Your first one, too. This will be so exciting. Are you ready . [cheers and applause] before we start anything, we have to do our if you want to do stretches with us, you can go ahead and stand up and follow along. We have to do our stretches to prepare for the Christmas Tree lighting. You can go ahead and stand up or adjust to it while you are sitting down. Whatever works for you. Here we go. Snowflake. Stir the cocoa. Stir the cocoa. Stir the cocoa. Candy canes. Toboggan. Finally, sugarplum fairy. Christmas. That was good. We are all warmed up. You guys were great. I feel ready. Do you feel ready . Wonderful. Before we begin tonight, a big thank you to the civic centre c. B. D. Off the grid and the Parks DepartmentParks Department for planning tonight s event. [cheering] and to our artistic director and his amazing lineup of performers [cheering] and a big special thank you to the Christmas Fair. The Christmas Fair runs every weekend now until december 22nd at the palace. Enter the winding lanes of victorian london and immerse yourself in the world of music calls, theatres, pubs, dance parties and charming shops overflowing with holiday treasures. Discover holiday revelry for the imagination of Charles Dickens and the saucy world of the victorian stage. It is a fantastic journey back in time celebrating the most magical time of the year. Christmas oh, boy. Im so excited. Are you . Yes. All right. Wow. It is really pretty here. It is. It sure is. Where are we . We are in beautiful San Francisco. It might not be as snowy and white as the north pole, but it seems like people around here get into the holiday spirit. In fact, hit it. [ ] [singing] [singing] [singing] you look great. [ ] wawa. Wow. [ ] oh, boy. [singing] [singing] [singing] thank you. Wow. Thank you so much. How do you say we get this Party Started . I think we should. It is time to introduce our very first performer tonight. Get ready. The tap dancing Christmas Tree will show us some moves. Over the past 29 years, the tap dancing Christmas Trees have performed in americas holiday parade, the nile parade, the napa valley parade, the Hollywood Christmas parade, and will be returning once again to the palm springs festival of lights parade. Their fifth appearance in may sees parade in new york in 2016 featured them with the muppets. Wow. Welcome them to the stage, the Christmas Tree tappers. [cheers and applause] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] Merry Christmas [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] i beg you, open your eyes. [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [cheers and applause] wow. Wasnt that phenomenal . Lets give it another round of applause for the Christmas Tree tappers. They can really dance. Before we keep going tonight, we would like to give a big special thank you to tonights sponsor. Redwood credit. They have a beautiful new branch a few blocks away from here. And we have a number of redwood folks here tonight, as well as the banks mascot. Thank you for sponsoring tonight s festivities, especially santas maker village and our next acts are the poet athletes of america scores. These students usually come to civic centre in their soccer jerseys to play in their weekly soccer game, but not today. Today they are wearing their finest holiday sweaters. They made them themselves. Our young poets come from americas scores program. The Civic Centre Plaza is there homefield. They usually play for gold, but tonight is all about poetry and spreading christmas joy. Please welcome america scores [cheers and applause] my name is elin and i am from reading elementary. My name is hannah and im also a fourthgrader. My name is jordan and i am in the fifth grade. We are poets from reading elementary. [cheers and applause] we wrote personification poems. It is a type of figurative language. It is when writers turn non human beings into life forms. With these poems, we become emotion. Two emotion say or do if they were human . Let us show you. I am guilts. I wonder if people will ever forgive themselves. I hear your regrets and your doubts. I see you hiding your tears behind a fake smile. I am sorrow. I wonder if i can be cured like the flu. I hear your tears dripping on the floor as loud as ocean waves crashing onto the shore. I see you trying to i hang on to your heart. I am empathy. I wonder what would happen if i did not exist. I hear with whispers but feel them for myself so you dont have to. I am guilts. I keep you up at night. I pretend to be fine but i am not. I feel your embarrassment coursing down your veins. I touch your sorrow across your heart. I worry if i will be forgotten. I cry for you. I am sorrow. I feel your misery every second. I touch the broken heart in your body and it feels like a cracked phone bone. I worried you will abandon me just like grief. I cry because you might replace me. I am empathy. I see your cries as powerful as the ocean. I feel like i will absorb it. I hear laughs seeping into the air and you breathe me in. I want tears but smiles as well. I am guilts. I fester in your body, spreading slowly and control your being. I will not stop you from feeling me. I try to tried to stay but i cant. I am sorrow. I know you dont like me, but try to understand me. I say you should focus on sadness as much as happiness. I dream i am loved by you. I try to make myself part of your life. I am empathy. I care even when you dont. I feel your pain through the toughest times. My hands trembled when you are disappointed and my heart bursts when you are excited. My eyes widen and people grow when you feel love. I hope you remember me, but secretly i want you to let me go so you are free. I understand that you dont like me, but i will always be with you. I am sorrow and i want you to know that you need me to feel alive. I touch your sorrow and try to transform it into happiness. I cry every time you lie. I am empathy. I understand how you feel and i know how you feel and hope you depend on me for everything. We are love and we live inside each other and each of you. Emotions make you feel deeply and we make your hearts fuller. Happy holidays. We wish you to embrace this. Love, the season, and spread us all around. Thank you. [cheers and applause] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] [singing] [indiscernible] the twin going twinkling lights on the tree type of lights. They filled our streets. Once we get hit, let the fiesta begins. Food and family, culture, everybody wins. [speaking spanish] those are the lyrics to the city jingle. Can you hear it . Can you hear our song . It sounds like babies laughing and joining along. [indiscernible] bay bridge to golden gate. Everyone saying our song. Can you hear us . Like the sound of cars honking. From one block to the next, we sing with everyone from everywhere. [indiscernible] whether you wear an apron, a brown hat or a hardhat. Come on and sing with us. The city jingle will have you jingling and mingling. Can you hear it . It is pretty catchy. [indiscernible] the city jingle makes you move. Can you hear it . You can. Singalong. This city jingle can never go wrong. [cheers and applause] lets give another big round of applause. They play soccer and write poems how cool is that . All right. They are hosting an event this friday. All are welcome. For more info or to rsvp, go to their website. And now we are pleased to introduce six fabulous performers from move school. The theatre education program. They perform a medley of timeless holiday classics by classics by ervin burling. I love that one. Now playing through december 22nd at the gateway theatre. Welcome to the stage. [cheers and applause] [ ] [singing] [singing] [singing] [singing] [singing] [singing] [singing] [ ] [singing] [singing] [singing] [cheers and applause] lets give another big round of applause for moon school. [cheers and applause]. Werent they wonderful . They were so wonderful. I love all of those songs. Our next act has appeared on national and international television. They have toured internationally to england, argentina, and mexico. Ages seven, 10, 11, and 13. Here they are. The most musically talented siblings, stars aligned [indiscernible] [ ] [ ] [cheers and applause] [ ] [ ] [cheers and applause] [ ] [ ] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] all right, it is a very, very special time of night. Are we ready . I think we are ready. Oh, boy. Time to light the Christmas Tree . Are you ready to light the Christmas Tree . [cheering]. We have to get some special guests up here tonight. Are special guests include phil ginsberg, general manager of the San Francisco recreation and Parks Department, Naomi Campbell and walking torres. And our San Francisco mayor, london breed. [cheers and applause] [ ] [indiscernible] all right, everyone. It is time for a christmas countdown. Here we go. Loud and proud. We have to get our special Christmas Tree lighting plunger. It is my first time. I forgot about the plunger. Thank you so much. Dont drop it, dont drop it. There we go. For you, miss mayor. [cheers and applause]. All right. Lets get a countdown started from five,. Here we go. Do you want to come up and help . We need some people to help the mayor. Come on up. Oh, boy. We are all here. We are ready. You have to help me now. Are you ready . Are we starting from 10 . Weve got it. Lets do it. Countdown from 10. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] [ ] thank you so much for all your help. Thank you for so much for all your help, everyone. Hi, how are you . Mary christmas to you manufacturing in cities creates this perfect platform for people to earn livelihoods and for people to create more economic prosperity. Im kate sosa. Im cofounder and ceo of sf made. Sf made is a Public Private partnership in the city of San Francisco to help manufacturers start, grow, and stay right here in San Francisco. Sf made really provides wraparound resources for manufacturers that sets us apart from other Small Business support organizations who provide more generalized support. Everything we do has really been developed over time by listening and thinking about what manufacturer needs grow. For example, it would be traditional things like helping them find capital, provide assistance loans, help to provide Small Business owners with education. We have had some great experience doing what you might call pop ups or temporary selling events, and maybe the most recent example was one that we did as part of sf made week in partnership with the city Seas Partnership with Small Business, creating a 100 Company Selling day right here at city hall, in partnership with mayor lee and the board of supervisors, and it was just a wonderful opportunity for many of our smaller manufacturers who may be one or twoperson shop, and who dont have the wherewithal to have their own dedicated retail store to show their products and it comes back to how do we help Companies Set more money into arthur businesses and develop more customers and their relationships, so that they can continue to grow and continue to stay here in San Francisco. Im amy kascel, and im the owner of amy kaschel San Francisco. We started our line with wedding gowns, and about a year ago, we launched a ready to wear collection. San franciscos a great place to do business in terms of clientele. We have wonderful brides from all walks of life and doing really interesting things architects, doctors, lawyers, teachers, artists, other like minded entrepreneurs, so really fantastic women to work with. I think its important for them to know where their clothes are made and how theyre made. My name is jefferson mccarly, and im the general manager of the Mission Bicycle company. We sell bikes made here for people that ride here. Essentially, we sell city bikes made for riding in urban environments. Our core business really is to build bikes specifically for each individual. We care a lot about craftsmanship, we care a lot about quality, we care about good design, and people like that. When people come in, we spend a lot of time going to the design wall, and we can talk about handle bars, we can see the riding position, and we take notes all over the wall. Its a pretty fun shopping experience. Paragraph. For me as a designer, i love the control. I can see whats going on, talk to my cutter, my pattern maker, looking at the designs. Going through the suing room, im looking at it, everyone on the team is kind of getting involved, is this what that drape look . Is this what shes expecting, maybe if weve made a customization to a dress, which we can do because were making everything here locally. Over the last few years, weve been more technical. Its a great place to be, but you know, you have to concentrate and focus on where things are going and what the right decisions are as a Small Business owner. Sometimes its appropriate to bring in an expert to offer suggestions and guidance in coaching and counseling, and other times, we just need to talk to each other. We need to talk to other manufacturers that are facing similar problems, other people that are in the trenches, just like us, so that i can share with them a solution that we came up with to manage our inventory, and they can share with me an idea that they had about how to overcome another problem. Moving forward, where we see ourselves down the road, maybe five and ten years, is really looking at a business from a little bit more of a ready to wear perspective and making things that are really thoughtful and mindful, mindful of the end user, how theyre going to use it, whether its the end piece or a he hwedding gown, are they going to use it again, and incorporating that into the end collection, and so thats the direction i hear at this point. The reason we are so enamored with the work we do is we really do see it as a platform for changing and making the city something that it has always been and making sure that were sharing the opportunities that weve been blessed with economically and socially as possible, i am moving up the next speaker. He has two minutes. He will give us a word of gratitude. Please welcome David Elliott lewis. [applause] how are you all doing . I just want to share a few thoughts about gratitude. It is the season of gratitude. I hope when i talk about what i am grateful for you will be able to relate to it. First i am grateful for life itself, being able to wake up healthy in a home. I am especially grateful for it. Community housing for giving me a home. I give back by being a board member. I am grateful for the organizations i volunteer with and i found recovery with by helping the organizations central city collaborative who helps people who live in hotels like many of the members like me are formerly homeless. We found homes through giving back to the community. I am great for full for the tender line peoples congress. This wouldnt happen without the tenderloin congress. We are volunteers who come together to Work Together in the neighborhood to produce events for the neighborhood, to produce the plan called the peoples plan vision 2020 that matt haney has been working with us on. I am grateful for it. I am really grateful for mayor london breed and what she has done for our city and helping with Mental Health programs, Mental Health, San Francisco, working with matt haney and Hillary Ronen and 11 out of 11 supervisors passing it. Thank you for coming together. This is my final bit of gratitude. I am so grateful for senator scott weiner who has helped find funding for the organization i work with called Mental Health association of San Francisco. We run the warm line. We were in danger of closing it down and now we can serve the entire state taking people with Mental Health challenges providing text and telephone support for anyone who needs it in the state of california around the clock to talk about any issue they want. If scott didnt help us find finding this wouldnt have happened. Thank you, senator weiner, i am so grateful. With that i will turn the microphone back over to curtis. Thank you, david. I am grateful for you, david. We kept her waiting long enough, right . I am excited she is here. I am going to do a little intro. Mayor breed is a San Francisco native. She was raised right in the western addition. She went to galileo high school. She earned a masters degree at the university of San Francisco. She is a daughter of the city. Prior to historicallylection, which was the moment in 2018 she served on the board of supervisors peboard ofsuperviso. She is committed to creating a more equitable and just San Francisco. As i understand you came from opening up the new Navigation Center on the embarcadero. Thank you. We are congratulations and thank you for doing that. We are so thrilled chirrenned for the Second Annual returned for the second celebration. Give a huge tenderloin welcome to mayor london breed. Mayor breed i am excited to be in the tenderloin. We know that a lot of challenges, not only chest in the tl but all o San Francisco. As someone who grew up here, i was raised by my grandmother in public housing, and i understand what challenge feels like. I live. It 20 years of my life. Nothing is more important to me than making sure the city does a better job of investing in more shelter beds, investing in more housing so people have a safe affordable place to call home. Lets be clear. Yesterday i made it clear to department heads, when it comes to the upcoming budget. If it is not about cleanliness of streets, not about housing, not about shelters, then it will not be priority. Let mere supervisor know the same thing. At the end of the day i want to be clear about where i stand as a daughter of this city, as someone who has seen so many people that i grew up with get booted out of the city because we did not build enough housing fast enough. We got work to do, folks, and i am grateful and honored to be your mayor and celebrate the holidays right here in the th ie tenderloin. When i see the women behind me today, i see my grandmother. When i see so many folks that still live here that grew up in the western edition and live in the tenderloin, i see my community and i understand the importance of the work that we do. We also need to take the time to pause and to celebrate and to feel happiness and joy and this Amazing Community by doing this two years in a row, lighting this beautiful tree, is demonstrating they are not going to let anybody stop their joy. I am happy to be here with senator scott weiner, captain fabbry, Phil Ginsburg to support this community at boeddeker park that is open and available for kids to play and enjoy. I am excited to be your mayor at this time. I know we have work to do. I know together we are going to change the future of this city, and i am committed to doing just that. Thank you all so much. [applause] one more time for our mayor. Come on. We are glad to have you here. She will be here for the count down. Next i would like to introduce another face, senator wiener represents San Francisco in our california state senate. Elected in 2016, he chairs the Senate Housing committee. The california legislative lgbtq caucus which is awesome and amazing. Before that he was on the board of supervisors right here in San Francisco. I found out that you also practiced law for 15 years which i didnt know about. It is interesting you were a deputy City Attorney in San Francisco. He has lived in the Castro District of San Francisco for a long time. In fact, i used to see him riding around the city on muni when he wasnt in sacramento representing us as he is now all of the time. I also know that is why transportation, housing anvil ad civil rights are the focus of his work. Please make our senator feel welcome here. Happy holidays. I am grateful for a few things. I am very, very grateful for the tenderloin community. There are people who dont spend a lot of time in this community that have stereotypes about it. I have spent a lot of time here and i go through this neighborhood a lot. This is a neighborhood full of the most warm and kind and welcoming people. I want to thank you for welcoming me into this Amazing Community. I am grateful for boeddeker park. I remember when we opened this park five years ago, what it was like before and what it is now. This is an amazing resource for the community. I am so grateful for being in the city that prioritizes parks and prioritizes public space for our community. That is what a Healthy Community is about. Finally, i am so deeply grateful for the honor of representing San Francisco in the california state senate. We are working so hard to bring San Francisco values to the state level and nationally. Our values of embracing diversity and immigrants neighbors, values of lifting everyone up and not leaving people behind. We are working hard to expand access to Mental Health service, to legalize Safe Injection Sites in San Francisco, we are working to make it easier to build Navigation Centers and Supportive Housing and to reform our broken criminal justice system. We are doing all of these things because we get it right in San Francisco. We need to make sure our progressive values prevail nationally. We have a lot of work to do next year. Happy holidays everyone, and have a great evening. [applause] thank you, senator. Next we were expecting supervisor matt haney. I know you all love him, but he is still doing his work. He is at work. The board of supervisors is still in session. They are doing their job. He is out there doing what we are paying him to do. I have a very special guest that is going to speak on his behalf. I want to make tons of noise and welcome matt haneys mother. [applause] well, first of all, i want to say how happy i am to be here in matts home. As his mother he lives a couple blocks from here. I got to know many of you over the past year or so, and you lift him up every day. I feel just very blessed and very grateful for this community, for the Community Groups who fight so hard, for the things that i know matt and all of you care deeply about. No matter where matt is and i know he cant stand right here right now, his heart is with you. He would tell me to wish you happy holidays of every kind. I hope we can see the tree soon. Thank you. This big button says matts mom. They just call her matts mom. If we can get senator weiner and mayor breed we will do a count down and light the tree. Are you ready to see the tree . Yes. We are ready to see the tree. Everybody help me. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [applause] thank you for coming to the talent dance performance and talent show. [ applause ] todays performance and talent show. Public recreation has every bit of the talent and every bit of the heart and soul of anything that any families are paying ten times for. You were awesome. Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the december 6, 2019, special meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am chair fewer. I am joined by supervisors stefani and mandelman. I would like to thank our colleagues from sfgov tv for broadcasting this. Clerk any documents to be included as part of the file should be