>> (please standby for the nowruz celebration).

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nowruz city hall celebration).

>> nowruz hi, everyone thank you so much for joining the 18 year have come at san francisco city hall. >> my name is sophia, if any, the founder and ceo of persian women and honored to be at city hall chair for the past 8 years. >> this year in light of the

political movement no iran persian men decided for the to have that but celebrating our heritage to display our event we're having right now. march is a month where many things will elevated you including international women's at a and women's history month and nowruz which is celebrated over 3000 years by over 90 million people around the world. it is so important to have representation. for communities to come total together and showcase their heritage and culture. >> san francisco is a city that welcomes opens it's arms to many

underrepresented community and culture we're thankful for working with the mayor of the san francisco and supervisor and supervisor to bring the incredible event together. it is important to recognize that women are behind this program the committee is all women with you so vendors are women and our all over the are iranian america women and persian women stand with - (clapping.) it is important not to only evaluate but come together as a community tonight together we're stronger for that. and able to

do more we're able to uplift our community and showcase this beauty of our culture and heritage. i'm honored today to introduce the mayor of san francisco london breed to the stage. >> (yelling). >> thank you and thank you to persian women it is so wonderful for here nowruz thank you to all the families and the friends and the people that came to celebrate now we know it is an challenging time in our lives and we know that sadly the death of marsha has created a fear and

frustration and this taken place in san francisco where that community stood in solidist to make that clear that the hatred will not be tolerated in any for this this community came together because of the hurt and pain and we'll be sad that happens to the women and women so many places where we are being challenged on a regular basis and not given the opportunity to decide on the economy of our both sides in the decided about our lives it is so fitting it persian women has hosted this event and fitting it is held during women's history month in city hall. by a woman

and mayor to make that clear we send a strong message we talk about the nowruz and renewable and hope and future and starting a new we make that clear that the ability for women to make they're own decisions about their both sides and how they move around the world that we will stand for justice and fairness and so today is about a hope for renewable hope for a new day, hope for a new year that is starkly the possibility what can a happy we truly come together and work hard and push for fairness and justice for all human beings. (clapping.) so i want to really again, thank you sophie and you'll see people

who are volunteering and hosting this over the years and really acknowledge your work and leadership in the tech industry a male dominated destroy for other women to strive thank you, for you work and advocacy and also take the opportunity to acknowledge our chief the protocol the first woman to serve had in the city and county of san francisco her family do incredible things she's a proud persian woman will be a support of this community thank you to my co-host supervisor and i saw earlier shamann and so many leaders of people in city hall. i of course, that our hearts are

heavy but today it truly a celebration to may be make that clear the persian of san francisco has a place here in san francisco at city hall a place that feels save and secure and a place to celebrate the new year and think before hope for the future a place you know, we have your back and here to support moving forward because our diversity in san francisco is our sprelth e strength the fact we stick together what makes our unique place. so great to see all of you here to celebrate nowruz any time i have an opportunity to celebrate a new year a change for a new beginning i'm happy to do that and acknowledge your state the state of california control the

treasurer also joining us today so many wonderful people who care about celebrating the new year and the joy of this occasion city hall will be a place that we continue to do that and i want to ask sophie to come forward as i officially declare monday, march 20th - tuesday, march 21, 2023, in the city and county of san francisco nowruz day. >> (clapping) thank you so much and at this time, i wanted to introduce my co-host supervisor saving thank you, ma'am mayor give it up for london breed. >> could i is the 18 day 18 year i'm sorry 18 year that we

had nowruz celebration at city hall it started think o under governor gavin newsom a group of iranian got together and to recognize a community in many ways to a lot of people they're land use in one group out of that have a way to celebrate our culture at city hall so from that time going forward we have been having celebrations every year more and more fruitful and more and more event full and a beautiful way to show our culture. um, i want to recognize a few people before i say a few more words thank you, sophie the persian woman for organizing this and others and (clapping.)

expanding our culture a showing the music and i want to thank the mayor for hosting this not every community doesn't but had the opportunity to come to city hall. >> (clapping) but i want to i i would be remiss to say we have to recognition what is happening in iran people are putting their lives on the whether or not i think for what we take some people take for granted on a daily basis the ability to speak feel free and walk down the street to hole hands and simple things and speaking their. as a matter of fact simple things we do on a daily basis are not exchanged by brave brave women and people brave brave young people in fact, are putting their lives on the line

(chanting). >> thank you. >> and so i want to say nowruz nowruz and (speaking foreign language) what are the beautiful people in the world can we give it up for persians and thank you for celebrating our culture. >> thank you good for celebrating coming together as one thank you and i'm going to ask lisa and mohammed to come up please we can recognize the wonderful work you do (clapping.) come on up. >> today a mohammed day

(laughter.) >> thank you. (clapping.) and then lastly, i want to call you think persian woman and tech sophie for all you're amazing work you have done (clapping.) . thank you. >> yeah. one second so then also let's give up for the wonderful happening displays thank you for her amazing work and (clapping.) for again, it is absolutely beautiful and hand it back to severing any. >> thank you, supervisor. and mayor for an incredible speech

this today would not be possible without the support of many of our community members and giving the time, and money because it costs something like to lee like this and recognize those who really have been the pillar important for the program and for the most part the culture family foundation (clapping.) has been supporting this initiative for many, many years we appreciate that. mr. mohammed and christen. >> (clapping). >> i think beyond the community we also need to see around us in the city and they need to step up and also support thankful for amazon crews and

san francisco giants in supporting and elevating our community (clapping.) i hope you enjoyed today's tea and the pastries and i want to thank - bakery and the tea we're serving you. >> providing the - presenting incredible work please support them and couldn't have done it without you the committee that is behind us and unfortunately, we are not having everyone but. >> (calling names.) >> have been part of this and supporting to make sure that our culture is represented our is

elevated thank you so much and i'm going to pass it back to supervisor. >> (clapping) want to recognize a few people before we bring up the next person you thank you for the board of education for being here (clapping.) and the record thank you and any bring up our state treasurer to say a few words please come on up and been a wonderful friends and every step of the way thank you, state treasurer. >> thank you very much. and great to be here in the people's hall slubt the culture and the tradition of the persian community i've been good forensics with sammy others for so many years and used to see

call me all the time and now they are elected they no longer call me all the time but i've been here since i served on the board of supervisors in 200220 years so it is so great to be here with all of our beautiful persians and the community members we thank the mayor for continuing to welcome us and feel included in this great diversity of the state of california we are the fourth largest economy because of all of us so let's celebrate and stand up and rise up to support the people to be the best we can happy nowruz (clapping.) and then lastly last but not least want to bring our our city

administrator carmen chu please come up. >> hello, good afternoon afternoon i'm the city conservative and welcome, everyone to city hall a beautiful event it is great represents the spring and new beginnings and also want to say this year we're looking forward to a wonderful year in the celebration with all of you and especially thank supervisor for bringing this year after year and the mayor to continuing to host and sponsor for those of you who don't know a handful of celebrations in city hall this is one of them and thanks to the leadership and the supervisor and the mayor thank you for your great work and, of course, we have the year ahead (clapping.) . okay. everyone thank you and enjoy the treats and thank you

for coming out today

fire department ems at station 49. i was born raise in the oak land my dad is mexican my mom is black i was playing soft ball this hayward and directly behind our soft ball field is an empty field. and almost every day at practice i saw this tiny woman leading the big people in work outs and eventual low i look in the and found out she was teaching how to do physical trin to get people red to work in the fire

department. that peeked my interest. the oak lan fire department was the first fire department i did. i did a firefighter one training program there. that got me into fire whim start the paramedic school i went to city college and fell in love with the city. i did nile internship at station 49. it was wonder. . i learned the san francisco wave doing things. like the wild, wild west, every day. i loved it was a family environment here. that made mow say san fan fire department, that's i didn't want to be. i avoided science my entire education up to becoming a paramedic. i failed my first time taking my emt registry. i hope well is nobody out there that gets discouraged if this happens. you have opportunity to take again. i d. i came back. took it, passed and continued to

paramedic and pass the my registry the first time. being a woman in the fire department i am a minority here. a minority in multiple aspects. i'm a woman. biracial i'm the only black woman paramedic in the ems position. it is insane and i hope i encourage other women to join this profession that does not represent the city of san francisco. i love to show up on a scene and i can see the comfort in member who men looks like me or my family members they see me and they are comforts. i hope there are women that see me and see themselves in me and know they can do this job limp i have a 20 month old daughter at home. i would like to teach my daughter it is okay to say no as

a woman and have and voice that opinion. and i did a good job of that already. >> i really hope that anybody considering this field schedule a ride along. go to your local deputy or knock on an ambulance window can ask to schedule a ride along. that is irrelevant how diit my first couple ride alongs i saw things that blew my mind and said, that's what i want to do with my life. [music] [♪♪♪] >> i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part

of our world, you shouldn't just be something in museums, and i love that the people can just go there and it is there for everyone. [♪♪♪] >> i would say i am a multidimensional artist. i came out of painting, but have also really enjoyed tactile properties of artwork and tile work. i always have an interest in public art. i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world. you shouldn't just be something in museums. i love that people can just go there, and it is there for everyone. public art is art with a job to do. it is a place where the

architecture meets the public. where the artist takes the meaning of the site, and gives a voice to its. we commission culture, murals, mosaics, black pieces, cut to mental, different types of material. it is not just downtown, or the big sculptures you see, we are in the neighborhood. those are some of the most beloved kinds of projects that really give our libraries and recreation centers a sense of uniqueness, and being specific to that neighborhood. colette test on a number of those projects for its. one of my favorites is the oceanview library, as well as several parks, and the steps. >> mosaics are created with tile

that is either broken or cut in some way, and rearranged to make a pattern. you need to use a tool, nippers, as they are called, to actually shape the tiles of it so you can get them to fit incorrectly. i glued them to mash, and then they are taken, now usually installed by someone who is not to me, and they put cement on the wall, and they pick up the mash with the tiles attached to it, and they stick it to the wall, and then they groped it afterwards. [♪♪♪] >> we had never really seen artwork done on a stairway of the kinds that we were thinking of because our idea was very just barely pictorial, and to have a picture broken up like

that, we were not sure if it would visually work. so we just took paper that size and drew what our idea was, and cut it into strips, and took it down there and taped it to the steps, and stepped back and looked around, and walked up and down and figured out how it would really work visually. [♪♪♪] >> my theme was chinese heights because i find them very beautiful. and also because mosaic is such a heavy, dens, static medium, and i always like to try and incorporate movement into its, and i work with the theme of water a lot, with wind, with clouds, just because i like movements and lightness, so i liked the contrast of making kites out of very heavy, hard

material. so one side is a dragon kite, and then there are several different kites in the sky with the clouds, and a little girl below flying it. [♪♪♪] >> there are pieces that are particularly meaningful to me. during the time that we were working on it, my son was a disaffected, unhappy high school student. there was a day where i was on the way to take them to school, and he was looking glum, as usual, and so halfway to school, i turned around and said, how about if i tell the school you are sick and you come make tiles with us, so there is a tile that he made to. it is a little bird.

the relationship with a work of art is something that develops over time, and if you have memories connected with a place from when you are a child, and you come back and you see it again with the eyes of an adult, it is a different thing, and is just part of what makes the city an exciting place. [♪♪♪] >> the market is one of our vehicles for reaching out to public and showing them how to prepare delicious, simple food. people are amazed that the library does things like that.

biblio bistro is a food education program. it brings such joy to people. it teaches them life skills that they can apply anywhere, and it encourages them to take care of themselves. my name is leaf hillman, and i'm a librarian, and biblio bistro is my creation. i'm a former chef, and i have been incubating this idea for many years. we are challenged to come up with an idea that will move the library into the future. this inspired me to think, what can we do around cooking? what can i do around cooking? we were able to get a cart. the charlie cart is designed to bring cooking to students in

elementary students that has enough gear on it to teach 30 students cooking. so when i saw that, i thought bingo, that's what we're missing. you can do cooking classes in the library, but without a kitchen, it's difficult. to have everything contained on wheels, that's it. i do cooking demonstrations out at the market every third wednesday. i feature a seafood, vegetable, and i show people how to cook the vegetable. >> a lot of our residents live in s.r.o.s, single resident occupancies, and they don't have access to full kitchens. you know, a lot of them just have a hot plate, a microwave, and the thing that biblio bistro does really well is cook food accessible in season and make it available that day. >> we handout brochures with the featured recipe on the

back. this recipe features mushrooms, and this brochure will bring our public back to the library. >> libraries are about a good time. >> i hired a former chef. she's the tickle queen at the ramen shop in rockwood. we get all ages. we get adults and grandparents and babies, and, you know, school-age kids, and it's just been super terrific. >> i was a bit reluctant because i train teachers and adults. i don't train children. i don't work with children, and i find it very interesting and a bit scary, but working here

really taught me a lot, you know, how easily you can influence by just showing them what we have, and it's not threatening, and it's tasty and fun. i make it really fun with kids because i don't look like a teacher. >> in the mix, which is our team center, we have programs for our kids who are age 13 to 18, and those are very hands on. the kids often design the menu. all of our programs are very interactive. >> today, we made pasta and garlic bread and some sauce. usually, i don't like bell pepper in my sauce, but i used bell pepper in my sauce, and it complemented the sauce really well. i also grated the garlic on my

bread. i never thought about that technique before, but i did it, and it was so delicious. >> we try to teach them techniques where they can go home and tell their families, i made this thing today, and it was so delicious. >> they're kind of addicted to these foods, these processed foods, like many people are. i feel like we have to do what we can to educate people about that. the reality is we have to live in a world that has a lot of choices that aren't necessarily good for you all the time. >> this is interesting, but it's a reaction to how children are brought up. it is fast-food, and the apple is a fast-food, and so that sort of changes the way they think about convenience, how eating apple is convenient. >> one of the things that i

love about my program out at the market is the surprise and delight on people's faces when they finally taste the vegetable. it's been transformative for some people. they had never eaten those vegetables before, but now, they eat them on a regular basis. >> all they require is a hot plate and a saute pan, and they realize that they're able to cook really healthy, and it's also tasty. >> they also understand the importance of the connection that we're making. these are our small business owners that are growing our food and bringing it fresh to the market for them to consume, and then, i'm helping them consume it by teaching them how to cook. >> it connects people to the food that they're buying. >> the magic of the classes in the children's center and the team center is that the participants are cooking the food themselves, and once they do that, they understand their

connection to the food, to the tools, and it empowers them. >> we're brokering new experiences for them, so that is very much what's happening in the biblio bistro program. >> we are introducing kids many times to new vocabulary. names of seasonings, names of vegetables, names of what you call procedures. >> i had my little cooking experience. all i cooked back then was grilled cheese and scrambled eggs. now, i can actually cook curry and a few different thing zblz . >> and the parents are amazed that what we're showing them to cook is simple and inexpensive. i didn't know this was so easy to make. i've only bought it in the market. those comments have been

amazing, and yeah, it's been really wonderful. >> we try to approach everything here with a well, just try it. just try it once, and then, before you know it, it's gone. >> a lot of people aren't sure how to cook cauliflower or kale or fennel or whatever it is, and leah is really helpful at doing that. >> i think having someone actually teaching you here is a great experience. and it's the art of making a meal for your family members and hope that they like it. >> i think they should come and have some good food, good produce that is healthy and

actually very delicious. >> cooking is one of my biggest passions, to be able to share, like, my passion with others, and skills, to h is r. my name is debra alvarez rodriguez. i'm the deputy director in san francisco. my background is one in which i have spent the entirety of my life committed to finding solution to poverty and addressing the issues of inequity so people and communities can have accesses to resources and financial freedom. one thing true anode dear to my heart was the power of business ownership in creating

pathways to financial freedom. we have still in infancy. we had over 100 entrepreneurs come and start their businesses. some are food trucks. some are restaurants. some are in farmer's markets and so farther. that's an incredible legacy and record to build upon. this was the perfect opportunity for me to come back home, you know, come back to the neighborhood and take my skills and networks and resources and put it backseat in service of the community. given everything with racial reckoning and pandemic it was time for me and everyone else that had the opportunity to leave and get educated to come back home. we have a opportunity to grow our impact in terms of the number of people we serve and how we serve them. we grow our impact in taking

the money we make with our entrepreneurs and circulate those resources back interview the community for community development. the third thing is we have a opportunity to have an impact on public policy in terms of the policies and practices the district has been notorious about interms of inequities. all of those are just the beginning of what is possible in terms of growth and impact. ♪ [ music ] ♪♪

>> it is now 1 p.m. my name is miguel bustos and this is community investment infrastructure for tuesday march 21, 2023. i like to welcome you all who joined us in person for our first meeting back, as well as those who are online, but remember beginning march 2023-march 1, 2023 the emergency order provisions that suspended certain local meetings have been lifted and our commission has resumed as in person meetings. today's meeting is held in hybrid