So Second Amended with the board with positive recommendation appointment of mr. Michael pappas to the adult and aging services commission. With that objection. Thank you for your Service Commissioner pappas. Thank you very much. Any other items. That concludes our business for today. Motion to adjourn. Excuse me. That is not on today, sir. One. Commons 3rd thursdays is a monthly event series really activate Service Center and un plaza food and music and other social Activities Oil stephanie the Vice President of operations for this. In 2016 an initiative called the Service Center launched an effort by a bunch of the city agencies along with institutional stakeholder and Community Partners to have a program that is how to get people out here on a monthly and weekly and daily basis. My name is a im with the Program Manager and also commons 3rd thursdays will have live music important in the. The city approached us to provide food and beverages at the event kind of the core anchor to encourage attendees to food gives people a reason to stay i really like this like it is really nice like everybody is having a good time. Our goal to enjoy the space and eat and drink and listen to music we wanted to inspire people with the un plaza as a place to hold theyre community events. It is a great way to get people to know about global music and cuisine a great way to bring people together. A natural beautiful backdrop the Asian Art Museum and. It is welcoming. Two more events left in the series so, please come and enjoy and check it out were having a great time. We love our city being a San Francisco based on company it was important to engage request san franciscans and tourists alike. We want to inspire people and everyone interested in providing and coming out for a large or smallscale event reach out to the commons 3rd thursdays and well direct youre seeing to the right people to get to all right, good afternoon, what a Beautiful Day it is in our city and every year around this time, we see more visitors who are coming to San Francisco to shop. We are a destination shopping place for people and while everyone is shopping we want to make sure that you have a really great and enjoyable experience so today well talk go all the Additional Resources and things the city is doing to make sure that experience is the greatest one can you have and do your shopping for your family and all the people you shop for and just last week, we actually had the Lighting Ceremony for the snow flakes and as we go in to the Holiday Seasons, theres several more events that will be taking place and most importantly, is to make sure while you are down here that you feel safe and that you really enjoy what you are down here for and so at Public Works Department, we are going to be adding a lot more addition al resources here downtown especially from the hours from 11 00 to 9 00 you will see more street cleaners around here to make sure that you know when you walk around everybody is clean and your trash cannes are clean and well add some additional steam cleaning and night crews will be here making sure that the city is presentable for the next morning and so were going to do everything we can to make sure the downtown area is nice and presentable and you will hear from our police chief he is going to talk a little bit about safety and the man who heads this and the man who started this program 17 years ago when we started with nordstrom there was a small group started this during the holidays is no one other than our mayor ed lee, please welcome here. [applause] thank you, muhammad, mr. Clean. You know the theme of course every year in association with our Union Square Association our chamber of commerce were here today is that we want people to experience safe and clean holidays and so yes, well invite and union square attracts millions of visitors every year and theyre not going to ever get less because this is just a center piece for our city and so we expect hundreds of thousands of people to be here over the next four weeks and it adds over 6 million just in the next four weeks to our economy and it works because our Police Department is very alert and of course theyre going to give a lot of hints out but people just have to be smart when theyre bringing their families and their friends in from town down here just be alert and listen to every piece of advice that the chief, his commanders, his captains and staff because theyre walking this beat along with all of our wonderful, beautiful, red embassadors that are behind us. [applause] and theyre a delight to have and theyve been growing over the years to accommodate all the families and people that are down here with information guides about where to stop and where to get the best bargains right and also, just being here at this Winter Wonder land i know karen is excited because this wonder land grew out of the need to have a place that was outside of the construction immediate zone or to change that zone for the holidays so john is glad to do this more tor yum and well talk about extended construction later on and during the central subway construction, i think we used our innovation to really Work Together to invite people down here and hose up that construction for a period of time which starts now and wont end until after the new year but this is calm and quiet and you will hear less about construction and more about the voices of our family and kids and people just excited to run through here with all the activities on Winter Wonder land were here to make sure its not only safe but clean, welcoming environment, helpful environment and there were be hundreds of thousands of people down here thankful a Wonderful Fund and were encouraging everybody to take advantage of this Winter Wonder land and all the excitement that happens and also shop locally and make sure you spend time and all your merchant corridors is this is a center piece of it and its also clean and fun and making sure everybody is safe so congratulations everyone, and for all those that are going to be visible, thank you because the visibility of the officers on the beat will calm everybody down and just be alert no matter what part of the city you are in and drive safely and dont drink and drive, thank you. Thank you, mayor lee, we cant do all the great work we do without this partner is our fine San FranciscoPolice Department they work with us and they make sure that we are all of us in the city are protected but most especially the work that the Public Works Department does and i have to say for the many years ive worked for City Government, our chief who joined us the way he is running the department and changing things and everything is working better so i appreciate that and i appreciate that partnership you know, welcome to scott. [applause] good morning, thank you. So im going to repeat a couple things that have been said and first of all, this is my favorite of time of year because the mol day season is it about tradition and family and community and none of this can happen without us as a community im talking about city partners, the department of public works and the Publicprivate Partnership we have with the bids and the embassadors it has to Work Together so i want to talk about a couple things about our traditions and one of our traditions that we want in this city and we must have is that when people come here from where they come from and they come here from all over the world, we want them to have a safe experience and a safe and clean experience and i was out here on saturday night with my family i had a great time and i got here too late for the beer garden but i was off duty. I was off duty and i missed the beer garden but he had a great time with my daughter and she brought a friend from out of town and it was a great time but more importantly, what made me so happy is that i saw the city working like it should be working. We had officers everywhere they were engage and we had people cleaning the streets and it worked like it was supposed to work so thats what we want to promote. We want to promote a tradition of safety, cleanliness so people enjoy their time when they come to San Francisco and they enjoy the experience so they bring their families and their friends and couple of things of safety tips and some of this is basic and you will hear this repeated, we dont want anybodys Holiday Season to be torn apart by being victimized of crime, so a couple of things, first of all, when you are doing what you do shopping or just enjoying the city, take a break from the cellphone if you are going to use it use it responsibly and Pay Attention to your surroundings i know this is a life line but Pay Attention to your surroundings i cant emphasize that enough. Also, when you are shopping, when you carry around your package and when you are using the a. T. M. , again, Pay Attention to your surroundings, if you are using your a. T. M. And putting your pin number in make sure you shield it so people cant steal your pin number and make sure if you are going to your car, that you dont leave your valuables open where people can see them and get to them and break in your car and steal what you worked so hard to buy and that is a basic thing but you would be surprised just how many people forget to do that if you return to your car, get some thought to move your car to another location and sometimes people that are out to do harm they will watch you put your packages in the car and you resume your shopping and come back and your things are gone so make sure you do that and the mayor mentioned that we want people to have a safe experience when you walk across the street and a simple thing, obey the law , obey the traffic signals, dont cross against the red light, dont cross against the red hen this is a simple thing but you would be surprised how many people dont take that simple advice one of our goals here in the city is to reduce pedestrian and fatalities and that is a simple thing that will help in that regard and also if you are driving the mayor mentioned it, this is a season of festivities and theres a lot of spirits and a lot of good spirits around but you dont want to do that and get behind the wheel of your car because thats not going to help anybody and its probably going to hurt more than it helps so if you are going to drive, drink dont drive and be responsibility with your use of alcohol in terms of your shopping habits, its always good to have someone with but, also with your packages if you happened to have packages mailed to you from where you are maleing them from make sure that you understand there are people that will steal your packages so i was at may sees so coming is delivered this week but i want to make sure i take precautions to let me neighbors know that things are coming or whatever so people will look at for each other. Look out for your friends, neighbors and watch out far each other and again this is a Community Season so its all about caring about and looking out for others and being responsible in whatever you decide to do this Holiday Season so thank you. [applause] thank you as the chief said, awareness is everything so you should always be aware where you are at and what you are doing. If you need to make a phone call if its an emergency, call 911 and if its a quality of life call 311 and well respond. Nothing happens without the partnership of the community and the next person i will introduce ive had the pleasure of working with throughout my time at public works but her work in the private sector forming many of the Community Benefits district and they create the embassador program that we see here that is here to help people but they also make sure that the areas are clean, they make sure theyre free from graffiti and 9 downtown is pren able and welcome from the Business Improvement district. [applause] thank you so much and welcome everyone inform union square and our Second Annual winter walk were so delighted to have you here and im executive director of the union square Business Improvement district and we strive to create a positive experience for all the visitors who come down here and clean and safe is our montra during the holidays. I would like to thank the mayor ed lee for your leadership on clean and safe issues all year around and muhammad may have mentioned i had the pleasure of working for mr. Lee at the maintenance yard so we were cleaning up the streets then and were still cleaning up, right mayor . And i had the opportunity to work with muhammad at the yard and still today and muhammad, thank you for your partnership year around and this area has never looked better and we thank you so much for sending the fix it team down here weve been working with sandra and paint the polls and remove unwanted furniture from sidewalks and paint crosswalks and it should look really great for the holidays down here so thank you and of course, we have beautiful hanging baskets now thanks to muhammad and the gateway here to union square which is never looked better with the holiday lights so thank you and last but not least, i cant forget our partnership with the San Francisco police chief chief scott has been an incredible partner this year giving us additional beat officers were up to eight officers that walk the beat every day work very closely with all of our embassadors here in red to create a strong Publicprivate Partnership together so we believe we may have some funding coming through my staff has worked hard on filling out paper work to also allow for police officers, if i say that and everyone collectively cross your fingers on that one so, good news to come and it is my pleasure to lead the staff here of our Public Safety hospitality and cleaning embassador standing right behind me in red so look out for them during the holidays and theyre here to answer questions and point the direction to tourists to shops and restaurants and let them know where theyre going and they help with quality of life issues and they wipe off from gee tee and they sweep and paint and hmm the city comes through and Additional Resources on the cleaning side on the safety side its just amplifying our effect even that much month sore we can make union square shine so come on down for the holidays here in union square, shop, enjoy the restaurants and the winter walk will be opened every day from now until new years from 8 00 a. M. To 9 00 p. M. We have two beer gardens this year weve got food trucks as you can see behind me and reindeer scooters bring the family down and, shops so come down and enjoy a wonderful, safe, Holiday Season. Thank you. [applause] thank you are, karen. And outside of the shopping season, theres a lot of projects on the drawing board and if you have gone down to Holiday Plaza you might see plantings down the rail and theres decorations that we will put up and theyre getting ready to do work on the tunnel so its a project the Public Works Department is in and the better Market Street the improvement for Market Street we hope will break ground on but theres a lot of opportunities and lots of designs and lots of work that the whole city family is doing and in closing i want to thank mayor lee for all his leadership that he brought to San Francisco you know, i have worked for mayor lee for 17 years but what mayor lee has brought to our city is really all the city departments talking to each other, working with each other and doing team Work Together we make a lot of progress so mayor lee i want to continue to thank you for your leadership and bringing us all together and really you know no lines all of us in one place and trying to make the city a better place for everyone. So that will conclude our press conference and enjoy your shopping and this is the season and come down here and theres the winter gardens, theres union square, theres all these beautiful shops here and spend some money and enjoy the Holiday Season. Thank you very much. [applause]. Shop and dine the 49 promotes loophole businesses and changes residents to do thirds shopping and diane within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local services we help San Francisco remain unique and successful where will you shop and dine shop and dine the 49. 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