Foundation, dr. Sandra hernandez and tessa rivera, [speaker not understood], Senior Program officer for immigrant rights and integration, walter and alise fund, also known as the haase senior fund. Pam david, the Wallace Alexander gabode foundation, stacey ma and thomas, concerned with immigrants and refugees represented today by felicia barto, deputy director. Also present today are commissioner canali vicechair of the San Francisco immigrant rights commission, city librarian, luis herrera, [speaker not understood], and clementine of the african advocacy network. So, let me provide first of all just a little bit of background on the initiative. In 2008 while serving as city administrator, mayor ed lee created the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs, one of the first such offices in the nation. The intention was to better communicate with and engage our City Residents while providing opportunities for meaningful participation and particularly for under served and vulnerabl
Environmental issue, but even water bottles, even if you leave them in a cold environment, you dont know where theyve come from or theyve been in ship holds which is really hot, just as a number one rule, if you smell something plastic dont drink out of it. Thats good advice. I have two questions, theyre a little bit unrelated but the first one goes on the scheme of plastic, so plastic wrap, plastic bags, you know, its great to say we should all use glass but we know whats used out there is plastic, and its reusable, you can come up with all these ways to avoid it but theres plastic everywhere and its accessible and cheap, so plastic wrap gets used a lot, there arent that many alternatives that can do what plastic wrap does, i dont use a lot of it and its harder to store things longterm and same question applies for the freezer, its easier to put things in a freezer bag. So, a little tip for that is i do admit to using plastic bags, i reuse them and if something is not i dont use them
Health care whether vision or anything. So i want to again thank the heartbeat department and thank the folks for the leadership in the toirnd center. I want to extend a very hearty thanks to lisa is a because they know how to Design Community sensitive things and take a Historic Building and transform its use. People republican e remedy necessary their swimming days at the y but also to see what were doing in the center of the city helping mobile home e people. Its the same philosophy that people did shelters and services and beautiful design that the partners have long been doing if any of you are looking theyre working on the California Hotel theyre working on the elementary Consulting School in china thoun it up. Theyre to keep on working on historic place. Thank you folks for your wonderful serviced as part of our Public Health clapping of course, i continue to enjoy working with Barbara Garcia and the entire staff and the people who work at this clinic s are doing a Great Service
I think it is fun for them, they see our work process, our discussions, the decisions we make. It is good for us. We kind of behavior little bit when we have people in the audience. Msk music we are rehearsing for our most expensive tour; plus two concerts here. We are proud that the growth of the orchestra, and how it is expanded and it is being accepted. My ambition when i came on as music director here it was evident we needed absolutely excellent work. Also evident to me that i thought everyone should know that. This was my purpose. And after we opened, which was a spectacular opening concert about five weeks after that the economy completely crashed. My plan and im absolutely dogmatic about my plans were delayed slightly. I would say that in this very difficult timefor the arts and everyone, especially the arts, its phenomenal how new century has grown where many unfortunate organizations have stopped. During this period we got ourselves on National Radio presence; we started tour
Generating project for San Francisco and we want to make sure the design that we come up with can be implemented with a minimal amount of disruption. A lot of those best practices comes from trade contractors so we want to seek their input early so at the time we go out to bid and begin construction, results in the least amount of disruption to the residents that use the project. We have a plan in place thats been largely modelled after General Hospital project where we also procured trade contractors early on and that has paid huge dividends for us. The hospital is tracking to on time completion and budget and a lot of that has to do with comments we got early on in the project in regards to how to build a building in an occupied area. Be happen toy p eu as were looking forward to contractors coming in, how do you ensure we have the highest level of dbe and lbe . Make sure were meeting high marks on these participants. Absolutely. Were committed to meeting and exceeding the goals like