I would like to start the program. I just want to welcome everybody here at the circle. The new home of the contractor Assistance Center. My name is kelly. Im the general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. I have been with the city for 32 years. One of the themes that i had a passion was to provide opportunities to san franciscans in participating in city contracts. So for 16 years, i have been working closely with the now mayor on how we can get that done. So, there has been a series of events that weve been able to accomplish together. I think that this is really one of the major events to open up a center in this community to help local businesses to get opportunities on city projects. One of the things that i wanted to say about the center is that one of the themes when we are were looking for a spot for the center is available parking. You notice that you can actually park. The other thing is that given the fact that, the 49ers are leaving, we thought this w
Dont know theyre right so i ask for your support today thank you supervisor campos. President chiu i want to thank supervisor campos for bringing this forward and also our tenant advocates and families. We all certainly appreciate not only your testimony but your encourage in stepping up and sharing with us those different stories. We all know we have on a affordability crisis in San Francisco and weve seen an eviction crisis in many of our district. We need to bring different policy solutions. Last week i was part of the board of supervisors decision to move forward with the demolitions and conversion and i appreciate your support of my amendment and happy to be a co shorn of this legislation and certainly think theres no one solution that will end the situation all of our Work Together will comprehensively address that and im proud of your supervisors to stand with the tenant that were im happy to refer this item with a full recommendations for tomorrow thank you supervisor kim. Than
To receive them. So im really excited about this opportunity to work with the local businesses. We work with quite a few businesses out this that really shaped the organization and the model of the center. So, i would like to have this great honor to really introduce the mayor. Now, the mayor, im telling you this mayor has experienced everything from hrc where he was really focused on local businesses and went to purchasing about providing opportunities to local businesses and i worked closely with him because he was my boss at the department of public works and now the city administrator and now the mayor. Its a great honor to look at all the things weve been able to accomplish, the micro set aside program and job contracting and we look at ways to invest in local businesses, San Francisco businesses because we feel with that will really help employee citizens of San Francisco. With that i would like to introduce mayor ed lee. [ applause ] thank you, har land. Happy holidays its good
Look like next to me. It comes about to my bellybutton. This could happen in just a few days. There hasnt been a storm like this for 47 years here, so there are people i know who were small children when it happened, but we have really havent experienced anything like this. The rain event is the big question mark. We have no idea how long that may go. Look, this is going to be a disaster, and what that means is your normal daily routine is about to be zrumtd for multiple days of the the infrastructure, the power is going to go off the the infrastructure may not work. Im scared. My husband is sick. I aint worried about my home. Im just worried about our lives. And we have breaking news as you were listening to that. This is now a category 3 hurricane. Harvey is now a category 3 hurricane and it will comma shore as that. It is only going to strengthen as it slowly moves across the warm water of the gulf of mexico as a category 3 hurricane. 8 Million People currently under a hurricane war
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