Happy pride, jason, i love you so much, and i would love for you to have the opportunity to say a few words. I do want to say a few things thank you so much for this recognition. It truly is a very special night i want to thank all of the people who before me stood up and fought for equal equal rights. Many gave their lives to a cause that paved the road so i could stand here today. I never imagined growing up in an Italian Catholic family and an environment where i did not feel comfortable being myself. One i wasnt sure of my path and that one day i would be recognized for my work, especially during pride month. San francisco is my home and will always be my home. I am excited to see where it goes. It is such an honor and a pillage to call this place our home and i look forward to the future. Happy pride. [applause] okay. Next up will be supervisor more mar. Thank you so much for this opportunity to acknowledge begin work for pride month acknowledge meghan work. While San Francisco ha
Month. I thank you for your service and your advocacy and i would like now to turn the floor over to an officer and the pride alliance. [applause] on behalf of the pride alliance, i would like to thank you for this recognition. It means the world to us. A little history on the pride alliance, it was created in 2001 when a group of courageous San Francisco Police Officers who identified as lgbtq establish an organization because they felt the department needed to change and that the relationships between the lgbtq officers and the department needed to be flourishing and needed to change for the better. I dont think those officers would have thought we would have had a rainbow s. U. V. Rolling around the streets of San Francisco or that Police Officers from the department, lgbtq, straight, allied, members of the command staff and the chief himself will be Walking Around the month of june wearing pride patches, which we would like to thank the commission and the command staff for allowing
Welcome to San Francisco James R Herman cruz terminal at pier 27. The first stop for all most 300 thousand people who come here every year from around the world to our beautiful city. I want to tell you about another jewel of the San Francisco port that just celebrated 125 years. The San Francisco Ferry Building. [applause] in the 19th century, commuters and visitors traveled by train or ferry or both. A Ferry Terminal on the waterfront downtown was a practical necessity. It was the sfo of its day. Grand central station. But as we so often do, San Francisco built a practical space a world class beauty, with a 245 foot clock tower along arched arcade, and a interior worthy of a renaissance cathedral. At the foot of Market Street, a beautiful bridge from water to land, the Ferry Building announced to every commuter, every traveller, this is San Francisco. You have arrived. Until that is, [applause] until that is, in the late 1930s when two new bridges the bay and golden gate and rise of
President peskin this is not his first anti Housing Action a long list recently, i time to highlight some of the recent actions hes taken for i get it off to a housing champion with us weve been dealing with a number of changes related to our Housing Element and hes pushed back almost every turn. Weve had legislation up here such as a recent fire Code Amendment by supervisor chan and if a champion that will make that hard to build homes in january and the City Attorney to look at whether or not we are unfairly targeted in San Francisco and making the same statement that senator wiener said recent actions and well list get back to those with we have champions on the board of supervisors looking at for us gracious enough to join us supervisor dorsey to get the Housing Element in place im sorry to bring him all 2340u9 to say a few words. Thank you a supervisor clapping. thank you, jan to a member of the board of supervisors im not sure there Small Business more of us itch of my career cla
The presidency, h. W. Brands looked at gerald ford in the context of the 19700s when he served as House Minority leader, Vice President and then president. Exploring the american story, watch with American History tv the saturdays on cspan2. And find a full schedule on your Program Guide or watch online anytime a cspan. Org history. Us tonight is mike buehler. He will introduce our speakers momentarily. Mike is president and ceo of Fort Mason Center for arts and and culture and a longtime Historic Preservationist. Prior to joining fort mason, he led stress historic nonprofit ss heritage. The he has worked at the los angeles conservancy and regional attorney for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. We asked mike to moderate tonights program because of his preservation work in both los angeles, the subject of tonights talk, and here in San Francisco. Thank you for being with us, mike. Welcome, and im goingin to hand the mic over to you. Thank you so much, francis. Its such a ple