>> good morning, everybody. >> let me start by triathlon all 6 it to bring attention how big tobacco trying to hook the new generations on tobacco produces and tobacco companies appeal to the public with with threatening decades of people. a few years ago san francisco put children first and young people first and banning the sale of flavored tobacco products to

rest our space and city have enforced against brick-and-mortar rashlt by online arrangements are the nexus next frontier on the study was experienced today, our city attorney's office has announced a lawsuit against three california companies by selling flavored tobacco products online to people in san francisco and you'll hear the press we have some of the products in front of us and after the press veteran you will see the three meanwhile, one incorporated the technical an llc and the smokey an llc sell a variety of tobacco products and e circumstances to commissioner green and one of the online sellers with not ship products to the jurisdictions

the website of those have two indication will not ship the products. in study by office each defendant sold to our office and fruit or flavors designed to appeal to young people like strawberry and have an he will and all monday and shipped them to the city in violation of the law we are bringing reputes i lawsuits to clear message to the tobacco retailers will not be tolerated in san francisco. we're going bringing to lawsuit to protect the lawsuit especially you from the health risks of tobacco this year alone mill middle school high schools students have currently using e significance with 89 percent of flavored products over 20 percent of our high school students have tried

e cigarettes we're bringing to lawsuits to shop the tobacco companies through their flagrant disregard of the law and seeking the defendants past violations of the law. now to address this public health crises the advocates and health professionals behind me in the city and state have worked tirelessly, tirelessly against the tobacco companies and a number of people i introduce each of the affair speakers but thank you for the organizations campaign for tobacco for kids represented ken gibbs today thank you and a little known fact i worked with this organization they're work as literally saved miles of lives i want to thank the to for the

work (clapping.) and for its work in meeting and global listed advocacy because of our vocabulary our first speaker will pass a law that is critical to the lawsuit. working with my preserve dennis herrera and spear hesitate did local law in retail of e cigarettes thank you for being a vocal champion (clapping.) thank you, city attorney good morning, everyone you first of all, we know how along the fight has been. tobacco big tobacco that's been in the city and nationwide go back to in 1998 we had all the first first commissioners to take resources from tobacco and equate young people not to use tobacco and

then come to find in 2018 that true lab is here in san francisco targeting our children and making sure that they can doing everything we can to addict them to a lifetime of tobacco use we gathered together and figure out hard and goat egging e on the other hand, cigarettes band from san francisco and across the state and across the country and eventually internationally and everyone who understands their directly targeting our young people seen the data and demonstrates that at the focused on making sure the youngest children in our city will become and i indicted and now we have every responsible company doing the same thing and articulating our residents and articulating our young 0 people by trying to

skirt our laws and by products online three come directly into san francisco we're not going to take down for people skirting around our laws and thank you, city attorney chu for bringing this lawsuit and want to thank all of my colleagues, all my sports here with us today for fire hydrant because this lawsuit is important. because we need to make sure that not only do those big companies not 25eshg9 our residents here but didn't happen anything in the nation and for too long that people are being using online platforms to skirt laws and target residents and in different cities we're going to make sure they don't get away with that here in san francisco. we have it continue to protect people we understand the harms of the cigarettes and what is

necessary do to the target young people and lead them to a lifetime of tobacco so just like we passed a law in 2019 and fought against big tobacco to make sure they don't over turn laws we're going to do did same thing with the tobacco companies and thank you, for coming up in support of this law and fight and let big companies and corporation know we'll not tlofrnt targeting our young people thank you, (clapping.) thank you, supervisor walton to your leadership we had a number of policymakers part of fight. >> thank you leah accordingly our extraordinary banning tobacco products and someone next in the city attorney's

office like to invite up matt dorsey chp you thank you, city attorney chu. and, you know. more than 25 years ago there was a former city attorney that filed had becomes a groundbreaking lawsuit against big tobacco and hold them accountable and in starting that created a altercation it's city attorney's office of leadership analyzed against big tobacco and the chambers has harms is causing something that dennis herrera continued i'm proud and grateful it is something the city attorney david chiu it the national leader against big tobacco honored to be here as someone working with the district attorney's office city attorney's office for years and occurred to me a furious i had the opportunity to stand with another important leader my

clearance shamming anyone walton and the labs was proposed to spend this city got ground and spending millions and shadow shoulder to shoulder with some a ragtag bunk 7 advocates we didn't know governor 0 bloomington burger about coming come up but i'm proud of shamming anyone it stands in history as is biggest 2023 as lost for big tobacco several thousands of dollars we spent per vote a losing effort sends a powerful message how much san francisco protects kids and others from the harms of tobacco thank you, very much to be port of that and hand side. >> shoulder to shoulder with

folks for years to come. thank you. >> thank you. matt dorsey and would not be successful without the leadership the san francisco medical associate and past president the leader in our stay and country (clapping.) >> thank you doctors. >> is always the national heart association and cancer society. >> (calling names.) >> and others and take a a moment to thank the department of health staffers with the endorsement of laws and the next who represents the doctors leading this work please join me in welcoming the san francisco health officer. >> (clapping) good morning. my name is did susan philip the health officer

for the city and county of san francisco and the direct the population health against or distinction at department of health i'm so happy to be here with the zoo david chiu and others and our wonderful leadership and all of you for decades the department of health has sought so reduce the access to public tobacco and provides services to help people to quit in recent years enforced the restriction of product sales in san francisco. this labor library mu-n thalamus and cheri are marketed to our communities of color and including other vaping products this restriction is critical to protect the happy earth day of those in 20 percent of high school

students and others eying e seconds are a high concentration of nick tone and can harm the developing brain. adversely effecting the attention and additional starts lifetime addiction before 18 continued to have serious illness of heart disease and flavored product is easily to start and harder to quit i applaud city attorney for protecting the health of san franciscans and for the continued advocacy of supervisor walton and dorsey with the leadership. san francisco adults can go to sf quit.org and call

at 62867678 request a director howard together we'll continue to help the community if tobacco smoking related issues. thank you. (clapping.) thank you, dr. philip and colleagues for your tremendous work and our efforts will the no be successful without the grassroots for young people the first nonprofit board i joined in any 20s which for decades to train young people to lead comments and stand up for generations i met the next speaker was one of the young applicants come on up. >> (clapping) good morning, everybody. um, you know. the youth leaders

institutes along with the city of san francisco buildings in the voice tobacco is an issue and a justice issue we've come a long way reducing the access it critical for targeted from the to destroys and culture vat another generation of young people the to destroy masks the hash environment and um, young adults to think they vap and sentencing them to a lifetime of vaping and this may sound harmless but have done traded ingredients and dangers to our community and public health. an interesting fact vap are three

times more likely to somebody cigarettes within a year and the lierpdz like the folks support of efforts of david chiu and those on stage to reducing accessed to the abstract retailers and again, it will not stop we can't either thank you, (clapping.) thank you. so our last speaker is the more important here because of impact of the actions everyone or of omicron tobacco retailers and the next generation is the leader. >> (clapping) good morning you my name is (unintelligible). >> i'm 23-year-old i was born and raised in the bay area i

will be congratulating into college and have been in the er merging community leader with over a year. i help lead the community action model program where people are working to address the negative feedback and the policy alternatives that protect the community health i'd like to not referring to the ceremonial use the problem is that tobacco that the tobacco destroy prioritizing the young people tobacco retail marketing strategy specifically charges the next door communities more than any other. and current as of policy young people are still using commercial tobacco products when i was 5 i opposed

my first book history one of my interests i was 7 when the ceremonial tobacco was introduced i had to navigate negative associations that came from culture bias and presentations. i was 11 many i saw the impact of commercial tobacco products. that commercial products had on my peers and had consequences. and at 13 my turn to learn about tobacco. how significant to indigenous communities and the simple truth it is introduced and promoted and became a wide commodity. i have seen this circle happen to my young people. the young leaders in and the program have believed in a

commercial free tobacco generations and commercial tobacco anyone born after january 1st, 2005, would suggested policy implementation within the next 5 years or by january 1st, 2026, with our support with we can unite and have solutions for people now and a positive change for future generations. thank you. (clapping.) thank you. i have a couple of closing comments one thanks to the incredible legal professionals from our city attorney's office had folks from three teams in the office our teams are investigation team and the healthcare team and specifically shout out to julie iceberg and julie.

>> (calling names.) >> carol constituting for your great work thank you, guys. >> at the beginning of the session we have some of the products available here in the media wants to take photos of them and i will reiterate products not only not welcome in san francisco, they are legal to sell or distribute the last thing to say thanks to everyone who is standing with us and the folks have been working on the issues in to throughout the years together we will hopefully have some day soon a tobacco free generation. with that, thank you for being here. and folks are available for questions and interviews if you like. thank you very much.

>> (clapping). >> happy anniversary sfgov you have been providing access to public meetings to keep folks connected and our original programming highlights the best of information and makes the city proud [music] so, can you tell us what it was like for you during your first encounter with the san francisco fire department? >> yep. it was super cool!

i got to learn about the dry standing pipe correction. it is actually called, dry sand piper just stand pipe. tomato. you know. yea. >> so, what is coming up next for what is that for? >> oh , firefighter backsterinvited mow to a fire station to see the cool stuff firefighters use to put out fires. you have seen the had doors open like a space ship from out of nowhere. i close my eye its is like i'm there right now! wow! whoa. watch out, man. what is that for?

>> what is this? these are fire engines they might look alike they are both red. white top and red lights on top. this is a new 2021 fire engine and this is an older 2014 fire engine. if you can't tell, this one is shorter and narrower than our older fire engines. they have cool things like recessed lights. roll up doors. 360 degree cam ares and more that is important as the city is moving toward slower and safer streets adding parklets and bulb outs and bike lanes we need to decrease our footprint to keep us and the community safer on emergency scenes. >> what's back there? >> when is not guilty fire engine. great question. i want to see, sure. >> let's go back and look at the equipment and the fire pump on the fire engine.

>> this is a fire pump. it is cool all the colors and all that. this fire pump and this engine holds 500 gallons of water that is a lot. >> a lot of water. >> it is push out 1500 gallons a minute of water. we can lose our 500 gammons quickly. why we use hoses like this to connect to a fire hydrant and that gives us unlimited amount of water to help put a fire out temperature is important we have enough fire engine in san francisco to put fires out. so we can reduce the injuries and minimize loss of life and minimize property damage. [music] >> mr. will.

mr. will. will! >> oh. daydreaming. thanks, everybody for watching! bye! [music] >> all right, let's get going. a lot of smiles out here today. hi everybody my name is phil i'm the general managers of your san francisco recreation and parks department. and welcome to the city's newest park.

so the, the mythical soccer coach ted lasso likes to use the word believe. today we believe, we believe in the power of to transform challenging spaces. we believe in the power of several city agencies private partners, community benefit districts, nonprofits to come together to transform a space into something that is happy and hopeful. today, we believe. the anchor. [applause] the anchor of this new space, is a 13,000-square foot skating area. it is the nation's first of its

kind street skating plaza at this scale. you're going to hear from him in a little bit and you're going to see him when we cut the cover of one of our skate ramps, decide for skaters and actually includes elements from san francisco's legendary skating history, that used to be skated illegally. i learned in partner with the skate community, that san francisco if you didn't know, to be one of the best urban skate destinations anywhere. people come from around the world to skate san francisco. so why not skate here? we are, we are incorporating

best practices from paris, from barcelona about how to transform challenging difficult spaces into happy spaces. but of course, u.n. plaza this new park is not just about stating. --skating. there is something for every one. we've got chess, ping-pong, a couple of new games, tek ball. the tek balls over over there and demonstrating. a mix of faoz ball and ping-pong. we have a beautiful fitness studio and from tichi to rum ba. you can shop at the amazing farmers market. you can sit by the fountain which has been completely renovated with over 30 trees. you can hang out here in the

morning, noon, or night. and none of this, could have happened without our first speaker. an incredible supporter of parks and public space, somebody who gave us the room to be a little edgy. who had our back when the change haters starting yelling at us. she gave us room, she has our back. she is our very own, ted lasso, the mayor of san francisco, london breed. >> mayor london breed: thank you, phil. and i will start the use for a skate park rather than a supervisor meeting is a better use! but u.n. pla is a park and a place meant for people to enjoy themselves in so many different ways.

before there was technology and cell phones and everything else you can think of, there is been skating and chess and yes, checkers, i know checkers was not on the list but hopefully one day we'll get it out there soon. the ability for people to come together in these spaces and to have these opportunities, this is what bringing community together is all about. yes, it meant a bit of a change for the farmrs market. but i'm so happy that the farmers market is closer to city hall. so thank you to the folks who are part of the farmers market and the people who continue to support the farmers market that is just opened today just in case you want to get fresh vegetables and fruit. but here we are, today and i want to say to phil, thank you so much. let me tell you, he and i have been having discussion buzz u.n. plaza for a long time.

and the staff and staff and park rangers they've been working overtime. but nothing is going to make this more exciting than to see the skate community descend. and some of you may not believe that the mayor can be a skateboard fan. before i was not a elected official, i ran an arts organization and i remember when we worked with k dub and we created a number of sports, and spray painted and we made it an exciting place for community. and we want to do that here at u.n. plaza. we want this to be an exciting place for community. that includes the skateboard community, that includes those who think they are great at ping-pong and those who want to

play chess or take one table to play checkers and that includes the fitness center. thises how it should be rused, for the community, for the people that enjoy the park system and i'm so grateful so all the city workforce, to the toekz who helped with the climb walls and all the thaingz are going to be part of this wonderful community. i also want to give shout out to urban alchemy, to the ambassadors and so many of our city agency who's will ensure that this space is used for the purpose intended. so, [applause] thank you again, all of you and especially thank you to the skateboard community for your support and your patience. and also helping us design this place. because it was not about people who don't skateboard, it's about people who understand what they want to see. one of the things that bill said to me when he went over

the details of this project. these are all the elements of different parts of san francisco that are very popular in the skateboard community. we are bringing every element to u.n. plaza unlike ever before. so we look forward to seeing a vibrant area and exciting area and we thank the rec and park department for their excitement, their work in getting this done in record time. we started this project this year in san francisco and finished it this year, that is fast for bureaucratic years! so congratulation sxz thank you all for being here. [applause] >> thank you, coach, i mean mayor. all right, before our next speaker. there is going to be a lot of acknowledgments, it's been said that victory has many parents and there are a lot of parents declaring victory today. but i want to acknowledge a few of our, a few special partners

and person for our speakers without this would not be possible. first of all, thank you, thank you, thank you to the civic center and executive fearless tracy. tracy you and you and your team it's been an amazing partnership. bill, thank you for giving tracy the ability to run and bill, for this civic center. [applause] and then even she is really a parky at heart, this morning, she was just announced as the new permanent director of public works, my partner my partner in good on this project and getting back to believe. believe, folks that city agency kz tear down those silos, work together and not squabble over who is paying for what, but

just get it done. that's the valley that the mayor has infused in her city department and one where carla and i and several other city departments who are going to be singled out in a minute, we infuse it in this project. carla short, thank you so much! [applause] and then last but not least, this had to get built. and as the mayor said, it got built fast. and that means there is a project manager out there that did not sleep, a little more hunch over and did. and it's not me. i don't really know how to do that. the next person i want to celebrate from rec and park,

dan mar who ran this project. where is he at? [applause] all right, what we've got here is a skate park that is a worldwide destination but also a local park and a local park for a very important community and the next two speakers are going to talk about how important this space is to the neighborhood and local community. first up, my friend, a fierce advocate. >> good morning, i've been working with tenderloin, working with residents who work with increasing housing resident and housing clinic for a long time and calling for u.n. plaza to be a safe and open place. i'm excite today see the

transformation of u.n. plaza to positive useable space which for few years, you've seen it as a problematic area. where the u.n. plaza has turned out to be a place where open air drug dealing, vending and also drug use. thank you. the u.n. plaza is surrounded by various neighborhoods. and people who work around, surrounding areas, use u.n. plaza not only to be here but to get public transportation and also to go from one place to another. i in all of my years of working in tenderloin and advocating for open space, i know one thing for sure. that is a open space has to be a defined open space if not it wouldn't be a positive one. and i have to say, you guys have seen it for years, for

almost a couple of years now, the dog park which is right around the corner and it was an open space but once it became a dog park, there are a lot of dogs that go there. so when it's designated it's safer and much easy to use. i have to say, thank you, phil, for implementing this designated use of u.n. plaza and i'm looking forward to have this positive not just for this place but also for surrounding neighborhoods. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, fortiba. next up, also representing this community, is the chancellor of uc law formerly called hastings, right there. this is that community's front yard now and uc law in addition to all the students and faculty, just cut a ribbon on

670 new housing. this is your part. >> thank you, phil, thank you, mayor breed. let me just say, it's an honor to be here. good morning p i thought i was going to be invited because of my skateboarding ability but that's clearly not the case and it would move up any knee surgery, i need. this is our front yard. we have for more than 50 years, been in that building with 270 units. and of course we occupy the entire block. we have what we call an academic village and the academic village that just opened this august, that mayor breed graciously came to the ribbon cutting. we are putting together a collaboration of universities in the bay area.

so one-third of the 656 units of housing will be occupied by ucsf but also open to san francisco state, uc davis, berkeley graduate program, university of pacific dental school and we're creating an opportunity to bring all of these graduate communities together. and we want to be in partnership with the city of san francisco with the tenderloin neighborhood. we want to have, if you look at our new buildings, they're all glass. we want to be open to. we want our clinics, our centers to work with the local community. i hell you what, i was visit withing one of our partner units and we were up in what we call the sky room which is on the 24th floor of the building that is going to be renovated. and one of the dean said, you know the neighborhood looks really good from up here. and i thought, it does look really good from up here. but we want to make it look good down here and we're committed to that partnership

and we're committed to this neighborhood in this community. i'm thrilled part of this celebration. i'm not much with the skateboarder but i'm good with a ping-pong battle so i challenge anybody that wants to play me in ping-pong, let's do it. thank you very much. great to see you. [applause] >> this next speaker, one of our part nrz who knows full well that parks are full end solution to public safety and he's been the champion every step of the way. we almost talk daily for almost six months now, our police chief, bill scott. [applause] >> thank you, phil. i just want to start with saying thank you to mayor breed and phil ginsburg, this would not happen without their vision and their support. i've got a lot of people to

thank, so my few minutes will be thanking people. i want to thank all of our city partners. with the mayor's leadership and partnership, we opened the drug market coordination center. and all the city departments representing the work that went into this, i want to say thank you. dr. grant, at dph and his team. [applause] that's right. sheriff yamimoto and his team. dr.er sharaoen and her team. fire chief and her team. chief crystal and bro basing team, they're out here. we have deputy chief scott, my cousin, no we're not cousins, bart police and his team. who am i missing? we have the park rangers and where is chief murphy and his team? [applause] dem, and mayor alan carol and

her team. but most importantly, the community members. the community members who hold us accountable who push us and a lot of you are out here. we spend so much time meeting and talking and trying to plan and really, sometimes deservedly so, taking a lot of heat about what we're going to do to make this space better and make this community better. and this is a first step, but let's not let it be the last step because we have more work to do. and i just want to say also to dean and the u.s., uc a team and many of you are out here. and those biweekly meet that'sing we have, i think we've been having them for couple of years, this is what we meet for. we meet to make progress and this is real progress. so as i close, i want to say a couple of things. the mayor mentioned this and i want to reiterate.

this is a beautiful space, we are commit today keeping it a beautiful place. last niem phil ginsburg called me late last night and we talked about for about 30-45 minutes about what is next. how do we keep this space beautiful. how do we keep this place safe? we're not done yet. we still have challenges. we have a whole community and we're committed to doing that. thank you all for being here and thank you all for your support. thank you, mayor for your leadership. >> okay, now we got the stars of the show, we're coming down to it. next up, from our skate community, we've got sean connolly, and chico brenis, tell us what you think, guys! come on up. >> hey, what's up, everybody?

>> i'm going to read this off my phone. i wrote a little something special to me to be part of this. so i really appreciate it. sorry. to no end, sion william gains, peppy mono, spence cer, po blo ramirez, trevor prescott, jake phelps, basto, botelo, eric swanson and mark dillard. [applause] i say these names in remembrance and also as a reminder of how short life is. it seems like yesterday i was here to take advantage of all you can eat hot cakes before 8:00 am at the carl's junior over there. make sure you don't lose your receipt.

i'm extremely honored to speak at this opening ceremony, a skate spot for some of us. although it may seem like an exaggeration, is another way of saying home. when i lived up the street, my apartment was very small. at that time, i could navigate the sidewalks and city streets as i wished. as a matter of fact, i used to warm up on the same black marble benches right over there besinger as i made my way down to embarcadero. like most did and now referred to as the mid-90s, but there is a lot of youth out there that live just up the street and they're too young for this to be an option and do whatever you want to do. for kids like that, they live in densely populated regions like this, they're space is shared with the entire city.

for many of us skateboarding is a lifelong passion, but try to tell this to somebody when you ask them to move a bench when they look at you and they look like they have not eaten in a week. i'm coresponder of, we wanted create a space that never existed before. a welcoming location where skateboarding brings us together. but this is another example of that, a place where people come together with a like minded passion. day after day, it becomes our home. identify like to acknowledge and give a shout out to the city just for building spots like this. after losing a lot of our plazas, and open public spaces like embarcadero, the main library, as it used to be, brown marble and bay blocks and appear, it's excite to go see a location in the middle of the city dedicated to us.

[applause] keep working, keep striving, and keep drawing. fall down 7 times, get up 8. thanks. [applause] >> hello everybody i'm chico brenis. what's up. first of all, i want to say thank you to the city and everybody involved for makering this happen. it truly was made in record time. about three months when the first time i heard about it and now we're skating this. the crazy thing, is i grew up down here back in the 90s, that was the mecca of skateboarding back then. that's where i practiced all of my skills and craft after school, weekends and summer. it's also where i met lifelong friends, that to this day i'm connected to and close with. i'm sure this is going to do

the same for the youth and for our community. thank you skateboarding and let's shred, man! [cheers and applause] >> all right, we're almost there. everybody has been waiting a long time. we're going to get that inaugural grind, behind us. and this is a nod to very famous, to pueblo po bl* ic in paris. but still for grad you'd and it would be wrong not to acknowledge so bear with me, i'm going to call out the institutions and not the people so that we can get to the skating. but our profound thanks goes to the folks at 11 market. 83 can do street association. asian art museum, bart, the central city collaborative, civic secondary school, the

department of emergency management, delux distribution especially andy pets, the federal government, fitness zone, heart of the city fitness market. the l.a. who are doing the demonstration over there. mechanic that is programming chess, mo magic, the fitness campaign. thank you. ray studios, rns construction, thank you matt ramirez, sf adult probation, sf library, mta, the parks alliance, sf planning, police, the skate club, symphony, the department of public health, the sheriff's department, the state of california, general services administration, the tenderloin clinic, thrasher, trinity plaza, uc law school, at mazing men and women at urban alchemy, the y*u w w*i school and many many more.

special shout out one last time, to our own staff. i want to thank our commissioners for being here. commissioner kerry windtrap among others. to the amazing staff and barber who put this event for us today. let's do it! thank you. >> when o'shaughnessy dam opened

1923, there was a grand celebration that was an achievement of ensuring san francisco's new water supply but it was the beginning of a unique collaboration between the city of san francisco and yosemite national park. >> lands around the dam are critically important. we, along with the park service have a very common goal thereof protection of that watershed, both for national park values and water supply values in yosemite is the cub tree's premiere national park visited by millions of visitors but the protection of our watershed and the city provides significant outside funding for the national park, over $8 million a year is for trail maintenance and wilderness education and park operations and security keeping the water safe and the park a haven. >> one hundred years ago when

the dam was first built, there was a different view of the environment back then, than there is today. and the dam was part of changing that view across the nation. that brings an importance to our work here at o'shaughnessy dam, how we manage this dam and manage our releases and the environment downstream, it's very important to san francisco that we need that challenge. >> for 100 years, o'shaughnessy dam and the park service ensured the bay area has clean water, along with ongoing stewardship much our precious natural resources. >> this o'shaughnessy

>> bob morts, global german and chief executive officer of pwc.