Multiunit fires where we come in and go with the Fire Department, with our partner and we worked with the family to get them housed and get them income and get them replacement and replacement for the clothes and restabilize and we look forward to building the partnerships and thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. Thank you, i guess that we can say that you are new for two more months, the first year. The honeymoon period. And welcome to our disaster council. This comes to the point in the program where we are not at a roundtable, but it is the roundtable discussion, so is there or are there any updates, comments, and i know that michael, you have had something and michael . Greetings everyone, on wednesday, of this coming week we are going to be working with our partners and the San Francisco inner faith are going to work with the partners from the Emergency Management and the american cross bay area chapter and the agencies responding to disaster and Human Services agency
Im mark buell the wanting of the recreation and Park Commission clapping. thank you. I want to welcome you all here today and want to welcome some distinguished guests im to read names if you could hold our applause and let them know you appreciate them. Our da george laughter now you know who started clapping the general manager hes in charge of everything excuse me. George and our purifying and gloria and tom harrison and all my fellow commissioners on rec and park chief suhr our Councilmember Ferraro and cindy wu and appearance park president and jim the sincere vp and reverend chang now give them a big hand clapping. i have two Art Commissioners roberta and abby i apologize give them a welcome. clapping. art at this stage of the program i need lilly to help we a. K. A. Donna. So i thought rather than giving you my interpretation ill tell you what wikipedia has to say about her. Lilly hitchcock fire bell was considered eccentric and Smoking Cigars and wearing trousers before it was
This is the change in art and its a great example of that also the suitcase in addition, the murals has full kwefrm it makes the beauty of this murals that tell the history of our city and the roll the artists play and telling the stores of our human shared experience. With that, i want to give a shout out to ar g Conservation Services theyve been an incredible partner around the city this Team Includes many folks theyve all begun above and beyond so thank you so much clapping next, i just want to echo what bill said thats an incredible partnership and incredible player to work with rec and park we have a tall order in the city koirtd is an amazing assets and the rec and park share with us this is a great example of what we do the music and the mothers building and zoo there are amazing you culture assets and to the team in caring for the partnerships and the board of supervisors and mayor to comment capital dollars is absolutely critical so thank you bill and to the board and mayor fo
And tom there are plenty of stories of departments not working well together and city agencies knocking heads but the partnership we have is a model for 21st century government to return it to its glory our hard working staff exacting taylor with his staff that worked hard to spruce up the grounds and mississippi low and tim and all our 2 61 apprentices. I really want to thank the Planning Commission cindy wu and the entire staff for their expertise and last but not least we want to thank the neighbors john for the advocacy for the building clapping but is special shout out to the finances of Pioneers Park Julie Christian son thank you for your tireless advocacy to make this place worth and were just thrilled i cant wait for you to see it and cheers to San Francisco. Cheers clapping. were getting close this side of the aisle the bride side it hot the grammar side cooler but the honoree the president charles with us today and thank him for his continuing to nurture the arts coming to Sa
Worldwide. For more information about the National Press club, please visit our web site at press. Org can. On behalf of our members worldwide, id like to welcome our speakers and those of you attending todays event. Our head table includes guests of our speakers as well as working journalists who are club members. If you hear applause in our audience, i note that members of the to general public are attempting, so its not necessarily of a lack of journalistic object it. [laughter] id also like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences. You can follow the action on twitter using the hashtag npclunch. After our guests speeches conclude, well have a questionandanswer period, and i will ask as many questions as time permits. Now its time to introduce our head table guests. Id like each of you to stand briefly as your name is announced, and from your right, skip cottonhauser, an independent journalist who coincidentally organized ralph naders luncheon at the press club in 2004. Rehem