who are doing so much and making sure we raise funds for behavior and training, foster program support, medical emergency fund, rabies and microchip supplies, marketing and outreach, food supplies, rescue partner grants, senior cat, baby cat supplements , and much more, and also the furniture fixtures and equipment center going into this building. i want to thank the board treasurer, volunteer dianne davis and christopher davis, a board member christina -- christina kizer, and dr. sue wong. your generosity extends past the groundbreaking in this official opening. with that, i would also -- one last thing, i need to give a special thank you to park construction. they are the contractors working with public works on this. and in phase one, they have awarded -- contracted 24

business enterprises in the amount of $12.5 million, that is 33% of the contracting cost. [applause] >> of those who are working on this project, 149 workers are from san francisco, so thank you with that, i would like to introduce the former supervisor, animal care and control champion , katy tang. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. as i was telling some people here today, the only thing that will take me out of retirement from attending press conferences is something to do with animals. i am so excited to be here and explain a little bit about how i got involved with animal care and control, and really wanting to see this facility rebuilt. aside from the fact that i grew up with a mother who was a vegetarian, at one point in our life, my dad said, i want a dog,

and we were shocked that he all of a sudden in his life, in his early fifties or so wanted a dog , and so we went to animal care and control every weekend for four months straight to search for the perfect dog for him. in that process, i saw the facility first-hand at a.c.c., and it was heartbreaking to me, and then of course, working in the city took additional tours and learned that there's not enough space for animals being quarantined when some of them have diseases or illnesses. i mean i saw that animals had to be strapped to some of the banisters as they are doing intake, the elevator, i mean, don't even talk about that. just the conditions that the employees had to work in where animals need to get x-rays as well, and there was improper shielding of the radiation in those rooms, so it is not just about the animals, but all the people who work at animal care and control and those conditions i think the conditions are

really sad, and i'm so excited that we are standing here today to hopefully, and a very short amount of time, you will have a new building. but also the other thing, even to this day, a lot of people when i talk to them, they actually don't know that we, as a city, have an animal shelter. they are familiar with the different organizations and nonprofits that help with animals, but a lot of them -- you all know because you were all here, many of you don't know i think it is really important that in a city where we have an estimated more dogs and cats and other animals than we do children, that we really do have a world-class facility for them and their families. lastly, i will say that a.c.c. and the staff there, you do all that work, and you take in the animals that other organizations , or whatnot, might not be able to take in. you take exotic animals, you take the wild strays, you also, yourself have to handle those that get killed on our streets, so you handle so much, and you

are really deserving of a world-class facility. i'm excited to be here today, and thank you to every single person and department that made this happen. i'm looking forward to the ribbon-cutting. [applause] >> and of course, i have to introduce the next person who doesn't really need introduction , mohammed nuru. [applause]. >> thank you. it is always great to see you. i hope you are enjoying your life outside of city hall. i know that is how important this project is to you, and i'm so glad you're able to be here with us today. good morning, everyone. i serve as your public works director, and just like everyone else, i'm very happy to be here today, even with the wet weather , seeing how many people are out here shows as how important this project is to so many people and of course, the

animals. today is an exciting day for our city, and an exciting day for san francisco animal care and control. we are celebrating the start of unique project, and it brings me great pleasure and joy that public works will be overseeing the design and construction of the project. it is not every day in san francisco that a modern structure more then a century ago. that is what is happening right here. the new animal care and control facility. the new shelter will be built with the original brick warehouse behind me, the building was constructed in 1893 and served as the original market street railway corporation. it is eligible for listings on the state national registry and historic basins. it served as a maintenance facility for the sfmta overhead

lines. the reuse of the building will be an elegant nod to the city's pass that serves the needs of the 21st century san francisco that historic brick face and wooden frame windows will remain intact, while the interior will be transformed into a state-of-the-art, multilevel facility billed to serve the needs of san francisco for many years to come. as mayor breeden said, we must think about the future of san francisco today, and there's no better way to do so by investing in capital improvements to our infrastructure. public works is proud to be working with clark construction and the many people who will be working on the projects. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, everybody. we are going to do the ceremonial gravel shovel thing,

and then we are done. there is tons of delicious food that clark brought that is right outside, food and drinks, and we hope you all stay around for a bit and enjoy each other. >> five, four, three, two, one! [cheers and applause] >> there we go.

>> 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. >> i went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. i am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. ♪ ♪ i am a community ambassador.

we work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. >> what i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. they ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. checking in, you guys. >> wellness check. we walk by to see any individual, you know may be

sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. you never know. somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. you never know if they are alive. we let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they don't want to call the police on, they don't have to call the police. they can call us. we can direct them to the services they might need. >> we do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. there are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. it is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. when we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. they give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick

it up. we take pride. when we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. >> it makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. the stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. >> you can see the community ambassadors. i used to be on the streets. i didn't think i could become a community ambassador. it was too far out there for me to grab, you know. doing this job makes me feel good. because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give

them hope because i was once there. i am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. i used to be like this, you know. i have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. it reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now.

>> good evening, everyone, and thank you for joining us here tonight as we celebrate the accomplishments of the late mayor edwin lee who will be forever documented in the city archives. i was honored to be in chinatown earlier today to present mayor lee and the city he loved, a summary of accomplishments, 2011 through 2017, to our city librarian, michael lambert, and even though one book cannot fully convey what ed lee did for our city and what he gave to our city, it is a critical -- it is of critical importance to record his accomplishments and document his legacy, and his place in san francisco's history. [cheers and applause]

>> as you know, previous mayoral administrations compiled and published accomplishments at the end of their tenure, but because mayor lee tragically and unexpectedly passed away, almost two years before the end of his second term, the record of his administrative accomplishments and highlights had to wait. that is because when faced with unspeakable tragedy, mayor lee's apartment head, his staff, and his friends knew that we had to do what he would want us to do, and he would want us to take care of the city, which we did, to provide a smooth transition to mayor breed, then mayor farrell, and now back to mayor breed. [laughter] >> and to keep the people of san francisco as a higher priority, even while we grieved. we now have had time to reflect on nearly seven years of his administration, and today, we

are gathered here to memorialize his leadership and contributions , affirm his legacy , and celebrate the man and the mayor, and who he was. please take time to read through the book. it details his work on critical issues that he faced in the city , also very familiar because we are dealing with these issues today, the need for more housing at all income levels, housing for homeless, providing clean and safe neighborhoods, building a resilient city. improving local and regional transportation, fighting climate change, introducing innovation and new technology into city government, strengthening the city's social safety net and vital -- fighting for civil rights, equity, inclusion missed the back draft of national attacks on our civic value, all while celebrating san francisco. none of this happened in a vacuum. we have to remember that mayor

lee's administration began amid a backdrop of national, economic uncertainty, record unemployment , and overwhelming city budget deficits. this book puts his accomplishments and administration in historical context and details his work to stabilize a city struggling through the great recession, putting people back to work, and protecting city services. i would like to give a special thank you to our hard-working committee, former mayoral staff, department heads, and colleagues to help get us over the finish line. i would like to thank selena song, our project manager extraordinaire. [cheers and applause] >> a special thank you to mayor lee's chief of staff steve kava and jason elliott. [cheers and applause] >> as we were breve -- grieving, jason had the presence of mind

to start collecting all of this information that went in the book today, and we appointed kate howard to collect it, and i want to thank kate howard. [applause] she was the chief of staff to mayor lee, his great strategic advisors and communication team, christine, tony, and deirdre. [cheers and applause] >> mary jo who helped put this event together tonight, and many more. [cheers and applause] >> thomas lee who did the great graphics, jay, caitlin, cairo, lee may, olga, francis, and marc -- and martha who put the table cloths out in the colors of all the great sports teams that mayor lee loved, the giants, the

warriors, and the 40 niners. [cheers and applause] >> he was a champion and leader for all. he had a track record for bringing people together as evidenced by the way people -- by the array of people you see here tonight. i want to thank you for joining us. up next, i would like to introduce our mayor, london breed. [cheers and applause] >> hello, everyone. good evening. i had a prepared speech, but i decided to deviate from it because i was looking through this book, and i saw this picture with mayor lee and michelle obama. let me tell you the story behind the picture. we were at the salesforce conference, and we were listening to the fireside chat,

and of course, it was michelle obama, so we were all excited and giddy, and afterwards, you know, they usually have the photo line, and so the mayor and i, i jumped on his bandwagon, of course, deirdre, i thank you were there, and is it okay, we need to get you a picture with michelle obama, let's go, let's go, i was like his staffer, because i knew how to do that, too. so i am bringing the mayor up, and we are standing in line. and i said wait a minute, this is the mayor of san francisco, and all these people -- this is the mayor of san francisco, we are way back here, and i start seeing people, and i start getting those folks to come over to help us. basically, i said, we are going to the front of the line because , you know, he has to get back to work, this is the mayor of san francisco, everybody, so we cut in line, and then someone sauce, and they moved us up to

the very front, and guess who was the first person to take a picture with michelle obama? was actually me. [laughter] >> but the point is, the point is, the mayor was so gracious, and that was the kind of person that he was. he would have stood in that line , he would have stood in that line and waited, he would have taken a picture with everyone who would have asked him, he would've had conversations with anyone because that was a kind of person he was. he would very -- he was very gracious, and over the course of the time that i worked with him as a member of the board of supervisors, again, it was, okay , this is what i want, and then it was like, okay, mayor, i will do the press conference on my own, i will take all the credit for it, you don't mind, do you? and he would always say, go ahead, because the work was more important to him, the results of the work that we were doing to serve the citizens of this city,

it was more important than who got the credit. and that was so -- what was so amazing about him as someone who wasn't necessarily a politician. he was just a person who cared about doing good things for people. he cared about doing good things for san francisco. he cared about making great things happen for the people of san francisco. many of you, you either work for him or work with him, you cared about him because he genuinely, not only cared about the work you were doing, he cared about your lives and what was going on in your lives, and how your lives were impacted by the decisions that we were making in city hall every single day. so it is really a fitting tribute to have this documentation to just really recognize and put into perspective all of the work that he has done, and as someone who is now in the position as mayor, i have to tell you, it is a newfound appreciation for mayor

lee and what he did, and how he worked with people, and how he basically, i don't know how he tolerated all the stuff that he did. [laughter] >> but it is a newfound appreciation for what he did to keep the city going, and to take this and look at the number of jobs, and to look at the climate change, and all the different initiatives, and all the work, and how much of an impact that it has not only had on the citizens of san francisco, but people follow san francisco's example in other cities throughout the country. the things that we did here are many of the things that other communities are now trying to duplicate, and his leadership, his forethought, his inspiration , and what he did to get the city to this point has been absolutely amazing. we were so lucky to have his leadership, to have his support, to have his guidance, and yes, on occasion, to have his not so

funny jokes. [laughter] >> which, you know, and nita would just laugh and rolled her eyes a bit, but that was her boo , so she had his back. and to all the folks here that worked for mayor lee over the years, thank you for your service, thank you for the work that you did when we lost him, and you all just rose to the occasion. it was not about personalities, it wasn't about politics, it was about the work and moving the city forward, and taking care of san francisco. thank you to anita and your family for just allowing us the opportunity to work with him. i remember a time when i would come to his office to meet with him and you would be right there and i said, i will just be five minutes, and you said okay, you always said yes. you are always very supportive, and i'm so excited that naomi and her team had the foresight

to come together to create what i think is a great documentation of his work, and we also know that even now, and most mayors probably wouldn't say this, but even now when i'm cutting those ribbons, i know that was because of the hard work of mayor lee. a lot of the fruits of his labor were now start -- we are now starting to see come to light because of the new housing, because of, you know, the chase center that will be opening this year. all these incredible things that he made happen in san francisco, and this is the only time i am going to not take credit for those accomplishments. [laughter] >> so thank you to everyone who is here tonight to celebrate, you know, our mayor, mayor lee, and his amazing legacy for our legacy -- for our city, and i know his birthday was may 5th, and i see our former fire chief is here.

[applause]. >> she retired on his birthday as a tribute to mayor lee, again , i saw you, you are the best boss -- best boss ever. he was a great boss, he was a great friend, and he was a great human being, and we all miss him every single day, and i want to thank all of you for being here for this special tribute to mayor lee and the work that he is done to make san francisco a better place for us now and for generations to come. with that, i would like to introduce the person who basically, i mean, steve, you have been in city government forever, i can't even believe you are retired now, but he has come out of retirement to occasionally assist me every now

and then, and he said i wasn't as nice as ed lee in terms of being a boss, but, you know, i am working on it, actually, no, i'm not. [laughter] >> steve was mayor lee's chief of staff, as you all know, for so many years, and he was like any typical chief of staff, he was always telling us know, and what we couldn't do, and yelling out is about money and how irresponsible we are, and we have to take care of the citizens of the city, and then we would go ask mayor lee for something, and he said sure, you can have that, you can do whatever you want. he was the good cop and steve was the bad cop, but for the purposes of protecting the city, he was definitely a dear friend to mayor lee. steve kava. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. she is absolutely correct, mayor lee was a lot nicer. [laughter]

>> he actually paid me when i worked for him, when i work worked for her, she doesn't pay. [laughter]. >> it is so great to be here tonight, and nita, to see you, and to see a lot of familiar faces and friendly faces. it is pretty much every day i think about mayor lee ones something comes up in a drive-by something. today was no different. i got a text this morning from tony winnick a. and tony said, i forgot, can you speak tonight at the event? and he followed it with, and it will be short, and i said, it will be short? no, if mayor lee was here, that would be like taking a slope all over home plate with him to bat, and he would hit that comment out of the park with another short joke, and for the years i worked with him, i heard a lot of short jokes. i heard a lot of jokes, and the

person who enjoyed those jokes the most was the mayor. [laughter] >> he would laugh and laugh, jason, and all the rest of us would be trying to get to work, and he would still be laughing about those jokes. but i miss his laugh, i miss it every day, but today, we're here to talk about his legacy, his amazing legacy, and one of the things people don't realize is if you look back at his history as mayor, he was ahead of the time. yes, he became mayor in the midst of the great recession, 40,000 san franciscans where without a job when he became mayor. that was the issue of the day, not for him. he had a big job, but he thought about them and their jobs, and the fact they didn't have one.

and how does one raise a family, how does one take care of themselves. when you talk about income inequality, if you don't have a job, what does that mean? he went right to work. he went right to work here. an area of town that nobody paid attention to. he put something in place that allow this economic prosperity, that to this day, the longest economic prosperity in san francisco's history is still going on. [applause] but guess what? i think mayor breed has a huge task at hand and she has been doing a tremendous job on the issue of housing, but who started that housing initiative nobody else was talking about it mayor lee, the housing trust fund in 2011 when he was interim

mayor. he did the most difficult thing when it comes to governing, he just decided to do it by consensus, it is not easy bringing the people of the city into one space, into one room, with all different voices, and try to get them to agree. you all know that. you guys try every day to do it. he was a master at doing it. he was a master because of who he was, his personality, the fact that nobody was offended by him, nobody was offended by him. he didn't offend anybody. he allowed you to open your mind , to come in and know that something good can happen from this. he did the housing trust fund, and he did something else, mayor breed was his champion with this , he decided to make sure that all those folks living in public housing weren't separate from san francisco, they would be part of san francisco under his administration and forever. [applause]

>> mayor breed is keeping up the good work. he also, by the way, was the first person in san francisco that said, we should raise the minimum wage. december of 2014, a lot of people take credit for that now, but he is the one who announced it, do you remember that, jason? in 2014, the first one out of the box to say we need to now start addressing this issue of income inequality, and he did that. he did so much more. the fact that this city has never had the world-class entertainment center like the chase center that is about to happen, i mean, this city, san francisco, didn't have one. it is going to have one because of one person, ed lee. [applause]. >> we should all thank him for that. and so i could go on and on, and that book goes on and on about

the great things that he did, but he would be really mad at me right now. he would be saying, i didn't do it, steve, they did it. he wouldn't want the credit. he wanted you all to have the credit, because guess what? he valued public service, and he valued public servants, he didn't disgrace you or disparage you, he knew, from his own history what you do every single day to make this city and this society a better place. he honored you every single day by the way he carried himself, his steadiness, his lack of selfishness that he had, the selflessness that he had, it was truly amazing. he was the mayor, but the man is also someone that we should all look up to, how he conducted himself in a very stressful

environment here in city hall and other places with the issues that he had. he never, never reacted negatively to the staff when the stress was on him. he took it all in himself. he bore that burden himself. he was quite the man, i will never forget him, i don't think any of us will ever forget him. his legacy, which is in that book, is also in our hearts, you know, i was trying to think what words can really say about mayor lee, and ed lee the public servant. there is a famous speech that a senator from massachusetts, i speak a little bit like him, but a senator from massachusetts gave at a convention speech in new york. and he said, for those who's cares are our concern, the cars,

the work goes on, the hope still lives, and the dreams shall never die. thank you mayor lee for making so many dreams come true. [applause] >> that was beautiful, steve. next up, i will call annie chung from self-help for the elderly. [applause] >> thank you. when mayor lee made -- when you made the statement about ed never takes credit for anything, and he is just so humble and modest, it reminds me of a similar story that the mayor

always comes to our thanksgiving lunch that we give to about 3,000 seniors every year at self-help, and so that year, we were waiting for him, you know, for the car to drive him, and sometimes, just the mayor came in from another event, and then that day, i didn't see any police car, no escort, you know, no staff, and ed was just walking across the street from nation street, so we all said, mayor, where is your car, where is your driver? he said i gave them the day off, and i just drove myself. after the event, we said, can we escort you to the car? and he said if i can't walk to my car in chinatown, i couldn't go anywhere. [laughter]. >> i said, that's right. so naomi, you asked me to say something about ed today, and i

have been to a lot of events, i've been to a lot of memorials for ed, been to a lot of celebrations, and i think, steve , you are right. every day we walk by his tree near the asian art museum that mope planted, a lot of us where there that day, and we walk by the chinese newcomer's school in chinatown, and we walk by places where we remember him playing ping-pong with walter right there, and so every day, there is something in our city and in our community, and in our life that we think of mayor lee. he was an extra, extra special person. i knew him from the late seventies when i started to work at self-help, and he was an attorney at the asian law caucus we were both assigned to make sure that the public housing tenants are living in decent and

safe housing, so he placed -- he played the lawyer's part to sue the housing authority, and i play the social worker part, which is to support the tenants with whatever they want. i think that dedication and commitment to the people who are not as fortunate as we are in this room, has always been part of ed's d.n.a. he always fought for every case, and protected the unreserved, the minority, our seniors, our families, and our youth in the community that needed his help. i remember when he became mayor in 2011, as interim, then 2012, the first thing he did was to ask me, to make sure that i bring to him and whatever the seniors are lacking. he said, make sure you call me or let me know what the seniors

need, and almost immediately, the state started to cut the number of very essential senior programs, like the health centers that were threatened to close down, and ed did what he promised to when we brought the problem to him. he asked kate, at that time, and steve to backfill the state money that we were going to lose to make sure that the seven centers remained in san francisco to serve the very needy and handicap -- handicapped seniors. so i worked with mayor lee on the immigration issues that steve mentioned, on the minimum wage with jason, and with a number of issues that many of us in this room are friends and colleagues, but more friends to add, and he would -- we would do anything that the mayor asked us to do. that's how much we trusted him, that's how much we loved him, and that's also how much he, in

return, loved and supported all of us in the community. naomi, i don't know if i'm supposed to share this, but i thought that, as a tribute to mayor lee, for the last 13 months, our community has been working quietly with naomi, karen, and steve on renaming the international terminal after mayor lee. [cheers and applause] >> we thought that being the mayor of san francisco, and having done so much for the airport, and making san francisco and international international, well-known famous city, this would be an easy task we had lunch with you and naomi, and we said, let's collect the signatures, we submitted it to the airport commission, and we should be able to get the

international terminal renamed. many of our cochairs are here tonight, walter, norman, henry, and malcolm. we collected 22,000 signatures within two weeks. it is an easy ask. nobody said no. along with the letters of support, and a short strategy that steve and naomi and the community had advised we submitted these, and the airport -- at the airport commission, and then we were told there was a process in renaming and dedicating anything at the s.f.o., even for mayor lee. so 13 months went by, with many, many scenarios and schemes, and the airport staff worked very hard. i was appointed on the special advisory committee, there were nine of us. many other commissioners, and we

were at a standstill, we were -- we couldn't accept any of the schemes that the airport staff, at that point, had recommended, and then we were looking to anita and the girls to give us some green light as to how much compromise we should take, but in all of that, steve, naomi, karen, i remember what you said constantly that if the mayor was here, he would not like to see as fight over this, he would be the first one to say, no, i don't need it, don't go through all this to rename the terminal after me, and that is just the way ed was. but the good news is, we got nine votes at the may meeting from the special committee, so

unanimous, and on june 4th, we are taking the resolution that the committee approved to the airport commission, and i'm hoping that it will be a unanimous vote on june 4th, and anita, that would be our birthday gift to our mayor and to the family. when we walk in in the future, in the near future, in the departures hall, in the international terminal right in the center, you will see mayor edwin m. lee international terminal departures hall. thank you very, very much. i have gone to a lot of you for support, and we loved ed, and thank you. naomi, i have to say, reading through all of his accomplishments, i have to think all of you that worked with ed and for ed. we are on the outside, and we don't know how much work it is, but seeing all that was done, and so many of us are involved with so many pieces of it, and that's why ed was as good a

mayor he was because of all of you, so thank you. [applause] >> thank you. so, i don't think mayor brown made it here this evening, i don't see him, but he did love mayor lee, he was very instrumental working with steve kavanaugh and our former governor, our governor and former mayor gavin newsom. jason elliott just had a heart attack right there. [laughter] >> but in having and become the interim mayor when mayor newsom went on to run for lieutenant governor, so he has had wonderful things, and was a wonderful advisor, and a good friend to all of a sudden, to mayor brown, and to mayor lee. before i conclude, i want to give you a few more next steps on what the committee is working on. we plan to make the book digital

so that we can post it to the san francisco public library's web -- webpage and to the edwin m. lee foundation website. we are working on translating the book into chinese, spanish and tagalog, we, it has been almost 18 months since he passed away, and this would be the natural time that he would have been thinking about his accomplishments and creating the book, so this month is asian-pacific heritage month, it is also the month of his birthday, so we worked in a very short time frame to turn the book around. we only have a few copies here tonight, but there is a list on the table back there for everyone to order one if you are interested, but it also will be digital. with that, this concludes our program. thank you all for attending, it was really nice to just be around everyone in this room tonight, and today we have food and beverages, let's all have a

toast to mayor ed lee. thank you. [cheers and applause] [♪] >> the annual celebration of hardly strictly bluegrass is always a hit now completing itself 12 year of music in the incredible golden gate park. >> this is just the best park to come to. it's safe. it's wonderful and such a fun time of the year. there is every kind of music you can imagine and

can wander around and go from one stage to another and just have fun. >> 81 bands and six stages and no admission. this is hardly strictly bluegrass. >> i love music and peace. >> i think it represents what is great about the bay area. >> everyone is here for the music and the experience. this is why i live here. >> the culture out here is amazing. it's san francisco. >> this is a legacy of the old warren hel ment and receive necessary funding for ten years after his death. >> there is a legacy that started and it's cool and he's done something wonderful for the city and we're all grateful. hopefully we will keep this thing going on for years and years to come.