And it started with this man right here today. [applause] today we reclaim our space here in the tender loin and raise the rainbow flag. And my deepest appreciation to Deborah Walker. Without her support and leadership, this would have never happened. [applause] and finally, our next speaker for lending her support for this project, for championing the needs of h. I. V. Positive, the transgender, lesbian, gay bisexual communities, please help us welcome the one true queen of San Francisco, our mayor, london breed. [applause] thank you so much, brian. And what an amazing story. Its great to hear. When i think about, you know, sadly some of the discriminatory practices that existed in our country for so many years, i definitely relate to those challenges and we all know the history of this country and how so many people, the African American community and the discrimination in housing, the Lgbt Community and discrimination as it relates to housing and that just shows us that we have work to do. Because when we come together, when we come together for a common purpose, we can accomplish anything. And it also tells us that names make a difference. I mean, the rainbow flag apartments and the iconic rainbow flag and what it has meant to our Lgbt Community. When you come to San Francisco, and you see this iconic flag that Gilbert Baker created in 1978, you know you can be safe. You know there is a place for you. And im just so proud of San Francisco. In fact, last week when we raised the rainbow flag at city hall, it was my first raising of the rainbow flag for lgbt pride month in San Francisco as mayor and i have been to those flag raisings many years before. Itself was so special. Because there were so many people who had pride in the city and so many people who were there who were not lgbt. So many folks from various communities celebrating what we know is important in our city. Is to bring people together. To provide opportunities and to make sure in the process, as we deal with many of the city challenges, we dont leave anyone behind. I want to thank bill jones for being here today and thank you so much for, you know, just creating a safe space for people. What you did, you may have thought im providing an opportunity. Your opportunity has led to not only thousands of people being housed, but other organizations that have changed and shaped the lives of so many people in the Lgbt Community and it will for generations to come. You started a movement with the rainbow flag apartments and now today the Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments. How amazing is that to do that in San Francisco . And now that were just talking about housing and Housing Affordability and opportunities, im really proud that in this past budget, one of the first things we were able to do in listening to the blgts community and people who came to my office to meet with me, to talk about many of the disparities that existed around housing with our Lgbt Community, we were able to add to our budget an additional 3 million to help with subsidies and support. 2 million [applause] 2 million specifically for trans people in San Francisco because we know that they are 18 more likely to experience homelessness, more than anyone else in the homeless population. [sirens] we have to be deliberate in how we invest our resources and how we continue to provide opportunities for people to come together. [sirens] because that is whats [sirens] having an emergency is all about. [laughter] but the fact is, when we think about pride, yes we can think about our incredible Lgbt Community. We can think about inclusiveness. But having pride in our city so critical to the success of our city. Its about bringing people from all walks of life together, to celebrate, celebrate an opportunity to make us feel like we belong and we hear and you will hear us and we will be loud and we will be proud. Thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] and with that, im going to do what mayors do best. Im going to declare it somebodys day. [laughter] we know that just a few years ago, unfortunately, we lost Gilbert Baker and we also know that his legacy and the work that he has done in creating this incredible symbol will not only live on in San Francisco, it lives on throughout the world. It will live on in the Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments and it will also live on in his estate, established in his memory to do the kinds of Amazing Things that will continue to advance the rites and love and support of the Lgbt Community. So with that, id like to present this proclamation oh, to you. Come on up. [laughter] hi. Thank you so much. Introduce yourself. Im charlie beal, the manager of the Gilbert Baker estate. And so on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, today we are going to declare it Gilbert Baker estate day in San Francisco. [applause] thank you for your work to continue his legacy. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much for being here today. Congratulationss to the residents who were so fortunate enough to be here and a little secret a couple of years probably about 15 years ago, during the pride celebration, i had a really great time during a party on the rooftop. [laughter] and i remember going back the next year and there was no party uhhuh. Reporter i dont know what happened, but i hope what this means is a chance to celebrate pride, San Franciscostyle at the Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments in the heart of San Francisco have a wonderful time, everyone. Thank you. [applause] thank you, mayor. Thank you so much, brian. Thank you everybody coming here today. Again, my name is charlie beal. Im the manager of the Gilbert Baker estate. I really am just one of his best friends who, when he died unexpectedly a little over two years ago, we tried to pick up the pieces and had no idea in a way what we were getting ourselves in for. But we found out a lot of things about gilbert. We found out that he had a memoir hidden away on his hard drive. Its now published. And available just this past week. In that book, he writes a lot about San Francisco. And i learned so much about him from San Francisco. I came here with him many times. I came here i was here, the art director in the movie milk and we were looking at research and all thesen n banners from the old pictures in the 1970s and i sent pictures to gilbert and i said do you know anything about those and he said, girlfriend, i made those banners. Well, come out here and make them again because we have to make them again for the movie. My husband vincent here is also very active in the estate. We came out and made the flag for when we rise and ive held the end of the banner in more marches for Gilbert Baker than i can count don my than i can count on my fingers and toes. The heart of the rainbow flag is here. Im from new york and new york, you know, stonewall is our heartbeat of the gay movement there, but here it is the rainbow flag. The one thing he wrote about in the book that always gets me choked up because he talks about that time he was out walking with cleave and artie and harvey milk was saying we need a new symbol and he was walking in this area over here and he looked up at the American Flag and he thought about the power of the American Flags and what he had seen in the bicentennial two years before. And then a while after that, after thinking we need a flag to begin with, he and cleave were out dancing and looked at the diversity of the crowd and he describes in the book about how, in San Francisco, you just have everybody of every race, creed, color, type, sexuality, gender and he saw that and the swirling colored lights and he just saw a rainbow and that is how that experience that is the genesis of that symbol that we see around the world. And at that moment, he writes very passionately that the drag queens and the young transpeople at stonewall would finally have a symbol of their own. So, he felt like he had fulfilled a purpose and a cause in doing that. It still lives on. Were lucky here in San Francisco. We see rainbow flags up and down the street. I just came from new york. Stonewall 50. They cant stop putting rainbows up in new york. Theyre everywhere. My god. It is pretty incredible. We can never forget that if you tried to unfurl a rainbow flag in the middle of red square right now, youd get arrested. Im happy that in taiwan, you can get married. But there are so many countries around the world where you cant even love another person openly. And when they do try to proclaim their visibility the way they do it is by hoisting one of these. And when you are in a country and visiting overseas and not quite sure if you really belong and suddenly you see a cafe with the rainbow flag, you know youve found a safe space. Brian, i thank you so much for doing this, for creating safe spaces for people with h. I. V. , for dedicating to this to gilbert. It means so much to me and so much to the estate. Id like to thank you and San Francisco. Thank you so much. [applause] our next speaker embodies what it means to be an ally. Im more of a coconspirator. Im like somebody whos down there fighting hard next to you. And learning how to be an ally takes poo em who embody it and show you the way. And our next speaker i think that is really who he is as a person. And so were really lucky to have him as our supervisor. In distribution six. Please welcome matt haney. [applause] thank you, brian. Thank you, mayor breed. Isnt this a wonderful day . This is an extraordinary thing to be celebrating the Gilbert Baker rainbow apartments here on larkin street in the tender loin. I want to give a special thank you to you, brian. I can tell you that during the budget process, there was nobody who works harder than Brian Basinger and the q foundation to make sure that everybody who is lgbt have a safe and secure place to call home. Thank you, brian. Give it up for brian and he leadership. Im also very excited that we have this flag here in the tender loin. The tender loin is among, along with lower pope, the oldest lgbt neighborhood, not just here in San Francisco, but across the country. It is a neighborhood where comptons cafeteria riots, the first ever documented collective uprising of lgbt people in the country took place in 1966 and it is a neighborhood where the comptons transgender cultural district, the nations firsts officially recognized cultural transgender neighborhood is here today. Its a place that, for so many years, during some of the worst times in San Francisco when the socalled public decency laws prevented them from being themselves. But tenderloin was an area they were provided respite from prosecution and harassment. The raising of this flag and the rededication of these apartments for Gilbert Baker, the man responsible for creating this beautiful symbol, reaffirms the importance and contributions ofpt community, to the tenderloin, to the city of San Francisco and to the world. The Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments is one of the most important gateways to the tender loin. And from city hall to the comptons district, we envision a place where transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, h. I. V. Positive and every stripe of the rainbow lives in a liberated life, free from oppression, free from fear of violence and secure in knowing theyre receiving equitable access to shelter, housing, jobs and services that we know that they deserve. One of most shameful things i recently saw is that the Trump Administration is now saying that this flag cannot be displayed on embassies around the world and when they pushed back, when they resort to the worst of it. When they try to deny peoples identity and humanity, that is when we have to celebrate this flag and what it represents, even more. [applause] thank you all for being here. Thank you veritas. Thank you to mayor breed. To the q foundation. And thank you to everyone who made this possible. There is a small group of us who are survivors who have been through it all, from the depths of the aids epidemic, homelessness, all kinds of struggles. And i was thinking about it a couple of week ago. I said, you know, how many people have really risen from that experience and gone on to do wonderful things and to make meaningful contributions to society. Really i was looking at who are my peers in that experience. And one of them is up next for us who is a longtime friend and ally of ours from the office of congresswoman nancy pelosi, please welcome gary mccoy. [applause] thank you, brian. This is very exciting for me personally to be out here today. I also have friends that lived here that were their housing was alsos subsidized and h. I. V. Positive and really meant the life to them. On behalf of the congresswoman and speaker of the house nancy pelosi, have a letter id like the read from her. Friends, we proudly gather today with city officials, Community Leaders and the q found diagnosis dedicate this Historic Building as the Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments. Referencing the importance to San Francisco and the lgbt communities. It is my regret that i could not be with you today. Just a few blocks from here, Gilbert Baker created the now iconic rainbow flag by hand and it was outside of this building where the flag proudly flew. It is my privilege to represent San Francisco with its large Lgbt Community. Were a city that thrives because of its diversity and take great pride in the innumerable contributions that the Lgbtq Community make to our great city and country. By hanging the rainbow flag once again, we affirm our connection to the acceptance of the Lgbtq Community. We honor gilberts memory and legacy by dedicating this building in his name. When gilbert created the rainbow flag, he generously chose not to trademark it because he recognized its symbolism and knew it should be accessible to everyone to show their pry. This month, millions of lgbtq americans march through the streets with pride, celebrating the beautiful diversity and vibrancy of the Lgbtq Community, rallying around gilberts contribution. Last month, House Democrats and i proudly passed this act to fully end legal discrimination against lgbtq americans. This month, we celebrate this momentum establishment and the generations of leaders, activists and allies such as gilbert who made it happen. As we reflex on this buildings history and gilberts place in it, it brings me great pleasure to say that 324 larkin street is once again a symbol of the love that we have for all people. Best regards, nancy pelosi. [applause] our next speaker is a person of considerable distinction. In 1969, he was the first single adult in america to adopt a child. The fact that he did that as a gay man is really profound. He was also or tainted by mayor Gavin Newsome and has the distinction of marrying the most number of couples during the summer of love at city hall. He is the original owner of the rainbow flag apartments. He was the one who put up the name rainbow flag, who put up the flag itself and also as i said before, he was the one that gave us a chance. He said yes whenever other land lord that we approached in six monthses said no. He then said thats a security come of 3900. [laughter] i did not rob a 7eleven, but i got really creative. And that single act of generosity, that single act of saying yes changed our lives. And hopefully [applause] that we have dedicated the last 15 years to paying that back. [voice breaking] phil jones. [cheering] [honking] its nice to be home again. [laughter] i know you guys are so hot. Can you get in the shade, at least . I feel so sorry for you. Yeah. I got i would like the give you a little history of it. This whole block was owned by hastings law school. And they wanted to tear down the buildings and build an extension of the law school. The city said no, we need the housing. So, they sold this apartment to me and two others on mcallister side to somebody else. I know how you feel. [laughter] it is an emotional thing. So the first thing i did, i painted the building and put in new carpets and everything and the tenants were worried sick that i was going to raise their rent. And then i did something absolutely horrible. [rustling noise] [applause] i did this. [cheering] [applause] and so then the tenants wrote in this little neighborhood paper. Perhaps the greatest indication of the change overtaking the west block in the wake of the change of landlords is that the Apartment Building at 324 street is now called the rainbow flag apartments. Its a pretty silly name for a building with lousy wiring [laughter] i love that. The flag that you see here didnt always just fly from the fire escape. I erected a 50foot flagpole for one reason. That building wasnt built yet. City hall were putting roller skates under it so in case of an earthquake it could roll back and forth. The museum was the library it was a library, right. And so they were changing that and they were building a new library. So i was in this construction and was bound and determined that that flag would fly higher than anything else. And we got it up. Four stories and 50 feet and i knew it would be photographed and i wanted us to be a part of what was happening at the civic center. So, thats how that happened. [applause] just one more thing. The flag didnt have an ending when i took it down. Oh, i sold the building to an arab. The first thing he did, took off the letters. And i took down the flag. So i gave the flag to the university of pacific. They had a gaylesbian alliance there. And the flag disappeared. They found it later in a latrine covered with urine. Well that just when that word got out, hundreds and hundreds of students in pacific had a rally and thousands of people in stockton came down to protest what had happened to that flag. So it now hangs in the Rainbow Resource and study room. Which i donated to university pacific. I copied the one that is in the library here. So, anyway, i feel vindicated. I feel absolutely wonderful about this. Thank you so much. [applause] next up is one of my personal heroes. One of the National Leaders for lesbiangaytransgender and one of the architects of marriage equality, kate kendall. Good afternoon. Im going to stay the obvious. Is this not the best of San Francisco right here . [applause] i mean when i came to San Francisco in 1994 from utah, i fell like i had arrived in oz. And to see to hear different languages spoken on muni, to walk down the street and see a diversity of the beautiful humanity of this city just meant so much to me and i know weve had some challenges recently in recent years. People have given a knock to San Francisco. Its not the same place it used to be. The mayor talked about the challenges. But you know what . This is who San Francisco is. This is who San Francisco is. And i want to really do a shoutout to Brian Basinger. So brian [applause] brian, at huge personal sacrifice, that very few of us and i mean us would have ever made has made the leaves and the futures of thousands of people richer with dignity and depth in a way they could have never imagined. I adore you. I love you. Thank you for everything youve done. [applause] and then finally, i just want us to move forward as i see ken will be up here in a second and Deborah Walker and so many people that i know here. Were in a perilous moment. We all get that. We were in a toxic moment. Were in a dangerous moment. Were in a moment where so many communities are terrified. But you know what . This is an example of the muscle memory we have of how we get through a moment like this. San francisco has been through this before many, many times. We know how to traverse this and the way we traverse this is by locking arms and saying no way, mother [beep] youre not getting through them without coming through us. And that whew that is what this moment demands and what typifies brians leadership. Im so happy youre all here. Happy to look arms with you. Thank you so much. [applause] so, the history of the closet did not let any light in. There was no light to illuminate our history. So much of it went unwritten. Unrecorded, unacknowledged and unknown. Our elders are our historians. Theyre the ones that keep the flame alive, that tell us how it was back in the day and teach us how to navigate the world with grace, dignity and a little bit of fearness. Fierceness. We are so lucky to have one of our own to come and tell the tales and my Dear Colleague and friend, ken jones. [applause] thank you so much for inviting me here this afternoon to talk about the rainbow flag and to let you know that your dues are due. All protest movements rely on symbols, boycotts, strikes, sitins and flags. This is an everyday complacency and forces us to think. Today that flag embraces us and covers us. It keeps our Fragile Coalition together and moving forward and you know what . As a movement, were old enough, mature enough and wise enough to know that that rainbow flag is our symbol, our hope and our future that speaks volumes. It says that Fragile Coalitions are possible. That we can Stay Together and work together. That we can make this a better place not only for those who are witnessed now, but for all those who will walk these paths in the future. That rainbow flag represents our membership and belonging in the community of lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender, intersex queer, questioning, two spirited and our allies. So look at your neighbor and tell em your dues are due. One of the more importantless important lessons ive learned on this journey is legislation, proclamations and executive orders, they cannot and they do not change peoples hearts. We change peoples hearts not through any herculean interventions, no we change peoples hearts when we are present, when we are authentic and when we are transparent and those are your dues to be present, authentic and transparent. You see, im getting old and im getting tired and im getting weary. Of trusting the system for the change that is not happening. The change that is not coming. The change that is not on the way. No doubt about it, your dues are due until our 8 and 10yearolds stop taking their lives because they cant deal with the bullying. Our dues are due. Until our transgender people of color can walk up and down any streets in this nation, unharmed. Your dues are due. Until all lgbtq folks are no longer attacked on the streets of San Francisco, your dues are due. [applause] your dues are due until we cross that finish line. Arm in arm together under our rainbow flag. Your dues are due. Thank you. [applause] so, our event today happens to coincide with the big meeting at the board of supervisors. So, rafael mandelman, has anyone seen him . He is not here. Ok. There is a good chance he was going to get stuck at the board of supervisors. So im sure yay good job. [laughter] so many of you know me. Some of you have read about me. I have a reputation. That ive earned and im proud of. [laughter] some of its true and most of its true. [laughter] so ive wanted this day to happen for over 10 years and almost everybody at city hall knows about it because it is all i talk about. For 10 years. Im going to get that flag back one day. Im getting that name back one day. And so credit needs to go where credit is due. And, you know, really want to thank the workers of veritas who helped put this together. You know, especially danielle washington. Whew [applause] there was a true spirit of joy in this. That you could see it in peoples faces and the wae they showed up to support this. It was genuine and, if i was the boss, id give them all a big pat on the back. And here to do that is the new owner of this building. [applause] thank you, brian. Really appreciate this. Im so honored and humbled to be here today representing the veritas team and all of our partners as well, too. Its really touching to meet bill, the original owner of this building i thought it was a great opportunity to rekindle and look at what he was able to do with that photo of draping the rainbow flag across this building. We had no idea that this building was where the rainbow flag was part of its home as well, too. If you look up, youll see that that flag is raised up high and proud for everyone to see. Youll see this flag right here as well, too. And we feel so proud and privileged to be stewards of this building for all. Moving forward as well. We have a plaque there as well, too. And there is a little bit of old and new here. So, while were respecting and harkening the old, what were renaming and recristening this building as rainbow flag apartment, we have a q. R. Code to learn a little bit about the history of what happened here as well. [applause] so, it is really a real privilege. Thank you, guys, for having uss here and really on behalf of the veritas team, it is such an honor to reraise the flag. Such an honor to recristen this building as one of the homes of the rainbow flag which, to us, symbolizes diversity and inclusion for all. Again, on behalf of all of our team members as well as partners, proud to raise our hand and raise a flag. So, thank you. Now im taking off my Brian Basinger executive director of the q foundation hat and putting on my faint ruby slippers moniker. No dedication would be complete without the blessing and invocation of the sisters of perpetual indulgence. [cheering] this is your moment, ladies. Were so were so proud that brian is one of our saints. And we honor the work that he has done for sisters and everybody else in the community. He is a great force to be reckoned with. And now were going to channel the Fierce Energy of one of our sisters, sister chanel, number 2001, Gilbert Baker. [applause] to keep the demons at bay and make this a sacred space. May the saints and the sinners who have gone before hear our petition. May the hungry be fed and the homeless housed. [applause] may the outcast find a chosen family and the misfit find a fit. [applause] may we honor those among us on their own path, taking the road less traveled. [applause] may we correct and admonish our peers with represent and love and may we receive correction with dignity and openness. May the divine in me see the divine in you, not the holy divine the actress. [laughter] may we be known for radical inclusion of the other and may we call bullshit on the exclusive, the clique, the no blacks, no asians among us. [applause] [cheering] to the she, to the he and to the they, as it was in the beginning and it is now and will be forever, all men, all women and all the others [applause] that concludes our ceremony today. Everyone is invited down to the auditorium at 5 30 just down here at the main library. Where Gilbert Bakers posthumous memoirs, his tellall with all the dirt and all the dish is going to be for sale. [laughter] thank you, everybody [applause] [ ] i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world, you shouldnt just be something in museums, and i love that the people can just go there and it is there for everyone. [ ] i would say i am a multidimensional artist. I came out of painting, but have also really enjoyed tactile properties of artwork and tile work. I always have an interest in public art. I really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world. You shouldnt just be something in museums. I love that people can just go there, and it is there for everyone. Public art is art with a job to do. It is a place where the architecture meets the public. Where the artist takes the meaning of the site, and gives a voice to its. We commission culture, murals, mosaics, black pieces, cut to mental, different types of material. It is not just downtown, or the big sculptures you see, we are in the neighborhood. Those are some of the most beloved kinds of projects that really give our libraries and Recreation Centers a sense of uniqueness, and being specific to that neighborhood. Colette test on a number of those projects for its. One of my favorites is the oceanview library, as well as several parks, and the steps. Mosaics are created with tile that is either broken or cut in some way, and rearranged to make a pattern. You need to use a tool, nippers, as they are called, to actually shape the tiles of it so you can get them to fit incorrectly. I glued them to mash, and then they are taken, now usually installed by someone who is not to me, and they put cement on the wall, and they pick up the mash with the tiles attached to it, and they stick it to the wall, and then they groped it afterwards. [ ] we had never really seen artwork done on a stairway of the kinds that we were thinking of because our idea was very just barely pictorial, and to have a picture broken up like that, we were not sure if it would visually work. So we just took paper that size and drew what our idea was, and cut it into strips, and took it down there and taped it to the steps, and stepped back and looked around, and walked up and down and figured out how it would really work visually. [ ] my theme was chinese heights because i find them very beautiful. And also because mosaic is such a heavy, dens, static medium, and i always like to try and incorporate movement into its, and i work with the theme of water a lot, with wind, with clouds, just because i like movements and lightness, so i liked the contrast of making kites out of very heavy, hard material. So one side is a dragon kite, and then there are several different kites in the sky with the clouds, and a little girl below flying it. [ ] there are pieces that are particularly meaningful to me. During the time that we were working on it, my son was a disaffected, unhappy high school student. There was a day where i was on the way to take them to school, and he was looking glum, as usual, and so halfway to school, i turned around and said, how about if i tell the school you are sick and you come make tiles with us, so there is a tile that he made to. It is a little bird. The relationship with a work of art is something that develops over time, and if you have memories connected with a place from when you are a child, and you come back and you see it again with the eyes of an adult, it is a different thing, and is just part of what makes the city an exciting place. [ ] we take a lot of pride in what we do. The electric shop covers all of waste water, so out of this location here, we cover everything from oceanside to southeast plant and all the computations including Treasure Island and yerba buena. We have all the preventative responsibility, maintaining maintenance and also keeping up with work orders from operations. I would say one of the things fortunately for me is the staff is incredibleably motivated. The staff here knows what to do, how to do the job safely, and it makes my job incredibly easy. They know the job, and they know the challenges, and i think its all about personal pride. They want to do a good job. From our Maintenance Group to our i. N. C. , dedication to the people. When theyre going home, and theyre crossing the bay bridge, and they get a call that theres a problem with a pump station on Treasure Island, they return to work. They turnaround in westbound traffic and get back to work and get this pump back in line, and i cant tell you how much that means to me as a boss and the city and county of San Francisco. As a group, if they didnt do what they do, the streets would be flooded with waste and gray water, and it could become a health hazard. We take a lot of pride in what we do, and we do the jobs right, and you walk away fulfilled that youve done the San Francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for San Francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] fire station 35 was built in 1915. So it is over 100 years old. And helped it, were going to build fire boat station 35. So the finished Capital Planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on Sea Level Rise. The station 35, Construction Cost is approximately 30 million. And the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. It is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to Treasure Island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. Were looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. The historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. This totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of Sea Level Rise over the next 100 years. Thats what the citys guidance is requiring. It is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. So if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. It does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. So that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. The fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. The access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. In that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. Both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utilitys only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. So electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. High boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. Currently were staffed with Seven Members per day, but the Fire Department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. Looking into the future, we have not only at t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. There are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. Were looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but theyre the only good reference point. We look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. It is very unique. I dont know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. The fire boat is a regionalesset tharegional assete used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. We have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. This is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. Were proud to serve our community. And were willing to help people in any way we can. Hello, my name is jamie harper. In this episode, we are featuring the park locations in your very own backyard. This is your chance to find your heart in San Francisco with someone special. Golden gate parks largest body of water is this lake, a popular spot for strolling and paddling around in boats, which can be rented. Created in 1893, it was designed foreboding and for boating. It is named for the wild strawberries that once flores. A pleasant trail follows the perimeter past huntington falls, 110 foot waterfall. Two bridges connect the trail to the island. The climb to the hills summit, the highest point in Golden Gate Park at more than four hundred feet. You can get quinces of the western side of the city through glimpes of the western side of city through a thick trees. The lake is ada accessible. It has a peaceful atmosphere where you can enjoy a warm day. Walk along the lake and watched many ducks, and swans, and seagulls. It is a tranquil spot to stroll, enjoy each others company, and sail away. Many couples come here to take a ride around the lake, floating under the bridges, past the pavilion and waterfall. For a quiet getaway, it makes for a memorable and magical experience. Located on 19th avenue, this grove is the place to wear your hiking boots, bring your family, and bring the dog because it has so much to offer you and your loved ones. It is a truly hidden gem in the city. The part is rich with eucalyptus trees. Long paths allow you to meander, perfect for dog walking in a wooded environment. I enjoy this base and the history behind it. The diversity that exists in such an urban city, the concrete, the streets, cars, we have this oasis of a natural environment. It reminds us of what San Francisco initially was. This is a section for dogs and plenty of parking. Transit is available to get you there easily. And the part is ada park is ada accessible. There is also a natural lake. This is your chance to stroll and let the kids run free. It also has many birds to watch. It is the place to find some solitude from the city and appreciate what you share with a wonderful breath of fresh air. , an experienced this park and enjoy the peoples, picnics, and sunshine. This is a lovely place to take a stroll with your loved one hand in hand. Located in the middle of Pacific Heights on top of a hill, Lafayette Park offers a great square a of a peaceful beauty. Large trees border greenery. It features tables and benches, a playground, restaurants, and tennis courts. There are plenty of areas for football, frisbee, and picnics. It is very much a couples part and there are a multitude of experiences you can have together. Bring your dog and watch the mean go with the community or just picnic at one of the many tables and enjoy all of the park has to offer. Many couples find this is the Perfect Place to put down a blanket and soak up the sun. It is a majestic place you can share with someone you cherish. It is located along the 1 and 10 buses and is accessed from the 47 and 90 buses. It is ada accessible. For more information about reserving one of these locations, call 8315500. This number is best for special events, weddings, picnics, and the county fair building. For any athletic fields and neighborhood parks, 8315510. You can also write us. Or walking in and say hello at old lock cabin, Golden Gate Park. And of course you can find more information and reach us at sfrecpark. Org. This is the San Francisco recreation and park meeting. Will the clerk please call the roll . Just as a quick reminder, we request that you turn off soundproducing devices. And that you take any secondary conversations outside. If you would like to speak on an item today, we request, but do not require you complete a blue card