on the right path thank you very much (clapping) now i have the pleasure to invite our host mayor edwin lee the mayor of san francisco and we're very glad we're here for the third time when he became the first asian-american mayor of san francisco this is an for coming and giving us your greetings (clapping.) thank you, dr. weber it's hard to follow the governors i've lined to every wondering word but don't we have a great governor of the state of california we certainly do (clapping) well, thank you governor jerry brown and good evening, everyone thank you and welcome to san francisco it's a pleasure to welcome solar 2014 for a 7th year in a row that's great, thank you doctor weber we have developed a great partner with the solar company and it's stunning we haven't really left the days of the gold rush this was when pioneers and future seekers and immigrants all types of people came rushing into the san francisco bay area to the state of california to find what to find answers to improve their lives it so happens that this spirit of innovation and entrepreneursship is still awake and inst

. >> good afternoon, commissioners thank you for a having mayor edwin lee me. i'm security officer with mooney started in 1998 and also a member and our brothers and sisters are here please stand up we want to thank you for listening to our concerns and working with us to make sure that our standards are preserved for the future for the last decade we've been fighting to raise the standards of security and having a working wage to support our families and we like to thank you for that >> thank you. thank you we're glad our colleagues are here as well >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. good afternoon. my name is it paulette i'm also a member of s lc i u the workers west i currently work at two muni sites when i enjoy very much i want to take the time to thank mta director reiskin for listening to our concerns because it's difficult to live live in san francisco i make $14 an hour and it's not easy having 4 day's work, however, i appreciate the mta listening to our concerns >> thank >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names) mary will be the last

program on let me get right to it and bring you the mayor of city and county of san francisco mayor edwin lee >> (clapping) >> thank you, joe. commissioner marshall or as i call the head of street soldiers in san francisco welcome everyone. at city hall i wanted to make sure you felt city hall's appreciation for the efforts that those students have accomplished. you know, i know it's not easy growing up in our public housing developments. i know that from perm experience but i also know this in running the city for over 23 years in various forms we've been out there at the shared responsibility with our parents and the housing authority to make things better and now a group of wonderful agencies like our scapegoat and our public works department and public utilities commission a lot of youth groups through our various programs. to try to help you make a better success in our lives i've very proud of the students here today because we want to be of help the city officially wants to help you. i pernicious want to help you as well that's why i appeared this weekend with joe on the street soldier

commending nicholas for the service those even environment whereas nicholas was appointed by mayor edwin lee on january 31st, 2014, and served on the san francisco environment commission and whereas commissioner nicholas served on the san francisco environment commission policy committee to march 2014 and whereas nicholas has dedicated his service on the environment of the san francisco environment commission would like to extend an accomodation and whereas, he appropriated a assistance of important environmental policies areas including the solar and renewable and transportation and strategic partnership and whereas the department of the environment is appreciative therefore, be it resolved that the commission on the environment and the department of the environment recognition honorable nicholas contribution to protecting and advancing san francisco's well-being and wish him the very best in his future endeavors. >> you forgot one thing. >> he's a fan of chelsea football club. >> that he stuck in there in that tough hiring meeting we had that went way long. we had some fun that invite (lau

i'm going to i'm going to turn it over to mayor edwin lee for opening remarks par good afternoon.elcome and again, thank you to ebbs members of our disaster council for assembling users together before we begin let me ask

so the campaign for fair economy wants to recognize supervisor jane kim and mayor edwin lee in raising the issue and bringing the city together to fight for a unified coalition and thank you to the worker the fast food workers across the industry put tare livelihoods on the edge to raise the minimum wage and we're proud that san francisco, california join the fight and help to lead the fight. i also wanted to say that we know for our workers sometimes $20 makes a different between paying the bus or paying rent. we're confident that the voters will support this measure finally, i want to say we're pleased that the mayor's office and supervisor kim has made a commitment to continue to increase the minimum wage we're going to make sure this is enforced so we have the resources and the tools needed to make sure that employers that minority employers that often my try to cheat the workers are held accountable. thank you very much. >> (clapping.) >> i'm very proud of the city as you've learned our unemployment rate went down to 4 point percent latinos that's the lowest in the country we want

i'm going to i'm going to turn it over to mayor edwin lee for opening remarks par good afternoon. welcome and again, thank you to ebbs members of our disaster council for assembling users together before we begin let me ask if we can take a moment of silence there are big disasters and small tragedies and we had to experience one today with the unfortunate fatality of one of our city employees he want to spend a minute recognizing this person's contribution outstandingly they're they were out in an area of the city picking up illegal dumping a tragedy accident in which one of our employees became a fatality so if we can just have a little moment of silence for our employee and a kind of recognize of his life i contribution to our city. thank you. wow. what a week and i want to say first of all, i want to thank d e m and all the indemnify departments and different agencies and the people that coma together for so many years to train ourselves to respond at the highest level that this earthquake that became a very apparent to us in napa and inoptional didn't have serious impacts at

i'm going to i'm going to turn it over to mayor edwin lee for opening remarks par good afternoon. welcome and again, thank you