my name is carmen chiu and i serve as san francisco administrator. one of the responsibilities of my job is to make sure we continue to plan for the investments we need in our infrastructure. whether it is our public hospitals, our utilities, our fire stations or this station right behind you. we know that when the time calls when there is an emergency, we are better off as a city when we make these investments. and so i want to thank all of you for being here today to celebrate in this wonderful and momentus day. i want to thank all of the voters in san francisco who have made possible investments like this. we know we couldn't do it without them. and, of course, we could not do it without our mayor, a person who formerly served as a commissioner of the fire commission and now our mayor, she understands firsthand the importance of supporting our first responders and public safety. mayor breed. >> thank you, carmen. and i've got to say it's great to be here with each and every one of you. this has been a long time coming, chief. in fact, when i serve

my name is carmen chiu and i serve as san francisco administrator. one of the responsibilities of my job is to make sure we continue to plan for the investments we need in our infrastructure. whether it is our public hospitals, our utilities, our fire stations or this station right behind you. we know that when the time calls when there is an emergency, we are better off as a city when we make these investments. and so i want to thank all of you for being here today to celebrate in this wonderful and momentus day. i want to thank all of the voters in san francisco who have made possible investments like this. we know we couldn't do it without them. and, of course, we could not do it without our mayor, a person who formerly served as a commissioner of the fire commission and now our mayor, she understands firsthand the importance of supporting our first responders and public safety. mayor breed. >> thank you, carmen. and i've got to say it's great to be here with each and every one of you. this has been a long time coming, chief. in fact, when i serve

carmen chiu our city administrator. [ applause ] >> first off, i want to thank the district director for being here. deena, it's an honor to have you here and welcome you to san francisco. we truly appreciate the partnership you are bringing to this project. and, of course, to all the community members and our partners for helping to make the masconi center and this a wonderful place to be. when we think about a project like this, we know that the big things we try to accomplish are things we can accomplish together. i want to thank the city and county of san francisco for really coming together to recognize the importance of investing in a place like muskonee expanding the for the many conventions that will come to san francisco. for us, it's more than just a convention center. we know that the convention center is linked to economic growth and to our recovery in san francisco. during covid, we saw a pretty unprecedented situation where restaurants closed down. many of our entertainment venues had to go dark and where conventions completely tops happening and the impact on that was

carmen chiu. the director of the department of children, youth, and families maria sue. the director of the office of early childhood care and education, ingrid mosqita charles davis the human rights commission. so many people who care about supporting our schools and our kids and i think we have a couple of folks from labor uesf thank you for joining us as well as many of our parents from all over san francisco and our students and all of you just you know your names. so i've got to say, i'm really happy here today about the decision i had to make. i really agonized over this decision. this is probably the hardest decision that i've ever had to make as mayor because it's about the future of our children when i think about i ms. marshal who's also here. when i think about my time in schools in san francisco, some of the best times i had in my whole life were right here at galleleo high school and when this field would be actual grass where we would sprain our ankles running up and down the field and watch the football games and the performances and other things and our p

i have been giving quarterly updates to city administrator carmen chiu. i had one just last week and so this memo random that's in your google drive will give all of you information on updates for our commission including updated data including figures which we list out by brick and mortar types by music permits. of note, i will say we actively have 314 place of entertainment placements right which is great and stays pretty much in line with the number of entertainment permits pre-covid. so we're really excited about that figure. also notably are just add music permits are now at 452 and have likely gone up since i put this memo together. i'll get a little bit more into that in just a second. complaint data is also there for you. notably last year, we had close to a 1,000 complaints which has gone up by previous years and therefore the need for us to ensure staffing on weekends and we're glad we're fully staffed on our inspection team now. so it just makes sense, there's more sound out there right now. going on, i just wanted to give you all an update. al

carmen chiu. the director of the department of children, youth, and families maria sue.the director of the office of early childhood care and education, ingrid mosqita charles davis the human rights commission. so many people who care about supporting our schools and our kids and i think we have a couple of folks from labor uesf thank you for joining us as well as many of our parents from all over san francisco and our students and all of you just you know your names. so i've got to say, i'm really happy here today about the decision i had to make. i really agonized over this decision. this is probably the hardest decision that i've ever had to make as mayor because it's about the future of our children when i think about i ms. marshal who's also here. when i think about my time in schools in san francisco, some of the best times i had in my whole life were right here at galleleo high school and when this field would be actual grass where we would sprain our ankles running up and down the field and watch the football games and the performances and other things and our pe

my name is carmen chiu and i serve as san francisco administrator.one of the responsibilities of my job is to make sure

carmen chiu. the director of the department of children, youth, and families maria sue. of the office of early childhood care and education, ingrid mosqita charles davis the human rights commission. so many people who care about supporting our schools and our kids and i think we have a couple of folks from labor uesf thank you for joining us as well as many of our parents from all over san francisco and our students and all of you just you know your names. so i've got to say, i'm really happy here today about the decision i had to make. i really agonized over this decision. this is probably the hardest decision that i've ever had to make as mayor because it's about the future of our children when i think about i ms. marshal who's also here. when i think about my time in schools in san francisco, some of the best times i had in my whole life were right here at galleleo high school and when this field would be actual grass where we would sprain our ankles running up and down the field and watch the football games and the performances and other things and our pep rallies an

carmen chiu our city administrator. [ applause ] >> first off, i want to thank the district director for being here. deena, it's an honor to have you here and welcome you to san francisco. we truly appreciate the partnership you are bringing to this project. and, of course, to all the community members and our partners for helping to make the masconi center and this a wonderful place to be. when we think about a project like this, we know that the big things we try to accomplish are things we can accomplish together. i want to thank the city and county of san francisco for really coming together to recognize the importance of investing in a place like muskonee expanding the for the many conventions that will come to san francisco. for us, it's more than just a convention center. we know that the convention center is linked to economic growth and to our recovery in san francisco. during covid, we saw a pretty unprecedented situation where restaurants closed down. many of our entertainment venues had to go dark and where conventions completely tops happening and the impact on that was