>> okay. raise your right hand and repeat after me. and state your name. [pledging oath in to office]

[cheers and applause]

>> ladies and gentlemen, the new supervisor for district ten, shamann walton. [cheers and applause] >> good morning. good morning. >> good morning. >> that's a little better. first, i want to thank these two amazing leaders for coming in and speaking this morning. i want to apologize to some folks. i know the city assessor has an amazing band coming come in this morning, and i know that this morning, there was an amazing song that was sung, and my colleague on the board of education caxton to be colleague on the board of supervisors, supervisor matt haney, had about six songs sun -- sun, and young people speaking yesterday. i'm a little bit less about the

fanfare, and the real reason that i did do this, and the reason i did this is i know we needed to do a celebration like this before and with community, and with the neighborhoods here. thank you for being here today. [cheers and applause] >> supervisor haney and i were joking the other day because he was talking about how i have not beat him at anything yet. and he may not understand is that when i just got sworn in, and i signed, i will be on the board of supervisors before he is. [laughter] >> first i want to give an honor to god, and i want to thank my children for being here. my youngest son is here, my oldest son is here,, my lovely wife, my mother is here, my

godmother, my auntie, and a host of members of my family. thank you all so much for having my back. [applause] >> not just during this last 18 months in the election, but for my entire life. for supporting me, for believing in me when we know that a lot of people didn't. thank you so much for all the love and the prayers because if it was not for you believing in me, and instilling in me, we would not be where we are today. thank you so much. [applause] >> i also want to thank all of my opponents were prior fighting inspiration, and for fuelling the fire that we needed to make sure we worked harder than everyone in the race, and for stepping up and standing up and running for office because it is not easy. i do want to thank them and acknowledge them as well.

to my resilient community and the entire district, i want to thank all of you for your work, for your support, for believing in me, for entrusting and me, to work in one of the most isolated and disenfranchised districts here in san francisco. that is important to me. it is important that we bring you with us here, and to city hall. i am only a vessel and a voice for you, and what you want to, and what you need to. i want to make sure you know that and understand that. in this row, you have someone who understands that it is about the neighborhoods and the communities and our district and our city. you will see that time and time again as we serve. to anyone who knocked on the door, carried the sign, talk to neighbors and community, who stood up on the corner with me during visibility, who got on the phone and made a phone call on our behalf, who prayed for me , who stood with me, who

encouraged me, to everyone, this land is for all of you, and for all of us. thank you so much. [applause] >> as god as my witness, i will forget to thank someone in this room today. i know that, i understand that, i own it. please charge it to my head and not my heart, and understand we have the next four years to acknowledge everyone, but i will take the time to acknowledge some folks. right now, first i want to thank the entire team at 50 plus one. thank you so much for your hard work to get us elected. thank you for your professionalism, for your due diligence for the weight that you carry all of yourselves, and to this work. it is crazy during campaigns. i appreciate you having you and all of you at the election.

thank you. i also want to thank the entire campaign team, liz, joy, and the greatest campaign manager on the plant -- on the planet, natalie g. thank you for working so hard for us. to all of our partners in labor, we have so much work to do in the areas of social justice, making sure that our working class is given the respect, the support and the resources they need, we are under attack at the federal level. we are under attack by the leadership of this country. thank you so much for your support. i'm excited about getting down to work together as we have done together for decades. thank you to all of labor. [applause] >> to all the families in the district, to all of our merchants and our business owners and the people who helped make our district a vibrant, and the people who will make sure

that you give us the resources to keep our district vibrant, thank you for your work and our support. i want to acknowledge my future colleagues, supervisor hilary ronen,. [cheers and applause] >> supervisor vallie brown, supervisor matt haney, my friend , and former and future colleagues, and one of the hardest working women in the city, supervisor sandra fewer. president of the board of education? -- [applause] >> supervisor rafael mandelman which i'm looking forward to working with. we have several commissioners here. i want to acknowledge all of you collectively. thank you so much for your service and your work. i see several of you here. if i start naming names, i will forget. but i want to say thank you to

all of the commissioners for your work, and for being here today. we have several department heads i see the leader of the department of public works, mr mohammed nuru. [cheers and applause] i know i am missing someone, but again, we will have plenty of time to acknowledge. i must thank all of the crew at the resource centre. thank you so much. [cheers and applause] >> i see some of the team from the department for children, youth and families. the work continues. my entire family from the community developers, thank you for being here. it has been hard to let go.

and of course, one of our constituents, and his work for the campaign. i see our public defender is here. thank you. to my predecessors, and hard-working women of this district and this city, supervisor maxwell. [cheers and applause] , and president, malia cohen, who could not be here today, because she had to be in sacramento. i want to thank her for her tireless service and her work for the last eight years. [cheers and applause] >> so i have to tell a brief story. i am done with the thank youse. i will say a few words that it is time to get to work. by tracy brown, who was also part of our team and my office.

tracy brown. [applause] >> by the way, natalie g., who is our chief of staff, and percy who is also one of our aids. that is an amazing team that we take to city hall. but this is a true story. a little over a decade ago now when i first got here, and i met tracy and i interviewed her on a panel as a community member for her job at the department of children and youth and families. i came over and we were having a conversation, this is about 11 years ago. she said, you will be the district ten supervisor. i'm not making this up. this is not a joke. she had no idea that i had written an essay that was public in high school. i said i wanted to effect change and be an elected official. she had no idea that i was already ready to come and plan to get together for my community and make sure we can be in a can

in a position to make sure we could do what we could to represent us. she made that epiphany. she made that statement over 11 years ago, and she worked with me on both of my runs for the board of education. my run on the board of supervisors, and she called it. thank you so much for believing in me. i was taught by my mentor, my fraternity brother, father fillmore graham, that if you believe it, and you see it, you can achieve it. and although he is not here with us today, if it was not for him, i would not be standing before you. i always want to pay homage to him for saving my life. [applause]

i was taught by his mentor that the more you know, the more you owe, and that is how we will live every day of our life. you can bet on that. i am just excited to be in a position to help others. i know a lot of time in this city, everyone is focused on the differences in all of us, but i can assure you we will be focused on the commonality is said that we can get the work done to improve this great city together. the only thing i have in common with everyone in this room is that we will disagree at times. i can guarantee that. but we can, and we will work together to resolve the present issues in this city, with tax, with decency, and focus on those commonalities. we have to address affordability , homelessness, employment disparities, complete

testing and cleanup of the shipyard, transportation. [applause] equitable transportation, community safety, and economic viability and opportunity in this district, and in this city together. i know some people get in the office and start making lots of promises, and start talking about visions that they develop on their own, and of course, i have a lot of vision. we know what we need to do in the city and we have a lot of ideas. i want to be focused on the broken promises that we have been promised for decades in our district. so no matter whom you voted for, i am the supervisor for all of you, for everyone. it does not matter. i don't hold those kind of grudges about boats, because i know everyone once was best for

the cute -- wants what's best for their communities, but i am proud and happy to fight for each and every one of you. because with me, it is 100% always about the work. i am ready to fight for potrero hill, i'm ready to fight for bayview, i'm ready to fight for visitation vallie, i'm ready to fight for little hollywood, i'm ready to fight for every single neighborhood and community in district ten. [applause] >> in our first hundred days, we said we would begin to address affordable housing by meeting with all relevant parties to ensure our housing stock and the pipeline gets built. we said we would fight homelessness and ensure proxy resources are spent how intended we said we would address transportation needs and

eliminate the institutionally racist prep -- recessed practice we said we would meet and focus on adequate testing of the entire shipyard and push the navy,, the department of public health, that the state department to work with academia to eliminate the conflicts and build trust back within the community. and we have been meeting with the city attorney, the navy, the e.p.a., and the leadership of this city already to address that. we are ready to work on the quality of life issues, and make sure that people stop disrespecting our streets in district ten so they can look pristine and clean like every other community in the city. and so for the past month or so, i have been volunteering and we met with the leadership of the department of public works, the navy, the e.p.a., housing

authority, mayor's office, sfmta , hope s.f., my colleagues on the board of supervisors, community leaders, merchants, family is, because it is time to get to work. i'm excited about our district, and all of the opportunity, in by the way, to all of our supporters and all of our folks and communities who spend a lot of money in our city, patronizing our restaurants, if you want to do a celebration for us, if you want to do a celebration with us, come and do it in d10, because we have a lot of businesses that need to support. [applause] unto the people that say we won because we are connected to a power source, let me just say this. we won because we are connected to the communities because we are connected to the neighborhood, and there is no

better proof than that, than the data after the election. i just want to thank my community. i want to thank all the neighborhoods in district ten. i want to thank all of the leaders here in the city. i want to thank everyone for coming out and supporting us. as we do this work, we will always remember the children and families in this city. it is game time. thank you. [cheers and applause]

>> we broke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for

this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped

this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of -- for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a

really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here. [♪] >> i am the supervisor of district one. i am sandra lee fewer. [♪] >> i moved to the richmond district in 1950 mine. i was two years old. i moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here.

[♪] >> when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. it seems so far away. for a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. the stress was storage of the birthplace of that. my father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now. it just started to grow very organically. it is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the richmond district. as russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. so parts of the richmond is very concentrated with the russian community and immigrant russian community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [♪]

>> i think as living here in the richmond, we really appreciate the fact that we are surrounded three natural barriers. they are beautiful barriers. the presidio which gives us so many trails to walk through, ocean beach, for families to just go to the beach and be in the pacific ocean. we also also have a national park service. we boarded the golden gate national recreation area so there is a lot of activity to do in the summer time you see people with bonfires. but really families enjoying the beach and the pacific ocean during the rest of the time of year. [♪] >> and golden gate park where we have so many of our treasures here. we have the tea garden, the museum and the academy of sciences. not to mention the wonderful playgrounds that we have here in richmond. this is why i say the richmond is a great place for families.

the theatre is a treasure in our neighborhood. it has been around for a very long time. is one of our two neighborhood theatres that we have here. i moved here when i was 1959 when i was two years old. we would always go here. i love these neighborhood theatres. it is one of the places that has not only a landmark in the richmond district, but also in san francisco. small theatres showing one or two films. a unique -- they are unique also to the neighborhood and san francisco. >> where we are today is the heart of the richmond district. with what is unique is that it is also small businesses. there is a different retail here it is mom and pop opening up businesses. and providing for the neighborhood. this is what we love about the streets.

the cora door starts on clement street and goes all the way down to the end of clement where you will see small businesses even towards 32nd. at the core of it is right here between here and 20 -- tenth avenue. when we see this variety of stores offered here, it is very unique then of the -- any other part of san francisco. there is traditional irish music which you don't get hardly anywhere in san francisco. some places have this long legacy of serving ice cream and being a hangout for families to have a sunday afternoon ice cream. and then also, we see grocery stores. and also these restaurants that are just new here, but also thriving. [♪] >> we are seeing restaurants being switched over by hand, new owners, but what we are seeing is a vibrancy of clement street

still being recaptured within new businesses that are coming in. that is a really great thing to see. i don't know when i started to shop here, but it was probably a very, very long time ago. i like to cook a lot but i like to cook chinese food. the market is the place i like to come to once a year. once i like about the market as it is very affordable. it has fresh produce and fresh meat. also, seafood. but they also offer a large selection of condiments and sauces and noodles. a variety of rice that they have is tremendous. i don't thank you can find a variety like that anywhere else. >> hi. i am kevin wong. i am the manager. in 1989 we move from chinatown to richmond district. we have opened for a bit, over 29 years.

we carry products from thailand, japan, indonesia, vietnam, singapore and india. we try to keep everything fresh daily. so a customer can get the best out a bit. >> normally during crab season in november, this is the first place i hit. because they have really just really fresh crab. this is something my family really likes for me to make. also, from my traditional chinese food, i love to make a kale soup. they cut it to the size they really want. i am probably here once a week. i'm very familiar with the aisles and they know everyone who is a cashier -- cashier here i know when people come into a market such as this, it looks like an asian supermarkets, which it is and sometimes it can be intimidating. we don't speak the language and many of the labels are in chinese, you may not know what to buy or if it is the proper ingredients for the recipe are trying to make.

i do see a lot of people here with a recipe card or sometimes with a magazine and they are looking for specific items. the staff here is very helpful. i speak very little chinese here myself. thinks that i'm not sure about, i asked the clerk his and i say is this what i need? is this what i should be making? and they actually really helped me. they will bring me to the aisle and say this is battery. they are very knowledgeable. very friendly. i think they are here to serve not only the asian community but to serve all communities in the richmond district and in san 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

>> president yee: okay. let's get started. good afternoon and welcome to the january 15, 2019 meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam secretary, would you please call roll. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president. [roll