good morning, volunteers. good morning. can everyone hear me? yes, good, good. this is really exciting for me. this is my very first project connect, and i and the new director, so i look forward to getting to know each of you. just today, we want to thank you for your help. there s no way this project would exist without you guys. you are the lifeblood for this program, and that just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. we had a couple of speakers who are here to support the program today, so the first one i m going to introduce i m not the world s greatest public speaker, so bear with me. first of all, let me start by giving thanks to a few different organizations that have helped out. one is trader joe s. they have given us bags throughout the years. next is san francisco food bank, one of the greatest assets that we have as well, so thanks to them. [applause] walden house and also a big thanks to our event sponsor, who i will be introducing
[applause] and i could go on and on with the mr. mayor to be of the people who are here celebrating with you on this very historic occasion. and it was all made possible by this fine collection of people to my right whom i ve introduced by name and now let me ask the president of the san francisco board of supervisors, a man who chaired the historic meeting where the vote count was done without the assistance of our folk who normally count votes which is kind of the way i prefer to have votes counted in elections. you get better results. the president of the board of supervisors, david chiu. [applause] president chiu: good afternoon. so mayor brown, i want to tell you the score of the game upstairs. two numbers. 11 to zero. [applause] this is an historic moment for san francisco. and i want to first start by thanking my colleagues at the board of supervisors. we may not please clap for them. we may not always agree. but on this great man, edwin lee, we came together and t
one another. in electronic music events, we have a place to interact with each other in a positive and help the atmosphere focused on love, expressive music, art, and dance. people gain a feeling of community and respect for all types of personalities. we take this sense of community and respect back into our daily life, where we should be positive message of awareness, camaraderie, and kinship with others, ultimately making san francisco a more harmonious home and place to visit for all. san francisco thereby contributes to the international community by exhibiting a culture which projects understanding, of peace, acceptance, and consciousness of our responsibility to our earth and the brotherhood of mankind. it would be a major sacrifice to our community to lose these events. we need this culture to be nourished and used to educate the public on the positive aspects that the global electronic dance music scene has to offer humanity. i also wanted to reiterate something some
you can see other students being very inspired by this in our class, students much younger than myself. we re going to have very long careers in horticulture, and you just see them being influenced by him. and for the last six weeks of class this semester, we have a team project where we re already going out in the field. we re volunteering as teams. my team has worked right on campus restoring natural plant life, so this is our experience right now. thank you. thank you so much for being here. you have some great students. all right. any other public comment at this time? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel pounds] colleagues, any suggestions or thoughts? we have three applicants for two seats. mr. hillen and ms. shirttor seat one and ms. suths land for seat three. it s my understanding that mr. hilland does not qualify for seat three, since his certification has lapsed. thanks, supervisor kim. i think, once again, we have a lot of great applicants here. fo
people on disability has the task of addressing all the disability. when we are talk about the sidewalks, ramps, we have very specific issues. for people blind and low vision, we have the issue of knowing where they are and when the cross. it can be hit or miss. at hulk and grove, that sound the the automatic it helps people cross the street safely. now we have a successful pedestrian signal. i push the button, i get an audible message letting me know that i need to wait. when it is safe to cross, not only am i going to get an audible indicator, this button is going to vibrate. so it tells me it is safe. there is the driller sound and this trigger is vibrating. i am not relying on anything but the actual light change, the light cycle built into it. it brings san francisco from one of the major cities in the u.s. to what is going to be the lead city in the country. city working on all sorts of things. we are trying to be new and innovative and go beyond the ada s