In San Francisco, and thank you for joining us [inaudible] inspired by mr. Bennetts duet said album. Please enjoy and have a great day. Good morning everyone. Im elaine forms interim port director. Welcome to pier 80. Thank you for coming out today. We have much to celebrate. We are here to celebrate a 15 year terminal Management Agreement that will bring maritime actaveties back to the port as originally intended. The pier was built in the 1960 as a cargo shipping container port. By the mid1990s we lost market share to oakland and made a decision to stop cargo shipping and move to [inaudible] initially it was strong but [inaudible] couldnt recover from the 1990s recession and many here remember those jobs that were here and saw the economic decline and the impact that it made to families. It was heart breaking. I see there are Many International long shoreman weir house Union Members here. Bob mu cell rath. Officers from local 10, 10, 34, 91 and 75. I see don marks from the master mas
Motion . So moved. Second. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . We are now i move not to disclose anything in closed session. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . Madam secretary . Pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Pledge which is such an accomplishment because the cruise terminal delivers public trust and Public Benefits to us and to our community. Im also very excited to announce that we have earned cruise Critics Award for the best destination in the u. S. And in canada. This is a vote of cruisers sailing between august 1, 2015, and july 31, 2016. Cruise critics is a leading cruise review and information site which host th
In front of the children last week. In france, 20 people are known aftere lost their lives cities like caen received two months of rain over a twohour. Nato has held an emergency meeting in brussels after a turkish exit after turkish f16 fighter jets were scrambled after a russian warplane entered turkish airspace. Them toled on immediately explain the violation. Reporter it is days since moscow launched airstrikes in syria. An aerial incursion into turkish airspace by a russian fighter jet has sent pulses racing. They said it was a mistake, that they respected turkey borders, and it would not happen again. Reporter they urged russia to cease, this is, and explain its a. I call on russia to fully respect turkish airspace. I urge them to align their actions with the steps of the International Community in the fight against isil. Reporter russia claims it has been doing up. Others claim it has targeted the moderate rebels. We have continued airstrikes on the Islamic State of syria. Their
Besides our doctors and his wife but our San Francisco giant pam bear and her husband unknowable the old san franciscans you looked at the things you see everything from the newer families to the salesforce each one say, oh and providing resources which will make San Francisco general a flagship of research for another hundred and 50 years advertised an honor for me to serve on the board as a representative from the commission since 2002 and i having served on other foundations believe me ive never seen a foundation where the generations have passed the torch has passed in families can come together and make significant and ongoing candidates to providing provide the highest quality of health care with dignity and respect for the the patient in selfreliance i San Francisco General Hospital this is part of Community Health network and laguna an integration of coordination of services and when dr. Chow came board and i he in 1998 it is the leadership and the trust and commitment to the h
That we Pay Attention to the essential workforce of the city. We have in the past talked about the need to make sure the First Responders are in the city so we started a loan program and thank tooz the supervisors working with my office we are able to do that to the tune of 250 Million Dollars and believe that whole program is taken care of and we need more in the future but it is a mark of our effort to make sure or essential workforce is here. As you also know i ar ticulated the need to brild houseer by 2020 and making sure a third is affordable to low income and over half affordable to middle income fmlies as well. We are rebuilding the Public Housing as noted last week with [inaudible] in town and we declared and announced our blue print how we will get to insure over 10 thousand of the 30 thousand units affordable and as you know we recently introduce would the boards cooperation several pieces of legislation that can accelerate the building and rehabbing of the housing faster. Im