to pay her. she said no, darling, don t give me a little piece of paper. what did i give you. i said a 20 and a 5. so bring me that. they went to the light company and paid their light bills. they went to the department store and paid whatever. they went there once or twice a week to take care of business. the process of going through things, my grandmother would take me to the library. all along the way there were places where we couldn t go to the andrew jackson hotel, we couldn t go to morten s cafeteria. there was a paramount theatre, we had to go in the back door, separate water fountains. it was a very negative experience. when i got to the library, right above the door, all are welcome. i could go in the front door. i could remember the librarian, she had a bonnet on the back of her head. very sensible shoes. i look at librarians today, that is how they look. she always spoke in a whisper. didn t talk out loud in the library. whispered. she was so kind to me that i lov
nancy acknowledge someone else on the committee. she is in the mayor s office and she made things happen for us. thank you. and the extraordinary public service award goes to supervisor maxwell. she is a native of san francisco, and she was elected to the board in 2001. she served until 2011. this affected everything from land use, to children and families. including a residential water conservation ordinance. congratulations, supervisor maxwell. good afternoon, everybody. this is me. people have been asking me, what are you doing now? i am thinking about things that i want to think about. you take it for granted, but i don t anymore. i want to thank the status of women, and all of you. i want to thank all of the people that are in this room that worked with me. thank you, it is collective leadership. you re certainly a part of my team. thank you all. [applause] i asked if i could do this one because it is pretty darn important to me. this is the community leadership aw
and president of the board, david chiu. sunday streets has been around for about three years. in 2008, we began with a couple of events. we were learning from some great cities throughout the world, particularly bogota, colombia, where we have learned from that mayor and from international leaders how wonderful that event was, in terms of not only taking over the streets, but connecting up with our neighborhoods. if you know anything about me, having been a former dpw director and city administrator and now mayor, you know i have a passion for linking up all of the neighborhoods in the city as much as possible. and i will talk about that later because it becomes invaluable to events like what we have seen in japan to really have strong neighborhoods. but what i want to announce today is next sunday, march 20, is the first of eight planned sunday streets kickoffs. next sunday, we began in the embarcadero. it will be linking up fisherman s wharf, and it will have links to all o
great. thanks, everybody, for coming. this is a really important thing that everybody in the city has a chance to do. it is kind of a yucky day, so i m sure that people waiting outside are in a hurry to get in here and get the services we are providing today. this is a meaningful opportunity to do things we do not often get to do, but to go with those of us working in more administrative or non-clinical roles, so roll up your sleeves, and thanks so much for turning out. thank you. [applause] the next person i get to introduce has become one of my favorite people, having just moved to san francisco. she is a visionary who believes in what we are doing and really believes in making services client-based, and that is the director of the department of public health, barbara garcia. [applause] good morning, everyone. this is number 38. [applause] how many of you are first- timers? all right. i want to thank all of you. it is a great honor for me today to present to you our new