now, i would like to introduce the honorable edwin lee. [applause] mayor lee: good morning. welcome to the city of innovation, san francisco. we continue to be really strong. i want you to feel comfortable, all of you here. it sounds like every six months we will be coming back to make another announcement. i was here in march when we talk about the first major expansion, and, of course, i got to have the personal tour from carl and his wonderful staff to see all the different products and all the work has not only trading, but is the part of the way so many other companies are doing business, and we had a chance to talk this morning about all the different hospitals, the medical field, and the seismic retrofit requirements. all of the contractors and major engineering firms are using the very product you see here to be able to model their buildings. clearly, without that modern technology, you cannot see how some of these things can be sequenced with the great savings that are inherent in using 3-d dimensional looks at the way everything from hdc to architectural drawings a

we have a special treat today because mayor edwin lee will be handing out the awards. we also have supervisor mirkarimi and kim who will be helping to hand out the awards and flowers to the warriors. now i would like everyone to stand up and line up over here. as i call your name, please come on up. [applause] first, we have carlos hernandez, 16. he is a positive influence to those in his community who looked up to him and follow his steps towards success and greatness. [applause] if we could keep it to just a few photos, that would be great. next, we have -- a film maker of a media crew where she treats me that spreads awareness about important issues and encourages you to make change. she created a film around the oscar grant story and documented youth reaction to the case. [applause] sh andcheyyenne carson is improg conditions of youth who have parents and custody. [applause] denise castro, 17, is a college- bound ambassador at marshall elementary school where she helps students with their homework and students with after-school activities. she is an inspiring membe

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in particular, i would like to recognize the honorable meier and when -- the honorable mayor edwin lee. we are equally on it to recognize the chinese deputy counsel. welcome, gentlemen. [applause] also with us today, we have officials from california tourism, community partners, and partners who are all part of bringing the chinese to this wonderful city. today, we are launching a new hotel service tailored to the needs of chinese travelers visiting all corners of our hilton world. from today in 51 hotels in 13 countries in cities as far apart as london, sydney, mexico city, toronto, san francisco, and new york, we will be offering unique services focusing on three touch points of the chinese traveling hotel experience -- there are rival, the guest room, and breakfast at hilton. the for your hotels in the program i am pleased to say are right here in the bay area. we are so grateful to hilton san francisco union square for hosting this event, and i would like to recognize the key members from those who tells -- those hotels are also in the room with us today. let's take a closer look a

now, i would like to introduce the honorable edwin lee. [applause] mayor lee: good morning. welcome to the city of innovation, san francisco. we continue to be really strong. i want you to feel comfortable, all of you here. it sounds like every six months we will be coming back to make another announcement. i was here in march when we talk about the first major expansion

i'm edwin, the chairperson of the district english learner advisory committee. i would like to introduce our committee, some of whom are with us today. if you're here, please stand when i call your name. the vice chairperson, sue, gloria, leonora, secretary, our language and regional representatives are peggy lowell, cindy chow, dazey -- daisy, lucia. our district support staff members are lucia, fong and kevin. we would like to thank you for providing this opportunity to share our delac 2010-2011 report. rerespectfully submit our recommendation to improve service for english learning students and the families that support them. you'll find a report in tonight's agenda. we would like to use this opportunity to highlight the importance of our work as representatives of the district and to emphasize our key recommendation. our first recommendation is regarding a communication. any information pertaining to english learner students should be distributed to parents by each site in their respective languages. recommendations should be clear using high quality transla

i, too, would like to extend my gratitude to the honorable edwin lee. thanks so much for coming. hopefully, you got a small chance to look around. the gallery was really built for to the we will purposes. one was to showcase the work of the customers, which is the best way [inaudible] secondly, to show off new technology and how you can use it to sell technology challenges. if you look around, you can see interesting things. i just had the experience of bringing my nephews. we eventually printed things out. that was very exciting. one thing that was particularly exciting was the announcement of our presence in san francisco. it has been a great location for us. we have continually expanded over the last half-dozen years. we love to meet here in the city. this has turned out to be a fantastic place to host and guests. it has been a fantastic place to attract employees, to tap into the creativity and imagination of the city and all the support it provides. we are thrilled to be here, and we will continue to expand our presence here. this morning, we are announcing that we are build

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. >> there is edwin, his brother, carlos and carlos's daughter, carla. they're realtors and a family the district attorney targeted, elderly spanish speaking victim autos where he have 30 victims and $2.2 million that has been stolen from 31 victim autos carlos was just arrested. carla is on the run. >> we're looking for her she's part of the fraud scheme. >> authorities say carlos posed as a pastor and stole the home of a 71-year-old woman who lived on this street. >> and then this, individual threw a series of transactions refinanced the home. and basically took over $100,000 away from this woman. >> they found out about the case when they were still investigating charges against brother edwin. he was arrested three years ago, accused of defrauding the rest of the 30 victims and shooting them -- cheating them out of millions of dollars. prosecutors say he had a good ruse. >> he is alleged to have had a radio station and was a spanish speaking pastor. >> financial explot taigs targeting elders is exploding in this country. estimates that $2.9 billion a

[applause] >> the motion for edwin lee passes. [applause] >> you are talking to one of the happiest people in san francisco. this was an extraordinary an historic vote. but it was symbolic. remember, the new board of supervisors who convenes tomorrow will make the actual decision on who the next mayor will be. >> everybody came down to ed lee with the expectation that it will be done in the most intellectually honest way and in a way that role and order is respected. i think we discussed a few nominations and came down to this one by a common denominator. >> i had a sense of urgency because i did not want to see anyone being acting mayor in the presence of the board of supervisors. that is not the kind of transition i talked about. we need to have a transition -- legislative branch separate from the executive branch of san francisco. that is the best way to do our work. people would not like the situation of having an acting mayor and president of the board of supervisors. >> now the dominoes in this chain of political events were

. >> reporter: edwin and his brother carlos and carlos' daughter carla. all three are realtors and they are a family which district attorney says targeted vulnerable spanish speaking elderly victims. >> we have 31 victims and we have $2.2 million that have been stolen from the 31 victims. >> reporter: carlos was just arrested. 26-year-old carla is on the run. >> we are looking for her. she is very much part of this scheme. >> reporter: authorities say carlos posed as a pastor and stole the home of a 71-year-old woman who lived on this street in the ingleside district. >> and this individual, this pastor/real estate agent through a series of transactions retitled the home, refinanced the home and basically took over $100,000 away from this woman. >> reporter: police found out about the latest case when they were still investigating charges against brother edwin. he was arrested three years ago, accused of defrauding the rest of the 30 victims and cheating them out of millions of dollars. prosecutors say he had a pretty good rouse. >> edwin prada is alleged

[applause] >> the motion for edwin lee passes. [applause] >>

i want to welcome honorable mayor edwin lee. we are very lucky that he has come to join us here today. >> thank you. good afternoon, everyone! i have asked supervisor kim of this district joining me in congratulating the heart of the city farmers' market. 30 years. thank you very much for your leadership. do you know what the secret is of having a successful farmers market? you have the farmers run it, for 30 years. look at what we have done. the hall plaza is activated -- the whole clause is activated. i want to thank the real estate division. you have done a wonderful job at keeping a good relationship with the organizers and the partnerships that we have. i see so many great members of our community from the market street business associations, from the tenderloin. randy shot and aw and our soma s are here as well. this farmers' market brings fresh, a homegrown, sustainable farmers food to our communities in need. it keeps us healthy. we know that is at the center of a healthy city, to have a relationship with the farms aroun

have the pleasure to introduce to you the may year of the great city of san francisco, the honorable edwin lee, followed by the executive director of the interfaith council, michael pappas. mayor lee. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. it is my personal honor and pleasure to join you here today along with the interfaith council and our fantastic orchestra and opera and to celebrate and commemorate this 9/11 event. a decade after the terrorist attacks occurred on it 9/11, we continue to struggle to make sense of the terrible events of that day. while san francisco is more than 3,000 miles away from the attacks on twin towers and the pentagon, we felt the devastation and loss keenly in our city, and we will continue to remember and honor those who passed. it is important to me into the people of san francisco that remember and honor the fallen, including hometown american heroes like betty young and mark bingham. betty's call for a flight 11 was the first indication that america was under attack, and she relayed vital information to the ground crew. mark russell for control of united ai

michael edward gould douglas allen goyell yuji goya jon richard grabowski christopher michael grady edwinaf iii david martin graifman gilbert franco granados lauren grancola elvira granitto >> and my brother-in-law, fet and why rescue -- fdny rescue 1. your wife and entire family love and miss you every day. this world as a lesser place without you. >> and my big brother. joseph. we love you and miss you. 10 years, but it is still not easy. your family loves and mrs. you. you would be proud of your family. give pops a hug and a kiss. thank you to all the workers who got today ready for us. winston arthur grant christopher s. gray james michael gray tara mccloud gray linda catherine grayling john m. grazioso timothy george grazioso derrick auther green wade b. green wanda anita green elaine myra greenberg donald green gayle r. greene james arthur greenleaf, jr. eileen marsha greenstein elizabeth martin gregg denise gregory donald h. gregory >> and my nephew. danny, we want you to know that you will always be our baby boy. you will be in our hearts forever and we love you. [speaking spanish

mayor edwin lee has ordered the flag to be displayed at half staff from 2:00 to 2:30 p.m. in hihonor. i know other colleagues will have words again. president chiu: without objection, in memoriam unanimously. supervisor campos: that loss has touched me very deeply as well. the whole community throughout san francisco and beyond is deeply troubled by his loss and inspired by his life work. someone i have known for almost 20 years in the city, someone i have always looked up to the someone who has been part of the good fight for the latino community, the immigrant community, housing rights, and housing justice. he has meant so much to so many people. he struggled for over seven years against cancer. his perseverance was inspiring. how quick it was, his endurance of cancer -- he is survived beyond what anyone expected of him. the great community he had around him is emblematic. his partner has such incredible spirit as well. that gave him a lot of sustenance and a lot of community to help keep him going. his daughter is a very beautiful young girl. my thoughts go out to the f

edwin lee. [applause] mayor lee: thank you. thank you very much. welcome to the people's hall in san francisco. i want to first of all say -- i have always wanted to say this. the commissioner is such a wonderful person, and she has been our commissioner on immigrant rights commission, but you could see her when we walked in. she was hustling around getting everybody settled, doing what we needed to do to have a successful event, but she has been a wonderful adviser to me for so many years and a great asset to the city. i want to give you a round of a free shares applause. -- appreciative applause. thank you so much. it is my personal pleasure to welcome all of you here to celebrate nowruz. this has been something that supervisor mirkarimi and i talked about for so many years, to make sure we on this day and make sure all of you feel so warm and welcome, so, we are joined by supervisors wiener, farrell, cohen, and there will be other surprises that will come in as well. they know and we know that the celebrations here are very important. they estab

our first speaker today -- i am honored and proud to introduce the mayor of san francisco, edwin lee.] >> good morning. it is my personal honor to join you to commemorate 9/11 from our police, fire, paramedics, volunteers coming to grips citizens of san francisco. a decade after the terrorist attacks that occurred on september 11, we continue the struggle to make sense of the terrible events of that day. san francisco is more than 3,000 miles away from the attacks. we felt the devastation and loss keenly here in the city. we will continue to remember and honor those who perished. it is important to me and the people of san francisco that we remember and honor the fallen, including hometown heroes like betty and mark. betty's phone call was the first indication that america was under attack. she relayed vital information to the ground crew. mark wrestled with control of flight 93 rather than allow hijackers to fulfill their mission. 10 years ago, we also learned about the final moments of san francisco resident melissa's hughes who was a victim of terrorism in the towers. to read about

our first speaker today -- i am honored and proud to introduce the mayor of san francisco, edwin lee.se] >> good morning. it is my personal honor to join you to commemorate 9/11 from our police, fire, paramedics, volunteers coming to grips citizens of san francisco. a decade after the terrorist attacks that occurred on september 11, we continue the struggle to make sense of the terrible events of that day.