Will be where we reflect strong infrastructure of tourism, where we host things and do well. This is what San Francisco is about. We have an incredible committee of people that have volunteered and put forth i want to be part of this team effort to, build a bay area super bowl event that will be not only long lasting for the sports itself but with daniels leadership and supervisor feral thats been such an incredible partner in the dialogue to help us form our ideas. And for somebody whos spnt his personal time creating the educational links between our School District and kids and parents, to created a decisional open space in private efforts, we have the right team. Today, in concert with mayor mathews and mayor reed with people in business, philanthropy, academia coming together, certainly under the very large umbrella of wanting and wishing and making sure this is the most philanthropic event the worlds ever seen. It is appropriately hosted in San Francisco. I have often heard when
Super bowl bid committee, which im excited and thrilled to say. [ applause ] we were waiting for the nfls announcement. We got that tuesday. Now we can talk more. I want to acknowledge chris kelly, pat gallager, jim wonderman, we are expecting ron conway and mary murphy to join us. I also wanted to turn the microphone over to mayor lee to talk about why we are here. That is to unveil our logo, social media campaign. We will have rich silverstein, the head of this amazing ad Agency Working the past month to come to this point. We are going to hear from the ceo of the 49ers, jet york as well. Supervisor mark ferrell, who will be our key liaison to the board of supervisors here in San Francisco i want to acknowledge mayor reeve and williams werent able to make it. We are committed to the effort and our theme of bringing the bowl to the bay. That will be important because we cant do this alone. We are excited to work with them as well. Without furthered adieu i will ask mayor lee to come u
The nfl will have the super bowl at meadowlands, outside new york how far santa clara is. Could be the first snowy super bowl. Is there any concern about the nfl, the fact in february we could have horrible rain or beautiful sunshine about the weather . I have looked ahead. It is supposed to be sunny that day. We are excited to put that in the bid package. My mom reminds me my birthday is february 4th, all grown up. We had all of my parties in the glorious sun so i think we are in good shape. We meet the nfl requirements of temperature. We are above that, so we are in great shape on that front. So be it. Whatever. I dont think it is going to rain. Any questions . We can have two weeks leading up to the event. What sort of things will be part of the overall. I have been told by the nfl the past super bowls jed can speak to this as well, theres over 200 events and parties, opportunities for us to highlight the best of this region. We dont have the details, looking at february 2016 if we
Is in per pupil. We rank 47th. As a result we rank 50 as the number of counselors and the number of nurses in our schools and the number of libranias in. You get what you pay for. Our state has been starved for cash for the past ten years as a result of tax cuts the state could not afford that the prior governor put on the credit cards. We need to provide significantly more funding not only through k12 education which is the birth right of every child to be able to get a quality Public Education in my opinion and to be able to pursue the dream of a Higher Education and that is getting further and further out of the reach of children in california because the state does not support education. We need funding, we need to spend it on education. So, therefore, do you think that Community Colleges should perhaps change their focus . One idea is to focus on retraining unemployed workers and upgrading skills for new jobs. Do you feel that the state should encourage this . And how . If you are
My name is chris stevens, im the new u. S. Ambassador to libya. I had the honor to serve as the envoy to the libyan revolution and i was thrilled to watch the libyan people stand up and demand their rights. Now im excited to return to libya to continue the great work weve started, building a Solid Partnership between the United States and libya to help you the libyan people achieve your goals. Right now im in washington, preparing for my assignment. As i walk around the monuments and memorials commemorating the courageous men and women that made america what it is, im reminded we too went through challenging periods, when america was divided by a bitter civil war 150 years ago. President Abraham Lincoln had the vision to pull us together toward a shared goal of peace and prosperity. Growing up in california i didnt know much about the arab world. Then after graduating from the university of california at berkeley, i traveled to north africa as peace corps engineer. I worked as an engli