Campaign. Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to our fabulous celebration honoring our teachers and principles give them a hand clapping . This is the one of the very rare opportunities to get you guys seated and say thank you. This means a tremendous amount to all of us what you do for our young people every single day 365 is deeply appreciated so today is a small celebration with our friends and family something intimate to really honor every single one of you important for what you do for the San Francisco Unified School District i want to run through some of the things in sluks collaboration with the San Francisco education kimberly the director of the ed fund is here doing the Teacher Campaign with us clapping and the ed fund is an incredible partner we also do this in collaboration with the united indicators and the administrators of San Francisco and Matthew Harding if u e and jean r0sh9 son from the united administrator with us here this afternoon clapping and, of course we co
Days, six hours worth of focus groups that we at friends of the urban forested and paid for. One of the things the public is interested in and are they concerned about the tree canopy and trees and expanding the canopy and we also spoke a great deal about the urban forest plan. What we discovered in the process we had home owners with trees, home owners without trees and renters. We were surprised at how the renters really werent that interested in trees. But they are very interested in the damage that trees do to sidewalks. And so one of the recommendations from the urban forest plan is that we have a dedicated Funding Source for the care and maintenance of street trees that also means the city would take back the liability for damage to a sidewalk done by a tree. We realize that is a huge issue for the public and i think that thats going to be one of the things if we are successful in running a campaign in 2016 or 2017 for dedicated Funding Source, ie, parcel tax of between 16 and 40
clapping so if i can congratulating all of you teachers and principles m v t and mvps to say that our city certainly myself we really value this relationship and the work you do and the relationships we hope to create even more with our Business Community now you see the entire chamber of commerce as well as Tech Companies want to embrace our education they want our families to succeed they want you to succeed with our families and i think this is an incredible story that very few cities across the country can brag about were able to brag because the riltsd are clear the city wants the home ground talent here i want to say on behalf of the city and county thank you for your service keep on doing it year in and out i know that this is a little break but youll go to summer training and get additional things you want to see to be better prepared i know that the superintendent has a lot of plans weve got another class and generation of kids to inspire and i know the parents have yet anothe
Jumping both train inform have the teacher of the year recognized and they get their caps and hear the arrow roar from at t park stadium it should happen everyday in the country with thatwith that you going with that id like to sing a song for my folks just kidding no, no, no i wouldnt subject you to that but i know that hsa draw has mentioned all the wonderful sponsors in the room can you ask everyone thats been part of sponsoring one of the gifts for our takeovers teachers and principle can you stand and well applaud you as well please thank you clapping clapping bravo and for all the teachers i want to insure you the laptop didnt count farts towards the district laptop with that i want to thank you all for being here and congratulate you for being teachers in my first language we dont talk teachers you say any member of the public wish to speak on any item master mistress youre the master of our subject so i want to say to you thank you for all you all you do ladies and gentlemen, i
Tell you i was teary eyed what you continue to do from being present in the audience when ohio i didnt has her students distance and sfolth i see our youngest students starting the pathway to education where i go to high schools at Lincoln High School thousand of students yet if you stand in the hallway he know all the students name he give them a high 5 and hell come back on the remarks and theres a joy it happens bus you love kids and students and encourage them to be successful so thats really what this is all about thank you for what you do ill tell you on monday, i had the opportunity to attend a chinese game with the teacher of the year i have to say their enregister it was family a lot and even though the night got chilly it was cold but again, it was so wonderful on the big jumping both train inform have the teacher of the year recognized and they get their caps and hear the arrow roar from at t park stadium it should happen everyday in the country with thatwith that you going