Transcripts For SFGTV Mayor 20240704

Well come. Welcome to San Francisco James R Herman cruz terminal at pier 27. The first stop for all most 300 thousand people who come here every year from around the world to our beautiful city. I want to tell you about another jewel of the San Francisco port that just celebrated 125 years. 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in the late 1930s when two new bridges the bay and golden gate and rise of the automobile made the Ferry Building seem outdated and unwanted.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 doubledecker slicing it from the city it served. For decades, this great landmark was isolated. Nearly forgotten, a crumbling shell of its former glory. No one went there. No one bet on its future. Its time had passed, but then the freeway came down and the city created a new walkable grand embarcadero with the giants on one end and the restored Ferry Building at the center with patience, smart planning, investment and time. San francisco turned a discarded transit hub back into a global icon. A famous city most famous landmark as herb cane called it. Today the Ferry Building hosts shops restaurant, artists and torests and locals and just a few month ago during apec hosted leaders from around the world. This one building at the heart of downtown says a lot about our downtown and about our city. First, beautiful places, world class desirable places are never forgotten for long. Second, our local government with the right vision and right investment and right support can spark monumental turnarounds. Third, and most important, never ever bet against San Francisco. [applause] we never stay down for long. We have faced incredible challenges in the fast 5 years, two unparalleled health crisis. One in the form of covid, the other in the form of fentanyl and National Reckoning on policing and sublic safety and some people inside and out of San Francisco feel these challenges have overwhelmed us. I dont begrudge people frustrations. I dont dispute these have been a tough 5 years, but rather then destroying our city, the storms revealed our strengths, our spirit and service to each other. I believe past is a precursor to our rise. This is a year of the dragon and we will soar again. [applause] we all know the story. Shortly after i took office, we began to hear thisquiting reports of the new and deadly virus. Soon enough, covid19 would up end the world. San francisco declared a emergency february 2020 and then with our partners around the bay, issued the first shutdown or order in the country. My administration then marshaled department of emergency management, Public Health and staff throughout City Government to mobilize and turn our Convention Center into a global commandcovid command center. We cut through the bureaucratic red tape to set up testing sites, Community Hubs and vaccination sites around the city. City workers fanned out to tend to our most vulnerable residents and as Nursing Homes across the country saw ballooning death rates, we protected our seniors at laguna honda and elsewhere. [applause] we were one of the first cities in the country to reach an 80 percent vaccination rate and as deaths climeed across the u. S. And the world, San Francisco saw the lowest death rate of any large city in the country. [applause] people want to say our civic government is dysfunctional. We cant collaborate, we cant get hard things done. Tell that to the thousands of san franciscans alive today because of what we did. [applause] our city faced a storm unlike anything we have seen in a hundred years. Is anybody here a hundred years old . You didnt see it either. [laughter] through hard work, collaboration, ingenuity and simple decency of people we orchestrated the most successful response in the country and as covid wane and vaccinations froze we entered the second phase of my tenure, recovery. The pandemic lead to a massive shift how our economy functions all most overnight. Work from home, exposed to weakness in economies and big cities, especially tech forward San Francisco, we were too dependent on fields that can work from home. Our downtown had never been designed as a neighborhood with many homes and round the clock residents. Downtown was office and office was hit hard. Simultaneously the pandemic constrained our efforts to house the homeless. Then the murder of george floyd and ensuing National Reckoning devastated Police Recruitment and staffing here in San Francisco and around the country. Even as they brought to light the systemic racism that many of us have known for far too long, the department of justice has called the Police Staffing shortage a national crisis. These are national challenges, exacerbated by local conditions. What did we do . We didnt throw up our hands we got to work, on Public Safety. We divertsed non emergency, 911 calls to free up officers while providing better overall responses for those struggling on our streets. I appointed a former hate crime prosecutor as our new District Attorney and Brooke Jenkins began prosecuting crime. [applause] we used bate cars and plain clothe officers to disrupt auto break ins. We coordinated every Public Safety agency you can name. Local, state and federal. Shareal miyamoto conducted deputies to conduct warrant sweeps. I appealed to Governor Newsom and he sent the california highway parole. Delivered the u. S. Attorney and Drug Enforcement agency to interrupt the sale and trafficking of fentanyl. [applause] and all of these efforts have paid off. We doubled the number of drug arrests in 2023. Retail theft and car breakens plummeted. The arrest was 25 points higher then the national average. Our crime rate is the lowest its been in 10 years. [applause] not including 2020 when we had to shut the city down. Yes, these figures are accurate. They coincide with the arrival of the chp national guard, u. S. Attorney office, da jenkins increased in prosecutions. I do recognize that some people dont feel the lower crime rate yet, and if you are someone you know is a victim of a crime, all the stats mean nothing. I understand that and i hear your concerns and thats exactly why we are not letting up. We will roll out 400 automated license plate readers at a hundred intersections across the city this month. [applause] thanks to the voters approving proposition e on tuesday. [applause] we will be installing new Public Safety cameras in high crime areas, deploying drones and changing Police Department rules so our sworn officers are out in the field and not behind a desk. [applause] and yes, we are adding more Police Officers thanks to our effort San Francisco is now the best paid major city in the region for starting Police Officers. Retention is improving. Officers are transferring here. We have the most Police Academy applicant in more then 5 years and the next Academy Class will be the largest since before the pandemic with 50 cadets. [applause] with all that, we will add 200 more officers in the next year and get to full Police Staffing in three years. [applause] at the same time, we are not sacrificing our reform work. The San Francisco Police Department is on track to reach the 272 department of justice reforms by april of this year. [applause] thank you to those who lead these efforts including our police chief, bill scott. [applause] of course, we cant talk about Public Safety without talking about the other health crisis. This is a national tragedy, fentanyl is impacting our city both large and small, urban and rule. It is awful and heartbreaking and while im stepping up enforcementf oour laws because that is what our residents deserve and what pour city means, i remain absolutely committed to saving lives. Our approach [applause] our approach is about accountability, resources and new pathways. This means arresting and prosecuting dealers, and when necessary arresting users who are a danger to themselves. It means expanding existing Treatment Options and creating new ones like abstinence based treatment solution. [applause] yes, Offering Service is critical, but frankly we must compel some people into treatment. We will have a additional tool thanks to the voters who helped pass proposition f tuesday. [applause] and i directed the Human Service agency to create a action plan for prop f implementation. If we can provide cash assistance to more then 5 thousand people can screen recipients for Substance Use disorder and get them into treatment. [applause] and we have the services they need. Including 15 free clinics across San Francisco that can administer bupomor 15 day one. We are delivering the goal adding 400 new treatment beds and if Governor Newsom prop 1 passes we have a real opportunity to add hundreds more. We are not waiting, we are doing the work with supervisor mandelman so when the state opens the pipeline for new beds, San Francisco is ready and first in line. [applause] that brings me to homelessness, which also remains a key focus of our recovery. Now, since ifen polk been mayor, we helped over 15 thousand individuals exit homelessness. We are the only county in the bay area to see unsheltered homelessness go down in the last point in time count. We did it by increasing shelter capacity by 66 percent and increasing housing for formally Homeless People by over 50 percent. My office of invasion funded by bloomburg philanthropy is appointed new accountability tools to track data, outcomes and hold non profits we fund accountable. [applause] our encampment teams are bringing people indoors and bringing down the tents, despite attempts by the court and by some advocates to obstruct or efforts with City Attorney david chui we fought hard and helped more then 1500 people into shelter from encampment just over the past 6 months. [applause] the number of tents on our streets are down by 37 percent this past 6 months. At the lowest levels it has been since 2018. The other day a gentleman asked me, how can we help so many Homeless People and still have thousands more . Well, we know people fall into homelessness for many reasons and we have programs preventing homelessness for san franciscans every single day. But we also know we keep housing people and people do keep coming here. The advocates and some elected officials want you to believe San Francisco isnt a destination. They want you to believe people dont come here for drugs or other reasons. We all know thats not true. Of those arrested for public drug use in the tenderloin and south of market over the last year, over half were not San Francisco residents. Half. I had enough of it and clearly the voters had enough too. We are not letting up. [applause] we are continuing to add new housing, new shelter. We are setting a new goal of a thousand people a year for homeward bound program. The program that provides unhoused people a ticket back to their home cities. [applause] and we have a new tool for those struggling with Mental Illness and addiction. For decades, state laws have prevented us compelling people into treatment, even if their families are begging us to do so. The people truly suffering you see walking in and out of traffic or screaming at nothing in particular, the people who so desperately need help. I fought to change the state conservatorship laws for years and we finally succeeded. [applause] now we are implementing the changes faster then any county in the state. So far this year yee increased the number of people submitted for conservatorship by 170 percent compared to last year. That is how we make change. That is how we save lives. And of course, there is the pandemic related issues felt most acutely in San Francisco. Our downtown recovery. I have always believed we need to start with a question and if not, how do we make downtown what it was, but rather, what do we want our downtown of the future to be . In 2022, 2023 we worked with trade groups, business owners, builders, neighbors and city departments to create the road map to downtown San Francisco future. A comprehensive plan for a dynamic resilient downtown with resident night life and businesses. A neighborhood that keeps going around the clock, downtown 24 7. [laughter] the first year focused on stabilization, filling our empty store fronts, creating attraction and night life activity and delivering tax incentives. We recruit new businesses and continue to see new leases signed lead by ai which alone is projected to add 12 million square feet of office space by 2030. And it wont be ai alone. This is one of the most beautiful urban environments in the world with a unrivaled pool of talent and builders and dreamers and largest collection of deployable capital in the country, but downtown cant just be about jobs, it cant just be the 9 to 5 financial district. We also need more people to live and study there. So, our new initiative, 30 by 30, 30 thousand more residents and students downtown by 2030. [applause] to do that, we first need to create more housing downtown. We already passed the few local laws to reduce fees to Office Conversion. Our first Office Conversion is happening now. 32 new homes at the warfield building that would not be happening if we hadnt stepped in, and more are coming. [applause] now, we are working on state laws to change state laws with senator scott wiener to spur production and speed up Housing Production downtown. That is housing, but 30 by 30 is also about bringing students down down, and a lot of them. We are working with thought leaders, business folks and educational institutions to make downtown a hub, a center of excellence. We invited the university of california and historically black call jss and universities to join us and some are coming as early as this summer [applause] we are working with other universities and existing anchors, uc law, usf and San Francisco state university. Imagine, student professors researchers and employees working from dorm room to classroom to start up from the Ferry Building to city hall. Cross pollinating ideas, cross pollinating companies. We will lead in ai, climate tech, bio tech and things we havent imagined yet are. Housing students, invasion, that is our future. Tearing out the bike lanes on Market Street going backwards will not move us forward and it wont magically revive downtown. [applause] but 30 thousand more People Living and going to school down there will. Downtown has always been the economic engine that funds the services we care about, and it is post pandemic difficulties are the driving reason for the deficit we now face. We no laupger have the luxury to penalize. We need to incentivize. So let me make two things clear, number one, the board of supervisors and i will close this deficit and we will not weaken our Public Safety to do so. [applause] number two, i have a clear vision for downtown future and my administration will make it happen. [applause] our vision is a vibrant mixed use neighborhood with transit, bar s, restaurants, venues, where people live, work, study, and play. We are through the valley of covid. We endered the slings and arrows of recovery, and now we rise to our next chapter on housing. We are changing our reputation. As a city of no to a city of yes. Yes. [applause] yes to reducing fees, yes to eliminating barriers and yes to any idea that overcomes obinstruction and builds the new homes we so desperately need. There is one housing no i will commit to, any piece of antihousing legislation that comes across my desk i will veto. [applause] every single one. We have a state mandate, so lets build our projects like the power station where we broke ground last year and Treasure Island just this week we relaunched a new phase of housing. Lets work with our land use chair, supervisor melgar to keep advancing prohousing laws through the board. And lets [applause] and lets bring 30 thousand residents and students to the downtown. If we do that, more people and more neighborhoods will be able to afford to live here. More housing means more opportunity. And San Francisco will remain the city of yes for our children and their children and its not just a vision, our work is actually delivering change. Crime is at record lows. San francisco is a ai capital of the world. The birthplace of the next economic boom. The la times reports in 2022, San Francisco companies raised 5 times as much funding as the companies in florida and texas combined. [applause] that is what they do to us. Our Small Business reforms like first year free championing by supervisor ronan are filling empty storefronts across the city. [applause] we are a National Leader in early child care and education. Doubling the number of kids getting care and subsidies in 2018. [applause] and paying our educators a real wage that recognizes them for the work that they do. [applause] we just hosted leaders from around the world for apec, the biggest global stage for San Francisco since the signing of the United Nation charter in 1945. [applause] our parks are the best in the world and we massively expanded outdoor public areas from jfk drive to india basin coming to the southern waterfront. [applause] muni is leading the bay area transit recovery, who would have thought, willie brown . Carrying more riders then all of the other Regional Transit operators combined. We are on pace to hit our goal of zero Green House Gas emission by 2040. We are launching a wnba franchise hosting [applause] hosting the nba all star game, the super ball and fifa world cup [applause] and i envision a San Francisco of walkable, safe, thriving neighborhoods with Great Schools that teach algebra and a strong economy. [applause] where people get the help they need and where everyone is welcomed. I want to thank the voters for supporting this vision on tuesday. By backing these various propositions and the strong rejection of proposition b. [applause] thank you supervisors engardio and matt dorsey on algebra and Police Staffing and conulateulations on scott wiener, matt haeny and [indiscernible] as well as all the new comers come bravely step forward to run for county committee. [applause] and let me Say Something to those in the press claiming tuesday election means San Francisco is not a progressive city anymore. Building homes and adding treatment beds is progressive. [applause] wanting good Public Education and Effective Police force valuing the saturday safety of seniors from chinatown to bayview, immigrant and working families in the tenderloin, is progressive. [applause] we are a progressive diverse city living together celebrating each other. Lgbtq, aapi, black, latino, palestinian and jewish. [applause] that is not changed and that will not change. So, i dont know about you but im tired of the negativity. Im tired of the people who talk about San Francisco as if our troubles are inevitable and our success a flukement our successes are not a fluke, and they are not fleeing. They are the products of years of hard work, collaboration, investment, creativity, perseverance. They are the output of thousands of people in government and out who believe in service, not cynicism. [applause] i want to Say Something to those inside San Francisco and out, who traffic in negativity. To sell ads to advance right wing causes to tear others down or to simply stroke fear for their political convenience. I want to say this on behalf of the real people who you have been disparaging, on behalf of the nurses, the gardeners, janitors, counselors, commissioners, engineers, emergency workers, teachers, the transit operators who dedicate themselves to this city. [applause] on behalfon behalf of our firefighters, 911 dispatchers, the Sheriff Deputies and Police Officer who do lifesaving work under difficult circumstances. On behalf of the Small Business owners thrks bartendser, the artists. On behalf of the women. On behalf [applause] on behalf of the women here who let women everywhere know that we trust them to make their own decisions and offer them a safe haven when they do so. [applause] on behalf of the housing advocate said who started a movement here that has taken root all over the country. [applause] on behalf of the transgender activists and their families chosen or otherwise who made San Francisco and outpost of hope. [applause] on behalf of the city i called home my entire life, which im proud to serve every single day, i offer these words from our 26 president of the united states, teddy roosevelt. You exceez me for updateing the pronouns. [laughter] it is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong woman stumbles, or where the doer of deeds, could have done them better, the credit belongs to the woman who is actually in the arena. [applause] who strives valantly. Who sends herself in a worthy cause. To those outside the arena watching from the sidelines, who offer only criticism, i have a message for you. San francisco is not wearing the shackles of your negativity any longer. [applause] ill say it again, San Francisco is not wearing the shackles of your negativity any longer [applause] to the Public Servants who have been here during the citys most difficult time, doing the work all along, thank you. Thank you for your service. We will continue to move our city forward to be the city of yes. No longer will we allow others to define us, because we know who we are. We are a city on the rise. We are a dragon taking flight. Now, lets soar San Francisco lets soar thank you. [applause]. music . The Ferry Building one of San Francisco most famous that as many of 15 thousand commuters pass through that each gay. One of the things that one has to keep in mind regarding San Francisco is how young the city we are. And nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. There was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in San Francisco. And then the gold rush happened. By 182948 individuals we are here to start a new life. By 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and left town in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. With sand the way that San Francisco was and when you look at a map of San Francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. But by 1875 they know they needed more so the Ferry Building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the Ferry Building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to that area also. But by the late 1880s we needed Something Better than the Ferry Building. A bond issue was passed for 600,000. To build a new Ferry Building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in San Francisco they thought that was a grand Ferry Building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and San Francisco had grand plans for this transit station. So he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. Than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two how and was not completed and killed. But it opened a greater claim and became fully operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but Market Street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and Mission Street up to nob hill and the fishermans area. And then the earthquake hit in 190 six the Ferry Building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. And 80 percent of the city would not survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a Dennis Herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to chance to show how electrical cars and were going to get on top this. Take 10 years for the city to rebuild. Side ferry use was increasing for a International Exhibition in 1950 and people didnt realize how much of a Community Center the Ferry Building was. It was the center for celebration. The upper level of Ferry Building was a Gathering Place. Also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or World War Two had a parade on Market Street and the Ferry Building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted to to be a Gathering Place in that Ferry Building hay day the busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our International Exposition 18 million living in San Francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 San Francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and San Francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what were supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away. The way the Ferry Building was originally built the lower level with the Natural Light was used for take it off lunge storage. The second floor was where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting point to talk about because such a large building one major stairway and were talking about over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the Ferry Building and the embarcadero on Market Street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have San Francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. As the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach San Francisco. And automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a result marin and other roots varnished. The dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. Take the care ferry and to San Francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. When the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up where our Sales Force Transit Center is now another way of getting into the city little by little the ferry stopped having a purpose. What happened in the 40 and 50s because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a World Trade Center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of Ferry Building and completely impractical. After the cars the Tower Administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united states. So they had an intrastate free plan the plan for major freeway systems to go throughout San Francisco. And so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. The plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the San Francisco saw had Human Services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. Which cut us off from the Ferry Building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. And that was the renaissance of Ferry Building. That land was developed for a new Ferry Building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didnt want that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store. The San Francisco Ferry Building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a reliable ferry system once the Ferry Building will be there to surface. music . My name is my business name is himself mexican america. I started my business a year ago the process was a year ago by business by waving background noise. about 1,000 and also guided me there the whole process. background noise. that was helpful i was already paying the construction and other fees for the restaurant the city we put together to honor my city and comes with unintelligible on the background noise. and. multiple voices. and some go with ebbs and eggs unintelligible and a side of roadways and beans. And be able have my restaurant here in the district of the mission is such an amazing i grew up around the mission area and respect to school around here and so i was able to come in as establish any restaurant here background noise. really a feels like [music] San Francisco is known as yerba buena, good herb after a mint that used to grow here. At this time there were 3 settlements one was mission delores. One the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. There were 800 people in 1848 it was small. A lot of Historic Buildings were here including pony express headquarters. Wells fargo. Hudson Bay Trading Company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. Africanamerican decent and the first million airin california. Wilwoman was the founders of San Francisco. Here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. He spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. His father and brother in new orleans. We know him for San Franciscos 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. There is a small 4 block long length of street, owned much of that runs essentially where the transamerica building is to it ends at california. I walk today before am a cute side street. At this point t is the center what was all his property. He was the person entrusted to be the citys first treasurer. That is i big deal of itself to have that legacy part of an africanamerican the citys first banker. He was not only a forefather of the establishment of San Francisco and california as a state but a leader in industry. He had a direct hahn in so many things that we look at in San Francisco. Part of our dna. You know you dont hear his anymore in the context of those. Representation matters. You need to uplift this so people know him but people like him like me. Like you. Like anyone who looks like him to be, i can do this, too. To have the citys first banker and a street in the middle of financial district. That alone is powerful. [music] music . multiple voices. landing at leidesdorff is as the new Public School in downtown San Francisco for people to come together for 0 lunch and weekends a new place to enjoy the architect and our culture. Landing at leidesdorff one of several initiatives to the road map for the initiatives all about using your public space and network for now environments to 0 invite people adopted not just to the office but any time of the day. It shows there is excitement and energy and people wore looking forward to enjoying the space that people may want to end up in downtown. Weve been operating in the financial district since 2016 with the treasury and coming up we had a small surge in business in the leidesdorff and in about the financial district and a good time to grow here. As a Small Business the leidesdorff is making us being part of it as being part of in project. For me makes we want to be part of San Francisco. So landing at leidesdorff for me represents hope for San Francisco and the sense that this is become such a safe welcoming area. We local artists coming in and exercise boxes and live music but the hub of culture. The downtown partnerships has a studio in San Francisco. They identified 6 locations throughout the downtown area we come together with new activity and spaces. Is between us a place to tell our own story and history. It was named after a captain one the black leaders of San Francisco before that was called San Francisco he was the first treasurer of the city and commercial street a cross street the hifblg original shoreline of San Francisco was just a few feet behind where were 12357b8z around opportunity to bring people to locations we have an opportunity to tell stories and for local businesses. How are you feeling . Long hard day, its so good to see all of you today. I know people had to get through traffic but as i scan the audience, im excite today see so many familiar faces. We are here to celebrate San Francisco, there on your hill, my city, fair as the queen of ol, supreme in her 7 hill splender, you from your golden gate of gold, facing