feels welcome >> good morning i'm the general manager for the golden bridge highway transportation district. on behalf of the bridge board. staff and the team i want to welcome all of you to the golden gate bridge. we are gathered here to recognize investment in the in addition's infrastructure. ed whiching had is the world's most famous bridge behind me here. [applause] i want to thank speaker pelosi the bay area delegation we are fortunate to

have congress machine huff win us the bart north tower. congress machine mark from the [inaudible] and newest member of congress. congress man mullin. welcome all of you. i want to thank our senators senator feinstein for the support for our project and thank secretary pete bud jed. i thifrpg them providing 400 million dollars to invest in the golden gate bridge to protect it for future generations. the golden gate bridge is more then and there an icon and symbol a vital transportation link used by millions of people every year residents of the pay area and visitors.

what many may not know is tht bridge also plays a role in our response to the disasters. the next quake hit the bridge was a customer dover for first responders traveling between san francisco and the nerth bay the bridge is safe the final says of the seismic retrofit will ensure the bridge stays open it help with the rebuilding requires. vital to moving people and good in thes day and weeks after a disaster. >> prior to become the general manager i was chief engineer for the bridge i'm proud this project merys design with the historic architect of our nation's great landmark in engineering marvels the bridge was complete in the 1937 in the great depression with american

steel and union labor. [applause] >> we are proud to continue this tradition creating union jobs and serving the transportation need dps protecting the critical infrastructure. at 85 years young the bring is a symbol and thrill exclude grill for the historic investment this will ensure the bridge stands stronger than ever. my honor to introduce mayor london breed. [applause] >> >> thank you, dennis and how blessed are we to be here today to be really the stewards of an iconic bridge that is celebrated all over the world. you know, when you think about accomplices that people visit, they visit san francisco and the first thing at the top of the list is how do i get to golden

gate bridgeful how do i sigh this beautiful bridge that is all over postcards and magazine covers across the world. >> this is more than a beauty. it is a bridge that carries over 40 million cars a year. carries over 2.3 pedestrians and bicyclist and 2.2 transit riders and over 800,000 freight trucks that deliver goods and service all over the area. the infrastructure of this bridge matters. this is not a bridge this just looks beautiful it takes work and takes hands to ensure that it is in the only the asset it needs to be for us now but the asset and beauty that it needs to be for future generations to come. invest nothing this infrastructure is significant.

>> the dollars in government are hard to get. fact we are here today with the secretary of transportation and the fact that we are here today with former mayor of new orleans who i i i tell you the mayors understand that this is hard work and it is important for you to deliver for the constituents we represent and i would always say once a mayor always a mayor. so we are luck tow have them in office. >> and -- our fierce leader nancy pelosi who i will always cal speaker. not speaker america. speaker. because of the thing about speaker pel lose seshe makes sure that san francisco and the bay area has the support we need.

whether it is the infrastructure act or the american rescue plan. she delivers from a large projects like 400 million dollars for the golden gate bridge to the small community project this is matter to the people of san francisco and we are so honord and bless third degree she is speaker of the house doing all this work for us. we love you and appreciate you. and we are so glad to have you here today. i want to take this opportunity to really thank the people who work here every day. the p.m. people who are -- condition to dot work to maintain this beautiful asset. the security personnel and the folks that try to keep people safe on the bridge and many visitors and folks visit. the people who work for the bridge saving lives every day as well. >> it takes a village. but it also takes a lot of

money. and so the fact that we are here to cell brit this 400 million dollars that will be invest in the this bridge and the infrastructure. is truly remarkable. and i want to say, lastly, that when we think about the fact that the iron workers since the early 1930's, have worked not only build this bridge and continue to maintain it, we are so blessed to continue to have their hands involved and keeping it so amazing. and i know that many of the iron workers take so much pleasure and provide in protecting and taking care of this asset. here to peek on behalf of union work nears the bay area and the head of the labor counsel rudy gonzalez. i'm sorry00 autohead of the building trades rudy gonzalez.

>> thank you and my name is rudy gonzalez treasurer of the san francisco build and construction trade's counsel. my honor to represent the skilled hundreds that built this bridge. and condition to min tain and serve the public. i have to know that as mayor breed referenced the skilled work whores min tain the bridge there is a compliment of public employees when dedicate time and earn less they they would on the outside. may commit themselves to the treasure and for those who traveler to see the beaut that he is our city and the iconic asset this is the golden gate bridge to the laborers and the iron work and ares operating engineers and the union who is represent workers all of the skilled hand who is wake up every morning that includes the ferry service and the bus drivers and all of the workers who come together to make this

bridge run had the's off to you and a rounds of applause. mir is right none is done in a scyllo it takes resources. takes a lot of coming together. and i like to think as a labor leader our power is in our unit and he our coming together. that's trough for our city this . is an important time of economic recovery for our city. and as we talk to our friends in the holing council and hotel worker union and trade show partners, they are looking for this shot in the arm this silent time of symbol of confidence from the federal government. leaders initial low and our local business owners on the local level to see that there are investments made from the top of the organizations and this will help prosecute mote our economic recovery. i am excited. honor to be here with speaker pelosi and colleague this is is

an fortunate project and the money this will be infuse in the the district will go to creating good jobs to our strong economic recovery. and to ensure that like the bridge, our city will stand the test of time. thank you very much for honoring the skilled hundreds that built the bridge and continue to build the bridge now my pleasure to introduce to you the senior advisor to the president on infrastructure former mayor mitch lander. [applause] >> >> good game last night. [applause] [laughter] i was going to say who dat. next year. anyway it is grit to be with you. rudy, thank you very much for this kind introduction. i would in the be able to go become to my office if the white house if i did in the at the out set say thank you to the men and

women that actually dot w. union labor that is rebuild thanksgiving country row. you heard the president say many times that the middle class built this country and union labor built the middle class. rudy, thank you everything for what you do and the men and women who put the hands on that bridge and actually help lift up our lives every day. it is important. the president of the united states when hoe is panning out what he will say. mr. president, you going to such and such a place and doing such and such. tell me who the folks are on the grounds working the men and women theory in the crane i want their anymore and where they work and when they do. i'm. met a gentlemen this turns the lightos and off on this bridge and makes sour they stay on and told him the president sees you every day and asks about you. this statute machine that joe biden is. i'm thrilled be here on his

behalf today. our harts go tout to the people of california the shooting is a terrible example of challenges we have. the president said left week looking at the damage from the floods, this president and this government will be with you until the end. in the beginning and middle and end doing what it takes to make surety people of california have what they need to get back on their feet. . jury room you must know madam mayor you elude exclude here with mayor pete i'm from new orleans and when i was lieutenant govern and the mayor we gone through katrina, rita, ike and national recession and the bp oil spill. madam speaker i know you know a lot about prayer this is the time to pray when the locusts are coming. because you have had your unfair share of challenges in california from wild fires to floods and of course always the threat of earthquakes. but you know that the country is

with you and we will be with you for a long period of time. and so i'm thrilled be here for a lot of different reasons the president as you all know said if you elect him he would use the power of the presidency to bring people together approximate lift everybody up it unite people. to think about appropriating us for the future not go to the past. you can't be a strong nation or a strong national scour if you don't have strong economic security. you can have either if we don't have strong infrastructure this is the rock upon when the rest is built. for years and years, as a speaker will tell you. presidents and people talked about done. this president showed up with the leadership of this person here put 1.2 trillion jelly beans in the jar to be allocated in an appropriate way in appropriate near anybody who is

elected official is in my district and hurry up. with a lot of work a lot lead bithe secretary of transportation and my good friend pete, we have been muraling 1.2 trillion out of the door. for roads and bridge and airports and waterways, high speed internet so a girl is in the back in the car doing home work where she have the knowledge she needs to lead us in the future and building a clean energy economy special appropriate further climate challengeless we have. that is when we are in the business of doing now. rebuilding the country from the bottom up and a part of that of course, is the roads, public transportation and the bridge this is we all ride on. >> secretary of trpgdz will talk b more about this bridge but bridges other thing this is connect us. physically. they connect us spiritualy and

in ways the symbolism of this bridge is important. when i was i boy i came in this city with my dad and mom and brother and cyst and grandma my daddy made sure we did not spends too much monnet restaurant down stairs. and i remember crossing this bridge for the first time. and being in awe with it and the mayor this incredible city the great steps admit world and understanding how important it was in the just to the people of san francisco but to the people of world. who think about thes of america than i been this bridge. and so we have a lot of work to do the secretary has been charged by the president getting the money out. rebuilding the roads and bridge and airports which we have laid down in an aggressive way. i think up to 2700 bridges are repaired as we speak. there are some bridges this are more iconic than other and

important for the reasons that he will state when he come up here. this announcement is a 400 million dollars announcement to make sure that essential low you move from shock pads to brake pados this bridge so that when that bad thing this you think might happen appropriate for the worse and hope for the best you near a position people will be safe. transportation will continue. lives will not be lost. jobs will go up rather than down and people get to and from work and picking up kids and getting to church on time and making sure they get from where they are and where they are going in a secure way with new technology, new infrastructure. think burglar resilience necessary to make america strong when the infrastructure is strong the economy is strategy the initial security is strong and america maintains the place of leading the world. i will close with tht secretary and i travel all over. we have accomplices to go. there is river low a time when

we argue who will go to an accomplice. because there is a lot of work to do. i told him there was no chance he was going to san francisco without me. and -- besides the fact i love this place i will tell you why. there was a speaker once sam rayburn who said any jack ass can kick down a barn it takes a great carpenter to build one you have the greatest carpenter in the world to my left. i have been knowing and blessed to know this fantastic woman my entire life our families go become a long way and many of you know catrain almost destroyed new orleans. we were in our darkest hour this one went down to new orleans 4 times to be with us and never left my side or the side of the

people of new orleans. now you already know how fantastic she is. but we would not be here today without here. i would nod be here without her guidance, love and commitment. and although she stepped down as the speaker of the house,s i think i might get close to quoting you somebody asked you and i said i was the most powerful person in wish washil be the most fluential person i possibly can be as we go forward. madam speaker, i want to tell you how much i love you. i'm not introducing and i'm introducing the secretary. but i came here to tell you on behalf of me and my family and new orleans and the president, thank you we love you and appreciate everything you have done for us the reason we are here with this money because he is the twhoon made this happen. god bless you all and with that, i will introduce my partner and

my friends fellow mayor doing an unbelievable job on behalf of president rebuilding america and talk about this announcement. secretary pete budegege. thank you. mayor. for your friendship and leadership and shaping everything from clone bauer to those who now lack access to it affordable internet. shaning our work in transportation. usually we divvy up accomplices to go there are hundreds of projects but you could in the keep both of us away to be here celebrating the great bridges we're thrilled to be a part of this today. you want to thank speaker pelosi without whom we will not be not just in terms of the project but when the country is doing. a testament to the extraordinary

effectiveness that you have demonstrated as a national lead exert somebody i admired balancing that with your commitment to the very specific accomplice that trusted to you represent it for so long. we would not be able to the do any of this without that leadership. it was said once once a mayor always a mayor i'm grateful to be here with mayor breed a terrific partner on transportation improvements under way and the house and senate members who representative the area. glad we have a strong delegation that understands the perjuries of infrastructure. we have representatives huffman and mullin. congratulations on your election. several others were in the i believe to be here and the senators. we are able to announce this good work here and across the country a direct result of their support for the president's vision for a bipartisan

infrastructure law. you in we have moved from talking about when will help to the happen around the country. dennis and your team thank you for the vital piece of america. and thank you rudy gonzalez and through you we rescue noise all of the workers going to take skills. 750 feet in the air to get this project done. you were presence reminds us we are not just building infrastructure we are building live livelihoods. from the moment it opened this bridge is one of the most essential and recognizable in our country. its location, proportions and design. make it in the just the denigz of the bay area but emblems of the united states itself. even people never been to california can recognize its place the cathedrals of american infrastructure. this reason it deserves

attention when is t is enduring role at stake. significance of the golden gate bridge is in the just a matter of the vivid accomplice in our american land scape t. it is very much a working peels of infrastructure and essential at that. the bridge plays a role in the safe movement of people and goods across the region. carries 100,000 vehicles a day. then million a year. half a million freight trucks including the water born freight in oakland which will grow and a vital pedestrian and bicycle lane. like all iconic infrastructure symbolic powers innerwoven with real concrete capacity to help deliver prosperity. we also know without improvements the elements would be vulnerable each passing year. i think it is fitting in this

first round of bridge investment program. the energy ship programs president biden five year infrastructure peculiarage, we are looking after this asset. we are glad to be here and why the biden/harris administration is proud to award 400 million dollars to retrofit the golden gate bridge. [applause] i have been we are here as california going through a lot. violence that we were shocked steel over the weekend. and california is recovering from the impact of the storms of the kinds we are sure to see more it in this era of climate change. down payment on the president's commitment to rebuild after the storms we announced we are immediately making available 10.2 million dollars in emergency transportation fundses to repair damaged roads and more where this came from i'm glad

our highway administration will be looking at the damage and be there for you. [applause]. >> and while the seismic threat to the vital bridge is district from climate threats we are facing and forms the response has this in common a need to focus on resilience. weather a road with mud slides a per by sea level or marriage american bridge threatened by quakes we are act to make sure it is resilient all that will come our way. in the story of this project reflects on the resilience on the people who believed in it for years. this bridge stood strong through that devastating loma earthquake. ajs after was clear. if a similar earthquake were to start nearer to where we were standing could cause damage or destroy the golden gate bridge. it is difficult on over state the impact that would follow if

the bridge were in the visible. traffic would increase bypass minutes but hers in each direction. supply chains rocked pushing up process. businesses, jobs, activity and relationships would be unrealistic it sustain and lost. xr soon after that earthquake leaders in the bay area decided the bridge had to be strengthened and leaders wing to deliver on that promise ever since. it took advocacy of so many here and the unparalleled effectiveness of speaker pel lose and he the leadership of president biden to pass the historic infrastructure luthat gave us this funds to see this move forward. there is only one golden gate bridge and we are going to protect it.

>> creating years and years of new good union jobs for iron workers, sheet metal workers laborers, engineers and more representatived here they will install 40 energy device. streventeng the bracing and flower beams the tower and more. i will complement everyone involve nothing applying to this competitive program. learning bridge section got 40 applications. seeking 11 billion dollars in funding. 4 ever them could be fund third degree year including this one. >> i want to end by putting this in context another great example of what period biden's vision are if building a better america looks like in practice part of a strategy it rebuild our economy from the bottom up and middle out and the strategies are work unemployment is the lowest in

decades. wages areum inflation is down compared to a now months ago. seniors on medicare paying $35 a month or less for insulin star thanksgiving year. the child of industrial midwest i move to see manufacturing roaring back with 750,000 new manufacturing jobs created since this administration took office. >> we are building electric vehicles and clone steel and microchips than i will move along strong are american supply chains on more resilient road and bridges like the renowed golden gate we are literally building the 40 together and we are just getting started. i'm glad we can america this together and looking forward to all ahead for the bay area and the counts real and now it is my great honor and pleasure to turn it over to member who again is

responsible in so many ways for hai listed. members of my family have health care because of her leadership. home town has a future because of her leadership. one of the most consequential americans of our young century and the pleasure to turn it over to speaker nancy pelosi. >> thank you very much mr. secretary for your kind words. and your 400 million dollars. [laughter]. what an honor it to be here with my colleagues from the congress. jerad ofmachine exit are districts abut on the bridge. and that is in a safe way. he is a member of transportation committee very much a part of what went monopoly to building this infrastructure bill this

marked on the infrastructure bill from the east bay but a champion for all our issues and brands now member kevin mullin representing per of san francisco and jackie peer who is there to vote for the infrastructure bill i thank our colleagues for acknowledging diane feinstein our senators who were a part of this. it it is quite remarkable to stand here with all of these mayors. our mayor whom we are very proud, and enables us to succeed nationally when we go for a grantor something because of the model that san francisco always is. about getting the job done. having a good proposal. having be union made having

community support. so mr. secretary, we we vote the machiney they 99 san francisco dirt will fly. [laughter] thank you. >> pete is a former mayor and mitch talked about when we came over the bridge. i first came over my father finished being there in baltimore and came to california going to the democratic convention in l.a. and came and saw this magnificent, beautiful bridgeful i thought it would be golden. [laughter]. it was orange. perfect. perfect. and again in all -- of the iron workers. charlie hernandez i sing the praises. can you imagine being an ironworker and going to the top of the tower? can you imagine being another

union member and the bottom of the bay. this courage of it all. the courage of it you will for safety offal of us. and that's what president biden has been b. so again we have the mayors i don't know when rudy's plans or dennis plans are, this it is a high percentage of mayors of here now. and has been mentioned they understand how to get the job doneful we are very proud of the secretary of transportation. for the new vision in he brings to the infrastructure in our country. mr. secretary, when i came here that day with my parents, and since then, this golden gate bridge is the bridge butt golden gate was always there. the golden gate was what was called where the ocean met the bay. that is where people came to our country to ini having rit it.

new comers e approximately from asia. later that is where our truths come home from worry and the first thing than i see is this bridge. called the golden gate because of the area. it represents. so the bridge is the physical infrastructure. it it is a manifestation of america. coming home or coming to america. [applause]. we are proud as we are near the presidio now and the beautiful out look this we have of the bridge. but also part of per of what president biden hen about. dennis come from a union family. as mitch said unions built the middle class. i say it another way the middle class as a union label on it. and dennis thank you for your leadership being in challenger

here. and as far as rudy agenda is concerned yes he was head of the labor council now building trid we celebrated 125th anniversary of the building trades in san francisco in the past year. 125 years. san francisco has been a pioneer in so many ways that's when president biden has been about. in all of these things the bipartisan infrastructure bill and boy the way, mr. secretary, and mr. special advisor to the president it is right the 2 of you are here this is the biggest allocations of recourses in the infrastructure bill so far. [applause] in the country. in the country. in the country. our clothes know that was a fight. part of when the president hen b. campaigned on so when i talk

to him about bills you don't have to tell me i wrote it and campaignod if committed to. committed to jobs. good pay being union jobs. justice, having it done in a way that involved everyone in the communities. safety, this is about safety today if one word. it is jobs of course but it is about safety and the president is very much committed to that. it is only part of the story. as mr. secretary it is other bill this is passed as well starting with the rescue peculiarage that funneled so much money in the state of california. the city of san francisco. our whole area. in order to address the -- covid crisis and shot in arms and money pockets, children in school and people safely back to work. then the infrastructure bill and a bill for our veterans many

union guys are vet republicans we thank the vet republicans for their irrelevant than i play in all of this. the chips act about building the economy of our country in a way that has justice and involving everybody in our community in training and the rest. and jobs in fact. and then -- and then the ira the secretary referenced the ira the infrastructure reduction act. it is done exact low that. it has reduced inflation and credited yens to save the planet with good paying union jobs the same time reducing the cost of prescription drugs, insulin as mentioned and the rest and to do so in a way that it is about safety, justice, about good paying jobs. this president has delivereds -- he kept his promises made.

promises kept more to come. i mendz my colleague in congress because of obviously an idea this is legislation until it pass and goes to the president's desk does in the exist. i want to thank jerad and narc and now we will be thanking kevin mullin and to jackie spear. all of our california delegation. we are vice presidents over 40 members of congress from well 52 but -- i'm talking about dem credits. this is called a bipartisan infrastructure bill. we did get 13 votes initial low but so it is bipartisan we take great provide and hope that the sign of more to come. in any event this is a special day. this bridge is iconic piece of infrastructure. i talk to mark for identification you a few weeks ago talk about this golden gatan

verse row recreation area. and that was in a when thomas jefferson was president, mayors, when thomas jefferson was president, he created something called the gallatin plan to build the infrastructure of america. over 200 years ago. the -- the all kindses of things -- canals, bridges all the thing this is again matching the louisiana purchase. all the things to build america the erie canal the cumberland road. all of those things. 100 years later, teddy roosevelt in honor of that did his infrastructure plan. the initial park service. and then you in we have president biden's plan.

whether we talk about infrastructure for parks or transportation, infrastructure for safety, infrastructure for justice, infrastructure for in this bill, there is a 40% what is the title. >> justice 40. it would be justice in how infrastructure is built. we are very prud to be part of the justice 40. per of this legislation. so let us thank president biden for his great leadership and thank and welcome again mr. secretary of transportation special advisor to the president and send or friend in the labor movement in every capacity that has been mentioned thank you all so much. again, more to come. [laughter]. [applause]. (music).

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>> welcome to the tuesday, february 7, 2023, hybrid in person and virtual meeting of the san francisco entertainment commission. i'm the president and we'll start with announcements. i'm ben bleiman. >> we would start with the land acknowledgement. [land acknowledgement]