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 New Year. Oewd is excited urge all to celebrate year of dragon. Yes in china town but also the city. In the excelsior. Ocean avenue, port ola and the richmond and sunset. We can visit the dragon statutes throughout the city while you shop. Whether you are in union square, lake shore. Stones town. And of course here in the heart of china town. There are events throughout the month. Including here on february 10th we are excited about and the Lunar New Year in Golden Gate Park on february 11. You can find the celebrations and all of the places to shop at govern sfgovtvLunar New Year we are working hard with our office of Small Business to market and prosecute mote the great businesses you bring us here today. I want to give a thanks to mayor breed and president supervisor peskin grating legislation and preponder helping to get businesses out where than i touch more visitors and have more impacts. I want it thank our per in i know than i were mentioned already. From oewd the choin ease chamber is partner. Has been critical. Chinese consulate association. The Community Youth center. And ocea keeping streets safe. Now the key partners inferenceis channel and katie fong with me key partners to you here today. I want to give a shout out to office of Small Business. Katie tang. Who are working heard to promote this. And with this i like to introduce the president of the chinese benevolent association. Good afternoon everyone. Before i say anything i want to extend my sincere gratitude to mayor breed for taking time in her busy schedule wo come it china town we cheesht hour support for Public Safety and beautifying the street and supporting Small Business. Support [inaudible] with the efforts with cordination with all the partners in the city. Especially in china tunnel your. This is vielth to our community. So this mayor, thank you. Thank you for your support for our community. We than the mayor in here all the time today is very special. We are for you days from the new year and it is [inaudible] upon new year the [inaudible] chinese families go out shopping. Planning for arrival of the new year and are this year the year of the dragon the wooden dragon. Dragon shows the growth and the practice perity and development of the year. So if i go down to china town to look at the business you see the businesses and activity going on. And hire employees and also new merchandise. The businesses so i have brandt you see that this is almost like before the pandemic. So with the gracious support of the city and all the Government Official helping we see that there will be more visitor this is come to china town. Watch over the parade. Witness the elgages of the beauty pageant and the foods in the area and activities let us chair and celebrate the new year spirit. With joy and embrace the wood dragon to bring good fortune and prosperity to the city of San Francisco and our community. In closing, bring join to the city, bring joy to the leaders and all of us to witness the streetaly in china town area and see the shopping, dining and having fun with the Chinese New Year. Mayor, your leadership appreciated. Im confidence your vision for the safe, clean and vibrant city will resonate as we celebrate. The new year the year of the dragon i wish everybody a happy new year happiness, safety, prosperity and good fortune for all. Thank you. For the next speaker i want to introduce the president of chien these chamber of commerce. Good afternoon. Im residents of the Chinese Chamber of commerce. Ip want to invite everyone we have our parade coming up on february 24. I hope that everyone will come. We also have Community Fair on the 24 and 25th in china town. With this said, i like to express gratitude to our mayor london breed. Our city leader, our elected officials for all their support giving us all the resource and making china town always the best one in the United States. Thank you. [applause] thank you. Thank you. So much president lion and thank you to everyone joining us today there you have it, folks it will be a good time in San Francisco and a good time in china town inform during the month of february i am so excited and people are already sdendzing on this community to support many of the businesses this are here. So when you in to china town on a day you dont know when new surprise you may have. With any of the businesses and i know i saw kevin from the Fortune Cookie place and all of the folks you gotta stand in 39 get those cookies have you a lot of visitors. Woo very well great restaurants and night life lions den is fun. Come any day, any time to enjoy Lunar New Year and also after upon, we are not going anywhere. Please, make sure you come out support china town and this jewel in the center and the heart of San Francisco. We appreciate each one of you for joining us. And lets go, go g china town [applause]. It. Happy 30th anniversary. To San Franciscos sfgovtv. Congratulations sfgovtv on many, many years of serving the city and for bringing information to everyone that lives here. Happy 30th anniversary sfgovtv im supervisor for district 7 thank you to the staff for 0 supporting the process to government to transparency and to making sure we celebrate good morning, every one. Hello. Thank you so much for coming to todays press conference mayor, conference and our lunar year the year of the dragon. San francisco has a special place in history, in december of 1992, San Francisco watched the city where the historic unveiling of the firstever Lunar New Year took place in this entire country. And since 11992, we have Many National first days and national ceremonies. But whether we get the first day or not, we always have an unveiling as part of our Lunar New Year celebration. Its very excited. Last week i was very comfort to join seattle to join the postal state for the unveiling of the lunar new stamp. It was attended by 300 people by eduardo who is the president of the retail of the Postal Service. Vod me and the public that Lunar New Year is the most Successful Program in the commemorative stamps. We are very happy to keep up with the tra kissing. Tradition. Today were gathered today, although the stamp is already out there, but its our tradition in our city to unveil the stamp for every one in the San Francisco bay area. So without further ado, i would like to introduce our mayor, maryland on our mayor, london breed who has unveiled a lot of stapp p. Mayor breed hello welcome and welcome to unveil this stamp. Its an exciting time filled with so much joy and excitement, especially after coming out of this global pandemic. It has been very difficult and for whatever reason, i feel like even though, we have the worse of it behind us, this is the one of the first years that i feel like people are actually coming out and coming together differently than they ever have before to celebrate Lunar New Year. I was at events in china town, in the richmond and in the bay point where they were celebrating Lunar New Year in a joint celebration together. And its been great to see and these places have been packed with people. So the excitement is in the air and i could not be more excited and proud to be here today to celebrate a time honor tradition for the past 30 years here in San Francisco, thanks to the leadership of cludine chang and the organization that has been doing a lot of work during the month of may and Lunar New Year to bring communities together. Thank you for all your amazing work. We have a number of other special guest from across the api spectrum from japan town to tenderloin, to the various groups who will have activities and events all over San Francisco including our city liberian, Michael Lambert which will be a number of great events so make sure you check out the San FranciscoLibrary System and look at all the activities and events and things that are going on in our libraries and in our park. Its going to be a good time in San Francisco. And lion dance, mean, man these folks know how to put on a performance. Right now this is a relaxing moment, even though it takes a lot of strength to hold this dragon up, theyre going to be performing all over the city and doing all the exciting things that they do. And clearly theyre a lot younger than the rest us, because they have the energy and strength to do it. Were joined by a couple of people, and i want to again recognize clawdene more being here and post master, im so happy to get hor land, hes behind the most exciting parade, the Lunar New Year parade that will be happening in San Francisco on february 24. Book up all the hotel rooms and come to eat and enjoy china town and all during the month of may. There is something for every one. So were excited to have you here, as well as our City Attorney and thank you to our Police Commissioner larry yee representativing chinese consolidated benevolent association. So were happy to kickoff the year of the dragon which represents, strength, courage, and it represents progress. And i must say that this city has made significant progress. We know that this pandemic is not complete xlaoe behind us, but during the piem we experienced challenges in our api community with a rise of api hate and making an effort in our program, ambassadors protecting our communities, coming together to do what is necessary to keep people safe with our Police Officers, as a result since 2021, we have seen a 90 decline in api hate crimes in the city of San Francisco thanks to the work who are here today. [applause] because we want people to come out to all the neighborhoods of San Francisco, our seniors and our grandmas who we love so much, they have to feel safe in the city and the work that were doing together is ensuring that, especially during the Lunar New Year. Were cleaning up the streets even more. Were puting out all the various activities and food and fun and festivities, youre going to see smiles all over the city and county of San Francisco because of everything that we have done and well continue to do to ensure the success of Lunar New Year of San Francisco and the unveiling of this stamp really kicks it off to full gear. Thank you all for being here. With that, i would like to introduce our City Attorney, david chu. [applause] thank you, madam mayor for your leadership and for being our chief cheerleader when it comes to the Lunar New Year. Let me start to the api federation, andclaudiaeven year after yae, you work. And we celebrate Lunar New Year the right way with the postal. And the line dance meet troop the access or and i were talking how we would like to dawn those polls poles, but well be doing some arm curls with our law books to be ready, is that right, walkine . When i was little, i collected stamps but when i was growing up, there were not stamped that reflected our culture, our api heritage, our inclusive diverse beautiful culture that is the Asian Pacific community here in the United States. And when i think about how different it has been over the years that generations of kids get to be reflected in something as common as the stamps that we put in the letters. My son who is p, is slightly obsessed with stamps because of course hes my son. And for me to share the year of the dragon stamps is going to be excited to him, but it means that just as i learned about black history and womens history and other aspects of American History from the stamps that i observed in the 70s and 80s, he will learn that and more. I want to thank the post master and the leadership of the Postal Service for uplifting who we are as americans, uplift who we are as Asian Pacific americans and uplift who we are as san franciscans. With that, thank you so much and do i bring you back claudiadine or madam mayor . Come on back madam mayor. Mayor breed thank you so much for your leadership. And i want to recognize some of the leaders here, nelson lum is with us as well as steven lee our port commissioner and night life champion, lions deny will be packed all throughout Lunar New Year. Grace herothi thank you from jam an town, ron lee, good to see you, i saw the hawaiian shirt is always good for any occasion. Elvin louie and al perez, thank you for being with us commissioner perez and so many of our wonderful leaders as well as our commissioner a raoen lee rylee, we appreciate what you do on boards and commissioners and activities all around the city. And with that, i want to introduce the post master, i was going to say post master general but just post master from the United StatesPostal Service to help introduce and talk about this stamp douglas smith. Good morning, every one. Thank you mayor breed for the kind words, claudine, i dont think there is any place in this country that represents what we provide with the stamp and in this city, although we were not first, i think were always going to be the most important so thank you for the words. Its an honor to be here as we celebrate the year of the dragon. I would like to thank the speakers for your support. As a post master of San Francisco, im proud to recognize this meaningful stamp that is val owed by those who celebrate the Lunar New Year as well. Its a time when families get together as you have done today to celebrate the celebrating of our stamp. As one of americas oldest public institutions, the Postal Service is proud to celebrate through our commemorative stamp program. Likewise, im proud to say that the workforce is one of the most diverse in america. Sxl thats appropriate since we serve the most diverse customers on the face of the earth. Ours is a world culture, which is why its so important that our stamps reflect the rich multi cultural traditions. For more than three decades, they celebrate the Lunar New Year. In fact the Lunar New Year are the collection right side the most exciting releases the Postal Service has had. Thats no surprise that more than 1. 5 billion mark the event. The success of the series is a wonderful reminder to bring friends and family together in the spirit of celebration, a tradition of course is what Lunar New Year is all about. This years stamp showcases the only mythical creature in the chinese zodiac, dragons are considered by many to be welcome harolded of hope for the future. Its also been said that people mourn during the Lunar New Year tend to have the features. Enterprising, wise and powerful, are the traits. Im proud to say that i was born in the year of the dragon in 1964. I hope you know that we have quality, wisdom in our judgment and good luck and good fortune. The stamp, the 5th in the Lunar New Year series, created by camille chu, sevensers the beautifully adorn mask used in Lunar New Year parades, on the long tradition of paper cut folk art cuts created during this yaefrment the mask was constructed out of hand painted paper and and used flowers and tassle. Gold and red, gold representing prosperity and red good fortune. You can purchase this stamp in our places, and from the convenience of your home at u. S. Ps. Com. As you add the stamp to your collection, or use it to mail your Lunar New Year greetings, its our hope that the year of the dragon brings peace, and comfort to you and your families. Thank you again for the opportunity to be with you today and i would now like to ask mayor breed and our participants to come up and help me unveil the 2024, year of the dragon forever stamp. [applause] mayor breed all right, join us in the count, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 [cheers and applause] thank you, everybody. Chinatown. music . Welcome to San Francisco historic chinatown a place with a past, present, and future merge with the street culture and cuisine join us as was take you on a journey. San Francisco Chinatown is a feeling testament of chinas immigrants and arrived in 1950 during the gold rush but hardship built a 35 community that served for generations. Today San Francisco chinatown is a burtonsville neighborhood brimming with history and culture. One of the highlights of this vibrant is worldwide can i intervene aim first and the oldest. We are known for handmade our claim to fame is our unique food and few places in the world. speaking foreign language. chinatown is a food louvers paradise with a rich engrave and cuisine. Back requires and moon contacts and every fine dining. Welcome to unintelligible . Sandy spring . speaking foreign language. whether youre an ad veteran urban forester chinatown has something for everyone. Chinatown is not just again food also a hub of creativity and take a stroll down the street with murals as culture exhibitions to celebrate the heritage of this city. What the sun sets schoun truly come alive. Its night life is old and new a myriad of bars and you can distance the night away with friends. The museums and culture nonprofits play an Important Role in chinatown to teacher us about the past, present, and future and providing a platform for artist to engage in conversations and welcome to the chinas holistic the mission so collect and preserve Common Council in america any person of my background can see themselves in chinatown for all people. And our founders help to create the studies. And usa with a was an amazing collector. Chinatown center was founded no 1965 an art center for infer served for people for education and the center is an exciting place for dialogue and engage with the actor right now have a exhibition present tense playground that looks the development of chinatown and also with the vast asian with taiwan and honk con. Welcome to the square a new culture hub celebrating chinatown a gateway tell stories of chinatown the people here the culture and the history and past, present, and future all through arts and culture. That is a 35 community there is so many to see shopping and buy food and suv inferiors and we welcome, everyone to come in and see what is going on here. So whether or not youre a history buff foodie an art person or simply looking for a night of excitement San Francisco chinatown has something for you come and explore and experience the heart and the i soil of the private music . 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City beat breakfast on this valentines day. Im looking out at this crowd and actually, you know, it warms my heart to see everybody here on valentines day. And i know this sounds a little bit strange, but i have to start off by how proud i am of all san franciscans. Yeah we all deserve a hand. These past three years, ive stood up here at this breakfast before you and shared some pretty daunting numbers. But i want to be clth