Okay wednesday, march 20, 2016, everybody morning welcome to the admission giants sweep yeah. clapping. that is the third neighborhood that weve come in and done this program were a doing 6 along missions and van ness we do extensive a cleaning and outreach and the cans which ill talk about in a minute and also enforcement and so right now we have an enforcement as part of team and their all out doing outreach along this corridor as everybodys responsibilities and answering the questions and handing out a little newspaper with all the information in it as well but i really want to talk about yes, we can yes, we can is a Pilot Project that were swedish up we started taking cans off the street we were told that keeps the streets clean we have cans on every corner and pilot that and measure that and see how it works at this time though i want to introduce our mayor former public works director mayor ed lee. clapping. all right. Thank you eric. clapping. good morning, everybody. You know originally when i heard the phrase yes, we can i thought dpw was trying to cure cancer you know the men and women are dedicated dedicated to keeping our streets clean thank you finally and our Police Department, who is here as well keeping everybody safe and thing ecology and, of course, thank supervisor Hillary Ronen who right off the bat wants here streets clean that is worthy doing together so im really glad to be be her along phillip is about to explain our miracle mile along mission something we love in the Mission District we want to keep clean keeping the city clean cant be the responsibility of our Police Department public works only about while they pick up the trash and dont a job it really is again keeping the streets clean and not trashing that it that in the first place so they come up and coin the phrase yes, we can with the emphasis on can to add 38 more trash cans along Mission Street supervisor i know you will appreciate that but more importantly it is about the education we need to do because why does trash lets itself on the street it didnt it is human beings that are leaving the trashes on the streets we should prevent that from happening thats why dpw wants me as the mayor and recotton as our 235ishd contractor and people in the neighborhood with architect and designers designing better streets request the supervisors to wshthd to educate the public lets leave the trash in the cans in the on the streets lets respect our neighborhood line the missions and the miracle mile coordinator and our businesses lets respect each other by putting trash where that belongs that is what yes, we can does and also the existing part the giants want to keep our streets clean thats why they entered into the program called the giants sweep and started their season i hope they sweep everybody in the baseball field but you hunter who is our, of course, our proin leading the effort on the giants sweep and larry is joining the department of public works to make sure we educate our kids our businesses and adults and to keep the trash in the cans that sweep everything clean and citywide effort while were piloting the program the supervisors will love pilots in the mission will turn cleaner streets into everybodys responsibility thats why i love this organization when i was there 0 as spent hours picking up trash, of course, we wanted is better world by people doing what they should be doing with their own trash not on the responsibility to keep things clean but obviously issues individual responsibility so what we should be teaching our kids and adults and people on the streets 0 people 0 or are shopping and buying things put your trash in the cans and be responsible be respected full of everybody using our streets that is how our public works wanted us to on behalf of so, yes we can the giant sweep educate ourselves and the public but be exciting about the streets we should respect everyone use of our streets and not trash them to the disreplacement of Everything Else we have kicking off as a reminder it is going to a beautiful sum that is spring we want to walk down the beautiful corridors and enjoy everything we want on our streets but not enjoy trash on the streets thank you dpw for leading the way clapping. thank you supervisor ronen sophomore being a great leader right off the bat and cleaning up the neighborhood before doing all the politics that supervisors much. clapping. laughter thank you, mayor ive had the pleasure of knowing supervisor ronen so for a number of years which she was she was an aide for supervisor campos she cares deeply been the community and about the commercial corridors and she kind of helped this idea i want to take the time to say thanks for the idea but supervisor Hillary Ronen please come up and say and a few words. Good afternoon a gorgeous day to launch this in the mission i want to thank the mayor and phil and mohammed and the team for picking up the next area of our city to get a clean we need but talk about yes, we can the Pilot Project im excited about i dont know about you when im walking where i need to go i find myself holdings my apple courses for blue cross and being frustrated there was not a trash can so one of my first meetings are Mohammed Nuru and dpw i said can we get trash cans an Mission Street i said are you sure you want to do that the reason they were taken out bus trash cans is a magnet for dumping and additional trash i said well, thats already in the mission so we we try the trash cans that means if i have a trash can and education our community hopefully, people low throw the trash in the cans and well have a beautiful neighborhood you all deserve in the mission i want to thank Mohammed Nuru for the sketching for working with me and have this Pilot Project and use the mission as a beginning i didnt pig to see if the trash cans are making our neighborhoods cleaner so were going to try in the mission but as the mayor said we need everybodys help to use the trash cans with appropriately and when the acronym courses we have a place and thank you recoming down the pike and we can have even more incredible neighborhoods and hopefully a attract people thank you very much and looking forward to the pilot being a success we can take it to other parts of our city thank you very much. clapping. thank you, supervisor in other words, to try a keep the city clean doing pilots and trying Different Things that always a part of what public works does were hoping people will keep their fingers crossed and mission will be an example for the rest of the city at this time i want to bring up the accident of the admissions phil was responsible for the miracle mile while i he was the superintendent of street and Environmental Services that was the cleanest block on mission come up. clapping. friends thank you ever so much with the miracle maker and chief and the best mayor of the city and county of San Francisco how about a round of applause for mayor ed lee and now we have a Mission District supervisor ronen and a hand for her, please. clapping. so you see a beautiful asphalt Mission Street here it used to look like did moon ed lee said well go and change that and give us brand new asphalt thats why that looks like it does today, the Transit Association said well speed up up the lines in the city of San Francisco on 14 and mission that is absolutely environmental those are miracles and miracles are the only place in the bay area youre standing between two bart stations and neighborhood no neighborhood in the entire bay area that can be or is that this is a special place when real estate was free it was at one time the missionaries where it now the city of San Francisco they went where were standing youre in a special place we need to keep to special i want to say a clean ship is a happy ship well do it together thank you so much. clapping. i want to take the time to acknowledge Hunters Point families who were standing across the street in an hour youll see a pit stop for approximately year their joining us that morning all right. And. clapping. we partner what a lot one the closet it partners a theyll be dumping those garbage can and recotton ill ask to you as a a couple of words. Thank you, larry i wasnt expecting that recotton partners with the city family here if any of you have not found one and you want to keep it incredible get here at 3 30 and 4 00 a. M. Our trash trucks are emptying and by 5 00 a. M. Mission street looks incredible that happens every morning of week with that thats enough said thank you, everybody. clapping. okay. That concludes the press conference well do an installation of the cans this is the last of the 38 the rest have been insulate and thanks everybody for coming