Ccba president. Dont take that kind of commitment lightly or for granted. Thank you so much. The ed lee democratic club. You guys gave the best testimony, but you also had the best stickers hands down when we were in the testimony room. Many of you worked hard with and for ed during his years as mayor and that came out when you gave your public testimony. Thank you. Also to our grassroots leaders to the community associations. Our Nonprofit Community leaders from a. P. I. Council. Your coming out really showed that this campaign was Something Special to real people and not just us political types or quoks out the there and i thought that was meaningful. Jan sey, you came out, wayne lee. The sisters of cities communities, you came out. You clearly relished eds relishment. That will be my only bad joke. Individual friends of ed lee came out. You guys were really amazing and you were there all the time. Eds city family was incredibly helpful, the johnsons who arent here. Those who are her
A star for San Francisco. We are very excited here today. The first person i want to thank is is the mayor, not just because of her commitment and support, but also i want to thank the mayor for not just her support and partnership in this, but the fact that you challenged us you were the result of a challenge to get a bold leader to take this agency forward. Im grateful for that challenge. That challenge led us to an international search. We searched far and wide. I want to thank the Search Committee for the wonderful job that was done to conduct a Truly International search that led us to someone in our backyard, a san franciscan to run our agency. What has struck us about jeff more than his expertise, dedication, and his experience is his passion. You just heard it. He recognizes how transportation affects peoples lives, making it better when it goes well and worse when it doesnt. With that, we are very excited. I wish jeff the absolute best. I know he wont need luck because hes a t
Do question was, would anyone detect that we were sane . The answer was no. Your new book centers around the stores of this man. Who is he . Susannah hes a stanford professor who was the architect of this amazing study with the incredible footage you just inyed, called on being sane insane places. He went undercover in Psychiatric Hospitals around the country to test the ifure of diagnosis and see their sanity would be detected. As he said, they were not. The study was done in the early 1970s. Why are you interested in it today . Susannah it came from a very personal place. Had my previous book, my memoir, brain on fire, which targeted my experience that was briefly misdiagnosed as a serious Mental Illness. Book came out, i was inundated by emails from the general public, a lot of people who were looking for answers, some of whom actually found answers because of my book, but i also received many emails from people who felt lost within the Mental Health system, who felt they were not b
This is something that everybody got behind. Thank you so much, annie. Annie just got back from hong kong yesterday, so were glad youre here. I want to call out and thank guretta louis. I want to thank you for getting this rolling. When she called us, we thought she was inviting us for a free lunch. It turns out she was setting out our work plan for the next 13 months. I also want to acknowledge walter wong. I know that losing ed was very important. Your leadership also lent an incredible amount of effort to this and we want to thank you. Your leadership to the Chinese Chamber of commerce, so many leaders from these organizations were there every step of the way. I see ringo in the back. Pitman, eddie, everybody who showed up at hearing after hearing. And the same is true for our ccba president. Dont take that kind of commitment lightly or for granted. Thank you so much. The ed lee democratic club. You guys gave the best testimony, but you also had the best stickers hands down when we
Supervisor Hillary Ronen and mandelman to announce that even though we have had two competing measures, we have come together to do what is in the best interest of this city to introduce today at the board of supervisors a compromise that is going to help us address the most significant problem in our city. [ applause ]. Mayor breed i not only want to thank the supervisors, but i wanted to thank lou girardo. You remember lou has someone who worked with the board of supervisors back in 2012 and 2013 to help with a compromise for cpmc and the Community Benefits and the work that they needed to do to support San Francisco. Hes been an incredible advocate on this issue and were grateful for the work that he has done to bring us to this place. [ applause ]. Mayor breed and i want to thank the Labor Council. Kim taveloni is here representing the Labor Council. Thank you so much. Our Community Partners and advocates and so many people who care so deeply about this issue. You know, i think we