Year of the many dragon. Of course i want to recognize Carmen Chu Hao district 4 supervisor as well; she has been a strong leader helping us promote the new years as well of course taking care of her district, working as a wonderful supervisor. I am excited about this new year too because it has an opportunity to unveil many of our cultural aspirations in the city of San Francisco. It has been 160 years, and we know our history well. My ascension to this office has been one of those things that people still consider me pretty special so much special not because of me but because of our community. This tab will have international status. Gobs of people will want to have it, reflective of not only our history but if i go to washington dc tomorrow we will have an opportunity to talk with the rest of the mayors across the country is to how to celebrate new years. This would be another example. Want to congratulate again claudine and the whole team, postmaster general, is leadership is alwa
And the network that reg put together with fibergen and the Eco Development folks and i think that those are wonderful things and examples and for me, wonderful memories and also a wonderful framework for expanding this model across the rest of the state. And we hope that because of your great work across the rest of the country, thank you. Plus [ applause ] thank you, very much, Lieutenant Governor. I remember well that you give me a hard time about South San Francisco and genetech and so we have come a long way. And so, i know and i am very happy to introduce, mayor esly who has become a passionate advocate for further developing San Francisco as the city of innovation and a wonderful partner and friend to ucsf, mayor lee . Thank you, just briefly the history is worth repeating, is what our Lieutenant Governor has always said. I need to remind people what i was doing at that time. I was the little dpw director when gaven became mayor and we were still doing that we brought it out to
This is a celebration of a decade of discovery at mission bay. Ten years ago, the Mission Bay Campus consisted of one lone building with a handful of researchers and a lot of boxes. Today, the campus is the hub of a collaborative and growing eco system that is transforming science into Better Health worldwide. Ten years ago, ucSan Francisco officially opened genetec hall, where we are today the first building at mission bay, to mark this anniversary we are celebrating those who played a key role in making what it is today and who gave both ucSan Francisco and the city and county of San Francisco a treasure. Looking across mission bay today, it is hard to remember what this area used to look like, but i have a clear recollection, i did my residency here and lived up on the hill and my husband used to try to talk me out of running passed this neighborhood. It was not a place that you wanted to spend a lot of time, it was a region of abandoned rail road yards and empty houses back then it