Bringing tourists into San Francisco and we have to do our part and there is no way that our agent or rec and park or all of the agencies together and get the city cleaned and your extra hands are very much appreciated so give yourself a hand for coming out and keeping our community clean. [applause] i am going to introduce someone who i call a cheerleader of neighborhoods and someone that taking care of neighborhoods has been his priorities, and also former director of public works but now our mayor ed lee. Please welcome him. Thank you muhammad. Good morning everyone. I want to thank muhammad and the entire dpw crew. You know muhammad hes going to be the grand marshal this year at the parade. All right. I can just visualize him. He will say he doesnt have to piece a garbage up because hes the grand marshal and i want to thank you for can i kicking off the Chinese New Year and valentines day. Muhammad where is my flowers . [inaudible] i want to say thank you to all of the Community Gr
All right. Good morning everyone. How about a big hand for our dancers . I cant hear you. [cheers and applause] yeah, give it up to them as they head back to the hilton. Let me begin by thanking all of you for coming out today. Its such a Beautiful Day in chinatown, is it not . I see larry excited to go clean. First of all i want thank all of you for coming out. Its very important and from our department, the department of public works. We are so excited that you guys have come out today to join hands with us to keep our city clean and green, and every year for the Chinese New Year we always hear and the chamber of commerce and all of the chinese organizations here always work with us to make sure that they bring a lot of people out to help us clean the community so thank you everyone. All right. Also earlier this morning our agency has been all over chinatown preparing for the Chinese New Years festivities. There are so many events and chinatown is the mag nent of bringing tourists in
Raising event successful let me acknowledge the adult wendy and the District Attorney in favor of the Domestic Violence unit at the doofks. Our juvenile probation chief and Police Commissioner and the depth cohesive Paul Henderson and port director monique and the status of women julie sue and today would not 45e7 without my colleagues i want to call up any partners in this project dr. Emily murase for 9 department of the women and the Beverly Upton with the San Francisco consortium of San Francisco and, of course one belittle rising would not 45e7 without the director of b day susan swan. clapping. and hi, everyone well todays greater in this room and the rotunda and being with the woman that work day to day we know weve work on this issue everyday tests person and specific it types of our hearts and bodies by coming together and advancing today, we come together in community and we come together and we claim and demand an end to violence against women and girls i thank you were so ex
Want it here in chinatown and north bech as well. And how about that more house something yeah, we can work on this but during the holidays its about celebrating the culture and sharing and making sure peoplend chinese folks have a long history here and we want to share it with everybody in the city and i am proud of our public works and the rest of the city departments joining the volunteers. Have a safe day today. This is the 19th year . 15. Wow 15 years of cleaning. I know muhammad has all of these statistics and we got rid of the graffiti on the street and i know it because i did them myself and the traffic and the light polls and i want to thank all of the crews and making sure youre safe out there and great appreciation for everyone. I see you out here, the wonderful agencies. There are so many of you and i know muhammad is going to go through the entire list, but yes lets keep volunteering. Lets keep asking people to make sure that they respect our communities and lets keep the
Aggregating the tax informs and the Planning Department also, we are advising people to you know if they have been highlighted on the site for you know have been listed on the site for a couple of years to strongly come clean on the back registration back taxes they owe because once a hosting site does register the tax and Treasurers Office will ask for a list of individuals that have been listed on the site so if theyve recorded when they register now and it end up being they find discrepancy there will be penalties seated to right now, were thats one of the things were kind of really encouraging people to be honest about. Get good with the take into consideration collector. Was there outreach to those. I side know that some of the hosting site theyre also trying to educate theyre the people that are registered with them and also providing them with information i do know that airbnb is saying were collecting the transit occupancy tax for you but but you know which is somewhat theyre d