Will ask her on the way out but you still havent told me yet but ultimately you call the department heads. Its the city. It doesnt take a rocket scientific to know. Its room 200. Im not faulting you all. Ed lee has to do something. I have known him longer than you all. And i dont care if its willie brown. I am not scared of willie brown. I am noted of governor brown. I would like to see obama and come back to the community instead of raising money. Hes a Community Organizer in chicago and come back and look at the people that are trying to help us instead of getting thousands of dollars from the high rich people. I want to say in closing i am grateful because you all hear what is going on. I am tickled black not pink tickled black right now. Thank you very much. Youre welcome. Next item please. The next order of business is item 7 report of the chair. I dont have a report. Okay. The next order of business is item 8 report of the executive director. Madam director. Commissioners i just
We have to go to rose and get ready. [speaking foreign language] so what i said is wishing everybody a prosperous new year. However, safety is number one and second is cleanliness so i have a cane. If i see anybody throwing garbage around i will wack you. Thank you. [applause] i got enough scissors this year. Okay. Let me tell you what is going on. Theyre going to cut the ribbon and then the beijing and valley christian will be ready. After they cut the ribbon i will go one, two, three and youre in for a real treat. [speaking foreign language]. All right. You guys all help me. Ready . [speaking foreign language] one, two, three all right. Hit it. Check this out everybody. Turn around. Check this out. All the way from beijing and Valley Christian School together. Ready . All right. [speaking foreign language] Valley Christian School [speaking foreign language] can you feel it everybody . Ready . band playing test. Hey, there San Francisco nona back with budget friendly events and activi
In wow. As we say farewell to the horses we welcome the ram and then mayor ed lee also former mayor willie brown and jeffrey Asian Pacific islander elementary initiated at welcome of the ram to 2005 its my great honor to invite the honorable mayor ed lee to say happy new year also will say it in chinese. Thank you doris. speaking foreign language. and everyone in mandarin. All right. Right. speaking foreign language. first of all, everybody welcome to the kickoff of our wonderful Chinese New Year the year of the ram im so happy to joined by former mayor willie brown give willie a hand clapping. supervisor christensen is here thank you julie for being here and sxhaifshg thank you for being here did i miss any other supervisors or rams here gosh what a wonderful kickoff this just gets more eloquent every year i want to say thank you to the San Francisco Chinese Chamber of commerce for their leadership were going to have a wonderful two weeks of celebration actual very much to the asian p
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And under performance we closed on the ninth and 43 million was transferred to the transbay joint Bay Authority for the Transit Center construction so it continues which is a good thing and we expect to bring more of those before you this year so congratulations to the staff. The staff is not here but i do see a number of folk who is are here. Deputy director sally wurt, pam simms is a Development Specialists really carried a lot of the weight in that closing transaction. Gwen and jeff whyte and even former agency staff that helped with that transaction so thank you to everybody for the hard work and the work and leadership of this commission so were right on schedule. Great. I think i need to ask are there speaker cards regarding the executive directors report . None. Okay. Next item of business please. Next is item 9 commission matters and issues. Yes. Do we have any matters . I want to give a hand. Yes very good. Thank you. Okay. Next item. The next order of business is item 10 clos