it's also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of -- for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here. good morning ladies and gentlemen, to introduce mayor ed lee please welcome san francisco resident nicole banks (clapping.) good morning, everyone good morning. >> welcome to the bayview. >> this is where i grew up and where i

city is strongest and getting stronger. (clapping.) it is is a unique moment in ouristory the city is busing with energy and pride not just because the warriors have the best record in the nabbing or the giant or world champions again and again and again (clapping) you know the ideas that conceived no incubator that microbe to the bayview from south of market to central market has spurred economic prosperity in our city our neighborhoods bustle again with young families and thriving small businesses our skylines 2r06r78d with the commercial towers 5 new hospitals under construction today soon to be joined by the central subway and chanted moscone center for the golden gate warriors a wastewater treatment plant and new neighborhood along the central waterfront that employees thousands of construction workers well, thank you to the hard working men and women to the construction trades the laborers and operating engineers and entertainment and electrical workers all the trade for rebuilding our city thank you (clapping) my friends those are times to be proud of our city

.) >> congratulations (clapping) and on behalf of our city of san francisco i present to you the certificate of election that formally bears our name as school board member for the district of san francisco thanksyour name as school board member for the district of san francisco thanks (clapping.) thank you, mr. mayor and all the commissioners will have an intelligent to share the remarks after everybody been sworn in this is not self-serving i agree mr. mayor this is the finest and the best looking school board and the most articulate school board i've ever seen not self-serving though yeah. (laughter) so i will have an opportunity at the end of the program to also introduce all our elected officials that are here including our board of education and others city family we will have quite even though sleeper group this evening so rapidly assembling the names i'll introduce everyone so next to be sworn in welcome dr. murase to come forward and swear her in we're happy to have gale who will administer the oath of office to commissioner murase. >> good evening, everybody it is an exciting time

i know you're about to see if not a lot of the things happening in our city we want to make sure that the themes that you have for the conference about cities and innovations and mobility can be sdeementd so while you're here please make sure you do all you can too walk and bike and take ride sharing obeying be careful on the upper deckerers but i think you've already and if you haven't i encourage to go down 0 or to our transbay center this is under construction and he'll hear it and feel it as we do our central subway we'll been working hard to get those promotions those are historic projects for our city and the transbay scienter you've read we tinder to have electrical caltrain from our high speed rail from the state of california we believe that is important to our entire region to get it done and glad to be working with governor jerry brown to make sure we're investing properly i'm excited for this conference because we have got to brightest mind in transportation and say thank you. i also want to make sure i give a shout out to the mayors from the citi

the bear was the counsel and our job was to sell this work with our cities and our entire region to support its economy and quality of life for everybody who lives and works in this great place we call home and were very very fortunate to have such great city that make up the bay area and here we are in san francisco not only a leading-edge economy in the world but certainly one of the most iconic places on our planet . it just i work for the city for a number of years in the mayor's office and is just a minute amazing and amazing place. san jose, and amazing city the capital of silicon valley. oakland, right across the bay with the new mayor just starting out her term [inaudible] in san jose. these are exciting times in the bay area. mayor lee, of course running for reelection who will announce here today. i believe may even help why then help that he needs to get more credibility to the story of what is happening in the city and the transformation that's taken place. so, i want to thank everybody for coming for joining us in making this announcement. my next job is to introduce [inaudible

she has never forgotten her roots, which were established right here in our own city. this is a personal nomination for me to be able to present this woman to you. i hope, colleagues, you will join me in supporting supervisor breed as our president. thank you. >>supervisor avalos. >>thank you president tang. i stand to support my colleague and friend david campos for board president. david campos today in this past half hour has started his seventh year in the board of supervisors and has shown remarkable grace. i admire his work across the political spectrum here in san francisco on the board of supervisors, but also he serves

she has never forgotten her roots, which were established right here in our own city. this is a personal nomination for me to be able to present this woman to you. i hope, colleagues, you will join me in supporting supervisor breed as our president. thank you. >>supervisor avalos. >>thank you president tang. i stand to support my colleague and friend david campos for board president. david campos today in this past half hour has started his seventh year in the board of supervisors and has shown remarkable grace. i admire his work across the political spectrum here in san francisco on the board of supervisors, but also he serves in regional government and has been a great advocate for san francisco and that process. last year we know that he was part of a race that was very contested for the assembly and he's shown that he has significant base of support around san francisco people who really believe in his work, in his effort his legislative effort has been something that's been very admirable, especially last year as well. we saw great pieces of legislation that came o

lead a partner with our san francisco unified school district to address family homelessness in our city this is innovative this is the first time that a partnership has begun to help a service provider in our school district it is a need and i look forward to the ideas and the things they do that might spark even more interest in our kids that are homeless that are attending school that are challenging situations is larkin street services will use 5 hundred thousand to fund a multiple purpose center to help with the advanced legislature of 11 of of programming for life skill sets for the youth and finally, there's as i said earlier crowd is ours for low income folks they'll use one half million dollars for google to support in their kickoff in a gift matching campaign that doubled the use and this is innovation this is all about thanks and about a city that continues to lead the city in one hundred percent and while i get the privilege of announcing those groonsz grants i want to thank you for the opportunity to thank everyone who is paying attention in the small businesses to larger bu

interrupting it's intergenerational transfer my fellow san franciscans there's no more imperfect for our city to invest in today's prosperity to break the poverties for san franciscans this is what calls me to public service as mayor and in this time of plenty this must also call our partners in the private sector to do it government can't do it alone in the past 2 years we've seen great examples of busy leaders step forward and give back to the city in time and health care and money and education and housing and homelessness people like mark and benny hoff and from tipping point the fischer family and charles schwab and the green folks mayor ed lee mayor ed lee and so many others and great companies like google and wells fargo and the gap and bernard and kaiser permanente and so many more those people and companies demonstrate the meaning of shared prosperity they understand their responsibility to make san francisco remain the city where everyone belongs so to them i say thank you i set the example (clapping) you set the example for others to folly know they will i think this is only just t

. >> on our city's as a city how we want to continue to make improvements in our supportive housing system. one of the reports was recently [inaudible] that i requested earlier in the year that was released earlier today. that examined the cost identify and compare procedures for client intake, assessment and outcomes. both of these reports are some of the first comprehensive analyses prioritized here in san francisco. while both reports affirmed that supportive housing as cost effective and necessary, they provide la number of recommendations that the stitz i believe should explore and implement in order to reduce ourover all homeless population and help the formerly homeless become receive sufficient. the city services audit report and their tenants focuses on inclined characteristics, services provided, service gaps, public benefits, helts care youthization, and the length of stay in client exits. four key areas i look forward to exflowering, includesing service provision, administration, and program goals. the bla report i requested affirms the effectiveness of support i [inaudible] co

i get to work with quite a few great talented in our city and some of them are in the audience. that help me continue making the city a success. i want to say too that this is up in the case. i've been around long enough to know that. you know, my favorite line in this discussion, ross, that our job growth is really an unrivaled accomplishment quote unquote. we forget sometimes just not very long ago how hard it was to match imagine this. how unprecedented this recovery is, given that when you look at the other cities that we are compared to, you know that we are very limited geographically. so we have to be pretty inventive as to how we do this. we have worked hard. there are some basic things that i'll share with you as part of the panel today as to how we may have gotten there but we were not seeking to be the best city. i think were just seeking to make sure we got out of this recession. well and that we are always going to be talking with our business partners because when am i main questions with the business community is, calmly look around the corner. help us as a city, a

it's all about the history of all of our cities and this wonderful one that we did this world fair backgo to kickoff the entire country if not the entire world as panama canal was celebrated and this city recovered from the 1906 earthquake and there is a lot to understand and when you do, then i think we appreciate this city even more. this is unique, this centennial it will be the focus of our city for the entire year. i want to say happy holidays! keep writing about this. xeep exhibiting and keep talking about this because it will be worth our every celebration. i want to thank the recreation and parks director for being here and disobeying the law. this is part of the rules. i hope you feel my enthusiasm because this is historically significant to so many people. i will talk about as well the things that happened 100 years ago significant to my own cultural heritage what happened then and how we are more inclusive, more diverse and more accepting of the people across the world this our city. this is what recognizing history does and advancing this generation is all about. thank you f

ability to turn to the congress members who represent our citiesy to turn to the congress members who represent our entire metropolitan area, who represent our states as a whole, the senators from our states, and say with one voice, that things like the transportation bill should transcend politics. they're about our economic stability and our economic future. i believe working to the with our business communities, working to the with our labor communities, with civic organizations, we can create a critical mass. and again i think at this moment, the people are more receptive than ever to the kind of investments that will move the country forward. we, as mayors, have the ability, i think, to spark a different discussion locally, and that we all know there will be some members of the house and senate who may be a bit hesitant or may have ideological reasons for standing apart. i think when they feel the full weight of our ability to crystallize support in our metropolitan areas and point out that our metropolitan areas can't possibly thrive and comp

how we honor our kid is how we believe our city can and should be our young people are that an investment a blast for us to insure growth and opportunity to building in and have hope with each generation theres more and better for them than what we had for ourselves it's the larger picture for our goals i condominium my work and value my role as the bridge to make sure that unified school district gets all the support and resources from our great city our former mayor and lieutenant governor newsom has been a champion and we're setting a partnership u partnership that will become the rule we know and understand that school districts can't do this alone our growth and success and challenges are better met together over the last few years i've expend my professional growth and success and challenges whether letting go of my oldest child to go to college in spain to propositions and policies that will guide our work over many years in the future and now to the loss of dear friends and colleagues and to the near gaekt e death of my own sister growth and which he imagines and successes are her

our major city departments like our fire chief and public directing director we must do better in areas like information technology public safety and skilled crafts great jobs with great salaries but which are not followed as women's careers well this year my administration will identify and eliminate boyer's for women in city jobs with good salaries a public sector must lead the way (clapping) and today, i call upon our city's private companies to do the same especially our technology sector where gender parity and diversity are lacking prouvend san francisco pleads the nation on family friendly policies with guaranteed paid leave and health insurance and retirement benefits to working parents in 2014 i signed president chiu legislation to request family friendly work arrangements women shouldn't have to choose between a great career and family (clapping) and when they go home no woman should live in fear of violence as a mayor i've been standing against domestic violence and human tragically wherever it occurs no more not a mass (clapping) our district attorney george gascon has done

both ways especially, when you've got families members that are looking at the wonderful sites in our city we've golden got to be careful with our growing population if the city we've got to do more we're absolutely going to do more we're building the basis with our mta and hopefully tomorrow our public will bless us with a strong vote of prop a that will allow us to do that much more (clapping.) $500 million the bulk of which goes to vision zero and pedestrian safety projects just like this one we need more things to slow down traffic we need better signage and education we need enforcement i wanted to thank our police department that's here a good number they're walking the beats and louth for the siefrt issues 4r0ug9 for people that may not be uss the street properly we have to use our streets smarter n this is why it's important to place that vision zero and there are month activities in our streets we're encouraging walking in the streets when i get through with this job i'm going to walk more and i want to feel safer and join with all the people that want to join me in walking the st

it's a great honor for our city. police commissioner ramsey and professor robinson on our cochairs come all the members of the test horse and my fellow panelists, president johnson and vice president stephanie rawlings blake. as i mentioned, it is an honor to testify before this task force on such an important issue of utmost concern is significance in america today. i also want to thank ron davis a great leader at the cops office and staff, you are great team members and partners with mayors all of us the united states. i want to thank you for your support as well. our focus here today is strengthening public trust in building strong relationships between and among law enforcement and the communities they protect and serve while also promoting prime -- crime reduction. i have been the mayor of philadelphia or a little more than seven years. in that time, arid ministration has accomplish a number of rings on behalf of and working with our citizens. i am proud of every step we have taken to improve the algae of life in

our city attorney who was up late last night who was up making final revisions. . and speaking of revisions, i'm introducing this legislation sooner than i otherwise have because we don't have anymore board meetings this year. i want you all to know that i will continue to gladly accept your feedback and make any needed changes. with new year's eve coming in a couple weeks, we should remember that the venues where we gravitate are there because people care about them. san francisco has been my home my whole life and one of the things i'm most proud of is my hometown's ability to celebrate its night life, art, culture, music and the things we truly enjoy. ours is a small city, but it casts a huge shadow thanks in a great number of ways to the music, art and culture that can only be found here in the city by the bay. thank you. the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor breed. president tang. >> thank you. now that we are just one minute away from 3:00 pm i think we will stop this here and proceed to our first 3:00 pm special order. >> item 34 through 37 for a public

nonetheless and we still put in the work we needed to do and i want to thank everyone to the left to all our city family. i could probably spend time counting them out right now but this job is not possible without the strong relationships without our department heads so everybody inside of city hall that we work together with, thank you for your friendship and working relationships. it means the world.

becomes a reality of our cities. today i want to expand on that vision of cities 3.0 because it's not just about what we do within our cities but a 3.0 city is how we interact with the federal government and that must be done in a different way, in my opinion. i begin with the simple truth. as a nation, we face major challenge and washington has simply not stepped up to solving those challenges powerful forces are transforming the way we interact in terms of our jobs, of our neighborhoods and our cities. consider the following. globalization pits american workers against the world. new industries are replacing old manufacturing while new technologies threaten to automate their jobs income inequality is eroding the middle-class, making it harder for hard-working taxpayers to support a family to own a home and good a good education major demographic changes are bringing different cultures in the closer contact while baby boomers are entering the retirement age which is straining pension and health care budgets. climate

place where families thrive and we can share the prosperity of our great city. let's take a moment to acknowledge what we've accomplished in 2014 by working together. thanks to the voters for making san francisco by making it more affordable to our families with an increased minimum wage. we're continuing record investments in our public schools and thanks to sound economic and fiscal constraint, economic policies. i've asked for no cuts in my annual budget for the first time in years. that does not mean it's time to sit back and i've charged my departments to do more for our residents and to prepare for a growing city. i'd like to send out a reminder that during the holidays and all year round our social service providers need your support and during this time of the year they are distributing food and toys and lending a hand to those who need it the most.let's goo to the questions. . thank you. for your first question we have supervisor mar. >> thank you madam president and mayor lee for being here with us and happy holidays as well. a recent story written by t

becomes a reality of our cities. day i want to expand on that vision of cities 3.0. because it's not just about what we do within our cities but a 3.0 city is how we interact with the federal government and that must be done in a different way in my opinion. i began with the simple truth. as a nation we face major challenges. and washington has simply not stepped up to solving those challenges. powerful forces are transforming the way we interact in terms of our jobs, of our neighborhoods and our cities. consider the following. globalization pits american workers against the world. new industries are replacing old manufacturing, while new technologies threaten to automate their jobs. income inequality is eroding the middle class making it harder for hard-working taxpayers to support a family, own a home, and get a good education. major demographic changes are bringing in very different cultures into closer contact. while baby boomers are entering into retirement age, which is straining pension and health care budgets,

of our cities. the gridlock in congress does not reflect how we operate in our cities. across this nation, under the leadership of mayors in this room, we get things done. and we understand that while our cities are on the rise, we still have major challenges to overcome. while we have growth and wealth, we also see staggering inequality. affordable housing is out of reach for too many, and too many lack the skills necessary to get good paying jobs. my goal, our goal is to take those challenges head on. like many of you, i believe in making bold and pragmatic plans and executing on them every single day. during this conference, i look forward to exchanging best practices, sharing ideas, and leveraging our resourcefulness as an organization. we will continue to get things done for our city, and i pledge the support of the district of columbia to this organization to get things done for all of us. so i want to thank you, again, for being in washington. i hope while you're here that you will enjoy the r

of our cities. the gridlock in congress does not reflect how we operate in our cities. across this nation under the leadership of mayors in this room, we get things done. and we understand that while our cities are on the rise, we still have major challenges to overcome. while we have growth and wealth, we also see staggering inequality. affordable housing is out of reach for too many and too many lack the skills necessary to get good paying jobs. my goal our goal is to take those challenges head on. like many of you i believe in making bold and pragmatic plans and executing on them every single day. during this conference i look forward to exchanging best practices, sharing ideas, and leveraging our resourcefulness as an organization. we will continue to get things done for our city and i pledge the support of the district of columbia to this organization to get things done for all of us. so i want to thank you, again for being in washington. i hope while you're here that you will enjoy the restaura

thank you to mayor lee, to our clerk, angela lo and her staff, and to the city attorney. too many of the staff in this building and to the people who continue to work with us every single day. i know kate howard is not here our budget chair. i want to acknowledge her. then rose in those and harvey rose and others who help us work together to put our budgets together to deal with the city. nicole weigand from the mayor's office. i see josé cisneros art treasure. i'd knowledge all these people because when it's time to deal with our budget, i want to make sure that the money goes to the right places and these are the people who make it happen in our city. thank you. thank you to my staff. thank you to o'connor johnston per carry in my purse on occasion and continuing to be a great staff member. one circa, who is always readily available to do whatever it takes to make sure that our folks are office is being run well into valley brown takes amazing care of district 5. thank you very much for being an amazing support to me. and i want to thank the residents of district 5. the

trailing legislation for the charter amendment prop c passed in november with over 70% support from our city voters so we're excited about it. the ordinance speaks to the service providers working group which is also a way to codify how we bring the expertise and experience of our service providers in the city to the department so we're excited about this ordinance. it's the work of many, many people. i want to thank lots of people. i want to thank the mayor's office and maria sue, the director of the commission and others that gave us advice, our city, children committee and finally the childrens' fund community coalition that worked for two years with hundreds of community members, parents, children, service providers to develop recommendations for the board of supervisors. and finally i actually want to thank my supervisor jenn in supervisor yee office. i think that's -- and also tom owen the city attorney who has helped a lot of this language. >> okay. i want to thank beth ruben stein for working on this. i know you worked real hard and my own staff on this piece of legislation. as bev m