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give a round to lion's dance and the high school students. good evening! welcome to this year's official celebration of lunar new year city hall. i'm claude en chang with the heritage foundation. our a ap i heritage celebration team of volunteers look forward to this event to provide support to the mayor's office because the lunar new year is the first

major celebration of asian and pacific islander heritage in the year. also known the spring festival in china and many countries in asia. family and friends come together, visit, have good food. wishing each other the best of everything. happiness, good fortunate, good everything in the year. that's when we are doing here right now. the san francisco family coming together celebrating together. so, thank you for being here. >> i will say a few word in chinese now. after all it is lunar new year. [speaking chinese]

>> so this is the year of the snake. snake is known for the great wisdom, moving around, really quickly and with good energy and positive energy. the two words i heard most associated with the year of the snake -- renewal and transformation. renewal and transformation. i believe that this is what we in san francisco can look forward to this year. because -- because we have a mayor who is committed to doing the same. a mayor that is committed to restoring vibrancy in san francisco. to make sure our city is safe. prosperous and a happy place for

all families for our buildings. residents and for residents and tourists alike. welcome the host of the upon event our mayor daniel lurie. [applause] >> good evening. everyone. i'm so appreciative that you all are here tonight on behalf of myself and the city ask county of san francisco. it is my great honor to welcome to you our lunar new year celebration at city hall. tonight we garth upon to usher in the new year but to celebrate the rich traditions. vibrant culture and the contributions of our ap i community. this year as claude uponeen said

marks the year of the snake, symbolizes transformation and believes this will guide us as we embrace the opportunity ahead in 2025. lunar new year is a time to celebrate our shared history and diversity this makes san francisco one of the most if not the most dynamic city instead world. i like to acknowledge, yea. we can clap. i like to acknowledge our host committee sitting in the front row. city add administrator carmen chu. city attorney david chu. the chu association. sheriff paul miomoto, thank you. public defend or money on are

jue, supervisor connie chan and cheyenne chen and mahmood. thank you all for ensuring today's celebration reflect the importance this celebrating lunar new year deserves. today's event would not be possible without the work of claude en and al perez. thank you both for your continued dedication to our city and our community. i would like to acknowledge the representative of the councillor core. the people's republic of china. acting upon general chang thank you for being here. and before i list off all the councillor generals that are here, i like to thank our head of protocol penny cotter, penny, thank you for everything you are doing for our city.

we have representatives from australia, greece, columbia. singapore and kazakhstan, thank you for being here tonight. as we welcome this new year, i am excited about what lies ahead. let this be a time of growth. tune and transformation for all of us. individually and as a city. once again, thank you for joining us and i wish you a heavy, health and he prosperous new year. how did i do. i may get bfrment thank you and enjoy the celebration. councillor generals will you come up.

moving on to introduce the event cohost and san francisco's official family. welcome our friends city administrator carmen chu. >> thank you, claudine to al and the mayor, thank you for making a wonderful upon event like this possible in city hall temperature is a beautiful site to see people on the second floor and the first floor all joining in to celebrate. i don't think i seen a house this packed in awhile for our lunar new year celebration. category you and thank you for makeing upon event possible. i know work guess into this. this it is a wonderful time of year for me and my family my

parents wereim grant to the united states. our favorite tradition system this period it is a time when my family gets together, celebrate, jokes, good times, laugh. reminisce on the year and look forward to the iary ahead and how wonderful to celebrate this celebration and this tradition with our large are city family here the community members here. all of the people who are here in public service and our elected family that is here. i welcome you to city hall and thankful to be here and serve as your city administrator. [applause] with that i would like to invite my cohost to say a few words i invite our city

attorney david chu. sheriff miomoto. supervisor connie chan, supervisor cheyenne chen and mahmood come up and share a few words, yes, rounds of applause. >> good evening, san francisco and welcome to the asian american capital of the us here! we are home to the oldest china town in the united states. one of 3 japan towns. little saigon. our asian americans we built the railroad and wine country. created fortune cookies and technologies and established farm worker rights and the constitutional right to birth right citizenship. we have dhn despite chinese

eccollusion, japanese intern am. quake, fire, covid and antiasian hate we are arab ran america and the diverse communities that represent san francisco and i want to say to our vietnamese community, to our korean community -- and our [inaudible] community and our mandarin community. and with that i'm going to introduce our sheriff miomoto who will say welcome in every other dialect! >> thank you. city attorney. i don't know how i always have to follow him when we have these celebrations i will try. let me try indonesian. and this is for my wife.

i am honored be here representing our community not just representing our diverse a ap i community but also san francisco. and this opportunity to celebrate together and as carmen mentioned there are so many here it is wonderful to feel all of us together. sharing with each other and in celebration. i get to celebrate new year's twice. japanese tradition the beginning of the calendar year and an among later with my chinese family lunar new year and i'm fortunate to have that in my family and fortunate to share everything with the city family as we move forward with this celebration. thank you. let me introduce now i made it easy i our public defender. >> thank you.

sheriff. happy lunar new year to everyone. i'm proud to be the son of indian immigrants and the only south asian elected public defender in the country and proud and always a joy to see the diversity of our city community and asian community. i want to acknowledge this is black history month and the coalition tw asian communities have been important. in the development and growth of our city. as the public defender, we are committed to protecting rights in the courtroom and creating opportunities. opportunities for all the class we represent and their families that is something that bring mes moonhonor to do this for sab fran. claudine i appreciate you and the talking about importance of trans formation and renewal. as your public defender we are committed to transforming and

look forward to working with the new mayor and the board of supervisors to bring about more transformation and renewal and community safety for all of us, thank you. >> i'm here to introduce supervisor connie chan. [applause] >> thank you. and first i want to thank you know mayor lurie for being our leading host of the event and thank you city administrator carmen chu for being a gracious mc and host and claudine and al, al is somewhere in the crowd. want to thank both of you for all your effort for putting this together. while we are so diverse, we identify ourselves in different cultures and language we celebrate in unity. that is what is happening today. to see everyone here we celebrate in unity. sending a message that san

francisco is here and san francisco is celebrating. we are a sanctuary and will have a bright and greater future to come. for all of you to be here and part of this i'm grateful and i can be part of this community and this village celebrating together it is amazing for first generation immigrant growing up in china town. i'm also really grateful that now not just me as the only chinese-american member on the board of supervisors the last couple years we now have an addition to the board of supervisors and i'm so grateful to introduce her supervisor chen. [applause] good evening, everyone. thank you again, thank you for being here and celebrating us and san francisco tonight.

i would like to go again with the mayors. this will is a year with hope and the year of transformation. this is i year of transformation that brings hope in the building that expands to san francisco. and i have my daughter and she is here. hi. she is very proud that this is the year of the snake. she is snake moves fast but get things done. i'm hoping and hopeful this is the year of snake that we celebrate pleasurement and celebrating a safer san francisco, a vibrant san francisco and welcome all people from across the state or the nation and internationally to come back to san francisco and celebrate with us next year, lunar new year in here in san francisco. thank you and i want to say a few word in chinese. i grew up in china i would like

it say in in mandarin. now i'm going to introduce my colleague supervisor mahmood. >> i'm mahmood supervisor d5. i'm proud to be the first south asian elected of the board to add balance with the public defender. i'm proud for this to be my first lunar new year celebration it means so much to my family. my parents were immigrants to over 40 years ago. my partner's family as well from china over 40 years ago. they came here classic immigrant

story. started a restaurant. ran it for 30 years and they still have in the retiredeen though they should. but this year will be the first year despite having been in the china town community they will be in the lunar new year parade. i'm glad to be able to give them that opportunity for the first time and that's what the city represents a beacon forim grants and a boekon for small business and beacon of hope we'll ensure as san francisco city hall that continues to be so. thank you feb. for being here and enjoy the rest of the celebration. [applause] >> my fellow cohost. don't think you get off the stage you gotta stay that is part of the job. i would like to invite our board of supervisors to come up and i know we are joined by supervisor fielder, supervisor melgar, supervisor sauter. supervisor walton and engardio and i believe president of the

board of supervisor, supervisor mandelman. i like to ask supervisor mandelman to say a few wordos behalf of the board of supervisors. [applause]. carmen chu! best city administrator in the world. she is so good! and david chu, we are so grateful for the work that you are doing to the right citizenship and stick up for san francisco values. i'm rafael mandelman the d8 supervisor and president of the board of supervisors and i'm happy for cone chan she does not have to be the ap i caucus alone as she did for two years. thank you supervisor chen and we have more than a majority of the board here. i on behalf of the board want to wish everyone a happy year of the snake. i want to thank claudine and al for doing this every year.

year after year. mr. mayor, this is i think the biggest celebration we had in many years and that is -- amazing congratulations. >> happy year of the snake, everybody. that's about as much as i got! [applause] nice job, supervisor. my honor to invite our other elected officials the seszor torres. cisneros. members of the unified school board. please, come on up. now i what you know are thinking are we saying everyone will have a turn at speaking, no. i want to say thank you to our officials for joining us and

perhaps i can ask the mayor to come up there is a photo opportunity awaiting us here. and may be i can ask all of my elected family to join in our lunar new year greeting follow after me. trust what i ask you to say. right? ready. upon happy new year, everybody!

is this working? thank you city officials. next we have our great performance for all of you. from the korean community. warmly welcome kim the teacher for many years in korean traditional dance and with the

percussion instrument. please, welcome our korean performer. [♪music♪] [applause] ♪♪ ♪♪

>> next the next is really san francisco tradition. in the united states the lunar new year was launch in the noot first ever stamp honoring the culture of chinese-american in the united states. with the year of the rooster and the historic of that stamp in our city in san francisco. and every year since then san francisco hosted the national first day of ceremony or like

today the ceremony unveiling of the new year stamp. the stamp is a unique instrument of communication archifies a part of our culture. and in the case of the lunar now year stamp, the lunar new year series the stamp tells the story of the chinese zoed iac about how during the lunar cycle each year represented by a different animal. today to conduct the stamp ceremony. welcome san francisco post master. thank you.

claudine. good evening. my honor to be here from the united states postal service as we celebrate the year of the snake with the new stamp. i want to thank you our community and leaders for the support. as a post master of san francisco i'm proud to recognize this beautiful and meaningful stamp and valued by the community in san francisco and employees to who celebrate lunar new year. design with families and community together as you have done today. to celebrate the unveiling of this stamp. the postal service is proud to celebrate the nation's history and heritage through our stamp's program. the lunar new year collection and the most successful stamps live in the history of the postal service.

no surprise considering 1.5 billion people around the world mark the events. for more than 3 decades the postal service proudly issued stamp celebrate the lunar now year the tradition, now moving toward the heritage starting in san francisco. with the 1993 unveil nothing 2020 the pestal service introduced the third lunar new year series a 6 stamp in the will city of 12 stamps will continue through 2031. with the stamps of the year ram, monkey, dog and bull. the year of the snake stamp features 3 dimensional snake created by an artist with art director and antonio [inaudible]. the beautiful in lunar new year

[inaudible] that series of what is a take on the long tradition of paper art crafted created the year of the [inaudible]. out of hand printed paper, cut, scored and foeldzed into shape. embellished with paint and other paper elements. and then for the layer of papier-mache. the mark was photographed on a white background. those born in year of the snake wise and deep thinking. making them proefficient philosophers, writers and teachers, that's you. like the snake, we have adopted improved efficiency and embraced innovation to service to our customers. we can share the snake many

qualities to have in our communication, wisdom in judgment and [inaudible]. the stamp is available now at any post office including the china town station. you can order them at the convenience of your home at usps.com. as you add the stamp to your collection or use it to mail lieuar new year, our hope that year of the snake stamps live peace, joy and comfort, to and you your family. thank you again for it is an honor to celebrate a meaningful stamp for the community of san francisco. now i like to ask mayor lure tow come and [inaudible] the snake stamp forever. [applause] the cohost to come

up, please.

>> thank you very much i hope everybody bias a stamp. send a letter to the person that you have been wanting to. you know this love letter you were supposed to send last year all of those cards go get your stamps. i'd like to introduce two pillars of our community individuals who have been integral in representing our community. people helping to organize our lunar new year parade and the festivities this be happening across the city. upon donald lu heading the chinese chamber of commerce. welcome.

i'm going speak in chinese.

happy new year. mayor lurie, member of the board of supervisor. elected officials. acting council and council general and all member of the council for the dignitary. welcome to the start of the year of the snake. the [inaudible] in china town was a success. thouz afternooneds of logos coming together to celebrate the traditions. the events sought largest turn out since the panning demmic making a significant revival for china town.

the communities resilience in preserving culture and traditions embracing the vibrancy of lunar new year. the momentum for this year celebration begin with mayor lurie celebration in china town, which set the tone for an exciting start. to the festivities the mayor recognition of china town's cultural and economic significance energizes the community. and carry in the lunar now year celebration. looking ahead, china town is preparing for the record bricking crowd. the chinese lunar new year street fair and parade. one of this year's most significant event for local merchances more than just a celebration. this event serve a vital economic driver.

with accidents 30% of the sale during the month festivities. exciting with renewal sense of community spirit, the year of the snake is off to a great start bringing practice perity. culture and celebration back in the heart of china town. as we embrailles the wisdom and transformation the year of the snake represent may it bring you health, mos prosperity and success the year happy with peace, happiness and the opportunity. >> the chinese chamber of commerce. thank you aside prosecute parade i know the you have for us. i think we need a rounds of applause to the china sooun tune

usa contestants standing here and -- to be at this event. >> i forgot to recognize all the local beautiful contestants mrs. china town usa and thank you to the assistant of jude and he alex fong our board member. thank you for your participation this year pageant. thank you the chinese chamber show up at the parade on the 15th. when you came in the rotunda to city hall you realize saw the two pandas the two beautiful colorful pandas on each side of the entrance. for this we have to thank the chinese historical society for delivering them. the pandas were 8 in china town in different places on this and bring fortune and luck to the

community. thank you. moving forward. before we introduce the next performance i like to give thanks to the experiencing the lion dance year after year. thank you. and the volunteers. we can't deal without the lion dance. and then all the volunteers that make this event possible. the volunteers that helping with asian american ap i heritage celebration. thomas lee. . grace, of course our one and only al perez entertainment commissioner to produce the show this evening and many other volunteers we have, thank you so much for helping out and supporting. let's thank our volunteers. please! >> and now i like to invite our

indonesian performer to join us. this is going to be a treat. this is one of indonesian most famous mask dance.

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>> hello we are not done yet. because we have prepared forut grand final performance for the evening. i want to reminds everybody that on your way out now new year celebration without the fortune cookie. on your way out please, pick up your own box of fortune! now the grand final, welcome our filipino performers to perform

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there can to the cultural performers i hope you had good fun are you having a good time! thank you for being here. thank you to all the volunteers, sponsors and heritage foundation. chinese chamber of commerce and everyone. we hope to see you here next year and remember to pick up on your way out have a good evening. thank you.

>> my name is steve, i'm the executive director of hol hol city farmers market. i've been with the market for about 12 years this. market was started in 1991 by a couple of people that knew this was a food desert, there is a lot of

liquor stores, and there was a need to be able to buy fresh food. we have a two-part mission. first part is to support small and medium size farmers. the founders had the foresight to put the farmers in charge. most markets are run by associations that make the decisions for the farmers. our farmers make the decisions for the markets and it's very unique to us. the second part is make produce affordable to the people that live in the community and this community as you know is one of the lower income communities in san francisco. you'll find that some of our farmers will sell their produce here than they do at other markets that they go to. it's special and the neighborhood needs that so much because we provide that service for them. i think rewarding part for me is when i started the market i

start today do out reach in the community to try to convince them to eat healthier and visit our farmers market. i would go to the sros and give talks. some of the people that i initially spoke to, i got them to come to the market and i still see them today and it always warms my heart when i feel that i have done some good and affected some other people's lives positively. there is nothing more than reward than that. i want to thank city hall to produce food will come and join our market. this is a city for every one. we should treat each other with kindness and empathy and all of those great things. there is plenty of love, plenty of resource to see go around. come enjoy downtown. >> you know, i remember when i

was a teenager, they did i think it was on the grammys, boss scags narrated the san francisco scene and they did a spot on it and how it's evolved and convergence of multi culture and the emergence of gay community, lgbtq, it was not even called that then. >> so like any good listening back then, i played softball and a friend on the team said, the fire department is recruiting women. i took the test in 88 and 89 i got hired. and i always say this, it was like a perfect career, it was like social work, i love that

connecting and helping people aspect and physical. so i was like a social worker with an ax basically. and i just thought, this is like, this is it, i hit the jackpot. part of my story is, i grew up across the street from a fire station and as a young girl, i use today love going in there and would go in there whenever my parents voted, they the old fashion voting machines. sxifs in awe of the place but i never saw anybody that looked anything like me. it was all men, it was all white men and so, i never knew that i could do that. this was in the 70s. and i worked in several different things and i was at the pride parade in 1991. >> and the chief of the department, she i did give her courtesy card to come in, i

remember it to this day, june 30th. the hand and hand together and i was with a friend of mine and fire fighter named anita prattly came up to me and we had a mutual friend and we didn't meet. and she came by the table and as soon as i looked at her, i said hi o to my friend, i could see she was super athletic. >> and she knew my friend and she said hey, do you want to be a fire fighter, here's an interest card, join us. >> there was something about her that could roll with the punches and also give a few punches. she would be great and i just knew it. i did give her the courtesy card. it was my greatest achievement. >> and it was something i saw myself, yeah, i love a good crisis.

and i'm good in crisis and i'm good on thinking on my feet. and i'm you know, super fit and physical, maybe i can do this awesome. >> but just in terms of pride in general, being able to go to pride and be who we are and be who i am, it's like the sense of digity and equality and inclusion. i was always incredibly proud to represent the community and to be doing service for the community, because that's what i love doing. >> coming to san francisco for me, was really key because i love the city. the city is so vibrant and diversity is really, it's one of its treasures. so being part of a department that represents diversity is

huge and so important to me that we welcome everyone. and not just face value, truly to integrate to have diversity, have representation not just on the fire fighter level but all levels in this department, all ranks up and down the chain of command. it's huge and it's, stepping in as a woman of color as part of the lgbtq community, means more than just myself, right. i represent more than just myself. but as a leader, other people in this department, other people in the community that are looking at me and seeing that there is space for them. and so that is really creating space for everyone. >> when i first joined the military, it was still under don't ask don't tell.

i had to be super cautious about what i was doing. i was still figuring out what i was doing. i joined when i was 19, i knew i was part of the community i was not accepting yet. my first duty station was officer guam and that's where i got to explore who i was. and being under the umbrella of don't ask don't tell, and having a friend being separated because he was gay. it was very rule. had you to make sure that you were following the rules you needed to do everything you need today do. i was fortunate to be there when don't ask don't tell was repealed. you find people who are making a big deal about it, the next day everybody went to work like nothing happened. we were accepted and nobody made a big deal about it. work performance was even better because you didn't have

to hide something and worry about hiding. the transition from that world into this one is basically the exact same. i was able to just jump in and just you know, not even test the waters. >> i grew up with firefighters, my uncle and cuss infor a volunteer department in canada. here it's quite different, bigger department, a lot of different people. you know, just working with san francisco i really enjoy having all the different personalities, background, experiences, i'm a pro lead rhyme now. i'm a year into my probation and i'm already finished. and i felt like everybody has brought me in and show me what they know. and regardless of my sexuality, my gender, my race, i was 28

when i decided to change my career and go any different direction. i'm 35 now just starting out in a whole different field. >> san francisco has a large population of lgbtq community in general and our department is reflective on that. the one thing i love about the san francisco fire department, is we do look like the community we serve and we're making every strife to reflect that. so even in our out reach, recruitment efforts, we're trying to make sure that every single person including the lgbtq community has an opportunity to become a member of our department. soz a subpoena officer, it's important to make sure that i welcome my crew. that includes every single member that is on my apparatus, i feel we can do a better job.

>> my dad was a football coach and he taught me to persevere and be committed and i'm showing that i'm doing that. i'm very proud to say that i get to start my career off as a fire fighter for the san francisco fire department. and i'm proud to be who i am, proud to be all the colors that i represent, proud to be, you know, i love being a woman in the department and to feel comfortable with who i am and very secure and excited to come to work. >> you know, one thing my mom also en grained anything we set our heart to and anything we wanted to do, the only thing stopping us was us. it's my dream to be a fire department member and i'm here, being changed because of who i was and now being able to out and proud of who i am, it's, i feel it should mean something.

>> it's important as a san francisco fire fighter, that we understand the community that we serve. it's important that our department is made up of different genders, different ethnicities, different sexual orientations, because the community that we serve need to reflect the apparatus. >> i've seen, i've seen the evolution of this department, i've seen it change through the years. we're in a better place than we were many years ago. i think we continue to evolve. i'm really hopeful for this next generation of leaders who do smart, determined, lead with heart and i'm hopeful for our future for this department going forward. >> we're your department. we're here for you. we're you and that, and i really believe that san francisco really embodies that.

i tell you, it was the greatest decision i ever made. i kept thinking, my gosh if i didn't play softball i wonder if i would have heard about it. it's funny you plan in life and gu to college and you plan your next steps, but the most profound decision nz life, is how you meet people are random. i was meant to be i think and it was such a great fit being that social worker with the ax, that's it. >> so i see san francisco and san francisco leadership and government as a beacon for the entire country. because we are so up front about what we believe in, we're really up front about inclusivity and i know that, others look at us, many look to us. we've had other departments,

contact us in terms of how do you, how do you do this? how do you create a diverse equitable and inclusive workforce? and so, but i would be lying if i said that we don't have any problems in california or in san francisco or in the department. we are out liars, sure? are we doing our best again to address those things with implicit bias training? with changing the culture, our department has made huge huge leaps as has the city and i really feel like san francisco is part of the solution to moving forward in a better way. people are individuals, there are a lot of different types of people in this world and celebrating our differences is what pride is all about.

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education to learn how to navigate the road, to know the signs to watch out for in terms of making sure you are school while you are surfing the internet it is private so that is the digital literacy piece. >> my daily life i need the internet just to do pretty much everything. the internet has taken so much control over people's daily lives including myself that i just need it to get certain jobs done, i need it for my life. i need it. >> the program really seeks to where ever possible provide a service that's equivalent or higher speed and quality as the best commercial service . >> we serve all of san francisco, but we definitely have to be equitable in our distribution of services. that means everybody gets what they need to be successful. >> actually one of the most gratifying part of my work here at department of technology, it is really bringing

city resources to address problems faced with our communities with the highest need. >> i think it is important because i grew up in a low income community without internet access and it is hard. i think it is important for everyone to have internet access no matter their income and maybe one day their kid will have internet access for us and help the school and with their skills.

>> everything we do in the tenderloin, we urban outfit. here, this gives us an opportunity to collaborate with other agencies and we become familiar with how other agencies operate and allow us to be more flexible and get better at what we depo in the line of work in this task. >> sometimes you go down and it's hard to get up. so we see ourselves as providing an opportunity for the unhoused to get up. and so i really believe that when they come here and they've said it, this right here is absolutely needed. you can't ask for nothing better. >> the tenderloin is the stuff that ain't on the list of remedies, liked the spiritual connection to recovery and why would i? why would i recover? what have i got to live for? things like that. and sharing the stories. like i was homeless and just the team. and some people need that extra connection on why they can change their life or how they could. >> we have a lot of guests that

will come in and say i would like -- you know, i need help with shelter, food, and primary care doctor. and so here, that's three rooms down the hall. so if you book them, they get all of their needs taken care of in one go. this is an opportunity for us here in the tenderloin to come together, try out these ideas to see if we can put -- get -- connect people to services in a . welcome everyone to the our city our home oversight committee. it's january 23rd, 2025 and we're going to start with a call we're going to call this meeting to order so we'll start with roll call. >> thank you chair williams vice chair de