that is the future of sfcity. in the meantime, i appointed a chief innovation officer for the city of san francisco, that is my connector to sfcity and code for america, a nonprofit of technology companies that does what they call kharkov bonds, -- call hack-a-thons, which they used to help the government look at the way they deliver services, and do business, and use the innovation of the technology world to overlay process with new ideas about how to deliver services more efficiently. with that relationship and through our chief innovation officer, we have got, i think, the beginnings of a brand new relationship that i think will bring us closer to the business needs of that new industry, but at the same time allow us to change the way we do business so we can be more responsive to that. the first year i did this breakfast, it was willie brown in your seat, jerry brown in your seat, and we had questions about the difficulty of buildings for the stadium in order to retain teams. it feels like groundhog day. how m

#sfciti. with that, i want to introduce our great mayor, mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you for that very detailed explanation. first of all, i want to thank the board of supervisors. they are my partners here. president david chiu, you and i, jane kim, have spoken, mark farrell, christine olague, have spoken in depth about what our future holds for us. i want you to know that i am sharing this excitement with them. we have a constituent that is in great need. i am going to take a page from what willie brown has always represented to me. he said as good advice, if you feel passionate about something, don't did there. move on it fast. i cannot think of an initiative -- it has not even been one week since i took the oath of this elected office, and here we are on the first friday, moving this and what the technology really like, an accelerated pace. we cannot wait for bad news to happen to us. as i have said, every time i turn around, the state and the fed's are going to say what we are going to cut. we are not waiting. we are going to create our own cu