. >> the first item of business is the policy discussion between the mayor edwin lee. each will present their own questions to the mayor and follow up questions are in order as long as the entire discussion does not exceed five minutes per supervisor. >> welcome to our board chamber mayor lee. i'd like to ask if you'd like to share any op

mayor lee, may i beg your presence on back of the historical society and myself i would like to present you with a copy of my book. mayor edwin m. lee: thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you, i hope you enjoy it. thank you. >> all right. mayor lee, you have to come up one more time. this is an official badge. c'mon up. thank you for the honor of making me the liaison for the centennial. i'm thrilled. i would like to present you with this original badge from the 1915 exposition, the opening day. can i pin it on you? mayor edwin m. lee: sure. >> this is what would have been worn on this day to enter the gate. you are now official. thank you for everything you are doing. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you all so much. this officially ends, oops. madam would like to address you. >> i just wanted to say when the mayor gave us the instructions, i think they were instructions with go do this. we got together with the office with phil and with all the organizations that really had an interest and there we said what we were going to do and everybody was interested and you took the reigns, you volunteered. just remember th

. >> the first item of business is the policy discussion between the mayor edwin lee. each will present their own questions to the mayor and follow up questions are in order as long as the entire discussion does not exceed five minutes per supervisor. >> welcome to our board chamber mayor lee. i'd like to ask if you'd like to share any opening remarks to us. >> thank you. happy holidays to you and all the members of the board day. i'm looking forward to working with all of you through 2015 to advance our goals of making our city a place where families thrive and we can share the prosperity of our great city. let's take a moment to acknowledge what we've accomplished in 2014 by working together. thanks to the voters for making san francisco by making it more affordable to our families with an increased minimum wage. we're continuing record investments in our public schools and thanks to sound economic and fiscal constraint, economic policies. i've asked for no cuts in my annual budget for the first time in years. that does not mean it's time to sit back and i've charged

freedom i love that our next speaker is the mayor of the city and county of san francisco mayor edwin lee (clapping.) general let me add my thanks to the work of senator feinstein and former secretary george schultz and former mayor my good friend willie brown to i'll of you to say a happy occasion we match the dedication with fleet week we don't know how inspiring it is for the city we also made a promise over 82 years ago to get the dedication define i was reminded to remind i that charlotte shurts was not around 80 years ago to make that promise (laughter) but thanks to her and george and the incredible veterans committee raising all the funds a special thanks to steve and everyone on that list that you see today, this came to fruition over a year ago i mohammed in the eye and naomi he said we've got to make sure all the agencies honor our veterans by getting this memorial done not only did they go to work as a team with the arts and rec and park and the public works and the veteran war memorial committee and trustees they went to work almost as if they were called to go into the beach

i want to introduce mayor edwin lee.h for that -- i like these construction hats. it means we're getting things done. morning! >> morning. >> welcome to the bay view, as always. this is a good time for the still. it's a good time to get together with friends. it's a good time to get together with community, to celebrate, but also, as always, to get road work done for our residents. i'm out here again, as i've said over and over again, i hate making new promises. phase one's about ole promises. i want to thank the commissioner for helping me keep that promise. this is the promise to build 60 units of 100% affording housing for this community. this is a great holiday story and -- [applause] yes, be proud of ourselves and of the city working together getting that done, and while we're doing i want we're doing it the right way with good companies, good sub contractors, good people that utilize the talent of this community already. 30% of the work force is from bay view and 50% san francisco residents to help build this housi

lee. mayor edwin m. lee: good morning, everyone. last month i told you that the world series will end the drought. ed, thank you very much. i want to say thank you to the entire san francisco municipal agency and staff that are getting the benefit of this brand new technology to handle traffic congestion in the city. i visualized such a center when i visited seoul, korea that they have a fantastic center like this with panels and obviously they are bigger than we are but with all this data gathering and realtime situation where traffic issues were. just last week i sat down with chief gregsuhr and when she called me and tells me about the incredible traffic she faced on citizens who constantly knocked on my door or complaints about traffic congestion, this is a city that is a growing city, a city under a lot of construction these days. we are a city where actors and actresses in their vehicles and delivery trucks and seem to think that double parking is helpful to themselves and don't understand the impact or blocking the blocks, th

that em bodies the dell against -- intelligence in the city like few ever has mayor ed lee. [ applause ] mayor edwin m. lee: thank you very much for the introduction and thank you and the california historical society for your long work here. good morning, everyone. i'm going to try to mask my level of enthusiasm for this with hopefully some facts and acknowledgements. let me say that you know in my culture as many of you know when it rains, it's all about prosperity for everyone. i want to make sure everybody knows when i said that the world series would end the drought, i meant it. i want to repeat that again and again. but i want to say thank you, hello, everybody and welcome to this important milestone in our city's history. and i'm enthusiastic about this panama pacific international exposition we are celebrating today. i'm enthusiastic about literally everybody i see in this audience whether it's with the arts organization, or education institutions, our writers and people that have talked about this city for so many years, you have to understand how important this is. i'm a student myself and

mayor edwin m. lee: thank you for all of your great work at the bid as well. happy holidays! before it rains, i want to make sure you know this, i told you the world series will end the drought. so it's happening. congratulations, everyone. welcome to our pedestrian pop up place right here at union square. i want to begin by saying thank you to the union square merchants, the bid for working so closely with us but a very special thanks to manuela king whose vision and idea here really sparked this and you spent countless volunteer hours just visualizing how this could happen. i'm going to say just a special thank you because it's people like you in this business that really care about what happens down here, what happens with our shops and will is -- also the experience that people should have as they shop here during the holidays. we have one of the most important transportation projects in the city's history and certainly in this modern history and this is our subway. i know all of you here have had a high level of tolerance when you have seen these gigantic cranes and hamm

edwin walker at his home in dallas. at the time and for weeks thereafter it wasn't clear who the assassin was. it would be determined by the warren commission that the assassin was lee harvey oswald and that he may well have used the same rifle in trying to kill walker that he would use in daley plaza to kill kennedy. it's marina oswald in the warren commission investigation who says her husband tried to kill the president. he had admitted that to her. >> did marina oswald come here? >> she did, indeed. she came on more than one occasion. she was here for, i think, several days in february 1964. she was the lead-off formal witness for the commission. and she was an important witness because she made it clear that she thought her husband had killed president kennedy and she thought he had done it alone.

edwin walker at his home in dallas. at the time and for weeks thereafter it wasn't clear who the assassin was. it would be determined by the warren commission that the assassin was lee harvey oswald and he may as well have used the same rifle in trying to kill walky as he would use in dealey plaz da to kill kennedy. it's marina oswald who says it was her husband that tried to kill walker. he had admitted that to her the night of the assassination attempt. >> so where in the offices that they occupied did marina come here? >> she did, on more than one occasion. she was here for several days in february 1964. she was the leadoff formal witness for the commission. and she was an important witness because she made it clear she thought her husband had killed president kennedy and she thought he had done it alone. he she's called back more than once after serious questions are raised about her truthfulness. in initial interviews with the fbi she denied she had any knowledge of the mexico city trip. she knew all about it and she knew about it before her husband had gone there. is so-called magic bullet. what was the significant ens of that for the commission. >> the single