St. Patricks day father mcbride come before us on st. Patricks day. Just to give you a bit of background on father brendon, as he is known to everyone. He has committed his lifes work to help our irish immigrants. He is a native of ireland and been in in countries in the world, to eventually here in San Francisco. He has been especially formative in the Irish Immigration Pastoral Center here in our great city of San Francisco and everybody identifies father with the center. He has grown it into a thriving hub, helping irish immigrants in our city. It is a Nonprofit Community organization, assisting all irish immigrants in the bay area. I would call his style working quietly and behindthescenes one of the most humble people you will ever come across. He is both a teacher and a student to so many people. He has offered citizenship advice, Job Interview consultation, just working with our irish immigrant families here in San Francisco. He is a leadbyexample type of person and i have the g
Just to give you a bit of background on father brendon, as he is known to everyone. He has committed his lifes work to help our irish immigrants. He is a native of ireland and been in in countries in the world, to eventually here in San Francisco. He has been especially formative in the Irish Immigration Pastoral Center here in our great city of San Francisco and everybody identifies father with the center. He has grown it into a thriving hub, helping irish immigrants in our city. It is a Nonprofit Community organization, assisting all irish immigrants in the bay area. I would call his style working quietly and behindthescenes one of the most humble people you will ever come across. He is both a teacher and a student to so many people. He has offered citizenship advice, Job Interview consultation, just working with our irish immigrant families here in San Francisco. He is a leadbyexample type of person and i have the great honor of being part of his angels team thanks to supervisor els
Violence cases, but those throughout the state as well. On a more positive note, i wanted to say that this week is a celebration of our Incredible School districts arts program formerly called young in art. Its our School Districts Arts Festival being held across the civic center plaza, the Asian Art Museum this week. I dont know if any of you have been enjoying the art and the performances, but i have as well. Its a celebration of student creativity, visual literary media and performing arts in our schools. And its running through sunday, march 10th. Im really excited that the Richmond District schools are participating from Frank Mccoppin elementary [speaker not understood] as well as many others. As my colleagues, supervisor yee and kim who are also former president s of the school board know, we couldnt do enough or we cant do everything to support arts without the support of the public and the passage of prop h or the public enrichment Public Education Enrichment Fund or peef and
In the market and the cop in, valencia, and stevenson neighborhood. Between 2000 and 2005 many of our residents initially united to halt the rebuild of the freeway ramp. And when they failed in doing that they mobilize today get themselves onto the central freeway Highway Advisory Committee and lobbied for 5 million for the project itself to be spent within the immediate area. Thousands of meetings later, the cac was able to come up with a plan for the funds and the Transportation Authority initiated the central freeway replacement and [speaker not understood] project study of 2005 which sought to identify and prioritize potential projects that would help improve the surrounding neighborhoods impacted by the new central freeway project. The proposed improvements developed in partnership with the community are collectively named the south of market west Improvement Project and will include a skate park and a dog park for this neighborhood. Based on what we felt the Recreation Needs of t
Of people from the San Francisco Police Department and the command staff who attended charles Retirement Party last week. And when they spoke about charles, and even though some time the occ is thought of as that other department where there could be conflicts between the Police Department and our office, the members of the command staff said that chief investigator gall man always operated with integrity. And, so, im taking this opportunity again to publicly thank charles for his commitment to the goal, to the mission of the office of citizen complaint to promptly, impartially, and fairly investigate civilian complaints of police misconduct. Thank you. applause before i turn it over to mr. Gall man, i also want to recognize our chief of police. And again, its a testament to mr. Gall man as hes about to retire, we have our chief and deputy chief present. We couldnt leave because its charles. So, 15 years, weve been together many, many nights. I, too, want to thank his wife for allowing