it is now my honor to introduce mayor edwin lee telephones the administrator in 2003 when the amendment happened and continues to xoond opportunity as mayor to build bridges between our cultures. >> mayor edwin lee. >> and thank you to the center for welcoming us today. i practiced saying this word on a recent trip and consul general thank you for being here and all the volunteers and staff that have been working with the city for many, many years to make sure with we equal access to all the cities services and president chiu reminded me it didn't used to be called this but the continental access to all the serviced. i'm a firm believer but we're an international city and a city of immigrants the u.s. consensus bureau said we speak many different languages and we're you'll san franciscans. we have an obligation we've strongly felt was a good purpose of government and i joined board president chiu and supervisor kim and councilmember avalos will be here they have a late night meeting debating important issues i know each of the that have a very strong filipino and other asian the minorit

we have mayor edwin lee we're lucky to have him. we have members of the board of supervisors.seen one at least do we have any members. thank you all so much. oh, i see scott wiener it's good to have you here and city attorney herrera. the city administer naomi kelly (clapping) and the department of public works mohammed (clapping.) and the south san francisco arts commission director tom. thank you tom for being here (clapping.) and we're going to ask someone to speak in a minute our senior veteran former secretary of state george b schooulz will you make many racks this morning for us? >> this is a great occasion. and mike has identified people as he wanted to honor and he give recognition to but let's face it this project got off the dpround when you put a marine general in charge let's hear it for mike (clapping.) that is a memoriam but it's as much about the future as about the pa past. yes memorial has the ring looking back and paying honor to our veterans and we need to do that and we need to give honor to anybody who has served but recognizing people who have been in co

it is now my honor to introduce mayor edwin lee telephones the administrator in 2003 when the amendment happened and continues to xoond opportunity as mayor to build bridges between our cultures. >> mayor edwin lee. >> and thank you to the center for welcoming us today. i practiced

thank you administer kim and mayor edwin lee and supervisor chiu and supervisor avalos and supervisor kim and the members of the filipino community. i would i want to say you can't imagine how appreciative we are and i'm sure it's significant for them because right here the very core and home the filipino community of san francisco we've started to take tagalog lessons from everyone starting with the mayor. serially speaking mr. mayor, we take great pride in being in the city of the care of the community. san francisco as you said is a city of diverse community. very the ordinance that's being passed rec the filipino has a third language is certainly a recollection of the transcribes of this great community the filipinos. and certainly its very significant for them because not only is it access to language and services because it makes them open up the city to themselves and feel like a home to them. certainly for any filipinos for the first time in the bay area this is wonderful and truly different when they're far away from home. i want to thank you. again mr. mayor and supervisors

the city's for the benefit of our resident without further ado, please allow me to introduce mayor edwin lee. (clapping.) >> thank you joaquin and thank you for your listener on the commission but your great fine work in every neighborhood of san francisco. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to hunters view. (clapping.) >> gosh every time we accompany here i it's a great chance to celebrate but let me begin by celebrating life. we're building community and rebuilding lives that have been isolated that is one way to give the proper moment of silence like after the fire in sunnyvale i want to have you join me a brief moment of silences the familiar the names are being announced but esther a mother of a review resident and her beautiful son santana williams. please join me in a moment of silence. thank you. and that i begin with that a sober reminder their real people and families out here those were the lives we've focused focused on rebuilding community we're heretofore the hill supervisor cowen knows it and nancy pelosi i'm so offer enjoyed to be ginnie you to making the announcement of the rebui

in august of 2009 then city administrator edwin lee launched the life line council and recommendation of the 2008 policy paper produced by spur outlining what san francisco had to do to improve the resilience of life line to with stand a earthquake. you can find notes on our website. the life line councilmembers over its three year life the life line council has successfully convened a top level of executives and mutual sharing of plans and projects and priorities much the members are listed here above. as you can see we have many of city and county san francisco agencies from the general agency, real estate, public works, water and power, san francisco public utilities commission, pg&e and comcast and caltrans, bart and other key partners such as fema and more. the objectives our life line council is to develop and improve collaboration in the city and across the region by regularly convening a group of executive officers and deputies of local and regional life line providers. understand intersystem dependencies of enhanced planning and reconstruction. sharing information about recov