assembling a very important group of people who are going to help me get the job done. and you ve seen some of these people already. they are malia cohen, london breed at the board. they have to face all the different politics. but i know they re going to be great partners with me because we ve got the right objectives to happen. we want everybody included in the city. we have naomi kelly, harlan kelly, mohammed nuru, rhonda simmons heading upstreamly important departments. and i ve got to say this. if we can t get the job done with these people in these important positions or some tremendous progress, i don t know where else to look because this is a great start. yes. (applause) but we also have tremendous help from people who are helping us create the policies and the accountability in all the different departments. melva davis, kim brandon, willie adams at the port, chuck collins, [speaker not understood], the reverend amos brown, denise tyson, linda richardson, sonya ha
thank you, naomi. i want to thank you for that introduction and just a recall of what i said earlier this week. but i also said something else, too, that i want you to continuously know the way i have attempted to manage this great city of ours for everybody. that is, i m not shy about asking for help. and when it comes to the challenges we have in the african-american community, we need help. and i have been deliberately assembling a very important group of people who are going to help me get the job done. and you ve seen some of these people already. they are malia cohen, london breed at the board. they have to face all the different politics. but i know they re going to be great partners with me because we ve got the right objectives to happen. we want everybody included in the city. we have naomi kelly, harlan kelly, mohammed nuru, rhonda simmons heading upstreamly important departments. and i ve got to say this. if we can t get the job done with these people in these i
and i have been deliberately assembling a very important group of people who are going to help me get the job done. and you ve seen some of these people already. they are malia cohen, london breed at the board. they have to face all the different politics. but i know they re going to be great partners with me because we ve got the right objectives to happen. we want everybody included in the city. we have naomi kelly, harlan kelly, mohammed nuru, rhonda simmons heading upstreamly important departments. and i ve got to say this. if we can t get the job done with these people in these important positions or some tremendous progress, i don t know where else to look because this is a great start. yes. (applause) but we also have tremendous help from people who are helping us create the policies and the accountability in all the different departments. melva davis, kim brandon, willie adams at the port, chuck collins, [speaker not understood], the reverend amos brown, denise tyso
we have naomi kelly, harlan kelly, mohammed nuru, rhonda simmons heading upstreamly important departments. and i ve got to say this. if we can t get the job done with these people in these important positions or some tremendous progress, i don t know where else to look because this is a great start. yes. (applause) but we also have tremendous help from people who are helping us create the policies and the accountability in all the different departments. melva davis, kim brandon, willie adams at the port, chuck collins, [speaker not understood], the reverend amos brown, denise tyson, linda richardson, sonya harris, patricia thomas, veronica honeycut, these are just the names of a few of our commissioners who are heading up those very important divisions of our city. and they are joining with me and with the supervisors and with the department heads to do what mrs. obama asked us to do. whenever we occupy these public positions throughout the city or throughout the state or t
enriched for everybody else. and we re already seeing it happen. yesterday i was at the luncheon for the boys and girls club, wonderful, wonderful entity that s reaching out to all of our young high school kids and make sure they re motivated to go to college. you should have heard them talk about their futures. you should also hear them ask for our help, because i know as much as anybody else that our kids will inherit the good things that we do. they will also inherit the things that we fail to do. and i m about making sure that we fail less in the things that we re obligated to do for our generations. that s why i m investing in education. personally, and with all of my administration, i personally adopted the 12 middle schools in this city to make sure that the truancy goes down, is not eliminated, that the kids who are in our middle schools have the hope, the hope that we re generating when they were in elementary school, involved with their parents, have the same kind o