Transcripts For SFGTV The 20240628

[drums and singing] [applause] [drums and singing] [applause] put those hands together for the west african dancers and drummers what a way to kickoff the celebration. Now time for our libation. [drums playing] the libation is our connection to the past and our roadmap to a better future. The purpose of libation is to remember and honor those who walked and worked before us and thus paved the path we now walk. We pour in the direction of the four winds, north, south, east and west. For africa and mother land and those known and unknown who defended our land in history. For ancestors who struggled for our freedom and those who defied to [indiscernible] develop our interest as a people. We pour. For our elders who helped to give us wisdom, strength for fathers and mothers who please call out the name of your loved ones who have now rest in the valley of the departed. We pour. For the youth who represent the future of tomorrow, we pour. For men and women in the human rights struggle, we pour. For a new world we struggle to build, we pour. For the principals as our guide and in and out in every day life, we pour. Our all mighty creator who makes all things possible, we pour. [drums playing] [applause] here now to present the National Anthem please welcome mikayla, [indiscernible] and joshua carter. [applause] please let us all rise. [singing] [single lift every voice and sing] [applause] thank you. One more time for mikayla, [indiscernible] and joshua carter. [applause] now, please give me one moment as i catch my breath. I will be your mc today and im here to welcome our very own, ms. Felicia, you all know her. Felicia jones at this time. [applause] thank you. Thank you thank you. It is so good to see all of you here, celebrating juneteenth. Juneteenth. And so [applause] you all lood gook. The people in the back, the caterers i welcome you to juneteenth, 2024. Lynn i love you and so this is what i would like to say before we bring up the mayor. Im humbled at this particular time. Times are difficult for us. Things are going every which way, but it going to go the right way, and if you believe in that, stand on your feet with your flags . Stand on your feet with your flags, because it is juneteenth. It is juneteenth. Juneteenth. Just like we said last year, we will wave our flags up in the air and rock them to the right and to the left like we just dont care. Juneteenth juneteenth and so i will bring up the honorable mayor breed. Keep standing. Do not sit down. Do not sit down on my mayor. Do not sit down on my mayor. And so, what i want you guys to do, i want everyone in here to show our mayor breed some love. Clap it up clap it up for my mayor [applause] looking good in that purple. Come on up, mayor breed. Yes. I want you to go up there. Before you go up there, there is something that i would like to present to you on behalf of wealth dispareties in the black community and on behalf of the black community in general, because we love you. We love you and we want you to know we love you. Everyone say, we love you mayor breed say it one more time because it sounds so good. We love you mayor breed alright. I have something for you. I would like toprint present to this identify as a memory of juneteenth from last year, and it is all of us stapding. Standingism i think it is wonderful keepsake and i just want to say, love i you girl. You my girl. [applause] alright. Say amen first of all, if you need a seat, there are seats in the front. If anybody is looking for a place to sit. Welcome to San Francisco city hall to kickoff juneteenth [applause] you are going to be hearic from a number of our leaders today, but i want to take this opportunity to recognize a few leaders. Youll hear from our state attorney general rabanta. [applause] and our california state senator, scott wiener. [applause] thank you to our local elected leaders, including jose sisneros, our district attorney, brooke jenkins, our City Attorney david chui, our chair paul miyamoto, our assessor, joaquin torres. Our fire chief, jeanine nicholson. Our police chief, bill scott. Our city administrator, carmen chui and a bunch of other Department Heads including dr. Grant colfax, reverend brown and you name it. I appreciate the leadership of this city being here to kickoff juneteenth. It is important that we recognize this as a celebration, but also it is important that we take a step back to understand the significance of juneteenth. And, we know that this dates back to starting in 1863 with the emancipation proclamation and people in the deep south in rural texas not finding out about the freedom that we are enjoying today until two years later, some time in june of 1865. And then in San Francisco, we can look back at when we started celebratory events, all the way back to 1945 or so, and really kicking it off with a number of local night clubs originally in 1950, but Walter Johnson of the texas playhouse really set it up in 1964 with the first juneteenth festival and parade down fillmore street. And heres the thing, what i have always appreciated about opportunities to celebrate juneteenth is, yes, it is celebrating freedom, but it also overcoming a lot of adversity. When we think about how far this countrys history is, in terms of the oppression of black people, thats not even disant histly. That is really recent history. My grand mother worked one generation out of slavery and she actually migrated from texas to San Francisco and still felt very uncomfortable interacting sometimes with people who were not African American. But she was tough and she would give you a good whooping on occasion. When i think about what people like my grand mother and others have to overcome in places like the south, and what we are experiencing here today in San Francisco, we havent come as far as we would like to believe. Now, i know that i am the first black woman to serve as mayor of San Francisco. [applause] but i definitely dont want to be the last. Just a couple weeks ago, some of you may have recalled or heard in the press of some very racist and sexist words were spray pointed on the front of city hall. And it made me realize in 2024, we havent come as far as we believe we have. So, i will not apologize for making hard decisions that include significant investments in black people in San Francisco. [applause] while, a lot of people talked a good game after the death of george floyd, we actually did something about it. [applause] we with wealth and despair tease in the black community and Felicia Jones implemented the 272 recommendations from the Obama Administration department of justice to reform our Police Department and our chief bill scott helped to lead those efforts. [applause] and with a dream Keeper Initiative, people who have opened their First Business in San Francisco, people who are born and raised in this city opening their First Businesses providing opportunities for their program over 32 black people received half a Million Dollars for down payments assistance to buy their first home. [applause] and we know the work continues. And especially for all of you who have been the beneficiary of resources from the dream keeper 96ative. Initiative. The dream Keeper Initiative is about insuring your success, knut but it also about the insuring the success of the entire community. You are a part of helping to up lift the next generation of black kids growing up in this city. [applause] because, they need us now more then ever. And we may talk about the fact that we have a less then 5 percent African American population in this city, but that 5 percent is mighty and can move mountains. [applause] the forces have always worked against me in my life. You know what . The ancestors have always worked for me in my life. [applause] we have to remember that and take the ancestors of strength of what they have gone through and use that to lift us up and lift up our community. That is how we recognize their legacy and what they have done to get us to this point thusfar in life. [applause] and again, like Harriet Tubman did, put her life on the line to go back and free other people. She was not just content with her success, she wanted to insure that others were free too. As we commemorate juneteenth, yes, we will celebrate, yes, there will be music, yes there will be fun and we will see people that we havent seen in a long time. Yes, we will uplift African Americans in this city and this country, but we will also remain and remember work needs to be done to address the Racial Disparities and discrimination and a lot of the problems we still experience, even at a place like San Francisco. [applause] so, i want to thank all of you for being here today and one of the other things i want to say before iintroduce the next speaker, we this summer under the direction of dr. Cheryl davis [applause] and dream Keeper Initiative, we have brought to San Francisco an opportunity to bring students from historically black colleges and universities [applause] who are taking classes downtown, who are staying in our communities, and who will connect with the young people in our communities. I want our children to see up close and personal what black excellence look like from these students who are joining us here this year. [applause] so, lets continue to do all we can to make sure that we are celebrating juneteenth, but we are recognizing celebrating uplifting our community all yearround. [applause] and with that, i want to take this opportunity to introduce the next speaker. Our attorney general, rob banta has been a real partner in a lot of the work that we do to address the challenges that exist in our Law Enforcement community. I want to especially appreciate how consistently when there are problems in this city, he is always doing everything he can to use the law as a tool for good and in fact, we have been working together to address a number of the challenges related to hate crimes in this state. He formed a committee to really insure that people are held accountable and brought to justice and earlier today, we were at selfhelp for the elderly, talking about elder abuse, and how elder abuse of our seniors is on the rise and we have services and support to protect our most vulnerable, our senior community. I appreciate the work hes done. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, attorney general, rob bonta [applause] give it up one more time to mayor breed thank you for the very kind generous introduction mayor breed. Im honored and grateful for the opportunity to be here to celebrate the kickoff of juneteenth with all of you. I want to say first, greetings from both me and Assembly Member mia bonta, sometimes known as the better bonta. We send our best as you kickoff the celebration in San Francisco and of course we are commemorating the emancipation of enslaved black americans in the United States of america. A time we take the time to honor the legacy of those who fought for freedom and celebrate the significant sacrifices and achievements and contributions of black americans to our great country. We also recommit to forging a new unified future, a future that doesnt ignore the past, because we must acknowledge the sins of the past, the wrongs and ingests of the past but isntvoting disenfranchisement. America fulfills its promise to all and juneteenth and about acknowledging that and acknowledging while we made great strides, we cant afford to be complacent and for granted the hard fought gains and as the mayor just stated, we have more road to travel on that road to progress. There is more to do. It is important in my humble opinion to be impatient for the change we need. We need to demand it. We need to be intolerant for ingests of injustice and make sure we pursue in place jz spaces and also must remind ourselves, we all have a role to play. We have agency, we have power, we have potency, the ability to create the change, the society the state the nation we deserve. That we want. And, we must be cognisant of the challenges and threats that we see all around us when we see rampant efforts to erase black history from School Curriculum whether through book bans. Hate crimes against the black community at very high level as they continue to be remain a ongoing threat. And doj, we are committed to this important work of protecting and advancing civil rights and freedom and democracy. We launchthank you [applause] we in my first weeks in office we launched the Racial Justice bureau to call out systemic racial injusts in california. To work with and for the community throughout california. Active with civil rights making sure our california constitutional and civil rights are honored and make sure the rights are vindicated. We are supporting the work of the California Reparations Task force. [applause] that has acknowledged the original sin that remains a stain on our country history of slavery and taking steps to create more justice and more opportunity and more healing. We will continue to fight against racial bias in housing and healthcare in policing. Make sure our schools teach inclusive curriculum that reflects the states beautiful diversity. Combat attacks on diversity programs that provide equitable access to education and Economic Growth and disrupt the school to drop out track by protecting students from discriminatory discipline practice and Excessive School removal and that a small sampling of had work we are doing and the work that needs to get done ask the work we can only do if we do it together. I am very proud that i have the opportunity to serve as California Attorney general and i have a role to provide more to californian and americans and also proud my father, marched and organized in the Civil Rights Movement and as a call to action when his friend sent cassette tapes across the country with the voice of Martin Luther king, jr. He went to selma alabama and [indiscernible] when Martin Luther king, jr. Appeared for a unannounced sermon. We all have a role to play, and we can look forward with anxiety and worry and fear about our future, or we can look forward with optimism and hope. And i have optimism and hope that we with accomplish anything if we do to together, if we fight for each other and love each other and have each others back. Happy juneteenth. Im honored to stand by you and fight by your side. [applause] it is my great pleasure to introduce the person who is going to introduce the next speaker. [laughter] thank you attorney general bonta. Welcome director cheryl davis to the podium. [applause] i love having the chief in the audience, because will always make me feel really special. Thank you all for being here this afternoon. Give a round another for ms. Felicia jonesism [applause] i have the great honor to be able to introduce the next speaker. I want to first also give a shout out to dr. [indiscernible] who is supporting this work. [applause] the mayor mentioned we will be launching the hbcu satellight pilot next week and think we have some of the student here today. Could you stand up for us please . [applause] so, i have as many may know, i said this before, im a woman of faith and grateful because god allowed me to do work that gives me such joy and pleasure and hes allowed me to work with the amazing london nicole breed, and supervisor Shamann Walton. [applause] i know both of them from before they were elected. I had the great pleasure to work for years with mayor breed and community and did a lot of work with supervisor walton and the one thing i always say to folks what i know and believe with my whole heart, politics aside, they both went into this work to be what they needed in the city growing up here. And so, when you get to these places and folks challenge and want to talk about what somebody is doing or not doing, lets be very clear, they are doing for black people and for everybody in the city is and county of San Francisco what should have been done when they were children. [applause] so, i am just grateful because, they have both entrusted me to do such great work, and when we think about it and when we look back i want everybody to understand and trust and believe that you will never have stronger leaders in the name of city and county of San Francisco because they know investment in the black community is investment in San Francisco. [applause] and so, it brings me tremendous pleasure to be able to do this work every day and to also be able to recognize and acknowledge them boket and with that, i like to invite up supervisor Shamann Walton to the stage. [applause] good afternoon happy juneteenth everybody i want to say this at attorney general bantas face, but he since left, but i didnt know he was supposed to be giving a keynote today. But i do want to thank attorney general bonta for his work. When i was fighting and working with a lot of you to form the carinates in San Francisco he alsoyes. He also put legislation together when he was in the state assembly to make sure these arbitrary 911 calls that were happening to black people for doing every day activities did not happen at the state level so he put that in into law at the state to protect black folks as well. [applause] i apologize for being late, but i am actually right now as we speak in two places at one time, because we are in the middle of budget, but i do want to say a couple things this afternoon. I will be brief. The first thing is, we have a lot of amazing events happening this weekend here in San Francisco. I want to make sure that everyone in this room takes the time to support all of those events. A lot of people fought hard to make sure that these events were able to happen so we could commemorate what happened in 1865 in texas when folks finally found out that they were actually free and so i want to make sure everyone takes advant age of the events and opportunities we have here in San Francisco. Second, if you are black and in leadership, please stand. Any black person in leadership, please stand. [applause] some people took their time to stand up and i know we have a few more leaders in here, but i want to make sure that our black leaders are acknowledged and given the props they deserve for the hard work they do every single day. San francisco is not kind to black people right now, and so the work all you do, the fight that you have for our community, i just want to say thank you and acknowledge you for that right here in front of everybody publicly. [applause] i want to thank felicia of course for her leadership and making sure this event continues to happen. Thank you so much. [applause] and i dont know if this is done yet, but i want to send a special shouts out to dr. Cheryl davis for all her work she does on a daily basis. [applause] i know we say this all the time, but we really do entrust director davis with a lot of work. Everything we do in the city that is around improving the lives and opportunities for black people, most certainly we push through the Human Rights Commission and she has been a staunch leader making sure what we put in play leads to success on the ground for communities, so gone, thank you so much, dr. Davis. [applause] the last thing i will say and mayor touched on is historically black College University Internship Program we have this summer. I had the privilege and honor attending Morris Brown College in atlanta georgia, and that experience truly changed my life and gave me everything i needed to be able to stand before you today. My hope and my goal is to make sure that our young people in San Francisco has the same opportunity that i and so many others had, but do not have to go thousands of miles away to receive that opportunity. Thank you and happy juneteenth. Thank you, one more time for supervisor Shamann Walton. Now lets welcome, please chief, william scott. [applause] good afternoon everybody. And happy juneteenth. I will do two things. I want to say a few words. Three things and thank a few people in the room and say a little about juneteenth and then i have an award for ms. Felicia jones. Give her a round of applause. [applause] i will call you up in a second. So, juneteenth, it has been said by our mayor and attorney general, 1865, june 19, 1865, people in texas African American people in texas finally found out that they were free. Problem was they had been free for two years. How does that happen . It happens when you dont have a voice and at the mercy of others to have a voice. We are in a different place now, because we all have a voice and let me tell you, we have to use that voice. Now, there are many people in this room who dont have any problem speaking truth to power. Reverend brown, you know what im talking about. Felicia jones, you know what im talking about. [indiscernible] you know what im talking about and i can go on and on and on. Heres the point, i will tie this back to felicia, my introduction to felicia was on january 23, 2017. My first day as the police chief here in the city. As i get sworn in, right there in that city hall rotunda, i heard this voice in the balcony screaming about, freedom and screaming about equality and justice and im like who is this lady . That lady was Felicia Jones. [applause] now, i think it was about a week later, ms. Jones and were in my office talking about those issues and she is not shy speaking up for freedom and equality and justice, speaking up against Police Brutality and speaking up to make sure this department fulfill the promise we promise the city we complete 272 reform recommendations. She has not been shy and there are many others in the room that have spoken up. I want to thank you all, because thalths thats what we need. It isnt just about a good time agreeing, it is about people standing up and speaking up when it is time to stand up and speak up. So, that is what leadership is about, and let me tell you, there are many people in this room, including our mayor, who have done that since the day i met them, and felicia, ms. Jones as i call her, you deserve a round of applause for always speaking up. [applause] so, for particularly the young people in the room and students, hbcu student, i hope your time here in San Francisco is lifechanging, because you will have the opportunity to meet some amazing people in leadership positions and amazing people many of us didnt have access to when we were your age. Take advantage of it. Use your voice, because we expect that will be in these position s in the very near future. We are here for you, we have people that will role model for you and we want to make sure we never ever again in this country go 2 years or any amount of period without people understanding they are free and they have equality and justice. [applause] so, ms. Jones, if you come come up and ill come down to you to give you your certificate. Come up front and center. [applause] so, this is a certificate of honor presented to ms. Felicia jones, april 12, which is when we had the celebration but late getting your certificate. 2024. It reads, whereas, on behalf of city and county of San Francisco, im pleased to recognize and honor Felicia Jones for your work on the Collaborative Reform Initiatives. Your steadfast dedication and working with the San Francisco Police Department to help build trust by implementing the Collaborative Reform Initiative and setting new burnmarks reducing use of force and officer involved shooting accountability for police is inspiring. Furthermore, your unwavering commitment and creating a fair safer and more just society for San Francisco has left a positive Lasting Impact for years to come. Under your leadership, your dedication to addressing racial and social inequity and promost justice truly represents our citys values at its best. Therefore, i set my hand on the city and county of San Francisco to be affixed, signed, mayor london breed. Thank you. [applause] [applause] i just want to say a few words and the work that we have done with San Francisco Police Department took seven years to complete. That seven years of being upheld and having mayor breed know that this work was important after mayor lee passed away, and made a promise that we would do this work. I want to say thank you to wealth and disparities in the black community, because i couldnt have done it all by myself without you. Tom brown, i know you are in. Stand up, tom. I dont know who else from wealth and disparities is here. Lynn, who helped me all throughoutthank you. I will leave you with this, dont come for me unless i send for you. [applause] dont come for me, unless i send for you. And then i am going to say, im not new to this i am true to this fighting for my people. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you again mayor breed. Thank you chief scott. Thank you everyone. Thank you black people beautiful. Come on, one more time for chief scott and ms. Felicia jones. [applause] here now, let us welcome, senator scott wiener. [applause] good afternoon amazing to go after Felicia Jones. Congratulations and thank you for everything you do. Lets hear it for felicia again. [applause] im honored to be here today with this community and also want to thank mayor breed from the bottom of my heart. I have known the mayor many years and we work hand and glove every day for this community. That is state, City Partnership is so critical and are the mayor pours her life into this city and into the loving the city, so madam mayor, thank you for everything that you do. [applause] so, as some of you may know, this year i was appointed to be the chair of the Senate Budget committee and i have great timing. I was named budget change in time for a massive budget deficit. A lot of fun to enter under those circumstances. At first i was like wow, this isnt going to be fun. It is always great when you have money to invest in things and to do new things, and to come in during a deficit isnt the most uplifting thing, but then i realized that it was actually quite uplifting because when you are in tough times that is when your values really come out. What are the prioritieswho are the communities that you are going to go to the mat to protect . And i just want to tell you, we worked so hard in the legislature and passed our budget yesterday and we were able to protect and restore services for some of our most vulnerable communities for our seniors who are homebound, for our foster kids and at risk youth, for folks who need healthcare, and i am so proud of the work that we were able to do in the capital to say that even during hard times we are never going to protectnever going to forget what this community is about and the need to lift everyone up. I will also say that we helped save some of those Critical Services by taking some money from our prison system to help do that, and in the state of california, in the state of california over the last 10, 15 years our prison population went down by 40 percent because we finally moved away from the year of mass incarceration. But during that time period it was going down, the budget went up by 60 percent, so we are working hard and we need to all work hard as a community to manifest our values and we are doing that and im so grateful for so many people in the room who are working so hard and particularly during a period of the attorney general talked about, when we have forces in this country that want us to forget about the past. That want to white wash everything. Pretend everything was okay. Everything was not always okay for a lot of people in this country and many things are still not okay for many in this country, so we want to make sure that our kids know about actual history. The history of our African American community. The history of our Lgbtq Community of our immigrant communities, everything. The good and beautiful, and the not so beautiful and we will fight so hard to make sure that those forces dont win and we will do it and have a better future. Thank you everyone. [applause] happy juneteenth please welcome this dynamic father daughter duo, michael and mikayla cheato. [applause] thank you so much for having us. [music playing] [singing mercy mercy me] [applause] i will step aside and let me daughter mikaylagive another round of applause. [applause] [singing] [singing song, golden] one more time for michael and mikayla one more time. [singing] wow. Come on, show your love for this band. Top of the mark. Alright. Now, at this time, please let us welcome a dance from eric. [applause] [music and singing] [applause] [singing] [applause] [singing and music] one more time for mr. Eric lee with that wonderful dance. Now, we are getting ready to go a little higher. Look at your neighbor and say, a little bit higher. At this time, i like to welcome ms. Ramona massey to present the juneteenth court. Alright. Good afternoon. Happy juneteenth and i just want to say right now, after that performance, everybody here needs to be shouting. That was amazing amazing, amazing. I will hurry up. I have the privilege and honor of introducing to you, San Francisco, mr. And mrs. Juneteenth in court, 2024. Before you meet them, lets give them a round of applause. [applause] alright. So, this is an age group from 3 to 17, and they are being groomed for excellence. As mayor breed said, she does not want to be the last so this is our futureism as i introduce them, keep in mind there were others but they are representing the finalists. For third place, i have ziri. Give them a round of applause [applause] second place, i have dylan knight. And third placeor mr. Juneteenth is davan knight. Lets give them a round of applause. Zire is 7, dylan is 8 and davan is 9. We have third place amia whitley, 9 years old. Second place, kaley williams, age 7. Ms. Juneteenth is [indiscernible] age 11. Lets give them all a round of applause. That is dry. This is our future. Give them a round of applause [applause] this is our future. Alright. Amen. Hi, everybody. Thank you for coming here and watching me be mr. Juneteenth. [applause] and watch out for me in the future. [laughter] thank you. Alright. Give it up for this years juneteenth court. Give it up [applause] wow, look at our future right here. How amazing. Congratulations. Alright. Now, let us take a moment and get ready for our special guest, so some of you may know this man from a group named black streets. You might also know him on his own, chicago 85. Please join me and put your hands together for mr. Dave hollister. [applause] we are going to sing a few ditties to you all. If you are all ready, come on say, yeah, im ready [singing and music] i got a question, can i take yall back to 1994 . I cant hear yall. Can i take you all back to 1994 . If you know this i want you to help sing the song. [singing and music] thank you all. [applause] photography one more time for mr. Dave hollister. [applause] listen, i want to thank you for having me out. These guys over here have been all over the world with me, and i thank god for them. They get to chill today. You all get to chill today. Hes one of the greatest vocalists i know. You all give it up one more time for my little brother, josh. [applause] mikayla is over here on the side, so they just chillin today. This is a great occasion and thank you all for doing this. I want to leave yall with this one last song, is that alright . This one last one, is that alright . Lets go. [single and music] [singing and dancing] i love you all, god bless you. Have a good evening. Take the lord everywhere you go. I bless you. How about one more time for mr. Dave hollister [music] we not done yet. We not done yet. Alright. Are you guys enjoying the program, thus far . Lets give a round of applause for the performers thus far. Next up we do have a youth dance performance from heat dance line. Heat dance line in the building alright. Immediately following heat dance line, will be sf [indiscernible] show your love for heat dance line. [singing song, im every woman] [singing song, sweet dreams by beyonce] one more time for heat dance line [applause] fantastic. Now, let us welcome, sfto the stage. Thank you. [applause] happy juneteenth, happy juneteenth we are the San Francisco bay area theater company. We got one song for you today in honor of juneteenth we are performing our show at the historical Grace Cathedral space, so please come check us out this weekend only. Without further ado [singing song, in daddys arms i am tall] [applause] thank you all so much. Check us out. Happy juneteenth . happy juneteenth indeed. One more time for sfwell, i really hope you all have enjoyed the days events. To close us out, please welcome back to the stage, back to the podium, the one that put this all together, please give around of a uz applause to ms. Felicia jones. Alright, we are getting ready to get readyi know you guys are hungry. I know you guys are looking over there at all the good food. Right. . We are getting ready to close out. Tonia williams, stand up, girl. Tonia williams. Yes. This is my sister tonia, and i want to just say again, thank you all for coming. You guys put me to the test last year and you guys told me i had to beat last year and was all under pressure tryingwhat am i going to do, what am i going to do, what am i going to do, but we did it and we are closing out like this come on come on [singing and music] [upbeat singing and music] let us not seek to satisfy first for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatered. Will be neither rest nor tranquillity in america until the negro is granted his Citizenship Rights winds will continue to shake foundations of our nation until the days of justice e merges. Now is the time. [applause] to lift our in addition from quick sandses of injustice to brother there the whoed. Now is the time. We must conduct our struggle on the high plain of dignity and he discipline. No we are not satisfied and we will in the be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness [applause] so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, i still have a dream. [applause] my name is tiffany cobb and i work for the San Francisco fire department. I was raised by a single parent. I grew up with a very strong work ethic mental ity. I would like to compare it to a bar back and anticipated the needs and the call. You will provide the needs and complete the call. The favorite part of the job is when i can actually connect with a patient and utilize your people skills as a human being. Sometimes its not a medical need. They just want someone to talk to, someone to listen to and want to be seen as a person and want to be recognized and see them as they are. Those are my important calls. I remember being a seven or nine Year Old Girl and never seen anyone like me in a fire engine and that gave me hope that i can do that. There are people like me that can do that job. Sometimes people need to feel nurtured and feel safe. I feel like i can bring that to my patients. You maybe feel afraid. Just try it out. Thats what i did. Just never give up. I was told no. I failed the fire academy. Im still here and i never quit. Just learn from your mistakes and never give up on yourself. Im in station 49. Eventually i would like to utilize my skills as a fire paramedic and hopefully become an officer some day. For San Francisco, i said this in my interview, its like the new york of the west coast. It has everything i wanted to be a part of. It has ems and has a rich history and blue collar history which i absolutely love. I want to be a part of that. Shop and dine the 49 challenges residents to do theyre shopping with the 49ers of San Francisco by supporting the Services Within the feigned we help San Francisco remain unique and successful and rib rant where will you shop the shop and dine the 49 im e jonl i provide sweets square feet potpie and peach cobbler and i started my business this is my baby i started out of high home and he would back for friends and coworkers theyll tell you hoa you need to open up a shop at the time he move forward book to the bayview and i thinks the t line was up i need have a shop on third street i live in bayview and i wanted to have my shop here in bayview a quality dessert shot shop in my neighborhood in any business is different everybody is in small banishes there are homemade recess pesz and ingredients from scratch we shop local because we have someone that is here in your city or your neighborhood that is provide you with is service with Quality Ingredients and quality products and need to be know that person the person behind the products it is not like okay. Who [music] my name is lana. I am part owner of the excelsior coffee. My roll with excelsior coffee is pretty much the [indiscernible] i do a lot of the backend operating procedures and a lot of customer front facing, a lot of customer outreach, naerbd outreach, but for the most part the coffee is it driving force of the community. I have been here in the excelsior district for 11 years. The idea behind excelsior coffee spouted 6 years ago out of the need for Community Space and coffee. Excelsior coffee to me is a cornerstone of the neighborhood. Next to this iconic mural on excelsior along with the legacy businesses. We decided that this corner of San Francisco on the Southeast Side of the mission is the place we like to be. I know you see a lot of eththetics of motorcycles behind us. A lot of people ask, whats up with the motorcycles behind you . Motorcycle and classic cars are a big yite of our upbringing so the idea was to connect to this neighborhood from classic cars to low riders to motorcycles and my husband is is a High School Teacher that teaches automotives and history. We love the history of motorcycle engineer and design. For us it was more like a talking point and connection. Honoring that and that is also the driving force between who we are and the makeup. I think what separates from other coffee shops is that, we are serving a community that has been here for a decade before us, and i think it is really special that there is a vortex of non English Speaking communities here. Between my husband and i, we represent many cultures. Im [indiscernible] he is black, his mexican and through our cultures is how we connect with people in the excelsior. To speak their languages, and i think honoring our culture background through coffee and pastry. Excelsior coffee, we are at 4495 Mission Street on mission and excelsior in the excelsior district. Call excelsior coffee in your face excelsior. We are open 7 30 to 4 p. M. For now. [laughter] sfmtas staff. I now call the june 18th, 2024 regular meeting of the municipal transportation agency, board of directors and Parking Authority commission to order. I would like to make one announcement at the beginning of this meeting upfront. And that is that items 10. 2 c and item 11 will not be heard at todays meeting at the request staff and will instead be scheduled for a future meeting. We understand that members of the public may be here to speak on these items, and now that these items are not part of our formal agenda for today, you may of course, feel free to speak on them under item nine. That is general Public Comment and i believe secretary silva will repeat this announcement when we get to item nine. Secretary. So would you please call the roll . Director henderson im sorry, director henry