economic development and gentrification displacement of the station while we do the work to prepare for the actual construction of the station. with that, i will call on commissioner (inaudible) >> make a motion to -- >> i feel out of practice standing infront of a room this full. hello. so, welcome everybody to the 41 san francisco good government awards. [applause] yes. my name is alicia baptiste president and ceo at spur and excited to be with you tonight to honor excellence in public service. at spur we strive to build a bay area where all people can thrive and we know that to do that we have to work in partnership across the eco system but in particular with local government and we are

so proud to be supporters of the event because we truly believe in government as a force for good and tonight we are here to honor 54 truly incredible people. we have never recognized quite so many people at one time before, but extraordinary times call for extraordinary leadership and that is what we winced over the past 2 years. and i am guessing that for most people in the room when you check that box where you said i acknowledged that i'm a disaster service worker, you didn't really know what you were acknowledging. and in particular because these past couple of years, have been this time of just extraordinary deconstruction, and unraveling. all of the threads

that hold us together as a nation have been unspooling. all of the threads that hold the pattern of our daily lives have falling apart. that pattern that holds us in place and that pattern that holds us in habit. it all just disappeared between sheltering in place and school closures and the idea that we were supposed to drink bleach and that was going to solve our problem. all of us were suddenly in this completely surreal existence, without any anchor. and the job of the people who are being honored tonight, what you were tasked with was to reweave that tapestry for us. to rebuild social cohesion and community health and wellweing, but not in the way it was

designed before. because also we saw with crystal clarity that systemic racism was as toxic if not more toxic to us then was covid. so, the job was to redesign and rebuild in the midst of a disaster working in ways none of us had ever worked before and we come here tonight to honor, to recognize, to celebrate, because that is what you did. you did it for us, not because you're coming up on this stage, but it was because it was what the community needed. many of us have heard some talk recently about this idea that perhaps san francisco is a failed city.

that it a place where our ideals get in the way of pracicality, where our politics continue to be a knife fight in the phone booth and who ever said that is of a certain age because not too many get in phone booths anymore. we know san francisco is a place where we hold our ideals very passionately, and at a time when as a society we face so many challenges at some odds with those passionately held ideals, it is not surprising that people are uneasy about where we are heading. but when we look at these past 2 years how can we see failure? san francisco is not a failed city. san francisco is a city that leads with its heart and

yes, that is messy, but it is also our greatest strength. it is why you worked 12, 14, 16 hours a day, nights, weekdays, no rest, months on end, to keep people you didn't know safe. to safe people from dying, make sure people were fed and housed. it is why you worked across departments and sectors and roles and any other line that we could think of and we know there is a lot in government. worked across all of those to give the people what they needed, and it is also why when you asked the people of san francisco responded in solidarity and with solidarity because this is a city that leads with its heart. and at a time when nationally things are still unraveling, this is the leadership that we need more then ever. the

pandemic is not quite the crisis it was 2 and a half years ago, but the need to redesign, rebuild, reconnect, that remains, so we need the example that you provided in responding to covid. we need to believe that we can live our ideals. we need to be called to live our ideals and for that we need you to continue to work as a force for good. so, i am just so incredibly honored to be here tonight to recognize this leadership, to recognize all that you have contributed and as a individual person i am incredibly grateful to you for all the sacrifice, everything you did to keep our community safe and healthy and connected. and i am now very excited to begin our program and before i ask people to come up

and stand to be recognized, we will get a little of a look at your collective accomplishments. >> in the early part of 2020 was when i first got the sense that the world was about to change in a fundamental way. i remember looking at (inaudible) restricting gathering to no more then a 20 people, and i remember thinking, this is an unprecedented action by the city. >> been working to prepare for what we know would be a significant public health challenge here in the city and we are seeing it play itself out- >> sent people home on

march 17. i think many of us hoped at the beginning that it would be two weeks. we realized that this was growing and this was big and san francisco was going to have to step up and figure out how big our response is going to be. >> i don't even know how to describe the feeling at the beginning. it was just this part in your throat holding on with your fingernails and trying to be as responsive as possible. >> there is a fineprint when you get hired by the city if there is a emergency you are supposed to report and work. we had gardeners, we had muni drivers and folks from all sectors of san francisco and we train them. >> it was no longer

your standard workforce situation. we required a lot of people power. >> we are on day 3 of the shelter in place order, and we have this operation center here fully operational with a number of city departments who are working together to make sure that we are prepared and coordinating in the hospitals. that we are working to prepare with our homeless and vulnerable populations. that we are working to provide information and safeguards and other things in- >> there were an unbelievable number of projects that had to be planned and built from the ground. >> if you are trying to stand up a testing site, but you don't have personal protective equipment for the staff, you cant safely open the site. >> we had 3 days, 72 hours to erect early child and youth care sites in the city

for emergency workers to be able to have their children placed so they could basically go out and tend to what no one has ever imagined or thought they would see in their life, the pandemic. i drove a truck to make sure we got food to locations and we were ready to accept the student to come into a warm safe inviting place. >> one of the big successes is how rapidly we were able to stand up alternative housing. >> we have a long established relationship where the hotel community in san francisco and part of what we did is reach out to them to see if we can begin to bring hotels online and to the city system to beable to provide rooms for individuals and families unable to shelter in place on their own. >> our data group was responsible for creating the covid dashboards and making sure that people had information about exactly what

the situation was in terms of covid cases and where that was happening and who was being effected. >> little by little we were able to do it by age, race ethnicity neighborhood and that built cred lt as we were able to give people the information they needed. >> the info and guidance and policy team was working to make sure people had really clear detailed guidance around how to conduct life and business in this context. >> we knew early on this was a huge shock to the san francisco economy and would take a collaborative city wide effort to address the economic concerns that came with the closing of most businesses. the shared spaces program was important because a lot of businesses were not able to operate indoors. it goal is activate as much public space as possible for these community and retail uses.

feedback from the business community really had a impact on how we designed reopening sectors. [talking in the background] [applause] >> how do you overcome vaccine hesitancy? the historical mistrust that happens. gronded in truth, particularly towards health institutions. you have trusted individuals in

terms of equity, we could be the translators to the community and with the community. >> [speaking in different languages] >> sign up and line up. >> the city had to operate very differently and to work with the people. >> we had so much success with our vaccination rate in san francisco because we were intentional about how we wnt about working with communities and we did it 7 days a week.

>> we severed over 5,000 students. we were in 78 sites. >> we severed right over 9,000 people. >> many hundreds city employees gathered more then 90 million units of ppe. >> we created over 250 helt orders, everything from looking at how dog parks operated, to whether pickleball was safe or not. things you take for granted in daily life that we used to take for granted in daily life. we had to evaluate at a very detailed level. >> it was the information that people could tether to in this time that was so overwhelming and so scary and feel they had some sense of control and what

to do. >> the pandemic and the issues it presented was the challenge of a lifetime. while we are very proud of what we have done in san francisco, that is not to say we didn't make mistakes. we tried as best we could to learn from those mistakes to attune to public criticism, to listen, to adapt, and to constantly reevaluate our response. >> now we know we can do this. we have a lot of lessens learned for the future and it gives us new pathways on how to do response in the crisis we face in the future. >> when things got hard, one of the main things that kept going was each other. everybody seemed to be all-in. we could depend on one another.

>> 1, 2, 3-- >> we really truly was because of city employees that we were able to keep the city safe. [applause] >> alright. it is now my honor to introduce san francisco-it sure is. you are on. of course mayor breed needs no introduction but it was her bold leadership that brought us here. [applause] >> thank you. that

video really took things back and into perspective. we all remember early on when we first started to hear about covid and the coronavirus and all of the information that we didn't necessarily have in order to figure what we needed to do. there was no play-book for a global pandemic. the earthquake, yes, we got those down. even some of the challenges around heat because it is real hot in here. that would come in handy right about now. there was no play-book and there was a lot of fear. people didn't know what it was. i didn't know what it was. i never thought that when i became mayor i would have to make a decision to

tell people to not go to work or to not show up and to shelter in place. so, yes, it was a scary time for some people, and there were a lot of people who were fearful of coming to work even when we needed them the most, but the reason why we are here is to really do something i think different then what spur had done in the past. there has always been the good government award, and people have been acknowledged for their work and serving the city in various capacities but this particular case it is really special. it is really special because the people we are honoring tonight didn't necessarily have to do what they did. they stepped up to take on unsignments that were not in their job description. when there was a call that wnt out to get disaster

service workers and get various people to come in, there were those who had legitimate reasons for why they were concerned about coming in, but there were others like the honorees tonight who answered the call. who were the first in line. who wanted to be of service to the people of this city, not understanding covid and risking their own lives in order to serve. the bus drivers who showed up. the people who worked at the hospitals. the folks who helped to do all the work around the systems. and that's just the basics, right? but when you put that on top of what was happening to the people of san francisco and the needs of the city, building in a equity infrastructure, making sure that as what was said in the video by valerie,

the mistrust around covid and the mistrust around vaccinations and just the concerns, the need to embed equity and education around everything we did was so important. so, yes, as a mayor i was the person who wnt out and talked about things that we were going to do to address the challenges, but you were the people who did it. the people who showed up at muconey center and adrian you are smiling behoond the mask but you were not smiling at mucone center. i dont know who got it worse, her or (inaudible) because every day i had something i wanted to be implemented and i remember talking about all of these things with everyone about the people who could not shelter in place and what were we going it do to get hold of these hotel rooms and

working with hotel industry and trying to figure out the resources and what were going to do to make sure those who needed to isolate can isolate and hotels who couldn't afford to isolate in hotels but we created a system to do so. how we had to build infrastructure around testing and vaccine from scratch. there was no play-book. there was work that had to be done from the technical side of things, the organizational side of things and how these things came together. i don't really know, but they came together. when our kids were struggling, i remember having the conversation with phil ginsburg and marie sue and pushing them aggressively, and because they had great people working for them who answered the call we set up these community hubs. we worked with the latino task force. we worked with so many

different agencies and entities organizations cheryl davis was out with the equity teams and everybody was doing a lot of work. people don't sometimes understand how all this stuff really comes together. how we are able to make sure that people were all of a sudden these shared spaces popped up out of no where and it was like we can go a restaurant and eat outside, how cool is that. everybody was happy somewhat again. but mta made it happen and when you think about it it was a lot of work but it was so rewarding. it was so rewarding when we were able to give the checks to small businesses because they couldn't open. it was rewarding when we were able to provide support tonight life industry and provide

financial support to those who dident qualify for financial support because they had to take off work and had covid and didn't want to infect families but they needed to money. so rewarding with theerant subsidies and there the things we came together to do. the biggest message here today of everything, it all happened because we wanted to save lives and that's what we did. san francisco one of the dense est cities in the country, with the lowest death rates not a thousand people this whole time died from covid. [applause] >> that is because of all of you. yes, there was a lot of blood sweat and tears and yelling matches between me and

doctor grant colfax. yes, poor mary ellen carol had her hands full with a lot and i notice when the video came on and everybody was cheering for the different people they knew, i notice that no one cheered for jesse smith. [laughter] can i tell you how lucky we are to have jesse smith, because you know-you guys had to cheer for him. because as hard as this was, the emergency declaration was one thing, but the bureaucracy for us to do some of the most simplistic things to serve the people of the city, the person always in my corner with my

motto of how to get to yes, that was jesse smith. how do we get to yes. [applause] so, i can't believe (inaudible) took the job to run the office of homelessness and supportive services, but let me tell you, again her and trent and all these folks, all of you were a part of working with them to get people into hotels, to deal with the complaints while you were working your butts off to set up the contracts with non profits to get these places prepared and available. you all did so much amazing work, and i know often times you heard the criticism of what the city wasn't doing, but the people that you helped, whether it was trying to interpret in different languages, the signage that wnt to small businesses and to people or trying to help someone fill out

a application or moving them into hotel room and convincing them to get a vaccine, all that work that you all did as public surgeants for san francisco, all of it, it made such a extraordinary difference here in san francisco. so, today, we honor you. we honor your work, commitment and service because we knee it doesn't happen with you. yes i'm a talking i can get up and say a lot of things but it means nothing if there isn't a strong team of people working to make it happen. a strong team of people who believe in serving, who believe in doing things to help support and uplift others. when we talk about san francisco as a resilient city, when we talk about how we have been through fires and earthquake and

pandemics, the reason we are able to be here today and hold our heads high and be proud has everything to do with the work pp force in the city and the people who put their lives on the line and wear their hearts on their sleeves every day to serve the people of the city and county of san francisco. thank you for your service, we honor you today and i know the department heads that have the direct knowledge of all the great work you did will get up here and talk about the work so all you here to support them can know how special and how valuable these amazing public surgeants are to san francisco. thank you all so much. [applause] >> that you can so much mayor breed. as the mayor was saying it was truly a

hurkueany effort responding to covid-19 and we will be honoring 8 separate teams representing 54 individuals 19 different departments and our first group award is presented by mayor chief of staff, shawn (inaudible) [applause] >> good evening everyone. mayor, excuse me for saying this, it is nice to be in a event that recognize the people who actually do the work opposed to the elected officials who sometimes take the credit. [applause] it is great to be with are you and really a coming home again. we should have done this (inaudible) seeing so many faces. okay. sorry. apologize. the spur folks told me you heard the

numbers so i have a couple minutes to talk about 4 great people sitting right here. first i'll start with dr. bennett who is currently the director of health equity for department of public health. [applause] dr. bennett did two great things, many things but two i want to highlight. first, the very beginning as we were going through covid and seeing what was happening we saw a biggest challenge could be laguna honda. what was happening in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, we lost hundred thousand americans because they did not have dr. bennett keeping their eyes on the ball. we had dr. bennett watching laguna honda. i think one thing this city can be most proud of in two years only 6 patients of

laguna honda died because of covid. only 6 in the largest skilled nursing facility-truly amazing and dr. bennett lead the team got it propped up and a model how to handle a pandemic and quarentine going forward. once we she was done with that the incident commander over seeing everything department of public health. we are so lucky for all your work, thank you dr. bennett. [applause] dr. bennett is given the direction next i have to to do adrian. we know her as adrian who just gets it done. it doesn't matter what the task is. adrian i need a blue pen, adrian i need 5 buses from bay view to the northeast part thof city and it needs to be done in 20minutes. okay, shawn, i'll get it. it did not

matter. adrian just gets it done. she is a baseball fan so i suspect she'll appreciate this. i am very fearful she will get a rotator cuff surgery because all the time raising her hands, i'll do it, i'll do it. she never said no, never said i couldn't figure it out, always got it done. the other fun fact to share about adrian, i believe she is the first multi-generation winner of this award. [applause] her mother who is here with us, a previous winner- [applause] we lost her father a few years ago but all know very well the wonderful man phil arnold who did so much for us. [applause] i know how proud he is adrian.

next-you are last. next going to jesse. i can't beat what the mayor said, jesse. that was pretty good. what i will say about jesse is, you cannot-until it is not there you dont appreciate the steady hand, the steady leadership. there was never up and down. jesse was always right there, always had the answers and if he didn't he told you and said he would get right back to you and he did. across the board as he sat up there, i don't know if she is here but i heard jesse mention pickleball. thank god (inaudible) stevention isn't here because she would have had a lot to say to jesse about that. but jesse was the backbone of everything that we did. i do want to recognize-not going it do all the names but the city attorney office, the team jesse lead was

invaluable. [applause] and then lastly, i got a lot of our colleagues here because i told them i would try to embarrass you here but i don't have the nerve. andres is my colleague, my peer and my friend. sorry. nothing in the mayor's office gets done without him. [applause] and i don't see any of them here so i can say thing, thank god for andres because she gets to deal with the board of supervisors and we are very lucky he handles it with such grace. they might not say that but you do a great job

and we-and they like-there is a reason andres is not me, they like him. andres, thank you, adrian thank you, dr. bennett thank you, jesse. [applause] [applause]

>> okay, for our next group awards we are going to the welcome to the stage the director of the department of public health, dr. grant colfax. [applause] >> hi, everyone. i thought yfs going to be the first to start crying tonight. so, it is wnderful to be here and thank you mayor breed for your leadership in the pandemic and i want to say thank you for everything that you all have done for public health and covid has changed the

department and think all of us forever and our commitment is to continue to evolve and learn with all of you and be as collaborative department as we can be as we move forward with the health challenges we have in the city. it is my pleasure to not only see-so many from the covid command center and acknowledge and celebrate that infrastructure still carries forward today in the covid task force while still managing covid and covid cases and working with community in way we learned over the last 2 years works so acknowledge that work is still going on. today i have the honor to celebrate emergency operation awardees and perhaps you come up behind me. that is what i was told i am supposed to do, so just following orders. [applause] these team

members worked behind the scenes implementing and executing all the public health medical response activities at covid response center and not to exaggerate, we cannot achieve the successes we did and achieve the life saving interventions we did without the people up here. i will tell you about each of them. raise your hand when i mention your name. toby scott. [applause] so remember the early days of testing? oh my god. toby oversaw the testing branch expansion from initial 500 tests a day to over 4,000 tests a day and think on a few days we wnt beyond that

number. that was city test alone. toby ability to work with internal and external partners helped deliver service with equity at the forefront working nights and weekdays all while keeping a positive attitude. [applause] it is more then some of us could positive attitude-some of looked like we were super positive sometimes. thank you toby for the work. (inaudible) contact tracing. [applause] eddie timing was perfect. joined dphen 2020 as the operational director of covid-19 case investigation and contact tracing team and this was one of the first such team s in the country and overseen over 400 city state cbo and contract workers to insure that we were getting the

people to services they need and doing the right contact tracing in the early days of pandemic and eddie did this with great grit and humility. he trained and lead by teams to conduct business in spanish insure the needs of san francisco most impacted communities were met so thank you eddie so much for your work. [applause] so jonathan spears. (inaudible) [applause] jonathan was the executing on the roll out from the earlier days when vaccine was scarce to today when he continues to lead the city vaccination efforts. a colleague once referred to jonathan as "the nicest person in the room " because he always finds the silver lining. today nearly 90 percent of san francisco has been vaccinated against covid-19 and jonathan is a key reason we got

there. [applause] carla beak. [applause] not just planning but advanced planning. carla beak more then a year to advanced planning unit at covid command where she wore many hats in the early days tracking and responses of scarce ppe. thank you for that. and working more then 60 hours a week broad dedication creativity and humor to work every day in the service of san francisco and thank you carla. i read your reports every day. [applause] so, all this work took money and that goes to (inaudible) finance team. [applause] whether the work of testing vaccine sites could not have been tested without drew and the team. developed a financial model negotiating

vendor contracts which is fun and navigating new complex federal funding and reimbursement issues which you continue to do to this day because we got to get it the fema money. stays cool calm collected and made sure the work happened and remarkable speed. thank you drew. [applause] i think you now all know jacky mc wright. [applause] the backbone of covid operation helping coordinate dph response intervention and helped coach and mentor new leaders and (inaudible) thriving with all the other work that wnt on across the system including 2 surges and rolling out the home and over the counter test and therapeutics. nearly 31 years in dph a vital role and mentor

for future public health leaders, many fresh out of high school so jacky thank you for everything you continue to do. [applause] (inaudible) [applause] you joined the department 2 minute before covid hit? i think so. he started his deployment as sponsor for the vaccine team and wnt to serve as one of the task force leads. calm steady, always maintain a positive attitude and strives to inspire and celebrate staff. he is also a huge fan of super heroes and when you think a hero works to correct wrongs. we remove barriers and work to the way we treat others and fits the mode so thank you for answering the call. [applause] and please join me in thanking this amazing team of leaders. [applause]

>> next to present the award to alternate housing group, pleased to welcome trent (inaudible) and sharin

mc faden (inaudible) [applause] >>-good evening everyone. it is amazing to be here and the mayor really incapsulated what we wept through 2 years and still going really, but it was such hard work, but it was so rewarding and i beat shawn to the tears talking about the impact we made and such hard work we did and what we accomplished. i got a tear, so i beat you on that one. our resident risk manager and controller said not to invite people up on the stage because he was concerned people would fall off the back so i will not do that to you. what i want to do is the video didn't talk much about really what the alternative housing system was or did. vaccination and testing we know how to do that, there is a question what the

alternative system is and why and let me just briefly explain. human service agency and any emergency response is responsible for providing care and shelter. in terms of covid-19, i remember the early days mary ellen said you need to get to the eoc and said what is our role. we need to figure housing for people who need to isolate. jesus, of course. so under covid what does care in shelter mean? one is help manage the surge so people who were not sick enough to be in the hospital but didn't have a place to go had a place to go so the beds are reserved for people who needed to be hospital izsooed. the second is protect vulnerable individuals who couldn't isolate on their own which is experiencing homelessness and slow the spread of

covid by providing rooms for people living on the streets. somewhere the had idea approaching hotels and saying you are hundred percent vacant you want to lease the hotels to us? fast forward from that idea to the mayor presenting to hotel council asking them for their hotels. fast forward a little more, we ended up putting up 2408 rooms in 25 hotels across the city. another 538 hotel rooms across 3 hotels for isolation and quarentine and over a thousand site for people to quarantine together or exit from the hotel system. once it was fully operational, served up to 3800 people on any given day april 2020 to june 2021. [applause] through the course of

the pandemic, the alternative housing provided rooms and shelter over 9,000 people. so because we are san francisco and we like to be leaders we like competition but healthy competition. we had the highest percapita homeless placement rate in the state and let my give a couple numbers and i'll recognize the people responsible for all this. san francisco by the-once we were fully deployed had hotel rooms for all most 30 percent of the homeless population. by comparison across the state only rooms for 8 percent of the state-wide population. [applause] we have in san francisco about 20percent of the homeless in the bay area but accounted for over 45 percent of the total number of hotel rooms under contract in the bay area and lastly, we have about 5 percent of the state 151 or so

thousand, homeless but we had all most 20 percent of the total rooms. we have 5 percent of the state homeless population and 20percent of the rooms under lease. unbelievable work. [applause] and so what i would like folks to do and it is hard because you are in the middle is walk this way because i want you to walk up when i talk about what each did and the first i want to start with the two architects behind the system, dan kaplan and noel simmons. [applause] dan served as our department operation center commander and are noel the operation section chief and oversaw the housing system. these were the two brains and muscle behind the entire system. dan and his meticulous nature dont know how

many times he wrote the flow chart with noel correcting it, these two and i can say this because they noel worked for me for 14 years until she abandoned me to be deputy director of department of homelessness and dan kaplan who is hsa deputy director of administration, these 2 have incredible capacity for work and they work tirelessly, 7 days a week. [applause] developing as the mayor said, we didn't have a roadmap or game plan. we are human service agency, we provide benefits for people who need them and help families in crisis. we are not hoteliers so they developed this from scratch and showed their where with all and stead fasness throughout and so well deserving of this award. thank you two. [applause] the architects are here but i want to bring up the people the nuts and bolts and in charge of

daily operation and one of whom is doris buroany and the other is janice levy. [applause] doris had a preplanned vacation. the human service branch director, janice came on and stold from the controller office to be the branch deputy director. doing something as complicated as the system we developed requires people who are meticulous detail oriented follow through, have the ability to juggle 35 balls in the air and janice and doris were two peas in a pod and took on 7 days a week. if you are ever going to take a break and janice was so surprised when she was awarded this and it is

just shows how humble she is and she really deserved this award and i want her be up here because these are people behoond the scenes and dont see them because they are so busy with their nose to the grind working so hard so congratulations. the architect, the detail people making sure the trains are running on time and the people behind the scenes making sure we have the tohotels and staffed and hotels are paid. pleads come up, (inaudible) [applause] we had to negotiate individual leases with 28 different hotels. we had to secure dsw support to staff the hotels that encompass 600 people from librarians to probation officers to rec director. we had to secure all

source of furniture, supplies, you name the, the hotels came to us bear and had to enable guest to be there. i can't tell the number of times i call late at night saying i got a call from a hotel site, we need x, yz. done. (inaudible) negotiating 28 different contracts. imagine in the context of city bureaucracy and contracting rules. where are my beds. i got to get out of the emergency room. lots of pressure and these two stepped up in a huge way and thank you. i can't thank you enough. congratulations. [applause] and then last but not least, human service department and are not experts on infexs disease and how help and treat people who are at risk or are infected but we have

ms. kelly (inaudible) [applause] from dph who was in charge of client flow, client placement, troubleshooting when we had to find placement for individuals in need and really the number of times she was on an e-mail with staff back and forth what do we do. i was like let polk ask kelly. snd an e-mail and within a hour would have a answer. she would get the legs on the grond, getting people placed without out of laguna or moving a senior very vulnerable from one hotel to the next to meet their needs, kelly was the one so kelly can't thank you for the partnership with dph and benefit of the covid the department had highest level of management know each other so well now and able to tacky other thorny issues that require multiple department said to work together and kelly you are imbluematic of

that. that is a segue. i'm taking a lot of time, because we are san francisco we said we housed about 2400, 2500 homeless people, let's keep them housed and not discharge them to the street when we close down the hotels. i introduce sa hp rene mick faden. >> i let him do the talking and i finish. team members 17 years. this team didn't end when mus cone shut down. one thing the mayor and city committed to none of the people in shelter in place would go back to the street so this team and number of people from hsh are making that happen. we are making it happen that people are moving out of hotels and into permanent homes some the first time in their

lives and that is what san francisco is about and this team is about and we are excited to continue this work and just want to thank all of you for you incredible commitment. i saw the long hours you all had and the dedication also the frustration and just you never stopped and just want to thank you so much for your incredible work and being such incredible individuals. congratulations. [applause]

[applause] >> to present the award for the children and learning group, please welcome general manager of the san francisco recreation and park department, (inaudible) [applause] >> hi, everybody. it has been a beautiful but long night, and we still have several more awards to go so i will try do my best to move it along. i'm standing here on behalf-thanks for the applause. i said try. standing on behalf of

my colleagues marie (inaudible) director of children youth and family and our city librarian mike lambert our part ners. they could want be here tonight because covid. here i am but on their behalf on behalf of thousands of incredibly grateful children, san francisco children and their families, it is my great pleasure to present the good government award for children in learning. this team they were the guardians of the city kids. there was a lot going on in the city over the last 2 years but this team had the singular focus on making sure some way, some how or children could thrive. when the shelter in place order wpt into effect there were over 57 thousand student attendeded san francisco unified school district that shifted to distant learning and that created all kind of challenges

for working parents, for struggling families, for children who whether because of who needed extra emotional support or because they dident have the technological tools they needed, our children were extremely extremely vulnerable and this team the guardians of the city kids really came through and literally about 72 hours they started a process to provide child care and learning opportunities for our city kids starting with our emergency responders and health care workers moving into the most vulnerable children and literally within over 72 hours they had shifted focus and stood up the first of the centers and within a week or 2 had 90 operated serving thousands of the kids making sure they had technology, making sure the staff who knew what schools and grades they were in, the classes they were

in. made sure they had warm meals. made sure they had caring mentors and recreation. this went on the entire school year and when the school year was over they shifted to summer and summer camp. and then they did it again. this team they are herooes and so without further ado i will introduce them. shareese smith. [applause] deputy director of programs and grants. she was the program lead for our community hub initiative. lead biweekly policy and planning meetings with city team which include rec park, library (inaudible) 311 department of tech naul, representative from the school district to insure we were coordinated and (inaudible) she is the only one in the city accept the mayor who is able to do that. she

loveeraged long-term relationship with cbo to support them as we pivoted from their daily after school activities into full day learning programs. the next rock star is dory (inaudible) from (inaudible) [applause] she is a community engagement and communication manager. lead all communication and public outreach for the effort. a data wiz. incredible with a pivot cable and powerpoint and she made sure rec park the library, 311 (inaudible) hotline, all the print and social media message for the hubs and media requests. next up rec and park very own hero assistant superintendent ann marie donally. in a short number of days ann

marie lead a team that took lifeguards and basketball coaches and staff who are used to work with seniors or adults, everybody in the rec and park recreation team became a community hub teachers and mentor and guardian and ann marie was responsible for shifting our focus 180 degrees and making sure we had the systems in place and training in place to be successful and revamped the registration and (inaudible) no small feat to make sure this went smoothly, ann marie, thank you. you are a absolute (inaudible) from the library. this is hall of fame line up.

michelle jeffers (inaudible) [applause] in her normal world oferksee the library wide away of programming exhibitions and classes for all ages and does a lot of partnership work in this initiative who role included oversight of book mobile surfcks literacy and learning program. helped identify library sites that operate as community hubs which was no small feat, and navigated library staff fear working in person and participated on all the interdepartmental meetings and blocked and tackled so had the library could be as wonderful participate in the program as it was. thank you michelle. not here but worth acknowledging another awardee, shelly (inaudible) technical service at the library. she coordinated volunteer and staff to work to assemble book bundles to distribute to student in all

locations. got books and meal and recreation equipment, technology, they got it all and the folks made it happen. next up, anna (inaudible) government affairs dph. [applause] so, anna doesn't know but was this initiative chief lobbyist within the labyrinth that is dph. just kidding grant. internal advocate and interfaced with all the medical policy decisions that needed to be made to make sure this could all happen and without you anna it would not have. there is no question about that and anna is also responsible since shawn brought it up earlier for pickleball because that also required a heck of a lot of lobbying. she worked day and night just to help schools physically reopener their doors but get the hubs open and teachers and student back to get tested and to get our kids

back to normal as quickly as possible. thank you anna so so so so much. [applause] and this really was a team effort. next up joseph john, deputy of public safety. [applause] without technology since this was as we know a very virtual environment can caring mentors but the learning was virtual we were toast without it. joseph part nered with city officials and school district. installed high speed broadbast to the community hubs. distributed home books to youth engaging in distant learning. the team also delivered high speed internet connection to 5 public housing sites linking 500 units and many student to much needed free internet service

to enable continued remote learning and again, joseph, without you it wouldn't have happened. i have been in government 20 something years and this job 13 years, this was my proudest moment. you are rock stars and heroes. thank you very much. [applause] >> sorry for the hugging grant. [applause]

>> alright. next up we have somebody who did actually know what it meant to check disaster service worker box, the executive director of department of emergency management mary ellen carol. [applause] >> thank you. liltal known fact, phil and i grew up in philadelphia and we had rival high schools so i'll be shorter then phil. and also i know the night is going long a little bit but nothing as long as a day at muscone, so bear with us. here to present public information communication and dpata and we are here tonight as your hearing such a massive effort over time to adapt react

and respond to the unprecedented pandemic. but what never changed over the course of the pandemic to today is need to communicate to everyone about what was happening, when things changed, which was on the daily, and to up that information and messaging so it got to everyone. so, how did we do this? first of all, our fear less leader and party planner lizzi conally, lead-come up when i call. she has the (inaudible) lead advanced planning team and supported by data guru, chang nguyen both from dph and the team collected collated translated data into

real time picture of the pandemic in san francisco. the diligent work allowed us to monitor the impact of covid operation real time and quickly pivot to adapt the emarging landscape of the pandemic. largely due to the insight of the data san francisco had one of the most equitable vaccine distribution programs in the country. [applause] and you already heard about the opteam and you will hear about the equity team. it took all working together. our next honoree, erica (inaudible) this was probably not pca but covid command long hauler. in covid command the whole time. wore all the hats of information and guidance group and the goal to insure the development

and dissimination of accurate science based grant, covid-19 information. produce guidance documents faq tip sheet and framework for sectors across san francisco. many jurisdictions across the country have used these materials that were produced by ing. since 2020 over 600ing documents have been produced by the city. [applause] so, now we will talk about (inaudible) in the middle of all of this, as we heard, was the production-i'm trying to stay under time-was the ever changing very prolific health orders from our friend we heard from about the frnd jesse here. cat daniels played

a critical role translating the orders into english so city departments or business partners and everyone really understood the consequence of the orders. got the change immediately and saved (inaudible) life so for that we thank you. so, this person needs no introduction but will say her name, (inaudible) she left the job at the port to answer the call of the dsw to public health. we are not sure why, but she did and very grateful. she had the incredibly massive job writing press releases and press conferences. those who know her know she is power house and should do what she tells you

and what she took on was critical and she also helped keep what some on the inside called grant's greatest hits, if you know you know on the record board. finally, the joint information center was the first branch of the city operation center to activate in december of 2019 when corona was just sort of a weird we didn't know if it was a beer or something else and to support the messaging and they were the last to deactivate after we deactivated at mucone. this is where all information should flow in one point of truth as it should in our my own (inaudible) [applause]

they started the operations in a tiny room in church sheet in the eoc, grew to a football field room and continued after we closed down. also evolved developing the award winning campaign, the blue yellow and white signs but those were not getting to everyone. they brought on community and they created some of the most innovative creative equitable campaigns we have ever seen. everything was translated, every time and so for that they were a big part of getting that message out. [applause] and then finally, scott taylor from data sf who was the lead designer

[applause] scott was the lead designer who brought all the ideas and visions to life. all most 4 million pieces of collateral distributed by teams often by foot to make sure everything was covered. the combined brilliance creativity anddiedication dedication made sure timely accurate science based life saving information got where it needed to go. thank you. [applause]

[applause] >> alright. presenting the award for the emergency support group, city administrator carmen hsu, city administrator roseen field. >> thank you and congratulation to everything wn here tonight. we heard great things what the city envisions during the emergency and what it got done and such an amazing set of accomplishment said. i'll say as we know working in government settings can be feel impossible even in the best of times. dreaming of

things and executing them and all the things that need to go into that happen. all the things behind the scenes needed to take a vision and turn it into realty. hard and normal times and that makes the work of this team i believe so amazing. dream the generational moment when demand for public service is higher then ever been. this team got things done behind the scenes at a pace never seen before and conditions harder then ever been so it is trully our honor tonight to recognize them so thank you. [applause] >> i think has ben said there is no single part of the response that would have been possible without these amazing people who worked behind the scene and it is often

these folks who are forgotten when we make public recognition or talk about different accomplishments so hope you will get a extra loud round of applause. [applause] first up, kate howard, someone i have known for quite some time. [applause] and all of her colleagues at department of human resources. we rig on behalf of the entire team. manage the immense structure of redeploying thousands of working for disaster sunchs workers having to figure hiring process filling roles at the covid emergency operation center. thank you so much kate. [applause] (inaudible)

[applause] her entire team at the office of contract administration. i don't have to tell anybody how difficult to secure personal protective equipment especially at a time everyone in the world was look frg same thing. hard to get hand on. 90 million pieces of ppe secured forf is. 500 contracts into over a short amount of time. thank you. [applause] nom lee and his colleagues at real estate division. [applause] you remember when covid first came out and people started to foond more about it, we didn't know how to address covid, how it spread and nom was at the front line helping to make sure all the facilities were clean

that the services were sanitized and having to secure and help all his workers the custodians who served to make sure they had guidance they needed to continue to work and be safe. colleagues at real estate put together unprecedented effort to make sure we had all facilities we needed to lift every site whether mass vaccination or community connection points across the city. thank you so much nom. [applause] mark dela rosa, controllers office. [applause] let me just say this, $2 billion collected on behalf of san francisco from the federal and state government. [applause] not only the controller team and under mark's

leadership help create all the system and paperwork needed, they are thinking ahead when the federal government tries to claw back all the allowances, so thank you mark! [applause] jack chin, sfgtv and the entire team. [applause] holy moly we had to figure how to talk to people and make sure people are informed, out in community and put together all the psa to educate people and figure how to do hybrid meetings. jack sent so much time making sure all is in line and often slept overnight to make sure every meeting was covered. talking 5,000 hours, 1700 remote public meetings. thank you jack. [applause]

and finally, katelen osevedo. [applause] she accepts on behalf of the entertainment commission and cert team. this was outreach enforcement effort. imagine having to go to the thousands of businesses across the itisy to make sure they understood all the rules and best protect the workers and people coming there to eat to dine and enjoy our city. 4,000 (inaudible) in #1u6 such a short amount of time. thank you. and with that, we are done. come on up! [applause]

[applause] >> presenting the award for econom ic (inaudible) please

welcome kate sofes, director of office and workforce development. [applause] >> so, when we think about economy it sound like a very sterile word but when i think about it and drew me the role in the city which i have been only a year and unique spur spective to share these awardees accomplishments of being in community at i was in the time you were all coming together to deliver oallf othe impact you have. but when i think about economy it isn't a sterile word to me, it is jobs and people livelihood and how people support families, how people afford to access health care and it all works together and the grup i'm about to honor today have come together from across departments to deliver during the pandemic and to continue to collaborate as we move forward the pandemic is not done and the consequence of

the economic impacts to so many communities, our small businesses, the bipoc communities. i'm proud to work with this team today. let me start by recognizing andre colman from the port of san francisco. [applause] so, in community, one of the early things we all saw was what happens when you have covid on a cruse ship and we became a national parody of another cruse ship coming into port, passengers are sick and for me, coming from that perspective to where we are today, where we not only have cruse ship coming back to port, we are restoring the critical role that it plays in our economy, but we have

and have implemented some of the safest safety protocoals and health protocols on the cruse ships of any city in the country and that is due in large part to your work, so thank you. [applause] from sister agencies the airport, rhonda chu. [applause] >> rhonda is the airport capital director. stabilize the airport financial operations among other things refinance bonds in the airport $8 billion debt. expanding access to short term capital and lead a team to receive over $250 million in federal stimulus funding, collectively it helped us sustain in my opinion the most

wonderful airport in the world, and i am so happy as i look every month at our economic indicators and our (inaudible) keep going up and you help make it possible, so thank you. [applause] we have two honorees from the sfmta, george louie, come on up. [applause] as someone who came from a manufacturing background before i came to the city i have special respect for people who work with their hands as well as their heads and their hearts and george was trained as mechanic, working at muni quality control superintenedant and few days before the pandemic emergency order instituted the sfmta established department operation center and george aponted to serve as

the doc incident commander and lead staff from all reaches of the agency in responding to covid over the past 2 and a half years. thank you for your service. [applause] and also from the sfmta monica (inaudible) come on up. [applause] so, in partnership with our next awardee, monica is a sfmta street planner and shared spaces deputy program manager and the past several years colead the implementation of one of my favorite programs across the city. you participated with heart and experience and creativity and i want to stand next to you robin also providing

coleadership of the shared spaces program. [applause] so, i want to reshare a quote and robin forgive me if i get the number wrong but i was at a commission hearing with robin the other day and you said before this went done how many shared spaces? 60 parklets and we now have over 1600 shared spaces. [applause] and they are not going away. in fact i would say one of the greatest silver linings of the crisis we lived through is people now realize we are an outdoor city. we can eat outside, perform outside, we can be outside even if it is only 52 degrees and you wear a parky parka. it was

a life line getting restaurants and small businesses through the pandemic so from the bottom of my heart to the both of you, thank you. [applause] and now i like to call up heather green of city administrator office. [applause] so, when i was work in community one of the first ways i was invited to be involved is participate in the economic recovery task force and while i can't speak how it was done in other major u.s. cities, personal experience i have to say i think we have one of the most best, collaborative equity driven community engaged processes in the country and i will credit you with your leadership along with many of your colleagues who helped orchestrate that. part of the work you did is reach out to over 2,000 individual

people and businesses to get input in the process let alone all the folks invited to participate in the task force. when we look at our role here at oewd and helping carry forward our economic recovery, we constantly look back to that work product and so it lives on in the form of the work we carry forward and are i am so deeply appreciative for that roadmap. thank you. [applause] and now i like to recognize (inaudible) [applause] of the controller's office. pref [applause] so recollect the thing you don't realize when you dont work for the city what happens behind the scenes and i continue to be even as i sit today so appreciative

and every day learn more about what it takes from community perspective to make it look easy. and you were such a critical partner in the development of the city reopening framework. you also serve ademergency operation shift manager and you also lead more then 30 performance division staff continually flexing redeploying working across departments and that is the magic we benefit from whether you are a small business or worker or resident in the community and so we thank you so much. [applause] and so i save my colleague laurel for last. [applause] i don't need my notes for this one. i

have known laurel easily 10 years when i was running sf made before i came to the city, she was my connection point. my beginning of our experience in working with the city as a community partner and that relationship deepened to a level hard to put into words as we entered the pandemic. i will never forget the day i got a call from you to let us know, us meaning all the manufacturers in the city we supported, 600 companies, that shut down was imminent. and beyond that, the numerous dialogue we had every time there was a new health order or every time there was confusion how might this state order or local order actually apply to a manufacture. what is essential service and i think if i had a notion at the time city government was about

making rules and telling in community what we had to do, that misnomer was exploded in my view by the work laurel did in community with us and with myriads of other businesses big and small, she became the health order whisperer to the business community but in a way that made at the time us small businesses us community leaders, feel we were part of it. even as much as we all had to respond to the realty of a disease we didn't understand and protections and rules we didn't understand. the heart that you lead with, the transparns the clarity but also the willingness to listen to community as we try to co-share moving the economy forward is exceptional, it is model that i try to live by every day and personally i couldn't imagine someone more deserving of this award. thank you, laurel and thank you all of you.

[applause]. come on up. [applause] [applause] >> next presenting our final award for the evening for the equity community

response group, the executive director of san francisco human rights commission, dr. cheryl davis. [applause] and shkira kimly. >> before i came up i asked alicia it is 2 minute per person i'm introducing because things like that is the rule tonight. so, i asked to shikira to come up with me. instrumental in working with mary ellen to launch the equity chief equity officer served and helped support the build-out of this. i also want to recognize britany (inaudible) and (inaudible) morris who

helped in that capacity. [applause] so, i have the amazing honor to introduce to you all tonight some what i call warriors lions tiger jz mama bear. this has really been about-not go too in depth because i know everybody is ready for cocktails or whatever is waiting, because the main thing that i would want to stress is what they did is they helped us build relationships. they helped us build connections and made sure that the folks who felt like they were invisible were seen. i fond this quote i want to read i think really embodies what these folks represent from bogs that says we never know how our small activities will effect others through the invisible fabric of our connectiveness. in this explicitly connected world it

is never a question of critical mass, it is always about critical connections. and so if i dont say anything about any of them, just know that they did the work to make the critical connections. they understood the importance of seeing people. they understood the importance of listening to people and they understood the importance of leaving our bureaucracy, leaving our buildings, leaving our offices, and going into community. they understood what it was to be unwelcome in certain rooms. they understood what it meant to keep talking about equity when people were like equity had nothing to do with this and they would say equity has everything to do with this. and so, with that, i will invite them up. when i say your name you can come up and say i'll a spiel and then i will let shakira close us out. first up, erin yen.

[applause] i would say erin is one of the people tricked into taking this role and once we got in there so good and stayed with it and everyone fought over who could have aaron work for them so thank you aaron for your work. [applause] next up would be tracey packer. [applause] i would say shakira and i are serious about equity and tracey had to get to know us in a challenging time and she still worked with us. i want to recognize and appreciate she not just worked with us but went above and beyond to really understand to pivot and develop those programs so thank you so much tracey for your

partnership. [applause] next up-i don't want to make you have to-i will go in order. i was making a joke because deanthony jones dopt know how he found about this, he has been off work but here he is tonight. i want to recognize deanthony jones. equity officer. next up jacky ortez instrumental making sure the lovely blue and white fliers we saw everywhere were everywhere. coordinated the teams that wnt out and distributed those. next up deanna pauns day lee own. [applause] i would say-i dont

know if everyone knows a lot of times when folks are doing this work we are fighting within the bure ocacy, fighting within government to advance equity and sometimes when you go in community they don't know you are doing the fighting inside and they fight you too, and i want to say that deanna has been fighting inside and outside and really working hard to get it right even when people are telling her on both sides it is wrong, so i want to thank her so much for her commitment and dedication. [applause] i wascytic sit sitting in the back with tracey brown and we were like we should have had valerie-i don't know if anybody has been a call with valerie. valerie is like your time is up you need to move. valerie is like amazing. she is not just-known as mama bear and think mayor breed gave her the title but valerie commitment and dedication to advancing this work is

the model we should all seek to follow, and to replicate. she is so committed to this. to the point that i thought she would lose her job so i want to thank valerie for commitment, dedication and steadfastness to make sure we get it right for the people in the city and county of san francisco. [applause] and if you can't tell by my introduction sometimes i might be too much and hard to manage and to deal with and these folks were all great. they allowed us to really push them in same way shakira was leading the work and doing a phenomenal job and i want to recognize and share

space with shak irks oo ra. >> hey everybody. i miss you. i just want to say none of this equity work could have happened without the brilliance and leadership of cheryl evan davis so can we please thank dr. davis? [applause] one of the lessens i learned is nothing for us without us and i am tremendously grateful that the forsight of dr. davis and mayor breed to make sure and also mary ellen san francisco was the first city to have equity officer and equity unit. many cities and counties fallowed suit and because of that able to help our folks who are unhoused, who are in jails who are essential workers, who were living in

substandard housing and because of the work of each of the individuals and every single mom, aunt, grandma, og and young folks to make sure community came first, responded first and work with the city to make this happen. i want to thank you all for being here tonight. equity is not just something in name t is something you do in action, so-- [applause] >> this is why i (inaudible) is not here but i want to recognize (inaudible) ford from department of public health. [applause] i think the ltf can attest to this, asella was so committed geing to all the communities and asking what can i do to help. she wanted to be a part of this. she was dedicated without even being asked so i apologize for forgetting her but she was critical to this work so give it up for

asella. [applause] >> alright everybody. i hope that from everything you have heard this evening and seen this evening you will recognize just how amazing you all are so thank you again for your dedication, your passion, your

commitment. i have two very important announcements before we wrap up. the first is, we do have proclamations from our assessor. they will be available for pick up for the honorees at the reception area if you can stop by there on your way to the actual reception and i think because maybe weep have a lot of city leadership in the room, we have been given an extended bar hour so that is the other announcement. we get to have a party until 845 so head to the north (inaudible) and thank you again. [applause]

>> i don't want to be involved in the process after it happens. i want to be there at the front end to help people with something in my mind from a very early age. our community is the important way to look at things, even now. george floyd was huge. it opened up wounds and a discussion on something festering for a long time. before rodney king. you can look at all the

instances where there are calls for change. i think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our sheriff's office regardless of circumstance. that influenced me a lot. some of the storefronts have changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i

remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed. we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. it is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. that is where my grandparents were brought up. that is the traditional foods or movies. they were able to celebrate the culture in that community. my family also had a dry-cleaning business. very hard work. the family grew up with apartments above the business. we have a built-in work force. 19 had 1 as -- 1941 as soon as that happened the entire community was fixed. >> determined to do the job as

democracy should with real consideration for the people involved. >> the decision to take every one of japan niece american o japanese from their homes. my family went to the mountains and experienced winter and summer and springs. they tried to make their home a home. the community came together to share. they tried to infuse each home are little things. they created things. i remember my grand mother saying they were very scared. they were worried. they also felt the great sense of pride. >> japanese americans. >> my granduncle joined the

442nd. when the opportunity came when the time that was not right. they were in the campaign in italy. they were there every step of the way. >> president truman pays tribute. >> that was the most decorated unit in the history of the united states army. commitment and loyal to to the country despite that their families were in the camp at that time. they chose to come back to san francisco even after all of that. my father was a civil servant as well and served the state of california workers' compensation attorney and judge and appellate board. my parents influenced me to look at civil service s.i applied to

police, and sheriff's department at the same time. the sheriff's department grabbed me first. it was unique. it was not just me in that moment it was everyone. it wasn't me looking at the crowd. it was all of us being together. i was standing there alone. i felt everyone standing next to me. the only way to describe it. it is not about me. it is from my father. my father couldn't be there. he was sick. the first person i saw was him. i still sometimes am surprised by the fact i see my name as the sheriff. i am happy to be in the position i am in to honor their memory doing what i am doing now to help the larger comment. when i say that we want to be

especially focused on marginalized communities that have been wronged. coming from my background and my family experienced what they did. that didn't happen in a vacuum. it was a decision made by the government. nobody raised their voice. now, i think we are in a better place as country and community. when we see something wrong we have change agents step up to help the community affected. that is a important thing to continue to do. you talk about change and being a leader in change and not knowing whether you have successes or results. the fact of the matter is by choosing to push for change you have already changed things. through inspiration for others, take up the matter or whether it is through actual functional change as a result of your voice being heard.

i think you have already started on a path to change by choosing that path. in doing that in april of itself creates change. i continue in that type of service for my family. something i hope to see in my children. i have a pretty good chance with five children one will go into some sort of civil service. i hope that happens to continue that legacy. >> i am paul, sheriff of san francisco. [ music ]

>> one more statement. we are the one. that is our first single that we made. that is our opinion. >> i can't argue with you. >> you are responsible please do not know his exact. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪]

[♪♪♪] >> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. i took a seven year break. and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested. one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone.

it has that weird look because it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. we had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. it wasn't a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. we have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. that i could donate myself. from they're, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well? the historic moments in san francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [♪♪♪] it brought all of the punks on the web -- west coast to san francisco to see this show. the sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a. and they

skipped most of the media centres. san francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. we were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. it was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock.

[♪♪♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. >> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians. when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical legends. i feel like a lot of people in san francisco don't realize what resources there are at the

library. we had a film series, the s.f. punk film series that i put together. it was nearly sold out every single night. people were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. it is free. everything in the library is free. >> it it is also a film producer who has a film coming out. maybe in 2018 about crime. what is the title of it? >> it is called san francisco first and only rock 'n' roll movie. crime, 1978. [laughter] >> when i first went to the art institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. i did not know i would turn into a punk singer. i got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. one of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. i was looking through these mug shot books that we have here

that are from the 1920s. i did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. they are in the san francisco history centre's s.f. police department records. there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i don't have a library card. i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuff from their grandparents, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future.

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