, a supervisor carmen chu, eric mar, and jane kim, and supervisor campos, supervisor mirkarimi, malia cohen is here as well. it is a wonderful occasion to celebrate our chinese new year at city hall. i want to welcome all of you here. i have been thinking about my first month on this job. as you know, i try not to follow the speech sometimes that i scripted for. i tried to speak what is on my mind. the thought here is that it is no longer a lunar new year celebration just for our chinese community. what our community now has to offer is really expanding the family to all of these other diverse groups in san francisco. that is what makes this so wonderful. we can share what this joyous occasion means and connect with all the other families of the city, whether african american, latino families, russian families, or all of the some groups of our asian families, it is what makes the city very special. if i have seen anything the first 30 days of this inaugural apartment that was historic redone by our board of supervisors, it allowed me this special privilege to serve as your mayor. i know tha

[applause] and supervisor malia cohen. [applause] where is supervisor scott wiener? [applause] thank you for being here. we have our district attorney mr. gascon. public defender jeff a adachi. and our fire chief, joanne as white. [applause] acting city administrator, amy brown. [applause] port director monique moyer is with us. [applause] and from senator mark lino's office, susan slim. [applause] from assemblyman tom ammiano's office. thank you for joining us in the celebration. we will have the final performance of the evening from the chinese american international school. they helped to start this celebration earlier this evening. i do not know if all of us were here but they are now returning. they will be performing for us and the beautiful traditions of the chinese new year, the alliance stance. please welcome students from the chinese american international school. -- the lion's dance. -- the lion's dance. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> [inaudible] [applause] this is really a unique performance. before we end tonight's program, i want to, on behalf of t

a fellow member of the california bar, and honoree barmalia cohe -- on area of -- an honoree of malia cohen. next. carlina hanson, honoree of supervisor mirkarimi. next, we have eileen hanson. i would see her on every street corner. she is amazing. thank you. next, we have anella manuel, supervisor kim's nominee. are you still here? might have been distracted by all of the relatives. next, we have dobrynin, supervisor -- deborah niemen, supervisor wiener's nominee. >> [inaudible] and a woman near and dear to my heart because my grandmother was an immigrant from china, although i'm fourth generation on my grandfather side. an honorary from district 7. [applause] congratulations. and supervisor chi's -- supervisor chu's honoree. congratulations. she just announced that there are civil service discounts. does that extend to state employees as well? great. finally, we have the jacqu line zapata chavez, supervisor avalos' nominee. >> [inaudible] i hope you all join and carried that bag proudly. thank you very much. [applause] now, we have our president of the friends of the commission on the sta

supervisor malia cohen, ladies and gentlemen. >> thank you. hello.th. how are you good. thank you for coming out here this morning. i'm so excited to be here. there have been many years that have come and gone in the past that i was in these seats over here listening to the speakers commemorate, honor the memory and legacy of many of our an set of erps and the persons that have gone on before us and it is about time that we started to think about the legacy that african-americans have had and the legacy that the civil war has had and the intermingling between the two because it is with no easy feat that over 200,000 african-american soldiers fought in the civil war during a time when african-americans were denied the right of course their citizenship. can you imagine that? so i'm very excited to welcome you here to our great city hall. and as i stand before you, i want you to understand that i am your represent and if you have a chance to stop by before you leave and leave your contact information, so we are able to better communicate and keep the li

alphabetical order, supervisor john avalos, supervisor david campos, supervisor carmen chiu, supervisor malia cohenisor mirkarimi, supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, and supervisors got wiener -- supervisor scott leonor -- wiener. a number of your friends thought it appropriate to reach out to cover the span of mayors over the last fifth leaders, a small fraternity who you are about to join. leading that is lieutenant governor, who will brain some remarks. it was the man who served as a supervisor and whom the voters rewarded by making him lieutenant governor, and he was received by his colleagues at one minute after 1:00, when his tenure was evicted, and he gave an accounting of himself and the time he has been mayor, and now, welcome to the new mayor, gavin newsom. >> sit down those that have seats. let me welcome each of you for taking the time to be there. it is good to be here, and it is a wonderful occasion, and the people that need to be thanked the most are the people of california, because i would not have been lieutenant governor, and there would not have been a vacancy. i am honored tha

to my right is malia cohen. to my right is scott weiner. we are also joined by president david chiu. >> please make sure to turn off all cellular phones and pagers. items acted upon today it will appear on the may 3 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. chairperson mar: we have four items on the agenda today. >> item 1, resolution of intention to vacate a portion of mason st. for the library and joe dimaggio playground master plan. chairperson mar: this item is sponsored by the mayor and president chiu. >> item 2 is a resolution of intention to vacate a portion of mason street to improve the area. presidend ct chiu: i want to thank the members of the public who are here. the north beach library has historically been one of the most overused libraries -- library branches in the entire city. it is one of the three top libraries used in the city. in many dimensions, the library has not been adequate to meet the needs of the community. it has not been accessible to a lot of folks, including our disabled communities. it has simply

they're about how we relate to each other and so i am so proud to be up here with malia cohen, who is going to create many, many new stories to come along with all of san francisco and the other supervisors up here and the oop leaders and al williams and the historical society who are doing very important work to document the contributions so that we can justify why we need to make a special effort to make sure that there is no outmigration, to make sure that there are jobs. to make sure we protect the family structure. because from my heart and where i come from and what my family is all about, i know what it is to be helped by the african-american community. i know that that's been a strong tring and -- thing and we wouldn't have survived without that kind of kep -- help. so i leave you here today to let you know what's in my heart and mind and let's kick off this celebration to unite everybody in this city and be broud -- proud of who we are, and thank you very much. >> thank you, mayor lee. we are about to bring up our keynote speaker. but i did want to mention we also have with u

mayor ed lee will hold a town hall meeting along with malia cohen. the meeting is tonight at 6:00 in the genentech hall auditorium. >>> let's take a break from the day's news and get a look at the forecast with christina. >> good morning. it's a chilly start. you'll probably need a jacket or sweater as you walk out the front door. we do have some showers coming down to the north and a little bit of moisture creeping into the bay area. not enough to make the highways slick but we will be watching this for you. this is what we are expecting when it comes to your rainfall today. by 10:00 a.m., light showers starting up in the north bay and spreading south as we head throughout the afternoon. i think that the significant rain will be up in the north bay and in places north of sacramento -- excuse me, north of san francisco and oakland. sacramento, they're going to get it. as we head throughout this afternoon, it looks like it will completely clear out of here by 2:00 p.m. making for really nice conditions. as we head into this evening, of course, we have

mayor ed lee will host a district 10 budget town hall meeting along with supervisor malia cohen. they will answer questions about what's being cut and how to try to fix the mess. the meeting is tonight at 6:00 in the genentech hall auditorium at ucsf mission bay. >>> six men and boys well be charged today in connection with the gang rape and beating of a teenage girl outside of a richmond high school homecoming dance. the arainment comes after a 20-day preliminary hearing which included testimony and evidence from 20 witnesses. the defendants range in age from 10 to 44. they are accused of beating, stripping, raping the girl. they found the girl partially naked under a picnic table. >>> could a bay area murder suspect be responsible for the so-called alphabet murders of the 1970s? this morning a special task force is looking for any possible lynx between joseph naso. he will appear in court this afternoon to face charged of murdering four women in northern california. all four of those women had first and last names which starred with the same letter, which some say is strikingly