Vice president of Public Programs at the new york public library. Its a privilege for the library to host tonights program celebrating Mike Wallaces new book, greater gotham. The longawaited sequel to his book gotham. Greater gotham picks up the story at the turn of the last century, a period when new york experienced unparalleled growth, expansion and consolidation when much of the infrastructure was developed and when many of our institutions were founded including this one at the new york public library. Incidentally the room in which we are seated was carved out of what was once the reservoir and there is a great illustration of that in the book. Its a special honor for us to host this program not only because of the importance of the book and its subject matter but also because mike wallace who is a fellow in the Coleman Center for scholars and writers and a resident in the allen room researched a good deal of the book right here in the librarys archives. The librarys holdings on
Welcome everyone to our special inaugural meeting of january 8 2015. Id like to welcome next to me mayor lee here. Thank you for joining us today. Id like to welcome john stewart here who will be swearing all the newly elected supervisors in today as well as our new district three supervisor as well. With that id like to ask madam clerk if you can please call the role. Supervisor avalos. Present. Breed. Present. Supervisor campos. Present. Supervisor, christensen. President. Cohen. Present. Farrell. Present. Kim. Here. Supervisor mar. Here. Supervisor and president tang. Present. Supervisor wiener. Present. Yee. Present. All members are present. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Will you please join me with the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stand, one nation under god indyivisible with liberty and justice for all. And now id like to take a moment to acknowledge the many, many Many Department heads s
Special inaugural meeting of january 8 2015. Id like to welcome next to me mayor lee here. Thank you for joining us today. Id like to welcome john stewart here who will be swearing all the newly elected supervisors in today as well as our new district three supervisor as well. With that id like to ask madam clerk if you can please call the role. Supervisor avalos. Present. Breed. Present. Supervisor campos. Present. Supervisor, christensen. President. Cohen. Present. Farrell. Present. Kim. Here. Supervisor mar. Here. Supervisor and president tang. Present. Supervisor wiener. Present. Yee. Present. All members are present. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Will you please join me with the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stand, one nation under god indyivisible with liberty and justice for all. And now id like to take a moment to acknowledge the many, many Many Department heads staff of our city family
And crafts policy with love in her heart. She has never forgotten her roots, which were established right here in our own city. This is a personal nomination for me to be able to present this woman to you. I hope, colleagues, you will join me in supporting supervisor breed as our president. Thank you. Supervisor avalos. Thank you president tang. I stand to support my colleague and friend david campos for board president. David campos today in this past half hour has started his seventh year in the board of supervisors and has shown remarkable grace. I admire his work across the political spectrum here in San Francisco on the board of supervisors, but also he serves in Regional Government and has been a great advocate for San Francisco and that process. Last year we know that he was part of a race that was very contested for the assembly and hes shown that he has significant base of support around San Francisco people who really believe in his work, in his effort his legislative effort
Commissions. As we all know we cant do all our work alone. We depend on many of them who are here today, so i want to recognize those in our presence. If i call your name if you wouldnt mind standing up so we can honor and recognize you. We have pleased to have fiona mon with us. We have state senator mark leno who was going to be. We have former supervisor amos brown. [applause] we also have former supervisor susan yeal. We have newly elected board members, mendoza. And next we have our police chief, greg sur. [applause] District Attorney george gaston. [applause] our fire cheer joanne white. Our public defender, our sheriff. So as you can see here this is a very safe area right here. Id like to recognize we have our wonderful City Attorney, john gibner and our City Attorney here, dennis hererra. We have our controller ben rosenfield. Budget analyst harvey rose and his team. Recorder carmen chiu. Our treasurer jose fisneros. We have our department of Public Health director barbara gar