That will bring two waterfront parks a few blocks from here. This won be possible but for the vision and the foresight that we all have about what we want a 21st Century Waterfront to look like. I want to thank you for that. I dont see any of my colleagues here. Im going to say the following. I think this may be the most beautiful vista vantage points not just in San Francisco, but in the entire world. And thank you for being part of it. applause thank you very much, president chiu. And now it is my honor to introduce the president of our Port Commission. Here today with former supervisor and current Port Commissioner leslie katz, president doreen has been a great inspiration for our port. She sits on a number of very important boards in the city, and yet has worked tirelessly on our behalf. And, so, please join me in welcoming president doreen wuho. applause hello, good afternoon. And im really here to thank everybody on behalf of the Port Commission. I havent been on the commission t
Bring your families. Bring your friends. Were proud to have another new space for all of the residents and our favorite dogs who walk along here, as well as the many visitors. As youve heard mentioned today, it has taken a Huge Community of people to get this done. Im very pleased to see representatives of the Fishermans Wharf Community Benefit district, the Fishermans Wharf restaurant association, all three of our ferry excursion operators, red and white, blue and gold horn blower, colleagues from the u. S. Coast guard, [speaker not understood] colleague, many of the restaurateurs, hoteliers, could you bev, i could go on and on and on. Council i do want to say a very special thank you, though, to the Fishermans Wharf group who spent years and years and years thinking about what this might be, which included our very own ann and many of our port staff. It also included the late port commissioner sue beer man, commissioner denise mccarthy, and members of our planning, engineering, and m
Commission, Commission Vice president tom harrison is here. [ applause ] commissioner page erata is here, glora buna is here and commissioner levatin is here and commissioner allan lowe is here and martin is here and give a shout out to mark who could not be here. And i saw supervisor mark ferrell and his entire family in the house and give him a shout out for him. I want to give. Lets give a big special thanks to scott weiner for all. He was out campaigning for the bond every night. Thank you scott. [ applause ] i saw tom ewy the director of the department of building inspection who is here and i want to thank him and i want to thank the San Francisco Parks Alliance who is here and the trust for public lands and most of all, i want to thank all of you, all of you for helping make this happen. [ applause ] oh, yeah. It is his last official Tree Lighting as a supervisor. Where is he . Come on up. Yeah, we have already forgotten up here, you have got to come up. A big. Our loudest, loude
You also gave a great speech and i dont know if you have the text, that you could share with Board Members because was a greater speech. Thank you. Any other reports . Seeing none, item t. Report of closed session actions. This is a closed session action of december 12th, 2012 the board of education approved by a vote of six ayes and one absent y yes, the program of one Program Administrator and one supervisor. In the matter of bs versus sfusd. [ laughter ] sorry. The board of education by a vote of 6 ayes and one absent, yee, who didnt deal with bs, [ laughter ] authorized the district to attempt to negotiate a settlement of specified term. Board of education approved by a vote of six ayes and one absent yee a Settlement Agreement and certified discipline case in which the district dismisses the accusation and the employee agreed to specified discipline. Other u, other informational items . No other Staff Reports and in adjournment tonight. One more information i cant end yet. Sorry p
Its long worth the wait. And to celebrate that we are going to cut the ribbon and the three performers, there they are, are going to perform for us. So, i hope you will stick around for that. Only in San Francisco treat and a little vision accompaniment from our favor fire boat. So, thank you all very much. Please, please, enjoy this day. Thank you. applause all right, 3 2, 1, go. [cheering and applauding]. Good afternoon well dominate to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting tuesday december 12. Please call row. Supervisor advocate lows president chew, supervisor chu supervisor cohen, supervisor elsburnd present. Supervisor fair and impartially present. Supervisor kimabsenility. Supervisor mar. Mar present. Supervisor a walky present. Supervisor wiener present. Ladies and gentlemen please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [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, i