need in our leaders. >> thank you cost plus. >> supervisor haney law. >> i'm very excited to be here and grateful to have my family literally right in front of me witnessing this conversation. my grandparents, my mom, my little brother, who keeps on looking at me like what is going on right now? they were not expecting this. at the school board, you just rotate presidencies. this is a new process for us. i i'm super excited to be joined as my seatmate here, a little closer than normal, supervisor walton, i think we've decided we'll just keep this going right here and fill a buddy seat, but one of the things that i most excited about, and when i was elected, what made me optimistic

about coming here on my first day was how incredible i know this board of supervisors is, and will be. i have worked with most of you in some capacity, some of you i have served. we have served together for four years, supervisor if you are and i. supervisor walton and i also serve on the school board. i've had the opportunity to work with each and every one of you. i have such tremendous respect for your track records of service, and echoing the comments of supervisor peskin, i think what is important is where we go from here, and the work we will need to get done together. i especially want to recognize supervisor yee who i can see over there. i actually followed him on the school board, and i am a huge admirer of your work, of your tireless advocacy for children and families in our city, and

for your work in our schools in particular. i am excited to partner with you , if you end up becoming the board president, i would be honored to serve with you, and to support you as our president, but i want to talk about why i nominated supervisor ronen to be the board president. i spent the last year and a half , like the other new folks who are here, knocking on doors, talking to thousands of people across district six, talking to people on the street, knocking on doors in s.r.o.s, and what i heard again and again from the people in district six is that we live in a city that is in crisis. people are concerned about the fact that there are thousands of people who are living on our street, today it was pouring rain. i want to hear from the tenderloin where i live, and their dozens and dozens of people who were covered in

garbage bags and blankets and sheets. we have a serious fundamental problem and what is happening in our city right now. in district six, we are in the center of that. we have the most unequal district, not just in san francisco, but one of the most unequal areas in the entire world right here, down the street from city hall that i will be representing. so when i am thinking about what my responsibility is in voting for a board president, i'm thinking about who is in the best position to help me serve those residents, and address that crisis and for me, there's a lot of things that have been said about supervisor ronen, some of which are on her shirt, in the shares of her staff, but i would like to focus on what i heard from her community, which i can tell you, district nine, i don't represent district nine, with that is a tough place to represent as well, and to see

the way that they came out for you today, and what they said, i think really affirms why i am 100% behind you, and they said you will stand up for the most vulnerable, and you will fight for the people who are most in need, and you are going to stand with working people, and immigrants, and labor, but i feel like that is what i need in my district. they said that you are somebody who is passionate, who was old, who is a fighter, but i feel like what we need right now in our city is that. they said that you are creative, and will work with people to get things done, that is what i feel like we have been missing in government for some time. they said you are accessible, that you listen, and you will bring people in, rather than push them away, what i heard when i was out there in district six is that people feel like city hall is not working for them, that it is not including them, that it is focused on politics, rather than real

solutions, and if you are really what they say you are, which i probably -- the people who are best position to say who you are , the people you already represent, then i think we would be misguided if we didn't take the opportunity to elevate you to lead this board. so i am proud to nominate you, i'm proud to support you to be our board president, i also recognize that supervisor yee has a long track record as well, and this is an embarrassment of riches of two extraordinary leaders we get to choose from, but i'm concerned about the crises in the streets, in our communities, where we are becoming a place where the haves and have-nots continue to create one of the largest divides, and if we don't do something bold, if we don't do something strong, if we don't stand up with a vision, which is everything they said you are, that i think we

will continue to move in the wrong direction. i'm proud to support you, and i'll be casting my vote for you today, supervisor ronen. >> thank you. [applause] >> supervisor yee? class. >> thank you very much. i just want to really think the public for coming out, and supporting who you wanted to support, regardless of who you are supporting, i appreciate your spending the time to do this. i could associate with about all your comments sort of one person but regardless of who is going to be the president today, what we are hearing from the public, what we're hearing from my colleagues, is we have a lot of work to do and whatever happens today, we have to move on. whether it is my colleague, hillary, or myself, we will hug each other again, and say we have a lot of work.

let's not worry about who is the president, let support each other, whatever the president is , and i want to say, there's a lot of talking today, and i really appreciate once again, not only the public, with the families that have been sitting here for a few hours, and waiting for their champion to make their comments. >> thank you supervisor. supervisor class. >> thank you madam clerk. thank you for all the people who came out today and spent their time giving public comments. thank you to all the families that have sat through a small portion of what we do on a weekly basis. this is just the tip of the iceberg. i think every -- i think everyone is getting an understanding of really what democracy is all about. democracy is not always neat, it is not always clean, people don't always walk away happy, there's a lot of fighting, sometimes there is pushing and shoving, metaphorically, sometimes in real life, but at the end of the day, i think the

time i have been on this board, we ultimately have found a way to build consensus, and that is one of the things i'm most proud about serving on this board, is our ability to come together when it really matters. i want to congratulate all my colleagues. i want to say first and foremost , the new colleagues that are coming on board, the voters always get it right. the people who work the hardest in the most time, and connect with the community are the ones that the voters respond to. each and every one of you that i've talked to and heard from and listen to have attested to the fact that you put the time, effort to, and energy during the position to be here. take one thing with you, always give everyone credit, always give everyone credit. give everyone the credit. because you earned this opportunity and cherish that each and every day. as supervisor peskin said, we

have an abundance of riches. i believe anyone of us could be the board president and do it with dignity and respect and lead this chamber, but i will say there are a few things that led to my decision and who i want to support. i have so much respect for hillary ronen. in the 20 years we have been here, and even before that when she was a legislative aide, and i was working the labor movement in the community, we worked on neighborhood revitalization, we worked on saving legacy businesses, latino businesses in the mission, immediately reengaged on the subacute care in saint luke's and we won that fight together. we locked arms. we are now working on r.v. housing -- r.v. triage and r.v. legislation with supervisor brown. those are not easy issues to deal with. we will continue to work on that she was an early supporter of my green agenda, and did not back

down. never wavered one batch. the eye can always count on her when she gives her word to be there, and so many other labor issues from minimum compensation ordinance to others, she has led the way and being a true champion for this chamber. with supervisor norman yee, i have known him now for many years, and one of the things that i value most about my time here is having the opportunity to serve with him on the rules committee, although i was a chair, and he was the vice chair , he was often giving me the guidance on how to run the committee, and run and be an effective chair. i often look for him for guidance. he has been a leader and a champion on child care, something near and dear to my heart, and early childcare does childcare education. 0-3 was the first words i heard come out of his mouth consistently, and now we have a governor who will begin to champion that, we will all begin to learn what norman has dedicated his entire life to, so

i appreciate him being a mentor and a friend in that arena, and leading on that. i was proud to have worked with organized labor to help them get elected in his first round, and in many ways, he won by less than 200 votes, so out on the front lines, he has been there. i think that ultimately, another thing that really weighs on my decision, and our recorder said it today, we want to pay homage to the fact that we are just a little over a year of losing two titans in the chinese-american community in san francisco. a void that has not been filled yet, and many people are stepping up, and leading, and trying to fill that void of losing lois pack and what she is meant to our city, and not just the chinese-american community. she was a true san francisco leader, and cared deeply about the future and the current

condition of this city. and then our late mayor, ed lee, and what had -- it has meant, and so many things have come after his death. many people in this chamber would not be sitting in this chamber if not for the fact that he passed away. they would not be sitting here right at this moment. so the chinese-american community is missing a large voyage, and i think that what norman represents, the time, the energy, the effort, being a native son of chinatown, being a grandson of the original founders of the six companies, what it means symbolically for this city to have a chinese-american board president at this time, at this moment in our history is what ways the most heavily on me, so i am so honored to sit next to my calling here, hillary ronen, and she and i will hug afterwards, but i am honored today to support norman yee for board president. >> thank you supervisor.

supervisor fewer? >> thank you very much. i wanted to take a moment to say congratulations to all the new supervisors. some we have worked with for a while, and very successfully, and some that are new that i have worked with really closely before as supervisor haney and supervisor walton, i have been on the board with them before, and i think we have done some pretty interesting things on the board of education, trying to change the status quo up a little. i know we will have a great working relationship, and of course, the twin brother of my predecessor, gordon mar, we have worked together before on many things. i'm proud to say i supported every single one of them. i feel like we really one --dash we really one this year. i also want to associate my comments with that of joe wilson , and who i worked with as

community organizers. he has always been wise, but today he said something very wise. after this vote, we will all work together, and that is actually what is expected of us. this is not about individual power. this is clearly about collective power. we have been given an opportunity, a progressive majority on this board to actually help level the playing field, so i just want to say, that when i was campaigning, and when i'm out on the streets today, i see seniors that are losing their housing in my neighborhood, and i want to say to them, i see you. for all the undocumented folks that are fearing what trump could do next, it is why i actually helped to fund and

create immigration defence funds in the public defender's office, and also to write the resolution to impeach trump. i see you too. i see the working working-class folks of san francisco struggling every day, some who have not made it, and then some who are just barely hanging on. i want to say to you, i see you too, and i think all of us on this board, we see a huge inequity and what a wealth gap like this can do to everyday working san franciscans, and those poor or not working, with struggle so hard to stay in this wonderful, fabulous city. when you say to somebody, vote for me, it is very heavy, it is a very profound, it is such a commitment, it is sometimes hard to get it out of your mouth to say vote for me, and believe in me. but everyone here today who is elected here, has said that two

people, and people have believed in them, and people said, i will vote for you because i believe in something better for me, the single mom, for the black community who hasn't been able to get an economic base here in san francisco. i think all of us here on the board, we will come together, and i hope we will to work together collectively. there are thousands and thousands of people who are depending on us to do our job, and to put differences aside, and any hurt feelings, or anything else aside, because it is not about us, but frankly, it is about the people that we have sworn in to serve on a raise our right hand, and we swear the oath of office. these people are depending on us i'm so glad to hear that hillary and norman will hug each other and love each other again, and that will they will kiss and makeup. i i want to say today, i want to

thank everyone who came out today to speak. because this is the essence of our democracy. democracy is messy. today we all heard what you had to say. we all get it. we all understand it, we all heard it. we not only heard it with our minds, but with our hearts to, and in hearing that, the most important thread that i heard today was we are about to change we are about hope, we are about change, we have a progressive majority, we are looking for relief, and we are looking for help, and this is what the board must deliver to every resident in san francisco. so i hope our communities, whatever the board vote is, i hope the communities will heal, it will take not just us here at the board to make those changes, it will take everyone to do it.

it will take a collective, collective power here, again, this is not about individual power, this is so much about collective power here, and so, i hope that we will all come together after this vote, and we will see that what we can set up for working-class folks in san francisco, how we can equalize the playing field a little, how we can join hands together and say we can build a better san francisco for all of us, where we are all included here. and i say that also as someone who was a fourth-generation san franciscan whose grandfather came here on illegal papers, that the struggle here has not been easy for a lot of us, and the pathway here to the united states has not been the same for everybody. i just want to caution folks also that we are up for a big

fight this year with the federal government, it will take all of us to join hands and to fight against this type of evil power, which is unprecedented, and we have never seen before. again, thank you so much for everybody coming up, congratulations to our new supervisors, congratulations to their families. i know that they will do wonderful, wonderful things for the city and county of san francisco. this is the ultimate public service. and thank you to your families for sacrificing them to do this good work of being your public servant in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. are there any other members of the board who would like to say a few words about the nominees, all right, we will go straight to the election. voting will occur now with alphabetical order. state your preference from the names denomination when i call you. obviously supervisor yee and

supervisor ronen. we will target up of social start at the start of the alphabet with supervisor brown. >> thank you, yes, i am for supervisor yee. >> supervisor fewer while. >> supervisor yee. >> supervisor haney? >> to revise a ronen. >> supervisor mandelman caught. >> supervisor yee. >> supervisor mark? >> supervisor ronen. >> supervisor peskin? >> yee. >> supervisor ronen? >> ronen. >> supervisor self i.e.? >> he. >> supervisor stefani? >> yee. >> supervisor walton while. >> supervisor ronen. >> supervisor yee. >> yee. >> there are seven aye for supervisor yee and four for supervisor ronen.

congratulations president yee. [applause] >> supervisor mark? do you want to make a comment? >> i am thrilled that the board will have a president with a demonstrated principled and studying a track record, and also someone who will serve as a great representative for our chinese and asian american communities. i think we can make this a vote -- make this vote a statement of shared principles, and unity. madam clerk, i want to make a motion to rescind the vote and take a revote by acclamation. >> he has made a motion to rescind the vote. supervisor peskin has seconded that. members, shall we take a roll call vote on that? [roll call]

>> there are ten aye and one no. congratulations, president yee has flaws -- [applause] >> president yee, would you like to come to your chair? >> yes.

>> okay. can i get started class. >> yes, mr president. >> all right. first of all, i want to thank my colleagues on the board of supervisors here today, and especially knowing that each and every one of you could have been elected as a president, and have done just as good of a job. so hopefully i will meet your expectations, and bring you altogether, because we have so much work to do, but for now, what i want to do is to -- i also want to say, welcome to the

new supervisors, whether it is more, haney, or walton, and also welcome back, i guess, supervisor stefani, and mandelman. right now, i want to turn it over to our esteemed mayor, london breed. >> thank you very much. congratulations to you, and to all the new members of the board of supervisors, it has been an incredible honor to serve in the past is not only a member of the board of supervisors, but as president, and i know supervisor yee has a tremendous excitement for this opportunity, as well as a desire to work with each and every one of you, i appreciate his support, and the relationship that we had during the time that we serve together, in fact, we joined the board at the same time, and he was

actually the senior member, not the senior citizen member of the board of supervisors, but my senior colleague on the board of supervisors, and i am just looking forward to working with him in his leadership as we not only come together to move san francisco forward, because we know that there is a lot of challenges that exist. that -- this is just one obstacle in terms of electing a board president that you have all overcome, and now it is time to roll up our sleeves, and begin the process of what san franciscans elect us to do, and that is a work to deliver on some of the most significant challenges that you all know we face, whether it is homelessness , building more housing, cleaning up our streets , people safe, we know we are stronger, but we push forward better policies when we are willing to put aside our political differences and work together. i stopped by and i was thinking

to all of your services and family and friends who are here today who have sat through several hours. i actually had 12 meetings during the process of this meeting. will come back supervisor. i know this is gordon now welcome to you both and welcome your brother here to the board chambers. you have an exciting plan this year. a lot of things that i'm hoping to be able to accomplish with this board, and with so many of staff members and staff members, looking forward to it. congratulations supervisor walton. how did you get up to this seat here? how did you get seniority so quickly? welcome back again.

looking forward to keeping an open door policies so we can work together and accomplish the goals that the voters put us in office to do thank you all so much and again thank you and congratulations to president yee i'm looking forward to working with you as well. >> thank you. [applause] >> okay. thank you again. right now i would like to recognize some of the officials, the elected officials who are in the chambers. the city attorney, dennis herrera, are you still here? the treasure tax collector, the public defender, the district attorney, city excess or

recorder, carmen chu, and has already been recognized that the former supervisor was here, and the former supervisor. mar. and also, other former supervisors. he was here, and the policy is former supervisor -- hello. we also had a bunch of department heads here witnessing the incoming class that came in today that is naomi kelly, the city administrator, chief joanne hayes weight, at the san francisco fire department, cheryl freeman of the san francisco sheriff department,

and risk in, the nta director, ben rosenfield, who is the city controller calculating forbes, she is the port director, harland kelly junior, he is the general manager of p.u.c., and phil ginsberg, the manager of recreation and park, callahan, the director of the department of human resources, and our budget analyst, who is still here, harvey rose. all right. there's also, from the department of emergency services , there is mary ellen carroll. okay. i wanted to recognize them for spending the time to be here with us today. let me say a few words. what i would like to do is invite the new members,, the

honorable members of the board of supervisors to make some comments, in the first person i would like to invite is supervisor haney. >> all right. i will be brief because i know that many of the family members who have been here, including my own, and just as they, thank you so much to the people of district six for electing me, as i said in my prior comments, i am just so honored and excited to be here. it is a long process with all of the people who have run for office. is a little surreal to be sitting in this chair. it is surreal to have my grandmother in front of me the entire time. i want to thank my family who are here, my grandparents who

have lived in san francisco as long as i've been alive, and constituents of yours, president yee. they really taught me a lot about this city. a belief in what is capable in san francisco, and also a commitment for public services. speaking of strong women, we have my grandma here, i also want to thank my mom who is here , who raised me mostly on her own, as well as my little brother who is here, my sister is here and took as much as she could, and my little brother josh a girlfriend is here as well. for me, as it is for me and a lot of the folks who are here, family is a huge part of why i do this work, why i have spent my career in public service, and

why i am sitting here in this seat. i want to thank and congratulate president yee. i'm looking forward to working closely with you, and i know you will be a tremendous board president. thank you for stepping up to serve. i spoke about how excited i am to work with all the folks on this board. i think that we have a huge opportunity here. a mandate to address some of the huge crises that our city is facing. the mayor spoke about it, and i'm looking forward to working with her and her staff as well. affordable housing, homelessness homelessness, public safety, clean streets, these are things, that for my district and district six and south of market and mission bay, the tenderloin, treasure island, there is a feeling that been the place where a lot of our challenges are concentrated, and we are not

getting the support and the resources and the attention to address those challenges. my commitment to them and my warning to my colleagues is that that will be my focus, is making sure that we move away from any sort of strategy that involves indifference, or containment, and looking the other way, but rather actually being focused and bold and visionary enough to address these challenges head-on so that is what i am looking forward to doing. i will do it with you all. i have worked for many of you, and been looking forward to working with all of you, i want to thank all of the staff, and everyone who is here who makes this place function, because i know that it doesn't happen with just those of us sitting appear on the board. this is a part of a broader system of democracy that we certainly step into with a lot

of humility, and great honor, so i am just grateful to be here on behalf of the people of district six, and honored to have such extraordinary colleagues, and a lot of work to do a lot of work to do. thank you. i appreciate it. [applause] >> thank you supervisor haney for representing district six. now i would like to ask the person who will be representing district two, catherine stefani, if you would like to make a few words. >> thank you. colleagues, friends, family, and fellow san franciscans, i stand before you in all of the enormous opportunity i have been given to be of service to the residents of district two, and to the city i love. when thinking about my remarks

today, the only thing i can really think about over and over again is absolute gratitude. this opportunity -- we have services only -- that are only possible for the love of support of many other people. first and foremost, to the voters of district two, thank you for placing your trust in me this office belongs to you, not me, and i will work tirelessly on your behalf every day to live up to the confidence you have placed in me to be your voice at city hall. i'm here to work for you, not the people outside the building, and you can be sure when i am making decisions, and when i am casting votes, i am doing it and speaking only about what is in the best interest of my constituents. to the supervisor who hired me in january 2007 to be her age and fulfilled a dream of mine to work on behalf of my community

in this beautiful building in city hall, thank you, and thank you for your friendship and being an ardent supporter of mine. to supervisor mark farrell who kept me on his staff when he won , and when he become mayor, appointed me to the district two supervisor seat to finish out his term. i know you are not here, but i can't thank you enough for this opportunity, mayor farrell, and thank you the parents of mine. i also would like to thank our city administrator who is no longer here, naomi kelley, for asking me in january 2016 to become the county clerk. running a city department, and being a department head for two years was invaluable experience that has helped me to become an even better supervisor. i would like to thank my staff at the county clerk's office who taught me that you can lead with kindness, and from expectations and get so much out of people and build a family so you will know an issue on the first floor

for all of us who endorse my campaign, some of the greatest moments of me is at the march rally when senator feinstein, one of my heroes, came up to me, held my hand, and she said, thank you for all of your work on gun violence but does prevention, i am happy you are my supervisor. i support you and you have my endorsements. for me, that was such a huge moment and i was describing it to my daughter and i said, imagine if you are at a taylor swift concert and taylor swift bends down to you and says, you are such a good singer, and i am happy you are one of my backup dancers. [laughter] so i want to thank senator feinstein for her early endorsement of my campaign. i admired her work for decades. especially her courage and boldness on gun violence prevention. knowing she was -- once held this office, fills me with a sense of pride and purpose to live up to her example. i want to thank all of the

elected officials who endorse me , and supported my campaign. including all the supervisors who i have served with this past year. also to the community leaders, labor organizations, into the democratic party for believing me and endorsing my campaign, and a special thank you to pat anderson. i don't know if she is here before. we had a lot of discussions that were extremely hard for her. i thank you for your friendship and on behalf of our parks. we often said throughout my campaign that this was a people powered campaign. i did not have a lot of money. gives a people powered campaign. built on volunteers who came out on weekends to knock on doors and phone banks with campaign headquarters, window signs and banners over district to, who opened up their homes for house parties and fundraisers. i want to thank all those volunteers who dedicated their time and energy into this campaign, because we could not have done it without them. at the end of the year, my daughter asked me, mom, will you

miss 2018? and forcefully and emphatically i said no way. and she said, mom, i am, and i said why, she said because we built an entire family. and she is right. the team we had in place, and those who showed up for me became family. i want to start with my campaign team. john whitehurst, best campaign team ever. i can't thank you enough for your work for knowing how to win when we are being outspent 2-1. i want to thank you for not knowing how to win, but knowing how to take care of me, and that campaign meetings, telling me, you need to go home and take a nap and work out the next day, rather than continue to work. they cared for me through the campaign, and i cannot thank them enough. we had many inside jokes, and i will never forget mark being an aquatic park in his crocs in the cold water, forcing me to swim back and forth to get the perfect video.

i want to thank people on my campaign team who have been invaluable to me, and who opened up their offices, and give me sound advice, i want to thank jess, margo and knish, my colleagues who i love, where there for me, and my campaign manager, also known as the catherine whisper. nobody gives bad news better than daniel kirstein, and i have to thank you so much for being patient with me, seeing every emotion, emotions i didn't even know i had, and being there for me every step of the way. you are amazing, and i'm so excited to be working with you from here on out. to my fields director, thank you for laughing at all my one-liners, and adopting and rescuing our campaign dog, who i know pulled in many votes for us and all the volunteers and interns, susan, who is in my office, was so vital to me, and i wanted to make sure she got a special shout out. by legislative aides, starting with sharon and deanna, who

helped me get my office up and running in january and i became supervisor in one moment. to ellie, wyatt, jack, you have seen so much, you are family to me, forever i love you beyond comprehension, i can't thank you enough for what you do for me, and for how you helped me carry this vision forwards. i'm so excited to get to work. thank you, thank you, thank you so much for everything you do. everyone needs a mother, on my mother as far away, but i had two on this campaign. i cannot thank you enough for everything that you did for me. you are strong women who i look up to, you were there for me, you convince people to vote for me, and i cannot thank you enough for everything you did. might emerge sisters, you know who i -- you know who you are. thank you so much for all your help. so many close friends. italian-american community.

and to my family, my in-laws, and my brother-in-law, thank you for your unconditional love, support and encouragement, and for understanding why i miss so many family gatherings. i don't know if you are here, but i have father michael here who has been here for me. he was here for me and i knew him before he knew them after my friend from my college -- my friend from college passed away. he did their funeral, and he did my wedding and now he is here for me today. thank you. my husband, if you think it is difficult being the candidate running for candidate, try being the spouse of the candidate, especially when they i called him mr stefani all the time. [laughter] thank you for being there for her family and picking up the slack and knocking on doors and standing outside of supermarkets , and of course, for delivering window signs, and even falling down a flight of stairs and breaking your leg while delivering those signs.

[laughter] >> he was in surgery while i was in a debate, and it made for a very interesting campaign. i love you, thank you. my children. dominic and gianna. i have a stock of kleenex because i knew this would happen i want you to know right now in front of everyone that my most important job in this world is being your mother, and it is the best thing i get to do. i look at you just sitting here through all of this and not even making a noise and not even complaining. i have the best kids. i am so lucky. thank you dominic for doing your homework without me having to tell you, i cannot believe you are just motivated, anywhere in eighth grade, during high school applications. i can't believe how incredible you are. i'm so lucky to be your mom. ntg girl, thank you for just being such a fun and such a delight to, and all your r.p.g. quotes. i adore you.

thank you so much for making my life so incredible because you are in it and i get to be your mom. to my dad, it is a dream come true, really, to be able, in this public forum, to thank you for everything you have done for me. thank you for believing in my dreams, you did all of that. i swear. [laughter] >> i want to thank you for believing in my dreams and potential, and doing everything you could to support me. at 16, when i wanted to spend a summer by myself in washington, d.c. interning for my congressman, you said yes, even though you are terrified to leave me there. what you might not know is how profoundly i was affected when we visited the vietnam memorial. my dad was a lieutenant in the army --dash army.

i realized in that moment, as i watch your reaction unfold at what service to one's country looks like, what affects the decisions of people in our government can have on individuals, and how important it is to honor the sacrifice. even when i was appointed last january after health issues, you said it probably wouldn't be able to come home every month to see you and you said to me, you have to take this job. this is what you have worked so hard for, and this is why i have worked so hard for you. perseverance is the price of greatness. my dad goes around saying that all the time. i will never forget it. [laughter] >> of course, plan,, focus, executes. as i said on election night to my team, and all my volunteers, we planned, we focused, we executed, and because of that, we won. that is right. [laughter]

>> as i begin my first for four your turn as district 1212 supervisor, i will plan, focus, and execute, and i will do so from a place of love, in a deep desire to better the lives of those around me. i come from a place of empathy and connection to others, a sense of responsibility, an obligation to be in service to others, and most of all, from an urgent need to act on serious issues that are facing my district, our city, and our nation as a whole. i will continue to make certain we are properly investing in public safety resources, to not only affect the property crime epidemic, but right a sense of security and safety that every single san franciscan, and every person who visits our city deserves. i want to thank captain engler who i saw her earlier today for working with me on police issues day in and day out. i will be laser focused on making sure we are addressing what i see is a public health crisis on the streets, with the right resources to help those who are suffering from mental

illness and addiction. i will do everything i can to do stigmatize addiction, and help those who suffer from this disease to get the services they need without enabling them to their death, which is what happens when we allow them to live and die on our streets. i will make sure we are taking care of the basics in the neighborhood is like keeping streets clean, and safe, and i will continue to work with merchants and small business owners to ensure we have thriving merchant corridors in district two. i will never, ever stop fighting to keep all of us say from the threat of gun violence in this country. [applause] >> and if you think -- as i said to one person who criticized me for doing so, if you think i can't do all of this at the same time, all i have to say to that is watch me. eight years ago today, congresswoman gabby giffords was shot in the head, six people

were killed. and 15 were injured when a gunman opened fire while she was hosting a constituent event called congress on your corner in the parking lot of the safeway store. a 9-year-old girl was killed. my daughter is nine. today, in washington, d.c., thanks to nancy pelosi and all those who helped her in the house, h.r. eight is being introduced in the house of representatives. a bipartisan bill that will require background checks on all gun sales. we know that these save lives, and 97 of americans agree. it is about time congress do something about it. in my last year a supervisor, i stood up on this body to mourn the deaths death of those killed in mass shootings. i will continue to relentlessly work to make sure that the children in my district, and in your districts, aren't growing up in a world where it is

routine to hide in closets while you practice lockdown drills to prepare yourselves for the next mass shooter. i will be committed to that every day for the rest of my life. i want to think every town for gun safety for induced darting my campaign as a gun champion. i will keep going with you as we work to break the pattern of gun violence in our country. san francisco is a special place the place i was born, and where i am lucky enough to be raising my children, and raising them in the home where my mother-in-law grew up. the pride i feel when i tell people i am from san francisco is based not only on its physical beauty, but on the inner beauty of its people. a place where people who may feel different or unaccepted elsewhere can come here and feel at home, because of an abundance of love built on decades of service by many incredible public servants who have gone

before me, and with whom i am serving now. to my colleagues, it is my pledge to you that i will seek to find common ground, and will focus on what unites us, but it will have an open mind, and it will seek to learn from your experiences and opinions. i will conduct myself with integrity and honesty, and when i am wrong, i will promptly amend it. i am promptly to sir with all of you, and i look forward to getting to work. to the voters of district two, thank you for allowing me to be your voice. i embrace this job with compassion, hope, love, and a commitment to act, and as we said on the campaign trail, quoting president obama, i am fired up, and ready to go. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> representing district four is gordon marr.

[applause] >> i'm so honored to join this board and this collection of brilliant, committed, -- characters, but more importantly , to represent the sunset district. my neighborhood, my community, as a son of immigrants, as a father, and as a lifeline community and labor organizer, i will represent the values of working people and families every day. i want to start by thanking the many people that allowed me to move into this seat or this chair, and this new phase and chapter of my journey as an organizer and an advocate in the city. first of all, my family, who has been with me, not just every day through the campaign, with every day of my life. my wife, cecelia, and my

daughter leanne, my sisters, candy and ricky, my brother-in-law, ricky, my brother ryan, and of course, my brother. and i also want to thank and acknowledge the campaign team that really put together such an incredible campaign that allowed me to be here. we had a lots -- we had a large and incredible campaign team. edward wright, daisy quan, mitch eppinger. joyce lam, dominic chan, in county four to name a few. [applause] >> yeah,. thanks to the hundreds of my friends and supporters. they volunteered on my campaign. they did all the hard work, with doorknocking, phone call and,

and everything else that is needed for a successful campaign thanks to the many groups and organizations and leaders here in the city. many of whom i am joining on the board. they actively supported me. during my campaign, we had a slogan that connected to my star wars nerdiness. district four awakens. i feel like we ran a great campaign, and we lived up to that theme. we really ran the strongest grassroots people powered campaign ever in district four, and we, i think through our work together collectively, we started to chart a new direction for our neighborhood that will have a big impact on the whole city. thank you everybody that was part of our campaign. of course, thank you for the district four voters.

and in electing me to be the representative. i will work hard and commit to representing your interests first. i wanted to make a few broader points that i reflected on, as i was getting ready to step into this role today. first of all, i stand on the shoulders of the progressive asian-american movement that has spearheaded change in the city. asian-american leaders who are have been a part of the labor movement, the rainbow coalition, the lgbtq rights movement, of so many other important movements and campaigns in the city. we, the chinese american community in san francisco have been at the forefront fighting for workers' rights, tenants rights, and for the dignity of every person. i'm so proud of my history, end of our history, i'm proud to continue this legacy of progress in san francisco, particularly

along with my asian-american colleagues here, supervisor fewer, and board president yee. i do know the challenges that are in front of us, homelessness , housing affordability, improving public transportation and safety services, and the continuing displacement of san francisco working and middle-class families among many others. i am committed to working with my colleagues to address these challenges head-on. and i am entering the year and this new role very hopeful and excited. we know when we come together, when we work on differences there is much we can accomplish, and there is much we must accomplish here today in san francisco. we can make san francisco more responsive to the needs of its residents, more just, a more equitable. we can protect affordable housing, and build more of it. we can house homeless, clean streets, support residents, and make our city a place that works for everyone, not just the

wealthy or the well-connected. i am committed to spending every day in this office, working my asked off on behalf of the people i serve and represent. thank you. [applause] >> now i would like to invite the person representing district eight, rafael mandelman. plus plus. >> thank you. legs the mothers of my colleagues, i was one of the people in 2010 who did not support you, and how wrong i was , and how delighted i am to have been proven wrong over this time. i have seen you show tremendous courage, and in your quiet way, taco some of the most important

issues facing our city from early childhood education, to the needs of senior folks. i am looking forward to working with you, and i congratulate you it seems like i was just doing this a few months ago, because i was just doing this a few months ago pick as many of you know, i am in the unusual position of being elected in june, and sworn in and july, and reelected in november, so i will do my best to be brief, but i do have some thank you his i want to give to folks. happily, my november campaign was a quiet and intimate affair, but i did have a team that got me through. scott carlson was an amazing intern in the june campaign, and they got a battlefield promotion to be campaign manager for november. he did a great job. he is now in d.c., and i wish him well. nate i'll be, my consultants for

june, and my consultants for november, frequently -- we frustrate each other extraordinarily, but he is one of the most talented political minds of his generation. i was talking to a political consultant in the city who were marked at the calibre of organizers on campaigns and the city has been transformed. if you look at the room of the folks who were elected in november, many of us benefited from the work that he has done with so many folks, and those folks are in campaigns throughout the city. many of them are coming into city hall to work here. many of them are going to run for office themselves. that is a gift that will pay dividends for san francisco for decades. i want to thank the folks at stacy owens and co. and keeping me out of trouble. and as always, i want to thank

bernie and eleanor burke. they didn't quite make it, which is probably good for me, because when they are here injured not just july the being in a place that they needed to be with one. i will always be so grateful to have them in my life. also here earlier was my aunt carol who was also always there for me. [please stand by]