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 existed when we were younger or when you were at the old one, we cant let that continue to happen in our city. And thats why were changing things for the better. [applause] yes. You all know im from o. C. , but i love double rock, i love hunters point, i love this city. And my plan is to continue to work with you all to make it a better place for all of us to grow and to thrive and to be safe and to prosper. So with that, i want to turn the mic over to the mayor from oakland who is going to talk a lot of mess. Oakland mayor sam. [applause] thanksgiving. I cant talk mess on thanksgiving. No, im not putting that on. [laughter] [off mic] to come together. Maybe at the end ill put it on. All right. You know, like london was born and raised in San Francisco, i was born and raised in oakland. [applause] we say in our house, we never ate blueberry muffins, we only ate vita blueberry muffins. Thats why the battle for the bay was a reminder to everyone that, you know, the environment doesnt care whether its in San Francisco or san jose or oakland, right . It doesnt care. We have to Work Together to take care of our precious resources. And thats why, really, everybody was a winner in the battle for the bay. Because we got together like 6400 volunteers in one day in our three cities, caring for our environment. [applause] now, the reason im not putting on that janky orange hat. You may not make it out of [off mic] [laughter] like i said, the reason i am not putting on that janky orange hat. [jeers] is because while San Francisco had more volunteers, oakland picked up so much trash, literally more than 109,000 pounds of trash. [applause] it was more tonnage than these two cities combined, okay . Okay. Now, and sam said, oh, you must have dumped out the dumpsters. I said i wish that were true. We actually had that much trash to pick up. But here we are in thanksgiving. And this was a fun bet because part of the bet from the beginning is that the three of us are going to be going to each others cities, and i look forward to seeing you in my city and yes, you are going to wear that orange hat, but we are going to be volunteering together around issues that matter to all of us. Because poverty does not care about municipal boundaries. Income inequality, homelessness, housing insecurity, housing shortages, they dont care about what city youre in. We know that just like challenges dont stay confined to municipal boundaries, neither do solutions. And that is why the three of us here, hold my hand. Hold it. [applause] we are here to Work Together. Together. All right . And this beautiful region of the bay area is going to have some opportunities to start thinking of ourselves as a united family. The holidays are a time when we think about family. And its our job to make sure that you feel like you are a member of my family. All right . [applause] [laughter] [cheering] all right. [cheering] all right. Im going to step away from this microphone. So that bay area, we are one bay area. We have to see every person here as a member of our family. And we are going to be working together more and more and more to make sure that the bay area sees its own family and that we take care of our family members a little better than weve been doing. All right, with that, happy thanksgiving. Thank you for having me here. [applause] for the sake of unity. I got the hat on, okay . You all, dont post me with this hat on. [laughter] dont hashtag me nothing, right . You all got my back, right . Okay. So like i said, now mayor liccardo came in last minute. I would have never did that because i would have known that i was going to lose. And if he didnt bring in hardly any volunteers, hardly any trash but i got to give it to him. He said he jumped in there like less than two weeks, i think, and pulled some stuff together. And then he not only came with me here to hand out turkeys, we hit two other locations before we even got here, so, ladies and gentlemen, san jose mayor, sam liccardo. Thank you, mayor breed. Well, thank you all and happy thanksgiving, everybody. Mayor breed, you are absolutely right. This is an incredible community. And thank you all for welcoming me so warmly. I appreciate it. [applause] yes. You know, it wasnt like this all the way. The first place we stopped at, the occur turkeys were late coming in and they were all looking at me. And they were looking at me saying hey, the turkeys are late. And i thought they were talking about the politicians. [laughter] but in fact the turkeys really were late. So i just wanted to say im a lot happier to be here because the turkeys are here. It is great to be with all of you. I love coming to San Francisco. And i really appreciate both my [off mic] thank you very much. Thank you. [applause] i appreciate what both my colleagues have said about the fact that we need to Work Together. Around affordable housing, transportation challenges, deal with poverty, all the challenges we know we face, together. I will point out, however, that mayor breed, although we got in late, we did get more than 1300 volunteers out there. [applause] so you can be sure that next year, we will be ready. And ill have the sharks jerseys ready for both of you. [cheering] thank you all, happy thanksgiving. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, before we oh, we got a couple more speakers. All right. Okay. So the turkeys need to thaw anyways. We got plenty of time. Ladies and gentlemen, your viewership virus walton. Happy holidays your supervisor walton. Happy holidays. I want to thank you for your work on getting volunteers out. For the environmental cleanup day. [applause] and i am glad that mayor schaaf said they picked up more trash in oakland because you know how hard we have all been working to decrease trash, specifically here in bayview. We got a long way to go but i think this means we are starting to get some things together, because theres less trash on our streets. We did a response from d. P. W. , we get a response from ecology. Long way to go, working on legislation to address illegal dumps, but we are going to do everything we can to make Public Housing the place to be in San Francisco. [applause] i know weve had some real tough conversations around parking here. To make sure our safety, to make sure our communities are safe. We are working on a plan with sfmta to increase more parking off the property while we continue to work towards other solutions. We are hard at work for this Community Every day because we love you. You all know i live right around the corner. I see you every single day. So thats not going to change. But when is the last time we had three mayors come and hang out on double rock . [applause] so there will be no isolation, we will be working together to make sure the heaviest comes to our cities and community and of course our focus in district ten. I love all of you, happy thanksgiving, thank you so much for showing up. A wonderful community. It is very important. [applause] one last thing, im sorry, mayor. A lot of you showed up at rules Committee Last week, because you know the mayor and i and my colleagues, we are pushing preference legislation so that folks who used to live in all our hope sf Housing Communities get to come back home. They get to come back home. [applause] so as we continue to revitalize, continue to rebuild, brand new housing, some of your family members, some of my family members that have been pushed out of the city will get to come back and live at home in the community. So i want to thank the mayor, most of my colleagues for helping to make that happen. [applause] and all of you. All right. The president of your tenants association. Come on up [cheering] shes like a cheerleader back here like go, go, go. I dont know how you feel but i feel so blessed. Thank you. This is a great event. We have three mayors coming out to our community. And thank you so much, mayor london breed. Thank you all of you, for sticking together. Thank you officers, thank you so much. To god be the glory. Amen. [applause] all right. Im feeling the love in this place today. Can i get an amen . Amen thats right. Okay. Now as we think about the holiday season, let us remember one another in this community. We are one community. We are one city. And it is our responsibility to do a better job of taking care of one another. Thats what creates a better community. So during this holiday season, when you know if there is a senior who may not be able to cook, make sure you look out for the seniors. Make sure you bring them a plate or do something nice to support your neighbors, because thats what having an Amazing Community is about. My grandmother who raised me passed away in 2016. And i would do anything to spend this thanksgiving with her. And so when i spend time with the community, it makes me feel really connected to what she used to do when we grew up in plaza east, o. C. And ms. Brown, we didnt have much. We had that free food are coming in the white box and the government cheese. The macaroni and cheese and everything. And let me tell you, people would not knock on the door. And im like mama, we dont have that much. And she would give food to people, and she said so what, girl, you big enough. Here, share. [laughter] lets share, lets come together, lets remember why the holidays are important. Its about community, its about family, its about love, and its about being a blessing. So thank you all so much. Lets get these turkeys handed out. [cheering] so thank you, everyone. Just a few more thank yous before we get out of here. To our San Francisco housing authority, we couldnt do this without you guys. Thank you tonya. [applause] i also want to thank bill of our California Poultry Association that worked with foster farms to include an additional donation. And last but not least, our rec and Park Department for also helping the distribution of the 5,000 turkeys across the city. So why dont we go ahead and move out the way and let our residents come on in and get these turkeys. Thank you. [applause]. I want to welcome you all to the Salvation Army light center for the annual turkey carving event. And we are so glad that you are here today. Because we didnt want to have to carve all this turkey by ourselves. Its always better when theres many hands. Thank you so much. And i want to introduce our divisional leaders, captain matthew mattson, the Salvation Army state divisional leader from our headquarters downtown. [applause] good morning, folks. Its great to have you here on this wonderful occasion. This was a thank, it really is a season of thanks and we have much tore thankful for. I want to be thankful for. I want to thank the metro Advisory Board and Advisory Council members. We appreciate and thank you. Thank you for being here. The Salvation Army doesnt run without our Advisory Board and councils. We would like to thank our harbor light staff and all the volunteers that make this possible. We are here to serve, and we appreciate everything you contribute to this Salvation Army. [applause] all right, now its my responsibility to tell you exactly what we are serving. So tomorrow this is going to be the thanksgiving dinner that we are preparing. Roasted turkey, stuffing, gravy, sweet potatoes, beans, cranberry sauce, a lovely juice box, some fruit cups. You cant go wrong with grandmothers cookies. Hot cocoa mix and hot apple cider. The reason why we are doing it is continuity of service. This is the 60th anniversary of the Salvation Armys participation in serving our seniors. Ive met people that this is their fourth generation. They are teaching their great grandchildren. And thats the continuity of care that our city and everyone has for one another, that when we can, we serve. So we are welcoming you here. The captain is going to come and give a brief announcement of the holidays activity hes going to do. And then we are going to have the courtesy of introducing our civic leaders. For this army of ammunition is love and compassion. Thats what we do. Thats what we are here to do without discrimination. We love people and we serve them. And in order to do a lot of things we do, it does take money. Youll notice we have a lot of red kettles. We ask you when you step by, put some money in there. We have a new online giving thing, you put your phone up there, check it out. Theres celebrity bell ringing event is going to be at macys on december 6, between 12 and 3. Its going to be a lot of fun. If you want to volunteer, ring for change. Com. You can find a place thats in your neighborhood and you can support the Salvation Army right where you are at and that money stays there to serve the people. Thanks again. [applause] well, again, i want to do some introductions this morning. And we were looking to see matt haney here today and also raphael mendlyman. I dont think theyve made it today but we will keep ongoing. Lets start with San FranciscoFire Department chief, thank you for being here. [applause] and of course its my great pleasure today to introduce to you the mayor of the city of San Francisco, the honorable london breed. [applause] if you would like to share a few words, please do. Come on, please. All right. I know we came to get to work. I came to get to work. Unlike some other folks, i showed up on time. Along with the chief and deputy chief from the police department. Really happy to be here with so many amazing people who do this every single year. The work that you do, of course, you know how important it is and what it means to the people of San Francisco who just need a hot heel during the holiday