>> thank you, everyone. i'm london breed the mayor of san francisco a hero today with so many of our small businesses and we're here and pass at the company and here with the persons in charge of the merchants association with the treatment department i don't, i don't know they're hiding the two people instrumental in working with small businesses and working with our night life and entertainment and trying to bring not just a lot more easy to do business in san francisco

but a little bit of fun i'm higher to sign the legislation that will make that simple getting to, yes and in fact, ann this or that can tell his story one of the projects that has benefited from proposition a we worked through the changes was regulation and how if you see something, say something are agriculture to commissioner president walton didn't have to do have an architect redo a posting it is saving how much money anthony. >> that's what i'm talking about open farther and provide services and still able to pay taxes we definitely need for to. so this is how we need to make sure that businesses grow and i thrive and not 90 to mention first floor one of our first

places able to get city fees and permits and other things waved as a way to generate business opportunity in our variation corridors as a result of this program been in existence for two years about the 36 hundred new businesses will have opened in san francisco and excited and proud to be here decide to sign legislation that will change offer one hundred - well, i have to say katie tang came to my office and said all the things yourself been talking about i was upset with cool valley a coffee shop wanted to interest to play guitar and add another pop up to sell outside of coffee the process to get live music

into their establishment to maybe sell a local persons jewelry in a coffee shop shouldn't be hard as san francisco is in mostly saying in our new model how to say yes to small businesses and, yes to new opportunity and make that easier for people to set up shop as it thrives and be an incredible community access that's why we're hearing sprooimg got the pieces in of the legislation with the board of supervisors and we didn't want to celebrate at city hall but with an example of a business that is not only bend but continues to benefit from many of the changes that we introduced and hopefully as i said make your neighborhoods more fun ms. special neighborhood we're 200 if i see

sxalg is joining us thank you for being here. and thank you to the other businesses throughout san francisco from the haight from you check up and other are mvrnts came here to provide support? wonderful and we can't just say we port small businesses and then not do anything about it this is doing something about it i'm excited and proud of what we've been able to do. now you or. okay - >> i was going to say talk about the fun parts of legislation. um, but to talk about you know, just a few things how that will benefit others and i know you never thought weed see significant changes but not only the head six the merchants and small business owner an k4re789d

street welcome ladies and gentlemen. >> (clapping) thank you for making all of us comfortable i'm a little bit nervous um, good morning. i'm sandy lee the president of the small business commission and you know, small business owners are passionate, resourceful and creative people. i opened my shop with my ask his in 2010 and with my family before that. this opportunity to create and business in the neighborhood changed my life as bayview native this in the city but raised my family and fortunate to represent small businesses in the richmond districtcy citywide for the past several years and for the whole time i've been here in san francisco, and

living in the bayview been proud to call this my home. >> our city it full of initiative people and passionate people today with the new pieces of legislation we will navigate by allowing more businesses to on on the ground floor with consistency and new life into the corridors now if they want to have retail stores social services food or drinks they can i'm excited to see see new ideas and businesses come to life and mayor breed thank you for listening to the meat and bones to share their story you'll find them on the internet and definitely during our holiday celebration. and thank you very much for making the dream of opening a business that much more assessable for those who

have the dream. thank you. (clapping.) few i'm excited to pass is mic to the vice president of the entertainment commission. >> hey everyone. um, so i was the principle on prop h a few years ago from a document i put together in the mayor's office with unflagging leadership. with incredible published material i realized when i started to advocate for the small businesses in san francisco everyone agrees there are problems but everyone wants a simple solution and unfortunately? the result of a hodgepodge of decades of zoning and permitting and fees and legislation all kind of

overlapped one another and onion sidewalks and never get to the bottom to undue the red tape instead of a big splash but prop h we're neurology to put in measures into that that or near and dear to my heart that is the night life in san francisco i want to talk about what this new piece of legislation does for night life a big deal more importantly it allows night life to in clubs to restaurants own wine bars to serve wine to avail themselves of 90 day exposed permit this is wonky but a big deal while you're waiting for months and months and planning you are paying rent before our

opening we need to simply go back to investors and no guarantee you'll get no guarantor they'll approve this is a huge, huge for the businesses and so thrived thank you for that. um, and, secondly, it allows a planning code remedying for 90 like licenses and there are very, very big deal for music venues and allows the venues a lot better chance to have a code for that locally and a lot of things just removed zoning restrictions and wouldn't cloud one person from playing a guitar in the coffee shop. makes no worldly sense whatsoever thank you, to the mayor's office in any mind been impact full.

>> thank you maggie and katie camping and mayor breed a very, very big deal. thank you. >> i want to introduce anthony strong i come to for the pasta au or you're a skilled chef heat it up and put it together this is anthony. thank you very much. >> (clapping) thanks bear with me, i'm a cook thank you, everyone for coming a big thanks to mayor breed for getting in legislation passed to remove the barriers it is a lot of small businesses faced getting on and growing. um, and thanks to prop h i had a

notification process i was trying to get a wine and beer permit but thanks i didn't have to spend in excess time and money and hiring and architect and producing plans when construction is not done at small business owners we need to serve our customers and operating our businesses and and we just have to time to spend own requirements that doesn't make sense it is important for the decision markers and the government to continue to removal any of those barriers and courage enterpriseship and encourage thanks things that make our community to be fun and grow. we're labor day to something should be done hoping having a pasta supply iso

improvements will help in continuing with you're permitting journey so, thank you. >>. (clapping.) easy. you licensed to the folks you make the changes in policies and define the legislation and you get back to your jobs simple the last time we'll see the legislation [off mic.] (laughter.) >> oh, you made some samples. >> 3, 2, 1. >> all right. >> okay. >> let's television.

>> good afternoon. i'm san francisco stimuli any cco and pleased to celebrate someone we all know admire and love our

amazing music director thomas. >> (clapping) on this occasion it is remarkable to note that michael made his san francisco symphony déjà vu 50 years ago with the simplify number 9 in fact, a few weeks short of that 0 incredible anniversary on january 2nd he was just 29 years old when we made his day but and a park of energy and strong sense of adventure those performances were the beginning of obtain impact actual partnership within michael and the or today in 1996 named the music director to tell us his 25 tenure michael embraced his role with grace and

vigor and joining the san francisco symphony by growth and heightened recognition. he reached audience all over the world through recording include the simplify project that combined 7 grammy awards and multi-media series keeping score that launched in 2004 still talked about by audience today. michael once said that his lives dream to come to san francisco. and upon mr. washington that dream truly made it his home with meaningful relationships that do orchestra staff and countless organizations and residents and artists across the - by the way, including of you, you several years ago, i had the

pleasure to a performance with the simplify aced uk davis at that time in the afternoon a very long drive. but and spent the time talking through his score of shoe man simplify number 4, he did many times over the span of his career he hoed me evolved over many decades a special momentum for me and talk about the me about shoe man but about life and about perspective. that was the kind of impact that michael had on so many people. michael has made and mark on the orchestra on the city of san francisco and the entire classical music world. so it seems fitting own this special occasion and and few days before michael 79 birthday

we honored michaels impact to the accomplishment of m t t way on it this street michael captivated audience over the years (clapping.) (cheering). >> (laughter) i also want to spend any

doorstepist gratitude to lobbing would or wouldn't without you and the arts and culture and whoefrls thank mayor breed and the board of supervisors for our oh, my goding support to make m g t a reality in record speed (clapping.) and now i'm honored to welcome to the podium another groundwater advocate for the arts a personal friend of macros speaker nancy >> (clapping) (laughter). >> good afternoon, everyone. >> (clapping) thank you, matthew for bringing us altogether and thank you, mayor, and board of supervisors for making this appropriate

tribute potential in record 7, 8, 9 mayor mayor and your support this is what i know for me personal and officer and artistic michaels comments has done remarkable things for music and every generation and every format. and every country for you will have us personal and for joshua thank you for your leadership in all this (clapping.) (laughter). >> but again, i say person we see the commitment to the arts. local, because what it means to our community and national because of the recognition and the um, the performance that michael has presents metal of

arts and the kivend center honors the peabody award and for matthew names many of the grammars in every way. so we're making the pitch for the case we told them not only is he a visual maestro performer but a teacher and learner and left hand to the young people and how they wanted to learn music. he embarrassed technology in a way that no oat maestro had nerd to again accommodate the i should say the opportunities that presented for young people so i've seen him perform in florida and all seen him perform here but really a virtual to global in every way i think i have a

little connection i want to bring up i would like to michael earlier michael i can't help but think to see your name on the streets in san francisco. (clapping.) they're contribution to music in our country one hundred years ago and michael a hundred years ago. in baltimore medical cannabis dispensary we had the connection. but i wish you could have seen the reception the presidents metal and the response to the kennedy and i wish you can go to the library of congress and see see memorializing of his music there. that's pretty exciting to isn't it? so in all honor of michael we come together and feel paul and i saw him in

october a good performance and in january and look forward to that and always gives us something to look forward and to save 0 volunteer the moment and thank you, michael. you make us so proud to know one of the great, great maestros of all time. and the makes delicious chocolate breed puding the creativities knows no bounds. >> thank you mayor for giving us us this opportunity to recognition and people do notice and it means something to them wow. >> wow. >> and now mayor, i made it happen thank you, mayor for your

support of arts in the city and getting the job done in record time to honor michael and for your presence our mayor mayor breed (clapping). >> so speaker nancy pelosi and i got the m t p blue memory you with you joining us can you imagine in the city would get all of its policies done in mp t time? had a better city this would be and let me say thank you, to the folks that are joining us today from the symphony and folks from you all over san francisco so appreciate a giant of a person. but also a kind human being. well whenever

you get to be known as three initiates you're somebody. >> so all of us know michael as m t t and watch him for over the past 25 years do such an extraordinary job to transform the symphony as a a conduct for and pianoist he didn't stop at the work for and with san francisco, what he and partner josh for over 50 years to establish the new world simplify in miami is extraordinary. because michael understood the importance of making sure that the next generation of composers of admissions of people we, you

know, to take on this art discipline it was so needed for him to make sure that there were a place a location there was an opportunity to faucet that growth. and i had a chance back in 2020 before the world constitute down to visit this men and women facility i thought we need that in san francisco we're a little bit more charmed krarmd but make that happen that the outdoor facilities the equipment and work and just absolutely men and women amazing we have the conservator of music next door and thank you for setting the standard for the work you've done and i'm glad to have had the opportunity because i--i don't know if anyone else has this privilege but i got to person concert michael started

going crazy only is piano i was blown away with the emotion if his circus and playing is everything in music that's why we're here and we had a unanimous vote at the board of supervisors and why we continue to insure that his legacy and the work he's done will be reflected in the next generation of conductors and composers and people will continue to deliver music that is in spirit of happiness and enjoy so on behalf of the city and county of san francisco today, we celebrate two m t t and recognize your contributions to music for san francisco and to the world you set the bar what it means to be a notable honorable person in the course of work you've done

in our music to careers and thankful and proefsht for thank you for all you do to make san francisco extraordinary and ladies and gentlemen, i'm grateful to be here today and to say thank you, m t t and unveiling this sign so all san franciscans knew truly how amazing he is and what he's done to make san francisco an extraordinary place. thank you very much. (clapping.) so we're going to unveil the sign 1, 2, 3. >> ychlts trumpet playing).

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