mayor, mark leno, aaron peskin.c and park department to be the home of this incredible department. as you heard before, this is an inspirational symbol to the world. the mayor often talks about beacons on a hill. this is really a beacon on the hill that speaks to the world about the values san francisco has. one of those values is really preservation of things, making sure that when they're built, they're built to last, that they're beautiful, that their aesthetics are great. this is 75 years later and it's never looked this good. i really want to thank every single person today, i particularly want to thank rose dennis and her team. i want to thank the park rangers and the police department and the fire department and every single city employee who worked so hard over the last few days to make this work today. yesterday we were at the california academy of sciences unvietnamming an incredible sculpture by the artist maya ling. and to me, san francisco has this her i tange of art. we don't want to just put things up

and i want to thank the chairman of the board of supervisors, aaron peskin, for being here as well. state senator leno who is with us as well. so many distinguished leaders in our community. it's also great to be here with ken nelly, who is so responsible for making today important. and ann hallstead. you probably think i'm going to name every single person who is here. it probably feels that way. i want to just acknowledge jarrod. the acting head of the parks and rec who guarantees that all this will be as beautiful as ever. but let me tell you on a personal basis what coit tower means to me and special gratitude to the coit family here today the coit tower when i am in san francisco, and it's not as much as i would like to be, is the firstsite -- first sight i see in the morning and the last sight i see at night. since i work in a bicoastal way, i'm up early and see the sun come up and the first thing that comes into view is coit tower from my home and the sun, when there is sun, glistening off coit tower, is a beautiful, beautiful opening of the day and a reminder of how blessed

reports that progress for all, behind the run, ed, run campaign is the suspect of complain from aaron peskin and retired superior court judge. they want investigation in campaign finance issues and that progress for all was coordinating the activities with lee in violation of election law. workers from recology helped draft signatures to help lee run. >> the chairman of the public utilities commission goes on an all-expense paid trip to sweden and travelling with him is executives with pg&e, the very organization that the chairman is involved in regulating. a situation many consider too cozy. abc7's mark matthews has reaction from the state lawmaker. >> the san bruno disaster that killed eight and destroyed 38 homes brought a lot of things to light. including how the public utilities commission failed to enforce regulations. 11 months before it happened, i interviewed the chairman about the latest trip to sweden. >> i've gone to sweden a number of times sponsored by the swedish government. these aren't junkets. >> he called it a fact-finding mission. he has been on 16 of them since his appoi

chronicle" progress for all behind the ed run ed campaign has been the subject of complaints from aaron peskinnd the retired superior court judge. they want investigation in campaign finance issues and the possibility that progress for all was coordinating activities with lee in violation of election law. workers from recology helped to gather signatures to draft lee to run. he will run now. as city administrator, he helped recology secure the garbage contract in 2009. >>> the chairman of the public utilities commission goes on all-expence paid trip to sweden. this is a situation many say is too cozy. abc7's mark matthews has reaction from a state lawmaker. >> the san bruno disaster that killed eight and destroyed 38 homes brought a lot of things to light. including how the public utilities commission failed to force regulation, 11 months before it happened i interviewed the pcuc chairman about the latest trip accompanied by the utility. >> i had gone a number of times sponsored by the swedish government. >> he calls them fast-finding missions. he often takes his wife and other commissioners a