o! say can you see by the dawn s early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight s last gleaming, whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, o er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, o er the land of the free and the home of the brave? please be seated. no sleep president of the san francisco police officers association, and we thank you all, police services, firefighters, dignitaries, elected officials, for joining us today on this solemn occasion in this very solemn weekend of remembrance of one of the worst and tragic events in the history of our country. so we wanted to make this quick. we wanted to make it respectful, and we wanted to make it a very solemn occasion, which i think is the way it should be treated. the first thing that we re going to do here
like to acknowledge. i would like to knowledge congresswoman nancy pelosi. she has joined us. she is needed back in d.c. for the 9/11 celebration. she wanted to take time today to be with us to share in this day and remember this with her city. remember this she wanted to take time to share in this day of remembering with her city. mayor lee is with us today. we would be remiss in not giving a special in allahu acknowledgment to former mayor willie brown whose strong and steady leadership, the strong leadership of the mayors of the city s got us through a difficult time. we thank you very much for that, mr. brown. we also have with us today district attorney george gascon. we appreciate your being with us. we have supervisor emeritus sean elsbernd. the treasurer of the city and county of san francisco is here today. we also have my predecessor at the poa, chris cuddy. we have the u.s. attorney here, i believe. melinda haig, we really appreciate you being here to share thi
o! say can you see by the dawn s early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight s last gleaming, whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, o er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, o er the land of the free and the home of the brave? please be seated. no sleep president of the san francisco police officers association, and we thank you all, police services, firefighters, dignitaries, elected officials, for joining us today on this solemn occasion in this very solemn weekend of remembrance of one of the worst and tragic events in the history of our country. so we wanted to make this quick. we wanted to make it respectful, and we wanted to make it a very solemn occasion, which i think is the way it should be treated. the first thing that we re going to do her
it saves the city time and money. you are not taking up the time of a particular employee at the assessor s office. you might be doing things more efficient. they have it ready to go and say, this is what i want. they are finding the same things happening on the phone where people call in and ask, how do i find this information? we say, go to this website and they go and get the information easily. a picture tells a thousand stories. some say a map o! say can you see by the dawn s early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight s last gleaming, whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, o er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, o er the land of the free and the home of the brave? please be seated. no sleep president of the san francisco police offic
what they are doing is the preparation work to go through. the cable sits on a set of struts. they are replacing all the struts, building in new ones. by the end of the month, we expect the first phase to be completed. next week, on september 28, we will have engineers from the manufacturer of the system here who will over two or three nights go through the system, set up a testing plan. what they will do is walk through the system with something that looks like a divining rod that you look for water. as he will test the integrity of the cable. what they are looking for is any kind of splices and background noise that comes as a result of the slices in the cable. what they will then do is give us a baseline report. it is our intention because of the nature and importance of this to the project approach to replace the cable with the splices. there is no need the splices have occurred in certain areas or segments of the line, so we will focus on cleaning up the segments. th