>> thank you very much everybody for being here. we are so happy to do fleet week this year last year we were on the edge off of our seats whether we have should v a program. we pull today off. sailors and marines walking around town meeting people in san francisco and feeling the

hospitality 've the city this it is a fabulous city and so welcoming. fleet week is a community event. it is an event with a plan and all of the operations are volunteers from neighborhoods. city hall the city, we are thankful for their help we will hear from city officials. this year our air show thankfully united airlines was gashs enough to help us with the [inaudible] side the air show will have 2, f-35's the most advanced aircraft in the world. and pilots that guide them and the blue angels will be happening down on the marina drenal you see the human tear yen assistance and stem education center. fleet week is pervasive throughout the city. off the waterfront in the

neighborhoods. saturday the t-9 her over freshman 10 to 2 at debose park. this band will appear there. support our k-9 heros. check out all of overhaul events the great things fleet week has. look at our website you see everything happening. i will pass it on to the mayor who is supportive, what a great friend to the military and fleet week. mayor london breed. thank you. good afternoon i'm san francisco mayor london breed i'm so happy to be here to sick off fleet week in our city! you know float week is a time honored tradition in san francisco. we know every year during october, all of the sudden we hear the planes flying through.

but fleet week is in the about the extraordinary talent of the blue angel its is so much more. about developing a relationship with our military, the people who put their lives on the line to make sure that we retain the rights and freedoms we enjoy in the united states of america. when i think about how wonderful fleet week is to see folks walking in uniforms and the time they take to talk about the work they do. the opportunity to visit the ships and tour and know the sacrifices that are being made, day in and out, people who are not able to be around families regular low wlo are spending their time every day to serve and protect us. and when we appreciate about fleet week other than loving the blue angel system how it is expanded and become such a

community event. how it brought people together weather the band in japantown and all over the city and the castro for the first time this year; [applause]... it is also all of the various events the parade of ships. excitement. last year was the first time that after the pandemic we were able to get together in person for fleet week. let me tell you the city was packed. people were excited. lines to see the ships and conversations and people smiling and excited all over san francisco not just san francisco but people visiting from all overnight bay area and the country. this is a great event. it is also an opportunity to, yes, celebrate our military. celebrate the folk who is make sure the waters are protected, navy, marines. the coast guard, it it is an

opportunity for us to remember that san francisco such a major city is also our quick prone. also disaster prone. and so we have to get prepared. we do have our police chief. bill scott and fire chief and our head of the department of emergency management mar ellen carol and others who are running regular drills with our military. to make sure that when because it is in the a matter of if, it is when we are faced with a natural disaster or other disaster that we are prepared to work together to keep the people of this city safe. so, i want all of to you go sf72. org and check on your neighbors. know your neighbors the pandemic gave us an opportunity to know each other better than before. at the end of the day we want to

make sure we are able to protect one another. that's what all the people here in uniform do every day. they put their lives on the line to serve and protect each one of us. and so on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, i like to ask admiral bask to come up and accept this proclamation. we are now official low not only kickoff fleet week in san francisco but it is considered officially fleet week in the city and county of san francisco, inform for being here to celebrate this auspicious occasion in our city. [applause]. thank you. all right. let's get going!

i do introduce. okay. so it it is now my pleasure to introduce the executive director for the port of san francisco and i said, there will be ships and tours and lots of activities. don't forget to eat at our restaurant s and shop and enjoy what san francisco has to offer. new partialers open. san francisco will be so exciting during fleet week i hope you will join you and the person this manages the port for the city san francisco is e lane forbes. >> thank you mayor breed. i want to echo comments, welcome to fleet week. the water front is open, it is exciting and thrilling we cannot wait to welcome the young men and women in service to say thank you. buy them a bore. have a good time. enjoy the water front.

welcome people who sacrifice for our country and keep us safe. i'm very happy to thank the navy. marine core, coast guard and the army core who are keeping our waterfront and city safe. sea services and our city departments the chiefs of police, chief of fire. director of emergency management and our director of public works carla short, we work together and we work in a fashion that has manageds behind us. we get ton each other before we are on the battlefield and the groups come together strongly in terms how we set mission. who is responsible of huwe set strategy and deploy am. because of the hard work being an exciting in person event we dot own in person emergency preparation. and that's what make this is event so important to our city. i want to go become to our water

front because it has the best vows. best food and experience of san francisco. we have our navy vessels here. historic finger pearce are amazing and demonstrate a rich maritime history. we have an exceptional experience for everyone who is coming. i want to welcome everyone and welcome now the director of our emergency management departmentful she used manageds and worked hard in the covid pandemic and now she is keeping us appropriated for natural disasters like earthquakes. with that mary ellen carol. [applause]. thank you so much. a pleasure to be here i'm so happy that we have we are back to normal. ish.

and can have float week again. i want to echo the comments that everyone said and that everyone already said including our mayor. fleet week is an extraordinary week we are entering in the d. emergency management and other public safety partners coit year round what we do is what has been referenced already is our emergency preparedness exercises. so this year we focus a different skill or asset and this year we looked at air operations. transportation lines could be cut off. could have different areas of the city like islands our ability to do air operations is critical in an earthquake or sdaft they're affects our infrastructure. i want to thank my partner who i

will introduce here admiral days for his partnership. thank the emergency managers and i want to thank float week sf and the staff there that does coordination. all my city partners and all of our military partners that criminal we're luck tow have this relationship that we can develop we know who to call and that our -- our responders are working throughout the year with our military partners we don't have to figure this out in the moment. we are proud of that. with ha, i will bring on the admiral to talk about the work. [applause]

>> all right. wow. this is intim dath. thank you mayor and colleagues for letting me be a part of this today. again. my title is commander expedition. the reason i'm talking i'm in charge of naval forces. my honor to speak on behalf of service members out in the communities for those here last year, the restart of in person fleet week was an epic success. do you agree? yea. it was pretty cool and thanks to the generosity and spirit of the city why it was successful. this year will be bigger, better and more epic. more shipps. different types coming. we did this so you see something new. a parade and open tours during the week. navy, marine bands playing throughout the community.

sporting events, team building and social events going of displays of military equipment. aircraft and ships and also the equipment we use with crisis response and finishing to natural disasters you will see that and we have noticing group. the blue angels, whatever. they are pretty cool i'm a helecopter guy. they are notice and back. that is in the when the most cool is we are bringing a lot of young sailors usual marines and coast guard men and women to get out in your community and that's important to me that is what fleet week is about. yea celebrating the members and commitment is important. but more important is you know our service members what they are about and bh they do. guess what, we work for you. military works for citizens. when you see us out in the community, and you rescue noise us because of the sterling uniforms and the short cuts. say, hi, ask us hard questions about when we do it is important. i think when you see the folks you will be impressed like i am. >> we mention today fleet week

is fun and doing hard work. we talked about the training. this is us the military working with your emergency respondors the police, fire, pork medical people. emergency response agencies what we do is hone our skills to respond in times of natural disaster together and effectively. i done missions like this they are hard you have to practice like everything. we did this last year. and again thissier and keep doing that. i will start where i finished and say thanks to the warm hospitality. and all the high 5's on the streets i appreciate it. and thank you for honoring the men and women that serve our military it means more than you know. i look forward to seeing everybody at fleet week. i will kick it over to lewis? [applause]. thank you admiral and all the

speakers we cannot ends without me pointing out the fwie who started fleet week the chairman of the board of san francisco fleet week association retired general mike meyer, right there. his vision brought us together in 2010. revitalized fleet week the assistance disaster responseful i also want to mention on monday just as this next monday at the golden gate park we are the return of the high school band we will have high marching bands appearing and they will compete for prize money. if you make it there. support the kidsure watch them they are energetic and it gives you hope the next generation will be fabulous. thank you to the band and instructor:it up. thank you! [applause].

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>> [inaudible] i'm a illustrator by day and a [inaudible] composition teacher. right now i'm practice by transscribing [inaudible] that is what i have been doing the past couple years, teaching myself. california college of the arts, illustration there has really great teachers. robert hunt, vance story taught me a lot. what i'm working on is a portfolio

[inaudible] riding a donkey unicorn in the process. >> my name is dawn richardson and musician, drummer and drum teacher. i guess i would say i started my professional path quh i started playing in bands and teaching drum lesson when i was in college. they were definitely not that many women that would do what is doing. in 198 8 i graduated from cal state los ang and studied mostly classical percussion and music education but at the same time i was in hollywood so played at night in rock bands so was doing two different things. >> the reason i'm [inaudible] the people. there is a extremely vibrant art community especially arounds the

red poppy art house [inaudible] as a artist in the past 2 or 3 years there is a event called the [inaudible] every 3 months a free art music festival that i usually play at and just met so many people. >> i was teaching a little bit and doing odd jobs like waitressing and going at night and playing in bands and meeting a lot of people. i chss in ban that had cool break jz get parts on tv shows or things like that. a friend of mine, we had mutual friends that got signed to a record deal in san francisco called 4 nonblaunds and i addition frd the bands and moved to the bay area. i think things are different now than 30 years

ago, the world evolved a lot. it could be a challenge but have to know how to negotiate everything and sometimeatize is [inaudible] it was great to get to a point where i was just treated like another one of the people, a musician not a female musician and that is always what [inaudible] >> you don't hear stuff on the radio [inaudible] i need to write music [inaudible] be more conscious in their decisions and somehow make that poetic so they will be convinced. i think i will do that. [singing in backgrounds] drawing and writing music since i was a really little kid and fortunate enough to have a good education in art and parentss who supported me. i hope my life will continue to allow me

to do both. >> for me now having all male, female girls, boys students it shows the world has changed a lot and people areope toon open to a lot more than they were in the past. you can get a deep satisfaction from responding a lot of year practicing in one thing and becoming really good at something. sometimes i think that it is better to get lost. you have to practice and become good at what you do, so if you have everything together then go out in the world and do what you do and then i think people weal accept that.

>> 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 ]

>> hi. i'm alita fisher running for san francisco board of education buzz i'm a former foster paraphernalia now adoptive parent and in the past 17 years 4 children attended 8 sudden fran schools. i have been an active partner at each one. mom and grand mother were teachers i loved school. i was that kid who came home and played school with my toys it was nile journey identifying my children's disabilities that trance formed me