Event for the simple reason that lasted little tolerance for and patients with impractical ideas that did not add up. Much of the evening will be given over to hearing from Jake Sullivan. Someone known for his commonsense sense and Strategic Thinking alike. He was a member for 46 years. Less passed away. We planned to do something in his honor much sooner. Covid got in the way of this and so many other things. But we are glad to be able to come together now with so many of you here in the room in person including judy and other members of the family along with literally hundreds of his friends and colleagues. The ultimate test of anybody running an institution is leave it in better shape than he or she found it. That is not meant as a criticism of those who came before, but the nature and measure of the task. He did just that and as the successor, i was the beneficiary. He arrived at the council after having had several careers. Most of us are happy to succeed at one. What made him spe
Welcome everyone and thanks for being here today. I want to extend a special welcome to all of our distinguished speakers. So first, the honorable edwin mayor of San Francisco. San francisco clapping thank you. San francisco board of supervisors david chu and San Francisco port executive director monique mirror clapping and our president and ceo paul guests the tall guy in the back. Im sorry and sprifrp kim. There should say right there thank you so the building our standing in was built in 1938 as a transit shed and its been used for many things for many defy types of folks. Wire super proud to have our ribbon cutting. Some of you have had a tour and youll be able to see all the wonderful things. A little bit about some of the things we did if develop this space is it was very important that we use Green Building design standards. So in all of our construction of the project and so many of the things the lighting for example, the heating and cooling systems all done with lead complian
Done, so thank you for that. Is that the statement or the question . The statement. He is so much more a fan of mine and yours. If anybody has any questions about deli, i am here for you. Sliced meat . I am here for you. Hitler, bin laden, and this kid. I hate him. Youre right about that head comment. And you are standing pretty far away. [laughter] in transitioning from writing your short for humor to yearlong for narrative, what was the biggest challenge . Being brave enough to try it. I was in my 40 pause before i even tried to write a novel. I said i did not know how to do it. If you read a lot, and you can figure out what youre supposed to do the hard part is the difference is, in the novel, the long form, you need some sort of plot. When i wrote a humor column, i never a word about any structure. There was no point. It was pretty clear. You read them. Thank you very much. Youre welcome. Now we have another question. I do not have a statement. Actually, that was a statement. [laug
Its great to be part of that movement. Really this is about good things. I want to talk about how were transforming our waterfront. We were talking about our peers that were literally crumpling into the sea whether the new explore tuchl thank you, very much but were transforming our waterfront thats been here for over a century and transforming it, its beautiful so its part of the bay and a respectful. The last thing i want to say im excited about all the cool things. I have two more things to ask you to make. We have to show up for a lot of things so i want you to clone elected officials and the last thing hopefully, youll need a bigger 3d printing machine of muni buses that dont breakdown so thank you clapping yeah, we need a big printer. Laeft the supervisor monique well good, afternoon on, on on behalf of the port staff and commissioners its an honor to have you here at the pier 9. The port is celebrating its 1 hundred and 50 anniversary. The reason the port was founded was to do s
Eye doctor. Congratulations clapping i must the next person. Hes an eight grader middle school. Hes not only a high chief student but gives back to the community p. I. By divorcing and provides tutoring including many language students and is a positive spirit as she continuously presents idea to make it a better place for everyone. Thank you clapping and our last but not least is a young lady. clapping is a tenth grader of the boys and girls club i used to work there back in 1995 and she wasnt there. In her 8 years of attending the clubhouse shes completed over 6 hundred and 32 hours of Community Service clapping working on projects if a that immigrant workers shes traveled to go africa thank you so much for your contributions clapping yeah. So once again, we want to thank all our letters throughout their lives and people hope they continue to be the leader for california and the rest of the nation. clapping speaking spanish. so we would like to thank supervisor avalos and all the par