Providing will do just that. Eco blitz, i dont know who came up with that name, but why not, it is an effort to invest even more resources into cleaning and greening the downtown area so that people who visit this area, so that people who shop in this area and people who work in this area have a clean, safe, green place that they can enjoy their experience in. Today is about the enhancement that we need in order to make San Francisco a better place. I dont know about you, but im tired of people talking trash about our city. It is time that we continue to do whats necessary to create a different environment, a different way in which how we take care of our city and it starts with more investment in areas where we know we have lots of people who are walking, who are catching munimobile, who are working, who are shopping. We are going to make San Francisco better now during the Holiday Season and in the future because of our new investment. We are excited about what this is going to do to enhance the experience in our downtown community. Thank you all so much for being here. At this time, i want to introduce our city administrator , naomi kelly. [applause] thank you for the love our City Campaign. Thank you to mohammed and the public works crews and teams. It has been 20 years since we have been doing this. I cant tell you how important it is that we love our city and keeping it clean. Thank you to karen from the Union Square BusinessImprovement District for partnering with us. I go out once a month with my family to the Community Clean team. We hit different neighborhoods. I cant tell you how important it is because a, not only are we upping our loving our city and giving back to our city, but im bonding with my family. I am meeting different neighborhood associations, merchants associations, different public works crews, different downtown streets, everyone is coming out. It brings everyone together for common cause keeping our city clean, keeping it sustainable, and giving civic pride. This is why these events are very important. I also oversee the citys 311 call center. It is a 24hour operation where we have folks taking phone calls from different residents and many of the phone calls are about graffiti removal, illegal dumping, downed trees and encampments. Theyre very much a part of working with everyone here so that we know where the areas are that we need to focus and keep clean. I want to thank everyone again for being here today and taking pride in keeping our union square, our Market Street corridor and all of San Francisco clean. Thank you. [applause] all right. Before i introduce our next speaker, theres quite a number of people to acknowledge. The echo blitz is coming together of everybody. It is like a village. It brings all types of city departments, the community, the businesses and everyone together so that is what an eco blitz is and rec representing the port is byron matz. Please give him a hand. Tom maguire from m. T. A. Is here. The police department, chief bill scott, all of the officers making sure we are safe. Recreation and parkas here. The department of environment is here. Give them a hand. Our fire chief is here. Give her a hand. Our office of Economic Workforce Development and our partners at recology. [applause] we are also joined by several Community Leaders and these are partners that we are working yearround year in and year out. They have stepped out for the Holiday Season. They have been part of this campaign. A few weeks ago we went to all these various neighborhoods and we did a punch punchlist. Now we are all out of work with all the agencies and community works, making it able for the city to shine. I want to thank Randall Scott from the fishermans wharf, captain marvin from the Community Benefit district, Andrew Robinson from the east coast Community Benefit district , and speaking on behalf of all of those Community Groups , i will ask karen to come up and say a few words. [applause] thank you, mohammed. Good morning, everyone. I am the executive director of union square. As mohammed mentioned, we are here at the historic cable car turnaround, also known as the gateway to union square and to San Francisco. Here in union square all of our merchants and hotel owners are getting ready for the holidays. They are putting the finishing touches on the holiday windows. The ice rink has opened, the tree is up and it will be lit the day after christmas. We are getting ready to have an even cleaner and safer and festive Holiday Season down here we are looking forward to this. This is our most favorite time of the year. I would like to thank madam mayor for suggesting that we bring back the eco blitz. It is sort of like when you have family and friends over for thanksgiving. You have to clean up the house and clean up the living room, but visitors are coming and that is what we are doing. Thank you so much, mayor breed forth adjusting the eco blitz, and also for making it making it a priority. It is really so important for us down here. Thank you to mohammed newer with public works and for sending us all of your team. We spent last week with them. A big round of applause. Absolutely. Here they are. Easily recognizable. And we walked the district. We developed a punchlist and we will get some curbs painted. We needs some help from m. T. A. On that. We will build potholes, we will plant flowers. I heard that was already done. We will shine of up these bricks right here. We are going to do a deep clean and we really appreciate it and a comp went all the work that our team here has done. Thank you so much. Also to add another round of applause. Yes, yes, yes. Good job. And this service has already enhanced with the Property Owners down here just recommitted to. We recommitted to the bid for 10 more years which means committing assessments to the tune of about 6 million. This is a 60 increase. You will see more of these folks in red out and about, especially in the afternoon and evening, keeping the area cleaner and safer. We will be upping our Pressure Washing of the sidewalks to weekly. We are excited to have a new toy we have this new machine right behind you. It is super cool. It is a vacuum. We are getting our vacuuming done here. It works really well. It helps with the morning crew. [cheers and applause] absolutely. So as mohammed mentioned, a lot of the other communities are also getting an eco blitz. Theres big events down there, too. I know the auto show is happening. Join us for that. If you havent been down to union square in a while, please come down. Theres so much to do. There is a harry potter show going on. I mentioned the tree lining, and shopping. Lots of shopping. Thank you. We have some really nice shops here. Make sure you stop by. Finally, stockton street is open central subway has cleaned up stockton street. You can drive down and we are going to move the winter walk over to grand avenue. Please doing us there. We are hoping to have a much cleaner and safer and more festive Holiday Season for us all. Thank you. Thank you. We are really serious. We will get down to the level of government. That is a level of cleaning that we will get down to. We have a long punchlist and we will work hard and make sure that our city continues to be clean. This is the most beautiful city in the world. We all know it and we will keep it that way. [applause] i want to thank all the agencies and the Community Partners and our mayor for coming up today. We are starting this eco blitz. We started two weeks ago. We are starting today in tenth city. When you visit these neighborhoods, you will see crews getting ready. We are bustling and getting ready and cleaning for the winter. Please say hello to them and thank them for the work that they are doing. Again, this program will be in full force. Many of the neighborhood commercial areas, please visit them. Spend some money and make sure people who come to San Francisco have a great experience. Are we going to make sure that happens . [cheers and applause] this is part of our love our City Campaign. And the eco blitz will be there for public works reminding people and Property Owners to do their part. The mayor said it, the agencies alone cannot do it. All the businesses and everyone has to do their part. Right . We will be out there reminding them to do their part and love our City Campaign is on. I want to thank you all for coming. We will take the mayor and show her a few of our machines. You all have a great day. [applaus my name is holly im been in Enterprise Software training for 10 years that expired film and art and voiceover week work and all kinds of work. Im jane a Program Director for the state of california i have the privilege of working on special Technology Projects for the depth of the technology a passion for helping people and a passion for doing work that makes a difference and makes me feel good at night and i think about what i did today and helping every Single Person in the city as. A Technology Professional a need for more women and more women in leadership roles the diversity and the leadership pipeline is an area that needs a little bit of love. A lot of love. A whole lost love. Ill contribute for the change for womens equality by showing up and demonstrating that the face of success schizophrenia came come in a variety of corresponds. Theyre a lot of roadblocks for San Francisco when it comes to our proposition and finding a play for information that has how to start and grow management so we started to build the San Francisco business portal not just consults or the taxpayers and voters theyre actually customers we are the government serving the consumers in our neighborhood i point to at least one best that i personally touched with one way or another and makes me feel good about the projects like the business portal and in embarking on this new exciting journey of finding better and efficient ways to deliver services to san franciscans i sit through a lot of Senior Management meetings im the only woman in the room i know that our c i o is tried to recruit for women and a male dominated environment. Ive felt unbounded and inspired to pursue a lot of things over time i recognize to be cricked in ways i didnt anticipate you know ive followed the calling but now put me in a position to spend most of my time doing things i love this is the whole point; right . You ought to feel inspired in our work and found opportunities to have youre work put you in service for others and happy doing what youre spending so much time. My father was a journalist lift and my mom a teacher when we finally decided to give up their lives because of me and now i actually get to serve the city and county of San Francisco it makes me feel really, really good not this didnt happen overnight ive worked my entire life to get to this point and much more to learn and i have a lot of changes ahead. Really think about what moves you what youre pats about and trust that you are sufficient and enough where you are to begin and then is her that you are being tenacious about getting to the next place in the evolution but by all means start with you are and know thats enough once i got the hang of it a little bit, you know, like the first time, i never left the court. I just fell in love with it and any opportunity i had to get out there, you know, they didnt have to ask twice. You can always find me on the court. [ ] we have been able to participate in 12 athletics wheelchairs. They provide what is an expensive tool to facilitate basketball specifically. Behind me are the amazing golden state road warriors, which are one of the most competitive adaptive basketball teams in the state led by its captain, chuck hill, who was a National Paralympic and, and is now an assistant coach on the national big team. It is great to have this opportunity here in San Francisco. We are the main hub of the bay area, which, you know, we should definitely have resources here. Now that that is happening, you know, i im looking forward to that growing and spreading and helping spread the word that needs that these people are here for everyone. I think it is important for people with disabilities, as well as ablebodied, to be able to see and to try different sports, and to appreciate trying different things. People can come and check out this chairs and use them. But then also friday evening, from 6 00 p. M. Until 8 00 p. M. , it will be wheelchair basketball we will make sure it is available, and that way people can no that people will be coming to play at the same time. We offer a wide variety of adaptive and inclusion programming, but this is the first time we have had our own equipment. [ ]. Good afternoon, everyone. Hi, there. [applause] so my name is jackie flin, im the executive director of the a. Philip Randolph Institute, San Francisco. I want to thank everyone for taking the time to gather with us as we prepare for the thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving is a time when families reflect on the hard work and sacrifices made throughout the year. Traditionally we celebrate a harvest, one nurtured by our elders, gathered by hard working parents and gathered by people who care. All year we make sacrifices so our children can play, learn, grow grow, and this thursday, enjoy the feast. In San Francisco, we are putting families first. Im humbled to lead an effort in leading the largest turkey giveaway in San Francisco in which 5,500 families in need will receive a turkey. [applause] im honored, supporting the citying across the city. Its an honor to introduce someone who works tirelessly. Shes creating a city where no families and no children are forgotten or left behind. Shes realizing the dream of the city with opportunities for all families to thrive. Please welcome the mayor of the city and county of San Francisco, mayor london breed. [applause] hello i love coming here. Every time i go here, i get more and more excited. Im excited about this community and all the Amazing Things that continue to happen here. And i want to start by thanking a. Philip Randolph Institute for all their incredible work. [applause] thank you. And also a special thank you to the folks at bayview station and all the officers. [applause] our police chief bill scott is here. Our fire chief, Jeanine Nicholson is here. And let me tell you, it does take a village. I know we got today is really about giving. And let me just tell you, it is really a blessing to be a blessing. And i know that in so many ways, we are going to be handing out turkeys here, thanks to foster farms and whole foods, but we also know that many of you who are cooking those turkeys are going to be sharing them with your family members and neighbors and friends. [applause] so i want to take this time to acknowledge and thank the folks who are here volunteering. Your supervisor watson is here as well. [applause] but i also need to pause and explain to all of you why the mayors of san jose and oakland are in the house. [applause] let me explain. See, what had happened was we had a bet and a couple months ago, we had a bet, first it started as the battle of the bay, we are battling for the bay. To clean up the bay, to clean up our city, to love our cities, to show love and respect to our community. And let me tell you, first the bet was between me and oakland mayor libby schaaf. [applause] and then at the last minute, mayor liccardo was like hold on, i want a piece of that. So he joined in. [applause] but guess who won, San Francisco. [applause] but let me explain, mayors. Let me tell you. We had not only the most volunteers, we had the most volunteers from the Bayview Hunters Point Community in the citys history. The bayview showed up and showed out. That we have more volunteers but oakland collected more trash. So they won in the trash collection, because we couldnt find stuff to pick up. [applause] we cleaned up our city. But the fact is, let me explain, let me explain, mayor, let me explain. The fact is we are all one bay area. We are all one community. We work as partners to address some of the most challenging issues that you all know we face around homelessness, around housing affordability, and we know that the only way that we are going to get to a better place is not if we work in isolation but if we come together. And this was an opportunity to come together and have a little fun. [applause] so im wearing my giants, even though they was losing and stuff. I still love them. I still love them. Im a giants fan. I still rep, even when they losing. Im going to still rep the warriors even when they losing. We share the warriors. But them niners though. [applause] so just i am just let me tell you, and im going to let our mayors have a chance to say a few words, but im so happy to be here. I feel the love. I feel the energy. I feel the excitement. And thats what makes this an incredible community. You all make this an incredible community. And as we continue to address some of the challenges, we are here to make better decisions so that future generations who grew up in what we know followed the conditions that