And San Francisco has been the able to enjoy over the years, so many visitors and people who come from all over the world. But it is also a community. And especially during Lunar New Year, so many people from all over San Francisco they travel on the subway the 30 stockton on various bus and with our verse Ambassadors Program to come to shop, dine and enjoy china town as a whole. And so when that means with the significant influx of people there are things as a city has done and will continue to do to make sure that those experience are amazing i subside i think like oprah issue donta. Amazing for the month of february there is free parking second of all on the day of Lunar New Year parade on february 24th, you will be able to ride the central subway for free and also i want it thank so many of the City Department heads who are here. There were so men of the business this ismentmented to do other activities you know the city can make it difficult. We appreciate the work for the work they have done with the office of economic and Workforce Development to make the permit access easy for the small buildings in china town. We want to thank president li of the chamber for work we did and the china town Merchant Association, they work with businesses in the community so this we can make sure this we are responding to community. This we are supporting the community and we are in the deciding no audio. During Lunar New Year. We than safety is at the top of everyones mind. What im most proud of when we saw a spacecraft antiasian hate in the city 2 years ago we came together we have seen a 90 reduction in antiasian hate in San Francisco because of the work this we did together. I want to thank annie chung and self help and sarah wong and Community Youth center. Police chief scott. Central station and the officers who are out here every day. Da for bringing accountability. It takes a vil knowledge we are starting to see and feel the difference in places like china town where our grand mas can be safe as than i can be and we can take pride in our Ambassador Program and the w we did to come together and make this a reality. But it does not stop there. We got so many great people joining us today buzz it it is about the businesses. Bn about Public Safety and the momentum and the excitement. Of everything that is helping and it is about making sure that people know they are welcomed to come and celebrate the amazing festivities. Left week, we did a nice parade for the new flower mart. Marched down streets, hung out, got together. The china down Merchant Association lead the charge. I knowefaly is here today. We appreciate how people come together and support china town during Lunar New Year and all year round. We also are put nothing a bit extra effort. Inform not only keeping the streets clean, thank you, carla short and the streets safe. We ulcment to appreciate our beat officers from the Police Department and ocea the eyes and ears of the streets. And of them speak cantonese it great for the communities to people in the community to ask questions to. The energy is different now. It is an energy fuelled by excitement. By joy. And the year of the dragon is really about courage and strength and progress. And we are celebrating that progress right here in china town. With so Many Community leaders including pius lee joining us here today as well as the president of the Chinese Company mr. C for your work and bringing your father mr. Llow we appreciate you being here. It is so wonderful to be here with community. Because we are going to make sure that this community in china town d is supported, protected and continues it thrive and blossom the hard work of everyone that is joining me here today. And with that, one of our favorite persons and machine who i know so many people in the community are proud of. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome our city administrator, carmen chu. [applause] thank you so much mayor breed. I think president supervisor peskin thought you might have been tuck burglar him. I was hoping you were. Im carpen chu the city administrator. I could in the put in more better wourds when the mayor already expressed enthusiasm for the new year. And i will personalize how important the time of year is for many people in the Asian American community. Lunar new year is a big time important time where we pull together our families. Celebrate the year that passd and have hope and joy for the year this is to come. And so will the city upon. Dids here are here to celebrate folks here in the community in china town and across the city. There will be Lunar New Year events across San Francisco to celebrate the year of the dragon. We are ready with ambassadors. Ocea out on the streets in the community to provide presence. During the time. I want to thank the mayor for commitments to fund and double the amount we put toward parid this is help to activate our neighborhoods. The choin ease new year parade coming up. Applause [applause] the best we have. And i know you will hear if men of my clothes next about the specific w they are doing. But all to say we as a city have always celebrated the diversity in a way we to that celebrating the cultural activities i hope the bay area come out to San Francisco to enjoy this amazing city. The food all of the activations this are here. Thank you. Happy new year to everybody. With that thank you. Carmen we appreciate you for being here. I wanted to recognize someone who has been an extraordinary advocate for members of Chinese Community all over San Francisco. Thank you so much to lilly lee and the team from b china town. Lilly created an initiative called, china town Lunar New Year shopping, go, go, go go, go, go, and spends all your money in china town for Lunar New Year. Thank you again lilly for the w you do and twhchl, want to intlus our d adoing an amazing job here in San Francisco ladies and gentlemen, welcome brook jenkins. Happy new year this is such an exciting time in San Francisco. I must tell you since becoming da what is felt like to be a part. Celebration amation for me and my children. Who were in the parade left year and look forward again this year. I want to highway light it it is not just that is does for San Francisco i grew up across the bay in the east bay i used to come here for the Chinese New Year parade and march in my marching band. It means to the surrounding areas for the students and experience you get and to be able to celebrate with this community. And so first i want to say im here to talk about safety. And keeping this Community Safer not just during Lunar New Year 365 days a year. And so i want to first thank the Police Department. For their per inship in making sure this we gotten back to a place in San Francisco we are enforcing our lus each day. Each law that is on the books. We are working hard to make sure that were this Community Feels safe. We know that post covid there were many issues with antiasian violence with stores broken into and vandalized in china town we come a way in making leer that we will not tolerate the act in our city. We not not tolerate them in this community. That we are hear to uplift and support and protect this community as we try to do Everything Community in San Francisco. And so, again we made progress. I was proud to see so many seniors as driving up here out shopping. Here in china town. We want to make sure that as they come to and from they feel safe and live their every dpa lives. We will continue to work with per ins to get this work done. Other thing briefly is to warn our most Vulnerable Community members about blessing scams this is a time of year where people try to that i can advantage of numbers of Asian Community knowing is a time when they offer guests to loved ones. I want to encourage everyone to avoid having contact with strangers about the gifts you are giving. We are working hard to per merwith self help for elder low. Chinese new comers and organizations to educate and inform the commune about the dangers of blessing scams and also inform of when than i need to report when something happens. We will be there it make sure we prosecute those arrested for enengaging in the scams. Again, help new year. So q. Ed to be here now i will turn it to david chu. Good afternoon. Upon i think it is entirely appropriate after weeks of Stormy Weather the sun is shining on china town today. My son second grade class is visiting china town the first time this hour. And i was with them an hour agoeng thinking what it would be like to see this municipality the first time through their ice. Someone who representatived china town last 16 years im so grill to everyone standing behind me lead by our mayor. I want to thank our Police Officers and community ambassadors. I want to thank our public works staff for making sure we are cleaning and steaming and painting to make San Francisco beautiful. Thank our leaders for everything than i do to revitalize corridors. Elected officials and supervisors to make sure our Small Businesses are thriving. We can do this together. And im grateful on behalf of modify family for everything we are doing to move forward San Francisco and the greatest china town in america. Thank you very much. Have a wonderful Lunar New Year thank you. Welcome our chief scott. [applause]. Thank you, mayor. Happy new year, everybody. I want it say thanks again to the mayor and our elected officials. Department heads standing upon behind me and among the crowd. Also thank you to the community members. You know this year has started out very good for our city in terms of crime and Public Safety. I want to thank the officers the beat officers behind us here the command staff i gallon to detail about when i mean by that. I was asked this morning the da jenkins and i has a Business Forum how we feel about the state of things. My answer was im feeling better and hopeful. Last year, it was a different narrative. And the whole whole boom picture about the about the city. Being the city we are. We fought back. We fought back mightly. As far as the San FranciscoPolice Department in this community, we we put more officers on the am baz dorse adding value to our patrols. Plain clothes working now to catch people committing crimes but deter people from committing crimes. Restale theft operation had a tremendous amount impact and success rate in terms doing what is is designed to do arrest people. What this is amounted to for us is this first year of this year started off very niechls homds down by 50 . Burgs down by 40 percent. Larceny yee down by 66 . Here is the bottom line in terms of crimes last year we had a thouz an. First month of january this year 392. That is amazing work and amissing progress. We know not everything is reported. But i would be standing before you saying we are down than up. We are down 600 property crime in this district. Thank you. Thats because of all of our work. And it is in the over. Lunar new year a chance to show case this great city it is and we will work hard to make sure that Lunar New Year is fun and safe. Officers will hand out fliers. And the d ajenkins brought up. We will arrest anyone who seeks to prey on vulnerable residents especially elder low residents. This is unacceptable. We cannot do it alone. We need your help. If somebody is trying to offer you a dheel is too good. It it is too good to be true. Call somebody. Trusted Family Member or us. Dont let this help to you. We he to see it happen top anybody. One thing that the folks came to do who victimize people is they isolate. They make you feel embarrassed. Not reach out for help. Reach out for help. Are make sure that. When you are enjoying yourgz yourself, watch surroundings. Make sure you see if somebody is following you. Using atm watch. If you are shopping. Watch. This is what something we said we said. Dont leave valuables in your car. Car smart. Stay vigilant. We need your eyes and ears to help us do what we do. That is protect the city. Remember, dont give your personal information to anybody on the phone at your door. Dont give it up. If you see something suspicious, please report it. So this year the dragon we want everybody to be healthy, safe and prosperous and want you to engi a great Lunar New Year. On behalf the Police Department [applause]. Now please welcome the president of the board of supervisors supervisor peskin. We are 4 days away from the beginning of the year of the dragon which come around every 12 years. For mow, it will be my fifth time, i was born in the year of the dragon and im once again a would dragon temperature is significant for me. The city administrator and i were sharing cultural stories about jews and chinese and we actually share a tradition in common. Which is that the days leading up to the new year are days for cleaning. Symbolically for sweeping away the old and the troubles of the Previous Year and welcome manage new beginnings. And it it is in that vein i want to thank our public works staff, our new not so new director carla short. Jada who runs operations. Rachel gordon and the staff who work daily who are focusing love and attention and the 25 Million Dollars supplemental we got you last year helped i bit with that. And got some equipment for cloning of china town, thank you public works. Upon to the Police Department, to company a Central Station, yes, we are all created equal. I am lucky because i represent the greatest district in San Francisco that includes the greatest china town outside of china. And i have the greatest Police District in the entire city and county of San Francisco. To our new not new captain of the eric kim thank you for leading Central Station so well. And the officers and beat cop in china town, chu and tang and sang and lauren chu. Thank you for the w this you do daily. This is truly the embodiment of community policing. All the grandmas and grandpas and the kids. Than i know the officers by name. They know the families. That is when makes china town so safe. Thank you San FranciscoPolice Department. This is we dont just do this during the loo you knowar new year we do it 365 days a year. Good afternoon. Im carla short im the director of San Francisco public works. Thank you president supervisor peskin. Lunar new year is the biggest in San Francisco and china town the heart. Public works has a team of hard working street cloning staff on the ground i dont remember round. We come out in force to ready the neighborhood for the seasonal. I will sthout out to tessa jones the street cleaning supervisor for the district. Ticks pride in preparing the city for the Lunar New Year. In addition to the enhandled steam cleaning on the corridors andalys. We are cleaning the china town gate. Grant and bush. Scrubbing down the broadway tunnel and graffiti abuyment on the roll up gates painters touching up the dragon lamp posts they look beautiful. Prior to the parade later this month our street crews will patching president holes on the parade route. We do this china town is the most loved neighborhoods in the only in San Francisco but in the world. We are so proud and grateful to be pardon of the city and Community Team to prepare china town for the year of the dragon and welcome the crowds of locals and individualors during the holiday season. Thank you again to our hard work public works staff here today and every day. I want to thank mayor breed for leadership and president supervisor peskin and our Community Part ins who work tireless low to keep San Francisco vibrant, safe and welcome. Wish you a joy filled and healthy new year. With this id like to bring up Sarah Phillips from workforce are development. Local chinese owned businesses are critical to San Francisco. What better way to celebrate than the Lunar N