the center of the city's become on the growth and also the city's image this team will put more than five tonnes in the gadgets truck today anything they deem to be unsanitary. most of it will be rubbish but some of it will be people's tents and the few positions go by pleading that nobody. has thought of them for something. like. this if you don't just that. you're in a waste. that the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the message and today there are some unlucky ones. like you're asking to. they like it because repeating i mean if you want to person living on the street you want to live if we sidewalk decide to see the value of us. but the city's focus on keeping the streets clean things further instability when you're living on them. it's also one of the main reasons elvis is tiny houses a band playing to hampering operations like this. you know waits in the suburban and down on the street. so we can we if you're good side it's my sea conditions to live it so we basically the city has been a determination that those should not be on the city streets. th

of the city and its pride. hat is the one thing you would like to see carried on. i think it's that ambition. we have done the unexpected, really interesting cultural experiences. i think this city has a great ambition to be different and if hull can continue to be a city of the extraordinary that will be one of the many legacies from this year. thank you so much martin, that is it false, reveal 2017. —— that is it for us and our review of 2017. this year has been incredible, can you believe there has been at least one event every single day. and we have been to most of them. to take a look back, good our website. there's been so much going on, here are some bits we haven't managed to squeeze in. bye— bye. see you. if you haven't heard of buzzfeed whether hell have you been? —— —— where the hell have you been? if you like your coffee hot let me be your coffee pot! i am a loose cannon. a lot of cloud around today. count yourself lucky if you are seeing sunshine. there are sunny spells in north—east england. look

shutting the city's gate on the king. shutting the city's gates on the king.l make the first advance? i'm really looking forward to the people of hull seeing this play. there's so much great stuff in it. some of the jokes, they're so deeply entrenched in the culture here, they're going to love it. upon your conscience! the show had the theatre's biggest cast, its biggest set and spectacular special effects, and it won a new audience, a third of them had never been to this theatre before. february brought another world premiere. 6,000 pipes, written by britain's most popular living composer, sir karljenkins. # there's a starman waiting in the sky... weeks later, the orchestra made way for one of david bowie's old bandmates, the spider from mars, woody woodmansey. the last surviving member of the band from hull performed the rise and fall of ziggy stardust album live and in full for the first time ever. it's somewhere that bowie wanted to play himself. he knew we were from here. so to come back now, to hull the city of culture is amazing. made in hull also celeb

the city always kicks us out from the state. to create those. who want to costly their stuff every day. ravens out here. because she feels emergency shelters are either overbooked or unsafe but city law was designed to move these camps on. and as a phone queue she receives a visit. our. boy said we got to. get a move on by saturday. raven has given orders. she's running out of places to go they want everybody downtown they were already one section. it's not going to happen we're trying to get our brats out. the door to get away from downtown they want everybody downtown but six downtown skid row. the worst place in history to be homeless downtown. if you're homeless in l.a. city laws to keep streets clear give you two choices. keep moving. on the ones grow. this is the only place that you can sit up a tent without the city forcing the belief. that elvis is tiny homes aren't allowed here. skid row is. unlike anything else in the united states. i call it the worst manmade disaster in the us hi. how are you. doing ok. and details runs a big the agen

the 50 this is the city's goal. how we move around has the potential to generate greenhouse gas emissions. as i mentioned earlier we have achieved this 2017 goal which is really great. this contains an updated goal for 2030. 80% of all trips by environnen tally sustainable travel modes. 30 is our transportation sector calling for increasing the amount of renewable energy that fuels the city. lastly, the roots, this is carbon sequestration and integrating green infrastructure to do a better job of capturing carbon and building a more resilient san francisco. this slide captures just the transportation sector. this is 2015 numbers. two important take aways from this slide. first is the data in red. this is data that reflects emissions from cars and trucks, about 91% of the sector. you can see municipal any accounts for 2% of the transportation sectors emissions. bart is 5, caltrain 7 and ferries about 1. if you think about the hundreds of thousands of people that use those transit systems every day to move across san f

take a listen. >> in accordance with the city charter aassume the role as mayor of the city and county of san francisco effective immediately. >> reporter: and london breed is taking on that role. she was someone very close with the mayor. this is an emotional morning for here. we will have another news conference at 10:00 right here at city hall. live in san francisco, sandra osborne, kpix 5 news. >> sandra, thank you. back in 2011 ed lee took over as acting mayor before winning two elections. >> for more on his run, here is anne makovec. >> he was sort after a reluctant politician, sort of thrown into it after being behind the scenes in san francisco, spending 30 years at city hall, built a lot of bridges and made a lot of things happen, but he wasn't your typical glad handing politician. in fact, he did a lot of his work silently and was suddenly thrust into the mayorship in january of 2011. that is when he was appointed to the position. he had been the city administrator since 2005 and before that the director of public works. he often as mayor would refer back to his time as the h

college for the use of city college. if you do pass this, we pledge that we will have an initiative to protect the people of city college and not have more million-dollar condos in san francisco. that's well we need to protect city college. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. next up, francena litrono. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> my comments are, public lands should not be privatized. it's been used by city college for 40 years. the best use is by the college and its students and future generations of students rather than housing. i have to ask, how can any one of you explain how government code can be ignored and circumvented. 54222 requires that the land be declared surplus. how is the execution of this exclusive negotiating agreement not illegal? was a written public offer given to these public institutions? finally, as far as the "robust community engagement process," it's important to know that the machinations of the balboa land grab has been anything but. they're politically motivated and controlled th

he knew the workings of the city. of course the pride of being the first met -- asian-american mayor of san francisco. he brought the experience of being an officer and knowing how the city works and making the city work for the people. he brought a beautiful attitude. there is no way that i've never heard him say an unkind word about anyone or heard anyone see an unkind word about him. he was a person of great values. he could about every person in our community. the issues of homelessness, those very tough issues, affordable housing and the rest, he worked very hard on that. and especially for our veterans. our homeless vets and for everyone else. his legacy is one of respect for the dignity and worth of everyone in our city. for lifting of the city economically. hopefully that left would spread to everyone. and addressing individual concerns in a way only he could do having been the chief administrative officer. the pride he took in his heritage. the joy he took in his family. the responsibility he took for our city

hello from hull, the 2017 city of culture. ain in september with contains strong language, a festival celebrating poetry and spoken word. what is exciting is to see the hull acts and the hull language taking its place on this global stage. here, domes and statues. spires and cranes cluster. you mentioned before about philip larkin and andrew marvell. yeah. reading both of them today, who is hull's best? 0h. do you know, i never compare — i never compare lovers, i never compare poets. i mean, i never compare music. it'sjust different. i'm glad we don't have oscars for poets — i mean, it's ridiculous enough for actors. then there was the weird and wonderful — bill bailey invented tales about strange items in his cabinet of curiosities at hull's maritime museum. do you think you are the first comedian to have curated a museum exhibition? i don't know. i'm gonna say yes. it certainly seems like new ground, doesn't it? i've decided! in the spirit of this exhibition, yes, i, bill bailey, bill of bailey, am the first comedian to curat

stuff think it's essential this is central to the city's livability the center of the city's become on the growth and also the city's image this team will put more than five tons in the gadgets truck today anything they deem to be unsanitary. most of it will be rubbish but some of it will be people's tents and the few positions filled by pleading this tactical fighting. have brought about for something. like. give us a decision on this that. you're in a waste. that the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the message and today there are so many lucky ones out of. when you're asked them to. they like it it goes repeated i mean if you want a homeless person living on the street you want to live more if we sidewalk or decide to devalue a loss leader. but the city's focus on keeping the streets clean means further instability when you're living on them. it's also one of the main reasons elvis is tiny houses a band playing to hampering operations like this. you know way it's the suburban it down on the street. so we can't leave and if you go inside it's my safe con

the city. we have everything we all here is that is this jew the tend to feel they belong to jerusalem. the city of david is a popular tourist spot in jerusalem. the united nations and the international community consider the site to be a settlement as it is built on land occupied by israel in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven. everything is still going to come through this is maybe somewhere around three thousand years ago. from somewhere near king in this he was standing in the foundation for he didn't sound good and he does david said you know it's palace. at the moment we have. zero. here he was. looking right. follicle. posting first for him. right. when we stand here i'm missing just one thing and see the temple. because knowing and believing that he threw abbeville the temple built i'm sure would like exactly like doing the time of the first temple the second temple. it's where bring . real peace. and peace to the city and peace between the people and peace to the whole legion. see t

it is like all the city in a big place. it's great. owd you can always tell what type of energy is out there, and it sounds like people really appreciate the music, it seems like a real freedom here. music should be somewhere where people can come together no matter what background you are from. we need music to connect and i don't think that should ever be something people are afraid to come together for. we saw stormzy earlier. are you a grime fan? i'm interested in the grime scene, and he's one of the best. i saw little mi earlier, they are trained, they are the dressing room next to mine and theirvocalwarm—ups were quite impressive. i don't think i can nail that. i'm going to stay at the french level, below that. but that was not the only festival in town. north atlantic flux celebrated hull's historic ties to scandinavia and was created by the musician john grant. hull is a place that has been on my radarfor some time, several of the artists i admire have connections to hull. i think you will see what hull has to offer and also thi

this hour paolo is also on the oven it's our city landmark. and it's the most renowned art museum in brazil because it has the largest collection of european art in latin america. so it contains work by such artists as renoir the brazilian artists candido party nadi monday and van gogh. i gotta stop here we are in a beat up where our park we probably stand as love to come here because there's not much green in the city otherwise. i think the here you can get a sense of sao paolo size it has more than twelve million inhabitants so it's the most populated city in south america. there are also museums in the park and buildings by oscar niemeyer brazil's most famous architect follows. as every palestinian know can recognize from the street lamps where we are in the lead that daddy district. this is where the largest japanese community outside japan lives there are also koreans chinese and other nationalities. i can go you can buy presents go shopping and buy food here. it's a very lively district every sunday there's a market here. i think what is

not only do these huge vessels flood the city with daytrippers, they're also threatening the lagoon city'sery foundations. stefano micheletti: the big ships' propellers have a piston effect. they churn up all the subsoil, so clay and silt from the lagoon are gradually washed into the open sea. reporter: as a result, venice, a city built on wooden piles, is slowly sinking and could eventually be completely underwater. but micheletti isn't giving up. his citizens' initiative has managed to prevent even more cruise ships from coming into venice. stefano micheletti: when a ship like that goes by, the water level in the nearby canals sinks by around 20 centimeters and then rises again right afterwards, due to the displacement. this hugely powerful force eats away at the foundations of the palaces, churches, and bridges. reporter: but not everyone in venice is happy about micheletti's initiative. the port authorities invested millions of euros in modern cruise terminals. now, due to the success of the protests, only half of them can be used. galliano di marco: for four years we've been listening

fill the spectacular christmas lights in their city here's our weekly of your video. whole town is a tangle of narrow streets due to a lack of space during the middle ages houses were built in the. back then it probably felt cry. today it seems romantic many of these small houses are rented out as holiday homes. ellis and chord charts are typical of the old they were created when new big grew rapidly in the middle ages kommersant made the city rich at that time. its location on the top of the river and close proximity to the baltic sea were very advantageous the old warehouses are still quite impressive. the most famous let mark of rubik the gates in two thousand and six it was even stamped on the two year old court so if you're moving go to the gate very you can really learn something about the history of this city. great well foster's and the. whole student gate was built in the fifteenth century to help defend the city. and if i had a weapon and the city were under siege yes i'd probably have you. know i think i'd actually use the cannon to defend the city. trying t

under the city options. he was a champion for the vision zero collective impact initiative which increases safety for pedestrians and bicycleists while reducing injuries and death. he supported the implementation of assisted out-patient treatment in san francisco giving families a chance at connection to treatment for loved ones suffering from mental illness. he put a generous amount of funds and reserve in the fiscal year 17-18 and 18-19 budget to protect the city against potential federal threats to the affordable care act and healthcare funding. he supported the san francisco department of public-health developments of an integrated electronic health record system through funding of the project and approved innovative funding mechanisms which the san francisco department of public-health could fund the initiative through safe revenue. he ushered in the rebuild of the sucker burg san francisco general hospital and spent time with patients at the general hospital and laguna honda hospital in addition to visi

the biggest legacy for the city will be? >> i worked with and have known mayor ed lee for over 20 years and what i appreciate about the mayor is his commitment to public housing mostly because when i became a member of the board of supervisors, i made it clear that was -- he asked my top three priorities and i said public housing, public housing, public housing. as someone who grew up here and spent most my life there, mayor lee, very similar situation, we bonded over that. and looking at robert pitts and looking at it going from this place that was completely falling apart to just painted walls and new fixtures and how beautiful it looks and the fact that he really was stead do you on helping to make this happen is really what i will always remember about him. his commitment to tune out the noise and focus on trying to get the job done and i really will always appreciate him for taking my praourty seriously and helping to get that work done. he was a dedicated and committed public servant and i will never forgot him for that

and in the city that is the most, in my opinion, the most creative, unique city in the world, we gotta have a toy store. we gotta have shopping and dining experiences that are one of a kind. so we're so happy to be part of this shop and dine in the 49 and, once again, since 1966, creating a fun place, a creative place for people to come and buy their toys. so, thank you. [applause] >> in closing, i think matthew hit on a good point which isn't just about shopping or dining, this is about experiencing in the 49. i obviously believe there is no better place to spend the holidays, but also year round than here in san francisco. and on that note, on the note of experience, i think with the closing of this event, i think you are going to take us on a tour of the ice cream museum here and maybe the chief and everybody here can join the mayor and maybe we go and check out the sprinkle pole just down the way -- [laughter] and see everything that the ice cream museum has to offer. thank you for joining us today. thank you to all of our partners for your support. have a wonderful and safe holida

he worked for the city for almost two decades in a variety of jobs, the last one being a city administratorings of city government. he knew how to handle a little army of workers, about 30,000 city employees. this is your guy. so that's how he became the interim mayor and said, yes, i'm not going to run and then he was convinced by people like willie brown and senior senator dianne feinstein among others, rose pack a chinatown power broker, run, ed, run. go for yourself, go for a full term, become the mayor, and he did. >> many of the causes we saw him -- that he ended up championing whether it came to housing or homelessness or people living in poverty and projects we see from his past. we are also seeing echos this morning, he grew up in seattle even though he ended up being such a bay areaen and san up in seattle, four out of six - children, the son of immigrants, his father was a veteran and he also passed away young, at just the age of 49, worked in a restaurant and died of a heart attack while driving to work. ed lee was just 15 years old at the time but certainly no stranger to what

so far, the three major city is in the bay area, san francisco, oakland, and sam jose, as well as other cities on the map have all laid out framework of how they plan to oversee the sale, cultivation, and deliveries of marijuana. the scramble to get the rules in place is not been easy. in san francisco, the sale of weed won't be ready at the start of the new year. >> reporter: san francisco cannabis clubs were hoping to ring in the new year with legal recreational marijuana sales. that won't be happening until january 6, 2018.>> we would prefer to have it by january 1, but i think january 5 or six is still on target.>> those are going to be twill -- 20 mg each cookie.>> they only had a couple months to work on, and it takes time, and i got it right.>> reporter: owners of medical campus dispensaries, like grassroots, must now apply for a state license in order to sell recreation marijuana. nicole elliott has the city's newly minted operation of cannabis. >> they gave the state a year of time to come up with what they wanted to do. it was not until the summer that we knew what the state w

i think i'd actually use the cannon to defend the city. trying to protect myself with a shield and attacked with a lance. fortunately those times are long gone behind these walls which are a metre thick in places there's now a museum the holston gate was one of the three city gates really big but i'm just going to live it was an extremely important trade hub on the baltic sea coast it was the first ports the first christian city it was the gateway to the east. one of the major trade goods was dried cod was also getting a lot on land questions again go ahead and touch it nothing can happen and talk dried fish cod and so much have any of you ever tried it you would you like to this evening why should i prepare some for you it feels like plastic. but it's real. no i don't think my teeth could take that. people of lower back were experienced safer they were constantly developing and improving their seagoing technology. for life challenge let's take a look under this cover we can see some of the navigational instruments of the time there's a com

the transfer of power at city hall. next. to the senate. but tonight... embattled republican roy >>> now at 11:00 for the first time in years alabama votes in a democrat as mayor. >>> good evening i'm elizabeth cook. >> and i'm ken bastida. we have news on the mayor's life and legacy. and the transfer of power. what happens next. we start with joe. >> reporter: all evening folks have been coming here and dropping off bouquets of flower and lighting candles. dropping them off in front of the building where mayor ed lee has worked for the better of a decade and now he's gone. there's an outpouring of love and gratitude as the loss of mayor ed lee soaks in. >> i don't know san francisco without mayor ed lee. i participated in helping him become the mayor. i can't imagine the city without ed lee. >> reporter: this afternoon police officers escorted the mayor's body draped with an american flag to a funeral home in daly city. along the rout, firefighters stood saluting on freeway overpasses. as san francisco's first asian american mayor ed lee was an inspirati

the city of san francisco is? death of mayor ed lee just after 1:00 this morning. he died at zuckerberg general hospital, surrounded by friends and family and colleagues at the hospital, and surrounded by his wife anita, his two daughters, brianna and tania. he was the 43rd mayor of san francisco. >> yes. kpix 5 news anne makovec joins us now. how will he be remembered? >> you know, he was a likable character. that is why the news overnight was so shocking and saddening to so many people and really appeared full of life up until the end. not your typical politician, mayor ed lee. very popular. 30 years at city hall. the first asian-american of san francisco. and we just saw him yesterday. he spoke about a mobile recycling program in front of a local deli and the mayor appeared healthy, smiling as we always saw him do, a very positive persona anywhere he went. lee spent much of the time working for the city behind the scenes before becoming mayor almost seven years ago, but he had be abintegral part of the city -- b

as the city grew immigrants flocked to find work. without of our spectrum cable partners for the next hour and 15 as well as for cities history and literary community. .. we say it the oldest continual retail operation west of the economy be in the whole world. but it's kind of our community center, one of the corner neighborhood grocery stores where people are extending credit in the neighborhood come and people came here for generations and it's now the same thing, people come here to gossip and compared notes and help and kids and all those things come as so it's like a small town crossroads store in ireland. in this sense than in kansas city we are along the river and so it creates this river bottomland for a lot of the irish immigrants first is because it is inexpensive and eventually they worked their way up the hill to the top of the blast sent so physically they moved to and it also came with the social ladder at the same time. both geographically and socially. in the 1850s, and just a little muddy riverfront community of stor

i want the city attorney to be notified. i'm hopeful that the local hire requirements applied selectively to private enterprise and unrelated to government contracts and involving public funds are unlawful. and so, maybe we will be that base case. but this is going to be, this is going to strangle this business, this industry, having to hire local like this, it's ridiculous. we need to get the city attorney on this one right away. it should be top priority for us. >> the request has been put in. when they do an official recommendation, it does -- it isn't like an immediate sort of email back. it has to be vetted through a process through the city attorney's office. i'm waiting to hear back from our city attorney on the estimated time line. >> we should definitely dog this. i can't believe this hasn't gotten press, or the industry hasn't screamed about this. this is a landmine for them. even if they get approved, there's a non-starter if they don't hire. >> i would like to read the last sentence of this paragraph. says directo

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so we'll monitor that and appear at hearings for the city. pay-it plans are up to date. and on pages 5 and 6, you can see our customary charts that list the caseload statistics in graphic form. i will take any questions. >> commissioners? >> commissioner chiu? >> yes. in your write up, the new york city campaign finance board, the director talked about using data to investigate and uncover wrongdoing. is that something that we could do here? >> i think so, yes. we track and require disclosure of a lot of the same information and we dump it into a portal called s.f. open data, where we can put in criteria and search. to some extent, my investigators are doing that already, but i did get ideas from that speaker of what to look for and the data and she gave a couple of examples to get at dark-money usage and coordination among campaigns. i was excited about that presentation. >> great. i hope we can also take advantage of those red flags and their experience and hopefully there won't be, but to use that to our advantage. >> yep. >> we'll take public comment on this matter. >

i can't imagine the city without ed lee. >> reporter: this afternoon police officers escorted the mayor's body draped with an american flag to a funeral home in daly city. along the rout, firefighters stood saluting on freeway overpasses. as san francisco's first asian american mayor ed lee was an inspiration to many especially in china town where he worked as an activist before becoming mayor. >> the mayor was a tireless activist. >> reporter: the mayor often found himself at odds with progressive and other asian men leaders. - - and other asian leaders. tonight there's a call for unity. >> it's important for us to come together and stand behind the family of mayor ed lee. and expressing my sincere condolences to family, colleagues. >> reporter: ed was not a politician. he did not offer the best sound bite or carry the room with inspoking charisma. i ask for your patient and support and i ask for your prayers. >> reporter: she has a full schedule fulfilling the duties of her position tomorrow as she and her colleagues continue to mourn. >> at 65 he clearly died way too early. he clearly

the families can move in. this is so amazing, this is what we do best as a city. and i will definitely be here, supervisor, mayor, whatever the heck i'm going to be at the time, cutting that ribbon and helping those first families move into that place. everyone here, the financing we received from the state, bank of america, mayor's office of housing, there are so many things that go into making this a reality. thank you for your work. this is so amazing. i'm so proud and happy today. this is what we do best. these are the kinds of things we have to shine light on to make sure people know all the amazing work our mayor helped us to do in our community and all over the city. thank you for being here today. (applause) >> we're going to move through the speakers relatively quickly because afterwards we want to toss the dirt, which is an important picture for all of us. (laughter) obviously. i want to welcome the ceo, president and ceo david sobal, thank you for being here. >> thank you so much mayor breed and whatever title you have going forward, we're so thankful to

he was the city administrator at the time so he knew the ins and outs of city government. d, okay, yes, i can do that, but then once the term was up others were pushing him to go back on his promise and run for mayor. very controversial move. a lot of people felt like he broke his promise, which he did. they felt betrayed. but there were so many people who wanted him to run, many people in the asian-american community as he was the first asian-american mayor. people in the tech community, he had a lot of friends there as well. former mayor willie brown among those folks as well as dianne feinstein wanting him to run. they had a run, ed, run campaign. >> i remember that well spearheaded by rose pack. his connection with the chinese community, the bay area in san francisco more than a third of our population is of asian african-american descent. one of the largest family associations in the chinatown area has embraced and adopted him especially recently. that run, ed, run campaign spearheaded by rose pack probably instrumental in his decision to go for it. >> she was quite th

from the city hall. >> $1,000 a month. payment. i have 1,500 left over for myself. that seemed like a good deal so i went for it. >> reporter: originally drivers bought medallions and the credit union was collecting interest on those loans. >> only something else was happening at the very same moment. >> fly wheel or mustache all these concerts. >> just as the city finalized the medallion system, shared cabs was disrupting. >> i can hold on to the medallion until they can sell it. >> reporter: last time the city sold a medallion april of 2016. >> what it's worth, you know. it's really questionable. >> if there's not a line of people willing to pay $250,000 for a medallion does the system work? >> clearly not. >> reporter: but there's an even larger problem brewing tonight. the credit union's medallion portfolio. >> i've heard that some people who have bought medallions are literally walking away from their loans. >> reporter: kpix5 has learned the san francisco federal credit union has now forclosed on 70 medallion loans.

, llc for the electronic city record system. i would like to give some background to this request. the electronic health records system is used to digitally capture all hospital and medical clinic system. currently, department of public health support approximately 550,000 patients encountered p peryear, with approximately $650 billion in annual revenue. it also allows us to comply with rules and regulations so we can keep our accreditations. we have a patch work of systems that this ehr will be replacing. in addition, this new system will allow us to manage our risk due to our end-of-life system that will be in the supporting 220. this system, the ehr system, this contract will provide us with software, support, implementation services, maintenance services, as well as hosting. this product was selected through an rfp process. the ehr system is needed for department of public health of san francisco to improve our patient care outcomes, as well as to avoid any potential financial risk due to inability to bill as our primary syst

but there's precious little for the people of mosul to return to in his latest report from the city for viewers the grim reality of life there today. there are things you have to see to believe mosul is such a place the old city of mosul is by any measure a dead and miserable place more rubble than buildings and even that mixed with unexploded bombs and decaying bodies at the spite these people are coming back to live here and low self and not out of choice all the time to. do i didn't. have any. issue i did they enter a little when in which i. do it and money. the u.s. led coalition spent all in all more than a hundred thousand dollars strike hundreds and hundreds just in mosul the money required for just a few airstrikes could feed all the civilians in old mosul for months but no one has sent anything the local garrison division five shares its food with the locals and and showed up and handed out blankets but that's eat no one else has helped then your mother oh no don't know how long i still believe no one i don't know what they were what donna no one marked no no no. no no no no

i love this about the city. will continue to pick up the trash knowing everybody else will do the same but we have smarter ways to recycle everything we touch. let us continue to make the commitment we have made to the next generation. we will lead this city and this planet in better condition than when we first became obligated to serve it. thank you. [applause.] >>> wow. yes, indeed. that is our challenge to leave this planet and this city in a better shape. that is open of our responsibilities. it takes political leadership to make things happen. it takes advocacy from the community. mayor lee and our department have been working for three years with a large supermarket to have them come together to troubleshoot and find a solution to move forward, and i am so pleased to say that with sb458 and the pilot program those supermarkets are still at the table and we are going to work together to find the innovative solutions to create joint accountability of the large markets working together to find solutions. the

the square where the say buck or silk cotton tree stands according to legend the city was originally founded under this magic tree but more important than the legend itself is the way the tree story has gone through so many versions in its history the native americans worshiped it the spaniards well the legend of the virgin mary around it and the africans naturally believe their. lived in its powerful branches. but despite the legends in the various religious beliefs surrounding the place the people of havana played safe and built powerful walls and well fortified citadels to protect themselves from infidels and conquerors and pirates. history doesn't record the fate of that governor of havana who set out to look for the source of eternal youth was he just too gullible or did he fall under the spell of another woman at any rate his wife went blind and spent the rest of her life waiting patiently for his return a woman remembered still as the perfect example of steadfastness strength of will and devotion. later a new fortress the citadel was built on the other side of the harbor entra

the leadership of the city make that happen. the name george kessler has been part of our conversation. he was the original landscape architect of the city. he was born in germany. kansas,lly entered the missouri area when he was around 19 years old. he was actually born in 1862. that would have been about 1882. he worked on a park called railroad park in shawnee, kansas. ,e came to the kansas city side was brought into the design aspect by leaders of the community and started working on the parking boulevard system in kansas city. a lot of his early training and knowledge was with european cities. his family travel. he saw a lot of the great parks systems in europe. he got appreciation for what good landscape design was all about. this was also during the beautiful cities movement. he was a leader in that relationship o.n american -- relationship. people realized they wanted better living conditions, modern conveniences. obviously getting involved in transportation systems as far as what was happening. also roads, bridges, all t

surrounded by members of the kansas city monarchs. he loved the kansas city monarchs. so much so, they were put in a uniform and he sat on the bench and served as an honorary coach. throwing out the first pitch at the all-star game. cab callaway had his own team, as did louis armstrong. all the jazz musicians wanted to be baseball players. all the baseball players wanted to be jazz musicians. it was only fitting they came here when they had the best of both worlds -- jazz and baseball. so kansas city was jumping. you could get a gig in kansas city where you could not get a gig anywhere else in the world because you had all the nightclubs had music, clubs galore here at 18th and 12th and vine. this place was wide open and baseball and jazz intersected. that intrinsic mixture of jazz and baseball which rated from -- which radiated from 18th and v ine. it was recognized everywhere in the world. world war ii. have the irony of young black soldiers dying fighting the same races in another country that we are being asked -- let led to the movement of integrating america's so-