of our city department heads including our city administrator car men chiu and our librarian michael lambert. and, let me tell you, michael has not only been running this library, he and so many of our librarians and the people who work for the library here in san francisco, they more than almost any other department have been working as disaster service workers to help address this pandemic. they've been down at covid command at mascone center showing up every day doing whatever it takes. organization. going out to our hotels where we are helping to support our homeless residents. going out to the community hubs to help support our kids. preparing virtual lesson plans and reading time. i did a reading time for kids during this pandemic as well virtually, of course. doing so many incredible things to help get our city going during a very challenging time. i know many of us, we wish we didn't have to go through this this past year, but what we should look at is the sacrifices we made and where we are now today. san francisco has vaccinated about 60% of the residents here in the city, more tha

of our city department heads including our city administrator car men chiu and our librarian michael lambert. and, let me tell you, michael has not only been running this library, he and so many of our librarians and the people who work for the library here in san francisco, they more than almost any other department have been working as disaster service workers to help address this pandemic. they've been down at covid command at mascone center showing up every day doing whatever it takes. organization. going out to our hotels where we are helping to support our homeless residents. going out to the community hubs to help support our kids. preparing virtual lesson plans and reading time. i did a reading time for kids during this pandemic as well virtually, of course. doing so many incredible things to help get our city going during a very challenging time. i know many of us, we wish we didn't have to go through this this past year, but what we should look at is the sacrifices we made and where we are now today. san francisco has vaccinated about 60% of the residents here in the city, more tha

. >> and, so we have our city librarian michael lambert. michael. >> thank you, claudine. and thank you, madam mayor, for your leadership in guiding us through this past year. i'm really excited that this is the 60th anniversary of the soul sister city committee. i was born in sol and i want to thank mayor breed for appointing me to be the first asian american city librarian in san francisco and the first asian american to lead any major urban library in the country. it's truly wonderful to be here at the asian art museum to celebrate the kickoff of asian pacific american heritage month. this year's theme celebrates resilience and uplift voice social security really the perfect inspiration as we're on our way to recovery and healing. i want to thank the apa celebration partners and particularly claudine for your passion and ongoing commitment to celebrating our culture and heritage in san francisco. apa heritage month is all about celebrating community. honored to be one of the cultural institutions that helps to highlight the important contributions of our aapi community

of our city department heads including our city administrator car men chiu and our librarian michael lambertd, let me tell you, michael has not only been running this library, he and so many of our librarians and the people who work for the library here in san francisco, they more than almost any other department have been working as disaster service workers to help address this pandemic. they've been down at covid command at mascone center showing up every day doing whatever it takes. organization. going out to our hotels where we are helping to support our homeless residents. going out to the community hubs to help support our kids. preparing virtual lesson plans and reading time. i did a reading time for kids during this pandemic as well virtually, of course. doing so many incredible things to help get our city going during a very challenging time. i know many of us, we wish we didn't have to go through this this past year, but what we should look at is the sacrifices we made and where we are now today. san francisco has vaccinated about 60% of the residents here in the city, more than th

of our city department heads including our city administrator car men chiu and our librarian michael lambert. and, let me tell you, michael has not only been running this library, he and so many of our librarians and the people who work for the library here in san francisco, they more than almost any other department have been working as disaster service workers to help address this pandemic. they've been down at covid command at mascone center showing up every day doing whatever it takes. organization. going out to our hotels where we are helping to support our homeless residents. going out to the community hubs to help support our kids. preparing virtual lesson plans and reading time. i did a reading time for kids during this pandemic as well virtually, of course. doing so many incredible things to help get our city going during a very challenging time. i know many of us, we wish we didn't have to go through this this past year, but what we should look at is the sacrifices we made and where we are now today. san francisco has vaccinated about 60% of the residents here in the city, more tha

thank you. >> and, so we have our city librarian michael lambert. michael. >> thank you, claudine.year. i'm really excited that this is the 60th anniversary of the soul sister city committee. i was born in sol and i want to thank mayor breed for appointing me to be the first asian american city librarian in san francisco and the first asian american to lead any major urban library in the country. it's truly wonderful to be here at the asian art museum to celebrate the kickoff of asian pacific american heritage month. this year's theme celebrates resilience and uplift voice social security really the perfect inspiration as we're on our way to recovery and healing. i want to thank the apa celebration partners and particularly claudine for your passion and ongoing commitment to celebrating our culture and heritage in san francisco. apa heritage month is all about celebrating community. honored to be one of the cultural institutions that helps to highlight the important contributions of our aapi community to the richness and vitality of san francisco. we have an incredible lineup of pr

of our city department heads including our city administrator car men chiu and our librarian michael lambert. and, let me tell you, michael has not only been running this library, he and so many of our librarians and the people who work for the library here in san francisco, they more than almost any other department have been working as disaster service workers to help address this pandemic. they've been down at covid command at mascone center showing up every day doing whatever it takes. organization. going out to our hotels where we are helping to support our homeless residents. going out to the community hubs to help support our kids. preparing virtual lesson plans and reading time. i did a reading time for kids during this pandemic as well virtually, of course. doing so many incredible things to help get our city going during a very challenging time. i know many of us, we wish we didn't have to go through this this past year, but what we should look at is the sacrifices we made and where we are now today. san francisco has vaccinated about 60% of the residents here in the city, more tha

of our city department heads including our city administrator car men chiu and our librarian michael lambert. and, let me tell you, michael has not only been running this library, he and so many of our librarians and the people who work for the library here in san francisco, they more than almost any other department have been working as disaster service workers to help address this pandemic. they've been down at covid command at mascone center showing up every day doing whatever it takes. organization. going out to our hotels where we are helping to support our homeless residents. going out to the community hubs to help support our kids. preparing virtual lesson plans and reading time. i did a reading time for kids during this pandemic as well virtually, of course. doing so many incredible things to help get our city going during a very challenging time. i know many of us, we wish we didn't have to go through this this past year, but what we should look at is the sacrifices we made and where we are now today. san francisco has vaccinated about 60% of the residents here in the city, more tha

of our city department heads including our city administrator car men chiu and our librarian michael lambert. and, let me tell you, michael has not only been running this library, he and so many of our librarians and the people who work for the library here in san francisco, they more than almost any other department have been working as disaster service workers to help address this pandemic. they've been down at covid command at mascone center showing up every day doing whatever it takes. organization. going out to our hotels where we are helping to support our homeless residents. going out to the community hubs to help support our kids. preparing virtual lesson plans and reading time. i did a reading time for kids during this pandemic as well virtually, of course. doing so many incredible things to help get our city going during a very challenging time. i know many of us, we wish we didn't have to go through this this past year, but what we should look at is the sacrifices we made and where we are now today. san francisco has vaccinated about 60% of the residents here in the city, more tha

of our city department heads including our city administrator car men chiu and our librarian michael lambert tell you, michael has not only been running this library, he and so many of our librarians and the people who work for the library here in san francisco, they more than almost any other department have been working as disaster service workers to help address this pandemic. they've been down at covid command at mascone center showing up every day doing whatever it takes. organization. going out to our hotels where we are helping to support our homeless residents. going out to the community hubs to help support our kids. preparing virtual lesson plans and reading time. i did a reading time for kids during this pandemic as well virtually, of course. doing so many incredible things to help get our city going during a very challenging time. i know many of us, we wish we didn't have to go through this this past year, but what we should look at is the sacrifices we made and where we are now today. san francisco has vaccinated about 60% of the residents here in the city, more than the state a

he will be in conversation with michael lambert, the first asian american to serve in the role of directorbraries. >> happy asian pacific heritage month. i'm the city librarian for the san francisco public library. today it is my distinct honor and privilege to be in conversation with san francisco's newest poet laureate, tongo eisen-martin. tongo, welcome, we are delighted to have you at the main library at our chinese center and congratulations on your appointment. >> thank you. it is good to be with you. >> right on. poetry and art can seem personal but you seem to enjoy building, empowering and participating in creative communities and endeavors. do you enjoy collaborating with other poets and artists? >> poetry is kind of a national hermitage -- in a way there's a certain aspect of craft, but really just experience with you. and for yourself. but, you know, renaissance or modernzation of a craft only happens in collaboration, only happens with us bucking up against each other. and so, you know, whether it's intentional or whether we're going to have this workshop or this writing group

thank you. >> and, so we have our city librarian michael lambert. michael. >> thank you, claudine.and thank you, madam mayor, for your leadership in guiding us through this past year. i'm really excited that this is the 60th anniversary of the soul sister city committee. i was born in sol and i want to thank mayor breed for appointing me to be the first asian american city librarian in san francisco and the first asian american to lead any major urban library in the country. it's truly wonderful to be here at the asian art museum to celebrate the kickoff of asian pacific american heritage month. this year's theme celebrates resilience and uplift voice social security really the perfect inspiration as we're on our way to recovery and healing. i want to thank the apa celebration partners and particularly claudine for your passion and ongoing commitment to celebrating our culture and heritage in san francisco. apa heritage month is all about celebrating community. honored to be one of the cultural institutions that helps to highlight the important contributions of our aapi community t

of our city department heads including our city administrator car men chiu and our librarian michael lambert. and, let me tell you, michael has not only been running this library, he and so many of our librarians and the people who work for the library here in san francisco, they more than almost any other department have been working as disaster service workers to help address this pandemic. they've been down at covid command at mascone center showing up every day doing whatever it takes. organization. going out to our hotels where we are helping to support our homeless residents. going out to the community hubs to help support our kids. preparing virtual lesson plans and reading time. i did a reading time for kids during this pandemic as well virtually, of course. doing so many incredible things to help get our city going during a very challenging time. i know many of us, we wish we didn't have to go through this this past year, but what we should look at is the sacrifices we made and where we are now today. san francisco has vaccinated about 60% of the residents here in the city, more tha

of our city department heads including our city administrator car men chiu and our librarian michael lambert. and, let me tell you, michael has not only been running this library, he and so many of our librarians and the people who work for the library here in san francisco, they more than almost any other department have been working as disaster service workers to help address this pandemic. they've been down at covid command at mascone center showing up every day doing whatever it takes. organization. going out to our hotels where we are helping to support our homeless residents. going out to the community hubs to help support our kids. preparing virtual lesson plans and reading time. i did a reading time for kids during this pandemic as well virtually, of course. doing so many incredible things to help get our city going during a very challenging time. i know many of us, we wish we didn't have to go through this this past year, but what we should look at is the sacrifices we made and where we are now today. san francisco has vaccinated about 60% of the residents here in the city, more tha

thank you. >> and, so we have our city librarian michael lambert. michael. >> thank you, claudine.nk you, madam mayor, for your leadership in guiding us through this past year. i'm really excited that this is the 60th anniversary of the soul sister city committee. i was born in sol and i want to thank mayor breed for appointing me to be the first asian american city librarian in san francisco and the first asian american to lead any major urban library in the country. it's truly wonderful to be here at the asian art museum to celebrate the kickoff of asian pacific american heritage month. this year's theme celebrates resilience and uplift voice social security really the perfect inspiration as we're on our way to recovery and healing. i want to thank the apa celebration partners and particularly claudine for your passion and ongoing commitment to celebrating our culture and heritage in san francisco. apa heritage month is all about celebrating community. honored to be one of the cultural institutions that helps to highlight the important contributions of our aapi community to the r

thank you. >> and, so we have our city librarian michael lambert. michael. >> thank you, claudine. and thank you, madam mayor, for your leadership in guiding us through this past year. i'm really excited that this is the 60th anniversary of the soul sister city committee. i was born in sol and i want to thank mayor breed for appointing me to be the first asian american city librarian in san francisco and the first asian american to lead any major urban library in the country. it's truly wonderful to be here at the asian art museum to celebrate the kickoff of asian pacific american heritage month. this year's theme celebrates resilience and uplift voice social security really the perfect inspiration as we're on our way to recovery and healing. i want to thank the apa celebration partners and particularly claudine for your passion and ongoing commitment to celebrating our culture and heritage in san francisco. apa heritage month is all about celebrating community. honored to be one of the cultural institutions that helps to highlight the important contributions of our aapi community

attending as we speak down at the palace of fine arts and joined by the mayor, our library director michael lambert and department of children youth and family. we are start together distribute up to 10,000 books to sf kids. dcsf is reaching out to families unable to register for camps and offering opportunities in private camps for free for which they purchased slots and many nonprofit camps. they have contacted more than 2,000 families and placed more than 700 additional kids in outside private camps. the school district is also participating in the program and offering in person learning loss and summer wellness opportunities on many of its campus and we're joined by many, many of our community based organizations in this effort for approximately 25,000 students this summer. that's all i have today. >> if anyone wants to comment on the general manager's report only, dial star 3 to be added to speak. >> there are 14 on the phone and zero hands raised. >> public comment is closed. we are now on item 4, general public comment up to 15 minutes. this item will be continued to item 9 also. at this tim

thank you. >> and, so we have our city librarian michael lambert. michael. >> thank you, claudine.dam mayor, for your leadership in guiding us through this past year. i'm really excited that this is the 60th anniversary of the soul sister city committee. i was born in sol and i want to thank mayor breed for appointing me to be the first asian american city librarian in san francisco and the first asian american to lead any major urban library in the country. it's truly wonderful to be here at the asian art museum to celebrate the kickoff of asian pacific american heritage month. this year's theme celebrates resilience and uplift voice social security really the perfect inspiration as we're on our way to recovery and healing. i want to thank the apa celebration partners and particularly claudine for your passion and ongoing commitment to celebrating our culture and heritage in san francisco. apa heritage month is all about celebrating community. honored to be one of the cultural institutions that helps to highlight the important contributions of our aapi community to the richness an

thank you. >> and, so we have our city librarian michael lambert. michael. >> thank you, claudine.ership in guiding us through this past year. i'm really excited that this is the 60th anniversary of the soul sister city committee. i was born in sol and i want to thank mayor breed for appointing me to be the first asian american city librarian in san francisco and the first asian american to lead any major urban library in the country. it's truly wonderful to be here at the asian art museum to celebrate the kickoff of asian pacific american heritage month. this year's theme celebrates resilience and uplift voice social security really the perfect inspiration as we're on our way to recovery and healing. i want to thank the apa celebration partners and particularly claudine for your passion and ongoing commitment to celebrating our culture and heritage in san francisco. apa heritage month is all about celebrating community. honored to be one of the cultural institutions that helps to highlight the important contributions of our aapi community to the richness and vitality of san franci

attending as we speak down at the palace of fine arts and joined by the mayor, our library director michael lambert and department of children youth and family. we are start together distribute up to 10,000 books to sf kids. dcsf is reaching out to families unable to register for camps and offering opportunities in private camps for free for which they purchased slots and many nonprofit camps. they have contacted more than 2,000 families and placed more than 700 additional kids in outside private camps. the school district is also participating in the program and offering in person learning loss and summer wellness opportunities on many of its campus and we're joined by many, many of our community based organizations in this effort for approximately 25,000 students this summer. that's all i have today. >> if anyone wants to comment on the general manager's report only, dial star 3 to be added to speak. >> there are 14 on the phone and zero hands raised. >> public comment is closed. we are now on item 4, general public comment up to 15 minutes. this item will be continued to item 9 also. at this tim

thank you. >> and, so we have our city librarian michael lambert. michael. >> thank you, claudine.nd thank you, madam mayor, for your leadership in guiding us through this past year. i'm really excited that this is the 60th anniversary of the soul sister city committee. i was born in sol and i want to thank mayor breed for appointing me to be the first asian american city librarian in san francisco and the first asian american to lead any major urban library in the country. it's truly wonderful to be here at the asian art museum to celebrate the kickoff of asian pacific american heritage month. this year's theme celebrates resilience and uplift voice social security really the perfect inspiration as we're on our way to recovery and healing. i want to thank the apa celebration partners and particularly claudine for your passion and ongoing commitment to celebrating our culture and heritage in san francisco. apa heritage month is all about celebrating community. honored to be one of the cultural institutions that helps to highlight the important contributions of our aapi community to

we have our city librarian michael lambert with us with some amazing programatic plans for this month haven't been to cam fest, you are missing out big time. make sure you take advantage of the programs and the events. so many great act its, so many ways in which we can celebrate and uplift our a.p.a. community here in san francisco and with that, i'd like to introduce our city administrator car men chiu. >> thank you very much, mayor, for the warm welcome to everybody who is here today and of course to claudine and jay for hosting this event today. my name is carmen chiu. we've all had a difficult year dealing with not only the pandemic on our hands, but some of the racial violence and challenges we've seen not on here locally, in the bay area and in san francisco, but s

we have our city librarian michael lambert with us with some amazing programatic plans for this month you haven't been to cam fest, you are missing out big time. make sure you take advantage of the programs and the events. so many great act its, so many ways in which we can celebrate and uplift our a.p.a. community here in san francisco and with that, i'd like to introduce our city administrator car men chiu. >> thank you very much, mayor, for the warm welcome to everybody who is here today and of course to claudine and jay for hosting this event today. my name is carmen chiu. we've all had a difficult year dealing with not only the pandemic on our hands, but some of the racial violence and challenges we've seen not on here locally, in the bay area and in san francisco, but across the country. i think it's worthwhile to note especially someone who has grown up here as an asian american woman that xenophobia and some of the challenges we are facing in our community is not something that's new. it's not something that just came about because of the pandemic. but it's something we've see

of our city department heads including our city administrator car men chiu and our librarian michael lambert and, let me tell you, michael has not only been running this library, he and so many of our librarians and