san francisco. i think that san franciscans didn't just wake up, but we are starting to put pen to paper right now, implementing many of the visions and ideas about renewing and reimagining our city. the chamber of commerce is deeply investing in reimagining our downtown core to be more vibrant, resilient, diverse, and sustainable. through the partnership of mayor london breed and our business association business association peers, we've helped push policy forward to make wins and make key investments in public safety, cleanliness, tax relief for restaurants, retail, hospitality, the arts and changing some of the city code that allows changes in the widest possible range. permitted uses. in the downtown. these milestones will help the foundation to attract innovative businesses to san francisco, and we are positioning all of us san francisco to become a yes city. yes to economic prosperity. yes to renewing our city and yes to our environment. so everybody has a future here in san francisco. last ju

the san francisco ferry building. [applause] in the 19th century, commuters and visitors traveled by train or ferry or both. a ferry terminal on the waterfront downtown was a practical necessity. it was the sfo of its day. grand central station. but as we so often do, san francisco built a practical space a world class beauty, with a 245 foot clock tower along arched arcade, and a interior worthy of a renaissance cathedral. at the foot of market street, a beautiful bridge from water to land, the ferry building announced to every commuter, every traveller, this is san francisco. you have arrived. until that is, [applause] until that is, in the late 1930's when two new bridges the bay and golden gate and rise of the automobile made the ferry building seem outdated and unwanted. soon the grand interior converted to drab cuneals cubicles and in a act of urban planning catastrophes only the 1950 could respond, a double-decker slicing it from the city it served. for decades, this great landmark was isolated. nearly forgotte

san francisco. i think that san franciscans didn't just wake up, but we are starting to put pen to paper right now, implementing many of the visions and ideas about renewing and reimagining our city. the chamber of commerce is deeply investing in reimagining our downtown core to be more vibrant, resilient, diverse, and sustainable. through the partnership of mayor london breed and our business association business association peers, we've helped push policy forward to make wins and make key investments in public safety, cleanliness, tax relief for restaurants, retail, hospitality, the arts and changing some of the city code that allows changes in the widest possible range. permitted uses. in the downtown. these milestones will help the foundation to attract innovative businesses to san francisco, and we are positioning all of us san francisco to become a yes city. yes to economic prosperity. yes to renewing our city and yes to our environment. so everybody has a future here in san francisco. last ju

the san francisco ferry building. [applause] in the 19th century, commuters and visitors traveled by train or ferry or both. a ferry terminal on the waterfront downtown was a practical necessity. it was the sfo of its day. grand central station. but as we so often do, san francisco built a practical space a world class beauty, with a 245 foot clock tower along arched arcade, and a interior worthy of a renaissance cathedral. at the foot of market street, a beautiful bridge from water to land, the ferry building announced to every commuter, every traveller, this is san francisco. you have arrived. until that is, [applause] until that is, in the late 1930's when two new bridges the bay and golden gate and rise of the automobile made the ferry building seem outdated and unwanted. soon the grand interior converted to drab cuneals cubicles and in a act of urban planning catastrophes only the 1950 could respond, a double-decker slicing it from the city it served. for decades, this great landmark was isolated. nearly forgotte

san francisco is. and their ride was shoulder to shoulder if guests and keeping the cable cars looking great is the responsibility of san francisco mpu commission transportation agency sorry i should know by few and it is um, overseen not only muni the transit agency by the bikes and parking and taxis all sorts of other stuff by the next speaker cities director of transportation jeff tumble listen. >> thank you, rick and thank you for all you do to support us at muni and thank you to the fairmont hotel for hosting this wonderful event and to it member of the board for your strong leadership in those challenging times you cable cars 5 three has been 2r0678d with the contribute of tony bennett for all the garage barns it took this moment and transformed this art into a. >> contributed i'd like to personally thank our a entire cable car crew but the staff who hard work has made that a royalty and meriting and and click on watch sfgov 2. members of the public please take this opportunity along with everyon

this is san francisco. you have arrived. until, that is, in the late 1930s when two new ridges, the bay and the golden gate in the rights of the automobile made the ferry seem outdated. soon the grant interior was converted to draft cubicles and then in an act of irving complaining catastrophe that only the 1950s could spawn, a double-decker freeway rose in the building's front yard slicing it from the city observed. for decades, this great landmark was isolated, nearly forgotten, a crumbling shell of its former glory. no one went there, no one but on its future. if time had passed, but then the freeway came down in a city created a new walkable grant with the giants on one end and a resort ferry building at the center with patients, smart planning, investment in time. san francisco turned a discarded transit hub back into a global icon, a famous city's most famous landmark, as hurricane called it. today the ferry building post farmers markets and fairies and thousands of tourists and locals and just a few months ago it host

and cultural identity of san francisco. when it started out the focus was really on the buildings, historic landmark listings and really concentrated on downtown area with all the development happening. our organization was raising a reg red flag with historic landmarks in danger and victorian mansions so a hallmark of our organization is moving these victorian mansions in the way of development to inwestern addition neighborhood and other areas to get out of the way of development and preserve them. our organization was around before there was the historic preservation commission of the city so we were at the forefront drawings attention to historic preservation, landmarking and over the last 51 years we have seen how there are more then just buildsings in safeguarding the city cultural resources, there is also small businesses and the different neighborhood icons that make a neighborhood special, so our outreach has really-it is really come full circle in a way because it moved downtown into the neighborhoods and now with

of san francisco. so it's -- our job is to educate people and be able to familiarize themselves on doing this census. >> you go on-line and do the census. it's available in 13 languages, and you don't need anything. it's based on household. you put in your address and answer nine simple questions. how many people are in your household, do you rent, and your information. your name, your age, your race, your gender. >> everybody is $2,000 in funding for our child care, housing, food stamps, and medical care. >> all of the residents in the city and county of san francisco need to be counted in census 2020. if you're not counted, then your community is underrepresented a will be underserved. shop and dine on the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within neighborhood. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant. where will you shop and dine in the 49? san francisco owes the c

welcome to san francisco. we also have the consul general of japan as well as other places and can they please stand up. [applause] >> thank you to those who are joining us here today and welcome to the new council generals. we look forward to welcome and you celebrating at the lunar new year parade this saturday as well, and we have some special guests visiting us from the district of west vancouver including the mayor, mayor mark saiger who is joining us today. welcome mayor. as well as your delegation from the meto vancouver transportation agency. can you all please stand. [applause] >> i want to acknowledge some of the elected leaders who are joining us here today starting with supervisor rafael mandelman, matt dorsey and joel engardio. [applause] >> . our assessor recorder jaking torres. our school board members please stand. our treasurer jose cisneros. [applause] >> and jenny lam are you still president or -- okay. lanie is the president of the school board. all right. i am getting all my name exercise

san francisco is. and their ride was shoulder to shoulder if guests and keeping the cable cars looking great is the responsibility of san francisco mpu commission transportation agency sorry i should know by few and it is um, overseen not only muni the transit agency by the bikes and parking and taxis all sorts of other stuff by the next speaker cities director of transportation jeff tumble listen. >> thank you, rick and thank you for all you do to support us at muni and thank you to the fairmont hotel for hosting this wonderful event and to it member of the board for your strong leadership in those challenging times you cable cars 5 three has been 2r0678d with the contribute of tony bennett for all the garage barns it took this moment and transformed this art into a. >> contributed i'd like to personally thank our a entire cable car crew but the staff who hard work has made that a royalty and meriting and and click on watch sfgov 2. members of the public please take this opportunity along with everyon

i went to san francisco state university. i did stay home and i helped my parents work throughout the summers to learn what it is that makes our community so special. after graduating i worked for an investment bank in hong kong for a few years before returning when my dad said he was retiring. he passed away a few years ago. after taking over the business we made this a little more accessible for visitors as well as residents of san francisco to visit. many of our teas were traditionally labeled only in chinese for the older generation. today of our tea drinkkers are quite young. it is easy to look on the website to view all of our products and fun to come in and look at the different varieties. they are able to explore what we source, premium teas from the providence and the delicious flavors. san francisco is a beautiful city to me as well as many of the residents and businesses here in chinatown. it is great for tourists to visit apsee how our community thrived through the years. this retail location is open daily. we hav

san francisco has a special place in history, in december of 1992, san francisco watched the city where the historic unveiling of the first-ever lunar new year took place in this entire country. and since 11992, we have many national first days and national ceremonies. but whether we get the first day or not, we always have an unveiling as part of our lunar new year celebration. it's very excited. last week i was very comfort to join seattle to join the postal state for the unveiling of the lunar new stamp. it was attended by 300 people by eduardo who is the president of the retail of the postal service. vod me and the public that lunar new year is the most successful program in the commemorative stamps. we are very happy to keep up with the tra kissing. --tradition. today we're gathered today, although the stamp is already out there, but it's our tradition in our city to unveil the stamp for every one in the san francisco bay area. so without further ado, i would like to introduce our mayor, maryland on --our mayor, london breed who has unveiled a lot of stapp p. >> mayor breed: hello

good morning everybody, and welcome to the san francisco chamber of commerce. city beat breakfast on this valentine's day. i'm looking out at this crowd and actually, you know, it warms my heart to see everybody here on valentine's day. and i know this sounds a little bit strange, but i have to start off by how proud i am of all san franciscans. yeah we all deserve a hand. these past three years, i've stood up here at this breakfast before you and shared some pretty daunting numbers. but i want to be clear that there's still remains some serious work to do. however, the results of our annual poll bring me more hope and renewed sense of pride for our city and our residents. we saw two tres

celebrating their 40 anniversary boosting relationships between cork ireland and san francisco and san the sister city concept was championed by former president eisenhower in 1956 to foster citizen diplomacy between the united states and foreign countries in the hope of brokering alliance of peace, commerce and cultural exchange. i have grown to appreciate how critical another aspect of sister city engagement is and has become and that is mutual aid. at a time when the world is much more uncertain place natural disaster jz those of our own making rage across the globe, there is something very special and comfortable about building relationships that can come in handsy when times are tough as we have seen after the 1989 earthquake. the idea expanded to include feeling less alone in the world and knowing that across many miles there are people you never met who will come to your aid when you are in a tough spot and who are rooting for your success and vice versa. the sister city relationship between san francisco and cork was formally established in 1985 by then mayor diane feinstein wh

to san francisco's sfgovtv. congratulations sfgovtv on many, many years of serving the city and for bringing information to everyone that lives here. >> happy 30th anniversary sfgovtv i'm supervisor for district 7 thank you to the staff for 0 supporting the process to government to transparency and to making sure we celebrate >> we are right now in outer richmond in the last business area of this city. this area of merchants is in the most western part of san francisco, continue blocks down the street they're going to fall into the pacific ocean. two blocks over you're going to have golden gate park. there is japanese, chinese, hamburgers, italian, you don't have to cook. you can just walk up and down the street and you can get your cheese. i love it. but the a very multicultural place with people from everywhere. it's just a wonderful environment. i love the richmond district. >> and my wife and i own a cafÉ we have specialty coffee drinks, your typical lattes and mochas and cappuccinos, and for lunches, sandwi

san francisco. so the first, the first item number 4 will allow department of emergency management to enter into a long term contract with a new cad solution provider and that is motorola solutions. this company was selected through a procurement process. and the initial contract for the system purchase was entered into in december of 2023. and this proposed resolution would approve the first amendment to that contract for the primary reason of extending into a long term maintenance agreement with the vendor. and so this proposal will extend the term by 11 years to november 30th of 2038 and it will increase the not to exceed amount from 9.6 million to 44.8 million. and ummmm also here with my colleague mike doherty, he he's the cad program manager and also available to answer any details questions that you would have on the contract and lenl sleighsing. that's the first, the second item number 5 is to extend dem's current maintenance agreement with the cad vendor and that is central square previousl

and cultural identity of san francisco. when it started out the focus was really on the buildings, historic landmark listings and really concentrated on downtown area with all the development happening. our organization was raising a reg red flag with historic landmarks in danger and victorian mansions so a hallmark of our organization is moving these victorian mansions in the way of development to inwestern addition neighborhood and other areas to get out of the way of development and preserve them. our organization was around before there was the historic preservation commission of the city so we were at the forefront drawings attention to historic preservation, landmarking and over the last 51 years we have seen how there are more then just buildsings in safeguarding the city cultural resources, there is also small businesses and the different neighborhood icons that make a neighborhood special, so our outreach has really-it is really come full circle in a way because it moved downtown into the neighborhoods and now with

a lot of housing advocates to speak out again poison pills that president peskin my name is jay the san francisco oregon director for mba action and from the action coalition owe a lot of housing advocates as well as some of our elected leaders joining us to push back against this i want to briefly just mention this is not unfortunately, the first thing by the had to get to the with president peskin this is not his first anti housing action a long list recently, i time to highlight some of the recent actions he's taken for i get it off to a housing champion with us we've been dealing with a number of changes related to our housing element and he's pushed back almost every turn. we've had legislation up here such as a recent fire code amendment by supervisor chan and if a champion that will make that hard to build homes in january and the city attorney to look at whether or not we are unfairly targeted in san francisco and making the same statement that senator wiener said recent actions and we'll list get back to those with we have champions on the board of supervisors looking at for us

we know him for san francisco's history.establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. was not california yet and was not fully san francisco yet. >> because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico, there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. he was part of the peek deliberations and am bas doorship to create the state of california a vice council to mexico. mexico granted him citizenship. he loaned the government of san francisco money. to funds some of the war efforts to establish the city itself and the state, of course. he established the first hotel here the person people turned to often to receive dignitaries or hold large gatherings established the first public school here and helped start the public school system. he piloted the first steam ship on the bay. a big event for san francisco and depict instead state seal the ship was the sitk a. th

san francisco is a uniontown. in the spirit of that, really providing a pathway for more workers in order to participate in state sponsored apprenticeship programs. >> thank you. that's a good lead into my next question which is that proposition e requires prevailing wage for construction workers on affordable housing. some training or qualifications for some workers, can you clarify how proposition e will help protect workers and how those requirements will be enforced? >> proposition e would provide an opportunity to grow our union workforce. it would provide a pathway for more workers to participate in state sponsored apprenticeship programs and skilled workers and the prevailing wage previsions will encourage high-quality wages and this prevision is endorsed by the san francisco building trades council as well as the san francisco labor council that are also equally committed to supporting high level worker protections and in san francisco, we have an affordable housing delivery system that has a high leave of

of san francisco and it leadership. when you look at the transformation of our waterfront in san francisco, i think sometimes we get used to things and take it for granted but you can look at photos not that long ago and this is just been a rebirth and it is very very exciting so thank you to elaine and the entire port team for your amazing work. so, we know that sea level rise is not some future theoretical problem, it is here, it could have been here today. we lucked out with the tides, but it is here and it is only going to get worse, given the larger failures and reliance on fossil fuels and the continuing heating of our planet. we cannot allow a situation where the embarcadero is flooding and muni and bart tunnels are flooded regularly. parts of downtown are being flooded regularly. this isn't just about having some waves coming up periodically at the embarcadero this is discussion of the city transit and downtown. we cannot let that happen and that is what this is about. we know that the environmental movement was

i went to san francisco state university. i did stay home and i helped my parents work throughout the summers to learn what it is that makes our community so special. after graduating i worked for an investment bank in hong kong for a few years before returning when my dad said he was retiring. he passed away a few years ago. after taking over the business we made this a little more accessible for visitors as well as residents of san francisco to visit. many of our teas were traditionally labeled only in chinese for the older generation. today of our tea drinkkers are quite young. it is easy to look on the website to view all of our products and fun to come in and look at the different varieties. they are able to explore what we source, premium teas from the providence and the delicious flavors. san francisco is a beautiful city to me as well as many of the residents and businesses here in chinatown. it is great for tourists to visit apsee how our community thrived through the years. this retail location is open daily. we hav

welcome to san francisco city hall nowruz 140 three as we gather here today at the magnificent city hall i'm filed with joy to celebrate the the arrival of spring and the beautiful tradition of nowruz since ancient persian festival is a new gip and hope and the spirit of reneutral that is and embrace opportunity that lies address nowruz transcends the culture and has the virtue of peace, unit and harmony. >> and in a city as different as ours here in san francisco especially important to honor celebrate our rich tapestry of culture and fade serves as a reminder of the strength that come down prosecute our diversity and the resilience of our community. i'm honored to stand alongside san francisco's leadership as the rerequire firm preserving our culture heritage and more than ever in a world faced with challenges and uncertainty, it is crucial to foster a sense of blinking a solidarity within our community the city of san francisco is an advocate for diversity recognizing importance of and bracing al

not just for the api community of san francisco but for san francisco as a destination for people who come here in the month of may to participate in kamth a film festival celebrating api stories through affirm the san francisco asian art museum we hope a number of events and activities a commemorative stamp on here in san francisco we judge did the year of the dragon not to long ago the post master general asked for a donations to unveil the stamp because of significance not just a seniors during the month of may how they slaeshtd apa heritage month in san francisco to tell the story. to recognize the community and to celebrate the history and the culture of the asian community of san francisco in the bay. but again taking this opportunity to use her voice as a way to bridge a gap during again, the height of the italy asian hate in san francisco in 2022 and making a very intentional choice to use apa to bring the black and asian community together for culture through the celebration the events through activities and through the ability to recognize that we are stronger when we are to