school parent. and because of salesforce, this year, 1300 students took computer science courses in

oakland. [applause] >> and mark, that is double from the year before, which was your first year of investing in computer science education in oakland. and i'm excited to tell you that our kids are loving it. they are engaged. 76% of those students got an a or a b grade in their computer science class. it's clicking. and we even have a school in deep east oakland, elmhurst, that setup our first coding cafe. that sounds tasty to me, a coding cafe. so it is with so much gratitude, but also a sense of trail blazing hope, that i stand here in partnership with some of my favorite leaders that are committed to a regional approach and that are committed to

keeping our promise, investing in better educational outcom mo.

[applause] >> thank you -- thank you, mayor, for that incredible introduction. good morning. it is an honor to be with you all today with mayor breed and mayor schaaf, whose leadership on this issue is critical to our success. mark and ebony, you all are tireless champions. this moment marks an important milestone in our work, and a celebration of a critical partnership. the reality that we have today

is that nearly 2,000 kids in san francisco are without homes. they are at risk of an unstable future and a cycle of poverty for their lives. i came to hamilton families because i believe that family homelessness is solvable, and no child experiencing homelessness in our cities or in our region is acceptable. and this partnership with salesforce.org, with mark and lynn, has shown up and helped to address homelessness across our entire region. i grew up with some housing insecurity as a child, and it was so powerful to me to have my family and community around us as we rallied through that difficult time. this problem is complex, and it necessitates our vigilance, our commitment to innovation and

resources so that we can figure out the best strategies to combat this persistent challenge. salesforce.org has been a partner to hamilton families for more than a decade. this is not new, you all, okay? they have shown up and shown out for this issue. and this manifestation of that partnership is truly a commitment that we get to see not only from mark and lynn personally but the staff at sales force who show up and volunteer at our shelter, who make move in packets and school lunches for our students every single year. we couldn't do this partnership without other organizations across this entire region who tirelessly combat homelessness every single day. i stand here in their honor, shoulder to shoulder. larkin street, i know is here.

we could not do this together -- apart, we can only do it together, and we have to do it across sectors. you heard from the speakers before me that it takes everyone doing their part to combat this issue, and we've got to do that. it actually isn't a choice anymore if we want a vibrant region and a few tour that we know is possible -- future that i know is possible with our young people. it is my pleasure to introduce and be here today with my colleague, ebony freeland. >> thank you for all the speakers for showing up today. now i want to let you know how you can get involved at dream force. you can check out ddfgives.

behind us is a kids coding zone where all this week, students from oakland and san francisco unifi unified school districts will be there learning and completing coding classes and challenges, and hamilton families student will be there, as well. and for the first time this year, i'm so excited to announce that we are hosting over 400 young adults from local workforce development programs at something we're calling the future executive summit. and part of the future executive summit, we are encouraging all attendees to participate and help teach and learn -- learn from and impart your skill and wisdom onto these young adults. so thank you, everyone for joining us, and have a great and happy dream force.

to the september 26, 2018 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. board president frank fung will be the president. to my left is deputy city attorney brad russy who will provide the board any legal advice this evening. i'm julie rosenberg, the board's executive director. we will be joined by the city departments that have cases before the board. we have mr. scott sanchez, representing the planning commission, and we expect to see joseph duffy, senior building inspector from the department of building