It would be a mistake for San Francisco not to make this choice now. For everyday, every month that we delay making that additional expenditure the achievement gap with some students is going to grow wider and will become more expensive to close it. I hope that we support this item. And again i want to thank supervisor kim and the other cosponsors. And i look forward to working with our new colleagues. President supervisor kim. Supervisor kim im glad that supervisor mar mentioned it. I want to congratulate San Francisco Unified School District for passing its annual financial audit which it always does but for the First Time Ever passing without any findings. It was reported in the examiner. The auditors themselves said they had never seen a Government Agency past without any findings. The fact that the School District is marking every i and crossing every t i want to thank the superintendents. It is the highest performing urban School District. The leadership and work of many dedicate
We passed an unbelievable measure that will provide funding for Affordable Housing here in San Francisco. It doesnt solve the problem, but it is a step way beyond what any other community in california has done. I want to thank the board and the mayor for their incredible leadership on this and invite up mayor ed lee. [ applause ] thank you, doug and thank you for your leadership at mercy housing. As you reconstruct your life. [ laughter ] anyway, let me first of all say its a privilege to be with our board of supervisors, many of the members are here. Our fire chief, our police chief, our homeless connectors, bevin, who has been on the streets and i will be out there with you tonight to do the Homeless Count as we need to do to make sure were doing our best to cover everyone. Barry said earlier this is a lot of miracles happening and i will tell you this is the city of miracles, because we want those miracles to happen. We wish it to happen. Lucille wouldnt be here without those mirac
Occasions when those who have been excluded have been welcomed to something new and exciting. She has done it for women coming into the halls of congress. She has done it for seniors moving into housing. She has done it for those with hiv aids gathering at the memorial grove. I could go on and on, but i would much rather hear her speak, so please welcome leadership nancy pelosi. [ applause ] thank you very much. Thank you very much for your very generous introduction, barry and for your great leadership at the st. Anthony foundation, for the invitation to be here today with such distinguished guests. How about tyrone . Is he something . [ applause ] but its an honor to be with you barry, with susan swift, with Doug Shumaker and our distinguished mayor, mayor lee. Last time i saw him he was on the platform while president obama was delivering the inaugural address. Susan corette, thank you for decades of generousity and service to our Community Across the board. And father harden, who i
To go hungry in his beloved San Francisco community. Joe would have been so proud to support this wonderful building that will provide so much care for so many people in our city. For me, st. Anthonys also represents the three cs. Care, community, and continuity. I bring you many congratulations from all of the members of the board of directors of the Koret Foundation and our very best wishes for continued sucrose in success in the future. Thank you. [ applause ] i saw merl and larry, if you want to join us. As we said, this building is complex. And it starts with the funding. It will get more complicated with the construction pretty soon, but it has really been an unbelievable group effort to pull together the different funders of this work. We heard about the korets foundation amazing con tributionss and i know there have been so many amazing contributions on the st. Anthony side. For an Affordable Housing project for this it takes incredible people and we start with hud, who supplie
I have no problem spending in our kids education, to draw from our state reserve to put us further in the hole to me is the wrong approach. Supervisor campos. Supervisor campos i would like to begin by welcoming once again our newly elected colleagues, supervisors yee and breed. It is exciting when we take our own new board of supervisors, and i look forward to working with you. There are many votes that we cast in this chamber and in some respects it is only fitting that one of the first votes that this new board starting its new term takes is his vote. This is one of the most important issues that we will be dealing with in one of the most important vote that we will be taking as his term proceeds. Supervisor kim, i want to thank you for your leadership but i want to piggyback about what supervisor avalos said, talking about in some respects two different cities. And what happens to some people in San Francisco. We are a city of great wealth. We have because of a lot of Different Rea