Thank the many city staffers that brought us out today. I want to bring out the hundreds of folks but in particular thank you mr. Mayor for working with us and in particular ken rich, you really get one of the major Unsung Hero Award for your efforts. I want to take a moment also to thank our counter parts across the table from cpmc, this is a different conference than the conference i called for back in july, is that right . I want to thank you for your demonstration in San Francisco and i look forward to opening up a brand new saint lukes and cathedral hospital. Of course much has been said about gerardo, if you are looking for a feature story to do on someone. David has already suggested he go to the middle east. Im going to ask lou, we need some help with homelessness and i wonder if you are ready for that task. Oor there is literally thousands of people that interacted with city hall to make sure we address the Housing Labor issues, the transit issue, the neighborhood issues. We c
Test, test, test, test, test well, thank you all for coming. Its great. I just want to highlight the program before we get started. All our partners have helped us develop this project with that my name is a himself im head up the be district program. We welcome president chiu welcome. Without further adieu a man whos no stranger to this area mayor edwin lee. Thank you. Its great to be here on 24th street i can literally see all the changes and the constant very brnt area. It gets crowded up here. Im glad to join president chiu and the other supervisors who are supporting this neighborhood. All over the city we have 11 of these cb ds thought the city and 5 entire districts. The latest one i want to thank the board for the district that is raising their own money that can really compliment the downtown moscone. The neighborhoods i enjoy just as much because the neighborhood are constantly working to find ways to improve. Im glad to see public works that helps get the permits done for th
She has recognized your leadership. Joe. When we met with her about the issue of violence and the underlying causes of it, she said you really got to get the guns away. In other words we want to do more things at the same time. Our colleagues on board at tucson and injured with gabby gifford, hes now a member of congress, he was injured. He worked for 30 years in the Mental Health community and then he was her assistant and now hes a member of congress. And he said, i had really and he represents sun country. He said, i had concluded after thinking through and listening that the only way to keep guns out of the hands of the resident assault magazines out of the hands of those who shouldnt have them is to keep them out of the hands of everyone, of everyone. applause sxwrierx. We do have to address, and i think its really important, its a moral imperative to create jobs, moral imperative to reduce the disparity in income and equity and the rest and its only getting worse and we have to a
When a resident of San Francisco is looking for health care, you look in your neighborhood first. What is closest to you . If you come to a Neighborhood Health center or a clinic, you then have access it a system of care in the Community Health network. We are a system of care that was probably based on the Family Practice model, but it was really clear that there are special populations with special needs. The cole street clinic is a youth clinic in the heart of the Haight Ashbury and they target youth. Tom woodell takes care of many of the central City Residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many of the homeless. Potrero hill and Southeast Health centers are Health Centers in those particular communities that are family Health Centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. Many of our clients are working poor. They pay their taxes. They may run into a rough patch now and then and what were able to provide is a bridge towards getting th
Is your life. The renovation of balboa park, the oldest in the city of San Francisco, and now it is the newest part in the city of San Francisco. Through our partnership, and because of Public Investment from the two thousand eight fund, we are celebrating a renewal and an awakening of this park. We have it safer, happier, more joyous. 3, 2, 1, [laughter] [applause] it is a great resource for families, to have fun in the city, recreation. This is an amazing park. We have not revitalized it without public and private investment. The critical piece of the process of this renovation was that it was all about the community. We reached out to everyone in this community. We love this park dearly and they all had thoughts and ideas and they wanted to bring their own creativity and their personality to bear on the design. What you see is what the community wanted. These ideas all came from the residents of this community. As a result, there is a sense of ownership, pride and responsibility tha