elect gavin newsom played his delight card and was not sworn in. some saw humor in in his delight. >> i am proud, from your the tenant governorship, if and when it begins -- >> others disagreed with the decision. i think he should have been sworn in on monday. that seems to be in the spirit of the state of constitution of california. >> the next day, the board had one last chance to nominate their twice for interim mayor on january 4. >> when the board finally got around to actually nominating people for, and taking up the issue of inter mayorship, the first thing people should know is it was late at night. the board really put this off as light as they could. people were tired and cranky. that is the first thing people should know about this meeting. >> they said they would take nominations according to who was on the roster first. so it became a game of jeopardy where the question was, who could press the button first? then it became this sort of strategy. >> having run out of time, board members began the first round of nominations. >> i would n

>> but then mayor newsom said that he may delay his wearing him that as a lieutenant governors for a week. then the border supervisors, the modern new board with let the mayor. >> the question is when i do that. i have no charter obligations to do that. my term does not expire for another year-plus. so i have to resign first before a new mayor can take that oath of office. i have a role to play, even though the board of supervisors is the official who. >> mayor newsom, infuriatingly, frankly, kept his cards close to the best until the last moment. people did not know if he was going to stay in office to allow the new board to vote, people did not know if he was going to go to sacramento early. >> the key to this whole process that the board of supervisors cannot appoint an interim mayor until the office is actually vacant. he did not want to be the necessarily to the sport of supervisors, which were his political adversaries for so many years. >> anything can happen at the board of supervisors. as long as they publicly notice it, they could call a meeting every day until january 3. >

. >> what triggered san francisco's search over 30 years later was gavin newsom's election to the office of lieutenant governor. >> i put myself up as a candidate for the tenant governor, won, thanks to the overwhelming support of the city. >> that is when we try to look for someone to take over his final year of the mayoral term. >> it is clear we have to do something in san francisco. we have to pick a mayor. that job was not up to the voters but the board of supervisors. by a majority vote, supervisors are able to choose the interim mayor. that is when the fun began in city hall. who would he be? >> we needed to protect -- perfect the process so that once the board asked us for that process, we could actually have something in place that was well tested that we could provide to them. >> mayor newsom would be sworn in as lieutenant governor in early january. so the board of supervisors had barely two months after the november election to select an interim mayor to complete gavin newsom's term. but how would the board do this? san francisco's charter guided -- offered little guidance. >

newsom is credible with facts and numbers. the only one he missed was the size of the boat and whether or not it can go under the bridge at low tide or high tide. the masts are so great, there is going to be some real question about whether or not they can actually get you said the bridge at certain times of day. i am told by lucy and others who are very familiar this will be the first time that people will really be able to watch in real life, and in real time, and not just on television an america's cup race. i anticipate, and i think we all should anticipate, governor, lieutenant governor, mr. mayor, and mr. speaker, that this is not the only time san francisco will have it. we win it in 2013, and we keep it in perpetuity, and we keep on keeping it like it was one time kept on the east coast. that is the goal. because it then becomes an intimate part of the entire delivery system for all of california. i'm just delighted to be allowed to hang with mark and try to produce the resources that need to be done. i must tell you t

that lieutenant governor gavin newsom had for this organization. he also acknowledged carlos garcia and our partners at the san francisco unified school district. we could not do this without our educators by our side. also, he acknowledged the college track bayview council. thank you very much, i'm going to name them out. we have the wonderful, not the late, sorry, wilkes, not the late, but the great wilkes bashford. we have cofi bonner headlining. i have a long list and i'm going to take a minute of your time to show my gratitude because if it were not for the community partners, none of us would be here and i wouldn't be able to capitalize on the success these young people will have. cofi bonner, chris boskin, ron conway, hydra mendoza, mr. carmen policy and of course the lovely lauren dove, and

that success for that organization that has been so collaborative, one that gavin newsom started and i get to continue, called china sf, an ambitious initiative focused on attracting the north american headquarters of chinese companies entering the u.s. market. tioga energy, its solar development company, moved their headquarters from silicon valley to our financial district. their main reasons included the city's strained in financial- services, the robust talent, and of course our cities and matched policy leadership on sustainability issues. and the reasons for this success is clear. san francisco has led the way, with all the environmental policies and aggressively seeking to address the environmental problems of our age. people are taking note of this. san francisco was recently named the greenest city in north america by vehemence corporation an economist. we leave this corporation in carbon reduction, recycling and composting, the adoption of solar, energy efficiency, and vehicle technologies. water conservation in green building. if that is not enough happening in our financi

that favin new -- that gavin newsom created. i want to thank him because he started many of these programs that i get to help out with. this was one of those because it helps us have a direction and a presence in the developing country of china and make sure that our offices in shanghai and beijing were successful in recruiting not only the seven solar companies -- the five solar companies that are here in san francisco from china, but they are part of some 13 companies that have already located here of different industries from china. it really makes sense that we recruit. at the same time, while locating tiny companies here to open their markets and least our office space and create their out -- and growth, we are introducing u.s. companies to china in the very same fashion. we will be announcing a trip shortly, hopefully by the end of this year to bring over a number of great san francisco headquartered companies to make sure that they need their

on behalf of mayor gavin newsom, thank you for being here tonight.t is a great honor for me to be here tonight to celebrate with all of you our local heroes. i just want to recognize tosean elsbernd and supervisor ross mirkarimi. thank you for being here to celebrate with us tonight. on to our next local hero. it is my pleasure to introduce our second honoree, michael durant. michael joined the indian health center as a substance abuse prevention counselor. he was promoted in -- to department director. he earned his master's degree at san jose state university. he completed his undergraduate work in history with an emphasis on native american studies at the university of california at santa cruz. he was previously employed at the center for training and careers as a center for youth services, and after 18 years of substance abuse and several years of incarceration, michael decided to dedicate his life to helping youth and adults find alternative ways to deal with substance use. michael is of apache-chicano and dissent and said this very thing -- "und

i also want to thank -- or actually congratulate mayor gavin newsom for getting elected to lieutenant governor and jerry brown and all those other people that ran. a couple of days ago, on november 2, a friend of mine was elected to the 20th assembly district, and at one of his fund raisers, he gave me credit for getting him involved in community organizing, and that is when we were back in community college. he was a wrestler, and you know, we talked and got him involved in some different activities. today, he is a lawyer and also the 28 assembly district member. but when we interact with people or we need people, we do not know what is going to happen, why we came together, or what that result is going to be. some people are going to be sharing -- this is a long road where we are at today. i do not want to go too much into my history because my kids are here and i do not want them to know everything about me, but today, we try to present a different way of life for them. the first time that i indulge in substance use, i was 8 years old. i was released from prison in 1989. pretty muc

of demick development that mayor gavin newsom helped create is getting companies from china to locate here. we have five of their top solar companies located here now. >> i am actually going to wrap this up because we are running out of time with the mayor, and we want him to take his first support call. if you have any follow up questions, direct them at me. find me, and i can give you a card. now let's head over to the desk we created for you. >> all right. let's be a zen. >> welcome to culture wire. we're going to take a look at one of the biggest and most significant public art projects today. ♪ on june 26, mayor newsom and other officials gathered at the hospital to cut the ribbon and welcome the public into a beautiful new state-of-the-art facility. >> 3, 2, 1. [applause] >> in has been 10 years since voters approved the measure for the new building. >> when they cast the vote, we have an exciting opportunities to rethink how art is done in a hospital setting. >> replacement program generated approximately $3.9 million in art enrichment funds for a comprehensive art program that

as mayor knew some -- as mere -- mayor newsom was excellent office and -- mayor newsom was exiting office and mayor lee was taking over, how were they planning to arrive at that 100%, and what is the plan? >> one of the things we are excited about the program is 100% renewable for cca. i know the puc and department of environment have a working on a task force on the 100% renewal plans -- renewable plans. supervisor mirkarimi: i'm sorry, i did not hear the answer to that question. to that point of conversion? i have yet to hear mayor lee do the same thing. >> by conversion you mean -- >> how they plan to convert municipal reliance from our fossil fuel, nonclean energy into 100%, because this is something that they assert that this is the game plan for san francisco. so i'm actually trying to understand the p.u.c.'s role in the rollout of that plan. with or without c.c.a. >> and by municipal, you mean the broader city, not just municipal customers like the city hall and general -- >> i mean san francisco. >> san francisco in general. yeah, i have been focused on c.c.a. to date but i am cer

as mayor knew some -- as mere -- mayor newsom was excellent office and -- mayor newsom was exiting office and mayor lee was taking over, how were they planning to arrive at that 100%, and what is the plan? >> one of the things we are excited about the program is 100% renewable for cca. i know the puc and department of environment have a working on a task force on the 100% renewal plans -- renewable plans. supervisor mirkarimi: i'm sorry, i did not hear the answer to that question. to that point of conversion? i have yet to hear mayor lee do the same thing. >> by conversion you mean -- >> how they plan to convert municipal reliance from our

when it came down to it, bevan dufty said, after talking to the mayor, newsom made an argument as to why edwin lee should have the job. >> supervisor daly, having witnessed several progressives vote for a moderate saw the progress of dreams away. >> we ostensibly had a majority on the board of supervisors. we had an opportunity and we made the biggest fumble in san francisco political history. >> once it became clear that ed lee had the votes to win, nobody wanted to pull the trigger. so they stopped the meeting -- at midnight -- and decided to have another meeting that friday. at the end of the day, so many people had been put up for consideration, and here is the one person that had not and he ends up being the person who the board ends up with. that is a huge shock. >> when the board finally made their appointment, i was joyful because i thought it would be much more difficult. >> supervisors avalos and, thus ask that the meeting be recessed until friday to allow for a meeting with ed lee. >> i have not had a chance to talk to ed lee, any more than him, to my office and telling me

it is part of a movement that we started years ago, with gavin newsom's promise, but all was working in city government who have educated ourselves the history of failures in this neighborhood to say that we are going to turn this around, and to make a heartfelt commitment that we want to make sure that we do everything we can to turn this around. this store is leading that effort, and along comes other opportunities, because we are working with the third street corridor project. we are working with the bayview merchants to make sure that everything is being done. and this is another example. you will see this neighborhood promotion brochure at the end of every aisle in this grocery store, so that not only when you shop here for your groceries, you will be able to find where you get your hair cut, where you get your shoes repaired, where you can get all the other things that this wonderful neighborhood has to offer. that will be right in this pressure so that we join them in advertising all of these. thank you to renaissance for being here today, because they're all part of this effo

i'm delighted to be here with mayor newsome, who takes such special pride in this city shall this greatpect of it, its beauty, its history and its future and i thank him and senator feinstein, another former mayor, for being honorary co-chairs of this event and making it such a success. and i want to thank the chairman of the board of supervisors, aaron peskin, for being here as well. it's great to be with you, aaron and state senator leno who is with us as well. so many distinguished leaders in our community. it's also great to be here with ken nelly, who is so responsible for making today important. and ann hallstead. you probably think i'm going to name every single person who is here. it probably feels that way. i want to just acknowledge jarrod. the acting head of the parks and rec who guarantees that all this will be as beautiful as ever. but let me tell you on a personal basis what coit tower means to me and special gratitude to the coit family here today the coit tower when i am in san francisco, and it's not as much as i would like to be, is the firstsite -- first sight i see i

support of dianne feinstein, our senator appeared our former mayor and now a lieutenant governor gavin newsom. i have the support of the shares association, the police officers association, and >> so good morning and welcome mr. mayor, mr. council general. everybody. it's great to see such a great crowd here for what for us is an extremely important event. my name is ed reiskin. i'm the transportation director here in san francisco and very pleased to welcome you all here this morning for what we expect will be a very lively and productive couple of days here in san francisco. the san francisco m.t.a. is the agency that's charged with implementing the city's transit first policy, which is about getting people out of their cars and into more sustainable modes of transportation, such as bikes, such as walking and transit in our great muni system. as someone who myself gets around the city often by bike, and i do that by choice, but more importantly, i'm given the charge of our agency to get folks out oaf their cars. i can't tell you how exciting it is for me to think all of the brain power and

gavin newsom had that vision. he sat down with me and with dwayne jones, and fred blackwell and the people in our office for many years and henry, to say you know when the federal government was giving up on hope six, we had san francisco hope. we had hope s.f. we are going to self-create that program, because it was a good program. it was one that invested in people. and we rebuilt it with the commit from the city of over $90 million on paper with the board of supervisors. each of them agreeing with us. we are not giving up. this is the first of many projects of our public housing. the worst housing in our city we are going to rebuild in the same way with the requisite degree of hope, with the community, with residents, with jobs for everybody to rebuild. that is it number one. jobs, right? >> yes. >> i hear it. and we are going to rebuild it in a way that is never isolated, that is connected up with different incomes. store fronts, villages, jobs, developments. that is how we do it. in the rest of the city. that

when mayor newsom and the office of economic development went to everyone of those corporations to ask them if they would please consider opening up a store on third street in the bayview, they all said no. this guy said yes. i want to thank mr. mason for your vision, for your commitment to this neighborhood, understanding -- as sophie knows so well. we have had many hours of discussion about neglect and not caring. today, what i feel with this store opening, with the commitment that has been made, i feel it is all about health, neighborhood vitality, it is all about jobs, and it is about fulfiling old promises in this city. this is what this store represents. it is such a wonder that we can all collaborate in this effort to fulfill a promise to this neighborhood. we are with you every step and we will continue to work along first street and the bayview to make sure that this neighborhood never feels neglected. you are part of this city and the poll service of this grocery store represents fulfilling that promise. in those years that i was city administrator, we had a lot of discussion

we looked back at a term sheet that then mayor gavin newsom produced.hat they would use an area around pier 38. you look at the recent environmental impact report for the america's cup, it does mention it will be using several piers but not pier 38. so again, the port insists that what's happening is strictly a safety issue. where are the tenants going to go? some to other locations that they have in the bay area. as far as those who don't have those, the port says it will try to help them find new space. reporting live in san francisco, bob redell. >> bob, all over the story. thank you. >> it is 5:33 now. a new round of b.a.r.t. protests will be held later today and could affect your commute home a. group of activists are staging a fair the fare protest at the powell street station at 4:30. it plans to make their presence felt inside the station close to the fare gates. the goal is to get b.a.r.t. police to open the emergency gates and let passengers out without paying. organizers say depending on how the agency responds to the protests they may move t