Bringing tourists into San Francisco and we have to do our part and there is no way that our agent or rec and park or all of the agencies together and get the city cleaned and your extra hands are very much appreciated so give yourself a hand for coming out and keeping our community clean. [applause] i am going to introduce someone who i call a cheerleader of neighborhoods and someone that taking care of neighborhoods has been his priorities, and also former director of public works but now our mayor ed lee. Please welcome him. Thank you muhammad. Good morning everyone. I want to thank muhammad and the entire dpw crew. You know muhammad hes going to be the grand marshal this year at the parade. All right. I can just visualize him. He will say he doesnt have to piece a garbage up because hes the grand marshal and i want to thank you for can i kicking off the Chinese New Year and valentines day. Muhammad where is my flowers . [inaudible] i want to say thank you to all of the Community Gr
Welcoming in the new year. I want to give a hearty thanks to the Chinese Chamber of commerce who are here today. Thank you very much. [applause] eddy raise your hand. I see a lot of the Chamber Members here and i wanted to thank the Chinese Benevolent Association who are here and thank you to all of the departments here represented. How about a hearty hand for these department . Ses yeah and we have our special guest that are performing all day long. Theyre going to remind everybody not to trash the place, make sure all of the tourists and people coming from neighborhoods enjoy the great few weeks coming up. Make sure they are also keeping the neighborhood clean. I want to congratulate again introduce our new direct supervisor Julie Christensen for being here and the hilton and a big sponsor of these teams and always here and making sure the youth is working together with our businesses. I had the pleasure of being able to join all of you at the different events the next few weeks. I a
All right. Good morning everyone. How about a big hand for our dancers . I cant hear you. [cheers and applause] yeah, give it up to them as they head back to the hilton. Let me begin by thanking all of you for coming out today. Its such a Beautiful Day in chinatown, is it not . I see larry excited to go clean. First of all i want thank all of you for coming out. Its very important and from our department, the department of public works. We are so excited that you guys have come out today to join hands with us to keep our city clean and green, and every year for the Chinese New Year we always hear and the chamber of commerce and all of the chinese organizations here always work with us to make sure that they bring a lot of people out to help us clean the community so thank you everyone. All right. Also earlier this morning our agency has been all over chinatown preparing for the Chinese New Years festivities. There are so many events and chinatown is the mag nent of bringing tourists in
Raising event successful let me acknowledge the adult wendy and the District Attorney in favor of the Domestic Violence unit at the doofks. Our juvenile probation chief and Police Commissioner and the depth cohesive Paul Henderson and port director monique and the status of women julie sue and today would not 45e7 without my colleagues i want to call up any partners in this project dr. Emily murase for 9 department of the women and the Beverly Upton with the San Francisco consortium of San Francisco and, of course one belittle rising would not 45e7 without the director of b day susan swan. clapping. and hi, everyone well todays greater in this room and the rotunda and being with the woman that work day to day we know weve work on this issue everyday tests person and specific it types of our hearts and bodies by coming together and advancing today, we come together in community and we come together and we claim and demand an end to violence against women and girls i thank you were so ex
Needles can pick through them or whatever so we learned as we went along and then the mayor got walgreens and also hilton then holiday inn to get involved so i didnt have to raise all of the money. Then we embarked on the clean Toilet Program where our members went and painted owl of the and remodeled all of the bathrooms in chinatown for all of the restaurants so we could offer the facilities to the tourists, so we came a long way. The only thing that i feel we still need to do is for the city to think of a way to deputize a lot of us so every time we see somebody littering the street we can write them a citation. If i see somebody spit on the sidewalk i issue them a citation, and let me tell you people throwing cigarette butts around we give them a citation. Honesty thats what we needed, and then i do have a book from the Police Department, but since ed became mayor i didnt want to use it and accuse him of giving me the citation book so instead i choose to carry this cane, and let me