For those of you dont know me, im janet and tilts a pleasure to be here today for the irish flag raising the irish are optimists and irish flag raising i saw the sunshine slow the rain clouds thats what day i today is all about the irish helped shape San Francisco and including buildings and engineering and science and medication and education, government and Public Service. My father thomas yes, maam graduated in 1949 and immigrants found opportunity and warm welcome in San Francisco and found the love of his life my motel whose family where in the county and my siblings and i were raised with great pride in the Irish Heritage and microphone feedback welcome to introduce to i your mayor of 0 San Francisco mayor london breed clapping. all right. Good afternoon everyone who is so great to be here with each and every one of you to celebrate the flag raising that represents are your bond and continued work and growth what did you Irish Community here in San Francisco this this years theme
Afternoon. Were here today for a virtual town hall regarding an officer involved shooting that occurred on wednesday, july 26, 2023, in the intersection of catalina street and fairfax avenue. Before proceeding, id like to announce to our viewing and listening audience that this town hall is being translated into spanish, cantonese and american sign language. Asl for members of our community who speak those languages without suggesting a premature judgment on the appropriateness of the force used in this particular incident. Todays presentation will include details from an officer involved shooting incident that ended tragically claiming the life of 41 year old ryan bluford. Id like to express my deepest condolences to mr. Bluford surviving family members for the tragedy theyve experienced in the San Francisco Police Department. We recognize that our sworn duty as Law Enforcement officers imposes no more solemn obligation on us than to honor and respect the sanctity of human life. We al
Supervisor melgar. Present. Supervisor supervisor peskin. Present. Supervisor preston. Present. Wroo supervisor ronen . Present. Supervisor safai. Present. Supervisor stefani. Present. And supervisor walton. Present. Mr. President all members are present. Thank you, madam clerk the board of supervisors acknowledges we are on the unseed home lanltd of the Ramaytush Ohlone. The original inhabitants of the San Francisco pel anyone slam as stewards of the land with their traditions the Ramaytush Ohlone never cd lost nor forgot their responsibilities as the care takers of this place as well as all peoples reside in their traditional translator. As guests we recognize we benefit from living and working on Traditional Home landful we wish to pay respects acknowledging then sesterce and irrelevant tifs of the recommend Ram Community and by afirming rights as first peoples. Will you join me in the pledge. [pledge of allegiance] do we have communicationings. Yes. This meeting is airing live on s
I have the great honor to be your mc for this ocean im jupiter per asa. An occasion that is personal to me and close to my heart. For some context why that is, back in 2021 i wrote the initial draft proclamation that designating august as transgender History Month. I was inspired by the cafeteria riots on an august 9 in 1966. We dont know exactly what day it happened but we do know that it happened in august. I asked myself, why is it that we dont know what day it happened . It is monumental history. Why dont we know . The sad reality of it is that this monumental occurrence was so major and unlike anything that had ever occurred before at that scale in the United States , that an effort to eliminate it from records and existence ensued. It persisted. And because of it, watershed moments in the lbgtq Civil Rights Movement followed. Such as the stonewall riots of 1969. So, the idea transgender History Month began to take shape via this train of thought. I thought about black History Mon
Jupiter per asa. An occasion that is personal to me and close to my heart. For some context why that is, back in 2021 i wrote the initial draft proclamation that designating august as transgender History Month. I was inspired by the cafeteria riots on an august 9 in 1966. We dont know exactly what day it happened but we do know that it happened in august. I asked myself, why is it that we dont know what day it happened . It is monumental history. Why dont we know . The sad reality of it is that this monumental occurrence was so major and unlike anything that had ever occurred before at that scale in the United States , that an effort to eliminate it from records and existence ensued. It persisted. And because of it, watershed moments in the lbgtq Civil Rights Movement followed. Such as the stonewall riots of 1969. So, the idea transgender History Month began to take shape via this train of thought. I thought about black History Month and womens History Month. Now national low recognize