Transcripts For SFGTV 20150107

Presenting partners at t, thank you, ken. A special shout out to my team because this morning there was so much prosperity here, mayor. There was about 2 feet of prosperity outside the big walls and you all would have needed a canoe to cross over the sea of prosperity to get here and the many men and women who take care of this place have been out here since 6 30 a. M. This morning to make sure the joyous amount of water around here had parted, the sea had parted. I wanted to thank the crew and i want to thank my partnership and Property Management team, dina is here and cassandra is leading the process to help us identify who the next partner will be in this space, our Public Affairs team, like this endeavor we are a team at recreation and parks and we are very proud to contribute. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you so much phil and all recreation and parks team. You are a dendrite delight and pleasure to work with. Its now my pleasure to introduce at t in california in 2005, we would like to thank you for allah affairs and many of his colleagues are here today. Just about 36,000 employees, give or take and he does it with grace and dignity. Its my pleasure to welcome our sponsor ken mcmillie. [ applause ] good morning and what a pleasure it is to be in such a stunning stunning building and park. Thank you so much and thank you to the California Historical society and innovation hangar and San Francisco recreation and Parks Department for this wonderful celebration. I also want to thank mayor lee and many of those in this community with us today. We all know that the pan pacific exposition was the change in San Francisco not only because it revealed the city but it continues to show case the energy and spirit that San Francisco is a terminology leader. We are proud to be the sponsor of this exciting event celebrating this city in a country rich of innovation. It was right here in San Francisco leading to the world fair in 1915 that at t initiated the first ever transcontinental telephone call and it wasnt an iphone. The telecommunication industry in the world we live today. It was in San Francisco that the 100 years of celebration and this will exhibit the programs throughout the long celebration. We also know this innovation depends on our youth and will inspire the years to tackle the challenges of the Technology Base economy and thats why we are glad to make an additional 50,000 contribution for the program executed by the California Historical society and partnership with the San Francisco recreation and Parks Department after School Program and the National Parks service. [ applause ] this program willen game engage hundreds of local students and local institutions participating. At t thanks the California Historical society and all the partners who have come together to celebrate this important event in our history, in our city and in our nation. Thank you very much. [ applause ] thank you, ken. We are deeply honored and very much and this program will hold a very special place in our heart. Thank you very much. Its my pleasure to introduce you to dan from the innovation hangar. He comes from a long and fascinating career even though hes so young and youthful and taken a very deep and meaningful path to his career in which he combines an incredible creative spirit, deep knowledge of tech, an incredible entrepreneurial sense and very deep guiding sense of sustainability on philanthropic side and he will bring his great spirit to all he does here and its my pleasure to ask had i am to come up. Thank you. [ applause ] welcome. Its very exciting to see everybody here and for you to begin to feel the excitement and atmosphere that comes with a sense of place. Place is very important and its actually the driving force that let us to do the things that hopefully you will get a chance to enjoy over the next year. It comes with the idea if you bring a lot of people together from different backgrounds with different skill sets and different needs and motivations together they can create Something Better than apart. Moreover, this place has an Important Message through the notion of worlds fairs. Worlds fairs are the greatest example of power and place whether its 1939. These are moments in our history and innovation loves a deadline. I will tell you. When these world fairs were coming together there were very intense moments when dreams came to reality to be able to show case to the world. Dont get me wrong. There is a very important part of the Virtual World and i have been part of it for a long time with the dubious contention with the very first cellular data to be able to send a text message from a moving vehicle. Im not sure if thats entirely positive, but, at the time it seemed like it was pretty cool and we thought we can do great things. And spent some time working with the federal government and at the time i saw so many of my colleagues and friends involved with text and to come up way to change the world to find funding and there wasnt a good path and there wasnt a way to find help to link them through the federal government and the private sector. The impetus was if we brought entrepreneurs as investors and the general public come and demystify the general process to make it happen. Thats why we are here and working to bring it together. Thats why we have the tenure in this space and creative to come altogether and the energy is palpable. The partners that you are beginning to move in to occupy the space are the essence of innovation in its best form and people that are here to promote social impact in so many ways. I think very importantly and then i will get off your stage is we have partners like maker and maker media that have a very different view of who will innovate for the future. Many of the worlds fairs by necessity hat had a top down view by Large Organizations of what this would look like. By celebrating the centennial, by celebrating what this has become is a place where many people are going to be able to come up with the future and many different versus of the future and many different paths to innovation and thats what we are here to do and excited to do and lastly, its an incredible responsibility that im incredibly grateful for to be the curator of this space. Audrey talks to me, shes the angel when im here very late at night. The gravitate of this space is something i have never seen. People just knock on the door and want to come in. Im excited that for many years, the general public will have access to this place, the different languages of innovation and hopefully take that with them, take it back to where they can be inspired themselves. Thank you very much and glad to be here. [ applause ] thank you so much, dan, for helping us dream about what is within these beautiful walls and right in this space leading over to the fireplace will be about a 10,000 square foot exhibition that the California Historical society headed by jessica how will be produced and well have a jewel box on our gallery on Mission Street and all of our partners love this and dan in welcoming you in kicking off this event on february 20th. Im deeply grateful for all of you who have been here and all of you with blessings for prosperity. Please go to our website. Ppa 100. Org which is a lot better to say than the panama canal exposition. We invite you to the board around you as you imagine what will be here. Before we ceremoniously open these doors, you will remember as you come to the exploratorium as my husband and my sons come here that you came to a very different orientation to this space. As dan mentioned you will enter through these doors starting february 20th. Well peak to see if its still raining, but before that, i will ask mr. Mayor lee and laura to come up here. Laura has spent 25 years understanding the world fair, she started when she was ten and its been a lifelong process. She would like to make a presentation and afterwards we will all exit and i give you a truly amazing scholar and phenomenal woman deeply dedicated and passionate advocate and this book that was brought into world is one of the shining stars to this centennial. Thank you so much, cynthia. Mayor lee, may i beg your presence on back of the Historical Society and myself i would like to present you with a copy of my book. Mayor edwin m. Lee thank you very much. [ applause ] thank you, i hope you enjoy it. Thank you. All right. Mayor lee, you have to come up one more time. This is an official badge. Cmon up. Thank you for the honor of making me the liaison for the centennial. Im thrilled. I would like to present you with this original badge from the 1915 exposition, the opening day. Can i pin it on you . Mayor edwin m. Lee sure. This is what would have been worn on this day to enter the gate. You are now official. Thank you for everything you are doing. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you all so much. This officially ends, oops. Madam would like to address you. I just wanted to say when the mayor gave us the instructions, i think they were instructions with go do this. We got together with the office with phil and with all the organizations that really had an interest and there we said what we were going to do and everybody was interested and you took the reigns you volunteered. Just remember that everyday, you volunteered and you put this together. All of this takes leadership obviously it starts with the mayor and for your leadership for getting everybody together has been wonderful. The other thing when the mayor came he said he was going to try to control his enthusiasm for this event. How did it go . The chief from the Protocol Office you have now permission for the uncontrollable for this enter. Donna, we want to call her a diva and she does have uncontrollable enthusiasm. And where is chief . Lastly, mayor, this book, a jewel city i bet we can get this at a good price. And this is the gift to people who come to see the jewel city. One last thing i just wanted to thank those for bringing this incredible model t today. Its exactly what you would have seen coming off the Ford Assembly line at the exhibition. Thank you and welcome. Lets go open those doors. Good morning, everyone much better im Edward Reiskin the transportation director in San Francisco great to see so many people out here for an important reason thank you, mayor ed lee and supervisor kim on their steadfast and consistent leadership in working with all of us to make our city safer the reason its important were proud of our city we have a problem here the problem too many people getting seriously injured or killed trying to make their way around the city that shouldnt be for that reason as a city weve adapted the goal of vision zero to eliminate traffic fatalities in San Francisco in the next 10 years good news if you call it that weve been working with the Police Department and the department of Public Health and many on the county which Transportation Authority to analyze the information associated with each one of the tragedies weve told have a good since of where theyre happening and why and what interventions we can make to significantly reduce the likelihood of them happening with people getting seriously injured or killed the traffic signal are one intervention and many others all over the city in order to do that well need public support and leadership without further ado we have an rations finding lard im proud so ask you to join me in welcoming the mayor of the city of San Francisco mayor ed lee. Thank you, ed good morning, everyone. Welcome to the post world series of the giants in San Francisco i know this community is slbl but ed is right weve got Serious Business to construction this particular street on significance and menu to say 24 projects weve identified were going to get to vision zero this is the night of the 24 projects were dedicated since april wife identified those vision zero projects theyre serious effort here with the translate today to quell the number number of injuries and death navigate this intersection that supervisor jane kim help weve got counsel a number of the injuries in the city those one has 50 accidents here resulting in two fatalities so im so glad to see residents here and communitybased organizations whether its united players or the so cam are the residents like ms. Jones to join the city agency and the opportunity Transportation Authority and mta and the Mayors Office our vision zero director and the supervisor staff agencies like walk sf and others we really have to come together literally on everyone every one of the intersection if we dont do Something Different more accidents will occur if anything we have to slow down traffic and make all people from all sides aware whether in their walkers or bicyclists or industrial folks everybody that is using our street have to be that much more aware and watch out for each other i myself these device when crossing the street i dont cross because ive got the green light i try to make eye contract and look both ways especially, when youve got families members that are looking at the wonderful sites in our city weve golden got to be careful with our growing population if the city weve got to do more were absolutely going to do more were building the basis with our mta and hopefully tomorrow our public will bless us with a strong vote of prop a that will allow us to do that much more clapping. 500 million the bulk of which goes to vision zero and Pedestrian Safety projects just like this one we need more things to slow down traffic we need better signage and education we need enforcement i wanted to thank our Police Department thats here a good number theyre walking the beats and louth for the siefrt issues 4r0ug9 for people that may not be uss the street properly we have to use our streets smarter n this is why its important to place that vision zero and there are month activities in our streets were encouraging walking in the streets when i get through with this job im going to walk more and i want to feel safer and join with all the people that want to join me in walking the streets to be safer we wont ghetto there without vision zero by january 2016 all 24 projects that ben is in favor which to cooperate throughout the city have to be done and spend down this 300 million of the 500 million that will not raise property tax in the city and spend that down because we not all of those improvements whether their signal consortiums traffic improvements Pedestrian Safety bulb outs or signage sloan traffic making people more aware and big thrust in education because everybody has to be more aware so i will want to say this we have to move together on this and noted pointing out the fingers its not just infrastructure or education its not just one or the other all i have those things have to work in concert with each other and we have to talk what the bicyclists and the car drivers and talk with people that are moving supplies in and out for all of those crosswalks projects and talk with people that walk our streets in multiple different languages we have a lot of visitors from all over the world theyre not use to the intense use of our streets as we grow as a city we have to center the conversation with all our partners and kids and look out for each other in addition to louth four users so vision zero is our goal and fraying will help get us there were not going to wait were beginning the projects well be you announcing them as time goes on as and a we get the projects done and need everybodys help the biggest advocate not only in the neighborhood is our supervisor jane kim shes brown on this clapping walking and talking and making sure that we incite the fund for this to happen and i time to say again, thank you supervisor for your leadership and thank you to you all the different allocations public works and the Police Departments to all of the infrastructure groups and to the advocates you know we dont want to be crying over the next accident but slshlt we saved for lives so each one of the traffic signal are these is important to the community thank you for being here clapping . Thank you, mr. Mayor this is the kind of leadership we need to make our streets safer i want to thank the mayor for van prop a 500 million in education bonds for 300 million will be invested in advancing vision zero making our streets safer and its not not only coming from the executive branch but the elective supervisor kim and all the 11 members of the board of supervisors unanimously supported prop a on the ballot and with that kind of unanimous support if city hall that well need in order to get even though 2 3rds vote for the high threshold for the unif i had city hall and community to the chamber of commerce this is an investment that san franciscans will understand and being willing to make but its not just with the bond as supervisor kim experienced her leadership which winner running for office she made Pedestrian Safety one of the top issues and this is a top issue her district is the most challenging foyer Pedestrian Safety and thats why laugh of the folks are here please welcome supervisor kim clapping. good morning many of us in the community that have been working on this for many, many years this morning is so existing this signal an sixth street is something the community has been fighting for about i was in office and to be here today on a Community Driven process to see our residents that fought for this is rewarding i want to recognize the south of Market Action network clapping who represents many of our families in the neighborhood the united players and city crossroads that rounding u run our Youth Programs across the street and walk sf has been a Strong Partner in making sure we advocate for this and, of course any entire office is here ivy and sunny it took a lot of folks to make this a realty 4 years ago our residents actually organized a walk on significantly street that included Edward Reiskin and is ta and dpw and we started on significantly and market and walked to ross and to fulsome to talk about the needs that the Community Needs to make sixth street a safer place for the youth and seniors and mother jones and the collaborative to talk how the intersection was unsafe and we even crossed the crosswalks at significantly to see whether cars would stop for crossing when we walked across the street from that experience the following year the Mayors Office actually worked with our office to fund a pilot we knew it would take a look at to get the prong we the first bulb out on significantly and howard number one and 3 on the top collision intersection in the city to shorten the walking distance for our pedestrians before you to remind drivers that those curb outs are an important place of safety for our walkers and finally opened the signal an ross for many families that walk across the street to go to Betsy Carmichael and now were here today to open this signal