replacement between year one and two, it should be no more than $1.1 million. know that your ability to participate in this program expires after two years. you will not be able to receive prop 60 tax benefits if you cannot make the purchase within two years. so benefit from this tax savings program, you have to apply. just download the prop 60 form from our website and submit it to our office. for more, visit our website, sfassessor.org, good morning phil. good morning san francisco. i am san francisco mayor london breed and i am so excited to be here with each and every one of

you because san francisco although we're dealing with some challenges with this delta virus, we're still coming alive again, we're still re-opening, we're still wearing our masks. and what's most important, what's most important we are enjoying our city and we are making these cable cars available to the public, to san franciscans, for the month of august at no charge. so what does that mean? well, you know what happens when someone gives you something free. that means you have to be patient because during the month of august, typically what will be happening is these operators that are with me today would normally be testing the equipment, making sure things are running smoothly, making sure that they are safe and making sure that the public

is safe, so, please, listen to your operators, be patient, be understanding. this is a process. there is not going to be a complete time schedule, right. yes. but there will be fun and it is worth the wait. you know, san francisco, i can't think of this city without cable cars. and i can't think of this city without all of the great things that we know, love, and treasure. when people come to visit our city, they come downtown here in union square. they go to pier 39 and the fary building. they visit the crooked road on lumbard street. no trip to san francisco is complete without a ride on our cable car. so today, we are officially and i see people are already lined up and waiting to go. we are officially making them available and, as i said to you all before, please be patient. please be understanding.

we have just been through a very challenging 16 months with this pandemic and what that means is things won't just go back to the way that they used to be automatically. it requires all of us to be patient, all of us to be understanding and all of us to do everything we can to just really appreciate the fact that there were lives lost during this pandemic and we are still here, we're still standing and we're still able to enjoy the beauty of san francisco. so, with that, i'll just say have a good time and know and before i introduce jeff actuallin, you have to wear your mask on the cable cars and on muni at this time and please make sure you get vaccinated. it's like this delta variant is like covid on steroids and it's

important that people get vaccinated and most of the people coming through our hospital doors are not vaccinated. we want to get back to normal life. we don't want to shut this country down any longer than we have to so thank you all for being here today and without further adieu, i want to introduce the director jeff tumlin. >> thank you mayor breed. my name is jeffery tumlin and i'm proud to say that on this day, 148 years ago, andrew holiday tested what was then called holiday's falling. adapting obscure gold rush mining technology in order to try to make a form of transportation that can bring san franciscans up and down our

crazy hills. no one thought it would work. and cable cars became one of the most popular forms of public transportation in the city and allow the city to develop beyond the tiny clusters of buildings. we're so pleased that not only did the symbol of san francisco's enginuity survived, but the symbol of our resilience has survived as well. we're many efforts to try to shut them down so i'm so happy to be bringing these services back and i have so many people i have to thank. i need to thank all of the cable car operates and administrators most of whom worked keeping the vaccination clinics running and doing a

thousand other jobs as disaster service workers throughout the pandemic. and, they are here. we are so grateful to them. there are so many people who during the pandemic work to maintain our fleets and rebuild historic ancient cars but i particularly want to thank all of the crews, arnie hanson who delayed his retirement to make sure all of these services made it through the pandemic stronger than they were before so we can continue sustaining this great symbol of san francisco's resiliency. so, without any further adieu, i want to make a couple reminders. first of all, things are going to be a little rough. all three things are operating. they'll be operating from around 7:00 a.m. to around 10:00 p.m. yes, you do need to wear your masks and without any further adieu, i want to invite all of you to join me and the mayor

riding the cable cars half way to the stars and beyond. thank you so much. [cheers and applause]

>> i have been a cable car grip for 21 years. i am a third generation. my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know from the past. you know.

went to school with. people that you work with at other jobs. military or something. kind of weird. it's a small word, you be. like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco? they ride a cable car. >> california line starts in the financial district. people are coming down knobbhill. the cable car picks people up. takes them to work. >> there still is no other device to conquer these hills better than a cable car. nobody wanted to live up here because you had to climb up here. with the invention of the cable car, these hills became

accessible. he watched horses be dragged to death. cable cars were invent in san francisco to solve the problem with it's unique, vertically challenged terrain. we are still using cars a century old >> the old cable car is the most unique thing, it's still going. it was a good design by then and is still now. if we don't do something now. it's going to be worse later. >> the cable cars are built the same as they were in the late 1800's. we use a modern machinery. we haven't changed a thing. it's just how we get there. >> it's a time consuming job.

we go for the quality rather than the production. we take pride in our work and it shows in the end product. >> the california line is mostly locals. the commuters in the morning, i see a lot of the same people. we don't have as tourists. we are coming up to street to chinatown. since 1957, we are the only city in the world that

runs cable cars. these cars right here are part of national parks system. in the early 1960's, they became the first roles monument. the way city spread changed with the invention of the cable car. >> people know in san francisco, first thing they think about is, let's go >> now, i know we think this is normal, to be out here on a parklet, to see some incredible musicians playing and some

smooth jazz. watch folks enjoy wine and food. we think it's normal? it's not. this hardly happened in san francisco before this pandemic because of our bureaucracy and the difficulty of allowing businesses businesses o to support so they can perform in front of their businesses so the reason we're here today is because is we were able to, as a result of the pandemic, allow things like this, this parklet, and other shared, well they're called shared spaces, right, soe of this pandemic, one good thing came out of it, that is the ability to allow businesses to

pivot to outdoors and to build these parklets to allow folks to continue business. so, thank goodness that we have this opportunity and thank goodness the board of supervisors supported making this shared spaces program permanent. [applause] so, over 2,000 shared spaces in san francisco and that is what is amazing and they are here to stay. and in fact, we have members of the board of supervisors joining us including supervisors safai, who was one of the original co-sponsors, as well as supervisor rafael mandelman and getting through the board and allowed teague shared spaces to be permanent in san francisco. mary ellen is here and as well

as jaoquin torres, our economic and workforce development director but actually he is now our assessor recorder and jeff tom lynn who is with us from m.t.a. it did take a village and will take these actions working together to get this program burning and i know there was some challenges in between where some businesses built these incredible spaces and they were told, well, you need an entry way and change this and make this change and that drove us nuts. at end of the day, here we are, with a permanent program that is really going to make a big difference for san francisco and not just in supporting the businesses, but look how much lively the city is become. look at what happens when we take businesses that are indoors and we bring them outdoors, when we're able to enjoy the city and enjoy these incredible spaces. this is how we recover.

yes, we need to be mindful that the delta variant is real. yes, we need to be mindful that they're going to be some changes as a result of some people who unfortunately have not gotten vaccinated, we got a lot of work to do. in the meantime, san francisco is open for business and this is part of the recovery and vibrancy of our city. thank you for being here at this signing ceremony to just really mutt my signature on this legislation so it can be implemented and we can move on and have add good time with these shared spaces. don't forget, go out and support one of these businesses. buy drinks, food, continue to support our local businesses as we begin to reopen our city and recover. with that, i will sign this

legislation and make it official! [applause] it is official! [applause] all right!

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