Supervisors i really appreciate it and also hanging the men and women of San Francisco Fire Department they did a good job. Thank you. clapping. thank you supervisor breed our next accomodation will be provide by our 8th district colleague supervisor wiener. Thank you, mr. President and today, im honoring an out going member of our city family wells lawson. Come on up. Colleagues, i know many of you know and have worked with wells over time. Im sure youre aware of wells was with the Redevelopment Agency and ocii since 2007 as a senior now a senior project manager with the redevelopment of Hunters Point shipyard with the candle stick park you know how critical this is the largest project happening in San Francisco 10 thousand 5 hundred housing unit a third below market rate and a 3rd of redevelopment space and 3 hundreds acres of new parks and 11 though permanent jobs and new academic activity and wells unfortunately is leaving and going down cigarette to the other part of the state has
Caused the 2008 crisis the too big to fail banks and what enabled them to do that with deregulation. But wall street and its allies got rid of the laws the rules and even the cops on the wall street e. And id reached a crescendo in 2000. It took them about after 70 years think about this country knows how to control the finance sector and grow the real economy and grow the middle class. We did it for 70 years. And then deregulation came in reaching its height in 2000 on a bipartisan basis and seven years later we had the largest koreshan almost 80 years. Host are these banks paying since the financial crisis . We have seen the headlines over the years. They have accepted guilt for some circumstances, paying fines. Just last week we had five banks admitting guilty to manipulating currency exchanges and together we are fined 2. 5 billion. Heres what the attorney attorney general had to say Loretta Lynch. The cbc will pay considering the longrunning and egregious nature of a anticompetiti
Francisco Arts Commission where we got the journalists and do the profile of the amazing people to do the work in the bay view and from that community, profiling their expenses what their committed to, and those were in the broadcast on the radio. And we had an event that was packed to the gills with the people that were excited to hear the stories from the community and it was an emotional night and a powerful night and to me it is one night. And it is one community, within this big bay area, but i felt like it was a example of what a station like kalw can do and we did it in partnership and that is the kind of thing that we could leverage for do more and. And it is just a great series of the profiles that i will send out to all of and you check them out on your own time. And the last thing that i point out is if you flip this over and there are a couple of different pictures on the opposite side of this and the last two, and just kind of to me the examples of how the work that is hap
Southeast areas of San Francisco those Young Leaders have help with the workshops and engaging teamwork and vial education and park engagement i want to thank you guys for your tremendous work and take a moment to thank the recreation and Parks Department that has made a difference in the lives of the people in San Francisco and the port of San Francisco and the Park Alliance force the fiscal year leaders which is one example of the value of our local parks in contributing to our city. With that, i want to invite up a number of folks from the Green Program but first brenda who is the volunteer outreach coordinate to speak on behalf of the program hi thank you so much its a great honor to commend the greenacres program and thank you to the recreation and Parks Department greenacres comes from all walks of life and have their personal journeys but the commonality of a drive to work and be youth advocates for their communities and improve their own lives and like president chiu mentioned
Program at the Public Defenders Office who are placed in deportation procedures it makes sense your representing the legal part for those people facing immigration things. Francisco will be surprisingly kourndz on the various dispositions in criminal cases and his input will be invaluable it is hard to understand how important this is. And were lucky francisco will be joining the Public Defenders Office the public defenders gain is delores streets loss. Over the last 6 years francisco is the person to go to with immigration issues hes prchtd the deportation of hundreds of cabinets and keep e kept countless families together. He takes the toughest cases the ones that are nearly impossible to win and won every case hes taken. I know that i mean id like super heros theres a lot of super heros gotham has batman and immigrants in San Francisco has francisco he is a moving lawyer he understands how the cases can spearhead and advance the individual case and the movement. His use of nontradit