wonderful companies in the city of san francisco and most recently this past year our accessory carmen chu has been there to find out what resources with international companies this st. patrick's day we have the intent to visit with our consul general grant one of the irish home companies d c h that will be doing their custom manufacturing we get to visit them together they have a thing if it can be imagined it can be made that's the spirit of irish people creating things here in san francisco now a irish company with that slogan and support for the efforts to exchange and be an international company as well those are few examples of the wonderful outcomes of having strong challenges a strong partnership with the people of ireland here in san francisco i'm looking forward to the parade an march 14 as a prime example of our admiration of our irish history ru6d i'd like to calm up our consul general and our folks if the irish committee and sdlar this as american irish heritage week in san francisco (clapping.) thank you, mayor >> (clapping.) all right. so i've talked about the city's succes

shurment and supervisor chiu u carmen chu and other members in the audience and my old boss chief suhref joanne hayes-white this is an honor to be here for about the last ten years the man has been up here it's quite a pair of shoes to try to fill he was going to try to be here he called me on the phone and coaching me and mentor me and reminding me on how to on behalf of at the podium i got my friend of mine marty seven hundred to keep it support from the po a this year we're getting a festival back and a lot of the irish community was pushing for that and it was a lot of work i want to thank mayor ed lee and you chief suhr and ed reiskin and his staff of merrill stein and rec and park and diane ray seriously being in office and trying to get through it the mayors staff and the people that work for him are amount i want to say thank you to them (clapping.) st. patrick's day is a day important time of the year to celebrate being irish and there's nothing better than be able to celebrate anything so i'm asking everybody in the bay area for the next two weeks to consider yours irish and

thank you for joining us today and school broadband member hydra mendosa and assessor our recorded carmen chu (clapping) we have two commissioners amy ackerman from the status of women and we have two board members members our pointing and linda calhoun >> i want to especially thank my staff carlene who worked and others from the mayor's office to make today's ceremony possible. >> (clapping) and and mickey callahan from the human resources has just joined us i'm sure you're aware of in 998 san francisco became the first city in the world to enact a local ordinance with the united nations the illumination of all forms of discrimination against women a international bill of rights for women the united states is not gratified but the other countries have this landmark ordinance was made possible by the advocacy of the san francisco bay area area women attended the fourth convention on women in bay you didn't know in 9995 it's between 20 years when hillary clinton proclaimed infamous women's rights have human right human right are women's right and to come reiterate are a the form of action san

element quite a bit of it we worked with the past captains of the teravile station and went to carmen chu to help to reduce the crime down there as said it was quite not residentially but commercially quite a depressed block i've been amazed like too years i'd step outside and see the ocean and 3wr9d up storefronts and nothing that happening now supervisor katie tang and carmen chu are doing the street improvements that last year will be amazing san francisco view to the pacific ocean and this is the street improvement and it's opens the overhead. >> yet most the crime is where we were going to put the proposed restaurant and they're gone and withhold to put it fairly quality of restaurant and going to have our main menu for cohesives to do stints for a month to 6 weeks tattoo buy same things hi they'll play off our main menu that's a good thing this is the place that was a retail but people are illegally conferred it into a living space so when we got it they shot out our windows with a 21 and through a garage cap through it was kind of wild west that's what i've got to go clean up later

and supervisor tang and supervisor christensen and supervisor cohen and supervisor jane kim and carmen chuclapping) and, of course, we have had a history of very strong women in elected roles in san francisco senator feinstein and nancy pelosi and kcmo jackie and betty lee and board of equalization those women have to do a lot of important thing for the entire convoy i shouldn't is without inhibition i look forward to working with you to place the first female in the president of the united states (clapping) well, you look at the women we're honoring today and you'll see the skwlts that are reflected in our own history and in our own leadership in the city today their lives have been death to improving the lives of others where in education or housing health and many more areas there are helping my city and our city to be more affordable they're helping to insure that etch in the city shares in the prosperity and whether through philanthropy or working on the ground everyday or in all of the areas we've mentioned those women have changing lives and showing the values at its best with that

.) >> >> thank you thank you very much i 7, 8, 9 to recognize carmen chu and others and like to acknowledgeror. >> the year of a hours the white hours was escorted out and in comes the ramming the year of the rams lunar new year as the mayor has said commences as of now and in reality every year in san francisco we start the year out with every aspect of the chinese cultural celebration it is always started reason an administrative and goodwill and good health and hopefully great wealth this year is no different the year of the ram i'm told that there is the year of the anyone questioning can he i'm doing i'm going to have to avoid coming that one for fear that is an error i want to say each and every one of us need to enjoy the entire 14 or 15 days period of the chinese new year unlike almost any other places in the entire nation and mr. mayor for whatever reason the lord is shining that on us no rain over the next 6 days god thank you. >> thank you mayor brown and invite the finding 69 chinese chamber of commerce mr. eddy powell to say a few words. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> thank

2014 reelect supervisor scott wiener 2014 rod resolution santos for community college board 2014 carmen chu for assessor recorded 2014 san francisco alliance for jobs in sustainable growth pack san francisco police officers association issues pack unit here local 2 pack building owners and managers association of san francisco political action committee independent expenditures and council and lash pack alice lesbian and gay pack mayor ed lee for san francisco committee that's the last slip provided me. >> okay that's it for - >> so those are all the committees and activity level one wore to select 6 committees from this level would someone like to come up and select that for us. >> one at a time. >> would you like to read it for us. >> mayor ed lee for san francisco committee committee for better wages yes on j no on b 2014 sponsored by san francisco alliance for jobs for sustainable growth no on the waterfront yes on prop b jane kim for supervisor 2014, yes on e choose health san francisco. >> how many is that. >> 6 i think hold on a a second i think we have 6. >> great, thank you would y

i i am here to represent the recorder assessor carmen chu and happy new year and celebrate with your valentines too. thank you very much. >> real quick captain can you say chinese new year? >> [speaking foreign language] happy new year. happy valentines day on behalf of every police officer that has the best job in the world patrolling chinatown and thank you very much. >> we have to go to rose and get ready. >> [speaking foreign language] so what i said is wishing everybody a prosperous new year. however, safety is number one and second is cleanliness so i have a cane. if i see anybody throwing garbage around i will wack you. thank you. [applause] >> i got enough scissors this year. okay. let me tell you what is going on. they're going to cut the ribbon and then the beijing and valley christian will be ready. after they cut the ribbon i will go "one, two, three" and you're in for a real treat. [speaking foreign language] . all right. you guys all help me. ready? [speaking foreign language] >> one, two, three! all right. hit it. check this out everybody. turn around. check this out.

our combufr and chief joanne hayes-white and commissioner chan and city accessory and records in carmen chu and our board of education commissioners genius and yourselves truly evening oppose our san francisco con decorate we'll all be there reading to our students such books as the cat in the hat and green eggs and ham h that celebrates a invading thing on dr. sews book i'm going to read my book click collaborating move so thank you sunset for organizing this event yes. >> i'll say. >> that's a good one too thank you for the organization and thank you dr. murase. >> the next item on the agenda is resolutions and accumulations mr. subsequent. >> we have two awards, however, we are going to postpone of the thought service award to trashing thompson she's unfortunately unable to be here we'll have her come back and print that award to her in person with that, i'd like to recognize our wonderful principle from roosevelt middle school doctor michael refresh my memory to present the service award to one of our incredible teachers at roosevelt school (clapping.) >> hello my name is michael refres