it was our awardee. i'm going to tell a story that has not yet been told publicly, but i'm going to share it today. in late 2010, when the board of supervisors, when we were casting around for someone to play the role upon interim mayor, and when ed lee was still telling us he did not want to serve, i invited this man to my kitchen table, as did a number of my colleagues, to convince him. tonight we honor the career of a man who has served our city for 28 years, who has left us a legacy of which he and the entire city can be proud of. tonight, we celebrate the lifetime achievement of ed harrington. [applause] >> you really have to believe. i will give you my trust. i will give you this authority, but you need to take care of us. that's your job. that is the important challenge. >> 20 eight years is a long time working for any place. i loved working for the city. two things come to mind as biggest accomplishments. one is, just keeping the place running. it's a pretty big accomplishment. if i had to pick o

services, 2013 abolitionist awardee for advocacy, cindy lu. apl (applause) we also have someone whose services have been both exemplary and deserving of recognition.

services, 2013 abolitionist awardee for advocacy, cindy lu. apl (applause) we also have someone whose services have been both exemplary and deserving of recognition. she is a founder and executive director of freedom house. she is the 2013 abolitionist award for providing exemplary services, -- em. (applause) we also together in collaboration with the status of women, with supervisors, department heads, the human rights commission we wanted to make sure that future generations of children are part of the solution. in that effort both in advocacy

for advocacy, staff attorney with with the asian pacific legal advocacy services, 2013 abolitionist awardee for advocacy, cindy lu. apl (applause) we also have someone whose services have been both exemplary and deserving of recognition. she is a founder and executive director of freedom house. she is the 2013 abolitionist award for providing exemplary services, -- em. (applause) we also together in collaboration with the status of women, with supervisors, department heads, the human rights commission we wanted to make sure that future generations of children are part of the solution. in that effort both in advocacy we have a strong, strong goal of educating our public and all the other kids and families in our city. this is a way of our quality of life, we cannot accept human trafficking. part of the way to do that is to have this be part of the kids education, and push strongly. the collaborative this year, allow the youth of san francisco to enter in a poster contest to provide artistic ability to the messaging of this really important movement. the 2013 poster contest winners i get to a

first of all, congratulations to all the awardees and to nen for doing such a great job.y important to honor all the people who are working hard to make our city be the beautiful and greener city it can be. big hand to all of you. (applause) >> all right. so, i'm up here to present the graffiti-watch volunteer award and the graffiti watch program is a program that started about four years ago. over 300 people enrolled in the program, and about 180 of very, very active people,. very, very active means those people go take time out of their busy day to go remove graffiti and make san francisco be graffiti-free. and in that 180 there are very, very few that get up early in the morning, early -- i mean, 3:00, 4 o'clock to go and make sure the neighborhood is clean before everybody wakes up to see a nice clean street or nice clean wall. and the awardee tonight and the winner is larry win ham, if he would come up and receive his award. a big thank you to him. [cheering and applauding] ♪ >> congratulations, larry. * >> well, i don't know about 3:00 or 4 o'clock, but -- [laughter

and the mayor's office for their awardees for the tuesday event. so that sometimes can be a bit of work as well. so i wanted othank him. because that happens sort of behind-the-scenes. >> it's been a fun week. [ laughter ] >> or two weeks. and we're pleased to say, supervisor farrell has generously accepted to sponsor legislation as three organizations in his district are participating. so his office is working with our office. >> thank you for all of your hard work, secretary schulman? >> they do all the hard work and we do the tedious. >> i got that email on friday. okay. next item, please >> i think we're on the director's report, but let me just pull it up. commissioners, item 11 is director's report, update and report on the office of small business, and the small business assistance center. and update on department programs. update on legislative matters and make announcements regarding small business activities. >> commissioners, i wanted to provide you with an update for license 123. jane gives weekly updates which are scheduled after monda

i want to thank and congratulate the awardees and thank you for the work that you do to bring awareness and continue to fight and i want to thank the department heads who are here, annemarie conroy who is here. i'm glad that you're here because we will need all of your help to continue this effort. we talk about human trafficking and human trafficking awareness month which begins january eleventh, it's not about this month only. it's the opportunity for us to highlight the issue but it really is something that we ought to be working on all the time when we have the budget before us. we ought to be thinking about it when we have legislation before us, as department heads and you talk about coordination, we ought to be thinking about it. i want to thank you all for being here and i hope that you bring with you sort of a renewed dedication to deal with this issue. is something that we don't need to forget about. it is often hidden. today i want to congratulate everybody. i also want to introduce our speaker that you will be hearing from today who has an amazing story to tell. i had the opp

my job is to introduce the awardees. please join me and give a hand for jay primus, george reynolds, steven lee, and lorraine fuqua. >> thank you. this is a tremendous honor. it really does feel fabulous to be recognized. one of the relief fund things about this project is that it is just complex enough and just big enough that it is truly a case where hundreds of people were required to really get it off the ground. there's really nothing -- that's the kind of thing we dream about. working shoulder to shoulder with that many people to make something happen. it has never happened before. what a pleasure. unfortunately, the mfac award is limited to four people. we are up here representing an entire team. some of that court team is here tonight, including lauren, alex, lisa foster, hank wilson, lesley, jason lee, and brendan monaghan. [applause] those are some of the folks -- those are just some of the folks that really made sfpark happen. i hope you have a chance tonight to meet and congratulate them. these incredibly ded

and i actually have a video to showcase my awardee today. i just want to say it's great to see such a diverse array of women leaders in multiple fields. the woman that i'm recognizing today is [speaker not understood] who is a small business owner in district 6 in the tenderloin. and i will let the video speak for itself. [video presentation] >> this is a long time proprietor [speaker not understood]. on the ground floor [speaker not understood]. 10 years ago, right in the heart of the tenderloin. [inaudible] >> you're doing great, sweetheart. >> [speaker not understood]. my two sisters, [speaker not understood]. my husband is [speaker not understood]. my br they are [speaker not understood]. so, we are really [speaker not understood] team, a very strong team. >> the service that she offers, low-cost food here at manor house is so important to the seniors and other low-income people who live in the tenderloin. >> she gives you more than you can eat. i love the [speaker not understood] down here. these are my neighbors and this is mimi, and t

first i want to acknowledge our first awardee, and she is a first-time participant and she won from san francisco. she also worked with many of us at different times in the department of public works. she is the commute champion for the city and county of san francisco, ananda hirsch, she's with the department of public works. and, again, this is the first great race that she's had participated in. and she had the greatest number of clean commute trips by biking, walking, car pooling and taking transit to get to work. and i wanted to just congratulate ananda. thank you. (applause) >> thank you, ananda. and next we have our other five winners representing the city and county of san francisco. the first is the highest level of employee participation in a midsize company. the first place winner is [speaker not understood] and accepting the trophy is brenda chu and alicia collins, the company had 45% participation. so, here's brian: -- brenda and alicia on behalf of nectar therapeutics. clap lap (applause) clap >> and the third place winner is jennifer taylor. the company had 13% participat

one of the awardees is in hiding, another is in prison. 5 we present a fourth award for a brave woman whose life was brazenly stolen by brutal violence. their cause is our cause. women's issues, as we know, are more than just women's issues. they are family issues. they are economic issues. they are security issues. they are justice issues. they matter to all of us men, as well as women, boys as well as girls, those who live in free countries, as well as those who don't. that is why, including with the work of secretary clinton, and ambassador, the obama administration has put advancing the status of women and girls right at the center of america's foreign policy. [applause] president obama created the white house council of women and girls in order to help prioritize of gender and equality in the work of every single agency. secretary clinton named the first ambassador at large for global woman's issues and made protecting the rights of women and girls a signature of her work. one of the first things that i was priveledged and excited to do together with barbara boxer was when i was

one of our awardees is in hiding. one is in prison. another is locked under house arrest.we present a fourth award posthumously for a brave woman whose live was stolen by brutal violen violence. their cause is our cause. women's issues as we know are more than just women's issues. they are family's issues and economic issues and security issues and justice issues. and they matter to all of us men as well as women, boys as well as girls, those of us who live in free countries and those who don't. that is why including the work of second clinton and ambassadors the obama administration has put advancing the status of women and girls right at the center of america's foreign policy. [applause] >> president obama created the white house council on women and girls to help prioritize gender equality in the work of every single federal agency. secretary clinton named the first ambassador at large for global women's issues and made protecting the rights of women and girls a signature of her work. one of the first things i was privileged and excited to do with barbara boxer was when

the highest award in the military, and about 20 living medal of honor awardees are in arlington rights they selected these four from a group of finalists, about 20 to 25 tifinalists, and now the medal of honor winners who are normally on the receiving end of all of the accolades, they're the ones who are going to be presenting these awards to these four civilians. brooke? >> how special. i remember talking to the younger shaffer son back in louisiana, when he was, you know, saving people from the floodwaters, giving up his own seat on the boat to rescue people, like we said, ordinary folks doin amazing things. chris lawrence, thank you. >>> apple may be getting closer to knowing your every turn, your every turn literally, the tech giant bought out a startup called wi-fi slim specializes in indoor gps. indoor meaning it is a mapping system that can figure out exactly where you are inside a building right down to what floor you are on, what aisle you're in in a grocery store. samuel berg joins me now. i don't know how i feel about this. explain this to me. >> apple uses this technology