francisco. [♪] >> what is wonderful about living here is that even though our july is a very foggy and overcast, best neighborhood, the sleepy part outside on the west side is so rich with history, but also with all the amenities that are offered. [♪] >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the celebration of life of our dear late mayor, edwin lee. may i present the mayor of the city and county of san francisco , london breed.

>> thank you charlotte. good morning everyone. thank you all so much for coming here today. i also want to take this opportunity to acknowledge our former mayor and former mayor louis brown junior who will be speaking shortly. this brings back hard memories for myself, and i definitely know for the family of mayor ed lee who is joining us here today over the past year, we have celebrated so many major accomplishments that mayor lee helped to initiate during his time in office. in fact, maybe a week after he passed away. we went and cut the ribbon on the auburn hotel.

a place for formerly homeless veterans. seventeen formerly homeless veterans who now have an affordable place to call home. so many amazing things, including today, were through the small sites acquisition program that ed lee helped to start. we will be acquiring a site. an incredible site that is the housing for seniors. when he served as an attorney for the asian law caucus during his time when he fought for public housing residents, this was one of the sites that he was able to help to secure way back then, and now we are going to be able to, through the help of the chinatown development, we will be able to purchase the property to protect those tenants, those seniors. [applause]

>> today is a really hard day for so many of you are work side-by-side with mayor ed lee for so many years. whether it was his time as a director of the human rights commission, or his time as purchaser for the city and county of san francisco, or his time as director of the department of public works, his time as city administrator, of so many you have fond memories and have developed incredible relationships with him. and now we are a testament to his legacy. the work that we will continue to do to honor many of the commitments that he has made to the residents of san francisco. his model, on a regular basis, let's get to work. that is exactly what we are going to continue to do the people of this city. we will continue to work even harder than ever. let me tell you. i have so many stories about him we all know he wasn't like other

mayors. we wouldn't let anybody take the credit for our staff, did we quote. [laughter] >> i remember on many occasions, president cohen and i were always in his office, always asking for stuff, and saying mayor, do you mind if we take the credit on this? and he would always say, go ahead to. no problem. that is the kind of person he was. he didn't want the credit. he just wanted the results. he just wanted san francisco to be a better place, and he and i bonded over the fact that we both grew up in public housing. when i came to him with my desire to change public housing and to really make sure that people don't have to live in the conditions like i have an like he had to grow up in in seattle

where there was mould and busted pipes and roaches and all of the craziness that sadly still exists today, he rolled up his sleeves. we worked with them and we fought against a lot of people who oppose the program. and now we have already rehabilitated thousands of units because he wouldn't say no. he said yes to opportunity. he said yes to changing the lives of those people living in those conditions. and i constantly run into some of those people today. most in tears. happy about the fact that their bathroom has a nice new floor and the towel rack is not falling down. some of the things that so many of us take for granted, because that is the kind of person that mayor ed lee was. looking out for each and every one of us, focusing on doing the work, fiercely loyal, and

fiercely committed to serving the people of this great city. and it is really truly an honor to follow in his footsteps and to try and move so many of the projects that he cared so dearly about forward. and i am looking forward to continuing to accomplish those goals with each and every one of you. we owe him that. we owe san francisco that, and he would be proud if we were able to deliver on that promise. so i want to thank every one of you for being here today and i especially want to thank his family. i want to thank anita and tonya and breanna who are constantly on the front line. every time they are invited to something, they are there. every time to make sure that they knew mayor lee would be

there if he could, and they know that they are in need -- they are needed to be there. we know his spirit is with us here today. and with that, i would like to bring up someone who hired mayor lee for so many jobs, and many of the jobs that i mentioned earlier today. the former mayor of the city and county of san francisco, he hired a lot of us here. i was his intern, naomi was working in neighborhood services , so many of us basically grew up in city hall together under this mayor, and now here he is, still kind of the mayor. mayor willie louis brown junior. [applause]

>> mayor breed, mayor ed lee's family, especially anita, and all of anjali's great friends. you should know that ed lee would have preferred to remain a lawyer, suing the city, and winning every lawsuit. but as was the case in the administration, he was always looking for a way to cut the cost to the city. he convinced anjali to lay down his shingle as a lawyer and come participate and execute in the power of the city. and lee never became comfortable

doing that, and london, that is why he never wanted to take credit for anything that occurred under his watch. he understood ed lee did not want to take credit and loved it i loved it even more. he was so modest. so well prepared and so unselfish in every way. he was, mayor breed, the only city official i know, who rode around with a broom and a shovel in the trunk of his car and at any point where there was something untoward on the streets, he got out and did the work that needed to be done. in many cases, people have no idea what his title was at that time. it was just he was an amazing

human being, and it is with a great degree of pride that we, mayor breed, celebrate this man 's life. we do not mourn him. we celebrate his life and believe me, this city never would be what it is without the standard established by anjali, who had as much pride as all of us collectively have in the city he had it and what he called his city. ladies and gentlemen, i am just delighted that he decided to work, not for me, he actually worked with me. he did so in the most generous, gratuitous way and believe me, every day of my life, when i think of our city and the

resources of this city, i placed ed lee at the highest. [applause] >> thank you. i want to take this opportunity to acknowledge many of the elected officials who have joined us here today, including our city attorney, dennis herrera, our supervisor, catherine stefani, hilary ronen, katy tang, and president of the board of supervisors, melia cohen. as well as community college board members. our public defender as well. thank you for joining us here today and as we acknowledge former mayors. [applause] >> she will be speaking.

as i said to, the family of mayor lee is here today, including his wife and two doctors and other members of the family. at this time, i would like to invite his daughter who last week, when we were in san francisco sacramento and the mayor was inducted into the california hall of fame, his daughter, breanna, gave an incredible tribute to her father at this time, i would like to ask her to come up and speak. [applause] >> thank you for holding this lovely remembrance for our father. thank you for those beautiful words. thank you to everybody else who came out today to honor his legacy and remember the man he

was, and reflect on how much this city has always meant to him. i want to acknowledge our family members who are here today. my mother, and easily, my sister , my grandma is also here. my partner, my auntie, my other auntie and my cousin. we all came from all over the country to be here to remember him today. we also cannot believe it has been a year since our dad passed away. of course, so many things about this past year have been so difficult for us. the pure shock of how suddenly he was gone, adjusting to all the sharp turns that our lives talk, and the strangeness of having such personal pain becomes a public. at the same time, the outpouring

of support from our family members and our friends the community at large has been unforgettable pick a year ago, the front steps of city hall were lined with rows and rows of cards and flowers and photographs and messages thanking our dad for his service to the city. these are the things that we have kept this very day. people have made really generous contributions to the community finds that our family set up so we can continue the spirit of service and the dedication to san francisco for as long as we can. the remembrances and the dedications on the honors that have been given to him posting this they have humbled our family so much. is a beautiful thing that we can all be here in city hall to remember him today, because it was a place that he poured so much blood and sweat and tears into for so many years and so

much of it symbolizes everything that he loved about working for the city, and working with everybody to serve the people here. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you very much for those words, breanna. i also would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge our police chief and our fire chief who both worked very closely with mayor lee and our former police chief. thank you so much for being here today. another person who has had an incredible relationship with mayor anjali, and of all the elected officials, she was definitely the favorite -- mayor ed lee beckoned all of the elected officials, she was definitely the favorite. carmen chu could do no wrong and

she got everything she wanted to and he definitely had a special bond with her. they work very closely together. ladies and gentlemen, assessor recorder, carmen hsu. [applause] >> good morning. a year ago we lost someone incredibly special to all of us. our city family lost a great public leader. someone who was a mentor to us. someone who i think put everything in his life before us in public service and to the lee family, you lost someone incredibly important to you. your husband, your son, your father, someone who left the family so dearly. so while a year ago we can all remember that time and place when we heard the news, because there are a few moments in time and a few moments in history where we can remember that so clearly, what i hope today you

will walk away with is all of the memories that you individually had with him. today i was asked to speak alongside with our mayors and with the family, and i was wondering to myself, what is it about my particular memories that are more special than others to be worthy of being set out in public today because the truth is, it is not. it is absolutely not more special than any of the memories you have all had with him. whether it was supervisor katy tang he was running in a race with him or him being part of the 100 person wedding, many years ago, or anjali working side-by-side with chief hayes white in the cases of emergencies, every single one of the memories that you made with the mayor, the conversation that you had with him, his hopes and aspirations for the city, the things that he talk to you about wanting to achieve, all of those

memories tell the tale of who our mayor was in the truth was that he was an incredibly special person. he was someone who cared so deeply about the city, who made sure that he was humble. that he shared in all of the credit. someone who never forgot his roots, no matter what people said. today as we remember and as we are here at this one-year anniversary, i hope that each of you take that memory that you share with someone else. because memories go away when you pass or when you stop talking about those individuals. but the way that we celebrate people as we talk about them. we talk about their accomplishments and what they meant to us and how they made us feel. i hope that you will take that with you today and share your own personal story of our mayor because he meant so much to me, and i know he meant very much to all of you. thank you. [applause]

>> so many of you worked for mayor lee for so many years and i see so many department heads in the audience. of course, too many to name. but i also want to take the opportunity to acknowledge marilee's former chief of staff who has joined us here today. and i also see incoming supervisor for district ten and school board members, thank you so much for being here today as well as other supervisors. so many of you worked for mayor lee and some of you were very close friends to him. the next person i will introduce was not only a close friend, but works with and for him for many

years. that is naomi kelly. our city administrator. [applause] >> good morning. i can't say how a year ago today when my husband and i got the news, we were profoundly sad. not only because we lost the mayor, but because of this great city. we lost a friend, a colleague and a mentor pick some of you may know that when harland decided to propose to me a few years back, it was ed lee and anita lee and walter wong who talked him into proposing to me in hong kong. and they organized all of the details and how he would propose to me. so that was the personal relationship that we had. but i would be remiss to say that not only from my career, when i was named the city purchaser, the first phone call i made was to ed lee.

he took time. he was the director of public works and he took a lot of time to sit down with me and talk about my great responsibility as a city purchaser and to create an equal opportunity for all to compete in government, to prevent unjust favouritism and fraud and get the natural businesses -- benefits that come from the competitive process. but what is your duty to the residents of san francisco quote what nonprofits are you getting engaged in. how are you helping the underserved community clot that was very important to him. not only in my time as purchaser , but when he came just became a city administrator. if you wanted to have a conversation, you had to meet him on a saturday at housing projects, sunnydale, bring your broom and your bag, and he would discuss whatever issue you have with him while you are cleaning up with him. and he would say that constantly that continued on to when he became mayor. his legacy is that he loved this

city. he left public servants, and everything that we do for the city and county of san francisco he loved his staff and his staff loved him. but we also know that he left sport and he had a very good sense of humour. i will leave you with one story. a few years ago when the artist formerly known as prince passed away, many of us at city hall which go back and forth and say mr mayor, can relate of the building purple? and he said know , i looked at the schedule today. the wires are playing today and as you know, most people who love sports are very superstitious. if i like light up the building blue and gold,, they will win in the playoffs. exit okay. but i think we should light to the building up. finally christine and i pestered him so much. you can light to the building up as soon as the game is over.

i said oh, gosh. the game doesn't end until 1030 and by that time no one will see the building as purple. i make the executive decision and i know mayor breed has taken notes on this now, to when it gets to desk, he won't know. turned the building can't go from blue and gold, to purple. of such an awesome scene that day that it went from blue and gold, to purple and it went viral around the entire world. it was on c.n.n. issue of the sydney opera house, san francisco city hall and the eiffel tower turning purple. that night, the warriors lost. [laughter] it just so happened my very first meeting at 8:00 am the morning, was with mayor lee. exit okay i will get there early he was always early. i get there at 755. he was sitting in his breakfast at the diner. arms folded.

naomi, someone lied to me yesterday. >> the warriors lost. i was forgiven. i admitted, i did not follow his direction to the tea. he was so kind. i was not in the doghouse for too long but just for a few minutes. that was the edge lee we all knew and loved. with that, i would ask everyone it is his legacy of public service, his legacy of loving the employees of the city and county of san francisco, his legacy of making sure that we do our best. thank you. [applause] >> you all know, i am not nice as ed lee. we would have fired her.

thank you again for being here. i want to take this opportunity to acknowledge norman fong and the folks from chinatown community development to on monday held an incredible community celebration at portsmouth square. thank you so much for that great celebration. thank you to walter wong for the dinner that your hosting for the family this evening. many great tributes to honor ed lee. but they all pale in comparison to the next folks that i will introduce. i remember many meetings with mayor lee, and we would have discussions about the fillmore heritage centre, and other venues and performance stores performance venues. that then you would say is what do you think? may be we can get preston turner to perform at the event. may be we can get him to perform he left preston turner and pure

ecstasy was one of his favorite group. he would regularly go to the broad away grill. he was always so excited. he got excited about his corny jokes, but he got more excited about preston turner and pure ecstasy. i will ask him to come and perform in his honor. [applause] >> good morning. thank you so much, mayor. ed lee was very special to us and we loved him. we put together a mentally of tunes. let's say let's talk about it. we will sing about it.

we will sing about what he meant to us. [singing] ♪ unforgettable, that's what you are ♪ ♪ unforgettable, near or far ♪ it is incredible that someone so unforgettable ♪ ♪ thinks that i am unforgettable ♪ too. ♪ somewhere over the rainbow ♪ way up high

♪ there is a land that i've heard of ♪ ♪ once in a lullaby. ♪ somewhere over the rainbow ♪ skies are blue ♪ and the dreams that you dare to dream ♪ ♪ really do come true >> -- ♪ i see trees of green, red roses to ♪ ♪ i see them bloom for me and you ♪

♪ and i think to myself, what a wonderful world ♪ ♪ i see skies of blue cat clouds of white ♪ ♪ blight blessed days, dark sacred nights, and i think to myself, what a wonderful world ♪ ♪ the color of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky ♪ ♪ they are all on the faces of the people passing by ♪ ♪ i see friends shaking hands, saying how do you do ♪ ♪ but they are really saying something like, ed, we love you ♪ ♪ i'll be there, i'll be there

♪ ♪ just call my name, i'll be there ♪ ♪ i'll be there, i'll be there ♪ ♪ just call my name, and i'll be there ♪ ♪ don't you know, baby, i'll be there ♪ ♪ i will be there ♪ just call my name, and i'll be

there ♪ [applause] >> thank you so much. >> thank you. [applause] >> let's hear it again for preston turner and pure ecstasy. >> this concludes our program for today. i want to thank all of you so much for coming up. i am really filled with hope, with excitement for the future. i know that we have a lot of challenges here in san francisco , and i know that many of the things that you all started with mayor ed lee,

whether it is the increase in our shelter beds, the increase in a number of mental health stabilization beds, building housing, keeping the community safe, many of those goals that ed lee had are things that i plan to work with each and every one of you to carry on his commitment to, his legacy, we honor that by working harder now , more than ever, to change what san francisco is now to something that we know he envisioned. clean streets. a safe affordable place for everyone to call home. a beautiful, vibrant testament to his legacy, and so anita, and the lee family, we are committed in our family, along with the many department heads and elected officials, and a lot of the commissioners and folks who are volunteers who appreciate

the work of your husband, we will continue and honor his legacy to work harder now more than ever. and to remember how valuable he was to san francisco and work and do exactly what he would wanted us to do and i will take the credit for that. with that, everyone, in the words of our mayor, ed lee, let's get to work. thank you all so much for coming [applause] all right. on 5, 5,

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>> in november of 2016, california voters passed proposition 64. the adult use of marijuana act. san franciscans overwhelmingly approved it by nearly 75%.

and the law went into effect in january of 2018. [♪] >> under california's new law, adults age 21 and over can legally possess up to 1 ounce of cannabis and grow up to six plants at home. adults in california can legally give up to 1 ounce to other adults. >> in the state of california, we passed a law that said adult consumption is legal. if you are an adult and in possession of certain amounts, you will no longer be tried. you will not be arrested or prosecuted for that. that is changing the landscape dramatically. [♪] >> to legalization of cannabis could bring tremendous economic and social benefits to cities like san francisco. >> this industry is projected to reach $22 billion by the year

2020. and that is just a few years away. >> it can be a huge legal industry in california. i think very shortly, the actual growing of marijuana may become the biggest cash crop in the state and so you want that to be a legal tax paying cash crop, all the way down the line to a sales tax on the retail level. >> the california medical industry is a 3 billion-dollar industry last year. anticipating that multiplier as 20, 30, 50 times in the consumer marketplace once adult use is really in place, you could go ahead and apply that multiplier to revenue. it will be huge. >> when that underground economy becomes part of the regular tax paying employment economy of the bay area, it not only has a direct impact, that money has a

ripple impact through the economy as well. >> it is not just about retail. it is not just about the sensor. is about manufacturing pick a lot of innovative manufacturing is happening here in san francisco in addition to other parts of the state as well as the cultivation. we should be encouraging that. >> there is a vast array of jobs that are going to be available in the newly regulated cannabis industry. you can start at the top tier which a scientist working in testing labs. scientists working at extraction companies. and you work towards agricultural jobs. you have ones that will require less education and you look towards cannabis retail and see traditional retail jobs and you see general management jobs. those things that are similar to working at a bar restaurant or working at a retail store. >> we are offering, essentially, high paid manufacturing jobs. typical starting wage of 18-$20 an hour, almost no barrier to

entry, you do not need an education. >> that means that people who do not have college educations, working-class people, will have an opportunity to have a job at cultivating cannabis plants. there's a whole wide array of job opportunities from the seedling to the sale of the cannabis. [♪] >> last year, they said 26 million people came to san francisco. >> the tourism industry continues to be very robust here and the city and county of san francisco is about a billion-dollar industry. >> if we use a conservative cannabis user adoption rate to 15% that means 4 million tourists want that means 4 million tourists want to purchase cannabis. and we need to be ready for th them. >> in 2015, as adult use legalization efforts gained momentum in california, the supervisors created the san francisco cannabis state legalization task force. this task force offered to research and advice to the supervisors, the mayor and other

city departments. >> we knew that adult use legalization was coming to the ballot and stat that would bring with it a number of decisions that the city would have to make about zoning and regulation and so forth. and i decided at that time, at a know it was a great, that rather than have a fire drill after the ballot measure passes, as suspected it would, we should plan an event. so i authored a task force to spend a year studying it and we made it a broad-based task force. >> we prepared ourselves by developing a health impact assessment and partnered that with key stakeholder discussions with washington, oregon, colorado, to really learn lessons from their experience rolling out both adult and medicinal cannabis. >> within days of the passing of the proposition, ed lee called

on agencies to act decisively. >> he issued an executive order asking the department of public health, along with planning and other city departments to think through an internal working group around what we needed to do to consider writing this law. >> we collectively, i would say that was representatives from g.s.a., as well as the mayor's office, met with a lot of departments to talk through what prop 64 and the implementation of prop 64 it meant to them. >> the mayor proposed an office of cannabis, a one-stop shop for permits allowing operators to grow and sell cannabis. >> he wanted a smart structure. he wanted a regulatory structure that ensured that kids didn't have access and community's were safe and that consumers were safe. and he wanted to ensure, more importantly, it was a regulatory structure that encouraged diversity and inclusivity.

>> this is an office that will be solely charged with a duty of wanting not only the policies that we create, implementing and enforcing them, but also executing the licenses that are needed. we're talking about 20 different licenses that will put us into compliance with what is happening on the state level. >> this is a highly, highly regulated industry now, at this point. we have anywhere from 7-10 departments that will be working with these industry participants as they go through the permitting process. that is a lot of work at a loss of coordination. we are creating a permitting process that is smart and is digital. it is much easier for the user and for community input, and is less mired in bureaucracy. >> for the first time ever in san francisco history, standalone licenses are available for all aspects of the nonretail side of the cannabis industry. now, a cultivator can go in to

the department of building inspection and to the department of health and say, with this first registered and temporary license, and then what will eventually be a permanent license, this is the project, this is what i am going to do. >> very rarely in city government do we interact with industries that are asking to be regulated. these guys want to be regulated. they want to be compliant. they want to work with the city. that is rare. >> san francisco has created a temporary licensing process so that the pre-existing operators here in san francisco can apply for a temporary state licensed. >> we have taken teams of up to 12 inspectors to inspect the facility twice a day. we have been doing that with the department of building inspection and the department of public health. and the fire department. >> it is really important for the industry to know that we are treating them like industry.

like manufacturing. like coworkers pick so that is the way we are approaching this from a health and safety and a consumer protection network. this is just the way practice happens with restaurants or manufacturing facilities. >> because there are so many pieces of industry that people haven't even thought about. there are different permits for each piece. you have to set up a permitting system for growing, for manufacturing, for testing. for delivery. for retail. you have to make sure that there is an appropriate health code. certainly the regulation of alcohol in terms of restaurants and retail it's probably a model for how this industry will be regulated as well, both on sale and consumption. >> it is completely uncharted territory. there is a blessing and a curse with that. it is exciting because we are on a new frontier, but it is very nerve-racking because there's a

lot at stake. and quite frankly, being san francisco, being the state of california, people are looking to us. >> we hope that cannabis does become more of an accepted part of society in the same way that alcohol is, the same way coffee is. >> it is a very innovative fear, particularly around manufacturing. san francisco could be an epicenter. >> san francisco can be a leader here. a global leader in the cannabis movement and set a bar just to other communities and cities and states and this nation how it is done. done.

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