we have san francisco's home to thousands of irish immigrants here in our great city. many great irish establishments that are all, i'm sure very busy right now on st. patrick's day with green beer and everything else. but today i get to honor somebody and we get to honor somebody who is one of the legends in our irish community here in san francisco. and so i want to welcome up to the podium father brennan mcbride. [ applause ] to give you a bit of background and it's such a great occasion to do this. i looked back at calendar and st. patrick's day father mcbride come before us on st. patrick's day. just to give you a bit of background on father brendon, as he is known to everyone. he has committed his life's work to help our irish immigrants. he is a native of ireland and been in in countries in the world, to eventually here in san francisco. he has been especially formative in the irish immigration pastoral center here in our great city of san francisco and everybody identifies father with the center. he has grown it into a thriving hub, helping irish immigrants in o

city collaborative. clifford, thank you for teaching me how to accept my greatness. tia, you can cuss me out any time, sweetie. karen, thank you for hanging in there with me. and to the rest of the central city collaborative, thank you for allowing me to shine. and my church, oh, my god. i can walk to oakland, that's how important they are to me. and it's wonderful when you believe in freeing people you can free people. and god has allowed me to do that. and i can only say that if you're passionate about something, continue doing the work. just go and do the work and greater things is ahead for me. you know, i'm looking for a job. (laughter) >> but i want to thank each and every last one of you for allowing me to stand here and tell my truth. i've been suicide free for 12 years. [applause] >> and i like it! [applause] >> congratulations again, mother jones. and if you're looking for a job, we have the western neighborhood access point will be happy to provide you with the information to get support. next up, we have supervisor mar. >> thank you. congratulations mother

he's been showing a great heart they think goes along with all of our city employees. they always have a chance to demonstrate for more than what the job calls for and that's why we have such a great city and i want to say thank you to you and your staff. thank you to what you have done to make it easy for everybody and your commitment being engaged with our community, not just the business community, but i will tell you without this strong relationship that we are developing with our business community you won't get creative jobs. you won't get good conversations about investing in education, investing in our hospitals, investing in our communities, strong neighborhoods. all of that wouldn't happen unless there was a strong belief in our collaborative spirit in the city so i am very happy to just sarks announcing this on valentines weekend and everybody make sure you grab a cookie and chew your way to a good heart and we announce this has been a very good successful launch of ongoing relationship we want to continue having with our business community so that we can cr

- >> first of all, let me begin by saying what a wonderful city i'm so luke for the mayor of a great city like san francisco you know offer the years when i was city administrator i was working with then dominating to make sure that a city we also be prepared and read for the biggest disasters and i often used the term i continue uss it is another internal revenue magnify this great city if we're ready then the words like recovery and reliantcy will be common words we use everyday where our departments or nonprofit organizations working the community or volunteers that by the constantly try to recruit and today, i want to say to you that we don't have to be waiting for big disasters on a citywide basis to happen before you we oozed use those word we're challenged by disasters just as big for small families as and face certainly things certainly for the last two months we'll have 4 major fires in the city some of them as high as three or four alarms they've effected they've had the effect of us losing over one hundred living unit and more importantly interrupting sometimes tragically the l

continue to the celebrated our giants with the teamwork they have all in the spirit that we're a great city care of each other whether we're in uniform or lucky enough to be outside of a uniform this city will take care of each other thank you very much (clapping) (clapping) >> next speaker is a member of our steering committee for this project former mayor willie brown junior. >> (clapping). >> general mike secretary shurts mayor senator dianne feinstein anticipate the current mayor of our grey great city mayor ed lee and all assembled here in letting me assure you this day has been long in coming mayors that preceded diane had the responsibility mayors that preceded almost everyone else we can think of over the los last 82 years but mayor ed lee was indeed blessed he had george and charlotte and wishes to speak and an incredible of collection of people that have already been named who really wanted to see this to happen and the fact that the recognition that should have been long sense for san francisco been consistent that the signing the united nations documents so many years ago here o

city is too compact. we dont need drivers. we have great public transportation and people need to walk or ride bikes. a lot of people do, so why can't they do it in the inner city of san francisco we do not need people-people can jump on the [inaudible] which is one of the greatest systems in the united states of america or like i said, they can get a great work out by walking or taking a bicycle to work. thank you supervisors and god bless you >> thank you for your comment. next speaker, please >> good afternoon president breed and supervisors. i'm picking up good city vibrations. you're sending me exiitations. i'm thinking of good vibrations. i'm getting city good vibrations. with all this legislation. [singing]. it is a shame shame shame the way we haven't had any rain. it's a shame shame shame the way it is so dry. it's a shame shame shame we want those fire hydrants tied up high. it vashame shame shame we do need rain. it's a shame shame shame. and i just want to say, let me be there in your sate morning, let me be there in your city night. let me change those [inaudible] and make it right. make

you're a political consultant now, but before that you were a journalist covering city hall. >> great education. >> a small little paper called "the chicago tribune." that was an interesting decision when you said no more i'm going to work for the system. why? >> i loved being a reporter so much i didn't want to do it frankly, in a way. the newspaper business was changing even then. we had new management early '80s. they brought in a much more rigorous, green-eyed kind of management. the barrier between the digital side sdmut side were breaking down and they brought in new editors who were much more excited about an old story that the old editors were and i just felt like i wasn't going to be able to do the kind of work that i wanted to do and i didn't want to do it in a way that you know left me unsatisfied. and at the same time paul simon, who you'll remember was a congressman in illinois running for the senate before your time actually against a very embedded incumbent, he came and paul was kind of the orville red reddenbacher of politics bow tie. but a guy impeccably honest crusad

so i've talked about the city's success but you've got to have great partners in order to make the cityrd of supervisors a very special prize i get to have a partnership with mark farrell a wonderful supervisor from his district i know him more and more as an entire city leader so i want to welcome him in the most appropriate way and that is with my pronunciation hopefully i'll not screw up this >> (speaking foreign language.) >> which, of course is my irish to welcome mark farrell up here with a greeting of st. patrick's day thank you (laughter) (clapping) all right. >> thanks mayor ed lee. >> no way. >> that's correct mayor lee and everyone welcome to city hall it is once a year we see a sea of green and isn't charlotte the best dressed woman in san francisco (clapping) proud to be here today with mayor ed lee with all of you to kickoff what is high season for the irish community not only here in san francisco but around the world as our consul general told me his duty to kick in a early february and don't end until april it kicks off today with a flag raising and celebrate our irish

the community for stepping out and being a part of our cultural celebration in this disagreeing great cityank you very much i 7, 8, 9 to recognize carmen chu and others and like to acknowledge the t o of hilton hotel john let's give them a round of applause and invite willie brown up to say. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> >> he is the real emperor. >> the year of a hours the white hours was escorted out and in comes the ramming the year of the rams lunar new year as the mayor has said commences as of now and in reality every year in san francisco we start the year out with every aspect of the chinese cultural celebration it is always started reason an administrative and goodwill and good health and hopefully great wealth this year is no different the year of the ram i'm told that there is the year of the anyone questioning can he i'm doing i'm going to have to avoid coming that one for fear that is an error i want to say each and every one of us need to enjoy the entire 14 or 15 days period of the chinese new year unlike almost any other places in the entire nation and mr. mayor for wh

further more we maintain san francisco can only be a great city if we wetain the economic and cullturable diversity therefore our city families counsel must examine our progress through a len at all time. this is new and different and a collaboration we haven't seen codifyed before. there are many ways to [inaudible] the rest i submit >> thank you supervisor u. supervisor avalos >> thank you i have 2 items for introduction first is a hearing-no, a resolution on pg and e and the cities negotiate of the interconnection agreement. this resolution follows last weeks closed session about the cities interconnection grievance with pg and e set to expire june 30. [inaudible] to the power. it is said to expire on july 1 and prks g and e refuses to negotiate in good faith. pg and e is trying to force to [inaudible] for decades. pg and e is also trying to make the city pay for existing facilities the city already paid for years ago. if the city is forced to agree to the terms it will allow pg and e to export taxpayer dollars. last year there was a complaint filed thatologed pg and e unreasonable den

we have san francisco's home to thousands of irish immigrants here in our great city. many great irish establishments that are all, i'm sure very busy right now on st. patrick's day with green beer and everything else. but today i get to honor somebody and we get to honor somebody who is one of the legends in our irish community here in san francisco. and so i want to welcome up to the podium father brennan mcbride. [ applause ] to give you a bit of background and it's such a great occasion to do this. i looked back at

it is a great city. >> jon: thanks. brotherly love. >> jon: well, you grew up in pennsylvania. you an's also or phillies fan? >> none. >> jon: do you have a relatives because the huge dividing of jersey is if you're from northern jersey or central jersey you're all new york teams. if you are south of that, you're all philly teams and so the bar i worked at was just fist fights. >> i mean, it's exciting to have that much passion for a team -- but really, at the end of the day -- (laughter) >> jon: may i follow your statement to its conclusion? at the end of the day who really gives a (bleep). (laughter) can you tell you something? i've never had it broken down to me like that before. >> great! >> jon: you could have saved me a good 50 years of my life. >> really? >> jon: i was obsessed with that stuff. is that why you had time to develop talent? >> i -- maybe. but i think it's also because i hate to -- i'm a girl i'm a lady. i like to craft and stuff. i don't want to watch ball. >> jon: but i like to craft! i just make sports jerseys. >> well, listen, that's great! >> jon: what

thank you, john so it's my honor to introduce the mayor of the great city of san francisco and really good friend of the boys and girls club mayor ed lee you've been terrific in every way and the number of times you've supported the boys and girls club tent is amazing so if you want to say no. we'll miss you but give you a pass mayor ed lee was out as supervisor breed last week with the attorney general holderer come out to hetch hetchy thanks to our participating with the police department and had a discussion mayor ed lee thank you for your all you do in the way you lead the city. >> thank you for the support of boys and girls club (clapping). >> rob thank you very much for that about how far beautiful student designed award i love those are their original and mean more to me i know i'm between you and the ribbon cutting and the use of this gym i'm going to be short no less appreciative and all the speakers before me let me begin rob said as i walked in he said god i must be tired of me i'm not tried of you and others anytime i get together with you and supervisor breed that means s

city st. patrick's day parade today hosted its first ever lgbt participants. that's greatheers and applause ] great news. because let's face it, a parade without gays is just people walking in the streets. [ laughter ] that's all that is. [ applause ] today was the first, that was the first st. patrick's day parade today as far as i'm concerned. this is amazing. statistics, if you're into that sort of thing. americans are expected to drink over 13 million pints of guinness today. [ cheers ] 13 million pints of guinness. to give you an idea how much beer that its, go outside and look at the sidewalk. [ laughter ] mitt romney, this is interesting to me. mitt romney has signed up to compete in a charity boxing match. [ laughter ] against, there is more. against former heavyweight champion evander holyfield. [ laughter and applause ] romney v holyfield. say what you will about mitt romney, but he never gets tired of losing to black guys. [ laughter ] that's his thing. [ cheers and applause ] that's his thing. in a new interview, president obama said that young voters should pu

that's a great city to celebrate. >> yes, he is.aughter ] nobody knows. >> jimmy: everyone thinks he's from canada. >> no one associates him as boston at all. no, seriously he is. >> jimmy: i could hear him screaming when the patriots won the super bowl. >> dude. >> jimmy: what was he -- was he going nuts? >> it was -- there were tears. seriously, it was like the greatest moment of his life. [ laughter ] it actually was though. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's not possible. where was he? >> i mean, i birthed babies for him -- >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. i get it. >> and i still have never seen just the pure joy -- [ laughter ] really, you know? >> jimmy: oh my god, it was such a -- >> such an emotional -- >> jimmy: oh my god, it was like the theater masks. comedy and -- >> greek, kind of -- yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: yes, it is. it's a big thing. and you have to show that every time you say it. >> yeah. oh, sorry. >> jimmy: exactly, yeah. where were you when you watched it? were you at the game? >> well, we had a baby-sitter situation, so h

golden gate avenue at the corner of fillmore i wholeheartedly agree parking is a challenge in this great city of san francisco, however, the churches were think established before most of the residents came to san francisco el bucking will i has been there for 66 years and the residents that live near p there a renting apartment and not pga for parking there's no guarantee of park numerous groups and organization seen special days and special privileges there is an attempt to move the african-american church out of the city we have programs on sunday for membership and business this makes for a better community and the church members pay taxes where is the consideration for the churches r vp has been in discussion and we the faith community you found out in the last two weeks let that be known our vision to the ideal park permits we have a right to worship and this doesn't give them a right to discriminate the majority of 13 hundred block is with residents we have units of seniors they will be impacted negatively because of the permits thank you very much. >> thank you >> thank you. next spea

need parking why destroy the businesses and change the neighborhoods that made san francisco the great city it is suffice it it seems you're not interested in visiting the businesses please consider those are not people that have the physical ability to walk and they can take the bus thank you. (clapping.) >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon and thank you for your time. >> my name is john ami i've lived on jackson and polk for thirty years we've watched the diversity of the businesses along polk street the hard working merchant have made this a fun community. >> community who's resident businesses have worked together 9 issue before us is about the quality of life on polk street not only from beautification the plan addresses 20 blocks north of mcallister over the last two years we've been working with the sfmta to reach a common sense plan to dialog and to compromise we all know as mta project at lewis montoya said polk street is kind of narrow and polk street which mandates to 44 street north of posting is not wide you enoug

brown by a white police officer jackson has said it's been an honor and privilege to serve this great city and to serve with all of you. last week u.s. attorney general eric holder announced darren wilson would not face charges in brown's death. >> michael brown's deaths though a tragedy did not involve prosecutable conduct ton part of officer wilson. >> hands up don't shoot. >> but a separate justice department report into police practices found discrimination against african americans police stops arrests use of force and excessive fines for minor infractions such as traffic violations and filing cut weeds on residential property. >> both policing and municipality practices were found disproportionate to african american citizens. unlawful practices and constitutional violations, caused an atmosphere where people felt unit assault. >> the police chief was the latest to go. two police officials resigned for same reason. the municipality judge resigned after the state supreme court took the extraordinary action of assigning his cases to a state judge. the doj report accused the municipalit