can be in every affordable housing community. the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this >> as president of stewart hall in san francisco to welcome you to this celebration. really incredible celebration. >> this is not just for our schooling. your winning the state competition means something to

our city. the city of san francisco. a great city that for a little while people across united states weren't speaking so highly of our recovery and the way things were going. i said we can prove them wrong. we can show them that san francisco is strong. that it was important to the city and to us and that we had reached out to the mayor's office that morning and that she was cheering for you as well. one of your greatest cheerleaders today to celebrate you and congratulate you. welcome mayor breed. [applause]. >> mayor breed: well thank you so much. thank you everyone for your patience. it is great to welcome stuart hall here to city hall to celebrate your first ever state

basketball championship. [applause] let me say that is something to celebrate. the reason why i was really excited to welcome you here to city hall is not just because you won the state championship. it is because i have a history with stuart hall. i see cheryl davis, who i am sure you all, well maybe not basketball players, the faculty remember cheryl davis and the work she did with stuart hall and the work i did at the african-american art and culture complex with this school part of what stuart hall did was to give back and to work with and to support kids in the western addition community. we would often times our children who may not have had

some of the same means as those who attended stuart hall. we would often times build bridges, develop relationships do events and fundraisers and other things. this cross cultural relationship was one that stayed consistent and we are grateful to stuart hall for the work and advocacy and not focusing on what is important to make sure your studies, athletic careers are taken care of. public service. giving back to be part of the fabric of what makes san francisco so special. i am really honored to be here today to celebrate this team. it is an incredible accomplishment. let me tell you the other reason why this is so significant. coach charlie put on a suit. i don't think i have ever seen

coach charlie in a suit, but i remember when i was throwing out the first pitch for the giant's game and i came to practice at your gym. thank you for helping me with that. he was a good coach then. he continues to be a good coach in all aspects of not just making sure you know how to play the game but encouraging you to be confident in your ability to be successful at playing the game. coach charlie, thank you for your work and leadership and your assistant coaches and other faculty members and families and friends who joined us here today. one of the things that i know as i wasn't in high school very long ago, believe it or not. in the 1990s might be a long time ago. i remember when i was in high school and i don't think i

appreciated my experience as much when i was in high school versus being out of high school. i wanted to say to all of the young men joining us here today. just make sure you take a moment to enjoy your experience. take a moment to take in this extraordinary accomplishment, this celebration that really shines a light on your hard work because we know you didn't just win a state championship because you showed up to a game one day. we know you showed up to the practices. we know that you studied those plays and paid attention to the moves of the other teams. all of the hard work that you invested created this championship. working together as a team is what made you a success. that quality of what happened here with this state championship is going to take you really far in life because

we know that life is challenging and it throws you curveballs or basketballs every now and then. knowing what you need to do to get through it will make you a success. i know you hear that time and time again from your mom, dad, coaches and everyone else. now you hear it from the mayor to know it is the case. that was the other thing when i was a kid. i didn't listen to my grandmother when she told me what to do or something like that. i heard that you were getting rain which is really nice. thank you to the principal for making sure i didn't have to raise the money to pay for it. thank you very much. you are getting rings in honor of accomplishments we are going to light up city hall in the colors of stuart hall blue and red. make sure when the sun goes down you take pictures and then come

on up, coach charlie. on behalf of the city and county of san francisco we are going to officially declare it stuart hall high school basketball team day in the city and county of san francisco. (applause). as i said, congratulations on this wonderful accomplishment. i have certificates for each and every one of you. i know people tell you this all of the time. you may not believe you should do this, but you really should listen to your parents. you should listen to your teachers and coaches. it took me awhile to get my life right. when i think about some of the

decisions i made as i got older, i remember that advice that support, all of the things they instilled in me. you are stuart hall men of san francisco. you will carry that with you for the rest of your life. make sure you do so with pride and represent is school and city in everything you do. we are so proud of your accomplishments. congratulations to the stuart hall basketball team. [applause]. >> thanks mayor breed. i thank everyone in this room. mayor breed has a pretty big job. i want you to know we have a perspective of that. we are grateful for this

celebration. it means a lot. just a big thank you. i will go off script a little bit. my wife says i do this too much. i am going to another thing that i just wanted to thank you on. when i have seen you speak in person, when i have seen you on the news, social media, in print. one thing always resonates crystal clear. you love san francisco. i want to tell you. i love san francisco and nobody has ever taken that from us. i want to compliment you on that. [applause]. the other thing i want to introduce you to my guys, the group over there accomplished a big deal, won the state championship. had to deal with the covid situation.

several of us got covid includes myself. we also had some injuries. we still found away. all of these guys were in great academic standing. the accomplishment was very special. one other little note. we might be the only school in san francisco. i think there are two where both on the boys side stuart hall and the girls side have a state championship in basketball. i think the only other school that has that honor in san francisco is sacred heart cathedral. they have gone to elite level i am grateful for them. grateful for the families dealing with my crazy behavior at times. feel very blessed. jake, could you stand up and hold that for a second. make sure and find jake, mayor

when we are done we brought you a nice hoodie. thank you. jake is one of the captains. did a great job. i am going to do a couple quick plugs. landon, stand up. brandon lumwas selected the division five state player of the year. wouldn't it be appropriate to give him some love right now. [applause]. last but certainly not least i will ask one of my captains to come to the podium. jackson tied a state record in the state final with 5-3. he has a few words to share with us. thank you. [applause].

>> i think we can agree this season is pretty special. stuart hall to me is unique because it is a small size. it is pretty special. it is a tight-knit basketball community how that will affect winning. able to drive the school to sacramento is cool. it is rare. being able to see everyone in the stands speaks to the culture at stuart hall. i think we are especially excited this year. we feel like we got robbed last season with could individual. being on -- with covid. it had a different feel this

year. we are lucky to advance from that. >> sophomores and juniors. that is two weeks out of the season this year. our coach got covid, players had season injuries. i think it all just kind of brought us together more. down the stretch it paid off. also, i think after covid winning state felt good. we were all fighting our challenges. we come together to do something as a team. it was a win. i wouldn't say it paid off but it definitely felt good. again, finishing with the

seniors. didn't have the opportunity to accomplish last year. being on the team. playing with those guys not able to accomplish what we had the opportunity to accomplish this year. last thing i wanted to say was not just the school. that is the big theme that all of us have brought to light, developed, student bodies, teachers for keeping us in class, coaches, parents. it is a group effort. it is nice to have the state championship. i want to say thank you to our parents, coaches, mayor, city. [applause].

>> monte craig. [applause]. jake good man. [applause]. brett jasper. [applause]. jackson j un g. [applause]. sterling ludding ton simmons.

[applause]. brandon lum. [applause]. maverickmaloby. [applause]. kevin marriott. [applause]. timothy raford. [applause]. marko skin ella.

[applause]. tommy smith. [applause]. jessie styre. [applause]. drake warren. [applause]. isaiah ryan. [applause].

we have these nicertive cats. coach j, mike pearlman and coach rich robinson. congratulations. [applause].

>> restaurants will be open for take out only, but nonessential stores, like bars and gyms, will close effective midnight tonight. [♪♪♪] >> my name is sharky laguana. i am a small business owner. i own a company called vandigo

van rentals. it rents vans to the music industry. i am also a member of the small business commission as appointed by mayor breed in 2019. i am a musician and have worked as a professional musician and recording artist in the 90s. [♪♪♪] >> we came up in san francisco, so i've played at most of the live venues as a performer, and, of course, i've seen hundreds of shows over the years, and i care very, very deeply about live entertainment. in fact, when i joined the commission, i said that i was going to make a particular effort to pay attention to the arts and entertainment and make sure that those small businesses receive the level of attention that i think they

deserve. >> this is a constantly and rapidly changing situation, and we are working hard to be aggressive to flatten the curve to disrupt the spread of covid-19. >> when the pandemic hit, it was crystal clear to me that this was devastating to the music industry because live venues had to completely shutdown. there was no way for them to open for even a single day or in limited capacity. that hit me emotionally as an artist and hit me professionally, as well as a small business that caters to artists, so i was very deeply concerned about what the city could do to help the entertainment committee. we knew we needed somebody to introduce some kind of legislation to get the ball rolling, and so we just started texting supervisor haney, just harassing him, saying we need to do something, we need to do

something. he said i know we need to do something, but what do we do? we eventually settled on this idea that there would be an independent venue recovery fund. >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you. without objection, this resolution is passed unanimously. >> and we were concerned for these small mom-and-pop businesses that contribute so much to our arts community. >> we are an extremely small venue that has the capacity to do extremely small shows. most of our staff has been working for us for over ten years. there's very little turnover in the staff, so it felt like family.

sharky with the small business commission was crucial in pestering supervisor haney and others to really keep our industry top of mind. we closed down on march 13 of 2020 when we heard that there was an order to do so by the mayor, and we had to call that show in the middle of the night. they were in the middle of their sound check, and i had to call the venue and say, we need to cancel the show tonight. >> the fund is for our live music and entertainment venues, and in its first round, it will offer grants of at least $10,000 to qualifying venues. these are venues that offer a signature amount of live entertainment programming before the pandemic and are

committed to reopening and offering live entertainment spaces after the pandemic. >> it's going to, you know, just stave off the bleeding for a moment. it's the city contributing to helping make sure these venues are around, to continue to be part of the economic recovery for our city. >> when you think about the venues for events in the city, we're talking about all of them. some have been able to come back adaptively over the last year and have been able to be shape shifters in this pandemic, and that's exciting to see, but i'm really looking forward to the day when events and venues can reopen and help drive the recovery here in san francisco. >> they have done a study that says for every dollar of ticket sales done in this city, $12

goes to neighboring businesses. from all of our vendors to the restaurants that are next to our ven sues and just so many other things that you can think of, all of which have been so negatively affected by covid. for this industry to fail is unthinkable on so many levels. it's unheard of, like, san francisco without its music scene would be a terribly dismal place. >> i don't know that this needs to be arrest -- that there needs to be art welfare for artists. we just need to live and pay for our food, and things will take care of themselves. i think that that's not the given situation. what san francisco could do that they don't seem to do very much is really do something to support these clubs and venues that have all of these different artists performing in them.

actually, i think precovid, it was, you know, don't have a warehouse party and don't do a gig. don't go outside, and don't do this. there was a lot of don't, don't, don't, and after the pandemic, they realized we're a big industry, and we bring a lot of money into this city, so they need to encourage and hope these venues. and then, you know, as far as people like me, it would be nice if you didn't only get encouraged for only singing opera or playing violin. [♪♪♪] >> entertainment is a huge part of what is going to make this city bounce back, and we're going to need to have live music coming back, and comedy, and drag shows and everything under the sun that is fun and creative in order to get smiles back on our faces and in order

to get the city moving again. [♪♪♪] >> venues serve a really vital function in society. there aren't many places where people from any walk of life, race, religion, sexuality can come together in the same room and experience joy, right? experience love, experience anything that what makes us human, community, our connective tissues between different souls. if we were to lose this, lose this situation, you're going to lose this very vital piece of society, and just coming out of the pandemic, you know, it's going to help us recover socially? well, yeah, because we need to be in the same room with a bunch of people, and then help people across the country recover financially.

>> san francisco art recovery fund, amazing. it opened yesterday on april 21. applications are open through may 5. we're encouraging everyone in the coalition to apply. there's very clear information on what's eligible, but that's basically been what our coalition has been advocating for from the beginning. you know, everyone's been supportive, and they've all been hugely integral to this program getting off the ground. you know, we found our champion with supervisor matt haney from district six who introduced this legislation and pushed this into law. mayor breed dedicated $1.5 million this fund, and then supervisor haney matched that, so there's $3 million in this fund. this is a huge moment for our coalition. it's what we've been fighting for all along. >> one of the challenges of our business is staying on top of

all the opportunities as they come back. at the office of oewd, office of economic and workforce development, if you need to speak to somebody, you can find people who can help you navigate any of the available programs and resources. >> a lot of blind optimism has kept us afloat, you know, and there's been a lot of reason for despair, but this is what keeps me in the business, and this is what keeps me fighting, you know, and continuing to advocate, is that we need this and this is part of our life's blood as much as oxygen and food is. don't lose heart. look at there for all the various grants that are available to you. some of them might be very slow to unrao, and it might seem like too -- unroll, and it

might seem like it's too late, but people are going to fight to keep their beloved venues open, and as a band, you're going to be okay. [♪♪♪] >> 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