kids and i'll be here to help if i'm chosen in your efforts to cree tivcreate that system and e our kids get what they need and ultimately the city of san francisco should be save and thriving for a better tomorrow. thank you. samuel carr, seats 10 and 11. >> i'm not samuel carr. he had some things he needed to address with his son at school. which personally, i admire that priority. sam's experience in jewe juve nl call started. he took a ged, went t junior college and san francisco state and got a masters and two

bachelors. he has been at juvenile hall for 15 years trying to wake youth up. i'm going to talk about sam if that's ok. i currently, today, have youth on my caseload from sunny dale and the towers. and from the point and from oak dale and double rock and eddy rock, mack block, the chop, and all who hate each other. neighborhoods who may hate each other but from my personal experience with these, every last one of them knows and respects and trusts sam. and from my conversations with sam, he knows and loves everyone of them. imagine when a guy like this could do without being confined through the chains of our archaic system so that's all i'm going to say.

thank you. >> constance walker, seat 11. >> good afternoon, my name is constructor stance walker i'm a special education teacher. i'm honored to be here today because i think it's so important. i worked with the students at wood side for 22 years and it's been a privilege to work with the amaze students and i'm a teacher for exceptional needs, co director of the juvenile justice restorative garden program and a teacher, trainer for culturally responsive teacher and the lgbtq coordinator. i acknowledge as a white teacher, the need to check my own bias and privileged and i continue to work on that. i learned from my students about their struggle with poverty, neglected communities, racism, and disconnect with schools. but what the kids say over and

over again is that being separated from their family is the worse pain. and one student told me that we shouldn't make our school program pleasant in anyway because it makes kids comfortable and institutionalized. and that really had a big impact on me. so the paradox is that no matter how much effort we take to create relevant curriculum and a warm school environment, it's still a jail cell that they go back to. so, we know we're failing because we see so many of the same kids over and over again and what we're doing is not working. so maybe we can stop looking at them and what they're doing wrong and start looking at ourselves and what we're doing wrong. my students tell he me what support and resources they needed that would have prevented them from entering the system in the first place. if we all listen to them, i believe we have a chance to

create a new future that's why i'm hopeful for this opportunity. i would offer my experience as an educator to work with students of different ages and skill levels and inclusive classrooms using trauma informed and culturally responsive practices. it would be an honor to help with this process. thank you. >> thank you. kevin lewis, seat 11. >> good afternoon, kevin lewis. i want to apply for seats 10 and 11. on the agenda it said 11. my name is kevin lewis i'm a native of san francisco and work at jewel knif juvenile hall. i've been working there for a decade and working with youth of san francisco for 20 years. prior to working at juvenile hall, i was a san francisco

school bis driver and i worked at the mission. i drove the school bus i was working on my degree in social work and i wanted to dedicate my professional life to helping marginalized and at risk youths in the city. in 2007, i fulfilled my goal and gained employment with the san francisco jewel knife probation department as a councilor. while growing up, i was in trouble with the police. i turned my life around in my 20s and discovered that i had a gift that i wanted to use to help young people. and that give was my experience as a juvenile. today i have another gift that i can use to help youth of san francisco. that's my experience working at juvenile hall. i work on the line one-on-one daily. i sit with youth and listen to them tell me about their family and personal struggles. quite often i establish relationships with youth that are based on trust and respect and sometimes never been established with any other adult in their life. i tend to sort the yearly outdoor adventure and camping trip where probation youth are given an opportunity to gain

employment with the park and rec. it's a really good opportunity. and i support that. i've seen a lot during my career. the most prevalent and disturbing thing is how the system quite often sets up youth for failure. i'll be bring that to the table. i would like to come to the table with my experience to juvenile hall. i will bring my co-workers opinions and concerns to the table. i'm knowledgeable about title 15 as well as the department policy and procedures and i'm committed to working on this group to develop a realistic plan that keeps the best interest of the youth and in mind and keeping san francisco residents safe. i ask that i be considered for either one of those chairs. >> thank you. >> and is there anybody who applied that was not here when i may have called their name?

come on up. thank you. >> i'm danielle and i am working as a case manager at sunset youth services. a little bit about my personal and professional. i was able to attend old jewel juvenile so i got the experience to full both in. i can say that being jewel knife made me relapse and go back many of the best thing that happened to me was a rehabilitation program which i'm a proud alumni. it helped me and i group with gh that. i'll have my hands in non-profit group being i'm from the bay view hunters point, i'm a single mom. i feel that they don't rehabilitate us, we don't give us the resources that we need to

not go back in. they just lock us away and be like you are going to do your time and figure it out. i don't believe that's what should be happening. i believe that we need more programs that. that helped me to help these young people p that's it. >> thank you. is there anyone else that didn't get a chance to speak? with that said, we will now up for public comment. if you have public comment, please, lineup over here to my left, your right. you have two minutes. >> good afternoon, supervisors. kim san francisco labor council. i just want to say thank you so much for passing this legislation. one of my earliest experiences when i first came out to san francisco was visiting my brother in stockton. and so i know how traumatizing

it can be. with that said, on behalf of the san francisco labor council, i want to speak in support of three candidates for seats 9, 10 and 11. they would be constant walker, samuel carr and debra bill. that's who the labor council has put forward fort labor seats and we strongly encourage to you appoint those folks. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. political organizer for seiu local 1001. i'm excited we're at this juncture in this movement to close jewe juvenile hall. we know it was a challengely start and it required a lot of meetings. i think many of you got to meet samuel carr to speak with him to learn about his experiences and what he brings to the table. we are very excited he applied and we're very excited that other members of sieu local 10/1

applied and. >> aarti: less of who you chose we will ensure that the voices of all of our members are part of the process. for me personally, because this is an exciting opportunity, i think an opportunity to create a bigger table that brings together the public sector workers but also the non-profit workers' community and people who have been directly impacted by juvenile hall in a positive and negative way to ensure we create a better system going forward. we're definitely committed at local 10/1 and ensuring the purchases ex the goals of the legislation are accomplished and that is for us that the main priority and again working with our members and empowering them and thank you for moving this forward. >> thank you. next speaker. >> sabrina hall. thank you for letting everyone have an opportunity to speak. i just want to say to whatever gets appointed, please keep in mind of what i said about

district 10's plight. the juvenile system will never be restored. people are suffering. our children are being stolen from us, blamed by cps and blamed on behavioral problems or something in the home. we go to these sigh psychologists and they dying noisdiagnoseour children that gm addicted to drugs or wind up in jewel knife or jail. not only that, our and my 13-year-old asked what language we speak. she said no what language we speak. we have no sense of belonging and we need, in order for juvenile, even if it's closed or not for our children, to be sent on the right path. we need community involvement. we need a whole village to raise the children. we need our african american

children to feel like they belong here. we have no classes for language up in there in schools. we have nothing for our simone a community that teaches them how to speak. we have no sense of belonging so it will be a whirlwind effect even if juvenile gets closed the plight of district 10 and being that the construction took the dirt somewhere else, no telling where else the dirt went around, we are still suffering. we should not be blamed for be breeders to have our children are stolen from us or our men stolen from us in jail because of something we did not even asked to be in. thank you. >> next speaker. >> thank you for having me here. so i wanted to just give you a little bit more information about me and what i'm doing. -- >> that time has already passed. >> community comment. >> if you want to speak on other applicants that's ok. >> i want to say that i will

recommend that we do the best to pick the best people but i wanted to say that we don't want y'all to forget about us that did apply because we all can be a working group at any other entity is what i'm trying to express because i am founding an organization because i am the voice of the aftermath on drugs for bay view so i have started an organization called born and raised community developers whereas one of my roles would like to be supervisor shaman is because we're going to close juvenile we need to do some real good education around if it's closed that we don't want our children in urban communities to just think because it's closed that they can be doing things other than what we need them to be doing so i will likely consider grass root organizations to help y'all move this mission. thank you. >> next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon. annabell political director of united e educators of san francisco. i stand here in solidarity with the san francisco labor council in the appointments of constructor stance walker for seat nine and member of united educators of san francisco and debra bill, member of teamsters local 856 for seat 6, samuel carr and for seat number 11. i want to state that there is evidence and research that has concluded that involvement in the juvenile system reduces negative outcomes for young people simply stated incarceration increases a young person's likelihood of committing future offenses and we heard that today from many of the applicants. i also want to state that we had three amazing members who applied and that is constant walker, david padilla and laura

papplin and we support the appointment of constant walker who say teacher at juvenile detention center and she learns how time prove outcome for students by implementing corporately responsive teachers and studying experts in the fields like increase and in classroom. we surger urge to appoint her ft number nine 678. they have been working with the student population for over 30 years and understanding the needs of this youth and has worked in various programs which service youth needs so he understands how this program should come together in a designed to serve our youth. we support him foray pointment number 6. seat number 6. i also want to state our support for lauren. and a member of uesf and she

bring a vast of experience. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> hello, again. i just wanted to comment, public comment on supportive the parent and youth seats. i really want to echo to you all that it is priority to support youth seats in advocate for the seat for the youth on this working group and for the parent seat because right now, those are who is on the ground in the point and in the mission right now working with young folks. i also have those who are -- there are two cultures. so someone who is an ally to black folks, it's my duty to fulfill that what does it mean to center a black leadership from the youth that the he willers to bheeldersand i've beg

around what solutions are, how do we do -- how do we have extended working groups for the support of the working group and thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> hello. after sitting through the whole process, i would like to -- i think we're in good hands with the applicants that are -- i'd like to withdraw my seat and endorse a few people that i feel like i've had experience and seen their work. the person that i would like to -- i'm withdrawing from seat one and two and i would like to endorse is vallentina. a native, i've seen her passion. i've seen her work. and denise coleman for seat one. denise coleman embodies san francisco and she's been through

the fight and struggle. candy, who is for seat 4. jane and i want to commend my poll -- joanna hernandez. also for seat five. if we can open another seat, to add these two in here it's very important. lanni holmes. i've seen him work at juvenile hall for seats 6, 8 and 9. meghan macurio. daniel macular. i don't think he knows he is my mentor but he still is. this guy, when there were, they promise when they built juvenile hall and they promised us not to fill it up, daniel was the only guy that showed up. he said, meet me up at juvenile hall. we went and spoke to the chief at that time.

and you promised this, you said this, what can we do? and that same week released 20 kids that should not have been in there so i truly endorse him and last without least, lauren papilla for seat nine. >> thank you for making a teeny bit's year by withdrawing. >> the list that i gave you, that's it. [laughter] >> hello supervisors. i guess i'm the last one to speak, right. serve a little extra time. >> [laughter] >> i know you guys have been here a long time. let me give you a quick history. i'm the first african american youngest commissioner up at juvenile hall that was appointed. i'm the first and youngest fastest commissioner that was appointed to president at juvenile hall. i wish we had all 36 heats because you got wonderful candidates. and i wish you could appointment and i wish i could over rule you

guys and appoint them. i can't. let me tell you about those i have worked with. and since kimo withdrew, he made my life easy. so i'm going to start with nate ford. i've known nate ford for almost 40 years. born and raised in the western edition and grew up at the boy's club when it was called the boy's club. this young man grew up to be something spectacular. i watched him and i've seen him and i know him personally. ron, always been my white partner who always had my back on all the occasions. he is right there. always. we don't see color. we see human. at the end of the day when we bleed, we bleed red. denise.

i worked with denise tremendously. these are the folks i'm telling you about. fierce fighter and has some of my staff working down there and we always make sure that my staff and her staff always do the right thing by these kids. vallentina, what can i say about her? she's dedicated. you already know. sabrina, just met her. hard. fierce. speaks her mind and the truth and says what is on her heart. joanna. advocate. hard-worker. always has my back. always supported me. been dedicated from day one. >> the microphones have been turned off.

[ off mic ] >> my more speakers for public comment? seeing none. we will close the time allotted for public comment. i want to say a few things and my colleagues have some things that they want to say. but, you know, as we discuss at beginning, this is very hard. to take, of course, the nine people who are going to be selected today, is not an easy task for us.

everybody in this room has worked in juvenile justice in some way or is effected by the justice system. most of the folks in this room worked very hard for us to get to the point where we are today where we can talk about the type of reform that says we're going to close down a place that needs to change and provide a real opportunity for our young people. we have to make decisions looking at the great folks in here and what communities are over represented and what communities are not represented and which professionals have opportunities to sit at table and we have to make our decision this is accordance with that so i want to say that i'm excited about every applicant here and i am. this is one of those times where i just get to be proud of folks in san francisco and what they want to do. as we fight for our young people

and a lot of us have been fighting for our young people for decades to have this quality of folks that step forward is important. also, i want to say you know, as having a mother who was effected by me being in the juvenile justice system and having to deal with me from their ages of 15 to 18 in and out of juvenile hall, all the parents i see here today that want to serve thank you for coming in and thank you for sharing your stories and your passion and like ms. banks said, because we can't pick everybody, we definitely will work to make sure that there are opportunitieopportunities for oo play a pivotal role as we move forward and work to our decembei just want everyone to know that if you are not selected, this is a big conversation, a big-tent process that we have to have

with all of our communities. we didn't get here. with a small group of folks and we're not going to be able to really realize our vision without working together and so, i just want to say that because this is, by no means going to be a reflection of how qualified someone is or how dedicated and committed someone is, it's just a matter of scheer numbers and having to make choices and as we move forward with the selection process. so with that said, colleagues, do you have anything you want to say? >> >> sure, i just wanted to also thank all of the applicants. just hearing nur stories and about all the work you do so support young people to achieve their full potential is not just impressive but truly inspiring. for me, as a member of this board, as a long time social justice organizer, and as a

parent of a teenager i just really appreciate all that you do and your different ways and yes, we have some hard or difficult decision to make around the appointments and -- i want to say i'm going to sort of fall the lead of my colleagues because you have been leading on these important issues but i want to press one sort of personal preference and in support for ron and just because of his 28 years of tremendous experience, number one, just in his direct work supporting young people impacted by the justice system with deep compassion and love and number two the advocacy and leadership that he has demonstrated over the decades towards reforming our juvenile justice system and serving on working groups and including as

a co-founder of jjpa and just for his personal qualities, in really treating others with the utmost dignity and respect and whether it's the young people and their families or his fellow colleagues or comrades in this movement or even us as elected officials or city officials and i think his personal qualities are reflected in his successful history of coalition building and advocacy and in collaboration so i think even his presentation today reflect that and how he expressed his deep respect for all the other applicants and so i'll leave it at that. thank you. >> yeah, thank you. i just want to say being involved in this process both in working with all of you and supervisor walton and haney to write the legislation and it's

to mounting the political fight that got it passed relatively quickly and enormous support from the board of supervisors. until now, convening or appointing this working group that is going to really do the hard work of coming up with the visionary alternatives and to really give give every youth in san francisco a real chance of getting the support that they need to be incredible members of this sis society that rerefuse to lock-up youth and forget about them. we know we are do better. being part of this effort has been the honor of my lifetime

and it's probably one of the most significant things that i've been involved in in these halls. it's the type of transformative vision and work that is going to transform our society and make it look like the one we dream about all the time and so i just wanted to, from the bottom of my heart, thank every single one of you who has been willing to stand up and in this really profound way and it's exciting and i keep saying to people that ask us about this work that we sort of led on the hard political work to get this passed and now, we're handing over the baby to you all to do the hard, real work to get it done and so i just can't appreciate you all enough and let you know that we're going to be watching you closely and

rooting you on every step of the way. thank you. >> thank you, so what that said, and again a disclaimer, because there are some folks in this room that i have worked with for years and several capacity to really improve the lives of young people. i have the utmost respect for you but as i make a motion foray pointments for seats, understand that i cannot make a motion to appoint all of you. with that said, our work together is going to definitely continue because again, these 15 people as a whole on the task force are going to dive in with the nitty gritty but the vision, the passion, the dedication, the commitment, the actual brain power comes from the masses on

this work and so i just want to reiterate as i make my motion. with that said, i would like to move forward with the recommended appointments of christina gomes for seat one. for young women's development from the beginning of this process, she's been engage and helping to bring the voice and to the process. the center has been working on justice reform for decades and pushed policy reform for many years. and as a member of the jjpa, she comes highly recommended and i'm happy to move forward with her name for seat 1. for seat 2, this will require a residency waiver, vallentina sedeno. i'm moving her forward because she's engage in justice reform herren tirher entire career.

she has the home detention program, the evening reporting center, and has supervisorred staff who work in the home. she has a personal interest in having her own brother being a part of the juvenile justice advertise tom ansystem. she has a deep understanding of how it works and what we can do to truly reform. as we said before, seat 3 and 4, we will continue to a later date and so for seat 5, i am recommending joanna hernandez, who also requires a residency waiver. she is a parent whose son was failed by our system and who is still -- she still supports in the adult system. i believe that our work of bringing family and rights and father's rights will be great editions to this advisory group and her work and experience has also demonstrated that her

professional career has been working with youth in custody. as the home detention director, and the founder of young queen's on the rise program, for young girls, she is familiar with the programming that keeps youth out of custody and supported by communities. for seat 6, lonnie holmes. lonnie understands firsthand all the various services that are provided to the youth at ygc. he is familiar with budgets and licensing of facilities and has over seen group homes provided to youth on probation. we need someone with his deep knowledge of what a facility can look like and how we can make it happen. seat 7, i move we appoint den ice coleman. she brings a unique perspective to this workgroup. her experience in a us being abg drugs gives her a personal lens that is needed in this

workgroup. and her work with programs in particular shows that herren tire professional career makes her the best equipped to fill this seat. i would also say for seat number 8, and a residency waiver will be required, mr. dan macallair. for my entire career in san francisco, i have received dan's reports and data from cjcj and in addition to dan being our local data person, he has published reports dating back to as far as 1994. he has been in this work for three decades and he is supported by a broad spectrum of communities. and for seat 9, ms. constructor stance walker. uasf has gone through an extensive process to select a representative they would like to move forward. also supported by the labor

council. for seat 10, ms. debra bill. who also requires a residency waiver and teamsters 856 has undergone through an extensive process to select a representative as well as being supported by the labor council. and for seat 11, mr. samuel carr who is already requires a residency waiver. and sciu has gone through an extensive process to select a representative as well as being supported by the labor council. and so, those are the nine people that i wish to move forward. and again, if this was not an easy choice. i work with every single person in here to get us to this point and i hope you do not feel snubs. we're all working together and there are people in this room that i know are excited about

the work and i look forward to continuing to work everybody. that's my motion. >> and can i take that motion without objection, without an objection that motion passes. thank you so much. >> thank you, everybody. >> thank you. >> i would just like to repeat the seats just to be sure the motion is correct. christina gomez, seat 1. vannentina seat 2. i have joanna hernandez seat 5, lonnie homes seat 6. denise coleman seat 7. daniel macallair seat 8. con distance walker seat 9 and samuel carr. yes. >> thank you for confirming. >> is there any other items? >> that completes the agenda for today. >> the meeting is adjourned, thank you.

>> good morning, everyone. what an exciting day in the city of san francisco right here on jefferson street. i want to thank you all for coming out like they say. it takes a village to really come up with a great project and this project is a great project

that involved many people from many city departments, many years ago. it started with the fisherman's worth plan and there were many agencies that were involved. i see john brown from the planning department is here. harlan kelly from p.u.c., our friends from the port are here. the san francisco transportation authority is over there, and many agencies, of course,, public works. they are part of this project. and when this project first started, it was a five block project and we could only find funding to do the first part in the first part was from hyde to jones. but we also had to do it in quick time, in under six months we were able to build the only -- the first part of jefferson street before the america's cup and i can tell you that project has been a fantastic project.

so this phase two is also going to be done in record time, under a year, starting today after this groundbreaking. with that said, i would like to introduce someone that has been a champion for pedestrian safety , implementing vision zero , and really making our safety the beautiful city that it is, i'm making sure that we'll work together. let's welcome our mayor london buried. [cheers and applause] -- london buried. >> thank you to all the community members who are here today to celebrate phase two of four phases of really changing the future and the landscape of fisherman's worth in this area, which is not only visited by people from all around the world , there's actually an incredible community of merchants, of people who live here and who walk these streets every single day. we want to make sure that it is safe, it is walkable, it is

enjoyable and people have incredible experiences when they come to visit san francisco. today we ordered the sun to shine so that people can happen even better experience. this project is an example of how when city departments come together for a common goal, with community members and the fisherman's worth, community business district in the san francisco chamber, thank you, rodney, for being here today, that we can make incredible things happen. i'm excited that public works and the port and the planning department and so many of our agencies have made this a priority. we know that money generated from tourism actually helps to support so many incredible things that we do in san francisco so we want the experiences to be that much better. and looking at how we are taking a street that used to be a one-way, turning into a two away , widening the sidewalks,

making it more clean and more green, and at the same time, thank you to harlan kelly, the director of p.u.c. for digging into the ground, and we are taking around the fiber-optic cables that all the things that we need to do to make sure that the pipes and infrastructure is working so that we don't have to go back into the ground is absolutely how we should be working on public projects like this. i'm excited. it took a lot of money, yes from a lot of different resources, and i want to say a special thank you to david chiu for his work in providing resources, working along with supervisor aaron peskin and supervising estate resources to make this project a reality. it does take a village. it does take a lot of money and here we are at the end of what is phase two to make something incredible happening for this particular neighborhood. thank you do all the folks involved and i'm excited that

mohammed has promised to do this in record time and within budget we will be watching very closely because that is what i care about the most. i know that one of the most fiscally conservative persons on the board of supervisors cares about that as well. ladies and gentlemen, your supervisor, aaron peskin. [applause] >> thank you. good things come to people who are patient. as down from the port to knows, this goes back to 2003 when the community gathered with the port and started a community plan. some years later, the planning department stepped in even before the days of john ram and graham and that led to phase i. let's be real, there was a little concern.

rodney will remember, back in the days when he had the wax museum, widening of the sidewalks was going to inhibit vehicular transportation here even though we all knew it was going to actually make fisherman 's worth -- wharf keep up. years ago they brought the f. line in here and that was a boom to fisherman's wharf and it is beloved around san francisco and around the world. after that, we expanded the sidewalks. fisherman's worth is the goose that lays the golden egg for san francisco. year in and year out. it is high time that san francisco city government reinvest so that fisherman's wharf will continue to be the envy of the world. $600 million in retail sales, $250 million related to hotels, millions and millions, 16 million people come here every year.

thirty-nine is the number one tourist attraction in the city and county of san francisco. investing $16 million of city and state funds makes perfect sense for this fiscally prudent supervisor, including, and i am wearing now my hat as chair of the san francisco county transportation authority, not only $1.2 million of your half cent sales tax, but each of the members of that body get $200,000 to invest. i put my $200,000 into this project. it is just a little bit, but it helped make it go. congratulations to all the departments and particularly the community that made this happen. thank you so much. [applause] next, from the port of san francisco, we are on port property until you get in the middle of that street, then you're on mohammed's property, but we are on the lands of the

port of san francisco. it's executive director, elaine forbes. [applause]. >> thank you so much supervisor peskin. thank you to mayor breed for prioritizing safety and economic development and helping this neighborhood thrive. you have heard from the other speakers about this area being the goose that lays the golden egg, which is completely true. 85% of visitors to san francisco come here and they come back again because it is such a wonderful experience that we have to continue to invest in, but i want to talk for a second about the community that is here we have 500 businesses. many small businesses can eat, many multigenerational businesses that make this place thrive. we have an amazing fisherman's wharf community. we have the fisherman and women who are the reason for this place you have been fishing and making their life off the bay for generations and fisherman's wharf is about the fishing community and about the small communities -- small businesses in the community. that is why it is a special

place to come and visit. i want to acknowledge all the community did to get to this place today, to have our groundbreaking. it is a real celebration to all of you. thank you for making fisherman's wharf such an amazing experience for all the people local and visiting that come and again -- that come again and again. i want to acknowledge my commissioner who is here today. now i'd like to turn it over to randall scott. he is the c.e.o. of the fisherman's wharf c.b.d. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you to all of you. i came here last december to fisherman's wharf and fell in love with it all over again. i want to encourage each and everyone of you to come down and visit and see what is going on. the pedestrian developments of jefferson street, wider sidewalks, easier to walk through, all around the world,

people have been doing this to their cities and the foot traffic and the visitation that comes down with that and the boost of businesses is absolutely fantastic. i can't wait for this to finish. thank you very much for only promising for one year. as mentioned, we are the tourist heart of the city. people come down here, they have fun, they go back to their homes , they bring back more people. i just want to say, you know, to the city, thank you for reinvesting and fisherman's wharf. we promised to take very good care of it and we look forward to those people walking down the street. to those of you in the bay area, i would highly encourage you to come down and visit. this place has something for everyone. we have a treasure hunt do you can go from bar to bar, attraction to attraction and enjoy an entire full day down here. again, thank you to the city and

county of san francisco, thank you all for coming. [applause] >> all right. in fact,, this very spot that we are standing will become a brand-new plaza. as everyone knows, it is a parking lot now but we will redo it and it will have nice paving patterns. those architects at public works , they have had fun with it everybody is okay with it. okay. let's go and break ground. we have some shovels. let's get busy here. >> all right, come on in. ready? squeeze in. squeeze, we don't have to touch.

all right. are you guys ready? five, four, three, two, one. there we go. [cheering]. >> all right. >> all right. thank you. >> what are you going to use it for? [laughter]

>> right before the game starts, if i'm still on the field, i look around, and i just take a deep breath because it is so exciting and magical,

not knowing what the season holds holds is very, very exciting. it was fast-paced, stressful, but the good kind of stressful, high energy. there was a crowd to entertain, it was overwhelming in a good way, and i really, really enjoyed it. i continued working for the grizzlies for the 2012-2013 season, and out of happenstance, the same job opened up for the san francisco giants. i applied, not knowing if i would get it, but i would kick myself if i didn't apply. i was so nervous, i never lived anywhere outside of fridays know, andfridays --

fresno, and i got an interview. and then, i got a second interview, and i got more nervous because know the thought of leaving fresno and my family and friends was scary, but this opportunity was on the other side. but i had to try, and lo and behold, i got the job, and my first day was january 14, 2014. every game day was a puzzle, and i have to figure out how to put the pieces together. i have two features that are 30 seconds long or a minute and a 30 feature. it's fun to put that altogetl r together and then lay that out in a way that is entertaining for the fans. a lucky seat there and there, and then, some lucky games that include players. and then i'll talk to lucille, can you take the shirt gun to the bleachers. i just organize it from top to

bottom, and it's just fun for me. something, we don't know how it's going to go, and it can be a huge hit, but you've got to try it. or if it fails, you just won't do it again. or you tweak it. when that all pans out, you go oh, we did that. we did that as a team. i have a great team. we all gel well together. it keeps the show going. the fans are here to see the teams, but also to be entertained, and that's our job. i have wonderful female role models that i look up to here at the giants, and they've been great mentors for me, so i aspire to be like them one day. renelle is the best. she's all about women in the workforce, she's always in our

corner. [applause] >> i enjoy how progressive the giants are. we have had the longer running until they secure day. we've been doing lgbt night longer than most teams. i enjoy that i work for an organization who supports that and is all inclusive. that means a lot to me, and i wouldn't have it any other way. i wasn't sure i was going to get this job, but i went for it, and i got it, and my first season, we won a world series even if we hadn't have won or gone all the way, i still would have learned. i've grown more in the past four years professionally than i think i've grown in my entire adult life, so it's been eye opening and a wonderful

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