Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 14, 2024

Edwin m. Lee International Terminal departures hall. Thank you very, very much. I have gone to a lot of you for support, and we loved ed, and thank you. Naomi, i have to say, reading through all of his accomplishments, i have to think all of you that worked with ed and for ed. We are on the outside, and we dont know how much work it is, but seeing all that was done, and so many of us are involved with so many pieces of it, and thats why ed was as good a mayor he was because of all of you, so thank you. [applause] thank you. So, i dont think mayor brown made it here this evening, i dont see him, but he did love mayor lee, he was very instrumental working with Steve Kavanaugh and our former governor, our governor and former mayor gavin newsom. Jason elliott just had a heart attack right there. [laughter] but in having and become the interim mayor when mayor newsom went on to run for lieutenant governor, so he has had wonderful things, and was a wonderful advisor, and a good friend to all of a sudden, to mayor brown, and to mayor lee. Before i conclude, i want to give you a few more next steps on what the committee is working on. We plan to make the book digital so that we can post it to the San Francisco public librarys web webpage and to the edwin m. Lee foundation website. We are working on translating the book into chinese, spanish and tagalog, we, it has been almost 18 months since he passed away, and this would be the natural time that he would have been thinking about his accomplishments and creating the book, so this month is asianpacific heritage month, it is also the month of his birthday, so we worked in a very short time frame to turn the book around. We only have a few copies here tonight, but there is a list on the table back there for everyone to order one if you are interested, but it also will be digital. With that, this concludes our program. Thank you all for attending, it was really nice to just be around everyone in this room tonight, and today we have food and beverages, lets all have a toast to mayor ed lee. Thank you. [cheers and applause] [ ] clapping celebrating the wow. Turnout this is our third annual to celebrate pride we notice we didnt have Community Event for pride. We actual had 19 we had godzilla and are you ball weird names i think its unique were able to have special event were all women that relax and have fun you know everything is friendly and kind were all equal im happy that good evening, everybody, we want to get your attention, please. I like it, i like it, good evening, everybody, and welcome to the city build graduation ceremony. We are here to honor our graduates for City Build Academy , cycle 30, and let me see this one, Construction Administration and professional Services Academy for 2019. [cheers and applause] im gladys, i am joined by stella, im sorry, i am so nervous, we have been waiting so long. I am joined by alanna, and we, together, we will be your m. C. Tonight. We are very excited. We promise it to be a wonderful graduation. We are doing everything from our graduates from cycle 30 and cycle 19. We are going to acknowledge the supervisor of district eight, Rafael Mandelman if he was here, we also want to recognize someone from Assembly Member david tos office, also, in spirit, we have senator scott weiner in here was here in spirit. And also, we will do a lot of shout outs later. So, please help me welcome our city build director. [cheers and applause] good evening, we apologize for running late. My name is ken name, i am the acting city build director. Before we start the celebrations , we wanted to acknowledge a Community Member that we lost dearly earlier this year. I would like to ask that Sherry Andrews who has worked with her from the beginning of the program to come up and have a little moment of silence for her welcome. This is real rough for me. How do you say goodbye to your partner . Someone who has been with you from the beginning . We will open it with a moment of silence. Thank you. Mindy, i want you to see her as who she was. She was a fighter. There was no doubt about it. I am a 30 year ironworker from local 377, i am retired, i used to always say that mindy was from uptown and i was from across town, but we worked together, we had the understanding of working with disadvantaged communities, people from the projects, women who had a real difficult time getting into the trades, and ex offenders in and out of prison so we had a special population that we worked with, and we didnt leave a rock unturned for them to get to where they were trying to go. We always had an expression that we would say with each other, everybody deserves the right to work who want to work, and San Francisco being the unique cosmetology and cosmopolitan place it is, theres a vast array of people, but yet there was pockets of poverty, and pockets of people who were being denied, so mindy being the kind of fighter she was, and me being the kind of fighter that i was, we made a perfect team. Even though she is not with us physically, she is here with us spiritually. I appreciate everybody being able to acknowledge her, city build, you know, this was a real good challenge for us, and like i say, being here from cycle one , and now you are at cycle 30 , there were a lot of challenges. We were also creating a memorial , a living trust later on this fall, we will deal with the unions, we will deal with the contractors, but there is a lot of people who didnt have money, and that was always a barrier, so we wanted to be able to make certain that thats not the reason, so we would have a living trust that we can always be able to provide for those who want to get into the trace. [applause] get into the trades. [applause] thank you for giving us a moment to share our memories with mindy. Her picture is on the side of the room and we have a slideshow again, thank you for being here with us. Now, at this time, we are here for the special day to celebrate the graduation of City Build Academy cycle 30, and castro cycle 19. What we would like to do is to welcome supervisor fewer to come up and share a word with us to open us open up the event. [applause] good evening, everyone. I would like to also acknowledge my colleague, president yi in the audience today. [applause] i am honored today to be addressing and congratulating the newest class of city build and Construction Administration and professional Services Academy graduates. You have now joined the ranks of our ranks of approximately other 9,900 city graduates. I have been a fan of city build since its conception in 2006. This program that trains and helps to place San Francisco residents into construction trades jobs is a winwin for everybody. It is a win for the students if they can earn College Credit during their 18 week training course, it is a win for the construction trades as it creates a pipeline of employees who are trained to answer the construction trades to succeed as new apprentices, it is a win for city college as it boosts its enrolment numbers and also provides real supports for student success. I want to commend the graduates, as i know this is not an easy program to pass, it requires diligence and commitment, but also selfdiscipline, and the courage to learn a new skill. You have graduated at a perfect time. We need your help to help build for the new incoming population of San Francisco. Lets build San Francisco together with solid union jobs. Congratulations, graduates, thank you to your families and friends who gave so much encouragement, and to the city build instructors. Graduates, use this opportunity and accomplishment to do well in life, but above all, do good. [applause] thank you, supervisor fewer. As ken mentioned earlier today, we have a very special guest this evening, special guest that im very excited to introduce, as a black woman born and raised in the heart of bayview hunters point, my communities very important to me. I know to this woman, also as well. It is important that she is working hard right now to make an equitable San Francisco for us all, and provide our communities with the opportunity and the access to wellpaying careers in construction and also in the skilled trades. She is here to celebrate his graduates this evening, and to help me welcome her, please put your hands together for the honorable london breed, mayor of synthesis go. [applause] hello, graduates. Mayor of San Francisco. [applause]. Hello, graduates. How exciting is this . When i think about how far we have come with the city build program, i think about what happened when i was growing up in the western edition, where we didnt have city build. We had the community center, and we had people like lefty gordon and others fighting for opportunities for so many people in the Western Addition to work in construction jobs, especially because, a some of you know, the history of the western edition, where there were a number of projects that were taken place, a number of buildings that were being built that werent but not a lot of access for Community Members to be a part of building in their own neighborhood, and so the fight started in the western edition, and lead us to what i think has been one of the most successful programs in creating an opportunity for people to basically participate in building the city that they were born and raised in. That is why im excited to be here today. Im excited because we have the graduates of the future, the ones who are going to continue to build the housing, to build the Public Safety buildings, to build the parks, to participate in making a difference in your city. Just imagine growing up and playing at haworth playground, and all of a sudden, you are the one who is installing the new swingset and other things that future generations are going to be able to play on for years to come. That is what this program represents. It represents an opportunity, yes for a career, yes, to help to make sure that you have a good paying job to support your family, but it also represents a place in history. This is your legacy, the work that you are going to do to build San Francisco and make the lives of others better in addition to yours and your families. It is really what this program is all about. I want to thank so many of the friends in the family who are joining us here today, because this journey to get here is only the beginning. This is the beginning of a great future for our graduates, but they still need your support. They still need your support in this process as they apply for jobs, as they have to wake up really early to get to those jobs. They need your support and encouragement on those days when they say, i dont think i want to wake up and go to work today. They need your support, because this is about a career, this is about the longterm, and this is about being able to have an amazing opportunity to participate in so many incredible projects in the city and county of San Francisco. I want to thank all of our labor organizations for being here with us today, because those are the folks who will make sure that you get hired, right . [cheers and applause] right, tony, right, vince . The folks at the Building Trades , and others, they will be the ones to make sure you have good paying jobs, with good benefits to support your families. It is so exciting that this program started in 2005, and it is it has not only lead to a number of classes of graduates who have had incredible opportunities to work in our city, it has also led to other Amazing Programs that we have launched. City drive, where people can go through a training to drive for munimobile here in San Francisco , our tech programs, and other industries. We have so many opportunities in San Francisco. Our economy is booming, and we have to make sure that we dont leave anyone behind in this process. Here in San Francisco, we are going to do more to prepare the people in these communities for the opportunities that exist. Yes, constructions to build our city, but also in the tech sector, and also in the healthcare sent sector, and also our Public Infrastructure projects and businesses, and all the great things that life has to offer. I will tell you right now, by going through this program, you have demonstrated your commitment to really buckling down, going through a program, and also preparing yourself for an incredible job opportunity. If you can do this and make it through this program, there is nothing that you cant do to succeed in life. I know. [applause] i know that im so fortunate to be mayor of this incredible city, and i say this every single time, because i come from humble beginnings. I come from public housing, i have a brother whos incarcerated, i have a sister who i lost to a drug overdose, and when i think about the fact that i have this incredible opportunity, my goal as mayor is to make sure that what i had to go through, the challenges that i experienced growing up in poverty in this city, that we break those generational poverty and challenges that exist to make sure that this doesnt continue to happen to people growing up in our city. [applause] and i say that if i can come out of these challenging circumstances and be mayor of the best city in the world, then you can do anything you want to do. Congratulations, and thank you for having me here today. [cheers and applause] thank you. We want to recognize the president of the board of supervisors. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] okay. , we will continue with the program. Okay, he wants to speak. Okay. Thank you. Do i really want to follow the mayor . Wasnt she great . Wasnt my colleague, supervisor fewer great, also . I guess there is a whole lot i can add to this, because it has always been my dream that we have a program like this where we can have young people learned the trades and and up with very good jobs. A big secret here, i never said this before, there was where i tried to make a living doing handyman work. I couldnt make a living because i wasnt trained, i wish i had the opportunity to learn the things that you all learned. How do you wire something, how what do you mean you have to hit the nail only three times and it should go into the woods . When i hit it, it took like 20 times, and i barely get it in there, so congratulations to you all. I really think you are going to do a big favour in making sure we have skilled people for when you work on these projects, that is making San Francisco a great city. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you. Please help me to welcome our friend, our partner, chancellor rogers. Thank you. Thank you very much. I came here to perform a very important official duty to what we call city college, the class of 2019. On behalf of the board of trustees and the authority invested in me by the board of trustees of city college of San Francisco, on behalf of the 2,000 employees of city college of San Francisco, most of them who work in the union, okay, on behalf of the over 60,000 students at city college of San Francisco, and you no longer are , okay, you are graduating today, and on behalf of the over 30,000 alumni of city college of San Francisco, i confer upon each one of you the status of alumnus of city college of San Francisco. [cheers and applause] [cheering] and now, it is my duty, and it is my pleasure. And that status, as important as it is, is a result of people like you, not just talk it, but you walk it, you have grabbed the opportunity. Im so grateful to the partnership that we have with the city of San Francisco, because people can talk, and people say, there are so many problems, but we and you are the solution. So you have these responsibilities. Number 1, when you get up and go to work tomorrow morning, and you will, you will not just be workers, you will be city college workers. Number 2, there are so many people in here who are looking at what you are doing, and they are going, oh, my god, if they can do it, i can do it. You keep going. You keep working, and we want you back to get your degree, and to keep moving on. And the third thing, and this is your last homework assignment in order to be official alumni of city college of San Francisco. I will teach it to you, go rams one, two, three, go rams. God bless you. [applause] just a couple of shout outs today. Weve got dpr construction in the house. [applause] we have ironworkers union. [applause] web core. [applause] we also want to acknowledge the president of local 261 who is here. [applause]. We see you. Next we will have our student representatives speak. We have nicole then halton from cycle nine, and nicolas carter, City Build Academy cycle 30. [applause] hello, good evening, everyone welcome, thank you for being with us all here today. My name is nicole, i am the newest graduate from this Years Program of spring 2019. This truly Amazing Program has been giving back to the residents of the community of San Francisco through educating, training, and helping those individuals looking for employment find jobs in the ever booming Construction Industry. By a show of hands, who here has ever had to make a Career Change in their lifetime . All right, lots of you. So most of you can understand just how challenging it is to begin again in unfamiliar territory. Around this ti

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