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Advocates, to be supporters. Where do we go from here . Our time is now to change the course of history in San Francisco. Thank you all so much. [cheering and applauding] thank you, supervisor breed. Id also like to mention weve been joined by senator mark leno. Welcome, mark. Glad to have you here. applause and with that, id like to introduce the city administrator naomi kelly who will also introduce the mayor, ed lee. applause happy black History Month, everyone. We have to be proud that we have two very strong beautiful africanamerican women who are on the board of supervisors. [cheering an...

Melva davis, kim brandon, willie adams at the port, chuck collins, [speaker not understood], the reverend amos brown, denise tyson, linda richardson, sonya harris, patricia thomas, veronica honeycut, these are just the names of a few of our commissioners who are heading up those very important divisions of our city. And they are joining with me and with the supervisors and with the Department Heads to do what mrs. Obama asked us to do. Whenever we occupy these public positions throughout the city or throughout the state or throughout the nation, we do the right thing, we keep the doors of oppo...

Africanamerican community, we need help. And i have been deliberately assembling a very Important Group of people who are going to help me get the job done. And youve seen some of these people already. They are malia cohen, london breed at the board. They have to face all the different politics. But i know theyre going to be great partners with me because weve got the right objectives to happen. We want everybody included in the city. We have naomi kelly, harlan kelly, mohammed nuru, Rhonda Simmons heading upstreamly important departments. And ive got to say this. If we cant get the job done w...

Enriched for everybody else. And were already seeing it happen. Yesterday i was at the luncheon for the boys and girls club, wonderful, wonderful entity thats reaching out to all of our Young High School kids and make sure theyre motivated to go to college. You should have heard them talk about their futures. You should also hear them ask for our help, because i know as much as anybody else that our kids will inherit the good things that we do. They will also inherit the things that we fail to do. And im about making sure that we fail less in the things that were obligated to do for our genera...

On creating jobs, making sure that all of our residents have access to those jobs,st and from local hireness and job readiness, training and placement, we are moving towards equality for all with the mayors leadership. Ladies and gentlemen, id like to introduce the 43rd mayor of San Francisco, mayor edwin lee. applause good afternoon, everyone. All right. Welcome to city hall and happy black History Month here in San Francisco. Nobody got it better than San Francisco. applause thank you, naomi. I want to thank you for that introduction and just a recall of what i said earlier this week. But i ...