mr. newsom for your hospitality. [speaking catalan] we have another sister city like you, mr. mayor. [speaking catalan] thank you very much to everybody. congratulations. [applause] >> thank you. as mayor newsom said, we have supervisor bevan dufty. i also want to the knowledge and member of the other supervisors wanted to be here today but there are stuck in a committee meeting. i know that many others wanted to be here as well. next i want to introduce the man who represents the country of spain, here in tampa disco, and of course we cannot talk about spain without talking about the world cup. we are all excited about the victory, and thank you mayor newsom, to you and the rec and parks department for the work they did around the world cup. if you have the opportunity to watch the game in front of city hall, i have to point out, the man who scored the winning goal is someone who plays for the barcelona team. that is important. the council's general of spain. manuel pradas. >> i wore red for the spanish team. when we arrived for the first time in san francisco, they were flabbergaste

mr. newsom and latoya cantrell to congratulate daniel homsey of the neighborhood services for leading today's great event and for launching of the neighborhood empowerment net work website empower sf. org. the best of luck, speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. [applause]. >> just amazing that young lady started as an intern in our office 3 years ago and came in and said, i want to make a difference. we should applaud her success it's just amazing. [applause] i would like to introduce your mayor gavin c. newsom. >> thank you very much for coming out. big round of applause for daniel homsey and his hard work bringing this together getting all the staff and volunteers the mayor's office of neighborhood services and other departmenting that are here we are very thankful. daniel has been talking about this for what seems a millennium. you imagine being the mayor's office of neighborhood services how demanding that job is. the calls you get for service. we got the liaisons to the districts and how overwhelmed some of them are. we added budget cuts. the office had 2 or 3 people representing each dist

mr. juan gonzales. he has been a pioneer in hispanic journalism. he works for the oldest bilingual newspaper in the bay area. we have a proclamation from mayor newsomme forward, that would be fantastic. [applause] >> thank you. so, what the mayor proclaimed for tomorrow is actually latino [inaudible] bicentennial stay in the city of san francisco for theft -- the -- day in the city of san francisco. [applause] at this time five of life or health recognizing this special individual. rudy hernandez received the medal of honor on april 12th, 1952 whitehouse from president truman. if i could deaf your health -- if i could get your help in introducing mr. fruity hernandez. thank you for your service to our country. -- if i if it were held in introducing fat-free mr. rudy hernandez. -- i would like your help in introducing mr. rudy hernandez. >> nancy pelosi said, "for different from a thank you for your interest to the area. the many fifth contribution from left to itself felt fifth of a future. with and if america will have to our culture and for a fee of 5 ref info for tonight from line are on a table of hispanic immigrants.

mr. ginsburg. mayor newsom: we're going to amplify at some of the summer offerings we're going to make available. >> good morning. i am the director of children, youth, and their families. we're going through some really tough economic situations. however, we're still prioritizing the children, youth, and families that live in the great city of san francisco. one thing the mayor was very concerned about was the lack of summer school. it is not enough just to have a summer program. it does not matter if we have a great program that is only three or four hours. it really does not help the working families in the city, our working families and our city. what we wanted to do and did through the most recent rfp process was to expand summer programs. if you get funding from our department, and you need to provide at least five or six hours of summer programming so that parents and families can go to work. the program will be meaningful for them. they can actually use it. for this round, we were able to fund close to

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many thanks are owed two majors -- to mayors jordan, brown, and newsom, and thank you to mr. elsbernd. we should all acknowledge the leadership of the late john neely and the chief nursing officer who moved the hospital into the 20th century. thank you to the staff of laguna honda hospital who are creating a new care model of community and patient involvement. the hospital has long been recognized as a center of excellence. the new facility further advances recommendation. the design brings a small-town feel insecure community which can integrate the patients and residents into the broader civic life of semblances go. the hospital has an impressive collection of art that will not only contribute to the healing environment but also provide a new destination for art lovers. the historic passage of comprehensive health care reform by college represents -- by congress strengthens medicare and ensure sustainability for years to come. it improves benefits for seniors and makes prescription drugs more affordable, and it recognizes the needs of those with disabilities by making signi

mr. chairman. now, it gives me great pleasure to welcome the mayor of san francisco. mayor newsom has led the way in creating jobs and stimulating the city put the economic growth. under his leadership, san francisco has become a hub for clean technology, renewable energy, and green development. during his tenure, development progressed through the planning stages to the start of construction. we thank our mayor for his strong support of the project and for all his guidance. >> thank you all. welcome. a small crowd for san francisco. this is rather extraordinary. that did all the thank you's. god forbid that i repeat every single name he mentioned. we have another six or seven speakers coming up. but i do want to get to the banks after it was not long ago, and it is in distant memory, in the 1990's, we saw a huge economic growth in the bay area, not just here in san francisco. we had growth in 15% of our employment base, but we found something alarm or remarkable. it was about the time that steve came forward with that mtc report that showed it some likely scenarios that might nee

newsom. >> thank you. newly elected so i've got to now call him mr. president. thank you, president brooks. i want to thank the commissioners for being here and of course our director, susan leyall, recognize her extraordinary leadership in putting this to the. as they say, god's delays are not god's denials. we should have been here a decade ago. i had the great privilege of just getting back a couple days ago from the world's economic forum in suite err land. it was an extraordinary experience for the first time in the 3 or 4 years that i've been here, there was no snow up in the alps. it was completely green as if we were there in the summertime and what a back drop for a discussion about global climate change. in stark contrast to just a couple years ago when there were just a few panels like this on the topic. now, overwhelmingly, the consensus is we have got a crisis of extraordinary proportions and we need leadership not just to identify the obvious, but to act locally. indeed, that's the spirit of this conference. it's one thing to talk about ideals; it's another to manifest them. w

mr. mayor. feels like we were literally year just during the kickoff of the campaign. -- mayor newsom: seals like we were literally here just during the kickoff of the campaign, but now, we are finally here during the groundbreaking. now, in 2015, with this extraordinary new hospital will be built, 380 new beds, 32 more new beds than the existing facility, we will take this remarkable building behind us and keep it in operation throughout the entire process of rebuilding a new hospital, and we will basically convert the operation behind us into a new operation and maintain a lot of these facilities so we are not necessarily tearing everything down and just painting something over. this has been an exercise that has been advanced over the course of the commitment to this rebuild at least two decades. it was fast track by a senate bill in 1953 that required all public hospitals to meet seismic safety retrofit standards. there was a lot of consternation when that bill passed because people said -- how do we pay for it? we have these remarkable hospitals, but we cannot meet that mandate without the s