Awards here at San Francisco city hall. Thank you all so much for joining us here tonight. It is an honor to be here. My name is daniel homsby and i am the Program Manager for the Neighborhood Department networks. An honor to see you here. Many of the same faces for the fifth year for the men awards. Lets give you an a plays for coming back. applause and celebrating one of the most important things we have in San Francisco, which is our neighborhoods. Without further ado, id like to start the program off by introducing my colleague, christina palone, the new director for the Mayors Office for neighborhoods. Christina palone. applause good evening, everyone. Im happy to be a part of such a great ebit that celebrates the contributions made by residents and organizations throughout the city to make San Francisco one of the greatest places to live. The Mayors Office of Neighborhood Services also known as mons focuses on Neighborhood Outreach and engagement. It is an honor to be here with C
Inductee is bernice. [speaker not understood] to talk more about her contributions to the city. Jen . applause hi, my name is Jennifer Banta and i am proud to nominate bernice beng to the nen hall of fame. Bernice being was a visionary artist. She was born, raised, educated and worked in San Francisco. Bing. She graduated from the first mfa class of the San Francisco Art Institute in 1961. She was good friends with joan brown and jay de feo. Shes what an integral part of the art scene in north beach. She was also part of the first argot lin artists in Residence Program in 1967 and spent the better part of the 70s deeply devote today Community Arts and activism. She was part of the Founding Member of scrap, and she was involved with the Neighborhood Arts Program during its insanction. Inception. She went on to found the San Francisco Cultural Arts center and she is the first director. I am excited to share with you im working with the Asian American Women Artists association and film ma
And passion about receiving the awards and we will post all of them on the internet as well as hopefully make them available on s. F. Government tv. You will have a chance to hear from the wins wynners. Were going to try to consolidate the program and do the second half in the reception. Which brings up the fact once again we have the amazing st. John event doing our food in the north light court. So, at the conclusion of this evenings event we ask you all join us in the north light court to enjoy a wonderful selection of food and wine and drinks. Id also like to take a moment, of course, and thank mayor lee for once again extending the invitation to host the event here as well at city hall as well as our new city administrator naomi kelly who will be making remarks here promptly in a little bit. And thank them for their generous hospitality not only 230er this event but for this program because without their leadership and support the Neighborhood Department network would not exist. I
Getting Senior Leadership bonuses and the same interest we put in attaching ourselves to highprofile projects is what the same amount of attention that needs to go to veterans. So i encourage you guys if nothing else, please make sure that we move to a system that has more data integrity. Require the people who come here and sit on these panels to sign off on the information they turn into congress. This way when they come back, they cant say that report was done by somebody else. Thats the only way. Hold them accountable and do it in public and while the cameras are on. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Committee come to order. And that includes the former senator from connecticut, who is sitting in the audience behind senator markey. Chris, nice to see you. I think all of us were forward thinking until you and eddie showed up. It will be a close call now. See if we cant get it through. Try to get it done. Senator markey, i dont know what kind of time frame youre on. If you can give
Giving out 12 awards. For those of you that came to the first nen awards, you recall it finished about an hour ago. So, weve modified the format in the last two years. So, tonight what will happen is that tonight we will hear from the people that nominated the winners who will dive deep into talking about thighs illustrious individuals and organizations. And the individuals will receive the award. Now, tonight the people that will be making remarks from this podium will be the people receiving the hall of fame award and the Lifetime Achievement award. The balance of the individuals and organizations that will receive awards are going to be interviewed by our nen tv film crew in the north court during the reception. You can watch the interviews and how their feelings of joy and passion about receiving the awards and we will post all of them on the internet as well as hopefully make them available on s. F. Government tv. You will have a chance to hear from the wins wynners. Were going to