this is a city that has many thousands of small businesses. asomeone who used to run a small business, the city can do a much better job of nurturing that sector. that is part of the life blood of who we are as san franciscans. >> we could do better. are we on the right track? >> i think we are in a transition right now. we have an interim mayor and a new board of supervisors. i do think we have a new tone at city hall to move things forward. we have a lot of challenges we are facing. i am doing everything i can to put us back on track. >> let's talk about the role of sports in the city's economic future. are you happy with the plans for the america's cup? >> i have been a huge fan of the america's cup. i am proud of this board came together unanimously after a fairly contentious debate to support bringing the america's cup to san francisco in 2013. it is estimated it will not only be an incredible sporting event, not only showcase our city and the natural amphitheater of the bay, but it is estimated to bring in over $1 billion in economic activi

when we start in a city such as san francisco, we look at what makes the city unique and seek out experiences and personalities and guides for the site that can really tell the city to tourists and locals alike. a couple of examples of the -- there's a passionate street artist in the mission will had offered tours to friends and family and people in the community. he had become an expert. he discovered our platform and is not able -- not only able to monetize and make money to do what he loves that he had already been doing the sharing the expertise and knowledge will be on his own network of family and friends. we have tourists coming from japan and france, and instead of just seeing pier 39, they are also venturing into the mission, spending money at the local readers shop and gaining knowledge about something they have now become passionate about. one other example is a homeless man who lives in the tenderloin at a shelter. him volunteering in the tenderloin. realized that there was a huge opportunity for people to educate themselves about homelessness in san francisco because it is someth

if we're going to succeed as a city, we need everyone to share in the richness of san francisco. you have great supporters and want to encourage you to do your best. keep moving on. i wish you all the success. we will be right there with you to support you when you graduate. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you so much for those kind words and for stopping by. i am not going to hold you any longer. you'll be throwing tomatoes at me. founders, go back to your boots. have at it. thank you so much for coming. i will get back on the microphone one last time, but i promise it will only be because it is time to go. thank you. >> we came to seven straight about 10 years ago. -- 7th street about 10 years ago. the environment is huge. it is stronger than willpower. surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. >> you are making it safer. push, push. that is better. when i start thinking, i see it actually -- sometimes, i do not see it, but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. it i

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as a city, we own buildings, cubicles, museums, golf courses, so much that we have -- >> yes, but it is our property, right? >> yes. that is a very good point. stewards of these resources, and they are often underutilized resources, so how do we improve access to those? there is a lot to learn from this that could be applied to the public comments. >> thank you. let's open it up. do we have a microphone for people to come to? ok, we will just it old school. if you have a question, raise your hand, and speak loudly. concise questions will be greatly appreciated. >> [inaudible] >> did everyone here that? ok. >> something that is really amazing about the sharing economy is it is being pioneered in cities. cities exist because of sharing because it is more efficient and more productive to collaborate and share resources, and that is something we are seeing, that our biggest markets are big metropolitan cities, which is different when you look at the tourism industry throughout the world. i mean, of course, we will be in the beach towns, but, the real innovative factor here is it is happen

we do it with the residents of our se sector believing as a city we can fulfill that promise. we also do it with labor. we do it with our churches and our religious leaders. we do it with activists in the community. we do it with the organizing projects that have been faithful in working with the community to remind us of what our obligations are. we do it with the san francisco foundation because they know these promises are at the heart of everything we believe and why we are still here in our city. whether i am a civil rights activist, a lawyer, a dpw director, or a mayor, i am not going anywhere until this is fulfilled. >> now we would like to continue with supervisor cohen who ably represents district 10 where the investment will be made. [applause] >> ok. i can empathize. this process is enough to knock anyone off of their feet. i am going to have to stick to my notes. that is enough to shake me. it is good to see you. thank you for being here today. as the mayor mentioned, the committee process is unlike any process and project in the city. it took decades and was often

and we knew at that time that we were transitioning as a city to be less dependent upon just words of faith that we have been operating on for some number of years to real life transformation to see real faces like the people that are standing behind me, people whose lives are beginning to transform because they earned their way to a decent job on city projects. and we knew that the real secret is for us to transform ourselves as policymakers and program directors -- don't mind if i pause while these trains come in. that we wanted to have something to hold ourselves accountable to the goals that had been loftly crafted in this ordinance. so we went about the business to working together with the goals, with the trades, with the unions, with the training centers and with the departments about city-funded projects and to make sure that we could really have a city build local hire program that had goals that could be accomplishable and measurable. and so we decided that we would do this in a multi-year fashion where the first year, you had 20% goal and after that, by different measuremen

adding with all come together as a board, as a city. we should come together as san franciscans, and, colleagues, at this time, i hope, and i asked that we unanimously vote for ed lee to be our next mayor. this is also a historic day for the asian-american community. for a community that has been here in santa francisco, for over 160 years, i am a product of that community. i know the ed and all of us of asian-american decent feel the legacy. i want to thank all of you who have been part of this historic moment to make this happen. and say that this is obviously not just about a chinese- american community or an asian american community. this is about the american dream. the idea that anyone of any background of any color from any part of the globe can come here and sunday be at the very top of what our community is about -- and someday be at the very top of what our community is about.

the reality is, there is a perception that i certainly share, which is that we, as a city, feel comfortable giving money to wealth, and are really cheap when it comes to things like parks and the poor, as several speakers here have already said, to the people who are residents of the city who are in great need. i would urge that you look at that value system and reevaluate it. the money needs to go where the residents of san francisco need it to go, not just to those -- like twitter and larry ellison -- who are really not in need of our money. [applause] >> we are going to do two more speakers. then i'm going to have to rush you, mayor lee, because i have another meeting at 7:30. what can i say? it is the teacher in me. i cannot help it. pam lee from district 1. the next person is carry patterson. all the rest of these are going to be given to the proper people so that we have everything you wanted to say. >> i have a couple of things i want to say, so i will do it quickly. i am a teacher at city college. the students are in serious crisis. my students are coming up to me, telling me they c

as a city is a minister, he represented gavin newsom in defending this city's proclamation. asian pacific american history when he was elected as the city's first asian-american mayor. ladies and gentlemen -- all right, join me in welcoming mayor edwin m. lee. [applause] you have your own crowded back there. the m. in your middle name stand s for ma. >> thank you all for coming. i'm glad to be here on the eighth time we've celebrated this, and want to give a thank- you for helping us put this on. thank you! and of course, i join here as part of an official city family. thank you for being here. he is joined by supervisors carmen chu, jane kim, and eric mar. our elected officials, jeff adachi, the public defender, the recorder assessor, hydra mendoza, and emily murase. we're also thankful for the chief of police, thank you. i would like to also acknowledges someone that has been a very special friend of mine, someone that has given me a lot of support and advice over the years. and also someone who has not missed one of these asian pacific heritage month associations, mayor w

the city does not actually pay for at the moment that we need to decide as a city how much we can afford to backfill. for example, there are a lot of cuts this year being proposed to hiv services that the city has actually never paid for before, and we're getting a lot of requests to pay for things that the city has never paid for before. they have been state and federal responsibilities in the past. we will have more information as the state completes their budget and estimates there may revise. we do have a fairly large stake reserve this year. it becomes part of the trade-off conversation that the board of supervisors and the mayor's office and the community need to have. but how much we can prioritize this. you know, we definitely need the help of you and the rest of the community to go back to the state and the federal government and make your voice is heard to ensure that that funding stays as high as possible for our city and we do not wind up in a situation where we are making trade-offs between hiv services and streets and parks. we rely on your help to solve that. we do our bes

along with my nine other colleagues, we are responsible for legislating and figuring out how we, as a city, addax -- adapt to the new technologies are coming out with. changing the way we all live, as "time" magazine said recently. one thing we say is city hall, as those san francisco, often times so goes the rest of the country. and as goes the rest of the country, so goes the world. and i really believe we're starting sending very special today that is going to do that for our entire planet. thank you very much for being here. looking forward to working with you. [applause] ♪ hi >> we are very pleased to be meeting here in san francisco. in this facility is named after a distinguished member of the california senate. it is our great honor that the mayor of san francisco is here to address us great mr. mayor, thank you so much from taking time -- is here to address us. mr. mayor, thank you so much for taking time. >> welcome to san francisco. thank you for meeting here. the northern california mlu that you have before you charts ecorse of our caltrain -- charts a course of our caltrain co

along with my nine other colleagues, we are responsible for legislating and figuring out how we, as a city, addax -- adapt to the new technologies are coming out with. changing the way we all live, as "time" magazine said recently. one thing we say is city hall, as those san francisco, often times so goes the rest of the country. and as goes the rest of the country, so goes the world. and i really believe we're starting sending very special today that is going to do that for our entire planet. thank you very much for being here. looking forward to working with you. [applause] ♪ hi >>

as a whole. they and all of us deserve to live in a city where they can walk along the streets without being fenced out, to access to parts and greenspace instead of walking by parking lots, to the streets that are whole and not broken. eight washington brings a lot to this neighborhood and this city. i urge each of used to join the planning commission and certified the eir -- and certify the eir. we will all benefit. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. i am a resident. i spent a lot of time running around the embarcadero and the ferry building during my necessary shopping. the development will bring much- needed additional housing, retail, and open space for all san franciscans and those in our city to enjoy. it should not be quelled by a small number of people who do not want to lose a few private tennis courts or to have to deal with some construction in their neighborhood. san francisco is an amazing city, and like all great cities, it needs to evolve to fit the needs of its citizens and visitors. and quite frankly, we need more housing and shopping and restau

although san francisco is a sanctuary city and provides a lot of opportunity for immigrants students, as an immigrant myself [unintelligible] and my friends and i don't speak a lot of english or -- just a transition to a new environment. as well as survey conducted by bcyf. and some youth employment forms. there is consensus that access to a job is a big priority for undocumented youth. a job allows us to better support our family and learn about what this new country is about. how can we provide opportunities for undocumented youth? there is this program that pays undocumented youth. there are many options. scholarships, internships, stipends. because immigrant youth ssa boulder will population. we hope that you can create another program that will help support undocumented youth and ask bcyf to extend the program to give opportunities to undocumented youth. supervisor chu: thank you. >> hello. prior to no. 5, is in regards to the police department. this priority grew out of the work this year which also many of you know, we had a first-ever joint hearing with the police commission and

we need awful development to stay vibrant as a city. the project addresses green space needs, lead concerns, housing and retail, and does so in an unusually balanced way. the project has been in the works for seven years and many modifications have been made to it. on behalf of susan and myself, i wish you would please all told the eir and approved the washington project. thank you very much." >> good evening, supervisors. i am here representing spur. since it is 11:10, i figured we are spending our evening together. i would like to have a real conversation with this board about the people we are actually talking about. the last nine years, i spend my time advocating as it shows co- worker -- as a social worker for the people we are referring to, the lower income residents we are -- of the city who are not living at 8 washington, living in our shelter beds, jail beds, hospitals. the individuals we are talking about in terms of affordable housing delivery in san francisco, they care about that $11 million that week bawk at. that is money

having said that, i am proud to have a city that realizes that fire is a problem in the city. we have many options. there is a lot of redundancy as it relates to fire suppression. we have a low pressure system that sets off the drinking water in the city. we also have the awss, but you are also right in certain parts of the city, anything west of the court or, we now have that capability. throughout the city we have cisterns with supplies of water under the ground and be used to augment in the event of maine failures. we have approximately 177 cisterns that call for repairing and a growing that system or option, i would set. you are right, that is very much a temporary plant for us. we currently have four in various quarters of the city that carry hoses to do above ground water attacks, if you will. the portable water supply system is certainly something we would love to grow in terms of having additional resources, particularly out in the more vulnerable area, like the richmond and sunset district. it is proposed that if we were to have a full-blown water supply system, it would cost $8 million, but in the scheme of things it is

a. less charlie rose and more carson daly. >> san francisco is consistently ranked as one of the most literate citiesn the united states. multiple reading events are happening every night of the year, competing against a big names like city arts and lectures. radar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪ >> welcome. today, the mayor took time out of is very, very busy schedule to present you guys with the mayor's award. before he does that, i want to talk for a second about why, out of all of the th