mayor lee and laura to come up here. laura has spent 25 years understanding the world fair, she started when she was ten and it's been a lifelong process. she would like to make a presentation and afterwards we will all exit and i give you a truly amazing scholar and phenomenal woman deeply dedicated and passionate advocate and this book that was brought into world is one of the shining stars to this centennial. >> thank you so much, cynthia. 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 wo

meeting 1 or two or three inch for the march please well. >> thank you very much good morning mayor ed lee and commissioner christensen and director mohammed and department and ladies and gentlemen on behalf of the merchant doing business on stockton street i want to thank the mayor ed lee for supporting this special event 14 device before the chinese new year allowing the merchant to use the parking area to display their merchandise this program bring more chinese live in the bay area to come to chinatown to prepare and welcome the chinese new year the last 20-year former commissioner benny yee and i have been working with the last mayor to promote china to this event with no leukemia until this mayor who understands the chinese concerns and want to have the small business in chinatown the first two year was a pilot program but today is a are permanent program in chinatown thank you, mayor ed lee thank you (clapping.) because of the chinatown subway construction that was on stockton on the corner of jackson and washington was the repair i'm pleased to report to you all the slits have been

and a lot of the irish community was pushing for that and it was a lot of work i want to thank mayor ed leed ed reiskin and his staff of merrill stein and rec and park and diane ray seriously being in office and trying to get through it the mayors staff and the people that work for him are amount i want to say thank you to them (clapping.) st. patrick's day is a day important time of the year to celebrate being irish and there's nothing better than be able to celebrate anything so i'm asking everybody in the bay area for the next two weeks to consider yours irish and k0u9 and celebrate so thank you. i appreciate our time and thanks for coming (clapping.) i'd like to now introduce calvin by reason ham that will be presenting the mayor with a gift. >> mayor ed lee he know this is the year of the goat we don't want to take chances we want to bring a leukemia of the irish a bottle of whiskey for you to on up when you get re-elected this november (clapping.) now i'd like our grand mary bill to come up with his family as well as our families of houry grand marshall chris at the maguire it's 3w5d

. >> 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 red light come a time f in san francisco thank you. i see fathers brendon on and elected officials thank to my family mom and dad and wife and two-year-old son saying hi daddy all the time there you go thank you all for being here and thank you for being such a proud part of our irish community. >> community roaded in the history of san francisco that has been here since the mid 17th century as mr. sxhurlts mentioned our first mayor and irish mayors coming together with on the other hand farrell i'm a little bit bias but people that make san francisco what it is i

be here i think that what we're going to see i don't know exactly what we're going to see but mayor ed lee oh, my god you came this is you're showing i know anyway i've introduced the other people of title so i thank you for the opportunity to have you stand mayor ed lee and give you a hand of applause okay (clapping) you know collect for that so i think i've extend my time limit that was two minutes and actually, i think i've gone 2 minutes and 30 seconds all i want to say at this point is it's party time okay. >> (clapping.) goodbye thank you all right. >> thank you, again, for your generosity i know you already met jim fte land i have to give my special thanks to one of the most charming men and one of the most daring he hijacked me took me up to the top i wasn't someplace i was supposed to be i want you to give him cheers with his son here tonight and wife he's a dear friend of mine and i really, really do love him (clapping) >> i want to invite my long time friend someone that needs no introduction count of thousands of hours of her time to make san francisco and the bay area a better

that as you sit here now deck has a terrific relationship the mayor ed lee has impressed on the importance of job creation like the opening up pathways in the tech industry so welcome mayor ed lee (clapping) john thank you for that introduction and i'm glad to be here and this is great to see this is the third cohort of our folks coming through tech sf he want to go through the boat came but jonas passionate as i am i've not had to work that hard as you sit here now deck and it is a lot of passion for the building of strong neighborhoods thank you to the leadership give my best to the entire staff there because as strons as passionate in the job training for the 21st century jobs we need partners that are more experienced as you that kind of citizens of volunteerism is takes the hours and weekends and the attitude to folks that are in the community looking to see if they can gain skill sets with the new jobs and what they're doing in the clooks with tech sf starbucks a good training for people to see i have the confidence i don't have to be at the best engineering schools to get

mayor ed lee would you commissioner president illig please join us and have words and i'm sure that donnaome. >> ladies and gentlemen, mayor ed lee. >> (clapping.) okay. >> wow. charlotte and willie or on the they wonderful yeah. (clapping) tale of two cities and donna thank you very much so for your support we're doing this and thank you to the california historical 10esh9 and they've been wonderful we've had a great exhibit and still on the rest of the year the pal list of fine arts how's everybody are you ready for new lights well, gosh what a wonderful time in the city wildfire been taxing about the bay 4r89s and how wonderful to brought a refreshing look at the city and people from other than the world are coming to see the bay lights i'm glad that money was rates and tale of two cities thanks to you and the people the private sectors joined the public sector and really willie lewis brown and together gosh so see those numbers 1915 on the feedback ferry building is exciting my thoughts what were the innovators of that time one hundred years ago thinking about how were they moving the

was asked to be a peer leader to luggage the presidio champion with the enthusiastic support of mayor ed lee what has challenged other cities 80 join san francisco's leads we'll be hosting the u.s. conference of mayors in june we're so fortunate to have a mayor it gets it i want to share a quick story when he was the head of public works he, he we participated to make it a better workforce one of the things he created a space for women empowerment group among the employees to invite women to the first meeting he sent them a personal invitation to the home addresses helped them to pa participate and that group has been flushing every sense his qualifying didn't stop with city employees we know that 3 out four women's work in the private gender and you launched the 230u6r78 and challenged the private sector to encourage women in the workplace i see supervisor cohen has joined itself to enact the family friendly owners and the equal pay act and he's made a tremendous commitment to fight violence definition women fund for you the sifdz against women against violence has $05 million or 50 percent

mayor ed lee and ms.gins, and stewards of this powerful place of fine arts and from at & t, our exhibition sponsor the hertz corporation, fred is here. centennial sponsors, wells fargo, ecology, town school and so many people have sponsored this organization. the may beck foundation, richard pet ler is here right over there in that lovely blue shirt and truly a genius and you will hear from dan shine, the ceo and curator of innovation and an additional sponsor is scott of sterling bank. there he is, thank you, sir. i also want to extend a very special welcome to the job corps, two incredible women of esteemed presses kristin shine and mary and all of you who braved the elements in joining us. we are bring together p pa 100.org. this went live a couple minutes ago look on your phones, as long as they are at & t phones. we are bringing businesses that will participate in the ppa 100 to participate in huge varieties of exhibitions, thrilling events, lectures, dances, the list goes on. these partners include

ado i'd like to bring a man that truly needs no introduction noted former mayor willie brown but mayor ed lee another mayor that needs to abstraction bridging the gap between technology into the neighborhood so who is filling the nature of the community and making sure they're making systemic and institutional investment in our neighborhood ladies and gentlemen, mayor ed lee. (clapping.) >> thank you for that introduction sxhoemg i'm only gag going to sthufls a couple of things i was talking to woesh that feels good to open this up i asked him did you get a chance to do this i remember remember you you were responsible for opening up the tenderloin when you recognize how important you can realize this is similarly as important let me say this to those the school board and the superintendent and all the elected officials but patrolling to principle hobnobbing so that i'm existed at this time for our city to have to be able to have continued viewing confuses with virtually every area of success and education is at the center of everything to be a world-class city is such an inviting conversatio

as we say farewell to the horses we welcome the ram and then mayor ed lee also former mayor willie brownew year also will say it in chinese. >> thank you doris. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and everyone in mandarin. >> all right. right. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> >> first of all, everybody welcome to the kickoff of our wonderful chinese new year the year of the ram i'm so happy to joined by former mayor willie brown give willie a hand (clapping.) supervisor christensen is here thank you julie for being here and sxhaifshg thank you for being here did i miss any other supervisors or rams here gosh what a wonderful kickoff this just gets more eloquent every year i want to say thank you to the san francisco chinese chamber of commerce for their leadership we're going to have a wonderful two weeks of celebration actual very much to the asian presiding officer's you saw their display along with the chinatown youth center the youth fair with their we have displays you'll be seeing repeated and more eloquent during the parade how about those the rams for the chinatown community chi

of freedom i love that our next speaker is the mayor of the city and county of san francisco mayor edwin leeal 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 so thank you to a

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 something good is happening in the city you're absolutely right. i know that attorney general holder is not able to say this in public but he did i have to admit he said the visit in san francisco at the willie mayors clubhouse of boys and girls was the best of all his visits because it was in a t

. >> just a quick addendum to rebecca presentation, mayor lee will open the conference sunday night. the keynote speaker on monday and our own chair mark buell is moderating the panel of mayors and parks that will also include mayor lee. >> i just want to say that was an excellent presentation by a college intern. >> i couldn't agree more. >> thank you very much. [ applause ] >> is there any public comment on this item? being none, public comment is closed. we are now on general public comment, this is continued from item 4. if you spoke on item 4, you cannot speak on item 10, but if not, and you would like to make general public comment, please come on up. >> good morning again, richard fong. i attended the betty ann ong center and having a technical issue -- i think it's more mr. ginsburg, i had spoken about they are trying to form a partnership with the rotary club and betty ann ong organization and they had in mind simply using the facility at mason street. so when they use the facility they have to pay the required permit issues and guarantee that the floor is okay and everything

thank you so much mayor ed lee he is mayoring to do we'll had had ceremonial groundbreaking we have 4 shovels that will be shared with the vips standing beside me with the applause we'll begin the official moving of the earth. >> okay right there. >> here we go. (clapping.) >> thank you. >> yeah. (clapping) please welcome to the podium the san francisco supervisor of district 6 in which we're located the honorable supervisor mike wasserman (clapping.) it thank you. is really, really exciting to be at the location as the mayor and i welcome the new jobs it's great to welcome new homes and updated modernized homes for the vulnerable folks for the health clinic and center televise great we're able to welcome health 360 to the community as well with their updated and modernized home ours residents deserve the level of health care as we on the new clinic we want our health clinics here historically policymakers streetd poverty as an economic issue we look forward the jobs and poverty here in this industry ccii and city but through so much of our work thas has been highlighted by the worker

be here gail i talked to gail at 9 o'clock last night she would we ore modern $45 million but mayor ed lee was her immediately they sent me talking points with yellow highlighted areas but they don't know me i will tell you about the wonderful things i mean we've invested over anthony million dollars and $300 million in affordable housing in san francisco we're proud to be part of that i love stories like dennis told and the transformation steroids we all hear and i think that one of the things dangers of the steroids is to sound like those are simple they're not affordable housing 2.0 and we hear stories about 0 other things there's nothing harder in the world dave talked about that nothing hardly than a project that takes lots of funding federal funding a city and thanks to mayor ed lee that would be nice to have a governor that supports affordable housing but more than anything else is takes organizations like this it takes an organization that sweats blood for a project and do the financing and the seat and project manager your property alone is a huge humane deal i don't know how many