edwin lee. sf 11234 mr. mayor welcome back. if you have any comments we are glad to hear them. >> mayor edwin m. lee: thank you. i would like to thank you for your partnership for helping us take on the challenges of our city. our unemployment rate is 5.2 percent and thousands of citizens are back to work. it's not just one any industry, we are seen broad base job growth in every sector of our city. we have worked together to spur the control of all of city san franciscans by providing hub fund and summer jobs plus programs for youth and with our historic investments with school and we work together to strengthen our neighborhood and small businesses. we have worked to fund our roads, parks, libraries and help our san francisco families succeed and helping to rebuilding our health care infrastructure with five health developments going on now. i'm looking forward to working with all of you to challenge all of these tasks together so san francisco remains 100 percent. i will look forward to outlining my focus in the coming days. with that, supervisors, any questions? >> thank you our first question is from super

mayor edwin m. lee: thank you for supervisor cohen's question. as you all know we are living in an extraordinary time in an extraordinary city. we are seeing economic recovery all around us, new homes, offices, neighborhood developments and homes built and getting back to work. as i took office in 2011, today unemployment is 5.3 percent. making san francisco the fastest growing county in the nation. this nation is not result of one industry. san francisco is facing job growth in every sector in the job economy and beating the growth rate. we work to create a strong climate of jobs, reforming our business tax and attracting and retaining businesses in the sector and making san francisco the growing capital of the world. we must work together by supporting residents by helping them find jobs in all of our sector academies. tech, manufacturing and hospitality and clean tech. we are working i don't think traditional methods of connecting people to jobs. this project developed through our city's partnership, tech to work connects job seekers through j

mayor edwin m. lee: really we really appreciate their partnership. while giving and volunteering should be at the forefront of all of our thoughts on a year round basis, it's especially important for each of us to put others first during this holiday season. so during the season of giving, i encourage not only our city residents, our businesses and our visitors, but also you, supervisors, our city department heads and staff and those joining us here today in the audience to don't whatever you can to organizations that are so important to our city's social safety net and those organizations that serve our homeless, veterans and our most in need during the holidays and throughout the year. thank you and let's go to your questions, supervisor. chiu president david chiu: chiu thank you mr. mayor. let's go to supervisor supervisor mark farrell: mr. mayor, g gnra is a recreation area. as the recreational use for decades has been dog walking. thousands of city of san francisco has long walked their dogs for dog walking. they are imposing restrictions that w

to direct the department of the environment and provide san francisco's leadership under mayor edwin m. lee and whereas melanie nutter directed the department of the environment of 110 staff for the past 3-1/2 years and helped to make san francisco the greenest city in north america, and whereas melanie nutter helped champion environmental policy achievements in san francisco, including such accomplishments as -- i'll read four of them, but there are many, many accomplishments. successful implementation of the mandatory composting cycling policy that has helped move the city toward the goal of zero waste by 2020 with an 80% diversion rate. successful implementation of the mandatory composting and recycling policy and expansion of the plastic bag ban to all retailers most of which has helped the city toward the goal of zero waste of by 2020 with an 80% diversion rate. working with the america's cup event authority to develop the cup sustainability plan and zero waste help cut to 85% diversion rate elimination of single use plastic bottles at the event as well as carbon neutrality. advancing