People in Public Service and he founded his program, which is now nationally recognized, which has provided over 250 students since 1990 is valuable opportunities to experience hands on work all over muni. Bond yee has helped to bring transportation engineering to the forefront of urban planning and engineering. Because of that on behalf of the board of supervisors, it is my honor to declare today, january 31, 2014 as bond yee day in San Francisco. Thank you bond. Bond, before you speak, we do have another colleague who had come up with her own certificate of honor. Bond, thank you. As you know, he is actually a resident of our sunset district, so prior to this position bond was someone who we could go to to solve problems and so when we had very Angry Community members, he could say with authority as someone who lives in the neighborhood really what he thought was best in terms of improvement. With that, i want to thank you, bond, and hope we will continue to see you in the sunset dis
I am speechless. You know, Public Service is a privilege and its especially so if you get to do it in your hometown so i feel fortunate in that regard. Im honored to be able to serve you and the people of San Francisco and really appreciate all the support and policy guidance youve given me and my colleagues at the sfmta through all these years and thank you very much for the opportunity. Thank you. We look forward to seeing you on muni. [applause] i have a second commendation for another Public Servant who will be departing with us very shortly who has helped to head up for almost four years, department of the environment. Id like to invite up melanie nutter. She has an incredibly long list of accomplishments during her time and ill just highlight a couple of her accomplishments. She helped to successfully implement or mandatory composting recycling policy to move our city to a city of zero waste. She helped advance us to be the electric vehicle capital. Shes someone who helped to enc
Standing here with me. And my work as superintendent is to serve more school communities. Im hoping that i can continue to, you know, carry what we have done in the sunset district and expand it to other districts. And i look forward to doing this real well. And also i will still be a parent. I will not go away and i want to thank you again, supervisor tang, and im sure i will see you around. Thank you. applause mr. Wong, i also want to call really quickly Dianne Lau Yee at [speaker not understood], and [speaker not understood], Francis Scott key parent who i know theyre surprised, but i have a few words for you. My name is susie loftus [speaker not understood]. My husband and i were doing the tours and anxious to figure out whether or not we could make Public Schoolwork for our family, exactly what supervisor tang explained. We walked into this tiny school in the outer sunset and met this man, mr. Wong, who was sitting in a very modest office. Doesnt even have a vice principal, even t
Community and public and private sector so we look forward to the next phase of doing what was getting attention nationally to make this an even more robust and less fragmented system. And i appreciate supervisor yee, your support of the new office of early care and education. Really excited about our new director barbara carlson. My staff works really hard on behalf of the public because we really see this as prevention and a way to strengthen families and support the economy of the city. If parents go work if somebodys not taking care of the kids, so we know care and education happens simultaneously, not in separate buckets. Thank you for this honor this morning and we will keep on doing the good work. [applause] im going to make the next two presentations to honor two very distinguished Public Servants for whom this is their last week with city government. First person id like to invite up is someone who id describe in the following way. He was once referred to as a low level bureau
Mentioned, sustaining a 10 10 ranking on the api score, upped your leadership lawton is one of the most desirable schools in the city of San Francisco ~ under. And much of that is accredited to what you have done to lead and cultivate the hundreds of families and students lives that you have touched over the years. On behalf of superintendent richard karanza, on a personal note, its been an honor to work with you as well. Thank you so much for your years of service and dedication to sfusd students and families. applause san id like to thank supervisor tang, ~ but particularly members of the board of supervisors because you have provided a forum, a place where you can share your personal voice and personal stories. And you bring to life what you do as leaders as you serve this wonderful city of ours. I am a child of immigrant roots, and Public Education is truly the leveler. And i would be remiss in fact, it is my responsibility to take this moment to acknowledge specifically two collea