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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.

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>> 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

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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 the -- [inaudible] dance company. thank you.

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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.

meter. >> hello, i'm captain tom the coordinator for the san francisco fire department. this oversight is the three and 4 anniversary of loma linda earthquake i want to go over a few things to help you preparation building a supply kit and supply kit does is not have to be put together all at once take your time on the website have a list of recommendation and have enough food and water to feed your family through three to 5 days and purchase the fire

extinguisher if you have an extinguisher at hand will stop a small fire from being a by fire it is simple to use check the gage make sure it is charged and then repeat the word task task stand for pull to pin aim the novel and screws the trigger and successes to the because of fire the last recommendation to look at the gas meter electrical gas lines cause fires in the loma linda earthquake and we want to show you how to turn off the gay only turn off if you hear gas or hear hissing and coordinator nathan will demonstrate how to turn that off. >> with a whenever i'm going to

turn it over one quarter turn. so in on holler orientation in turn off our gays meter don't turn it back on get a service call from >> driver, bye. >> hi. i'm will b. mixture weltake a walk with me. >> i just love taking strolls in san francisco. they are so many cool and exciting things to see. like -- what is that there? what is that for?

hi. buddy. how are you. >> what is that for. >> i'm firefighter with the san francisco fire department havings a great day, thank you for asking. this is a dry sand pipe. dry sand pipes are multilevel building in san francisco and the world. they are a piping system to facilitate the fire engineaire ability to pump water in a buildings that is on fire. >> a fire truck shows up and does what? >> the fire engine will pull up to the upon front of the building do, spotting the building. you get an engine in the area that is safe. firefighters then take the hose lyoning line it a hydrant and that give us an endsless supply of water. >> wow, cool. i don't see water, where does it come from and where does it go? >> the firefighters take a hose

from the fire engine to the dry sand pipe and plug it in this inlet. they are able to adjust the pressure of water going in the inlet. to facilitate the pressure needed for any one of the floors on this building. firefighters take the hose bunked and he will take that homes upon bundle to the floor the fire is on. plug it into similar to this an outlet and they have water to put the fire out. it is a cool system that we see in a lot of buildings. i personal low use federal on multiple fires in san francisco to safely put a fire out. >> i thought that was a great question that is cool of you to ask. have a great day and nice meeting you. >> thank you for letting us know what that is for. thanks, everybody for watching! bye!

[music] >> [music] >> this project is certainly the most significant of my career so far. the majority of my practice is portrait based. but thes is the first time i've

represented someone so iconic. >> building a monument to maya angela discovering the civic art collection. former san francisco mayor and u.s. senator diane feinstein and nursing florence nightinggale. >> this begun in 2017 and ordinance in 2018 that called for increased representation of women and public spaces. >> in october 2018, the board of supervisors approved the ordinance drafted by supervisor mark farrell and introduced by supervisor catherine stefani. >> item 26 is ordinance to direct the arts commission to erect work of art depicting maya angelou of depiction of women on city property and create a women public art funds.

>> angelou attended washington high school and [indiscernible] at 16 years old the city first black female street car conductor. the san francisco arts commission began a nation wide search to find the right artist to capture the essence of the icon. >> the process for choosing public artists is very simple. it is a transparent open process where you have panels that are determined which artist moves forward and panels of experts that know public art and understand it and know what to look for and how to judge quality. after that, their recommendations are taken to the visual arts committee and then approved and it goes forward to the full commission. >> this is the sample of the [indiscernible] >> from over 130 submissions, one artist, berkeley based artist [indiscernible] was chosen. >> the process began with

research. reimursing in dr. angelou's work, her books, her poems, here performances, her interviews and then i looked at her art collection. maya angelou was a champion of black artist and she had worked by elizabeth catlet. especially portrayals of black women. i was also inspired by [indiscernible] maya's life, which was commissioned by opera windfry. i looked at photographs of dr. angelou, i looked at public murals of dr. angelou and i looked how she was represented in sculptures and knew i didn't want to use a image of her already in the public consciousness. i was really drawn to her 1973 interview with bill moyers, so

i used an image from that interview as the basis for the portrait. working in bronze was a completely different experience. design for the monument is based on a drawing. transformed into a 32 dimensional object which was then used to make 3d print, which were there cast in the bronze, which were then welded together like a puzzle. it was actually the first time that the boundary created a portrait that is 8 feet tall and 6 feet wide. it was a innovative process which is fitting because maya angelou was a trail-blazer and innovator. >> called for the monument to be placed at the main library however

there was discussion left for the art est to select sites they thought were the most appropriate sites for the arkwork. >> i chose the site instinctively. it was really organic the way i made the decision. i walked back and forth in front of the library and since we read from left to right, i decided to situate the monument to the left of the opening. also, the portrait has eyes that follow you, and so i wanted her eyes to follow you as you approach the library steps, all the way until you enter the library. >> i can't think of a better place for this monument then here at our flag ship main library in the tenderloin neighborhood where maya angelou really gave so much of her time and energy trying to improve quality of

life for the residents here. she was a long time member of the glide memorial church. she was part of the congregation. [singing] >> it is my pleasure to well come you to this monumental community celebration and unveiling of dr. maya angelou monument, portrait of phenomenal woman. [cheers] >> let this serve as reminder of the importance of books and the acquisition of knowledge. my dear [indiscernible] has been in my life. always in my life. guiding and directing me towards my greatest expressions. as a woman, as a artist, as a

teacher and a mother. >> from the sketches to final touches, the process has been a labor of love. each stage of the monument creation has been infused with the spirit of dr. angelou powerful words and and unwavering commitment to justice and equality. >> i feel we center have the spirit of dr. maya angelou because they are both very committed to equality, women rights and to insuring that all voices are heard and people have the opportunity to articulate and express themselves in all their many forms. >> portrait of phenomenal woman the maya angelou monument. she is the first all woman of color that is being honored in that way with a monument. it is important moment for that and we are really excited. and we want to continue this.

>> that ideal dr. angelou based her life on are as much as part of the monument as bronze and stone. she's eternally optimistic and hopeful and i think that that is a message that we can all benefit from. i think that the monument will serve as an example for other cities to erect monuments to extraordinary women, because currently the majority of monuments in this country celebrate conquest, war and white men and that really needs to change. >> i rise from a past rooted in pain. i rise, a black ocean leaping and wide, welling and swelling i bear in the tide.

leaving behind nights of tear and fear, i rise into a day break this wondrously clear. i rise bringing the gift my ancestors gave. i am the dream and the hope of the slave. i rise, i rise, i rise. >> thought of my plan as a cio for the sheriff office is doing three things, one inaibt productbivity, make sure we are running a effective shop and the third thing is make sure we provide customer experience, and so combination of those three strategic plan we have.

>> very simple, accountability, transparency is basically understanding. what is the interaction with customers. for it we look as something as a commodity. people provide orders. >> the intangible benefits are huge. we have a system that provides services for the city that are intangible in a--[indiscernible] >> i think we are something in the business process. we are able to do all the book ings in time. able to share data with partners. all these leads to what is happening today, because at the end of the day if this is a--[indiscernible] we get a phone call from the ceo stating that, we there is a problem and that can impact the community and also lives in public safety. >> aligning with the city is

critical. [indiscernible] now we have to bring in partners to get better funding and make sure we get what we need and deliver the latest and greatest technology for the operation. >> one thing i want to leave the audience is, be kind to people and be nice to people. and, whatever job you are doing, however minimal it is, it starts with you and be accountable. there is a lot of challenges and we are living in a polarizing community now. look to communities to give back-[indiscernible] there is a lot of things here and i'm happy to support the sheriff organization to make sure to achieve goals and objectives. >> martin has been spack techural what he has given us. he has given leadership nrflgz management and data sharing, enhanced

by his presence and think he isn't the best kept secret for us anymore because dealing with sitey wide agencies and criminal justice partners he is accessed as a member of coit and justice committee to be a leader there as well so we are sharing him with everyone else, but we are happy, very happy with his experience with us and what he has brought to us. [music] san francisco has a fascinate and complex network of governmental and community organizations. this often over limited partner in their missions and collaborate rit on solving today's challenges. often used for good, there are

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415-252-3100. or ethics. commission @sfgov.org thank you for your service and ticking the time to learn more about behested payments. in case there is is a discrepancy with this sum row and the law sheriff and live we are ready to begin. >> thank you. >> would you mind just to say one more thing? the audio came through a little weird terrified that we were ready to begin. i can hear you but it's a little muffled but i think we're good