And where do we go from here, ms. Breed . You have all the departments that are with the administrator family to help you and supervisor cohen achieve those goals. This year, the theme is at the crossroads of freedom and equality and we stand here 150 years after the emancipation proclamation and 50 years after the march on washington to reflect on our success assess our challenges, and look forward to the future. Just monday at the state of the city address, the mayor talked about some of our challenges, and he has tasked me to work with supervisor cohen, supervisor breed, dr. Amos brown, dr. Honeycut, and all of you to look at our Public Housing and where do we see it going from here, and look into rethinking Public Housing so that it will be accessible for all people of all ethnicities of all races so that we all have dignity in where we live and what our future looks like. And, so, i look forward to working with all of you along with supervisor breed and cohen in looking at this ef
Advocates, to be supporters. Where do we go from here . Our time is now to change the course of history in San Francisco. Thank you all so much. [cheering and applauding] thank you, supervisor breed. Id also like to mention weve been joined by senator mark leno. Welcome, mark. Glad to have you here. applause and with that, id like to introduce the city administrator naomi kelly who will also introduce the mayor, ed lee. applause happy black History Month, everyone. We have to be proud that we have two very strong beautiful africanamerican women who are on the board of supervisors. [cheering and applauding] and where do we go from here, ms. Breed . You have all the departments that are with the administrator family to help you and supervisor cohen achieve those goals. This year, the theme is at the crossroads of freedom and equality and we stand here 150 years after the emancipation proclamation and 50 years after the march on washington to reflect on our success assess our challenges,
Melva davis, kim brandon, willie adams at the port, chuck collins, [speaker not understood], the reverend amos brown, denise tyson, linda richardson, sonya harris, patricia thomas, veronica honeycut, these are just the names of a few of our commissioners who are heading up those very important divisions of our city. And they are joining with me and with the supervisors and with the Department Heads to do what mrs. Obama asked us to do. Whenever we occupy these public positions throughout the city or throughout the state or throughout the nation, we do the right thing, we keep the doors of opportunity open and enriched for everybody else. And were already seeing it happen. Yesterday i was at the luncheon for the boys and girls club, wonderful, wonderful entity thats reaching out to all of our Young High School kids and make sure theyre motivated to go to college. You should have heard them talk about their futures. You should also hear them ask for our help, because i know as much as an
Africanamerican community, we need help. And i have been deliberately assembling a very Important Group of people who are going to help me get the job done. And youve seen some of these people already. They are malia cohen, london breed at the board. They have to face all the different politics. But i know theyre going to be great partners with me because weve got the right objectives to happen. We want everybody included in the city. We have naomi kelly, harlan kelly, mohammed nuru, Rhonda Simmons heading upstreamly important departments. And ive got to say this. If we cant get the job done with these people in these important positions or some tremendous progress, i dont know where else to look because this is a great start. Yes. applause but we also have tremendous help from people who are helping us create the policies and the accountability in all the different departments. Melva davis, kim brandon, willie adams at the port, chuck collins, [speaker not understood], the reverend am
Enriched for everybody else. And were already seeing it happen. Yesterday i was at the luncheon for the boys and girls club, wonderful, wonderful entity thats reaching out to all of our Young High School kids and make sure theyre motivated to go to college. You should have heard them talk about their futures. You should also hear them ask for our help, because i know as much as anybody else that our kids will inherit the good things that we do. They will also inherit the things that we fail to do. And im about making sure that we fail less in the things that were obligated to do for our generations. Thats why im investing in education. Personally, and with all of my administration, i personally adopted the 12 middle schools in this city to make sure that the truancy goes down, is not eliminated, that the kids who are in our middle schools have the hope, the hope that were generating when they were in elementary school, involved with their parents, have the same kind of guidance and sup