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>> wow. welcome to chinatown first of all, let me say thank you to ryan and i was yesterday on an event for c y c today there were they're doing performances and getting the clouds u crowds in chinatown excited about being part of that streamlined committee you know san francisco we celebrate our diversity we really talk about

chinatown as being one of the highlights of what people want to come to when this he visit san francisco and in performance from this is icing on the cake so we have some incredible restaurants and businesses fact of the matter after spending time with c y c i walked to ryan avenue and decided i want to get 5 chicken wiggins at capital and in chinatown will was so many people here and even this past weekend we officially started san francisco we had grand masters from all over who came here to celebrate this extraordinary art the streets were packed people are everywhere and seniors and kids and visitors and commenting and

staffing and dining and spending time in chinatown at chinatown station this is the place where people want to live here and travel through san francisco. but that is also the place where people from downtown and other parts of the city come to visit they goat of the station it is clean and nice we have ambassadors that are with us today that can be cantonese and speak other languages to make sure we are able to answer questions and meet the needs of people in the communities is just wonderful a have the captain from center station and thank you for the south miami for the work at the substation and is broader chinatown community yesterday they were everywhere. but we want to do more we want to activate this space and make sure that the cafe is on we're going to work

on mta to make sure we get moving quickly and a place for people that buy food and pastries and what have you it is station but activate it and that takes resources and working with the chinese consolidate ben last night association and working with the chinatown administering thank you, eva for today and as well as c y c the incredible working we're going together to make sure that chinatown is the supported but activated. we have events and activities by people working with a various nonprofit groups and organization here celebrating art and culture and celebrating the experiences of the chinese community specifically in chinatown is what in movement it all about to

why are we here to make it clear every weekend during the spring and summer months this plaza will be activated on the weekend and to 5:00 p.m. to get over at the station and who is going on i need to stop for a moment before i head over to capital or to any place else he came here to visit and enjoy the great performs for visitor and community and more popular we are online in our stop and dine 49 campaign launching a chinatown campaign that highlights all the great businesses here and all the things to do the activities and waverly place a great celebration down to alleyway and other events activities non-stop plenty of surprise i don't know

about you but i had had fear of missing out. (laughter) i have that myself going to i don't like to miss anything so if you want to show up in chinatown everyday but especially on the weekends when this is the most active and the most fun and of the $3 million of it city to invest to make those activities happen and make sure we have thriving chinatown we know things have been challenging over the years but you i've been victorville and talking to city council special meeting/budget study session this evening at 5:00 pm, wednesday, june 7, 2023.) who is going on they said thing are mr. carroll good we can use more and i'm here to shine a light on chinatown to recommend people of what san francisco is an amazing community that is here to say a resilient through

criminalization pandemic and other challenges and shill here stronger and bigger than ever and looking at to the things happening you may see me out there every now and then stopping at the restaurant without the councilmember detoy or councilmember detoy to introduce a person used to be the supervisor but assembly mu-n member has make sure that one million dollars you activation supportive of chinatown happened have not state he served at the state assembly member and now our city attorney and doing great things for chinatown in the city and county of san francisco ladies and gentlemen please welcome, david chu. >> (clapping). >> thank you, a madam mayor and good morning san francisco chinatown who is existed for the summer you guys existed bring on the fwrog i'll start by saying

we're standing in a special place not just referring to say that buff mini station but the neighborhood the fact is in 1848 three immigrants came infrastructure chino and two years later on 20 thousand immigrants decided to come and one hundred and 75 years later chinatown is not just the old historical chinatown in the country we are the culture and social and spiritual comparatively the chinese-american and want to say the first certificate of achievement to represent city hall i think about the history of our asian neighborhoods in san francisco the old in the country here in our city and the little saigon and the currently vicinity and chinese in the

richmond and sunset and portal we are here. and we know over the years have gone through challenging times whether that is the side and chinese he rra under the 1800s or rethis after the 1906 kathy we always come back one of the last things i do in the legislative was to work with folks here to bring one million dollars back to the community. and the reason at that time we wanted to do if we had our communities were struggling after the pandemic. and after the impacts of and italian hate but a year and a half later this was more importantly because we are evolving did good news things are moving toward receipt to the retail businesses are going our night life is coming back we

have more to do and thank you, mayor, and thank the office of economic development for working with the community on programs and grants to revise and bring back the small businesses and residents and visitors together building community and building the town thank you all the mannerism that are standing behind us represented the organizations that are actually doing this work in the coming months during the summer self help and the dp and cpa and chinese companies and, of course, the chinatown merchants and the chinese camera and the legacy each you have represent in our own way communities and businesses and let me close by saying that just as chinatown after some difficult narratives we come back and rise recognize is flexing i know what we're doing this vitality and energy

will continue to bring san francisco back like the flexing we always rise and with that, my honor to announce my successor and predecessor on the board of supervisors president supervisor peskin. thank you very much. >> (clapping). >> thank you, city attorney chu and thank you for being here mayor breed it is important to every you once in awhile take stock where we're been and say thank you. and this is an streamlined stop dhoun has the highest dent not only in to but the western sea board of united states and has been staved for open space? not overly the new chinatown rose pack station this is a new open space chinatown. i

saw the movie rally how many of you have shown the moving rally everyone has to see this moving shown and theatre around the corner a store about the last of late great rose pack and the community led fight to name this dhoun station the rose pack station more than that that is really about the community and the way this community leads all of us this community leads and the politicians follow it is true. this is the first time that the mta has been an open space business and rec and park they've been programming open spaces for decades for centuries but the first for the mta and i had no doubt that with the community association with the chinese chamber of commerce, with the chinatown market street association with the chinatown

administering united and chinatown neighborhood association the c y c and the elders louisiana and tom ma gunfire your job is easier because this is the neighborhood that knows how to do it for hold your feet to the fire and come up with the resources and become an attraction far beyond this neighborhood. now we have - that is not just chinatown it is great are chinatown with raufrn hill and north bacterium beach to jackson square the reality all of san francisco is greater chinatown. and this is the center and this segue connected to the rest of the city a remarkably important state and this rooftop some the icing on the cake and in a way that attracts visitors flu all over the state and country that makes

the center of this chinatown and then let me say that because of that leadership this government under the leadership have been london breed has been consistent about the infrastructureal needs not just about having financially finished in project was also about what next up the lake superior of chinatown dougherty have will have groundbreaking and recorder to everything can be to market library on palace street not far beyond the broadway and also on our list so this is just the beginning and with that, that is my honor and pleasure to i'm going to turn it over to tom ma gunfire from the san francisco pta had the pleasure and pain of residing over this plan thank

you, tom and others. >> (clapping). >> thank you, supervisor and tommy ma gunfire the street director for is transportation and welcome you here to our newest subsidy and network every month nearly 50 thousand passengers and community and chinatown voifrtsz pass through the station this is the busiest station in the subsidy not a surprise we built if not just building contractors but we're building contexts and connecting this we're very, very excited to be hosting the event to celebrate the community and this is what transit it all been in san francisco so takes many people to do the job will be background of the community recovery and working really hard through the ambassador program

community partnerships and with the san francisco police department to make sure that everyone customer feel safe with the rearview mirror bus and welcoming to people no matter their background to get from a to s so pleasure and honor to be here to open this station and happy to introduce and with all the organizations and elected officers officials to make that plaza space so great this summer and now introduce fire one from c y c. >> (clapping). >> good afternoon negative declaration my privilege to thank the tell you on the community leaders and from chinatown we have the living room of chinatown and as a parent paris joy a good is where

you have you can remember this is the place on top of of this subsidy station and definitely last weekend had our chinese wellness screening and sold over one hundred not only chinatown but actually of the city i know some visitors came all the way from sacramento to checkout the space is all those are happening because of partnerships with the different partners that are behind me i feel thumbnail to stand in front of them they make chinatown so vibrate and take the opportunity to take the partnership with mta for their resources and investment to make that a chinatown paris possible and more than that thank the

community who is station at the chinatown station from 10 hours a day to provide support and they speak two or three languages to direct the tourists to get to the best restaurants or local resident whether they wanted to take the train or subsidy. >> the other thing to mention personally a lot of people come out buttons the public safety but chinatown we have the best the central stations will have control in chinatown but some - happen on second street when - young you know what all the neighbors and the people that

backpack bad actor ask for help and just ran down the street to capture the suspect and within two minutes and take the whole community to keep us safe and chinatown is stronger than ever because everyone behind me worked together so thank you very much. >> (clapping). >> thank you, so many and for all the guests joining us here and david chiu and aaron peskin thank you for mepgsz the community centers association and thank you for joining us as well as the chinese (clapping) and doing extraordinary work and thank you to the greater green is advocating for all things chinatown this strictly group of people and thank you for

improving the lives of businesses not only for the people that live here and not only the businesses it strive here but visitors to have a warm and welcome experience or experience we appreciate the it takes a village and partnership that's the community and the elected leaders and making that happen thank you for being here..

>> the stewardship program is a (indiscernible) based program. we work with student kind r garten through 12 grade and work with scrks fusd and (indiscernible) focus on 5 themes. sense of place, plant adapation and animal adaptation, water soil or (indiscernible) depending on the grade level and accommodations the class may need the educators work to adapt the programming to be whatever works best for the class, so they can gain activities (indiscernible) some don't, we try to meet students where they are at and get comfortable connecting in the space and feeling a sense of ownership and safety within

their (indiscernible) >> the first component of a youth stewardship program trip will be a in clasds visit where we go to the school, we give a presentation on the natural history of san francisco, we talk about the concept of a habitat, so what does a habitat contain, understood, water, shelter, space. >> children at this age, they learn best through using their senses, having the real life experience and (indiscernible) students also learn about responsibility and it is a great message for student to learn, if you take care of environment, the environment will take care of you. >> so, when we finally get the kids outside, we have two main components to the

field trips. one is going to be the restoration component where we are working on the habitat and parks by pulling out (indiscernible) or maybe watering, and then the other side of our trip is going to be the educational component, which can range from a nature walk with a sensory theme where we are talking about what we smell and hear, to a focus on plant adaptation and animal adaptations. >> (indiscernible) >> just a great opportunity for students to learn more, connect with nature, and hopefully what they learn from the youth stewardship program they can take with them for the rest of their lives, and they will appreciate their environment more. hopefully, when they appreciate it, they take care of it more every day. >> (indiscernible)

>> so every year we open the application up in the fall. interested teachers can apply for a classroom visit and up to two field trips to the city park of their choice. field trips are 2 and a half hours long and like i said, they can happen in any city park (indiscernible)

[music] >> san francisco is known as yerba buena, good herb after a mint that used to grow here. at this time there were 3 settlements one was mission delores. one the presidio and one was

yerba buena which was urban center. there were 800 people in 1848 it was small. a lot of historic buildings were here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. he spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. his father and brother in new orleans. we know him for san francisco's history.

establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. was not california yet and was not fully san francisco yet. >> because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico, there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. he was part of the peek deliberations and am bas doorship to create the state of california a vice council to mexico. mexico granted him citizenship. he loaned the government of san francisco money. to funds some of the war efforts to establish the city itself and the state, of course. he established the first hotel here the person people turned to often to receive dignitaries or

hold large gatherings established the first public school here and helped start the public school system. he piloted the first steam ship on the bay. a big event for san francisco and depict instead state seal the ship was the sitk a. there is a small 4 block long length of street, owned much of that runs essentially where the transamerica building is to it ends at california. i walk today before am a cute side street. at this point t is the center what was all his property. he was the person entrusted to be the city's first treasurer. that is i big deal of itself to have that legacy part of an african-american the city's first banker. he was not only a forefather of

the establishment of san francisco and california as a state but a leader in industry. he had a direct hahn in so many things that we look at in san francisco. part of our dna. you know you don't hear his anymore in the context of those. representation matters. you need to uplift this so people know him but people like him like me. like you. like anyone who looks like him to be, i can do this, too. to have the city's first banker and a street in the middle of financial district. that alone is powerful. [music]

>> ancestors for freedoms and all others who dared to define, defend and develop our interest as a people, we pour. for our elders who helped us give us wisdom and strength for our fathers, mothers who rest in the valley of the departed, we pour. for the youth, who represent the future and tomorrow we pour. for remembrance of many women, men, and the human rights