he was a real partner and a real champion for neighborhoods to, for community. for our seniors, for all things that represented bringing people together, and serving those populations that did not always have a voice. today it has been almost a year since we lost him on that fateful day of december 12th, and we will not forget his warm hearts, his kind words, how he committed his life to public service here in san francisco. not just as the mayor, but serving in his capacity as department head for the department of public works and purchasing, and the human rights commission. he continued to time and time again to bring communities together. he elevated and hired so many amazing african-american leaders he elevated and hired and worked

with so many folks from the community. he continues to bridge gaps. he continued to leave the city with grace, with style, with class, and on occasion, with a bad joke or two. so i am so honored to follow in his footsteps, to continue the great work that he started, to make sure that no san francisco -- san franciscan is left behind , and i just want to thank all of you for being here today to celebrate his life, his legacy, his work, and to continue to work hard in the spirit of mayor ed lee's who always ended many of his major speeches with a final saying of "let's get to work." he cared about getting the work for people of san francisco. we will continue to do that in honor of his commitment and his legacy and his incredible work. thank you all so much for having me here today. [applause]

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[applause] >> a lot of people know how much mayor ed lee was a hero before he became mayor. he was my hero before he became mayor. i remember him helping with garment workers that got arrested. he forces me -- he forced me and my wife to do a worker center in the eighties. he did so much for the community , and that is why he has appreciated so much by so many people.

like the merchant labor association. [applause] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [applause] [speaking foreign language]

[speaking foreign language] [applause] >> henry hoy, finally. [speaking foreign language] [applause]

>> honourable mayor, london breed, committee leaders, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. good afternoon. i am honored to represent the association to attend the community commemoration of the legacy of mayor ed lee. the unexpected passing of him was devastating to our communities. as a civil rights leader, he inspired all of us with his quiet dignity and determination to lift up all of our residents. his accomplishments were many, but because of his humble manner , we in the community feel

like he didn't get the credit he was due. we would like to properly acknowledge all that mayor lee did for us now by naming him at the international airport international terminal after mayor lee. we have asked the san francisco airport commissioners for their full support. we are all here today to remember mayor lee as a champion of a civil rights leader, and also remember him as the first asian mayor in that city of san francisco. i want to say a few words in chinese. [speaking foreign language]

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[applause] >> all the way from sacramento, we have scott weiner and assemblyman david to, they will share their time a little bit. [speaking foreign language] [applause] [speaking foreign language] >> good afternoon. we were told we have one minute on the stage. appeared to anita and the family, 60 seconds is not enough time for us to express how much our good mayor

's life and his legacy and our love for him. but i've only two things to say. over the past year, everywhere i walk here in chinatown mayor lee 's impact is felt from the chinese hospital, to the central subway, to this port in the square, from the restaurants, pack to the family associations. his spirit lives on. the second thing i want to say is i'm sad that my two year old sun will never -- son will never get to know him. particularly since he and anita gave me such a hard time for so many years for not having my son earlier. he will never have an opportunity to play ping-pong with mary lee here in the square , to hear one of his corny jokes, to see the leadership of civility and service that he represents. but i know and we know that his

spirit will continue on in each and every one of us here, and that together we will ensure that chinatown, are chinese community, and san francisco will continue to be the very best city in the world because of his legacy, and because of his spirit. godspeed mayor lee. [applause] [speaking foreign language] >> it is an honor to represent you in the california state senate, and i miss ed lee a lot. we all had our unique perspective and experience of trying to, but mine was symbolized -- symptoms similar to supervisor kim, supervisor cohen, and supervisor carol josh farrell, when coming into the office of a few days, we were

sworn into the board of supervisors, and a few days later, we voted to appoint ed lee to be mayor of san francisco i also, on the other end, i was with him on the day that he died he and i held a press conference on a recycling issue that day. he was his normal self. jovial, joking, making fun of my height, making fun of his own height, and then that night, he was gone. it was a terrible tragedy for san francisco. and even though mayor breed is doing a fantastic job and is and will be a fantastic leader for this city, every mayor is unique and they will never be another ed lee. ed lee, a lot of people misunderstood him. there was a time i remember when i had a constituent in month joseph and my former district in the central part of the city who said, may be he just cares about

chinatown. and what i said to this constituent was of course, he cares about chinatown, but he cares about the whole city, and in my community where i come from, the work that we were able to do to revitalize castro street, to create a new park in the valley, he was 1,000% supportive. two months after we both took office when the government cut millions of dollars of funding for h.i.v. services, when i went to see him to say what can we do about it, we need to fix this, he immediately stepped up and supported backfilling every penny of those federal cuts from our local budget. he was also someone who believes deeply and trying, whenever possible, to avoid conflict by bringing people together to work things out and to move forward together. he was just brilliant in making that happen. this was a terrible loss for san francisco, but he is in a good

place now, at a gnocchi is looking down on as. i know he is looking down on mayor breed, and anita, we love you, and we deeply, deeply miss your husband and our friends. thank you. [applause] [speaking foreign language]

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[applause] >> now we would like to acknowledge and have come forward from the board of supervisors, please come forward , supervisor jane kim and president cohen, and supervisor, the one and only. [speaking foreign language]

>> thank you to norman and to any who have mentored many of us in the community. we are here all to remember the legacy of mayor ed lee. i did come into office the same year as ed lee began his mayor ship, and i do remember when i won my board of supervisors election, rose sat me down and said the one person you must meet with before you start your office, is to meet with ed lee, because he knows everything about san francisco, and he was my very last meeting before i went to go visit my family back and a week and a half later, he was appointed the mayor of our great city. it was truly an honor to serve with someone who has a legacy of surveying the a.p.i. and chinatown community. someone who started in public service in this neighborhood, and he was someone who truly

cared and loved our city every single day he served. and the ladies also loved him. in fact, it was our supervisor cohen, carmen chu and myself endorsed him in his first run for mayor. we saw him as someone who put his nose down and worked hard for our community every single day. so it's an honor to be here today with all of our leaders and elected leaders to honor his legacy on behalf of san francisco. thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. my name is malia cohen. is a privilege to stand before you and celebrate with you the life and legacy of our beloved mayor lee. i want to recognize mrs. anita lee, and recognize tonya and breanna for their unwavering commitment to san francisco. the last year has been a very interesting one. it is very -- being very tumultuous. i've been forced to reconcile any memories that i had with ed

lee. many of them are funny, and upbeat, and some of them were very serious and sombre. i am grateful for some of the many lessons that he taught me. he taught me something that has allowed me to go forward and become a very good legislator. he taught me to have the spirit of fight and to be fearless. he also shared with me how to disagree without being disagreeable. i think that's an incredible leadership quality and one that i will miss in ed lee, but it is also an important quality that many of the people who have served san francisco under his leadership will be able to take with him. with that, i'm grateful we are celebrating his contribution to san francisco, and i'm grateful for mrs. lee for staying with us all the time, and thank you. [applause]

>> thank you president cohen. two anita lee, to breanna and tonya, to all of the people gathered here and to the people of the city and county of san francisco, i lost my father this year. it was on april 21st, and it seems like it was yesterday. and it seems like it was many years ago. on the last year since ed lee passed in december a year ago, seems like it has been a minute, and it seems like it has been ten years. i first met ed when he was the city purchaser and when he liked to joke that he was buying pencils by the gross. i later got to work with him. we use used to paint out graffiti together when he was running the department of public

works back when he sent mohammed nuru to charm school. and later on, i had the pleasure of voting as a member of the board to confirm him as the city administrator where he did an extraordinary job. when i got back into politics, he was the mayor of san francisco. so through my political life, i got to see ed to grow and change and do virtually every job in san francisco. and i just want to express my profound condolences to the people of the community that i represent, to his family, into the people of the city and county of san francisco. we are very sorry. [applause] [speaking foreign language]

[speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [applause] >> now we have one of your favourites. our city assessor recorder, carmen chu. [speaking foreign language]

[speaking foreign language] >> hello everybody. i serve as the s.s. or of san francisco. my name is carmen chu. i want to be here to remember our late may or, ed lee. he was special to me and everyone who you see here. but i think about the lessons that he taught me about family. we can talk a lot about the accomplishments that he made, but the thing that grounded him and that was the first priority for him was his family. so there we have a big loss with the loss of the mayor, i know that anita and their loss is

greater. i offer my condolences as well on this day that we remember our mayor, ed lee. thank you. [applause] >> we want to acknowledge i.v. lee -- the ivy league city college. just watch while words. [speaking foreign language] >> all i want to say is anyone who works in this city or for the safety, they don't do it unless they have the support of their families. so the one thing that i really want to say about mr lee and to his family, because without their support, he could not have done all the things that he did, and nothing was too small for him to do. whether weather was to pick up trash, to paint graffiti, to go by himself to see what was happening with the homeless, he

did all of that. nothing was too small. so i really want to thank his family, because they really gave us the gift of letting him be our mayor. thank you so much. [applause] [speaking foreign language] [applause] >> next we have our dipstick -- district attorney. [applause]

[speaking foreign language] >> good afternoon, everyone. it's really an honor to be here today. i need to, this is not much i can say. this is a big loss to our community. it is times as such as social upheaval and there's so much hate in our country. ed lee was someone who not only stood for the less fortunate, or the immigrants, or the one who needed help, he was always a moral compass when it came to social situations. we miss him. and today we are commemorating his loss. it is important we go forward and continue to stand for what he did and we continue to make sure that san francisco moves forward to take care of the less fortunate. thank you so much. [applause] >> mayor to mayor, we have the mayor from north of here.

[speaking foreign language] >> i will say something really quick to anita. ed was like an uncle to me. he was like a brother, actually. i always called him a mini mayor he always asked me when i would be mayor again. in mike does my first memory was kind of horrifying pick because my son, when my son first met ed , he let him touch his moustache. i always member how kind he is. he was not just the mayor of san francisco but the mayor of the bay area. thank you for sharing him with us because he not only brought in many other people, he lifted everybody up, he made asians stronger. he tried to encourage more asians to get involved, and he helped me a lot as well. in an international way, he was not just a mayor of san francisco, but he was the mayor

of the san francisco bay area. i hope his name shows up on the international because he deserves it and he deserves that recognition. thank you very much. [applause] [speaking foreign language] [applause] >> and now representing the police department, the one and only commander david lazar who worked at central station before hey, what's going on cloth. >> thank you very much. good afternoon. good afternoon mrs. lee. i hope i'm not the only one that noticed we started today

gathering when it was cold and now the son -- the sun is out. we are so grateful. i want to say on behalf of our chief of police and our entire san francisco police department, we too have mourned the loss of our mayor. he loves the police officers. he left the san francisco police department. he was committed to public safety and making sure our communities all throughout san francisco were safe and one of the big take away is that we received having him as our mayor was community policing. and the importance of the officers knowing the community and working with each other and having that trust so we can make our community safer. i know that was very important to him. i want to thank you for allowing me to speak on behalf of the police department and i thank you, mrs. lee for all that you have done and your husband as well for our city and the

policing departments. thank you very much. [speaking foreign language] [applause] >> we have the director for the chinese hospital here. [speaking foreign language] >> thank you. [speaking foreign language]

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[speaking foreign language] >> good afternoon. i really want to thank mayor lee for attending to us that all he has done for the chinese hospital. people may not know that 25 years ago, that mayor lee and rose cofounded this annual golf tournament to raise funding for chinese hospitals. and every year, he was there to help out, and for our new building, a lot of people didn't know that there's no way we

could have built that new building without his help. he was there ever since the beginning of the planning and to then until -- every event he was there. every events that needed to be approved, he was helping. he helps the chinese hospital so much. we truly are grateful for his help and so even at the end, he was asking me, i had been with him and mrs. lee was there too. he was saying how he could help the chinese hospital. so he really helped with the contact with the city and the chinese hospital. mayor lee is there for the chinese hospital all the time. i want everybody to remember when you use the chinese hospital for services. please remember mayor lee helped out. we miss you.

thank you so much leslie for helping out. thank you. [applause] >> we would like to acknowledge a lot of people. i wish there was time for everyone to speak, but we can't do that. [speaking foreign language] >> d.b.i. director tom hurst. [speaking foreign language] >> park and recreation director, phil ginsburg pick. [speaking foreign language] >> department of public works with the worst jokes, mohammed nuru. [laughter] [speaking foreign language] >> and commissioner alan lowe. [speaking foreign language]

>> commissioner eddie ong. [speaking foreign language] >> captain paul yep. [speaking foreign language] >> commissioner rodney fong. [speaking foreign language] >> representing fifth, jay wu. [speaking foreign language] >> commissioner stephen yee. [speaking foreign language] >> president of local 798, tom o'connor. [speaking foreign language] >> thank you to everyone for setting up the stage and always providing events here. and anita too. [speaking foreign language]

>> and we can't acknowledge all the community leaders like everyone else here. it will leave you out is because of time here great now we will present does not we, but we will present the rose patch community funds. she is the chair and she will present anita with the flowers. i would like to ask everyone to stand. [speaking foreign language] >> thank you.

>> okay pick this is chinatown so we should at least give three bows to the mayor. [speaking foreign language] >> thank you all for coming here you are beautiful.

. >> happy holidays, san francisco. hundreds of festive lights are illuminating san francisco streets using 100% greenhouse gas free hydroelectric power. this year, the city is celebrating 100 years of providing this power from hetch hetchy system which powers muni, our schools and

libraries, street lights, san francisco international airport, city government buildings, private developments, and more. look for holiday bell lights along third street, and illuminated snowflakes on market street. the san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco public works welcome all to enjoy the magic of the >> well, thank you all. we are going to start. welcome to the bristol hotel. my name is randy shaw. i'm the director of the tenderloin housing clinic. see, i wasn't -- see, i thought, i didn't prepare remarks. why don't we keep people moving

in the door here. thank you all for coming. it's really a special day because the bristol is a special property. i don't know that a private bath hotel that would be for lease for formerly homeless people, and the bristol hotel, i would say half of these rooms are bigger than any of our 21 other hotels that we lease. it's big rooms, quality hotels. right where you're going to take a picture, there's going to be a kitchen installed. it's in the building department now. i want to give some background how we got to this point. i think it's important to realize that when we met with the owner to do the hotel, we agreed on a certain price, but then, there was a private donor who was willing to pay more. i contacted mayor breed the day

after she was elected. it took a while, because she was busy and i was out of town. i got together to see what we could do with the property. a lot of people would say hey, we don't have that money in the budget. we can't get into a bidding war with private developers. but that's not what mayor breed said. jeff buckley was with me. she said, do whatever it takes to get that hotel. i said okay, mayor. i called bill, the owner of the hotel. i called bill, and i said bill, look. we can offer to pay a little more. mayor breed said she really wants the hotel. i'll tell the private people we don't want to use them, this is the key thing where we get mr.

bennioff involved. we had an agreement, but we had no funding source for the hotel. so time was passing, and i'll let the mayor pick up the story, but i got a text one friday at 6:00 from mayor breed, saying i got the money for your hotel. and i'll let her tell you -- i'll have her tell you how she accomplished it because it was no small feat. with no further adieu, mayor london breed. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, randy. it's really exciting to be here today. when we have an opportunity to provide housing like this to so many people who we know are living on the streets, we have to do whatever it takes to get access to this housing. and so when randy and i talked about this in my office, and he told me this was a newly

renovated hotel that could provide 58 units of step-up housing, i just got super excited because this doesn't come along every single day. so i started making the phone calls. and not everyone said yes, but mark benioff said yes as soon as i asked him about this project. as soon as he said yes, i immediately called randy and said tell bill to hold off because we have a generous supporter helping us address homelessness here in san francisco. mark and lynn benioff have been absolutely instrumental for addressing these issues. thank you, mark, for being here today. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: well, we are here to celebrate

this along with a number of other things i know we will be able to accomplish in san francisco to address what we know is a real crisis. we have 58 units of step-up housing which creates exits for people who are living in permanently supportive housing who are now able to live independently, and it will also create 58 vacancies in our existing supportive housing that can go to people who are in our navigation centers and who are in our shelters. because of the activism of people like randy shaw in the tenderloin housing clinic and the generous support of mark and lynn bennioff, we are able to turn this into housing for formerly homeless adults. we all know there's not a

one-size-fits-all. we all have a story of our own of challenges of people we have tried to personally hope. i work alongside jeff kozinski who manages the department of homelessness, and there's not a day we don't talk about people we are trying to help. we know that this is no small task. it's been an issue in san francisco for decades, but through bold and innovative solutions, we know that we can make a difference in people's lives. it's not sometimes just housing, it will be supportive services, it will be shelter beds, it will be all that we need in order to address those issues because sadly, we do know that so many people who are struggling with

homelessness are struggling with mental illness and substance abuse disorder, and those are challenges that we have to address in addition to providing a place, a safe, affordable place for people to call home. we know the voters recently approved additional funding to homeless programs, and i'm committed to clearing any additional hurdles that this funding may face. but we can't stop. since july, we have helped 500 people overcome homelessness, and i am working to open 1,000 new shelter beds, this will clear the shelter wait list so that everyone has a place indoors. and our new one system, a central database tracking individual case management and responses is ahead of schedule in signing people up. we had a goal to reach about

2,000 individuals by the end of october. we are almost at 4,000 people in our one system, which is our coordinated system to try and track and help people out of w

introduce the man that's stepped up to the plate and made it happen for us, mark benioff. [applause] >> okay.

well, make a little adjustment here. well, good morning, everybody. good morning. and to mayor breed and to jeff and everyone from the city, to randy shaw, and everyone from the tenderloin housing clinic, to all of our friends who are here, and our partners from these amazing n.g.o.s, like our good friend, tamika, larkin street, glide, catholic charities, so many of you who are doing god's work, working on homelessness every single day. thank you for your work. we are ending the crisis of homelessness in san francisco. and we have a very serious crisis of homelessness in san francisco. everyone knows this is my number one priority. we have over 7500 homeless individuals on our streets, we have over 1200 homeless

families, many with two kids each, and it is time to bring this to a close. that is why lynn and i are excited about this announcement, and we are thrilled to be making it today here with the mayor. this is an example of the difference that we are going to make with public-private partnerships, the city, business, philanthropy, and n.g.o.s. this is the path, this is the formula to bring homelessness to a close in our city. when mayor breed, a champion of the homeless, knew that the bristol hotel needed funding for housing units, she swung into action. she contacted me, and i agreed that this is something we want to do. i glagreed to give $6 million

towards improvement of the bristol hotel working to get out of homelessness. bras the because the experts tell us, and the medical research shows that when a homeless person finally gets a home, which is what it's all about, when a homeless person finally gets a home of their own, it's transformative. it's a catalyst for change. it's a reduction of all symptoms and all issues in their life. and i'm told that these units are going to go to people who are living in lodgings where they have to share bathrooms. these people are on our mind, especially at this season of the year. that's part of what having a home is all about, the basic dignity that every person deserves, and that is why it is my number one priority for our

city. randy said getting the call was lik like a miracle, but i'll tell you, when it comes to ending homelessness in our city, it doesn't take miracles, it doesn't take miracles, it takes money, and it takes a lot of money. so this is a solvable problem. there are programs that work. we have many great examples of programs that are working, like randy's program, like tamikay's program. but we need a scale of these programs, and that is going to take a lot of money. that is why with the passage now of proposition c, the city will start collecting that money january 1. that is the miracle. that is the miracle that i'm so excited about. and a result of the campaign, we identified so many new ideas and so many new opportunities, like the partnership that brings us here today, and many

others that we plan to announce in the coming weeks. bristol hotel is a preview, and this announcement here today, is a preview of what is to come because the city will finally have the money to do it. not just to do this, but to do so many other things that are on our list. it's the beginning of a whole parade of new investments to end homelessness in our city. and i want to make one final point. starting january 1, starting january 1, the biggest, the wealthiest, the most important companies in our city, like mine, salesforce, the city's largest employer, will pay more, about one half of 1% of our revenue to help homelessness. that is very exciting. a lot more buildings like this are going to open up, a lot more shelters, a lot more services, a lot more capablities. that is very exciting. that is the miracle of this season, but that doesn't let

anyone off the hook. it doesn't, in any way, absolve the rest of us. it doesn't absolve me, it doesn't absolve you from giving what we can and embracing our responsibilities as citizens and as neighbors. prop c doesn't replace philanthropy as today is evidence of. it complements it. that's why jeff tullio has given $1 million to homelessness. that's why the chair of airbnb has given $5 million to homelessness. i challenge every c.e.o. in our city to join us, to join sales force, to join the city, to join all of our n.g.o.s as we work to get everyone in a home. join us in the wisdom of

st. francis. st. francis, who is the name sake of our city, who said, it is in giving that we receive. that is why we are here, that is what we are doing, that is what we are committed to doing, so we all must be committed to restoring the greatness of our city. this is a san francisco that takes care of its people. it always has. this is a san francisco that is a fabric of tolerance and diversity and inclusion, but it is a city that is a fabric of compassion and love, especially at this time of the year and especially when we look at our city's most neediest, when we walk down the streets and see our homeless and say wow, there through the grace of god goes i. thank you all for being here today, thank you, mayor breed, for your wisdom and your incredible work, and we can't wait to have this opened it up and getting it used for great

order. >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you. i do want to say, if you look at the actual practical effect, if mark benioff and his wife had not stepped up, they would have been renting these units out for $2,000 a month, as compare today the 50 -- compared to the 500 to $600 a month. coming up, our next speaker, gail, who is a tenant in one of our other s.r.o.s, who has to share a bathroom. >> my name is gail seagraves, and i'm a collaborator at the

s.r.o. and i'm a tour guide for the tenderloin museum, and i'm also very active in the community. but today, i'm here because i am so excited that the bristol will be opening soon as a much needed step-up hotel. i've been living at the elk hotel which is a supportive s.r.o. for over ten years now, where i have to share a bathroom, and i have to share a shower, and i've woken up many times in the middle of the night because tenants have issues. and this is why this is so important for people like myself. when i came here to san francisco 12 years ago, i came here for a job. and then, life hit me hard, and the job fell through. and then, when i went through my savings, i had to stay in a shelter, and then an s.r.o.

so after working on certain areas of my life, i became ready to move onto a more independent life, you know, where you can have your own rest room and a community kitchen and laundry, those simple yet very, very needed things for a person. not only that, but when people like me that are independent and can live independent when we leave, that will open up so many s.r.o. rooms for those on the streets, for those in shelters. it's just going to be amazing. i have talked to anybody that would listen, i mean, anybody, that we need step-up hotels and it would just go right around and help everybody. so i am grateful to see this happening with the bristol, and this is a win-win situation with the homeless, and thank you for this opportunity,

everybody. [applause] >> so the mayor and mr. benioff will be available to answer any questions, so we're concluding this event. and there will be a tour after you've talked to the mayor and mr. benioff, i'm happy to take people to some of the rooms. i want to give you that. [applause]