and police department investigations unit. i can't wait until fall of 2021 when the building is finally ready to go and be occupied and the people can get into the facility to serve them and serve the community. [♪music♪] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪

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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 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. [♪music♪] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪

>> 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 the -- [inaudible] dance

company. thank you. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [applause] [♪music♪]

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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.

everyone i'm paul. >> yep. i'm the chief of public safety for the mayor's office. thank you for being here this afternoon. we have a lot to talk about regarding public safety and updates for all the events this weekend so it's my honor and pleasure to introduce to you the mayor of san francisco, daniel levy. >> thank you, paul. thank you all for being here. thank you to our law enforcement and department heads for being here as well since the day it was announced that san francisco won the bid to host the nba all star game,

i've had this weekend circled on my calendar. you may or may not know this but i'm a bit of a sports guy and i am excited to watch some basketball this weekend. i also know how important an opportunity like this is for our city this weekend we have a chance to show off the best of san francisco. not only do we have the nba all-star game but we also have the lunar new year parade. one of my favorite events of the year donald san francisco is coming back and major events play a huge part in reclaiming our place as one of the great cities of the world with hundreds of thousands of visitors coming to our city for the nba all-star game and lunar new year festivities, our priority is clear we make sure everyone every single person feels safe and welcomed thanks

to our public safety partners represented here and to all of our first responders. i'm confident that we will succeed. thank you to police chief bill scott. fire department chief dean chrisman. sheriff paul miyamoto i want to thank dea brooke jenkins and of course mary ellen carroll, our director of emergency management. i also want to recognize public works and s.f. mta, your tireless your tireless work will keep san franciscans safe and our streets safe and clean this weekend and every single day thereafter. i also want to acknowledge the chinese chamber of commerce president donald lew who is here and the warriors for all that they are doing to make this a successful weekend. thank you for working closely with the city to make this a fun, safe and productive

weekend. while exciting large scale events like these come with safety challenges, we are taking steps and have for months to make sure that we are prepared. yesterday we activated the emergency operations center to strengthen our coordinated operations across departments. right now they are proactively monitoring monitoring events and providing support where necessary. last week we announced a new s.f. pd hospitality task force dedicated to maintaining the safety of residents and visitors to union square, moscone center and yerba buena center. this new permanent task force is a key part of this weekend's security plan but it will also remain once these events are over. along with this task force cpd and our other first responder departments are are executing robust plans and staffing at

full capacity this weekend by working together as city leaders, law enforcement and community stakeholders. we will ensure that everyone can celebrate with peace of mind. i want you all to picture fans cheering outside of chase center. local businesses packed with excitement throughout thrive city and soma the mission and every other part of this great city are iconic neighborhoods will be on full display like chinatown and union square which are staples of our city and newer neighborhoods like dogpatch and mission bay are going to be teeming with people. this is the san francisco the world will see and we will be sending the message that san francisco is open for business. >> to my fellow san franciscans, here's what

you can do this weekend to help all of us out while you are out enjoying the festivities or watching games at chase center. take public transit. it's free all weekends. take advantage of our great muni. follow public safety guidelines . >> say thank you to all of our first responders to our police, to our sheriffs, to our parks and rec officials. i just actually said thank you to parks and rec guy cleaning out one of the parks just a few blocks from here. >> so take a moment and thank that person that is working tirelessly on all of our behalf. and most importantly embrace this moment for our city san francisco. we are coming back. we are ready. and together we will make this a weekend to remember. and with that i would like to welcome up to the podium chief bill scott.

>> thank you, mayor lori. i'm going to pick up where the mayor left off. we are ready and we are extremely excited for this weekend. >> we've been planning for this for a very long time. >> nba all-stars hadn't been to the bay area in over two decades and this is the first time that our city is actually hosting the game in the city of san francisco. and we plan to show the world what a beautiful city we have as far as the san francisco police department as the mayor has pointed out, we will be fully staff. we have our leadership team in place and i'll introduce you to some of them who are here with us starting with assistant chief david huizar who runs our operations, our commander nicole jones who is the incident commander for this incident. captain john frost who is doing a little bit of everything but he's been instrumental in the

planning and will be working operations this weekend. these were our leaders but you have every member of this department both sworn and professional staff that are dedicated to making sure that our city is prepared for this big moment. >> we are at our best at times like these. i think we've proven that year after year with the great chinese lunar new year parade which is one of the best in the world apec last year. so this world what the city is made of and there are many more events so big events don't scare us because we know what this city can do. this weekend will be challenging with traffic. and i want to repeat what mayor lori has said. public transportation is free this weekend. please take advantage of it, please. we're going to have public safety will be there with you. we want people to enjoy everything that we have to offer this weekend all over the

city not just the lunar new year parade and the all star festivities but we have so many things to do in this city. take advantage of it. use public transportation. traffic is going to be an issue this weekend. we know this. there will be thousands hundreds of thousands of people that will come to this city particularly on saturday. >> so please don't get frustrated with traffic if you happen to be in traffic, just expect that. >> give yourself a little bit more time and know that there will be traffic delays because of the lunar new year parade. there are going to be street closures because of some of the nba festivities. they're going to be street closures. if you go to the mta website you can see what streets will be open, how long they will be closed and also you can see what the great public transportation routes are that can alleviate you of that traffic stress. so please take advantage of that as well. >> in terms of the deployment for the new year's parade, our

captain of operations or captain who will be in operations this weekend, eric kim of central station has all of his officers working. but we also have the deployment from all over the city to make sure that the tens of thousands of people that will be participating in that parade either in the parade or spectators that they can get there safely and without hassle if they take public transportation and if they drive. please note where the parking and the public parking will be. >> the last thing that we want to do is have traffic problems caused by people circling around the block looking for parking. so plan ahead. that information is out there. please plan ahead. we want everybody to do their part to make sure that this is as smooth a weekend as we can make it. a couple of other things that i'll say before i close. >> if you see something, say something is really important for us in public safety that we make sure that we communicate with the public that if something doesn't look right it probably is not.

we don't mind you calling us. if it's an emergency, please dial 911. if it's a non-emergency dial 311. you can also get on the city of san francisco app if you want to report something that doesn't require immediate attention but we need you to report because that is how we know where to be and when we know where to be where we need to be. so please keep that in mind if you see something that doesn't look right or look suspicious. please report that to us. again we are ready and i want to thank all of our public safety partners here with me today because we are a team here in san francisco. we work as a team. we love each other as teammates and it's because of this team that we're going to have a really, really great weekend this weekend. so with that i'd like to introduce you to our fire chief kristen. >> thank you, chief. it's been a great process coordinating these events with our public safety partners.

i think it's gone really smoothly. we've all collaborated in incredibly united fashion to make sure there's going to be a safe and fun event. i'd like to first of all thank mayor larry for his unwavering support for public safety. it's greatly appreciated. i'd also like to identify some members of our department, particularly our command staff who have helped us to prepare for this event. chief patrick robert, our chief of operations here. and i'd also give a special thanks to chief brown who has managed to staff us up for this event without any loss of staffing so we can conduct our normal operations in the field even during these concurrent events. so some fire safety issues that we'd like to speak about with regards to the event itself, particularly in chinatown and if you get lost from your from your friends or family that you're participating in the event with make sure that you have a reunification area that you pre designated so that you can meet up with your friends afterwards. you're going to see a lot of

our red gaiters which are small four wheeled vehicles that are along the parade route. >> those will be staffed by fire department members who are going to be engaging in potential fire suppression. they're also going to be engaging in fire prevention and they're going to be engaging in medical response as needed if you are going to stay home and watch the event, make sure you have a working smoke detector. critically important. we are really excited about this event. this group has worked really well together and i look forward and internally we have been conducting large scale exercises for weeks and months . each monday the command staff meets and we conducted a large scale exercise to ensure that we're ready and prepared for anything that should come at us. so thank you very much. and again, a shout out to chamber of commerce mayor mr. liu. >> thank you much very much for all your support throughout this process. thank you. >> i'd like to introduce sheriff miyamoto. >> good afternoon everyone. >> i'm very happy to be here because this is something that

we're very good at that we've done before that we will continue to do in service to san francisco. this weekend is all about celebration and we want people to focus on that coming together as a community. with the all star weekend with the vibrancy of the lunar new year parade i for 1 a.m. very happy that i won't be carrying a dragon's head this year and i get to relax a little bit but our priority here even though we are on the shining stage is going to be safety. and as always our work together collaboratively with all of the partnerships you see up here are to help us to make sure that this weekend goes where everyone feels safe, where we are all together have a visible presence out there maintaining patrols, maintaining safe passage for people, making sure that we are answering calls for service. our staff will be in all the local places that we have identified our partnership with the police department to make sure we augment their staffing is one in which we have also canceled days off our deputies that will be out there will be working longer shifts and will be ready for anything that we

face either planned or spontaneous. last night i want to bring up that we were able to actually spend a moment with one of the all time greats rick berry and members of the nba in order to honor him for his commitment because a lot of times it is overlooked that organizations that sports sports organizations contribute back to the community through us and we appreciate that partnership and in some small way are out there to support not just this community but the community coming to visit us too from the nba. so we're looking forward to that. please make sure you have a wonderful time. but also remember as the chief mentioned, let's make sure everybody celebrates responsibly because the last thing that we want is you ending up at our county jail after party. so please enjoy the weekend. and with that i would like to introduce the director of the department of emergency management, marilyn carroll.

>> thank you, sheriff. we are absolutely ready for this event. as my colleagues have said, it has been months and months of planning. i am very grateful to all of my colleagues and i am especially grateful to mayor laurie and his staff who in just a little over a month in office are taking on this huge event. >> you see all of us up here but we also represent hundreds of city staff that are working on this event and will be all weekend long. you'll see our public safety folks out in the street but we also have a number of operation centers that you will not see and many, many of our diligent public servants are going to be working through the weekend. jealous of all the fun everyone else is having out there. but we're really thrilled to do it. i wanted to just reiterate i represent nine on one

operations for the city. we absolutely are fully staffed up this weekend waiting to take calls for folks that are in need of help. if you are not in need of a life safety help or see a problem that's dangerous, please use 311 the other resources that are out there. you can go to s.f. gov. the very top of that page will click on that. >> it takes you to the all star page everything you could possibly need as far as where to get tickets, the street closures, other events that are going on will be there to help you out. >> furthermore absolutely encourage you to sign up for alert s.f. if you haven't already. you can do that through the website. you can do it just by texting your zip code to 888777 should there be a change in conditions in the street or something happens that we need to get

information to you quickly. >> that is the best way to do that. so we really encourage folks to do that. it's going to be great. i agree it's going to be probably traffic is going to be our biggest issue. so please be prepared. we always like people to be prepared. the department of emergency management and we have the resources out there for you to do so. and with that i think i'm turning it back to the mayor. >> thank you. >> all right. we're happy to thank you, marion. >> marion has been the driving force behind our preparations for months and months now. so thank you for your incredibly hard work and for your leadership. really appreciate it. with that, we'll open it up for questions. >> question just raise your hand. i could give you had mentioned the comparison to mean that you all would have the backup of other police agencies on this one. tell me about how that's going

to pose a challenge for this event as compared to other police agencies that would help you guys out? >> yeah, no, absolutely. apex had the number one eight pack was a national security event so that in and of itself triggers a whole nother level of actually 2 or 3 other levels of security measures that we had to have in place. so we had to have that mutual cooperation. we've taken a look at our deployment. we feel that we have enough officers to do the job and do it very well. >> and in the event that some unforeseen circumstance happens there's too there's always the option of mutual aid. but you know, the relationships that we have with bordering agencies even before an official mutual aid request goes in we call our we call in backup and many agencies will respond to that. it takes a while to actually do an official mutual aid request. but we've made those phone calls and make sure that we have contingency plans all the way up the chain up to mutual aid. if we had that schedule of of

event. but we feel that we have enough people we're coordinating with our sheriff's department and you'll see sheriff miyamoto's deputies on out in the field. so we're good. >> we're ready for sort of a two part question. >> one, any specific credible threats at this time? and then also wondering if you've sort of learned if you're monitoring patterns of behavior in other words, looking at the truck attack from new orleans, the truck attack in germany this morning as a way to harden our defenses here in the city and prepare for that kind of a random answer to the first question no, no non-credible threats. but look, you know, most of these events you know, there's sometimes it's known, sometimes it's not. we have to be prepared for everything. so new orleans was a wake up call for for all of us in terms of seeing kind of what some of the issues were there i think across the nation including

here in san francisco, we pay close attention to things that we could do better and we need to do better to do everything that we can to ensure a safe event and that's what we have done and we believe that we have we have the correct measures. >> you know, these these types of attacks where people are using cars to kill people, it's a real thing. but we're we're prepared for that as well. so i mean when you when you get to the parade route and even some of the venues that are associated with the all-star game, you will see a high level of security and fortification of the route. so we're prepared. >> have there been or will there be unscheduled encampment sweeps in preparation for this weekend? every single day we are trying to get people in the shelter off the streets. it's why we passed that fentanyl state of emergency ordinance yesterday. i think the board of supervisors once again we're not going to change what we do

and what we're doing today. we're not changing that tomorrow. we have to get people off the streets and into the help that they need to stay in their home. okay. what you guys are doing i know that a lot of this is about like the physical security of this this is a ticketed event with all kinds of things that are going on. so we need to be smart about, you know, fraud for some of these events too and what people should look out for so that they can enjoy these games without being cheated out of money online fraud, that kind of stuff. it's not just the tickets to that to chase. i think that you know, they're all electronic. i think we have full confidence in the warriors and the nba. they've been through this many times. they have been let me just say this. the warriors the nba have been obviously just working incredibly hard on this event for well well more than a year now. we have full confidence in their ability to pull this event off. but let's be clear we also want people that aren't going to chase to have a great time.

we opened up, you know, nba alley on powell street this morning. we want fans enjoying this event all over this city and that's why we want you taking muni all weekend long for free. get downtown enjoy what's going on in union square. and listen, let me end with this. let's have some fun this weekend. the people behind me have been working hard to keep the residents and the visitors safe here in our great city and we get to welcome the world and let's show it off and let's have some fun this weekend. thank you all for being here and thank you to all of our partners here. thank you, chief also for hosting us. thanks

in fire prevention. i'm very happy at fire prevention because not only am i able to enforce the code and make changes to help the citizen of san francisco be safe in their homes or place of business, but i think my work also make sure that my fellow firefighters and first responders, when they respond to a fire, the building is also safe for them. >> you're watching san francisco rising with chris manners. today's special guest is brooke jenkins. >> hi, i'm chris manners and you are watchs san francisco rising, the show about restarting rebuilding and reimagining our city. ourguest san francisco district attorney brooke jenkins here to talk about theopeioid crisis, criminal justice and more. >> thank you so much for having

me. >> thank you for being here. let's start with organized restale threft. some jurisdictions across the country imposed most of the punishment against people shop lifting in groups but that may be applied disproportionately to epipooal and doesn't address the organization ndit all. how can we make sure both prosecute the ring leaders behind the crimes and make sure justice is handed out eveningly? >> making sure we get to the higher level of organizations in the organized retail threrft area so that is something myophilus is very much focused on working the police department on. looking at organized retail threat ringzsx but we have to make sure people are being caught who have stealing and that is a big challenge in the sit a so we have worked with retailers and small business owners to insure the necessary protocols and procedures are in place to at the very laest catch

people who are stealing because they have been running out of the stores and therefore facing no consequence so we have to start there and trying to do more with intervention with the youth who are some of the population doing some of the threfts. many stores have turned to not detaining employees stealing oertrying to stop them and that change in procedure lead to making it very difficult for the police department to capture these people stealing. we have been working with them on a change in their protocol going back to the way it used to be done so we can actually have the opportunity to have people face consequences. >> right. so, let's move to the opioid crisis which had a devastating impact across the community and across the country, including san francisco. how can your office help address the issue? >> the main thing is going back to where people feel there is a consequence dealing drugs in the city. we can't

treat drug steel dealing as a victimless crime. we have ooverage 2 people dying a day from overdose. there are victims of this offense so quha what is did is say no longer the case we decriminalizing drug sales in san francisco as the da office. we have to put consequence on the table insure the most agregiouss sellers so massive quantityties of fentanyl, some enough to kill all most half the city. sometimes with people with wep ens and guns are multiple of cases with fentanyl are treated differently then thoges with small contties so i ask those people detain in custody. we can't have them on the street hours later, but also trying to work with the police department and our city making sure our laws are enforced. it is the only people people suffering from addiction will have a opportunity at

recovry. imagine if you are trying to get clean and every 10 steps doin the block you are offered the drug you have been addicted to. it is impossible. that is one way we are dealing with the supply side and we are taking a different approach on the demand side, which is to say, if people are publicly using drugs over and over again, that we believe we need to intervene in those situations and so the police are citing them and when somebody reaches 3 of the citations, we then file a complaint, but route them into a treatment court to try to help them get help. >> they have a option take treatment or face charges? >> correct. essentially. we of course encourage treatment because that is what these folks need. >> absolutely, absolutely. san francisco is known for being forfront of criminal justice reform with initiatives such as community justice center and restoreative justice, how do you plan to build on the efforts and push for

aggressive policies insuring we have a fair system that holds people accountable? >> i have been clear accountability comes in many different forms. historically, da office used one form and that is incarceration. the way i functioned as a prosecutor over the years is make sure we are finding the appropriate form of accountability for each and every person for their specific circumstance, and so for some people it may be incarceration, others it is treatment and going through behavioral health to stabilize mental health issue. some it is say ing we toopt see you get a job so we require that you go through a trade program so you can get a skill that allows you to take care of yourself in a different way. for me it is investing in those opportunities which requires us to be partnering with community based organizations to identify what programs we can send people to, but i'm very much invested in seeing our collaborative courts, which is

what community justice center, drug court, young adult court seeing those courts thrive and encouraging the lawyers to explore those opportunities. >> right. what role do you think the da office can play addressing the issue of police misconduct and promoting accountability? >> our job is to prosecute police officers when they commit such misconduct and use excessive force in a way that is illegal so we'll continue to maintain that is our job and our position. we prosecute all crime in san francisco, it is not about what your statue is, what your position is or what office you hold. the law will always be our standard. we can't treat differently where they come from, whether they wear a uniform or not, our standard is the law. for me, as a black latino woman it is

issue very personal to me. we had a death in police custody in my family that i heard about my entire life. i'm raising two black children including a black son who you know, i will have to talk about these type of issues as he grows up. i was out raged long before george floyd. the list goes on and on, but as a prosecutor i have to maintain one standard and it is whether somebody according to the law has committed a crime and so that's what we always look at. >> absolutely. finally, what message do you have for the people of san francisco and what you hope to accomplish during your tenure? >> i want the people of san francisco to know i'm committed serving the function the da office was designed to serve which is make sure we promote public safety across san francisco. like i said, we have to have accountability in our city. what we see going on in our streets is the result of

people feeling as though there was none. they didn't fear even the police walking by as they were committing a crime because there was a belief that even if you arrest me, the da office isn't going to do anything that i'm afraid of experiencing, and so we want people to have a healthy fear of what a consequence will be, but i also want san francisco to know we are a da office that stands by the val aoos we have here in san francisco which is second chances, compassion, responsible alternative to incourseeration bought the end of the day accountability has to be what people said back on the street or community in a fashion where they can succeed. every time somebody cycles into the system we are thoughtful what the person needs to get back on their feet and not create another victim in the future. >> quite right. thank you. thank you so much for coming on the show. i really

appreciate the time you have given us today. >> thank you. >> that's it for this episode. we'll back for another shortly. for sfgovtv, i'm i used methamphetamine for 35 years. yes, 35 years. when i started using drugs, i think i was 15 years old. i went through a lot of traumatic experiences as a kid. the height of my addiction, i was homeless. i was isolated from my family. i felt like i didn't want to live anymore. at the height of my addiction, i was a mess. it was just ugly. i constantly would ask myself, like, how did i get here if this is all that i was meant to be living from, not day to day, but hour to hour. because it was an all day chase, i knew that i was not living the

life that i wanted to live, but i didn't know how to get back on track. my life was was chaos. i decided to enter recovery to make sure that my son had a good life and had a chance. i was inspired to quit using when i found out i was going to be a father. we were just like, if we're going to have this kid and she's going to be with us, then we need to take the help right now. i wanted to quit because i didn't want to die. i was alone on my 50th birthday in a hotel, and i just caught a reflection of myself in the mirror, and it was like my wake up. i was like, girl, this is not cute anymore. every day that i use was a form of suicide. i just didn't die. i'm tired of committing suicide. i love my life. buprenorphine. it gave me the time and space to take life one step at a time.

methadone gave me my recovery. it gave me my life back. my advice for anybody that would want to stop using opioids is that you can do it. recovery is possible if you let help help you. it's never too late to recover from addiction. we are living proof that [music] >> really special, because of the rich history of service and that service is rooted in resident centered care. addressing the needs of the whole person. it served generations of people probably in some pretty dire times of need. for more then 150 years, laguna honda has sort of woven itself into san francisco's history. when we heard that laguna honda didn't regain our certification, our

hearts sank. >> in april 2022, the center for medicare and medicaid, cms, took away laguna honda participation in its program, which is extremely devastating. participation in the cms program is the way laguna honda is funded and able to keep its doors open. laguna honda takes that very seriously and we report incidents appropriately, and cms and [indiscernible] come out to review those facility reported incidents. what happens during that is enforcement cycle begins and the cycle is only 6 months, so any time there is a deficiency noted you have to train all your staff and the expectation is you get 100 percent of staff with training and the entire time the clock is ticking, there is no pause on the clock.

>> our office legal strategy to figure out that we could through the federal government and the actual lawsuit itself, was a important part in allowing the facilities to not transfer any resident out of the facility and also to buy additional time and funding for another year to allow the facility to do all the important changes that are necessary to resociety in medicare and medicaid. the settlement agreement didn't just expend the funding and the pause on transfers, it also set out fairly stringent requirements for improvements that laguna honda had to do. cms and cdph survey the survey which means they inspect the facility. any sort of interpretation and advice around the surveys, around inturperateing the laws and regulations that applied to the facility,

we were all-- >> after each survey we had, we identified gaps in knowledge that needed to be closed before our next monitoring survey. the turn around was pretty intense, but we had to do it because of the timeline with the recertification, and we had 1300 staff on average go through different modules. everyone has a role in this building to help contribute to the best care of our residents. kitchen staff, security, people who are not traditionally thought of in skilled facilities who are a huge support to all the clinical care and it was really exciting to watch the whole community come together. >> the relationships with our federal and state partners, the center and medicare and medicaid service and

department of public health, so important. the open lines of communication we had with them from the very beginning is going to serve laguna honda very well in the long-term success. >> congratulations to teams from department of public health and city attorney office for leading the fight to save laguna honda hospital. >> together you helped secure the future of a critical piece of our healthcare safety net. >> we celebrate front line staff and union partners mptd >> we are in ah of your and responding to a challenging situation can such grace, compassion and tenacity. >> gratitude to residents and their loved ones throughout recertification. >> the future is bright for laguna honda hospital. >> congratulations!

[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] >> shared spaces have transformed san francisco's adjacent sidewalks, local business communities are more resilient and their neighborhood centers are more vibrant and mildly. sidewalks and parking lanes can be used for outdoor seating, dining, merchandising, and other community activities. we're counting on operators of shared spaces to ensure their sites are safe and accessible

for all. people with disabilities enjoy all types of spaces. please provide at least 8 feet of open uninterrupted sidewalk so everyone can get through. sidewalk diverter let those who have low vision navigate through dining and other activity areas on the sidewalk. these devices are rectangular planters or boxes that are placed on the sidewalk at the ends of each shared space and need to be at least 12 inches wide and 24 inches long and 30 inches tall. they can be on wheels to make it easy to bring in and out at the start and the end of each day. but during business hours, they should be stationary and secure. please provide at least one wheelchair accessible dining table in your shared space so the disability people can patronize your business. to ensure that wheelchair users can

get to the wheelchair accessible area in the park area, provide an adequate ramp or parklet ramps are even with the curb. nobody wants to trip or get stuck. cable covers or cable ramps can create tripping hazards and difficulties for wheelchair users so they are not permitted on sidewalks. instead, electrical cables should run overhead at least ten feet above sidewalk. these updates to the shared spaces program will help to ensure safety and accessibility for everyone, so that we can all enjoy these public spaces. more information is available at sf.govt/shared spaces.

>> in the bay area as a whole, thinking about environmental sustainability. we have been a leader in the country across industries in terms of what you can do and we have a learn approach. that is what allows us to be successful. >> what's wonderful is you have so many people who come here and they are what i call policy innovators and whether it's banning plastic bags, recycling, composting, all the different things that we can do to improve the environment. we really champion. we are at recycle central, a large recycle fail on san francisco pier 96. every day the neighborhood

trucks that pick up recycling from the blue bins bring 50 # o tons of bottles, cans and paper here to this facility and unload it. and inside recology, san francisco's recycling company, they sort that into aluminum cans, glass cans, and different type of plastic. san francisco is making efforts to send less materials to the landfill and give more materials for recycling. other cities are observing this and are envious of san francisco's robust recycling program. it is good for the environment. but there is a lot of low quality plastics and junk plastics and candy wrappers and is difficult to recycle that. it is low quality material. in most cities that goes to

landfill. >> looking at the plastics industry, the oil industry is the main producer of blastics. and as we have been trying to phase out fossil fuels and the transfer stream, this is the fossil fuels and that plastic isn't recycled and goes into the waste stream and the landfill and unfortunately in the ocean. with the stairry step there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. >> we can recycle again and again and again. but plastic, maybe you can recycle it once, maybe. and that, even that process it downgrades into a lower quality material. >> it is cheaper for the oil industry to create new plastics and so they have been producing more and more plastics so with our ab793, we have a bill that really has a goal of getting our beverage bottles to be made of

more recycled content so by the time 2030 rolls around t recycle content in a coke bottle, pepsi bottle, water bottle, will be up to 50% which is higher thatten the percentage in the european union and the highest percentage in the world. and that way you can actually feel confident that what you're drinking will actually become recycled. now, our recommendation is don't use to plastic bottle to begin w but if you do, they are committing to 50% recycled content. >> the test thing we can do is vote with our consumer dollars when we're shopping. if you can die something with no packaging and find loose fruits and vegetables, that is the best. find in packaging and glass, metal and pap rer all easily recycled. we don't want plastic. we want less plastic. awe what you we do locally is we

have the program to think disposable and work one on one to provide technical assistance to swap out the disposable food service to reusables and we have funding available to support businesses to do that so that is a way to get them off there. and i believe now is the time we will see a lot of the solutions come on the market and come on the scene. >> and is really logistics company and what we offer to restaurants is reasonable containers that they can order just like they would so we came from about a pain point that a lot of customers feel which wills a lot of waste with takeout and deliver, even transitioning from styrofoam to plastic, it is still wasteful. and to dream about reusing this one to be re-implemented and

cost delivery and food takeout. we didn't have throwaway culture always. most people used to get delivered to people's homes and then the empty milk containers were put back out when fresh milk came. customers are so excited that we have this available in our restaurant and came back and asked and were so excited about it and rolled it out as customers gain awareness understanding what it is and how it works and how they can integrate it into their life. >> and they have always done it and usually that is a way of being sustainable and long-term change to what makes good financial sense especially as

there are shipping issues and material issues and we see that will potentially be a way that we can save money as well. and so i think making that case to other restaurateurs will really help people adopt this. >> one restaurant we converted 2,000 packages and the impact and impact they have in the community with one switch. and we have been really encouraged to see more and more restaurants cooperate this. we are big fans of what re-ecology does in terms of adopting new systems and understanding why the current system is broken. when people come to the facility, they are shocked by how much waste they see and the

volume of the operations and how much technology we have dedicated to sort correctly and we led 25 tours and for students to reach about 1100 students. and they wanted to make change and this is sorting in the waste stream they do every single day and they can take ownership of and make a difference with. >> an i feel very, very fortunate that i get to represent san francisco in the legislature and allows me to push the envelope and it is because of the people the city attracts and is because of the eco system of policy thinking that goes on in san f that we are constantly seeing san francisco leading the way.

>> kids know there's a lot of environmental issues that they are facing. and that they will be impacted by the impact of climate change. they will have the opportunity to be in charge and make change and make the decisions in the future. >> we are re-inventing the way the planet does garbage founded in the environmental ethic and hunger to send less to landfills. this is so many wonderful things happening in san francisco. i feel very fortunate and very humble to live here and to be part of this wonderful place.

news hybrid in-person and virtual meeting the san francisco entertainment commission my name has been blame and on the commission president. >> we'll start with announcements we would like to start the meeting with the land acknowledge ment we the san francisco entertainment commission acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the dramatist jelani who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions