take the necessary energy to tomorrow i turn 50 years old and they did not hesitate to send mayor edwin lee me my aarp card if i follow the path of any parents i have only lived half my life at the end of this term nearly a quarter of my life would have been serving the reactor board of education i'm maple for my colleagues on the board and the superintendents we've supported and believed in to be he helm of this courageous district we've proven we are focusing relocate awhile declaring a quality education to students particularly those who deny on us i'm grateful to the community that makes the young lives a priority and constant. >> to be are that surrounded by people that put a stake in the ground for our democracy and declare public education as a right not a privilege and to honor the education of our young people is one of the highest you orders we're announced to carry out education is the turnkey the key that equals the highest rate of return and can't be taken away i truly believe that the more we stretch our minds the harder it is to go back and the more we stretch our hearts is t

residents in the city that needs the housing let me introduce to you a very special mayor mayor edwin lee new year the first day of chinese new year we have a lot to celebrate we have malia cohen in the crowd thank you four district 10 and london breed who's story continues to be so inspiring everyday she's not in my area but in my ear and reremind each other of the sprernz to making promises to helping others get out of poverty not just in public utilities but housing i know the secretary is going to say some things i'll truly inspired by the support as determined as o citizen says i'm about this topic i'm lucky to have people surrounding me with the same interests and passion to help people get out the poverty part of that it is to have an answer is people call the deplanning housing someone's fault i told you we've isolated the residents not to be the residents but never again that reference is going to happy that we are providing proud to see the residents of our public utilities are resident of san francisco what do you mean that means (clapping.) a heck of a lot and those conversati

>>mayor edwin m. lee: good afternoon, everyone. i think this board knows as everyone else that it's an important event for our culture and communities and time to celebrate with family and friends and proud to be a mayor that celebrates our diversity and communities of all diversities. i look forward to working with all of you in this rear of the ram. a time of steady hard work and ensure this is a safe place for everyone. by ensuring that our streets remain safer, i have been thinking about the gun violence that has dropped in our city but the recent violence in you are city is unacceptable. in responsibility to that, the response of our police department along with others are innovating their strategies and prevent those from becoming more deadly and fully aware that poverty can contribute to violence. that's why we'll ensure public housing and jobs and non-profits through community partners and you have called to residents themselves to report violence in our neighborhoods and the city will do more to

hide people selling drugs they're out through every week they don't securey when they see mayor edwin lee me i see the kids walking to school i think we need to do you heard with the commissioner said about kids walking to school your message is loud and clear and need to be delivered the police officers make the arrests and do the best they can people look at those negligence a different prospective everyday we walk around and at a as a former prosecutor there needs to be changed so thank you, everyone. >> commissioner dejesus. >> i wanted to say i've gotten a lot of calls and e-mails from the community it's xeefts i know that community advisors board they're taking it on the road and getting community input but i like the comment you analyzed it you you know your community you made some really good comments about what needs to be incorporated or included based on our experience in the community that was good to hear and it was pro-active and i'm glad we were here this is a it process i'm glad your community is the first and your input is valuable and i want to talk for that and smipt we

to raising my children here in my oppose community because of san francisco's investment in mayor edwin lee me and the support of my famed and friends and neighboring neighbors i stand here today proud successful mother of four standing here to introduce our mayor it truly takes a village i'm proud to introduce mayor ed lee who is making sure all of our residents success by providing the educational opportunity and the housing opportunity and so much more for not only my family but all of our san francisco families in and out now without further ado the head of our vinyl we call san francisco please welcome mayor ed lee (clapping). >> thank you thank you good morning good morning and thank you nicole how about another hand for nicole banks (clapping) nicole i'm so grateful for that introduction and proud of you and our city your story echoes what we're talking about this morning so many of the themes i'm about to discuss and your own journeys an inspiration to all of us thank you very much. >> i'm so honored to have 2 of my predecessors two tremendous leader for the state gavin newsom and m

you know i'm a person that when i cross the bridge and i think that it someone is charging mayor edwin lee me $6 when they charge you more because they need to repair the bridge and the bridge is done and we're still paying $6 i'm one of the people that think that so i don't think we have dismiss that question so you know because i am one the people that you know when peter's are raised when you're doing it for the as a sake of putting it in a city kitty i'm not down with that, i take it seriously to the extent e stent i will be looking at closely during budget 7, 8, 9 i'm confident with the budget that the conversation that commissioner arce we're no line but i'll be scrutinizing that going forward. >> thank you commissioner king. >> other comments all right. seeing none, if we can have a vote on it all opposed by the same sign opposed? we have approval thank you for your all your hard work. >> okay. >> and now something for one of our best friends in the world can you read item 7 margaret and approval of the messages for the one commending commissioner on the environment sponsor is debor

pleasure to introduce mayor ed lee and to thank him and the entire board of supervisors for their support on this remarkable project. mr. mayor. [ applause ] >>mayor edwin m. lee: wow, good morning, everyone. this is so exciting. i want to first of all congratulate chancellor and mark for your wonderful leadership. the relationship between uc san francisco, our general hospital in the city is one that is very very unique. but before i go through more of the details that i'm excited today to reflect on, let me say this, you know, there is a new gold rush in san francisco. and the gold rush is about talent, not about nugget of gold, but about nuggets of knowledge and talent. this is what you have seen san francisco has been mining for many decades. it's a gold rush. i want to say that because that was one of the most exciting times in the history of our city. i want to compare that to what is happening here in mission bay and with our relationship with ucsf that they are mining the future and the present talent of the entire world to come here and to innovate and that is attracting as much as what san francisco was in the late 1800s when we said gold but

and jude it's any great pleasure to introduce the mayor of the city and county of san francisco edwin m lee mayor ed lee. >> (clapping) >> thank you, richard and pam and judy and, of course, larry give them a big hand they've done a wonderful, wonderful job (clapping) hello, everybody it's great to be here i wanted to say thank you to every one of i here today when you when i walked up to this field i've had had strange and wonderful feeling we're on the field of the 3 time world series champion giants this is who you or so i'm going to volunteer smng something i know that willy and beven those who who have been successful if he can enhance our ability to bid how about a personal autograph from all of us to remember those bids we can help enhance that lets do that; right? so hopefully, you'll get the bids out we'll continue this effort it is unique to have willie in his red clothing and it is, of course, for san francisco general hospital a place where i think represents the values of this wonderful city that we have and again you know larry and pam and judy and rich we've been to month mee

>> >>mayor edwin m. lee: the greatest team is not just the warriors. they are our community's team. that's something different. it's great to see dramon and harrison here honoring us in this stadium and honoring our hero and this special unveil with your presentation of our cultural diversity and bring this on an international scale is really a part of the dna of san francisco. i'm proud of our community. i'm proud of the past representative. obviously i stand on their shoulders when i'm the mayor of this great city. i truly appreciate it. i also want to let dramon and harrison that i used to dunk. of course, after dunkin donuts, right? i used to stick my tongue out and run down the court and like harrison, i used to sky jump and nobody could touch me. of course i woke up after that. but i say this to rick and the entire warriors organization from the very ownership and the day it was announced, we were feeling that it was going to be a huge difference in approach, not only in just building the arena but a relationship with the communities. you've done that. and nick used individual