Connect to the people is really, really exciting im excited to kickoff the program with the woman had a successful round of dependency San Franciscos very own mayor london breed clapping. all right. Good evening, everyone. I am still a little bit jet lagged please forgive me if i forgot something but start by expressing my gratitude of our public centuries and staff that spends evidence of doing the incredible work for the city and county of San Francisco. So many amazing departments and individuals in those departments are being honored for the work to help continue to make San Francisco a shining example of had that mean to run a city more effectively and efficiently and sprinkling from a little bit of fun every now and then i want to say to all six the folks from rec and park, the port of San Francisco, the Sheriffs Department and animal care and control, and laguna honda there the department of Public Health to all the honorees we are recognizing today thank you for your service and your work and i want to say what an hour to have the family of conferencing a extraordinary leader in rec and park clapping. our city is made better because of his work and commitment to San Francisco our city is better we have extraordinary people. As the mayor of stock that i come up with a grand idea and i take all the credit when necessary succeed this is why it is important to me to be here i want you to understand im i mayor, i served as an assistant for the city and county of San Francisco. I once served as a Commission Secretary a Development Specialist and worked in various capacities doing doing the work and not always recognized for how challenging it is to go through the process get the District Attorneys Office david chiu to get to, yes takes commitment to get projects and housing built our infrastructure in place and to get things completed just yesterday, we cut the ribbon another the 911 center by Public Utilities commission by the department of telecommunications and how beautiful it looks and today a small the champion with that but you know what didnt stop us from taking the 911 calls we have a back up thats what we do in San Francisco yelling thank you, to our amazing workforce and welcome to the family and friends to celebrate the honorees tonight i have the privilege of doing i guess i think were like the same age but a Lifetime Achievement award. For Ben Rosenthal has been in City Government more than half his life ben started at age 23 working for as a a deputy budget director in the Mayors Office and thats when i started as interim we go back a really long time and the eventually become the budget director and went on to the deputy city administrator and those who love three 311 raise your hand . Ben says youre welcome helped to get the system implemented as well as the 10 year capital plan were making investments in our City Properties to make sure they are earthquake safe and work for the public and governor gavin newsom appointed him to be the controller he step up to the plate and had the skills necessary to do do job but focused on transparent building and accountability creating a system that made it a little bit more user friendly for the public to understand what the Controllers Office does and the held own to that money real tight if you couldnt explain why the money was being spent ben would not let it be spent people love in Government Accountability and im also someone who values a dollar and wants to make sure that city is spending every single dollars willis we can appropriately pay you are workforce and the equipment and all the things we need so those of you taking too many stop that or ben is coming out of retirement and thank you to him leading the city through a Great Recession and now as we deal with the deficit his responsible, responsibleness with the budget and holding open resources were able to balance the budget and have resources propriety it is a lot of the great work he has done during the covid pandemic we had to historically didnt have a written playbook to deal with a won in a century pandemic and spending public dollars requires accountability ben was an instrumental part of us getting the dollars out the door as soon as possible to insure that we had remember dp e to make sure we got the sheltered in place the hotels around the vaccines and so many work and so many resources and paperwork had to be done in a way that protected the city accountability and make sure that that was done right. He also helped to address some of the tax reform measures to do as well as being fiscally San Francisco has enjoyed a good bond rating we pay the money back and people are willing to loan to to us as thats the work that ben has done clapping. i can go on and on but hes turning red so ben has 90s not been the kind of person comfortable with being talked about in this capita keep his head done a quiet good for in the city and county of San Francisco and treated people with went and kindness and worked with everyone and focused on this was always in the best interests of the city and county of San Francisco. And so as much as i wanted to reach offer me deck and put two hands to get him to stay he earned the right to move on from this position after everything hes given to our city so it is appropriate that tonight we honor him with the legacy award for his Public Service to the city and county of San Francisco. clapping. and no public dollars were used in the purchase of the family or the persistently of the certificate. Thank you, mayor. For the reminder of how young i was and i loved this event for many, many years as a junior budget analyst in the first year my first boss with the city the mayors budget director handing me a folder of nomination of people nominated by points Department Heads as exemplar leaders im sitting down later on this week with an Advisory Panel to make recommendations who to recognize i want you to do research on it for a few days spent a couple of days working with them and with the work product and still remember that moment was really an important one in my career early on. Um, it was an surprising to me those are the people i wanted to be working with the work i wanted to be doing the kinds of things to work on and for that reason i stated involved in different capacities and found it surprising for as important as mayors are and thank you for your leadership mayor for this historic period weve been introduce and important to as is attorneys and administrators i like to say as controllers are um, i recognized through the supervision from this event over the years and my xreshgs working in the place like the real massing i can happens with those behind us those working identified in circumstances, and in environment has been often hard to navigate to make things better for the place and solve small problems and push things ahead always without recognition and youll never read about work in the paper the folks that are making things happen. So this is event has been that to me and want to express my thanks to alisa for the recognition tonight and express an, an honor to share the folks that will be following me up here that continue do the work everyday for those many others in the room um, the true heros thank you, so much clapping . Um, thank you so much. Mayor london breed youre remarks and ben congratulations i um, really happy we got to kickoff for recognizing ben tonight i know many of us in the room working with him over the years inside of the City Government we imagine the concept the embodiment and in many ways i think we all know hes a smart person and strategic and confident person but heard in in his racks tonight i think that kind of the essence of Good Government gracious and kind and respectful and humble did you hear him talk about himself in those remarks not a word and working with ben over the years how much h he put his commitment to the service about sincerely the community and also the Common Thread among the honorees we are recognizing for the service for the community and what we can do when we put Service First everyone that is recognized tonight faced a challenge to accomplish an institutional or Financial Exchange relational perhaps all of the above everything was hard to do and we see what happens when people look at that challenge, stand in the face of advisor i know what they role and what im going to be contributing and using my leadership to give services to others thats how local government has a profound impact on people the service im very, very excited about the rest of honorees were going to be recognizing now and i think um, it is going to be really enriching to see the ways people use theyre love and perseverance so kickoff were to start by recognizing the laguna honda hospital team. Laguna honda objective an institution for over one hundred and fifty years and thanks to the work of this team will be for many years to come. Laguna honda is wonderful for the care. And addressing mats feeds of the whole person and certified generations of people principally in the dire times of need. From more than one hundred and fifty years laguna honda has sort of woven into San Francisco history we heard laguna honda didnt regain the certification your hearts sink. The medical and medicare took away laguna honda participation and its programs that is extremely heartbreaking for the program a way for you laguna honda it funded and able to keep the doors open and laguna honda takes that very seriously and look forward for the incidents appropriately and pms come out to review those facilities that happens during that is an unfortunate cycle the cycle is only 6 months so, so deficiencys noted have to train your staff and the entire time the clock is ticking. Our office legal strategies to figure that out we could use federal government and the which was an important part in allowing the facility to not transfer any more events out of this facility but to buy additional time and funding for a year to allow the facility to do all the important changes that were necessary to survive the federal government didnt just expend the funding of the centers but set out to have requirement for the improvements that laguna honda many to do to survey the facility and inspect the facility for my interpretation and surrounding surveys around interpreting the laws and regulations that applied to the facility and assisting with you. The survey we have and we identified gaps in knowledge whether to be closed before our next monitoring. Turn around was hard but had to do it because of the timeline for the recertification and had 13 hundred staff on average communitybased though the modules everyone had a really and to take care of the residents and the communities and people who are traditionally thought of in the facilities to a huge support it was really exciting. Relationships with our federal and state partners medical and medicare in the department of Public Health is for the open lines of existence we had from the beginning will service very well, for the long term success. Congratulations to our teams from the city Attorneys Office for saving laguna honda hospital you helped to secure the future of our Healthcare System and the staff of laguna honda and with grace and passion and tenacity. Congratulations for your support through the services the future is bright for laguna honda hospital. Congratulations. clapping hi good evening over im director of health and on behalf of the District Attorneys Office and the department of health and i think more importantly the residents and their families of laguna honda the 14 hundred employees we are proud to call that Recertification Team up to the stage. clapping. im david chiu youre City Attorney and, yes madam mayor and on tonights Academy Awards for Good Government my honor to bring up to the stage 6 individuals let me say there were countless folks for saving laguna honda and bring up to the stage 6 folks we want to congratulate jennifer way clapping. listing a who. calling names. Troy Williams and henry lipton. calling names clapping. and all of the staff at laguna honda for that welldeserved award. Good evening, everyone and as you can see from the video laguna honda is such a special place a place that is um, a jewel of the city. I speak for laguna honda team both on stage and in the audience as well as those carrying for residents 24 7 institutions up there we have tremendous pride for working at laguna honda. We have pride in serving our residents and families we figured out hard and that is why were here. We are part and so proud to be part of the city that invests in quality nursing care regardless of incomes and immigration status it is admirable not every city does that San Francisco has done that we love for that and tonight expectation for all of us to share in the award. We had a couple of challenging years as you can see. But we are come together we are now stronger and we have a Bright Future brighter than ever and thank our residents once again our loved ones for their support. There are motivation and full of gratitude for the partners including our unions and Health Commission and mayor london breed and supervisor melgar advocates on our behalf and amplifies the work when thinking about that award and thinking how we got to be successful we thought about the concept and the word that means loosely transmitted i am because we are a sense of humanity we couldnt have done what we did without everyone and staff includes all the departments and teams and wish every Single Person could be here with us and the Staff Members that join us thank you. clapping. and quo knew in the beginning would talkal 14 hundred of us to be successful in recertifications were almost there watch out were going to get there an honor to be part of this group to be recognized and a special thank you to the folks behind me. calling names. thank you to spur for tonights recognition and it is jewel laguna honda and will be here for other one hundred and fifty plus years bigger and brighter and stronger thank you. clapping. okay. Our next Good Government awards is she as a visionary approach for redefining the departments. video . As the port of San Francisco were the gateway to the city and the port of San Francisco manages the water shed waterfront we have dedicated staff doing the work and a third of the staff at the port we have every trade that is represented in the care of the port and im proud of collaboration for the relationships building be able to accomplish especially with the Union Partners and not when something is wrong but to for proactively work with them were thinking of the different policies and how they impact the membership and though day one have those hours that are dedicated. We staff that daily and so that we are successful and available. So the jurisdictions we were impacted by pandemic and of the in our staffing level all h. R. Has transformed not only to increase the staffing the challenge of folks to look at how we do our work with with job fairs and programs. We are working hard to make that an employer of the choice and show anyone who is interested in coming to the port there are people that are are welcoming as part of the port. We are making a concerted effort to bring training into the organization and brought in staff to help to facilitate the compensation and breakdown the motions we impediment with each and everyone than with with our families and our staff we are more than job classification we have cultivated had matters and meaning for the skill sets and capability and on the incredible shes incredibly kind and thoughtful moving people we can have more unintelligible and use our Human Resources to help people in their careers and been in the city for over 20 year to year and not leaving and in terms of our Human Resources as a procedure to an organization that is a lot more employee support. Good evening. Im e lane the executive director of port of San Francisco and have a huge honor of introducing someone is a treasure to the port and shes a treasure to everyone who gets to work with her im known her over 20 years i reflect even any career i served next to suzette lets bring her on clapping. good evening over everyone. Wow. laughter . So as i accept this award by spur im profoundly grateful to my family for their unwavering support and their love and guidance has been the anchor throughout my career and in addition, i my acknowledgement my work family and merpts and colleagues guided me in it my 25 years their wisdom has shaped my journey and thank you for the relationship i built throughou